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Cornell Embraces Global Studies

Number of students studying abroad went up, Univ. says

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

More than a year after President David Skorton released a white paper urging Cornell to invest in international studies, University officials say they have seen rising enrollment in not only study abroad programs but also foreign exchange programs

In the white paper, Skorton says the University’s goal is to have more options for students to have an i n t e r n a t i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e , “ w h e t h e r t h ro u g h Cornell Abroad, other overseas study programs, well-designed internships or service learning ”

“Our goal should be to ensure that no less than 50 percent of Cornell undergraduates have an

international experience by the time they earn their degrees,” he says in the paper

According to Kristen Grace, associate director of Cornell Abroad, there has been an increase in the number of people going abroad through C U Abroad both for the fall semester and for the whole year It is, however, too early to tell what the enrollment numbers will be for this spring, she said

“Last fall, we had 101 students, [and] this fall, [we will have] approximately 130 students For the full academic year, we had 44 students in 2012-13 This year, we have 45, but our spring numbers are much heavier [typically around 350 students],” Grace said

Group Rallies for Living Wage

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

C h a n t i n g “ W h a t d o w e w a n t ?

Living Wage! When do we want it?

No w ! ” , m o r e t h a n 5 0 p e o p l e including labor advocates and students gathered Tuesday in the City of Ithaca to rally for a living wage in Tompkins County

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Univ. Business Minor Concerns AEM Majors

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

Applied economics and management majors are expressing concerns that the new University-wide business minor may strain resources and hamper course enrollment in their department

The business minor, which launched Spring 2013, currently enrolls 660 students Some students in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management lamented that the influx of business minors has diluted the school’s culture by making AEM too accessible to other students

Peter Galbo ’14, an AEM major, said he is worried that the inclusion of students who do not share a strong passion for business might harm the Dyson school’s national reputation

“I feel a strong attachment towards AEM, and when people talk about the program, I feel a sense of pride.”

“AEM is a very competitive and a t t r a c t i ve b r a n d f o r C o r n e l l t h a t draws a lot of people in because it is a well-ranked program, ” Galbo said “If, in the future, the major itself becomes less competitive or internally loses some of its value due to the minor and this dilution concept, then it has the potential to decrease AEM’s ability to draw students in from high schools ” Galbo added that the opportunity for students outside of AEM to minor in business creates a more competitive pool for postgraduate positions A more competitive recruitment climate may be a threat to AEM majors and weaken Dyson’s eminent reputation for job placement, he said

Other AEM majors, like Aaron Weinstein ’16, are concerned that the creation of the business minor has changed classroom dynamics for AEM majors

“I feel a strong attachment towards AEM, and when people talk about the program, I feel a sense of pride You don’t get those same emotions when you ’ re a [business] minor If you major in something else, you feel a stronger sense of attachment to that other major,” he said

Other students fear that the business minor will make class enrollment for prospective transfers significantly more stressful

“A lot of my friends who needed to take intro-level classes to declare their majors in AEM had to delay their transfer applications because enrollment preferences went to business minors,” Amanda Henick ’16

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Looking Back to Look Forward: Transformational Schemas in Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy” 4:30 - 5:30 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

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Missionaries for Democracy: What Religious Missionar y Work and Conversation Tell Us About Democracy Promotion 12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Making an Impact While Navigating the Unpredictable: Jennifer Dulski ’93

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Cornell Cinema: Monsters University 9:30 p m , Willard Straight Theatre Willard Straight Hall

Grass Bugs Plague Northeast Oregon Community

ELGIN, Ore (AP) This time, crickets aren ’ t the problem in the Cricket Flat area of Elgin

The Oregon State University Extension Office gets calls about grass bugs ever y year, but nothing like this summer Extension agronomist Darrin Walenta said this year ’ s population in Cricket Flat and the region has reached “plague-like numbers ” Walenta said the small bugs have no known predators in nor theast Oregon, and they haven’t been studied much because they’re considered a nuisance not an economic problem

But don’t tell residents such as Natalie Bustos that the insects are a mere annoyance She checks her furniture for the bugs ever y half-hour, and dumps her vacuum three times a day She lives with bears and bees, but can ’ t deal with tens of thousands of these tiny insects that emit a smell that’s been compared to Listerine and Pine-Sol

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station has issued an on-air explanation for why it’s airing the str uggling Jacksonville Jaguars while many NFL fans probably would have preferred seeing the Denver Broncos-Ne w York Giants game, a possible Super Bowl previe w featuring the Peyton and Eli Manning

WKMG TV issued the scrolled message on Sunday It read that NFL policy states the station must carr y all Jags away games At the end the message said: “ We apologize for any inconvenience ”

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“Lokelani” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele is in the midst of a fight with state and local officials to ensure that her full name gets listed on a license or ID card Her name is pronounced: KAY'-ee-hah-nah-EE'c o o

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The documents only have room for 35 characters Her name has 35 letters plus a mark used in the Hawaiian alphabet, called an okina

So Hawaii County instead issued her driver’s license and her state ID with the last letter of her name chopped off And it omitted her first name

The police officer suggested she could use her maiden name

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While most Cornell students are primarily occupied with their schoolwork, Natalie Domeisen ’15 spent the last four years juggling community service, piano-playing and competitive swimming earning Congress’ most esteemed award for Americans aged 14 to 23 years old for her efforts

Domeisen received the Congressional Gold Medal Award at an award ceremony on Capitol Hill in June There, Domeisen a human biology, health and society major in the College of Human Ecology had the opportunity to meet a number of influential government officials, including Francis S Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health

“It was definitely a really exciting day,” she said “I got to meet a lot of really exciting people and better understand the goings-on of Congress ”

also resonated with her, Domeisen said

“[The MSAA] really promotes physical activity in their fundraisers because they’re very into promoting health and activity in rehabilitation, and I’m very passionate about that too, being an athlete and living a very active lifestyle,” she said “I’ve seen people recover through hydrotherapy and being in the pool ”

A longtime swimmer and musician, Domeisen said completing many of the requirement for the award came naturally to her However, fulfilling the overnight expedition criteria through a five-day hike “ was definitely something I would not have done otherwise,” she said

The Congressional Award was established in 1979 and aims “ to recognize initiative, achievement, and service in young people,” according to its website The Gold Congressional Award is the highest of six levels of congressional awards for youth and requires 400 hours of volunteer public service, 200 hours of personal development, 200 hours of physical fitness and four consecutive overnight expeditions, according to the award’s website

Over the last four years, Domeisen volunteered for the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, played piano for the Piano Guild of America, swam for Cornell’s swimming and diving team and completed a five-day hike in the Laurel Mountains in Pennsylvania

She said she was inspired to run fundraising events and volunteer for the Multiple Sclerosis Association in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa , because she knows many people who suffer from the disease

“It’s something very close to my heart,” she said The organization’s emphasis on physical therapy

