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Cornellians Urge Change in Campus Sex Culture

By YUN SOO

Association of American Universities sexual assault study, administrators and students stressed the need for a greater change in campus culture regarding the issues

“As President [Elizabeth] Garrett stated in her message to the community, even one instance of sexual assault is one too many, ” said Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, and Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, in a joint-statement “Sexual harassment and violence have no place in our community ”

The administrators, referring to a campus-wide email sent by Garrett concerning the results of the survey on Monday, stressed that while Cornell has “devoted substantial attention and resources ” to combating sexual assault, more work needs to be done

“We are focused on improving our climate, and see these results as additional information to add to what we already know ”

stand and respond to what our students and others are saying,” they said

and Opperman said the campus “needs to start upstream by fostering a sense of community and challenging traditional student social interactions that create a risky climate ”

“ We will continue to work closely with campus resources including the LGBT Resource Center, Women’s Resource Center, Gannett Health Services and other organizations to clearly identify any and all issues these students, as well as faculty and staff, may be facing,” they said

Despite the low response rate of 19 percent of Cornell students, both Lombardi and Opperman said the results of

the survey still hold importance

“We would have preferred a higher response as it is important that every student voice be heard on this issue But we take these results seriously,” they said, adding that the survey, combined with meetings with Cornellians from across campus, will be considered in future conversations

“We are focused on improving our climate, and see these results as additional information to add to what we already know We also hope that an increasing number of

students will use these surveys, as well as Council on Sexual Violence Prevention and other student organizational meetings, to make their voices heard,” they added

Students Respond

Vrinda Shukla ’17 said she was “surprised by the amount of people who reported witnessing a drunk[en]

Student Wins Humor Prize for Bee Sting Research S.A. Fall Elections

Rates pain of more than 100 stings on 25 different body parts

By ISABEL LING

Many people vividly remember their first bee sting, but Michael Smith grad will be sure to remember the more than 100 stings he experienced all over his body from his skull to his penis, which eventually yielded his Ig Nobel Prize

Last Thursday, Smith received The Ig Nobel Prize, which honors humorous scientific research that “first makes you laugh, then think ” The award presentations are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and often feature real Nobel Laureates awarding Ig Nobels to researchers

insects on a scale of zero to four

“Humor is really important in science, ” Smith said “Nobody should be taking themselves too seriously It’s a good way to get people interested and encourages people to explore ne w stuff ”

Clad in a honeybee costume, Smith received the Entomology and Physiology Prize along with his collaborator Justin Schmidt, the creator of the Schmidt Pain Index, which measures the pain of stings from different

Smith, who is a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior, said his research on honeybee stings intended to study the pain levels of stings in correlation to location on the human body

Working with Schmidt to determine which parts of the body to test, Smith said he had honeybees sting him on 25 body parts three times, rating the pain on a scale from one to 10

According to Smith’s report, the body parts where stings hurt the least were the skull, middle toe tip and upper arm, which all scored a 2 3, whereas the body parts that hurt the most were the nostril, upper lip and the penis shaft,

scoring a 9 0, 8 7 and 7 0 respectively

Smith, who first became interested in honeybees while beekeeping in high school, said, “I’ve been working with honeybees for 10 years, so being stung is just a part of the work As a scientist, when there’s a question, I have to go through with it in order to get an answer ”

In addition, he added that he chose honeybees because they scored in the middle range of Schmidt’s Pain Index “I just fell in love with [the honeybees],” Smith said “They’re a really cool superorganism They’re all individuals, but they’re working as one ”

Through this study, Smith concluded that location is a reliable predictor of pain when it comes to stings

When not working on his research, Smith said he is an active member of the Beekeeping Club and Cornell Garden Plots

By MADELINE COHEN

With the highest voter turnout for Fall Student Assembly elections in the past three years, four freshman Dustin Liu ’19, Varun Devatha ’19, Miranda Kasher ’19 and Paul Russell ’19 and one transfer representative Jordan Chessin ’18 were elected Tuesday

According to the Office of Assemblies, 44 6 percent of the combined freshman and sophomore classes voted in this fall’s SA elections, an increase from last year ’ s 39 7 percent turnout and greater still than the 37 1 percent of 2013

Eighteen candidates ran for these five positions 16 for four freshman representative positions and two ran for one transfer position Liu received 691 votes, the most in the freshman race, followed by Devatha, who received 478, Kasher, who received 366, and Russell, who received 346

Chessin received 86 of the 138 transfer votes

The new representatives expressed a range of goals they hope to achieve as new members of the

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Dog Guards Other Dog

VASHON ISL AND, Wash (AP) A Washington state animal shelter says a dog dutifully stood guard for a nearly a week on Vashon Island to protect another dog that had fallen in a cistern

Tillie, a setter mix, only left Phoebe’s side to tr y to alert people of her trapped friend

