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Garrett Prioritizes Faculty Retention, Budget President to decrease admin. inefficiencies, recenter University on academic priorities

By GABRIELLA LEE

academic mission as I can.”

One of the ways in which Garrett said she hopes to divert more Just two months into her tenure at resources towards Cornell’s academic Cornell, President Elizabeth Garrett mission is by cutting inefficiencies has already begun to restructure the and unnecessary bureaucracy in University’s administrative priorities. administrative procedures.

After a week featuring drastic graduIn an Aug. 20 memo sent to ate student policy changes and a Day University provosts, college deans and Hall staff shake-up, Garrett sat down vice presidents, Garrett urged these with The Sun to discuss her aim of actors to “periodically examine refocusing University resources and [University] practices and address her prioritization of the “student and unneeded comfaculty experiplexity.” ence.”

“Overly cum“I need to make sure that “Our mission is bersome bureauthe money we have is to train the next cracy and unnecesgeneration of lead- being spent as effectively sarily complicated ers, and to prodecision-making as possible.” duce creative processes divert scholarship and faculty, students President Elizabeth Garrett work that moves and staff from us closer in the activities vital to search for truth,” Garrett said. “We pursuing excellence in research, teachnot only perform discovery-driven ing and public engagement,” Garrett research, but we also work to bring wrote. that out into the world and have it She continued that by cutting make a difference.” “unnecessary regulation, duplicative With the University mission in structures or burdensome paperwork mind, Garrett said she would aim to where the goals of the process can be consider all policy changes and poten- met more efficiently,” the University tial programs with the intent of fur- would not only increase transparency thering those goals. and decrease administrative burdens, “Our ambitions exceed our but also cut costs that could instead resources, which is good,” Garrett be used for academic priorities. said. “But one of my jobs as president is to bring as many resources to that See GARRETT page 4

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Out on the streets | President Elizabeth Garrett — who participated in the Be Engaged and Responsible Walk (see page 3 for coverage) — addressed the Faculty Senate Wednesday.

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

In the first Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year, President Elizabeth Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff gave a presentation outlining their plan to increase academic investment, recruit and retain more faculty members and develop a new budget model which will better align with the University’s priorities.

Introducing the president and provost, Prof. Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy, dean of faculty, said he is optimistic about the University’s new leadership.

“We are delighted by the energy we’ve

seen you bring to this [campus] and your emphasis on academic excellence, and we look forward to working with you,” Burns said.

Garrett began her speech with a discussion on the vital role Faculty Members play in the college system, emphasizing her desire to work more closely with the faculty senate when making important decisions.

“You do not need to [tell] me that [the] faculty are the University. I believe that to be true,” Garrett said, referencing President Dwight Eisenhower’s first meetSee FACULTY SENATE page 5

Former APA President, Prof Defends Cooperation With CIA APA accused of helping justify Bush-era torture

By MELVIN LI

released an independent 542page report that concluded top APA officials and psychologists In light of allegations this cooperated with the CIA and the summer that the American DoD to help justify the Bush Psychological a d m i n i s t r a t i o n’s Association secretly enhanced interrogacollaborated with the tion programs.

Central Intelligence In response to the Agency and Departfindings of the ment of Defense durHoffman Report, the ing the administration APA decided unaniof George W. Bush, mously in early Prof. Robert SternAugust to ban its berg, former president psychologists from STERNBERG of the APA, spoke critparticipating in ically of the accusations against national security interrogahim and his colleagues. tions. Sternberg, a professor in the On July 2, former federal See CIA page 5 prosecutor David Hoffman Sun Staff Writer

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He then continued, saying a few words concerning the superior advantages of a college man and the conduct necessary to gain due appreciation. He said in part: You young men who have the opportunity to obtain a college education are gaining a great advantage. However, to be appreciated, it will be necessary for you to constantly work with the people, and not for them. This is the one great thing which you must always have in mind; for if you pose as working for the people you will not receive just dues. I am very glad to have met you and thank you.”

The Colonel then went directly to the Ithaca Hotel, arriving there a few minutes before nine o’clock. He mounted at once to the balcony over the entrance. By this time State Street was packed with people. Many Cornell undergraduates were gathered in the middle of the street and they sent up a yell. Colonel Roosevelt received another cheer when he opened by saying that he “gathered that there were some Cornell students present.” He said he recognized in the cheering and yell “the suggestion of the football and other fields of higher education” and drew a hearty laugh.

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University Slope Day Named Nation’s Top College Music Festival College Raptor — a website that helps high school students research colleges they are interested in — named Slope Day the nation’s top college music festival earlier this week.

According to the Slope Day website, this festival began at Cornell in 1901 as “Spring Day,” and is now a favorite way for students to celebrate the end of the year and the beginning of warmer weather. “With past performers like Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Neon Trees, and Ludacris, we have to agree!”

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Local Five New Businesses To Open on Revitalized Commons Today Five businesses will hold their ribbon-cutting ceremonies on or near the newly reopened Commons today, according to The Ithaca Journal. Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 will attend all of these events, which will mark the openings of Gateway BBQ Restaurant, Narrative Space, eye, Bristle & Turp and My Newborn Is Art Photography, The Journal reported.

Ithaca School District Students to Receive Google Chromebooks The Ithaca City School District will give 4,000 students Google Chromebooks this year, as part of an effort to “[bring] the district up to speed with the modern state of technology in the classroom,” according to The Ithaca Journal. Through these Chromebooks, students will have access to Google Apps For Education and can bring their laptops home to continue their schoolwork, The Journal reported. A committee of parents, students and teachers decided on the program after looking at the effectiveness of similar programs in almost 30 different school districts.

World Islamic State Destroys Historic Temple An explosion set off by Islamic State militants Sunday left the Temple of Baal — part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and built almost 2,000 years ago in Palmyra, Syria — with as of yet unknown levels of destruction, according to The New York Times. Experts disagree about the extent of the temple’s damages because there are not yet pictures from the blast site, The Times reported.

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Cornellians, Locals Gather In C-Town for BEAR Walk

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The second annual Being Engaged and Responsible Walk shut down the 400 block of GABRIELLA DEMCZUK / THE NEW YORK TIMES College Avenue Tuesday for music, festivities Demonstrators march down a street near the city circuit courthouses in Baltimore on Wednesday, and appearances from prominent University and community figures. following the first hearing concerning the death of unarmed black man Freddie Grey.

The aim of the BEAR Walk was to create a greater sense of community in the Collegetown neighborhood and continue a dialogue between where police are seen as community resources.” them,” she said. “In this case we have a much Zoner said there has been a lot of talk more transient population and so it is much the permanent residents and students. In addition to a series of talks on the importance of between Collegetown residents and Common more important to get out early in the year and town-gown relations, attendees had the chance Council members, with the same “multilayered get those conversations going early, and make to sample Cornell Dairy ice cream, attend a and multifaceted problems” surfacing. those connections early.”

President Elizabeth Garrett, who was also Health and Safety Information Fair and see a Permanent and temporary residents have some present at the event, joined Zoner in urging stuperformance from the Cornell Marching Band. very valid complaints and concerns, she said.

“So a few enterprising students and staff dents to be responsible citizens of Collegetown Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said the walk is a way to positively engage with the com- members got together and decided that the and to create a stable community throughout problems could be Ithaca and Tompkins County. munity and make “The BEAR acronym — Being Engaged in a differsure that the police “Remember, whether you live here only sorted ent way — by And Responsible — is an inspiring motto for all is seen as a comfor a few months or much longer, engaging our com- of us,” she said. “Remember, whether you live munity resource. here only for a few months or much longer, munity,” she said.

“We [a team of Collegetown is your community.”

She also Collegetown is your community and your volunteers] went emphasized that actions are important to the community.” out and walked President Elizabeth Garrett Carolina Bieri ’16, a volunteer for the walk, the conversation and knocked on between college said she was pleased by the participation from doors and gave party hangers that say ‘Seven simple steps to students and the larger Ithaca community is the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

“A lot of times there is [no] interaction ... becoming a good neighbor’ and ‘Partying with- important in fostering a mutually beneficial between the two groups and that’s sad because out the police,’” she said. “They are helpful environment.

