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Justice Ruth Ginsburg ’54 Officiates at Same-Sex Wedding

By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

Two months after voting to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 took another historic step Saturday when she became the first justice to officiate at a same-sex wedding.

DOMA barred federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which prevented gay couples who were married in states that do allow same-sex marriages from receiving more than a thousand federal benefits. Signed into law in 1996, DOMA was struck down and ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in a landmark decision in June.

On Saturday, Ginsburg presided at the wedding of Michael Kaiser and John Roberts, according to the Associated Press. Kaiser is the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Roberts is an economist who works at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a regulatory agency.

Ginsburg told the Washington Post that after the DOMA ruling, officiating at a same-sex marriage seemed like a logical step for her to take.

“I think it will be one more statement that people who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship,” Ginsburg said.

Kaiser told the AP that Ginsberg, in addition to being a member of the highest court in the country, is also a close friend of his.

“It’s very meaningful mostly to have a friend officiate, and then for someone of her stature, it’s a very big honor,” Kaiser said to the AP. “I think that everything that’s going on that makes same-sex marriage possible and visible helps to encourage others

“People who love each other and want to live together should be able to enjoy the blessings and the strife in the marriage relationship.”

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54

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Order in the court | Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, one of the first female justices, made history when she officiated a same-sex marriage Saturday.

at and to make the issue seem less of an issue, to make it just more part of life.”

Ginsburg has a history of voting progressively. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She also served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973 to 1980 and on the National Board of Directors from 1974 to 1980, according to the Supreme Court’s website.

Ginsburg will also officiate at a same sex wedding in September, she told The Washington Post.

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/dilemmaincourt.

Crowdfunding Enables Student Projects Cornell Students Lament

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell University is now crowdsourcing funds for projects through a partnership with USEED, one of the first platforms developed specifically to support projects in higher education.

USEED operates much like Kickstarter, a popular crowdsourcing website where supporters of art projects, events and products can donate money at different levels, according to University officials. Cornell's

Office of Alumni Affairs and Development launched two projects on USEED this summer in response to the popularity of donation-based crowdfunding platforms.

Two projects are currently crowdfunding on the platform: an outdoor classroom fundraiser for Dilmun Hill, Cornell's student-run organic farm, and a LGBT Leadership Academy to educate current students to be leaders in the LGBT movement beyond See USEED page 5

Ithacans,Mayor Pick Up Trash in Collegetown

By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

EMMA COURT / SUN CITY EDITOR

Alderperson Stephen Smith helps volunteers picking up trash on Oak Avenue.

Heeding Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 calls on social media, approximately 20 students and city residents traded a few hours of relaxation on Labor Day for yellow gloves to try to clean up the garbage-strewn streets of Collegetown.

Over Monday afternoon, volunteers cleaned 16 blocks and filled 30 bags of trash, according to a post Myrick put on Facebook.

Most volunteers said their desire to help out stemmed from an abundance of trash scattered about on the main streets of Collegetown. Harold Schultz, an Ithaca resident who owns The Nines on College Avenue, added

that he was motivated by a sense of civic duty — as well as his view that “the place was a mess.”

“People just leave beer cans, beer bottles and all kinds of trash just on the street and don’t put it in the garbage,” Schultz said.

“Students were just coming back, they’re partying a little late, they’re drinking quite a bit and they’re getting careless.”

Although others, including Cornell students who came to volunteer, also cast blame on the student population for the state of the streets, Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward), said the city shares responsibility for the mess.

“From the city’s standpoint, we could do a better job of emptying See TRASH page 4

Cancellation of Ezoo

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN

Michael Bloomberg said that “during the first two days of the Electric Zoo Cornell students were music festival, two concertamong the thousands of con- goers have died, and at least certgoers who, after gather- four others became critically ing to attend this weekend’s ill and have been placed in Electric Zoo festival in New intensive care at area hospiYork City, were sent home a tals.” He added that day early when two concert- although “definitive causes goers died. of death have not yet been Electric Zoo, also known determined ... both [deaths] as “Ezoo,” is a three-day fes- appear to have involved tival that features a variety of [ecstasy].” electronic Brittany d a n c e Coard ’14 Ecstasy is particularly m u s i c said Sundangerous at outdoor day’s events, artists. The final day of which were festivals, according the festival set to begin to Prof. Ron was canat 11 a.m., Harris-Warrick. celled when were canJeffrey celled as Russ, 23, a late as 9 recent graduate of Syracuse a.m. that day.

University, and Olivia The deaths and cancellaRotondo, 20, a junior at the tion came as a surprise to the University of New attendees, who felt that the Hampshire, both died al- concert management made legedly due to complications the health of concertgoers a with MDMA drug use. priority.

In a statement explaining Rommia White ’15 said the city’s decision to cancel that, throughout the festival, the last day of Electric Zoo, New York City Mayor See ELECTRIC ZOO page 4

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Ithaca Airport Receives $1.2 M in Federal Funds

By SARAH CUTLER

bring its perimeter fence in line with safety codes. The current fence is eight feet tall and has three strands of barbed The Ithaca Tompkins Regional wire at the top, but animals have been Airport will receive more than $1.2 mil- able to burrow underneath it, airport lion in federal funding this year, the manager Robert Nicholas said. With the state’s senators announced last week. funding, airport officials plan to dig The funding for the airport comes deeper and place part of the fence underfrom three separate grants, which, when ground. taken together, “are a significant invest“You can’t have a fence around the airment in the Ithaca port that has great Tompkins Regional holes at the bottom Airport,” Sen. Chuck of it that animals “The funding will help Schumer (D-N.Y.) said can crawl through Ithaca Tompkins enhance onto the tarmac,” in a press release.

“The funding will said. their safety and security Nicholas help Ithaca Tompkins “When airplanes capabilities.” enhance their safety land, that’s not a and security capabiligood mix.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D- N.Y.) ties through the conImproving the struction of a perimeter airport’s infrastrucfence and the purchasture will enhance ing of necessary safety and maintenance airport safety and will have a positive equipment,” he said. effect on the community as a whole, Sen. The airport will use the money to Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said in the replace its aging snowplow and rapid- press release. response aircraft rescue vehicle.

“Improving the airport’s infrastructure The funding will also help the airport and safety equipment can help provide Sun Senior Writer

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Come fly with me | Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has received over $1 million in federal funding, which will be used to mend a fence and purchase new equipment.

better, safer service for travelers and businesses, and help strengthen the local economy,” the press release stated.

Because the airport is self-supporting and does not cost taxpayers any money, federal funding is the main resource for replacing “the big items,” Nicholas said.

“The cost of keeping the airport facility safe is way beyond what we can afford in terms of trying to keep the airport off the tax roll,” he said. “We get an annual grant this time of year — we just have to

figure out how we’re going to spend it and what priorities we have as equipment wears out.”