Amy Carey of Vashon Island Pet Protectors says the two were found Tuesday after they were reported missing by their owners last week Vashon Island Pet Protectors says volunteers looking for the pair received a call about a reddish dog being seen on someone ’ s property a few times before promptly heading back into the ravine

Carey says the Pet Protectors followed the tip and found Tillie lying beside an old cistern Inside rescuers found Phoebe, a basset hound, on a pile of stones above the water

The dogs were cold and hungr y but other wise unharmed

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Man Thinks Coffee Was Tainted With Meth

KEARNEY, Neb (AP) A Nebraska man believes he and his 2-year-old son were poisoned by a methampheta-

mine-tainted coffee maker at an Omaha hotel

Travis and Amber Richard and their children spent Labor Day weekend in Omaha

He says he used the coffee maker and coffee package in their room on Sept 6 and began to feel weird within 20 minutes of drinking the coffee

He says his son also took a sip and got sick on the drive back home to Pleasanton Both sought medical treatment and are awaiting confirmation from tests

Omaha police are investigating the incident, but say theyt doubt the coffee maker was used to make meth It's unclear whether a trace of the drug was left by someone using the coffee maker to hide meth

Robber Having a ‘Bad Day’

HIBBS, Pa (AP) Police are searching for a shotgunwielding robber who told a Pennsylvania pizza shop clerk he was having a “bad day”

State police say the man entered Fox’s Pizza in Hibbs at about 8:15 p m Friday carrying the gun and a camouflage bag

Police say the man demanded cash and told the clerk she wasn ’ t moving fast enough and had 10 seconds before he grabbed the money and ran away

The clerk wasn ’ t hurt The robber wore a camouflage jacket, pants, mask and black gloves

The shop is in German Township, Fayette County

Yale Reports Above Average Rates of Assault

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While Yale students reported a higher incidence of sexual harassment and sexual assault than students at other schools across the country, they also demonstrated a greater awareness of the scope of the problem and resources available to address it, according to survey results released Monday by the Association of A m e r i c a n Universities

The study, which polled students at 27 universities and colleges across the nation about the climates of sexual conduct at their respective schools, found that Yale students are 30 percent more knowledgeable about where to get help for victims of misconduct, as compared to the average college student Additionally, over half of all Yale students participated in the survey; across all the universities that participated in the aggregate study, the participation rate was 19 3 percent In the introduction to Yale’s survey results, University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler wrote that this relatively high response rate may be indicative of a greater attention to issues of sexual violence on Yale’s campus and might even play a role in the prevalence of sexual misconduct at Yale

“The AAU survey found that schools with higher response rates also had higher prevalence estimates,” she wrote “One possible explanation for this finding is that student engagement in campus efforts to reduce sexual misconduct leads to increased identification of inappropriate and prohibited behaviors ”

Indeed, students interviewed suggested that Yale is an environment that fosters discussion about sexual assault and encourages students to be more sensitive to what might constitute unacceptable behavior

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Communication and Consent Educator, Yale’s response rates and overall survey results are a reflection of students’ concerted efforts to “denormalize” certain actions

Lauren Chambers ’17 agreed that Yale students are not conversation-shy She said there has been a “ very vocal, visible debate on campus ” about the need to eradicate sexual misconduct

Students and CCEs interviewed also said the University is very clear with articulating and disseminating its sexual misconduct policies and related definitions

Olivia Facini ’19 said she thinks that Yalies have a good understanding of terms such as “sexual harassment,” “sexual assault” and “ consent, ” adding that she believes incidences of sexual misconduct are not happen-

ing due to a lack of education According to the survey ’ s results, 61 5 percent of Yale students are either somewhat, very or extremely knowledgeable about how sexual assault or sexual misconduct are defined Nationally, this figure is 57 6 percent CCE Joshua McGilvray ’18 said the University’s definition of consent is especially clear Yale students are well equipped to understand what consent looks like, he said The networks and structures that Yale puts in place, like the freshman CCE-led sessions and the mandatory sophomore bystander intervention workshops, demonstrate that the administration takes sexual misconduct ver y seriously, McGilvray added

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Students Respond to Survey Findings New Freshmen,

sexual encounter but not stopping it,” referring to a statistic that of the half of Cornell respondents who said they had witnessed an intoxicated individual heading toward a sexual encounter, 79 percent said they did not intervene

“If people can stop their friends from driving while drunk, they should be able to stop them from having sex when they’re too drunk as well,” she said

Shukla added that a key priority of the University must be to create support systems for those affected by sexual harassment or assault

“In that way, [the University] can help these victims who may be too scared to openly admit to it and get justice, as well as address how these encounters happened to prevent more cases in the future,” she said

Junseo Lee ’16 said he was also surprised “ at the proportion of females who reported experiences of non-consensual sexual contact, especially since they began attending Cornell ”

The AAU survey reported that 22 6 percent of Cornell’s female undergraduates had experienced non-consensual sexual contact, which included acts that ranged from sexual touching to penetration, since they enrolled in the University Of Cornell’s female undergraduate respondents, 13 5 percent said they had experienced non-consensual sexual contact in the 2014 to 2015 academic year in which the survey was conducted

