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Incumbent Rep.Tom Reed tops Robertson’75 to keep House seat By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor
Incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) bested Democratic challenger Martha Robertson ’75 in the race for a seat in New York’s 23rd Congressional district Tuesday night. Reed claimed approximately 62.4 percent of the total votes counted at 1 a.m. Wednesday, defeating Robertson in a margin significantly larger than the 52-48 margin he eked against Ithacan Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 in 2012. In his victory speech at the Radisson Hotel Corning, Reed said he seeks to “solve” See REED page 5
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Going red | Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), current minority leader of the Senate, and his wife, Elaine Chao, celebrate his re-election to Senate. Tuesday’s results mark the first time in eight years Republicans took control of the Senate.
After Eight Years,GOP Regains Control of Senate WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans claimed the Senate majority Tuesday for the first time in eight years, riding President Barack Obama’s unpopularity to victories in every part of the country. Republican challengers ousted Democratic senators in Arkansas, Colorado and North Carolina, and took seats from retiring Democrats in four other states. Equally important, Republicans held off spirited challengers in Kentucky, Georgia and Kansas, guaranteeing they will control both chambers of Congress for Obama’s final two years in office. In every contested race, Republicans tied their oppo-
nents to the president, whose fortunes have sagged since his re-election two years ago. Democrats awkwardly tried to distance themselves from Obama without denouncing him. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who won a sixth term Tuesday, was almost assured of being elected by his colleagues as majority leader, a lifelong dream. His party can send piles of legislation to Obama’s desk — for his signature or veto — on topics such as health care, environmental regulations and dozens of other issues. McConnell immediately warned Obama of coming confrontations. “For too long, this administration has tried
to tell the American people what’s good for them and then blame somebody else when their policies didn’t work out,” he told cheering fans. The final Senate partisan breakdown won’t be known until Dec. 6, when Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana will face Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy in a runoff. But the GOP’s majority was assured, regardless who wins there. A GOP-run Senate will be an obvious aggravation to Obama and congressional Democrats, but it’s unclear how See SENATE page 5
WCMC Faculty Member Target Olympic Swimmer to Speak InYale Sexual Harassment Scandal At Straight About Athletic Career By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer
A sexual harassment case at the Yale School of Medicine — where the victim of the harassment is a current assistant professor at Cornell — is surfacing after five years with new criticisms of the institution’s response to harassment, according to The New York Times. Yale’s former head of cardiology, Dr. Michael Simmons, allegedly “professed his love” and attempted to intervene in the personal relationship of Dr. Annarita Di Lorenzo, who relocated to Weill Cornell Medical College in 2011, where she currently serves as an assistant professor pathology and laboratory medicine, according to The Times. Simons has since “decided not to return” to his position after the incident, a Yale University spokesperson told The Times.
In February 2010, Simons — who is married — gave Di Lorenzo a handwritten love letter, written in Italian, according to The Times. Di Lorenzo rejected his advances, saying she found the letter “insulting” to his wife, her and her then-boyfriend. When Di Lorenzo moved to Cornell in 2011, her then-boyfriend and now-husband Dr. Frank Giordano stayed at Yale. According to the Times, Giordano claims that Dr. Simons stymied his career advancement following the incident. After Di Lorenzo and Giordano filed a formal complaint against Simons in 2013, Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct concluded that the cardiology chief had sexually harassed Di Lorenzo and “publicly derided” Dr. Giordano, though they See SCANDAL page 4
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Minton ’15, chair of the committee. Minton said she hopes Spitz — the first athlete sponOlympic swimmer and sored by Hillel’s speaker nine-time gold medal series — will attract a winner Mark Spitz will “different” crowd than come to Cornell Nov. 17 prior speakers. to speak about his experi“He is our first athence on being the most lete,” Minton said. “We decorated athlete in believe that Spitz will Olympics history for over attract a different kind of 30 years. crowd and will generate a Spitz will be coming SPITZ lot of buzz in several comto the University as the second major speaker for the munities.” Hillel Major Speaker Series See OLYMPIC page 4 Committee, according to Rachel By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA
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says she mistakenly handed out the ring Friday during a mix-up. Yazzie says she placed her wedding ring in a candy jar while helping her daughters carve pumpkins, and when the night became hectic she absentmindedly dumped the contents of the jar into the candy bag. She says there were also plastic rings inside the candy bag. Yazzie says she is hoping someone has the ring because it isn’t worth much money but has more value to her.
After Losing 380 Pounds, Michigan Couple Marries WYANDOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area couple who met in a support group for weight loss surgery patients exchanged wedding vows after losing a collective 380 pounds. Crysta Danaher, 34, of Windsor, Ontario, and Bill Anderson, 44, of Allen Park, were married Saturday at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, where they had bariatric surgery and later met, the Detroit Free Press reported. Anderson has gone from 459 pounds to about 250 pounds since his May 2009 operation. Danaher has lost about 180 pounds since her 2009 procedure.
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Cornell Alumni Magazine editor has roots in industry PHOTOS BY MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR
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An Oxford graduate, former executive editor at both Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire and now the head of Cornell Alumni Magazine, Prof. Jenny Barnett, communication, said her accomplished career in the media industry began with “no connections.” While studying at Oxford University, Barnett said she first realized that she wanted to be in “some kind of communication field.” “I liked communicating and the idea of communication,” she said. “I decided toward the end of my time at Oxford that I wanted to be in the media — specifically magazines.” At first, Barnett said she was working her way “into the [media] industry from the outside” due to the nature of the field at the time. “It was different back then,” she said. “Internships didn’t quite exist [and there were] not a lot of journalism courses. With no connections, I was writing, contacting editors and knocking on doors — I worked for a while for nothing.” However, Barnett was soon able to secure her first “real job” as assistant editor of the one and only edition of Grandparent Magazine. Despite the shortlived fate of the magazine, Barnett said the experience she gained from this particular position laid the groundwork for her future roles at other publications. “I am very, very proud [of my first paid job],” she said. “I did most of everything, while the editor in chief was doing almost everything [as] an editor in chief.” After leaving Grandparent, Barnett said she went on to work at a magazine called Over21, where she
was approached to work as one of the founding editors of U.K. Marie Claire. “I happened to be at the right place at the right time,” she said. Though Barnett said the founding team of U.K.
Marie Claire was “young” and “fairly inexperienced,” she and her team were able to deliver “hard-hitting” content, thus permanently changing the course of women’s magazines. “Women’s magazines were not doing anything hard-hitting prior to [that],” she said. “And we did [exactly that]. We had this fashion-and-foreign-affairs thing for our magazine.” Determined to create a magazine that carried both serious meaning and light-hearted humor for its target audience, Barnett said she persisted in the face of a great amount of skepticism. “A lot of people said that women weren’t interested in that hard-hitting stuff,” she said. “But we said
nope, we’re gonna stick with it. [And] it grew very organically and became hugely successful. We were able to say that women were interested in both [the] fun and serious stuff.” At Marie Claire, Barnett began writing about women and AIDS, a topic which she said was not only unpopular, but also unprecedented. “I was interested in communicating to people about what can seem to be complex health issues and help them understand them in an easy way,” she said. “I’m most proud of a lot of the big health campaigns.” In addition to her work with publications, Barnett has worked to raise awareness for breast cancer, launched fundraising campaigns for issues pertaining to both men and women and built a successful political platform with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “[Albright and I] were working on issues such as trafficking of women and gender apartheid in Afghanistan,” she said. When asked if she enjoys making a difference in the world, Barnett said that she did not want to “be too arrogant about it.” “I can’t claim that I have changed peoples’ lives, but I hope that I was able to maybe introduce people to something that they haven’t thought about before,” she said. But after 20 years of working in media and magazines, Barnett said she decided to “take a leap of faith” and move to Ithaca in order to be closer to her family. “I loved my job, but I wanted to put my kids to bed more often than someone else [did],” she said. Evelyn Nam can be reached at yn95@cornell.edu.
New Student Reading Project Author Discusses Inspirations By MADELINE COHEN Sun Staff Writer
Amara Lakhous, the author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio — the book assigned as part of the 2014 New Student Reading Project — spoke Tuesday about the roles of language, imagination and immigration in his life as inspiration for his writing. His novel — a murder mystery narrated by immigrants and native Italians — focuses on elevators and issues of public space, as all of the characters reside in the
same apartment building. Lakhous said he included the elevator as a metaphor for the cultural interactions that occur during immigration. “The elevator is a microcosm for cultural interactions, but also as the cause of distress,” Lakhous said. “Public space is important to democracy. We can say we are for freedom, but if people can only live their freedom just at home, that is not true freedom.” According to Lakhous, his decision to make immigration a focus of the novel came from his personal experience grow-
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Mother tongue | Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, speaks about how his experiences shaped his writing in Goldwin Smith Hall Tuesday.
ing up in Algeria and moving to Italy in 1995, when he was 15 years old. Lakhous added that he believes New York City — where he moved this summer — is a prime example of a multicultural city. “I think that the United States is a big combination of cultures,” Lakhous said. “In New York, no one is an immigrant, we are all immigrants, we are all New Yorkers, nobody asks me where I’m from.” Lakhous said he believes that his book — which was published in English in 2008 — is successful due to its ability to give “a voice to many characters.” Lakhous added that he tried to combine the “best parts” of Italian and Algerian culture in his novel, which was published in Arabic in 2003 and translated into Italian in 2006. “We have two eyes, and the reality of life and immigration is really complex,” Lakhous said. “In this book, there are different perspectives on this.” With three mother tongues, Lakhous also referred to himself as a “language polygamist,” who is fluent in Arabic, Italian and Berber, a language spoken Northern Africa. The two versions of novel are not direct translations and each contain different “truths,” according to Lakhous. “The way to be extremists to think that there is just one truth,” he said. “When you have doubts it means you are open.
