10-02-12

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Professor Called Founding Mother of Colonial Histor y

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams the Founding Fathers of the Revolution sit exalted in America’s historical pantheon, inseparable from the movement that birthed a country and irrevocably altered world history

Now, perhaps, a different pantheon is being constructed: one for the scholars who revolutionized the study of the revolutionaries, themselves entwined with the upheaval that severed the colonies from Great Britain more than 200 years ago

Through a series of discussion forums held on campus Friday and

Saturday, more than 100 professors, doctoral candidates, undergraduates, librarians and history nerds called for one professor Prof Mary Beth Norton, history, the first woman ever appointed to Cornell’s history department to be recognized in the illustrious ranks of those who have defined our understanding of the American Revolution

“[Norton] means so much to American historiography She really is one of the very first people to make it a legitimate focus of study to look at ever yday women and American women and their actual experiences, ” said one of the event orga-

C-Town Housing Rush Intensi es

During early rental season, students sleep outside housing agency

and take shifts and have a shitty hour-and-a-half in the night to have housing for next year, ” Busto said “It is kind of getting late [in the ren and we don’t want to be screwed out of housing ”

When Ezra Cornell declared he would “found an institution w h e re a n y p e r s o n c a n f i n d instruction in any study,” he may not have considered one subject in particular: beer brewing

But for Prof Karl Siebert, food science, studying beer is all in a day’s work Siebert, who spent 18

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b e r s i n l i v e s k e t c h e s , r e a d i n g s a n d m u s i c a l p e r f o r m a n c e s , a c c o rd i n g t o a H i t R E C o r d o r g p re s s re l e a s e B e s t k n o w n f o r h i s r o l e s i n t h e m ov i e s 5 0 0 D a y s o f Su m m e r a n d T h e D a r k K n i g h t R i s e s , G o r d o n - L e v i t t

years working in the bre wing industry before entering academia, has spent decades researching the golden, frothy beverage in his laboratory at Cornell’s New Yo rk St a t e A

l Experiment Station in Geneva, N Y

“If you search Cornell’s website for two different things

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In what some landlords are calling the fastest renting season in recent memory, students are rushing to claim housing in Collegetown, even sleeping outside rental agencies to be the first to secure the area ’ s most lucrative real estate

Around 15 students camped outside the Ithaca Renting Company office on Dryden Road Thursday night to sign leases for a range of living arrangements, including two “coveted” four-bedro o m a p

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u s e snatched by the baseball team, according to Christina Kim ’15 and Nicholas Busto ’15 “We think, honestly, it’s worth it to suck it up

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Un l i k e m a n y o t h e r re n t a l a g e n c i e s i n Collegetown, Ithaca Renting Company requires residents to sign leases on a first-come, first-serve basis the primary reason people camped outside the office overnight, according to Lisa M Everts ’92, the company ’ s rental manager “ The reason we have people camping is because we don’t tell people they might get an apartment; it’s on the spot, ” she said “We have had tours going on for several weeks but then people are expected to come in and sign for available apartments, first come, first serve ”

u t i ve c h a i r o f t h e C o r n e l l Un i v e r s i t y Pr o g r a m B o a rd M a z h a r h a i l e d G o r d o n - L e v i t t a s a n a c t o r w h o h a s re m a i n e d c o m m i t t e d t o e n c o u r a gi n g c o o p e r a t i ve c re a t i v i t y t h ro u g h o u t h i s c a re e r “ It’s re a l l y g re a t t o s e e s o m e o n e w h o h a s g o n e f ro m T V t o h u g e b l o c kb u s t e r s a n d i s s t i l l i n t e re s t e d i n t h e g r a s s r o o t s p r o c e s s o f c r e a t i n g v i d e o s , ” s h e s a i d C U P B , w h i c h h a s r e c e n t l y h o s t e d s t a n d - u p c o m e d i a n s Jo h n O l i v e r a n d S e t h Me y e r s , w a s s e e k i n g t o d i v e r s i f y i t s c a m p u s o f f e r i n g s w h e n b o o k i n g G o r d o n - L e v i t t t o p e r f o r m , M a z h a r s a i d “ We a re re a l l y e xc i t e d t o d o s o m e t h i n g d i f f e re n t T h e B i l l y Jo e l s h ow w a s p re t t y i n t e r a ct i ve , b u t we h a ve n ’ t d o n e a n y t h i n g l i k e t h i s i n r e c e n t m e m o r y, ” s h e s a i d

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1 • Student Creative Writing Do You Have an Appointment?

By Tammy Su 12

I’m gonna show youuuu how great I am I watched this one motivational video on YouTube repeatedly this weekend Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure Sometimes you need an epic soundtrack to your life Sometimes you have to convince yourself that you ’ re the hero in the movie, that you ’ re the lone underdog defying the odds, vanquishing your enemies, achieving eternal glor y Here is the stor y of a small part of my journey through the treacher y of my own Middle Earth, my odyssey, my personal Holy Grail: tr ying to get into medical school

Nothing’s going to hit as hard as life Life was hitting hard for me Uncertainty about my future in medical school weighed heavier ever yday as rejection emails dotted my inbox Was it time to wave a flag and begin channeling my energies into finding a plan B? I logically thought so - but I didn’t and couldn’t invest in a replacement endeavor The flames inside that fueled my ambitions to become a renowned surgeon who’d make the biggest mark on the world could not die quietly 100% Rejection a statistic ever yone can measure you by I began to fall hard into a depression like I’ve never felt before, a depression I could only feel from suddenly having my mountain snatched from underneath me The thought of giving up my once-clear goal was sickening Falling is fine; you can get back up But being lost is much more frightening I explained my situation to advisors all within one day – barely any inter views, mostly rejections, but still quite a few schools to hear from I was greeted with deep looks of sympathy, looks they’ve clearly flashed to many a rejected student They each were suggesting, in their own way, that I give up, “for now at least ” “Consider another path,” or if I had to, wait at least two years

