CampusTHURSDAY OCTOBER 9, 2014 / VOLUME 141, ISSUE 17 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org Workers’ union agrees on contract after negotiations BY ANGELA LAI a stark contrast to 2012’s drawn- STAFF WRITER out contract negotiation. Though details of the proposed contrast UR and the Service Employees will not be made public until after International Union (SEIU) the vote, Ott said that the union tentatively agreed on new labor was able to “work out a very good contracts for approximately 1,800 deal” for its members. workers at UR Medical Center’s This year, workers joined the Strong Memorial Hospital and “Fight for Fifteen,” a nationwide UR campuses after a day of campaign for better paying jobs. negotiations on Tuesday, Oct 7. They argued that workers who Though the University and have worked for UR for several union delegates approved of the years should earn a living wage, proposed contract, the union which they consider $15.00 an membership has yet to vote on hour. it, and an all-day vote has been Union officials and Students tentatively set for Thursday, Oct. for a Democratic Society (SDS) 16. If approved, the new contract members noted the fact that would conclude a series of nine Rochester is considered the third contract negotiation meetings in poorest city in America after which workers negotiated issues Detroit and Cleveland, and that including wages, healthcare, UR is the largest and wealthiest PARSA LOFTI / PHOTO EDITOR sick leave, and accessibility to employer in Rochester. Members of the Service Employees International Union tentatively agreed to a new contract with the University far ahead of education. Jake Allen, who works as schedule. Members have set the vote date for Thursday, Oct. 16. SEIU Local 200United an organizer for SEIU Local organizer Calvin Ott said that 200United and with UR’s SDS, Just an hour before the student groups in support of a pressuring the University to raise it was “unprecedented to have said, “Institutions as large and agreement was reached, SDS was fair contract for workers. wages and keep the health plan for negotiations finish this early” wealthy as the University of discussing plans to reestablish Students protested by marching workers. and that “it was the first time no Rochester have a moral obligation the fair contract coalition, which around campus, picketing, and Junior Miles Meth, who is part actions were needed to be taken to take care of the people that they first established in 2012 delivering a petition signed by of SDS, said of their efforts, by workers as far as picketing,” make that institution run.” by bringing together different 500 students to Seligman’s office, SEE NEGOTIATION PAGE 4 SEGway awaits SA approval amidst liability concerns a Mile in Her Shoes” event. liabilities of a student-run sexual “We want to be able to work assault survivor empowerment more closely with the student group. body than being a group from In an interview, Bidna outside of it and trying to get expressed his support for at the student body,” SEGway SEGway’s mission, which vice president and sophomore Greenwald characterized as Hannah Greenwald said in “support[ing] survivors of an email. “Having a club like sexual assault by being a this on our campus that is SEGway to resources, as well as recognized and supported by talking about issues that would the school can only help the otherwise be seen as taboo.” school.” “[SEGway] gave what I SEGway first applied for personally thought was an preliminary status as an SA- excellent presentation,” Bidna recognized organization said. last February but was not He noted, however, some of successful. A final decision was the concerns currently under tabled indefinitely. consideration by his committee. PARSA LOFTI / PHOTO EDITOR According to Policy and “As an SA group you have Last semester, SEGway held a “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event to raise awareness of sexual assault. SEGway is currently Review Committee Chair and to be 100 percent awareness- awaiting SA approval. junior Ethan Bidna, the minutes based,” he said. “You can’t from February’s meeting were work with survivors. [In an BY ANGELA REMUS advocacy, met with members of legal barriers to approval. never found, creating problems organization] dealing with SENIOR STAFF the Students’ Association (SA) For members of SEGway, the for follow-up with SEGway. survivor empowerment and Policy and Review Committee opportunity to become an SA- At last Wednesday’s meeting, sexual assault, you are infinitely SEGway (Survivor on Wednesday, Oct. 1, regarding recognized organization offers the 14 Policy and Review more likely to deal with people.” Empowerment group), a their current status in the SA several potential advantages, committee members reevaluated Currently, SEGway is a relatively new organization on approval process. Their proposal including member recruitment, SEGway’s petition,but did not University Health Service campus dealing with sexual remains tabled while Policy and access to room reservations, and issue a decision because of (UHS)-affiliated organization, assault awareness and victim Review investigates possible funding for their popular “Walk concerns regarding the possible SEE SEGWAY PAGE 4 MELIORA WEEKEND ARTS LEADERSHIP GOODBYE, JETER INSIDE PROGRAM THIS CT GUEST SPEAKER Students anticipate the arrival Learn about how the Eastman A summary of Derek Jeter’s of Laverne Cox. Arts Leadership program momentous farewell. prepares students for the future.

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PARSA LOTFI / PHOTO EDITOR BY ADAM KADIR Public Safety officer observed TALK: ADVOCATING FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE STAFF WRITER a male entering the main hall of Eastman School of Music Students meet in the Interfaith Chapel on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at an event sponsored by the Intercultural Center on how to be an ally to transgender people. 1. On Oct. 4 at 8:22pm, Public who did not appear to belong Safety officers responded to there. The officer located the Hoeing Hall for a fire alarm. male and determined he had no The responding officers found legitimate reason to be there. A THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS the alarm was coming from the check of the male’s name also THURSDAY third-floor kitchen. When the revealed he had been recently OCTOBER 9 officers arrived at the kitchen, banned from UR property. The the area was filled with smoke. male was taken into custody RPO: PHILHARMONICS - AN AMERICAN IN EASTMAN JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND NEW JAZZ The Rochester Fire Department and charged with trespassing. PARIS ENSEMBLE KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (RFD) also responded. The The male was issued an Conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane leads the RPO in The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble and Eastman Jazz officers and RFD found an appearance ticket to go to court playing four pieces, including Gershwin’s “An American in Ensemble will play a selection of pieces in different styles electric tea kettle that was melted and released off the property. Paris” and ending with two Hungarian greats. Buy tickets from different backgrounds, including a Romanian Folk all over the stove top and had online at rpo.org or call the box office at (585) 454-2100. Dance Medley. Free and open to the public. also splattered melted plastic Man caught walking home FRIDAY on the walls. A student came OCTOBER 10 in and stated he did not realize 4. On Oct. 7 at 3:20am, a Public the tea kettle he borrowed was Safety officer observed a male SYMPOSIUM: SALOMÉ AND DANCE EASTMAN WIND ENSEMBLE AND FRIENDS: electric and instead placed it on walking on Library Road who SPURRIER HALL, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CELEBRATING ANDRE PREVIN AT 85 a burner on the stove. The stove appeared older than student “The Veils of Salomé” symposium will explore the shifting KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM was unplugged, and Facilities age. When the officer turned images of the biblical figure Salomé over the centuries. Celebrating the world of legendary composer André Previn, around to check on the male With exhibitions, a movie showing, and performances of recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the was notified to repair the stove. the Strauss opera. Kennedy Center. Tickets $15 General Admission, free to No injuries were reported. he was not in the area any UR ID holders. longer. A few minutes later, Female student’s purse the officer observed the same stolen on Eastman Quad male approaching Fraternity SATURDAY Road from the residential OCTOBER 11 2. On Sept. 30 at 12:30pm, an quad. Officers stopped and MEN’S SOCCER VS. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY CINEMA GROUP FILM: EDGE OF TOMORROW spoke to the male to determine FAUVER STADIUM, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM HOYT AUDITORIUM, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM undergraduate student reported Head out to Fauver Stadium and cheer on our Men’s An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with leaving her purse near a tree what his business was at the Soccer team (5-3-2) as they face off against Brandeis in an an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same on the Eastman Quad while University. The male stated important match for the Yellowjackets, who have lost their brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special she played frisbee nearby. The he was cutting through to get past two games and are looking to improve their record. Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the student reported that when she home. The male was told he had enemy. Tickets: $2 at door for undergradautes, $3 for all returned to retrieve her purse to leave the property and was others. at 2:00pm, the purse and all escorted off. Prior to leaving, of its contents were gone. No the male was given a ban form SUNDAY one was seen taking the purse. to stay off the property unless OCTOBER 12 seeking medical attention. GOING FOR BAROQUE WHAT’S UP: SANTERIA Man repeats offense Kadir is a member of MEMORIAL ART GALLERY FOUNTAIN COURT, 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 2:00 PM of intrustion the class of 2017. A 25-minute presentation and mini-recital on the Italian Marisol Galarza-Ruiz, assistant professor of Spanish Information provided by Baroque organ by Stefan Donner, a graduate student at the in MCC’s world languages and cultures department, Eastman School of Music. Also at 3pm. Included in Gallery discusses a Caribbean belief system with roots in both 3. On Oct. 6 at 7:17pm, a UR Public Safety admission. Catholicism and the Yoruba culture of West Africa. 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given out for natural-science cameras attached to headbands The grant money will go research. to see what the babies see. They toward Bergelson’s salary, eye The NIH website states will also record the sounds and trackers and other equipment, that the award’s goal is “to speech that the babies hear, and attendance of various provide a mechanism for thus analyzing the relationship conferences. exceptional early career between what is seen and what The grant is for five years. scientists to move rapidly into is heard so as to relate it back to The project will involve about independent research positions the learning of words. two years of data collection, as at U.S. institutions by essentially The babies experiences will not all babies will be observed omitting the traditional post- be recorded for an hour once simultaneously, and three years doctoral training period.” a month for a year, while the of analyzing and interpreting According to Bergelson, babies are between the ages results for publication. her interest in language of six months and 18 months. Bergelson said it is exciting to development comes from her The desired sample size is think that other researchers upbringing, as her parents are about 50 families. Families in the field will be able to pull Russian and her siblings were will be recruited through the from her own findings. all born in Israel. She said the Rochester Babylab database. “One of the goals I think is exposure to the acquisition of Bergelson said the goal is to kind of cool is to share all of this

PHOTO BY ZACHARY T. KERN so many languages sparked have all participants within six data,” Bergelson said. “Then her interest in the difference to ten months. you can imagine that somebody Elika Bergelson earned her PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania. between early and later language There will also be an in-lab else will find something useful.” BY JULIANNE MCADAMS research language development development. portion in which researchers She continued, “I think that’s in babies. The goal of Bergelson’s will use eye-tracking devices to a direction that research is NEWS EDITOR “I feel very excited and totally impending research is to follow what babies look at when heading in and that social media Assistant research professor shocked,” Bergelson said of the understand how babies manage certain basic words are said. is heading in. Everybody shares in the Brain and Cognitive Early Independence Award. to absorb languages better than Basic words will be compared everything all the time, so it’s Sciences department Elika She explained that she did not older people from the babies’ to words that are unique to each nice to imagine that other Bergelson received a $1.25M expect her research in social own perspective. To do so, individual baby’s home life, people could get use out of the grant from the National sciences to be recognized, as researchers will go into the which will be observed from stuff you do.” Institute of Health (NIH) to the award has typically been homes of the subjects and use the videos. SEE GRANT PAGE 4 Susan B. Anthony Institute appoints new director

