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County Sees Uptick In Syphilis Cases

Hook-up apps possibly a factor for increase

Syphilis rates have risen in Tompkins County, with reported cases involving those using mobile dating applications, according to the county ’ s health department

While there was an average of one to three cases of syphilis reported each year from 2009 to 2013, there have already been five cases diagnosed in the area this year, according to the county ’ s department of health Additionally, some cases of simultaneous co-infections were found in men ages 22 to 55 who reported anonymous encounters “arranged through mobile apps ” with other men

Although represenatives from Gannett Health Services said they cannot comment on whether or not Cornell students are among those infected, they do note the importance of students being cognizant of the increased incidence

“Given the age range of the individuals already diagnosed, we believe it is important for Cornell students to consider their risk factors,” said Beth Kutler, a clinician at Gannett Health Services

The “ anonymous nature of the hook-ups” is particularly worrisome, she added

Data is not available on the prevalence of such applications on campus, but Gannett staff have commented on a noticeable increase in their popularity, which they said has negative impli-

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CALS Launches New Strategic Plan

Last Friday, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences launched a new five-year strategic plan, which aims to increase the diversity college faculty and improve public engagement with its programs

The new plan entitled “Knowledge with Public Purpose in a Changing World” was devised after the college had achieved the goals outlined in a 2009 strategic plan, Kathryn Boor ’80, dean of the agriculture college

Johnson Profs Develop Multi-Million Dollar Social Media Platform

HangIt a social media platform with a development team including two Cornell professors is set to launch in December with $6 2 million in seed funding

One of the co-founders of the platform is Prof Jason Hogg MBA ’02, management, while the current chief executive officer is Prof Steven Gal ’88, management

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The cloud-based service seeks to provide location-based messaging and marketing for any mobile app, based on the idea of “hanging” notifications for users to view automatically, according to Gal

“The [mobile] market grew very, very quickly because demand has continued to go through the roof,” Gal said “This issue of location is one that really hasn’t been addressed We’re developing a platform to allow developers to really use location ”

According to Gal, the platform’s focus on “hanging” is similar to the idea of using billboards to inform consumers of opportunities in the immediate location and promote competition among businesses in the area

App developers who have integrated HangIt choose where and when to hang notifications and anybody who has that app on their mobile device will receive the location-specific notification, which they can then swipe to view links or more information

Mayor: NYSEG Caused Commons Delays

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Hunt on for 1.5-Ton Gargoyles Missing From Church

WORCESTER, Mass (AP) Church officials and preservationists are trying to figure out what happened to several 1 5-ton gargoyles from a Massachusetts church

The church in Worcester is a one-fifth scale replica of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris It was built in the 1890s and was formerly known as the Chestnut Street Congregational Church It now is owned by an Assembly of God congregation and is on the market for $2 5 million

Burglar Caught in the Act Offers to Share Heroin

BILLINGS, Mont (AP) Prosecutors in Montana say a man caught leaving a house he had apparently burglarized apologized to the homeowner and offered him some heroin

The Billings Gazette reports Christopher Dayell Bittner made an initial court appearance Monday on felony bur-

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glary and drug possession charges

Authorities say the homeowner and his 7-year-old son came home as Bittner was leaving Saturday Yellowstone County Attorney Paul Adam says Bittner apologized and offered the drug He was found nearby, and court records say a search of his backpack turned up 31 5 grams of heroin, drug paraphernalia and items belonging to the homeowner

Texas Man Impersonates Cop to Real Police Officer

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) A 41-year-old Midland, Texas, man got a surprise when he tried to impersonate a police officer and berate a fellow driver The driver he chastised was a police detective

Eleazar Cisneros confronted a driver, said he was a police officer and complained about being cut off in the parking lot of a burger joint

When Cisneros was asked to show his police identification, he said he was working under cover Cisneros subsequently said he was in a police academy, then acknowledged that his connection to policing was limited to taking some criminal justice classes, according to an arrest affidavit examined by the Midland ReporterTelegram

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HangIt Service to Launch in December

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“ The consumer doesn’t have to do anything If they have one of the apps on their phone that’s in our network then even without that app open they will get the notifications,” Gal said “ Whether it’s a social message, an informational message from one of the many app developers that will use it or an adver tisement, it will always be displayed the same way ”

According to Gal, HangIt will be free and simple for businesses to integrate into their apps: One only has to visit HangIt’s website and implement its software development kit Clients are only charged when a customer is redirected to their business from a notification, Gal said

“ The whole adver tising market online and mobile has been focused on ads and impressions,” he said “Our whole focus is on bringing [businesses] customers They only pay us when we bring them a customer or move a customer from one place to another that comes to their location instead of another, and we measure that ”

Gal added that several companies are already on board to use HangIt upon launch The first year of operations will be sustained by the $6 2 million seed fund from Vesta, a company that contributed a team of engineers to develop the prototype for the ser vice

Gal said he plans for HangIt which is headquar tered in Ne w York City to become a “global platform ”