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I simply refused to believe that this could be true What if I just went to these admissions offices? What if I just showed my face and demanded to be seen? “I think you should do it ” And so there it was, the only glimmer of hope, coming from a newly hired advisor I decided to grab it and hold on for dear life

This was Wednesday Suddenly I felt gripped, afflicted, the dying embers within me fanned into a gigantic, raging fire Two cities, five schools, five days, no advanced notice Was it possible? Like any Cornell student, I was running a low-grade fever, severely sleep deprived, and scheduled for a full weekend of work at the restaurant Suddenly though, nothing mattered My Halls cough drop wrapper said it all - Bet on yourself It was time to push in all my chips, buy bus tickets, call out of work, compose letters of interest, and get down to research Without a moment to breathe and barely time to pack, I found myself in a smelly Subaru with Chris, a fellow anxious, journeying applicant, throttling off to a school in Long Island during the first snowstorm in many weeks Just our luck

Obstacle #1 - Getting gas at 3 AM is difficult

Obstacle #2 - Driving in a blizzard is scar y

Obstacle #3 - Drinking canned double shot espresso on an empty stomach makes you want to vomit your brains out

Obstacle #4 - Being sick and tired at the same time doesn ’ t help This is fucking crazy, I couldn’t help but think Someone please remind me that this is a good idea The desire to sleep and the danger of the icy roads overwhelmed us, as our snow-unequipped vehicle slid by a three-car accident We pulled over somewhere in the middle of New York state, snowflakes flying, sometime around 4:45 AM

My obnoxious alarm abruptly shook me from sleep at 7:00 Chris was awake It was time to start moving again The snow had cleared, thankfully, and we enjoyed a relatively uneventful ride down to the school

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Students can send poetry and fiction submissions to jkose@cornellsun com

Univ. Begins Constr uction

On Big Red Band Building

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Contributor

Homecoming Weekend at the site of a ne w building that will soon be home to the Big Red Band

The space is set to open in late Spring 2013, according to University Architect Gilber t Delgado

The ne w building will be located on the east side of Schoellkopf Field and will be a significant improvement from the band’s much smaller current home in the basement of Bar ton Hall, according to Jessica Reno ’13, dr um major for the Big Red Band

The University is still working to raise the $1 million needed to finance the project in full by its Spring 2013 opening, according to Delgado

The University has raised about $575,000 in

Fischell and his wife, Sarah Thole Fischell ’78, donated money to the project after plans for other University buildings fell through during the financial crisis

“ We want to get as many Cornell band [alumni] as we can to march on the field with the Big Red Band next year when we dedicate the building during Homecoming Weekend,” Fischell said in the statement

Delgado said that the ne w space will fit well in its location adjacent to the crescent-shaped stands that frame the eastern side of Schoellkopf Field

“It is a wonderful compliment to the crescent. We’ll have a really terrific facility by next year.”

the last year, but is still shor t more than $400,000 in required funds, according to a University statement

Still, Delgado said that the project will be completed regardless of whether the $1 million milestone is reached

The University is required to have under written funds money pledged to the project in the event that alternate fundraising effor ts fail before pursuing any ne w ventures, according to Delgado He said that if the University falls shor t of $1 million, a Cornell alumnus has agreed to donate the balance

But Reno said she is confident that the Big Red Band will be able to raise the remaining $400,000 through a series of fundraising effor ts aimed at soliciting donations from band alumni She said both current and former band members are excited about the ne w building

By CINDY HUYNH Sun Staff Writer

“It is a wonder ful compliment to the crescent We’ll have a really terrific facility by next year, ” he said R

band’s nearly 250 members, Bar ton Hall does not provide “enough space at all ”

The room is also “ not safe” to hold such a large number of students for rehearsal, according to Fischell The ne w building should be able to accommodate at least 180 people safely, Fischell said in a University press release

In addition to increased space, Delgado told The Sun that the ne w building will also have a higher ceiling and offer improved acoustics and sound quality for the band’s practices

Various University officials, alumni and band members took par t in the ground-breaking ceremony Sept 22

Reno added that she hopes a ne w home will bring the band, which she said has been an integral par t of Cornell’s culture since the 1890s, closer together as a community

“It’s really nice that we are finally going to get a home for a family,” Reno said

“[Our alumni] help us out so much, from dayto-day things to more overarching things,” Reno said “ They are going to make it happen no matter what ” David Fischell ’75, M S ’78, Ph D ’80, a Big Red Band alumnus and a University tr ustee, also expressed confidence that band alumni will rally in order to guarantee the project is fully financed,

Tyler Alicea can be reached at tra37@cornell edu

County Legislators Hear Requests for More Funds

The Tompkins County Office for the Aging asked the county Sept 24 for an additional $30,000 in funding for services for low-income seniors, The Ithaca Journal reported

N.Y. School Districts Propose Mandatory Teacher Evaluations

While half of New York State’s school districts submitted proposals this summer for state-mandated evaluations of teachers and principals, several districts, including Ithaca have not submitted plans yet, according to The Ithaca Journal

Compiled by Caroline Flax

Student worked at NYC Fashion Week 2012; now designs, sells clothes in Ithaca St

Dorado continued her work in costumi n g i n t h e S c h w a r t z C e n t e r f o r

While many of her friends were fawning over clothing in department stores, Marianne Dorado ’14 was beginning, at a young age, to create her own designs

What started as a childhood hobby has since evolved into a serious passion for Dorado, who gained her first formal experience while building costumes for her high school’s theater productions

“ T h e f i r s t p l a y I d i d w a s L e s

Miserables I got hooked on costuming, and I loved it,” Dorado said

But when she first came to Cornell for h e r f re s h m a n ye a r, Do r a d o p u t h e r dreams on hold in favor of what she believed would be a more practical academic track She matriculated as a human biology, health and society major, with the intention of going to medical school after graduation