When I rewrote Clash of Civilizations in Italian, I never used a dictionary.” Lakhous also stressed that devotion is the key to learning a new language. “[Language] loves you just because you are her son,” he said. “To learn a language you don’t need a visa, passports and citizenship — it just takes devotion.” Although a translator was enlisted to finish the English version of the novel, Lakhous said he hopes that he will someday be able to write in the language. “You know what my dream is? To add English as a third language to write in,” he said. “This is my version of [an] American dream.” Laura Brown, senior vice provost for undergraduate education and the leader for the New Student Book Project, said Lakhous’s book was chosen because it focused on contemporary issues such as racism and ethnocentrism. “Many students noted the relevance to their own experience as first-year Cornell students, joining a diverse community,” Brown said. “They discussed their own feelings about stereotyping, about asserting their own identity and about feeling open to learn about others’ identities and backgrounds.” The lecture was sponsored by the Cornell Institute for European Studies’ Mediterranean Studies Initiative. Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.
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Republicans Claim Edge in House Target of Harassment WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans held a Graham, daughter of a former senator and govercommanding edge in the House on Tuesday, on nor, Bob Graham, knocked out two-term Rep. track to pad their majority at near historic levels Steve Southerland in a Florida Panhandle district. after knocking out the last white Southern Southerland’s all-male fundraiser and quip about Democrats and claiming two seats in President Graham attending lingerie parties doomed his reelection bid. Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. Obama’s low approval ratings, around 40 perThe GOP won more than 190 seats as polls closed in the East and Midwest and was certain to cent, were a drag on Democrats, as was the elecsurpass 218 if incumbents prevailed as expected in torate’s unease with the Islamic State group threat, the West. Democrats had a few bright spots, but Ebola outbreak and job losses. Promising economic their hopes of keeping losses to a minimum quickly signs of a drop in the unemployment rate and cheaper gasoline failed to help evaporated. the president’s party, which Republicans tightened their typically grip on the South, a steady “You’re in pretty thin elections.loses seats in midterm march since Lyndon B. oxygen when you’re The GOP, which currently Johnson signed the 1964 Civil controls 234 seats, was widely Rights Act. Republican Evan up there as a expected to exceed its tea Jenkins, a Democrat-turnedparty-boosted total of 242 Republican state senator, Republican.” seats in 2010. Republicans knocked out 19-term Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) aimed to match the 246 of Nick Rahall of West Virginia. 1947-1949 when another Republican businessman Democrat, Harry S. Truman, Rick Allen prevailed over another Southern Democrat, five-term Rep. John occupied the White House. Democrats still hold the modern-day edge for most seats — 292 — in Barrow of Georgia. Republicans capitalized on growing dissatisfac- 1979. “If we do, we’re up in territory we’ve not seen,” tion with President Barack Obama as voters took out their frustration on the party controlling the said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the White House. The pervasive malaise nationwide National Republican Congressional Committee. “You’re in pretty thin oxygen when you’re up there also dragged down Democrats. Aggressive in the midterms, Republicans won as a Republican.” Republicans purposely lowered expectations at a the seat of a retiring moderate Democrat Mike McIntyre in North Carolina, knocked out gain of five to eight seats, but privately some said Democrat Joe Garcia in Florida and eased out anything less than a net of a dozen seats would be a freshmen Democrats Bill Enyart and Brad disappointment. A solid GOP majority means Speaker John Schneider in southern Illinois. GOP challengers had the edge in Democratic seats in Maine, New Boehner (R-Ohio) can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislaHampshire, New York and Texas. Some two dozen Democratic incumbents were tion passed while Republicans would hold more in jeopardy but just a handful of Republicans faced committee seats to guide the party agenda. competitive races as the 2010 GOP romp gave the Republicans are counting on partnering with a party the upper hand in redrawing congressional GOP-led Senate. Boehner raised $102 million to ensure that districts favorable to Republicans. In one bright spot for the Democrats, Gwen Republicans would tighten their grip on the House.
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could not definitively label Simons’s behavior as “retaliatory,” noting a complex confluence of factors in his professional decisions, according to the Times. The committee recommended that Simons be removed from his position indefinitely and be subject to a five-year ban from all administrative positions. Yale Provost Instead, Benjamin Polak punished him with an 18-month suspension from his role as section chief of cardiology, allowing him to remain as the director of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center and as a co-director of the Yale University College London Collaborative. The reasons for his decision have not been made public, according to The Yale Daily News. However, there are also voices in support of Simons and in defense of the university, some of whom say that the accusations have been exaggerated, according to the Times.
According to The Yale Daily News, there are those who attest to the “outstanding working environment” Simons created at the medical school, saying that he “has been very supportive of women scientists there.” In a written statement to the Times, Simons conveyed his regret and apologized for what he described as an “error in judgement.” However, he asserted that “he had never abused his position at Yale to punish or retaliate against any faculty member.” Simons also maintains that the Times reporter was “‘manipulated by a small and vocal group of people with an axe to grind,’” the Yale Alumni Magazine reported. On Monday, the medical school convened a new Task Force on Gender Equity, with both Salovey and Polak in attendance, according to the Yale Alumni Magazine. Cornell University declined to comment on the matter Tuesday. Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.
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Minton added that Hillel wanted to bring Spitz to the University because he is a notable figure for both Jewish and non-Jewish Cornellians. “We wanted to bring Mark Spitz because he is an icon, for Jews and non-Jews alike,” she said. “His notoriety expands well beyond the Jewish community.” Spitz won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics in
Munich and has also set 33 world records in his lifetime, according to Minton. “We are so excited to hear him speak about his outstanding career and what is what like to be a Jew in the 1972 Munich Olympics,” she said. Spitz will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.
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Cuomo Elected For Second NYS Governor Term ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a second term on Tuesday by easily dispatching a challenge from Republican Rob Astorino, becoming the first Democratic governor since his father, Mario Cuomo, to win re-election in the nation’s third-largest state. Cuomo is believed to harbor national ambitions and has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, though he has said he intends to serve a full four-year term. Cuomo consistently led the lesser-known Astorino in the polls and enjoyed a nearly 10-to-1 ratio fundraising advantage over the Westchester County executive in the campaign’s final weeks. The only question in many political observers’ minds was how big Cuomo’s margin of victory would be. Astorino criticized Cuomo as an Albany insider who hadn’t done enough for the economy, while Cuomo campaigned on his record over the past four years, including tax cuts, tighter gun control, legalization of gay marriage, reductions in government gridlock and a renewed focus on the upstate economy. The 56-year-old Cuomo will begin his second term with a long list of challenges, including the implementativon of a new medical marijuana law, a decision on whether to allow fracking for natural gas and the selec-
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Celebrations | Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and Lt. Gov. Elect Kathy Hochul celebrate their victory after defeating Rob Astorino, the Republican challenger for governor, at the Sheraton New York Hotel.
tion of up to four new casino operators upstate. Liberals are expected to press Cuomo to make good on promises to push for a higher minimum wage, abortion rights protections and broad public campaign financing.
Cuomo’s running mate, former U.S. Rep. Kathy Hochul, of Buffalo, was elected lieutenant governor over Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss and will replace Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, who is retiring.
Wallace Comes Out GOP Retakes Senate From Dems On Top in Election SENATE
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By ANNIE BUI
Sun previously reported. Peacock ran on the Working Families party ticket following the primary. Local attorney Rick Wallace has Wallace — who was born and seized the race for Ithaca City Court raised in Ithaca — appealed to a Judge, capturing approximately 63 sense of local pride at a September percent of ballots cast, according to public forum, when he spoke of his unofficial results from time at Boynton Middle the Tompkins County School, Ithaca High Board of Elections availSchool and his 24-year able Tuesday evening. law career in the City of He will serve a 10-year Ithaca, The Sun previterm as City Judge. ously reported. His opponent — Peacock — who was Seth Peacock J.D. ’01 appointed by Mayor — garnered around 36 Svante Myrick ’09 to WALLACE percent of the vote. become interim city With 4,371 ballots cast court judge after the June in total, Wallace received 2,772 resignation of Judge Judith Rossiter votes and Peacock 1,592 votes, with — will fill the rest of his term until all 14 districts reporting. Dec. 31. Wallace won the Democratic primary for city court judge in September, when he faced Peacock Annie Bui can be reached at and Kristine Shaw J.D. ’01, The abui@cornellsun.com. Sun News Editor
much it will change the government. Obama can veto bills, and Senate Democrats can use the filibuster to thwart scores of GOP initiatives, just as Republicans did to Democrats for years. Republicans claimed a huge victory in Colorado, where GOP Rep. Cory Gardner ousted first-term Democrat Mark Udall. The win was notable because Obama had carried Colorado twice, unlike the other states where Republicans made their biggest gains. Udall portrayed Gardner as a threat to women’s reproductive rights. But Gardner responded with the tactic used by every Republican in a competitive race: relentlessly linking his opponent to the president. In North Carolina, state House speaker Thom Tillis
ousted first-term Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. She had accused him of leading a conservative revolution that went too far in the centrist state. Obama carried North Carolina in 2008, and lost it in 2012. In Arkansas, freshman Rep. Tom Cotton knocked off twoterm Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in a state that has veered sharply toward the GOP since native son Bill Clinton left office. Cotton, an Iraq combat veteran and Harvard Law School graduate, linked Pryor with Obama in every campaign appearance. Pryor, the last Democrat in Arkansas’ congressional delegation, is the son of a popular former governor and senator. But Arkansas and West Virginia have been trending sharply Republican. Obama lost Arkansas by 24 percentage points in 2012. As expected, GOP Rep.
