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CUPD : Leads Slow In Investigation

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f Reported Rape

Three weeks after a rape was reported on campus, investigators continue to gather information for the case but have neither made an arrest nor publicly updated their initial description of the suspect “We’re still gathering leads, though they’ve slowed down recently,” said Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department “We don’t have anybody identified at this point for any [public] release ”

On Sept 2, a female was walking down the stairs leading to the south side of the suspension bridge, north of the Arts Quad, when she was reportedly accosted and raped, police said She said she was grabbed from behind by an unknown male who forced her to have sexual intercourse, according to police After the reported crime, the suspect fled north across the suspension bridge, according to CUPD

Zoner added that police may have new information about another incident on Sept 2 a reported forcible touching in the Hughes parking lot

“Some of our leads indicate that there was a small group of college-age females that may have witnessed that incident,” Zoner said “We continue to encourage anyone who may have witnessed any of the crimes to call the Cornell University police ”

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GreenStar Signs Lease in C-Town

By CHRISTA NIANIATUS

Following months of debate over the feasibility of opening a grocery store in Collegetown, GreenStar Cooperative Market’s Board of Directors has signed a 20-year lease to open a branch at 307 College Ave The market will occupy the ground floor of developer Josh Lower’s ’05 proposed apartment complex at the site, pending the approval of the cooperative’s full membership in November

In a statement to the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board on Sept 11, Brandon Kane, general manager of GreenStar Cooperative Market Inc , reaffirmed the company ’ s commitment to Lower’s “Collegetown Crossing” project and urged its timely approval

“The purpose behind the statement is to reinforce our support so that the planning board could make a decision and move it forward to the board of zoning appeals,” Kane said “We have a time limit to get this built and occupy it within a certain time range that makes it affordable and feasible for us ”

Lower has provided GreenStar with significant financial incentives that will support market’s success at 307 College Ave , according to Kane

Due to the financial incentives Lower is offering GreenStar the “ co-op will be saving approximately $1 [million] to 1 5 million in occupancy expenses over the 20-year term of the agreed-upon lease,” Kane said in his statement to the board

Pending city approval, Lower plans to demolish the site’s current building and remake the area into a highly trafficked “pedestrian arcade,” filled with storefronts along a pedestrian passageway that would connect College and Linden Avenues The upper floors would provide additional residential units to the Collegetown community, according to Lower

Approval of the project has been delayed due to the developer’s request for variances on or exemptions from parking requirements under current zoning laws

Court Hearing in Desdunes ’13 Civil Suit Delayed Until

“In the current project there are roughly 113 beds and existing zoning law requires 57

After Fleeing Nazis, P rof Was Leading

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Having fled from the Nazis as a child and pursued a career in academia when few female scientists walked the hallways of universities, Prof Emeritus Ruth Schwartz, nutritional sciences, was remembered as a woman of courage and intellect at her funeral Monday

Schwartz died on Sept 19 after a car she was riding in also carrying her partner, Prof Em

finance was hit by another car driving down Route 13 She was 88 years old

Much of Schwartz’s life was remembered Monday afternoon by her long-time friend, Prof Sharon Kay Obendorf Ph D ’76, fiber science and apparel design, senior associate dean for research and graduate education Schwartz was born on Oct 9, 1924, in Berlin, Ge

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abruptly, her childhood seemingly came to an end: In the 1930s, Hitler rose to power, and Schwartz’s Ukranian father was deported to Czechoslovakia He was later shot by a border guard In 1939, at the age of 14, Schwartz fled for her life escaping the Nazis by boarding a Kindertransport train to London

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Roy wearing green with nubbed rubber feet; Ida, first grader, plaid and plaited Mom and Dad had Ida right away and almost spoiled her, with “ too much love ” But three years later Roy came along and they found a way to distribute it better Then they were a family of two, two, two, and two, with lots of Mom plus Roy and Dad plus Ida; Mom and Dad, occasionally, but all the time there was Roy and Ida

For as long as Roy could remember there had been the Lake house Ida knew there were houses before it

Those houses were damp and painted like the Dentist’s office They belonged to other people Their beds were stiff blanketed and the pillows crunched under-head because, Ida told Roy, they were stuffed with crickets Those houses came with thousand piece puzzles, at least one big, dried up conch shell, and old books, with potato chip pages Ever y floor, even up and down the stairs, was covered in the same corn kernel carpet that Roy and Ida knew liked to pick at using their fingernails in their basement at home

The Lake house on the other hand was what Dad called an investment Its floors were wooden, its steps made of stone and “cast-iron,” and replacing the corn kernels were oriental rugs Other features included: mosquito candles, fireplace, narrow roof, narrow halls And at night, in the air, instead of sea gulls there were bats In the water, a dock and a motorboat Winters at the Lake house were long and thick; summers, pale and green The sand by the lake was like mashed sweet potatoes, which was disturbing to Ida; delightful for Roy Mom would come outside when it was sunny in a onepiece bathing suit Dad got his shotgun out of the closet, once, to shoot at a bear that was on the front porch

Outside the house, nature was dense Ida, 12, and Roy, 7, planned to make a fortune off that place As far as Ida knew, no one had documented any of their

particular lake or woods, and so she took it upon herself Roy was cameraman

“Stop moving it up and down,” said Ida, mid-take

“It’s nodding,” said Roy “It’s agreeing with what you said about the mushrooms ”

“Jesus Christ, Roy ” Ida signaled ‘ cut ’ She crashed through the underbrush and cupped her hands over Roy’s and showed him how to train focus on a spot “Steady, OK? Don’t even breathe too much It’s up to the audience whether or not they agree with what I’m saying ” Roy frowned and Ida crashed back into the shot

“ What if they don’t?”