“I knew fashion was not a ver y lucrative career, so I decided to give the premed thing a shot,” Dorado said Bu t o n t h e s i d e ,

Performing Arts’ costume shop, working as an assistant designing and creating costumes for productions

Unable to sideline what she had feared were unrealistic career ambitions, Dorado said she realized that she wanted to pursue fashion design not only through extra-curricular activities, but academically as well

She ultimately switched into the fiber science and apparel design major in the College of Human Ecology a transition which has led to new opportunities in the fashion world, she said

This fall, Dorado began selling her own designs at a local boutique in Ithaca: The Art and Found, located on East State Street in the Commons, which often features apparel produced by local designers

“I found out [The Art and Found] was looking for local designers and sent them some photos of sweaters and lingerie [that I had made] They loved it, so I’ve been selling them at the store since they

opened around Labor Day,” Dorado said She said selling her clothing at the store has given her the chance to learn more about the intricacies of finding just

the right materials and measurements to create pieces for commercial sale

“I’ve been learning about manufacturing on a small scale to create one-of-akind pieces,” Dorado said

Although she said her style is constantly evolving, Dorado is currently fixated on clean lines and geometric shapes

“My design philosophy is that ever y seam in a garment should have a purpose, ” she said “I don’t believe in purely d e c o r a t i ve m o t i f s Eve r y t h i n g s h o u l

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In the future, Dorado hopes to pursue a career in fashion, she said

An internship this summer at Supima, a luxur y cotton brand, gave Dorado the o p p o r t u

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1 2 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City an experience she said gave her a first-hand look at the fast-paced nature of the industr y

“I know it’s going to take a while, but my ideal job is to be the creative director for my own line,” Dorado said

Cindy Huynh can be reached at chuynh@cornellsun com

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event organizers, Prof Susanah Shaw Romney Ph D 2000, history, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and a former student of Norton’s

Collectively titled “Liber ty ’ s Daughters & Sons: Celebrate the Legacy of Mary Beth Norton,” the two-day event drew participants from Boston, Mass , to Williamsburg, Va , eager to pay testament to Norton’s achievements “while I’m still alive,” the 69-year-old Nor ton wr yly noted

“What I’ve tried to do in my work is to think differently about the early period of American history, ” Norton said “Looking first at the Revolution from the standpoint of the loyalists, then at the Revolution from the standpoint of women I had a different perspective on the kinds of events and prophecies going on in the Revolutionary period ”

Norton’s oeuvre is not limited to the American Revolution In the Devil’s Snare, one of her most popular works, is widely seen to have upended previous explanations of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials She is also, as noted by several of the weekend’s panelists, regarded in the women ’ s history movement both as something of a maternal guardian and rockstar

The composition of conference attendees reflected Norton’s explorations a physical representation of the varied fields she has plumbed in more than four decades of historical research

There was the delegation heralding Norton’s impact on gender studies and women ’ s history

“Regarding the Salem project, I remember [Norton] saying something like, ‘It’s not about gender ’ And while that is true on some level, In the Devil’s Snare would not exist in the form it does without the analytic work of gender and the talents of Mary Beth as a historian of women and gender,” said a former graduate student of Nor ton ’ s, Prof Kate Haulman Ph D 2002, histor y, American University

Herself a historian of the colonial period and a fellow disciple of Bernard Bailyn, author of The

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Prof Pauline Maier, history, Harvard University, traced the impor tance of gender to Nor ton ’ s work in her speech

Saturday When the two were graduate students at Harvard, “There was a separate women ’ s entrance to the Harvard faculty club, which people like Mary Beth and I just refused to use, ” Maier said “It really was the bad old days in some ways ”

She added that pay was not always equitable for graduate students

“If that augured ill for Mary Beth’s and my future we paid no attention We did our thing and moved on, ” Maier said

Several of the attendees female professors at Cornell and other universities said they were the beneficiaries of Norton and Maier’s work, which Norton acknowledged was closely tied to the women ’ s movement of the 1970s

“In the 1970s, I was very much influenced by a desire to give women of the revolutionary period a voice, and at that time most of women ’ s history was being written from the standpoint of men, ” Norton said “I wanted to have 18th Century women speak for themselves and that was very much a feminist project, a 70s feminist project, but it still speaks to people today ”

She added that some of her former students, including Haulman, were responsible for conceptualizing and executing the events Former students comprised a large contingent of the weekend’s proceedings

“[Nor ton] inspired me to become a historian; she introduced me to her love of the discipline and all the joy it could bring,” said Prof Molly Warsh 2000, histor y, University of Pittsburgh, one of the organizers Ultimately, however, Norton’s grandest legacy is likely related to her expansion of what the American Revolution means both because of her dissertation on American loyalists and her later work on the role of women in the Revolution

Maier explained that Norton fundamentally transformed previous conceptions of the ideologies

held by the loyalists those who opposed the Revolution and their relation to America Whereas loyalists were previously thought of as conser vative Tories, they began to be accurately, Maier said recognized as American Whigs, or liberals, after Norton’s work

Norton’s doctoral dissertation tracked the difficulties loyalists faced adjusting to life outside of the colonies after the Revolution convincing evidence, Maier

said, that they belonged in the American ideological spectrum

“[Norton] showed that the loyalists were not inexplicable anomalies but that they really fit into the mainstream of American history, ” Maier said “They weren ’ t just like other Englishmen Outside America, they were troubled ” Even more crucial to Norton’s Revolutionar y legacy may be Liber ty’s Daughters: The Revolutionar y Experience of

American Women, which chronicles the role of colonial women and was the namesake of the forum

It was also the inspiration for a shirt sold at the event

“Yes, I am one of Liberty’s Daughters (and sons),” one side of the shirt read “Inspired by our Founding Mother: Mar y Beth Norton,” said the other