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia won the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller. Former Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota won retiring Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson’s seat. And GOP Rep. Steve Daines will succeed departing Sen. John Walsh in Montana. A rare bright spot for Democrats was Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s victory in New Hampshire over Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts. In Georgia, where GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss is retiring, Republican corporate executive David Perdue held off Democrat Michelle Nunn. Kansas’ three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts avoided an embarrassing loss to independent candidate Greg Orman. Orman had persuaded the Democrat to leave the race and help him consolidate antiRoberts sentiment.
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national issues in Washington. “We’ve got problems to face in America,” he said. “We’re going to solve those problems … so that people can call this home for generations to come.” In her concession speech Tuesday night, Robertson said she commends Reed on winning the race. “In the spirit of bipartisanship and civility, I hope I am the first person to congratulate him on his victory tonight,” she said in a speech at The Hotel Ithaca. Despite her loss, Robertson encouraged her supporters to continue to have their “voices
heard.” “I will be ready to step up to the plate again,” she said. “We must continue to fight for the teachers and their students, for steelworkers and electrical workers, for older Americans and for our youngest citizens, and for moms and dads just trying to pay the bills.” Edward Cox, chair of the New York Republican Party, commended Reed on his reelection to Congress. “Tom overcame an avalanche of outside Democratic spending to emerge victorious,” Cox said in a press release. “He will continue to provide the kind of leadership we need when it comes to alternative energy,
manufacturing, seniors and health care.” Reed’s platform focuses heavily on protecting small
“We’ve got problems to face in America. We’re going to solve those problems so that people can call this home for generations to come.” Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) businesses — who he refers to as job creators — and reducing unnecessary federal spending and restrictions.
“The federal government should work to make our economy stronger, not cripple it with out-of-control spending, excessive federal regulations, or increased taxes,” Reed states on his website. A key component of Robertson’s campaign was calling Reed a “radical” who has hypocritical stances women’s rights, The Sun previously reported. Reed has previously supported the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which was passed last June in the House of Representatives and seeks to place ban on all abortions 20 weeks after fertilization. In Congress, Reed serves as a
member of the Ways and Means committee, which oversees national taxation and various revenue-generating programs, including Social Security, unemployment benefits and Medicare. Reed is the co-chair of the House Manufacturing Caucus and the Congressional Natural Gas caucus, according to his website. He is also the vice chair of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus. Reed received his undergraduate degree at Alfred University in 1993 and a law degree at Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1996. Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.
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Improving Relations With Local Law Enforcement THIS PAST THURSDAY, MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY community and the Cornell and Ithaca Police Departments convened to discuss relations between students of color and law enforcement officials. This police-student conversation comes on the heels of the renewal of national dialogue on race relations, sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The panel discussion — which was sponsored by the student group Black Students United — covered topics such as diversity training and inappropriate interactions between police and students of color. We at The Sun applaud all parties who participated in this exchange and call for the continuation of dialogue on race relations within the University community. This past August, an officer from the Ithaca Police Department pulled his weapon on two unarmed black teenagers, sparking local outrage and protest. This incident and its fallout were symptomatic of a larger national trend: the breakdown of minority trust in law enforcement. Indeed, for many locals and students who identify as people of color, militarized and racially biased policing tactics are not headlines, but everyday realities. Students at the panel cited reasons as to why they have been hesitant regarding their relationships with authorities, the police especially. One student specifically reminded the group of an incident where he states that police pepper sprayed students in a hallway at the Ujamaa Residential College last semester, others noted that noise disturbances issued for parties where there is a majority of students of color are also a problem. We hope that discussions between students and local authorities can continue so that we can work together so that all students feel safe and equal on our campus at all times. We at The Sun urge local and University law enforcement officials to heed and thoroughly address the concerns conveyed at Thursday’s panel, and to facilitate the opening of further avenues for dialogue on race relations. Productive discourse, if followed by meaningful action, has the potential to guarantee that all students — regardless of color — are properly respected by those who are assigned the duty of guaranteeing their safety. “We can never do enough, so we’ll continue to do more,” Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said during the panel. We challenge Chief Zoner, and the rest of the local law enforcement officials, to continue to vigilantly work to open lines of communication with students, faculty and the entire community through similar methods. We also encourage those who have feel they have been mistreated to speak out so that we can all work together to improve and make campus and the surrounding Ithaca community a safer place.
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lthough she may have broken up with a feminist awakening because they underSpotify earlier this week, worldwide stand what the word means.” sensation (and my spirit animal) Her friendship with HBO’s Girls star and Taylor Swift is past her days of publicizing creator Lena Dunham — which formed via dramatic break-ups. In the past several years, Twitter direct message — has also helped her and especially with the release of her new develop her attitude about women. album 1989, Taylor has grown from a young “Becoming friends with Lena — without her girl who didn’t understand feminism or what preaching to me, but just seeing why she it means to put down other women, to a believes what she believes, why she says what woman who not only respects women, but she says, why she stands for what she stands empowers them. for — has made me realize that I’ve been takSince 1989 landed in stores and online on ing a feminist stance without actually saying Oct. 27, it has sold over 1.2 million copies so,” she said. and racked up even more millions of plays As she has grown up, Taylor has grown on everyone’s iTunes accounts. The reviews and developed her views, also evidenced by are mixed as to whether it is better or worse many of her lyrics in 1989. In “Style,” a song than her previous albums — this album is about a couple that never goes out of “style” more pop than country and certainly less — and also probably about former flame dramatic than her other “traditional” break- Harry Styles — Taylor sings, “I got that good up ballads — but most critics are agreed on girl faith and a tight little skirt.” No longer one thing: 1989 is Taylor’s most unique shaming women for wearing tight skirts like album thus far. The 13-track self-proclaimed in “You Belong With Me,” now she is proud pop album showcases Taylor’s maturity and to wear a tight little skirt, and suggests that development. What stands out to me is how you can have “good girl faith” and wear much this development reflects that people whatever kinds of clothes you want. are actually capable of change (Didn’t I In “Picture to Burn,” one of her first hit already write a column about this? Sort of...). singles from her first album in 2006, Taylor Before this growth, however, Taylor has sings, “Go and tell your friends that I’m been criticized for some of her words in the obsessive and crazy, that’s fine, I’ll tell mine past, be they song lyrics or interviews. A gen- you’re gay.” These lyrics, later changed in the eral theme in many of her older songs was music video version of the song, upset a putting down other great deal of people women, emphasized in since they suggest songs like, “You Belong that homosexuality is With Me,” “Better While certainly not every an inherently bad Than Revenge” and quality that one can person who has “Picture to Burn.” wield as an insult or prejudiced or narrow When asked if she was a slur. In “Welcome to feminist in 2012, in an New York,” from interview with the views will outgrow them 1989, she sings, “You Daily Beast, she or change their attitudes, can want who you answered, “I don’t really want, boys and boys, think about things as and girls and girls,” many people do. guys versus girls.” (In demonstrating her case you didn’t know, acceptance of queerfeminism is not about guys versus girls, ness as positive and valid. either — it’s about equality.) We cannot always hold people accountIn “You Belong With Me,” featured on able for things they have said in the past. Taylor’s second album Fearless in 2008, While certainly not every person who has Taylor sings about a boy that is, unfortunate- prejudiced or narrow views will outgrow ly, dating another girl. Taylor implies that them or change their attitudes, many people this girl is mean and awful, and “wears short do. There are things I have said in the past skirts,” implying that dressing a certain way that I no longer agree with or feel terrible impacts her value. This song is just one about having said. I cannot take them back, example of Taylor’s history of slut-shaming, just as Taylor Swift cannot “take back” her the concept that women should be made to misogynistic lyrics or anti-feminist interfeel guilty for their own sexual choices or views. All we can do is move forward with behaviors. In “Better Than Revenge,” from our newfound attitudes and try to express Speak Now in 2010, Taylor sings about a girl them to others. who stole her boyfriend and is “better known Further, it is possible for us to forgive for the things that she does on the mattress.” people for things they have said. I never These instances of slut-shaming con- would have called 2008 Taylor Swift my tribute to her former persona as a whole- “spirit animal,” but I truly admire her some, innocent girl — as well as put down changed persona and image, and I appreciand guilt other girls. Further, the “other ate how much she has developed. It is brave girls” in her songs and music videos were to say that you disagree with your past self, portrayed as being more sexually promiscu- and I commend Taylor for embracing this ous as Taylor, the perfect one, implying that change. their sexuality defines their worth. We are not defined by the things we may I have no words to defend Taylor Swift. have said before. As long as we move forward Her words are undoubtedly slut-shaming, with our new attitudes, or forgive others for offensive and insensitive to other women. what they’ve done and even be daring However, something that people tend to enough to embrace our own changes, we can forget — including myself — is that past all make ourselves better — and maybe even actions do not define a person. It is possible become as cool as T-Swift. As she says in for people to learn, grow and even change “Blank Space” from 1989, “Darling, I’m a their views or attitudes. nightmare dressed like a daydream.” Though Taylor has certainly matured from her we all — including Taylor — may have been pure, virtuous days. In an interview with The nightmares in the past, embracing our Guardian, she said, “As a teenager, I didn’t change and accepting our new mindsets can understand that saying you’re a feminist is transform us into daydreams. just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and opportunities. Samantha Weisman is a senior in the College of What it seemed to me, the way it was Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached phrased in culture, society, was that you hate at sweisman@cornellsun.com. A Weisman Once men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had Said appears alternate Wednesdays this semester. CORRECTION A Nov. 4 news story, “Ahead of Election, C.U. Silent,” incorrectly spelled Governor Dan Malloy’s (D-Conn.) name.
