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Environmentalist:

U.S.

Krupp

Can Do More

calls for more oversight

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

Speaking to a crowd of more than one hundred at Cornell Tuesday, Fred Krupp, the longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, said he does not think a single state in the U S is adequately protecting its environment

Through the Environmental Defense Fund, Krupp has helped corporate giants like FedEx and McDonald’s reduce their carbon footprints, advocated for greater oversight and regulation of companies’ environmental impacts and pushed for disclosure about chemicals used in fracking

“We’re proud of [the country ’s] progress, but I have to say that I cannot point to even one state that protects public health and the environment from oil and gas drilling in ways that I consider adequate,” Krupp said “The bottom line is we must protect individuals and families who are being harmed by these developments No one should have to trade their right to clean air and clean water for the sake of cheap energy ”

Krupp said natural gas has unacceptable impacts on air, water and landscapes, telling a story of a woman and son from Pennsylvania who were forced to leave their

“We’re proud

of

[the countr y’s] prog ress, but I have to say that I cannot point

to even one state

that protects public health and the

environment

from oil and

gas

drilling in ways that I consider adequate.”

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Frack talk | Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, spoke at Milstein Auditorium Tuesday

homes because of toxic fume exposure

“At EDF, we ’ ve been fighting to protect the air and

Cornell Warns Students

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

A person tried to enter a residential proper ty by posing as a maintenance technician and claiming the

“The tenants did the right thing: they asked questions and followed up with the landlord.”

U n i v e r s i t y e m a i l

landlord had sent him to inspect the

students Tuesday

The incident occurred Monday, according to an email the Office of

dents

Ithaca Police Looks For Alleged Shooter

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Ed tor

An “armed and dangerous” man who may have shot another man in the groin and buttocks Oct 14 after arguing over a girl is still at large, Ithaca Police say Leads are fading as police continue to search for an 18-year-old, 6’0” black male with the alias Biggum, according to Jamie Williamson, public information officer for the Ithaca Police Department On the evening of Oct 14, Biggum allegedly shot a 21-yearold man after they had an argument over a girl leaving the man injured and lying on the ground on South Plain Street

The male victim was conscious when police found him, and he was transported to a trauma center for surgery He did not provide information to police about what might have provoked the shooting

“Without speaking to the suspect, it is impossible to know what exactly led to the shooting We’d really like to locate [Biggum], but we ’ re not sure about his exact whereabouts right now, ” Williamson said “Any help the public can provide in locating him would be great ”

Biggum has tattoos on his left arm and weighs approximately 185 pounds, according to police Police ask anyone who sees him to call the IPD

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

The University warned students to verify the identity of people who knock on their doors before letting them enter their houses Even if students are told ahead of time by landlords that someone will be by to inspect equipment in the proper ty, they should exercise precaution by calling their landlords, requesting photo identification or a driver’s license and watching the person as he or she works in the house

Additionally, students should tr y to keep their doors and windows locked, repor t suspicious behavior to police and remember to “ never put yourself or others in danger,” the email said

“ The tenants did the right thing: they asked questions and followed up with the landlord The landlord confirmed he had not sent anyone out to complete work on the furnace and the tenants called the police,” the email said

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

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Huerta: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Noon - 1:15 p m , 105 Stimson Hall

CALS Study Abroad 101 3 - 3:30 p m , 170 Roberts Hall

Book Talk: Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure 4:30 p m , 106G Olin Library

Tomorrow

George Bush, German Reunification, and the Power of Time 12:15 - 1:30 p m , B20 Lincoln Hall

Urban Semester Program Video Information Session 12:30 - 1:30 p m , 153 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading with Colum McCann 4:30 p m , G01 Uris Hall

Peace Corps Application Workshop 5 - 6 p m , 100 Mann Library

Cornell Technology Venture Forum 6 p m , East Hill Office Building

Groom Receives Sentence For Wedding Bomb Threat

LONDON (AP) A forgetful British bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat rather than admit he’d neglected to book the venue for his wedding was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail

Neil McArdle called Liverpool’s St George’s Hall from a phone booth on his scheduled wedding day in April, claiming a bomb was due to go off in 45 minutes

His fiancee, Amy Williams, was left standing in the street in her wedding gown while the building was evacuated

McArdle, 36, was arrested the same day and admitted that he made the call because he had forgotten to fill out the paper work for the wedding

“He did say several times how embarrassed and ashamed he was and how sorr y he was, ” said prosecutor Derek Jones

A judge at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England sentenced McArdle to 12 months in jail

Judge Norman Wright said that McArdle had frightened staff at the venue with his hoax which came days after the Boston marathon bombings and let down his fiancee

“She was getting ready, expecting you were going to be man and wife and a very solemn public event in her life and you knew that was not going to take place,” the judge said

”You did not say ‘ We need to talk ’ You tried to weasel your way out by creating a bomb hoax so the wedding would not take place ” Defense lawyer Charles Lander said McArdle and Williams are still together

Surfer Knocks Out Shark

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) A 25-year-old Hawaii surfer and former boxer went toe-to-fin with a shark off Kauai and survived

Jeff Horton was surfing Sunday morning with about 10 others near Kilauea when someone spotted a fin in the water, The Garden Island reported

Twenty minutes later, Horton was sitting on his surfboard with his legs dangling in the water when he spotted a dark shape approaching from the left He thought it was a stingray dark on top, white on the bottom

“It came flying straight toward me, ” he said

He pulled his left leg out of the water and the shark got a mouth full of surfboard The impact knocked Horton off the board He rolled onto the shark and grabbed a fin

On top of the shark, holding on with one hand, he began punching as hard as he could with his other fist He estimated he landed eight blows

“I finally got one nice punch into the eye, ” Horton said “I put some really good hits on it, for sure ”

When his knuckled jammed into the shark’s eye, the shark spit out the board and retreated

Horton scrambled onto his board With another surfer, he caught a wave and paddled toward shore The shark briefly followed but did not attack again, he said

After they reached shore, a tourist gave him $50 and told him to buy a bottle Horton’s only injuries were scratches from the shark’s rough skin

The 7-foot board, however, was left with a semi-circle imprint of the shark’s jaws It will not go back in the water

“I’m going to put it up on my wall,” Horton said He surfed again Monday at another beach

Patrick Dougherty

“The Art of Horticulture” Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 12:20 p m , 305 Ives “Public Space, Public Art” Thursday, October 24, 2013, 7:00 p m , G71 MVR “Hands-on Workshop, Ithaca Children’s Garden” Friday, October 25, 2013 details at www ithacachildrensgarden org

The Public is Invited

Professor Jonathan Jansen Vice-Chancellor and Recto r of the University of the Free State

“Meeting the Spirit and Letter of Diversity on a South African Campus” Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:30 p m ASRC Multi-Purpose Room

The Public is Invited

Palestinian LGBT Activist

Talk s About O ccupation

Maikey : Are more pressing issues than

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

H a n e e n M a i k e y, d i r e c t o r a n d

cofounde r of Pale s tinian LGBT activis t group alQaws , s poke at the Hollis E Corne ll Auditorium Tue s day

The talk, s pons ore d by Stude nts for Jus tice in Pale s tine , HAVE N: LGBTQ

S

“We are not working to achieve gay rights for the Palestinian gay movement ” H a n e e n M a i k e y

d u c t i o n by A D White Hous e vis iting profe s s or Jas b ir Puar

Maike y, a Pale s tinian native who has b e e n involve d in activis m s ince 2 0 0 1 , s poke on s e ve ral topics re garding que e r is s ue s and s e xual politics in Pale s tine and how the y conne ct with the gre ate r is s ue of colonialis m

“alQaws is a group for LGBTQ pe ople and activis ts working toge the r to dis mantle the s e xual age nda b e hind occupy ing Pale s tine , ” Maike y s aid

According to Maike y, the group only has one and a half paid me mb e rs , forcing it to focus on is s ue s that it finds mos t pre s s ing

