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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Students gathered at a public meeting to talk about issues relating to Collegetown life.
Jason Ecker ’16 reviews fashion’s 39 most popular brands, according to Google searches. | Page 10
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Despite Increased Crime, City Will Not Add Officers
C.U. Professor Reflects on Role Of Econ in Life
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer
Despite disagreements over the City of Ithaca’s priorities amid financial constraints, the Common Council adopted an amended version of Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 $64.5million 2014 budget in a 9-1 vote Tuesday. Yet in the face of recommenda-
By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Contributor
Longtime Cornellian Prof. Ronald G. Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, economics, shared how economics influenced — and continues to shape — his life and research at an event hosted by the Cornell Economics Society on Tuesday. Ehrenberg is a respected professor of both labor and education economics — someone who demonstrates “how economics affects people’s lives in real, authentic ways," said Benjamin Chartock '14, vice president of the Cornell Economics Society. Speaking to more than two dozen students who gathered for the event, Ehrenberg began by speaking about his personal life has affected his work in economics. He said he first became interested in economics after studying mathematics and physics and realizing that he wanted a more applied field. “It wasn’t any deep philosophical thing. I was looking for something to apply math to, and there was no engineering in college,” Ehrenberg said. Ehrenberg also saw his personal interests
Both the men’s and women’s polo teams won their matches last weekend. | Page 16
tions from the Ithaca Police Department and members of the community, the Common Council decided not to add two additional police officers to the force, which would have cost $117,609. Officers have expressed their concerns about the department’s budget constraints during a time when the City is facing See BUDGET page 4
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Life and economics | Ehrenberg spoke about his life and work in Upson Hall Tuesday.
intersect with his academic ones when he navigated the college selection process. While it was not his first choice, he said, he attended Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University for financial reasons. “My parents were both New York City public school teachers, and teachers weren’t paid a lot then,” Ehrenberg said. “Because of that experience, I firmly believe in the importance of need-based financial aid.” Ehrenberg has also served on faculty budget committees at Cornell and helped create See EHRENBERG page 4
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Tough decisions | Alderperson Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward) speaks at a Common Council meeting at Ithaca City Hall Tuesday.
Satiric Cornell News Site Aims to‘Make People Laugh’ NABIHA KESHWANI Sun Contributor
Writing about everyone from Happy Dave to President David Skorton, two Cornell seniors are trying to break into the comedy scene with a satirical news website called CU Nooz. The site’s editors-in-chief, Daniel Greener ’14 and Adam Groner ’14, say their goal is to make people laugh. “Cornell can feel like a very serious place, and it’s important to step back from
Since the website launched in everything going on and realize how silly everything is,” Greener and Groner wrote September, it has received 50,000 hits and been visited by more in an email. than 15,000 people — In the past few months, Greener and “You’ll see at least one student even reaching more Groner have published procrastinating by reading our than 75 percent of the Cornell community. pieces including site on their laptop.” “Happy Dave to Be “If you walk into a Replaced With a More library on campus, Editors-in-Chief of CU Nooz Neutral Dave” and chances are, you’ll see at “Wines Class least one student proCancelled After Student Urinates on crastinating by reading our site on their lapProfessor” on the website. top,” Greener and Groner said in the email.
Cornell Sees Surge in Cyber Attacks
The site has also attracted international visitors — some of whom are students studying abroad — browsing the Internet from more than 50 different countries. “It’s really nice to know that we’re helping students around the world reconnect with their campus,” they said. Greener and Groner said they spent hours planning, recruiting writers and building the website over the summer to prepare for its launch in September. The site currently has See CU NOOZ page 5
Bookworm
Mitrano: Most cyber attacks are ‘advanced persistent threats’ By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer
In June 2009, Cornell experienced its most expensive security incident in its history — a stolen laptop. It was the information on the laptop, complete with the identities of 49,000 people, that contributed to the steep price tag associated with the
theft. Four years later, the wealth of information in all of Cornell’s data systems continues to be one of the University’s most threatened and protected assets. Recently, Cornell has seen a surge in cyber attacks, the most prevalent of which are “advanced persistent threats,” commonly re ferred to as APT’s, accord-
ing to Tracy Mitrano, director of Information Technology Policy and Institute for Computer Policy and Law. These attacks originate from outside the United States but may appear as if they are coming from domestic servers because they use proxy servers as a medium, See INTERNET page 5
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Prof. Aaron Sachs, history, American studies, holds a book talk on his new work, Aracadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition in Libé Cafe Tuesday.