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You’re Not Alone Comment of the day Teresa Danso-Danquah | Guest Room
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ornell has made great strides in prioritizing mental health. One icon of that achievement is the new Gannett expansion slated for 2017, which will more than double the existing size of Gannett and further increase health access for all students. I additionally laud Cornell’s action of signing on to the Jed and Clinton Foundation Health Matters Campus program, a four-year commitment for evaluating, assessing and enhancing mental health resources on college campuses. Aside from these university endeavors, my day-to-day interactions with Gannett and CAPS professionals reassure my belief in the University’s work to meet students’ needs. In light of this, I want to challenge Cornell’s current student body, staff, faculty and even the alumni in their respective communities: Let the institutional-level changes motivate us to create a truly inclusive social environment that evokes the same importance to mental health. Let mental health be more than a building, but a fundamental priority among all of us. As an ally of the disability community, I’ve spent my time at Cornell advocating alongside the voices of students of all abilities, each fulfilling the Cornell dream of “any person, any study” in his or her own way. But I am also aware of the stigma that individuals with invisible disabilities face. Many of us endure our path in silence, too afraid to speak and hear the presumed shame from others. So I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not I wanted to share my story. The journey I’ve been on may or may not be similar to that of so many others. “You’re not alone.” It’s the phrase often repeated today in regards to people dealing with mental health illnesses and issues. Well intended, the phrase is supposed to convey empathy and understanding, yet over the past year when I’ve heard those words, I felt the opposite. This summer, I decided to return home to focus on my health and receive stronger outpatient treatment while considering a health leave of absence this fall semester. While intellectually knowing this was a beneficial decision, there was still an overwhelming part of me that felt shame for seeking help. On the day I was leaving campus, I mentioned to a friend briefly that I was returning home for “health reasons,” and she thoughtfully suggested I pass through Willard Straight to view the Faces of Mental Health Exhibit hosted by Cornell Minds Matter. The mission of the exhibit was to speak out and challenge the stigma associated with mental health and encourage others in the community to feel empowered to do the same. Around the walls of the room were two portraits each of about 20 students — one photo represented the person during his or her struggle and the other represented how the students defined themselves. As I spent time in that room, viewing each portrait and reading each personal story written below, I was amazed at how their words echoed feelings and statements I had made before. Some described not reaching out to health professionals because of the stigmatization of treatment. Others expressed the fear of not fitting society’s stereotype of a person with a mental illness. Further still, some conveyed the ease and yet pain of faking it through each day with a smile planted on his or her face that belies the inner struggle gnawing away underneath. As I went through the exhibit, my eyes started to tear up as each of these photos and words resonated with me. In the midst of that room, surrounded by my fellow Cornellians, I realized that not only was putting my health first a positive decision, but also that I am truly not alone on this campus. Now back on campus this semester, it has been a hard road of starting to open up to people, but I have at least one person in all facets of my life that I can truly trust as a confidant and friend. Our relationships are not always perfect, but, when I feel comfortable, I know I can reach out to them. And this can be on every level. I started with my health advisor, and then it led to my academic advisor, and soon that lead to my work supervisor. Eventually, I realized how beneficial it was to have a point person in each area of my life, so I began to reach out in other areas — a person to help me with the job process, a friend for social support, a family member confidante and a person in one of the clubs in which I am involved. Creating this support network is effective not only for health reasons, but for the complexities of our lives — it’s simply a strategic way to live. There are so many others out there facing challenges in a multitude of ways and I want to encourage everyone to talk. To tell a friend or professional. Or be the one to listen, to take someone seriously and to really ask how he or she is feeling. While Cornell and Gannett have led the way in providing services across campus, I urge you to learn and practice how to be a caring and compassionate friend to those around you. Be the one who lets his or her friends know that you are willing to listen or point them toward further resources. The people you really care about, are you really investing in them? With this ideal in mind, several student organizations have collaborated to host the Second CUnique Neurodiversity Conference on Saturday, November 8. This is a moment to listen, to understand, to shed light on some of the shared yet unique experiences and really create the caring community that Cornell strives for. I encourage you to attend and learn how you can be a part of that. Despite my depression and anxiety and the many lows, setbacks and relapses I may have, each day that I take another breath or another step, I am winning because I am alive. I choose to keeping on living. Speaking out isn’t easy, but I think back to the other individuals who have and continue to speak out and remember that I am not alone. We should strive to let our close friends and circles feel that same way too. So let’s not work in silence, let’s make a resounding effort to cheer each other on. We each have our own struggles, some more visible than others, but we should strive to make everyone feel supported in this Cornell community, and that means starting with the individuals around you. Be that one. Teresa Danso-Danquah is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at tod8@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
“Despite concerns from economists about job loss, wage increases in cities and states across the U.S. over the past several decades have had no negative impact on employment. ... Why is this? It’s really quite simple. The minimum wage in far too many instances is not true fair market wage, but one that workers are forced into accepting, despite years of increased productivity (yet wages are stagnant).” CU1 Re: “FORKEN | On Christie’s Incompetence,” Opinion published October 31, 2014
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n his song “Eyes Closed,” maybe you have heard somethe voice of our generation, thing along the lines of Kanye West, proclaims “I “garbage in, garbage out” after sold my soul to the devil; that’s suggesting a fast food run for a crappy deal / Least it came lunch or an on-the-road meal. with a few toys like a Happy People are quick to dismiss fast Meal.” During a 2010 inter- food as “greasy,” “disgusting” view with MTV, Kanye or “unhealthy.” I think this described the devil as being stigmatizing phenomenon anything that isn’t “in his came about as a result of the heart.” That is to say if Kanye documentary Super Size Me, ever does anything not for the so-called “obesity epidemKanye, it means he has given ic” and probably the shock art up his soul. placing Ronald McDonald in I personally have never sold violent situations like slaughmy soul and don’t really have tering animals. What goes plans on doing so. Kanye, how- totally forgotten is the actual ever, finds a silver lining for his value of McDonald’s food and spiritual transaction in the service they provide for the form of “a few toys like a world. H a p p y Meal.” It is Kanye, so I I personally have never sold my soul and assume don’t really have plans on doing so. these few toys are Kanye, however, finds a silver lining for m o s t l y his spiritual transaction in the form of “a leather kilts few toys like a Happy Meal.” and modified, steampunk style Lamborghinis, but In the United States there is we should all be impressed a McDonald’s for every 22,000 with his ability to find the people. There are only hospigood in the bad. The bad: tals for every 44,000 people. superstar icon status and the Last January, they ran a promopeople trying to pitch their tion for two-dollar Big Macs. ideas for the next robotic ted- You can get 20 chicken dybear themed t-shirt or McNuggets for five dollars. maybe suggesting “North” You can get a 55-gallon drum might be a name he later of Sweet Tea for a nickel. regrets. The good: exotic pets, Guacamole does not cost extra. Kim and probably a lot of Not only does McDonald’s velour. serve more people, it does it for It may seem cheap to start less. It fuels (read: provides two consecutive columns with paper goods) for the United hip-hop lyrics, but the wisdom States Olympic Teams. Larry that can be found in the poetry Bird and Michael Jordan had a of Kanye West is essentially legendary Super Bowl dunk boundless. We would all bene- contest for a Big Mac. Even fit from finding the Happy Parisians — the most refined Meal-esque toys that come people in the world, culinarily from the things that may at speaking — love McDonald’s. first seem bad. For example, The Golden Arches shine in McDonald’s. the Parisian night on the If you are one of those Champs-Elysées alongside a weirdos who still has all or even 150-foot tall ivory statue of some of your gluten-free and French explorer Jacques CrossFit enthusiast friends, Cousteau.
I understand that there is something to be said about getting servings of fruits and vegetables and “knowing what’s in your food,” but, at some point, calories are nothing more than gas in the tank. It costs a lot less to own a durable pick-up truck with 175,000 miles on it than a brand new Ferrari. I know that in a car-health analogy one would tend towards the “nicer” car. If you put normal gas in a Ferrari though, it will have to spend 12 months at a special petroleum rehabilitation center in the Italian countryside. You can pour basically anything that combusts in a truck engine, and it will still find a way to keep running. A Big Mac still has protein. It may be “garbage in, garbage out,” but in my world, everything that comes out goes into the garbage. This does not mean you should eat at McDonald’s every day. In fact, that is a terrible idea. It, however, does not deserve the stigma that it gets. If two people get an order of French fries and one eats them and gets a little gassy or tired while the other goes into toxic shock, the latter is the unhealthy one. I am not here to defend the fast food industry or how they target low-income areas with cheap and unhealthy foods and literally feed the “obesity epidemic.” Fast food, like Kanye selling his soul to the devil, is just one example of a way to find something good in something bad — like a Happy Meal toy. Christo Eliot is a senior in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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MIDTERM ELECTION 2014
TODD HEISLER / THE NEW YORK TIMES DOUG MILLS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gather around | A television shows the Ohio gubernatorial race being called for incumbent Gov. John Kasich (R) inside the Republcian’s National Committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.
ANGEL FRANCO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sweet victory | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who defeated Democrat Allison Grimes Tuesday, and his wife Elaine Chao vote at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky.
CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZIELLO / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Safe and sound | Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and Sandra Lee
Meeting the press | New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during a rally on Oct. 27 with Connecticut
greet supporters after casting their votes. Cuomo won re-election Tuesday.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley, who ran in a contenious race Tuesday evening.