BY ADAM KADIR spending more time talking semester, but because of the STAFF WRITER with faculty from other shuffle in administration they departments, and mentoring are still in the planning phase. undergraduate students and The SBAI hosts public lectures The Susan B. Anthony junior faculty. held by faculty and visitors as Institute for Gender and The SBAI, despite offering well as sponsors events such Women’s Studies (SBAI) as Laverne Cox’s talk during recently appointed Associate Rubel said that rather Meliora Weekend. Professor in the Department than dealing with One of the Institute’s of Religion and Classics Nora keynote events is its annual Rubel as their new director. The solely gender, the Two Icons Lecture, which this SBAI is an interdisciplinary year will focus on the protests institute meant to bring SBAI aims to ‘use in Ferguson, MO and their together students and faculty gender as a lens to relation to race, religion, and to discuss the roles of women gender. and gender throughout history approach different The Institute also gives out and in the modern day. the annual Janet Heidinger Rubel’s appointment keeps programs.’ Kafka Prize for fiction by with the tradition of hiring an American woman. This diverse directors. a major and minor, is year, the award ceremony for “The director is not always not an academic department. author Ru Freeman, author of someone from the Women’s It is a venue for students and “A Disobedient Girl,” will be Studies Department,” Rubel faculty from any department held on Oct. 23. said. In fact, the each director whose studies relate to women The new director said she comes from a different and gender. It brings together holds high hopes for the department in an effort to bring over 150 professors from Institute. different perspectives to the almost every department in “I’m really excited. We’re in Institute. Rubel’s predecessors the University including such a quiet hallway in Lattimore. include professor of Music diverse departments as biology, I want people to show up,”

Honey Meconi and professor history, and psychology. Rubel said. COURTESY OF NORA RUBEL of German Susan Gustasson. Rubel specializes in Kadir is a member of Associate Professor in Religion and Classics Nora Rubel was appointed Rubel said that the studies of American religious history, the class of 2017. director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. religion and gender have a lot particularly in American of overlap, which she said is Jewish history. She also studies often overlooked. race and gender relations since Rubel said that rather than 1865. She has authored two dealing with solely gender, the books, including one on Ultra- SBAI aims to “use gender as Orthodox Judaism in America. a lens to approach different Rubel also has an interest in programs.” She described the the intersection of religion, Institute as more of a hub gender, and food. She co- for the study of everything authored the book “Religion, relating to women and gender. Food and Eating in North Rubel predicted that her America,” and she is soon to first year on the job will be publish a book on settlement more of a “work in progress” cookbooks. focusing on keeping with the Rubel said she believes that events the Institute has done her background in multiple under past directors while fields will help her manage an also evaluating what can be institute that encompasses a updated. Rubel has already set wide variety of disciplines. goals such as creating a more The Institute is planning useable research database, on hosting several events this PAGE 4 / campustimes.org NEWS / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 Grant Negotiation SEGway awaits SA recognition funds leads to language new contracts research

GRANT FROM PAGE 3 NEGOTIATIONS FROM PAGE 1 Bergelson commented on “We’re not just going to stand research opportunities at UR. silently while people who we’re “[UR] is a really great place to interacting with every day […] do research,” she said, noting that aren’t making enough to make the University is especially strong a living wage.” in the areas of vision and language Before the decision had been development and processing. She reached, SDS was planning on also explained what she feels is gathering 900 signatures on a petition, using social media ‘[...] when you’re to share photos and quotes from workers, and intensifying involved with science their overall efforts to raise research you’re able awareness of the issues many workers at UR are dealing

to learn new things with. Some examples are COURTESY OF EMILY SUMNER about the universe increased rent incurred by UR SEGway is currently awaiting SA recognition. One possible obstacle is it has a concentration on more than just awareness. construction, the hiring of said. “We […] have to think SEGWAY FROM PAGE 1 that you didn’t know outsiders instead of current which means that UHS staff about the future and how we can SEGway’s situation would differ employees, and inflexibility are directly involved in the protect this group in the future.” primarily in the access to campus before.’ when trying to make time to organization’s function. Current Greenwald thinks that SA resources, like room reservations take classes at UR. leadership has received training recognition would help ensure and budget. valuable about scientific research. SDS members who heard on sexual assault prevention as the organization’s longevity. Because of the question “I think in some ways it’s more the news of the tentative well as information about various “It is important to be SA- regarding potential liabilities, fascinating because when you’re agreement observed that campus resources and policies. recognized as a part of the Bidna has instructed his involved with science research such efforts would likely be SEGway works closely with student body and have the ability committee to meet with their you’re able to learn new things unnecessary if the contract UHS health educator Melissa to be independent, instead of advisor with specific questions. about the universe that you didn’t went through. Kelley and Title IX Coordinator being a club through UHS, Bidna also established a timeline know before,” Bergelson said. Tiarra Singleton, who works Morgan Levy, along with other [where we] might not have as of one month, within which Speaking more specifically in the Pit, noted the student UHS staff members. devoted people in the future,” questions must be answered and about the social sciences, support. Bidna acknowledged that while she said. addressed with SEGway. Bergelson commented, “It has to “The students have our the current staff may have the She also suggested that the do with people and finding out back,” Singleton said. “When necessary qualifications to accept relationship between SEGway Remus is a member new ways to see how we think it’s time to picket, they’re out the potential responsibilities, and UHS would remain strong. of the class of 2016. about and perceive the world, and there. They’re wearing the future leadership of the group I’m excited to be able to do that pins; they’re coming to the may not. with infants and families here in rallies. We can do it because of “We have to make sure that Rochester.” them.” future leadership in SEGway McAdams is a member of Lai is a member of is as responsible as I know the the class of 2017 the class of 2018. current leadership will be,” he WE WON’T World news recap: PULL A Oct. 2 - 8, 2014 BY JENNY HANSLER from West Africa for Ebola. Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, Health officials continue to died on Saturday, October 4 SENIOR STAFF insist that the public should at the age of 63. He came into not be concerned. On Monday, power in 1971 and led a brutal BY ADAM KADIR FAST ONE Oct. 6, a nurse in Madrid was reign over the country until STAFF WRITER diagnosed with the disease he was deposed in 1986. It is after caring for an infected estimated that 30,000 people WE’LL DELIVER ONE! Supreme Court declines to missionary there. This is the died during his regime. Anti-racism speaker comes to UR take up cases against gay first transmission of Ebola to marriage: occur outside of West Africa. Islamic State militants The Supreme Court has approach Turkish border declined review of any pending Hundreds killed during Despite bombings by US and cases regarding state bans on Ukrainian ceasefire: allied forces, militants from gay marriage. This decision On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the the Islamic State continue to keeps intact circuit court rulings UN announced that at least seige the Syrian border town striking down gay marriage 331 people have been killed of Kobane. Seizing the town bans in five states-Indiana, since last month’s ceasefire would give IS militants control Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and between government troops over a long portion of the Wisconsin-and could allow for and Russian-backed separatists Turkish-Syrian border, already gay marriage in six more states. in Eastern Ukraine. This figure an unstable region. More than Some advocates on both sides, comes in addition to the more 400 have died and 160,000 however, have expressed than 3,600 people who have have fled to Turkey, whose disappointment at the Court’s been killed in the past six parliament last week approved inaction on this issue. months of the conflict. The military action against the UN report also stated that prior Islamic State. No end in sight to Ebola: to the ceasefire, the separatists Thomas Eric Duncan, the had been bolstered by an influx first person to be diagnosed of foreign mercenaries. The with Ebola in the US, died the conflict has affected more than Hansler is a member of morning of Wednesday, Oct. five million people. the class of 2015. 8. Following this news, five Kadir is a member of FREAKY FAST major US airports will begin ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier dies: the class of 2017. screening passengers returning The ex-dictator of Haiti, Jean- DELIVERY! ©2013 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. OPINIONS / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 PAGE 5 / campustimes.org OPINIONS EDITORIAL CARTOON EDITORIAL BOARD The dirty facts about UR bathrooms

Hopping off the Riverview is standing right against the friends or the next Silver Line bus, which was late as usual, entryway because there are bus to carry them away from you find that you only have four people ahead of him this miserable desert of bowel five minutes until your class awaiting the urinal and another relief. Yes, there is a pair of begins. You crunch some poor soul unloading last night’s slightly larger bathrooms numbers and conclude that, if dinner behind the stall walls. upstairs, but it barely (and you were to sprint at 80% your As you observe the scene often fails to) accommodate maximum capacity, you could in horror, the door crashes Gleason’s occupants as it is, probably clear the doors to open behind you and another let alone the endless stream of Hubbell Auditorium before the desperate patron rushes in, students milling about ITS. As professor finished the opening almost bowling you over in his a result of this astronomically announcements and began hastiness. The guy at the urinal high student-to-bathroom LIZ BESON / ILLUSTRATOR new lecture material. Looking finishes, and everyone else ratio, not only are both the EDITORIAL OBSERVER around, you see that there starts shuffling around, trying ITS and Gleason restrooms are many others with similar in vain to clear the way to the perpetually crowded, but they thoughts racing through their sink. Defeated, the guy swears get filthy quickly due to the high Ebola and religon heads: there is a lot of watch- under his breath and, with traffic. The University needs Duncan, will be cremated. checking and lots of snarling germ laden hands, proceeds to to reassess how it distributes This allows handling of as people vie to pass through pull open the door and leave its restrooms by considering remains without protective the narrow apertures that are in a huff. Well, at least he’ll which areas contain the most gear and has the benefit the ITS doors. You take one be on-time for his class. Stuck students during the most of allowing remains to be step and feel your innards between professor and frantic hours of the day. These spots released back to families clench up. Regret hits instantly student, you have no way to go typically include libraries, searching for closure. If a as you remember the gallon of but forward, dread descending dining halls, or any place of victim does not undergo the milk you chugged just thirty upon you as you realize that, at mass transit, such as a hallway minutes earlier and, making this rate, you’d be lucky if you that sits at the intersection BY PARSA