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The University’s reconsideration of its disclosure of sexual assault data comes on the heels of protests at Columbia University, where, last month, more than 600 students

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One possible concern, for example, is that releasing aggregate data about the results of sexual assault cases would leave out impor tant nuances of individual cases, which could lead people to misinterpret data, Grant said A

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C o l u m b i a t o release the number of cases that ended with students being punished

The case raised questions about how to walk the line between releasing enough information so community members can hold institutions accountable for responding to sexual assaults and protecting individuals’ privacy

Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J D ’88, deputy Title IX coordinator, said Cornell currently releases information mandated by the Clery Act The federal law requires universities to disclose crime statistics –– including sex offenses –– for incidents that occur on campus, in public areas adjacent to or running through campus and certain noncampus facilities such as Greek housing

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action,” for example, could be interpreted as “lack of evidence, false report or failure of the institution to take action” when, in fact, some c

h because the complainant does not want to participate in the [judicial] process or does not want the respondent to get in trouble, Grant said Grant also said such misinterpretations could be especially troubling f

might look at the statistics and feel like the University is not taking sexual assault cases seriously

“ Fo r p e o p l e w h o h a ve b e e n assaulted and considering whether to report, they would be trying to interpret a complicated and nuanced decision,” Grant said Yale’s administration confronted such concerns earlier this year, when they released additional data about

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Man Tasered Twice by O f cer Granted Additional Hear ing

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

An additional hearing will be held for a convicted Elmira man who was arrested after Ithaca police tasered him and discovered a bag of cocaine in his mouth, a New York State appellate court ruled Thursday

ing to the appellate court ’ s ruling T

County Court which convicted Atkinson in February 2012 made an error when they denied him a suppression hearing, which according to Assistant District At

Evidence may be thrown out if court deems seizure unlawful.

Atkinson should have been offered the opportunity to question whether evidence used against him was obtained through “excessive force,” which would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment, accord-

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

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raised a factual dispute concerning the use of a taser and whether it might be considered excessive force, giving rise to a

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eCornell Readies

Launch of Online Prog. for E xecs

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Wr ter

eCornell, a subsidiary of Cornell that offers online certificate programs for business professionals is releasing a new certificate program next month

Redshift, which will be released on Dec 2, aims to offer an interactive, on-demand and inexpensive program to attract business leaders who can take classes in practical business knowledge

Two of the leaders spearheading the program at eCornell are Chris Proulx ’91, chief executive officer of eCornell, and Rob Kingyens, eCornell’s chief marketing and technology officer

According to Proulx, the goal of the program is “ to really provide an affordable but impactful option for business leaders ”

“We’re hoping to offer something new.”

“We want to be able to talk with the leadership of those organizations about the kind of change they were able to see organizationally and the types of growth their employees were able to achieve in terms of their roles,” Proulx said

Douglas Stayman, associate dean for MBA programs at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, said he has been working closely with eCornell, interfacing with eCornell and the leader of a marketing core course Stayman’s course will be offered on Redshift as well

“Redshift allows us to move into a broader market with a more cohesive Cornell-wide set of offerings The value proposition is really enhanced; at a reasonable price, students can get access to a lot of different business expertise at Cornell,” Stayman said

Stayman said that the Johnson school’s partnership with eCornell is beneficial because of its effective multi-modal

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“We want to partner with eCornell partly because it’s part of Cornell, but also because they’re very good at what they do,” Stayman said

He added that eCornell’s innovative system is “really moving eCornell and Johnson to the forefront” of online certificate programs

Some of the content that will be used for Redshift has been developed over the past two to three years and has been used in other eCornell certificate programs, Proulx said Redshift differs from eCornell’s other programs in that Redshift is an on-demand course capable of being accessed as one ’ s schedule permits, whereas eCornell’s other programs have a more structured timetable, Kingyens said

Kingyens also said another difference is price eCornell packages the on-demand Redshift courses so they are affordable and so businesses can enroll many of their leaders in the program

“In a lot of organizations today, they want executive education, but generally they’re just focusing on their upper-

The Ithaca Police Department received 27 complaints of vandalism on Ithaca’s Southside on Nov 19 Police believe a BB gun was used to shoot out windows of both cars and homes, steal items and start fires in vehicles, according to The Ithaca Times

County Votes to Seek Proposals for Library Site

The Tompkins County Legislature voted to invite developers to present proposals for the county ’ s old librar y at the corner of Cayuga Street and Court Street in Ithaca Developers will have to submit their proposals for redevelopment of the space before March 2014

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level management or executives What we ’ re trying to do is make it available to anybody who’s a leader,” Kingyens said Because Redshift participants will come from different businesses, there will be opportunities for businesses to learn from one another –– an exchange which most companies are looking for, Proulx said He added that Redshift will offer the opportunity for those who enroll to chat online with experts in the field