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SCIENCE
Climatology
Neurobiology
C.U. Study Finds Southwest At High Risk for Decades-Long Droughts In Next Century
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Disastrous drought | Lake Success, in Tulare County, California, is in one of the hardest-hit areas of the drought that has now lasted three years in California. According to a study published in October by Cornell climate scientists, the southwestern United States is at an 80 percent risk or greater of experiencing a drought lasting a decade or more in the coming century. By SOMRITA BANERJEE Sun Staff Writer
A study published in October led by Prof. Toby Ault, earth and atmospheric sciences, has received attention in the scientific community for its startling findings about the future of the southwestern United States. Using past climate data and climate change models, Ault and his coauthors predict that there is a higher than 80 percent risk for the United States southwest to experience a drought lasting 10 or more years, something they call a megadrought, in the coming century. “A megadrought is a drought that is as bad as the kinds of droughts that we’ve seen in the 20th century,” Ault said. “So like the 1950s drought in the Southwest or the 1930s Dust Bowl. That level of severity but much longer lasting.” Ault said this study focuses mainly on two types of megadroughts — the shorter duration type which spans about a decade and the multi-decade megadrought with a time scale of around 35 years. The study estimates the risk of megadroughts happening in the coming century using existing model predictions of the future that have been archived as part of international efforts at climate model simulation. “Institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NASA and similar institutions in other countries have their own modelling centers,” Ault said. “[They] run the simulations of climate change in the future and then they archive all that data for the research community to use and that’s what we relied on primarily.” In order to make their predictions, Ault and coauthors took the predictions from these raw climate models and factored in paleoclimate data — the data from a record of climate variations observed in the past, usually obtained by analyzing tree ring widths, sediments at
Looking forward, Ault said he believes the bottom of lakes or deposits in caves. “Researchers at places like University there is still a lot of work to be done on of Arizona’s Lab of Tree Ring Research ... climate-related predictions for the coming take many samples from many sites and century. He said he plans to translate the risks that his study predicts into numbers count the ring widths,” Ault said. Years of exceptional growth are marked that natural resource managers can use to by wider rings and smaller widths signal prepare for the possibility of years with stunted growth. Ault said that megadroughts. This means quantifying the amount of data from tree ring measurements indicate that there have been intervals where water or soil in the Colorado River, the growth year after year was either held amount of snowfall and other variables back or slower in some way. This indicates where scientists’ predictions may have to geologists that megadroughts have, his- changed due to the new factor of global climate change, according to Ault. torically, always been a natural hazard. “Another one of my top priorities for “It is a well-known feature of southwest climate that in the past, research is looking at other parts of the megadroughts have occurred, both world that seem like they’re exposed to decade-long and multi-decadal similar levels of risk — Northern Mexico, megadroughts,” Ault said. “They’ve parts of Central America, Australia, parts occurred at the rate of one or two a cen- of Africa, parts of the Mediterranean,” Ault said. “I think looktury for the decadal ing globally at this scedroughts and one or two a millennium for the “I think looking globally nario and seeing how it plays out is important. multi-decadal at this scenario and Especially in countries droughts.” However, when cli- seeing how it plays out that have fewer resources is important.” to cope with megamate change is taken drought than the southinto account, the risk of Prof. Toby Ault western U.S. has.” megadroughts escalates, Ault also said that the according to Ault. risks predicted are not a “We know that as [carbon dioxide] levels rise, greenhouse cause for alarm. “Fundamentally, because megadrought gas levels rise, the planet’s temperature rises [and] the southwest tends to get is a natural hazard faced by the southwest, drier,” Ault said. “Our research translates we can manage it. We just have to factor that drying into quantitative estimates of it into our management strategy for water,” Ault said. “I think there’s a lot of megadrought risk.” The study predicts a greater than 80 room for optimism despite these high percent risk of decade-long megadroughts numbers to be prepared for this kind of in the Southwest, reaching 90 percent in an event.” Ault also said that that, regardless of some areas, and a 20 to 50 percent risk of 35-year or longer megadroughts in the one’s political beliefs about climate coming century. The climate change change, it is important to have a nomodels bring these values up from the regrets attitude towards preparedness. “Even if it is a sort of natural disaster normally predicted risk rates of about five in slow motion, it takes decades to to 15 percent. “The numbers go up because, on aver- unfold,” Ault said. “There’s no reason age, the southwest especially looks drier. why we can’t plan for or prepare for that It’s like climate change is loading the dice kind of a hazard or at least the risk of that hazard.” in favor of megadroughts,” Ault said.
Ault said his general research interests lie in the field of emergent climate risks, or risks that have come up because the climate of this century is different from what it was last century. According to Ault, a good example of the application of his research is the spring of 2012, which was unusually early in the northeast, and was followed by a freeze event in April. The freeze event is usual for the time of year but what caused a problem was that spring started early, giving the orchards a lot of time to grow. The damage from the freeze event was then more significant and led to a loss, in Michigan alone, of half a billion dollars, according to Ault. “How likely is that event without climate change? We don’t know. We know that kind of a sequence of an early spring and a normal freeze event is probably rare, even without climate change,” he said. “Now with climate change it’s the same question we’re asking with megadrought. Is it more likely? If so, how much so? What are the factors, what do the models say, what can we say from the past?” Ault said that it is not enough to just look at the past. Problems of emergent risk must be tackled from many different angles, using both past climate data and future models, using new statistical tools as well as old statistical tools that have been re-factored for these kinds of applications. “We need all the arrows in our quiver that we can get at to study these emergent climate risks,” Ault said. “These are important problems and when I’m working on them, I’m still very much guided by trying to do a better job of understanding the risks of climate change for the people whose lives and livelihoods are most impacted by it. That’s really one of the great things about being at Cornell. There’s a deep commitment here to do science that is useful to people.” Somrita Banerjee can be reached at sbanerjee@cornellsun.com.
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Cornell Researchers First to Look Into The Brains of Tiny Jumping Spiders By MICHAEL MERRILL Sun Contributor
For the first time ever, researchers at Cornell have succeeded in measuring and analyzing electrical signals within the brains of jumping spiders. By inserting tiny electrical probes into the poppy-seed-sized brains of Phidippus audax, researchers have opened up a new field of scientific research into the inner workings of the arachnid brain. “Since the 60s people tried to overcome this technical issue and no one succeeded in doing that,” said Gil Menda Ph.D. ’14, a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Ron
Hoy, neurobiology and behavior, and a coauthor of the study detailing what the spiders’ neurons revealed. “The reason is that spiders are a pressurized animal. They have a high liquid pressure in their body. Whenever they want to move they have to push liquid through the body.” Because of this high pressure within their bodies, previous attempts to enter the brain of a living spider caused the spider to rupture and bleed out. Menda said he discovered that if a small enough probe is used, the spider’s blood will coagulate around the point of insertion and prevent excess blood from leaking out.
COURTESY OF GIL MENDA PH.D. ’14
I spy | Jumping spiders have brains the size of poppy seeds, but researchers were able to track the activity of their visual neurons for the first time ever using a tiny electrode.
“I solved that problem, but once we did that it was like opening a gold mine,” Menda said. Menda said the electrodes function like small microphones; after insertion into the spider’s body cavity, they come close to individual neurons. By measuring the electrical potential across a neuron, it is possible to measure how active it is at a point in time. “When you’re recording from a neuron, you essentially have to be touching it ... what that means is that if anything moves, even by microns, if the animal moves a little bit or if the electrode rocks a little bit the animal can die,” said Paul Shamble grad, coauthor of the study. With this new technology, Menda said he and his colleagues went on to examine some of the more unusual behaviors of jumping spiders. Unlike most spiders, jumping spiders do not build webs to catch prey. Instead, they prowl their environment in search of food. This behavior relies heavily on the jumping spider’s advanced visual perception. "They're the cats of the invertebrate world. Occupying that niche has required very sharp vision," said Hoy, another coauthor of the study. Menda and his fellow researchers placed probes in the brains of spiders and were able to measure their reactions various visual stimuli, including videos of flies Jumping spiders have eight eyes. According to Shamble, it has long been known that the two large eyes on the front of the spider are used for high resolution, high detail vision. The other six small eyes pick up movement in the periphery of the spider’s vision.
However, despite this separation of visual tasks, Menda and his associates found that when one set of eyes was covered, neurons associated with specific regions of the spider’s field of vision fire unpredictably, indicating the visual stimuli were not being followed. It was only when all eight eyes were uncovered that the spider was able to track visual stimuli within its field of view. “What’s weird is that with all the stuff we know about how we have these overlapping fields of view, you could sort of imagine that you could get one or the other,” Shamble said. “You could get times when they’re actually only looking at it with their high resolution eyes or they’re only looking at it with their motion sensitive eyes.” According to Shamble, spiders seem to require information from both eyes in order to properly process visual information. This is different from humans’ ability to see almost as well using one eye as using both eyes. Between the technical skill required to implant the electrodes, the knowledge of spider vision necessary to interpret their readings, and the mathematical contributions of the researchers who designed the visual stimuli, this project demonstrates an unusually multidisciplinary approach to graduate research, according to Hoy. Typically, a graduate student picks a project and works on it alone until its completion, he said. “This was unusual in its true synergy,” Hoy said. “This could have only happened at Cornell, where graduate students are encouraged to work with each other.” Michael Merrill can be reached at mam546@cornell.edu.