The state’s announcement about its funding for the airport comes after officials learned last spring that sequester budget cuts would force the airport’s control tower to close, prompting concerns about flight delays.

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

Multiple Shots Fired in Ithaca Univ.: Diversity at Cornell Saturday; Police Investigate Defies Study Conclusions

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Ithaca Police are searching for a person who allegedly fired several gunshots and then nearly hit a pedestrian while making an escape in a black SUV Saturday evening.

At approximately 8:45 p.m., Tompkins County 911 received calls that several shots were fired in the area between Wood Street and South Plain Street. Although police arrived within minutes of receiving the call, they found neither the alleged shooter nor victims with gunshot wounds at the

scene, according to a press release from the Ithaca Police Department.

Several witnesses in the area told police they saw two vehicles, a black SUV and a silver Toyota or Audi, stopped in the 300 block of Wood Street. A person standing outside of the black SUV fired several shots before the silver vehicle immediately reversed and fled east, nearly striking a pedestrian in the process, according to the IPD. The shooter then got into the black SUV, fleeing west.

The black SUV was last seen turning north onto South Meadow Street.

The pedestrian twisted an ankle while trying to evade the vehicle but declined medical treatment.

As of Saturday evening, local hospitals had not reported treating any victims with gunshot wounds, according to the IPD. Police believe a small caliber handgun was used to fire the shots, and they are investigating the possibility that the silver vehicle was struck by gunfire during the incident.

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/akaneotani.

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Megan Gerling ’15 and Mary Fisher ’15 learn self-defense moves Monday as part of a workshop sponsored by Cornell Panhellenic Council.

By ANUSHKA METHROTRA

Sun Staff Writer

Responding to a recent study that declared that top universities in the United States still lack racial and economic diversity, Cornell officials maintained the University has made above-andbeyond efforts to increase the enrollment of diverse students on campus.

The study, which was conducted by Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl of the Georgetown University Center on Education and Workforce, found that lowincome students and minorities are underrepresented at selective four-year universities.

Since 1995, white students have been relatively overrepresented at selective four-year colleges, while Hispanic and African-American students have been relatively overrepresented at two-year, open-access schools, according to the study.

The lack of minority representation in top colleges results in lower graduation rates among minorities compared to white students, the study concluded.

Although the study suggests that the phenomenon exists at selective four-year universities, members of the Cornell community are disputing the validity of the results as far as the University is concerned.

“Cornell has made extraordinary efforts and committed substantial financial aid resources to increasing socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diversity on campus,” Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, said.

More than 240,000 highachieving, low-income high school students do not go on to earn a degree, which the study says may be due to the rigorous

application process of selective colleges, as well as the ease and affordability of open-access institutions.

Of those 240,000 low-income students, minorities are disproportionately represented — one in four are either African American or Hispanic.

According to Thaddeus Talbot ’15, Student Assembly minority liaison at-large, one factor the Georgetown study does not take into account is the effort universities are making to increase racial and economic diversity on their campuses. For instance, at Cornell, Talbot is cochair a group that works to increase black male graduation rates.

“We are obligated … to search for a belief in some form of equality and act upon it,” Talbot said.

“It starts right here, right now, right on Cornell’s campus.”

Members of the Cornell faculty and administration also emphasized that the University’s admissions policies favor economic diversity, meeting 100 percent of admitted students’ financial need and practicing a needblind admissions policy.

“The administration and the trustees have long made diversity a priority,” Ehrenberg said.

The University’s financial aid initiatives emphasize “families with a total family income of less than $60,000 and total assets of less than $100,000 will have no parent contribution,” according to the University’s financial aid website.

Ehrenberg noted that the Class of 2017 is one of the most diverse freshman classes in Cornell’s history.

Anushka Methrotra can be reached at amethrotra@cornellsun.com.

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Mayor:CityWill Work to New York City Shuts Down‘Ezoo’ Alleviate Trash Problem ELECTRIC ZOO

events is on the rise, professors say. In particular, there has been a “skyrocketing” use of ecstasy among college students, according to Prof. she saw people alerting festival officials when Ronald Harris-Warrick, who teaches “Drugs and someone seemed to be ill. the Brain” in the Department of Neurobiology “I know someone who tried to take a nap, and and Behavior and has lectured on MDMA and its immediately, they had emergency people all over effects. them,” White said.

MDMA poses a particular danger to drugCoard said the festival’s organizers had also cre- users at outdoor music festivals, according to ated several checkpoints and stations for attendees Harris-Warrick. to rest at.

“The most obvious problem with ecstasy over“They [had] different health points in between doses is hyperthermia. Ecstasy blocks normal regthe stages and free refill staulation of body temperature tions,” Coard said. and if the user is very active, “I know someone who which Despite the precautions is likely during a concert, that festival organizers took, can lead to a big jump in this tried to take a nap, and temperature,” Bloomberg said there was no Harris-Warrick option but to cancel said. they had emergency Sunday’s events.

Ecstasy can raise body tempeople all over them.” peratures as high as 108 “The Electric Zoo organizers have worked with degrees, which can lead to liver Rommia White ’15 city officials to reduce and kidney failure, strokes and health risks at this event, muscle breakdown. “That is but in view of these [deaths the most likely reason that and injuries], the safest course is to cancel the these people died,” Harris-Warrick said. remaining day of the event,” the statement Harris-Warrick added that, at a hot outdoor said. concert, when people are dancing and working White said that, although the cancellation was up a sweat, the risk of hyperthermia during an initially disappointing, she and other attendees ecstasy trip can be high. respected the city’s decision to cut Electric Zoo People are so worried about hyperthermia that short. they drink way too much water and die as a result “I think that it was reasonable — they were of drinking too much, he said. having more casualties than any other festivals.

You have to shut it down out of respect for the Erica Augenstein can be reached families and for safety reasons,” White said.

The use of drugs at music festivals and other at eaugenstein@cornellsun.com.

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the trash cans — the trash bins are overflowing and when that happens, trash falls out and gets blown around the streets.

It discourages people from putting things in the trash,” Smith said. “The other part is people get a little careless and reckless on the weekends.”

Myrick said the city would work to make structural improvements to avoid similar garbage pile-ups during the early weeks of future academic years.

“We’re going to try to add more trash cans to the streets, add more recycling to the streets [and] pick up the trash more frequently in Collegetown,” Myrick said.

“But in the short term, something had to be done and I fig-

ured we could ... get some people together and set a good example.”

Yet many volunteers said students, not city officials, needed to take responsibility for their actions.

“The students should make a little effort not just to throw things on the ground and things like that,” Schultz said.

“It’s not really going out of your way to throw something in the garbage.”

