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IVY RULES FORCE OUT STUDENT-ATHLETES

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Ivy League wanted student-athletes exactly like Kevin Rooney ’04 Rooney shined on the football field for the Red, playing on the defensive line during his time with Cornell, collecting 35 tackles and four sacks tops of the team during his senior season

In the classroom, Rooney’s star shined even brighter As a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences, Rooney had a 3 89 GPA, graduated from Cornell in eight semesters and eventually attended Stanford Law School, where he graduated in 2009

However, Rooney felt that one thing was left unfinished: his football career During his freshman season in 2000, Rooney injured his shoulder and decided to sit out the remainder of the season with a medical redshirt, maintaining a year of athletic eligibility in the National Collegiate Athletic Association At the time, Rooney said he thought he would stay a tenth semester to play out that last season That the team went 1-9 his senior season only further cemented the decision to stick around for another year for Rooney

The Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs accepted Rooney into their master ’ s program for Public Administration on academic merit, without athletic consideration or influences On track to graduate early, Rooney put in his application for his robes when he received the shocking news: the Ivy League would not let him play for his alma mater, despite him being enrolled in a graduate program on campus

“If I hadn’t filed my application for graduation, then asked my parents to pay and asked my family to take on another semester ’ s worth of debt and incur those fees, then I could play,” Rooney said “Because I didn’t, and because I tried to save my family the money knowing that I wanted to go to law school, then I couldn’t play ”

It was not the fact that Rooney was a graduate student that prevented him from playing it was that he had graduated and his final season would not have been within eight semesters of his original enrollment

“It’s a frustrating thing and what I had to do,” Rooney said “I loved Cornell and I came back for my graduate program, but what would’ve been my ninth semester, I’m sitting in the stands watching five or six of my friends, who are fifth years because they were still undergraduates That was the only difference, they still had [undergraduate] coursework Vol

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Prof William Dichtel, chemistry, and Christopher Ré ’01 were announced MacArthur Fellows Tuesday, and are recipients of the MacArthur Foundation’s Genius Grant $625,000 awarded to fellows to spend with no strings attached

Dichtel pioneered the development of covalent organic frameworks, a nanostructured material that can be used for energy storage, solar power and other technologies, according to the MacArthur Foundation website

extracts information from and analyzes relationships between “dark data,” according to the foundation site

Dichtel and Ré are among 24 recipients this year who were recognized by the foundation for “exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant

Ré, who is currently a professor of computer science at Stanford University, works to democratize big data analytics His DeepDive an inference engine created by Ré

a c c o m p l i s h m e n t and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work ”

Until he received a phone call from an unfamiliar number right before a meeting he was hosting, Dichtel said he had never interacted with anyone from the MacArthur Foundation

“One cannot apply for this honor and the selection process is very secretive the phone call from the MacArthur Foundation was the first

I’d heard from them,” Dichtel said “I was walking into a meeting that I was hosting when I got the call, and somehow managed to keep calm for it I then told my wife and no one else about it ”

He added that he felt the award was something he and his team deserved for all their hard work and that working with “talented” Cornell undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers was “the best part of [his] job ”

“It’s hard to find words to describe how great it felt,”

Dichtel said “The award really recognizes the talented students and postdoctoral researchers in my group, and it was awesome to finally share the news with them, as well as with my colleagues, family and friends ” Dichtel’s work focuses on covalent organic frames, which according to

Skorton Transitions Into New Smithsonian Position

President Emeritus David Skorton appears to have settled into his position as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution smoothly In his first interview with The Washington Post as secretary, Skorton defended the decision to exhibit works from comedian Bill Cosby’s collection and expressed plans to engage the local Washingtonian community more

“As an overriding principle, we have to avoid censorship I am very much against taking down an exhibition once it has opened,” said Skorton, responding to criticism over a decision to continue exhibiting works on loan from Cosby, who allegedly sexually assaulted over 50 women

Skorton has overseen several initiatives, which range from small, like posting a poem each week outside his office, to large, such as the construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture According to The Washington Post, he also plans to create a youth council of regional high school students

Additionally, Skorton has become a distinguished professor at Georgetown University

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Congressman Takes Pope’s Cup

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Pope Francis was not the only person to drink from the glass of water he used during his speech to Congress An enterprising Democratic congressman from Philadelphia also took a sip U S Rep Bob Brady, a Catholic, told the Philadelphia Daily News that as the pope left the chamber Thursday, he headed to the lectern to grab Francis’ drinking glass

Brady said he took it to his office and had a drink So did his wife, Debra, and two staffers, he said

“How many people do you know that drank out of the same glass as the pope?” Brady asked

The congressman said he also invited fellow Catholic and Democrat U S Sen Bob Casey of Pennsylvania into his office Casey, his wife and his mother dipped their fingers into the water, Brady said

Brady said he used a bottle to save the rest for his four grandchildren and his great-granddaughter, saying he would bless them with it

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The Weather Service later issued a statement saying there was no real tsunami threat and the warning was sent inadvertently during a routine monthly test by the service’s National Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska

The Connecticut Broadcasters Association says the alert ran on several Connecticut stations

There are no records indicating a tsunami has ever hit Connecticut

Mascot Accidentally Injures Fan

TEMPE, Ariz (AP) Arizona State University’s Sun Devils mascot doesn’t always know when he's being devilish

KNXV-TV reported Wednesday that Sparky the mascot playfully jumped on a suburban Phoenix official recovering from back surgery at a football game Tempe City Councilman David Schapira says he laughed until he felt a pop, which he later learned was a back muscle tearing

The Weather Service’s office in New York sent the warning Thursday morning to its radio and emergency alert systems, which resulted in the alert being mentioned on local broadcasts and Twitter posts The warning was for all four coastal counties and part of Long Island Sound

The university apologized for its mascot ’ s “excessive exuberance” and offered to help pay medical expenses related to his delayed recovery

Schapira says his wife was holding his cane while he took a photo on the sidelines Friday, and that’s when the mascot spotted him and pounced The run-in sent him back to the hospital Today Wednesday, September 30, 2015

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

Patchcoski Trained in Seminary Before Becoming C.U. LGBT Director

“I did not ever plan to be an LGBT director or to be doing gender and sexuality work,” said Brian Patchcoski, associate dean and director of Cornell’s LGBT Resource Center As an undergraduate at the University of S c r a n t o n , Patchcoski trained to become a Catholic priest

Born into a Roman Catholic family, Patchcoski said he was determined to be a priest When the seminary he entered after high school closed, he was faced with transferring to a more conservative seminary or leaving the seminary system completely When he visited the new seminary with his mother, she was not allowed past the front door because “she was a woman, ” Patchcoski recount-

ed

“At that point, I had the perception that they couldn’t go together, that I couldn’t be openly gay and religious,” Patchcoski said “I also really believed that the church was telling me that ”

When he came out at the University of Scranton, he found that there were “ no LGBT resources ” As he identified more as a gay man, Patchcoski said he shifted away from Catholicism

“That didn’t sit well with me, ” he said Instead of transferring, Patchcoski decided to become a priest “ some other way ” and entered the University of Scranton, a Catholic and Jesuit school

“I always knew that I was gay since middle school I liked Rob in gym class,” Patchcoski said “I knew that, but sexuality was never really a huge thing to me in those moments ”

Patchcoski said he began coming out after discussions with a professor about LGBT issues and religion In the course of these discussions, he said he came to understand that homosexuality and religion were largely incompatible

“The religion thing wasn ’ t making sense anymore because I kept hearing the narrative, ‘Love the sinner, hate the sin,’” Patchcoski said “I couldn’t fathom being welcome into a space when it really wasn ’ t welcoming, if I couldn’t bring my full self This was now part of me ”

While pursuing a master ’ s in community counseling and working at a diversity consortium, Patchcoski decided he wanted to work in a setting with a stronger focus on higher education He transferred to Penn State, where he completed his graduate work and stayed on to work at that university’s LGBT resource center “I had this huge institutional context setting,” Patchcoski said of Penn State “The center there was very well-established, ver y wellstaffed ”