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songs featuring Miley Cyrus. I’m not a fan of her music so I had no idea what to expect but I was quite pleasantly surprised — her scratchy subdued vocals gave the song a refreshing grungy twist. She should switch genres! The chorus was an explosion of guitar distortion and crashing cymbals that scaled back down for the verses. It was my favorite cover on the album, no doubt. Other guests of note include Dr. Dog, whose laid back, hazy vocals fit “Getting Better” well. Tool’s Maynard James Keenan sang on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” which was kind of crawling, like a Tool song. “Lovely Rita” had Tegan and Sara singing in robotic, staccato unison. Other collaborators included Moby, Grace Potter, My Morning Jacket, MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser, and many others — it seems they did not just include guests to contribute vocals, but also instrumentals, giving the album an eclectic mix of influences and styles. The best songs on the album were the ones that were unique without trying to do too much (subtlety is clearly not the Flaming Lips’ M.O., but still). Notably: The aforementioned “Getting Better” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” in addition to “Fixing the Hole,” a nice acoustic song with Coyne’s soft, echoing vocals, and “Within You, Without You,” which was very atmospheric and sung beautifully by Birdflower. Other covers stood out less to me, getting lost in a bath of noise. I am not averse to distortion and heaviness in songs at all, but it felt like this album just had a lot of added noise for the sake of making it sound weirder. And while Sgt. Pepper’s is a concept album that flows from start to finish, this version did not always retain that unified feel.
Drake’s new single “How Bout Now” is a punchy break-up song that comes off as a series of rhyming jabs at an ex-girlfriend. He breaks into the simple baseline to reveal comically uncomfortable details about his relationship with this girl — “Always been daddy’s little angel / I bought your dad a bunch of shit for Christmas, he didn’t even say thank you” — and then caps it off with a teasing mantra of “How bout now? Cause I’m up right now, and you suck right now. Girl, how bout now?” Ultimately, the overarching sentiment of this single is bitterness, and Drake spins it pretty convincingly. The song is both incredibly catchy and genuinely entertaining, in all its minutely specific details about the artist’s love life. Not many musicians can pull of the sore winner, but if anyone can, it is definitely Drake.
Lylla Younes is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ley23@cornell.edu.
“If we ever give up / Then we’re gonna die / Look me in the eye / Baby don’t lie” — throughout this chorus excerpt of “Baby Don’t Lie,” the classic whiny tinge that all Gwen Stefani fans appreciate can be recognized. After a six-year hiatus from being a solo artist — most of her time had been dedicated to No Doubt’s new music — Gwen Stefani has re-entered the music scene with this single and will be releasing an album in December. “Baby Don’t Lie” awakens her roots with a pop/reggae sound reminiscent of her first two solo albums — The Sweet Escape and Love. Angel. Music. Baby. With the help of songwriter-producers Ryan Tedder and Benny Blanco, Stefani was able to cleverly craft this song to reintroduce her uniquely satisfying sound and still make for a catchy, pop tune that will be relentlessly played on the radio for the next few months. Although this song has a catchy beat and an inescapable melody, it does not serve as the strongest comeback for Stefani. It lacks any new twists to a once unique but now worn-out sound of Stefani’s that needs a revamp if her forthcoming album is going to find any success when it is released. Rachel Mack is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at rmack@cornell.edu.
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The Normal Heart is a film about the HIV/AIDS descent into death as skinny, crisis in the 1980s, which plagued the gay community gray figures really supports with deaths, while simultaneously fueling the fire of the story, although it is quite prejudices that existed against them at the time and horrific to see. still today. Adapted by HBO from the 1985 play by In what I believe to be the Larry Kramer and directed by Ryan Murphy, the flick greatest scene of the movie, touches not only on the issues rising from the disease GMHC worker Mickey itself, but also on the fragility of relationships ranging Marcus (Joe Mantello) breaks from friendships to romances to sibling dynamics. down, sick of Ned’s lack of The film opens in Fire Island, where partying gay concern for the interests of men are enjoying spending time in a beautiful loca- the group. This scene is beaution where society’s sexual prejudices cannot reach tifully acted and above and them. When tragedy strikes that day against the back- beyond heartbreaking. ground of attractive men and beautiful weather, the Mickey’s breakdown is discommunity is thrown from that world into one where tressing; it portrays the fear the ability they’ve just achieved to love openly is now that these men had, already the very thing that could cost them their lives. Ned mourning the lives that they Weeks, an openly gay writer (Mark Ruffalo), takes it had yet to lose. Mantello also upon himself and his friends to form the Gay Men’s appeared as Ned Weeks in the Health Crisis, an attempt to garner public awareness 2011 Broadway portrayal of COURTESY OF HBO and governmental support, specifically in New York the play. City. Romantic and sexual relaThe group first navigates the social waters, trying tionships remain a constant factor in these men’s lives, to stop the spread of the disease despite the implications of disease. This from being used by homobeing HBO, nudity and explicit sex scenes phobes as “proof ” of their hate. were used to support the major theme of They also face adversity from sexual interactions and consequences. the city’s government, who the Kitsch acts as Bruce Niles, a desiredCornell Taylor GMHC believes is full of men by-many playboy whose lovers drop like too afraid to come out of the Cinema flies around him. Matt Bomer stars as closet. As support doesn’t come Felix, a love interest for Ruffalo. Felix is a and friends and lovers die off one by one, it is clear New York Times reporter, closeted to his coworkers that they must raise awareness within the gay commu- and afraid to speak out on behalf of the GMHC’s nity as well. Promiscuity has risen in popularity in the plight. The contrast shown between a carefree sexual ’80s since the gay community has been able to become encounter they had years before and their relationship more open; the men do not want to have to go back during the height of the epidemic supports the film’s to feeling shame about their sexuality or limit their attempts at showing the stark changes the community ability to have those experiences. They refuse to use is hit with in all aspects of life because of the disease. condoms and end unrestrained sexual encounters, While the two do have chemistry, it is difficult to meaning that HIV is passed rapidly between the separate the characters from the well-known actors “web” of lovers of those stricken. The film’s special portraying them. This is an issue the film faces consiseffects team did an exceptional job of portraying the tently among its main cast. Julia Roberts plays Dr. decay of those afflicted, through graphic images and Emma Brookner, Jim Parsons of The Big Bang Theory portrayals of the diseased. The startling contrast plays GMHC southern sweetie Tommy Boatwright, between the men as hot-bodied eye candy and their Taylor Kitsch was Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights,
Zoe Kaplan
Matt Bomer stars on White Collar, Mark Ruffalo is known for countless indies and romcoms, and Jonathan Groff, as Craig, is currently star of HBO’s own Looking. These are just a few of the celebrity actors featured. Something about the film is overshadowed by the constant recognizable faces on the screen. This is not to diminish the acting; each character is done considerable justice. What is unclear is if the casting was based in these abilities, or was an attempt to use some of America’s favorite hot celebrities in various states of nakedness to lure in audiences that would otherwise be deterred from such serious subject matter. If that is the case, go for Matt Bomer’s butt but stay for the story. The juxtaposition of sex and death does help to draw a thick line between what life for the gay community saw for themselves and what it became because of this epidemic. It might be a hard truth to swallow, but the outbreak of AIDS was definitely a reality for those men and is a story worth being told. Zoe Kaplan is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at zkaplan@cornellsun.com.
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is the season for best-of-year list-making to once again consume the minds of tastemakers, both actual and wannabe. For us clammy, opinionated few in The Sun Arts section, that means a lot of time murmuring, alone, at a shared GoogleDoc spreadsheet, worrying why FlyLo’s “Never Catch Me” is not on every ballot and casting shade at everyone else’s taste through snarky comments and Tim and Eric GIFs. That explains my experience, at least. Truth is, all this antagonizing comes from a playful place, not from any legitimate, swirling anger directed toward the tastes of my peers. Part of this ease stems from my acceptance, sometime over the last two years, that there is no “Best” anything, especially when decided en masse. Midway through last awards season, when movies become racehorses and cease to be seen as art, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott observed, “Criticism rests on the independence and integrity of the singular.” Words I can live by. With the power to judge works on a personal level comes the profound yet, in this clickbaitian epoch, devalued responsibility to respect the opinions of others. I know that sounds like a cat poster, but
it’s true, and it requires a few more words to unpack. So let me first backtrack and pose a new question: Is it possible to take issue with someone who likes a movie that you do but for totally different, and therefore wrong, reasons? In short: Yes, you most certainly can, you definitely should and this should not come as a surprise to any of you. One of the more implicit and important lessons to a humanities education comes in the recognition that there are not just other people in the world but other minds, too, all equally vast and treacherous. That is humbling to admit, and crucial to remember until the day you die, but it does not mean we should keep quiet. Every person is a precious flower, yeah yeah, but growth stems from these little intellectual quarrels, when we A Lover’s Quarrel form an argument with the World addressed at a formidable friend or foe and secretly, unconsciously hope his or her retort is good enough to keep the volley going. You think The Grand Budapest Hotel is just a barrel of laughs and pastel colors? I’d say you missed a great deal of sadness, fascist metaphor and meta-commentary on the iterability of storytelling. Boyhood is “relatable” and nothing more?