LOTFI crematory process, releasing the body to the family some rapid adjustments to made it to the lecture at all. between three buildings. PHOTO EDITOR would essentially guarantee your calculations, decide A discussion must be had It’s true the school probably Over the past week, the the spread of the disease. that if you relieved yourself about UR’s bathrooms. Why, in has more pressing matters to Ebola outbreak has become Faith and all practices that in under a minute, a 90% what is one of the University’s attend to, but the restroom a massive problem for the go along with individual faiths energy expenditure should be most populated areas, is situation should nevertheless world. This deadly disease has are vitally important to the enough to get you to class on there only one, two-person remain on its radar. In closing, spread remarkably quickly, identity of a majority of the time. Your determination is bathroom per gender? Students here are a list of some starting in Liberia and now population, but it does feel palpable as you deftly round get on and off buses around facilities that would benefit appearing in the U.S.. In the slightly ridiculous that this the corner and soar into the clock, study parties go from more restrooms: Rettner past week, two cases have issue is becoming a debate. I the ITS men’s restroom… late into the night in ITS, and Hall, the Stacks, Hutchison appeared in Dallas, Texas, can understand why families ...only to nearly clothesline people are always loitering on Hall, Lattimore Hall, Gleason with one of the victims having and friends of victims would your English professor, who the steps to Gleason, awaiting Library, and yes, ITS. sadly passed away. As much as want to adhere strongly to the the nation is saddened by this victim’s religious practice, but passing, it does raise quite realistically, handing the body We are all equalists a few concerns in terms of over to families is too large of containing the disease. The a risk. Yes, it may seem harsh simplest and most effective to say that religious beliefs strategy for containing the or faith in general should we are all feminists disease would be to cremate not play a hand here, but it Feminist as a word in principle that all people are Comedian Aziz Ansari has the corpse of the deceased is certainly better to contain our society has a negative equal. This goes back to incorporated feminism into his victims. This would eradicate such a deadly disease, one connotation – “feminazi ” can fundamental basic rights for act. According to Ansari, his any remnants of the disease for which there is no cure be used in normal conversation everyone. There is no reason current girlfriend is “big into and stop the spread right yet. There is such a simple without confusion. Because of why men and women who work feminism.” On his most recent there. However, this starts a solution to stopping the the actions of some slightly the same job should not receive David Letterman appearance, difficult moral debate. In many spread of the disease in the outrageous females, feminists the same compensation, no he asked the audience to clap cultures, the use of cremation U.S., but it is being thrown have an overall bad reputation reason why women should not if they considered themselves a to lay the deceased to rest is out by so many because it when, in truth, feminism have political power in the same feminist. Most of the audience strictly prohibited. What do goes against religious beliefs. is something with which way that men have political remained silent. He then went you do in a situation where a I do agree that some most people would agree. power. Feminists do not believe on to ask the audience to clap patient’s culture falls on this practices to contain Ebola The core definition of that women should take over if they believed in equal rights. side of the moral debate? Do are getting out of hand. This feminism is quite simple: every major corporation in Most if not all of the audience we, as a nation, decide that week, a dog of a Spanish feminism is the belief that the world or occupy every clapped. He gave the audience it is better to cremate the victim was put down simply women should be equal to men seat in the senate, only that a lesson about feminism when victim, or do we be culturally because of the risk that it in regards to social, political, the best person should get the he said, “I feel like if you sensitive, and raise the risk of had come in contact with and economic issues. That’s job regardless of their sex. believe that men and women Ebola spreading? How far do the disease. This is not a fair all it says in the dictionary, According to a poll of have equal rights and someone we go to contain the spread of practice, and not one that that’s the most basic meaning. Americans in 2013, only asks if you are a feminist, a deadly disease with no cure? would stretch to humanity. What the word has become 16% of men and 23% of you have to say yes because In Judaic culture, the body Any suspected carriers of is completely the fault of women identified as a feminist, that is how words work.” of the dead must be buried the disease should be placed our culture. Some nationally but 82% of the population Though it will take a lot within a day of their passing. into quarantine, as have recognized organizations, such believed in equality between of work to clear the image In the Islamic tradition, the Duncan’s family members, as the Girl Scouts of America, men and women, the most of a radical-feminist from dead need to be buried after and should be monitored in support the basic principles fundamental principle of people’s minds, it is possible having been bathed and case of Ebola manifestation. of feminism but are afraid being a feminist. This is the and necessary. If we believe having undergone a set of But in terms of what should to identify with it because same population that believes in equal rights for everyone rituals. Cremation is strictly be done after a victim has of its negative connotation. all feminists are male hating, regardless of sex, what else forbidden. However, it is already passed, I am a strong Feminism is based on the pro-choice, and all liberal. could we be but feminists? strict American federal policy proponent of the idea that to cremate the victims of the body should be cremated The above two editorials are published with the consent of a majority of the editorial board: Rachael Sanguinetti Ebola. The first patient to to avoid spreading the disease. (Editor-in-Chief), Jonah Jeng (Managing Editor), Jason Altabet (Opinions Editor), Jeff Howard (A&E Editor), and be diagnosed with Ebola on Lotfi is a member of Julianne McAdams (News Editor). The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board make themselves available to the American soil, Thomas Eric the class of 2016. UR community’s ideas and concerns. Email [email protected]. PAGE 6 / campustimes.org OPINIONS/ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 Say no to Mumia Abu-Jamal BY JESSE BERNSTEIN upon hearing how the police while the officer was The president of the school of the trial and conviction), n 1970, Tom Wolfe have dealt with the Panthers, conducting a routine traffic acknowledged that the like an accessory used wrote a rambling, dragging an epileptic like Lee stop on Abu-Jamal’s brother. choice was controversial, but only to complete an outfit. seething essay on a party Berry out of his hospital bed The official version is that defended the choice on CNN, The fallout from the heldI at the home of Leonard and throwing him into the Abu-Jamal witnessed the saying, “Goddard College Bernstein’s party was Bernstein. Bernstein, then Tombs…one understands why traffic stop, ran towards the requires its students to engage tremendous. Bernstein was a member of the moneyed poor blacks like the Panthers area, where an “exchange of in a deep intellectual inquiry raked over the coals by the liberal intelligentsia in New might feel driven to drastic fire” occurred, leaving Abu- into issues of meaning and New York Times, which York City, had invited a few solutions, and – well, anyway, Jamal wounded and Faulkner importance of this time, and key members of the Black one truly feels for them. One dead. Abu-Jamal’s defense this is the essence of every Inviting Abu- Panther Party to come speak to really does. On the other hand… team posited a “running man” student’s path to a program Jamal to speak at a and solicit donations from the one also has a sincere concern theory to the jury, as well as a completion and graduation. rest of Bernstein’s ilk. Sidney for maintaining a proper East group of character witnesses. We’re committed to helping graduation ceremony and Gail Lumet, Barbara Side lifestyle in New York That theory and others were them in that process. What Walters, Otto Preminger, Society. And this concern is just struck down as being of they determined was that is an absolute Jason Robards…the guest list as sincere as the first, and just questionable credibility, and Abu-Jamal had a message disgrace. If students was a veritable who’s-who of as deep.” Men ask the Panther Abu-Jamal was sentenced that would help them in that the liberal elite of the period. speakers, “…who do you call to death. His sentencing exploration…He also speaks knew what he Wolfe described the party What he sees is a became a cause célèbre for highly about the importance as a muddled mass of white years – everyone from Toni of critical evaluation.” actually stood for... guilt and misunderstanding; group of people not Morrison to Tom Morello Then let’s do some, shall we? perhaps they’d have the partygoers were ecstatic to Amnesty International Inviting Abu-Jamal to speak upon hearing that their fully understanding proclaimed his innocence and at a graduation ceremony thought twice before donations wouldn’t be tax what exactly they’re decried what they believed to is an absolute disgrace. selecting him. deductible, while very few be the obviously inherently If students knew what he were actually familiar with supporting. racist system that put him actually stood for (go read isn’t and wasn’t exactly the ideals or struggles of in his cell. Though a death up on MOVE, John Africa, the National Review. The the Black Panthers. The to give a [fundraising] party?” warrant was signed in 1995, Mao…), perhaps they’d have Times described the event whole event was punctuated A favorite of mine, which Abu-Jamal’s sentence has thought twice before selecting as “elegant slumming,” and by a one Brooke Astor (yes, follows a Panther leader’s since been changed to life in him. No doubt the students mocked Bernstein’s support those Astors) exclaiming, exhortation to tear down the prison without parole. He’s are patting themselves on of the “so-called ‘party’, “I’ve never met a Panther!... oppressive capitalist system by spent his time productively, the back right now and with its confusion of Mao- This is a first for me.” force, comes from an unnamed writing a collection of forever getting to term Marxist ideology and Fascist In the article, Wolfe coins socialite who wonders aloud, memoirs, being interviewed themselves “open-minded.” paramilitarism” as an affront the term “Radical Chic,” “He’s a magnificent man, here and there, and accepting But it’s a farce. They’re no to Martin Luther King and explaining the way in which but suppose some simple- honorary citizenships from different from the bovine black Americans everywhere. the liberal elite of the day minded schmucks take all adoring European cities. sycophants who purchase a At first, Bernstein scoffed at brought themselves to that business about burning Then, this past Sunday, a Che Guevara t-shirt that was the characterization of his support groups who were, down buildings seriously?” pre-recorded commencement sewn in a sweat-shop, or the fundraiser as a mere party. quite often, incompatible Which brings us to Mumia. speech was sent from Abu- quasi-Jain militant Merry in But as the editorials rolled with traditional liberal ideals Mumia Abu-Jamal (himself Jamal to the graduating Roth’s “American Pastoral,” out and the letters to the of non-violence, free speech, a Black Panther for a time), class at Goddard College, a or the thousands of Occupy papers and magazines rolled and inclusivity that they born Wesley Cook, studied at small college noted for its [blank] protestors who in, Bernstein quickly backed espoused. What he sees is Goddard College briefly in the impressive artistic alumni. showed up and realized they off from his support for the a group of people not fully ’70s, and finished his studies Abu-Jamal has recorded weren’t exactly sure what they Black Panther Party, as one understanding what exactly from a prison cell in the ’90’s. In commencement speeches were protesting. They’re using would sheepishly hang up they’re supporting, and as for 1981, Abu-Jamal was charged before, but his last was Abu-Jamal’s cause, which a new coat that had quickly those who do, he has this to with first-degree murder after almost fifteen years ago. This actually has some legitimacy become unfashionable. say: “One’s heart does cry he shot and killed Philadelphia was his first time delivering (there are indeed some real Bernstein is a member of out – quite spontaneously! – police officer Daniel Faulkner a speech at his alma mater. questions about the fairness the class of 2018. Emory University: A Devastating