“They want to develop their leaders to think creatively and innovatively, therefore they actually appreciate them having the interaction with leaders from other organizations,” Proulx said

Kingyens and Proulx both said they believe the new program is filling a niche market

“We’re hoping to offer something new in that market and really position Cornell to be a leader in the corporate learning market,” Kingyens said

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun com

Fires, P roblems Persist for Tesla

Cornell of cial says the electric car company has a lot to work on

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer

News that electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors’ vehicles could be vulnerable to fires is not surprising, a Cornell researcher says

Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it was launching an investigation into Tesla Motor’s Model S, which uses a type of rechargeable battery commonly found in consumer electronics The investigation comes after a Model S caught fire when it hit a piece of debris on the road

The accident marks the third Model S fire in the past six weeks, Reuters reported Elon Musk, chief executive officer and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, announced that the company would push out a software update to the Model S to provide more clearance between the car ’ s undercarriage and the road, according to Reuters

According to Arthur Wheaton, director of the Western N Y Labor and Environmental program for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Tesla’s problems are nothing new for electric car and lithium-ion battery manufacturers

“Electric cars have been in the U S since the 1890s,” Wheaton

said in an e-mail “One hundred and twenty years later, they are still too expensive, too heavy and too energy inefficient ”

Wheaton added that the lithium-ion battery technology used in the Tesla Model S has a history of overheating

“Laptops and other electronics with lithium-ion batteries have

“One hundred and twenty years later, [electric cars] are still too expensive, too heavy and too energy inefficient ” A r t h u r W h e a t o n

faced fires and explosions due to overheating,” he said “Even the Boeing Dreamliner has had problems with their lithium-ion batteries ” If the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determines that this problem is a wide-spread safety defect that would endanger the public, Tesla will have to recall affected vehicles, according to Wheaton

However, Wheaton said the federal probe would prove beneficial for Tesla if it did not result in a recall

“If an investigation leads to

either a vote of confidence saying no recall is necessary or if a specific fix to address the fire issues is found, then Tesla may be considered safe again,” Wheaton said “At times, a recall can be seen as a good thing if done promptly ”

Although Tesla reported poor sales compared to conventional carmakers, Wheaton said the media has overreacted to the fires because of “the hype surrounding [Tesla’s] stock price and the previous safety ratings for the car ”

“[Tesla] has not sold very many vehicles compared to any of the major automakers,”

Wheaton said “Ford sells more F-150 pickup tr ucks each month than Tesla has sold in its entire history ”

Wheaton said Tesla has “ not even come close to making money from the sales of its vehicles,” and that, if the cars continue to have malfuncitons, there will be even fewer sales He added that the only reason Tesla receives the tax credits is because it is environmentally friendly

“ Tesla is an image car: people want to be seen driving them because they have a positive envir o n m e n t a l i m a g e , ” W h e a t o n said

Andrew Lee can be reached at alee@cornellsun com

Cornell Consider s Releasing More Data on S exual A ssaults

Unsure how data will be received, J.A. says

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t h e c i rc u m s t a n c e s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e c o m p l a i n t s , o r t h e f a c t o r s t h a t d e t e rm i n e d t h e o u t c o m e s a n d s a c t i o n s ”

d o e s n ’ t c re a t e f a l s e i m p re s s i o n s o r c o n c e r n s i n a d v e r t e n t l y, ” Gr a n t s a i d “ We j u s t w a n t t o b e c a re f u l ” A l t h o u g h i t i s n o t c l e a r

“We want to better understand those decisions [not to disclose more information] before we make our own decision.”

M a r y B e t h G r a n t

A n o t h e r c o n c e r n i s t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n re q u i re d b y C l e r y Ac t m i g h t n o t m a t c h u p w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d w i t h i n t h e Ju d i c i a l

Ad m i n i s t r a t o r j u r i s d i c t i o n , b e c a u s e t h e re s p e c -

t i v e j u r i s d i c t i o n s a re d i f f e re n t Gr a n t s a i d t h e m i s m a t c h i n n u m b e r s c o u l d c o n f u s e p e o p l e o r l e a d p e o p l e t o b e l i e v e t h a t t h e i n s t i t u t i o n i s n o t

b e i n g t r a n s p a re n t T h e C l e r y Ac t re q u i re s i n s t i t u t i o n s t o re p o r t i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t c r i m e o n c a m p u s a n d “ c o n -

t i g u o u s a re a s , ” b u t i f t h e Un i v e r s i t y w e re t o re p o r t a l l t h e a s s a u l t s o n s t u d e n t s o n a n d o f fc a m p u s , t h e n u m b e r s m i g h t n o t m a t c h u p b e t w e e n C l e r y s t a t i s t i c s a n d t h e s t a t i s t i c s o n s e x u a l a s s a u l t c a s e s “ We w a n t t o b e t r a n s p a re n t b u t a l s o w a n t t o m a k e s u re t h a t t h e

n s e q u e n c e s m i g h t re s u l t f r o m re l e a s i n g m o re i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t c a s e s a n d j u d i c i a l p r oc e e d i n g s “ We w a n t t o b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d t h o s e d e c is i o n s [ n o t t