“When you grow up in a neighborhood you hints on how to be engaging properly with the police and try to create a positive environment learn what the rules are and you abide by See BEAR WALK page 4

Entrepreneurship Kickoff at Cornell Connects Students to Business Opportunities

By DAVID TICZON Sun Staff Writer

Demonstrating Cornell’s enduring entrepreneurial spirit, over 130 Cornellians attended the annual Cornell Entrepreneurship Kickoff 2015 at Kennedy Hall Wednesday.

Guests at the event were treated to drinks and food and given access to network opportunities, startups showcase and a pitchoff.

Ryan Kishore ’17, vice president of Life Changing Labs, one of the event’s co-sponsors, said the main purpose of the kickoff was to give students a central event to connect around.

“We are especially hoping to channel students to resources that exist on campus to connect with the community,” Kishore said. “We hope students have a good time at the fair and enjoy the various happenings.”

Life Changing Labs had four companies from their summer incubator program participate during the event, including Navo and Maidbot.

Navo, a company which is building an indoor positioning GPS location application, recently signed a deal with the largest retail mall in New York state — Destiny USA in Syracuse. Maidbot is developing an autonomous cleaning robot

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Getting down to business | Students attend the annual Cornell Entrepreneurship Kickoff in Kennedy Hall Wednesday.

and has partnerships with multiple hotel companies.

“We are thrilled that all of our companies that were incubated in our summer program have found themselves on solid footing and are moving with quick progress,” Kishore said.

“Four of those companies have taken the time to come host booths to talk about what they do and meet young entrepreneurially minded students.”

The fair was one of many events that Life Changing Labs holds throughout the academic year, according to Hemangi Modi ’17, who is part of the marketing team.

“Over the academic year, we hold workshops and sessions that help students learn about web development, business development, tech and design,” Modi said. “We also have a life changer program that will allow students to get hands on experience within LCL and work with our portfolio companies or with the sub teams within LCL.” After participating in Life Changing Labs’ summer program, Modi praised the web development skills that she learned during her internship.

“I also learnt a lot about customer development and business models necessary for a

startup to be successful,” Modi said. “I also got to see how founders and the LCL team worked so hard and persevered through a lot of ups and downs over the summer, and this helped me grow personally and taught me how to develop a strong work ethic.”

Michael Raspuzzi ’16, president of Life Changing Labs, said over $200,000 in resources is available to every company, along with individualized mentorship opportunities.

“We also provide opportunities in business development, marketing, design, consulting and more for students to get hands-on experience, even if they have no prior experience,” Raspuzzi said. “Our biggest focus is building a passionate community of people who care about startups and more importantly, get things done.”

Equine Design earned the first place prize, the Dan Cohen Startup Award, which came with a $1,010 award. The startup, an equine health management system, is led by Caitlin Parucci ’15 M.Eng ’16.

The event was sponsored by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Student Agencies, Inc. and Life Changing Labs.

David Ticzon can be reached at dticzon@cornellsun.com.

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Garrett Outlines Administrative Vision,Priorities GARRETT

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However, Garrett said that her urging the review of administrative procedures should not be framed in terms of cutting costs, but rather as freeing up a “burden on students and faculty.”

“I need to make sure that the money we have is being spent as effectively as possible to enhance our academic mission,” Garrett said. “I use effective, not efficient, because education isn’t always efficient.”

Garrett added that incremental decisions made at the University over time often result in layers of administrative processes, and that it is important for the administration to now examine these processes for inefficiencies.

“For example, when a student makes a decision to add or withdraw from a class, what is the process by which this can occur?” Garrett asked. “We have lots of colleges and schools — what’s the way that they could interact more efficiently together? Are there some things that can be shared so [that] it’s more efficient?”

Outlining the approach that she expected provosts, deans and vice presidents to follow in streamlining their processes, Garrett wrote in her memo that administrators should look to centralize their duplicative services, consolidate units and committees, evaluate their compliance and regulatory systems, collaborate across units and target investments in new technologies to help achieve these goals.

In her memo, she wrote that Joanne DeStefano, vice president for finance, Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources and safety services and Paul Streeter, vice president for budget and planning, will oversee administrators as they write plans to reduce costs and increase efficiencies to be turned in by Dec. 15.

“Our work this semester will provide a foundation for ongoing, regular review of administrative processes to ensure that our resources are directed to current priorities and we achieve our academic goals without unnecessary administrative burdens,” Garrett concluded in her memo.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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there is such a potential for a lot of positive communication and [a] positive relationship between Cornell and Ithaca,” she said.

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said the relationship between college students and “the rest of us who live here year round” is not easy, but worth it. He added that students bring “cultural, social and political perspectives” that the city needs.

“You, the students, fast moving, energetic, wonderfully, beautifully, at times naive, push us to do a better job,” he said. “We have a lot to teach you about what it means to be a community, what it means to look out for one another, what it means to live as neighbors.”

Student Assembly President Juliana Batista ’16 encouraged students to think of Collegetown as their community and an extension of their homes.

“We should be contributing back to a greater community and offering our talents and our vibrancy that we devote to Cornell,“ she said. “While we are here, we must give back, but we also must be practical. Being practical means knowing that our actions affect the perception of college students as a whole.”

She said students have a voice as tenants and residents of Collegetown, and encouraged them to join the S.A. Committee on City and Local Affairs in order to be more involved in the community.

Batista added that she hopes to see a perspective shift in how Collegetown is viewed by students and permanent Ithaca residents alike.

“Taking time to be courteous can have a major impact on developing relationships with locals,” she said. “I hope to see this perspective shift, to take ownership of Collegetown, and the college students who inhabit it to take pride in this town — keeping it clean, meeting our neighbors and giving back in our own way.”

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

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Garrett, Kotlikoff Address Faculty Senate

President, provost outline plan to improve administrative processes, academics FACULTY SENATE Continued from page 1

ing with the faculty of Columbia University in which the Isidor Rabi 1919 famously said “we [the faculty] are the university.”

“Our strength comes from our faculty,” Garrett said.

“You are committed to excellence in all our endeavors.”

Faculty recruitment and retention were one of Garrett’s prime objectives upon entering office, and she said she wants to make sure that faculty members in every stage of their careers feel welcome at Cornell.

“As you know, we have a large number of senior colleagues. I think it’s important for us as their colleagues to tell them that they would be valued … as they move to their emeritus status,” Garrett said. “We need to work hard to retain [mid-career faculty], and we also need to work on bringing more mid-career faculty to [Cornell].”

Garrett said she plans to direct more of Cornell’s revenue to faculty research and recruitment in order to create more opportunities for faculty. She also made reference to the presentation she gave before the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, during which she said she would launch new programs in order to graduate students to jumpstart their careers, The Sun previously reported.

The president also encouraged faculty members to be Cornell’s undergraduate colleges.” more open-minded and try new teaching techniques.

In addition to academic oversight, Kotlikoff also intro“We need to think about ways to improve our teaching,” duced a new budget plan which aims to make “financial Garrett said. “I think as a faculty we need to be willing to governance simpler and more transparent” in the be nimble, to be open to new ways of teaching. If it doesn't University. Proposed actions in this plan include curbing work, it’s not the end of the world. We need to be willing the growth of administrative costs and simplifying financial to experiment with our curriculum just as we do with our reporting methods. research.”

Prof. William Arms, information science, raised the Garrett concluded her speech with an emphasis on inter- topic of non-tenure track faculty and asked about the presdisciplinary programs and unity both across disciplines and ident’s plans for such professors in her recruitment and retention campaign. Garrett responded across Cornell’s various campuses, a mesthat she intends to give them the chances sage echoed by Provost Kotlikoff in his advancement just like tenured and for presentation.

“We are delighted by the tenure-track faculty.