Continuation of Anti-Semitism BY RACHEL KAPLAN swastikas strewn across the there is such a prominent Jewish crimes against Jews at universities. during a holy time for the n Saturday, October outside of their house as well. community here that supports In 2011, Lafayette University Jewish people serves as further 4th, Jews around the The incident sparks concern the fraternity is not willing to investigated anti-Semitic graffiti indication that hatred among world celebrated the and extreme uneasiness for allow the graffiti to affect them.” that had been found repeatedly in different cultures, ethnicities, Oholy day of Yom Kippur, a day Emory staff and students The incident reflects the various places around the school. and races should not and will designated to repenting for sins and draws national attention anti-Semitism that exists in the Just last year, two students were not be tolerated. We can take and apologizing for wrongdoings to the existence, and even the the recent hate crime at Emory during the previous Jewish year. expression of anti-Semitism as a learning experience, and The following morning, on a college campus. The advocate inclusion and tolerance. Sunday, October 5th, the University’s president, James The University of Rochester W. Wagner, commented on the does its best to advocate inclusion The incident reflects incident. “Among the many and tolerance as well. The pernicious things the swastika University’s webpage on Jewish the anti-Semitism symbolizes, in the last century it life expresses that “Rochester represented the most egregious offers a comprehensive, that exists in the and determined undermining supportive environment – both world today, in spite of intellectual freedom and academically and culturally – for truth-seeking. In short, its students of all backgrounds. of the acceptance of appearance on our campus is Rochester students represent a cultural diversity and an attack against everything diverse backdrop of experiences, for which Emory stands.” ideals, and traditions that help modernity on which Liana Brown, a freshman at each of them not only to carve Emory, expresses her concern. out their own path, but also we pride ourselves. “It’s sad and upsetting that this to learn from one another.” happened especially during the world today, in spite of the LIZ BESON / LLUSTRATOR With open-minds, we can brothers of Emory University’s most important part in the Jewish acceptance of cultural diversity found guilty of painting their take advantage of the “diverse Alpha Epsilon Pi (aepi) awoke year, but yesterday the entire and modernity on which we anti-Semitic thoughts across the backdrop of experiences, to swastikas painted on the school came together and wore pride ourselves. Perhaps the dumpster, garage, and twelve ideals, and traditions” that outside of their fraternity house. blue to support the fraternity most frightening part is not what cars belonging to the Penn Rochester offers, and continue The day after aepi had and the Jewish community in happened at Emory so recently, State fraternity Beta Sigma Beta. to appreciate and thrive within it. been vandalized, the brothers school,” Brown says. “I don’t but the fact that this incident is a The anti-Semitism that Kaplan is a member of of Kappa Alpha found feel unsafe here because I know link on a preexisting chain of hate recently emerged at Emory the class of 2018. FEATURES / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 campustimes.org / PAGE 7 FEATURES University of Rochester Laverne Cox breaks down Press celebrates 25th barriers for transgender discussion BY RACHEL KAPLAN us feel secure, because we are convinced that I was a girl,” anniversary CONTRIBUTING WRITER a culture, as Brene Brown Cox recalled. “The therapist would say, that is intolerant to told my mom and she yelled BY ANDREA REMUS engage the student body and Just a year after Time vulnerability.” at me that boys are this way SENIOR STAFF community will take place magazine named Laverne Cox On “Orange is the New and girls are this way. And it throughout the year. Like the the fourth most influential Black,” Cox plays the role of was just this big thing. And Over the last 25 years, the display at Rush Rhees circulation character on television, the Sophia Burset, a Litchfield I again internalized a lot of University of Rochester Press desk, the 25th anniversary efforts brilliantly talented star of Prison inmate doing time for shame about the way I was has published over 600 books should increase awareness of Netflix’s television seriescredit card fraud, the fallacious thinking about myself and across a wide variety of academic the Press’s existence in the UR “Orange is the New Black” transactions used for multiple about who I was.” After a long disciplines, featuring authors of community. sat down with the magazine gender- affirming surgeries. The childhood battle with the social increasing prominence. This year, The display, which was as part of the UR Press’s 25th exhibited throughout September, anniversary, the publisherhas was developed with the help of gained a more prominent Department of Rare Books and presence on campus. Special Collections librarian The display cases by the Rush Travis Johansen in order to Rhees circulation desk, which emphasize the diversity of replaced the third table, have the Press’s publications in the become a showcase of books that student-frequented circulation are becoming more influential in desk area. the academic sphere. When Barnes & Noble opens The Press, the brainchildat College Town, a similar of ex-Provost Emeritus Brian window display will show some Thompson, was establishedof the press’s publications, further in collaboration with English promoting and publicizing the publisher Boydell & Brewer. Press to a broader audience. The Today, the Press is run by display will become a permanent editorial director Sonia Kane, fixture in the bookstore and will who has orchestrated a total of include information about the seven series of publications in Press’s history. several academic fields ranging On Nov. 1, coeditors of the from “Changing Perspectives “Gender and Race” series Allison on Early Modern Europe” to Parker and Kenneth Marshall “Eastman/Rochester Studies will present some of their work at in Ethnomusicology,” “Gender the College Town bookstore. and Race in American History” Like many UR students both LIZ BESON/ILLUSTRATOR to the newest series, “Rochester past and present, until about to discuss the Transgender show emphasizes the strained acceptance of her gender, she Studies in African History and 15 years ago, series editor and Movement. relationship that Sophia, finally decided who she really the Diaspora.” Professor of Public Health “We live in an uncertain formerly “Mark,” has with her was: Laverne. The editors of these series select Theodore Brown wasn’t aware world and we want to believe son, the strong support that Angela Clark-Taylor, and edit publications with their of the Press’s publications in the that what a man is and what a comes from her wife, and the Program Manager of The teams, send them to the editorial field of medical history and was woman is – I know that,” Cox interesting social dynamic that Susan B. Anthony Institute for board, and over the course of a surprised to find a collection of said. “And people don’t want Sophia’s transgender nature Gender & Women’s Studies, year, send at least 25 books to books published by Boydell & to critically interrogate the implements in the prison. an instructor of a class called Boydell & Brewer to be printed. Brewer under the UR banner world around them. Whenever This Meliora Weekend, Cox “LGBTQ Issues in Education “It’s very gratifying to me to at a book exhibit at a history of I’m afraid of something or I’m will be traveling 140 miles east and Human Development,” get a sense of the diversity and medicine meeting. threatened by something, it’s from Litchfield to Rochester and a sponsor of Cox’s visit, range of projects that the press Yet he was disappointed with because it brings up some sort to speak to UR students about discussed her excitement for is bringing to the scholarly the material covered in the of insecurity in me. I think the modern diversity and tolerance. the event schedule for Mel community,” Press editorial selection, which focused more reality is that most of us are Cox will focus on the struggles Weekend. “This is a great board member and Dexter on British medical thought than insecure about our genders. of being a gender minority and event and I’m really happy it’s Perkins Professor in History Joan international perspectives on They think, ‘Okay, if there’s her path to success. happening,” she said. “After Rubin said. medical history. Upon returning this trans person over here, As a child from Mobile, AL, I saw Laverne Cox speak at To mark the 25th anniversary to campus, he met with one of then what does that make me?’ Cox faced bullying on account Hamilton College, I proposed of the founding of the Press, the UR Press editors. We want to just coast along of her gender identity. “I was we bring her to Rochester. several activities designed to SEE PRESS PAGE 9 in a belief system that makes eight years old and I was just SEE PRIDE PAGE 9

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BY RAAGA KANAKAM insurance to medical prescriptions “It puts me among some of STAFF WRITER to Kaplan courses, as well as the best and brightest students career resources and networking in the country, and I am honored The National Society ofopportunities to provide a leg up to be a part of such a group,” Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is after college,” Noonan said. sophomore Tiffany White said. “I a non-profit academic honor NSCS also offers several study remember being in middle school society that recruits academically abroad programs, including and high school and admiring the high-achieving university Semester at Sea, in which students older students who went through students. It is designed to help attend classes while aboard a ship induction into NJHS and NHS develop leadership skills by in a variety of subjects. These respectively… I want to inspire encouraging participation in include many humanities classes academic excellence to those community service activities. that are connected to destinations following in my footsteps just as It boasts to be “not your visited. those who came before did for average honors organization.” The UR chapter, established me.” Founded in 1994 at George in 2002, has ties with Kaplan White feels that the Washington University, NSCS Test Prep. This “allows the commitment to leadership has now reached over one million chapter to provide members required by NSCS enables members with over 300 chapters with the resources to continue her to make an impact on the nationwide. their education beyond their community and allow her to NSCS membership is offered undergraduate experience.” develop as a person and a student. to freshmen and sophomores Members are also encouraged to Junior Gabryella Pulsinelli with a GPA of 3.4 or higher, and attend ScholarCon, a leadership said that she decided to join who rank in the top 20% of their summit hosted by NSCS each NSCS because she “wanted to COURTESY OF NSCS class. According to junior and summer. It is a gathering of NSCS be a part of something that was NSCS was founded in 1994 to unite collegiate leaders from across the nation. secretary of the UR chapter Kali members and, according to the more than just an honor society.” as well as [holding an assembly] Other projects currently Noonan, NSCS generally inducts NSCS website, an opportunity She attended ScholarCon and in early November [to help] kids being taken on by the UR “between 20 and 30 students “[to] discover what it’s like to noted that “it was an amazing realize they can go to college.” chapter include volunteering each fall” on campus. work in particular industries, experience” for her. According to the NSCS at the Ronald McDonald Once inducted, members get tips on writing resumes and NSCS is currently working website, the PACE Program House, promoting breast and pay a fee of $95. This one-time cover letters, hear motivational on a program called Planning to “empowers college students childhood cancer awareness, and payment is used to “help support speakers, and have fun.” Achieve Collegiate Excellence, or at NSCS chapters across the volunteering at the Golissano the organization as a whole,” The scholarships include merit PACE. country to create local programs Children’s Hospital. Members according to Noonan, and comes awards, study abroad scholarships, “We are establishing a PACE with a school or organization; also volunteer for the Salvation with a series of benefits. graduate study scholarships, program and we will be working this partnership helps increase Army and host a benefit concert “By becoming a member, you and several program-specificwith local 7th and 8th graders the likelihood that those students for charity with support from have access to numerous exclusive scholarships. from School 19 in Rochester,” graduate from high school and other organizations on campus. scholarships and member Being a member of NSCS is Pulsinelli said. “We will be doing are effectively prepared for Kanakam is a member of discounts for everything from important for many students. a mentor and tutoring program college.” the class of 2017.