“Of course they will ”

“But what if?”

Ida glared from under her eyelids “OK, Roy 3, 2, 1, action!”

Sometimes Ida would bring the camera out in a canoe with a girl who lived next door She was older and came to the lake only periodically, when her family dragged her along ”

“Ida’s only friends with her because she has a boat,” Roy confided in Mom one day when Ida was 13 and he was 8 Roy stood at the front window, peering out at Ida in the yard, while Mom skinned potatoes into the trash Roy’s grandmother had put the TV on in the living room and then fallen asleep in front of it Roy thought about how he was not allowed to go on the canoe trips “I’ll show you the footage after, Ida had told him as she plugged her neck into a life jacket

“You let Ida have her friend to herself,” said Mom

“I do, I didn’t even bother them once today ” Roy wandered into the kitchen

“But,” he concluded, “it’s not fair ”

“Oh, Roy, it’s fair How about you help with dinner? Would you like to set the table for me?”

“No,” said Roy

“OK,” Mom said, “but do it anyway ” Check cornellsun com for the rest of this stor y

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‘An Oasis of Madness

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By TYLER ALICEA Sun Contributor

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Profs Advance 3-D Printing Software, Create Virtual Characters

By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Contributor

Prepping for powder “I would found an oasis of madness amidst a pompous academic instituion that takes itself far too seriously ”

The team which included James, Moritz Bächer, Harvard University, Prof Hanspeter Pfister, Har vard University, and Prof Bernd Bickel, Technische Universität Berlin focused on

While 3-D printing might sound futuristic, researchers say it may soon be a common household practice Advancing the field of 3D printing to new plateaus, Prof Doug James, computer science, and colleagues have developed a program that can create physical 3D models of virtual characters

how to improve software to enable scientists to create layered, threedimensional models, usually out of plastic

Previously, 3-D printers were limited to creating rigid objects, such as cubes, according to James But now, the researchers have built models that can move just like

characters do in the virtual world, he said

“One of the bottlenecks to the application of 3-D printing is the relative lack for design software for generating complex printable objects James’ approach to automatically generating printable, articulated figures is a good example of what future computer-aided design tools will look like,” said Prof Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering

The printer can be thought of as “ an automatic toy generation tool,” James said According to him, children will soon be able to create their own virtual characters and print them out to create toys

3-D printers identify their models as patterns of minute cubes so small that they cannot be distinguished by the human eye, James said, adding that they “print” their products using a technique to create an outline called a “skinned mesh ” The skinned mesh provides the basic outline of the model, and the printer builds it according to the layout, James said

He said the new means of measuring the mesh allows the printers to create interactive and moveable joints for characters that are similar to those of human beings

The researchers have printed out a few models with the new software, including characters

from the video game Spore James said his favorite figure so far is a character from the game called Grumpy

Such printers are becoming increasingly common in various fields, from education to industry and they will become household items in the near future, according to James

“Eventually, you'll be able to pick them up from your local store, ” he said James said that 3-D printers are rapidly dropping in price and that some can now be purchased for under $1,000 A number of large-scale 3-D printing facilities also offer their services on the Internet, he added

Debarghya Das ’15, a computer science major, called 3-D printing “technology’s next big thing ”

“Companies like Makerbot have come up with 3-D printing file sharing now Can you imagine being able to send your friend that rare screwdriver he needed from halfway across the world?” Das said “The concept of being able to make anything you need right from home is mind-blowing ”

Fr iends, Faculty S ay P rofessor Was ‘Courageous, ’ Kind

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Rabbi Scott Glass, who officiated the funeral, said that he did not think most parents of Jewish children believed the Kindertransport mission which moved Jewish children into British foster homes before the beginning of World War II “ was anything but a temporary arrangement ”

Yet for Schwartz, “ as for so many others, she would never see her parents or most of her family ever again,” Glass said

In fact, Glass said, it was 20 years before Schwartz discovered that her brother was still alive

“One friend called her courageous In reflecting on the path that her life took, I’d say one had to be courageous to have been able to navigate it as well as Ruth did,” Glass said

The political turmoil Schwartz witnessed in her early years made her an adult who was “always interested in what was happening in the world,” Obendorf said

“I think when you think about her young days, you would understand why she cared about politics,” Obendorf added

Schwartz ultimately made it safely to London, where she found the support of a foster family, as well as friends, who encouraged her to pursue her budding interest in science

Although Schwartz studied chemistry, physiology and nutrition as an undergraduate and graduate student, she struggled to find a teaching position at a British university after graduation, Obendorf said But, refusing to give up her ambition, in 1963 Schwartz left for America

Schwartz taught at a few universities before she came to Cornell in 1970 at “ a time when the [College of Human Ecology] was changing,” Obendorf said

“This was the transition from [the College of ] Home Economics to the College of Human Ecology,” Obendorf said “Ruth Schwartz was one of the scientists who was hired to increase our research mission in the College of Human Ecology and transform us into the research and teaching college that you would think of today ”

According to Prof Virginia Utermohlen, human nutrition, who met Schwartz at the University when their offices shared a hallway, Schwartz helped found the Department of Nutritional Sciences in 1974