“HangIt is built from the ground up to work anywhere in the world, in the U S to star t with,” he said “ We’ve basically taken the whole world and divided it up into ver y small, tight tiles and created an ability for a marketer, an adver tiser or a messenger to pick where they want to hang things in that world schedule when they appear, to whom they want to target them ”

Gal said he currently does not know what geographic location will use the app most fre-

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“My guess is that the suburban areas in the United States will be the best areas for HangIt, where there’s a lot there and you ’ re driving anyway, ” he said “But what I see in places like San Francisco and Ne w York is this incredible adoption cur ve If people fall in love with it in one of those cities, it could grow fastest there ”

Gal, a member of the executive team for the University’s eLab program, said that Cornell had a l

According to Gal, he met Hogg because they were both professors

Gal said that the idea of star ting a ne w business was not encouraged when he was an undergraduate

“ When I went to school at Cornell entrepreneurship was almost a bad word; there were not many people who said they wanted to be entrepreneurs, ” Gal said “ Today what we see are classes and eLab where we teach [entrepreneurship] What we ’ re seeing is with ver y limited resources students are building businesses ”

Gal who has been involved with five startups said he hopes HangIt will be especially useful for student entrepreneurs who are tr ying to leverage businesses with little capital and in shor t amounts of time

“ We want to put this in the hand of any student anywhere and say, ‘ You can do something amazing in this location,’ and maybe it takes you a couple of days,” Gal said “ We provide the full ser vice, all you do is link to our SDK and you can do these amazing, delightful things ”

Gal added he is “excited” to see how various app developers will use the HangIt platform

“Our goal is to be the biggest location-based network in the world,” Gal said “I can ’ t predict it, but that’s what you do when you put something in the hands of a large number of developers, is they build really amazing things ”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

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cations for students’ sexual health

“Any sexual relationship, including hooking up with someone, includes some element of risk,” Kutler said “My colleagues and I at Gannett encourage any student to consider the element of risk they’re comfortable taking and to take proactive steps to mitigate those risks ”

Brian Patchkoski, director of the LGBT Resource Center, said he has noticed an increased engagement with hook-up applications, especially for “people who are just at the fringes of coming out ” who may be looking to explore their sexuality or gender identity under the protection of anonymity

said “Be more aware and recognize that sometimes within these apps we don’t know the history of the person you might be hooking up with so be as proactive and protective of your health as possible ”

This goes for all relationships, whether initiated electronically or formed organically, according to Kutler

“We’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t acknowledge that hooking up with your best friend can be just as problematic as ‘swiping right’ on Tinder,” Kutler said “Sex is complicated ”

“Any sexual relationship, including hooking up with someone, includes some element of risk ”

“ There is not just one reason why someone would use these apps and we must recognize that sexual exploration is a part of development we just want all of our students and community members to be proactive and take good care of themselves and others,” he said

Patchcoski also said these apps can involve psychological or emotional risks in addition to the physical risks that come with hooking up

“These applications can allow people to be cruel, anonymously,” Patchcoski said “ These apps sometimes trivialize people’s identities to certain factors,” he said

However, he said he does not want to disparage these networking applications, acknowledging that they are ways for people to make connections and explore as one develops their identities

“If you are going to be utilizing these apps, make sure you communicate with the other partner, ” he

While Gannett provides information and services on campus regarding sexual risks, resources are also available throughout the s u r r o u n d i n g area Tompkins County was recently awarded a $16,000 state grant to fund programs to educate the public about syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as provide testing and treatment, according to a city announcement on Sept 16

One such project is the Peace of Mind Community Partnership, a cooperative initiative by Cornell, Ithaca College, the Southern Tier AIDS Program, health services at Tompkins County Coummunity College, Planned Parenthood of the local and regional health departments, according to Gannett The campaign strives to encourage testing for syphilis and other STIs, she said

“ While some STDs can be cured, others cannot, ” Kutler said “Comprehensive STI screening, based on individual risk factors, should be done routinely for all sexually active individuals ”

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com

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By SUZY PARK Sun Contributor

The use of pesticides to eliminate insect pests on fr uit trees is common throughout the world To reduce the amount of damage and harm conventional pesticides pose to the environment, Prof Ar thur Agnello ’74, entomology, is looking at ways to produce high quality fr uits without the use of toxic substances Working at the Ne w York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, Agnello says his job is to make pest-management suggestions to the Ne w York fr uit industr y “ We provide guidance and recommendations about the best ways to use pesticides, the timing, the decision making that is involved in what kind of pesticides to use at what time, so the broad focus of my research is to test s

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p o r a t e many different kinds of pest management approaches against a whole range of pests in orchards,” Agnello said According to Agnello, in the eyes of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, any product that attacks or kills a pest, disease or pathogen is considered a pesticide, no matter what it is composed of or what environmental implications it has