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Editorial

Advising Against Live-In Advisors

THIS WEEK THE FRATERNITY AND SORORITY Advisory Council, suggested that the RARE committee charged with eliminating hazing at Greek chapters through an overhaul of the pledging process consider requiring Greek chapters to have a livein advisor This change to Cornell s policy would drastically alter the living situation for thousands of future students

The Sun is opposed to this new idea, as well as the existing national policies that require live-in advisors in sororities an outdated policy from a time in which sexism dictated laws about female cohabitants Instating a policy requiring live-in advisors in all chapters is not a step toward equality, but rather a push in the wrong direction This would not be the right approach to the problems in the Greek system

We think that this change would go too far The vast majority of Cornell students are adults, legally and developmentally Almost any student is capable of renting an apartment or house in Collegetown without necessary supervision, and all non-freshman students may opt out of campus housing if they wish By recommending that Cornell require fraternities to have live-in advisors, the University is allowing the behavior of a few individuals to affect the autonomy of the majority An overwhelming number of Cornell fraternity and sorority members are exemplary members of our community; a large part of the fraternity or sorority experience comes from learning to live together and taking responsibility for a chapter

Fraternities and sororities are not dormitories, even if the University owns many Greek chapter houses They are student organizations founded on the idea of self-governance and responsibility for their collective actions If a chapter is found to have broken an agreed-upon University rule that reflects common-sense safety as well as the law, the University can reasonably wish to make their recognition contingent upon the completion of probationary procedures, including a temporary live-in advisor which was the RARE committee’s initial proposal If, however, the chapter upholds all of the rules currently in place, there is no reason to effectively punish a house by inserting an advisor

This proposed policy change reflects the worst of the University’s reactionary instincts In regard to live-in advisors, a proposal that would drastically alter the living situation of thousands of students in years to come, Cornell must consider the effect of students being forced to live with a constant reminder that the University does not view them and their peers as adults

by Rachael Singer

Letters

Concerned with the chosen voice

To t h e Ed i t o r :

Re: “An Open Letter of Apolog y, ” Opinion, Sept 27 L

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Last Wednesday, I received an invitation from Laura Weiss, the director of the Women’s Resource Center, to the f i r s t m e e t i n g o f t h e Se x u a l Vi o l e n c e Working Group The invitation read as follows:

“ We seek any community member committed to working collaboratively to create and implement solutions to the challenges rape culture presents to our community We will begin by engaging in a discussion of the demands and recommendations set for ward by students in previous settings ”

I’ll be honest: I was not optimistic To explain why, I’d like to lay out a little histor y: The “demands and recommendations” to which Weiss refers are a modified version of the demands set forth by the Assembly for Justice last Spring following the racist violence at Sigma Pi They include the development of “ a mandator y anti-sexual violence training for all incoming and current students that targets rape culture and does not victim-blame,” “comprehensive training on all aspects of sexual violence” for all University employees, and the establishment of “ a coordinated, seamless, sur vivorcentered response ser vice ” These demands are concrete They are reasonable They are radical, in the sense

Crisis Alert

that they go to the root of the problem, rather than merely seeking to ameliorate the symptoms For these reasons, I was optimistic about these demands when they were made last Spring

That was four months ago Since then, we ’ ve had open forums galore, both immediately after the Sigma Pi incident and following the sexual assaults and racist and homophobic violence earlier this academic year Each time, a facilitator writes down our concerns on a big sheet of paper, which, for all the results we see, may as well go

not the ones that we would hear about through Crime Alerts Zoner has zero evidence for her claim, but it’s the sort of thing you say when you ’ re in the business of making the campus seem safe

This portrayal of Cornell administrators falls in line with much of my own experience There is, however, more to the stor y of the unmet demands Some administrators clearly are more concerned with Cornell’s reputation than with its students, but some have consistently demonstrated a sincere desire to engage constructively with the demands

And yet, we seem to walk out of ever y meeting without getting the administration to commit to a timetable Some students interpret the administration’s refusal to c o m m i t

vo c a t i o n a n d stalling, and sometimes I think they’re right

broke into smaller groups

When my group sat down and we all said our names and explained why we had come to the meeting, I realized for the first time the depth of the crisis this campus is facing right now As we went around the circle, I heard the same or similar stories time and time again:

“I walk that bridge ever y night ” “ That could have been me ”

“I don’t feel safe walking home from the librar y ”

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c o u r s e I ’ ve k i n d o f c o m e t o t e r m s w i t h t h e f a c t t h a t , a t s o m e p o i n t , I s t a r t e d

b e i n g a s k e d q u e s t i o n s t h a t m a y b e d o n ’ t h a v e c o m p l e t e l y e s t a b l i s h e d a n s w e r s T h a t I re a l l y h a ve t h e c a p a c i t y, i f n o t t h e t i m e a n d e n e r g y, t o u n d e r s t a n d t h e s o l ut i o n s t o s o m e o f t h e m o re i n t e re s t i n g u n s o l ve d p ro b l e m s Or a t l e a s t u n d e rs t a n d w h y p e o p l e a re a r g u i n g f o r o n e s o l u t i o n ove r t h e o t h e r f o r f i x i n g e n e r g y p o l i c y a n d t r a f f i c l i g h t a l g o r i t h m s a n d t h e m o r a l d e g r a d a t i o n o f A m e r i c a ’ s yo u t h It g o e s h a n d - i n - h a n d w i t h s o m e t h i n g e l s e t h a t s t a r t e d h a p p e n i n g o n l y re c e n t l y, I g u e s s b e c a u s e I s t a r t e d l o o k i n g s l i g h t l y o l d e r t h a n 1 6 Pe o p l e s t a r t e d t r u s t i n g w h a t I s a y A n d n o t i n d u l g e n t “ Ok a ywe’l l - t r y - i t - j u s t - t o - h u m o r - yo u ” t r u s t i n g m e , b u t f u l l - b l o w n “ I f - y o u - s a y - s o - i tm u s t - b e - t r u e ” It w a s a l i t t l e u n n e r v i n g t h e f i r s t t i m e i t h a p p e n e d , a n d i t ’ s n o l e s s u n n e r v i n g n ow

straight from the conference room to the dumpster The Assembly for Justice has re

address the demands, and vir tually no progress has been made

Why is this the case? Who is to blame?