“What are our goals for all Cornell energy we’ve seen “I think we have to acknowledge that students? What kinds of academic expewhile there is a unique role of the tenure riences do we want all of our undergrad[Garrett] bring.” and tenure track faculty, there is amazuates to have at Cornell?” Kotlikoff Prof. Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66 ing work done by our non-tenure track asked. colleagues,” Garrett said. “I think it will Kotlikoff’s plan of academic oversight be important to acknowledge the work would establish a bigger set of core standards which would “provide a University-wide perspective of our non-tenure track colleagues and that they have the on Cornell’s academic programs through analysis and over- same expectations of reward that we would expect in our sight of curricular offerings” and “make recommendations careers.” about elements of a common undergraduate academic experience and/or shared educational requirements across Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

Prof Responds to Report of Collusion With CIA CIA

three others. Sternberg, although supportive of the ousting of Stephen Behnke, ethics director Department of Human and defense department contracDevelopment who led the APA tor, said he opposed the deparin 2003, said he supported the tures of CEO Norman measure but maintained some Anderson, COO Michael concerns about the decision.

Honaker and Communications “Given what happened [dur- Director Rhea Farberman. ing the interrogations], it is “[These] APA staff members probably for the best to ban psy- ... were doing their jobs as they chologists thought they from particshould be “I’m proud of having given done, withipating in national out the benthe talk and would do it security efit of all the again. I’ve given versions i n t e r ro g a k n ow l e d g e tions.

I we have of that talk hundreds of think APA today as to times.” did the what hapright thing pened in the Prof. Robert Sternberg in banning interrogaparticipations,” tion, given Sternberg what we now know,” Sternberg said. “None of us — you, me, said. “That said, the fear then, the media — knew at the time and my fear now, is that what what was going on in the interrohappens in the interrogations gations. All that came out later.” could be worse without advice Sternberg stressed the imporfrom psychologists.” tance of intelligence agencies in The Report further alleged national security, saying that that Sternberg was “uncoopera- while criticizing national security tive” with the investigation, say- agencies is easy, Americans ing he denied allegations that he would be less safe without them. gave a presentation to the CIA. He added that although some However, speaking with The CIA members and contractors Sun, Sternberg confirmed that “made very serious mistakes in the visit took place and that he interrogation,” the APA focused had given a presentation on his only on preventing further 9/11theory of successful intelligence. like attacks and did not intend to The theory states that successful- torture prisoners. ly intelligent individuals need a “People ought to think about mixture of creative, analytical how well we would fare if we had and practical skills. no national security apparatus.

Sternberg said he had given Do the agencies make mistakes? the presentation in the past and Yes. Are some of them serious? was only trying to help the CIA Yes. Should they do better? Of hire more effective employees. course … That means we should “I’m proud of having given improve them, not eliminate the talk and would do it again. them,” he said.

I’ve given versions of that talk Sternberg went on to say that hundreds of times. The CIA, as intelligencing gathering is crucial well as other organizations, to ensuring that the United ought to hire people who are States are not “overtaken by more creative, who have more those hostile forces.” common sense, and who have a Sternberg criticized the more highly developed sense of Hoffman Report for concluding wisdom and ethics,” he said. that the APA cooperated in torBy July 14, the APA appeared ture, saying that although APA to have terminated one senior members did advise military offiofficial and to have sought the cers on interrogation, there is no resignations or retirements of evidence they ever contributed to Continued from page 1

or participated in government torture programs. Sternberg said he himself views enhanced interrogation as “reprehensible and inexcusable.”

“The issue, as I understood it, was whether any psychologists collaborated in torture. The report failed to show that any APA members collaborated in torture, despite the many implications and insinuations,” he said. “No APA members were implicated of torture in the report.”

Sternberg emphasized that

APA advisement of administration officials was “different from ‘participation’ in Bush administration interrogation programs.”

“We do not know from the report what they advised,” Sternberg said. “In retrospect, they probably, indeed almost certainly, would have been better off not to have become involved.”

Sternberg added that he believes national security would benefit from his and other scholars’ research on wisdom and ethics, saying that many of the world’s problems today arise not

from a lack of human intelligence, but lack of wisdom.

“Very bad things happened in the interrogations and we cannot lose sight of that,” he said.

“However, there is nothing in the Hoffman Report to suggest that APA staff or governance members contributed to these bad things. Their mistake, to the extent they made mistakes, was in not realizing what was going on, but no one else did either.”

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com.

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Striving for a More Effective Cornell

CORNELL MUST BECOME A MORE EFFECTIVE UNIVERSITY when allocating its resources, President Elizabeth Garrett argued in an interview with The Sun Tuesday. Prompted by a question regarding a memo sent to deans, provosts and vice presidents urging the assessment of “cumbersome bureaucracy” within the University, Garrett said above all, the student and faculty experience must be prioritized at Cornell. And at a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced that Day Hall will propose curbing administrative growth and making “financial governance simpler and more transparent.”

Since she arrived at Cornell — and particularly since classes began last week — President Garrett and her administration have strived to improve Cornell from the topdown. Prioritizing faculty and students, the new cohort of senior officials have already enacted decisions or proposed ideas that will reduce the amount of bureaucracy throughout the University. In her memo, Garrett argued the University should centralize duplicative services, consolidate units, invest in technology and reduce the number of “burdensome processes” for compliance and regulatory system while maintaining “the highest standards of personal safety and ethical behavior.” We believes these changes are long overdue, considering the rising costs of higher education. By directly targeting duplicative procedures and cutting costs, the administration can create a more streamlined Cornell.

The redundant bureaucracy referenced by Garrett, while not exclusive to the Hill, is apparent throughout Cornell in the colleges, support services and administration.

Navigating Day Hall (both metaphorically and literally) remains challenging and will continue to be until Cornell places a stronger focus on effective processes. Cutting costs and eliminating redundancies will, as President Garrett alluded to, enhance the educational and research missions of Cornell.

The decisions made by administrators in the coming months, however, are not solely restricted to academics. Athletic Director Andy Noel expressed his confidence with the Garrett administration during an interview with The Sun Wednesday, saying that Garrett’s focus on efficiency will benefit student athletics in addition to the greater Cornell community. By increasing the effectiveness of athletic programs’ management, student athletes will face less red tape when dealing with administrators, and coaches will be able to able to improve the recruiting and financial aid processes.

While we wholly support the goal of a more effective university that places a larger focus on what matters — student and faculty experiences — we urge President Garrett to remain mindful of varying considerations when allocating and cutting resources. Cumbersome bureaucracy should be eliminated, though bureaucracy will be necessary to some extent to ensure support structures remain in place for students, faculty and staff in need of them.

Following concerns raised last semester by students regarding the administration’s handling of Cornell’s finances and transparency, the focus on becoming a more effective university is welcome. As these conversations continue to unfold throughout the academic year, we urge the Garrett administration to continue to engage faculty, students and staff in shaping the University’s priorities moving forward.

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ell, it’s happened: One week of “first world problems.” Here I am, in and I’m already tired. The attending a world-renowned university, saddest part is I don’t even with no serious worries, and family back have a taxing schedule or a demanding home that cares for and supports me in job. It’s not work fatigue; It’s closer to whatever I do. I have absolutely nothing ennui. Another semester, another fifteen to complain about. But it’s not just me, weeks of work. Oh boy. You know, two I’ve heard the same sentiments echoed years ago I thought life at college would by some of my friends, and they also get progressively more exciting the share the same feelings of guilt for havlonger I was here. Yet, I spent the first ing these thoughts. So what is it? Are we Saturday night of this semester wrapped just a generation of whiners?

I think Walter M. Miller summed in a blanket working on this column.

What happened to me? The past couple this up perfectly with a line from his of years I was excited for everything. novel A Canticle for Leibowitz: “The closer men came to perfecting for themBut now? Meh. It’s strange. I’ve only been here for selves a paradise, the more impatient two years; I shouldn’t feel a single trace they became with it, and with themof lethargy. At the start of freshman and selves as well.” Admittedly a bit of a sophomore year I was raring to go; I was grandiose quote for junior year fatigue, back, classes were exciting, campus was but it captures the essence of my feelgreat, everything was great. However, ings. I have nothing to truly bemoan, this time around the feeling is noticeably which is why I have the time to comweaker. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy plain about the trivialities.

It’s something that I thought I knew to be back and all; It’s great to see my friends, and my classes are gearing up to a while ago, but am only now coming to be interesting. But, I don’t know, in the truly understand — that a life of priviback of my mind there’s this lingering lege and luxury may lead to boredom and ennui. Which isn’t bad — far from thought of “well, here we go again.”