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IPhone 4, a Coach wallet and bank cards The belongings were worth approximately $1,909

Disorderly in Barton

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator after displaying disorderly conduct and failing to comply with University officials last Tuesday

“That was definitely out of my comfort zone, ” Domeisen said

Domeisen also said that she spent more time playing the piano in the process of competing for the Gold Congressional Award

“I’ve played piano my whole life,” she said “But during the years I spent pursuing the award, I set much higher goals for myself ”

Domeisen also said that despite the prestigious nature of the award, she felt uncomfortable about the publicity that accompanied winning it Some of her closest friends did not even know that she was pursuing the award

“My friends knew I had these passions, but did not know too much about the award,” she said “I like to keep things private It’s about helping other people ”

Domeisen said she has no intention of cutting back from her demanding extracurricular schedule now that she has won the award

“It’s nice to be back and into the normal routine of life at Cornell,” Domeisen said, adding that she would not stop volunteering, swimming and playing piano

The only difference, she said, is that that she no longer has to log and submit her hours

Trash on Fire

An officer was dispatched Monday to take a report regarding a fire in a trash can outside Rhodes Hall

Ill With Drinks

An officer was dispatched when a student reported not feeling well as a result of drinking alcohol Sunday at Mar y Donlon Hall

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C.U. Abroad Enrollment Increases

released on March 2, 2012 In the white paper, Skorton says the University must pay more attention to internationalization

Grace added that even before the 2008 financial crisis when the number of people going abroad dropped dramatically numbers for fall semester abroad only approached 117 people

“[After the financial crisis hit in 2008], the number of students studying abroad went way down right away Since then, [the fall numbers] have been hovering around 100, so to go up to 130 is a big jump,” she said “Hopefully that will continue with spring as well, but really it’s too early to know ”

The number of graduate and undergraduate students who went abroad and earned credit from Cornell increased from 1,478 in academic year 2010-2011 to 1,773 in 2011-2012

However, C U Abroad is not the only group that sends students abroad, according to Grace

"As far as enrollment goes, there are lots of pieces to the whole enrollment picture Cornell Abroad is the biggest but not the only one sending students abroad," she said

According to Christine Potter, study abroad and exchange advisor for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, there has also been an increase in the number of people who par ticipate in CALS exchange, a way many students in CALS are able to study abroad

“It's still too early to say if there will be an increase for the 2013-14 academic year, but yes, in recent years, we have seen an increase, especially in participation in the CALS Exchange,” she said “Last year, our numbers were up by 30 percent ”

Grace noted, however, that it is “hard to know” what is driving the numbers

“[It is] always hard to know what’s driving numbers like that the economy is better now than it was, and I think thats a real factor, but the administrative support have been loud and clear, and I certainly hope students are getting that message too, ” she said

This spring will mark the two-year anniversary of the release of the white paper, which Skorton

“Despite this long history of distinction, in recent years, considering the interdependence of people and nations in the 21st century, insufficient attention has been paid to international studies and international engagement at Cornell,” the paper stated

Recently, however, Grace said that Skorton’s call has been headed by the colleges

"All the colleges have been internationalizing, but I would say [President] Skorton's message has really resonated with faculty and administrators who have interest in international matters, ” she said

Potter echoed Grace, saying that CALS is working to build upon its already “long tradition” of partnering with institutions abroad

“In the next year, we hope to add an additional 10 partners to our existing portfolio of 21 agreements, ” she said “We’re growing partnerships in Latin America, including Ecuador, as well as building onto our already popular European destinations ”

Potter said the faculty play a large role in the facilitation of international partnerships

“Whether partnerships flourish out of joint research interests or other academic alliances, our faculty are the champions in identifying international partners that aim to augment our students’ education,” she said

Grace also said that internationalization has become a larger part of the Cornell experience

"Where it used to be seen as 'well why would you ever want to leave Cornell,' now it’s seen as 'well this is an important part of undergraduate education, and Cornell should be a part of it,’” she said

Streeter : Business Minor Is ‘Unusual ’ Collaborative Ef fort

BUSINESS

said According to Prof Deborah Streeter, applied economics and management, the recent challenges during class enrollment are only temporar y and will dissipate within the next few years

For instance, when the busin e s s m i n o r w a s

upperclassmen who had limited time to fulfill the requirements for the business minor rushed

causing an increase in enrollment for introductor y business classes

The spike in demand will soon calm and reach a steady level once the business minor becomes more established, she said

According to Streeter, there are classes available in the School

School of Hotel Administration and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management that fulfill the same requirements that introductor y classes in the D y

demand from students, she said

Despite the higher demand from students for introductor y-

level AEM classes, the Dyson school needs to keep enrollment caps in a place where professors can continue teach at a high quality, she said “ This is a collaboration that is unusual at Cornell: that we can put these four colleges together, reach an agreement on a minor and support it together,” Streeter said “I think it’s a great first step ”

Other Cornellians expressed optimism about the fate of both the Dyson school and the new business minor

Nicole Rosario ’16, an ILR major who plans to declare her business minor this school year, said she does not believe the existence of the business minor will lead to a loss of prestige on behalf of the Dyson School

“If anything, [the minor] is

other students who aren ’ t 100 percent interested in business and want to tr y it out, ” she said “It’s not fair for one ver y small undergraduate school to remain so exclusive ”

1,000 Pe o pl e Si g n to

Supp or t Liv in g Wa ge

making a living wage, frankly, are subsidizing the rest of the workers that are, ” Meyers said

More than 1,000 people in the county have signed a petition saying they are willing to support a slight raise in taxes in order for all contracted workers to get paid a living wage

“If the county appropriated a quarter of a million dollars [toward a living wage], that would be one tenth of one percent of the county ’ s budget,” Meyers said

County Legislator Kathy Luz Herrera said it makes sense for taxpayers to support a living wage for all workers because the workers earning below living wage have to get aid from social nets, posing a cost to taxpayers

“This is an investment in community,” Herrera said at the rally “Paying contractors a living wage is something we should do as a matter of course That we have to fight for it shows how broken our system is I think the legislature is going to come through and understand that to build community here, to build the economy here, for people, not for corporations, we need to pay a living wage ”

Herrera said that, although she views the absence of such a standard living wage as a broader problem in America, she believes there is hope for Ithaca to pursue and institute a universal living wage

“I think we can do this in Tompkins County,” Herrera said at the rally “There are a lot of people [here], there are progressives [and] there are people that understand the economy The economics of it are clear: our system is broken It’s completely broken, and they understand that, and they’re saying, we need to start paying a living wage to all our workers

“Paying contractors a living wage is something we should do as a matter of course.”