One argument, perhaps best articulated by the anonymous anti-oppression group Scorpions X puts the blame on an administration which is more interested in preser vi n g C o r n e l l’s re

addressing sexual violence on campus This

motivation behind, for example, Chief of Police Kathy Zoner’s baseless claim that the recent string of sexual assaults reflects an increase in reporting rather than an increase in actual crime rates The sexual assaults that most often go unreported are probably

Sometimes, though, I think we become a little too committed to our narrative of administrators as calloused and manipulative politicians Cornell University is a sprawling institution, across which responsibility and accountability are thinly spread Thus, when President Skorton looks us in the eye and tells us he can ’ t give us a solid timetable for when the University will address our demands, he’s kind of telling the truth

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And there’s the wiggle room There’s the proverbial Big Red Tape that gets between a campus in crisis and the achievement of meaningful change

Which brings us back to the meeting on Friday When I arrived, the room was overflowing with dozens of students I’d never seen before The latest incident of sexual violence, the attempted rape on Wednesday night on the bridge behind the Engineering Quad, had had a profound effect The room we’d reser ved was at capacity and the hall was full, so we moved to Barton Hall and

Let me be clear: It is not my intention to “speak for” the women of this campus The women of this campus spoke loud and clear on Friday afternoon, and I’m just tr ying to relay what I heard I heard a campus in crisis I heard women from ever y corner of the Cornell community speaking in firm solidarity: The status quo is unacceptable This University needs to change, and this administration needs to stop fucking around

We spent the next couple hours talking with administrators, CUPD officers and each other, working through ver y concrete details of what the University can do better

These included both reactive measures, like better coverage and publicity for the Blue Light Shuttles, and proactive measures, as outlined in the demands I describe above

If any of this talk is going to stick, if we really want a safer campus, we ’ re going to have to keep showing up to meetings like the one we had on Friday These meetings will often be unexciting and frustrating, but change is like that sometimes University policy doesn’t change in a day, and it doesn ’ t change at all unless students light a fire under the administration’s ass and keep it lit

Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Ar ts and S c i e n c e s He m a y b e re a c h e d a t tmoore@cornellsun com What Even Is All This? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Kind of Red, White and Blue

Jazz is fun Jazz is interactive Jazz is American Two members of the Steve Brown Quartet, Dino Losito (keyboard) and Steve Brown, talk to The Sun about their music and what to expect at their performance at the Carriage House Café this Thursday night The show is part of the Jazz Spaces Ithaca project recently launched by Cornell’s Minority, Indigenous and Third World Studies Research Group

Brown taught at Ithaca College from 1968 until his retirement in 2008 But he has hardly retired He has been travelling the world, teaching at clinics in Europe and performing all over the U S Losito is also a pivotal figure in the jazz arena He hails from Elmira, N Y where he teaches at Cedar Arts Center

THE SUN: How did you get started with jazz?

STEVE BROWN: Well, my father and mother were both musicians back home in Long Beach, Long Island, so there was always music in the house They both went to Ithaca College And eventually most of my family went to I C The Browns have had a long histor y there And I taught at I C for 40 years where I was in charge of the jazz p rogr a m unt i l m y ret i rement about four years ago

DINO LOSITO: Yeah, we

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a k i n g classical piano lessons when I was four years old My family was ver y, ver y musical Mother was a singer Fa t h e r w a s a s a x o p h o n e player And my uncles were also ver y into the music

s c e n e A s a f a m i l y, w e would listen and dance to jazz and swing music I was fortunate in that sense And I went on to further my jazz studies at William Patterson University in Wayne, N J

SUN: Now I’m going to admit that I’m a pretty new listener of jazz What suggestions do you have for people like me who want to better understand jazz?

between that sometimes loses the “inexperienced jazz listener ” If you can grab them with melody and rhythm you are doing okay Anybody that wants to understand jazz more should listen, go see live performances, and ask the musicians questions

SUN: So could you give us a sneak peek on what to expect this coming Thursday?

S B : The subtitle for the evening will be “Friends and Family,” which really reflects a lot of the kind of jazz I write You’ll realize that a lot

“Child’s Play” is for my son who is a bass player “Sweet Angel” was written for my

born “Balsa Barbara” is for my

organ which is really hard to come by nowadays And

S B : There are certain procedures that occur when a group of musicians get together to play a tune And within jazz music we physically run a recycling business, replaying the same harmonic structures differently For the listener, it would be best to listen and look out for this replayed melody and hum it to yourself And doing this will really make a lot more out of the experience of listening to music

D L : Well a huge part of what makes jazz is the improvisational aspect The melody is clear It’s what happens in

tor y and found out you performed with Ray Charles! How did that happen?

S B : So Ray Charles was performing at Bailey Hall but his guitarist couldn’t perform and they asked me to fill in I went to their rehearsal and we played two compositions which really wasn ’ t necessar y since I knew most of his tunes and could read music

The funny part was during our actual performance There was a short rest where I fiddled with the guitar Right then, Ray leaned back and whispered, “ You’re covering up the whole band!” But the thing was, the band wasn ’ t playing at the time Ray obviously wanted to fill in the par t personally but I filled in for him I joked to the others before the show that Ray wouldn’t even talk to me during the set But he did (chuckles) We did all the hits though and they asked me to join them on the road but I had a class to teach in Ithaca

Dino will be playing that Paul Merrill who has set up a

Cornell will also be joining us for a tune or two I believe It should be exciting and I’m sure ever yone will enjoy the evening

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n music as well along with an original of my own And yes, I’ll be playing the Hammond organ I look for ward to playing the organ format

SUN: Who are your musical role models?