Obendorf added that Schwartz’s grounding in science led her to teach graduate students in several fields, ranging from nutritional sciences to environmental toxicology to international development

Another chapter of Schwartz’s life began when, in 2002, she met and began dating Prof Emeritus Smidt

Schwartz, Glass said, “helped give [Smidt] a new lease on life, and seemed to make him very happy ”

“Many people took great joy in seeing how good their relationship was for each of them and both of them, making the events of last Wednesday that much more tragic,” Glass said

Smidt, who drove the car Schwartz was riding in Wednesday, was airlifted to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa , for treatment He is still recovering from his injuries, according to Glass

“We hope for [Smidt]’s speedy recovery and hope that Ruth is now in peace, ” Glass said

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Debates O ver Parking Delay C-Town Crossing

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that makes as many people happy as possible,” but that a financially feasible building plan must be reached before the project can move forward

“On a 60-foot wide property, it’s just not possible to provide the parking,” Lower said “If we had a larger property we could fit it on, we’d already have the project approval ”

At a meeting in April 2012, the planning board requested a study be conducted to determine the percentage of Collegetown residents that have cars in Ithaca According to Schroeder, the study found that Lower’s proposed apartments would only result in the need to accommodate approximately 19 additional cars a number that could be reduced to 13 with the potential provision of free bus passes and Ithaca Carshare credits to residents, according to the study

The city is considering these transportation options so that Lower can proceed with the project as planned, Schroeder said

“My expectation is that the planning board will approve the full environmental assessment so long as it meets what we discussed at our last meeting,” Schroeder said From there, he said, the project would go to the Board of Zoning Appeals, which would consider requested variances

While some residents are attempting to push the project forward quickly, citing the need for a full-service grocer in Collegetown, Common Council member Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) said that, considering the weight of the board’s responsibility, there has been no undue delay

“I do know the board is being pressured, but their job is to make sure they consider all the impacts This is not an insignificant project,” Kerslick said

He added that in light of the significant transportation concessions being requested by the developer, it is reasonable for the city to expect something in return

“To begin with, the building should be very well built, high quality and have the appropriate mechanics,” Kerslick said “The board raised some good questions about providing more space for pedestrians by proposing the building [be] set back a bit more They’re looking for anything the developers can do to provide the necessary amenities for pedestrian traffic ”

Despite its complications, the potential benefits of this project for the community are not lost on the planning board, according to Schroeder

He said the addition of residential units and retail space would be a step in the right direction and particularly, an upgrade from the two-story building that currently stands at 307 College Ave

“Frankly, it’s just an ugly building, and a clear prime development site in Collegetown,” Schroeder said

Lower said he hopes that Collegetown Crossing will not only be convenient for students living in Collegetown, but will also foster a sense of community in the area

“We’re just trying to bring some excitement back to the 300 block of Collegetown,” Lower said

Christa Nianiatus can be reached at cnianiatus@cornellsun

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To t h e Ed i t o r :

Re: “ Voting at Home, in Ithaca,” Opinion, Sept 19

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by Laura Miller

What is authentic progress?

To t h e Ed i t o r : Re: “ The Hypocrisy of Scorpions X, Opinion, Sept 24

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CORRECTION

Monday’s Arts & Entertainment article, “Avicii Levels Barton,” incorrectly stated that Avicii is 5 ft 4 inches tall This information, however, was based on an unreliable source and could not be verified

Due to an editing error, a news story Monday, “‘Grander Experience’ Draws More Cornell Alumni to Homecoming 2012,” incorrectly stated the sex of Terry Hahn, director of affinity programs Hahn is a woman, not a man

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY DANYOUNG KIM Sun Contributor

Sam Green, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker will present his newest “live documentary ” The Love Song of R Buckminster Fuller, at Cornell Cinema Saturday night alongside rock band Yo La Tengo The Sun spoke over the phone with Green about the “live documentary” experience, journalism’s decline The Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers and the magic of Cornell Cinema

THE SUN: A lot of your documentaries have this reporting, journalistic element to them Would you consider yourself a journalist or a filmmaker now?

SAM GREEN: Well it’s funny because when I tell people I went to journalism school, they sometimes say, “Oh, are you sad that you ’ re not still doing journalism?” I’ve always been taken aback by that because I do think I’m doing journalism I mean, I’m not a daily newspaper reporter, but I’m still using all the tools I learned about research, trying to be accurate and fair, interviewing people trying to get to the bottom of things and being curious about the world I still use all that, so I consider what I do with documentaries, with the kind of documentary film I make, art journalism

SUN: You do a lot of live documentaries as opposed to recorded ones What do you think a live documentary brings to the art that a standard one wouldn’t be able to?

S G : Well, a lot of things I have made a lot of traditional documentaries, and I’m still making [them] I made this documentary about [the language] Esperanto recently I got into making these live documentaries a couple years ago, and I love doing them I’m very enthralled by the form for a lot of different reasons

One is that if you ’ re a filmmaker these days, you have to expect that p e o p l e a re g o i n g t o watch your movies on their phones or on their

l a p t o p s w h i l e t h e y ’ re checking their e-mails I watched a movie last n i g h t o n Ne t f l i x Instant, and I fell asleep in the middle of it It’s a great movie, but I s h u t t l e d f o r w a rd towards the end of the movie It’s not the s a m e e x p e r i e n c e a n d I’m not being judgmental about it The Internet is great and it’s great to be able to watch anything you want anytime, whenever you want, but [for] the movies I make, I really like the experience, the kind of theatrical sort of experience, going somewhere to see it with strangers in a room The lights go down, you turn off your phone, and you give yourself over to this experience That to me is very powerful, so I wanted to make something that would hang on to that, that would keep people watching things in that context

that that makes it more special, and especially with this latest one I m doing, [The Love Song of R Buckminster Fuller], with the band Yo La Tengo They’re a great band, and many people know them and are fans, so you go and see them live, too it’s more of a special event If you ’ re just watching a regular movie these days, it s sort of like ho-hum in a way

SUN: And you ve had a lot of success with the traditional documentary, too, like The Weather Underground Were you surprised when you were nominated for the Academy Awards given the topic of the film?