I suppose part of it has to do with my it, because the alternative is far, far, far worse. You only introverted personality. have to look at the I’m sure everyone is It’s strange. I’ve only front page of a familiar with those newspaper to see obnoxious Buzzfeed been here for two how good we all articles titled things years; I shouldn’t feel have it here. Hell, like, “10 Things Only you don’t even have I n t r o v e r t s a singly trace of to go to Syria to see Understand.” Usually these sort of articles lethargy. At the start people less well off than us, just go a just say how introverts of freshman and few miles outside of prefer the company of their computers to peo- sophomore year I was Ithaca. You’ll find families struggling ple, which is really just raring to go ... all the same. Ennui plain misinformation.

It’s not that I love However, this time is a just an unfortunate little byproduct going out any less than around the feeling is of having a safe and the next guy; It’s just stable life. It’s like that I need time to noticeably weaker. feeling sore after recuperate. Being an exercising. introvert does not Still, you don’t (necessarily) mean you’re a social misfit, it simply means have to feel guilty about feeling bored that we can’t sustain this fast paced or dissatisfied with your life. It’s never lifestyle like others seemingly can. The healthy to beat yourself up over a feeldifference is simply this: Extroverts gain ing, because there’s no such thing as a energy from being around people, while “wrong” emotion. Just keep in mind introverts lose energy. Yes, we are capa- how good you have it. Chances are that ble of having fun, just in manageable alone will make you feel better. And if not, consider that a little boredom, a litdoses.

I’m also living in an apartment now. tle dissatisfaction, goes a long way.

You never really fully understand how Without these feelings, we’d sink into inconvenient dorms are until you have complacency, which is nothing more your own place. Suddenly, the bath- than a softer word for apathy. If you’re room’s three feet away, the kitchen’s a bored, that just means you’ll have to short jaunt down the hall, and the living find something new to entertain yourroom’s just a little further. So long as self.

And failing even that, it’s only a short you have the force of will to make a shopping trip every two weeks or so, couple of weeks until prelims will take you’re in want of nothing. It’s magical. over our lives. See? There’s always someTake last Saturday; I could’ve gone out, thing to look forward to. but instead I made a snack and let myself be seduced by Netflix. Sure, in Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and my defense, I was a little under the Sciences.

He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu. weather, but it’s a dangerous precedent. Sorenity Now appears alternate Thursdays this semesDamn, this sounds like the epitome ter.

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Anal Retention

Are You There, Fuckboy? It’s Me, Margaret G

host (v.): the act of ceasing any and all contact with a potential or realized sexual partner whom one no longer desires, in lieu of an explicit, forthright rejection.

He is not “a” ghost, rather, he will ghost. You know, the guy that you encounter between 11 p.m. and 2:45 a.m. on any given Thursday, Friday or Saturday, who appears like an apparition in your life; already nothing more than a volley of texts and a silhouette looming over your body. He will inevitably make good on his ephemeralness and evaporate into thin air.

I have ghosted, usually one-offs or men on the utmost periphery of my life, and also have been on the receiving end of these low stakes slights. A more prolonged, albeit intermittent hookup recently ghosted me. I happened upon him this summer and, after a quick chat, he asked if he literally might park his car in my lot while he was in Ithaca. Fine, I thought — in a sense, you already have six times — and we parted good-naturedly as he twice suggested a smoke. I texted “Yo” the following night. The text went unread for 48 hours, and his car continued to go in and out of my lot. After multiple rounds of bruising sex, you’d think I’d warrant a response more substantial than

that of the average fuckboy on Grindr.

Being ghosted is injurious to one’s pride, it is a dismissal; to be on the receiving end of ghosting is to feel as if you are not worthy of an articulated, reciprocal exchange. This behavior connotes that you are not worthy of an acknowledgement of the sex made together, of a courteous “I’m sorry, but...,” of a single

fear that might be especially salient for queer people. Having endured a lifetime of loud or subtle invalidation and compromised visibility in spaces both public and private, perhaps we are more inclined to settle for the lowest common denominator of validation. In our quest for it, we shroud our more authentic selves in performative scripts that allow

A variety of factors motivate us to fuck, yet coursing through the veins of each throbbing dick is a universal drive for validation. text that takes 30 seconds of effort to confer the respect that you are due. You are left instead with an asshole wielding a read receipt. Silence is power. More invalidating than hearing “no” is to never hear anything at all.

A variety of factors motivate us to fuck, yet coursing through the veins of each throbbing dick is a universal drive for validation. I imagine that each of us wants to be validated. We want to be desired, to feel momentarily that we are of value, even if the value offered to us is base and impersonal.

We are deeply afraid of invalidation, a

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us to seek validation without ever making ourselves truly visible. We reduce ourselves to stilted speech and callousness. Kindness, empathy and authentic communication have no place in our discourse. Those humane values would be altogether too vulnerable, too much of a concession of self and a vulnerability to potential pain.

It seems counterintuitive that a demographic already subject to erasure and invisibility would enact those qualities in its standard sexual communications, but we are. Yet over the span of 3 years and upwards of 30 men parking in my lot, I

have concluded that at the core, before we want to love and before we want to fuck, we want to be visible. There is no act more validating than witnessing the authentic self of another.

Visibility helps to combat the erasure that many queer folk have internalized and now enact outwardly as perverse catharsis. It helps to forge a more honest, humane community. But also, in a time of ever more averted and symbolicallycoded communication, communicating ethically helps get you laid. Ultimately, assholes do not mix with many assholes.

Making others feel erased and invisible does not endear them to you. It makes them feel cheap, and makes you seem immature.

For your sex partners both casual and sustained, offer visibility. Be candid, reciprocating and real. Allow them to see you for who you are, and see them for who they are in turn — people equal to you and deserving of your respect.

Constitute that visibility in the micro. Be straightforward about how you want them or do not want them; when you want them or when you do not. Text them and say as much. Do not ghost.

Masc. Dom. Top is a senior at Cornell. He can be reached at masc.dom.top@cornellsun.com. Anal Retention appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Between the Sheets

The Big Question I

believe that the quality of sex has nothing to do out of the way, makeup is being dumped on desks, him inside me? Will I know when he’s inside me? ... It’s with the quantifiable size of a penis. After much beds are covered with six different potential outfits the lighting. Don’t be mean. SHHHH. Just go with it consideration I have concluded that there seems to Fast-forward through the boring routine of prepara- ... You smile up at him deciding you’ll try to ignore be no guarantee of superiority in bed for those tion to the beginning of the pregame… then through “quantity” and make peace with the fact that it may “blessed” with a larger pal down there, while those who the blurrier part till the party … as you grind to a song not be as much of a good night as you thought. aren’t well endowed aren’t doomed for disaster either. you vaguely remember the lyrics to, he presses himself It was on a night like this that I had my most Guys simply need to learn how to intense orgasm ever. I’m sorry, use what they have to the fullest, and orgasms*. I had never before experigirls need to understand that quality enced the force someone could ride The only reason a smaller penis is seen as ‘bad’ is can come from surprising places. As me with. I never before knew of the my freshman roommate wisely circling, butt clenching, sliding, because society promotes larger ones. But all penises hip taught me, “It’s not the size of the pulsating movements a man could boat, it’s the motion of the ocean.” make with his body until I peaked. are ... well ... “beautiful.” I have come to understand And It’s come to my attention that I felt that penis inside me more even though in so many areas of our that with a larger penis comes a lot of confidence and than I have felt some of those that lives we’re taught to value quality adhered to the XL-penis stereotype. the feeling that little needs to be done by the guy to over quantity, this never seems to be The only reason a smaller penis the case with sex. Maybe now is the is seen as ‘bad’ is because society make the experience pleasurable. time to bring these teachings into the promotes larger ones. But all penisbedroom. I’m not even sure how the es are … well … “beautiful.” I have ‘big-penis’ preference came to be. It’s come to understand that with a flaunted in the media like big breasts or a big butt, onto you as you arch your back slightly and bite your larger penis often comes a lot of confidence and the both of which many find sexually appealing. While a lip. His hands curve around your hips as he pulls you feeling that little needs to be done by the guy to make penis resembles the Arts Quad “Needle Woman” upright towards him and whispers in your ear that you the experience pleasurable. (a.k.a. Space Dick, may she rest in peace), most people should get out of here … you’re up against the back of So I’m just going to leave you with a word of advice, I know don’t worship the penis as a beautiful monu- his door as he presses his hips into yours and brushes use whatever you have in a way that feels more in ment, so I’m honestly baffled about how size came to his hands through your hair … you’re in bed now sur- touch with the atmosphere you and your partner(s) be of such significance. Right about here you’ll be rounded by most of your clothes as you feel him hard- have created. So, next time you’re unzipping his pants thinking “duh, it matters when it’s inside you … like en more and more against your increasingly wet and are less than impressed, remember that less is you feel it more when it’s bigger …” AHA! Here’s panties as he slides a finger down your chest and slowly sometimes more, and pray for a good sailor. where I can’t help but offer an alternative. Just hear me inside you … you’re kissing his bare chest as you make out: your way down and slowly pull down his boxers. Uh The Duchess is a sophomore at Cornell. She can be reached at theIt’s a Friday night and the post 10 p.m. vibe is oh. It must be the lighting. Yeah it’s definitely the duchessofthesun@gmail.com. Between the Sheets appears building up around campus. Books are being thrown lighting … How am I ever going to feel anything with alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Healthy pointers, reminders and tricks of the trade for freshman year and beyond