Maike y s aid that the mos t imme diate focus of the organization is on tackling occupation of Pale s tine , rathe r than advocating for gay rights

“ We are not a gay organization We are not working to achie ve gay rights for the Pale s tinian gay move me nt We don’t think that kind of activis m is s us tainab le , or re le vant to the Pale s tinian conflicts , ” s he s aid

Though Maike y ’ s e ffor ts do involve

gay rights

providing s pace s for LGBT Pale s tinians , a lot of alQaws’s work, and what Maike y focus e d on in the talk, ce nte re d around addre s s ing is s ue s of Zionis t colonialis m that Maike y b e lie ve s mus t b e tackle d b e fore the group can have full conve rs ations re garding s e xuality The s e is s ue s include the de finition of Pale s tine and Pale s tinians , the phe nome na of impos e d b o rd e r s

and the “pinkwas hing” of Is rae l Pinkwas hing, a te rm that re fe rs to g a y - f r i e n d l y p u b l i c i t y

m a s k s unfavorab le as pe cts of a s ocie ty or place , conne cts to Is rae l b e caus e its pe rce ive d s tatu s as b e ing a kind of LGBT have n in the Middle E as t s ofte ns the hars h re alitie s of Zionis t colonialis m and occupation of Pale s tine , according to Maike y Maike y s tre s s e d that alQaws re fus e s to coope rate with the Is rae li gove rnme nt and any inte rnational organizations that als o work with Is rae li LGBT groups “ We don’t coope rate with any organiz

“We don’t cooperate with any organization that doesn’t challenge Jewish supremacy in Israel ” H a n e e n M a i k e y

b e twe e n par tie s have his torically

n ine ffe ctual, and that inte rnal dis cus s ions e xpos ing the s tate of occupation and colonization is the firs t main goal “ We re fus e to e ducate our colonize rs , ” s he s aid

Noah Rankin can be reached at

nrankin@cornellsun com

Police referred a man to Ithaca City Court for unlawful possession of marijuana

Mischief in Bathroom

An officer was dispatched to take a report from a staff member in Sage Chapel regarding damage done to the

officer was dispatched to take a report regarding the theft of various finished aluminum

Cornell Law P rofessor Receives Email From Pope

Pope Francis re ects on professor’s sermon about the presence of God during the Holocaust

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Wr ter

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e m a i l f r o m a n u n l i k e l y s o u r c e : Po p e

C o r n e l l L a w S c h o o l p r o f e s s o r s e n t h i m a

s e r m o n a b o u t b e l i e v i n g i n G o d a f t e r t h e Ho l o c a u s t Ro s e n s a f t h a d d e l i v e re d t h e

Fr a n c i s T h e p o p e w r o t e t o Ro s e n s a f t a f t e r t h e

re a d i n g t h a t c h a l l e n g e s m y a b i l i t y t o re l a t e t o G o d , ” h e s a i d “ How, w e a s k

o u r s e l v e s , c a n w e b e l i e v e i n G o d i n t h e a f t e r m a t h o f t h e [ Ho l o c a u s t ] ? ”

A f t e r d e l i v e r i n g t h e s p e e c h , Ro s e n s a f t

s a i d h e s e n t t h e s e r m o n o u t t o t h o s e f r i e n d s a n d c o l l e a g u e s h e t h o u g h t w o u l d

s e r m o n i n e a r l y Se p t e m b e r a t t h e Pa r k Av e n u e Sy n a g o g u e , re f l e c t i n g o n h ow h i s p a re n t s b o t h Ho l o c a u s t s u r v i v o r s w e re a b l e t o d r a w o n s t re n g t h f r o m G o d t o s u r v i v e a t r o c i t i e s “ Ev e r y y e a r, I a m f o r c e d t o re m e m b e r m y p a re n t s i n t h e c o n t e x t o f a To r a h

b e i n t e re s t e d O n t h e e n c o u r a g e m e n t o f

a f r i e n d , Ro s e n s a f t s a i d , h e a l s o s e n t t h e s e r m o n t o t h e Po p e “ I s e n t i t s p e c i f i c a l l y t o Po p e Fr a n c i s

b e c a u s e I h a v e b e e n v e r y i m p re s s e d b y h i s u n t r a d i t i o n a l l y o p e n a p p r o a c h t o o t h e r s , ” h e s a i d “ It j u s t o c c u r re d t o m e t h a t m y ow n s t r u g g l e w i t h t h e a t t e m p t t o re c o n c i l e G o d w i t h t h e h o r r o r s o f t h e Ho l o c a u s t m i g h t a p p e a l t o t h e Po p e i f h e e v e r g o t t o re a d t h e s e r m o n ” In h i s re s p o n s e , t h e Po p e l a u d e d Ro s e n s a f t ’ s s e r m o n “ W h e n y o u , w i t h h u m i l i t y, a re t e l l i n g u s w h e re G o d w a s i n t h a t m o m e n t , I f e l t w i t h i n m e t h a t y o u h a d t r a n s c e n d e d a l l p o s s i b l e e x p l a n a t i o n s a n d t h a t , a f t e r a

l o n g p i l g r i m a g e s o m e t i m e s s a d , t e d i o u s o r d u l l y o u c a m e t o d i s c ov e r a c e r t a i n l o g i c a n d i t i s f r o m t h e re t h a t y o u w e re s p e a k i n g t o u s , ” t h e p o p e

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v e , i n w h i c h “ t h e p r o p h e t El i j a h i s t r y i n g t o f i n d G o d i n a v e r y c o m p l e x c o n t e x t , ” Ro s e n s a f t s a i d “ It i s a t r u l y p o e t i c w a y o f s a y i n g t h a t G o d w a s n o t i n t h e h o r r o r s t h a t w e re p e r p e t r a t e d b u t r a t h e r w a s i n t h e a t t e m p t s o f i n d i v i d u a l s i n t h e Na z i d e a t h a n d c o n c e n t r a t i o n c a m p s t o s a v e o r h e l p o t h e r s , a n d t o re m a i n h u m a n u n d e r c i rc u m s t a n c e s i n w h

w r o t e Ro s e n s a f t s a i d h e w a s “d e e p l y g r a t if i e d a n d d e e p l y h o n o r e d ” b y t h e re s p o n s e h e re c e i v e d f r o m Po p e Fr a n c i s T h e p o p e e x h i b i t e d “ t re m e n d o u s s e n s it i v i t y i n re l a t i n g t o c o n c e r n s o f a Je w, ” Ro s e n s a f t s a i d “ I w a s s t r u c k b y t h e Po p e ’ s re f e re n c e t o a p a r t i c u l a r b i b l i c a l t e x t , w h i c h ,

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com

Krupp Backs Short Term Switch to Natural Gas

FRACKING

the groundwater,” Krupp said “We’ve fought for the right of people, of neighbors, of all Americans to know exactly what chemicals are being pumped down the well shafts and what’s coming back up More than 20 states now require some disclosure ”

Still, Krupp said “much more work needs to be done” to protect local communities and their environments

Despite criticizing the negative environmental impacts of natural gas development, Krupp also said that he supports communities transitioning from using coal to natural gas over the short term

“[Some environmental activists] see the legitimate negative sides of these [natural gas] processes and view a detour into natural gas as delaying our transition to renewable energy, ” Krupp said “I share that concern, but I disagree with the notion that we can somehow stop natural gas development everywhere ” In describing his stance on natural gas development, Krupp drew on the analogy of sex education

“Some people are afraid that teaching teenagers about contraception is going to encourage them to have sex I’m of the view that it’s going to happen anyway, so we better make sure we let them know how to do it safely And I don’t think an abstinence-only policy is going to work with natural gas either,” he said

Krupp emphasized, though, that he sees natural gas as the bridge between the present environmental condition and the goal of a truly clean energy system

“While my subject today is natural gas, I don’t want anyone here today to walk away thinking that I think natural gas is the solution for the United States for climate change,” Krupp said “If it’s done right, natural gas can play a role in slowing climate change and transitioning to a truly clean energy economy But on its own right, it cannot get us to where we need to go Nothing I know can substitute for zero-carbon sources like conservation, energy efficiency, wind and solar ”