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I’d say it’s an upsetting depiction of the ways we both change and fail to change, or even retain agency, over time and how our messy lives never fit into neat narrative arcs. Non-Stop and Lucy are trash and thus worthless? Well ... you should know where I stand on those two by now. Of course, no one else shares my takes on every film. Not because mine are right or better than anyone else’s, but because they are influenced by my own subjective experience, which is something I have elaborated on a couple times this semester. I have put in the time to develop what I hope are rigorous and interesting readings of a great deal of films, yet I recognize that these readings coexist with a million different others. Just because I say something specific about, say, the tracking shots in 2001: A Space Odyssey does not cancel out, in my eyes, the validity of an opposing interpretation. I hope others think I’m “getting at something” or that I’m “right on the money” with my piece on [insert film here], but deep down I know any sup-
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posedly perfect review could be countered by a perfectly reasonable alternative written from a different frame of reference. I still own what I believe in, and I will defend my position with fire if required, but I’m not going to lose sleep because one friend or the Tomatometer disagrees. All I have in this world is my taste, which is true only to me no matter how adamantly I believe otherwise, but I’ll do my best to sustain the illusion with a marvelous grace. Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel with the World runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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show schedule. “[Our] goals are just staying consistent, keeping calm under pressure, “Coach’s speech … really brought [and] staying focused,” she said. “It’s everyone together and everyone was going to be a long 3 weeks [and] a lot really determined to do well,” of early mornings, but we can’t let that Steinberger said. get to us.” “It was really motivational. It wasn’t Novakovic hopes to continue to like she was disapkeep spirits up and pointed that mis“I’m trying to ... get the to teach the riders takes happened … learn from their team to loosen up a little to it was just like previous mistakes. ‘we’re going to bit this week and have a “I’m trying to … learn [from the team to get little bit of fun.” them],’” Seely loosen up a little added. Head Coach bit this week and The Red continhave a little bit of Joanna Novakovic ues its show season fun,” she said. “I’d with a doubleheadlike when things go er this coming Saturday and Sunday in wrong for people to come out of the Rochester, N.Y. hosted by Nazareth ring and tell me what they’ve learned College. Cornell is currently leading from their mistakes rather than getting the region with 116 points, 17 points upset [and] getting down on themahead of runner up University of selves. Things are going well, but we Rochester. still have room for improvement.” Steinberger said that the squad aims to stay focused and determined Ariel Cooper can be reached at to tackle the rest of its demanding acooper@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 20
CONROE, Texas (AP) — Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail Tuesday by reaching a deal with Texas prosecutors to resolve a child abuse case that revived a national debate about corporal punishment. Peterson was sentenced to a form of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless assault for using a wooden switch to discipline his 4-year-old son. It was not immediately clear how the plea deal would affect his playing status or whether he might be subject to a new NFL policy that calls for a six-game suspension without pay for a first domestic violence offense. The All-Pro running back was indicted in September on a felony charge of injury to a child after the incident earlier this year in suburban Houston. He has been on paid leave under a special exemption from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “I stand here and I take full responsibility for my actions. I love my son more than anyone of you could even imagine and I’m anxious to continue my relationship with my child,” Peterson said outside the courthouse after accepting the plea deal. “I’m just glad this is over,” he added. “I can put this behind me, and me and my family can continue to move forward.” He was not allowed to be near his son
while the case was pending, but now can resume having contact with the boy. “Adrian wants to get on with his life and have his relationship with his son and get back to playing football,” Peterson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, said. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league “cannot provide a timetable” for that. “We will review the matter, including the court record, and then make a determination on his status,” McCarthy said. The Vikings said they were aware of the plea agreement, and would have further comment “at the appropriate time.” Peterson is one of a handful of NFL players who have been involved in domestic violence cases lately, including Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy, Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer and former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. After receiving plenty of criticism for initially handing Rice only a two-game suspension, Goodell announced in August that he was toughening the league’s punishments for domestic violence. Attention to the issue rose considerably in September, when a video surfaced showing Rice knocking out his thenfiancee — and now wife — in a casino elevator; he soon was cut by the Ravens and indefinitely barred by the league.
Six Hendrick Crew Members Penalized by Nascar for Post-Race Fight CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon avoided any penalty from NASCAR on Tuesday for their post-race fight at Texas. Two crew chiefs and four crew members from Hendrick Motorsports were punished for their roles in the brawl. NASCAR suspended three Hendrick crew members for six races for being “involved in a post-race physical altercation” and fined them each $25,000. A fourth Hendrick crew member was fined $10,000 and suspend-
ed for three races for the same offense. Gordon crew chief Alan Gustafson and Kasey Kahne crew chief Kenny Francis were each fined $50,000 and placed on probation for six races because “the crew chief assumes responsibility for the actions of his team members.” NASCAR senior vice president of competition Robin Pemberton said the post-race actions were “unacceptable” following a review of content of the incident. NASCAR “identi-
fied several crew members who crossed the line with their actions, specifically punching others.” “A NASCAR championship is at stake, but we can't allow behavior that crosses the line to go unchecked, particularly when it puts others in harm's way,” Pemberton said. Suspended for six races and fined $25,000 were: Jeremy Fuller, the Kahne crew member who came from behind the scrum and threw several haymakers toward Keselowski, as
well as Gordon crew members Dwayne Doucette and Jason Ingle. Dean Mozingo, another Gordon crew member, was fined $10,000 and suspended three races. Hendrick Motorsports said it would not appeal, and the punished team members would not face further sanctions from the organization. Hendrick team owner Rick Hendrick said in a statement the new Chase for the Sprint Cup championship format has
brought “an unprecedented level of intensity every single week.” “Emotions run high when you're racing for a championship, and that's exciting for our fans and everyone involved with the sport. But there's a line the competitors need to be cognizant of, and we understand that,” he said. He also defended Gordon, the four-time champion who confronted Keselowski after contact between the two on the track. Gordon had been racing for a win that would have moved him into the Nov. 16 championship finale when a caution bunched the field for a restart in overtime. Keselowski tried to wedge his car through a gap between Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, but made contact with Gordon that caused Gordon to spin when his tire went flat. He wound up 29th and went from first to fourth in the standings. Keselowski, the 2012 champion who has a series-best six wins this season, is seventh in the standings heading into Sunday's race at Phoenix. Only the top four drivers will compete for the title in the season finale. “Jeff was rightfully fired up Sunday night, and it just reiterated to me how passionate he is and how much he wants to win,” Hendrick said. “The No. 24 team is a group that works together and is loyal to one another. They have our full support as we go into these final two races.” The fight began when Gordon tried to approach Keselowski on pit road following the race, but was stymied by Team Penske crew members standing in front of Keselowski. Then Kevin Harvick came from behind and shoved Keselowski into the scrum. Harvick was not punished by NASCAR.
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Red Rowing Program Hosts Autumn Classic Over Weekend By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer
In their third competition of their fall season, all three Cornell Rowing programs took to the Cayuga Lake Inlet. The Cornell Autumn Classic, which took place this past Saturday, was dominated by the home boats as the Red managed to pick up a victory in every race of the day. The men conquered a field that included boats from Ithaca College, Hobart, Mercyhurst and Syracuse, while the women matched their performance against Ithaca College. The conditions on Saturday were less than hospitable as heavy winds and cold weather forced a change in the format of the competition. Winds strained the length of the racecourses and the coaches decided that the Autumn Classic would consist of a 3000-meter race and a 300-meter race. In order to determine the winner, each boat was timed for both races with the 300-meter race time being tripled. The boat with the fastest combination of the two races was the winner. Despite the weather and format changes, senior Caitlin McDonnell said the event was a success. “Overall it was a great opportunity for all three teams to see some good competition
on the inlet as we wrap up our fall seasons,” she said. The Cornell Lightweight boat won the first flight men’s varsity two race, edging out the Hobart A boat by an overall time of just under seven seconds. Although the Red finished second in the 3000-meter race, the squad had the best time in the sprint, which propelled them to eventual victory. A similar storyline followed by the Lightweight D boat, which struggled in the longer race but put up great numbers in the sprint. Its second place finish behind the varsity boat in the 300-meter sprint boosted them to the No. 3 spot overall, four seconds behind the Hobart A boat. In the men’s varsity four race, the Red’s varsity heavyweight boat continued the trend of Cornell dominance. The squad won both halves of the competition and finished ahead of the second place boat, the Cornell Heavyweight C boat, by a considerable amount. The heavyweight varsity eight boat also edged out the competition despite finishing third in the 300-meter sprint. The boat’s overall time of 12:26 was over five seconds less than the Cornell Heavyweight B boat and 12 less than the third place finishers from Syracuse. In the women’s races, the Cornell boats proved to be much faster than the boats
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Racing through wind | The Cornell women’s rowing team crushed its cross-town rivals, Ithaca College, in the Autumn Classic held at the Cayuga Lake Inlet.
from their cross-town rivals, Ithaca College. In the women’s varsity four race, the Cornell A and B boats finished in first and second, while the Ithaca boats finished in third through sixth. The Cornell A boat finished over 50 seconds faster than the B boat did. According to McDonnell, Saturday’s competitive action saw some of the Red’s walk-ons experience their first collegiate race. “This race was especially exciting as it was the first race for many of our walk-ons,” she said. “Many of them had never rowed before the walk-on gym class, so it was awesome to see them really going after it in their first collegiate race.” The women have one more race before
the end of the fall season, while both men’s programs have completed their competitive fall races. McDonnell also said that the race provided the squad with its last opportunity to gauge its speed before its final race followed by winter training. “The team took advantage of this opportunity not only to race and test our speed against other schools, but also to learn what we can improve on for our final race of the fall next weekend and to keep focused on training with a purpose during the winter months to come,” she said. Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.