Shiwani Bisht ’16 said in the course of cleaning up Dryden Road, she encountered large amounts of strewn food and bottles of alcohol.

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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USEED to Help C.U.Projects Gain Funding USEED

ing to Burrichter.

Donations came mainly from faculty, staff, alumni, parents and students. Lakeview Organic Grain, a supplier of grain to the student farm, also gave a large gift to Dilmun Hill campus. through USEED. “We wanted to do a small-scale pilot project to better understand if and how crowdCornell’s LGBT Leadership Academy has a goal of raising $15,000, $3,500 of which has funding could work for Cornell,” said Andrew Gossen, senior director for social media strat- been donated since Aug. 26. egy for Alumni Affairs.

“Our community was a pilot candidate because the University is looking to engage its Contributors to USEED projects can donate at specific levels, denoting different involve- LGBTQ alumni through their LGBT affinities. We’re an emerging alumni community, ment in the projects. Smaller donations are typically to indicate support for something, thanks to the Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association’s recent reinvigorawhile larger gifts can result in project organizers granting benefits like dedications to the tion, and the University wants to support the causes we care about,” said Olivia Tai ‘11, secdonator. retary and communication chair of CUGALA. According to Gossen, crowdfunding is ideal for online networks, The LGBT Leadership Academy Project currently has 15 volunteers “USEED is not a main where people can share information about projects they are involved using email to solicit donations. The project reached 13 percent of its with across all of their social networks. USEED uses storytelling to goal on the first day, and Tai said she believes they will meet their encourage contributors to donate, letting project organizers give source of funding; it does, fundraising goal. updates on what they are working on.

“We’re still waiting for our first major donation from a celebrity or however, supplement “If alumni, parents and friends of Cornell are spending more time well-known LGBT group — fingers crossed. [Still], we are in awe of the our funds.” online, we need to meet them where they are,” Gossen said. “Direct spectacular show of support from our current donors,” said Tai. mail, phonathons and other annual giving efforts remain critically According to Gossen, projects that reach the 30 percent fundraising Emily Burrichter ’14 important to Cornell’s fundraising success, but adding crowdfunding to mark usually reach their final goal. our overall strategy helps us evolve as the world is changing.”

“Since we’re already almost at that milestone, we’re confident that As of Aug. 22, Dilmun Hill’s outdoor classroom project had already the LGBTQ Leadership Academy will reach its goal as well,” Gossen fulfilled its goal of raising $5,000. said.

“We were surprised that we exceeded the goal. It’s nice to see that students are supportAlumni Affairs and Development staff worked with the different colleges and groups on ive of student organic projects,” said Betsy Leonard, Organic Farm Coordinator and over- campus to find projects that would work well with USEED’s crowdfunding system. seer of the Dilmun Hill Student Farm.

According to Gossen, a good story, a feasible funding goal and engaged alumni and student Emily Burrichter ’14, student manager of Dilmun Hill, said that USEED would help volunteers were the criteria for using USEED. extend the reach of Dilmun’s programs around the community.

“We’re going to experiment with a range of different types of projects and see what works.

“USEED is not a main source for funding; it does, however, supplement our funds to be The criteria are evolving, and they’ll continue to evolve as we get more experience,” Gossen able to do something like expand our education and outreach programs,” Burrichter said. said. “Broadly speaking, however, we’re looking for projects that align with specific priorities According to Leonard, the money raised by USEED will provide foldable chairs, tables and are likely to engage specific audiences.” and a kiosk for Dilmun Hill, which will be used to help the farm further connect with the Ithaca community. The $5,000 goal was set based on the total cost of these supplies, accord- Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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The Promise Of Crowdfunding

IN THE SPRING, CORNELL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST universities to sign on to a pilot program launched by USEED.org, an online fundraising platform for higher education institutions. This summer saw the launch of the first two Cornell crowdfunding campaigns, both of which have been relatively successful. Innovative alternatives to fundraising like USEED allow the University to support its communities by bolstering independent efforts. As long as it remains a supplement to — and not a replacement for — administrative financial support for the initiatives that most benefit Cornell’s campus, crowdfunding is one forward-thinking and promising fundraising option.

Crowdfunding — a popular new entrepreneurial model that uses social media to solicit financial backing — is currently one of the largest sources of online donations for non-profit projects. Numerous independent research groups have lauded the effectiveness of the method for smaller, short-term fundraising efforts. At Cornell, it is an experiment that carries no risk and can only generate financial support, however modest, for University initiatives. So far, Dilmun Hill, Cornell’s student-run organic farm, easily surpassed its $5,000 goal with plenty of time to spare, while the effort to launch an LGBTQ Leadership Academy has raised 25 percent of its $15,000 goal with nearly a month remaining.

The system, though not perfect, is seemingly well-formed. Gifts made through USEED are considered contributions to the University, which makes them taxdeductible for donors. Another benefit of administrative oversight is the existence of safeguards to keep recipients honest, ensuring that funds raised are dedicated to the exact purpose advertised during solicitation. Additionally, due to its heavy reliance on social media integration and campaigns that are more narrowly-focused and personal in nature, the average age of people who generally participate in crowdfunding is significantly younger than that of typical givers. The novelty of USEED could potentially entice new, younger donors for the University — perhaps even ingraining a habit of generosity in Cornell students and young alumni at an earlier age.

There is no guarantee that USEED’s seeming initial success will continue with future endeavors. It is certainly possible that the novelty will wear off and an expansion of crowdfunding to additional projects will dilute the donor pool. In fact, that outcome may be inevitable. But it is nonetheless commendable that Cornell is continuing its tradition of staying ahead of the technology curve. Cornell cannot, and, for the sake of fiscal stability, often should not, directly fund every project at the University to the level that it perhaps deserves. The USEED model allows the administration to offer a helping hand while still placing onus on organizers to take ownership of their own projects’ survival. Even if USEED fails to succeed as a long-enduring form of fundraising, we believe it is symbolic of the University’s commitment to encouraging entrepreneurial activity among its students, alumni and affiliates.

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s the semester gets underway, I welcome you to the new academic year and all of the opportunities it presents to us individually and as an academic community. I especially commend all the faculty, staff and continuing students who are helping the newest members of our community feel at home and get off to a strong start.

First-year and Transfer Orientation at Cornell offered a wonderful introduction to our University, with a rich mix of academic and social activities along with programs that helped convey community norms and aspirations regarding academic integrity, bias, sexual violence, student health and wellbeing and respect for the community.

These aspects of the campus climate caused concern last year, and I am pleased that we are addressing them constructively. I encourage all of us to build on the success of Orientation to create positive and meaningful experiences for everyone inside and outside of the classroom.