K a t h y L u z H e r r e r a

If you have a job, and you ’ re willing to work hard, you should be able to pay for your basic living necessities ” Local pastor Rich Rose said too much “subcontracted” work is swept under the carpet and being paid for with inadequate wages

“We’re here to pull the carpet back,” Rose said “[We’re here] to expose, to talk about the fact that we know about these sub-contracted workers; we know that they’re underpaid We want everyone paid a living wage We’d like to see everyone, every retail worker, every county worker, every private and public worker paid a living wage ”

Rose said that paying living wages to all workers would “uphold everyone ’ s rights ”

“That is upholding everyone ’ s right: everyone ’ s right to a living wage, everyone ’ s right to support their family, everyone ’ s right to live in dignity, to live proudly, to say ‘Yes, I work hard, and I bring home a paycheck that can help me sustain my life and my family ’ Isn’t that what we want for everybody? Why wouldn’t we want that for everybody?” he said

Kathy Valentino, former town supervisor and early advocate for Cornell’s United Auto Worker’s union, echoed Rose’s sentiments that a universal living wage can only bring good for the local economy

“All the money that you put into getting people a living wage comes back to strengthen the economy because people can do more, buy more, live better It builds a strong community,” Valentino said “It’s a shame, almost a crime, that our so-called enlightened community of Ithaca and Tompkins county is not there already, and beyond It should just be a no-brainer for our elected officials and other employees to get us where we need to be ”

Students in COLA made up a large part of the rally, arriving with an array of signs in support of a living wage, with messages like “Living Wage = Moral Wage” and “[County Legislator Nate] Shinagawa [’05 M A ’09], we want a living wage ”

“The people of Tompkins County really enable us to earn our education,” Molly Becker ’15 said “[COLA] stands here with humility and gratitude, and with our full support for a living wage ”

Mike Ferrer ’16 agreed, saying universities can sometimes be “bad neighbors” to their communities

“We don’t pay property taxes It’s important that when the workers ask for more rights and for a decent wage, a decent living, that’s something that students should stand in solidarity with If there’s any power we can lend, we should lend it,” Ferrer said

After the rally, people were invited to attend the County Legislature’s meeting and voice their concerns to legislators

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

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Editorial

Fair and Feasible Diversity Initiatives

AT THE VERY END OF THE SPRING SEMESTER, the Student Assembly approved a piece of legislation that may have gone unnoticed by some in the Cornell community: Resolution 45, or “United Student Body ” The resolution will soon require every group registered with the Student Activities Office to create and execute a diversity inclusion plan or possibly lose recognition as a campus organization Though the philosophical basis for United Student Body is sound, we wholeheartedly disapprove of this threat, and we question whether the plan will be able to achieve its intended goal

The United Student Body plan asserts that although the majority of campus leaders would like to see their organizations become more diverse, they are often unequipped with the necessary resources or know-how to effect that change It is certainly within the power, and even duty, of the S A to guide leaders toward that end By offering organizations a clear framework for how to implement diversity initiatives, the Assembly has indicated a desire to elevate their role from cheerleaders to active agents in the push to diversify student life

But despite the positive nature of the initiative, we have serious lingering concerns with its substance United Student Body contains language that does not merely encourage groups to adopt diversity inclusion plans it threatens punitive action if they fail to do so The new S A Organizational Review Subcommittee will have the authority to recommend revocation of a group ’ s status as a student organization if it does not establish a diversity inclusion plan We agree with President David Skorton who, in his June 18 response to Resolution 45, wrote: “While it is true that the S A has legislative authority pertaining to many student organizations and activities, I think the resolution overstates the authority of the S A vis-a-vis the Student Activities Office ” The S A would be overstepping its bounds if it punished noncompliant groups by revoking their SAO recognition even if they did so only “under extremely rare circumstances,” as the resolution insists would be the case

Skorton also pushed the S A to evaluate “how realistic it is to implement all of the monitoring and training involved in the plan ” With nearly 1,000 registered student groups on campus, according to the SAO website, we too wonder whether the S A can feasibly oversee the development of meaningful diversity inclusion plans for each and every organization During this first year of phased implementation of United Student Body, only byline-funded groups and those that receive top-tier SAFC funding will be subject to the new requirement Perhaps the requirement should remain limited to these organizations, which receive substantial funding with the expectation that they will provide a service to the broader Cornell community

As the S A begins to roll out United Student Body this year, we hope it will reconsider enforcing diversity inclusion plans as a blanket requirement We believe it would be more effective to focus on groups who elect to undertake diversity reform, as well as those who are expected to be inclusive of the entire campus It would seem inefficient to force it upon all groups regardless of their size, mission or existing level of diversity

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“If you were going to design a racecar, the first place you’d stop is the College of Engineering Want to make the Bear Den good? Go ask some Hotelies This is what they study for four years Why not ask the Hotel School’s design and restaurant professors how to make the space more appealing to guests? Why not ask Hotel School students to help design and implement changes? Have the people behind this not heard of Hotel Ezra Cornell? Have they heard of Establishment? Hotelies already do these types of things in Statler! If Hotelies were involved from the beginning, this ‘bar’ wouldn’t be so awful ”

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Re: “Changes Needed at Bear’s Den, Cornell Student Assembly Says,” News, published September 17, 2013

Matt Hudson | Red in the Face

Ghostbu sting,

S an s P roton Pack

Re c e n t l y, a c o b r a made its home at

t h e f o o t o f m y bed Jagged light crashes

t h r o u g h t h e b l i n d s a t sunrise, striping the walls in shadow and warming him, coiled there to the left of my feet as I yawn myself awake An endless moment; I taste salt and panic from flash floods of imaginar y sweat, but the snake doesn’t move

To n g u e f l i c k e r s My reflection blinks out of i t s o n y x e y e s , a n d w e stare at each other for a long time before I realize, as I do ever y morning,

t h a t I a m n o l o n g e r afraid of the future

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It is late July By an o p e n w i n d o w i n a Spanish beer garden, a s c h o

u p h o l s t e r e d a r m c h a i r and whispers something in my ear I can barely hear; the stone pathways are vibrant with festival

p a r a d e s a n d w a l k i n g sticks, but it is enough

“ We t h i n k t o o m u c h , Matt, and so we ’ re lonely Worr y is a hungr y ghost, and we give it bones and skin by looking up, by shrinking from the road

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t c h o f shadeless deser t together, I could hardly ignore the weight of her words

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Tomorrow is a terrify-

i n g t h o u g h t , i s n ’ t i t ? W h a t e v e r f o l l ow s n ow , w h e t h e r i t i s a n e w morning or the post-univ e r s i t y w o r l d ’ s c o l d r e c e p t i o n , i s u n k n o w n a n d u n f a m i l i a r

Tomorrow is a pair of d i c e t u m b l i n g i n t h e hand of chaos, and in our great fear of uncertainty we knit together a sor t of weak str ucture, a p a t c h w o r k a t t e m p t a t order That effor t is the w e e k l y s c h e d u l e , t h e plan; it’s the long-term goal But what happens

Worr y is only a ghost, a haunting mental bed sheet, so please; don’t give it bones and skin

when fixation on those distant points turns to worr y, as it likely will?