He later moved to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he became the founding director of the LGBT resource center After a campus climate survey revealed that “it was just not a good place” for LGBT students, faculty and staff, Dickinson administrators “decided that it was time for a change” and created the center While some at the school were reluctant or hostile to the new center, he said his main focus was encouraging people to “walk this journey together ” Patchcoski said he encouraged students and faculty by telling them, “You may not get this, you may not understand this, but let’s figure out a way that you can

help us and help this community grow whether you fully support it or not ”

After a few years, Patchcoski moved to his current position at Cornell, where he says “ we still have lots of work to do ”

Cornell has given Patchcoski the “challenge” of creating a basic awareness among students, faculty and staff of issues facing LGBT members of the community

“This is everyone ’ s work,” he added “The reason that acronym [LGBT] has grown is because we ’ re trying to be as inclusive as possible ”

Patchcoski said he believes one of the main challenges he faces is emphasizing the importance of diversity work to everyone in the Cornell community

“I am hoping that the center is being seen as really reflecting the intersectional nature of diversity work and justice-related work,” he said “By no means can we just work under the LGBT umbrella ”

Efforts to create an inclusive day-to-day experience for Cornellians must incorporate considerations of racial justice, economic justice, ability status and veteran status, Patchcoski said

“I want to make sure that we are not just painting the picture of LGBT anymore, ” Patchcoski said “It’s our historic name, but I think we have a responsibility to the community to be much more than that ”

Though he no longer plans to become a Catholic priest, Patchcoski said ministry work and counseling work are both forms of “human work ”

“As a priest, I would have been sitting with people in crisis situations at times or walking with them at the hardest points of their lives I’m doing the same thing here,” Patchcoski said

Though he is “ very careful” not to bring up religion in situations where students or faculty may have been “traumatized by religion,” Patchcoski said he believes the common thread between spirituality and counseling is a search for meaning

Though his position is not the one he imagined for himself as an undergrad, Patchcoski appreciates the “adventure” of his career

“As much as my intended journey is different from where I am now, I think what’s exciting is that life is full of adventures and sometimes has a sense of humor ”

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun com

Planners Envision Numerous New C-Town, Campus Projects

By TOM SCHREFFLER Sun Staff Writer

As construction continues to be a fixture of Collegetown, Tuesday’s Collegetown Neighborhood Council meeting focused on the numerous development projects some that have already broken ground and others that remain undefined concepts and the potential housing and business opportunities to be derived from them

JoAnn Cornish, director of planning and economic development for the City of Ithaca, began the meeting by presenting a list of the projects

“People had been sitting on projects for a long time, waiting for the economy to get better ” Cornish said “A lot of the real estate in Collegetown is some of the most expensive real estate in the United States ”

One of the Collegetown projects pending approval is for 302 to 306 College Ave , which would require the demolition of seven buildings to make room for 102 apartments, according to Cornish

An approved development at 307

College Ave will contain a GreenStar grocery store on the first floor and 46 apartments as well as create a “midblock walkthrough” in this area, Cornish said

“Part of the original Collegetown Plan was to break up these superblocks,” Cornish said “You don’t have to go to either end of the block, you could cross in the center ”

Other plans for the 300 block of College Avenue include the construction of a 12story apartment building Currently, no building in Collegetown is taller than six stories, the current zoning limit

Additionally, the Johnson Graduate School of Management plans to develop a six-story education and office building on the 200 block of Dryden Road

“This project will help to bring back Collegetown to what it was, which was a pretty vibrant place It still is active, though, especially with all the pedestrians,” Cornish said “I think it will be more attractive and more people will come into Collegetown We’ll see the face of Collegetown change ”

Under the Collegetown Urban Plan, which was created and endorsed by the Common Council in 2009, approximately 1,000 new bedrooms and 8,000 more square feet of commercial area will be in Collegetown

“We are an upstate New York city, where most cities are dying, and we just continue to have interest,” Cornish said “Of course, there is money to be made ” Following Cornish’s presentation, University Planner Leslie Schill outlined how the University hopes Collegetown will change, especially its public and green spaces

“It’s a heavy transportation route by foot, by bus and all the other ways, ” Schill said, describing Collegetown

Additionally, Schill said the University wants to develop the areas surrounding student housing into more welcoming and lively areas for pedestrians, including potentially the entrance to Sheldon Court and the area near the Eddy Street gate

“There aren ’ t any parks in Collegetown So as the buildings go up, it’s going to feel

dry,” Schill said “We’re looking at some of those areas and thinking about an enhanced public realm ”

The University is considering many possibilities to expand green space, Schill said

“The back side of Eddy Gate the ‘Dead End,’ the historic gateway to campus what if it were re-enlivened? What if you took out the parking offered a more green area?” Schill asked “What if this space were reimagined and more prioritized for the pedestrian? Some early thoughts in house on this being a more green, linear park ” On campus, the University also has plans for a large rehabilitation project in 2016 for the Agriculture Quadrangle, meant to “revitalize” the area

“Right now the entrance [to Mann Library] is not terribly inviting,” Schill said “But what if it was an outdoor plaza with new seating? People could spill outside they want to we just have to give them seating ”

Tom Schreffler can be reached at tschreffler@cornellsn com

Rules Leave Athletes Few Options to Keep Playing

to complete and I had already completed my coursework ”

Most schools in the country allow their athletes to sit out more or all games in a season for another year of athletic eligibility, allowing students to stretch out their four years or requirements over five years or enroll in graduate school At athletic powerhouses such as the University of Alabama and the University of Southern California, this is a common practice There are only eight schools in the country that do not allow this

All eight of them are in the Ivy League

An Idealistic Policy

Given the massive growth in monetization of collegiate athletes over the last 15 years, the reality behind the term “student-athletes” has changed At many schools with prominent athletic programs, the NCAA has had to dole out sanctions due to under-the-table payment of student-athletes and the creation of classes specifically created to boost the GPAs of academically-struggling athletes, bringing up the question, in recent years, as to whether or not collegiate athletes are truly amateurs

The Ivy League, as a collective conference, firmly supports the importance of amateurism in college sports The 1954 Ivy Group Agreement, a document agreed upon by all of the presidents of the Universities in the conference, reads that “[the Ivy League] requires that undue strain upon players and coaches be eliminated and that they be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles ”

While the policy, on paper, has the intention of allowing student athletes to pursue academics and athletic harmoniously, with an emphasis on studies, whether or not the policy proves effective in practice is up for debate

Hypocrisy in Practice

On paper, the Ivy League holds academics to a much higher standard than athletics The universities, in theory, want to ensure that academics have stronger emphasis before athletic competition The 1954 Ivy Group Agreement reads, “the [institutions of the Ivy League] entered into an agreement regarding football with the purpose of maintaining the values of the game in the service of higher education ”

Over six decades since the agreement, Ivy League athletic directors still often speak about this emphasis of academics for student-athletes

“While winning is great and we all like to win we are really educators,” Harvard Athletic Director Bob Scalise told The Harvard Crimson in 2014 “If you measure success solely by winning, maybe you are missing out on something [by not redshirting], but that’s not what we are all about ”

That idealistic viewpoint, however, has not exactly played out in practice most prominently at Harvard In 2012, the course “Introduction to Congress” a class of 125 students, half of whom were athletes on the men ’ s basketball, baseball and football was racked by a cheating scandal, according the Boston Globe The Harvard Administrative

letic eligibility During the summer heading into his junior season, Peck injured his knee and needed to sit out for the season; subsequently, he faced a couple of options, the same options that many Ivy League students when put in similar circumstances Peck could add another minor of academic interest to “slow down” his progress towards a bachelor’s degree which would allow him to stay an extra year, withdraw from school for a year to play out all four years at Cornell or look to transfer for a graduate season outside of the Ivy League

Peck, a student in the School of Hotel Administration, chose the first option, with a slight caveat he decided to add on a development sociology minor in addition to his undergraduate degree Peck said he felt especially interested in the minor, so the decision, in the short term, seemed to benefit his education Peck subsequently put in a petition to play his fifth year at Cornell as an undergraduate student while taking on extra courses to further his education

“It would’ve been perfect,” Peck said

And then it was not A third of the way into his senior season with the Red, Cornell head men ’ s basketball coach Bill Courtney sat Peck down and told him that the hotel school wanted Peck to graduate on time and would not allow him to stretch out his degree to five years

“The rug was pulled out from under me, ” Peck said “I wasn ’ t even prepared for it ”

“It’s very important that the top athletes really are determined to take advantage of what an Ivy League education offers them.”