Some of Cornell’s greatest strengths are the diversity of talents, backgrounds and perspectives within our community. Our newest students are especially accomplished and diverse. As the most selective undergraduate class in Cornell history, they have come to campus from 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 51 other nations. The Class of 2017 has the highest recorded number of students of color (1,340), African-American students (231) and international citizens (371). In the Graduate School, the percentage of international students is even higher.

Each and every one of our new students, and all members of the Cornell community, have the right to feel safe, valued and fulfilled in our work and activities at Cornell.

As we begin the semester, I ask all of us to be more aware of the effect of our behavior and choices on others, to view differences in background and perspective as opportunities to learn and grow and to make the Cornell experience as good as it can possibly be for everyone.

Toward New Destinations, Cornell’s diversity planning initiative, provides a foundation for a culture that supports the full participation of all members of our community, and it is being implemented in all of Cornell’s colleges and administrative units. You can learn more about Cornell’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion and the resources available to all of us by clicking on the link on Cornell’s home page.

And, as you consider the groups you will join this year — Greek houses, athletic teams and other organizations — I ask you

to demand that all organizations in which you participate utilize positive, respectful ways to integrate new members into the group. Please be aware of the potential for hazing and alcohol abuse, and resist the allure of dangerous rituals that some think are merely rites of passage. If you are a current member of a group, team or organization, lead the way by designing and participating in activities that are free of hazing and alcohol abuse.

During the past year, we have taken significant steps to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our community. Within the Greek system, for example, we have shortened the new member education period in order to reduce the opportunities for inappropriate behavior to occur. Last spring a maximum of six weeks was allotted for new member education activities; next spring the time for new member education will be further reduced to four weeks. Many of our fraternity and sorority members have devised orientation activities that keep the focus on the positive traditions and values espoused by their chapters. In their dedication to preserving what is good and valuable about Greek life, these students, in partnership with alumni and the national/international Greek organizations, are beginning to bring the rest along with them.

No matter what organizations you participate in this academic year, I encourage you to find positive ways of building affinity within the group. If you are the victim of hazing or have information about a hazing incident, report it on our confidential website, hazing.cornell.edu, so that we can investigate and address the issue.

As Vice President Susan Murphy and I wrote in a recent op-ed in USA Today: “You can stop hazing in its tracks now by refusing to participate ... You can be part of a growing effort led by other students, alumni and administrators to create better ways for students to come together in socially productive, enjoyable and memorable ways.”

Together we can make Cornell the welcoming and respectful community we aspire to be — a place where each of us, and all of us, can add our perspectives and broaden everyone’s horizons. The start of the semester is the perfect time to renew and expand our efforts. One place to begin is by being more aware and considerate of each other in all that we do.

David J. Skorton is president of Cornell University. He may be reached at david.skorton@cornell.edu. From David appears bi-monthly this semester.

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Deon Thomas |

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Questioning Our Vices B

efore going out for a night of debauchery, one must ask him or herself a few questions: Should I bring my phone? Of course — If I get into any trouble, or if another girl turns me down, I’m going to have to call my dad to ask for advice. What should I wear? If I wear another tank all my friends are going to think I’m promiscuous and will cease to associate with me. Am I going to drink tonight? I’ve achieved insobriety everyday this week so another night couldn’t possibly hurt.

Lastly, which illicit drug should I partake in? I know it’s illegal, I know it’s potentially bad for my health but, what am I to do without my precious remedies — my delightful potions that keep me from boredom and awkward social settings? What would I do without them? How could I possibly interact with my peers while sober?

I am not writing this column to denounce the use of drugs. I am writing this to call attention to the rampant use of them. In the wake of the two deaths that took place at Electric Zoo, the three-day music festival in New York City, we need to start asking ourselves an important question: Why do we seem to need these drugs? Our generation’s growing reliance on these party drugs is forcing us to quickly answer this question. Do these drugs merely enhance the fun we have at social gatherings or are they serving as a crutch? If it troubles you to answer either of these questions you may need to make some changes in your life.

When it comes to taking illicit substances, the first necessary discussion boils down to whether or not the pros of taking a drug outweigh the cons. The obvious pros are an increased amount of fun and … ? The obvi-

All I demand is that you question your choices so that when you are called forth to answer for them, you’ll be ready. ous cons are the legal issues and the health problems — including death — that may arise. One could make the argument that having “more fun” is not worth going to jail or dying. However, when weighing the probability of having fun against the probability of dying, this issue becomes far more complex. The probability of having fun as a result of drug use is far more likely than the probability of dying or going to jail. Yet, at the end of the day we must make sure to ask ourselves: Is it worth it (keeping in mind that everyone will think about these risks differently)?

So why are we doing it? Is it simply a matter of making a bad party good or a great party better? Or is it a matter of needing drugs to make a social gathering worth going to? If you, even for a second, feel like you need these substances, then you have to admit to yourself that you have a problem. A lot of people assume that this is just the “college lifestyle” and that once they graduate, it will all just go away. My problem with that is: If you feel like you need drugs now, what drastic change is going to occur that will end this need? One of people who died at Electric Zoo was a graduate of Syracuse University, which should hit close to home for all of us. This could easily happen to any of us, which makes it very important to know the risks of our own behaviors.

Everybody is entitled to their own choices and must answer to their own decisions at some point in time. All I demand of you is that you question your choices so that when you are called forth to answer for them, you’ll be ready. I am not an authority on the subject so, outside of the obvious legal ramifications, I will not denounce the use of drugs. However, doing illegal drugs because you need them is a problem. Doing drugs for somebody else is a problem. Doing drugs without questioning why you’re doing them is a problem. Ask your parents, ask your friends and most importantly ask yourself: “Why?” And if you hesitate to do so and end up in an unfavorable position at the next party or music festival, don’t forget, it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com. It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“Stating that [Native people] are outside of the realm of normal politics of the time only gives them an ‘other-ness’ that is just as degrading as calling them savages. Now, that doesn’t mean that Europeans aren't exempt from the horrors of the Sullivan-Clinton campaign, because I do agree with you on the matter of that atrocity, as well as the silencing and misrepresentation of Native culture. But, I would tread lightly stating that their culture is silenced and misrepresented when you offer a portrayal of their history as a mere black and white affair.”

John Doe Re: “LURIE-SPICER: Acknowledging Stolen Land,” Opinion, published August 30, 2013

Maggie Henry |

Get Over Yourself

Philosophy and Investment Banking: Same,But Different

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his summer, I did something that I never thought I’d do.

After years of non-profit and public sector internships — and indeed, two weeks prior to starting a job for a Senator on the Hill — I had sold out and done the unthinkable.

I took a job at an investment bank.