David Kay, a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology, said Krupp’s speech was in line with EDF’s pragmatic mindset, which sometimes draws criticism from environmentalists

“I think [EDF] views themselves as pragmatists, [saying] ‘ This is the way we see the world is We can ’ t change it in ways we might wish to, so we ’ re going to work with what’s on the table,’” Kay said Kay added that he thinks it is important to continue dialogue on the issue of clean energy

“I think that it’s an important debate and dialogue to continue strategically, if you take global warming seriously,” Kay said “It’s a very complex set of choices I don’t think any single entity has the perfect blueprint of how to go forward, so I think we need to continue a debate of this kind ” Some members of the audience, though, disagreed with Krupp’s approach

“I thought [Krupp] was very smooth, but he omitted a lot of facts about the Environmental Defense Fund,” said Tom Blecher, a local resident “One of them [was] that in the study that he touted very highly, he neglected to mention that nine out of the 12 people in the steering committee had big oil and gas industry ties either they were employees or lobbyists [He also failed to mention] that the study was funded 90 percent by the oil and gas industry, and that the lead investigator was a consultant for Exxon Mobile as recently as 2012 ”

Blecher said he was concerned that these oil and gas industry ties compromised the objectivity of the study

“[Krupp] omitted these things, and he said, ‘We had complete freedom to go wherever the science took us, ’” Blecher said “You know, I don't think that when you have that kind of money and influence involved, that you don't self-sensor ”

Roger Beck, another community member, agreed with Blecher’s sentiments

“I admire [EDF’s] efforts to try and improve regulation, but I think they are a bit naive,” Beck said “They’ve made some progress, but when the industry is so powerful and it’s proven itself to violate even wellintended regulations that they claim to support, they would be better off to push harder toward banning this kind of gas production as opposed to looking at it as a bridge fuel that will get us over the hump to [renewable energy] ”

Cornell Alumnus, Former

N.Y. Lawmaker Dies at 77

ed to the N Y Assembly as a Democratic representative for Manhattan in 1968, the AP reported

While working as a representative, Gottlieb along with with former New York City Assemblymen Stephen Solarz and Charles Rangel came back to the Hill Dec 9, 1969 to hear from students on their opinions on campus unrest, abortion laws and drugs

During that meeting, Gottlieb said he was supporting a bill brought forth by former Assemblywoman Constance Cook who represented Ithaca that would repeal state abortion laws

“There are 30 legislators committed to sponsoring Assemblywoman Cook’s bill this year, as compared to three last year, ” Gottlieb said in a 1969 Sun Article He attributed this to the “well organized clamouring of women ’ s groups ”

Gottlieb served as an Assemblyman until 1972, after which he became a commisioner for the state Liqour Authority, according to the AP Five years later, he also became commissioner for Crime Victims Compensation

He was elected to be a Civil Court Judge in 1994, the AP reported, being re-elected for a second 10-year term in 2004 He retired in 2006

Gottlieb is survived by his three daughters Christine, Suzannah and Lindsay his son Peter, two grandchildren and two siblings His wife Carol died in 1996, according to the AP

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Lawyer: Libyan Denies U.S. Terror Charges

N EW YO R K ( A P ) A n alleged al-Qaida member accused in a pair of 1998 U S embassy bombings maintains his innocence and was shaken by the experience of being snatched off the streets of Libya and interro-

lawyer said Tuesday Abu Anas al-Libi “is upset because he was seized in front of his home at gunpoint and blindfolded, and not knowing why,” the attorney, Bernard Kleinman said following a hearing in federal court in Manhattan Al-Libi, also known as Nazih Ab d u l

indicted more than a decade ago in the twin 1998 bombings at the U S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans He was brought to the United States last week and pleaded not guilty while being represented by two federal defenders Kleinman whose clients have included Ramzi Yousef, the

n d o f

h e 1993 World Trade Center bomb-

ing and another man detained at Guantanamo said he had been retained privately to represent alLibi The 49-year-old defendant confirmed in court through an Arabic interpreter that he wants Kleinman as his lawyer Kleinman declined to discuss how he was being paid following the hearing

T h e g ove r n m e n t t o l d U S District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday that they want to put the Libyan defendant on trial with two other men charged in the embassy bombing case, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bar y Prosecutors also said the evidence includes 270,000 pages of documents and a voluntar y, incriminating statement by the defendant

Kaplan put off a decision on a possible joint trial, but indicated it could push such a proceeding into late next year

The prosecution in the United States is in keeping with a disputed policy of bringing suspected al-Qaida sympathizers and operatives to civilian courts rather than militar y tribunals

New N.Y. Law Supports Families Of Abused Disabled

ALBANY, N Y (AP) New York can no longer prohibit families from using reports that their disabled relatives were abused in state facilities under a new law that one parent said will end intimidation of suffering families

G ov A n d r e w Cu o m o o n Tuesday signed the law that seeks

t o c o r r e c t w h a t s t r e s s e d a n d grieving families have long complained about when attempting to deal with abuse and neglect of their disabled children and other relatives in state facilities

Since 2007 under the reform act known as Jonathan’s Law, state reports of abuse and neglect were provided to families But they were stamped “confidential do not disclose ” That hind e re d f a m i l i e s f r o m p u r s u i n g abuse cases involving their loved ones through legal action and even to refer the case to law enforcement Families saw that as an obstacle to removing repeat offenders

“ This type of secrecy is never g o o d p u b l i c p o l i c y, ” s a i d A s s e m b l y m a n H a r v e y

We i s e n b e r g , a L o n g Is l a n d Democrat who co-sponsored the bill He recently settled a federal lawsuit alleging his disabled son Ricky, now 55, was hit and verbally abused at a Long Island

group home “ It b e c a m e p e r s o n

Weisenberg said in an inter view

The new law was prompted in part by a series of New York Times articles that exposed allegations of widespread abuse in state facilities and what the state acknowledges was an unaccepta b l e l a c k o f

enforcement

“ This bill is extremely important in ending attempts by New York state and private providers from intimidating parents and legal guardians from even going to the police or an attorney with documents and that abuse or a c r i m

their disabled loved ones, ” said Mi c h a e l C a r e y Hi s s o n , Jonathan, died in state care and Jo n a t h a n ’ s L

, including Sen David Carlucci, who represents parts of Rockland and Westchester counties, stated the law “will best protect the individual and provide for swift justice of crimes against this vulnerable population,” according to the bill’s memo

The law states the confidentiality provision was “interpreted inconsistently” and was “ at odds with the legislative intent” of Jonathan’s Law

Oprah Visits Two South African Grads Studying in N.Y.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N Y

(AP) Oprah Winfrey has paid a visit to two of the graduates from the celebrity’s school in South Africa who are enrolled at a private college in upstate New York

A spokeswoman for OWN, Winfrey’s cable channel, says Tuesday that the former daytime talk-show queen was at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs on Monday to meet with two graduates from Winfrey’s Leadership

Academy for Girls The academy, a boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, opened in 2007

The two young women are studying at Skidmore, a liberal arts school located 165 miles north of New York City

Christel MacLean, co-owner of The Crown Grill, tells local media outlets that Winfrey and the two students had dinner at the restaurant Monday night in a private back room

Nevada Boy Describes Terror Of Schoolyard Shooting

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Students cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a 12year-old Nevada boy went on a schoolyard rampage with a handgun he brought from home, waving the weapon at frightened classmates and shooting a math teacher in the chest on a basketball court

The boy opened fire Monday morning on the Sparks Middle School campus, wounding two boys and killing the teacher before he turned the gun on himself Washoe County School District police revealed Tuesday that the seventh-grader brought the 9mm semi-automatic Rugger handgun from his home, but authorities were still working to determine how he obtained it The student’s parents were cooperating with authorities and could face charges in the case, police said Eighth-grader Angelo Ferro recalled burying his face in his hands as the boy waved the gun and threatened to shoot Another seventh grader and Ferro's math teacher, Michael Landsberry, lay gunned down nearby