S.G.: Yeah, I was definitely surprised by that When I started making that movie a movie about a group of young people who tried to violently overthrow the U S government I thought, maybe some actors might be interested and maybe some baby boomers, but not a lot more than that So the movie was much more of a hit than I thought I mean, a hit’ is a relative thing, but still, I didn’t think it would become such a widely-seen movie, [or be] nominated for Academy Award It was especially great because it’s the kind of thing where my grandmother understands that that’s a big deal Everybody understands, whereas before people are like, You make documentary films? Oh yeah, you know, whatever ” But people say, You’re nominated for the Academy Award?” Almost anybody can [understand that]

SUN: Did you receive any press attention in 2008 when former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers was a subject of concern for Barack Obama and his presidential campaign?

S.G.: Oh yeah, a lot actually Through the process of making the movie, we became friends with him I like Bill a lot, and I felt really sorry for him I saw him at a certain point and I said, “How is it going?” And he said, “Terrible!” What people don’t realize is that if Fox News vilifies you, you will receive a tsunami of death threats, so he was getting death threats all the time from crazy people out there When all that was happening, I got a lot of offers to go on Nightline and stuff like that, but we didn’t want to engage with it In a way, the only way to take the air out of a nonissue like that is to not engage with it, so we didn’t do any press Although, Fox News started using parts of my movie They didn’t even put a title [over the footage], so we had to get a lawyer to get them to stop doing that it was pretty stupid, that whole thing

SUN: So for Buckminster Fuller, what first drew you to him?

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a substitute for one truly kick-ass, experienced, real reporter I think that a real, healthy independent press is hugely important to our society and our democracy, and I think that the market has totally undermined that, and journalism is in the toilet because of that To me, it’s sort of heartbreaking Sure, there are still a lot of great newspapers and radio reporters, but I think the press is definitely wounded, and I think that our crappy politics are a reflection of that

SUN: Is there anyone you have in mind that you would want to make a film about in the future?

S G : That’s a good question I’ve always wanted to make a movie about the oldest person in the world The oldest person in the world changes pretty regularly because you know, they all die But there’s always somebody walking around, or sometimes lying around, who’s been around longer than anybody else on the planet, and that to me is very interesting I think right now it’s a woman who lives in Georgia who’s 112 years old I don’t know if that’s going to be the project I rush out and make, but I’ve always wanted to do something about that

SUN: So you choose your projects spontaneously? Whenever an idea comes up, you pursue it?

So the great thing with live documentaries is that is what they are: You can ’ t download it later, you can ’ t get it on Netflix Instant, you can ’ t see it on YouTube, you got to go I think

S G : The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was doing an exhibit about him, and as part of this exhibit, they asked me to make a live documentary They mentioned that his papers are at Stanford University, and his papers are this enormous collection of papers the biggest collection of any person ever So I started to go down to Stanford and look through the papers; the more I looked the more interesting [he seemed] I really felt like he was a fascinating character, just as a person, [as] this super complex, interesting guy [with incredibly radical ideas] He was in the ’20s and ’30s and ’40s talking about sustainability and resources, so he’s way, way ahead of his time, but the funny thing is now he’s so correct! His message about doing more with less, fairly distributing resources these are really apt things right now

SUN: So to touch back on journalism, do you have any opinions about the nature of the media today?

S G : I probably think the same thing that most other people think, which is, it’s a terrible time for journalism Many people probably think it’s a great time for journalism because anybody can set up a website, go online, and report about [his or her] community, and in some ways that’s true But a hundred citizen-journalists, I don’t think, are

S G : No, I have always had things I’m interested in Right now, I’m interested in trees I’m reading books about trees, and I like trees these days So far, I don’t think it’s going to last that long Something comes up, things that get under my skin and almost become an obsession That to me is important because a film is hard to make, it takes a long time, so you have to be obsessed with something in order to stick with it and make something out of it It can ’ t just be a passing interest

SUN: I think that wraps it up Did you have anything else you wanted to say?