Fr o m s o m e w h e r e , a cobra strikes Limbs paralyzed and coursing with v e n o m , o u r e y e s c l o s e and our heads fall back into our pillows, transfixed in the icy stare of S c r o o g e ’ s “ G h o s t o f Christmas Yet to Come ” Of t e n , o u r m o s t g r a ve e r r o r i s n o t h i n g m o r e t h a n a f ro ze n , a n x i o u s g a z e i n t o t h e f u t u r e

How human, that we can photograph galaxies but hardly see where our feet will land! Here, imagine: Looking ahead from the base

o f a m o u n t a i n t r a i l ,

c o n i f e r s a n d s p r o u t i n g

ferns strangled by thorny b r u s h s w a l l o w t h e s c e n e r y, s a v e f o r t w o points: the snaking path

a n d t h e f a r a w a y p e a k , s o m e t h re e d a y s a w a y The way is rocky and dangerous, with ragged fog disguising dips and f i s s u r e s a m o n g t h e decaying leaves, ground torn apar t by overgrown ro o t s It’s h a rd n o t t o k e e p g l a n c i n g u p a t where the trail disappears

i n t o t h e t re e s , s o y o u often do, in spite of the soft drizzle dangerously slicking rocks under foot

Little seems to change,

n o t e v e n t h e c l i p s o f o c c a s i o n a l b i rd s o n g , s o y o u r m i n d w a n d e r s ahead You worr y about h a v i n g e n o u g h f o o d , about finding a clearing t o g a u g e t h e d a y ’ s progress and pitch your t e n t b e f o r e n i g h t f a l l , a b o u t h y d r a t i n g a n d s h a k i n g s m a l l s t o n e s from your muddy boots W i t h e v e r y d i s t r a c t e d t h o u g h t o f t h e f u t u re , your mind slips fur ther

a n d f u r t h e r f r o m t h e immediate path, and the small rift hidden in the brown oak leaves ahead goes unnoticed until the p a i n s h o o t i n g t h r o u g h your ankle tells you the climb is over If only you

hadn’t gone alone

Can you hear the pine n e e d l e s , s h a k e n f r o m branches at the edge of the rain? That is enough on its own The peak will wait for you; mountains are well known for staying put Rather than holi n g u p i n a s y l u m s o f worr y, tr ust that you’ll know the path when you see it Follow it with your f e e t , n o t a n y f o r w a rdcharging, anxious desire for a destination

Some where in Poland, Ryszard Kr ynicki found the voice to pen one of the most tragic, beautiful s i n g l e - p h r a s e p o e m s I know Why is it, I wond e r, t h a t d e s t r u c t i o n l o o k s s o a t t r a c t i v e ? Ma y b e i t ’ s a c h o i c e I Can’t Help You: Poor moth, I can ’ t help you, I can only turn out the light What little advice I can offer, with Kr ynicki’s guidance, is this: Don’t l o o k t o o f a r i n t o t h e flame, little moth The only salvation left, then, i s l o s i n g t h e f u t u r e There may be a cobra poised to strike at the foot of your bed, but get up anyway Worr y is only a ghost, a haunting mental bed sheet, so please; don’t give it bones and skin Just drink coffee, t

tomorrow ’ s will follow as they always have

Matt Hudson is a

By SARAH COHEN Science Editor

Project teams, a mainstay of the School of Engineering, are student groups which design and build planes, underwater vehicles, cars, and so much more for use in annual national and international competitions. Through project teams, students obtain real-world experience, learn skills classrooms don’t teach, and create bonds of friendship alongside creating their project.

“You learn how to be an engineer by being an engineer,” said Kimberly Sheriff ’13, former team lead of Baja SAE.

Project teams are often interdisciplinary and incorporate several different aspects of the engineering school along with a business side that aids with recruitment and sponsorship. In return for the many hours they put in, students get course credit for being a part of a project team.

“It’s a great experience for getting a job, not only do companies know what we do, you also learn useful skills you don’t necessarily get in classes, said Alex Masetti ’14, outgoing team leader of Baja SAE.

Project teams are also involved with outreach projects including partnerships with local schools, boy and girl scout troops and the Sciencecenter, said Phillip Tischler ’14, outgoing team lead of CUAir.

This past summer, three teams won first place in their respective competitions.

CUAir

The Cornell University Unmanned Air Systems Team, CUAir, builds an autonomous reconnaissance aircraft.

“Autonomous means that the plane more or less flies itself - the computer flies the plane versus someone with joysticks flying it around,” Joel Heck ’14, team leader, said.

For the summer Student Unmanned Air Systems competition in Maryland each year, according to Heck, the plane must fly around a grid on autopilot to various GPS coordinates. It does this by using data from sensors on the plane and a GPS. The plane must also use a camera to find and photograph targets on the ground during flight. From these photographs, the team must be able to identify the color of the target and the letters or numbers labeled on the target both manually and autonomously, using a computer program, Heck said.

According to Heck, CUAir is divided into five subteams. The airframe subteam creates the aircraft and its mechanical systems. The software subteam designs

the software used by the plane’s ground station. The electrical subteam works on the plane’s power system and works with the software subteam to design a communications system. The autopilot subteam works on tuning and maintaining the autopilot system, especially during competition and test flights. Finally, the business subteam works on marketing, sponsorships, and promotion of the team.

The three-day competition, takes place at the Patuxent Naval Air Station and is sponsored by both the Office of Naval Research and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, according to Tischler. Over 30 teams from India, Canada, Turkey and the U.S. competed in this year’s competition.

On the first day of competition, each team gives a presentation and performs a safety check with the competition’s sponsors and judges. On the other days, according to Heck, each team has a single chance to perform its flights.

“You only get once chance to really fly, and if something goes wrong, you’re done,” Heck said.

Although last year CUAir won first in the mission portion of the contest, this year they came in first place overall, Tischler said.

Several modifications made in the past year led to the victory. “In past years, we just bought a model that anybody could buy of the Internet and then modified it to our purposes,” Heck said. “This year, we made our own design so that we could make the design fit our project.”

The plane is completely custom built and was designed by several members of the team last year as a senior project. The plane is larger than it was in past years, Heck said, but it is sturdier because it is entirely made of foam and fiberglass and other composite materials. Composite materials are made of more than one original material but have different physical and chemical properties than any of the original materials.

Another new feature is a new antenna tracker, Heck said. In previous years, a member of the team would control the antenna at the ground station. This method was unreliable and was replaced this year by a new automated system, according to Heck.

CUAir tests its plane at the Ithaca Radio Control Society Field. Tests of all systems occur throughout the school year even before the competition plane is built in December and January.

For next year, according to Heck, CUAir plans to work to create an autonomous, rather than manual, takeoff and landing system.