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seizure that may require suppression of the evidence, a hearing was required,” the NYS appellate cour t ’ s decision read

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l o c a t e d h i m a s t h e passenger of a vehicle, seeking to arrest him on a parole vio-

l a t i o n w a r r a n t , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e appellate cour t ’ s decision After removing him from the vehicle, officers noticed an object in his mouth a bag of cocaine and ordered him to spit out the object Atkinson failed to obey the officers, and in response, at least one officer tasered him twice until he spit out the bag of cocaine, according to the press release

ing to Bonavia and one count of criminal possession of a weapon and was sentenced to eight years, according to a Feb 2012 press release from the Tompkins County District Attorney’s office

Bonavia said the suppression hearing would be held to contest a por tion of the evidence If the cour t

A man found with cocaine on his person is being granted an appellate trial after arguing “excessive force” was used in his arrest.

In a d d i t i o n , t h e o f f i c e r s f o u n d a n a d d i t i o n a l p

After undergoing trial, Atkinson was convicted for two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance one for the possession of a narcotic and one for the intent to sell the narcotic, accord-

n and r ules that the bag of cocaine seized from the defendant’s mouth was retrieved unlaw-

thrown out, potentially necessitating a retri-

cour t, however, found that the bag of cocaine found in Atkinson’s pocket and the handgun were discovered by police during a lawful search, and as a result that evidence will not be reevaluated

According to the appellate cour t ’ s r uling, Atkinson who represented himself “had a limited education and no prior employment ” He had also been arrested 12 prior times for felonies and misdemeanors

The date for the hearing has not yet been determined, according to Bonavia

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

Yale Locks Down Campus After Receiving Call About Gunman

NEW HAVEN, Conn (AP) Yale University was locked down for nearly six hours Monday as authorities investigated a phone call saying an armed man was heading to shoot it up, a warning they later said was likely a hoax SWAT teams searching the Ivy League campus didn ’ t find a gunman after a room-by-room search, and the lockdown was lifted Monday afternoon No one was injured, police said “New Haven is safe The Yale campus is safe,” New Haven police Chief Dean Esserman said A 911 call was received at 9:48 a m from a man at a pay phone about a mile from the campus who said his roommate was on the way to the university to shoot people, Officer David Hartman said Esserman said he was leaning toward the incident being a hoax and a witness

who reported seeing someone with a rifle likely saw a law enforcement officer

“Though it is starting to tilt in the direction of an innocent mistake, it started with a purposeful and malicious call,” Esserman said, vowing to track down and arrest the person who made the call

Authorities don’t believe that the caller was a Yale student or that his roommate attended Yale, Esserman said There was nothing specific about the threat, he said, and the call lasted only seconds

Classes aren ’ t in session this week, and many students and staff members left campus for the Thanksgiving holiday following Saturday’s traditional football game against Harvard

But many students were still in their dorm rooms, Hartman said, and Yale authorities sent out their first warning about half an

TURKEY, TURKEY, BURNING BRIGHT, FULL OF DARK MEAT, FULL OF LIGHT, HOW SOON ARRIVE THE FESTIVE DAYS WHEN HEAD & CHEST MUST PART THEIR WAYS! YOUR TIME HAS COME TO SQUAWK & HOBBLE, BUT DO NOT FEAR, O NOBLE GOBBLE, FOR GOD (I THINK) IN WRIT PROCLAIMED,

hour after the 911 call

“The Yale police made the right call,” Esserman said “They went to immediate lockdown to keep everybody safe ”

Yale advised students and staff members to shelter in place It also issued an advisory asking people off campus to stay away The shelter advisory was lifted by late afternoon

Police blocked off several streets near the university ’ s Old Campus, in the heart of New Haven, where they were concentrating their search Several local schools also were placed in lockdown Police in tactical gear entered several campus buildings

Pedestrian traffic in the normally bustling area was sparse, with cold and windy weather keeping many people indoors

The response included several police departments, the FBI and other federal agencies, Hartman said

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ARE E’RE ORDAINED.”

SO INTO STOVE YOU MUST BE THRUST, AND AT YOUR LEGS GROWN MEN WILL LUST! BUT BE CONSOLED, O MIGHTY FOWL: YOU SURE TASTE BETTER THAN AN OWL

Traditional Cornell Daily Sun Thanksgiving poem by D. Michael Rosenberg ’78 and J.G.S. ’74.