“Pest management methods all have to be registered by the EPA with an EPA number and they have to go through regulator y scr utiny, testing against non-target species and such,” Agnello said “If a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was found to be a good way of killing an insect pest in an orchard, in order to sell it as a product, you would have to register it as a pesticide It’s one of those things, it’s the way the system is set up ” Historically, pesticides have been ar tificially-derived, toxic materials that posed great harm not only to the immediate surroundings, but also to those working on the orchard However, according to Agnello, since ne w legislation and programs to raise awareness on the dangers of pesticides came about in the 1970s, the focus has been shifting to produce less environmentally-harmful, but just as effective, methods against pests

“Most commercial pesticides come out of the laborator y, basically,” Agnello said

Ingredients for conventional pesticides derive from organisms such as soil microbes, fungi or bacteria, which are then purified and chemically modified to become more effective against pests, according to Agnello

The move away from toxic pesticides has shed light on organic production methods According to Agnello, organically produced materials are frequently treated with pesticides, despite popular belief the difference

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is that materials used in organic productions have not been chemically modified or enhanced However, organic production methods have their own drawbacks “ The problem is that these natural products tend not to be quite as active and not as effective as the chemically modified formulations that come out of the laborator y So it is much more difficult to kill an insect pest or kill a disease pathogen using them, than you would with a conventional pesticide that would not be registered for use in organic production,” Agnello said

Agnello said his research on non-toxic ways to produce fr uits aims to find pest-regulating methods that are effective but not harmful to the environment Agnello said he believes one of the most promising non-toxic methods is pheromone disr uption

According to Agnello, pheromones are chemical compounds that are produced by an animal and released outside the body to the surrounding environment In pestmanagement, sex pheromones, usually produced by the female insect, are the primar y focus of research When the female insect releases pheromones into the air, the male of the species detects it through its antennae and uses it to locate the female so that they can mate

“ The intent has been to identify what these chemical compounds are so that we can synthesize copies of them, ar tificially, and then use them for various pest management purposes, ” Agnello said Pheromone disr uption, in combination with other traditional and organic production methods, has been ver y effective against cer tain insect species and provides a great outlook on non-pesticidal insect management, according to Agnello

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pheromones into the orchards, the canopy then it completely saturates the air that is around the trees, so the male moth looking for a female can ’ t find the female because ever y place it goes it is smelling or detecting this pheromone,” Agnello said “It is disr upting the communication between the male and female moths so that they don’t find each other and mate ”

, Agnello said he hopes to improve the non-pesticidal methods so that its effects are exclusive to targeted species

“Selectivity, I think, is the holy grail of pest management science, just tr ying to focus your management decisions on specific species that are in the ecosystem, without bothering ever ything else, or anything else,” Agnello said “It’s kind of like having an ideal medicine that only attacks the disease and doesn’t have any side

effects It is ver y hard to do in medicine, and also ver y hard to do in agriculture ”

For the rest of us who are not actively fighting pests and diseases out in the front, Agnello said he has a small wish

“I would be hopeful that more people would take the oppor tunity to become more familiar with where their food comes from and how it’s produced,” he said “It is not ver y straight for ward and not as simple-minded as often por trayed in the media, the popular press It’s ver y easy to get misdirected in terms of things that are really impor tant about production of food and pest management ”

Suzy Park can be reached at jp779@cornell edu

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M a j o r C o n t r i b u t o r s t o C l i m a t e S t u d i e s

By SHIRA POLAN Sun Staff Writer

Global climate change is a hot topic of study for scientists in many fields, including ornithologists, who obser ve changes in bird behavior to see the impact of cli-

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Ornithology “Most studies of climate change require long-term data sets and citizen science is one of the best ways to get these data Also, these studies often required data sets across broad geographic areas, which is one of the advantages of citizen science there are people ever ywhere ”

“Citizen science” refers to the involvement of the public in collecting data for science research According to Cooper, citizen scientists may do anything from counting sea tur tles on a beach to sampling microbes on a door handle

“In pretty much any field you can i m a g i n e , t h e re a re p e o p l e w h o m a k e o b s e r va

them,” Cooper said

Cooper and her colleagues at the Lab

September that determined how often citizen science par ticipation is acknowledged in journals

“ We had suspected that a lot of what we know came from citizen science but we didn’t know how to show it, since we also knew most people don’t use the term, ” Cooper said “So we couldn’t just search the literature for citizen science ”

In the study, the researchers analyzed a scientific review paper on climate change

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Cooper said she and her colleagues found that half of these 10 papers utilized data gathered by citizen science par ticipants on average

“ The number varied though, one claim had 20 percent citizen science data and another had 75 percent, ” Cooper said “ That was the first time we could put some kind of estimate of the magnitude of the contribution citizen science is making to our understanding of this one area ”

The study also found that there was no relation between the strength of the claim made by a study and the use of citizen science data, so the use of citizen science had no effect on the reliability of the research

“Some of the claims that had the most suppor t, in exper t opinion, were the ones that used citizen science,” Cooper said “ We also noticed that not one of the papers used the term ‘citizen science ’”