S.B.: Ever ybody Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Barney Kessel the list can go on forever But Pat Martino most of all

D L : Many people too many, Charlie Parker John Coltrane Bud Powell , Cedar Walton, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Smith

SUN: ( To Brown) So I was digging up your musical his-

SUN: Wow, so what do y o u d o n ow t h a t y o u ’ v e retired?

S.B.: I just came back from Sweden and Nor way I also went to Spain and conducted a lot of clinics and workshops A lot of the people who call me are former students of mine and it’s great to play with seeing and p l a y i n g w i t h t h e m a g a i n And I get paid to travel It’s just great

SUN: Why should people come on Thursday?

S B : Ever yone should support jazz in general Jazz is a mixture of different cultures that is representative of the cultural melting pot of America It’s a unique kind of music which is highly appreciated in Europe, South America and Japan Sometimes I feel like their appreciation for jazz is a lot stronger than America’s It’s an American treasure that we should all appreciate and enjoy often

D L : People should tr y to support live music in the community and help make it happen Especially jazz Jazz is an American art form that embraces a huge part of thehistor y and the diversity of people in our countr y It is a kind of music Americans can take for granted And to experience jazz is truly something different and worthwhile

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At a Los Angeles press conference last month, Amazon introduced what could be the most significant innovation in how we read books since e-readers first appeared: “Kindle Serials,” a new subscription-based book format

Harkening back to the days of Dickens, these new books are installed in segments Once a customer subscribes to one of the serials, new updates or “episodes” appear automatically at the back of the book as they are released by the publisher

Amazon has already changed how books are sold, read and published, noted Sarah Kessler in an online article for Fast Web Now, the “Serials” will even change how books are written Thanks to the web, writers will get to see how readers react to each installment, adapting their writing along the way According to Amazon, each serial book will have its own discussion board where writers can read comments from users However, these discussion boards are just the tip of the iceberg Already, several book analytic startups are off the ground, creating programs to track where readers highlight most often and where they lose interest Amazon competitors, like Kobo, already use analytics to monitor the geographic locations of their readers It’s only a matter of time before these start-ups become more sophisticated and fully integrated with Kindle products

is becoming more and more daunting in the digital age Acknowledging this trend, “Serials” updates the novel by breaking it into manageable, bite-size chunks easily read while riding the subway or taking a coffee break

By adding time between installments, the “Serials” make reading a bit like watching T V Just as we eagerly anticipate the next episode of our favorite T V show, so too will we wait in suspense for our favorite “Serials” segment (Indeed, many of the “Serials” authors are screenwriters) This makes reading more communal, more social Not only will we speculate with each other about what will happen next, but (the most devoted followers, at least) will read (and react to) the next segment at the same time And this interactive component, where audiences can directly influence the writer’s next installment, empowers readers No longer passive consumers, the readers become participants who tell the industry the products they desire

All good and well for Amazon, but what does this mean for readers and, more significantly, for writers? For readers, the “Serials” offer a change of pace Remember how everyone would stay awake for the midnight release of Harry Potter and then binge read until the last page? The “Serials” will force readers to slow down and more fully engage with each released segment Readers who would other wise skim through unwieldy novels will carefully read each word Not only will this ensure books get the care and attention they deserve, but it’s also well-suited for our contemporary lifestyles and the ways we now consume information in Facebook status updates, text messages and 140 character tweets No wonder the novel

At least superficially, these “Serials” might bring some material benefit to writers, who can test out the commerciality of their products before sinking too much time into a risky (and time consuming) investment But what happens when we think of writing in purely commercial terms, when we turn readers into “markets” and assign literary value through data analytics? Sure, writing is already thought of in commercial terms Publishers want books that will sell regardless of literary merit By publishing these books with mass appeal, they give themselves some leeway to take on riskier projects books with true literary merit that perhaps appeal to smaller audiences But with this onslaught of reader feedback midway through, these riskier projects might never take shape

“Serials” fundamentally alter the writing process and disempower the author The writer must give his audience what it wants or have his serialized book cancelled The author is at the mercy of his or her audience And not just any audience but a

contemporary audience, an audience wealthy enough to purchase e-readers, an audience loud enough and arrogant enough to post its opinions in web forums Books that are too experimental or too critical might never make it past Chapter One

Perhaps these concerns have no grounding Serial fiction helped many great writers get their starts, including Henry James and Herman Melville Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov were all serialized Contemporary writers like Stephen King and Orson Scott Card have tried their hands at serial fiction, and Jennifer Egan has even published a short story entirely through serial tweets The serial format could even help writers change up their writing process and explore new directions in their work

The problem is when these new directions are undertaken merely to please There’s nothing wrong with an empowered, enthusiastic audience so long as writers and publishers alike realize when to disregard the message boards, unplug the internet and let the natural writing process work itself out

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was junior Max Groves in 20th place overall (24:33), senior Brett Kelly in 27th place (24:38), junior Andrew Herring in 66th place ( 2 5 : 0 8 ) a n d s e n i o r Ma t t McCullogh in 75th place (25:17) One of the Red’s main goals, besides winning the Heps champio n s h i p, i s t o c o m p e t e a t t h e national level Smith spoke about the kind of statement that a win like this can make for his team “ We c e r t a i n l y f e e l t h a t we belong as a nationally competitive team, ” he said “It’s one step in a larger process We’re really happy with how it went, but there are still more steps to go in the season ”

Although the men ’ s team was not the overall winner of the meet, men ’ s coach Zeb Lang ’03 thinks that his team is starting to realize how well it can compete against strong opponents

“I think these men are realizing that they can run with very good teams, ” he said “I think [they] now have some confidence in their racing abilities ”

According to Wade, the men ’ s team is already starting to recognize its competitive swagger

“I think the men ’ s cross country team is extremely competitive,” he said “We’re working hard to make that known ”

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Close Finishes Continue to Plague Red in Loss to Penn