“The whole time I was hoping Mr L was OK, we'd all get through it, it was a bad dream,” Ferro told The Associated Press on Tuesday Ferro, 13, was in the schoolyard with friends when the violence erupted

He heard a pop about 15 minutes before the morning bell rang but didn't think much of it He then saw an injured boy clutching h i s w o u n d e d a r m , a n d h e watched Landsberry walk toward the gunman and take a bullet to the chest

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locked-down school, Ferro and others crouched against the building for safety but soon came faceto-face with the armed student

Ferro didn’t know the boy but said he and other frightened classmates begged for their lives and tried to talk him out of firing Something distracted the student, and he didn't shoot “He left, thank God,” Ferro said

A series of 911 calls made from the school also reflected the terror of the situation, including an ominous report of “teacher down ”

“Can you send please send police out here,” a panicked stud e n t t o l d a 9 1 1 d i s p a t c h e r

“There's a kid with a gun ”

Authorities say they’re withholding the shooter’s name out of respect for his family They provided no motive for the shooting but said they've interviewed 20 or 30 witnesses and are looking into any prior connections between the victims and the shooter

“Ever ybody wants to know why that's the big question

The answer is, we don't know right now, ” Sparks Deputy Police

Chief Tom Miller said Sparks is just east of Reno and has a population of roughly 90,000

Also Tuesday, law enforcement and school officials again lauded the actions of Landsberry, a 45year-old former Marine who tried to stop the rampage before he was killed

“ I c a n n o t e x p re s s e n o u g h appreciation for Mr Landsberry,” Washoe County School District

Superintendent Pedro Martinez said at a news conference “He truly is a hero ”

Woman Faces Immigration Charges for Israel Bombing

CHICAGO (AP) An ArabAmerican community activist from the Chicago suburbs was arrested Tuesday on immigration charges for allegedly lying about her conviction for a deadly bombing more than 40 years ago in Israel

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, spent a decade in an Israeli prison for her involvement in a 1969 attack that involved bombs planted at a crowded Jerusalem supermarket and a British consulate, according to a federal indictment

Only one bomb one of two placed at the supermarket exploded, killing the two people and wounding several others Israeli authorities have said the attacks were planned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

An Israeli military court sentenced Odeh to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front Israel released 76 prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon, according to Odeh's indictment

But U S authorities accuse Odeh of failing to mention her conviction and time in prison on immigration papers when she came to the U S from Jordan in 1995 and before she became a naturalized U S citizen in 2004, the indictment says Odeh was arrested Tuesday

Transit Labor Clash Resolved After Deadly Accident

OAKL AND, Calif (AP) It took months of

tortured talks, two strikes and the deaths of two workers for San Francisco’s transit rail workers and their employer to finally agree on a contract that got trains running again Tuesday

The saga left commuters fuming and both sides bruised A state lawmaker is considering introducing a bill that would ban public transit

unions but perhaps a possibility because of the anger over the strike

The tentative agreement between unions and Bay Area Rapid Transit came together quickly late Monday, just two days after a pair of transit workers were killed by a train operated by a BART employee being trained The deaths shook both

sides and helped get them back to a negotiating table they had deserted Friday

The accident made it

more difficult for BART management to

and

Logan, an invited obser ver to the bargaining sessions who is director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University

Logan added that the unions “did not want this strike to go on and did not see it as in their interest,” partly because the public seemed to be blaming workers rather than management for the disruption to their lives

crammed buses and crowded ferries gave a collective sigh of relief as train ser vice resumed, carr ying passengers across the sprawling region

morning at her home in Evergreen Park, just southwest of Chicago, according to prosecutors She moved to the Chicago area shortly after gaining citizenship in Detroit in 2004, said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Her defense attorney James Fennerty said Odeh has been a close friend of his for years and he never discussed her conviction in Israel or the 10 years she spent in prison

“I never really asked her,” he said “She’s one of the nicest people She’s always caring She's not a threat to anyone ”

Odeh works as an associate director at the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-area nonprofit group that advocates for new immigrants and tries to combat anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice, according to its director, Hatem Abudayyeh According to the network's website, Odeh has a law degree and has worked as a lawyer It says one of her focuses has been working with domesticviolence groups and addressing various women ' s issues

“She is a leader in the community a stalwart, an icon,” said Abudayyeh, who appeared at the Chicago federal court building to support Odeh He added about her arrest, “It’s an escalation of attacks on our community We are very, very angry ”

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Fair Pay for Int erns

THIS SUMMER, HIGH-PROFILE class action lawsuits brought on by unpaid interns against multiple entertainment conglomerates garnered significant attention in the media The cases against corporations such as Conde Nast, Hearst and NBC Universal, among others, have led to the proliferation of intern advocate groups and provided fodder for the debate over the prudence of unpaid internships Beyond the basic precept that all adults should be compensated for their work, there are moral and economic consequences to hiring students with no pay Additionally, federal and state labor laws are surprisingly clear: Interns who perform useful work to the benefit of their employers are entitled to minimum wage pay

One serious pitfall of the pervasive unpaid internship culture is the promulgation of class disparity Most students in the U S cannot work for free; housing, living and tuition expenses do not evaporate over the summer Students with the audacity to require pay for their work are unable to compete with their wealthier peers for coveted internships, and may find themselves at a disadvantage when entering the post-grad job market As long as there are young people who can afford to work for free, there will be employers to hire them over their poorer counterparts The societal duty to prevent this exploitation of cheap labor is why we have a minimum wage in the first place

If there were proper oversight of minimum wage laws for interns, many employers in the private sector would be found in violation of labor standards The Wage and Hour Division of the U S Dept of Labor has explicit criteria for determining internship pay in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act An intern is entitled to minimum wage pay if the supervising employer “derives immediate advantage from the activities of the intern” or if the intern “displaces regular employees” or “performs productive work (for example, filing, performing other clerical work or assisting customers ” Employers have no incentive to expend the time and effort to train interns if they do not provide something useful in return often the assumption of job duties that are too time-consuming or undesirable for other employees This commonplace arrangement is not a fair trade, and it is a clear subversion of the law

A common argument in support of unpaid internships is that they confer educational benefit and valuable work experience Many employers have capitalized on this sentiment by offering academic credit in place of monetary compensation But Dept of Labor standards are clear here: While credit may be rewarded for participation in legal unpaid internships, it is not a valid alternative to pay for those internships in which an intern’s supervisor benefits Regardless of the opportunities internships may afford students, only programs designed primarily to provide academic training are exempt from minimum wage requirements under the FLSA Simply offering college credit in exchange for the acquisition of work experience or learned skills is insufficient to warrant exclusion

Although the culture of unpaid internships is deep-rooted, change is imminent on this issue On June 11, 2013, a U S District Court judge handed interns their first major victory, holding Fox Searchlight and Fox Entertainment Group liable for failing to pay two former interns who performed the work of regular employees Additional similar outcomes are sure to follow College students have been easy targets for exploitation in the job market for too long, and it is time we stand up for ourselves Hopefully our universities will stand behind us

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Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne

Five Intro Classes More Helpful Than A Writing Seminar

When I think about my freshman experience, I have to say that in the beginning, I didn’t know anything This is probably a common state for incoming freshmen; it’s hard to know things about a place where you have just arrived That’s what O-Week is for, right? In my personal experience, wrong I met my orientation leader once, then never saw him again And no matter how many times I was forced to play Two Truths and Lie with the people on my floor, I still didn’t become friends with any of them until we were all drunk enough to tolerate each other So, I thought of a few info sessions / courses that I would have appreciated as a freshman, as well as some that I would appreciate if some of those around me would take