According to Cooper, not only was citizen science not mentioned in the papers, some of the authors were unaware of

where their data originated

“One of the authors just said that it was publicly available data and he had no idea how it was collected,” Cooper said “So we showed that citizen science was ver y prevalent and impor tant to what we k n o w, a n d t h a t i t w a s n ’ t e x p l i c i t l y

acknowledged as citizen science in a way that can easily evaluate its impact on science research ”

Cooper said par t of the reason for this lack of acknowledgement is the relative newness of ‘citizen science’ as a term, which had just been added to the Oxford English Dictionar y this past year The concept of using members of the public to collect data is nothing new

“A lot of projects have been really long term Christmas Bird Count star ted in 1900, and people have been monitoring weather stations since just after the Civil War,” Cooper said “It was happening in all these different fields at all these different times, but it wasn ’ t seen as all the same thing The term citizen science is star ting to make us realize how someone monitoring water pollution isn’t that different from someone counting birds [or] someone watching for the next supernova ”

The Lab of Ornithology at Cornell hosts a number of citizen science-driven projects

“Project Feeder watch, Nestwatch and eBird are set up for birdwatchers to contribute their obser vations over a long period of time,” Cooper said

As par t of these projects, members of the public repor t the species they’ve seen, when eggs are laid, when eggs hatch and

other useful information for ornithologists

The Lab of Ornithology is among a large number of organizations that establ i s h p

according to Cooper

“ There are a lot of different organizations, academic, non-profit, government agencies, that r un these kind of projects for people to aggregate their data together so that information can be used for sci-

sometimes to inform policy,” Cooper said In addition, communities occasionally begin their own citizen science projects, according to Cooper

“Communities also star t localized projects They sometimes even ask scientists for input to improve their protocols,” she said “ There is a long histor y of that and

where people are concerned about pollutants in their environment and they’ll set out to monitor it themselves ” Cooper said recognizing the contributions of citizen scientists in research is impor tant for future research projects

“ We make a call in our paper for researchers to acknowledge citizen science if they use data collected by volunteers,” she said, “ That would help us keep track of the use and impact of citizen science data, which I think is really impor tant in terms of how we continue to refine and develop this method, just like any other method that’s used in research ”

Shira Polan can be reached at spolan@cornellsun com

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A B C ’ s ‘ L e s s - T h a n - L e g a l ’ T h u r s d a y N i g h t

BY MADELINE DAY Sun Contributor

I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer Or at least some part of me has while watching movies like Legally Blonde and My Cousin Vinny, because with the allure of a good murder mystery, who wouldn’t? But ABC’s recent pilot of its Thursday night show How to Get Away with Murder brings law into a newer, harsher light There’s no time for fluff in Annalise Keating’s (Viola Davis) graduate law class Both the series’ fantastically engrossing writing and the representation of Keating constitute the cold heart of the pilot, showing what it is to be “real lawyers,” even if that might very well mean letting guilty clients get away with their crimes

Adrenaline is a key ingredient in the show, spiking even the first few seconds of screen time when an impossible task is brought to our new favorite students: Hiding a body A few confounding time-skips later, we find out that these students met three months prior in Keating’s first lecture Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch, Harry Potter s Dean Thomas), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee), Asher Millstone (Matt McGory, Orange is the New Black’ s John Bennett), Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King) and Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza) are the five students picked on by their professor and given the chance to work at a law firm after winning a brief “think-outside-the-box” competition Little did they know, they’d soon be involved in much more complicated problems than simply making it through their first class project

arguments in the courtroom and every scandal in between Unlike many movies and television spots where the actual law is almost completely lost, How to Get Away With Murder might just teach you something new When a student brings in the drama and does some “less-thanlegal” reconnaissance, it’s only a matter of “getting creative” with newfound knowledge to win his case

band It is as Keating states, with an acidulous look in her eye, “I spend most of my career dealing with professional liars, so you ’ re going to have to work really hard to fool me ”

“The initial idea came from the fact that I find my life very boring,” explains producer Pete Nowalk, known for his creative presence in Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice “Putting normal people in extreme circumstances [is] a theme that I find very appealing So what’s more extreme than being a first-year law student who’s kind of innocent and naïve and being thrust into a murder?” The extreme is definitely what the viewers get The show darts between hypercompetitive classroom scenes, riveting

“IDissimilar to other shows airing on ABC, romantic entanglements in How to Get Away With Murder take a backseat There is so much else to focus on that the momentarily awkward flirting squeezed in here and there goes almost completely unnoticed but that’s not to say that this smart thrill ride isn’t a sexy one as well Here is where Viola Davis’ Oscar-nominated genius steals the show; Not only is Annalise Keating a hard-hitting and merciless attorney, she’s married and not very happy about it, to say the least When one of her students finds Keating in a compromising situation with the local police chief, Keating struggles to maintain her professionalism and integrity while also betraying her fears and romantic uncertainty with her hus-