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From the Editors

Bear With Us Any way

In his column Monday titled, “Bearing With Us,” Sun Public Editor Nicholas Kaasik law fairly called us out for what has been a semester-long struggle to overcome the roadblocks that have hindered our development of The Sun’s website

We have made some slow but steady progress in our continuous efforts to improve online We relaunched on a WordPress platform, which is more intuitive and offers more features than The Sun’s previous site The site’s RSS feed is back in working order The speed and reliability of our servers are a major improvement from our old site But, as Kaasik points out, a lot of work remains to be done We regret we have been thus far unable to deliver on several web projects including, but not limited to, repairing our mobile apps, delivering our daily email newsletter and restoring access and navigability to our previous content

Our student web team is working behind the scenes on all of these initiatives, but the last one is especially high-priority As Kaasik aptly noted in his column, maintaining a database of the The Sun’s news coverage is crucial to informing incoming students, maintaining a historical perspective and preserving the work of our own alumni We have outsourced the migration of archived posts to a tech company and they are currently working on the transfer Our readers can now find content dating back to Spring 2012, and much more is forthcoming over the next few weeks Although it is difficult to make guarantees, we expect to see this endeavor the only one we are not conducting in-house completely finished by the end of the upcoming exam period

Kaasik touched on the fact that The Sun has a small, all-student web team comprised of developers who, like the rest of The Sun’s staff, volunteer their skills and receive no compensation in return We admit that we sometimes find ourselves too understaffed to handle multiple major web projects and too restricted by budgetary concerns to outsource them Our imaginations are unlimited, but our coffers are unfortunately not Nonetheless, we can and must push ourselves to achieve more in our efforts to improve our online presence When Cornell breaks for the winter holidays, our work will not come to a screeching halt We are striving for our readers to be able to return, when publication resumes in January, to a cornellsun com that more closely reflects our original vision

We appreciate that Kaasik and others continue to hold us accountable to improving The Sun’s online experience The Sun’s editors will try to provide more regular status updates, and as we move forward with our work, we encourage our readers to contact us about the site anytime at web-editor@cornellsun com We know we ’ ve been asking for your patience for some time now But as we commit ourselves fully to bettering The Sun across all platforms, we ask that you please continue to bear with us anyway

Rebecca Harris ’14, editor in chief, and Andy Levine ’14, web editor

Paths, Not Paint

Alarge black pickup tr uck made its move to pass me after closely tailing me Its gigantic rear-vie w mirror clipped my handlebars, knocking my front tire perpendicular to my bike My body’s momentum continued for ward over the bike and I caught myself on the pavement The tr uck continued moving, my existence so minimal that the driver either hadn’t noticed or didn’t care I’m still not sure which is worse In shock, I picked myself up and looked down at my bloody palms and knees My front bike tire had been curled like a potato chip from the force I dragged my demented bike the remaining distance to my final test before summer vacation With bleeding palms, I sat down to write my essay, bitterly dripping blood in strategic places to accentuate my best points

All things considered, I was lucky at least I wasn ’ t killed My cuts healed in the following weeks and I suffered no long-term injuries I do not blame the driver as much as

Considering the multitude of proposed commuter paths, Ithaca is poised to become a very bike-friendly city In the long run, paths will foster biking in Ithaca, lowering overall health costs and increasing the safety of bikers.

I blame the city planners Sadly, there will always be inconsiderate people driving, and bikers are especially vulnerable to their whims After all, there was no shoulder where I was riding But, surprisingly, cities can be designed in ways that don’t place bikers on the peripher y, as just another variety of roadkill for careless drivers I believe that the vulnerability and unpleasantness generated by being in close proximity to cars is a large par t of what stifles biking culture

Over the past decade, I have watched the City of Ithaca attempt to increase its bike friendliness This is a wor thy cause; it lowers health costs, stimulates the local economy and decreases fossil fuel use The Cayuga water front trail that r uns through Cass and Ste war t Park was one of the biggest steps for the city While this trail is beautiful, it is for leisure, not for commuting bikers For the commuter bicyclists, the city painted bicycle symbols with arrows on some main roads in downtown Ithaca While I appreciate the effor t, those symbols are not making my commute to school any safer or easier I would rather that money be saved and put toward significant change, like bike lanes or separate paths