Among the areas where the Ivy League differentiates itself from the rest of collegiate athletics is in its athlete eligibility policies The policy currently states that students are expected to use all four years of their eligibility for varsity sports in their first eight terms of enrollment and the first four seasons of that sport Requests to use eligibility in a ninth academic term or fifth season require a waiver that needs to be approved by the conference

“Coaches may not manipulate or motivate a student’s enrollment pattern to put off or to secure eligibility in some specific season; students are expected not to alter their academic or enrollment patterns in order to change the seasons in which they compete, ” the policy reads

The policy explicitly delineates that students who have completed the requirements for a “Baccalaureate or equivalent degree” are not eligible to play sports Students who complete their degrees in fewer than four years are eligible to compete in athletics during their four years of enrollment if they attend graduate school at the same institution

One of the prominent lines on the Ivy League’s rules page draws out the conference’s ultimate goal: limiting conflict between a student-athlete’s pursuit of school and sports “The basic intent of the original agreement [of the Ivy League] was to improve and foster intercollegiate athletics while keeping the emphasis on such competition in harmony with the educational purpose of the institutions,” the policy reads

Even as the conference’s big-picture goals have shifted from decade to decade, finding this “harmony” between education and athletics remains especially important to all of the schools in the Ivy League, said Cornell Athletic Director Andy Noel in an interview with The Sun

“It’s very important that the top athletes really are determined to take advantage of what an Ivy League education offers them,” Noel said “It’s also important that to compete, that those students are preparing for the rest of their life and their academic and athletic pursuits have really high goals ”

Board, the body that rules on individual cheating cases, sent an internal email to deans saying that fall athletes should “consider taking [a leave of absence] before their first game ”

Taking this step allowed athletes to prevent a loss of a year of athletic eligibility Harvard men ’ s basketball co-captains Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry both decided to take leaves of absences and returned to play out all four years of eligibility at Harvard In essence, Harvard administrators suggested that students delay their academic progress and choose an extra year of potential success on the court in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Other universities in the conference have previously instituted similar practices Princeton University suspended defensive back Jay McCareins during his sophomore year after he allegedly forgot to cite large portions of a paper and gave him a mark of academic dishonesty on his transcript

After returning from his suspension, Princeton reinstated McCareins into the football program and did not lose his year of athletic eligibility, allowing him to play all four years for the Tigers

Meanwhile, even as other collegiate coaches recruited Rooney to potentially play out his eligibility, he decided that his best option was to continue his education in the Ivy League Rooney prioritized receiving his master ’ s degree and, as a result, gave up a year of football eligibility He sat in the stands and watched McCareins who spent a brief period in NFL training camp after graduating from Princeton back on the field following an academic suspension from Princeton

“If you cheat and get kicked out for a year, ” Rooney said, “well, then you can come back and get your eligibility back ”

Forced Out of the Ivy League

Errick Peck ’13 thought he was going to have the opportunity to return to Cornell to finish out his last year of ath-

Suddenly, Peck had two months to find another school to finish out his collegiate career Additionally, Peck had to take 22 credits his last semester at Cornell in order to complete his major and newly added minor

“That was really difficult, especially because you ’ re in the middle of a season with your teammate trying to win a championship,” Peck said “Your mind is elsewhere ”

While taking on a significant academic course load, Peck also had to scramble to put together recruiting trips, ultimately settling on Purdue University after also visiting Loyola University and Xavier University

The process him wore down

“You have to understand that it was such a quick notice and when I went on campus to Purdue, students weren ’ t on campus because it was such quick notice,” Peck said “Usually when you have a recruit trying to transfer, you do it in the fall where kids will be and it is a lot easier for coaches

This was such an abrupt, rushed thing that I was trying to get to all of these schools as fast as I possibly can in order to pick out the best for me That’s difficult in itself ”

The eligibility guidelines set forth by the Ivy League pushed Peck towards the decision to stay in school and tack on more courses to further his education When his college at Cornell decided to not allow him to stay for a fifth year, it threw him into a recruiting frenzy that nobody neither Peck nor the recruiting colleges were ready for “It kind of backfired,” Peck said

In recent years, Cornell athletic programs have been significantly affected by the eligibility rules Last year, Cornell basketball players Shonn Miller ’15 and Galal Cancer ’15 were both forced to transfer to the University of Connecticut and Kent State, respectively Miller sat out his junior season after offseason shoulder surgery while Cancer sat out his junior year in order to catch up on his academics, making them his priority over basketball The two situations allowed both players to maintain a year of athletic eligibility

Beyond basketball, Cornell baseball pitchers Brian McAfee ’15 and Kellen Urbon ’15 both transferred to Duke University for graduate seasons after missing significant portions of their junior and sophomore seasons, respectively, due to injur y

ELIGIBILITY Continued from page 1 See IVY LEAGUE page 5

Two Cornellians Awarded ‘Genius Grants’ for Research

MACARTHUR

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Dichtel are “polymers with very tiny pores ” whose surface area can reach the size of a football field despite them weighing “ as much as a dollar bill ” “ C ova l e n t o r g a n i c frameworks are a type of

p o l y m e r w h o s e b u i l d i n g blocks organize into repeating two-dimensional and t h re e - d i m e n s i o n a l s t r u ctures to get an idea of a 2D structure, picture various patterns of bathroom tiles,” Dichtel said “ We have designed versions of these and other types of porous polymers with complex functions the ability to store electricity, absorb sunlight, purify water and detect explosives ” L o o k i n g t ow a rd t h e f u t u re , Di c h t e l s a i d h e expects to use the grant money to further advance his work in COFs, pushing them towards more practical applications and even more theoretical ventures “[COFs] remain in their

potential,” he said “I am still planning what to do with the award money, but it is amazing in that it

e a r l y s t a g e s , a n d m u c h work [still] remains for the C O F s t o a c h i e ve t h e i r

c o m e s w i t h n o s t r i n g s attached It will allow us to p u s h o u r c h e m i s t r y i n directions that would be difficult to fund through traditional means, such as through grants from the Na t i o n a l S c i e n c e Fo u n d a t i o n , De p a r t m e n t of Defense or other agencies ” A Cornell alumnus, Ré was recognized for his studies on “dark data,” which is the “ mass of unprocessable

data buried in texts, illustrations, images,” and technology he has created has been implemented in fields ranging from laboratories to law enforcement, according to the foundation website Ré has led a team in creating DeepDive, a dataanalysis program that can extract information from graphs, images, diagrams and maps and then convert it to a form understandable by computers This allows researchers in various fields to harness the fast data-processing of a computer to

find patterns in their data that they may have missed before, according to a prom o t i o n a l v i d e o f o r t h e MacArthur Foundation

In the video, he also outlines the functions of his program and the problems it aims to address

“DeepDive was a project we started a couple of years ago, basically in response to what we called ‘ macroscopi c p ro b l e m s ’ T h e s e a re problems where the inform a t i o n f o r a p a r t i c u l a r analysis is out there, scattered throughout the literat u re a n d we w a n t e d t o

bring that information into one place,” he said

He c o n t i n u e d i n t h e video and said the grant would allow him to tackle projects he previously never dreamt of before