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elcome, Class of 2019! You should be enjoying your first few weeks of college — the weight of 18 years of rules and obligations lifting as you revel in newfound freedom, before the weight of the all-youcare-to-eat dining halls and free food catches up with you. While it’s common to gain some weight in college, those dreaded 15 pounds aren’t inevitable. Here are some suggestions, reminders and information to help you avoid them.

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Breakfast — We’ve all heard that it’s the most important meal of the day, and the Mayo Clinic suggests that it may play a role in weight management and loss.

If you get up earlier than the dining halls open (on Sundays, for example, RPCC and Appel don’t open until 10 or later), keep something in your dorm room to get you going in the mornings.

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Opt for health in campus eateries — Try brown rice instead of the white rice; frozen yogurt over ice cream; fat-free or low-fat milk over whole milk. Don’t be afraid to ask for sauce, salad dressing or other ingredients on the side. Look for the “Eating Well” apple on Cornell Dining menus to find items that are whole grain, trans fat-free and lower in sugar, salt and fat.

Snacking — Choose 20 minute rule — It 3. your dorm room snacks 6. takes about 20 minutes — and when to eat them — for your brain to register fullwisely. Yes, supplies of midafternoon noshes are necessary from time to time. But if the

While it’s c o m mo n to ga i n so me weig ht i n c o l lege, th ose dreaded 15 p o u nds a ren’t i nevita ble. unhealthy stuff isn't in your dorm room, you’ll be much less tempted to indulge in it. To stock up, check out Bear Necessities, Jansen’s Market or the soon-to-come student-run grocery store in the basement of Anabel Taylor hall. Avoid snacking while studying or doing other things — it’s easy to lose sight of how much you’ve eaten.

Instead, snack during study breaks, when you can focus entirely on your food.

Free food — A 4.

Willard Straight Hall bag of popcorn or

a Thursday afternoon latté at Libe is much needed every now and then — but don’t just shovel it down because it’s free.

Before indulging, consider whether you’re actually hungry, and if not, don’t fret: The opportunity for free food will come again.

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lot of the day, one of the best opportunities to meet and bond with people is at mealtimes.

So if your entire freshman floor is going to eat, but you’re not terribly hungry, just stick to something small.

Don’t let your friends’ heaping plates of food make you feel inferior.

After everyone’s eaten, to avoid lingering desires for food, continue socializing somewhere you can’t see or smell what’s cooking.

ness. If you’re not sure whether you’re still hungry for dessert after downing dinner, find a 20 minute distraction.

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Water — Drinking water has tons of health — and financial — benefits, if you drink it instead of buying sugary drinks. Carry a water bottle with you and quench your thirst for free at any dining hall, from water fountains in any University building, or use water bottle filling stations located at various places around campus.

Alcohol — Alcoholic 8. beverages are a major cause of weight gain. As

Cornell’s own Alcohol-Wise instructs, the calories in a few drinks can equate those in several cheeseburgers, and these hidden calories tend to be stored as fat. For those 21 and

older, make sure to balance alcoholic intake with a healthy diet and exercise.

Moderation — You may 9. have heard on your campus tour that Ithaca has more restaurants per capita than New York City, and these restaurants — as well as dining halls, campus eateries, the Farmers’ Market and more — serve up lots of good stuff. Don’t let your fear of the freshman 15 keep you from enjoying all that Ithaca has to offer —just keep your explorations in check, with friends to help bear the caloric load.

Fitness centers — 10.

Check out the facilities at Helen Newman, Appel,

Teagle and Noyes. With basketball courts, swimming pools, rentable equipment and more, Cornell’s fitness centers are a great way to work off those Dairy Bar indulgences.

Physical education classes — Cornell’s gym 11. requirement may seem like a

drag if you’re imagining the middle school days of prepubescent awkwardness. But Cornell offers so many cool classes, from backpacking to massage to scuba. Even after you’ve fulfilled the requirement, take advantage of the opportunity to try things you might otherwise never experience.

Sports teams — Cornell provides 12. opportunities for students of all skill and intensity levels to be part of a sports team, whether varsity, club or intramural.

These are a great way to stay active and make friends with similar interests.

Sleep — Studies sug13. gest that staying wellrested is important for weight management. According to the Mayo Clinic, sleep-deprived brains are more likely to make unhealthy choices regarding food and portion size, and less likely to muster the motivation to work out. Make sure to catch those z’s!

Manage stress 14.

— Binge eating is a common

response to stress, so try not to stress yourself out. But if you do find yourself feeling apprehensive when prelims and finals roll around, exercise is a much healthier method of de-stressing. The Anxiety and Depres sion Association of America maintains that even five minutes of aerobic exercise can help to combat anxiety.

Check out Gannett 15.

— For any health questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to stop by Cornell’s health care center. Gannett’s Cornell Healthy Eating Program (CHEP) is specially suited for students concerned about nutrition. To make an appointment, call (607) 255-5155 during regular hours.

But in the end, enjoy your time at Cornell. If you happen to leave 15 pounds heavier, the weight will be one of many things you gain out of your college experience.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT O TE S T S P I N S Lupe Fiasco Pharaoh Height 2/30 Atlantic Records

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Chris Stanton Being a Lupe Fiasco fan is quite possibly the most frustrating experience of all time. Since dropping his classic sophomore album The Cool in 2007, the Chicago native has made a habit of teasing fans with brilliant, one-off singles, then proceeding to release a mediocre album with clear label concessions. The result is that long-term fans, such as myself, are left defending the guy who wrote “Battle Scars”— a truly terrible byproduct of today’s record industry. Yet hope remains, as this year’s mildly overrated (but nonetheless impressive) Tetsuo & Youth proved a return to form for the 33-year old rapper. Like any Lupe album, it tended toward complex storytelling and self-serious politicking, which is why it comes as a relief to hear the lyrical acrobat finally cut loose on his new mixtape, Pharaoh Height 2/30.

“Words are what keep civilization, our world, alive,” reads a deep-voiced narrator over the tape’s opening track, “In.” It’s a grandiose statement used to open a project that pitter-patters back and forth between using words as an aesthetic and employing them to convey a political message. Within the span of four bars, the slippery-tongued MC can bounce from criticizing urban youth for political inactiveness (“Bernie Sanders needs a Nike deal … If Phil Knight knight him, then I might like him”) to making a joke

An ethereal bass line calls out from the darkness of the album’s beginning, fades further like a withdrawn breath and resurges, pulling forth the voice of Keith Jeffery with it: “So is this what you waited for? / I can’t help you figure it out …” And just like that, we’ve been carried through the first moments of Inanimate Objects almost without realizing it.

You probably first heard of Atlas Genius through an acoustic version of their single “Trojans.” At least, that’s how most of the United States heard about them, including me; I was watching an under-popular show called Being Human and quickly learned that its best quality was its complete devotion to finding beautiful, I’m-too-special-to-be-known-by-you indie songs. By the time I’d rolled into Season 3, “Trojans” had found its way onto the soundtrack, and soon I stumbled onto the gem that is Jeffery’s solo acoustic cover of the song, filmed by his brother and drummer Michael.