According to Lee, the University should shift its focus from raising awareness of unwanted sexual encounters to “ more about how much they [the University] care to do more than what’s already being done ”

“Even though only a few [proportion of the] people respond-

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ed, the alarming results can at least give us a greater sense of urgency to participate more in addressing this issue,” he said

On the other hand, Radhika Gupta ’18, Student Assembly women ’ s issues liaison, said she the results of the survey did not shock her

“I have many female friends, and I can see this statistic play out often times in real life,” she said

Additionally, Gupta said she thought President Garrett’s email “shows that there is some attention being given to the problem of sexual assault,” but is still unclear on the specific procedures

“President Garrett's email is quite vague in explaining precisely which steps the University will be taking, but she does describe the general direction the University will be working in ”

According to Gupta, she “would like to see more direct attention given to the problem of sexual assault in the future ”

Gupta said that in addition to student training on sexual assault, as described in President Garrett’s email, “students should also be trained in reporting sexual assault ”

“Unfortunately, much of the cases on campus do go unreported, and we, as a University should try our best to push victims to report sexual assault so we can get a better idea of where these problems exist,” she said

Furthermore, Gupta said that she hopes to see a more proactive approach on this issue from the new president

“What I would like to see in the future is continued attention to this problem from her, and more specific details sent out to students about how this problem is being dealt with,” Gupta said

Andrew Lord contributed reporting to this article

Xi Jinping Pledges Support for Cyber Cooperation

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President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China and the United States could work together to address cyber crimes, a problem that has sparked mutual tension

Xi’s statement came shortly after leaders from both countries signed an agreement to advance renewable energy and clean technologies to combat climate change

Xi, in a speech in Seattle at the end of the first day of his official visit to this country, also said China would continue its policy of aggressive development to help more Chinese people “live a better life ”

Striking agreements to ensure continued robust international trade was a top priority, he said “China will never close its open door to the outside world,” Xi said, according to a translation of his remarks

He said China was a staunch defender of cyber security, but it had also been a victim of hacking

Acknowledging that China and the United States don’t always see eye to eye, Xi said China is ready to set up a joint

effort with the United States to fight cyber crimes

The issue of cyber attacks is a sensit i

American officials say hacking attacks originating from China are approaching epidemic levels

As Xi spoke Tuesday evening, protesters gathered near the downtown hotel he was staying at, objecting to things like the country ’ s policies in Tibet and other issues

Earlier Tuesday, meetings with governors from five U S states and local Chinese officials produced the deal to work on clean energy

“We can be the core for our national leaders to learn from,” Michigan Gov Rick Snyder, who has made five trips to China in five years, told his counterparts

Xi arrived in Seattle for talks on how U S and Chinese experts and businesses can collaborate on issues such as nuclear energy and smarter electricity use

The visit comes a year after Xi and Obama announced their nations would cooperate to fight climate change

“These are the largest economies in the world, and we ’ re the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, so improving cooperation and collaboration is really a n e c e s s i t y, ” s a i d Br i a n Yo u n g , Washington state director of economic development for the clean technology sector “Second, it’s a huge business opportunity Both sides recognize the opportunity for job creation ”

The governors who met with Xi i n c l u d e d Sn yd e r, Ja y In s l e e o f Washington, Jerry Brown of California, Terry Branstad of Iowa and Kate Brown of Oregon All five along with Nevada Gov Brian Sandoval, who did not attend the meeting signed the accord in which they agreed take actions to reduce transportation emissions, suppor t clean energy technologies and exchange ideas

C h i n e s e l e a d e r s a t t h e m e e t i n g included Beijing Mayor Wang Anshun, Shandong Gov Guo Shuqing and others

U S -China cooperation on climatechange has been a warm and fuzzy point of relations between the superpowers

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Elderly Woman Kills One, Injures

Five While Attempting to Park

LIVERMORE, Calif (AP) An 80-year-old driver accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake Tuesday before plowing through the doors of a Nor thern California health club, killing one person and injuring five others, police said

The woman was tr ying to park her Mercedes SUV when she mixed up the pedals, crashing through the club’s doors and into an early-morning workout class about 45 miles east of San Francisco, Livermore police spokeswoman Traci Rebiejo said

A 49-year-old Livermore woman died at a nearby hospital, and the five people injured are expected to sur vive, Rebiejo said The survivors were being treated for cuts and br uises, police said

The driver was not arrested or cited, and alcohol and dr ugs were not a factor, authorities said A police repor t of the crash will be sent to prosecutors to determine if the woman should face criminal charges

The victims and the driver were not identified

Residents Shocked at Quintuple Murder in

South Dakota

PL AT TE, S D (AP) A father’s apparent killing of his wife and four children with a shotgun and the grim discover y

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shaken a r ural community in South Dakota and left residents asking why

