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Brendan Murphy ’18 says Weezer’s new single “Lonely Girl” forgoes the band’s previous pop sounds. | Page 8
Anne Jones ’03 speaks about her experiences as a doctor of osteopathic medicine at Gannett. | Page 6
The football team’s search for a win this season opens another chapter when Yale visits Saturday. | Page 16
Cornell,TCAT Reach Agreement on Funds
Construction continues
University to increase funding to TCAT to address deficit By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
Cornell has reached an agreement with TCAT to increase its payment to the organization and collaborate on a more sustainable funding model for it, the University announced Thursday. This decision comes about five months after President David Skorton announced that the University did not have the means to subsidize TCAT past what it is currently paying at approximately $3.43 million
annually. Some students and faculty — including both the Student and University Assemblies — called upon Cornell to increase these subsidies in order to address TCAT’s $740,000 deficit, The Sun previously reported. Thursday’s meeting was held to discuss the University’s response to a resolution adopted by the TCAT Board of Directors on Aug. 28, which called for Cornell to subsidize fares paid with a Cornell ID at See TCAT page 5
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Construction on the Ithaca Commons continues, with the hope that the Bank Alley and 200 block of E. State St. portions will be paved and open to pedestrians late this year.
President-Elect Garrett: Hazing‘Unacceptable in Any Form’ By SUN STAFF
Following the announcement that Elizabeth Garrett, provost at the University of Southern California, would become Cornell’s 13th president, Sun Managing Editor Tyler Alicea ’16 spoke with her Thursday about her stance on a variety of issues, including sexual violence, hazing, the rising costs of attending college and the role of the humanities in higher education.
This is the first part of the interview. Read The Sun Monday for the remainder of the interview. THE SUN: You’ve worked a lot on cross-disciplinary and cross-college programs during your time at USC. What do you think about the importance of both the humanities and having interdisciplinary studies in higher education? ELIZABETH G ARRETT: Typically those two aspects of a university are posed as either separate or even sometimes
as opposing. I think that it’s important to understand that humanities and indeed a strong dedication to rigorous disciplinary study is an absolutely fundamental prerequisite to having excellence in interdisciplinary activities. You cannot, I believe, have great interdisciplinary work unless you have scholars and students who are trained in the rigor of a disciplinary analysis. There’s just something See GARRETT page 5
Facebook Offers Apology Following News Feed Study Cornell prof coauthored study By ANIKA SETHY
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Rain, sleet, hail or snow | Students wait in line outside the Ithaca Renting Company Tuesday aiming to secure housing for the 2015-16 academic year.
Students Weather Housing Line for Hours By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer
In what has become an annual spectacle, students camped out outside the Ithaca Renting Company Wednesday evening in the hopes of signing a lease for an apartment in Collegetown for the upcoming year. While this trend has become a tradition in recent years, some students claim it is possible social media could have played a factor in more students
getting in line earlier than past years. Lisa Everts ’92, the rental manager for the Ithaca Renting Company, estimates that the first group arrived at about 9 a.m. Tuesday — 24 hours before leases became available for signing. In total, 156 people signed a lease on Wednesday, waiting in the line for different amounts of time. “We’ve had variations of lines every year for many years,” Evert said. “It can be anywhere from 20 groups waiting for two or three hours to 40
groups waiting for 24 hours or more.” The reason Ithaca Renting Company waits to allow tenants to sign leases until Oct. 1 — when many other landlords and renting companies allow prospective tenants to sign early in September — is to allow current tenants the chance to resign, Evert said. “We wait until Oct. 1 to give our See RENTALS page 4
Facebook issued an apology Thursday after months of criticism for a study — partly coauthored by two Cornellians — that manipulated users’ news feeds to see how their emotions would change without their knowledge. The study, published in June, involved the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users and was co-authored by Prof. Jeffrey Hancock, communication and information science, former Cornell doctoral student Jamie Guillory ’13 and Facebook data scientist
Adam Kramer. Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer apologized both for the way in which Facebook conducted the research and for the manner in which the study was released. “It is clear now that there are things we should have done differently,” Schroepfer wrote. “For example, we should have considered other non-experimental ways to do this research. The research would also have benefited from more extensive review by a wider and more senior group of people. Last, in See FACEBOOK page 4