Following my December decision to accept the offer, I felt almost embarrassed telling people. Instead of the pride that getting a job should normally merit, I hedged my news with qualifications: “Oh, I’m going to learn so much,” or “I just want to understand that WORLD, you know?” Maybe these qualifications were largely a product of my own inhibitions about my choice, but I didn’t simply imagine the judgment of many friends and professors who had supported me through earlier career decisions on the non-profit and public sector tracks. People who knew me remarked that it was an “unusual” choice, or showed their ambivalence by asking: “Are you sure that’s the right next step?” Going into work that summer, I saw myself as the Rocky of investment banking interns.

As I got to know my colleagues at the bank, I realized that my high-onmy-horse assertion that I was unique in the finance world because of my background was insensitive and untrue. I grew up in a finance-minded family with access to plenty of resources — educational and otherwise. I am a philosophy major, not a financial industry unicorn.

As much as I still tried to flavor my experience with my perspective (which is a little different from many of the individuals working at the bank if still informed by a similar upbringing), I learned that real diversity of perspective

comes from people with totally different backgrounds. I was not the person in the office whose views were influenced by a different paradigm. People laughed when they heard I was a philosophy major, but no one was particularly surprised or thought it gave me some kind of underdog status. With friends and co-workers who had coldcalled their way to their desks with good grades and without any on-campus recruiting, or overcome seemingly insurmountable financial obstacles to get from Detroit to New York, my status as “the person you’d never think would join an investment bank” felt hollow and false.

What is it about campus culture here, then, that cre-

unimaginative take on this thought, I’ll go ahead and dub this mindset “pre-professionalism,” a term that people always use but never define. If this is pre-professionalism, then I’ll come out and say this: I hate it.

College should be a time when it’s acceptable to shift and morph and stretch to test ourselves and our interests. I don’t buy into the idea that there has to be a direct correlation between what I study and what career path I choose in my twenties. In fact, I’m not sure that most people would buy into that idea if they stopped and thought about it for a few minutes.

Even those in relatively specialized programs like engineering or hotel administration display an astounding

We strive to be interdisciplinary in our studies — why wouldn’t we apply this same attitude to our professional development? ated auto-surprise on every student and professor’s face when I told them about my summer internship? It could be that I had never previously discussed my interest in investment banking with anyone — but then again, junior fall is a pretty typical time to develop new professional aspirations. Instead, I’m more inclined to conclude that people were caught up in the face-value discord between my qualitative, normatively-concerned academic interests and my very profit-oriented job. My internship didn’t seem to “fit’ my academic interests, and people were perturbed.

We have this idea that demands a direct substantive correlation between our academic aspirations, our work in our third summer of college and our early career choices in our twenties. With a distinctly

diversity in terms of postgraduation career choices.

What we learn in our summer jobs should be interesting. It should develop an acute sense of selfawareness in the professional arena. At the end of the summer, we may or may not end up wanting to turn our internships into careers. Essentially, this is a time for developing a sense of professionalism and skills that are widely applicable. On the whole, as incoming seniors, our summer jobs give us the ability to develop those softer skills (leadership, communication, teamwork) but have little of the real responsibility that would “set us up” in a career track with a single summer. With this in mind, we shouldn’t have to justify our summer job choices to the tune of our academic interests.

It is the Cornell community’s insistence on a relationship between major choice and professional development that really inhibits us, more so than our prospective employers.

Strict pre-professionalism dictates that our careers start with day one of classes freshman year. My experience in investment banking shows me that I could or could not have geared my class choices towards my summer job. But what I accomplished and learned this summer had much less to do with my academic qualifications and much more to do with my love for fast-paced, intense environments and desire to gain a new understanding of a field with a steep learning curve. It turns out I adapted pretty well and enjoyed a lot of what I did (hours notwithstanding).

I didn’t lose something this summer. I didn’t waste my time by not working on policy or public speaking or non-profit work. I developed a whole new skill set that boosted my creativity and willingness to try new ways of getting work done.

The same would go for a finance major working in a non-profit. We strive to be interdisciplinary in our studies — why wouldn’t we apply this same attitude to our professional development?

Campus culture encourages some people to apply to certain jobs and some people not to.

Instead, we should encourage people to consider making radical choices about how to interpret their qualifications and studies professionally. That’s the only way that we can go out there and be impactful in whatever jobs we choose, while still studying what makes us happy.

Maggie Henry is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at mhenry@cornellsun.com. Get Over Yourself appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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LA RIOTS! LA Riots rocked the Arts Quad on Saturday night. After a set by opener Fareoh, the L.A. based DJ and Producer performed for a packed, raucous and sweaty crowd at the first of many Cornell Concert Commission events of the semester. If you couldn’t make it, or even if you just can’t remember it all, take a look at some of the

It’s a riot | Clockwise from top right: Beach balls over the crowd; LA Riots gets in the zone; the sun goes down over the Quad; opener Fareoh gets the crowd hyped; a long-armed student reaches toward the stage.

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Arts Around Town Cascade of Keys

Fanclub Collective Presents: Lord Scrummage, 100% Black, Jack Topht, DIxie Lou and The Realbads

8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Barnes Hall 8:00 p.m. on Sunday and Monday at Anabel Taylor Chapel

9:30 p.m. on Friday at Watermargin Cooperative

From jazz standards to medieval preludes, the piano (and its many relatives) can — with the right set of hands — be applied to just about any genre. This week, Cornell’s Department of Music will present a series of events that highlight the beauty of this instrument, and reveal the extent of its musical possibilities. WIth performances by some of the world’s most well-regarded virtuosos, there’s absolutely no reason you should miss these events. Oh, and one more thing: It’s free.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad Lecture

4:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Africana Center Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will lecture this Tuesday at the Africana Studies and Research Center.

Stand Up Comedy Showcase

This Saturday at Watermargin Cooperative, The Fanclub Collective, Ithaca’s premier collective of fans, will present for your visual and aural pleasure, four bands that you’ve probably never heard of. With its ear to the ground — under which presumably lies a group of eclectic, experimental musical acts — Fanclub Collective consistently manages to bring in off-thewall talent. This Friday expect rap, honey, krautrock, country and surprises.

Friday to Sunday at Risley Theatre

Cake-bakers and candle-makers everywhere undoubtedly quivered with excitement when they learned that this year marks Risley’s 100th birthday. Unsurprisingly, and having nothing to do with this blurb’s “hook” sentence, Risley Theatre’s commitment to the Arts is as strong as ever: its Fall 2013 season features “nine unique performances … including some produced by other student groups at Cornell and the Ithaca community.” Up first is Risley’s Stand-Up comedy showcase. Featuring performances by up-and-coming talents from all over Cornell, the Showcase will hopefully prove, once and for all, that Cornell’s unique blend of misery and stress can breed some level of humor.

COURTESY OF LORD SCRUMMAGE

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Hipster Righteousness

ummaging through the attic early this summer, I came across the old family CD bin. Amongst the Crosby, Stills and Nash best-hits compilation (my Dad’s) and the 98 Degrees best-hits compilation (my uh… sister’s) was a compact disc with Junior Prom Mixtape sprawled across in red Sharpie.