Au t h o r i t i e s b e l i e v e S c o t t Westerhuis fatally shot his wife and four children on Thursday, torched their house near Platte and then turned the shotgun on himself, South Dakota Attorney General Mar ty Jackley said

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T h e b o d i e s o f S c o t t a n d Nicole Westerhuis and their children Kailey, Jaeci, Connor and M i c h a e l w e r e f o u n d i n t h e burned r uins of their home A passer-by repor ted the blaze early Thursday, but the fire chief said the home was all but destroyed by the time firefighters arrived Scott Westerhuis worked as business manager for an educational cooperative A state official said Tuesday that the co-op had been informed a day before the fire was repor ted that the state would not renew a $4 3 million contract to administer a c o l l e g e re a d i n e s s p ro g r a m f o r Native American students, but the co-op superintendent said that wouldn’t have jeopardized

Westerhuis’ job

Tuesday to be available to students, and the district highlighted the Westerhuis children’s personalities in a statement

Kailey, a third-grader, lit up a room with her smile and personality Jaeci, a fifth-grader, was quieter, active in basketball, volleyball and swim team Connor, a n e i g h t h - g r a d

football, basketball and baseball, was polite, considerate and a bit of a prankster Michael, a sophomore, was an excellent athlete, a

who also was on the quiet side, the district said The Westerhuis proper ty on a gravel road three miles south of Platte resembles a mini spor ts complex, with a half-size football field with two goalposts and a

weight room The buildings were undamaged by last week’s fire, as was another par tially completed

awaited roof tr usses that sat on the ground nearby

Joel Bailey, the Platte-Geddes schools superintendent, said the gym was a popular spot for many students

“ The friends of Michael and Connor would go and play bask

“ Various groups were allowed to use it for practices ”

Tami Smit, who works at a

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Street, said it was difficult to tell her 10- and 13-year-old daughters about the apparent murdersuicide

Maraschino Cherry Company Covertly Operates Drug Business

N E W YO R K ( A P ) A company that touts itself as one of the largest manufacturers of cocktail cherries in the United States and had a secret marijuana growing operation in its basement pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal and environmental charges

D e l l’s Ma r a s c h i n o C h e r r i e s was charged in state Supreme Cour t and pleaded guilty minutes later to crimes including felony marijuana possession and failing to monitor waste water it

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Potential Shutdown May Suspend Food Stamps

WASHINGTON (AP) A government shutdown Oct 1 could immediately suspend or delay food stamp payments to some of the 46 million Americans who receive the food aid

The Agriculture Department said Tuesday that it will stop providing benefits at the beginning of October if Congress does not pass legislation to keep government agencies open

“If Congress does not act to avert a lapse in appropriations, then USDA will not have the funding necessary for SNAP benefits in October and will be forced to stop providing benefits within the first several days of October,” said Catherine Cochran, a spokeswoman for USDA “Once that occurs, families won ' t be able to use these benefits at grocery stores to buy the food their families need ”

USDA on Friday sent a letter to states asking them to hold off “until further notice” on starting the process that distributes benefits at the first of the month

The Agriculture Department declined to give details on why the automatic funding would not continue In the 2013 government shutdown, food stamp dollars were not affected

Democratic lawmakers briefed by the department said USDA does not have enough money in reserve to pay a full month’s benefits and a partial government shutdown would affect recipients in states that pay out their benefits at the first of the month They said the department had extra dollars two years ago but that this time around it does not have enough additional reserves

Democratic Sens Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan said benefits could potentially be delayed even if there is a last-minute agreement on a spending bill, since it could take a few days for the department to process the money once a bill is enacted

“It’s a cash flow issue at this point that will be even worse if there is an actual shutdown,” Stabenow said

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SCIENCE

Cornell team places third in rst round of CubeQuest ground tournament

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Science Editor

“Shoot for the moon ” may be an expression, but for the students working with Prof Mason Peck, mechanical and a e r o s p a c e e n g i n e e r i n g , i t c o u

d a l s o become a reality Currently in the top f i v e t e a m s p a r t i c i p a t i n g in the NASA

c o m p e t i t i o n k n ow n a s C u b e Q u e s t , the “Cislunar

E x p l o r e r s ” a re w o r k i n g t o c re a t e a satellite capable of orbiting the moon that demons t r a t e s n e w m e t h o d s o f p r o p u l s i o n a n d n a v i g ation through space

“It’s a ver y good way for NASA to tr y many different things at once and not care too much if any of them fail, because i t ’

launched ”

According to Doyle, CubeQuest operates as a series of four ground tournaments one ever y six months in

“We’re finding that water is extraordinarily common in the Solar System It makes up the surface of whole moons; our own moon has it hidden in shadowy craters ... In our line of thinking, that means gas stations are everywhere.”