But that leaves one central question from the first episode: In a collection of liars, whom can we actually trust? Despite Davis’ wonderfully layered portrayal of the professor, the show’s other characters are still left lacking Keating is the absolute essence of the show, drawing potentially even too much attention to herself Who else could we root for? The confused (and criminal) freshmen? The other ruthless class contenders? The disreputable defendant in a murder case? The show is supposedly an “ ensemble drama,” but it’s missing the actual strength of the group

The real dark, gleaming jewel of the pilot is the quick-witted and intelligent writing that is brought to light by a captivating cast So many pressing questions are thrown immediately into the show’s audience, with just enough answers to keep the thought of the next episode tantalizing After all, the very first words spoken by one of Keating’s new star students were, “You have no idea what you just walked in to ” But we have all season to figure it out

Madeline Day is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mzd4@cornell edu

When Story Is Not Enough

never remember plots in movies,” Paul Thomas Anderson, director of There Will Be Blood and certified Big Deal, said before an attentive audience Sunday morning According to Indiewire’s dispatch from the New York Film Festival, Anderson elaborated as follows: “I remember how [movies] make me feel and I remember emotions and I remember visual things that I’ve seen, but my brain can never connect the dots of how things go together ” Note how Anderson, who I agree with, says “emotions,” and not themes, subtext or a n y o t h e r u n d e r c u r re n t t h a t c o u l d b e deemed intellectual and thus pretentious It’s not a matter of reading into a film, at least not at first Critics those who write professionally and the rest of us who argue with friends over a film we just paid to see look for meaning because we have to do something with those emotions a movie brings to the fore Taking note of what Anderson calls “visual things” helps us comprehend those feelings, and tether them to some valuable lesson, but they stay with us longest when they are incomprehensible I wrote about similar matters in my last column, “How to Read a Movie,” where I detailed a few loose rules to which I hold the films I write about I do not wish to repeat myself, but with Anderson’s comments and David Fincher’s adaptation of Gone Girl in the air, I would like to defend my first rule, “Stor y is not enough,” with a few more words Because, you see, when faced with that standard, Gone Girl does plenty right but even more wrong I will not spoil the movie, but let me just get it out there that, regardless of whatever grievances I am about to air, you must see it

Not only are movie people talking about it but also TV people, music people, you-sayI-get-to-see-Ben-Affleck’s-penis? people all the peoples For Gone Girl satisfies a basic human need, in that it tells a ridiculously engrossing murder myster y set in smalltown suburbia Gillian Flynn, who wrote the best-selling novel and adapted it to screen, leads you to one assumption before blindsiding you with its inverse, and Fincher is so precise that even those familiar with the book will be surprised by cer tain cuts, reveals and flashes of light, like those from media cameras refracting through glass onto Amy (Rosamund Pike) and Nick Dunne’s (Ben Affleck) statuesque orange cat

Yet the movie is so, so compelling for the

speed with which it ser ves its ever-shifting plot that I worr y it overlooks qualities that would stand out with subsequent viewings, when the question is not, “Is this entertaining?” but “Is this art? Is this really a masterpiece?” While our conditions for “ masterpiece” status clearly differ, one condition I hope we can agree on is that plot for plot’s sake is not ideal, for revisiting a myster y stor y with the answers in hand usually amounts to diminishing returns Gone Girl does not suffer that problem, exactly, for it

quite loudly and incessantly calls attention to the bloodsucking media swarming the Dunne family, the sexist construct that is the “Cool Girl” and the delusions required to marr y and stay committed to another person At one point a character rants to another about how his/her (I said no spoilers) demands condone murder, and the other character snaps, “ That’s marriage ”

The movie is making a Big Point, you see In fact, it does what critics are relentlessly accused of: overanalyzing a situation By pushing its multiple critiques so far into the foreground, Gone Girl wants to assure us it is more than pulp, not just meaningless “airport novel” trash It has things to say all right, but these verbal and visual stingers indicting cable news, marriage and sexism struck me, for the most part, as easy, smug and way too abstract, like the lazier bits from The Daily Show It’s one of those things where I “ get ” what the movie is tr ying to say and then, in my head, scream, “You think I don’t know that already?!”

The indirect reason for this is that Gone Girl spends almost ever y waking moment issuing plot developments that the psychology of Nick and Amy Dunne never finds time to take root Now that may sound like a pretentious thing to say, but I am convinced the great movies we return to again and again feature protagonists with tricky and boundless interiorities, snippets of which we see during largely plotless moments

These moments do not need to be slow, though they many memorable ones are, such as Scottie’s silent stalking of Madeleine in

Vertigo or Juliette Binoche’s stare into the camera in Certified Copy (the masterpiece I keep imploring you, yes YOU, to see) We can also peek into the minds of our heroes when the action gets tense, like when Gar y Cooper’s conflicted marshall stalks the streets in High Noon Just so you know I think Fincher does this beautifully in other movies, how about in The Social Network, when Mark Z u c k e r b e r g a i m s h i s g e n i u s a t c o d i n g Facemash com, in what we see, through a brilliant, exhilarating montage, to be a misogynistic reaction to an unsuccessful date