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Once again, the women ’ s soccer team was unable to close out a win against Ivy foe Penn this weekend The Red (0-10, 0-2 Ivy League) fell to the Quakers (5-4, 2-0), 2-1, at home on Friday Senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis scored her second goal of the season, keeping the team in the game, but she cited the team ’ s inability to finish games strong as its biggest struggle lately

“I think it is just we need to put together 90 minutes of

play rather than just 80 or 70,” she said

“It was a step in the right direction for us but we need to put the full 90 minutes together and hopefully we can go out and do that,” said junior goalkeeper Tori Christ

The game started out with a scoreless first half with a lot of action occurring in the middle of the field After the break, the two teams scored three times in the next 26 minutes

“Attention to detail The little things – whether it’s staying goal side or following your mark – those are the things we need to focus on, ” said sophomore midfielder Kerry

Not quite enough | Senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis scored her second goal on Friday, but Red was once again unable to find an equalizer in a 2-1 loss to Penn

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the left sideline before being hit hard

“I took the ball up the sideline and got hit hard and low and it took out my knee,” Laird said of his injury Though he has not gotten a final word on the injury yet, Laird believes it to be a torn ACL and is anticipating being out for the rest of the season Laird has had an impressive first three games, including two interceptions in the first game against Fordham, and four tackles and the 21-yard run against Bucknell

backseat to the offense at the beginning of the season, according to Miller, they are unfazed and will continue to prove their worth

“To us, honestly, it’s just what we do,” Miller said “This is what should be expected of us, we shouldn’t have to rely on the offense [The Bucknell game] was just a launching pad, a starting point for us to take off from ”

Laird agreed, pointing out that it will be important for the squad to show the rest of the league that they should not only be worried about the Red’s explosive offense

“This is what should be expected of us, we shouldn’t have to rely on the offense ”

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Though his presence will be missed in the secondary, Miller and Laird are confident that junior safety Brian Gee who came in to replace Laird on Saturday is prepared to fill the gap

“Brian Gee will step up, he comes in and brings a lot of energy to revitalize our defense, so we will definitely not be taking a step back,” Miller said

Gee had five tackles and two broken up passes against the Bison in his first appearance of the season

Laird also expressed the utmost confidence in Gee’s ability to be his replacement

“Coach Austin has stressed that we don’t expect any lapse in performance from our second and third string players,” he said “Gee came in and made some plays in the second half that really saved the win for us ”

Though much of the talk after the Red’s decisive homecoming win a weekend ago was about Mathews’ stellar passing performance and freshman Luke Hagy’s two rushing touchdowns, the defense was arguably even more important The defensive line and the secondary held Yale to only 350 total offensive yards and forced two fumbles and two interceptions

Though the secondary may have taken a

“[Defensive Coordinator Kim] Dameron has stressed being a physical and hard hitting defense, he said “The past couple weeks we have proven to the league that it is not just our offense They can have a mediocre offensive day like Saturday, and we can pick up the slack, which we weren ’ t able to do in the past, so it’s like night and day for us this year ”

However, the secondary has a long season ahead of it to continue proving that to the rest of the Ancient Eight The first obstacle in the way happens to be reigning champions Harvard, who are undefeated so far this season The Crimson offense has also combined for 125 points in its first three games, and will be an especially formidable opponent for the secondary

“Every Ivy League game is basically a championship game, we can ’ t afford to have a bad game, ” Laird said The squad has already begun planning out its approach for combating the combination of quarterback Colton Chapple who has thrown for 820 yards and the receiving duo of Kyle Juszczyk and Cameron Brate, which has five total touchdowns

“Everybody that plays and even guys that don’t were watching film and getting their mind right today The coaches are putting together a great game plan,” Miller said “We’re going to do everything possible to make sure we come out of Harvard’s stadium with a win ”

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Penn’s Kerry Scalora set up Claire Walker for the opening goal and then the game winner in the 61st minute Cornell tried to battle to take away the victory but just could not get it done Chitanvis controlled a pass from freshman defender Morgan Zaidel, took it up the left side and finished with a goal The goal gave the Red a chance with 11:04 left in play but the team could not record another point to tie it up

“I think there is a very big difference in the way that we played against Penn versus our first game of the season It’s just stringing everything together and we get better and better each game, ” Schubert said

“I think the one thing we have been focusing on this year is to not do the same thing every game, but to try and do better,” Chitanvis added “We need to change things that we are not doing correctly and move on from there whether it’s formation or style of play ”

Chitanvis the leading team scorer of the past two seasons tied senior Xandra Hompe for the team ’ s scoring lead Both have two goals and five assists this season Also, Christ made her 10th start of the season, taking away seven possible points from Penn in goal

“We are just trying to get as many people as we can on the board and whoever can get that winning goal is all that matters, ” Chitanvis said

Cornell wraps up its three-game run at home today against visiting Lafayette

“I think too it’s important to approach it [in the same way] the Ivy League is a totally different environment But we need to come [into Lafayette] like it is the same and means the same because we still want to win,” Christ said

The Red will then head on the road again this weekend for a matchup against Ivy challenger Harvard

“For us, we are just trying to focus on ourselves and make sure that we get a win based on how we are playing We are going to not try and worry so much about the other team We need to do things that we want to get done,” Chitanvis said

Yanks Take One Game Lead O ver Orioles in AL East Battle

NEW YORK (AP) Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, Russell Martin and Mark Teixeira homered in a nine-run second inning, and the New York Yankees routed the Boston Red Sox 10-2 Monday night to open a one-game lead over Baltimore in the AL East with two games to play Baltimore lost 5-3 at Tampa Bay and dropped into second place, prompting cheers from the crowd when the final score was posted before the ninth inning The Yankees, who clinched their 17th playoff berth in 18 years on Sunday, would ensure their 13th division title in 17 years by sweeping the three-game series against the Red Sox

New York tied its record for home runs in an inning, achieving the feat for the third time The offense backed CC Sabathia (15-6), who allowed two runs and four hits in eight innings with seven strikeouts and a walk