S G : No I’m very excited to come back to Cornell I’ve showed two other movies there, and this might be just totally extraneous for you, but I’m not sure if students there realize what a fantastic institution and resource Cornell Cinema is Filmmakers from all over the world know Cornell Cinema and admire the programming there Years ago, there were organizations like Cornell Cinema at universities all over the country, and over time, they’ve gone away, because of VCRs and DVDs and now the Internet The idea is like, “You can see anything online,” but it’s not really true, and there’s also that thing about the cinematic experience It’s very different to see a movie in a theater than it is to watch it online So Cornell Cinema is still around and I personally am thrilled to screen something there and to come back I really admire and respect the organization and the curation, and I know many other filmmakers out there who feel the same way

Danyoung Kim is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at dak257@cornell edu

Securing the Shadow, Finding the Words

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Contributor

Claudia Emerson, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of Late Wife, was introduced by her former student Prof Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, English, at Hollis E Cornell Au d

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described Emerson as one of her “favorite people in the world,” “ smar t, joyful, open, quick to laugh and quick to share ” Emerson helped Van Clief-Stefanon cope with the sexual assault she experienced in her freshman year of college and release her pain through ar t This was the tone of the reading full-disclosure Nothing was off-limits, and Van Clief-Stefanon thanked Emerson for creating a safe space for her when she was coming into her own as an ar tist She referred to her as, quite simply, “ a real poet ” who is providing the key ser vice of a “Southern narrative relevant to the world at large ”

Emerson’s most recent book of poetr y, Secure the Shadow, takes its name from the Southern tradition of making daguerreotypes simple, high-contrast, black a

Emerson’s effor ts have a similar sense of conser vation, as made apparent by the first poem she read, “Late April House Fire along Interstate 81 In a lilting Southern accent, Emerson opened the floodgate the inspiration for this poem is the sight of a house fire just days after her brother’s diagnosis with advanced colon cancer The poem is a landscape por trait of a house that has been consumed by flames but still retains its str ucture for this brief moment in which Emerson views it:

“But this was anguish not yet grief And so I slowed but did not stop to watch someone else’s tragedy burnt past this brief, nearly beautiful suspension that changes nothing ”

Her second poem detailed the discover y of the East Coast’s largest uranium deposit underneath her hometown in the 1950s It describes a fire much less literal than the

first, but a hundred-fold more destr uctive “ The worr y that cancer simply ran in families had been replaced by suspicion of a greater cause: the massive vein of uranium Emerson recalled the helplessness of the church ladies and neighborhood mothers to protect themselves and their families, attributing their belief in “predestined sacrifice” to this inexplicable curse and wondering where to put the blame for the existence of such a deceptive source of death

“ The houses on the street where I grew up marked with its slow plague patient, insatiable not one passed over ”

Equally poignant were Emerson’s poems about her father in the final dementia-haunted year of his life, her cousin returned from Vietnam with throat cancer caused by Napalm and the local radiologist on the rare day he has had “the unusual pleasure to say all day, becoming beautiful and absolute, the nothing here at all ”

These are poems about death But more impor tantly, Em er son ’ s d evot i on t o b la ck- a nd - w hi t e “d ocum ent a r y photography” and fascination with radiology underscore how these are poems also about the disorienting discontinuity and vague anguish of life

WThe last por tion of Emerson’s reading was as-of-yet unpublished works from her next collection, The Opposite House One was the stor y of her ex mother-in-law and the baby she lost 60 years ago, never seeing or naming it, but forever asser ting that the under taker’s wife had called it the “prettiest baby in the world ” Another was about a friend of her mother’s who will often call and beg to be told that she is still alive: “Some nights her house convinces her she’s already dead ” Emerson presented her last poem with the disclaimer that it was written during her own personal str uggle this past summer with the same cancer that took her brother’s life She warned the audience that cancer showed her an anger she never knew she had, saying her “maternal streak has turned into a fissure that’s closing and you’d better not fall in ” These poems were jagged fragments of experience and shockingly painful pieces of the human order They ser ved as a proclamation of disillusionment with standard notions of time and memor y “ There’s a fine line between what’s personal and what’s private,” Emerson stated in response to a student question about the fact that this is her first collection that can be characterized as “confessional poetr y ” It was “exhausting,” she said, to write these poems, because “if you resist them, they haunt you ”

These poems are personal experience laced with universal emotions feelings of grief and mourning, love and tenderness, blame and guilt, belief and doubt Emerson both believes in and doubts her own ability to record the spirit of those she has loved She wonders aloud if it is courage or denial that leads people to attempt to commit these things, so ver y impossible to ar ticulate, to tangible and shared memor y In the end, she decides it is best to move for ward To “ secure the shadow” is to cement reality, to tie us to time, but most impor tantly to boldly declare the significance of our own existence

Drama in the Homeland

hen the winners were announced

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Primetime Emmy Awards, sometimes there were yawns and sometimes there was shock, but rarely was there anything in between Of the 26 statues given out Sunday night, most seemed to either reinforce the domination of a particular program or radically rewrite the power structure of a television genre I want to discuss a case of the latter: Homeland, and the drama of Drama

But first, some important points to recap the former, so people can understand the continual praise the Emmys like to heap upon certain shows This year, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series for the 10th consecutive year, while Modern Family won Emmys in ever y categor y for which it was nominated This included second wins for Er i c St o n e s t re e t a n d Ju l i e B owe n i n Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, as well as a third consecutive win in Outstanding Comedy Series, which Modern Family has won ever y year it has been on air All in all, according to The Atlantic, 19 of the 26 awards went to recipients who had previously won I think Stewart said it best when he accepted his award:

“Years from now, when the Earth is just a burning husk, and aliens visit, they will find a box of these, and they will k n ow j u s t h ow p re d i c t a b l e these fucking things can be ” This was supposed to be the narrative for the Drama awards Two major categories, L e a d Ac t o r i n a Dr a m a Se r i e s a n d Outstanding Drama Series, have been dominated the past several years by television s anointed “important” programs Coming into Sunday’s show, Br yan Cranston had

won Lead Actor ever y year he was nominated for his role as Walter White in Breaking Bad (three times), and Mad Men had taken home the award for Drama Series ever y year it was nominated (four times) Something to note: Both Cranston and Mad Men have been nominated in these categories ever y year they have been on air, so basically, they have never not won

