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Cornell NanoScale Library Smashes Funding Goal Campaign raises $15K for Facility Selected for improvements in just days National Network

By LINDSAY CAYNE

Sun Staff Writer

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

The National Science Foundation has selected the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility — a center that supports nanoscience and technology projects — to participate in the newly-created National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and receive eight million dollars in funding over the next five years, according to the University.

CNF anticipates receiving additional funding from New York State’s Empire State Development Corporation, which has commit“For nearly four decades, research ted to match up to 3 milat the CNF has had a strong lion dollars of interdisciplinary emphasis.” funding over the five year Prof. Robert Buhrman p e r i o d , according to the University.

CNF is among the 16 leading nanotechnology facilities chosen to participate in the network following a competition which ended Sept. 1. The NSF created the new partnership to replace the recently-ceased National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, which CNF was also a part of.

Located in Duffield Hall, CNF hosts hundreds of research projects every year. A recent project team demonstrated that a semiconducting compound that possesses properties “could prove a worthy companion to silicon,” according to a University press release. It has the potential to form the basis of a close-to-perfect, atomically thin transistor, which in principle would not See NANOSCALE page 4

Career culmination

A campaign to bring additional lighting and modern updates to the A.D. White library exceeded its original fundraising goal of $15,000 just days after its launch.

The Cornell University Library Alumni Council, which launched the campaign on Sept. 8, came up with the idea this fall to refurbish the library by installing lighting, electrical outlets and new furniture during Winter Break.

The council decided to revamp the “iconic, historical library” because it was dimly lit and built before outlets were even needed, according to Jennifer Sawyer, director of Library Alumni Affairs and Development.

“It is an endearing library to [many alumni],” Sawyer said.

The library council originally hoped to raise $15,000 by Oct. 7, but when donations exceeded that amount within a week, the goal was upped to $30,000, according to Anne Kenney, the University librarian.

In addition to funds given directly by donors, Cornell University Libraries has agreed to match donations. With the extra money, “the big thing will be to replace the entire red carpet that is there,” Kenney said. “I think that will be just terrific.”

As of Wednesday night, over 154 people had donated to the online campaign and it had reached 75 percent of the new goal. Kenney said she thought the number and diversity of donors was “pretty special.”

“It’s alumni, it’s students, it’s faculty members, it’s staff, including library staff, and it’s senior leaders of the University,” Kenney said. “So, for instance, the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS

YICHEN DONG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Let there be light | The Cornell Library Alumni Council surpassed its fundraising goal of $15,000 to bring updates to the A.D. White Library in under a week.

[Kathryn Boor ’80], has donated, as has President [Elizabeth Garrett] and Provost [Michael Kotlikoff ].”

The campaign’s facebook page reported that Garrett gave the campaign its inaugural donation.

In addition to updating the A.D. White Library, the crowdfunding campaign also aims to “broaden [the library’s] scope of donors ... to hopefully engage the library with folks who haven’t engaged with it previously,” Sawyer said.

The crowdsourcing campaign is a library iniSee LIBRARY page 5

Cornell Abroad to Consolidate Grant Applications Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Yuri Orlov, physics and government, attends his retirement celebration with colleagues Wednesday afternoon.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Off-Campus Opportunities Fund, a new resource managed by Cornell Abroad, will consolidate the process of applying to five different off campus study grants into one application.

The five organizations — the Global Encounters Scholarship, the Student Diversity Initiative Grant, the Community Engaged Student Grant, the Einaudi Center Travel Grants and Student Individual Funding Sponsorship — are all geared toward connecting students with available grants, according to Marina Markot, director of Cornell Abroad.

“The whole idea is to make it easier for students to access different funding opportunities through one consolidated application process,” Markot said. “The existing funds are coming together,

establishing a common application process, common deadline, and coordinating the awarding so we can help as many students as we can.”

Nishi Dhupa, executive director of the Mario Einaudi Center for

“It is the one-stop shop where you can apply for the program and also look at the funding.”

Marina Markot International Studies, said the fund is part of a concerted effort to globalize Cornell’s curricula and increase its international presence.

“We’ve found that it’s difficult for students to locate funding sources on campus for expensive international trav-

el — they know about funding sources in their colleges, but it’s harder to find those elsewhere on campus,” she said.

Dhupa said she hopes the fund will help “to reach students with limited financial means, to afford them access to these important and meaningful international experiences.” It will function as the primary starting point for off-campus financial assistance, according to Markot.

“It is the one-stop shop where you can apply for the program and also look at the funding,” Markot said.

Administrators managing the consolidated fund said in a statement that they hope the single application and awarding process will result “in a more efficient, inclusive, and equitable” distribution of funds.

The single site for information should help circulate details on the See GRANTS page 4

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Malott Responds to Plagiarism Charge

By SUN STAFF

In view of conflicting opinions and widespread discussion on campus of the “Funny Coincidence” item printed in the Nov. 10 issue of “The New Yorker,” President Dean W. Malott last night told The Sun that the controversial material used in his installation address came from random notes in his speech file.

The President remarked that the quotation, “which proved to have originally appeared in an address by Dr. Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College,” came to his attention in the form of “some educational handout or filler paragraph in a weekly newspaper which was printed with no reference to source or authority.”

Mr. Malott went on to say that “he had never seen Dr. Taylor’s speech, so he had no way of crediting Dr. Taylor with the authorship of these particular thoughts, which he would of course have gladly done had he known the source.”

Discussion on the issue of Mr. Malott’s installation address arose out of the New Yorker article which printed, side by side, nearly identical quotations from an essay by Dr. Taylor in the Harvard Educational Review,

printed in 1949, and the Sept., 1951 installation address by Mr. Malott.

Reached by The Sun yesterday afternoon, a reliable authority at Sarah Lawrence reported that Dr. Taylor’s article in the Harvard Magazine was a followup on a speech given at the University of Wisconsin.

Later in the year, Dr. Taylor used the quotation in question in another speech at Boston University and this in turn was published by a Community Relations Service Pamphlet, a magazine circulated to educational institutions over the country.

Dr. Taylor’s picture was on the cover of the magazine, and he was credited with the authorship of the article.

Until last night, President Mallott had refused to give The Sun an official statement “because he felt that there was no purpose to be served by a refutation of the implication that the material had been taken by him from Dr. Taylor.”

On Nov. 23, however, the Daily Kansan, student newspaper at the University of Kansas, printed an article concerning the incident which contained a statement by Mr. Malott.

NEWS

Local All NYC Public Schools to Teach Computer Science New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) announced that after 10 years, all public schools in the city will be required to offer some sort of computer science program to students, according to The New York Times. The rule will apply to elementary, middle and high schools. The stated reason for the requirement is growth in the number of tech jobs which require programming or robotics skills. Barbara Ericson of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing told The Times that the biggest challenge in creating a computer science curriculum for the 90 percent of New York City public schools that do not already have classes in the subject is “getting enough teachers who are trained … well enough to make it a good introduction to computer science.”

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Lambda Chi Alpha House Reopens After Renovation

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

Following a $2.8 million renovation, the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will be moving back to their house this weekend.

The renovations, which expanded the house size by 40 percent, include a new dining room, gym, basement and four-story addition.

The addition contains a two-story reading room, a library and additional bedrooms, according to Patrick Spoth ’17, the fraternity’s house manager.

Over 250 alumni and community partners, including M&T Bank and Welliver Construction Co., contributed to the fundraising campaign for the renovation project, according to Mark Fernau ’82, Lambda Chi Alpha’s alumni association president.

“The project was perhaps the largest of its type in the history of Cornell fraternities,” Fernau said.

Fernau said the fraternity was motivated to renovate because the house was over 110 years

National Texas Student Receives Support After Arrest After being arrested and interrogated by police, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year old high school freshman in Texas, will not face charges for bringing a clock he made to school, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Mohamed was reported to police by someone at school who thought his clock was a hoax bomb. Larry Boyd, chief of the Irving Police Department, said that the department considered the case to be resolved. Mohamed’s story went viral on Twitter, and by the end of the day, #IStandWithAhmed was trending. President Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg both tweeted in support of Mohamed and invited him to the White House and to Facebook’s headquarters, respectively.