Making his third straight strong start, Sabathia stayed in for 103 pitches rather than come out with Ne w York ahead in a laugher Manager Joe Girardi wouldn't say before the game whether he'd consider starting his ace on short rest Friday if New York fails to win the division and winds up in the new one-game, wild-card playoff

Cano homered leading off the second against Clay Buchholz, a drive off the blue facing below the glass-enclosed bar behind Monument Park in center, and hit a two-run double later in the inning He added another double in the

fourth Granderson hit a two-run, second-deck homer to right and Martin followed with a solo shot off the top of the wall above the scoreboard in right-center, a drive upheld after a video review Teixeira, back in the lineup for the first time since Sept 8 following his recovery from a strained left calf, greeted Alfredo Aceves with a tworun drive into the second deck in right Nick Swisher nearly followed with another homer, hitting a foul drive deep down the right-field line before doubling

Even slumping Alex Rodriguez got in on the offense, hitting a sacrifice fly to end a streak of 11 games without an RBI He tied Stan Musial for fifth place on the career list at 1,950 Boston, starting what may be its final series under first-year manager Bobby Valentine, has lost six in a row and 10 of 11, reaching 91 defeats for the first time since dropping 100 games in 1965 In what resembled a spring training lineup, the Red Sox started just two regular position players, Cody Ross and Jarrod Saltalamacchia Six of the starters had uniform Nos 50 or higher Dustin Pedroia was out of the starting lineup because of an injured finger, and Jacoby Ellsbur y sat against the left-hander after returning from an injury last weekend Buchholz (11-8) was roughed up for eight runs and six hits three of them homers in 1 2-3 innings The eight earned runs were a career high

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Iv y League foe Yale and then shutting out Siena the next day to pick up its second win in two days The Red (3-6, 2-1 Ivy League) defeated the Bulldogs (3-6,1-2), 1-0, and then took down the Saints (0-7) by the same score

In the contest against Yale, the scoreless regulation resulted in an overtime in which the Red struck quickly Senior forward Kat DiPastina was able to pick up the only goal of the game by taking the ball all the way up the field and scoring a scorching strike into the back of the net

The Red was also bolstered by the performance of goalie Carolyn Horner, who managed to save 3 penalty corners and finished the game with 8 total saves Horner has been a strong presence in goal for the Red all season as a national leader in saves per game After this weekend she

has a total of 3 shutouts in 9 games

The next day, the Red took to Dodson field against Siena and the first 41 minutes were again scoreless as the Red dominated play but couldn't find a go-ahead goal In the 42nd minute, junior forward Britney Thompson drew first blood by scoring off a pass by senior forward Kat DiPastina Cornell dominated the rest of the game, dictating tempo and outshooting Siena 22-4 Both shutouts over the we

momentum going forward into the second half of the season

While it got off to a slow start this season, the Red has proven itself as a force to be reckoned with in the Ivy League with a record of 2-1 Cornell will play its next game on the road against Colgate this Wednesday, before traveling to DC for a friends and family dinner and a game against Georgetown

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By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

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w i t h i n s i g h t T h i s p a s t weekend the Red compete d a t t h e Pa u l Sh o r t Invitational at Lehigh The women ’ s team finished as the top team in a field of 40 teams including the t h re e p re v i o u s n a t i o n a l

c h a m p i o n s a n d t h e men ’ s team finished sixth overall in a field of 37 competitive teams

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c o a c h A r t i e Sm i t h ‘ 9 6 expressed how happy he and his team were to finish in the top spot

“We were thrilled,” he said “We beat the three most recent national champions What was more significant to me was the way in which my team competed As a coach I was very pleased with how they executed their race strategy ”

Ac c o rd i n g t o s e n i o r Nick Wade, the environment of a meet like Paul Short was able to bring out the best in both him and his teammates

“Paul Short is one of the biggest cross country meets in the country, ” he said “It’s awesome to go and compete in that kind of environment It was nice having our top three guys run together and it turned out well ” The women claimed the win with a low score of 55

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Ass stant Sports Editor

When the ball left Bucknell quar terback Brandon Wesley’s hand from the 14-yard line with 40 seconds left on the clock, it looked like a dismal day for Cornell’s offense would end in a last-second miracle for the Bison But just as it had so many times on Saturday, the Red’s secondary stepped up Sophomore cornerback Michael Turner was there to swat the pass away before it could find a receiver’s hands, handing the Red a narrow 15-10 victory

In a contest where the offense connected for 299 passing yards and zero passing touchdowns, Turner and the rest of the defensive secondary were really the story of the game

“[Turner] stepped up a lot, he has always been a factor for us, ” said sophomore safety Rush Miller, who had eight tackles and one broken up pass in the game “I feel like he’s stepped up into a role as a playmaker and it’s extremely important for us to have that kind of depth at cornerback ” Turner was actually filling in for freshman Jarrod Watson-Lewis, who started at the position in the first two games Turner made the most of his time there, recording seven tackles and blocking the pass that could have potentially ended the game

He was not the only fill-in to make an important impact on the win, though On the Red’s fake punt attempt, punter and backup quarterback Sam Wood connected on a short pass to junior safety Kevin Laird, who ran for 21 yards up

points, nearly half of the 102 points scored by seco n d p l a c e Wi l l i a m a n d Mary The top scorer for the Red was senior co-captain Katie Kellner, who finished second place overall in the 6K course with a time of 20:22 Rounding out the scoring efforts for t h e w o

t e a m we re junior Rachel Sorna finishing in fourth place overall ( 2 0 : 2 9 ) , j u n i o r Em i l y Shearer in ninth place overall (20:36), junior Devin McMahon in 13th overall (20:46), and senior Katie Ro s e t t i e 2 7 t h ove r a l l (21:00) The Red was the only team to place three runners in the top ten Fo r t h e m

s t e a m , senior Nick Wade was the top scorer, finishing 14th overall with

time of 24:28