1 HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN “REPLY” AND “REPLY ALL”:

Email is rough No one can properly read your tone, and Gmail constantly sends me into a state of panic thinking that I forwarded a whole chain of emails to someone instead of just one I’ve started assuming that everyone has read all of my emails, because I don’t know how to keep sneaky electronic secrets However, I do understand one important aspect of email: the reply all button And I am very careful about that button, as we should all be On behalf of all of the listservs you ’ re a part of and group messages you ’ re looped in on, I beseech you: Please consider the message you ’ re sending; do all hundred people on the listserv need to read it? I could make a strong case that most of the time, the answer is no

2 LAUNDRY 101: In all seriousness, this should be at least a short presentation during orientation week As much as you might think that mechanical engineers at an Ivy League uni-

While there may not be typical Cor nellian, there are definitely at least some basic standards of intellect.

versity should be able to figure out the knobs and buttons of a washing machine, this seems to not be the case My freshman year, girls on my floor held literal laundry classes in the laundry room to teach the boys how to pour detergent into a drawer marked “detergent ” We all need to just learn how to do laundry, if only to keep freshmen boys from using laundry as an excuse to hang out with girls Carrying socks to the basement of a dorm does not a proper date make

3 STUDY OF APPROPRIATE STANDING AND WALKING TECHNIQUES:

I don’t want to be that person, and I’m not going to say everyone should walk faster, but can we all at least just walk on the right side of the sidewalk? And is it too much to ask for people to move when they see that they might walk into me? Last week, I had to jump into a bush to avoid getting plowed down by a girl who was texting while walking Also, regarding standing, just less clumping would be nice When I want to go to the gym, I don’t want to have to weave my way through thirty freshmen who decided it would be cool to hang out in front of Helen Newman I’m not expecting a miracle, because here at Cornell we, apparently, do what we want, but please just don’t stab me in the eye with your umbrella

4 WHAT TO INCLUDE/NOT INCLUDE IN YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE:

This can be a very short class, with one directive Write your name at the bottom of an email, with some sort of sign-off before it, depending on the situation That is all Unless you are the CEO of some international company, I really couldn't care less that you ’ re the president of the Blue M&M Club, or that you are the co-chair of the residential fellowship peer advisor mentorship program Honestly, I don’t even want to know what your major is Your name will suffice, because if we are friends I already know what you ’ re involved in, and if we ’ re not I don’t care

5 INTRODUCTION TO FRIEND-MAKING METHODS: This would not be some stupid introduction to American culture I’m talking about teaching people how to interact like human beings, without being completely awkward Here’s a start: when you are surrounded by thousands of new people, and you want to make a good first impression, just remain calm Ask people about themselves, tell people about yourself, and don’t panic Whatever you do, don’t suggest that people tell secrets Apparently this is some cliché established by the media, but it’s actually not super great and romantic to share your deepest secrets with people you ’ ve just met I’ve heard multiple stories of people who spill their souls on day one of college, and it usually ends poorly, with maybe an embarrassing nickname tacked on as well

When you think about it, Cornell is a relatively small, focused community While there may not be a typical Cornellian, there are definitely at least some basic standards of intellect All I’m asking here is for a little bit of standardization I have a dream, that I will one day live on a campus where I don’t get emails about people wanting to leave listservs, where no one stands between the salad and sandwich lines at Terrace, and where I won ’ t know strangers ’ deepest, darkest secrets Together, we can achieve that world

Rachael Singer | Animal House of Reps

In D efen se

OIf Continued Exploration

promised myself when I became an opinion columnist that I would write at least one column with some substance to it before my tenure as a writer was up (this is not actually true, but first sentences are hard, and lying in my own opinion column is actually pretty easy) For a long time, though, I really did not have much substance to write about then I overheard (read: eavesdropped on) something pretty disturbing Last week, a Cornell student I don’t know said to their friend, “I don’t understand why quantum physicists get funding for research nothing they do ever amounts to anything tangible Don’t we know enough already?”

Pause

Don’t we know enough already?

I don’t think the student was implying that we already know enough about quantum physics or that we already know everything In the grand scheme of things, we know very little, and the student who made the comment probably knows even less What I think he was getting at is that, in his mind, esoteric and curiosity-driven science offers little utility in solving the world’s very real problems To him, things like quantum physics and space exploration are simply blackholes for scientific funding (The beautiful irony here is that the blackhole metaphor wouldn’t even exist if it were not for discoveries made in curiosity-driven science by Stephen Hawking ) The student would argue that discoveries made in the realm of exploratory science will just become peer-reviewed papers for Nature or some other scientific publication and be read only by academics or that annoying kid who always has a multi-part question for the professor at the end of lecture

While it may be hard to see the value of something like Cornell’s synchrotron lab something so obscure and arcane it is important to keep in mind, that a seemingly useless discovery may only be lacking the context to make it profoundly useful Why should Cornell spend so much money on this lab when we can ’ t even see what its discoveries yield? The argument that “ we know enough” could have been made at any number of points throughout history Why should we care about space? We live on earth and all of our problems are here on earth, too But, without space exploration and satellites you wouldn’t have the Internet or your cell phone or those embarrassing moments when you think you see a shooting

Without space explora and satellites you wou have ... those embarra moments when you th see a shooting star bu actually just the gover spying on you

star but it’s actually just the government spying on you Without Michael Faraday and his work in electromagnetism, you would be checking Twitter by candlelight

I would make the opposite argument though: It is impossible for us to know enough about anything Ever We don’t know what we don’t know

If you watch as many TED talks as me (you shouldn’t; it’s unhealthy) then you may have come across a great one given by an English physicist named Brian Cox called, “Why we need the explorers ” In this talk, Cox, who works with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, makes basically the same argument I’m making here that exploratory science paves the road for innovation, and investments in curiosity-driven science pay for themselves in the long term He does it much better than me and in a charming English accent; I do it in Helvetica and then The Sun then changes it to some serif font like Times New Roman

(editor’s note: it’s Garamond) Cox mentions the U S Space Program and a study done in 1975 by Chase Econometrics The study showed that fourteen dollars came back into the U S economy for every one dollar that was spent on Apollo 14 of which there were many No, the Apollo program did not create any tangible products that could be sold for a price, but rather it paid for itself by inspiring young scientists and engineers to go out and make discoveries and inventions of their own (Side note: I don’t exactly how they calculated this I’m not an econometrist ) English chemist Humphry Davy once said, “Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer ” Esoteric discoveries can have large implications for the world, and it is important that now, as the world becomes increasingly jaded and disinterested with anything that doesn’t show its value immediately, exploratory science continues At a place like Cornell, where so many brilliant minds can come together, it is paramount to see the importance of furthering human knowledge A school like Cornell can be a petri dish for scientific curiosity (pun intended), and Cornell students can be the ones who go out and conquer those new worlds Just as an esoteric discovery like hydrogen spectroscopy can eventually lead to transistors and basically all modern electronics, some curious Cornell student who knows that he or she doesn’t know enough could make a discovery that eventually solves the world’s very really problems

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James Guo can be reached at jg757@cornell edu

Breaking bone | Prof Marjolein van der Meulen, mechanical and aerospace engineering, researches the microstructural properties of bone including how daily activity affects bones

New Device Mimics Cancer Environment

By GRACE AHN Sun Contributor

In 1761, Giovanni Morgagni of Padua laid the foundation for oncology, the study of cancer, when he performed the first autopsies relating patients’ illnesses to pathologic findings after death Since then, an understanding of not only the body but also the cardiovascular system has become vital in the race to cure cancer

Prof Mingming Wu, biological and environmental engineering, B J Kim, a research associate at the University, and others have created a microfluidic device mimicking cancer cell metastasis, the spread of cancer, throughout the body By reproducing the specific microenvironmental conditions in which tumour cells reproduce and proliferate, the new device will allow sci-

entists to follow the spread of tumour cells while incorporating signaling proteins such as chemokines and growth factors into the cancerous environment “ This device recreates the process of how cancer cells flow from the primary tumor site to the secondary site and eventually will be able to determine how each set of conditions affect cancer cell movement, ” Wu said According to Wu, knowledge of the mechanisms used by cancer cells to enter the lymphatic system and how they manipulate their microenvironment is limited The device’s focus on the movement within this part of the circulatory system, therefore, is critical in understanding the spread of cancer “ Tracking a cancer cell is a dynamic procedure It’s hard to track down cancer cells in the actu-

al body,” Kim said

To examine the motility of cancer cells, a replication of the microenvironment conditions in which they move is important According to Kim, the new microfluidic device generates a threechanneled chemical environment with the outer channels acting as a source channel and a sink channel

