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Following a decade-long trend of rising enrollment of international students in the Graduate School, the proportion of international students rose again this year, by four percent — bringing the number to nearly 49 percent of the class, according to Graduate School communications coordinator Elizabeth Ellis. Graduate students from China alone comprise 23 percent of incoming students this year. Female international graduate students in professional master’s degree programs saw the sharpest increase in enrollment, rising by 64 percent in the last 10 years, according to the 2010-11 Graduate School Annual Report. International males followed with 29-percent growth over the same time period, according to the report. Jason Kahabka M.S. ’03, assistant dean for student services and admissions of the Graduate School, said the rise in international student enrollment corresponded with an increase in international applicants — a trend he attributed in part to a growing demand among students around the world for graduate-level education. “As countries develop and there’s more of a middle-class and more educational opportunities globally, those students are certainly looking for the very best graduate education available,” Kahabka said. He noted that this is especially true today of students hailing from
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In the race for New York’s 23rd Congressional district, money divides incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R–N.Y. 29) and Democratic candidate Nathan Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 almost as much as political opinion. According to the most recent data provided by the Federal Election Commission and the candidates, Reed has raised $1.4 million — approximately three times as much as his Democratic rival Nathan Shinagawa ’05, M.A. ’09, who has raised approximately $500,000. FEC disclosures from June show that the two candidates rely on divergent sources of funding. Reed’s campaign has raised 53.8 percent of its money from what the FEC calls “other committee contributions,” commonly known as political action committees. See CAMPAIGN page 5
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After fabricated identities of Cornell students appeared in a New York Times story Wednesday, Times reporter Courtney Rubin ’96 told The Sun that they were accurate representations of what she was told on Sept. 12 at Level B. The story, “Last Call for College Bars,” cited several students by names and class years that stu-
dents personally acquainted with the quoted individuals told The Sun on the condition of anonymity were false. As first reported by the blog IvyGate, the names — including “Michelle Guida” and “Vanessa Gilen,” who were cited in the story as 21-year-old Cornell students — are not listed in the University directory. Rubin, a freelance writer for The Times, said she was “gob-smocked” by any implication that she may have fabricated the names of the students.
“I’m honestly shocked by this. I’m looking at my notebook, going over my notes … It’s all here,” Rubin said Wednesday night. “I can clearly see where it was in Level B where I spoke to them and what they were wearing. Why would I make up names? I don’t make stuff up.” She added that she had not considered at the time that the students could be lying. “Short of asking people for ID, you [assume] that when people give you a name, they represent
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themselves as who they are or say ‘I don’t want to be quoted,’” she added. “If I asked them for IDs, they probably would’ve given me fake IDs. … I assume they gave me the names on their fake IDs.” Additionally, a photo caption also identifies three students — shown laughing over fishbowls at Level B — as “John Montana, David Lieberman and Ben Johnson.” The three students, referred to as “Cornell seniors” in the photo caption, are identified by false names and
are in fact members of the Class of 2014, according to the sources. Rubin said Wednesday that she did not personally have contact with the students featured in the photo, saying a Times photographer took down the student’s names at a later date. One of the students, who The Sun has granted anonymity, confirmed that he had never spoken to Rubin. Jeff Stein contributed reporting to this article. The Sun can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.
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The women’s volleyball team kicked off its 40th season this week. | Page 20
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Weather-dependent work hours, late night phone calls and early morning snow plowing are just a few of the nuisances that come with a job with Cornell’s Grounds Department. But despite these and other difficulties, members of the Central Campus landscape team “really enjoy what they are doing” and often push past natural obstacles that get in their way, said Dayton Allen ’86, the grounds crew’s leader. “When we are interviewing people for a job here, See GROUNDS page 4
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have to tell your stories many times before people get it,” DiSalvo said in a University press release. Prof. Frank DiSalvo, chemistry and DiSalvo said that in the five years chemical biology, has been reappointed since his initial appointment, the center for a second term as director of the has been “even more successful than Atkinson Center for a Sustainable expected.” He cited University-wide Future, the University recently support as well as simply “being in the announced. right place at the right time.” DiSalvo, who “The prospects for continued growth began his second and impact are exciting,” DiSalvo said. three-year term July The center currently has 11 projects 1, said he looks for- underway that involve faculty, graduate ward to continuing students and undergraduates from 66 to nurture the departments at Cornell are involved, Atkinson Center’s according to DiSalvo. i n t e rd i s c i p l i n a r y Issues the center has been working on approach to issues as part of its 2012 agenda range from PROF. DiSALVO of sustainability. studies on the “Impacts of Pathogens “The three E’s permeate [Atkinson and Pesticides on Wild Pollinators in Center] projects,” DiSavlo said, citing Eastern Apple Orchards” to “Climate three pillars of the center’s sustainability Protection as a Driver for Job Creation mission: energy, environment and eco- for New York State,” according to the nomic development. “They cover a Atkinson Center’s website. diverse range of topics … from the sciThe projects, each tackling one of a entific and technical side to the behav- diverse array of sustainability issues, are ioral, political, social and cultural ele- also led by a melting pot of academic perspectives, DiSalvo said. He said the Atkinson Center “The prospects for continued aims to connect researchers on campus with colleagues growth and impact are exciting.” from different academic backgrounds to collaborate. Prof. Frank DiSalvo “We convene and we connect,” DiSalvo said. “We try ments of sustainability.” to address sustainability issues by bringAs DiSalvo looks to improve the ing together people of different disciAtkinson Center’s already “successful” plines.” past five years, he said it will be imporProf. Jefferson Tester, chemical and tant to focus on the center’s mission. biomolecular engineering, associate “The biggest challenges have been director of energy for the Atkinson around communication, because you Center, said that the center also works Sun Staff Writer
with governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations to conduct research. “We hold workshops and forums to discuss and debate issues, and we inform people who make public policy decisions,” he said. DiSalvo said that during histerm, the center’s projects have been well-received by investors. “We have been very successful,” he said. “Every dollar invested [in Atkinson] programs results in another 10 dollars” of support from other investors.
This year, DiSalvo will lead the Atkinson Center in the hope of continuing and bolstering the policies that have enabled what he called the center’s success not only in research, but also in making an impact in the field of practical sustainability. “We build strategic partnerships with outside organizations to help bring solutions to the world; this is much more than an academic exercise,” DiSalvo said. Carolyn Krupski can be reached at krupski@cornellsun.com.
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Students’ Stories Student enjoys cutting into brains of mice for science research By DUNCAN YANDELL Sun Staff Writer
Calvin Kersbergen ’14 likes taking courses in bioengineering, spending weekends alpine skiing and hiking in the woods. Oh, and cutting holes in the skulls of living mice to study the flow of blood in their brains. “It’s basically removing part of the
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Of mice and this guy | Calvin Kersbergen ’14 performs craniotomies on mice at Cornell.