The Black Diamond Trail, which r uns from Cass Park to Taughannock Falls, is a recent attempt to provide a commuter path for bicyclists Scheduled to open in Fall 2014, this path, which passes 500 ft from my house in Ulysses, provides my neighbors and me with a safe and beautiful path into downtown Ithaca The next two phases of the trail connect Buttermilk and Treman State parks to Cass Park Fur thermore, the city has many more proposed trails, which are waiting for funding, to connect Dr yden, Tr umansburg and Caroline to a network of separate bike paths that feed into downtown Ithaca With such significant infrastr ucture on the outskir ts of Ithaca, it is time for the city to star t planning how that bike traffic is going to move through downtown more holistically

A Public Attitude Sur vey of Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning under taken by Wilbur Smith Associates in 2007 attempted to assess attitudes relating to transpor tation: “Among respondents who said it was some what or ver y difficult to bicycle in their communities and who bicycle in a usual week, many (37 percent) gave no bike lanes/roads too narrow/no shoulder as a reason Respondents also cited roads that are too busy/have too much traffic (26 percent) and no trails or paths (17 percent) ” The study also found that a majority of people suppor ted additional bike lanes and paths This is surprising, given that less than one third of people biked at all in the past year, yet it reflects a desire for safer paths among the general population It is fair to conclude that people at least want the option to bike safely

Considering the multitude of proposed commuter paths, Ithaca is poised to become a ver y bike-friendly city In the long r un, paths will foster biking in Ithaca, lowering overall health costs and increasing the safety of bikers These paths all feed into downtown Ithaca, which currently has fe w bike lanes and no separate bike paths With many streets dedicated to cars, the city should consider creating separate bike paths throughout Ithaca This move would cement the legitimacy of biking as a mode of transpor tation among the population, and give bikers a stress-free path through the city

Jamie Johnson is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at jpj46@cornell edu Guest Room runs periodically this semester

From the Editor

Article Removed From Websit e

Yesterday, we removed a Nov 25 arts article titled, “‘Get a Job’: At the Schwartz Center, Will Gluck ’93 Tells It Like It Is” from our website The article, which also appeared in print Monday, contained coverage of a Q&A session led by film director and screenwriter Will Gluck ’93

Unbeknownst to The Sun, Gluck was under the impression per a prior arrangement with those responsible for the event that his talk would be completely closed to the press Student organizers and any Schwartz Center staff who corresponded with Gluck about his expectations did not properly communicate these restrictions to the public The event was publicly advertised on social media as being free and open to the Cornell community No formal disclaimer was given at the beginning of the event to inform the audience that Gluck’s talk was off-the-record The Sun acted within our rights as an independent news organization to attend and report on what was promoted as public event

Nonetheless, we realize that Gluck, a Cornell alumnus who spoke candidly to students about his work including a movie that is still in production would not have done so if he had known the event was being covered by the media We have no desire to inflict unnecessary damage on Gluck’s career, and we do not want to discourage public figures from lending their expertise to Cornellians who aspire to follow in their footsteps For these reasons, we honored Gluck’s request to pull the story off of our website

We stand completely by the actions of the writer and editors who were responsible for the original article

Sunshine in the Wintertime

e y C o r n e l l i a n s , g o o u t s i d e a n d g e t s o m e s u n

S e r i o u s l y I f e v e r y o n e s p e n t a m i n u t e t a k i n g i n t h e s u n e v e r y d a y, w e’d a l l i n c r e a s e o u r V i t a m i n

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3 G o t o l i b r a r i e s w i t h l a r g e w i n d o w s , l o t s o f n a t u r a l l i g h t a n d w i n d o w s e a t s Un c o n s c i o u s l y, p r o b a b l y h a l f o f t h e r e a s o n w h y p e o p l e f i g h t t o t h e d e a t h f o r s e a t s w i t h a v i e w o f t h e A r t s Q u a d a t Ur i s L i b r a r y i s b e c a u s e o f t h e h i g h a m o u n t o f n a t u r a l l i g h t T h e r e a r e p l e n t y o f s t u di e s o u t t h e r e t h a t s u g g e s t n a t u r a l l i g h t p o s i t i v e l y a f f e c t s t h e q u a l i t y o f y o u r w o r k a n d y o u r p r o d u c t i v i t y H o w e v e r, I t h i n k t h a t t h e n a t u r a l l i g h t a l s o m a k e s u s h a p p i e r a n d m o r e c o m f o r t a b l e w i t h t h e s o m e t i m e so p p r e s s i v e e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t a l i b r a r y c a n p r o v i d e