— Compiled by Tom Schreffler

MICHAELA BREW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Home run | The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, pictured above, spent the last year undergoing a $2.8 million renovation. It will reopen this weekend.

old and was beginning to show signs of wear and tear.

“The brothers decided to create a house that would allow another 100 years of brothers to enjoy the kinds of experiences, camaraderie and growth that the alumni had, but in a 21st century environment,” Fernau said.

Bryan Harriott ’16, Lambda Chi Alpha president, said the renovation project was first proposed at the fraternity’s centennial anniversary in 2013.

After construction began in the summer of 2014, the brothers moved into the Zeta Beta Tau house on North Campus, according to Spoth.

Harriott said the new house exceeded all

expectations.

“It has to be one of the nicest and most unique fraternity houses I’ve ever seen, and I consider myself lucky to call it home for the next year,” Harriott said.

This weekend, Spoth said they expect to have the largest homecoming turnout of alumni in recent years as many are excited to see the new house and the results of their contributions.

In the future, they would also like to restore the grand staircase that was removed many years ago for fire safety reasons, Fernau added.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

Students’ Stories

Brown Medical School Bans Tobacco Products The Alpert Medical School of Brown University is free of tobacco products following the administration’s decision to ban them, according to The Brown Daily Herald. Two medical students, Brittany Katz and Zachary Marcus, began the push to ban tobacco on the premises of the university’s medical school; Katz had volunteered at the American Cancer Society. There was no resistance to the ban, The Herald reported.

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A Year of Adventure and the Ride of a Lifetime

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

Hyun Seok Yoon ’17, more commonly known as “Honeysuckle,” is not your typical Cornellian. At the end of last spring, he kicked off a gap year with a spontaneous bike ride across the country, then spent the balance of the year traveling to places like Patagonia, India and Nepal.

“I had thought of doing a gap year a long time ago, so after sophomore year, I started thinking, why not now?”

Honeysuckle said. “Then I thought, what’s the wildest thing I could do?”

After he finished his sophomore year, he said he spontaneously decided to bike from Ithaca to San Francisco.

“I started at [co-op house] 660 Stewart — it’s where I lived — and I just kept biking west,” Honeysuckle said. “I wanted to get to San Francisco eventually, but I didn’t have a route. I just kept going West and I met a bunch of people along the way and asked them where I should go.”

He said he took just a tent, some clothes and a repair kit with him, all of which he carried on his bike — the same bike he had used to ride around campus. He said it was “not at all” an expensive trip and that he did not pay for any housing.

“I ate in restaurants a couple [of ] times, but sometimes, when I biked by people’s houses, they would invite me in for lunch or food,” Honeysuckle

said. “I asked people if I could and I joined the freestyle team stay in their backyard for a there, called Squaw Free,” night and people are very kind Honeysuckle said. “I was skiing and doing competitions, so in the country.”

Whenever it rained, basically, I was shredding really Honeysuckle said he just kept hard.”

After three months in Lake pedaling.

“I stayed mostly on state Tahoe, he said he purchased a roads, but some of the one-way plane ticket to India.

“I traveled around Southern Midwest was scary because of all the storms,” he said. “I didn’t ever think “I wanted to get to San of giving up, Francisco eventually, but but it was defiI didn’t have a route. I nitely hard.” just kept going west.”

Following the biking trip, Hyun Seok Yoon ’17 Honeysuckle returned home for a few weeks, but said he India, mostly, and went all the quickly flew out to the Chilean way up to Delhi,” he said. “It side of Patagonia to attend a was definitely a culture-shock, program with 17 other stu- but so amazing.” dents at the National Outdoor In April, he went to Nepal Leadership School. to climb the Himalayan “We packed a bunch of food Mountains, but he said his and then they just sent us out plans were stunted when the into the wilderness, and we Gorkha earthquake hit. He was didn’t see anyone else for three sitting in a restaurant in months,” he said. “It’s basically Kathmandu when the tables the end of the world, like unin- started to shake. habited and total openness.”

“People were running out After a few weeks of training onto the street and we all and packing, Honeysuckle said crouched down, while old the group spent a month living power lines were shaking in the on a glacier and a another wind,” he said. “Right where I month sea-kayaking in the was was not that bad, thankfulfjords of Chile. ly, but just outside of that When winter came, he street it was like a zombie returned to the United States apocalypse, with people runand headed for Lake Tahoe, ning around screaming and where he said he worked, lived cars in traffic jams.” and freestyle-skied at Clair Instead of hiking the trails Tappaan Lodge in the Sierra in Nepal like originally Nevada. planned, he said he volun“During off-time, I would teered to help with recovery go skiing in the Squaw Valley efforts. Unaffiliated with any

particular organization, he helped carry rubble out and offered assistance.

“We brought food to nearby villages that had heavier damages, but there really wasn’t much that we could do because there weren’t really any resources and people didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I did the best that I could.”

Back at Cornell, Honeysuckle studies ecology and evolutionary biology. “[Before], I felt really disconnected to what I was studying, and what I was studying felt really disconnected to what I wanted to do” he said. But now, I feel more grounded. I wanted to find what I want to do, but actually it made me more confused because there’s so much going on out there.”

After traveling for the better part of a year, Honeysuckle said he learned a lot about finding himself.

“What’s different now is that I’m okay not knowing what I want to do — I found out that I should just keep doing my thing, keep questioning, and keep being inquisitive, instead of thinking about what kind of future job I want.”

After graduation, Honey suckle said he hopes to continue travelling — maybe in Europe, to visit the many friends he met during his time in Southeast Asia.

“My mom brought me up to this — to be adventurous,” he said.

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Facility Joins National Network

National Science Foundation selects NanoScale center for membership NANOSCALE

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allow electrons to emit heat.

CNF has technological resources that include more than 125 advanced instruments and services such as nanolithography, materials deposition and etching, as well as special equipment for soft materials needed for biomedical technology, according to the University.

With this new funding source, CNF plans to partner with 4-H, a network of organizations that engage youth to their fullest potential and through which Cornell Cooperative Extension partners with to offer programs in STEM activities, health and science enrichment programs. It also will develop new curriculum materials to be distributed throughout New York state.

Prof. Robert Buhrman, applied and engineering physics and senior vice provost for research and vice president for technology transfer, intellectual property and research policy, reflected on the center’s support of “cutting edge research.”

“For nearly four decades, research at the CNF has had a strong interdisciplinary emphasis, as more than 700 users annually fabricate, synthesize, compute, characterize and integrate the center’s resources for the future,” Buhrman said in a statement.

NNCI said they plan to make “rapid, affordable, hands-on access to advanced nanofabrication tools” accessible to hundreds of scientists and engineers across the country through this network.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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available funds, especially for students who are usually marginalized, according to Markot.

“We have the opportunity to be more inclusive of students who are generally underrepresented in these endeavors,” Markot said, “and in fact encourage them through this application to consider these opportunities.”

Markot also said the consolidation will make it easier for the Cornell Abroad department to ensure students receive fair funding proposals.

“It will allow us to look at all the students to whom we are awarding [funding] and to make sure that no one gets over-awarded or underawarded,” Markot said.

Additionally, because the fund will award grants simultaneously, students will now know the exact funding details of their award sooner than before.

“Students will know what they receive well ahead of when they need to commit to their pro“We have the opportunity to be more g r a m s , ” inclusive of students who are generally Markot said. fund is underrepresented in these endeavors.” theThe product of Marina Markot a collaboration between the Global Cornell initiative and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Dhupa said.

“We have been working on this tool for a year, pulling all participating units together to coordinate their funding, as well as their application review and their awards,” she said. “We hope this makes funding easier to find.”

Markot expressed her hope that other Cornell grants would consolidate into the Off-Campus Opportunity Fund. Because the website has the capacity to host different applications, Markot said she believes it could also become a place for students to find other sources of off-campus funding.

“I am hoping that as time goes by, others would want to join in,” Markot said. “It may be a slightly different application, but students could see that there is this opportunity and this opportunity posted, in the same place where students are applying for off campus programs.”