That shift in mindset led him to pursue a degree in Cornell’s biological engineering program instead. “I wanted to take biological systems and ideas and then apply it to math and engineering,” Kersbergen said. “It was probably [Introduction to Comparative Physiology] that really got me interested in medicine and human anatomy.” Kersbergen said that although he “didn’t have a clue” what career path he wanted to pursue before he arrived in Ithaca, the opportunity for research at the University factored into his decision to come here. “Getting the chance to get involved with research, and working with a professor “Growing up in Maine, skiing and hiking that’s actually doing real research — not like small is just about all there is.” liberal arts school Calvin Kersbergen ’14 research [but] real professional research — that was really exciting for according to the American Journal of me,” he said. The opportunity to attend school far Public Health. Kersbergen, who now hopes to go to from home was also attractive, said medical school, said he did not come to Kersbergen, who is originally from Cornell expecting to perform cran- Maine. “I grew up in Maine, stayed in iotomies on rodents. “When I first came [to Cornell] I Maine, most of my family is from wanted to do chemical engineering,” he Maine, most of the people from my said. “I took the chemical engineering high school don’t end up leaving,” he course that they have for freshmen, and said. Kersbergen added that “you kind of it was too industrial for me, so I went toward a more medical, biological have to amuse yourself [when you come] from a rural area” like his homefield.” town. skull to expose the brain, and then sealing the cavity with a little glass plate so you can see down into the brain,” he said, describing the “craniotomies” he performs in his research at the SchafferNishimura lab. “[The mice] wake up after surgery, and then a couple of weeks later I [take brain scans] and look at … how their blood flow changes over time.” The Schaffer-Nishimura lab uses animal models to study brain disorders. Kersbergen said the mice he studies are models for Alzheimer’s disease — an incurable form of dementia that affects about 26 million people worldwide,
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“Growing up, I spent a lot of time in Acadia National Park. I did a lot of backpacking,” he said. “I mean, growing up in Maine, skiing and hiking is just about all there is.” Kersbergen is, in fact, adept at both skiing and hiking. A Cornell Outdoor Education leader, Kersbergen has led incoming freshmen on Outdoor Odyssey pre-orientation trips — including a six-day hike in the Adirondack Mountains — and taught a wilderness survival course in the spring. “Basically, you just go out in the woods with nothing for a couple days and survive,” he said. Kersbergen also began racing with Cornell’s alpine ski team last year and is now captain of the junior varsity alpine ski team for the 2012-13 season. He said that with all of the academic and extracurricular activities he is involved with at Cornell, it is important to set aside some time to relax. He advised incoming students to strike a balance — and to “take it one day at a time.” “As a freshman I was pretty overwhelmed. Social interaction is good, making friends is good,” Kersbergen said. “It’s also really important to get involved too. Find a community you can be involved in, something that you fit well in.” Duncan Yandell can be reached at dyandell@cornellsun.com.
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we try to really make it clear that you have to really enjoy this — because if you don’t really enjoy what you are doing, this job sucks,” Allen said. Allen leads his team in the “beautification” of Central Campus, according to Peter Salino, director of the Grounds Department. Salino said the crew’s main mission for landscaping is to “keep things just perfect.” “I can tell you that we never get everything done. I always have a list of things that need to be done, and then I cross one off and add two,” Allen said. But through all of the hard work, “learning experiences … or even just goofing around,” workers develop a sense of community working for the department, according to Nate Mosley, a grounds worker on Allen’s team. “I have been here for more than 12 years; [there are] 45 people I work with 365 days a year, and so it’s a family,” Mosley said. However, working in the Grounds Department can be difficult for employees’ families. According to Allen, some workers in the department are on call 24 hours a day and seven days a week. “For most people on campus, their job is from eight to five, or whatever it is. [Grounds workers] are on call for whatever happens … With the drop of a hat you’ve got to come in, stay late or come in early,” he said. “People with kids, they have to make phone calls [like]: ‘Hey, I had to pick up my kid from school but I have to work for two extra hours.’” Despite their efforts, staffers’ work for the Grounds Department goes unnoticed by people on campus, Allen said. “Ninety-nine percent of the people don’t see it. But if it is not done, then everyone notices,” he said. Students are too “busy with their classes” to take notice of the small things around them that are made possible by the landscape team, Mosley added. “People … probably think that a bunch of fairies come and do this stuff and are gone,” he said. “But if you start looking around, you’ll notice things like ‘when did that flowerbed get there?’” Mosley said the disregard for University grounds by
some members of the Cornell community is one of the worst aspects of his job. “The worst is when people just don’t care. Point A to point B: That’s what is on their mind,” Mosley said. “During wintertime, people turn around and see us plow but they just turn around and keep walking in front without stepping out on the side. But with us, everybody here is a customer so at times we have to hold our tongues.” One of the most challenging tasks the Grounds Department faces is winter maintenance, according to Allen, who said that cold-weather conditions can make workers “pretty grumpy.” “A nice storm, we get two to three inches of snow overnight and then we can get in early morning and it’s taken care of,” he said. “But once it starts snowing during the day, we are kind of in trouble because once 8 or 9 a.m. rolls around, this place gets so busy [that] it takes twice as long to do anything.” Summer can also pose intense work, particularly at sites such as the A.D. White Gardens, according to Kim Klein ’90, a gardener on Allen’s landscape team. Weeds and critters are the team’s biggest obstacles in maintaining the gardens, according to Klein. “The weeds are really difficult to keep up with — and the critters. We actually had a woodchuck hole in the middle of [a] big plant,” she said. “This summer, there was a small female with her fawn living right there in the woods.” In addition to the manual labor associated with the job, working for the Grounds Department also involves a lot of diplomacy, according to Allen. “There are about 25,000 to 30,000 people on this campus and every one of them is a customer,” Allen said. “Every employee has things that they like or want to be done; every student has [his or her] own idea of what’s important. So we do the best we can though there are only six of us.” Mosley said the best thing about his job is the recognition that the team receives once a year at graduation. “The big smiles we get during graduation when this place looks immaculate: that’s like our pat on the back,” he said. “We do it for you guys.” Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.
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the University — at the Graduate School over the last decade. More than half of international females accepted to the China and India. Graduate School are matriculating, up from 34 percent in At the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs — which offers 2002, according to the 2010-11 Graduate School Annual a master’s degree in public administration— the number of Report. For international males, the yield rate rose to 47 perapplicants from East Asia has risen the most in recent years, cent in 2010, according to the report. according to Lisa Lennox, CIPA’s assistant director for exterThe influx of international students also parallels a steady nal relations. Students from that area have grown increas- increase in the number of students admitted to and enrolled ingly interested in learning how to finance and run NGOs at the Graduate School in general, with matriculation havthat are cropping up throughout the region, Lennox said. ing increased by 45 percent between 2001-2010, according She said that CIPA’s increased offerings in the programs to the report. Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth said the University’s figures “seem “There may be more pressure on international students to be in line with those of other institu[compared to domestic students] to succeed depending tions.” on the backgrounds they’re from.” Increasing enrollment of international students calls for a need for increased supBrendan O’Brien port for these students, according to Brendan O’Brien, director of the that teach those skills may have made Cornell’s Graduate International Students and Scholars Office. School more appealing to these students. “There may be more pressure on international students “Many of our international fellows want to study inter- [compared to domestic students] to succeed depending on national development and, while this has long been a con- the backgrounds they’re from,” O’Brien said. centration option, we now have more resources available in According to Knuth, the Graduate School coordinated that area,” Lennox said. with Cornell Career Services to create a new staff position The increased interest in attending Cornell among inter- for this year: graduate and international student career advinational students is also reflected in the yield rate — or per- sor. Anne Poduska, who was hired to the position in July, centage of admitted international applicants who enroll at will focus on career development skills and programming for Continued from page 1
international students, as well as graduate and professional students in general. “Because graduate and professional students make up such a relatively large proportion of international students on campus, this new position has a strong focus on the needs of international graduate students,” Knuth said. O’Brien added that there are programs already in place “to answer the needs of any student, whatever those needs are.” One such program is the International Teaching Assistant Program, which the University uses to assess the oral communication skills of international teaching assistants — who come from countries where English is not a primary language — prior to beginning their teaching duties, according to Kimberly Kenyon, the program’s director and associate director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. ITAP courses aim to help students build and refine oral communication and examine the influence of culture on teaching and learning in the Cornell classroom. Knuth also cited the housing office and the School of Continuing Education and Summer Session’s Academic English for Cornell Graduate Students program. Kenyon said she welcomes an increase in international graduate students at Cornell. “We’re excited about having more students,” she said. “And [we] have plenty of space to accommodate them.” Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.