During revealing moments such as the ones described above, these movies cease to be about a stor y of made-up people or hot button themes but human behavior There is no phenomenon better suited to cinematic exposure than the way we look, move and sweat, and if the filmmaker is talented enough, those external snapshots will clue us into what lies within, which, as a viewing experience, can be quite emotional

Gone Girl is so cynical that neither Nick n o r A m y Du n n e f a c e a n y c h a n c e a t redemption, and so Fincher keeps their interiorities, to say nothing of their moralities, out of sight It’s a shame, because not only did I not learn much new from this slick piece of entertainment, but I left the theater without any empathetic connection to two of the most messed-up characters in recent cinema, and what the hell am I doing to deser ve that?

Zachar y Zahos is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com A L ove r ’ s Qu a r re l w i t h t h e Wo r l d r uns alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Firing Coaches Is Not the Answer

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progressing in some way after a firing However, it is not common that these changes fail to lead to any more success on the field

In an industry as cutthroat as professional sports, the coaching position is never safe

F i r i n g s are expected to happen in the industry,

but in the modern world of sports, coaches are fired all too often The issue is that the firings do not usually solve issues of the team Unless coaches make blatant mistakes in their ability to create a winning environment with all of their resources, it would be much better to see a coach stick by a team through a rough patch and try to carry the team through an unsuccessful season en route to eventual success

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Local TV Viewership Stays Strong for MLB Business During Season

NEW YORK (AP) -- From April to September, from Boston to Seattle, people sat down night after night after night to watch their hometown baseball team more than everything else on television

In 11 metropolitan areas, local ballclubs made for the most popular window of prime-time TV over the course of the regular season: The average rating for games on their regional sports network outpaced the offerings of any other channel in the market from 7-11 p m

Now the playoffs are underway, and the broadcasts are all national With no Yankees, no Red Sox, no Cubs - big-city franchises that lure in casual fans - the stark figures of viewership numbers will likely seem puny compared to even a decade ago, when far fewer entertainment options offered competition

Yet in the face of record-low World Series ratings and the increasing average age of viewers, baseball officials are giddy about their business, and a major reason is the value of those local summer audiences

Regional sports networks are an increasingly lucrative source of revenue for clubs And they’re doing just fine with their baseball telecasts

“To have something trending up on standard pay television is remarkable,” said Tim Brosnan, Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of business

Local baseball ratings have held steady over the last five years as Netflix, DVRs, the ever-expanding channel universe and other innovations shrink the viewership of other prime-time fare According to Nielsen, baseball broadcasts on regional sports networks topped the rankings this season in Detroit, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Kansas City, Cleveland, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and Phoenix

“The engagement and passion the fans have for their local team is clearly unmatched in their markets,” said Fox Sports President Eric Shanks, whose company owns the networks in six of those cities

Fox also televises baseball nationally, culminating with playoff games and the World Series The NL Division Series and five of the seven NLCS matchups are on upstart cable channel Fox Sports 1 for the first time this fall, meaning they’re available in fewer homes Ratings for this season ’ s playoffs on FS1 and TBS are off to a solid start, boosted by all the extra-inning games

Peterson Case Prompts Child Abuse Discussion

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Yes, Adrian Peterson said, the allegation that he struck his young son with a branch is true No, he does not believe he committed a crime

This type of discipline, he said, is how his parents punished him The charge of child abuse, Peterson said, does not apply because he meant the boy no harm

Peterson’s stance is startling, at least for much of the country where corporal punishment has been largely cast aside Usually offthe-field incidents in the news involving NFL players produce downplays or denials from the accused

Peterson’s argument is likely to surface again this week, when his case goes before a judge in Texas Peterson has support from people in areas where severely spanking children is still a generational and cultural practice, including some of his peers around the league But his use of a switch and belt to spank his 4-year-old son for misbehavior has also prompted harsh rebukes, even from disciplinarians who believe boundaries were crossed He is on paid leave from the Minnesota Vikings until the case is resolved

The case has sparked discussion - and reflection - from athletes and others who say they were disciplined in the same way Some are revisiting how they feel about the act, and it prompted others to talk about how spanking affected them - in good ways and bad

Hall of Fame wide receiver and ESPN analyst Cris Carter voiced an emotional epiphany about his changed view of corporal punishment since being raised in a poor seven-child family in Ohio

“It’s the 21st century My mom was wrong She did the best she could, but she was wrong about some of that stuff she taught me, ” Carter said on the network’s pregame show shortly after Peterson was indicted “And I promised my kids I won ’ t teach that mess to them You can ’ t beat a kid to make them do what they want to do ”

Though 31 states have outlawed corporal punishment in schools, all 50 states allow parents to hit their children as a reasonable means of discipline But the definition of what’s reasonable has been contracting, said Victor Vieth, executive director emeritus of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center in Winona, Minnesota

“A quarter of a century ago what Mr Peterson allegedly did to his son probably wouldn’t have resulted in a prosecution in many parts of the country Today it almost always would,” Vieth said “It’s not so much that judges or legislators are changing the law It’s the jurors themselves Reasonable force is really in the eyes of the community: What do they regard as acceptable?”