That was two years ago, as they released their first album, When It Was Now, an album that felt as fresh as the February morning it was released, and showcased Keith’s slightly metallic voice while oscillating between a sound reminiscent of M83, The Black Keys, and Blood Orange. But it was an album of singles — sure, singles that you recognized were from a singular source, but each existed in their own world. I fell in love with their signature sound but felt like they would forever be relegated to having one or two of their songs played on middle school Spotify playlists, and go largely unrecognized in the wider musical world.

Well, it’s been two and a half years since When It Was Now and Atlas Genius has cleaned up their act. On June 24 I went with a friend to what was arguably one of the best concerts of my life. Joywave, Atlas Genius and the Kooks mixed together undeniably well and each played with an easy cleanliness that most bands should take note of (I’m talking to you, Maroon 5 — eventually every song you play has to end so you can play the next one!). A few moments before Atlas Genius started to blow the minds of everyone in Central Park, a short and lovely woman from behind us asked if my friend and I could switch places so she could watch her son over my head instead of

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about Freaks and Geeks. Lupe’s thoughts come erratically, and his tendency to freestyle in the recording booth results in verses with inconsistent themes.

Amidst this chaos, the unifying aspect is an emphasis on the versatile power of words, be it expressive or aesthetic. It might be difficult to extract meaning out of lines like “Dollar mission, Mississippi masala getting / Guava Casaba melons, getting a spot at competition,” but Lupe excels at getting his listeners to find beauty in the words themselves.

In its name, Pharaoh Height 2/30 most closely resembles the series of Fahrenheit 1/15 mixtapes from early in Lupe’s career. Musically, it aligns more with projects like 2009’s Enemy of the State or 2011’s Friend of the People. All three are slight but satisfying listens, in which Lupe flips well-known but unexpected instrumentals and spits rapid-fire verses over them.

It’s rap for rap’s sake; Anyone looking for structured songs or pop hooks need not listen. When it comes to albums, Lupe’s ear for beats is spotty at best, but in the mixtape format — where it’s both legally and artistically acceptable to repurpose existing music — he’s on point. Pharaoh Height’s instrumentals vary from video game theme music (“In”) to Flying Lotus (“Pyramid.”) But even as he finds rhythm in a spacy

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The joyous weirdness of Pharaoh Height and the artist behind it presents itself in full on the project’s final track, “Schemes.” A few years ago, Lupe attempted to write an entire sci-fi novel on Twitter, telling it in chapters of 140 characters or less. It was a wildly entertaining endeavor that resembled some amalgamation of Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner.

“Schemes” plays like a sonic version of that “novel,” with Lupe spinning a frantic yarn about kung-fu battles and super-villains. It’s hip-hop’s Enter the Dragon, a bizarrely entertaining tale from one of rap’s best storytellers, and the type of song that would never find itself on a proper album.

Pharaoh Height 2/30 will likely end up as a footnote in Lupe’s long career, but it’s also a pleasant reminder as to why we liked him in the first place.

Fader recently published an article entitled, “Why It’s Cool to Love Lupe Fiasco Again.” If Pharaoh Height is any indication of what’s to come, maybe I can once again take some pride in being a Lupe fan.

Chris Stanton is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

Atlas Genius Currents Interscope Records

Jessie Weber

around hers. Her son being Kevin McPherson, the vibrant yet steady bassist that Atlas Genius had picked up in California to join them for their 2015 tour.

Much to her delight, we sang along with every song they played for us that night — until, again to her delight, the band debuted “Molecules” and saved all of our souls by crying out “even mistakes aren’t really mistakes at all.” This might be the song on Inanimate Objects that has most retained the sound of their previous album. The rest of the record isn’t so much different as far more mature. Listening to Inanimate Objects is a lot like talking to your kid neighbor and realizing five minutes in that his voice has dropped, his limbs have suddenly become more proportionate, and wait — he’s actually not much of a kid neighbor anymore. Until a bug lands on his shoulder and he shrieks in horror.

Atlas Genius has greatly tempered it’s spotlight on Jeffrey’s voice, and learned to create friction between their often lackadaisical undertones and the happily precocious drive of the other instruments which urge it onward. There’s not much hint of evanescence here — the concept or the band, just to clarify. Instead, the deep bass and keyboard riffs almost seem to be a nod at Muse’s more recent releases.

But in spite of all of the times I’ve listened to their

music and heard the echoes of other artists, I could never confuse Atlas Genius for any other group. Atlas Genius is just as iconic and impressive as any of their peers or predecessors, and they achieve a clear cohesion between their songwriting and production that screams a boundless fountain of energy and creativity. I find myself unable to dislike even the songs that I don’t feel that I should like. No repetition is too much, no riff is too abrasive or too weak and no homage is too overdone.

Maybe you found out about Atlas Genius, like me, through a supernatural soap opera on the Sci-fi channel.

Or maybe you’ve read through this whole review asking yourself “who the hell is this weird compass band and why the hell did I just waste five minutes on some random writer’s obsession with their touring bassist’s mom?” Well, to the first point, if you haven’t listened to Inanimate Objects yet, treat yourself so you can have at least one pleasant surprise today. I’d recommend just one song, but that would be cheating yourself of the rest of them. As for the second point, you would have had to meet her to understand just how adorable she is, so just trust me when I say she is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Jessie Weber is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jweber@cornelsun.com.

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Tame Impala Currents Interscope Records

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Kevin Parker is the best kind of musician and the worst kind of person that you can be in 2015 — he’s a romantic. This means that he’ll never be satisfied personally, but that his music will always be on point — for misery is the fertile soil in which art grows. With Currents, he effortlessly leads Tame Impala from Pitchfork-wunderkind status to mainstream popularity by embracing the all-commanding fascistic groove.

Our subject is well aware of the critical misgivings that often accompany such a calculation, and Parker worries that pop success may cost him hard-won credibility.

“It’s always around me, all this noise,” he informs us as “Let It Happen” (the first track on the record) unfolds. Lush production drowns sternum-tapping bass and snare as we descend into an ether that is simultaneously pensive and cathartic. The Morse Code-style synth riff — one staccato note — communicates a sense of emergency, despite Parker’s protestations to the contrary.

Guitars ring in muscular fashion, their chorusing effect transporting us to a Cold War European disco.

“Why would I do it?” he asks himself. Clearly not for the adulation he seems to find fault with — his indie guilt is strong. As the lush synthesized waves surround him, their undulations whipping his scarf as he peers mournfully into the night ahead, he looks back to us

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and implores: “Tell my mother I’m sorry.” Does the man resent success? Fear it? Does he know he is capitulating as he embraces the dance floor?

We don’t have time to ponder it. The bass in the mighty “’Cause I’m A Man” seduces us, custom-built for practicing procreation. One can hear the rhythm of sex in the beat; it infects the consciousness, building desire like foam in a shaken soda bottle. You feel smoky and high, eyes glazed with prolactin in the afterglow.

One brilliant quality of Parker’s really shines through here; he is pre-modern. There is no trite disillusionment here — synth chimes worthy of Tiffany or Debbie Gibson pierce through, and the chord changes are naïve, yearning nakedly in the tradition of pop music’s best offerings. His romanticism may make a wreck of his personal life, but Parker counters by showing us its returns. “’Cause I’m A Man” is the monster on this record, an oasis of reds, pinks and oranges in a cold blue decade.

Dominant, fuzzy riffage a la Keith Richards (circa 1974) penetrates through the confessional chorus.

Parker concedes that he is “a man, woman … (I) don’t always think before I do … (I’m not) often proud of what I choose,” abdicating androgens in concert with an age where men are admonished if they do not embrace a tacit degree of popular misandry. He is

ashamed of what nature made him — “Once again as it takes control / I am aware I’m not in control.” The climax — “I’m a human, human” – offers a new alternative: a landscape without genders, only human beings, liberated by the absence of today’s vitriolic tribalism. Mr. Parker doesn’t want to pick a side; he just wants to be loved.