Students interested in applying through the Off-Campus Opportunities Fund have until Oct. 1 to submit an application for the fall semester. After that, a secondary deadline will open until Nov. 1 with significantly reduced amounts of funding available for the remainder of the semester.

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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tiative that younger alumni on the library advisory council launched, with the current students developing the video and helping to advertise the campaign, according to Kenney.

Although the initiative is under the guidance of the University, it is “really at the helm of alumni and students,” said Stephanie Rigione ’10, one of the campaign chairs and a member of the council.

Rigione said the council members are “excited” about this campaign and what they can do for the Cornell community.

“The library was actually the backdrop for my entire Cornell experience,” Rigione said. “I think the library transformed my Cornell experience, and I just want to pay it forward and allow future Cornellians to have an amazing experience as well ... I want the library to be as bright of a part of their experience as it was of mine.”

Heather Levy ’10, another campaign chair and member of the council, said she also looks forward to seeing the new additions to A.D. White Library.

“What’s so exciting about this campaign is how tangible the goal is,” Levy said. “A.D. White is such a special space to study. It's great to be part of a campaign where I can physically see where my donation is going.”

Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lcayne@cornellsun.com.

REBECCA THOMAS / SUN FILE PHOTO

No light in White | A student studies on an upper deck of the A.D. White reading room, located in Uris Library. The room will be renovated to feature more lighting and modern amenities using money raised by the Cornell Library Alumni Council.

Zion Hikers Caught in Deadly Flood Jon Stewart Lobbies Congress on 9/11 Bill

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park rangers regularly warn hikers that flash flooding during monsoon season can turn southern Utah‘s beautiful canyons into deadly channels of fast-moving water and debris. But dozens of adventureseekers go anyway, eager to rappel down the colorful, undulating sandstone walls.

That decision proved deadly for one group of hikers who got trapped by floodwaters in a popular “slot” canyon as narrow as a window in some spots and several hundred feet deep.

Six have turned up dead. One is still missing.

A sudden deluge of rain fueled the flood Monday evening, which “went from a trickle to a wall” of water, park ranger Therese Picard said. Zion officials said the group got a permit to hike Keyhole Canyon early that morning — hours before a flash flood warning prompted park officials to close the canyons. By that time, park officials say there was no way to reach them in time to alert them to the violent floodwaters coming their way.

“Ninety percent of Zion is wilderness,” Picard said. “It is not possible to contact everyone.”

Six of the hikers were from California and one from Nevada.

All were in their 40s and 50s.

Another hiker who had seen the group reported them overdue about 5:30 p.m. Monday, right after a fierce storm that dumped more than a half-inch of rain in less than an hour.

Rangers who were also dealing with small landslides and other effects of the storm found the group’s cars, but did not see any sign of them. With darkness falling and the canyon already filling with floodwaters, they decided it wasn’t safe to send in rescue crews.

The search resumed the next

morning. Though the canyon was still inaccessible, teams started following its course and started calling down to the missing hikers with no answer. The first body was found near the mouth of the canyon Tuesday afternoon, and a private canyoneering group came across the second an hour later.

The flood marks one of the deadliest weather-related disasters at a national park in recent history, park service officials said. It evoked memories of a 1997 incident near Page, Arizona, where 11 hikers died after a wall of water from a rainstorm miles upstream thundered through Lower Antelope Canyon, a narrow, twisting series of corkscrew-curved walls located on Navajo land.

The deadly events at Zion happened at the same time flash floods tore through a small community on the Utah-Arizona border just south of the park, leaving at least 12 people dead who were in two cars who were swept up Monday by swift water, mud and debris in a canyon.

Crews including the Utah national guard, a federal task force and local officials are searching a seven-mile length of Short Creek to try and find a boy who turned 6 last month. The last body recovered was found 6 1/2 miles from where the two cars, a van and an SUV carrying 16 people, were swept away.

Three children survived, including a boy who told Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox that he escaped by cutting through an air bag, climbing out a window and jumping off the roof of the vehicle. Cox told The Associated Press that the boy was about 9 or 10 years old and lost his mother and several siblings, who were also in the cars.

Bodies recovered Tuesday were found as far as several miles away in the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona — the home base of Warren Jeffs’

polygamous sect.

Hildale Mayor Philip Barlow said the three women who died were sisters: Josephine Jessop, Naomi Jessop and Della Black.

Josephine Jessop and Naomi Jessop were also sister wives, both married to Joseph N. Jessop. It’s not uncommon in the polygamous sect for relatives to marry the same man.

The names of the children, ranging from 4 to 11 years old, were not disclosed.

At Zion National Park, 20 miles north of Hildale, the group of seven had arrived to climb, rappel and swim through a half-mile canyon route that takes from one to four hours to complete.

Hikers use climbing equipment to lower themselves into the canyon. There are more steep descents on the course, as far as 30 feet down sandstone walls. Some rappelling routes end in pools of water where canyoneers unhook their equipment and swim out.

The canyon walls go as far as the eye can see, and it‘s deep enough to stay cool even in July, Picard said.

Zion spokeswoman Aly Baltrus said that some members of the group were new to canyoneering, but they took a class before they entered the canyon.

Keyhole Canyon is what canyoneers call a “rap and swim” canyon, full of a series of drops where hikers rappel down into pools of water, said Coloradobased canyoneering expert Steve Allen. It’s considered an entrylevel canyon for people who have some experience but are still new to the sport.

But when flash flooding starts, it’s a different story, with narrow crevices filling like a bathtub.

“That little bit of rain can turn what was a very comfortable daylong excursion into a horror story, literally in a split-second,” Allen said. “There’s no escape routes.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart turned serious Wednesday as he lobbied members of Congress to permanently extend a law providing medical monitoring and treatment for Sept. 11 first responders.

Accompanied by several first responders, Stewart met with members of Congress and attended a Democratic caucus luncheon.

“If you can’t get this done, maybe we should shut down,” Stewart told reporters outside the U.S. Senate, referring to the possibility of a government shutdown this fall. “This is about as unassailable a piece of legislation you can have.”

Stewart was host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for 16 years before stepping down in August.

The law, which is set to expire next month, established the World Trade Center Health Program to provide medical monitoring and treatment for first responders affected by Sept.

11-related illnesses such as pulmonary diseases and cancers.

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Take a Walk,Eh?

as everyone already forgotten line buzz walking down a road I’ve how brutal winter is here? It never been on (yeah, look at the thrill would seem so, because all I seeker here) simply because I have no heard last week was how much better idea what I might see. Sure, you can the cold is than the heat, and how peo- expect to see a few maple trees, a couple ple couldn’t wait until the seasons houses, the usual, but it’s the small changed. Like those who label them- things that make it all worthwhile, the selves “morning people” or “Type A per- little details you just don’t notice when sonalities,” they’re not to be trusted. I you have somewhere to be.

After a while you will start treading mean sure, you can prefer the cold, that’s fine, but it’s a dumb opinion and the same paths (there’s only so far you — as someone who’s survived twenty can go), but pay attention and I promise upstate N.Y. winters — I’ll hold it you’ll see something new every time. against you. No, the temperature can’t Slow down. Don’t just look at the stay in the mid-70s forever, it’s hot or scenery, immerse yourself in it. Smell the proverbial roses. Find the transitory cold here, pick a side.

I know it might seem strange to some elements, the dapple of light on the people, but I’d rather have heat and leaves, the smell of the wind, the couple humidity over frigid cold any day. It’s an having an argument. After all, walking opinion I’ll die defending, probably doesn’t just have to be the hippie “hey from heat stroke. Because while I’ve man, nature is wonderful” kind of heard the arguments that you can thing, it can absolutely be a peoplealways add more layers, but can only watching safari. I’m not advocating for take so many off, and that it’s easier to eavesdropping, but if you air your dirty keep out the cold than the heat, nothing laundry in public, I can’t help it if I will confine you to the indoors like cold hear.

You can walk with someone, but I can. As far as I’m concerned, those icicles hanging from the rooftop eaves may usually prefer to go alone. It’s not that I mind having company, but walking as well be prison bars.