“My reaction when I got the call from MacArthur was that it’s one of those things you dream about it’s all these projects you ’ ve had and said, ‘ That’s too crazy, you’ll never be able to do that,’ [but] now it looks like you can, ” he said

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

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The rules have also impacted student-athletes beyond Cornell In Ivy basketball, Yale center Jeremiah Kreisberg transferred to Northwestern University after his senior season due to the rules Brown center Rafael Maia transferred to Pittsburgh for a graduate season Columbia guard Grant Mullins may need to transfer for a graduate season after missing the duration of the 2014-15 campaign A list of track athletes on a website called HepsTrack includes 61 student-athletes who were required to transfer as a result of the Ivy League eligibility to school No school is exempt from the effects of the conference’s eligibility rules

Kreisberg said he feels that even though he had an incredibly positive experience as a scholarship athlete for Northwestern while playing basketball in the Big 10, players in the Ivy League should, at the very least, have the option to stay

“I think it’s bizarre that this is the only conference that won ’ t let players stay, ” Kreisberg said “I’m not saying that the Ivy League should make exceptions for students to get into graduate school, but if the student has an option to get into a graduate program, then they should be able to ”

Rooney not only held the option to go to graduate school at his alma mater, but he also received admission on his own academic merits without the influence of athletics

“I wanted to continue to study and I had been accepted to this graduate program, and I wanted to continue to play with my teammates and my best friends That was the hard part about it,” Rooney said “I was trying to do the right thing and I felt like I got shortchanged for it, especially at a place like this where you expect that we look at not just the letter of the late, but why we have this rule

“If it’s not serving the goals of our state mission, then let’s look to change it,” he added “I don’t know what that didn’t happen 12 years ago, and I don’t know why it hasn’t happened since ”

The conferences forces out many students athletes, such as Kreisberg and Peck Seven student-athletes who went through the process of transferring as a result of the eligibility rules in the last three years all told The Sun that they would have considered staying at their current schools Peck said he has no doubt in his mind that he would have chosen to stay at his alma mater and paid tuition rather than go to another school on scholarship

“It seemed like you worked so hard to get into a system, to fit comfor tably into a system, to know all of these guys, ” Peck said “Then to have someone who has never met you before, who doesn't know who you are, who looks at a piece of paper and says that they don't think it'll work and just deny it ”

my head,” Peck said “That was that ”

“I was never going to drop out of school,” Kreisberg said “That was something that I wasn ’ t going to do, especially knowing that I had these options after I guess it would've been different if I didn’t have as desirable a place to take a fifth year, but I think it can be problematic for a lot of kids ”

The policy, for many athletes in this position, forced some to consider choosing athletics over academics in order to play out that last year of eligibility at their alma mater Many have also chosen athletics over academics

In a 2014 article in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard administrators defended the policy by arguing “that spots in their selective schools are in demand, and therefore athletes should not take one of those spots for an extra year for athletic reasons ” Student-athletes such as Rooney and Kreisberg, who looked into at a graduate program at Yale as a potential academic option, would not have taken up spots in undergraduate programs for athletic reasons

Some schools in the Ivy League have significantly larger graduate programs than others Schools such as Columbia, Harvard and Penn each have more than 10,000 students enrolled in graduate programs, which others such as Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton each have fewer than 2,500 students in graduate programs The disparity in graduate program size, should the policy hypothetically be changed, could put the smaller schools of the conference at a disadvantage This, however, has never been cited as a reason to keep the current policy in place

“I really don’t know if the real thrust behind it is that, ‘Hey, if we let Cornell do this, they’re going to start dominating because they’re going to have all of these people and they’re going to get them into their graduate programs and it’ll be a recruiting edge,’” Rooney said of Cornell, which has the fourth largest graduate program in the Ivy League, followed closely by Yale “You can ’ t play as a graduate student past your eighth semester and I don't really understand why I’ve never been given a good reason why I’m still at a loss ”

‘It Doesn’t Have to Make Any Sense’

“If you cheat and get kicked out for a year, well, then you can come back and get your eligibility back.”

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Cornell football safety Rush Imhotep ’16, who tore his posterior cruciate ligament in his junior year and missed a significant portion of the season, decided to withdraw from classes for one semester to delay his graduation and to allow him to play out his last season of eligibility as a fifth-year senior

“It wasn ' t a hard decision I wasn ' t worried about not graduating with my class,” Imhotep said “I knew Cornell was the school I wanted to play at I wasn ' t thinking about going to play for someone else ”

That decision, however, is not as easy for others

“I [thought about withdrawing from school] for a minute, and my mom took that consideration right out of

Rooney said he briefly considered a lawsuit against the Ivy League after hearing the decision of his athletic eligibility While working for the NFL with the management council during his semester off before starting graduate studies at Cornell, Rooney looked into the viability into potential litigation against the conference What he found less than encouraging “It didn't seem like I had much of a case, actually, under the way that we were looking at it in that an association can basically make its own rules and unless their discriminatory or in some way violate law, greater law or federal law or the state or federal constitution, they can do it,” Rooney said “It doesn’t have to make sense ”

The overwhelming sentiment among athletes is that they simply want a choice in the matter For some, such as Maia and Kreisberg, the experience of transferring proved to be positive That, however, does not diminish the desire to have some option to remain at their alma mater as a graduate student

“I wish I did have that option and that the Ivy League was just like other conferences that gave us that opportunity,” Maia said “But I feel like a lot of student athletes, when we choose the Ivy League, we understand that they have their own set of rules ”

Many student-athletes also simply want an option to stay at their alma mater without having to compromise academically or athletically

“If you open it up, is it open to abuse? Sure, it could be,” Rooney said “But it is now in its current state and it is in a way that doesn’t guard against the abuse and the abuse, really, would not come from people like me who were trying to graduate earlier ”

All eight athletes The Sun interviewed expressed resignation over the Ivy League’s set of rules, citing its stature as “the Ivy League ”

“I'm sure that they have some sort of reason behind the madness,” McAfee said “I sure would've liked the opportunity to stay [at Cornell] and play a fifth year ”

That reason, however, remains unclear

“The philosophy behind the Ivy League rule boils down to not allowing student-athletes to intentionally delay their graduation for athletic reasons, ” said Ivy League Assistant Executive Director for Compliance, Governance, and Championships Megan Morrison in an interview with The Crimson in 2014 regarding why the policy exists

However, Rooney said he does not believe this reasoning addresses how the policy affects students in practice

“I don't think it applies at all I think it’s the reverse, ” Rooney said “I had good friends and teammates and some of them who were forced to take a semester off so that they could come back and do it instead of furthering their education I don't think that serves the stated goal or purpose of the rule [The reasoning] doesn’t totally match up with the reality of the situation ”

Rooney’s predicament still brings back memories of frustration for Noel

“Even though this situation occurred over a decade ago, the decision by the Ivy office still stings It was particularly unsettling to have a policy in force that is counter to fundamental Ivy league philosophy that seeks to maximize student opportunity, both academic and otherwise, as opposed to limiting it,” Noel said “The decision to disallow Kevin’s fourth year of intercollegiate football eligibility flew directly in the face of this concept Ivy policy should promote student opportunity in both the curricular and extra-curricular arenas Much education occurs outside the classroom and laboratory Kevin was denied an opportunity, essential to his experience, within our league that purports to provide the opposite ”

Noel rocked back and forth in his chair as he mused about the losses that Cornell has seen from its student-athlete population in just the last year due to the conference’s eligibility rules The policies, clearly, sit smack dab in the middle of the issues he thinks about every day As he begins to find the words, he leans forward

“I believe quite strongly that we should embrace our athletes and students and give them the option, if they graduate and have eligibility left, of staying at their alma mater, staying with their teammates, staying with their best friends and the professors that have impacted them the most, ” Noel said “We are forcing them elsewhere and it’s been happening for years