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that.” Currently, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of corporate personhood protects political spendIn contrast, Shinagawa’s campaign has raised ing by incorporated entities under the First only 8.6 percent of its funds from PACs. As of Amendment. Shinagawa’s proposed constitutional June, the campaign’s largest source of donations ban would remove this protection and overrule the comes from individual donors.comes from individ- decision. Shinagawa said he supports full public ual donors. According to the disclosures, 63.3 per- financing — a process through which some candicent of Shinagawa’s donations have come from dates receive a fixed amount of public money to individuals who have donated at least $200. An campaign — as a replacement for private donaadditional 24 percent of donations comes from tions. individuals who have donated less than $200. “Public financing encourages politicians to go Reed’s percentages for donations made by indi- door to door among their constituents instead of viduals above and below $200 are 35.6 percent and collecting money across the country from people 3.3 percent respectively. they don’t represent as well as corporations,” Shinagawa said that a major difference between Shinagawa said. his campaign and Reed’s was Reed’s reliance on In an interview last week with The Sun, Tim contributions from the oil, gas and banking indus- Kolpien, communications director for Tom Reed tries. for Congress, said Reed would not support public “The majority of Tom Reed’s money comes financing of elections. Kolpien said approximately from corporate PACs,” Shinagawa said. “He has one week ago that he would provide a statement heavy backing from the big banks and the oil and regarding the financing of Reed’s campaign in response to Shinagawa’s accusations but has not done so. “Public financing encourages politicians to James Drader, chair of the go door to door among their constituents.” Tompkins County Republican Party also expressed his opposition to pubNate Shinagawa ’05 lic financing, though he said he did not speak for the Reed campaign. gas industries.” According to Drader, the Supreme Court made Shinagawa described his campaign funding as the right decision in the Citizens United ruling. inherently different from Reed’s. “In all honesty,” Drader said, “I think it was a “The vast majority of my money comes from fair decision. As long as it’s fair on both sides — for individuals, most of my PAC money comes from unions and corporations — that’s good … I can see organized middle class workers,” Shinagawa said. where too much money would be a bad thing, but Over several weeks, FEC disclosures seem to when you have two major parties like we do, you support Shinagawa’s statements. Reed has, for have to make it even on both sides, it’s a moot example, received a $5,000 donation from the point.” Chesapeake Energy Corporation PAC and a total Shinagawa disagreed with this sentiment. of $5,000 in separate donations from the Exxon “Corporate money represents very narrow Mobil Corporation PAC. interests,” Shinagawa said. “Corporations already The “organized middle class workers” have a voice in the individual system. A CEO can Shinagawa said have supported his campaign are donate to campaigns as well. With a corporate primarily union PACs. Shinagawa has received PAC you lose accountability,” he said. $5,000 each from the International Brotherhood Drader, however, does not believe there is any of Electrical Workers, the American Federation of important distinction between individual and corTeachers and the National Education Association. porate PAC donations. Shinagawa, however, said he is not satisfied with “Of course corporate donations are trying to the the intense focus current candidates must place further their own cause, but on the flipside, the on campaign finance, especially in the wake of the individual donations are trying to do the same Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United thing for the individuals themselves … public v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed financing sounds nice in theory, but I don’t think it unlimited political expenditures by corporations could ever work in the real political world,” Drader and unions independent of official campaigns. said. “This is one of my favorite topics,” Shinagawa said. “I support a ban on corporate personhood. I Matt Rosenspire can be reached at think we need a constitutional amendment for mrosenspire@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
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oooooo SENIORS! Seniors love to exclaim that they are seniors. For me, being a senior is bittersweet, and all the hype I experienced for the past three years about this magical time has just set me up for disappointment. Because of this, I wanted to give all of you a real assessment of what it is like to be a senior. 1. BY SENIOR YEAR, YOU DEFY LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS AND SUDDENLY BECOME BOTH HOTTER AND COOLER. TRUE.
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On the other hand, the senior class does enjoy it’s brews and sangria outside of CTB. Starting about Wednesday afternoon, if I walk by CTB between the hours of 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., I’m almost guaranteed to see my favorite group of Hotelies enjoying a pitcher. Sometimes I join them and beg them to set me up with one of their Hotelie friends. It’s a wonderful time to catch up and get away from the hustle and bustle of Cornell by sitting exactly at the center of the hustle and bustle. Ask any senior, they’ll tell you they have a cohort of friends who seem to have nothing better to do than booze they’re afternoons away. Maybe next
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remember you freshman year: You played the song “Sexy Bitch” on repeat and were obsessed with Taylor Swift. Now you’re a madras-pantswearing frat star. All my roommates got at least 20 percent sexier since when I first met them. Where was I on this journey?
Ann Newcomb ’13 Garrett Ishidia ’16 Shailee Shah ’14 Kelly Yang ’15 Liz Camuti ’14 Rebecca Harris ’14 Scott Chiusano ’15 Zachary Zahos ’15 Emma Court ’15 Sylvia Rusnak ’15 Sydney Ramsden ’14
2. SENIOR YEAR CLASSES ARE EASY AND YOU NEVER EVER HAVE TO GO TO THE LIBRARY. FALSE.
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An open letter of apology To the Editor: Re: “Posing as Professor, Cornell Alumnus Slams Jewish Student’s Religion in Email,” News, Sept. 21 Upon watching the disgust, pain, and anger unfold on campus regarding my email to Nicole Barel two weeks ago, I was taught some very important lessons about the power of words and their effect on communities and cultures. I’ve sent individual letters of apology to all involved, and I wanted to speak to everyone as a whole. It started with an email from Ms. Barel asking for a few days off from class for the upcoming Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It got sent to me by the accidental addition of a digit, and I decided to reply to her as a prank. I quickly grabbed Prof. Bruce Monger’s basic information (Name, dept, phone) from the Cornell website and set the display name on my email to “Bruce Monger” [side note: Cmail shouldn’t allow this]. I was in no way trying to place any blame on Prof. Monger – in fact, I’ve heard he’s one of the nicest teachers on campus and offered an additional lecture for students observing the holidays. I did not accurately judge the damaging nature of the words that I wrote back, and as a result Ms. Barel became rightfully enraged with my writing. I never meant for any part of the email to be an attack on her character, but as one of my friends pointed out, the Jewish religion is deeply intertwined with the Jewish race, the culture, and the long history of an entire country of people. By attacking her religion, I had inadvertently attacked her, her friends and family, the community at Cornell, and Jewish people worldwide. For this I am very sorry and I apologize. I have no good answers for why I’d write such a piece; it’s not reflective of my view of Judaism or the Jewish people, and I’m not normally a mean or insensitive person. I can only hang my head in shame in seeing the pain I’ve caused the community, and offer my humblest apologies to all. Cornell is a wonderful place — I’ll admit I did not think about the how the ripples of what I had written would spread through the community, and I only have myself to blame. I did not mean to cause such anger, pain, and sadness, and I do not wish to be looked upon for the rest of my life as an anti-Semitic adolescent hiding behind a computer screen. One of the core tenants of Yom Kippur is repentance. I only hope that all those who I have offended choose to see that a terrible action does not make a terrible person, and offer me their forgiveness. I am truly, truly, sorry. Brian Mick ’10
Unless you knew your major / minor 100 percent before you even got here for freshman year, your senior year is going to have more classes than you would expect. I actually did know my life plan before I got here freshman year, and my classes are still kicking my ass. I’ve never had more homework, reading, weekly quizzes and reports in my life. Most of my classes at Cornell thus far consisted of three prelims and a final, so I would mess around until the big test, study my ass off and be okay. Not to mention that the classes I’m taking now are directly applicable to what I’ll be doing next year. So applicable it’s scary. This stuff actually matters.
3. YOU LOVE YOUR CLASSES SENIOR YEAR. TRUE.
This one is true, and it’s great. Sayonara Organic Chemistry! Nice to know ya arbitrary distribution requirements! Now is the time where you’re taking the classes you always imagined you would take. Even though I have more work, at least it’s interesting. 4. SENIORS DRINK 24 / 7. MAYBE. On the one hand, see #2. While Thursdays used to be my favorite day of the week to chill out with some brews and casually hit up Dunbar’s, no more. If I want to go out on a Thursday, I have to plan four days in advance. It’s a real struggle. Don’t even get me started about fishbowls … I miss you.
semester I can be like that. 5. SENIORS ARE BROKE. TRUE. Never before have I been so poor. Once my dad sent me $20 and I almost cried. Everytime I use one of my debit cards, I warn the cashier that it might not work, not to worry if they need to come back and tell me that it was denied. It’s not even embarrassing to me anymore. Last week I was having one of these moments with the librarians at Mann when I was printing out a poster. The librarian said to me, “Just think, you have a place to live, you have clothes and water. It could be worse. Be thankful for what you have.” I thought, wow, this woman is super inspirational. Especially because, it’s completely my fault. I might as well just hand over all cash flow immediately to Wegmans, Moonies and CTB. 6. YOU GET TO HANG OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS ALL THE TIME AND MAKE MEMORIES. FALSE.