Lo-fi drum engineering leads us into “Yes I’m Changing.” “Yes I’m older, yes I’m moving on,” he admits. A poignant minor chord change appears as he tells his lover that “there is another future waiting there for you” and it’s heartbreaking in the very best way; One can see slow-motion hands losing their grasp as two souls are cast apart to the disparate corners of the earth. “I can’t always hide away, curse indulgence and despise the fame; there is a world out there and it is calling my name.” Once again, we see the theme of acquiescence — Parker is giving up, giving over, allowing our collective consciousness to consume his flesh at the orgiastic bacchanal of the pop market. The sound of automobiles and city denizens enter at 3 minutes and 25 seconds as we hear him offer himself up, ready for mass consumption. Uniquely, this captures the very moment of concession. “Arise and walk, come through,” Parker implores of himself, a priest baptizing himself before the crucifixion.

Parker then admonishes in “Disciples:” “And I can tell by your face that no one’s ever been rude to you … now it’s like the world owes you … walking around like everyone should know you.” Here the man addresses Millennial entitlement in a fashion only superseded by Jack White’s great treatise on the subject, “Freedom At 21” (good company). And “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” is the perfect soundtrack for a lonely 3 a.m. walk, your path lit by amber streetlamps as you make your way home from a tryst. The bassline pulls and pushes away from you with the same teasing that Parker’s lovers do. “Maybe fake’s what I like,” he ruminates. For the sake of Mr. Parker’s fragile heart, this writer hopes the singer is wrong.

Kurt Fritjofson is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kfritjofson@cornellsun.com.

Thank God for Music I Hate

he first time that I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind.”

Bruce Springsteen said this when he inducted Bob Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and it is one of my favorite things ever said about music.

It’s also an experience of which I’m profoundly jealous.

I have no idea when the first time I heard “Like a Rolling Stone,” or Abbey Road, or even “Stronger” was. And even if I could remember those first times, they would hold none of the worldrealigning shock that Springsteen’s memory holds for him, because all of these examples were almost certainly played for or recommended to me. Unlike me, Springsteen had an absolutely pure first meeting with something that he knew, before deciding whether it was good or pleasing, was new. Never mind the fact that very few songs since “Like a Rolling Stone” have been as wholly different from everything around them. The availability of C.D.s, mp3s, YouTube and now countless other apps and sites have all made it so that we can control exactly to what we listen, when we listen to it, and how: with others, by ourselves, as a full album, as a playlist of random, unrelated songs.

Because of these developments, Springsteen’s experience of “Like a Rolling Stone” as a gift — a revelation outside of his control, but which

nonetheless belonged to him immediately because of its effect on him — is something essentially impossible today.

I remember my dad telling me once that there was nothing like the feeling you got when the exact song you wanted to hear came on the radio. While I certainly wouldn’t willingly give up the luxury of being able to play the exact song I want, at the moment I want it, I understand that there is a certain way of experiencing the songs I love that I will never be able to have, precisely because of that technological capacity.

Over the summer, I worked as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. On some nights, I was there from 4 p.m. until 1 a.m., with a sole companion: James, another dishwasher. I like to think that I am a generally open-mind-

Jack Jones Despite All the Amputations ed music fan; There are plenty of specific songs and artists I don’t care for, but very few genres. James happened to be a devout fan of the only two genres for which I have absolutely no tolerance, as well as two more I didn’t even know existed before he introduced me to them. The first two were screamorock and dubstep, and the second two were remixes of the Legend of Zelda theme song (James had a truly astounding number of these on hand) and whatever genre to which the Pandora

station based on Ninja Sex P a r t y belongs. The first night, the only speaker on hand was one that uses Bluetooth, which for some reason my iPhone n e v e r accommodates, so for seven hours James ruled the music in the backroom.

As soon as I got home that night, I ordered my own speaker, and from then on we split the music time fiftyfifty.

The thing that I came to understand about Springsteen’s reaction to “Like a Rolling Stone” is that an integral part of his experience was the song that played on the radio right before it.

“Like a Rolling Stone” was so mindblowing because of its juxtaposition with whatever had come before it, something likely banal and certainly less revolutionary. So in comparison, I may have been closer to feeling what Springsteen felt than ever before when, after two hours of Three Days Grace and the Zelda “Overworld Theme,” my turn came to plug in my speaker, and the first glorious three notes of Bob Marley’s “Lively Up Yourself ” rocked the kitchen. This was music as relief, as redemption. The nature of the room immediately changed; it became mine.

I had been a stranger in a tiresome and

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grating land, and now I was home.

So maybe music that we don’t like has its place in our lives. We can’t know we truly love something without the comparison of other things that we most certainly do not love (looking at you, Ninja Sex Party). I played songs in that kitchen that I thought repeated listening had worn into a smooth and comforting ball, lacking any creases of surprise and excitement, and found they were revitalized. This, I think, was entirely due to the juxtaposition with James’s music, which showed me how much these songs meant to me. Those first three notes of “Lively Up Yourself,” which I had heard so many times before, may not have kicked open the door to my mind as Bob Dylan’s snare shot did to Bruce Springsteen’s, but they were the sound of musical absolution and ecstasy to me.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com. Despite All the Amputations appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Noel Hopes Garrett Cuts Down Recruitment Processes,Procedures NOEL

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Noel said he thinks that Garrett’s time as provost at the University of Southern California, a school with one of the top athletic programs in the country, gives the new president a perspective on athletics that will benefit student athletes and the athletics program in general.

“Beth Garrett has a perspective that is very important for our campus community at large,” Noel said.

“I’m very, very excited. I believe she is a strong leader, fair, but can make decisions and I’ve always been one to simplify process and procedures.”

Noel said that while competition within the Ivy League to have an intense, winning athletics program

is fierce, Cornell is in a position, with its “great students” to have a strong dual commitment to both academics and athletics.

“Every Ivy school is investing mightily in the combination of real, series focus on academics and a dual commitment to their athletic pursuits,” Noel said.

“All eight Ivy schools are working extremely hard. …

We’re looking for individuals who will make this dual commitment to their individual pursuits and their athletic pursuits and [each of] the eight Ivy schools are hellbent to capture more of those individuals than [their peers]. It’s really an intense competition right now.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

Serena Williams Is Basically Awesome at Everything Tennis SCAZZERO

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She has been ranked number one six times in her career, and now, at age 33, she once again holds the number one spot in the world. This year, she has, without a doubt, become an imposing force on the court, with a winning percentage of 88 percent at Grand Slams and 85 percent for all other top-level

main draw encounters.

All of this sets her up for possible history in the making as she sets her sights on her fourth consecutive grand slam title this year, which has been dubbed the “Serena Slam.” Basically, this means that if she wins the U.S. Open, she will have won all the Grand Slam titles for the 2015 year, a unique opportunity and one very rare in the tennis world. She achieved it once in

2003,and it looks like she is more than capable of accomplishing it again this year.

So even if you’re not the biggest tennis fan, it might be worthwhile to keep your eyes out starting Aug. 3 for the U.S. Open to watch this woman kick some serious ass and even witness some history in the making.

Sophia Scazzero can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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Buczek’15 Adjusts to Life as Pro, MBA Student

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Much like he has done for the past four years, Connor Buczek ’15 still attends class and goes to lacrosse practice.

The only difference now is that attending class means working on an MBA and going to lacrosse practice means serving as a volunteer assistant for the program.

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Returning Red | Connor Buczek ’15 is back on the Hill after his first season playing for the Florida Launch of the MLL.

“I’ve been basically going to class in the mornings, then understand my role and reassess what I contributed and going to work in the coaches office in the afternoon, then what I brought to the team,” Buczek said. “Obviously, going to team meetings or workout, then going home and there’s a lot of guys on the team who can play, so you just doing homework,” Buczek said. “It’s long days, but I’m kind of take your turn and when you get an opportunity, very excited about the position.” take advantage ... As long as the ball is in the back of the Between playing lacrosse professionally in Major League net, it doesn’t really matter who put it there. ” Lacrosse and running camps throughout And toward the end of the season, as the country, Buczek had a busy summer. “It’s a pretty big jump Buczek began to click with his teamLess than a week after graduating last mates, the Launch was able to find the May, he made his MLL debut for the going from the college back of the net more and more often.