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PRESS FROM PAGE 7 said. “I think we’re a good, access to university presses, “I had looked at the books, solid number three [behind which are folding,” she said. and I thought they represented Johns Hopkins and Rutgers].” “I’m glad the [UR] Press a perspective of the history The Press has become an opened the door for those of medicine that was a little increasingly important focus people to publish. I’m hoping passé,” he said. “I met the for Brown as he seeks to it continues to attract good editor at the Faculty Club, and improve the quality of the ethnomusicology from young I expressed that the material books and authors published. publishers especially.” wasn’t too relevant. He told me, Many of the editors see the The first book published in ‘Well, why don’t you become Press as an opportunity not the series after its founding in the editor of the series?’ And only to advance knowledge 2008 was a work on Burmese that’s how I got involved.” in their respective academic popular music by Heather Since becoming editor of fields but also to serve peer MacLachlan. the “Medical History” series researchers. The UR Press is unique not in late 2000, Brown has “I see myself providing only for the wide range of thoroughly advanced the series’ information to the field,topics it includes, but also for development, publishing 28 keeping the field open to its incredible success. books by authors from more new research, helping people “At a time when university than seven different countries. advance their careers, and also presses are struggling The series publishes works from publishing respected greats in financially, it’s wonderful both new and well-established the field,” Brown said. to be part of a press that has COURTESY OF SARA MILLER authors whose works have been Ellen Koskoff, editor of the worked out to be financially The UR Press displayed a series of its boo throughout September at the Rush Rhees Circulation Desk. featured by the Cambridge “Eastman/Rochester Studies sustainable,” Rubin said. University Press and Oxford in Ethnomusicology” series, Kane is equally enthusiastic about ways that we might scholarly discourse across a Press. echoed Brown’s sentiment about the Press and its expand into different fields number of fields to offer an “I think in a very short time, about advancing the careers of contribution to academic while still maintaining our important outlet to authors in the humanities.” we have positioned ourselves as young academics. spheres as well as its potential strengths,” she said. “We 73092 one of the leading presses in the “In my discipline, many of expansion. hope to continue to make an Remus is a member of history of medicine,” Brown the young folks do not have “I’m always thinking important contribution to the class of 2016.

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BY LUCIAN COPELAND they try to self-organize like the relationship between cost BY JODI ARMSTRONG Many people worry about the STAFF WRITER world’s most technologically and adaptability, since one STAFF WRITER taboo of it all. For the guys, it’s sophisticated toddler’s blocks. inexpensive platform can be just a cultural expectation – lucky It’s a standard Terminator rip- But apart from the adolescent used to build many different I read an article the other you – so embrace it! off. A swarm of tiny glittering fantasies of computerized conglomerated systems. By day suggesting ejaculation as a Now for the girls: sure, the TV spiders, explained early in attack, their purpose of teaming definition, they are meant to treatment for nasal congestion shows you watched growing up the film by a naive scientist together to achieve tasks is not be greater than the sum of their in adult men. Other than didn’t advertise the idea to you as a means of deconstructing fundamentally different from parts. being a hilarious quirk of the like they did for boys, but that’s The scientists working on human body, this seems like no excuse. Explore, and you’ll be the M-Blocks project at MIT useful information should the amazed by how many people out see their robotic cubes like hypothesis be proven true. there do (appropriately) consider computer screen pixels, their The idea behind this is that, it perfectly normal. size dictating the “resolution” after ejaculation, the body’s If you’re really nervous about it, of the larger whole. Build sympathetic nervous system no one has to know! There’s no them small enough and they kicks in to help restore the body one there to judge you (at least if could even be used to perform to its natural state. In the process, you don’t want there to be.) biomedical tasks, clearing the sympathetic nervous system No matter your gender, arteries or repairing organs causes vasoconstriction of the masturbation is a personally on demand. On a household nasal blood vessels, treating nasal intimate experience. I know the scale, they could be used to congestion for the length of the image in your mind is likely less create common objects before body’s refractory period or more. than romantic in tone, perhaps disassembling and returning to This is a fun hypothesis. the silhouette of an unkempt storage to prepare for the next Even though it hasn’t been man backlit by the screen of a project. proven or even tested, potential computer. But in the same way “We want hundreds of cubes, decongestant effects seem like a scattered randomly across the perfectly good excuse to get some floor, to be able to identify of that special alone time. “ the each other, coalesce, and A simple, “I’m just so sick, I Sex & ” autonomously transform into a hope you don’t catch it!” ought to CT chair, or a ladder, or a desk, on be a perfectly passive aggressive LET SEX & THE CT HELP YOU demand,” John Romanishin of way to get your roommate to THROUGH YOUR MOST the M-Blocks laboratory said. keep out of your room while you AWKWARD SEXUAL YEARS. Other applications could go to town. include space and underwater Hypothetically, you can have exploration, according to the a partner help you out, but if that engaging in sexual activity reasearchers the researchers at you’re sniffling and stuffed up, with another person creates a the IST Swarm lab, or rescue it’s definitely best not to spread powerful respect for the human / CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR NATHANIEL POTREPKA and military missions, say it around. Stick to your hand or body, masturbation can do that sewer clogs, have gone rogue. their Hollywood counterparts, the engineers of the flying your toys. for you with your own body. Like a swarm of ants, the tiny nor is their being compared quadrotors swarm in the GRASP Not into the solo game? Never Love your body, show it respect robots move in eerie concert to swarms of ants or birds that lab at UPenn. In each case, the tried it? You should, both ladies by learning about it and pleasing to achieve tasks impossible for make up natural cooperative malleability of the system is and lads. it. Doing so will help you realize the individual: opening doors, formations. key, whether it’s for navigating Taking responsibility for your how attractive you are, despite flooding through vents, and The advantages of using a complex environments, sexual satisfaction powerfully whatever body-image issues piping to demonstrate their swarm of small robots instead performing unusual tasks, or parallels the responsibility society has given you that you newfound enthusiasm for of a larger, specialized one are forming dynamic objects. you ought to take for yourself haven’t yet fought off (we all have deconstructing vapid teenagers. multifold. Smaller robots are So while the murderous robo- in all contexts of your life. them, let’s be honest here). Real swarmbots, as with lighter and more mobile, can ants are probably a ways off, keep Masturbation can be an That brings us full circle: many prospective technologies access enclosed spaces, and the an eye out for the helpful robo- incredibly powerful tool in doing when is it that you feel the least played up by Hollywood, are failure of one individual will not cubes or buzzing quadcopter everything from helping better attractive? much less threatening. The dramatically impact the abilities swarms. In a few years, they your mood and self-esteem to When you’re sick. thousands of tiny cube or spider of the swarm (as opposed to might be doing everything from helping you figure out in a sexual So when you feel those sniffles robots created by Harvard a large robot, where a single filming your sporting events to way what you like best. It helps coming on – get your cumming and MIT look more like toys minor failure could disable the forming your footrest. improve sleep and can also be an on. than anything, blundering and entire system). Copeland is a member of effective pain killer. Think of all Armstrong is a member of bumping into each other as There is also an excellent the class of 2015. the wonderful possibilities! the class of 2016.