The smart money this year was on the trend continuing, with Cranston grabbing a fourth statue for Breaking Bad’ s grittiest season and Mad Men taking its fifth for yet another set of standout episodes If the critics were to be trusted, the only thing that might change these two shows’ fortunes was the other Mad Men’ s Jon Hamm has never won an Emmy for his role as Don Draper, and he is certainly deser ving, and the same people who thought this was Breaking Bad’ s grittiest work also deemed it some of the show’s best It was anyone ’ s game, if he happened to be on AMC

Enter Homeland The CIA counter-terrorism drama is on Showtime, a network that, before Sunday night, had never won a

Drama Emmy While Claire Danes bipolar CIA officer was the lock of the night in Lead Actress in a Drama Series, anything else would just be a cherr y on top as the show heads into its second season this weekend I’ve been a fan of Homeland since I binge watched the 12-episode first season over two

days last spring, and I was pulling for a win But, I had to be realistic: There was no way Homeland was going to top what are more and more frequently being cemented as two of the greatest television shows of all time

Spoiler alert: It did Much like Cornell did to Yale the day before, Homeland plowed through the competition Its pilot episode locked up the first statue of the night in Writing for a Drama Series, and if you haven’t yet watched it, make time to this week It’s worth it While this was surprising, as it beat out three episodes of Mad Men and one from the increasingly popular and acclaimed Downton Abbey, no one was prepared for what came next Damien Lewis, a British actor who plays an American Marine potentially turned to Al-Qaeda after eight years in captivity, came out of nowhere to top Cranston and Hamm, and won an Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series After Danes received her preordained award for Lead Actress, there was a glimmer of hope: Could this happen? Could Homeland win Outstanding Drama Series for what was a pretty perfect premiere season?

Spoiler alert II: It did Without exaggerating, in just one night, Homeland established itself as the best show on television

Not only did it stop two unstoppable juggernaut winning streaks, it won Drama

awards for writing, lead actor and actress and overall series Regardless of who it beat, that’s impressive Add in that we ’ re currently in what some consider a “Golden Age” of television dramas, and it’s all the more extraordinar y that Homeland topped these four major categories Final count for Breaking Bad: One win out of seven nominations (Outstanding Supporting Actor for Aaron Paul) For Mad Men: Zero out of 17 nominations

Aw a rd s d o n ’ t m e a n e ve r y t h i n g , o r according to some people, anything at all If you don’t like the faceless voting process of the Emmys, take it from a fan: Homeland is enjoyable, smart and constantly shifting It’s also probably the best show since Battlestar Galactica to accurately portray the tensions and fears of a post-9/11 America It remains to be seen if Homeland’ s brilliant first season was a fluke, but I think we’ll find that its new role as top drama is only going to solidify as the program moves into season two Either way, come Sunday night, I’ll be watching Showtime

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On paper, things don’t seem so bad Syracuse has outgained its four opponents by 520 yards, run 63 more plays, and holds nearly a 2-1 margin in passing yards (1,367 to 725) The Orange also has a 48 5 percent conversion rate on third down while holding opponents to 36 4 percent

All those positives disappeared on Saturday night in a lackluster 17-10 loss at Minnesota (4-0) The team that had slugged it out in competitive losses to Northwestern and then-No 2 Southern California and rallied past FCS power Stony Brook never appeared, committing four turnovers and 10 penalties four of them false starts That erased any chance of gaining an important victor y

Team Looks Ahead to USTA Tourney

Cornell will travel to NYC to face tough competition in early October

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Stevens said “She did very well in the semis, she played three very good sets [it was a] great showing for her It’s great to see how well she can play, great to see her come back from so many first set losses ” Frazier was able to defeat her opponent, Alex Ion of Penn, but later fell to Amos in the finals of the Flight B Singles

“Lauren [Frazier] played great I think she had a breakthrough tournament, ” Stevens said “She had some excellent wins over some very good players from Penn and other schools She had a new game plan going into this tournament based on results from the past weekend and last season, and she performed very well Her results were very good and extremely promising ”

“I definitely gained some confidence for the upcoming season, ” Frazier said “Now that we saw how the competition will be, I think we all feel better about going forward into the next tournament, which is ECACs two weekends from now ”

An important aspect about the past weekend is that the Red saw a lot of Ivy League opponents

“We definitely get a measure of the opponent and how we need to practice, how we need to train to beat certain other players on the teams that we will probably be matched up with in the spring,” Frazier said “If we do badly against them in the fall we work harder, if we are right up there with them it gives us a lot of confidence and we ’ re happy It’s good to not go into the spring season blind

Stevens agreed that exposure to Ivy foes in the fall is important for the team

“It was great for the women on the team to get to see what the competition is like,” he said “Yale was there, Penn, Columbia Yale is ranked 25 or 26 in the country right now [It] shows the girls what the competition will be like in the spring and how hard you have to work to get to that level ”

The Leary Invitational was played outdoors this can affect a team ’ s play, but according to Ordway, did

not phase the Red

“I’d say it was pretty windy outside and everyone definitely picked up the pace playing outdoors, she said “It’s great to see because it’s something we have been working on Transitioning between indoor and outdoor tennis is pretty difficult

Everyone has been playing pretty well, so that I was pretty happy about that ”