Hello? Best friends? Are you out there? If my roommates are reading this, they are sighing a sigh of relief because they figure that I’m alive. I haven’t seen anyone outside of a meeting or a chance sighting on the street in weeks. Some friends are flying across the country for medschool interviews, job interviews, internship interviews, the list goes on and on. Many of my friends are just holed up in the library writing honors theses or just trying to finish their college careers strong. Hey friends — let’s chill out for a second and realize that this is the last year we’ll be able to see each other with such ease. Come on, let’s make memories. Morgan Bookheimer is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. She may be reached at mbookheimer@cornellsun.com. Behind the Time appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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Cornell Is Stacked ever have I ever had sex in the stacks.”
One by one, the people in the circle put down a finger and start giggling as they notice it's just me and my girlfriend with our fingers still up. This was definitely a first for me. Even if people were lying during a drinking game (like that could happen), I didn't want to be the only one left out. That thought stuck with me the entire night: How could I achieve my goal of writing publicly available, non-slash fiction erotica if I didn't have anything to base it on? I resolved right then (or, perhaps, three or four shots later) that I needed to expand my sexual horizons. After the party had disbanded and my girlfriend and I were in bed, I turned to her and said "We need to have sex in the stacks. But not just your run of the mill back-corner-of-Olin quickie — we gotta do the TOUR DE CORNELL!" “Can’t we just pretend that your room is the stacks? There's enough books here as it is …” “No! I mean … wait. Yes, yes we can.” Needless to say, I did not let this drop. I had to be the Lance Armstrong of the sex scene (though, perhaps, not as fast as him). And after many trials and tribulations, I have emerged vic-
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torious in my quest. I will now share with you some tips and tricks for finishing your own 23 day, eight library, Tour de Cornell. 1. LOCATION. LOCATION. LOCATION. Some parts of the stacks are used more often than others. For example, the Asian pop culture section in Kroch always has people there. The section with the census data from each Indian provence in the 1980s does not. No one is quite sure why. 2. MAKE IT MEANINGFUL. Do you and your partner get a kick out of XKCD? Then try gettin' it on next to a copy of Hyperspace by R. Lionel Fanthorpe (PR6056.A62 H9 1966; XKCD #983). Do you have a willing third or fourth participant with you? Find a Marquis de Sade book! Do you like it boring? Jane Eyre! 3. HAVE A THEME. Good idea: Going to the French film section dressed in your Parisian 30's best. Bad idea: Going to the Africana library dressed as a warlord. Best idea: Going to the Ornithology library dressed as a bird. 4. EQUIPMENT. Although a blow-up mattress, a bottle of champagne and sexy reading from whichever books happen to be shelved on the second lowest shelf sounds like a romantic evening, it's not. Bring a towel or sheet, do the dirty and get on with your day.
5. POSITION. Librarians can sense when you're about to do someone standing up against a shelf. Their knees start to twitch right before the order of the books is about to get all screwed up. You probably want to avoid this. Take a momentary hit to your sexual position pride and do it lying down or sitting on one of those cool roll-y stools.
furtively. Or worse, someone studying might anonymously tweet about you. Plus, everything is more fun if you pretend you’re a ninja. Keeping all these tips in mind can be hard, but if you persevere, you and your partner will be able to spend years regaling your decedents with tales of your debauchery. Most of which will just be about how you hid a condom in a book
Jimothy Singh Quest for the Perfect Tale 6. CLOTHING. Women, wear skirts. Men, wear kilts. If you don't have one, running very quickly to the stacks without wearing pants is also a reasonable alternative. 7. TALKING. You’re allowed to talk dirty, but it has to be in a whisper and restricted to library puns. "If this library used the Dewey decimal system, I'd file you under 697 because you're making me hot" and “Yo, when is that book I checked out due?” are popular phrases. 8. STEALTH. You are probably going to get caught if you walk into the stacks giggling, holding hands and looking around
on abstinence (Olin, Level 4). For those without a dedicated partner, it is acceptable to switch to Cornell Library Bingo, in which one tries to sleep with someone whose major matches the library (yes, you can make Carpenter your free space). Just make sure not to have sex near the modern Chinese lit books. I need those for my thesis.
Jimothy Singh is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jsingh@cornellsun.com. Quest for the Perfect Tale appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
Taking the ‘D’ Out of Desire
er fingers are inching their way up your inner thigh and her nails begin to lightly scratch your skin, as goose bumps form among your sparse leg hair. You can feel the warmth of her hand approaching your cock and its boys, who yearn the touch of soft, female skin. This might very well be their day of glory. Suddenly, the gorgeous young dame looks at you with deep green eyes, opens her nearly pastel pink lips and carefully asks, without losing her gaze, “Are you nervous?” “Nervous, naw not me. Keep going,” you say, praying that she doesn’t get too nervous before her hand
Mona G. Erotic Epiphanies makes its way upstream. But alas, she pulls back. Your cock will remain without a soothing hand to hold for some time longer. Such is a game my friends used to play in junior high when our hormones were raging. Raging as hard as those freaky-deaky kids at Avicii (myself included). Since actually touching a penis in those days may have been deemed unacceptable, we played pretend by reaching over a boy’s pants, ever so close to his one-man pants-tent, just to pull away with flushed cheeks and the desire to go so much further. Lo and behold, junior high is behind us and we have now reached the age where skin-to-skin contact is socially acceptable and often highly encouraged, espe-
cially from people like me who see shirts as merely an accessory to keep my nipples warm at night. We are in college now. No longer can anyone stick a ruler between you and your partner at the school dance to make sure there is plenty of distance. We are free to be intimate. Free to be sexual. Free to be wild! And, believe me, plenty of us are. Yet, unfortunately, given these freedoms, we are now missing a piece of the puzzle, which is none other than — Desire! In bed, I want to be tortured with desire. I want to be begging for more and denied any satisfaction. I want to be on the edge of orgasm for days or weeks at a time (can we limit that to two weeks? A girl’s gotta get her’s eventually, or I’d be as jittery as a three year old after downing a triple espresso shot). The goal is to make ’em wait. Girls, make guys wait to see you fully nude, wait to feel your hard nipples graze their chest, wait to warm their cocks inside your not-so-furry muff. But, I must ask, what type of lovers will appreciate such prolonged foreplay and no real playing time? Maybe appreciate is even too strong of a word. Maybe the question should be, what lovers will just label you a prude and peace out to go find some down ass bitch in Pixel Alley at 1:27 a.m. on Wednesday night? After all, Wednesday is trivia night and she may be a winner, and therefore that much more likely to fellache you. And for the etymological lesson of the day, this down ass bitch could also be labeled properly labeled as a fellatrix, or one who gives fellachio, to use the correct Latin suffix. In my experience, the good ones will not ditch you for the Pixel Alley fellatrix, yet the other 77 percent
might very well be gone after you refuse take off your panties. For instance, my best guy friend Steve is one of the good ones (but even if that wasn’t true I couldn’t say so here because he knows that I write this column, and may stop buying me Bloody Marys on Sundays if he hears me talking smack about him to all of Cornell). Steve was into this chickadee who had brought him home multiple times just to fall asleep shortly after, refusing to give any or even to get any. After many a sleepover with no touchy feely action, my friend was done. It was not that he was expecting anything major, but he wanted something nasty to look forward to. There is a balance to be had here. There is no reason that girls and guys must have intercourse or fellache each other (And, I repeat, “each other,” occurring simultaneously (recommended) or one right after the other. Remember, guys, if the getting (head) is good then give back a bit of that goodness). Such acts can wait a while, although, in this candy shop, taste testing is always welcome! The first few hookups with a new person should make you feel as nervous and excited as you felt that day in gym class when you were guarding Sally from behind a bit too close during basketball. You knew that was the most action you were going to be getting for a least a few years, and it made you swell up with desire. Nowadays, many may jump the gun in having sex, but girls, jump off that gun, no matter how smooth, and hard, and shiny it looks! Let us wait this one out. But, be weary of amping up the excitement too much because there is such a thing as blue balls, and it can be deadly if left untreated. Just kidding, I don’t think that’s true, but who wants to see blue balls in the first place, gross.