I need to be able to go outside and takes on a different meaning when enjoy it. Not to say I’m a super outWalking really is an underrated actividoorsy person (one night in ty. I don’t just mean walking to class; the woods a I mean walking for pleasure. Walking half hour with no destination, just for the sake away is my idea of a of it. In fact, a better term might camping even be “wandering.” trip), but I love going for walks. It’s really a passion of mine and I you’re with someone. Sometimes that’s a try to do it often. Day or night, there is good thing, but it can be restrictive. I no bad time — except winter. I can the- would feel a little self conscious telling oretically take a stroll during our another person, “Wait, I want to sit here snowiest season, but it would mean and watch the traffic go by for the next fully suiting up in thermal gear and twenty minutes or so.” You can’t be bringing along a flare gun in case I get alone with your thoughts with someone next to you, and for me that’s the whole stranded out there. Not worth it.

Walking really is an underrated activ- point.

Wandering is a way of clearing your ity. I don’t just mean walking to class; I mean walking for pleasure. Walking mind, an opportunity to be completely with no destination, just for the sake of without distraction. It’s a good way to it. In fact, a better term might even be work out a problem, an even better way “wandering.” Maybe it sounds bizarre, to reflect, and a great way to relax. I but for me walking is one of the single can’t tell you how many times I’ve most therapeutic things I can do. calmed myself down by going for a Consider life here at Cornell, how much quick jaunt around the neighborhood. of it is structured? Class schedules, Anytime I’m feeling overwhelmed, deadlines, grammar conventions, pro- uncreative or brain-dead, I go for a ject descriptions — everything has some walk.

Beyond that, it’s an organic way to set of guidelines that must be followed.

Walking has no such rules, and I get a feel for where you live. You’ll start know it sounds like the lamest form of thinking about directions in terms of youthful rebellion ever, but it really is landmarks and buildings, instead of liberating. Don’t go out with a route in solely with street names. So take advanmind; let yourself be guided by simple tage of the outdoors while the temperawhims. If you decide where to go in ture’s still agreeable, because before you advance, you’ll constantly be thinking know it, the snow will have returned about the destination, instead of enjoy- and you’ll be stuck in your room trying ing the act of walking itself (call me for to remember what the sun even looked more quotes, Hallmark). Make the deci- like. sion which way to turn when, and only when, you reach an intersection. Don’t Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and think about where you’ll end up, Sciences.

He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu. because if you do, you’ll never go any- Sorenity Now appears alternate Thursdays this semeswhere new. If fact, I get a little adrena- ter.

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Dong Burgundy |

Afternoon Delight

Spontaneous Sex L

ast semester, my girlfriend and I made plans to meet up on campus for lunch. It was nothing out of the ordinary — we meet up for lunch all the time. But soon after we started eating, I began to notice just how good she looked that day. I told her as much, and things started to get flirty. I have no idea who first brought it up, but pretty soon we were walking through the halls of MVR trying to find a place to have sex.

Eventually, we settled on one of those gender-neutral, single person bathrooms. We both snuck in and locked the door, and we started making out. After some foreplay, I spun her around and we started fucking against the wall, with her moaning and me pulling her hair. We were both nervous, sweaty and in totally unfamiliar territory, but the sex felt so good.

Even if fucking like hormonal teenagers in a public restroom isn’t your cup of tea, there’s no question that an awesome sex life requires the occasional injection of spontaneity. Don’t just take my word for it — an Australian study of 800 people showed that 75 percent of men think spontaneity is an important part of sex, and 90 percent of women prefer a spontaneous romp

to planned sex. Oftentimes, a lack of spontaneity is due to one person (or both people) feeling too nervous to step outside their sexual comfort zone.

Hopefully after a couple more examples, you’ll be convinced that the best thing you can do for your sex life is to just go for it, and see what happens.

Another awesome way to get sponta-

machine. We started making out, her legs wrapping around my waist as our lips moved against each other. I was already hard, and she was soaking wet pretty much instantly. It didn’t take long for us to start fucking. Besides the feeling of my balls hitting the machine on every thrust (not the greatest sensation), the sex was totally awesome. It

Even if fucking like hormonal teenagers in a public restroom isn’t your cup of tea, there’s no question that an awesome sex life requires the occasional injection of spontaneity. neous with whomever you’re banging is to change up the location. A few weeks ago, I was at a lake house visiting extended family with my girlfriend. We had just gone for a swim, and were both changing in the basement. As we peeled off our wet clothes, we started looking at each other’s bodies, and we both knew it was so on. But a problem quickly arose … we didn’t have a bed to do it in. Feeling bold, I led her to the laundry room, picked her up and set her down facing me on the washing

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was the exact same position as banging off the side of a bed, but doing it in the laundry room added to the sheer impulsiveness of it all, and made for one awesome fuck.

Although screwing in crazy places is fun, you really don’t have to go overboard to keep things interesting in the bedroom. Spontaneity doesn’t have to just be about doing it in different places, there are plenty of simple ways to keep things fiery. Try surprising your partner with a new position you either haven’t

yet tried or haven’t done in awhile. Yes, it might go horribly wrong, but even in the worst-case scenario you can both just laugh about it and move on. On another note, don’t be resigned to just doing it once and passing out — channel your inner porn star and do it multiple times in one session. If your partner isn’t too cranky when he or she sleeps, wake them up an hour before their alarm goes off for a sunrise quicky. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be okay with waking up to someone giving them head.

In the end, being spontaneous isn’t so much about doing crazy sexual things all the time as it is just keeping things fresh and exciting. Are you the type of person that gets off on thinking about banging in the stacks (yes, it’s awesome), or is just the thought of trying a new position in the bedroom enough to light your fire? No matter how adventurous you are, find someone who you’re comfortable with and start pushing out of your comfort zone. I guarantee you’ll walk away from the experience feeling confident, fun and happy you tried something new.

Dong Burgundy is a junior at Cornell. He can be reached at dong.burgundy@cornellsun.com.

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Between the Sheets

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s Monica vividly narrated to Chandler on Friends, you reach her most sensitive spot. As you kiss her thighs, ence can end up far from pleasurable for both parties.

I’d like to explore with you the seven erogenous you slowly begin rubbing on her clitoris with your finger, There are the people who can’t perform under pressure and zones — a deeper understanding of female pleasure increasing the pressure and intensity, while altering end up feeling inadequate, and there are the people who and the importance of exploring the whole body to truly between a steady circular motion and a more empowered don’t even try because the partner’s pleasure isn’t that unsteady rubbing. You pull away quickly as you begin important to them. Every once in a while, however, there discover the elusive female orgasm.

As she lies on your bed, her back arched slightly, she tilts working your way up her body again continuing to rub are the people who really try, and, oh my God, they really succeed. Every person is different of her head towards you and invites you to course, and even though I’m a fan of join her. As you lower your body into different partners for varied sexual hers, she feels your warm breath against her ear as you bite down on it lightly As you kiss her thighs, you slowly begin rubbing on experiences, there are perks to having a consistent partner. This partner is the and then slowly trace its outline with her clitoris with your finger, increasing the pressure one who knows his woman’s “multiple your tongue. Your cool breath now g-spots” — the parts of her body that brushes over it as you begin sliding your and intensity, while altering between a steady you wouldn’t expect to turn her on, fingers down her neck and past her colbut truly do. It’s easy to do it like they larbone, tracing its outline. You kiss her circular motion and a more empowered unsteady do on the Discovery Channel, but it lips passionately but pull away quickly, truly gets interesting when we go on to as you begin making your way down rubbing ... Her hands are in your hair, pulling you explore the more complex pleasure the side of her neck. She tilts her head potential of the human body. in the opposite direction giving you closer as she begins to moan harder and harder.