The inner channel embeds the cells of interest in a collagen culture

This cell culture recreates the extracellular matrix in the body and allows scientists to observe the effect of different sets of chemicals, such as chemokines or growth factors, diffused from the source channel through the inner channel into the sink channel

As the chemicals diffuse through the cell culture, effects on cell motility are measured using parameters such as speed, velocity and direction persistence of the cells

According to Kim, the device is able to recreate and observe the effects of different microenvironments by var ying specific conditions of chemical type and concentration

“It is interesting to know that certain tumor types end up in specific organs like each tumor cell has a certain destiny,” Kim said “For example, breast cancer usually develops into lung cancer or liver cancer but never brain cancer Cancer cell movement is not random and for some reason has specific destinations ”

Observing cell motility under such specifically manipulated con-

ditions also allows for a better understanding of what physiological conditions permit the mechanisms used by cancer cells to conquer other organs It will also aid the understanding of the overall structure of cancer metastasis

According to Kim, the biggest concern in using the device is maintaining the specific environment of the body An environmental chamber controlling the ion levels, humidity, temperature, and pH levels to mimic those of a human body was produced in conjunction with the device to help maintain the correct microenvironment

Inside the environmental chamber, biologists can impose a precisely controlled microenvironment on the cell and observe an accurate description of how a chemical affects tumor cell movement, according to Kim Scientists can then distinguish between and control for unnecessary complexities within the cell environment

“Eventually greater complexities can be added to the device in order to recreate the ideal environment of interest,” Kim said

The fact that the device is 3-D of its most important features, however

“Because the cell is traditionally observed on the flat culture surface, only forces from the bottom of the two-dimensional environment are felt,” Kim said “The 3-D aspect and physiologically relevant scale of the device imposes all of the forces in the body and will therefore recre-

ate realistic cellular response in protein production and overall behavior ”

According to Kim, the new device has the capacity to mimic a real tumor environment and visualize intravasation, the process by which tumor cells leave the primary tumor and enter the lymphatic vessel The microenvironment is able to contribute to an increasingly comprehensive database of knowledge on tumor cell migration the key to understanding cancer metastasis

“A tremendous interest in the behavior of stem cells has evolved, and this interest in isolating specific cell types from the whole and distinguishing subpopulations will need exact observation of cell variation,” Kim said “This inherent cell variation in the heterogeneity of cancer cells such as motility type and others can only be accurately observed in a three dimensional environment ”

Chih-kuan Tung, a postdoctoral researcher at the University, is currently working on a diffusion-based device to further fine-tune the control of fluid flow in the microenvironment of cancer cells According to Tung, the microfluidic device is still in the improvement phase of production and holds much promise in the future of oncological and overall microenvironment research

Grace Ahn can be reached at gsa33@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CMJ 2013

BY PAUL BLANK Sun Staff Writer

Thursday night, I sat at in my apartment, poring over the notes for an upcoming exam Friday morning, I boarded a 6:40 a m bus to New York City, two 7-Eleven sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches tucked under my arm Friday night, I fingered the lace on my light blue mask aimlessly as I shook the hand of the drummer from Vampire Weekend “Love the new album ” “Thanks, man ” Twelve hours later, I shed a tear as my face melted from a gorgeous, metallic onslaught; the guy next to me appears to be praying Such was a smattering of my weekend covering this year ’ s CMJ music festival

The highlight of ther weekend, though, had to be seeing Arcade Fire Arcade Fire has made the theme of disconnection due to technology quite clear in the marketing rollout for its new album, Reflektor The band’s video for the title track features apparitions with mirrors for faces and oversize heads wandering about, making caricatures of the egos that are so often expanded and fed when we plug in In line, I had to start checking myself in a mixture of anxiety and excitement as my uncertain night waiting outside the warehouse wore on I tried to gawk and gander at the indie rock royalty who walked through the VIP line James Murphy, Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson, The National’s Bryce Dressner and at least thought twice before pulling out my phone and snapping pictures of the band as they strolled into the venue

When The Reflektors arrived in a limo to the warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Friday where they played a secret show, they emerged with cameras, snapping pictures at the fans who had been waiting in line the longest The move seemed to criticize as well, this time poking fun at our need to document every moment of our lives by making us the spectacle The band politely mocked us as they proceeded to set up for the show we had been standing around for hours to see

It takes a lot of moxie for a band to poke fun at its biggest fans like that, and the group was not finished doing so After a concert introduction from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, two performers in giant heads took the “main stage ” and began playing a few drones To our left, we began to hear some

clutter and in an instant the left side of the venue opened up to reveal the actual band ripping into “Reflektor ” I can ’ t imagine how frustrated the people who had been waiting outside since 10 a m must have been to find that they had a worse look at the stage than myself, who hadn’t bought a ticket in presale and was one of the last to enter the venue

Arcade Fire performed 10 songs, all of which were new, save for “ covers ” of classics “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” and “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) This was also the case when I saw the band perform at Madison Square Garden before 2010’s The Suburbs came out The crowd’s reaction could more accurately be described as reverent than excited, as these were some of the first times the songs were being performed for an audience

The Reflektor’s songs were groove-oriented, a trait undoubtedly influenced by James Murphy’s production The sound fidelity was exceptional for a random warehouse so sharp that you could tell from its lyrics that “Joan of Arc” was literally a song about Joan of Arc and that the coos that bookend “Afterlife” are strangely reminiscent of those in Lisa Loeb’s “Sixpence None the Richer ” The show was heavy on style, which was assured by the performance The group was dressed in the same digs as their SNL performance of “Afterlife,” white suits and black make-up smudged across their eyes They were passionate and stayed stationary, save for Regine Chassagne’s ribbon twirling in “Sprawl” and Butler’s trademark stepping onto the monitor to espouse some particularly poignant lyrics

All of these details made for a satisfying if not dazzling performance All the new songs had a generous thump to them, but they were not immediately epic like the highlights of Funeral or Neon Bible, with a few exceptions “Flashbulb Eyes” has a dubby lope to it that answers the question, “How would Arcade Fire sound with kettle drums? (Answer: Pretty freaking fantastic ) “Here Comes the Night Time” began and ended with an island rave-up so euphoric, it could only be accurately described as “ reggaeton-esque ” For me, The Suburbs was a grower, and, although the new songs didn’t bring the house down, mostly due to the audience’s lack of familiarity with them, they could very well serve as effective drama in concert once

Reflektor has had a few months to worm its way into people’s brains (and hips) When Win Butler came out an hour after the group had finished playing and ever yone was still standing there waiting for an encore, I gave considerable thought to his invitation to “dance with us on the floor to this playlist we made ” I ultimately decided to head back to my friend’s apartment “ They probably won ’ t come out anyway, ” I reasoned

Oh yeah, and CMJ happened Running well into its third decade in production, the city-wide festival is a kindred spirit to Austin’s South by Southwest, but obviously spread over a much larger area As such, it’s hard to plan going to more than a few venues a day, and chances are your favorite bands will be playing shows in different boroughs all across the city So, I decided to stick with the venue that had the most consistently interesting acts for my Saturday afternoon, that being Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn My main draw was the last-minute addition of Arkansas traditional doom metal outfit Pallbearer to the billing, a group whose debut, Sorrow and Extinction, was my favorite metal album of last year Deemed by a friend as “the most depressing album I’ve ever heard,” it’s a fantastic metal album for folks who are turned off by screamed vocals and aggressive textures Its sound is more akin to a funeral procession than a book burning