Cornell has some time to rest before facing its next competition, which will be the USTA Collegiate Invitational on Oct 6-8 in New York

“In two weeks we are playing the tournament in Flushing Meadows,” Ordway said “Almost all of the Ivies go, so it is another great opportunity to play against teams that we are going to be seeing a lot of in the spring and that we want to compare ourselves to Everyone is looking forward to it, we are obviously going to be preparing a lot in these next two weeks and getting ready for that ”

The USTA tournament is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open is played every year

“It’s definitely a cool tournament because we get to play on the courts where all the pros play that you see on TV,” Ordway said “The tournament has a unique atmosphere because of that ”

Although the team has a break from competing this weekend, it does not have a break from practicing

We’ll be practicing this weekend, but we are off from competition for the next week and a half, so we will be suring up things that showed up as weaknesses this weekend, Stevens said Tennis is a team sport but it is also incredibly individualized, so each player has their own things to work on We will be working on that with all of them this next week to get their games ready for next weekend because the competition will be great in New York as well, but that’s what we ’ re looking forward to The better the competition, the more they get tested and the better they get ”

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun com

After Weekend Losses, Red Focuses on Future

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“We have to focus on each game and getting better and improving.”

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

Red Drops Weekend Play to Columbia, Rutgers

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Coming off an encouraging win against Penn in its first game of conference play, the field hockey team was hoping to establish winning consistency this past weekend in contests against Columbia and Rutgers However, the Red fell short in both contests losing to Columbia, 2-1, and falling to Rutgers the following day, 4-3 The losses left the team with a feeling of disappointment and an awareness that the two losses were missed opportunities

“We were really hoping to win both of these games, so the way it turned out was really disappointing,” said junior forward Hannah Balleza

The Red found itself playing from behind for most of the match with the Lions, after Columbia took advantage of two Cornell penalties to jump out to a 2-0 first-half lead

According to senior back Paige Mollineaux, the deficit made winning the game more difficult, the Red failed to take advantage of the opportunities it had to tie the game

“It was hard playing from behind,” she said “Those two goals really hurt us Then we came back and got a goal, but we couldn’t capitalize on our opportunities at the end of the game ”

Against the Scarlet Knights the following day, the Red came out strong ending the first half with a 3-1 lead

“Although it wasn ’ t a conference game, it was disappointing especially because we came out and played the best first half that we ’ ve played so far this season, ” she explained

“We have hot and cold moments throughout the game.”

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However, Rutgers tied the game with two quick goals in the span of two minutes early in the second half The game went to overtime, and Rutgers netted the game-winner This game was particularly frustrating for the Red, despite it being a non-conference game, according to Mollineaux

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the Red experienced hot and cold moments throughout the games against Columbia and Rutgers, and, despite moments of playing well as a unit, needs to imrpove its consistency

According to Mollineaux, the team failed to maintain its aggressive play in the second half, which allowed the Scarlet Knights to erase Cornell’s first half lead and ultimately win They took control of the game ’ s momentum when they got one goal, and carried that momentum through the rest of the game

“We were up two goals, but our mentality changed in the second half,” she said We weren ’ t playing as aggressive as we were in the first half We kind of sat back, and played a very defensive game, and they were able to score When they scored one goal, it gave them momentum which helped them score again ”

Moving forward, the Red will look to improve its play before upcoming matches against Yale and Sienna While there are multiple areas it needs to improve on, the Red will especially focus on consistently maintaining control of the ball, according to Mollineaux

“We need to work on our possession of the ball,” she said “We definitely need to be stronger on the ball but we also need to be smarter with the passing, and stronger with receiving- making sure that the person who the pass is intended for steps up and takes that pass We gave the ball away too many times this past weekend, and you can ’ t win a game if you don’t have possession of the ball ”

According to Balleza, the team needs to focus on its overall consistency

“We have hot and cold moments throughout the game, ” she said “Sometimes we ’ re really playing well together, then we ’ re not playing well at all, and we kind of go back and forth We need to have better consistency,” she explained According to Mollineaux, the team is motivated to win its next couple of games, especially in its next game against Yale

“We can learn from our previous games, but we can ’ t dwell on the past, ” she said “We are a much better team than the past two games showed, so we are motivated to move forward and beat Yale in our next game ”

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com

Red Look s to Remain Undefeat ed, Continue to Grow

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Despite a rather rough first half, Haber found himself at the center of attention by the beginning of the second At the star t of the second half, the Toronto-native scored his 10th and 11th goals of the season In the 47th minute, junior midfielder Ben Williams sent Haber a solid feed Haber sprinted up to the Hawks’ defensive line in front of all of St Joseph’s defenders, before beating the netminder for a goal that he shot off low and to the left

“ We weren ’ t quite as sharp as we usually are [in the first], but once

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h a l f c a m e around and we felt a sense of urgency, we all came out flyi n g a n d p u t t h e p i e c e s together,” Haber said Haber set another piece in place under two minutes later, when he scored on a penalty kick at 48:30 In scoring his 11th goal of the season, the junior striker earned his 50th career point with the Red As of Sept 16, Haber led the national Division I char ts in goals per game (1 4) and points per game (3 2)

for us, ” said junior midfielder Stephen Reiser t

With another notch in the wins column, the Red is looking for ward to the future, as it will host the Har twick Hawks (2-2-2) on Tuesday night at 7 p m Cornell is focusing on pressuring the ball and working hard to get back to the basics,

improving

“ We need to come out strong and really focused and on top of our game, Reiser t echoed “Like [Zawislan] always says, we need to keep on building on and improving each game We need to come