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun com

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That goats found themselves wandering the world’s biggest and freshest buffet and took all-youc a n - e a t t o h e a r t No n a t u r a l predators and a large selection of mates Soon the herd of feral goats had plowed through the habitats of Galapagos heroes like the tortoise and changed the landscape from one of dense cloud forest and brush to patchy grasslands There are a lot of places where the goats might have been pretty useful, like clearing thistles in Colorado, but the Galapagos Islands are an icon for conser vationism An invasive species dining its way through the island’s b i o d i ve r s i t y w a s s i m p l y u n t e nable It was the diversity of the i s l a n d s t h a t h e l p e d C h a r l e s Dar win develop his Theor y of Evolution, and the Galapagoans take pride in that In 1997, the Charles Dar win Foundation and Galapagos National Park Ser vice decided to restore the islands to their former selves They set in motion Project Isabela Project Isabela was a threestage plan aiming to “ remove ” the goats from the islands It might be worth mentioning before getting any deeper into the details that n o n e o f t h e s t a g e s i n v o l v e d rounding up the goats for them to live happily somewhere else The first stage was ground hunting Locals were trained to eliminate all goats on the ground with a shot to the head or heart, like a town being terrorized by really placid, vegetarian werewolves I am not sure if it ever devolved to people kicking in doors, rifles at the ready, screaming, “Do you have any goats in here!?” but they were able to remove more than 5 5 , 0 0 0 g o a t s T h e t e a m w a s forced to move to the second stage w h e n t h e g o a t s b e c a m e m o r e sparsely dispersed They brought in a team of trained hunters from New Zealand, fired up a helicopter and patrolled the island from the sky, “removing” ever y goat they spotted with a deadly aerial assault

Eventually all of the goats with bad hearing and pattern recognition skills were sent to goat heaven, and the original goat population had been reduced by 95 percent Finding and removing the last 5 percent of the feral goat

population was tremendously difficult because the goats would hide whenever the helicopter fired up its rotors The eye in the sky needed an inside man, so the team moved onto the third and final stage The final stage was called “Judas Goat,” and the stor y takes a slightly strange turn at this point The prototypical candidate for a “Judas Goat” was a gregarious female goat The team would then spey her, cover her in chemicals to attract males and put a GPS collar around her neck She would then be released to wander out into the island, and her gregarious nature would garner her a harem of male goats over a few weeks The team would then start up the chopper a n d f l y t o t h e Ju d a s G o a t , “ remove ” all of the goats around her and take her back to camp b e f o re re p e a t i n g t h e p r o c e s s There are now no more feral goats on the Galapagos Islands T h e s t o r y o f t h e g o a t s i n Galapagos is a dramatic example of how taking something we want from some place and replacing it with something else can lead to serious unintended consequences Surely the whalers and pirates who tossed their goats overboard in favor of Galapagos tortoises did not consider the eventual devastation it would cause There are a lot of factors that go into defining the dynamics of a system, and it is h a rd t o

action without looking to see all of the moving parts affected can lead to harder times down the road That does not necessarily mean a careless decision you make m

slaughter of almost 100,000 goats to the tune of $6 million, just a stor y to illustrate how seemingly

enormously over the course of time But even if your decisions do blow up in your face, what’s the big deal? We went from cooking a few pots of turtle soup on a pirate ship to the mass-slaughter of an entire feral goat population, and it makes for a pretty interesting stor y

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By NOAH RANKIN Sun Science Editor

During a news conference Monday, NASA confirmed the discover y of liquid water on the surface of Mars, possibly hinting toward the possibility of life on the red planet, according to The New York Times The Sun reached out to Prof Alexander Hayes, astronomy, to get another take on what this means for further research and public opinion

My first thought was: “Great! We have confirmed how these Recurring Slope Linea (RSL) are generated ” My second through was: “OK, where is the water coming from; subsurface springs or atmospheric condensation?” Now that we know for sure that the RSLs are formed by flowing water, the next step to is to figure out where the water came from As to whether I was expecting this result, the idea that RSLs are formed from briny water flows was first mentioned in the paper that discovered the phenomena (written by Alfred McEwen) in 2011 The results presented at the press conference confirmed that theor y using careful measurements and detailed analysis

The water was identified in the Recurring Slope Linea (RSL) by the salts that are left behind after it evaporates These salts suggest that any water that flowed over the surface had a VERY high salinity It would be ver y difficult for life as we know it to exist in that environment There is a reason that we cure meat with salt to make it last, the salt makes it ver y difficult for bacteria and other microorganisms to sur vive Now, if the water was sourced from a subsurface reser voir (and we don’t know if it was) then that would be ver y interesting If subsurface water existed on Mars today then that environment could be more conducive to life than the hyper-saline flows that we are obser ving from orbit

Yes, a highly saline environment is not ver y conducive to life as we know it

Cornucopia Episode Two: Discussing the Wage G a p

Cornucopia is a biweekly podcast that covers research stories unfolding across campus Join hosts Addison Huneycutt ’18 and Ali Jenkins ’18 as they dig into the juiciest discoveries they can find In each episode, you’ll meet a researcher, chat with Addison and Ali, and hear some cor ny jokes

Check out the science section of The Cor nell Daily Sun for biweekly updates about the latest episode

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Honestly, it is a bit of a double-edged sword

While this is amazing research that is deser ving of a press conference, the public has also heard multiple press conferences that claim to have discovered water on Mars The difference here is that we are talking about active natural processes that result in flowing water (as opposed to condensation on a spacecraft part) today as opposed to the past Whether or not the public is sensitive to that distinction has yet to be seen

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By SNEHA KABARIA Sun Contributor

A team of Cornell chemical engineers in partnership with New England Biolabs have developed a method to efficiently produce antibodies in the cytoplasm in E coli bacteria, leading to a new drug development platform

The research was led by co-senior author Prof Matthew DeLisa, chemical engineering, and first author MichaelPaul Robinson ’16 grad Robinson is part

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The research, which has been ongoing for approximately five years, was pub-

expression of full-length antibodies in the cytoplasm of engineered bacteria” in Nature Communications on Aug 17

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producing antibodies rapidly and less expensively,” Robinson said “Currently the process can take anywhere from a month to a year ”

Cheaper and faster production can also be used to allow for better distribution and production of important antibodies for people in the developing world who currently may not have ready access to medications The new research in particular allows the processing of more complex proteins than before The research was done using a specific highly engineered strain of E coli named SHuffle, according to DeLisa This strain has modifications in the genome that allow the disulfide bonds, which are essential to antibody formation, to be produced in the cytoplasm of the bacteria Normally different components of enzymes are assembled in separate compartments of the cell, which make them hard to extract without huge inputs of energy

“Anytime you have to transport something somewhere it costs energy So what we thought is

“Our interest is in not only being able to produce antibodies, but being able to engineer antibodies.”

“Right now the fastest growing class of drugs are monoclonal antibodies,” DeLisa said “Antibodies have quickly taken over as the modality of treating diseases ”

According to Robinson, there is a high demand for large amounts of antibodies to be available quickly

“There has been a lot of interest in

By GABRIELLA ALEXANDROU Sun Contributor

Today, live-streaming webcams are giving people all around the world the

California Condors nest and raise their young in real time, thanks to work by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology These

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California close to the U S Fish and Wildlife Ser vice’s Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge and along the central California coast at the Ventana Wildlife’s Condor Sanctuar y

Robinson said “But the compartment that the proteins is made in, the cytoplasm, is actually not favorable to disulfide bonds So our contribution was that we engineered a strain in which the disulfide bond in the antibody assembly was favorable ”

Utilizing recombinant DNA technology to remove certain genes from the DNA sequence, the research team was able to

The thought to install the webcams was originally conceived by the U S Fish and Wildlife Ser vice in 2010 as a

California Condors Though the population has rebounded from only 12 specimens to more than 400, the birds remain one of the most endangered species in the world, according to Charles Eldermire, bird cams project leader