Suddenly, a rush of awkward memories pinched me like a hastily pinned corsage. But for all I’d rather disremember about that night, at least I had this one shining accomplishment: The mixtape. I knew I had composed the perfect soundtrack to the evening’s afterparty. The kind one would be proud to fail to lose his virginity too. “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John.

“Wake Up” by Arcade Fire. Maybe a little Biggie.

Yet out of all the “in” music circa Spring 2009, only one band truly conquered the mixtape. With five songs on a twelvetrack playlist, MGMT was alone on a pinnacle. MGMT released their breakout studio album Oracular Spectacular on January 20th, 2008. Fast-forward two years and the band has sold over three million copies. They have seen their font size increase on summer festival lineup posters, and have played Letterman. Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWynbgarden’s MGMT earns a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2009. They begin getting solicited to collaborate by the likes of Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Coldplay and U2.

VanWyngarden is listed as the third coolest person on the planet by the music magazine NME. The songs of Oracular Spectacular sell Nokia phones and Cadbury chocolates in commercials across the globe.

“Kids” makes Chiddy Bang happen. Like my junior prom, French President Nicolas Sarozy’s reelection campaign leans heavily on a MGMT-laded soundtrack, as “Time to Pretend” blasts each time the philandering French politician (redundant I know) hops up to a podium.

Calling the duo’s 2010 follow-up album Congratulations the most anticipated release of the year wouldn’t be hyperbolic.

Calling it the most disappointing album of the year wouldn’t be either.

In Congratulations, MGMT released a question mark of a

second album. It’s similar to Oracular Spectacular only in that both albums utilize the English language. In Congratulations, MGMT flushes out all residual pop strains leftover from “Time to Pretend”, “Electric Feel” and “Kids”. They took an award winning, catchy as a cold sound and made it less explicit, less fun and less appealing to whichever bodily impulse drives a person to get up and dance. To the fans and studio executives expecting more hit singles, listening to Congratulations felt like being Punk’d.

I was one of these fans. Listening to Congratulations that first time was like a kid unwrapping a present on his birthday, expecting a shiny red hot wheel convertible, but instead finding he’d received a rusty toy van (albeit a van with weakly acid-laced sour patch kids in the trunk).

While the duo was down to let things get weird in their breakout LP, the follow-up album was a shamanic quest, one without any particularly fascinating visions. I quickly went through the five-stages of grief, removed MGMT from my Facebook Likes page, and largely forgot about the group.

Now in September 2013, the upcoming release of MGMT’s third studio album has me reconsidering the group’s legacy in a more positive light. Not because the group’s self-titled new album is a return to Oracular Spectacular-pop form. From what I’ve heard MGMT is getting even stranger and less commercial with this next album. That is the type of band MGMT is; a niche psychedelic pop group that happened to write a handful of megaRun It pop hits back in college.

Back Mr. VanWyngarden has stated that Oracular Spectacular “felt very much like a charade,” the subsequent lavish touring experience too much for a group that never wanted “to get as famous as possible.” The group said that creating their last two albums has been “kind of comforting,” and acknowledged that despite the record label’s wishes, they won’t

Brian Gordon

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contain a Top 40 hit.

And MGMT is not a band that should make Top 40 hits with Coldplay or Lady Gaga. That is not hipster righteousness on my part. I’d want an MGMT-Coldplay collaboration as much as anyone, but that would be disingenuous to what the band really is. While tracks one to five on Oracular Spectacular could rival any starting five this side of the Miami Heat, they don’t contain the kind of music the two men of MGMT have said they want to be making. There’s a good deal of honor in them not trying to pretend that it is, just to satisfy the label executives who want profits and the college students who want to bop to another “Electric Feel” during a pregame.

Not too many musicians could stare down sustained international stardom and opt for comfort over fame. Not sure I could. To spur a career trajectory on par (or greater) than Vampire Weekend’s or Passion Pit’s and instead go in the direction of Animal Collective or Of Montreal is refreshingly admirable. So while their music might have gotten less appealing to me and the masses, MGMT has produced a neat life lesson in the process: create, think and act the way you want, despite all pressures to the contrary.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Run It Back runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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al from New York state.

According to Banks, the older players have helped the new players integrate into the existing team.

“They make sure we’re on task and we know all of Coach Farmer’s rules,” Banks said.

“Everything here is still really new, but the older girls make sure we’re contributing to the team.”

This season is head coach Patrick Farmer’s second at the helm of the Red. Previously head coach at Ithaca College and assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin, Farmer came to Cornell in 2012, posting a 1-14-1 record during his first season. The rest of the coaching staff is also fairly green; assistant coach Dwight Hornibrook also joined the Red in 2012, while Megan Ramey came on as the primary assistant coach in 2011.

“Coach Farmer has a ton of experience and a great attention to detail,” Christ said. “He’s constantly telling us to run harder and to stay competitive through every single practice. He’s big on changing the culture of the team.”

After the Red’s disappointing eighth-place conference finish in 2012, having a more stable coaching staff will help the team win more games, Christ said. For the

squad’s seniors, this is the first time they have worked with the same coaching staff two seasons in a row.

“Last year was about transitioning between how we’d done things previously and Coach Farmer’s methods,” Christ said.

“He has a very strong set of beliefs and he’s still sticking to the same things that he tried to instill in the team last year.”

These three games will be the first big test for the new players, as well as an opportunity for Farmer to define his starting team.

“We already have a good base of older players who have bought into the system,” Christ said.

“The freshmen, and some of the upperclassmen, are competing for spots. They’re ready to step in and prove they can help make the team better.”

The Red will play eight games prior to the start of Ivy League play on Sept. 27, when Columbia will visit Berman Field. According to Christ, that is when the season will really start to pick up. For now, however, the team is trying to focus on the games at hand.

“We’re hoping to improve our record overall and focusing on Ivy League play,” Christ said. “But Sacred Heart is our main priority.”

Gina Cargas can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

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SPRINT FOOTBALL

Rodriguez Puts Team on His Back

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

With sprint football less than two weeks away, the Red has taken to the practice field.

Off to the side, away from the offensive and defensive units, the team’s leading scorer from 2012 quietly goes about his craft.

That player is John Rodriguez, the Red’s senior kicker. He’s the man who’s never missed an extra point, is shrouded in sprint football mystique, and is perhaps the team’s biggest mismatch on Friday nights.

“He was phenomenal for us last year — kicking off and field goals,” co-head coach Bart Guccia said. “I believe he hit five field goals between 44-49 yards.”