Don’t worry though, these zones more space to explore. As you make are actually very similar for men and your way down her chest, you raise your body slightly to expose her now hardened nipples. You first with you finger as you begin sucking on her neck. Her women, just replace the clitoris with the penis and percaress one slowly with your index finger, drawing circles on hands are in your hair, pulling you closer as she begins to ineum. It’s important to note that each of the erogenous its outline with increasing pressure. As you look into her moan harder and harder. Her hands then move down your zones are utilized differently in bed for each person (for eyes and she raises the top part of her body towards you, body and she grabs onto your back and you realize she is example, soft nibbling/sucking vs. a more aggressive bite). you lower yourself onto her again, and you slowly move getting closer and closer, as you make your way down her However, most nerve endings are similar between individyour finger down past her bellybutton, reaching between body again, kissing her breasts, all the way down until you uals, and you can find some way to stimulate these zones are between her legs, exploring the intricacies of her that’ll fit the mood. Touch where your partner wants to be her parting legs.

You begin teasing her. Not for long though, moving essence. She’s arching her back now, moaning louder and touched, when they want to be touched, but never be your finger back up in the same manner as she groans in louder, grabbing onto your hair as she lets out her last afraid to experiment, just make sure your partner is on the disappointment. You smile at her as you shift your body excited moan. She smiles down at you as she relaxes into same page as you. downwards, tracing her body outline with your palms. She the sheets and motions you to join her...

Turning a woman on can be hard, even without bring- The Duchess is a sophomore at Cornell. She can be reached at themoans with pleasure as you gently push her thighs apart.

But your tantalizing isn’t over yet. Slowly, you make your ing the big O into the equation. For some, the pressure of duchessofthesun@gmail.com. Between the Sheets appears way up her thighs with your lips, pulling back right before pleasing a woman can be nerve-wracking, and the experi- alternate Thursdays this semester.

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DINING GUIDE

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Dining Guide

Your source for good food

The Best of Everything

Eatery suggestions for every occasion

By ISABEL WISE Sun Staff Writer

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sometimes feel like my friends’ version of Yelp or TripAdvisor because they’re always asking me where to take their significant others, families or friends to eat on certain occasions. I would like to think that I am always able to give an educated and perfect suggestion, given that I have eaten at so many eateries in the Ithaca area.

Knowing that my friends recognize my talent, I decided to make my Ithaca food knowledge public.

A First Date For a casual and intimate meal, try NorthStar House. Tucked away on a side street near North Campus, NorthStar is the perfect spot to chat and drink on a first date. Not only does NorthStar feature a mostly locally-grown and locallysourced menu, but it is also highly accommodating of dietary needs. With vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free offerings, this restaurant will help you avoid the “I’m gluten-free” difficulties that you would otherwise experience at an Italian restaurant. Additionally, NorthStar has an amazing drink selection — nothing breaks the ice more than an artisanal cocktail, am I right?

A Romantic Evening Having a go-to restaurant for romantic celebrations is also necessary. Skip the cliché trip to John Thomas and venture the path much less traveled to Just A Taste. Offering an extensive tapas menu, Just A Taste allows you to sample multiple plates with your loved one while sipping on wine. To make the night as romantic as possible, go while the weather is still warm so that you can enjoy your date on the back patio. Warm weather and delicious tapas are bound to make for a date that your significant other will never forget. Plus, if you’re

wining and dining to celebrate an occasion, the chocolate soufflé is some of the best I’ve ever had.

A Meal With Parents Utilize your parents’ car to take quick 20-minute trip to the amazingly delicious Hazelnut Kitchen in Trumansburg, N.Y. Located in the small downtown area, Hazelnut looks quaint — how you would imagine your great-grandmother’s restaurant. But when you step inside, you’re hit with the overwhelming, incredibly rich smell of wholesome cooking. There are two reasons that make this restaurant a perfect spot for parents: the food and the atmosphere. The food is absolutely delicious. Hazelnut Kitchen specializes in farm-to-table cuisine, bringing diners charcuterie, cheese, flank steak and hazelnut butter cake from local vendors. The relaxed ambiance allows your family to really enjoy a meal away from the chaos of Cornell.

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A Birthday Celebration

A Casual Dinner With Friends

A Brunch To Cure a Hangover

What better way to celebrate your birthday than with a group of friends over a mouth-watering meal? The key to big birthday dinners is eating somewhere that is used to holding large parties and splitting the bill multiple ways. Given these criteria, I suggest Madeline’s Restaurant in The Commons.

Madeline’s offers plenty of tapas-style dishes that are the perfect size for sharing among friends. But the main appeal of Madeline’s is its massive dessert display case in the back of the restaurant.

Filled with delectable pastries made fresh daily, Madeline’s is sure to have the perfect dessert for all of your friends — whether or not they prefer chocolate, carrot cake or earl grey mousse. The final selling point of Madeline’s is that it has no limit to how many times a table can split the bill, which makes paying easy and painless.

Looking for a quick and yummy weekday meal with your friends? Look no further than Saigon Kitchen. Saigon gives typical college students everything they could want in a casual meal: speed and deliciousness. Though the restaurant does not take reservations, it manages to seat parties fairly quickly. This speedy service allows it to rapidly move parties through their meals; My longest meal lasted 90 minutes (and that was on a packed Saturday night).

While I have never tried a dish at Saigon that I didn’t like, my favorites include the shrimp summer rolls and the pho bowls.

The summer rolls come out almost immediately after you place your order, and the main dishes follow shortly after. There’s no need to get dressed up for this restaurant, either — come in your post-library sweats or post-workout leggings. Saigon Kitchen is the perfect place for a casual catch up with friends.

Nothing cures a hangover better than mouth-watering, stomach-filling food. The best way to get this food fast, and to ensure that it is amazing, is by going to the Farmers’ Market at the Steamboat Landing. I go every weekend through December, even in my winter coat and gloves — the food there is miraculous. Nothing cures a hangover better than a Khmer pancake from the Cambodian station, or a breakfast burrito from Solaz. The best way to enjoy this brunch is on the dock while watching the ducks beg for leftovers. A trip to the Farmers’ Market after a night out is sure to turn your rough morning around.

Isabel Wise is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ivw4@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Peace, Love, Understanding and EDM HECTIC, HEADY

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BY JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Contributor

I’ve always considered myself a lover of all music — whether it be pop, rock, country or hip-hop — but one genre I never really gravitated to was electronic dance music. I think the reason was that a lot of EDM songs lack words which makes it difficult to sing along, and if you know me, you know I’m the type of person who loves belting out lyrics at the top of my lungs.

That being said, you can understand my hesitation when my friends invited me to Electric Zoo, a three-day electronic music festival on Randall’s Island in New York City over Labor Day weekend. First of all the tickets were crazy expensive — not to mention the inordinate amount of money I would end up spending on transportation and food. Second, EZoo had developed a reputation for canceling the third day of the festival due to drug-related deaths. I also wasn’t the biggest fan of EDM, so I wasn’t sure if it would be the right fit for me.

In the end, I decided to bite the bullet and just go for it. After all, going to a large music festival was a box I desperately wanted to check off my bucket list, and I would be sharing the experience with some of my best friends from freshman year.

As a seasoned veteran online shopper, I wasted no time in scouring the internet for EZoo-worthy apparel. I browsed through a number of popular websites like Amazon and iHeartRaves and finally settled on a light-up rainbow tutu, silver trucker hat, green glittery alien top and neon sports bras. Go big or go home, right? If I was going to EZoo, I was ready to go all out.

When I arrived at the festival, however, I quickly realized my “crazy” outfit was nothing compared to everybody else’s. Some girls wore nothing but marijuana leaf pasties — how they managed to prevent them from slipping off during the nine hours of sweaty dancing was beyond me — while others rocked furry hot pink leg-

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warmers. As a complete newbie to the music festival world, I was amazed at all the different kinds of people who attended events like this. In addition to college kids like me, I also met a group of Italian tourists, a 30-year-old engineer blowing off steam from a nine-to-five job and a couple in the midst of attending music festivals all over the country.

Being at EZoo also sucked me into the fascinating world of PLUR (Peace, Love, Unity and Respect): the mantra and life philosophy embraced by ravers. It’s all about treating everyone with respect and celebrating human connection through a shared love of music. Not only does the rave community know how to have fun, but they are also some of the friendliest people I’ve ever met. For example, on our way to the festival, we met a group of 20-year-olds who, ten minutes later, were referring to us as their “additional squad.” I even witnessed the famous PLUR handshake involving the exchange of Kandi bracelets.