“ They’re the largest bird in Nor th America and so it’s kind of crazy that that was something that almost slipped away from us 30 years ago when there

produce protein strands that assembled into correctly folded antibodies, according to DeLisa The team was able to demonstrate the effective production of few full-length antibodies using their modifications, including those against influenza and those which are considered blockbuster drugs

“A fully humanized antibody was able to be made quite well in a bacterial system, ” DeLisa said “A system that can produce one monoclonal antibody has the potential of producing all of them because structurally antibodies are very similar, though they have subtle differences that give them specificity to certain antigens ”

“We think that this could be a powerful technology because you have your protein synthesis and assemblage all in the same compartment, ” Robinson added

According to Robinson, producing monoclonal antibodies in E coli offers some advantages over being produced in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell as has often been done previously They are quicker, less susceptible to contamination and more cost-effective

were only a few left in the wild,” Eldermire said According to Eldermire, this is due

Condors typically lay a single egg, often ever y other year Additionally, a major source of their mor tality is lead ammunition, which shatters after hitting a target, allowing these scavenging birds to easily consume This past April, California legislators placed a ban on the use of lead ammunition for the 2015 hunting season

The webcams had never been connected to the internet; over the last

Ornithology has been working with the Ser vice to create this live-streaming experience for the general public

However, this was no easy task The past three years have been used to set up the cameras, a timeline that much l

thought Heavy cameras had to be hiked along sharp ridgelines in order to be installed into the nest cavities

“ The biggest issue was we had to beam that signal over 25 miles to actually reach the internet,” Eldemire said “Finding the right spot to make that link where there wasn ’ t a lot of interference and for ever ything to work took a lot longer than we had expected ”

There are about 12 successful nests in California this year, three of which are on camera, but only one is actually being recorded, for a variety of reasons

“ They are actually ver y curious, so

As of now, the research has focused upon the expression and creation of a select few antibodies to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new technology In the long term, the aim of the research is to develop new platforms upon which to conduct drug discovery of novel antibodies not found in nature to work against diseases

“For us, our interest is in not only being able to produce antibodies, but b e

Robinson said

The team also sees the possibility to one day scale up the production process for use by biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, according to DeLisa

“Drug companies who are developing antibodies against new targets, and we have already been contacted by interested parties, want to use our technology as a way to manufacture a known antibody s e q u e n c e m o re c o s t - e f f e c t i ve l

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Sneha Kabaria can be reached at srk97@cornell edu

they’ll interact with the camera sometimes,” Eldermire said “As birds will do, sometimes they will poop on the cameras, which doesn’t help the view, just because the cameras are fairly close to where they are ”

People did not always have the ability to view these birds, the largest bird in Nor th America in the wild During the 1980s, the remaining dozen or so California Condors that still existed in the wild were brought into captivity for a captive breeding program

“ They have had great success over the last 35 years breeding birds in captivity and then releasing them into the wild and those birds are now breeding on their own, ” Eldermire said This new reemergence of California Condors have allowed the scientists working on this project to see behaviors they themselves had never before

There are populations of these birds in central and southern California and par ts of western Arizona, some of which have begun using the cavities of redwood trees, caused by a broken off tr unk, to nest, a phenomenon that was known historically but had not been seen until a couple years ago

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y fledge, or take their first flight, at six or seven months, which will be between mid-October to mid-November The stream will conclude for the season in late November C.U. R e s e a r c h e r s E n g i n e

Gabriella Alexandrou can be reached at gja45@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The Districts Break Hearts at the Haunt

BY CAMERON POLLACK Sun Senior Photographer

I awaited The District’s arrival in Ithaca with anticipation for quite some time I’ve found that after staying on campus for a long enough stretch, you start to miss pieces of home quite a lot As a Philly resident and music lover, The Districts is one important piece of home Thus I was delighted that, while all of Philly (plus over one million more) got to witness Pope Francis on Saturday, I got to go to The Haunt and rock out for the sixth time with my favorite Philly band Baltimore-based rockers Sun Club opened, performing in promotion of their upcoming record The Dongo Durango I hadn’t listened to a huge bulk of Sun Club’s tracks going in (I was predominantly there for The Districts), but I was more than pleasantly surprised This band is nothing short of a force of nature; while the band’s actual levels were less than perfect, their sound was tight across the board, between both drummers, as well as the guitar players/frontmen Their tightness of

sound was fantastic, and couple it with Sun Club’s truly incomparable stage presence complete with shouting, dancing and percussive breakdowns, and you ’ ve got yourself a memorable act The group played several cuts from their upcoming LP (for which they had cassette tapes, and nothing else, on sale at the merch table), including “Worm City” and “Tropicoller Lease,” both of which demonstrated the group ’ s ability to be rhythmically complex, almost like a math rock group, but also to be undeniably danceable Ultimately, Sun Club is certainly a recommended listen, and seeing them live is an absolute must Just be absolutely sure to bring earplugs; my ears are still ringing

After a miraculously short break for set change, Lititz/Philly legends The Districts took the stage at last, in support of their February sophomore record entitled A Flourish And A Spoil There’s a reason I had seen these guys five times prior to this night; their live experience is truly like none I have ever witnessed I’ve seen this band at venues varying from 50 people to 5,000, and every single time, they’ve left it all out on the stage

This past Saturday was by no means an exception If anything, frontman Rob Grote was more charged and energetic, more anxious and desperate in his singing and more aggressive in his soloing than I have ever seen him Right from “Chlorine,” the opening, song and a personal favorite of mine, he gave it everything; dancing all over the stage and quite literally throwing his body into every single crashing downbeat Like so many of the songs Grote writes, “Chlorine” deals with the heavy, seemingly omnipresent feelings coming from loss, and desperation to feel something else, something better Rocking Chair” was another highlight of the set, featuring a familiar but equally pleasurable guitar solo from Grote, in a song that in its three and a half minutes does not ease up an inch “Long Distance,” off their first album Telephone, featured Rob Grote at his absolute best, throwing himself across the stage during instrumental breaks and guitar solos, working with the crowd alongside guitarist Pat Cassidy and then wrapping up the song using only his vocals (leaving the guitar work to Cassidy), dancing like a madman and dropping like a log into the floor of the stage toward the end of the song

At the end of the day, what makes a Districts show so memorable, and so essential to see if you ’ re a fan a live music, is how much the stage antics, the sheer delivery of the songs, are an incarnation of the emotions that went into making them Grote, in every song he writes, leaves it all there on the paper; it only makes sense that he puts every ounce of his energy into every performance he gives

Cameron Pollack is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at cpollack@cornellsun com

From Ithaca to SoHo: A Fairytale Journey

BY SAM BROMER Sun Senior Writer

This October, New York’s SoHo Playhouse will feature Far From Canterbury, a new musical with music, lyrics and book by Danny Bernstein ’14, in a series honoring the best of last month’s International Fringe Festival Directed by Juliana Kleist-Mendez ’12, produced by Dana Lerner ’14 and with choreography by Ilana Gilovich ’12, the musical originally premiered at Cornell last spring Since then, Bernstein says, the show has evolved for the better: “It’s a bit quicker, the dialogue is cleaned up [and] there are six new songs ” Indeed, since its premiere at Cornell, the show has matured from a strong college production into a strong new musical, ready for the professional world of theatre

Far From Canterbury is based loosely on Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale,” and takes place in a fantastic medieval land where fairy tales function a bit like Fox News: to a large segment of the population, they’re treated as fact, but reality is a bit more complicated At its heart is an unconventional hero’s journey One of the kingdom’s greatest songwriters, John of Bath (Luke Hoback), is a young knight whose way with words quickly evaporates when he attempts to speak to women One day, John finds himself the subject of a tale distributed among the townspeople, which accuses him of kidnapping a helpless princess He is quickly whisked off to the court of the Queen (Sarah Coffey ’16) for this monstrous crime As punishment, John is given an ultimatum: Find the “single thing that women most desire,” or else pay the price of death

