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Martha Robertson’s ’75 choice of performer at an election fundraising event has raised controversy. | Page 3
Porchfest 2013 was summed up by one Ithaca resident as being “all very Ithaca.” | Page 10
Men’s soccer player Connor Goepel has been on the field a lot lately. | Page 16
Gannett Renovation Requires $20M of Additional Funding By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor
Beth Hansen ’14, whose family members have served in the Navy and worked at both the Pentagon and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., said she was very worried once she heard there had been a shooting at the Navy Yard. “That’s when the panic set in, because I’m familiar with the area, with the Navy Yard,” she said. Hansen said that, later on, she was able to find
With the number of patients rising and space for services shrinking, Gannett Health Services is likely among the top fundraising priorities for Cornell, according to University administrators. Gannett’s existing building opened in 1957, when health care services were very different from the “best practices” of today, Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett, said in an email. With its last renovation com“We need to raise a pleted in 1979 — when there minimum of $18.3 were 5,000 fewer students on campus — Gannett is in million through pressing need of an expanphilanthropy.” sion, University officials said. “In response to a growing Susan Murphy ’73 student body and increasing public health responsibilities, the Gannett staff has grown so much that we have had to ‘bump out’ some people to other locations (i.e. physical therapy, student health insurance, billing) and ‘push in’ others to more crowded and less functional spaces,” Dittman said in the email. The renovation and expansion — which Cornell hopes will be complete by 2017 — will cost $55 million overall, with most of the money coming from the University itself. For the rest of the funding, the University needs to “raise a minimum of $18.3 million through philanthropy … [although] we have a $25-million goal for fundraising,” said Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94,
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DOUG MILLS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Men in blue | A police officer stands watch at the scene of the Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C. Monday. A gunman was killed Monday morning after a shooting that left at least 12 victims dead at a naval building.
Capital Recovers From Navy Yard Shooting
Cornell in Washington program unaffected by tragedy, students say By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor
A former Navy reservist killed at least 12 people and injured eight at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning, sparking fears and anxiety about the safety of Cornellians in the capital. The alleged gunman was able to enter the secure military facility using official credentials, according to The New York Times. The man was later shot and killed by police.
Boutique OwnerAims to Changes Needed at Bear’s Den,S.A.Says Bring Variety to C-Town By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA
Sun Staff Writer
By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer
Natalie Sweeney has long believed that students in Collegetown needed some new places to shop. Even before she moved from Utica to Ithaca, she was “not
“You can ... get the pieces you would wear if you want to glam it up to knock the guys over.” Natalie Sweeney impressed” with The Shops at Ithaca Mall, and although the Commons is “neat,” it does not offer the average, everyday clothes students are looking for, she said. This fall, Sweeney is helping to
fill that hole in the market with a new boutique she has opened on Dryden Road, Natalia’s Boutique. Sweeney describes the style of Natalia’s Boutique’s as “bohemian chic glam.” “You can get those relaxed-fit, cute outfits here, but you can also get the pieces you would wear if you want to glam it up to knock the guys over,” she said. Her goal? To help her customers. “I’m not one of those people that will lie to them,” she said. “I want to give them an honest price, and if you look like hell in your clothes, I will tell you, because you’re representing my clothes. I want you to look good.” Natalia’s Boutique targets young women aged between 18 and 30 years old, Sweeney said. See BOUTIQUE page 5
One year after its official opening, Cornell’s on-campus pub, the Bear’s Den, is still struggling to attract students, the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee said at a meeting Monday. The Bear’s Den opened in Willard Straight Hall in September 2012. Reflecting on the difficulties the pub has faced since its opening, S.A. appropriations committee members said the Willard Straight Hall Student Union Board — which organizes events for students and sets policies for WSH — needs to establish the pub as an environment on campus where students can drink and socialize. “Cornell Dining has spent a lot of money in trying to get a liquor license for the pub,” Geoffrey Block ’14, chair of the appropriations committee, said. “How do we make drinking in
the Ivy Room more fun?” Student Union Board President Andrew Newman ’14 said the board needs to expand the pub’s appeal to the general student body by diversifying its programming, which would require additional funding. “We’ve had a tough time get-
ting people to come on a weekto-week basis to the pub,” Newman said. “We’d like $300 a week for groups to throw really cool events at the pub and inspire people to go.” Currently, the pub caters its See BEAR’S DEN page 5
RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Suit and tie | Representatives of USA Today speak at the S.A. Appropriations Committee Monday about establishing a scholarship.