CUAir recruits at the beginning of both fall and spring semester.

Baja SAE

One of the two car teams at Cornell, Baja SAE builds an offroad all-weather racing vehicle.

This year is Baja’s tenth anniversary as a project team on campus, and they have won three competitions in the past four years according to Matt Allen ’14, team leader.

Although the team is largely comprised of mechanical engineers, according to Allen, the six subteams - electronics, composite,frame, drivetrain, suspension, and business - bring in a range of other majors as well.

The team practices on a dirtbike track owned by a local woman. The track, full of hills ditches, jumps, and, in some places, thick vegetation, is a good approximation for the conditions of the real competition, according to Masetti.

There are three Baja competitions each year. Cornell traditionally competes in both the Midwest and Eastern competitions because they are closer than the one in the West, according to Andrew Crego ’14, team leader.

The competition lasts four days. The first two days are given to static judging including a design presentation and a cost report. According to Masetti, the cost report encourages teams to avoid “a ridiculously extreme budget.”

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strate the car’s durability with a course full of large rocks, holes, culverts and other obstacles.

The final day of competition is the four hour wheel-to-wheel race. The car that completes the most laps wins. During this highintensity race, drivers push their cars to the limit because it is the final event, according to Allen.

“People are doing all kinds of crazy low-resources repairs to keep [their cars] going,” Allen said.

But the final day’s score is only a part of the overall score, which includes points from all the days’ events.

“You can definitely win the race and not win the competition,” Allen said.

This year, the team won first or second place in several events, but only won the entire competition by less than two points, according to Allen.

Although a new car is built from scratch each year, information is handed down from one year to the next by older members and alumni of the team, according to Allen. This allows better parts of the cars to remain and weaker points in design to continuously be improved based on experience and advice of older members combined with new ideas of new people on the team.

One thing that made this year’s car stand out from all the rest at competition was that it, weighing only 290 pounds, was the lightest car Cornell’s team has ever produced.

“We are also pretty sure it is the lightest car that Baja [the competition] has ever seen,” Allen said.

A lightweight car is important because every team must use the same unaltered, 10 horsepower lawnmower engine. So the more weight a team can take off a car, the faster it can go, Crego said. This is important since most of the dynamic events are time-based. The Baja team made their car extremely lightweight by making it almost entirely out of aluminum, including the suspension.

“The judges were a little skeptical about that at first but we proved that it could work,” Allen said.

The car, according to Masetti, can go around 35 miles per hour at top speed.

This year, according to Crego, the Baja team is looking to improve their string of successes by beginning to aim for a bigger prize: the Iron Team Award. The Iron Team Award is given to a team if their car is the best in all three national competitions in the same year.

Baja SAE holds recruitment at the beginning of both fall and spring semesters.

CUAUV

The Cornell Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project team builds an autonomous robotic submarine which can perform various visual and auditory tasks.

ical, electrical, software, and business and uses Teagle pool as a testing site, according to Markus Burkardt ’14, team leader.

Each year, a new submarine is built from scratch, according to Kuen-Kuen Sim ’14.

“Every piece of metal or plastic that is within our capability to manufacture, we’ll try to make a new iteration because there are always things to improve,” Sim said.

According to Alex Spitzer ’16, however, most of the code is reused from year to year.

“We build on the code from previous years so the sub gets smarter,” Spitzer said.

Tasks the submarine must perform include ramming colored buoys, firing torpedoes through targets, controlling a steering wheel, finding objects based on auditory clues and navigating from one obstacle to the next, according to Burkardt.

To enable the submarine to accomplish these tasks without being manually controlled, the team writes software to control the vehicle and guide it through missions. These missions have several layers and are originally based on data from the camera

a nd other sensors on the vehicle, Spitzer said. From the sensory data, it follows a program.

For example, according to Burkardt, in o rder to ram a colored buoy, the submarine w ill think in the following way: once the submarine sees an object that it recognizes as a b uoy, it will center on the buoy; try to get c loser to the buoy; drive forward into the buoy; stop and back away from the buoy. The submarine will then look for another thing it r ecognizes and follow the proper command sequence that stems from the new visual or auditory data.

T he RoboSub Competition is held in San D iego, California and is sponsored by AUVSI and the Office of Naval Research, according to Burkardt. Final testing takes place in a hotel p ool before the six day competition begins.

The first three days of the competition, according to Burkardt, involve practices in the o utdoor competition pool. After that, the course is scrambled for the semi-finals. To make the semi-final round, each submarine m ust drive through the validation gate at some point during the practice days. The validation gate is a relatively narrow passage that tests the v ehicle’s ability to drive straight and navigate properly.

“It is a lot more difficult than you would think,” Burkardt said.

T he fourth and fifth days of the competition involve one run per day through the course for each semi-finalist.

Times are chosen based on order of qualification, and scores in static judging categories including journal paper, website, and promotional video.

The eight to 10 best semifinalists advance to the final round on the last day of the competition where each vehicle has one chance to navigate the newly re-scrambled course. Overall rankings are solely based on the final day’s score, according to Burkardt.

One key to this year’s success was the improvements made to the visual systems, according to Spitzer. Because the submarine, this year named Ragnarok, requires sensory data, such as visual data, to start each of its mission sequences, it is important to see objects clearly while underwater. Identifying objects, especially by color, is a difficult challenge, Spitzer said.

“Between the sun and the clouds there is a wide range of colors you can get for the same exact object,” Spitzer said. “If it is cloudy,you might see an orange pipeline perfectly, but then when it is sunny, the sub doesn’t know that there is a pipeline because it may look white.” CUAUV recruits at the beginning of the fall semester.

Over forty students across 10 majors in three colleges are a part of the team. The team is made up of four subteams: mechan-

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Even with its melodramatic lyrics, “I Don’t Know How,” the newest single from LA-based duo Best Coast, will still manage to have you swinging your head and sporting a goofy, toothy smile The track, off their EP Fade Away (expected Oct 22), maintains the style Best Coast has become known for, while still keeping its signature upbeat style interesting and developing this style further The song begins as a slow waltz as lead singer, Bethany Cosentino, struggles to express her emotions, singing in her strong girl-band voice that she doesn ’ t “know how” to let those feelings out Then, about halfway through the song, there is an abr upt, unexpected twist: Bethany Cosentino breaks into a pop-rock melody that makes you want to stand up and dance Meanwhile, Bobb Bruno continues to amaze with his ability to play an absurd amount of instruments Honestly, I was a fan of the duo from the moment I read the biography on their website: it simply reads, “Inspired by life and love and everything else ” The perfect song to blast on the way to class as the cold wind of fall sets in, “I Don’t Know How” is a must-add to your fall playlist