Guccia’s memory was sharp — Rodriguez hit four of his six attempts from 40+ en route to an All-CSFL First Team selection. In total, he nailed seven of 14 attempts in 2012, with two of those misses coming on blocks. The Red’s opposing kickers last season were a comparable 6/13, but none could manage a field goal beyond 39 yards.

“When you have a guy who can come in and hit a 50-yard field goal — put it through with five or ten yards to spare — that’s a pretty big weapon in this league,” senior quarterback Brendan Miller said. “ [H]e definitely kept us in a lot of games. He’s already the best player on our team but I expect him to get a lot more notoriety.”

John Rodriguez has always had an affinity for kicking — he just did not realize it would be on the football field.

“I [had] played soccer throughout my whole life and after my freshman year of high school my football coach, who I was pretty close with, just kind of recruited me from the soccer team to try out kicking,” Rodriguez said. “I’ve kicked ever since my sophomore year [of high school].”

Rodriguez found his way to the Cornell sprint team after beginning his collegiate career as a preferred walk-on for the varsity team.

“I saw an opportunity with the sprint team so I decided to join the sprint team my sophomore year,” he said. “It’s been a really

nice transition from the varsity to the sprint self as one of the league’s elite talents, and team. The coaches and the teammates, it’s a who worked out with one of his NFL idols, achieve this season? According to the lefty, a great group that I really fit in with.”

Although Rodriguez occasionally prac- big focus will be contributing to the team tices with the varsity team in the spring and dynamic.

“One thing I can improve upon is just, as has been “approached” by the team on at least one occasion, his focus remains on a senior, providing leadership to the other young guys and supporting them,” delivering a sprint title.

“I feel like the team is looking to win Rodriguez said. “My overall goal is to help every game and try to get that championship the team anyway I can, whether it be field ... Our motto is to get better each and every goals, kickoffs, or punting.”

Rodriguez hopes to build off his strong day,” Rodriguez said, with an emphasis on 2012 season, particurepetition and fundalarly his superstar mentals.

“He’s the best player on our performance against “In a typical day I Franklin Pierce that kick close to 40 balls team — the highest scorer on featured a handful of between punts, field our team.” stellar kickoffs and goals, kickoffs, field goals of 39 and depending on what- Brendan Miller 49 yards which ever we’re doing that proved to be decisive day.”

Between practice sessions, the North in the Red’s 26-21 win.

“He’s the best player on our team — the Olmsted, Ohio native has also been looking highest scorer on our team — pretty much for help among the world’s best.

“I’ve looked at a number of NFL kickers,” every year he’s been on our team,” Miller Rodriguez replied, when asked if there are said. “I probably have the highest expectaany professionals that he’s tried to model his tions on the team for him given his incredigame after. “I think David Akers [Detroit ble talent and what he’s been able to do. He’s Lions] is one — he’s left-footed as well. He’s kept us in numerous games. If we did not a good one to follow after. As well as Phil have him we would have lost or would have Dawson [San Francisco 49ers] ... I’ve been a lost a good number of games.”

John Rodriguez remains one of sprint real fan of his and have actually been able to football’s best under-the-radar performers, meet him.”

Rodriguez, in fact, had the dream oppor- but that does not mean his teammates have tunity of attending Phil Dawson’s kicking forgotten him. And while the special x-factor camp in northern Ohio when Dawson was will be contributing to Cornell’s champistill a member of the hometown Cleveland onship chase in any way he can, there’s still one thing he’d like to do to finish his sprint Browns.

“Just the ability to work one-on-one with career with a bang — if Coach Guccia allows him was good,” Rodriguez said. “Having the opportunity.

“I hope to hit one over 50 this year,” that professional opinion and so much experience he’s had in the NFL, he’s someone to Rodriguez said. “I think having an individual trust ... and someone you can rely on. I part — being singled out — but also being thought that was great, having seen me kick, part of the team is a unique position of the and then giving me pointers and tips. That kicker. Having so much pressure on you, and then going out and performing. Taking that was really cool.”

What more could, in the words of senior big kick is the best part of being a kicker.” running back Nick Perez, a “rock solid” player like Rodriguez, who averaged 55.5 yards Chris Mills can be reached at per kickoff last season, has established him- cmills@cornellsun.com.

Keep on kicking | Senior John Rodreiguez returns to the Red as the starting kicker, looking to put points on the board and improve alongside his teammates.

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Jacques Goes From C.U. Student-Athlete to Coach MEN’S BASKETBALL Continued from page 16

games, Donahue decided to give Jacques a chance as a starter. After scoring 15 points in 23 minutes in the game against St. Joseph’s, Jacques was in the starting lineup to stay.

He finished the season averaging 6.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. He also led the Ivy League in three-

point percentage at 47.2.

Jacques’ experience shooting from beyond the arc will be especially important for a Red team that only shot 34 percent from three last season.

With the departure of Johnny Gray — one of the Red’s three-point specialists — senior Dom Scelfo and sophomore Nolan Cressler will have to carry much of the shooting burden. “[Jacques] has already told

us that he would love to rebound with us or help us with our shooting whenever we need it,” Tarwater said.

“With the success Coach Jacques has had shooting the ball, his pointers will be extremely beneficial to our guys.”

With the appointment of David Archer ’05 as the head coach of the football team last spring and now the addition of Jacques to the basketball

program, it seems the athletic department feels that Cornell alumni can bring important information to the teams for which they previously played. “[Jacques] has been in our shoes as a student-athlete here at Cornell,” Tarwater said. “I really feel that he is the perfect fit for our program right now.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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1999 NBA Draft; it seemed as if the heartbreaking portion of his life was over, but it was just the end of the first chapter.

Odom has success out of the gate in the NBA, earning NBA First Team All-Rookie honors while becoming the captain and face of the franchise.

Being surrounded by minimal veteran guidance may have been tough on him, as he was suspended in 2001 for violating the NBA’s anti-drug policy for marijuana twice in eight months.

Despite his solid play on the court, everyone expected more of him; he seemed to have the immense talents to be one of the top 10 players in the world, but never even earning an AllStar nod.

Despite consistently being called a slacker and waste of talent by critics, his life off the court was improving until three grave tragedies struck him one after the other. In 2004, the grandmother who raised him died.

Almost exactly three years later, he lost his infant child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome overnight without warning. Later that summer, he was robbed at gunpoint. These events are enough to make the most optimistic person depressed, but Odom bravely fought on; he renewed his faith in god, remained upbeat and positive according to anyone saw him and continued with his career on the court.

A few years after these tragedies, he appeared to be getting better, marrying Khloe Kardashian after knowing her for just one month, adjusting to the city of Los Angeles, and having unparalleled success on the court by winning back-to-back NBA Championships in 2009 and 2010. Then in 2011, tragedy struck again. A close cousin of his died in July 2011 and while in New York for the funeral, the car he was in struck and killed a 15-year-old cyclist.