4 Tr y y o u r b e s t t o w a k e u p a l i t t l e e a r l i e r a n d m a x im i z e d a y l i g h t h o u r s T h e s u n r i s e s a r o u n d 7 a m a n d s e t s a r o u n d 4 p m t h e s e d a y s S i m p l y b e i n g a w a k e d u ri n g d a y l i g h t h o u r s m a k e s a b i g d i f f e r e n c e o n y o u r V i t a m i n D i n t a k e M a n a g e y o u r d a y s s o t h a t y o u c a n s h i f t y o u r s c h e d u l e f o r w a r d a c o u p l e h o u r s I f a n i m a l s h i b e r n a t e , m a y b e t h a t ’ s a s i g n t h a t w e s h o u l d b e s l e e pi n g m o r e w h e n t h e r e ’ s l e s s s u n l i g h t 5 I n c a s e y o u a r e v i r t u a l l y u n a b l e t o s p e n d m o r e t i m e i n t h e s u n o r a n y w h e r e n e a r i t , c o n s i d e r i n v e s t i n g i n a l u m i n o t h e r a p y l a m p o r a l a r m - c l o c k c o m b o l a m p T h e s e d e v i c e s s i m u l a t e s u n l i g h t a n d g r a d u a l l y g e t b r i g h t e r a r o u n d t h e t i m e y o u s e t y o u r a l a r m It s o r t o f f e e l s l i k e w a k i n g u p w i t h t h e s u n r i s e a n d , h a v i n g p e rs o n a l l y t r i e d i t f o r a s e m e s t e r, i t a c t u a l l y w o r k s q u i t e w e l l Fi n a l l y, r e m e m b e r t h a t o t h e r p l a c e s a r e m u c h w o r s e o f f t h a n u s I m a g i n e l i v i n g i n St o c k h o l m , Sw e d e n , d u ri n g t h e m o n t h o f Ja n u a r y O v e r t h e r e , t h e s u n r i s e s a t 9 a m

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Don’t Judge a Girl

By Her Letters

Iw a s s i t t i n g o n m y friend’s bed, when all of a sudden she glanced up from her laptop and said, “Oh She’s in TriDelt ” We’d been shamelessly Facebook stalking the new members of a small, relatively new club we are both a part of I shrugged Two of our e-board members a re i n s o r o r i t i e s W h y should it matter if any of our new members are, too? When I walk around campus, I always notice the sorority girls who strut to class with bows in their hair and Greek letter bags on their shoulders If I am with my friends, I can feel them silently judging the f l u r r i e s o f l e t t e re d g i r l s who walk by When one of them happens to be our friend, she insists that she does not conform to the Gre e k s t e re o t y p e “

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y houses, hoping that by the end of the week, one house would welcome them as a sister I went through the process feeling like a deer in headlights, utterly conf

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s c re a m i n g f e m a l e s w h o g re e t e d m e T h e f i r s t round went by in a haze, and for the second round I was called back to seven houses Yet, by the third round, I was left with only two And I was devastated Feeling lost and rejected, I looked to my rho gamma, or rush counselor, for support Rather than g i v i n g m e t h e g e n e r i c advice she’d probably been t a u g h t t o g i v e d u r i n g training, she drew on her own experiences to shed light on my situation She had gone into rush hoping to join her mentor ’ s sorority, but was left with only one house that she wasn ’ t sure she wanted to be in “I almost didn’t sign my bid c a rd , ” I re m e m b e r h e r telling me The knowledge that she hadn’t found the process any easier than I did eased the pain With h e r e n c o u r a g e m e n t a n d the determination to get through college with no regrets, I ultimately survived rush Bid day, however, was not quite the celebration I’d hoped it would be In the end, I had been left

with only one house, and it was one that I had not even seriously considered throughout the process I received a bid, but after a w e e k o f s o r o r i t y l i f e , I decided that it wasn ’ t for me I struggled to connect with my sisters, and the d a rk a n d s we a t y m i xe r s just weren ’ t my idea of fun I quickly returned my letters, dusted myself off and put the ordeal behind me Now, this isn’t the stor y about another one of those g i r l s w h o w h i n e s a b o u t how she feels excluded by the Greek system, scrutinized during rush only to be cast out amongst the rest of the “God Damn Independents ” This is the stor y of a girl who was just tr ying to wade through the myriad of organizations on campus to find her place, and, ultimately, did Rush may have ended, but my rho gamma decided that her job was not done A few weeks into c l a s s e s , s h e s e n t m e a n email to see how I was d o i n g Sh e d i d n ’ t k n ow that I had left the Greek community almost as soon as I’d entered it We set up

a lunch date, and over time it evolved into a friendship that has lasted to this day It was then that I began to heal

Ironically, my circle of Gre e k - a f f i l i a t e d f r i e n d s grew after rush Only one of my good friends had actually joined a sorority, but I gradually met more and more people with lett e r s t o t h e i r n a m e s At first, their affiliations did cause me to judge them a little bit differently “She’s in the ‘nice girl sorority,’ I would think, or ‘he’s in the n e rd y f r a t ’ ” Ev e n t u a l l y, though, all of that slipped away I learned to love my f r i e n d s n e i t h

houses they were a part of, nor despite them

Now, this isn’t a story about another one of those girls who whines about how she feels excluded by the Greek system

The members of Corn e l l’s Gre e k c o m m u n i t y are some of the kindest people I know Their letters are part of them, but do not define them They are smart, funny, genuine people who I am proud to call my friends; they don’t shut me out because of the letters on their bags I am a “ G o d D a m n In d e p e ndent,” and proud of it My friends love me just the same

& ENTERTAINMENT

The Day of the Doctor

BY GINA CARGAS Sun Senior Writer

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Somewhere within this showy sprawl, “The Day of the Doctor” does exactly what a commemorative special should; it accesses and elaborates on the show's past while providing some valuable setup for its future.