Gaby Velkes ‘16

Kieran Hebden s electronic project Four Tet has been around for sixteen years, but from the sound of it, you’d think he was some new artist on the cutting edge The early previews for his seventh album, Beautiful Rewind, shows an artist continuing to push the boundaries of experimental electronic music First single “Kool FM” eschewed atmospherics for disjointed, banging snares and bass-heavy, garage-tinted synthesizers, but “Parallel Jalebi” does the opposite; incorporating some of the hazy repetition one might hear on a track from Berlin-based loop-master The Field, “Parallel Jalebi” spends its first two minutes building carefully Wordless vocal loops double over each other as pillow-soft synthesizers rise from the background to the fore The track then strips down to its initial loop before collapsing into what can only be called an anti-drop: the loop cuts out, microphone feedback rings through your headphones, followed by those delicate vocal lines and, finally, we ’ re reintroduced to that main motif and drumbeat, this time accompanied by a chirping, modem-like sound

Patient and meditative, “Parallel Jalebi” shows Four Tet reveling in simple repetition, meticulous sound design and negative space It’s what we ’ ve come to expect from Hebden: music that focuses on moving forward and subverting expectations James Rainis ‘14

Miley Cyrus's latest single "Wrecking Ba

Though the video might shock and appall, with a naked Cyrus swinging on a wrecking ball, the melody and lyrics do quite the opposite In fact, someone listening to the new chart-topping song might think it is a different artist singing entirely She brings in a level of emotion that is not often seen from the former teen sensation, and one could even say she has created a song that resonates with anyone who has fallen for someone who was not good to them

Though it may not bring tears to your eyes, like Cyrus’s in the video, it catchy and it will not take long until you are singing along too It is yet another step in Cyrus’s transformation, even though she seems to be moving away from the reputation she has built with her new hairstyle, songs like “We Can’t Stop” and performance at the VMA’s But, to use her own words, “she’s just being Miley ” So if you haven’t listened yet, I would highly recommend “Wrecking Ball ” Though I might have to recommend listening without watching the music video, unless you are into that kind of thing

Caroline Flax ‘15

The Rise of the Online-Movie-Hype Machine

The following column is about words Written with, surrounded by and about words There a lot of words out there, more than you or I could ever hope to read, so it’s a good thing Facebook, Twitter and BuzzFeed “feed” them to us these days in bite-size, GIF-compatible form Since we all have only 24 hours to the day, these websites make sure we waste at least 12 of them with sensational headlines and hyperlink rabbit holes This leads to a lot of oversimplification, obviously, which is acceptable if the paired article digs deep into its chosen topic However, this is almost never the case, and as a result, the loudest online film criticism could not be more vapid

Consider the short film Noah (not the upcoming Darren Aronofsky one about the biblical flood), currently attracting a lot of attention after its premiere last week at the

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t h e a w k w a rd breakup between a teenage boy and his possibly disillusioned girlfriend as a means to examine the isolation and obsessions nurtured by Facebook and social media The 17-minute film tells its story only through computer and iPhone screens, where Noah, the eponymous protagonist, effectively lives Often, the frame zooms in and zips about from notification to notification, as if we are watching through Noah’s blear y, restless eyes It is a sad film, one that virtually every student at Cornell can connect with, to an embarrassing extent Noah deserves its fair share of praise, yet

its status as a short film and one available to watch on YouTube keeps it off most reputable critics’ radars at least at the moment Instead, sites like The Huffington Post have assumed the role of hype man, dishing out a few words of praise for this anti-social media film to anyone they may reach through (mostly) social media With the irony likely lost on them anyway, let’s look at what HuffPo had to say: “The Facebook era may now have its Citizen Kane ” Say what now? Aside from the fact that The Social Network is obviously the Citizen Kane of the Facebook era for its similar narrative structure, megalomaniac protagonist and critique of entrepreneurial excess, what does this lead tell us? I don’t know who this writer, Michael Bolen, is, or whether or not he has actually seen Citizen Kane All I know is that those “X is the Citizen Kane of ” tautologies are about as

bland as compliments come, except if you ’ re aiming for extreme, ironic specificity as The Chicago Daily Herald’s Dann Gire did when he called Babe “The Citizen Kane of talking pig pictures ” Indiewire, perhaps my favorite website if I had to pick one, spread the word of Noah on Sunday with an article providing a blurb and an embedded YouTube link of the film That was all well and good, yet I found it through the site’s Facebook page (these filmmakers know their anti-Facebook film is m a k i n g t h e m s t a r s t h ro u g h Fa c e b o o k ,

right?), where it posted the article with the tag, “[Noah] will definitely go down as one of the definitive 21st Centur y films, mark our words!” Now, I doubt the Western canon circa 2100 A D will include Noah (I liked it, but come on), and this seems like the type of hyperbole meant to attract hits However, I let this one slide For one, there’s the possibility that the writer was sincere, which is just an adorable thought, and, more importantly, I h a ve s o m e c a c h e w i t h Indiewire I trust them If one of their writers, such as Eric Kohn, bets all his critical integrity on 12 Years a Slave and implores me to watch it, there’s a very good chance I’ll direct my movie-watching dollars its way (he gave it an A+, by the way)

Now, compare the headline for Kohn’s review “Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave Is a Slavery Movie for the Ages” with that of the review by Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan: “Your Best Picture Winner Will Be 12 Years a Slave ” If limited to one, you’d click on the latter, now wouldn t you? That s because you love Oscar shorthand, like the rest of us Oscar shorthand is commonly employed to bestow extravagant praise on movies released between September and December without actually saying anything about them at all Whereas Kohn’s analysis digs into the themes and techniques behind 12 Years, Buchanan substitutes self-generated impressions for meaningless Oscar worship Never mind that any self-respecting critic slams the Oscars for getting it wrong year after year, and let’s ignore the fact that Buchanan’s piece isn’t even a review (which is saved for David Edelstein, his very talented colleague) as much as a prime slice of link bait We are reading a professional critic go

on and on about how great a movie is without supplying any real reason as to why Critics make a name of themselves by w

analyses, and by doing so on a public, respected and consistent platform Only once their name carries some weight can they simplify their allocation of accolades

The late Roger Ebert, a preeminent critic if there ever was one, could just call a movie “ great ” and we would consider it so of course, he still wrote essays over 1200 words each, detailing the intricate greatness of Unforgiven or Citizen Kane But he worked to build that reputation, while the nameless machine of online movie hype guarantees its writers will never rise to that level of stature

What makes me, an unknown on the film criticism landscape, the authority on critical authority, you ask? A fair question, one I will mull over as I walk backwards, off this soapbox and out of sight once more

Zachar y Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays

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Mets’ Har vey Forgoes Surger y for Rehab

NEW YORK (AP) Matt Harvey will try to rehab his injured right elbow without reconstructive surgery, a move the young ace hopes is going to keep him on the mound for the New York Mets next season

Tommy John surgery remains a possibility Harvey will soon begin a throwing program designed to last as long as six to eight weeks If he feels pain or other symptoms that hinder his pitching, he likely will need the operation which probably would sideline him for 2014