Jabari ParkerTops List for Deadly Offense Women Rebound From DUBNOV
moves in the paint during the preseason. The Carmelo Anthony comparison is warranted. In fact, I McDermott is sure to be taking the think that Parker has a chance to role very soon. The Creighton exceed Melo’s NBA success. product is big and can score the Unfortunately, that comparison is ball in the paint. However, his also accurate on the defensive end. shooting touch from the NBA 3That is the main criticism of point range is the highlight of his Parker’s game. However, he is offensive talents. Look for young and he can learn to take McDermott to get a lot of open pride in his defense. The Bucks are looks for easy buckets this a really young team, and season with the rest of the I see these seven players having important with an inexperienced Bulls offense passing and Jason Kidd running the taking moving the ball impacts on their respective teams and on show, basketball in inside frequently. It is the league. ... They are ones to watch for Milwaukee may not be too almost too easy to picture prominent for several as they transition into their NBA careers. more guys like Derrick Rose seasons. Parker is and Jimmy Butler taking missing the success in the it to the paint and then kicking the road to an illustrious NBA career. environment around him to rapidly ball out to a wide open McDermott Payton is also my sleeper fantasy improve on his game (something on the perimeter. Chicago’s bigs are pick for this season, as he will be that a guy like Doug McDermott also exceptional passers, which will Orlando’s primary point guard has available to him), but he is a only help the youngster’s opportuni- option. Plus, he has cool hair and smart and athletic young player ties on the perimeter. McDermott an interesting name. That never that can be expected to carry his complements what may very well be hurts. All of those attributes make team this season and in the future. the most complete roster in the Elfrid Payton my second favorite With all that being said, Parker is league (barring any freak injuries). rookie coming into the 2014-2015 the favorite to win the Rookie of Out of all the players on this list, season. the Year award this season for good McDermott is certainly in the best reason. Whether that happens or situation in terms of who he is sur1) Jabari Parker, SF, not, Jabari Parker has the most Milwaukee Bucks rounded by. Chicago has a lot of upside out of all the rookies in the smart players on the roster and is led 2014-2015 season. He will go on to Do not feel sorry for Jabari. He have a prominent career in the by one of the best coaches in the NBA. McDermott is in the right is stuck in Milwaukee, but he is the NBA. place to be an immediate winner real deal that can carry the Bucks to That is my complete list of my and to grow as a big time NBA play- the next level. I truly believe that favorite NBA rookies this NBA seapeople underestimate what Parker son. I see these seven players having er. could do in the NBA. He is not as important impacts on their respec2) Elfrid Payton, PG, unique a player as Elfrid Payton, tive teams and on the league. There Orlando Magic but Jabari Parker gets my top spot may be other guys from this year’s of favorite rookies for one major rookie class that will have greater The Orlando Magic certainly reason: his offensive game looks success on the court besides the won in the rookie point guard deadly. Parker was able to display ones I listed. Most notably, Andrew department. It seemed like Payton the dominant play of an NBA vet- Wiggins is bound to live up to a could have gone earlier, but the eran in the preseason. He looks good deal of the hype, but I just do Magic were lucky to get him as quick, he can utilize all dimension not feel exceptionally excited about through a trade for the 10th pick. of his offensive game and he has his arrival in the league. The players Payton also seemed to come out of some stellar moves that will certain- on this are ones to watch for as they nowhere to become one of the best ly land him on highlight reels on a transition into their NBA careers. all-around players from this year’s nightly basis. He was able to disdraft. He will be a stat sheet stuffer, play a super quick and effective Nikita Dubnov can be reached at with an emphasis on some fancy step-back jumper and some strong ndubnov@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 20
assists he will likely pick up from superb passing ability. He is young, quick, active and is a great team leader. Payton’s defense only adds to his complete package. He seems like the closest thing the NBA now has to Rajon Rondo, except for Rondo himself. As Payton develops, he needs to put on some pounds and improve his shot, but those are minor milestones on his
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took the lead during the third and ended the match victorious with an overall score of 19-14. This was a very high scoring match with Pirasteh tallying 10 goals, followed by Stieg with eight and Karabey with one. The women’s squad traveled to Charlottes ville, Va. on Friday to match up against the University of Virginia. Juniors Elena Wicker and Anna Winslow as well as sophomore Emma Eldredge started the match for the Red and found themselves quickly falling behind in the first chukker. The second chukker was quiet, with each team able to score just once until a pony goal put UVA in the lead. During the third, the Red was able to tie up the match with an overall score of 6-6. Both teams kept up their defense throughout the fourth chukker. However, within the final minute, the match came down to UVA getting a penalty goal that the Red could not come back from. The match ended in UVA’s favor with a final score of 9-8.
The Red returned home for its second match of the weekend against University of Massa -chusetts. Junior Claire Stieg, freshman Phoebe Hering and Winslow started the match for the Red. The women commanded an 8-0 lead by the end of the first chukker, with Winslow scoring a quick five goals to set up the squad’s decisive lead. Junior Martha Anderson replaced Winslow in the second chukker, and Cornell ended the first half with a 15-point advantage. The Red maintained its lead during the third and fourth chukker and ended the match with 20-6 victory. Stieg scored eight goals overall, while Hering tallied seven and Winslow had five. After winning the second of their two matches this past weekend, the men’s and women’s squads are looking forward to returning to action against the University of Connecticut next weekend. Both matches will be played at the Oxley Equestrian Center in Ithaca. Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.
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Cornell Has Strong Showing at Weekend Event,Finishes in Second By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell equestrian team continued to blaze through the competition this weekend with a second place finish at a show hosted by Alfred University. The Red tied for second with the University of Rochester with a score of 39 points. The day started off slow for the team, but after a rallying speech by head coach Joanna Novakovic ’03, the Red picked itself up and finished on a high note. “I think in the beginning it was tough. We had some tough draws and some silly mistakes, but … after intermediate fences … we did a team huddle and [n] gave us a pump up speech … and I feel like it really made a big difference,” senior co-captain Sofia Steinberger said. “[Sophomore] Claira [Seely] won her class right after that and … the rest of the day went significantly better than the first half.” Seely just recently moved from the advanced walk/trot/canter division to the novice division. Sunday’s show was only her second competing over fences. “The round of the day was put in by Claira Seely who has just moved into the novice fences division. She had probably the best round of anybody … I was really proud of her,” Novakovic said. The Red’s newest members — or rookies, as
they are called by the team — put in spectacular performances at Alfred. According to Steinberger, no rookie scored lower than second place. One rookie, freshman Sanjana Sundaram, won her class in the advanced walk/trot/canter division at her very first competition with the Red. Sundaram has eight years of riding and five years of showing under her belt, but Sunday’s show was her first Intercollegiate Horse Show Association competition. “I think it went really well,” Sundaram said of her ride. “I kind of just went in with the mentality that I was going to do my best and I was going to [keep] a positive mindset … and I guess it worked out.” Overall though, the show had its share of ups and downs for the Red. “It was kind of a day of highs and lows I think,” Novakovic said. “We had a lot of people put in really really good rounds and a lot of the rookies did super well in their first show out … and then I think we have some people who are being a little too hard on themselves and getting a little too pessimistic.” Steinberger and Seely said that Novakovic’s motivational speech really lifted the team’s spirits and helped the riders stay focused on the competition. See EQUESTRIAN page 18
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Stomping grounds | The Red took second place in the Sunday show due to strong individual performances up and down the roster.
2014-2015 NBA Red Unable to Remain Undefeated, Splits Rookie Favorites Weekend Sets for 3-1Overall Record POLO
This is the second part of a two-part series. Part One appeared in last Wednesday’s paper.
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ast Wednesday, the first installment of my top seven rookies to watch column was published in the Sun. That piece ranked my picks for the seven to four positions (Marcus Smart, Bruno Caboclo, Shabazz Napier and Nerlens Noel). Today, we get to see who wins the bronze, silver and gold of my favorite rookies for the 2014-2015 season. Just to reiterate my reason for this list — this is not a list of my rankings of who will win the
Nikita Dubnov Nik’s Knacks rookie of the year award this year. This is actually a list of my favorite new players to join the National Basketball Association. The time has come. Here are the winners: 3) Doug McDermott, SF, Chicago Bulls
McDermott gets the third place chip because he can score. He can score a lot. He led all NCAA Division 1 players in scoring with 26.7 points per game. The Bulls don’t necessarily need that type of scoring with all their other offensive weapons, but McDermott will certainly fit into the roster extremely well. As of now, Mike Dunleavy is starting in the small forward spot, but with a little more experience,
Cornell returns to action next weekend with match against UConn By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell men’s and women’s polo teams both split their weekend sets. Both squads lost their matches against the University of Virginia but came out victorious the next day. The women rebounded from the loss by toppling University of Massachusetts, while the men’s team took its win of the weekend against Skidmore College. Unable to remain undefeated, the Red ended the weekend with a 3-1 overall record. The men’s team began its weekend with a match against the University of Virginia, which was played i n
Charlottesville, Virginia. Sophomore Ignacio Masias, senior Nick Stieg and freshman Kamran Pirasteh started for the Red. The Red started the first chukker behind, 2-0, but the squad was able to come back and keep its lead throughout the second chukker. Seniors Hakan Karabey and Alex Langlois replaced Stieg and Pirasteh, and the second half started with Cornell in the lead, 7-5. The third chukker was tough for both teams with non-stop back-andforth play as they traded goals, but Cornell prevailed and went into the fourth with a twopoint advantage. During the fourth, UVA tied up the match, sending the teams into a shootout. The Cavaliers took the win during the shootout, and the match ended with an overall score of 10-9. “Overall, I thought CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
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High scorer | Senior captain Nick Stieg scored eight goals in the Red’s second matchup of the weekend against Skidmore College to help lift the Red to a 9-8 victory.
the game against UVA went well. They are a really tough team, but we were able to control the pace for most of the game,” Masias said. “Even though we were ahead until the last chukker, they came back at the end and brought it to a penalty shootout, which could have gone “I thought the either way. Even though game against we couldn’t beat them UVA went well. this time, I think we ... We showed showed what what we are we are capable of.” capable of.” In its secIgnacio Masias ond match of the weekend, the men’s team traveled to Saratoga Springs, New York to face off against the Thoroughbreds. The match began with starters Karabey, Pirasteh and Stieg finding themselves behind at the end of the first chukker. The Red pulled through and quickly scored two goals within the first few minutes of the second chukker to get back on track. Throughout the second chukker, there was a lot of trading goals between the two teams, and they entered the second half tied. Cornell See POLO page 19