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Corona, Not the Beer

more liberated than her own

Poet Bushra Rehman led a reading from her 2013 novel, Corona, with a pers

evening in the One World Café Corona contains 11 stories written from the perspective of a Pakistani-American woman named Razia The novel details her life in Corona, Queens after fleeing her family following an ultimatum regarding her current romance Working with firsthand material, Rehman takes readers into

American woman in Queens through

readers to take a fresh perspective on the gender dynamics of her culture

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masters in creative writing, Rehman claims that in the 10 years she spent writing

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being her “first language

Motifs, from the tan brick of Corona to the traditional

throughout the novel, but Rehman says that her symbolism is not intentional she prefers to write about the images r unning through her mind As an English teacher (with several former students in a t t e n d a n c e ) , Re h m a n w

d t o begin Corona after joining her students in a “ Where I’m From” poetr y exercise The poem, “Corona (And I’m Not Talking About the Beer)” opens the book, planting Razia as a spectator of Julio, the boy she loves, and more broadly, a culture

During her conversation at Cornell, Rehman read a chapter of Corona in which Razia attends attends a Bhangra dance competition and admires a male

conversational voice that

into colloquial English for a style that is linguistically

The question and answer por tion of Rehman’s presentation led to a dialogue on the perception of women in Muslim culture the discrepancy between portrayals in American media and the perspective of Muslim women themselves As a woman of color writing about her culture, Rehman seems cognizant of a

Razia, par ticularly rebellious and outspoken for her age, also adds an effective platform for looking at women ’ s role in Muslim culture

Rehman also utilizes the order of her stories in Corona to compare American and Pakistani culture In one stor y, Razia interacts with an American couple whose

expressed by a Pakistani family in the stor y directly preceding it U

Rehman’s strategy is to con-

describes Razia dwells on her carefree outspokenness and body image, nicknaming herself “behshuddham,” translated as “living without shame ” This power ful use of language juxtaposed with American cultural references punctuates

Rehman’s experience as a first generation

American Corona, told from the perspective of Razia in her twenties, meanwhile, builds on culturally ambiguous themes of young romance and developing independence and body image

responsibility, to both celebrate her culture and respectfully express criticism as she sees fit The premise of her novel, a girl r unning away from home after being reprimanded by her family for a disapproved relationship with a boy, criticizes traces of misogyny, but in her conversation, she highlights the subtle ways in which Corona defends the intimacy of family and gender relations within her culture She points specifically to a scene where Razia brings her father and uncles tea, not subser viently, but affectionately

dynamics of her culture by telling a variety of different stories, each exploring a different perspective on the relationships between men and women in relationships and

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women writers in the audi-

more of us there are, the less weight each of our stories will take,” urging more women to share their opinions and contribute to

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Muslim culture All in all, Rehman’s conversation at Cornell was an excellent introduction to her ne w book and provided refreshing insight into her culture It sparked a meaning ful conversation on the social impact of her work

Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of Arts amd Sciences She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun com

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“It was a great way to start our official season out Getting the ball rolling for the rest of the season and making a statement to what we aim to accomplish this year, ” he said

T h e Re d c o n t i n u e d i t s m o m e n t u m f ro m

Saturday’s win into Sunday as it took on the New York State Intercollegiate Championship and won it for the second season in a row “ The NYS Tournament was an exciting tournament to get the season started on It was a tournament that we expected to win and overall we performed quite well in doing so We had individual champs at half of the weight classes and were quite dominate throughout the tournament, ” Nevinger said “It was also exciting seeing our freshman [Mark Grey, Brian Realbuto and Gabe Dean] continue to show what they are capable of as they dominated their way through their respective weight classes ”

The day ended with Cornell crowning five indiv i d u a

Villalonga at 149 pounds, Realbuto at 157 pounds, Dean at 184 pounds and Bennett at 197 pounds

The team gathered 207 team points to put Cornell far ahead of Hofstra who came in second with 157 points

“Obviously, [the second win] is a great milestone for this program It really attests to the hard work our coaches have put in over the years to bring this program to one of the national powerhouses it has been the past five to ten years, ” Villalonga said “But as far as this season goes, its just another step towards our ultimate goal at the end of the season, which is a national title ”