“There’s always a risk to having surgery There’s obviously going to be a risk not to have surgery It’s not a 100 percent procedure, although it’s definitely getting a lot better,” Harvey said “I believe if I can rehab, I’d rather bet on myself doing the work to stay out of getting surgery than having the surgery ”

The decision was announced Tuesday night at Citi Field, one day after Harvey was examined by Dr James Andrews in Florida to get a second opinion on his right elbow

The 24-year-old was diagnosed with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament by Mets doctors on Aug 26

Harvey said Andrews tested his elbow and told him he believed it was “ very stable ”

“I’ve never had pain in my actual elbow area where the UCL is,” Harvey said “And just for me it felt like, why jump into surgery in a situation where I never had the tingling, the numbness, the shooting pain in my elbow that are usually the symptoms of needing that surgery? For me, if a rehab process of strengthening is the way to go, in my mind that’s what I wanted to do ”

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In the meantime, he was shut down for the rest of the season

“The last three weeks have been pretty tough,” Harvey said “Obviously, I want to be on the field and I want to be pitching, and (being) kind of in that area of not knowing what’s going on is tough It’s a tough process But everything feels completely normal ”

Tommy John surgery has become a common procedure for pitchers, with a great many making successful comebacks after their damaged ligaments were replaced The recovery and rehabilitation, however, usually takes at least a year

“I’m still very optimistic,” Harvey said “But I know if there is a red flag during that (throwing program) that something needs to be done ”

Harvey started the All-Star game for the National League on his home field in July He is 9-5 with a 2 27 ERA and 191 strikeouts in 178 1-3 innings

At a long-awaited news conference only minutes before the Mets played the San Francisco Giants, general manager Sandy Alderson said if Har vey eventually needs Tommy John surgery, trying the throwing program first should not prevent the right-hander from returning for the 2015 season

“We may know nothing at the end of this period of time, or we may know something early in the process, ” Alderson said Stunned by the news last month, Harvey said he would do everything he could to avoid surgery He spoke with other pitchers who had similar injuries and didn't require the operation, including Philadelphia right-hander Roy Halladay

Harvey was so encouraged that a day after his diagnosis, he tweeted that he would be back on the mound next April Still, the Mets maintained that no decision would be made for a few weeks, until the swelling subsided and Harvey was re-

The seventh pick in the 2010 amateur draft, Harvey blossomed into one of baseball's most dominant pitchers this year his first full season in the majors His 98 mph fastball and polished off-speed pitches gave hope to a foundering franchise that is finishing up its fifth straight losing season since moving into Citi Field

Harvey and Zack Wheeler were the first to arrive from a crop of touted young pitchers the Mets have pinned their future on New York captain David Wright cited all the hard-throwing talent in the minors as one reason he signed a $138 million, eight-year contract last winter to stay with the team

With more than $40 million in player salaries coming off the payroll after this season, the Mets expect to be active in free agency They have long fancied themselves a 2014 contender, but Harvey is certainly a lynchpin

“I think there’s some ambiguity of course at this point, and maybe through the next couple of months There may be ambiguity beyond that,” Alderson said “I don’t think it’s going to affect our offseason planning as much as has been speculated One thing we have is a great deal of starting pitching depth some of it untested at the minor league level But we have a lot of confidence in the quality and quantity of our starting pitching So hopefully Matt is part of that rotation next year, but if he’s not, I don’t foresee us working hard to fill his spot from outside the organization ”

Beep Baseball Helps Players Cope With Blindness

ATLANTA (AP) In the game of blind baseball, players use their sense of sound to make up for their lack of sight They play the game known as Beep baseball with an oversized softball that beeps and bases that buzz

The National Beep Baseball Association was founded in 1975 Teams have been formed nationwide and compete annually in a World Series In east Atlanta, a team called the Atlanta Eclipse plays at a local park

Players wear blindfolds to ensure fairness since each person has a var ying degree of blindness The pitcher and the catcher are sighted and play on the same team as the batter

ago after a tumultuous relationship with a now ex-husband

“I have an ex-husband I call my ‘ wasband,’” said Butler, standing in the convenience store she used to run in Hapeville, an Atlanta suburb “For a long time, he used to make me feel so down I was always never good enough for anything I was ugly I was fat I couldn’t do anything ”

“At times it’s almost like total dark It’s gloomy But I have to find things to lighten up my darkness.”

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On a hit, the batter runs toward the buzz of either the first or third base, which is decided by an official There is no second base A run is scored if the batter tags the base before the fielder can pick up the ball; otherwise the batter is out In this adapted version of America’s pastime, cheering is not permitted until the play is over

For the players, the game is about much more than physical activity; It helps them cope with the challenges of being blind Here are the stories of three players in Atlanta and surrounding areas whose lives have been improved by what happens on the baseball diamond

‘Prove You Wrong’

Dee Butler, 55, began experiencing problems with her sight as a teenager, and in school would ask to sit near the front of the class At 24, she was diagnosed with cone-rod dystrophy, a progressive disease that causes the deterioration of the retina and leads to blindness

She took up blind baseball a few years

She heard it so often, Butler said she became depressed

“And then I just started getting mad He would always tell me I couldn’t do anything by myself,” she said

“And so I looked at him right in the eye, and I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to prove you wrong ’”

She packed up her 9-year-old twin girls and 11-year old son, and left On the suggestion of a friend who knew about the Atlanta Eclipse, Butler decided to give the game a try, although she doubted she could master it She showed up time after time, struggling to hit the ball, with every swing a miss Even when she could see, she had never been athletic

“As a child, I was always like a girly girl,” she said

When she hit the ball for the first time, and made her first run, she was hooked

“I enjoy it I love getting out there and hitting that ball and making them runs, doing everything that I didn’t think I could do before,” she said

‘Lighten Up My Darkness’

Jimmie Burnette, 44, took up Beep baseball after suffering a brain tumor in

2010 that left him blind

“I wanted to give up When I first got home, I felt real alone I couldn’t see anything My initial reaction was ‘ run away, ’” said Burnette, sitting in his living room next to his wife, Tiawanna “At times, it’s almost like total dark It’s gloomy But I have to find things to lighten up my darkness ”

From the hospital bed to the baseball field, Burnette’s journey has been filled with challenges: rehab after the surger y, Braille classes and training sessions on how to get around as a blind person, from crossing the street safely t o t a k i n

Through it all, he feels he has lost his independence and role as provider for the family

“I was brought up with the attitude of a man doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat I kept saying to myself, ‘You’re not a man anymore, you ’ re not a man anymore, ’” said Burnette, a former FedEx driver and hobbyist model airplane builder who is now unemployed and on disability “BEEP baseball is helping me out It takes away from me thinking about I’m less than a man ”

“Now I realize I’m still the same man, just have to do things differently now, ” he said

‘Do the Impossible’ Roger Keeney, 67, has played Beep baseball for 38 years, making some 20 World Series appearances Growing up, Keeney’s sight was considered “low vision ” He was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that leads to a decrease in vision over the course of several years

Through college, Keeney was still driving and riding motorcycles legally, but that changed in 1990 on his farm in New York A piece of machinery broke and hit him in the head When he woke up, he couldn't see

“There’s a heightened sense of awareness (to be) ready knowing there’s a higher chance (of playing) this week.”