“Ph D students and undergraduates with me have the opportunity to engage in basic research that Cornell’s known for and also build something that’s never been flown,” Peck said “I’m serious when I say flying your senior project is something we do here And Cornell’s one of relatively few institutions where this is commonplace ”

Hi t c h i n g a R i d e

In 2018, NASA will launch a spacecraft known as the Space Launch System, primarily to test the Orion capsule, which is planned to be the first U S human-flight spacecraft since the retirem e n t o f t h e Sp a c e Shuttle According to Ky l e Doy l e g r a d , a m e m b e r o f Pe c k’s team, the SLS will have leftover carr y i n g c a p a c i t y t h a t N A S A intends to use f o r m o re “experimen-

t a l s p a c ec r a f t ” A m o n g t h e s e w i l l include t h e t o p three win-

n e r s o f t h e Cu b e Q u e s t competition, Doyle said “ The ‘secondar y payload ring,’ they call it, is a ring that has many smaller spacecraft slotted into it After they deploy the main spacecraft, they’ll shoot these out in a test fleet that tests all sorts of different technologies,” Doyle said

which NASA inspects the progress of participating teams ’ satellite designs and awards prize money based on a point system In the first tournament, held in August, Cornell’s team (registered as “Cislunar Explorers,” o r “ e x p l o re r

Earth and moon”) placed third overall and received $20,000 for placing in the top five The next tournament will take

prototype satellite ”

The competition is broken up into

“ L u n a r Derby,” Doyle said The “Lunar Derby,” for which Cornell is competing, focuses around getting spacecraft into lunar orbit and communicating back to Earth

“After deploying from the big rocket, we ’ re going to tr y take our spacecraft and have it move itself into a lunar orbit, and have it go around the moon until it runs out of propellant and eventually crashes, ” Doyle said “So the ground tournaments are the gateway to being offered as spot in space, and there’s a substantial prize for achieving lunar orbit That’s what we ’ re ultimately going for, but before we get there we have to hitch a ride into space ” A Fa m i l i a r Fu e l

The Cornell satellite consists of two indented, blocklike structures that join together to form a rectangular box about the size of a large book Spring-loaded, the satellite’s components are able to kick away from each other in space, inducing a spin that acts as a centrifuge for the fuel tank But what’s in the tank? According to Doyle and Emilie Camera ’17, another student on the team, the propellant for the satellite is none other than water, electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen during spin to be used as rocket fuel “

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In order to accurately test this apparatus, the satellite entirely made out of aluminum aside from a titanium piece 3D printed by Moog, Inc is placed in a m a c h i n e c a l

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Camera said

The other main innovation present on the satellite is its optical navigation system, in which photographs of celestial objects are used as landmarks for orientation Since the satellite stabilizes itself like a gyroscope, it can point in whatever direction deemed necessar y by the team, Doyle said

“ R a t h e r t h a n h a v i n g G P S , w h i c h doesn’t work past lower orbit, we take pictures with three onboard cameras of the Sun, the moon and the earth, and determine which way we ’ re facing and which way we are based on the relative s

objects appear to be compared with where we know they are, ” Doyle said “It’s ver y similar by how people used to navigate by celestial objects It’s ver y much a case of what’s old is new ” Pe r s o n al Sp

A major goal for the project has been to increase accessibility for people inter-

“I think it takes innovation to get [the technologies] right, but once you get them

a s w e go, we don’t need to w or r y a b o u t m a i ntaining the temperature and/or pressure of the gases ” And that’s not the only benefit of w a t e r - b a s e d p ro p u l s i o n , a c c o rd i n g t o

Doyle

“ We’re finding that water is extraordinarily common in the Solar System,” Doyle said “It makes up the surface of whole moons; our own moon has it hidden in shadowy craters; the rings of Saturn have lots of ice in them Water is ever ywhere, so in our line of thinking, that means gas stations are ever ywhere if you can propel your spacecraft with water ”

ested in sending similar, non-government objects into space According to Pe

fuel them as we go farther and faster And with the navigation system, we don’t have to rely on all the expensive resources that NASA usually gives us So maybe, this is the hobby of the next century sending out your spacecraft and getting data back ”

Peck, who served as chief technologist at NASA from 2012 to 2013, believes that sending things into space could quickly become a major new business sphere if the technology evolves in the right way

“If there’s enough consumer use of space if hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of people or organizations start to explore space on their own for economic or scientific purposes, suddenly the launch opportunities become far more frequent,” he said “The launch prices come down,

Perfect pressure | In order to get accurate data for the propulsion system, the test apparatus (pictured) is placed in a thermal vacuum chamber that simulates the pressure of space The aluminum chamber on the right holds water; electrolyzed oxygen and hydrogen travel through the solenoid valve into the combustion chamber on the right

because you can now create these rockets in quantity, operate them as batches or fleets as opposed to the customized, exquisite things they are now It reduces the price of launch, and that helps everybody That’s one of the exciting things of these technologies they level the playing field, and open up space for a large number of people ” Matching this philosophy, the team plans to open-source their satellite design on Github in the coming weeks to share their findings regarding propulsion and navigation systems, according to Doyle “The goal is for anyone to download the blueprints and make their own if they

wanted to, ” he said

Should the team be worried that other CubeQuest competitors will steal their idea? Peck doesn’t think so