I arrived at Baby’s All Right just as Nothing was finishing its set The aptly named group ’ s unmemorable Deftones-like mixture of metal and post-punk were an appropriate transition between Pallbearer and British indie rockers Yuck, who I had just managed to miss Pallbearer then took the stage and laid into Sorrow and Extinction s closing track “Given to the Grave ” The song ’ s beautiful, crushing solos between guitarists Brett Campbell and Devin Holt created the perfect setting to absorb and reflect on life, the universe and everything (maybe shed a man tear or two) The whole show could have been those four minutes stretched

out to 45 and I would have loved it, but the group slugged through more fantastic Sorrow tracks and a new instrumental Much like Arcade Fire, I did not leave the bar stunned by spectacle, but very, very content So content, in fact, that I accidentally wandered into the venue ’ s in-house tattoo parlor and almost stuck around to get something done before the next act went on When your performance is so entrancing that it makes a scrawny, sober hipster consider tattooing a giant “P” on his chest, you know you ’ re doing something right Next up was Nashville upstart Torres Singer/songwriter Mackenzie Scott took the stage clad in all black for the decidedly metallic occasion The singer-drummer setup has become almost a cliche in recent years and, especially considering that her brand of raw storytelling has clear similarities to Alison Crutchfield’s Alabama outfit Waxahatchee, who released the excellent Cerulean Salt this year, Torres’ music can get buried under an embarrassment of riches Luckily, Torres’ selftitled debut is scathing and confessional, taking Crutchfield’s nostalgia-fueled romanticism and crushing it under a steel-toed boot Her debut did not reach as many ears as its quality deserved, but she’s a talent who will get her break in due time

Torres’ performance reflected this in a way that was you guessed it satisfying The PA’s emphasis on heavy bass to accommodate the aggressive acts that came before worked tremendously in her favor, the spare drums punctuating Scott’s virulent rants like rifle shots Throughout, she was friendly and conversational, mocking the crowd for being too drunk but thanking them after every song

She took time away from the mic to stroll along the stage to play a few solos, at times scrambling her hands across the fretboard like an agitated St Vincent before returning to her vivid tales of lost love The show felt like a fitting end as I shuffled out the venue and thought about where I would be sleeping that night A weekend remembered for the wonderful experiences surrounding the music, not necessarily the music itself From Arcade Fire cracking wise in Brooklyn to Torres just being happy to play for some fans a few yards away from tramp stamps in the making, it was promise on different scales Solid stuff for now, great stuff for the future

Paul Blank is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at pblank@cornellsun com

S w i n g i n g S i n g l e s

EBy Kaitlyn Tiffany By Sam Bromer

As part of her promise to release one new song per week until the Nov 11 release of her fourth LP, ARTPOP, Lady Gaga tweeted the link to her collaboration with R Kelly, “Do What U Want” early Monday morning The song is classic Gaga up front, with the singer exhibiting her muscular vocals up against an equally aggressive beat and informing the world’s fellas, “You can ’ t have my heart and you won ’ t use my mind, but do what you want with my body ”

The cover art is a full-on booty shot, and you ’ re supposed to inform YouTube that you ’ re eighteen before you can look at it This is presumably the site’s warning that “this is something ratchety,” but in truth, Gaga is one of the few female performers who pulls off “ come and get it” with total flare and a sense of empowerment And R Kelly, with his always-perfect vocals, seems totally into it “I could be the drink in your cup, I could be the green in your blunt,” he all-but-croons, going on to explain how he is crazy busy with the high-life but definitely still has time for romance Read: in-the-backof-the-club-sex Obviously The two don’t mesh styles perfectly and it’s noticeable, but given that each is an absolute expert of their genre, it hardly seems to matter

Last week, Gaga tweeted that “Each song on ARTPOP was inspired by different types of adrenalin, so it’s an expression of the various rushes ” I’m not entirely sure what rush is supposed to top this genius pairing

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun com

If high-concept disco and post-punk double albums based loosely on the Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice aren ’ t exactly up your alley, Arcade Fire wants to change your mind And if “Afterlife,” the band’s latest release from forthcoming record Reflektor, is any indication, they will probably be successful

The track is classic Arcade Fire in the sense that it completely subverts what has come before it while remaining immediately recognizable as an “Arcade Fire song ” Spearheaded by a synth loop that will be echoing in the recesses of your mind long after you press pause, “Afterlife” takes morbid themes what happens after we die, how to survive after love is lost and makes you want to dance to them, albeit wistfully (picture the elderly man from Up in Studio 54)

That’s not to say Butler and co trivialize these themes: Not to be overshadowed by James Murphy’s fantastic production, “Afterlife” showcases some of the band’s most powerful songwriting in years Lyrics like those which open the song, “Afterlife, oh my God, what an awful word / After all the breath and the dirt and the fires are burnt,” convey fear, exhaustion and religious ambivalence, while the catchy, simple chorus, “Can we work it out? / We scream and shout, ’til we work it out, ” reveals the heartbreak and yearning at the core of the track

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

By Mike Sosnick

Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com

The Self-Destruction of Indie Music

arly this October, David Byrne wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about how income inequality is killing the New York creative scene When “ most of Manhattan and many parts of Brooklyn are virtual walled communities [and] pleasure domes for the rich middle-class people can barely afford to live here anymore, so forget about emerging artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers, journalists and small business people Bit by bit, the resources that keep the city vibrant are being eliminated ”

He is absolutely right New York City has always been a global city, and its stubbornly local feel fends off the domination of any single influence in its melting pot We have always prided ourselves for leisurely walking from Chinatown to Greenwich Village and noticing little difference in between This feeling is disappearing We are not Chicago, where separation between communities is so clear that a lifelong resident would never set foot in certain places We aren ’ t London either, where ultra-luxe

c o n d o m i n i u m s tower over neighborhoods kept sinisterly empty as reser ve transient playgrounds for the global ultra-wealthy It’s not that the old New York was so great either who doesn’t appreciate the declining crime rates of the Bloomberg years? but income inequality should have no corroboration to culture

indie music Indie kids now are notoriously anxious and obsessed about socioeconomic status to levels not seen since the kids of punk in the late ’70s This obsession is understandable, of course, because both groups champion anti-establishment principles Showing or feeling wealth is a loss of legitimacy, spurring the dramas and backlash that plague artists like Vampire Weekend and Lana Del Rey Punk rock, in its inception, didn’t have to “balance legitimacy with selling-out because that anxiety didn’t exist until the late ’70s “Death or Glory,” a song from The Clash’s classic album London Calling, succinctly criticizes the changes punk rock had gone through Anti-establishment bands became establishment sell-outs, “ every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock n ’ roll grabs the mike to tell us he’ll die before he’s sold ” It was around this time, too, that punk rock

Income inequality manifests in many different forms, of course as gold-colored iPhones, universities systematically lying about need-blind admissions policies and college graduates teaching in low-income schools for two years But income inequality especially matters, among many other art forms, in music and especially within today’s

You’ve Got to Be

began to quickly fragment into warring subgenres new wave, no wave, post-punk, you name it all with their own claim to punk ideology Establishment-anxiety ate into punk, fragmenting it until it became the ver y thing punk was frightened of Establishment-anxiety will also make indie music industry eat itself alive

Unlike punk, however, Indie music in the 2000s possessed these anxieties from the very beginning When the Strokes’ Is This It landed in 2001 and revamped the industry into the one we know today, it encouraged big name labels to sign on indie bands and artists

to revive genres that fell out of favor in the ’90s (disco, techno, synthpop), Brooklyn to become a brand and Pitchfork to (somehow) become an authority But the Strokes are a curious beginning for the millennial indie music The band members all came from very well-off backgrounds, and only came together because Julian Casablancas met them at various points in posh private schools But somehow the band never faced the same “bunch of rich kids” backlash that Vampire Weekend did Why? Is it because Vampire Weekend rhymes “horchata” with “aranciata and the Strokes don t? It makes no sense Establishment-anxiety is a distraction from a more fundamental and structural problem with the indie music industr y: Every label seeks “talent” with potential commercial success in mind, not self-expression Indie labels are especially guilty of this They are especially well-versed in soothing the establishment-anxieties of their audience by promoting bands that “started from the bottom up ” And because they are “indie labels,” they have better credence to market them-

selves as such

Recently, twee-pop band Cults got a lot of flak for signing with Columbia instead of an independent label Explaining why, they said, “We get more money up front I feel like a lot of smaller indie labels are giving bands really bad deals and robbing them All these bands are trading their cool points for cash, and [the labels are] making out like bandits ” And this is exactly what David Byrne is talking about: It’s not that more and more bands are selling out to big corporations; it is that it is becoming almost impossible to start a band Unless you have a lot of your parents ’ money to spend, living in NYC as a creative is becoming impossible Somehow you have to survive while maintaining your creative cred When everybody else moves away and all we have left are the Lena Dunhams, well, then what?