Mona G. is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Erotic Epiphanies appears alternate Thursdays this semester. Feedback and submissions may be sent to monag@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 Atlantic Records
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have when listening to Food & Liquor II Pt. 1. The generous might chalk it up to more label hijinks; the cynical might find it borderline listener exploitation. The thing is, I actually liked Lasers. The album was so unapologetically crass, you almost had to admire it for what it was. However, where Lasers was shamelessly indulgent, Pt. 1 feels awkwardly restrained; it wants to be like its predecessor but feels guilty about the longtime Lupe fans still paying attention. The result is a mix of solid to good Lupe-circa-2006 songs and Lasers-style mush. These two styles shift clumsily from song to song, but they are sometimes simultaneously present. “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” samples the classic beat to Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You” but has a lazy chorus that goes “Live from the underside, what you see? / A bunch of nonsense on my TV.” “Bitch Bad” is an exploration of the societal implications of the titular expletive, but it has a strip-club rap bounce, making Lupe sound like the Rick Ross of gender politics. Lupe also undercuts his point by cooking up increasingly unrealistic scenarios. It’s fascinating though, because it’s a part of Lupe we’ve never heard before; someone whose self-righteousness is so endemic, he can barely complete a thought. Musically, Pt. 1 is uneven. “Cold War” cruises on a smooth bassline for six-and-a-half minutes and “ITAL (Roses)” is a brassy fanfare in which Lupe’s flow fits perfectly. However, too often Pt. 1 defers to the Lasers formula of Lupe rapping over the same four plinked piano chords, essentially Chiddy Bang at a 12th grade reading level. The second half of the album has a block of these
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songs, starting with the schmaltzy “Heart Donor” and ending with “Brave Heart,” a song so bad it could have been off the new Matisyahu album. It should also be noted that Pt. 1 has no high profile guest appearances or production credits. The only notable player here is Bilal, a Philadelphia crooner who has also seen his fair share of label trouble. On “ITAL,” Lupe has some insight into why this may be. “Called the President a terrorist / Corporate sponsors like, ‘How the fuck you gon’ embarrass us?’” he raps, referring to an interview he did with CBS News last year. While that line may paint Lupe as anti-establishment, it is actually emblematic of why Pt. 1 is far from a return to form. In addition to his creative sovereignty, Lupe has lost his nuance. Where before he would have told a personal story or role-played to get his point across, the new Lupe opts for the soapbox over the pen, talking down to his listeners instead of engaging them at their level. It’s no surprise that the only memorable lyrics on Pt. 1 are in its final track, “Hood Now,” a rare moment of levity about urban life’s dissemination into pop culture (“You know me, I don’t vote / But the White House, you already know / It’s hood now”). If Pt. 1 were simply another stopgap L.P. to help get Lupe out of his deal with Atlantic, I would be okay with that. But, because it’s a sequel to one of the greatest rap album of the 2000s divided Breaking Dawn-style into two parts, I’m sad to report that there will probably be more mediocre Food & Liquor albums than good ones. Paul Blank is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at prb77@cornell.edu.
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James Rainis alt-J, the Leeds University quartet that is this year’s overwhelming favorite to win the Mercury Prize, have managed to garner lavish praise on both sides of the Atlantic for their debut record, An Awesome Wave. Their idiosyncratic sound, cryptically referential lyrics and striking videos have even sparked discussion of them being “the next Radiohead,” which, while not uncharacteristic of music magazines (Wilco, T.V. on the Radio and many lesser bands have heard that prophecy before), is such a hefty endorsement that Ladbrokes puts the odds of them taking home the Mercury Prize at 9:4. Despite the lofty comparisons, An Awesome Wave does not overwhelm with fanfare. Instead, it opens with the cinematic “Intro” and “Interlude 1,” an a capella duet that uses open harmonies to create a nearhymnal atmosphere (a surprising theme during Wave’s quieter moments). It is not until “Tesselate” that we truly witness the band at full bore. Amid languid guitar tones and itchy, dubstep-inspired rhythms, lead singer Joe Newman turns geometry into a
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come on, somehow twisting ruminations about a triangle’s properties into something sexual and sinister. On “Breezeblocks,” Newman delivers lines culled from Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are while the band shows compositional restraint likely learned from former Mercury winners (and fellow lowercase letter aficionados) The xx, though with decisively more punch. “Dissolve Me” is a stadium-scorcher if this album has one, but thanks to Newman’s understated delivery and the band’s immaculately measured performance, it refrains from launching into anything resembling bombast. The album was written and recorded over a five-year period, and it shows; the production is crystal clear, with Newman’s voice finding room in the mix alongside liquid synthesizers, subtle percussion tricks and fuzzed-out basslines. This is fortunate, as Newman’s expressive lyrics and delivery are masterful. “Something Good,” written about the death of matador, exemplifies altj’s wistful and foreboding tone; there is an underlying ambiguity to Newman’s literary
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perspective that makes you reach for the lyrics sheet. “Matilda,” the album’s emotional core, best embodies the “folk-step” label some critics are pinning on alt-J. Vaguely pastoral acoustic guitars are juxtaposed by a halftime drum figure that propels but never pushes or disrupts Newman’s desperate and resigned vocal. While drummer Thom Green is certainly a capable and creative one, he looks wisest during the moments of the record where he doesn’t play, whether it is for a measure during “Tesselate’s” climactic chorus or for entire tracks, such as on earnest closing track “Hand-Made” or the reflective interludes peppered throughout the album. The solemnity that runs throughout the record — aggrandized by choral bridges seemingly informed by Gregorian chant — is tempered by occasional lapses into moments of levity, as on the resplendent and romantic (“I pillowed you so many times this week”) “Ms”, and twisted aggression, as in the unsettling gang-rape depiction of “Fitzpleasure.” It’s a bold and disconcerting
track that reinforces alt-J’s literary and cinematic bent; based off a scene from the novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, the song’s blunt language and disjointed descriptions exude brutality. Few bands would describe such a situation in a song; even fewer would do so between chants of “tralalala.” An Awesome Wave is, above all things, this year’s most daring and captivating debut. The band’s performance throughout is thoroughly disciplined and economical, never indulgent nor too spare. Newman’s contributions as a frontman are astounding, whether he is depicting the macabre or navigating the lilting melody of “Interlude 1.” Balancing accessible songs with ambitious lyrical construction and sonic experimentation, Wave is a testament to alt-J’s unique vision, a methodically modern album that challenges convention and isn’t afraid to play the antagonist if need be. James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.
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No Doubt Push and Shove Interscope
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It has been 11 years since No Doubt released Rock Steady, the reggae / hip-hopinfused album that left the ska-band fan base equally divided. One faction loved the new and progressive millennial sound that the band absorbed, while others believed that Gwen Stefani and the gang sold out. Two years later, the band broke up, Gwen Stefani launched a solo career and released two albums under her own name, and the future of No Doubt seemed to be a forgotten teenage fantasy. However, the dreams of No Doubt finally reuniting came into fruition when Gwen announced in 2008 that the band would be touring and making music again. But the music community worried: what kind of No Doubt would the reunion bring? Push and Shove, the band’s answer to this question, is worth the wait, effortlessly utilizing the current trends in music, while still sounding so much like the No Doubt we know and love. The entire feel of the record is so reminiscent of what made No Doubt one of the quintessential bands of the 90s that you cannot help but smile. Even the more experimental songs,
“Settle Down” and “Push and Shove,” which happen to be the album’s first two singles, still hold on to the balanced combination of pop, rock and ska that No Doubt knows so well. “Settle Down” ventures into some risky Bollywood-like instrumentals, but its chorus is so damn catchy and perfect that it is hard to resist. “Push and Shove,” the band’s selfdescribed “Bohemian Rhapsody,” does not reach the level of Queen’s magnum opus, but is the biggest the band has ever sounded. Infusing ska, reggae and dub-step (!) into one jam about the tug-of-war of a relationship, the Major Lazer-produced song is a beautiful mess. It is always on the verge of exploding into “too-much” but somehow keeps things under the bubble in the most entertaining ways. “Looking Hot” is the best Rock Steady song not on Rock Steady. With its discoinfluenced hip-hop flavor, the song is reminiscent of one of No Doubt’s last singles, “Hella Good,” but throws in a chorus worthy of Blondie comparisons and a crazy, fun reggae bridge that weaves in wonderfully. Its ridiculous subject matter and title
are campy, but No Doubt sounds like they are having the most fun they have had on a record since back in the 90’s. This should be a fan favorite and has the best possibility of any song on the album of being played on the radio and at the clubs. The last half of the album is not as roaring as the first half in sound or experimentation; rather, it marks the band’s returns to its roots. On “Undercover” and “Heaven,” my two favorite selections off the album, the band time-travels back to the 1980s to produce sweet, synth-based songs that sound like they belong to the soundtrack of a John Hughes prom that we will never be able to attend. These songs do not seem derivative of the new wave classics by Depeche Mode, b-52’s, and New Order, but rather feel so authentic that they match the excellence of songs by these artists. On “Undone,” Gwen Stefani gives one of her rawest vocals ever, letting her voice shine and the production take a break. It reminds me of “Don’t Speak,” in its display of confessional love and unshielded romance. And finally, the album’s closer, “Dreaming the Same
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Dream,” is pure delight, ending the album with a sweet fantasy of young, mesmerizing love. Yet, the album does have a few false notes. The misplaced “One More Summer” feels a bit like a corny Bon Jovi song, rather than the New Order-like anthem No Doubt is striving for. Also, Gwen’s voice is ill suited for the track, which is way too big for her. The midalbum “Easy” could have also been nixed for the final track listing. While the verses are smooth and sexy, the song falters as it falls into a generic chorus that someone as manufactured as Katy Perry could sing. These two bumps distract a bit from the otherwise excellent album. Though fans might have worried that their foray into modern music would hurt the band, Gwen Stefani and her boys have added simple touches of 2012 to their traditional sound in a winning combination. No Doubt has returned in fine form. Jason Goldberg is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jgoldberg@cornellsun.com.