“Something that distinguishes our team is how far along the project is, well ahead of where we need to be at this point in the competition,” Peck said “I think we have a unique solution here If people start to take on what we ’ ve developed and can make it a common way to explore space I think that’s a great outcome of this ”

Noah Rankin can be reached at

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Baumbach’s Back: Mistress America

BY DANIEL FAYAD Sun Staff Writer

Noah Baumbach, usually known for his melancholic, reflective comedies, seems to be tr ying to reach for a wider audience with his most recent films His latest, Mistress America (now showing at Cinemapolis), delivers a bit of the same formula It’s a simple addition to Baumbach’s catalog of intellectual comedies, but with a more lighthearted atmosphere, ver y similar to 2014’s While We’re Young It also marks his second collaboration with co-screenwriter Greta Ger wig, the first one being Frances Ha Mistress America tells the stor y of Tracy’s first semester of college She’s your typical misunderstood English major She thinks that ever ything she does is underappreciated and that she’s probably smarter than ever yone else in her class After a few weeks of disappointment, she drops the phrase that most college students are afraid to admit that they’ve thought at some point: “I’m pretty sure college is supposed to be more fun ” So she follows her mother’s advice and proceeds to meet up with Brooke (Greta Ger wig), the daughter of the man that her mom is going to marr y, who is, in a way, her “future sister ”

After a fun night exploring ever y cool corner of New York City, Tracy develops some kind of weird admiration and sense of pity for Brooke She realizes that even if Brooke appears to be confident, she has no idea of what she’s doing, even though she’s 30 now Brooke is self-aware of her state but she’s in some sort of denial that there’s anything wrong As she says to Tracy, “I'll probably end up doing something depressing, but young ” This is a recurrent theme

between “college life” and “real life ” This works especially well in a setting such as New York City, where “real life” (whatever that means) is magnified to great proportions Baumbach likes to deliver his social

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“ There's no adulter y when you ' re eighteen You should all be touching each other all the

mentar y on modern life The situational jokes are traded for saturated dialogue that at times seems like it’s tr ying too hard to be funny While there are times that the dialogue does lack comedic timing, though, there are still gems in the mix

Around the second half of the film is when the plot dies and the film begins to continue on without any direction This is

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The first act is rather disappointing It’s slow and hardly rewarding, and the beginning of the film relies a lot on small, irrelevant situational comedy rather than the kind of witty dialogue that makes you feel smart for enjoying As the movie starts to develop, though, we get to see more of the characters This is what makes Baumbach’s films more than just comedies, but rather some sort of interesting philosophical com-

Ellie Goulding “On My Mind”

Ellie Goulding’s new single, “On My Mind,” is an acquired taste on the first try you aren ’ t so sure You hem and haw, you take another bite and then you can ’ t stop nibbling You’re hooked

Goulding’s versatile voice is a little less daring than usual here; the song doesn’t hold any of her extolled vibratos However, it is filled with an unbearably catchy refrain that almost forces you to bob your head and that keeps you clicking the repeat button Nor is the subject matter of the song shockingly creative Goulding croons the familiar story of tormented love, featuring a side of revenge Her lyrics (“My heart don’t understand why I got you on my mind / You think you know somebody”) portray a timeless struggle: girl likes bad boy, boy is bad for girl, and girl can ’ t stop loving him Normally it’s a tiresome theme, but the music video is a refreshing take on the common narrative Evoking the bad-assbitch motif, perhaps inspired by Rihanna’s brazen vengeance video, Goulding redistributes justice to her abusive boyfriend In an outlandishly extravagant Vegas setting, Goulding and her female co-conspirator, dressed as outlaws on horseback, embark on a Thelma & Louise-style girl power trip While the actual song may not read as a feminist manifesto, the video’s final frame of Goulding riding victoriously off into the sunset is an emancipation to all girls who have been stuck in a similar scenario

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also the moment, however, when the characters come alive Tony, the dude that Tracy had a crush on, gets a girlfriend; Brooke tries to create a restaurant; Tracy meets Brooke’s ex-fiancé and the film goes on without any specific direction As much as this might appear lazy, in a way it seems to have some sort of metafictional depth It seems that the movie becomes a metaphor for how even adults are just improvising in life, and ever yone is as lost in the world as

Brooke Or it could just be lazy writing, you never know

The only character who is not interesting is Nicolette, Tony’s girlfriend She’s annoyi

increase the sexual tension between Tony and Tracy, she could’ve been a less important character She was supposed to be an annoying kind of funny, but she ends up being just annoying

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Brooke’s ex-fiancé might be the brightest moment in the film Here, we ’ re able to appreciate Baumbach’s directorial ability to create a dynamic atmosphere where there’s a lot of stuff going on and it all seems interesting, but there’s still great comedic timing in the dialogue The particular scene in which ever yone finds out that Tracy wrote a stor y about Brooke and ever yone reads it and scrutinizes the text, while criticizing it, is maybe the best part of the film Here, the film fully embraces the silly situation and stops taking itself too seriously, making fun of its pretentious premises and finding humor in difficult topics