Vieth added: “Most parents just don’t hit their children at that level anymore ”

Cornell Polo Topples University of Connecticut

By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer

After the team finished last year ’ s season with a loss in the semifinals against top-seeded Westmont, the Cornell men ’ s polo team was determined to get back on its feet this season with a victor y in its season-opener against the University of Connecticut The match ended in Cornell’s favor, with a final score of 23-19

Head coach David Eldredge said that he was content with the Red’s performance but still sees room for improvement moving forward

“Overall I was ver y happy with how the team played The starters produced well and showed some flashes of the play we can expect for the future Definitely some things to cleanup and work on but on the whole I was happy with the effort,” he said

Cornell started the match with senior captain Nick Steig, senior Hakan Karabey and sophomore Ignacio Masias As the first chukker began, the Red quickly scored its first goal of the season Though the Huskies did get a few goals in, by the end of the first chukker the Red was in the lead, 6-4 Cornell never relinquished its lead during the second chukker In fact, the squad continued to

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meets at the end of the year, ” he said

The women ’ s cross country team took a slightly different approach to the invitational, entering most of the team in the open and gold divisions and taking a fifth place team finish Highlights included sophomore Taylor Spillane smashing another Cornell record The record been previously held by All-American Katie Kellner ’13

“She’s really performing great right now It’s fun to watch,” women ’ s head coach Artie Smith said of Spillane

Smith explained that he chose to enter most of the women in back-to-back races in order to mimic the intense schedule the team will have during the postseason, when the Red hopes to compete in both the regional and national championships which are one week apart

“Being able to kind of simulate that kind of experience now with back-to-back races is a good way to learn how to handle that so that if we are at the good fortune of being at the national meet later we’ll be that much better prepared to handle that,” he said

Lang said that for the men, it made more sense to rest the Red’s top runners after the rigorous meet in Boston in order to let them focus on preparing for the pre-national meet Despite the differing approaches, both coaches said they were pleased with how their teams ran

“This week their morale was very high and they were excited to get back out and racing for the team and it showed,” Lang said of his returning veterans

Highlights for the men included a strong 19th place finish by junior Ben Rainero in his season-debut and a 20th place finish by sophomore James Gowans in his first race since the Army meet in September

The women showed that they learned from their performances last weekend and made great improvements, according to Smith

“We had some frustrating experiences a

week ago in some cases and I was really pleased with how people applied the lessons that they needed to learn from last week in a very positive way, ” Smith said “I thought we really took several very important steps forward ”

Junior tri-captain Caroline Kellner, who ran a good race in Boston last weekend, also gave an impressive performance at Paul Short, finishing in the Top-20 and setting a record for the fourth best time for Cornell on Lehigh’s course

“I think that [by] putting myself forward in the race I gave myself the opportunity to run better,” Kellner said of her success

Overall, the women came into the Paul Short Invitational with a more positive attitude which resulted in better performances

“In just one week it’s not so much people’s physical capabilities that improve, it’s their approach,” Smith said “People were more assertive ”

For Ronchetti, the Paul Short Invitational was only the third race of his collegiate career

“The adjustment has been it’s been difficult at times,” he said “Our workload and the length of our workouts is double sometimes triple the length of what I was doing in high school but in general it’s been going very well It’s produced a lot of big gains for me in terms of fitness and my ability to compete as well ”

Ronchetti said that his time has improved by a minute and a half over the course of his three races and he is looking forward to running at the Princeton Invitational in two weeks

“I’m really excited to give it another go and see if I can continue to improve,” he said Next on the schedule for the Red are the Wisconsin and Princeton Invitationals for the women, and the Pre-National and Princeton Invitationals for the men

“I think that the morale is pretty high on the team right now and we ’ re just kind of looking forward to [our] next set of races, ” Lang said

increase its lead as the game played out By half time, the Red led the Huskies 14-7

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“We proved we have a really talented group and I’m very optimistic about our season ”

b e g a n , t h e Huskies scored three goals, which cut the Red’s lead to just four points Cornell responded, however, by scoring a quick three goals of its own, bringing its seven-point lead back with the score at 17-10 After butting heads throughout the end of the third chukker, the teams went into the fourth chukker with an overall score of 18-14 In the fourth chukker, Karabey and Masias replaced Pirasteh and Steig, and the men re-established their seven-point lead once again The match ended in Cornell’s favor with a final score of 23-19

“ This was a great way to start the season by playing against such a solid team We proved we have a really talented group and I’m ver y optimistic about our season, ” Masias said

The Red saw some players achieve particularly high scoring numbers in the victorious season-opener Masias had a final goal count of nine, followed by Steig who had five goals and Karabey and Langlois who each had four