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e va l u a t e h ow we d i d i n re f e re n c e t o t h a t g o a l i t g e t s o u r m i n d s e t i n t h e r i g h t p l a c e ” Un d e rc l a s s m e n p l a ye r s a re w o rk i n g t o g e t h e r t o p rov i d e g i f t s f o r s e n i o r s t h i s we e k e n d , Crowe l l s a i d T h e t e a m w i l l g a t h e r w i t h o u t c o a c h e s t h e d a y b e f o re t h e m a t c h t o h o n o r i t s s e n i o r s w i t h p re s e n t s , s u c h a s s c r a p b o o k s a n d p e r s o n a li ze d s o n g s Ac c o rd i n g t o s e n i o r c a p t a i n R a c h e l Ni c h o l s , t h e t e a m w i l l f o c u s o n d e f e a t i n g Brow n d e s p i t e

“The whole team wants to get a win for our last home game.”

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t h a t a s a m o t i va t o r, b u t I t h i n k t h a t ove r a l l i t w i l l h e l p o u r p l a y ”

Gina Cargas can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun com

Rowers Prepare for Sund ay

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races, ” Schang said “ Wind conditions, several turns and the course of other boats make the race a challenge ever y single time Dealing with those influences plays a big role in having success

The boat came together a week before the race, and we made some good steps for ward in the short time that was given to us ”

The lightweight boat that raced in the men ’ s lightweight eight race also

s Princeton Chase

navigated the Charles River successfully

The Red finished in sixth place, two seconds behind fifth place Har vard and 30 seconds behind first place Princeton

The lightweight boat featured three s e n i o r s E d w a rd O ’ Ne i l l , Ry a n Pederson and Thomas Evangelista, two juniors Chris Rogers and Andrew Ho o k e r a n d f o u r s o p h o m o re s Cameron Schultz, Will Oprea, Reid Williamson and coxswain Callie CarewMiller

This week, both rowing teams will begin training for the Princeton Chase

on Lake Carnegie River Schang believes the team has plenty of potential but needs to work on consistency in order to negate the race environment “ The boat has to work on rowing more consistently in adverse conditions and on internalizing the movements to an extent where we can row well in any environment,” he said “ This means [we have] to be even more precise and to pay attention to detail during practice ”

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun com

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It w a s good to run and get that out in regular season as we move into championship season that begins in November ”

In Indiana, the Red competed at the prenationals meet against an extremely aggressive field

“It certainly went a lot better then the larger meet we went to last year It was an eye opening experience,” Lang said “Five of the nation’s Top10 competed It was good to see how we stacked up against the best of best We ran solid, but there are a few things we are still working on Overall we ran well and had a great experience ”

On Friday, both the men ’ s and women ’ s teams will compete in the Reif Memorial Run at home in Ithaca

“This is always a fun meet It is our last regular season meet of the year This race honors John Reif who ran for Cornell in the 80’s and was tragically killed while training on bike for a triathlon,” said Lang “[The] whole team comes out and cheers for one another We will be holding out our Top-10 guys in [the] five-mile race This provides an opportunity for the rest to grab [the] last two spots for the league championships ”

Syracuse’s Orange and middle distance runners will increase the competition in the 5k race, according to Lang

“Our main competition will be Syracuse, who will also be holding out their top crew, ” he said “This race will help us settle our last couple sports for the conference championship match Middle distance guys who don’t run cross country will also be competition in the 5k race ”

Some of the runners will sit out of the competition to prepare for the championship season ahead, according to Smith

“Not everyone will compete, ” he said “This is an opportunity for some to fine tune [their skills] For others it will be last meet of the season For the top group, this will be a weekend off to recover ”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com

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Runners Race Across the Countr y, Finish Strong in Wisconsin, Indiana

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Wr ter

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By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men ’ s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams opened their 201314 seasons with Top-10 finishes at the 49th Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend

Both teams sent one boat to the regatta in Mass The yearly event, which usually attracts roughly 9,000 athletes and 30,000 fans annually, is the largest two-day regatta in the world and features professional boats, collegiate boats and amateur boats from across the globe

The heavyweight team finished eighth in the championship fours men ’ s race and t h i rd a m o n g t h e c o l l e g i a t e rowing teams entered in the race Washington University finished fourth, 10 seconds

a h e a d o f t h e Re d , a n d Stanford University finished in third, beating the Red by

14 seconds

Senior captain Christopher Schang said he was satisfied with the strong finish but knows the team still has a lot of work ahead of it

“Although we are pleased with being the third collegiate crew, we are convinced that we d

potential and have the ability t o b

future,” he said

The seventh place boat for the Red featured Schang and four sophomores Edward B

, Michael Colella and coxswain Vikram Prasad C o m p

race on a difficult course like the Charles River will give the Re

ward, Schang said “Success at [the] Charles race is always determined by more factors than most other

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s e l e c t e d , ” h e s a i d T h e w o m e n ’ s s u c c e s s b o d e s we l l f o r t h e t

a s s i s t a n t c o a c h Ze b L a n g s a i d “ Ja m e s Gow a n s l e a d a l l t h e C o r n e l l g u y s w i t h a t i m e u n d e r 2 5

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

T h e w o m e n ’ s s o c c e r t e a m extended its conference losing streak to three games this weekend, falling to Yale, 1-0, Saturday night The Bulldogs (7-5, 2-2 Ivy) barely bested Cornell (7-5-1, 1-3 Ivy), scoring a single goal after a scramble in the box in the 49th minute

After finishing the pre-season with a promising 5-2-1 record, the Red has faltered in Ivy League matches, winning just one of its four conference games this season Cornell beat Columbia in its season opener before falling to Penn, 1-0, and Har vard, 7-2

According to freshman goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney, Yale’s narrow margin over Cornell shows the team has improved since the Har vard game

“I thought that we rebounded well coming off the loss against Har vard,” Tierney said “It was ver y close and could have gone either way I was thankful for a job well done by the defense ”

T h e d i s a p p o i n t i n g l o s s t o Har vard prompted the Red to focus on a number of prominent shortcomings leading up to the Yale game, according to freshman for ward Ellie Crowell

“ We did much better with our possession going for ward up the field,” she said “ We were more aware of our runs off the ball in the midfield and in the for ward area Instead of making these vertical runs that can get easily intercepted, we ’ re getting better at

making runs at angles and we ’ re more conscious of our spacing ”

Yale’s goal came after Tierney blocked a difficult shot from the Bu l l d o g s ’ f re s h m a n f o r w a rd Geneva Decker, allowing senior midfielder Juliann Jeffrey to capitalize on a loose ball around the six-yard line

According to Crowell, the turf field was a major challenge for the Red, despite the team having trained on turf in preparation for the match

v e l o f p l a y, Tierney said “ We were good in the air and i n c l e a r

defense, being first to the ball and

stressed in practice last week, as we knew that Yale was ver y good on corner kicks and set plays ” Crowell felt that the Red did

“ The turf gave them a bit of an advantage,” she said “But we a l s o d i d n ’ t c a p i t a l i z e o n o u r opportunities to score We did pretty well on the defensive side, with basically only one error that turned into that goal ” Though the result was disappointing, the Red was largely sati