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n iPhone 4S, a coffee pot, a light bulb and the London being on the second floor when a Olympic torch — these contenders have won places minor furor erupted; apparently in an illustrious time capsule buried at the Design few visitors were expecting to see Museum’s new site in Kensington, London. Presumably, the John de Andrea’s hyperrealist nude museum visitors of 2112 will be awed and baffled by what the sculpture Garnet, resting languidly design luminaries of 2012, among them architect Zaha Hadid in the Ames Gallery. It took me and fashion designer Paul Smith, deemed revolutionary. awhile to absorb the shock of seeWhat counts as remarkable design is, expectedly, con- ing so many others getting over tentious. Design Museum founder Terence Conran would their shock. know. Conran, who also created the furniture company I am not, of course, trying to Habitat (essentially the British Bauhaus), was thrown out of undermine the importance of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s basement two decades ago thinking critically about art and by V&A director Roy Strong. According to the upper eche- museums. It’s just that lately, I’ve lons of the V&A, the Design Museum’s exhibits were too been unsettled by a development at brash and kitschy. The last straw was a Coca-Cola brand exhi- Middlesex University’s Museum of bition — which proved to be wildly popular with visitors any- Domestic Design and Architecture way. (MoDA). MoDA recently got a new home. But visitors canThe burial of the time capsule seems symbolic, and that not wander around MoDA’s public galleries. That’s because hasn’t escaped comment in the British media. Conran is col- there aren’t any. While other museums are furiously digitizing laborating with the V&A on the Design Museum’s latest their collections, MoDA has gone completely virtual. In a incarnation, so the burial supposedly signifies how he and time of financial austerity, the upsides to this move are obviStrong are laying to rest their years of acrimonious feuding. ous. Also, the physical collections can now go on loan more But people think too much, and I’m guilty of that too. The frequently, reaching wider audiences. The old MoDA buildtime capsule affair got me thinking about a few, hopefully dis- ing was hard to find anyway. tantly related, things. So perhaps museums without I’ve no qualms with physical borders will make even museums exhibiting more economic sense when collecsupposed works of tions are digitized with more kitsch. I am also a supadvanced technology. Perhaps one porter of blockbuster day we’ll be able to even feel the exhibits insofar as those exhibits, and wander around Darn That draw people to museonline galleries styled after real Dream ums. Bring on Jeff ones. But something will definiteKoons’ gloriously ly be irretrievably lost, and that, I giant, opulently shiny think, is at least worth mourning. balloon sculptures. Or Michael Heizner’s hefty Levitated Mass, The gathering of friends and strangers in galleries makes acciwhich is essentially a 340-ton granite rock placed over a cav- dental discoveries and disturbances possible. There’s the feelernous slot carved outside the Los Angeles County Museum ing of being star struck. I remember being in a roomful of of Art. In fact, anything that will compel someone to wander Monets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past summer, into a museum is, to me, welcome. The Johnson Museum’s and all I could think of was that I was in a roomful of Monets. Mad Men showcase a few weeks ago succeeded in doing that. And perhaps, the hordes of tourists, saddled with large camIn the excitement of swing music and very blue drinks, the eras, felt the same excitement. We were in the company of the galleries were overrun with particularly well-dressed visitors famous. We were standing on sacred ground. staring at works of art, even at staircase landings. I remember There will also be no quaint, communal things like time
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capsules on museum grounds, where people (arguably a carefully selected few, in the case of the New Design Museum) get a chance to play curator for a day. Interestingly, Zaha Hadid’s contribution to the new Design Museum’s time capsule was a model of a building she designed — Rome’s National Museum for 21st Century Art (MAXXI). Hadid’s Stirling Prize-winning design looks like surrealist interpretation of interlocking high speed rail tracks, precisely the kind of edgy statement that the center for “contemporary creativity” wants to make. Largely due to a 43 percent cut in government funding the previous year, the MAXXI was confronted with the possibility of closure earlier this year. The MAXXI is still standing, but the financial tremors are still being felt. So the future of museums is, obviously, still very much on the drawing board. Limitations breed creativity, as more than one architect has said. Limitations also breed clarity, so we know what it is that we’re fighting for. But mostly, really, all we can do is to wait and see. The new Design Museum’s time capsule suggests that waiting should be exciting, and worth the trouble. In the meantime there are other things to do, like read Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining — possibly one of the most terrifying great books ever written — which has been in the making for 36 years. Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com. Darn That Dream appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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In a world seemingly bursting with KFCs and Outback Steakhouses, it ain’t easy being a vegetarian. Luckily, all you have to do is get accepted to Cornell (piece of cake!) and move to Ithaca to have more than your fair share of vegetarian and vegan options. In fact, there are so many choices that some of us may have to stick around for grad school in order to try them all (sorry, mom and dad). As a recent transfer to this wonderful institution and a vegetarian / part-time vegan of about a year, I decided to test out a multitude of restaurants in order to find my new spot. So here are my top five vegetarian options in Ithaca. Don’t worry, carnivorous readers: These restaurants serve up amazing dishes that are sure to be a hit with veggie lovers and meat-eaters alike. BEST OVERALL: MOOSEWOOD RESTAURANT OK, not to be obvious, but duh. The world-renowned restaurant, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, actually varies its menu dishes every single day. Often there are themes; when I journeyed there, it was Latin American night. The guacamole was an incredible mixture of avocado and flavoring; the tomato soup had the perfect hint of lime and spice; the salad was full and the homemade miso-ginger dressing divine. I somehow squeezed an entree in after all of this food: the Vegetarian Feijoada, featuring kale, black beans and rice together in a tasty and vegan dish. BEST BITES: COLLEGETOWN BAGELS The greatness that is CTB should not shock anyone here at
Cornell. The menu is so vast that anyone, even us vegetarians, can find something to grab. The Jonah’s Jive is the most requested veggie sandwich, featuring rich and freshly made hummus spread on daily made multi-grain bread, with dressing, tomato, cucumber and spinach in between. Additionally, they have great vegetarian side salads, local and organic coffee and bread and bagels made fresh daily. CTB always features fresh food, friendly faces and fun times. BEST CLASSY-YET-CASUAL COMBO: STELLA’S. With a cool and slightly dim ambiance, this restaurant / bar / cafe is a place to go on a date or bring your parents for a lovely dinner (not that their brunch and lunch aren’t to die for, as well). It also has a great mission behind its sophisticated appearance: Stella’s strives to educate its customers in “great coffee, booze and food.” Its newly updated menu features the vegan eggplant scallops, a delectable dish featuring a multitude of spices and roasted pumpkin seeds; it’s already become the most requested item. From the healthy and incredibly fresh Edamame Hummus Wrap at lunch to the Vegan Champagne cake bursting with lemon and raspberry flavorings whipped into the perfect dessert, Stella’s produces perfection at every meal. BEST ATMOSPHERE: ALADDIN’S NATURAL EATERY Open since 1989, this Greek establishment has always been innovative with so many vegetarian options on its menu. From hummus and artichoke appetizers to salads to pitas and, of course, lentil soup, this place has a specialty vegetarian option for every course. The Veggie Combo is a popular platter featuring 4 of the 8
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vegetarian appetizers of your choosing. Options include creamy baba ganoush, finely spiced tabouleh salad and, of course, fried falafels. Have it as an entree or share with friends (note: you will not want to share with friends). There are so many aspects of this restaurant that make it an equally pleasing place where vegetarians and meat-lovers can go together to break (pita) bread. BEST PLACE FOR A PARTY: VIVA TAQUERIA This place is always packed, and rightfully so, as it feels like a
genuine fiesta as soon as you walk through the door. The menu is standard Mexican fare, but the restaurant strives to deliver the healthiest possible choices. Tofu, vegan cheese and vegan sour cream make vegans and vegetarians feel like they’re not enjoying just standard rice and beans, but actual Mexican dishes. The multitude of sauces and diverse dishes make actually choosing an entree hard (though I did not regret my choice of the Vegetarian Enchilada one bit). The portions are plentiful; you