Even when he’s not directly involved, death just seems to follow him.

To make matters worse, he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in December 2011, uprooting him from his home of seven years. At the time, he seriously contemplated retiring, but his wife convinced him not to.

On the court, it appeared as if he should have; after winning the Sixth Man of the Year award in 2011 averaging 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game, he averaged just 6.6 points and 4.2 rebounds a game for the Mavericks, even leaving him inactive for the last 10 games of the season.

The saddest part of it all is that everyone who meets him loves him; in a recent ESPN article, he was described as “a sweet and popular dude who’s held in high regard by almost everyone he encounters.” At just 33-years-old, many close to him fear for the worst; it’s just not reasonable to assume someone can take all these terrible tragedies in stride and live a normal life. Alike most of the NBA world, I hope Odom finds help and can fight through this latest saga like he has in the past. After all the tragedy he has gone through, it’s about time he finally finds some happiness and peace.

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

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Red returns | Senior goalkeeper Tori Christ returns to the field for the Red as the starting keeper and looks to take home three early wins.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women’s Soccer Looks Ahead To Three Early Matchups

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

The women’s soccer team will kick off its season next week with three games in five days, traveling first to Fairfield, Conn. on Friday to face Sacred Heart University (13). The team will welcome rival Colgate (3-1) to Berman Field on Sunday, before playing at the University of Buffalo (2-1) on Sept. 10.

In its first meeting with Sacred Heart at Berman Field in 2012, the Red lost 1-2 in a close game that saw all three goals in an eightminute span of the second half.

Last September, the team fell to Colgate 1-3 at home in their 34th meeting with Colgate since 1982.

Cornell has never played the University of Buffalo.

According to freshman Dempsey Banks, Sacred Heart is the Red’s primary focus heading into the matchups.

“One of our main goals is to up the speed of play by passing the ball quicker and moving off our passes,” Banks said. “Sacred Heart is at an advantage. They’ve been practicing for a lot longer than we have because of the Ivy League restrictions.”

Under Ivy League rules, the Red was not allowed to begin practice before Aug. 23. SHU has already played four games this fall, beating Rhode Island and losing to Vermont, New Hampshire and Lafayette. Despite the Red’s later

start, Cornell’s high intensity will be its greatest advantage, senior goalkeeper Tori Christ said.

“Each practice has been a high tempo and very focused from start to finish,” she said. “We’re out there competing against each other but at the same time we’re pushing each other. We have strong team chemistry both on and off the field.”

After seven players graduated in May, the Red welcomed 10 new players this year, including nine freshmen and one transfer student.

These new players hail from all over the country, including students from Oregon, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Maryland and severSee WOMEN’S SOCCER page 14

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The Tragic Tale Of Lamar Odom T his past week, some tragic news hit NBA circles. Clippers forward Lamar Odom was arrested at 4 a.m. on Friday morning for a DUI charge after being missing for over 72 hours on an apparent cocaine-fueled bender. Since then, there were rumors of his wife Khloe Kardashian kicking Odom out of their house because he refused to go to rehab. Stories like this are usually very difficult to process; it’s very depressing to see anyone fall this deep into despair and really puts me at a loss of words. It’s even sad-

grandmother took him in and raised him for the rest of his childhood. He never had a true father figure, as his biological father was a heroin addict and never a part of his life.

Despite his tough surroundings, his talent on the basketball court — he was All-USA First Team as a senior in 1997 — was never in doubt. After graduating from high school, he accepted a scholarship to UNLV, but a small hiccup — when compared to the rest of his life — prevented him from attending school there. After a Sports Illustrated column ques-

Albert Liao Playing the Field der for Lamar Odom because of the hand he was dealt in life.

Despite his clear talents as a basketball player, the amount of tragedy he has gone through is enough for an entire city.

Lamar Odom grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, a crack-infested area in the 1980s and 90s. He grew up ingrained in the drug world and it took his mother’s best efforts to keep him away from it. When Odom was 12, his mother was diagnosed with colon cancer; she died later that year. His

tioned the validity of his test scores (nothing was definitively proven), UNLV withdrew his scholarship, so he attended the University of Rhode Island, where he had to redshirt a year before he could play. In his first season of college basketball, he blossomed, averaging 17.6 points per game and leading the Rams to the NCAA Tournament. After the season, the Los Angeles Clippers selected him fourth overall in the See LIAO page 15

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Jon Jacques’10 Strengthens Cornell Coaching Staff

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

development. According to Tarwater, this experience of coaching in the Ancient Eight will only add to his Just four seasons ago, in a already extensive knowledge December home game of how to play in the league. against St. Joseph’s, senior “With a year of coaching forward Jon Jacques ’10 got already under his belt I feel his first start in Newman that this will help him Arena, bolstering him into immensely,” Tarwater the starting lineup of a said. “He knows this team that would even“It’s been amazing so far league, he knows our tually advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the having Coach Jacques back guys and he knows how to succeed.”

NCAA tournament. on board here in Ithaca.”

While at Cornell, Now, Jacques will reJacques played under turn to the Red’s home Dwight Tarwater Coach Steven Doncourt once again, this ahue. Donahue was at time on the sidelines as the helm of the Red’s an assistant coach.

After graduating from extremely knowledgeable basketball program for ten Cornell, Jacques spent one about the Ivy League and seasons, taking his team to the NCAA tournament season playing professionally the game as a whole.”

As an assistant coach three times. Donahue’s sucin Israel’s top division. He then coached for one year at with the Lions, Jacques han- cessful teams were known Stevens Institute of dled the team’s film program for their efficient threeTechnology in New Jersey and contributed to player point shooting and focus on Sun Assistant Sports Editor

before moving over to Columbia as an assistant.

“It’s been amazing so far having Coach Jacques back on board here in Ithaca,” senior forward Dwight Tarwater said. “When he was a player here at Cornell I always knew he was

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Fresh meat | Assistant Coach Jon Jacques ’10 joins the Cornell men’s basketball coaching staff with the hopes of leading Cornell to a successful season.

ball movement.

However, in head coach Bill Courtney’s three seasons thus far with the Red, he has recruited players with more of a focus on speed and athleticism. Courtney’s style of basketball — which is beginning to revolutionize Ivy League play — is contingent on an up-tempo game, pushing the ball out

into the open court for fast break opportunities.

According to Tarwater, these variances in style should not pose a problem.

“Coach Jacques won a whole lot of games in his four years here,” he said.

“He knows what works, and how to succeed in doing what works, so I don’t think that the style differences will

be an issue.”

Jacques spent the majority of his first three years with the Red on the bench. He averaged only .8 points per game in 3.3 minutes per game his junior year.

However in his senior campaign, after coming off the bench for the first eight See M. BASKETBALL page 15