Fate has thrown John a curveball, but, with the help of his two best friends, fiercely independent Agnes (Hannah Richter) and ladykiller Marcus (Thomas Jeffrey Wagner), as well as the guidance of a strange, wise old woman named Dolores (Katie Drinkard), John sets out to discover the answer to this seemingly impossible riddle What follows is a modern take on the perils of coming of age in a world where anyone can be the star of their very own fairy tale but where you just may end up the villain of your own story

As should be obvious, you don’t need to have to paid

attention in high school English to fall in love with Far From Canterbur y But knowing a little about Chaucer’s “ Wife of Bath’s Tale” might just help you follow the s t o r y l i n e

According to the playwright, lyricist and composer, adapting “the Wife of Bath’s Tale” was actually his “favorite part ” of creating Far from Canterbury, as doing so lent him a “perfect balance of freedom and limitation ”

On one hand, Bernstein realized that “[t]he story was already in place, as was the structure, as were several key pieces of the plot: the knight, his crime, the riddle, the old woman who gives him the answer and the answer itself ” However, transforming this arcane text into something that would feel at home on a broadway stage required a heavy dose of creativity To bolster the story, Bernstein introduced several new characters and added depth to their backstories A particularly ingenious addition is the play’s “storytellers ” Using rudimentary props designed by Riw Rakkulchon, they act as the play’s scenery, its narrators and, at many points, its characters It is a daring narrative device that helps envelop us into a magical world despite the limitations of the space

One of the central reasons for the success of this “ story theate ” narrative technique, beyond the consistently strong performances from the ensemble is the direction of KleistMendez, a recent graduate of Cornell’s performing and media arts department For her, incorporating Chaucer’s surprisingly prescient social commentary was essential to her directorial approach Just as his characters “break down social structures, comment on sexual hierarchies and are extremely bawdy,” under her guise, the musical is full of subtle elements of phys-

ical comedy, rooted in the text itself, that accentuate its message of individual empowerment More generally, she thanks her engagement with theatre at Cornell including practical experience through Prof David Feldshuh’s Directing I course and critical engagement in a number of other PMA courses helped her to achieve the individuality of style and voice necessary to direct a work of theatre

Bernstein and his cabal of 11 talented Cornellians involved in the production certainly have worked hard for all the accolades that have been thrown at them thus far As Dana Lerner notes, getting accepted to Fringe was just the beginning of a process that included an industry reading, a $16,000 IndieGoGo campaign, and constant efforts to stay below budget while satisfying the needs of the show’s designers The payoff for all this effort is, for Dana, the creation of “the beautiful world in which the characters live ” That world, and the fascinating characters that inhabit it are here to stay, at least for the time being You can catch Far From Canterbury and other Fringe standouts in the SoHo Playhouse’s Fringe Encore series from Oct 12 to 18 Tickets are $18 00

Sam Bromer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun com

Kurt Fritjofsen

There is something delightfully per verse about all this The man should not be standing amongst us, let alone strapping on seven pounds of electrified wood and grooving like this It’s a testament to the vivifying power of rock n ’ roll; It may fill your youthful face with lines, but you’ll be dancing when your contemporaries are nodding off Grim takes his time hunting the joyful seems he’s got a heart after all Richards starts the record with the title track, sounding like he could be in Robert’s kitchen, just him and an L-1 “Heartstopper” kicks off with Dick Dale-style surf chords ringing over a punky pulse Lovely, delicate piano from Ivan Neville here chimes during a soaring bridge “She’s a vegetarian, but me, I like the meat, ” Richards hisses The famous Keith background vox of yore (think “Rocks Off ” or “Connection”) have been mutated by decades of Marlboros and Jack, the Everly choirboy replaced by a gravel-throated ghost

And here comes “ Trouble ” Fuck Fuckin’ hell Fuckin’ hell yes No goddamn Kanye West, no goddamn Justin Bieber, no #hashtagged Billboard contrivance Just that holy backbeat American as a ’57 Chevy with Marilyn on the hood, full of the sacred promise of libertinism The chord progression is classic Richards, filled with the knowing smile of an elder statesman Steve Jordan’s snare opens up the throttle at the end the singers caress my ears over Richards’ patented anthemic structures and I know God exists “ Trouble” is dirty as hell, charming as shit and familiar as an old lover the way I like my rock and roll

This column is the first of two on the s

music This will focus on rock and its influencing genres, while the following column, running in two weeks, will focus on rap Popular music appears to be more personally authentic and honest than other art forms While artists may choose to express their personal experiences, emotions or opinions through other mediums like fiction, film and visual art, the first-person narration of most songs creates an illusion of direct, personal expression that none of these other mediums inherently exhibit Even in first-person poetr y, the existence of a “speaker” or narrator dividing the author from the text is generally acknowledged in a way it is not in music In a song, the artist tells you their stor y literally in their own voice This kind of intimacy is unique to music

However, before the 1960s, ver y few pop songs were written by their performer This meant that there was an understanding between the audience and artist, similar to in theater that the song was being perf o

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d T h e singer was offering a representation of an emotion, not the emotion itself Crooners

The engineering on this record is beautifully live you can hear the room and nowhere is this more apparent than on “Blues In The Morning ” Keith sounds more like Carl Perkins than Muddy on this one Whoever engineered this record understands space in a way that is rarer than good intentions on prom night “Got a hard-on, baby; but now it’s come and gone ” Ha ha ha (I woke up my next door neighbor laughing at that line ) Getting old ain’t for sissies, my Grandpa says The band cooks someone oughta give the X-Pensive Winos (Richards’ band) a medal for valor

The title to “Substantial Damage” sounds like it could be either a diagnosis or a headline; The song itself is funky as shit God Seventy-two in December? Ha Damn straight Piss off, Grim That’s what I love about Baby Boomers they refuse to get old “ What’s that thing attached to your ear?” Keith raps “I’m talkin’ to you, but you don’t seem to hear! I’m payin’ for dinner, and I might as well not be here!” (Seems Keith prefers the 20th Centur y, too ) “I bring out the sadist in you, ” he cries Shades of Undercover; this song wouldn’t have been out of place next to “Pretty Beat Up ”

“Money, they don’t make any more at least not around me, ” Richards sings in “Something For Nothing ” (He should call up the Fed ) Both he and his Twin have this narrative running through their work; Lucky In Love and Put Me In The Trash also dealt with this existential fear of going broke Mick might be keen on power distance and private jets, but Keith plays the populist, a folk hero:

like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra might sing tender love songs, but it was understood that these were not authentic expressions of their love for a specific person Rather, they were offering a performance of love, an imitation The fact that the words were written by a separate person didn’t matter, because the music didn’t rely on the performer’s emotional honesty in order to affect listeners

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approaches to songwriting and performance

Robert Johnson, the key figure in the histor y of American blues, wrote and recorded firstperson narratives, making him one of the first American singer-songwriters, along with other early blues musicians However, this approach was relegated to little-acknowledged spheres of blues and folk music from the 1930s through the 1950s

A more powerful reversal began with artists like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who penned and performed their own songs Dylan’s songs were widely covered at first, and the covers sold better than the originals However, as the public gradually began to prize authenticity over vocal perfection, Dylan’s music, performed by the man himself, became marketable: his single “ R a i n y D a y Women #12 & 35” was advertised with the h e a d l i n e “Nobody Sings D y l a n L i k e Dylan ” Suddenly, it w a s n o t enough for an

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inviting us into his Connecticut home in “Just A Gift ” The lines are telling: “You should find me, ‘ cause I’m hanging ‘round in bars with a lot of shooting stars and they bore me ”

“Lover’s Plea” is his Otis Redding slow-burner, stops and all “Nothin’ ever turns to silver, nothin’ ever turns to gold ” ( Woody was wrong?) Memphis legend David Porter co-wrote this one with Steve Jordan and Richards; you can hear Stax in it The Bluff City can be heard in “Nothing On Me,” too, which has Royal Studios written all over the beat Richards knows where to get the good shit