get much more than you pay for, as the entire menu is absurdly affordable. The most popular vegetarian item is the Tofu Quesadilla, which is a mixture of cheese, guacamole, and tofu combined in a flour tortilla and served with your sauce of choice. For a fun fiesta and spicy salsa that will not mildly dent your wallet, grab your sombrero and check out Viva Taqueria. Meghan Flynn can be reached at mflynn@cornellsun.com.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — This hasn’t been the smoothest of seasons for C.C. Sabathia. He’s still coming through when it counts for the New York Yankees. Sabathia struck out 10 batters over eight innings for New York to help the Yankees stretch their AL East lead to two games over Baltimore by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Wednesday. The Orioles hosted Toronto later Wednesday. The Yankees visit the Blue Jays for four games starting Thursday. Baltimore, after an off day, plays Boston at home this weekend. Sabathia will pitch again next week when the Yankees host the Red Sox. “This is what he can do. He can string a bunch of good ones together. And if there’s a time, now’s the time,” manager Joe Girardi said. Sabathia (14-6) threw 89 of his 118 pitches for strikes, including three straight to Twins All-Star Joe Mauer for the second of his three strikeouts in the fourth inning. Mauer, who began the day three points in the batting race behind Detroit’s Triple Crown chaser Miguel Cabrera with a .326 average, went 0 for 4. “That’s the best I’ve seen him, and I’ve been watching him for a long time,” Mauer said. “When I was up there he was both sides of the plate: fastball, slider, sinker. He threw me everything, and everything was working.” Sabathia spent two stints on the disabled list this summer, for a strained left groin and an inflamed left elbow. This was his first win in six starts, and he credited impeccable command of his fastball to set up his other pitches. “We’re in a race. We know it’s going to be tough. So you want to go out and do well every time out,” Sabathia said, adding: “Hopefully I can go out and pitch well again the next time. I’ll take what I can out of this one and be ready to go five days from now.” Robinson Cano hit a two-run double and Curtis Granderson added a two-run triple during a six-run third inning against Brian Duensing (4-11), and Sabathia took care of the rest. The burly lefty gave up six hits, two runs and one walk. Sabathia improved to 10-0 with a 1.96 ERA in his last 11 appearances against the Twins, including the 2009 and 2010 postseason. He threw eight scoreless innings in his last start against Oakland, striking out 11, but didn’t get the victory because the Yankees won in the 10th. Matt Carson and Pedro Florimon had RBI singles, but that was about the only solid contact Sabathia allowed. Chris Dickerson also hit a two-run homer for the Yankees, who lost to the Twins on Tuesday night and played without third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who has a bruised left foot. Derek Jeter’s 19game hitting streak ended with an 0-for-4 afternoon, but he walked and scored in the third. The Yankees enjoyed a tension-free afternoon while winning for the 12th time in their last 16 games. Even the bad plays turned out all right. Granderson was picked off first base in the second inning, but he scored on a wild pitch in the third. Eric Chavez, thinking there were two outs instead of one in the fifth inning, casually fielded a grounder at third and stepped on the base for the force as he jogged toward the dugout before stopping and realizing his mistake. Sabathia shouted assurance to Chavez, whose embarrassed “oops” expression was frozen on the jumbo video screen above left-center field to the crowd’s amusement. “I’m glad they were entertained,” Chavez said, smiling.
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On an Ichi-roll | The Yankees have won 12 of their last 16 games with the help of outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who has 15 hits in his last 25 at-bats.
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The Quakers bring a balanced attack to Ithaca, with five players tied for the team lead in scoring. Penn outshot Harvard 7-1 and tallied a total of 10 shots against Boise St. in the second half alone. The center point of the Red’s defense is junior goalkeeper Tori Christ, who has started every game so far this season.“When Tori plays really well that’s motivating,” Hompe said. “A lot of people
look up to her.” According to Nichols, the Red is preparing for the game by playing hard in practice. The team hopes working at a higher intensity can help to top its Ivy league foe and earn its first victory. “If we win against Penn, that would just boost our confidence significantly,” Nichols said. “The first win is always the hardest one to get, and after that more wins come and better things happen.” Emily Berman can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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on the weekend — to at least split.” Although the team has improved its record to 3-8 after losing six of its first seven games, Batie-Smoose recognizes this fall as “a rebuilding season.” With a tough stretch of 10 games on the road behind its back, the Red won in a hard-fought 3-2 victory against Colgate in Newman Arena on Tuesday. Freshman Breanna Wong delivered 18 kills, while senior Kelly Marble added 11 kills and 12 digs for a double-double. The team has the opportunity to ride the win into its two games this Friday and Saturday — part of the alumni weekend and a celebration of 40 years of Cornell volleyball. This weekend will also include the Alumnae Match, which occurs after the game against Brown on Saturday. After losing its last 8 games with Yale, Cornell is 25-32 overall “It is important to focus on little against the Bulldogs. The Red has faired better against Brown, howtangible goals.” ever, holding the upper hand in the season series with a record of Melissa Batie-Smoose 37-19. Cornell lost both of its games last season to the Bulldogs, while it split its matchups with the Bears. Before the players hit the court this weekend, the team must get ready for competition. To prepare for opponents, Batie-Smoose says that she watches “numerous films,” breaks down the scouting report with the other coaches and shows the team “different rotations that [it] possibly [needs] to defend.” Batie-Smoose, who has been coaching for 19 years across a number of conferences and divisions, is in her first year as head coach at Cornell, where she’s motivated to improve the Red one step at a time. “Its important to focus on little tangible goals,” she says, adding that rebuilding is all about “getting better each time.” In addition to working on improvement every day, Batie Smoose emphasizes the importance of attitude, dedication, and heart. Through her coaching at multiple universities she’s learned that the most important thing is, “Showing that we love to play this game.” “With that,” she claims, “will come the results we are looking for.” Skyler Dale can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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Ten Questions Columnist Reena Gilani caught up with senior Brett Kelly to discuss everything from his strange dancing habits and his passion for Wisconsin sports to his quest for the world record in the prestigious beer mile competition. 1. How did you end up getting involved with cross country and track? I used to play a lot of soccer, basketball and baseball as a kid and in middle school. I was always running around the field a lot, especially in soccer where I played midfield. Just constantly running up and down the field. How did you decide to change sports? In eighth grade I ran a meet in gym class and it was a 5:24 mile without any training other than soccer. So, I decided my freshman year of high school to run cross country. I liked it and I kept doing it. The Cornell cross country team did really well in the Rochester Invitational last Saturday. Why did you individually fall back in the last 200 meters of the meet? We tried to run as a team. We were competing against a lot of Division III teams and we had a lot of our guys up near the front and we were trying to practice running together. We weren’t running all that fast and we were all running together. There was one unattached guy in the pack, an alumnus from Rochester. We were all staying together and then with 200 meters to go, everyone took off, and that’s not really my strength. I don’t have a lot of the top-end speed that a lot of our guys did, so they all kind of rolled me at the end. 2. Did you all go to the Avicii concert? Yeah. What did you think? The Avicii concert was amazing. It was maybe the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. It was a really awesome concert and it was great to see everyone so excited, jumping up and down to the cool lights and stuff. What happened after the concert? We went back to our house, we were trying not to stay up too late because we have a big race next weekend — hopefully my coaches read this. So, we just got this new big beanbag chair from our coach. We ended up watching an episode of Workaholics with four of us sitting on a beanbag chair. A couple of people walked in
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and thought it was a little weird but so it goes. 3. Do you like to dance? Yeah, I do. Do you have any trademark dance moves? I like to improvise; I’ve heard people say I have a couple of tendencies. Lip movements? Nose covering acts? People tell me I move my lips a lot and that I put my shirt over my nose a lot when I dance, but I don’t believe it. It’s false. Do you like to dance in Collegetown? Last year we went to Pixel a lot, it’s a fun place to go dance. 4. Since you’re from Wisconsin, are you big into Wisconsin sports? Yes, I am huge into Wisconsin sports. Why are the teams sucking right now? I mean, they’re doing alright. The University of Wisconsin football team is struggling, they’re not going to have a good year. They’re 3-1 but they lost to not a very good team and beat three pretty mediocre teams by not very much. Are you more invested in college football or the NFL? I’m a huge Packers fan. Their offense has been struggling a little but they’re going to have a good season I think. What did you think about the end of the Packers/Seahawks game? Obviously I think it was a terrible call. Even if you argue that it was a simultaneous catch, which I don't think it was, they still missed a blatant offensive pass interference call right before the catch. That said, I've always been of the philosophy that you can't leave it up to the refs. The offensive line is really what lost them the game; they let Aaron Rodgers get sacked eight times in the first half. To take a positive out of it though, I'm a Russell Wilson fan — the Seahawks quarterback, he played for Wisconsin. It was cool to see him get a big win like that. It's just unfortunate it had to happen under those circumstances and at the Packers' expense. Do you participate in fantasy football? I’m really into fantasy football; I love it. I’m beating up on all the kids on the Cornell track team right now in our league.