The venue itself was equally as eccentric. Picture yourself standing in the middle of an island. Look in front of you, and you’ll see an enormous LED phoenix. Turn to your right, and you’ll see a black and white psychedelic frog that’s weirdly reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. No matter where you were, you were bound to run into some trippy neon animal, my personal favorite being the pink cotton-ball covered elephant.

Hands down the best part of the weekend was the music (obviously). It’s one thing to read about music festivals and live vicariously through Snapchat stories, but it’s a completely different thing to actually be perched six feet above the crowd on someone’s shoulders, letting the sounds and lights envelop you. To truly appreciate EDM music, you have to experience it live.

Beach House Depression Cherry Sub Pop

A band faces an existential crisis after the release of every album. What next? Fail to maneuver the thin line between staying true to yourself and trying to grow and your jaded fans will turn on you without a hint of remorse. Or worse, they’ll just forget about you. Oh, so you released an album that was undeniably brilliant? The next one should be even better, right? No one can predict whether the pressure will produce something gorgeous or cause utter disintegration.

In the case of the new Beach House album, Depression Cherry, what we have is the latter.

Singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand admitted in an interview that during their six month hiatus after touring for their 2012 album, Bloom (considered by many critics and fans to be their finest work), she “didn't feel creative at all ...

I just thought well, maybe I'll never have another musical idea.” Luckily for us, that fear of the unknown did not last.

She and guitarist Alex Scally have created an artwork which both retains their instantly recognizable, carefully measured dream pop aesthetic, defined by an unhurried pace, lush, haunting melodies, and densely layered instrumentation, while also forging something truly original. It is the product of an unassuming musical duo committed to their craft and at the peak of their compositional powers.

I was skeptical of Beach House for a while. For years, as they continued to grow their audience and refine their sound, I thought of them solely as good background music.

Hard to hate, good to play in the haze of a smoke filled room or while trying to take a nap. Gentle music. Mild

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Some highlights from the weekend include Adventure Club, Alesso and Deorro, but Above & Beyond definitely takes the cake for best performance. Their music is incredibly evocative and atmospheric, so I went in with high expectations. And let me tell you: They did not disappoint. Above & Beyond was the closing act on Saturday night, so all 80,000 festival-goers were at the main stage.

Everything about their set was absolutely unreal. A scintillating light show accompanied “Blue Sky Action,” transforming the night sky into an ethereal dream.

During “Fly to New York” — the anthem for this year’s Electric Zoo — inspirational messages appeared on stage and a firework show formed a kaleidoscopic tapestry up above. The combination of aural and visual effects created an atmosphere that was overstimulating in the best way.

So bottom line: I’m totally converted to the music festival lifestyle. In fact, I’m already planning my next music festival adventure. EDC or Ultra 2016 anyone?

Josephine Chu is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at jfc239@cornellsun.com.

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What I discovered was a work of incredible depth and beauty. In the opening song, “Levitation,” Legrand spoke right to my pretentious cynicism. “You should see,” she sings, “There’s a place I want to take you / When the unknown will surround you.” The song offers nothing revolutionary in terms of style or substance, but something about the simple layers of voice, keyboard, fuzzy guitar and drum machine spiraling softly around her ethereal voice is quite touching. Like a warm hug when you’re feeling blue, the soothing tone elevates and inspires.

The entire album, as the title implies, explores the fine line between joy and pain, elation and sorrow. The lead single, “Sparks,” employs a fuzzed-out guitar that is reminiscent of the classic Cranberries jam “Zombie.” This is a bit more of an aggressive Beach House then we have seen before. Over a heavily droning organ, Legrand explores the ennui and natural cruelty of suburban America. Her voice joins with the guitar to embody a bright shining defiance.

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This is her solution to the pain of this world, to create.

She understands that life is a cycle of destruction and reintegration, but she has no choice but to give everything that she has. In “Space Song,” she asks the listener “What makes this fragile world go round? / Were you ever lost / Was she ever found?” The song employs a shimmering synth background, which evokes the expansive infinity of space.

Against this background, the central keyboard melody loops and spins around and around, creating a sense of endless cycles of repetition. But everything is kept under precise control. Just when the astronaut might float away, the synths recede and her voice tugs us back down to earth. “Fall back into place / Fall back into place.”

Beach House achieves these effects through precision.

But within that precision lurks a vibrant passion and lust for life. There is no better example of this than “Wildflower,” an ode to the wild, unpredictable beauty of nature. Synth, drums, guitar and voice all melt into a seamless, psychedelic whole. There is “no better color” humans can create than what can be found in nature, but in her contemplation of a flower’s beauty in the song and the album as a whole, Legrand has managed to create something which will endure and be admired for its own splendor for many years to come.

James Frichner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jsf95@cornellsun.com.

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Interview Jest: The End of the Tour

BY BRUNO COSTELINI Sun Contributor

In the years following the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace in 2008, the cult surrounding his name saw a great surge. His renaissance ranged from coordinated group readings, to the acclaimed release of posthumous work (including his unfinished novel The Pale King, which went on to become a Pulitzer finalist in a year with no winner), to a curious little volume, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, by reporter David Lipsky. The piece is a transcription of the tapes from a five-day road trip they took together as Wallace concluded a book tour and Lipsky gathered material for a Rolling Stone piece on him. Now, just as the cult has begun to wane, a film adaptation of that book, titled The End of the Tour, has hit the silver screen and is playing at Cinemapolis.

In the movie, which stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky, we follow the two writers as they negotiate the uncomfortable parts they’re supposed to play in this arranged extended interview.

Lipsky’s situation is complicated both by the fact that he is a huge fan of Wallace’s writing and that he himself is a writer who recognizes he’s not at the same level as his idol. This puts him in a very awkward position as he seems to be courting a potential mentor and friend at the same time that, as a journalist, he needs to extract as much information as he possibly can in their limited time together.

On Wallace’s side, things get even more messy since we’re basically dealing with one the most self-conscious writers in history and one who at that point had written many a nonfiction piece for venues as varied as Gourmet and Harper’s Magazine. Wallace was someone who knew exactly how his interviewer was going

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to proceed and also knew that Lipsky could afterwards turn anything that came out of his mouth into whatever pleased him (or his editor). But Wallace agreed to the meetings and even goes so far as to extend the courtesy of hosting his interviewer — never mind that Lipsky is put up in an intimidating room where he sleeps on a couch towered by copies of Wallace’s books.

Wallace is also confronted with the contradictions of promoting himself and helping to build an image that might not be entirely true. For a writer whose central theme could be identified as sincerity, it’s ironic to see him having to deal with the various rumors and misconceptions that arise from public exposure and fame. James Ponsoldt’s movie doesn’t shy away from approaching this paradox, though, and neither does Wallace, who is able to comment on his own insecurities and human frailty.

The End of the Tour works mostly because it sticks to its subject’s ideal of honesty, presenting a seemingly faithful recreation of the exchanges recorded by Lipsky.

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for sure if he would since the magazine article ended up being scrapped — in the sense that it works as an homage but contributes very little to demystifying Wallace. The nice guy with issues we see on screen (Segel is perfect for the role) is exactly the same character that most readers and fans grasp from Wallace’s real interviews, recordings and his most personal writings. The movie succeeds in what it sets out to do, and you will leave the theater feeling satisfied that you’ve made a new friend in David Foster Wallace.

Bruno Costelini is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at bgc46@cornell.edu.

Basilica Soundscape: The Anti-Festival

he idea of a traditional music festival is as endlessly appealing as its disappointing reality is inevitable.

Those willing to pay up are promised the chance to see their favorite artists in the flesh, one after another, over the span of three or four drug-hazed days. It’s shocking, really, the variety and scope of bands one can encounter at these gatherings.