Next up for Cornell is the “Grapple at the Garden” on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, where the Red will face Maryland and Illinois in dual meets

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Women Defeat Tigers for First Win in 32 Meet s

Women’s swimming, diving team s win meet again st Penn, P rinceton

By JOSHUA BEHLER Sun Contributor

Last Saturday’s swim meet against Princeton and Penn produced mixed results for the Red, who saw the women ’ s team perform admirably and the men come up short

The women made history as they defeated Princeton for the first time in 32 tries In addition to the long awaited victory against the Tigers, the Red also beat Penn for the first time since the 1999-2000 season, making it just the 10th time that the Red have beaten Penn since the 197980 season

It has been a strong season for the women ’ s program, which has seen the most wins overall since the 2004-05 season and the most Ivy wins since the 1997-98 campaign

The program improved to 4-1 on the year and 3-1 in the Ivy League after its strong showing

“I think being able to go out and swim the way we did was great ” said sophomore freestyler and backstroker

Victoria Kuhn “To be able to perform the way we did felt great and I think it speaks to how hard this whole team has worked this season I’m very happy with our performance ”

The Red women ’ s team blew out the Quakers, 207 592 5 However, Princeton proved a tougher opponent and it was not until the closing moments that the Red secured

the 156-144 victory over the Tigers

The Red performed well all around with seven firstplace finishes The Red 200 yard medley team, comprised of sophomore Victoria Kuhn, senior Kim Jerome, senior Stephanie Ah-quah and sophomore Jenna Immormino, took home the event with a strong performance

Later in the meet, Jerome and Immormino both went

the Red score enough points to win both the Binghamton meet Saturday and the NYS Intercollegiate Championship Sunday

Red Wins Binghamton Meet, Intercollegiate Championship

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

T h i s p a s t we e k e n d , t h e Re d secured its second consecutive New Yo rk St a t e In t e rc o l l e g i a t e Championship Sunday and won a d u a l m e e t a g a i n s

Saturday night, 33-6

The Red defeated the Bearcats in front of 2,012 fans in Newman Arena and was the Red’s 750th dual meet in program history The victory also kept Cornell wrestling unbeaten all-time against the Bearcats for the seventh meetup

For 133 lbs, freshman No 10 Ma rk Gre y t o o k d ow n h i s Binghamton opponent Nick Tighe to put Cornell up, 5-3, heading in the 141 weight class At 141, freshman Corey Dake fell to the Bearcats who went up, 6-5, following the

face-off Additionally at 149, senior No 13 Chris Villalonga defeated Binghamton’s Joe Bonaldi in O T to lead, 8-6 Following Villalonga, all the rest of the weights 157, 165,174, 184,197 and Heavyweight were all taken by freshman Brian Realbuto, freshman Dylan Palacio, sophomore Owen Scott, freshman Gabe Dean, junior Jace Bennett and senior Stryker Lane respectively to help Cornell finish off the meet, 336

“The meet was great for the team to get more matches in and sharpen their technique for when we get into the more competitive part of our season, ” Villalonga said Bennett echoed Villalonga’s sentiments about starting the season off on a strong note

on to win the 100 breast stroke and 50 freestyle respectively The Red also received a strong showing from junior breastroker Meredith Drummond, who won the 200 breaststroke The Red also got help from their freshmen freeswimmers Currie and Billy Elliot who took home the

Cornell Fall s to Bucknell for First Home Lo ss Thi s Seas on

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s bask e t b a

bounce back from a tough loss to Syracuse when it faced Bucknell (2-3) at Newman

but it could not pull off the win Bucknell topped Cornell (2-2) by a score of 72-59,

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home loss of the season

The Bison were fueled to victory from the very beginning, when it took a 16-1 lead a t t h

m e Cornell fought back throughout the game, trimming the lead to as little as five, but the Re d u

u l d n o t recover from the early hole

According to senior forward Allyson DiMagno, the Re d’s s t r u g g l e d i n m a k i n g open shots contributed to the deficit

“It’s hard to pinpoint one thing that we didn’t do well because we got pretty good shots and just couldn’t knock them down,” she said “It’s definitely going to be a focus of ours heading into the next game, to make sure that we come out well in the first four minutes, because it’s the second game in a row where we really put ourselves into a hole and had to come back I think it’s just a combination of having confidence in our

s h o t s a n d k n o c k i n g d ow n open shots ” Another area that the Red was aiming to improve upon was rebounding The Bison ultimately outrebounded the Re d , 4 3 - 3 8 Howe ve r,

according to DiMagno, the Re d d i d i m p rove o n t h e boards compared to the previous game against Syracuse “I definitely thought we