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PRIDE FROM PAGE 7 there is for them when they appearance. “I can personally I worked with many come back and how much say I am super excited and An Afternoon with Claire Porter departments here and Laverne has changed or not changed thrilled,” Cantwell said. “Not Cox’s representation. People on campus. We kept trying to only do I love her on ‘Orange is Including Guest Artist Soprano Marla Berg were really impressed with think of different things to put the New Black’ (duh!), but I see ‘Orange is the New Black’ and together. her as a new LGBTQ icon and Claire Porter, a master of comedic some of the interviews she had “Cox’s presentation is a trans icon specifically.” movement monologues, will given. It kind of seemed like a culmination of many different Cantwell hopes to speak with bring five vignettes to our stage, no-brainer. things happening, including Cox about “awareness to trans each celebrating the music of our everyday lives. “[At Hamilton] she was LGBTQI awareness month and issues and how those issues wonderful. I was really impressed policies for student, faculty, and relate to women of color, but by the way she bridged class, staff health insurance facilitated also to the whole idea of gender Saturday, October 18, 2014 gender, and race. She discussed by John Cullen of the Susan B. as a social construction.” He is her personal experience and Anthony Center for Women’s worried, however, that she was 4:00PM her experience as an actress. It Leadership. I’m so happy chosen to speak at UR not for incorporated personal, political, everyone is excited. It took the issues that she stands for, Spurrier Dance Studio and intellectual ideas. I feel four or five years to organize but for her performance in like that’s really rare. I was so this kind of event, and it’s an “Orange is the New Black.” Tickets : $5 Students impressed.” indication of where we can go Whether you’re a fan of the hit $10 General Public Clark-Taylor went on to in the future.” series or not, UR students can On sale @ Common Market Clint Cantwell, a senior all appreciate Cox’s presence at discuss the importance of For more information, hosting diversity events during Psychology and American Sign UR and hope to be impacted by contact the University of Mel weekend. “A lot of the alum Language double major and her powerful story of success. Rochester Program of Dance and of color, women, and LGBTQ an alum of the Pride Network, Kaplan is a member of Movement at (585) 273-5150 or visit www.rochester.edu/college/dance individuals are not sure what is excited for Cox’s guest the class of 2018. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 PAGE 12 / campustimes.org HUMOR Poking fun at the news Apples BY CHRIS HORGAN BY CHRIS HORGAN going, but I don’t want to come up HUMOR EDITOR 5. A Swiss goalkeeper is a bridge by removing female HUMOR EDITOR with a rotten apple joke that would shocked after learning that beavers in the area. ruin the barrel. 1. A man was struck by a fans urinated in his water However, the beaver has still My older sister just started dating Apples are seen in pop culture as car while trying to cross the bottle. managed to find some morning a doctor. I don’t really like him, so well. For example, I got an Amelia street in Delaware. “So you mean to tell me that wood. I’ve been sending my sister apples Earhart wallpaper on my iPhone Either way, his 8. A woman is for the past couple of weeks. and now it either keeps crashing final destination claiming that she dug Unfortunately, or completely disappears. I’m not was going to be a up her dad’s grave an apple a day kidding, siri-ously. funeral home. “with respect.” isn’t keeping him There’s the famous 2. A New York In an interview with away. Apples story of William court is set to hear the two, the father are an amazing Tell successfully a case that argues remained speechless. thing. Believe it shooting an apple that chimps have 9. Kate Winslet or not, apple was off of his son’s rights. recently opened actually my first head. This story Let’s not forget, up about why she word. I guess this had a more tragic chimps have lefts, didn’t date Leonardo was a healthier ending for Tell’s too. DiCaprio. first word than other son, who 3. A Silicon You’d have to think “cheeseburger.” was born with a Valley man the fact that Leo froze But it seems ginormous head. unwittingly to death had something plausible for LIZ BESON / ILLUSTRATOR Some say that invited a fugitive to do with it. apple to be my first word. Think the one fruit that could rival the inside his home 10. A journalist of all of the phrases. Obesity is apple is the orange, but I won’t get for dinner amid a suspects he got Ebola as American as apple pie. People into that comparison. I think that manhunt. while cleaning an from the Big Apple think everything would be like comparing apples to “Oh my god, infected car. LIZ BESON / ILLUSTRATOR north of them is upstate. UR is oranges. wait,” the man says Something tells me trending on Facebook, how do Horgan is a member of to the fugitive. The fugitive it wasn’t a brownie?” he said that dramamine won’t be able you like them apples? I could keep the class of 2017. begins to sweat. The man after the game. to help this guy’s car sickness. continues, “You almost forgot 6. A recent poll in 11. A recent report ranked desert!” Switzerland asked citizens Bakersfield, California as the 4. Hundreds of chickens what they love most about least literate city in the U.S. were killed by intruders at their country. After reading the report, their Tic tacs are good for a California farm. “Well, the flag is a big plus.” ranking still remains unknown I think we know which one 7. Washington crews are to the city’s citizens. when you are hungry went first, the chicken, not trying to oust a beaver who Horgan is a member of the egg. keeps building a dam under the class of 2017. and want two hundred of something Asking a girl to lunch; a rather on the programming scene BY CHRIS HORGAN a little late. I felt like one HUMOR EDITOR of those grandparents who humorous experience gets a Facebook account BY CHRIS HORGAN exactly what she looks like. If who can’t sing. Now, I’m and misuses a simple thing HUMOR EDITOR I witnessed her committing going to write about the This article has nothing like “lol.” For example, a crime, and I had to do an experience from after I asked to do with tic tacs. Well, commenting “you’re in my amateur sketch, you might her out to lunch. the first sentence does, so prayers lol” on a post about There’s a girl that I plan on get a circle with two dots for Believe it or not, I mustered technically, at the very least someone’s relative who died asking out for enough courage this article has something doesn’t translate to “you’re lunch, whenever to ask this girl to do with tic tacs. Instead, in my prayers lots of love.” that may be, I out to lunch. And I’m going to write about I’m about to make a “Mad don’t know. believe it or not, my first year-and-a-month Men” reference so if you Nevertheless, she accepted the here at UR. When I first don’t know what “Mad Men” never have I so invitation and is just skip this paragraph anticipated eating ended up not and continue reading. The food at Danforth. coming. Maybe relationship between me Keep in mind, I she had a good and my programs resembles haven’t actually excuse, or maybe that of Don Draper and ever anticipated I weirded her Peggy. Every time I had a eating food at out and now she program that worked, I’d Danforth. Not is avoiding me start to get a little confident, because people like the plague. just like when Draper builds think it’s bad, but I don’t know up Peggy’s confidence. But there’s a draft in how awful of good ol’ Don, or computer there that always an experience it science in this case, would seems to dry my would have been ultimately be there to shoot contacts out, for her to eat me down. causing my eyes with me. I mean, I wanted to finish with at to water. As a I didn’t ask her to least a cluster in computer result, I feel like go picking gum science, so I did. Next, I people look at off the bottom LIZ BESON / ILLUSTRATOR tried taking some political me and think, of desks with applied here, I thought it’d science classes. I figured

“Wow, that kid LIZ BESON / ILLUSTRATOR me. Or if she be swell to major in computer that if the classes were is getting pretty wanted to trade science. With hard work, structured like politics in emotional, pull yourself eyes, and long squiggly lines Pokémon cards-even at UR determination, and a little America, we would just sit together man, you don’t have for hair. I know this isn’t a that wouldn’t be too strange. bit of luck, I still didn’t get around every time we met to eat at Danforth.” lot for you to work with, but Since then, we’ve exchanged any better at programming. I and proceed to do nothing. I’ll try to describe her as she does go to UR. a few words, and she seems started to wish that instead I know that was a dig. My best as I can so you can get Anyways, I need some luck. pretty sweet. of my parents teaching me cousin recently became a a better feel for the situation. There are a couple thousand The girl declined to do an how to speak English at a politician. What does he do To make things a little more people on campus, so spotting interview for this article. young age, they had forced now? Nothing. He got the job. difficult, I don’t know her her is as likely as finding a Horgan is a member of me to communicate in Java Horgan is a member of name, and I don’t remember person in “The Lion King” the class of 2017. or C. I also think I just got the class of 2017. campustimes.org / PAGE 12 THURSDAY OCTOBER 9, 2014 / A&E ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Eastman Arts Leadership Program looks to future Senior Lisa Nickels, flexibility, marketing, and BY CARLY GORDON Oboe Performance major, technology skills in the twenty- CONTRIBUTING WRITER was accepted into the ALP first century music world.” Certificate program last year, Senior Lydia Consilvio, Oboe Nineteen Eastman students and completed a prestigious Performance major, who was will have the opportunity to internship at the Kennedy admitted as an ALP Certificate “adapt, invent, succeed” as newly Center’s DeVos Institute candidate last year, added, “ALP admitted members of Eastman’s of Arts Management in has given me hope for the future prestigious Arts Leadership Washington, D.C. this past of classical music and my role in it. Certificate program. summer. “As the busiest It has provided me with a musical The Catherine Filene Shouse performing arts institution education that goes ‘beyond the Arts Leadership Program in the United States, the practice room’ and into the realm (ALP) was founded in 1996 and Kennedy Center has ample of networking, marketing, and remains among the cornerstone opportunities for interns overall savvy.” programs of the Institute for to network, explore the The notion of “arts leadership” Music Leadership at the Eastman many departments, create a means something different and School of Music. ALP offers work portfolio, and attend personal to each student in the myriad opportunities that performances and seminars,” Certificate program. Said Kunkle, encourage students to put the she explained. “I felt prepared “For me, the term refers to slogan “Adapt, Invent, Succeed!” and organized largely due to building a connection between the into action, with courses, guest being able to connect skills arts and the general population. lectures, and internships preparing learned through ALP courses We hear a lot about making the students to enter the classical with the tasks and projects I arts ‘accessible’ and I believe that music workforce with a skillset was given.” any leader in the arts should be rarely fostered by the traditional The ALP Certificate aware that this connection needs conservatory setting. program plays an important to be strong in order for the arts “Most, if not all, of us enter role in preparing students to to truly serve their purpose.” [Eastman] with tunnel vision, face changes and challenges in “Arts leadership is a special saying ‘I’m going to perform.’ the professional world. The brand of leadership,” said Cohen. But after a few weeks in school, classical music field has been “A good leader notices a void I realized it’s much more plagued recently with financial and fills it. Artistic leaders notice complicated than that,” explains instability. For example, the spots in the industry where they junior Alexandra Cohen, Vocal Atlanta Symphony is currently can step in and revolutionize that Performance major, one of the embroiled in a calamitous area.” new ALP Certificate students. COURTESY OF ALP labor dispute, and members Nickels explained, “ALP was one “There are so many facets to this Claire Courchene speaks to Eastman students about her career as a musician. of the Miami Symphony have of my deciding factors in coming industry other than performing. Musicians,” and “Gift and Grant semesters of for-credit internships, not received wages in over a to Eastman. I was interested It’s truly a business.” Seeking in the Non-Profit Arts available during both the summer year, making it necessary for in multiple careers within the Students apply to the ALP World.” and the academic year. These young professional musicians to arts, andw I knew that the ALP Certificate program in the third “I feel strongly that I need a internships, which may take place approach the industry with an courses, resources, and networks year of their undergraduate well-rounded education in order in Rochester or throughout the innovative outlook. would allow me to explore those degree or at the beginning to make myself marketable in country, engage ALP Certificate “People are dynamic. What an fields while still enhancing my of their graduate degree, and today’s world, and I believe that candidates in non-performance audience fifty years ago would performance skills.” Indeed, few remain enrolled in the program the ALP program will be a good aspects of the performing arts, have loved, an audience today other music schools offer such for three to four semesters. source for this,” junior Anne such as administration, marketing, cannot stand,” said Cohen. “I comprehensive and innovative During that time, they fulfill a Kunkle, Music Education and technology, and entrepreneurship. feel that our industry must be arts education, making Eastman’s set of required courses within Saxophone Performance major, “The practical experiences flexible and change in accordance ALP Certificate program a truly the Arts Leadership Curriculum another new ALP Certificate gained through mandatory with our changing audience. Not special opportunity. (ALC), covering topics such as program inductee said. internships [made it] a no-brainer every student seems to recognize Gordon is a member of “Arts, Media and Promotion,” ALP Certificate students are to apply [to the ALP Certificate the need for creativity, uniqueness, the class of 2015. “Essential Technology for also required to complete two program],” Cohen said. ‘Gone Girl’ is thrilling, unconventional BY SCOTT ABRAMS own, through flashbacks from selves from the other. Like most Fincher films, the Cronenweth’s camera realizes COPY EDITOR her diary over the previous Ben Affleck is terrific, subtly ensemble is perfectly cast. Carrie astonishing images within five years. Amy is shown to be displaying Nick’s obsessive need Coon, as Nick’s twin sister, gives the drab confines of a fading “The primal questions of a beautiful and intelligent, but also to be liked. He gives away pieces a phenomenal, heartbreaking Missouri town. marriage: what are you thinking? controlling and manipulative. of Nick slowly, keeping the performance, providing the only In parallel with the beginning, How are you feeling? What have It’s easy to see how it could be audience at bay as to whether likeable character of the film. the final shot of the film we done to each other? What will difficult to be married to her. Nick or not he is guilty. When the Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick shows Nick contemplating his we do?” and Amy’s relationship begins to emotional stakes rise towards Harris are also excellent, cast relationship with his wife: “What These opening lines of falter after both are laid off from the end, Affleck’s performance against type as Nick’s lawyer have we done to each other?” David Fincher’s newest film, their New York City writing jobs grows in stature, showing the and Amy’s creepy ex-boyfriend, There are no possessed dolls “Gone Girl,” present the central and are forced to move to Nick’s man Nick used to be, as well as respectively. in “Gone Girl.” There are no question of the film: can we ever Missouri hometown. the man he is becoming. Technical credits are top- demons, no ghosts, no zombies: truly know another, even the But did he kill her? That’s As good as Affleck is, he is notch, with Gillian Flynn only a couple driven together by one purported to be closest to what the entire world seems no match for Rosmaund Pike. (adapting from her own novel) their own prevailing narcissism. us? This question presents itself to think, especially as the The luminous British actress, delivering a caustic screenplay This horror movie finds its on the fifth anniversary of Nick town’s head detective (Kim who has been wonderful that somehow visualizes an raw power by offering a biting (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne Dickens) discovers evidence that in supporting roles in such internally based book without mediation on the nature of (Rosamund Pike, in a star-making corroborates the theory. films as “An Education” and losing much of its depth. Kirk marriage while asking us the performance), when Amy However, this description only “Pride and Prejudice,” gives an Baxter (who won Oscars for question: is this a relationship disappears under mysterious applies to the first hour of the entirely transformative, singular editing Fincher’s previous two that’s gone terribly wrong or one circumstances. After Amy’s 145-minute film. To discuss more performance here. Appearing films,) edits with a claustrophobic that’s gone terribly right? disappearance goes viral, Nick’s would be a disservice to those in extensive flashbacks, Pike briskness that initially distracts public lack of emotion regarding unspoiled of the twists and turns conveys the contradictory but works wonders in the latter his wife’s disappearance leads the of the best-selling novel. What aspects of Amy’s personality (or, half of the film.Alternating Directed by: David Fincher cable news cycle, notably a Nancy begins as a standard, if intriguing, intriguingly, lack thereof) with between sparse tones and Starring: Rosamund Pike, Ben Grace-like anchor (Missi Pyle), to crime procedural quickly aplomb, balancing her patrician lustrous melodies, Trent Reznor Affleck, Carrie Coon, Kim immediately label him the culprit. transforms into something more iciness with warmth, strength with and Atticus Ross’s score, while Dickens, Tyler Perry, and Neil However, more is at play: the provocative, as the film digs into vulnerability. She is calculating, jarring, increases the suspense Patrick Harris audience is introduced to Amy, Nick and Amy’s psyches, showing sympathetic, narcissistic, and and may lead the duo to a second Abrams is a member of with various neuroses of her how both have hidden their true terrifying, sometimes all at once. Oscar win. Cinematographer Jeff the class of 2018. A&E / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 PAGE 13 Thom Yorke of Radiohead releases understated LP BY AARON SCHAFFER to “consciously uncouple” is not weak, nor is it bad. It is, King of Limbs”) and his other indiscernible voice. It is on this STAFF WRITER himself from Radiohead however, not as inventive as it solo album, “The Eraser,” track that Yorke's meta-critique (I would argue that this is thinks it is. It's frustrating that from 2006. of singing comes full circle. We The actress Gwyneth Paltrow implied by the fact that it is we as an audience know what However, the album does as an audience have to make caused a minor stir earlier this a solo album), while at the Yorke is capable of. His work have its fair share of appealing decisions and judgments of year when she announced on same time attempting to hold with Radiohead over the last moments: on "The Mother music (and, for that matter, art) her website, GOOP.com, that onto the band’s melodies and twenty years speaks for itself, Lode,” Yorke creates a fast- based on everything except the she and her husband, Coldplay signatures in a way that drifts yet Yorke does not want to reach paced melody that, when lyrics. frontman Chris Martin, were to the realm of tokenism, the same heights again. He combined with Yorke's voice, I think that, fundamentally, “consciously uncoupling.” albeit unconsciously. He can’t wants to create experimental, manages to convince of its what Yorke is trying to explain Conscious uncoupling is not let Radiohead's (obvious) electronic, dance music that emotion. On the final track to us is that it doesn't really just a method for celebrities influence go on this album, and hasn't been done before, yet of the album, "Nose Grows matter that we can't understand to imply their quasi-self I don’t blame him. the compositions that he Some", Yorke channels a what he is singing. What importance while retaining It is not exactly surprising creates are deriviative o f melody not unlike "15 Step,” matters is that the way he sings very little to no self respect. that there are subtle indicators his later work with Radiohead the opening track from is beautiful. Instead, I’d argue that Yorke and blips of Radiohead on (specifically “In Rainbows,” Radiohead's “In Rainbows” Schaffer is a member of (as a solo musician) is trying the album. The album itself and, to a greater extent, “The – and sings in his famously the class of 2016. 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As the story goes, the showrunners, Frost and Lynch were forced to concede much PAGE 14 / campustimes.org SPORTS / THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Women’s Rowing makes a splash BY BEN SHAPIRO and freshman Rebecca Fuchs. Madeline Bove. SENIOR STAFF WRITER For their performance, the best The ’Jackets will have a of any team in their conference week off before getting back Competing in their only home or state, the eight were named on the water for their next event for the fall, UR’s women’s the Liberty League Conference event at the Head of the rowing team combined several Boat of the Week on Monday, Charles Regatta in Boston, strong performances this past Oct. 6. It was UR’s first Boat of Massachusetts on Sunday, Oct weekend at the Head of the the Week award since March 31. 