“As our first game of the year, it was a great start The UConn men played well and came up with some strong plays when they needed them,” Steig said “ We definitely have a lot of work to do, but our team is strong this year and it should be a great season for us ”

The team looks for ward to its next match against Skidmore College, which will be played at home

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun com

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came through on her one shot to score the fourth goal for the Red On the defensive end, junior goalkeeper Elizabeth Schaeffler had her first shut-out of the season with one stop

“In preparation for the game we worked on our corners a lot and put some set plays in, Standiford said “We executed them well because we scored three of our goals off of corners ” The preparation paid off, and Cornell improved its record to 8-1 after the game

“It feels great [to be on top of the Ivy League],” Garrity said “It takes a lot of effort to be on top but it’s a really open conference this year and I think it could be our year ”

Less than 24 hours after flattening Yale, the Red took on American University at home It was a meeting of two conference leaders, Cornell at the top of the eight-school Ivy League, and American leading the Patriot conference this year, as well as its returning champions from the 2013 season In contrast to the Red, the Eagles hadn’t played a game in over a week but the opponent came out fast

The Red’s defense staved off the Eagles’ offensive line and came out even harder on the other end, racking up eleven shots Twenty-two minutes in, the Eagles offense converted and scored the only goal of the game The Red’s offense was balanced, with Marisa Siergiej shooting

four times, Krysten Mayers shooting three times, McIlwrick shototing twice and Georgia Lord shooting once

The most exciting moment of the game came with 12 minutes to go in the second half when Standiford powered the ball in from just outside the circle After being deflected, the ball hit the back of the cage, but the officials negated the goal, saying there had been no deflection

The home team battled it out to the end, despite the controversy, and remains positive

Garrity said that the squad plans to take on the season focusing on one game at a time and does not feel that playing Saturday influenced the squad’s performance on Sunday

“I don’t think any game really affects the next, ” she said I mean, its tough that we played yesterday and were maybe a little more tired today But overall I think we just had mindset that today was a different day ”

Looking forward to Syracuse on Oct 12, the Red is focusing on a couple points specifically

“I think just playing a whole seventy minutes that entire game, we had more shots, more corners, I think we played better than them in all aspects, ” Garrity added “But you know, one mistake, one or two mistakes can lose you the game, and I think we just have to pay a full seventy minutes without major mistakes like that ”

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C.U. Cross Country Has Strong Showing At Paul Short Invitational Saturday

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

The Red cross countr y team ran through the rain at Saturday’s Paul Short Invitational The freshmen are continuing to show major improvements, with Will Ronchetti and Michael Wang running to 27th and 34th places respectively

“I thought that our freshmen who went there they really took big steps up It’s always exciting for the younger guys to be improving and adapting to the training system, ” men ’ s head coach Zeb Lang said Since all of the runners who competed this weeke n d f o r t h e men ran in the o p

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Making strides| Sophomore Taylor Spillane broke a Cornell course record previously held by Red All-American Katie Kellner ’13

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Cornell Conquers Yale in Weekend Match

Red loses in tight contest to American University, slips to 8-2 on season

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Contributor

Though it may not have happened on Schoellkopf, the Red did manage to trounce the Yale Bulldogs once this weekend On Marsha Dodson field,

t h e C o r n e l l f i e l d h o c k e y t e a m crushed its Ivy League opposition, 4-

f t h e D e t r o i t L i o n s a n d R o b C h u d z i n s k i o f t h e Brow n s No n e o f t h o s e n a m e s a re l e g e n d a r y c o a c h e s S o m e a r e y o u n g c o a c h e s w h i l e o t h e r s a r e m e d i o c re c o a c h e s t h a t we re s t u c k w i t h s u b p a r t e a m s In a n i n d u s t r y a s c u t t h ro a t a s p ro f e s s i o n a l s p o r t s t h e c o a c h i n g p o s i t i o n i s n e ve r s a f e Bu t

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w h a t m a k e s a g o o d c o a c h ? A g o o d c o a c h i s n o t o n e w h o c a n d r a w u p t h e b e s t p l a y o r s u b s t i t u t e i n t h e b e s t p l a ye r T h a t c o m e s w i t h l u c k A g o o d c o a c h c a n u n d e r s t a n d t h e p l a ye r s h e i s g i ve n t o c o a c h a n d c a n d o a n e xc e l l e n t j o b o f d e ve l o p i n g

0 This placed the squad in the top seat in the Ivy League and continued its undefeated streak in the conference Early on, junior captain Taylor Standiford and senior co-captain Ann DiPastina worked together to set up freshman midfielder Sam McIlwrick f o r a s h o t o f f a p e n a l

McIlwrick’s shot was good, and the Red went up 1-0 within five minutes of the starting whistle Cornell was relentless on attack

throughout the whole game Junior defensive back Marisa Siergiej had an impressive seven shots, tallying one assist and one goal McIlwrick continued to build her momentum with four shots on goal Four more shots, and the second goal of the game, came from for ward Kr ysten Mayers, and junior for ward Katie Garrity

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