Lineup posters tend to resemble a Star Wars opening crawl. Sure, the Porta Potties may be gross, and one’s view may be impeded by the VIP section that literally towers over the mortals below, but those who don their camelbacks and bucket hats to pay homage to holograms of Freddy Mercury and Tupac tend not to be phased by these trifles.

But a certain subset of music listeners demands more than, as Mike Sosnick ’16 so succinctly put it in another complain-y festival column, a “well-curated frat party.”

Increasingly, there is a demand for festivals

that challenge listeners to explore new genres and even new mediums, which reflect a diversity of cultures and ideas. Enter the “anti-festival.”

This weekend, I packed my bags and set off for Hudson, New York, an idyllic town nestled above the Hudson River. I wasn’t there for the antique stores, although there were lots of those to peruse.

Hudson was the site of Basilica Soundscape, a music, arts and literature festival which promised to transcend festival shittiness.

For the past few years, various publications have begun to refer to Basilica Soundscape and events like it as “anti-festivals.” This sort of terminology should provoke a raised eyebrow (P.S. if any of my readers have any better ideas about how to express incredulity PLZ email me).

Burning Man is supposed to be the quintessential anti-festival. Attendees there are encouraged to participate in a “gift econo-

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my,” and “radical inclusion,” “radical selfexpression,” and “decommodification” are the hallmarks of a supposedly anti-capitalist utopia. But the rich and bored have taken to it like pond scum to an abandoned swimming pool. According to the New York Times, one campsite charged $25,000 for participation, and the wealthiest attendees often employ paid help nicknamed “sherpas” — who, between Black Rock City and the Himalayas have really had a rough go of it over the past century.

You won’t find any sherpas at Basilica Soundscape, unless they are attending of their own accord. What you will find, though, is an expertly curated and charmingly eclectic collection of music, poetry and visual art. While the lineup defies categorization, the acts — musical and otherwise — tended to approach a sense of nihilistic bliss.

Anxiety, scattered political goals and a series of radical social critiques pervaded music throughout, but what attendees ultimately left with was the feeling of intense catharsis.

There was a ton to love about this year’s event, but a few acts stand out in my mind. Viet Cong, a post punk group whose appropriated name hints at the violence, nihilism and black humor of their material, excelled in a live setting. The Haxan Cloak, a British producer and musician who recently contributed production to Björk’s latest release, molded chaotic sounds into claustrophobic, textured compositions using a live setup that, impressively, did not involve a laptop. On the other end of the spectrum, folk-electronica composer Lydia Ainsworth, filling

in for Blanck Mass, crafted minimalist electronic pop sprinkled with stringed instrumentation in the style of FKA Twigs and Sylvan Esso.

Beyond the music, the poetry readings, which had the potential of feeling gimmicky or unnecessary, deftly alternated between the hilarious and the profound.

Dorothea Lasky, dressed in the sequined garb of a Woodstock attendee impressionist, read aloud from a barn door above the reclaimed glue factory, while audience members sat transfixed and cross-legged below. Her poem “I Like W e i r d Hippies” was particularly apropos: “I like No Place weird ass Like Brome hippies / And men with hairy backs / And small green animals / And organic milk / And chickens that hatch / Out of farms in Vermont / I like weird ass stuff /When we reach the other world / We will all be hippies.”

As trite as it sounds, we were all weird hippies that night, gathered in upstate New York to listen to mechanical droning and to watch videos of hands ripping apart a potato and to ponder massive works of art composed entirely of tar and feathers.

On a massive scale, this festival could not have worked, but in a space whose maximum capacity is 1,200, in a town where only the most adventurous concertgoer would dare trek — and yes, for most, two hours from New York City is two hours too far — it all felt perfectly right.

Sam Bromer

Sam Bromer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. No Place Like Brome appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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

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developing as a team. It is always a challenge to study an opening opponent because they haven’t yet played any games on the season.

“We haven’t been able to see the roster yet so we don’t know which players that were outstanding last year are returning and [which] players have left,” Guccia said. “That’s the one uncertainty we have in preparing for the game.”

However, the tendencies of a program generally stay the same and the Red have plenty of history playing the mountaineers.

“Defensively and offensively, we’ve been focusing on what

Mansfield’s strengths are,” Guccia said.

Marrero added, “We have been working a lot in the film room, watching Mansfield’s tendencies

“We’ve been focusing on finishing. Our motto this year is to finish every play.”

Trevor Marrero on both sides of the ball.”

As with every season, the goal this year is to win the league championship. The Red has been working hard at practice with this goal

in sight.

“We have been focusing on finishing,” Marrero said. “Our motto this year is to finish every play.”

The team finished 3-4-0 last season but outscored its opponents, 27.3 to 24.6 on average per game. The Red last won the league championship in 2006 under head coach Terry Cullen, who currently oversees team operations. The Red finished 6-0-0 that season. Clearly, winning a championship will require a full team effort.

“All 11 on the field have to be on the same page, do their job, play fast and finish,” Marrero said.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

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-tage, but there were several moments throughout the game when the Red had Binghamton on its heels. At the end of the game, the Red had outshot the Bearcats, 10-7.

Ultimately, only Binghamton was able to convert on one of its chances. Freshman goalkeeper Rhys Moller was able to make several pivotal saves in the first half, but in the second, Bearcat forward Alex Varkatzas was able to finish a well placed cross. After the goal, Cornell’s offense only became more aggressive in creating scoring opportunities, but the Red could not put together a run that ended in an equalizing goal.

Junior forward Jack Ferguson was one of the Red players who came close to creating scoring chances, but could not capitalize. When asked how the team would bounce back from the loss,

the junior remained positive.

“We’ve really got a talented group of kids, at this point it just comes down to execution, and I think it’s confidence, and hopefully hitting the reset button will do that,” he said.

The team has a busy weekend coming up at home, with a matchup on Friday against Duquesne University at 7 p.m. and another on Sunday against Air Force Academy at 1 p.m. Despite the team’s rocky start, players are staying optimistic.

“We can only be sharper from here,” said sophomore forward Jonathan Collum. “We’re gonna watch the game, study the film, see what we can do better and practice the next few days and really try to kill it so we can execute on it Friday and Sunday and ultimately win the tournament.

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and general managers are fixated over numbers, players are afraid of the stigma associated with any psychological trauma and fans are too stupid and biased against anyone who is “different.” The obtuse Dallas Cowboy’s fan would never understand what it would mean if Darren McFadden ever revealed his depression due to the running back’s concussion history, for example.

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unadulterated machismo confidence of players like LeBron James, Allen Iverson or Deion Sanders (he still only refers to himself in third person), one can imagine why the humility that comes with depression is not ideal.

In the same way that homosexuality is slowly becoming tolerated in sports, psychological trauma will come to the forefront of the sports world. Give it time. Most importantly, always remember that even if you can tell blue skies from pain, plenty of gifted athletes cannot.

Ben Denson can be reached at bdenson@cornellsun.com.

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he moment his name was called, he was ready. He had as much size as a stunted Shaq and plenty of potential to be a serviceable NBA big man. ESPN thought he would help revive a struggling Knicks team. A 2003 ninth overall draftee, 6’9”, 295 pound Michael Sweetney’s behemoth bear hug looked like it crushed David Stern. The 20-year-old Sweetney called his dad to tell him the good news. Crying on the phone, the elder Sweetney could barely recognize his son’s voice trying to fight the tears.

Benjamin Denson The B.D. Report One month later Sweetney cried again. No one was on the other line. The overweight power forward constantly ate, stopped working out and never even got close to his potential after the death of his father — just one month after Sweetney was drafted.

Never able to get into “athletic shape,” he floundered through his first few years on the Knicks and then was shipped off to Chicago for a few years. After that. he played in China, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, finishing his career with the Guayama Wizards of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional.

The Wizards give out free chimichangas every Tuesday if a player scores at least 50 points. No chimichangas were ever given cause of Sweetney.

Between playing for the Knicks and losing his dad, Sweetney was in a deep, dark hole of grief. Maybe he was too paranoid to succeed? It was a kind of grief that spawns obsession. Such a shame, all that mental energy escaped him, and instead of using it as an athlete, he let it eat up his ego. As any Shakespearean tragedy plays out, Michael Sweetney was doomed from the first act.