18. The Regatta, which is the Genesee Regatta on Saturday, Rochester’s novice eight boat largest two-day rowing event in Oct. 4. Seventeen different did equally well in their race, the world, is celebrating its 50th schools travelled to Rochester finishing third in the 5000m anniversary this year. UR will be for more than ten races in both novice boat race behind teams bringing their first and second men’s and women’s divisions. from local rivals William Smith varsity eights to Boston, with For the ’Jackets, the varsity and RIT. The novice eight both crews competing in the eight boat had one of its best COURTESY OF UR ATHLETICS was composed entirely of Collegiate Eight event in what successes, placing third and UR Women’s Rowing team works together to coast down the river. freshman, with coxswain Kelly should be a great opportunity earning a bronze medal in their Williams College and Division with fellow sophomore Alice Boonie and her classmates Ciara for the ’Jackets to go up against sixteen-boat race. II Mercyhurt University. Racing Bandeian; seniors Juliana Orlov, O’Connor, Stephanie Taylor, some of the best rowers in the The varsity eight boat, which is for the ’Jackets in the event Serra Sevenler, Emily Widra, Shaelyn Rhinehart, Julianna country. made up of UR’s top eight rowers, were coxswain and sophomore and Allie Born; juniors Bella Profeta, Vada Coe, Mattison Shapiro is a member of was behind only top-ranked Crystal Hoffman, along Clemente and Clare McMahon; Flakus, Abigail Gatewood, and the class of 2016. LAST WEEK'S SCORES MLB American SATURDAY, OCT. 4 League Award Picks • Men’s Soccer vs New York University L 0-2 BY JESSE BERNSTEIN of cement blocks playing behind • Football vs St. Lawrence University L 6-31 STAFF WRITER him. Others considered: Felix • Field Hockey vs SUNY Cortland L 1-2 American League MVP: Hernandez The pick: Mike Trout, Out AL Rookie of the Year: • Women’s Soccer vs New York University L 0-1 Field, Los Angeles Angels of The pick: Jose Abreu, 1st Base, Anaheim Chicago White Sox • Women’s Volleyball vs Carnegie Mellon University L 0-3 Stats: 157 games, 36 HR, Stats: 145 games, 36 HR, 111 RBI, .287/.377/.561, 167 107 RBI, .317/.383/.581, 169 • Women’s Volleyball vs Emory University L 0-3 OPS+, 16 SB, 83 BB, 184 SO, OPS+, 3 SB, 51 BB, 131 SO, 7.9 WAR 5.5 WAR The case: Mike Trout is about The case: Abreu had one of the SUNDAY, OCT. 5 to win the MVP in an off year. best rookie seasons ever and no That’s how good this guy is. one else was even league average. • Women’s Volleyball vs Case Western Reserve L 0-3 Trout has had another season End of case. of covering half the world in Others “considered”: Dellin WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8 the outfield and generally doing Betances everything you could ask at the AL Manager of the Year: • Women’s Volleyball vs Nazareth College L 1-3 plate. This elevates him in a The pick: Mike Scioscia, Los year that, without any serious Angeles Angles of Anaheim standout seasons in the AL, The case: On August 17, the gives him an easy road to the Angels finished up a three-game award. But make no mistake, sweep and found themselves tied THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE this was not Trout’s best year. with the A’s for the division lead, He has better years coming. after trailing by 1-3 games for Others considered: Jose most of the year. By the end of FRIDAY, OCT. 10 Abreu, Jose Altuve the year, they were up 10 games. AL Cy Young Award: Scioscia’s been very vocal the • Women’s Tennis at NYS Championships - Day 1, 9:00 AM - Ithaca, NY The pick: Cory Kluber, Starting last few years about his talented Pitcher, Cleveland Indians roster underperforming and • Field Hockey vs Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 4:00 PM - Troy, NY Stats: 34 GS, 235.2 IP, 18-9, missing opportunities, and this • Women’s Volleyball vs Rochester Institute of Technology - 7:00 PM* 2.44 ERA, 269 SO, 51 BB, 152 year they were able to overtake OPS+, 2.35 FIP, 1.09 WHIP, the A’s, fending off both them • Men’s Squash at U.S. Squash Intercollegiate Doubles Championship - All Day - Philadelphia, PA 10.3 SO/9 and the Mariners. Not to mention The case: I know, I know – not that his roster’s creativity helped SATURDAY, OCT. 11 Felix Hernandez? Let’s look at the Angels overcome the losses his numbers. of Josh Hamilton, Garret • Women’s Tennis at NYS Championships - Day 2, 9:00 AM - Ithaca, NY 34 GS, 236 IP, 15-6, 2.14 ERA, Richards, and other key players • Women’s Volleyball vs Hilbert College - 11:00 AM - Buffalo, NY 248 SO, 46 BB, 170 ERA+, 2.56 throughout the year. FIP, 0.915 WHIP, 9.5 SO/9 Others considered: Buck • Women’s Volleyball vs Hiram College - 1:00 PM - Buffalo, NY Their numbers are strikingly Showalter, Lloyd McClendon similar. Flip a coin? We can do Bernstein is a member of • Men’s Soccer vs Brandeis University - 1:00 PM* better. the class of 2018. Well, how did batters fare • Field Hockey vs Vassar College - 2:00 PM - Poughkeepsie, NY against them? Hitters had a • Football vs United States Merchant Marine Academy - 2:00 PM - Kings Point, NY .739 OPS against Kluber and a .729 OPS against Hernandez. • Women’s Soccer vs Brandeis University - 4:00 PM* Nothing there. Park factors both have Progressive Field • Men’s Squash at U.S. Squash Intercollegiate Doubles Championship - All Day - Philadelphia, PA and Safeco that are friendly to pitchers, so that’s another dead SATURDAY, OCT. 11 end. What about the defenses • Men’s Squash at U.S. Squash Intercollegiate Doubles Championship - All Day - Philadelphia, PA behind them? UZR records the number • Men’s Golf at Golfweek Fall Invitational - Day 1, 8:00 AM - Destin, FL of runs a defense costs their pitcher per season. According • Women’s Tennis at NYS Championships - Day 3, 9:00 AM - Ithaca, NY to Baseball Info Solutions, Seattle’s defense was 22nd in the league to Cleveland’s dead- last 30th. Kluber did everything *DENOTES HOME GAME Hernandez did, but with a bunch LIZ BESON / STAFF ILLUSTRATOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 / SPORTS campustimes.org / PAGE 15 SPORTS Derek Jeter: Re2pect well deserved? BY RAHUL UPADHYA with an intense flip play to are that he has never won an batting in runs. Derek just isn’t close to the top of the league, in CONTRIBUTING WRITER home plate, getting hit number MVP and that his wins above that player. This might not make terms of average and even on- 3,000 with a walk-off homerun, replacement (WAR) is not even him the best player in baseball base percentage year after year. Derek Jeter ; now that’s or hitting a walk-off single in on the Yankees’ all-time top ten. in a given season. However, he With WAR, the issue is again a name that can make even his final at-bat at home, Derek In terms of the MVP, has hit a .310 average throughout the subjective way in which we non-sports fans smile. Jeter determine a player’s value. WAR played in the biggest city in the looks at “Batting Runs” and country and probably under the “Fielding Runs.” Jeter’s fielding most scrutiny of any athlete. ability has been slightly above Despite all the public pressure average throughout his career, and little room for success, winning five Gold Glove awards. he has never been the center However, since he batted at the of controversy during his 20 top of the Yankees lineup, his years in professional baseball. “Batting Runs” were lacking. In If that doesn’t impress you, that position in the lineup, Derek Mr. November also has five had fewer opportunities to drive World Series rings on his hand, in runners. Because of this, WAR not to mention 3,450 hits in actually undervalues Jeter in his career. That’s good enough comparison to other players who to put him at sixth place on batted in the middle of the lineup. the all-time hits list. Let me The seasons Derek played at stress that point: all-time. ages 39 and 40 were certainly Jeter has shown tremendous nothing to be impressed with. He leadership in the most successful had career lows in hits, average, franchise in baseball, providing homeruns, on-base percentage, a source of stability for the runs batted in, and slugging New York Yankees, a team percentage. This is natural, with several big-name players though; all players regress at coming in and going out. the tail-end of their careers. Jeter also spends a substantial Even the greats like Babe Ruth, amount of time supporting Lou Gehrig, and Joe Dimaggio his own Turn 2 Foundation, slid in their last seasons and an organization working to to an even greater extent than “motivate young people to Jeter did. We shouldn’t let two turn away from drugs and average seasons cloud our alcohol and ‘TURN 2’ healthy judgment of a player who has lifestyles… [and to] promote been great throughout his career. academic excellence, leadership DJ is certainly a First Ballot development, and positive Hall of Famer and will be behavior.” Jeter sets a fantastic known as one of the greatest example for the community and LIZ BESON / STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Yankees of all time. He’ll wants this message to resonate Jeter has an almost infinite Olbermann subjectively values his career. It’s natural that he definitely be celebrated for with younger generations. list of memorable moments. homeruns and RBI’s over hits wouldn’t bat in many runs, his leadership and ability to Whether it be the signature There have been some critics, and average. These are far since he batted at the top of handle his stressful position. 360° throw in the field, giving however. Keith Olbermann, flashier statistics, and it makes the order. Jeter was arguably In the end of his domain, all I up his body to make an out, a sports analyst, has come sense that the most dominant the best baseball player in the can say is: “Thank you, Derek.” hitting a walk-off homerun out criticizing Jeter. His two hitter in the league would seem, more than 20 years he played, Upadhya is a member of in November, saving the team main arguments against Derek on the surface, to be the one because he consistently hit at the class of 2017. Catherine Knox and Mark Rollfs - Cross Country BY MAX EBER look up to Ethan Pacheck. SPORTS EDITOR MR: TJ Stein is my greatest inspiration. He’s an American 1. How did you get into hero. running cross country? 6. Do you have any pre-race CK: I ran track my freshman rituals? year of high school because CK: I don’t have any unusual I wanted to do a sport in the pre-race rituals. I warm up with winter and spring, but I didn’t the team which involves running, enjoy it until I started running doing form drills, and doing cross country in my junior year. strides. MR: I got into cross country MR: I’m not sure I’d call them running my sophomore year of rituals, but I stick to a pretty high school, after a successful conventional routine with a track season the year before. I timely warm-up and drills. Coffee guess early on I found myself an hour before the warm-up is a very competitive in the “one mile must. run” gym class activity, so I gave COURTESY OF UR ATHLETICS 7. Would you rather be in a running a try and loved it. Left: Knox strides to her recent impressive 18th-place finish. Right: Rollfs hustles to claim the 59th place in a field of 341. cooking competition with Bill 2. What is your favorite Cosby or Elton John? Why? aspect of the sport? weekend? next race at Oberlin should yield Bucknell last spring. Competition CK: I think I would choose CK: I like the feeling of CK: It was exciting to place in better results. at that meet was great, and I ran Elton John, just because it would accomplishment when I know I the top 25 in such a large meet 4. What is your proudest a PR of more than a minute with be cool to meet him. put everything I have into a race. and it was great to see so many moment as a runner? a time of 30:47. I think what was MR: Interesting question. If I MR: My favorite aspect people run personal bests. CK: Finishing in the top 14 most satisfying about this race was looking to win, I’d say Elton of cross country is the team MR: Our performance this last year at the UAA meet to was how even the splits were. John because I bet he is more mentality. Running together with past weekend was subpar. While become part of the second team The group of us that went down coordinated and knows his way your teammates in the midst of a we got out well, we didn’t have all-UAA. This is one of the most to that meet all ran well; I’m around a kitchen. If I was looking large group of competitors gives a good enough sense of where intimidating meets we go to so looking forward to running there to have a good time, I’d say Bill us all a real sense of gravitas. the front of the race was and we it was exciting to be able to stay again this year. Cosby because he’s someone 3. How do you feel about were content to sit in the middle with the top group. 5. Who is your greatest who’s always entertained me. your individual and your of the pack. Mental toughness MR: My proudest moment inspiration? Eber is a member of team’s performance this past and some more confidence at our as a runner was after a 10K at CK: I literally and figuratively the class of 2017. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 / ADVERTISMENT campustimes.org / PAGE 16