“We need to come out strong and really focused and on top of our game. Like [Zawislan] always says, we need to keep on building on and improving each game ”

S t e p h e n R e i s e r t

In the 72nd minute, the Hawks outplayed senior goalie Rick Pflasterer once more, equalizing the game, 2-2 However, despite a quick set-back, the Red was back on top less than three minutes later when Goepel headed the ball into the net

“Fighting back and dealing with adversity in the first half and coming back and coming out with the win was really huge

did [against St Joseph’s] and we’ll be great I think we have a lot of potential this season, but it really comes down to execution and focusing on each game ”

According to Zawislan, his players have continued to grow and mature through each game, which is evident in the individuals’ effor ts on the field Gaining the most recognition for his contributions this season has been Haber, who was named Ivy League Player of the Week this week marking the third time he has received the honor in the past four weeks However, despite the media attention, Haber does n o t f o c u s o n r e c o r d s , b u t r a t h e r o n improving for the next opponent

“His full focus in on the next game and doing the best he can to help the team to

get a ‘ W ’ in the next game, ” Zawislan said “ That’s what ever y player’s attitude is in the locker room is We will continue to stay focused ” This extreme focus and determination to achieve a positive result has brought the Red to where it currently stands in the season Cornell is the only undefeated and untied team in the Ivy League boasting a 7-0 record, which the program has not been seen since 1974 The Red has also scored at least one goal in 23 consecutive games extending its own team record by one Records such as these are meant to be broken, Zawislan says; however, championships and trips to the national tournament are permanent par ts of programs

ones that Cornell is continually working to achieve

Yet, despite the accolades that the team a

“ We have to star t from a 0-0 game and be mentally ready, as we ’ ve always been this season, to step on the field and earn the result, earn the first goal of the game and e arn t h

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, ” Zawislan said “ We cannot get into any area of complacency or feeling too comfor table ”

Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

M E N ’ S S O C C E R

Cornell Defeat s Haw k s in Hard Foug ht Battle

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

A light rain was not enough to hold back the Red, as it squeaked past the St Joseph’s Hawks and clinched a 3-2 victory on Saturday afternoon at Berman Field Junior striker

Daniel Haber proved to be a dangerous threat on the field, putting the Red on the board with two goals; however, it was sophomore midfielder Conor Goepel who notched the game-winner and secured the victory with just over 15 minutes left in play

For the second time this season, the No 24 Red tried to reclaim control of the game after finding itself in a 1-0 deficit The Hawks (2-5) exploded on the field as soon as the first whistle blew, with junior midfielder Pat McGlynn netting the first goal of the game at 6:38 The Red (7-0) struggled to put pressure on St Joseph’s defense for the rest of the half, leaving the score 1-0 in favor of the Hawks at the end of 45 minutes

“We knew [the Hawks] were going to be a scrappy team and they fought hard,” Haber said “I think we had a couple of unlucky bounces off of their goals We were just upset with ourselves for giving them those opportunities We really felt like we didn’t play as well as we could have or should have ”

According to head coach Jaro Zawislan, allowing the St Joseph’s players too much space and too much time on the ball contributed to the Red’s rocky first-half performance However, at the beginning of the second half, the Red looked like it had reignited the fire in its eyes as Cornell players took to the field

“In the second time, we did much better from the beginning with regard to closing down the space and minimizing the amount of time the St Joseph’s players had on the ball,”

Zawislan said The Red outshot the Hawks, 30-11; however St Joseph’s back line and goalie managed to keep Cornell at bay for most of the contest “I think our whole team as a group, we came out a little

Ordway, Tanenbaum Upset Penn

for the spring I thought overall we did pretty well ”

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o Philadelphia, Pa last weekend to compete in the Cissie Leary Invitational, hosted by Penn

“This past weekend was very good,” said head coach Mike Stevens “The competition was very strong and our girls really did well against the good competition So it’s definitely a good weekend and very promising for us as far as the rest of the year [is concerned] ”

The Red had a solid performance on Friday, the first day, as five singles players and all four doubles pairs made it to the round of 16

“We had a lot of people win some matches it was a pretty good weekend for us, ” said senior cocaptain Christine Ordway “It’s a big tournament because there’s a lot of other Ivy League schools playing in it, so it gives us a good sense of where we ’ re at right now in comparison to our main competition

Ordway and freshman Dena Tanenbaum beat Penn’s Julianna Rodin and Sol Eskenazi an incredible upset, as the Penn duo is ranked No 35 in the nation and was seeded first in the tournament

“Dena had a very good showing in doubles,” St e

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[Ordway] upset their doubles opponents who are nationally ranked, which is very good for them They did very well ”

On Saturday, junior Ryann Young was eliminated in the quarterfinals while freshman Laila Judeh and sophomore Lauren Frazier advanced to the semifinals Sunday, Judeh who, up until Sunday, was 60 for the season forced a third set before falling to Yale’s Courtney Amos

“Judeh did very well, she made it to the semifinals of the B Flight off several three-set match wins, which definitely helped get her mentally tougher,”

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend was still a rough pair for the Red, as it lost 1-0 to Columbia in its Ivy opener and 2-1 on Sunday to Niagara “ We need to change our pace of play and the amount of possessions and that we keep going up the field Mostly just coming out with fur y, said s o

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Columbia's Grace Redmon to make four saves for her shutout,