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In Home Opener, Wins Sing les

By DEEYA BAJAJ Sun Staff Wr ter

CHARLOTTE, N C (AP) An unarmed man seeking help after a car crash over the weekend was shot 10 times by the Charlotte police officer who's now charged in his death, investigators said Monday

The release of the information supporting the voluntary manslaughter charge came at the end of a day that also included the first public remarks by victim Jonathan A Ferrell’s family A family attorney and representatives of the NAACP questioned whether race played a role in the shooting of the black man by a white officer

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comfortable with the game her confidence is starting to build and she is starting to take more risks with the offense,” she said “She is like the quarterback of our team, she calls the plays and runs our offense It’s beenfun to see her settle in more and figure out the game ”

Another freshman that is expected to make an impact is Macey Wilson, a middle blocker who plays next to D’Epagnier and will be the heir to her position

“Macy Wilson, the other middle right now, is tall and still getting used to the speed of the game and when she gets it she is great It will be fun to see her in the next couple of years take over the team as a primary hitter,” D’Epagnier said

Another big contributor is junior Natasha Rowland, a Libero, who has been setting the tone for the Red defense and will be relied upon to keep it up throughout the season

“Natasha has been playing incredibly well these last two weekends of competition We are trying to get everybody in the back row to dig as many balls as she is, if we can keep the ball off of the floor every single play I think we can stay with any team we play with,” D’Epagnier said

The Red’s defense is its main focus for its upcoming compotions this weekend, when the team will face the Pittsburgh Panthers (7-3), Rutgers Scarlet Knights (3-8) and the Moorehead State Eagles (6-4)

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NAACP leaders gathered Monday to both praise police for quickly filing charges and to complain about how the shooting didn’t surprise them considering portrayals of black men in popular culture and previous instances of racially inflected violence

Ferrell family attorney Chris Chestnut wondered Monday what role race may have played in Saturday’s shooting

“The officer is white, Mr Ferrell is black This might be more of a reflection of where we are as a country, ” he said The encounter was set in motion around 2:30 a m Saturday when Ferrell’s car ran off the entrance road to a sprawling suburban neighborhood that was carved out of farmland about a decade ago some 15 miles from downtown Charlotte A sign near the crash site advertises a neighborhood watch meeting in a few days

Red to Face Bing hamton

At C o r n e l l Inv i t a t i o n a l

By JOEL COOPER Sun Contributor

The Cornell men ’ s golf team is preparing to get its 2013-14 season off to a running start at the Cornell Invitational on September 21 and 22 The team hopes for a good start to the season and looks to build on its seventh place finish at the Ivy League Championship last year

“I am very optimistic for the team this year more so than [in years] past, ” senior co-captain

Zack Bosse said “The people on the bottom couple of spots on the roster were forced to work hard and play hard during qualifying to maintain their spot From a competitive standpoint, it’s a very useful thing ”

The competition will not be easy, however Binghamton, the winner of last year ’ s invitational, will be one strong team to watch

“I do consider Binghamton a main contender, but it’s hard to say who will be gunning for the top spot in a golf tournament with this many teams because all the teams are competitive,” Bosse said “It could be anyone ’ s tournament, [but] that being said, I would like to think that Cornell has a good if not better chance than many other teams ”

One factor that could give Cornell an edge over its opposition is that the invitational will take place at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, the team ’ s home course

“Course knowledge is very important you know things about where is trouble, where is safe,” Bosse said “I think that having that knowledge going forward breeds a certain level of confidence

It helps you get over the early round jitters that a lot of the teams that come in experience in the first round ”

This bodes well for Luke Graboyes, the sole freshman on representing the team at the invitational

“He is a New Jersey State High School Champion He has really played well throughout his junior career [and] has a

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Follow through | Senior co-captain Zack Bosse hopes to build on the Red’s previous successes at this weekend’s Cornell Invitational

R O W I N G

Se ven Join the Row in g Team

This season, the Cornell men ’ s lightweight rowing added seven freshmen athletes to its roster

The new faces on the team represent a diverse group of athletes Four of the freshmen recruits Alex LaViolette, Daniel O’Neill, Andreas Overmeer and Jack Ruske are from the northeast region, so they are familiar with what it takes to row in Ithaca’s climate

Two others Patrick LeCorgne from Baton Rouge, La and Erik Johnson from Lafayette, Calif hail from different ends of the United States Olav Imsdahl has travelled overseas from Germany to compete with the squad Despite the diversity of their origins, the seven recruits are all successful and experienced competitive rowers

Head coach Chris Kerber, who has coached the men ’ s lightweight rowing team

since 2008, said he is very excited to see this incoming class of freshman on his team Two weeks into practice, Kerber is still trying to determine which of the newcomers will make an immediate impact Although the whole group may not contribute to the team ’ s success at major meets, the availability of freshmen crew will give every new rower a chance to gain some experience on the water

“Twenty or thirty years ago, every team had a freshman squad,” he said “The tradition is going away quickly, and we may not see it in five years from now Rowing is one of the last sports to have this freshman aspect, and it gives new guys the chance to be in cup races ”

The freshmen squad is the not the only way the recruits will adapt to the collegiate athlete’s lifestyle Kerner encourages every member of the team to contribute to the University and community by volunteering at community service events and supporting other sports at Cornell This is a great way to

By ZACHARY GAYNER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s volleyball team stands at 1-2 after suffering a tough loss to Long Island University Brooklyn in five sets However, the players are continuing to put in strong performances

Sophomore Breanna Wong was named the Ivy League Player of the Week, leading the Red with 3 64 kills per set while hitting 301 on the weekend She is also the first Player of the Week from the Red since senior Rachel D’Epagnier earned the title in the final week of the 2012 season

The Red also has a lot of young players on the team, a talented bunch who are just learning the ropes of the college level game, according to D’Epagnier

“We have a freshman setter, Alyssa Phelps, [and] she is becoming more

get the team together outside of the boat, he said

“Chemistry has never been better We take pride in good work ethic,” Kerner said As the season progresses, the team may add additional freshmen as walk-on athletes In past seasons, walk-ons have been able to contribute to the team ’ s success and win important cup trophies

“We pulled kids from their swim tests, and now they are wearing silver medals,” Kerner

said The freshmen are already working hard to solidify their positions on the team At a recent practice, Kerner pulled a seat from the boat and pointed at it in front of his freshmen team

“Nobody’s name is on this Earn this seat, ” he said