Leadbelly wrote “Goodnight Irene,” imbuing it with suicidal ideation And Richards turns it into a lovely goodbye But no, no Keith We’re not letting you say goodnight with this one Sure, tempus fugit one look at your hands could tell anyone that Those are a working man ’ s hands, and you ’ ve fought the good fight better than most But you ’ re not built to slip off in your sleep somewhere No Do not go softly into that good night, as the man said Rage against the dying of the light Make Grim dread coming for you and the rest of the boys Breathe fire down his neck, spit on his shoes, and grin in his face

You’ve got it in you, kid One more shot

You just proved it

Kurt Fritjofsen is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at kfritjofsen@cornellsun com

appeal was not that he was a traditionally talented singer, but that he was honest in a way that other performers were not He sang his own songs, and supposedly meant them in ways that other singers could not Albums like his Blood on the Tracks are seen as piercingly honest examinations of the artist’s inner life, and this type of songwriti n g i s c o n s i d e re d t h e h i

achievement possible in pop music

But did these developments really lead to more authentic songwriting and performance? Or did they merely create a different kind of performative illusion? For, if an audience demands emotional honesty and a representation of an authentic self from artists, then artists must cater to these needs, and calculate what kind of “honesty” is expected Perhaps this explains why some of the most highly regarded singer/songwriters Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello have many songs whose lyrics could generously be described as “oblique ” In order to avoid the immense pressure of creating genuine personal expression, they c h o o s e t o e x p re s s t h e m s e l v e s i n m o re opaque and inexplicit ways Myth settles around the most admired and celebrated songwriters Dylan has been a number of things, resolving into an incarnation of the restless and boundar y-defying artistic spirit; Lennon is the arrested child, howling in pain and frustration; Waits the word-drunk (and plain drunk) troubadour; and Costello, at least in his early work, the awkward nerd, spitting acidic comebacks These characters, both bigger and simpler than the real people that play them, are partially created by the performer and par-

tially by the audience

This focus on character de-values lyricism itself in favor of a persona supported by lyrics This unfortunately hinders those who are great songwriters, and even performers, but do not readily fit into a mythic persona I don’t mean to say that artists in this latter categor y can ’ t become exceedingly popular, but the kind of lasting regard and stature that is gifted to mythic charact e r s i s d e n i e d

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because mythic hero-worship is generally granted only to males by our culture This is not to say that single works by female artists cannot be highly regarded: Joni Mitchell’s Blue and Patti Smith’s Horses are on par with a small handful of critically

Mitchell and Smith are not granted the kind of adulation that their male colleagues are This is not because of a difference in the quality of their art, but because culture does not choose to idolize and mythologize them as figures

Ironically, the era of the singer/songwriter, which would seem to bring a new level of personal authenticity in music, may have simply created a different kind of dishonesty Rather than acting, or performing a certain emotion for a certain song, artists are pushed to act a certain character arguably a far greater illusion One need only look at the

career, or photos of the Clash performing dressed as revolutionaries in fatigues and berets, to see the drawbacks of this effect

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Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

Athletes Aren’t Paid

To Be Role Models

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As anybody who’s close to me knows, I am a huge fan of Kanye West The dude is a musical genius, and if you don’t think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the greatest album of all time, then you are sadly mistaken Do I realize that Kanye West is a huge asshole? Of course I do

But I don’t look to Kanye West for advice on how to be a better human being I look to Kanye West for top-notch production and lyrical insights to his amazi n g s e x - l i f e w i t h o n e o f t h e hottest woman on the planet (Bound 2 anybody?) He is a rapper, and he is amazing at what he does That is all I can ask of him

So even though athletes like Tiger Woods and Kobe Br yant are huge douchebags off the field and have made some questionable life decisions as well, I don’t think it’s fair to put them on some moral pedestal They are the world’s greatest at what they do, and they should be be looked upon as athletes, not as role models

Now if you are an athlete striving to be a professional in your given sport, of course it’s fair to look at professional athletes as role models If that is your ultimate goal, then professional athletes are obviously the best example to follow

Another thing that bothers

me is that many people hold athletes accountable to some sort of extra-moral standard When a professional athlete gets caught smoking pot, suddenly it's the end of the world But c ’ mon, professional athletes are people just like the rest of us Who at Cornell doesn’t smoke pot? Is ever ybody at Cornell a scumbag because they choose to inhale a little reefer? No, of course not We need to stop holding athletes accountable to things that we would never hold our friends accountable for Ev e r y b o d y m a k e s m i s t a k e s , and athletes fall under the same categor y I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss someone based on a couple of bad decisions they’ve made I’ve done tons of dumb things and my life, and I’m glad I have people that look past my faults At the end of the day, athletes are paid to play sports They are not paid to be role models But sometimes it’s hard not to make that emotional connection with yo u r f a vo r i t e a t h l e t e a n d h o l d them accountable for things outside the realm of sports This is natural Just remember, professional athletes are people too, and they’d probably appreciate it if you didn’t dismiss them because of a few dumb mistakes they made

Shane Lewis is a first year hot columnist He can be contacted at slewis@cornellsun com Sporstradamus appears every Wednesday this semester

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Women Fall Short in Overtime Against Quakers

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Contributor

There is a rumor going on around the Daily Sun that I don’t show my face around the office as much as I probably should And this is absolutely true I have missed like ten billion meetings I was supposed to be at But I did happen to go one Sun

sports meeting this past week (to which my fellow editors exclaimed, “Shane’s here?!”) and I learned that I am allowed to use expletives in my column This has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m writing about today, but fuck it

Now back to sports This past Friday, Pete Rose pled his case to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred that he deserves to be reinstated back into the league Upon hearing the news, one of my friends remarked to me, “I don’t know how anybody can be a fan of Pete Rose; the dude’s a cheater ” I thought about this for a second, and I really didn’t think that

seemed fair I mean sure the guy bet on baseball games, and maybe his character is a little questionable But as a baseball player, Pete Rose was as good a hitter as there ever was He was a winner, and he made a lot of people in Cincinnati happy Isn’t that all that should be

asked of him? At the end of the day Pete Rose was a baseball player, not a priest Should we really not “be a fan” of him based on things he did outside the baseball diamond?

This brings back the old Charles Barkley “Professional Athletes should not be role models” debate Should they or not? Well to some extent, no, I don’t think that athletes should be held accountable as role models Athletes are paid to entertain, not to be some sort of moral compass to whom we should compare ourselves

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Red Drops Four Sets to Columbia

Cornell opens up Ivy League play with a

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, Cornell hosted Columbia in their first Ivy League match of the season The Red entered the weekend with a 4-6 record, and the Lions came in with a 2-7 record

After hosting the Big Red Invitational last weekend, the Red was hard at work on the fundamentals in preparation for entering Ivy League play

“At time last weekend we saw how good we can be when we play together as a team, ” said junior setter Alyssa Phelps “We worked a lot in practice on being disciplined and blocking and we executed both of those things very well on Saturday We just have to work no being consistent

Phelps finished the match with nine kills, 27 assists, seven digs, and three blocks She shared the setting position with freshman Lauren Donnelly, who added her own 15 assists and 12 digs

The Red took the first set 2521, with impressive hitting by Alex Basler, Macey Wilson and

Emily Wemhoff

“This past Saturday was definitely a learning experience,”

Wemhoff said “As a team, especially in sets one, two and four, we learned that we can play at a high level that is completely capable of beating anyone in the Ivy League ”

The second set was a nail biter, ending 26-24, Lions For Columbia Zoe Jacobs and Luciana Del Valle posted big numbers, Jacobs with 19 kills and Del Valle in the double dig-

its as well

The third set belonged to the Lions, who took it 25-20 The Big Red rallied in the fourth set, keeping the Lions down with impressive blocking performance by Macey Wilson and the entire front line

“The loss was tough but it did really motivate us to get really focused and take care of business at Yale and Brown this weekend,” Wilson said “ We