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Have you always been big on it? Yeah, I have a league with my friends from home that has been going on for 10 years now. It started in like middle school. Do you always win? My friends are pretty good. I think a lot of it is up to chance and luck. 5. Can you share a bear rug story? A couple of years ago, a guy on the team bought a bearskin rug off of Craigslist. It’s hanging on our wall now, we took a picture with it in The Sun last year. I was wearing the bear rug in it. 6. What’s the beer mile championship? It’s four laps on the track; you drink a beer, run a lap, and do this four times. What’s your reign in it? I try it out of season, but I’m hunting down the world record. I think it’s like 5:06. I ran 5:44 last year. That’s impressive. Of all the things in the world, it’s probably the thing I’m best at … which is a little depressing. But I guess it’s cool. Is it a big competition? A lot of people do it all over the world. If you go to beermile.com, there’s an official list of rules. People are pretty serious about it. In order to submit your time you have to record it on video, which I haven’t done yet so I’m not officially on there. Do you practice a lot? No, this is always out of season. Well, I run a lot, so I guess that’s good practice. For some reason I can drink beer really fast. 7. Can you tell me about the cove in your room? There are 10 of us runners that have a big house together. On the first floor we have a big porch off of one guy’s room. When we have people over we have to open up his room and one time there were a lot of people in there. So, I have this extra closet/attic type thing off of my room. He borrowed that one night, along with a blanket. He promised to wash it, but he never did. I had to wash it myself. The worst. See KELLY page 16
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Bear-ing it all | Senior Brett Kelly takes pride in the bearskin rug he and his teammates have in their house, as well as the cove attached to his room.
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Red Takes On Penn In Ivy Home Opener By EMILY BERMAN Sun Contributor
After suffering close losses to Columbia and Niagara over the weekend, the women’s soccer team aims to pick up its first win of the season when it welcomes Ancient Eight rival Penn to Berman field Friday at 7 p.m. The Red (0-9, 0-1 Ivy League) has struggled on offense recently, scoring just one goal in its last three games. Despite falling to Columbia, 1-0, senior forward Xandra Hompe said the loss could still provide the team with momentum heading into the match-up with Penn.
“We’re excited to bring out that energy in front of our fans.” Xandra Hompe “We didn’t come out too strong in the first half, but we played really well in the second,” she said. “If we just carry that energy over into the game against Penn we’ll be fine.” The Quakers (4-4, 1-0) are coming off a 1-0 loss to Boise St. but are buoyed by a 1-0 victory over defending Ivy League champion Harvard. Penn’s strong season shouldn’t intimidate the Red, though, according to junior midfielder Rachel Nichols.
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They’re coming home | After playing only two games at home so far this season, the Red hopes that a Cornell crowd will help boost its confidence in its Ivy League home opener.
“Penn has always been a tough opponent,” she said. “We just need to go into the game with confidence that we’ll do well against them even though their record is currently better than ours.” Last-second goals have decided games recently for both the Quakers and the Red. Penn scored its only goal against Harvard with less than five seconds remaining, while Niagara scored the winning goal against Cornell with 4.3 seconds left in the game. In recent years, the series against Cornell has shifted in favor of the Quakers, who have beaten the Red 13
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consecutive times. The Quakers took last year’s matchup, 2-1, after the Red failed to build on a first-half lead. This season’s contest against the Quakers marks the Red’s Ivy League home opener. After playing just two games at home so far this season, Hompe said the team is energized for the match. “We’re excited to play at home—we’ve been on the road a lot so we’re excited to bring out that energy in front of our fans,” she said. See W. SOCCER page 18
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Cornell Volleyball Squad Heads to Paul Short Invitational Celebrates 40 Years By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO
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By SKYLER DALE Sun Contributor
The volleyball team will hold its first Ivy League home games this weekend — matching up against the
Yale Bulldogs on Friday and the Brown Bears on Saturday. The goal, according to head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, is “to not lose See VOLLEYBALL page 18
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Bump and run | Senior Kelly Marble had 12 digs and 11 kills in a 3-2 victory over Colgate at home on Tuesday.
After a weekend off, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are back at it. The Red is heading to Lehigh to compete in the Paul Short Invitational this weekend. Without a meet last weekend, the Red had the opportunity to have a hard week of training. Women’s cross country coach Artie Smith ’96 was pleased with how the week of practices went. “We had a very good week of training,” he said. “After having two very good opening meets, it was good to take an emotional break. I think people are geared up and ready to go into these next few weeks into very competitive meets.” This extra week of training is also going to allow the Red to be better prepared for the Paul Short Invitational, a meet that will feature top-tier competition, according to Smith. “It’s a very competitive meet,” he said. “We’re going to see a large field, 40 teams, and close to 400 runners. This is the first meet that we’re going to be running against nationally competitive Division 1 programs.” The meet is named after Paul Short, Lehigh ’34, a multi-sport athlete who later became a member of the athletics staff at his alma mater from 1938 until his death in 1967, interrupted only by service in World War II. An avid supporter of the Lehigh track and field and cross country programs, this meet was named in his honor. Smith spoke about how long the Red has been competing in this meet. “We’ve been to this meet now about 12 out of the 14 years that I’ve been coaching here,” he said. With the season now in full swing, each meet is leading up to the Heps cross country championships on October 27th at Princeton. Smith touched on how much he stresses that the team take the season one step at a time. “We’re taking steps in a large process,” he said. “The regular season is important, and I look at it as the steps that take you to the finals. We’re not worried about the finals right now, I’m looking another step in the right direction and to compete well in that kind of
competitive environment.” While the Red is competing in a team sport, there are several strong performers on both teams who are looking to improve themselves as individuals, an improvement that Smith has seen out of his runners from last season until now. “Our top group, at least 5 or 6, who see themselves doing well individually,” he said. “Each one of them feel that they’re a lot faster than they were one year ago, and I think they all feel that they can do that.” After strong performances in the first two meets of the season, the Red looks to once again compete for top spots at the finish line at the Paul Short Invitational. Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.
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Repeat success | The men’s team came in 12th at Lehigh last year with the help of a strong run by senior Kevin Johnson.