When Buczek joined the team in May, Florida Launch, for whom he would go game to the pro Florida’s record was 1-5. While his team on to score at least one point in every lost its first three games after Buczek game he played in and led the league in game.” joined, the Launch went on to win four two point shots. of its last five contests.

“It was awesome,” Buczek said on Connor Buczek ’15 Another reason for the Launch’s sucplaying in the MLL. “It’s a pretty big cess late in the season was Lyle Thompson, jump going from the college game to the pro game. It’s so different. The 60-second shot clock is the two-time Tewaaraton Trophy winner, which is given pretty big, so each offensive set is, I won’t say rushed, but annually to the best collegiate lacrosse player, just weeks before joining Buczek with Florida, led Albany to a 19-10 the pace is picked up.”

Another one of the biggest differences between the col- victory over Cornell.

“They didn’t bring it up, thankfully, so I enjoyed playlege game and the MLL is the difference in practice schedule. Buczek flew to wherever the game was on Friday, par- ing with them,” Buczek said with a laugh about Thompson ticipate in a walkthrough with the team on Saturday morn- and his brother Miles. “They were great guys, and they’re ing, play the game on Saturday night and fly out early very humble.”

Despite last year’s success with Florida, Buczek said he is Sunday morning, a far cry from the six-days-a-week practice schedule that he had at Cornell. Despite this, Buczek not entirely sure where he will be playing next year. The still said he found himself in a great environment amongst MLL is expanding to Atlanta and will feature an expansion many older players who knew the professional game well. draft in which each team can choose 10-12 players off its “The guys are great. They were very welcoming,” own roster to keep for the upcoming season. The remainBuczek said. “A lot of the veterans took me under their ing players are placed in a draft pool. Buczek will find out wing, kind of showed me the ropes pretty early, so it was a Oct. 7 whether or not the Launch has elected to protect him. If not, Buczek could be on his way to another team. lot of fun.”

Playing at Cornell, Buczek was one of the best players in Either way, Buczek said he is looking forward to the the program, if not the country; the former Ivy League upcoming season and that he would love to play in the Player of the Year was a three-time All-American at mid- MLL for as long as he can.

But before he can go back to the pros and play lacrosse field. And yet, with the Launch, Buczek found himself just one of many talented players on the team while playing with the best players in the world, he’s just another Cornell alongside Lacrosse legends such as Casey Powell and Kieran student, with homework to do and classes to attend.

McArdle.

“For a couple of years [at Cornell] I was one of the go Adam Bronfin can be reached to guys, so it was definitely different for me where I had to at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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Noel: Garrett Has Important Perspective For Student Athletes

Cornell athletic director‘over the moon’ about upcoming inauguration of Garrett

team from 1974-88. He then left for seven years before returning in 1996 as the associate athletic direcWith the upcoming inaugura- tor and eventually gained the title tion of Elizabeth Garrett as the of athletic director in 1999. Noel, 13th president of Cornell who has seen five different University, change is expected to University presidents come and go, come to the Hill, change that will said he was struck by how impresinevitably stretch its arm to the ath- sive Garrett was when she took the letics department. Whether that reins of Cornell.

“President Garrett is an amazing change is in a positive or negative direction is yet to be seen, but ath- person and an amazing leader,” letic director Andy Noel seemed Noel said. “A lot of people are confident in how things are going putting so much stock in that it’s to play out when he sat down with great that Cornell’s president is a woman. I think it’s great that The Sun Wednesday afternoon.

“I believe that Beth Garrett Cornell’s president is Beth Garrett. comes from a background where It doesn’t matter, male or female, she’s a phenomeher experience nal leader, has has shown her that excellence in “I know [Garrett] believes p h e n o m e n a l energy [and] is a athletics should that the work we do in person that can go hand in hand athletics is a part of the process informawith excellence tion very quickin academics,” he educational process.” ly. I’m over the said. “I know she moon about believes that the Andy Noel her.” work that we do One area that in athletics is a Noel has identified — for both athpart of the educational process.”

Noel, who just started his 16th letics and the University at large — year as the athletic director for the as a potential area of improvement Red, has overseen an athletic has been processes and procedure. department that has earned a lot of Noel said he believes Garrett can success under his watch, accumu- improve Cornell athletics in this lating 97 Ivy League team titles and regard.

“She requires efficiency and 23 Ivy League championships.

Noel first started at Cornell as people to be really able to invest the the head coach of the wrestling bulk of their time in the positions

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where they’ve been hired to serve,” Noel said. “I really could not be more excited. I really could not be.”

Noel also spoke highly of new provost Michael Kotlikoff and vice president for student and campus life Ryan Lombardi, saying he believes the trio of administrators cares about the reputation of success for Cornell within the Ivy League. Noel points to the recruiting process as an area where he said the administration can help the Red become flexible and successful.

“We can simplify and modify processes that allow us to be more nimble [in recruiting and financial aid],” Noel said. “We’re not going to be changing parameters, but there is a way in any organization to become more nimble, to be ready to take advantage of circumstances, to take advantage of opportunities that exist, but that we don’t pick up on. I really think there’s a keen interest in our administration, and not just in athletics, but [in] everything that we do across the board [such as] research [and] academic pursuits in colleges and majors.”

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Big Red director | Athletic director Andy Noel said he hopes president Elizabeth Garrett will be able to cut down the number of processes and procedure during recruitment. Noel is beginning his 16th season as Cornell’s athletic director.

You Should Be Watching Serena Williams Dominate

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ennis does not have the same kind of popularity in America as baseball or football. People certainly don’t tailgate tennis games, and you would be hard pressed to find anyone wearing a tennis polo with “Nadal”

matches.

A fair label, however, is that it the “most interesting of the polite clapping sports.”

Tennis is one of those sports that comes into news circulation and pop culture every now and then

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay or “Federer” on the back.

The cheering section is renowned for its respectable silence when observing matches as opposed to the usual heckling and revelry that occurs at most other sports

depending on the excitement around the match ups and while some worldranked players pop up occasionally to advertise Gillette razors or Tag Heuer watches, their faces aren’t nearly as prevalent as,

say, Peyton Manning’s or LeBron James’.

Despite its lack of mainstream cult following, there are some names in tennis that are impossible to not know and, this year, there is one in particular that is making waves in the sports world right now: Serena Williams. It’s not a new name, but what she has accomplished this year has brought an air of resurgence to her career and her celebrity. Serena, along with her sister Venus, have been the poster names for tennis in America for almost 20 years, having won an incredible amount of titles (including an Olympic medal) in both singles and doubles.

Williams has also recently become even more of a celebrity due to her splash into the world of

social media; she boasts 4.7 into the new-age celebrity. Olympic Gold Medal in million followers on However, there is a big dif- 2012. Her career has had Twitter and a recent ference between Serena its ups and downs and Instagram post of hers of and the girls she joined on multiple points where peoher doing the splits ple have doubted her between two bars for career, whether it What [Serena Williams] has was an injury and illa photo shoot racked up 119,000 likes and accomplished this year has ness or even her will drew enough attento continue playing. tion to be featured on brought an air of resurgence She has walked some morning talk away from a major to her career and her shows.

39 times without the celebrity.

Most notably, trophy, but this year though, is when she is on a roll. Since Serena also recently hiring her new made an appearance as a stage. Serena has been prac- coach, Patrick guest on Taylor Swift’s tically dominating the ten- Mouratoglou, in 2012, she celebrity-dense tour in nis world long before any has earned her fourth, fifth Hyde Park this June. She of those other girls even and sixth Wimbledon joined Swift and an array of began their careers. titles, an Olympic Gold her supermodel friends Serena’s career began at Medal, her fourth, fifth ,such as Kendall Jenner, an unsurprisingly early age, and sixth U.S. Open titles, Karlie Kloss and Cara starting at the age of three second and third French Delevingne, onstage in and debuting as a profes- Open titles, and her sixth front of a crowd of 65,000, sional at age 14 in 1995. Australian Open title. symbolizing, not only her Over her whole career, she NBD. amazing status in the sports has collected 21 Grand See SCAZZERO page 14 world, but her cross over Slam titles and one