“I just never put myself in position. I’m always late,” Sweetney told the Chicago press while he was on the Bulls.

Still a taboo topic in the sports universe, mental illness is often overlooked or misdiagnosed as a physical limitation. Bearing in mind the massively expensive contracts that come with elite talent, it makes sense that owners and general managers alike look for an exact cause and solution to problems with their investments (i.e. players).

With all mental illness being intangible, there is no empirical way to gauge the phenomenon and in a business enveloped with numbers, it’s hard to sell much of anything that isn’t attached to a box score.

Make believe you’re a Knicks fan (I’m so sorry) in 2003 and realize that your team just drafted a Top-10 player in one of the greatest drafts in NBA history (see Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James and Dwayne Wade). In typical Knicks fashion, the pick was a bust. Now you have Sweetney, along with Isaiah Thomas, as representatives of the Kick’s futility throughout the past decade. As a tender fourth grader, I can still remember scoring countless dou-

ble-doubles with Sweetney in ESPN NBA 2k4 — further evidence of an extreme draft bust.

It perplexes me that sports are used as a mask for psychological illness. The embattled, blue eyed, melancholic offensive lineman is “indefinitely sore” and he will never be “depressed due to concussion induced mental illness.”

Being one of the last progressive foregrounds on social issues, the sports world has not yet caught up to our society’s view of mental illness.

About a decade before Sweetney’s saga, an NBA player named Luther Wright shared an almost identical story. A 7’2” center who played one seasons for the Utah Jazz in the 90’s, the tragic Seton Hall alum’s career was derailed due to bipolar disorder.

“At the college level, that’s your proving ground.

There’s no room for any type of diagnosis for mental health issues because that would put up a red flag and maybe block you from going to the next level,” Wright wrote in his memoir, A Perfect Fit. “I don’t think they would even recruit you if they knew you had some illness or some mental health issues, that you were mentally incapable of performing at the highest level.”

Can you see yourself being in prime shape, trying 100 percent every single day and having your job security based on how well you perform while losing control of your mind? A beautiful mind is often tortured and athletes are no exception.

The blame lies on ingrained cultural norms. Owners See DENSON page 14

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McCarron’15 Signs With Penguins AHL Affiliate

Former Cornell hockey player feels ‘disrespected’ by Edmonton Oilers,looks to make own name in pro hockey

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

John McCarron ’15 admits that his senior hockey season at Cornell did not go the way that he had hoped. Last year, the Cornell hockey team posted the program’s worst record ever under the watch of head coach Mike Schafer, exited the ECAC tournament in the first round and failed to generate anything resembling an offensive

attack.

Despite this, many members of the 2015 senior class found success after the final buzzer of the season rang. Cole Bardreau ’15 signed with the Philadelphia Flyers as an undrafted free-agent. Joakim Ryan ’15 signed with the San Jose Sharks, who drafted him in the seventh round in the 2012 draft.

Joel Lowry ’15 signed with the Los Angeles Kings, who drafted him in the fifth round.

Jacob MacDonald ’15 signed with the

Brothers on ice | Former Cornell hockey player, John McCarron ’15, chose not to play professional hockey in Montreal where his brother on an AHL team.

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Elmira Jackals of the ECHL. McCarron, the captain of the Red for his junior and senior seasons, was without a pro contract in hand until Wednesday morning, when he signed a one-year deal with the WilkesBarre/Scranton Penguins, the AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

“I wanted to be a part of [playing professional hockey] too,” McCarron said. “I didn’t want to join the real working world yet.”

The road to the deal with the Penguins, however, did not come without its bumps.

The Edmonton Oilers, who drafted McCarron in the sixth round in 2012, could not come to an agreement with McCarron on a deal.

“I didn’t feel like [Edmonton] was giving me a fair opportunity there,” McCarron said. “They offered me a contract earlier on in the summer. It was a lowball offer and I felt kind of disrespected, to be honest. It happens a lot. They didn’t need my type of player, so they’re not going to waste their assets on me and I didn’t want to waste my assets on them either. It’s a mutual decision.”

McCarron, who had four goals and eight assists in 2014-15, had to wait until Aug. 15 before he was released by the Oilers and was allowed to pursue a contract with another organization. At the end of the day, McCarron had to decide between an offer

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from the Stockton Heat (the AHL affiliate of the Calgary Flames) the St. John’s Ice Caps (the AHL affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens) and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

“I wanted the best opportunity to play and move into the NHL. Scranton/WilkesBarre gave me the best opportunity,” McCarron said. “I had a couple of offers.

My brother is in Montreal and [on] their AHL team, St. John’s. I had an offer there, but I didn’t want to be the other McCarron, so to speak, because my brother was a firstround pick there. It was a hard decision not to play with him, although I would’ve loved to have done that.”

McCarron’s brother, Michael, was a 2013 first-round pick of the Canadiens and will likely get a shot at the NHL this upcoming season. St. John’s location in Newfoundland and the fact that he might not be playing with his brother for long played major roles in McCarron’s decision to sign with the Penguins.

“I wanted to make a name for myself.

Obviously, I would’ve loved to have played with my brother.” McCarron said. “Just a multitude of things, and the Canadian dollar is pretty low right [now] and taking finance at Cornell, I kind of understand See HOCKEY page 14

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Red to Open Seven-Game Season Booters Lose by One Cornell ballers will face Mansfield Mountaineers Saturday Against Binghamton

By SHAN DHALIWAL

Sun Staff Writer

There are no playoffs in college sprint football, so championships are won during the regular season.

With no end-of-season goal, sprint football teams must constantly focus on the present, with each game in the seven-game season essential for the team’s success.

Most sports teams would take a season opener as a chance to test strategies, experiment with a completely new lineup and attempt to establish positive momentum for the rest of the season. However, in sprint football, the outcome of this game could decide a team’s end-of-

season fate. Every sports team stresses the importance of treating each game with equal importance but in sprint football, this is actually required.

“In order to win the championship, you basically have to win every week.”

Bart Guccia “You play each other once and the team with the best record is champion,” said Cornell sprint football head coach Bart Guccia.

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Game by game | In a seven-game season, each game holds importance in getting a championship title at the end of the regular season.

“Every game is as important as the next. In order to win the championship, you basically have to win every week.”

The Cornell sprint football team opens its season at Mansfield University this Saturday. The Red defeated Mansfield, 38-21, to end last season and continue its domination of the Mountaineers. The Red is undefeated against Mansfield, however, winning is never a guarantee.

“We approach them as a very tough opponent because they have some very gifted athletes,” Guccia said. “They have [been] steadily improving every year so we expect it to be a tough game and hopefully we don’t make a lot of mistakes and we come out victorious.”

The Red actually was down after the first quarter last year against Mansfield and barely scraped out a victory two years ago on a touchdown at the end of the fourth quarter.

“This game is extremely important,” said senior offensive captain Trevor Marrero. “It sets the tone for the whole season and we want to start it off on the right note.”

The team has been working hard at practice over the last couple of weeks, studying Mansfield’s strengths and weaknesses and See FOOTBALL page 14

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Heartbreaker | While the Red performed well on the field against the Bearcats, Binghamton was able to sneak a goal by Cornell’s goalie.

By JEFFREY ASIEDU Sun Contributor

As the clock wound down in the last minute of the Cornell men’s soccer team’s home opener against Binghamton, the focal point of the action sat on the edge of Binghamton’s penalty box. The Red kept Binghamton on its feet for the last few minutes of the match, trying to hammer home the shot that would finally hit the back of the net.

Sadly, once regulation was over, the scoreboard reminded the home crowd of a dull reality —

the only goal scored was Binghamton’s, putting the Bearcats up, 1-0, and giving the visiting team the win.

The Red (0-4, 0-0 Ivy) entered the game coming off of a tough start to the season after dropping its first four games.

However, when the whistle blew to start the match on Tuesday night, Cornell looked like a strong team. Balanced midfield matchups kept both Binghamton and Cornell from gaining too much of an advanSee SOCCER page 14