In the end, it is somewhat unfortunate that we have to go through so many childish jokes to get the witty humor that we love Even though the film still has a good deal of heart-warming life lessons (some of which you’ll end up wishing didn’t apply to you so perfectly), the film almost feels like a product of a brainstorm that needed to be polished Overall, Mistress America is still a smart and funny film that doesn’t take itself too seriously and definitely won ’ t make you feel like you wasted your time or your money

Daniel Fayad is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at dfayad@cornellsun com

Yasiin Bey

With “Basquiat Ghostwriter,” Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def ) presents himself as an aggressively enigmatic figure The namesake of Bey’s new single is Haitian-American graffiti artist of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat

A tribute to Basquiat’s graffiti, the track reeks of urban discontent and aerosol paint His delivery choppy and his lyrics opaque, Bey carries a pressurized energy reminiscent of Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets, hip-hop pioneers of the Black Panther Era

Many of the lyrics (such as, “Most young kings get their heads cut off ” and, “Gangsterism: origin of cotton”) are direct quotes from Basquiat’s scrawlings The production a combination of frantic guitar, organic percussion and miscellaneous screeches is discordant and sparse It obscures the lyrics as much as it complements them “Basquiat Ghostwriter” is cluttered and noisy, but captivating in its sense of urgency, much like the graffiti of Basquiat himself Zachary Mandell

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Colts Turnover Ball Five Times in Defeat

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Darrelle Revis’ new team is getting the same results he’s always had against Andrew Luck

The veteran cornerback is still mystifying the young quarterback

Revis picked off one pass, recovered two fumbles and helped the suddenly opportunistic Jets defense come up with five turnovers again Monday night to help New York pull away for a 20-7 victory at Indianapolis

"It’s Monday night, on a big stage, and we knew what type of game this was going to be,”Revis said

So he delivered a prime-time performance

Revis’ homecoming has been everything New York fans hoped for With Revis and Antonio Cromartie locking down outside receivers, firstyear coach Todd Bowles has been able to rely on his defensive front to stop the run and routinely pressure quarterbacks

In the opener against Cleveland, New York converted five turnovers into 21 points

Against the supposedly, high-powered Colts offense, they did it again

The Jets matched that five-turnover total, kept the Colts out of the end zone for three full quarters and never gave Luck a chance to get comfortable The result: New York is off to its first 2-0 start since 2011

"The name of the game is turnovers and keeping the score down,

“The name of the game is turnovers and keeping the score down, regardless of whatever else happens ”

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regardless of whatever else happens,”Bowles said

Indianapolis (0-2) is keeping its dismal start in perspective

After starting last season with back-to-back losses, they won five straight

This time seems different Luck was 21 of 37 for 250 yards with one touchdown, three interceptions and lost one fumble After a strong start, Frank Gore finished with 15 carries for 57 yards and Donte Moncrief was the only receiver to top the 50-yard mark Moncrief caught seven passes for 122 yards and Indy’s only touchdown

Part of the problem was Revis and his teammates

The other problems were self-inflicted On Monday, Indy was called for 11 penalties, Gore bobbled a handoff at the Jets 1-yard line that Revis recovered in the end zone, Adam Vinatieri missed a 29-yard field goal the first time he’s missed one from shorter than 30 yards since 2007 and for the first time since 1997, the Colts were shut out in the first half in back-to-back weeks

Indy has scored just 21 points in eight quarters, and inside the stadium, the fans who roared for Robert Mathis’ return and Jeff Saturday’s induction into the ring of honor, booed heartily as the mistakes piled up

"You can ’ t penalize yourself, you can ’ t turn the ball over,”Colts coach Chuck Pagano said "We have to protect, give him (Luck) a clean pocket You can ’ t drive the length of the field and put the football on the ground "

The Colts’ problems began early

On Indy’s first series, Calvin Pryor intercepted a pass and ran it back to the Colts 9-yard line Four plays later, Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a 6-yard TD pass to Eric Decker

Fitzpatrick finished 22 of 34 for 244 yards with two touchdown passes and one interception getting his first career win at Lucas Oil Stadium Fitzpatrick became the first player since 1950 to start five consecutive road games against one team while playing for five different teams He was 0-4 in the previous starts

Eric Decker had eight receptions for 97 yards before leaving with a knee injury, and Brandon Marshall caught seven passes for 101 yards and one touchdown

But it was defense that ruled the day

"All we talk about is trying to dominate as a defense and we take a lot of pride in that,”Pryor said "Our main focus is to come in week in and week-out, bring the intensity, try to dominate as a defense, create turnovers, get the ball back to our offense and let them go execute

The Jets struggled to put this one away, though

New York couldn’t score again until Nick Folk made a 35-yard field goal late in the first half

Indy finally got on the board with Luck’s 26-yard TD pass to Moncrief with 10:07 left in the game

Fitzpatrick answered on the next series with a 15-yard TD pass to Marshall and Marcus Gilchrist’s late interception set up Folk’s final field goal

"As a secondary we ’ re trying to be the best we can be and be the best secondary unit in the league,”Revis said "That’s what we ’ re trying to showcase out there "

Red Blanks Binghamton to Keep Shutout Streak Alive

By BENJAMIN DENSON Sun Staff Writer

Whether a team wins by one goal or by 15, the value of a win never changes The Cornell women ’ s soccer team (6-0-2) won with its third consecutive 1-0 score on Sunday against Binghamton Needless to say, defense has been the all-important x-factor for the Red so far this season

“Our defense is a team effort,” senior co-captain Shanay Fischer said ”Ever y player on the field defends whether its a for ward chasing back or a center back clearing the ball out of the penalty area Being organized with our defensive shape is a huge component as well, not just in the back but all over the field ”

With the win last Sunday, Cornell remains undefeated Even more impressive, the Red has yet to concede a goal Coach Farmer’s team is meshing together well in

the backfield

“I think the defense is coming together well, mostly because they are a group that played together last year with the exception of Zoe McCormick, who has stepped into a difficult role in ver y good fashion as a freshman,” Farmer said “ The holding midfielders, who are also a prime factor in the defending shape, are also two seniors (Shanay Fischer and Brenna Mockler) and a sophomore (Kaylee Fitzgerald) who have played in their spots for the years they have been here So the defending group has a variety of ages in the team but also a bunch of experience in the shape and system and playing with each other that I think is contributing to their good start ”

a formidable athlete, and is thought of as one of the best one-on-one defenders in the Ivy League A fixture at the left-back position, Tate has proven that she is a single force to be reckoned with

“She is a proverbial lead by example type of player,” Farmer said

With 14 career clean sheets, junior goalie Kelsey

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Senior co-captain Charlotte Tate is a symbol of Cornell’s success this season The 5’7 senior is

team with reliable performances in net Playing a dominant goalkeeper gives the Red a mentally competitive edge

“Kelsey has two years of experience starting her junior campaign and that consistency certainly helps the mindset in the team, especially in the back,” Farmer said “But she has made 3 game saving saves when she is suddenly called upon and that certainly helps the mindset It is not an easy task for any goalkeeper to be inactive for some time in the match and then have to explode and make quality saves in traffic to preser ve the result Kelsey has done an excellent job of always being ready to perform when required, and certainly withstood a lot of pressure from Syracuse and Seton Hall to post the shutouts ”

Junior midfielder Elizabeth Crowell had the sole goal on Sunday

“She controls possession for us more than any other player, she is prime factor in our attacking penetration with and without the ball, she is trigger for all of our corner kicks and free kicks, she leads the team in shots taken, and she is leading in goals scored That’s quite a lot of impact so I absolutely believe she has ‘lived up ’ to her position in the team, ” said Farmer on Crowell’s play this season

Cornell begins Ivy League play this week, with its first conference match against Columbia “ We can win when we are not quite at our best, we can compete with good understanding as a group, and we have some ver y good players who can impact a result both individually and as a group, ” said head coach Farmer

Cornell will be tested for the rest of the season in terms of Ivy League matches, and is in a prime position to make an impact in the conference If defense wins championships, the Red’s record so far speaks for itself

Benjamin Denson can be reached at bdenson@cornellsun com

Women Start Season Strong With Second Straight Win

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d o n e a g re a t j o b e m b r a c i n g t h e opportunity presented to them on each day of training and at each race ”

This team has done a great job of focusing on what is directly in front of them

“ There’s been a lot of belief that we’ll be at our best next month and in November and so the team has d o n e

opportunity presented to them on each day of training and at each race, ” co-captain Kristen Niedrach said “ They know that each of these opportunities are precious and I’m

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ver y happy with how they’ve been taking advantage of those opportunities to this point ”

The season only gets more rigorous from here But the team is prepared to meet the challenge

“Our remaining invitational and championship meets are at this distance so I expect they’ll bring a lot of c o n f i d e n c e t o o u

n e x t m e e t a t Lehigh on October 2,” said Smith “I’m excited to see how they’ll bring

already on display to more competitive situations

s a i d t o n g u e - i n - c h e e k that she wished her sist e r ’ s f i r s t g o a l h a d come earlier in the season Marisa said her sister is “ an asset to the team ” , pointing out that Isabel is already on the front line Finally, the senior co-captain opened up about what Isabel’s goal meant to her as an older sibling “I’m super happy for her”, said Siergiej h e a v i l

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun com

Isabel score her first career collegiate goals Is a b e l , a f r e s h m a n midfielder, tallied both goals in Saturday’s win over Vermont When first prompted, Marisa

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bb572@cornell edu Keith Bollt can be reached at kb477@cornell edu

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