05-02-13

For um Addresses Change to Policy

On Sexual Assault

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornell’s Title IX Coordinators, a group of faculty members who oversee concerns related to gender discrimination on campus, hosted an open for um Wednesday to discuss the University’s revisions to its sexual assault and harassment policy and procedure If the revisions are approved, student complainants and respondents may move from testifying at hearings to writing their testimonies

The coordinators of this change said they are seeking feedback from the Cornell community to ensure

C.U. Fraternity Members: Greek System Has Been ‘Greatly Mischaracteri

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

In light of disciplinar y actions

over the academic year, some fra-

concerned that fraternities have been mischaracterized by both the University and students

During the 2012-13 academ-

By PATRICIO G MARTÍNEZ Sun Senior Writer

Following a string of s e x u a l a s s a u l t i n c i d e n t s reported on campus, the Class of 2017 will be the first to par ticipate in a workshop on consent and

h e a l t h y s e x u a l re l a t i o nships during Orientation Week this August

“ Sp e a k Ab o u t It , ” a troupe of young college graduates and actors who travel the country raising awareness against sexual

v i o l e n c e , w i l l c o m e t o campus to lead the work-

s

According to the group ’ s

ic year, at least eight fraternities have faced disciplinar y action

The Delta Phi and Chi Psi fraternities suspended in March

regarding their futures made in the coming weeks, while the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will have its case reviewed shortly, according to Travis Apgar, associate dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs

website, the troupe ’ s goal is to generate a conversation about sex and to leave stud e n t s f e e l i n g e d u c a t e d , entertained and empowered to create change on their campus

B o t h s t u d e n t s a n d administrators collaborated to include the presentat i o n a s p a r t o f t h e Orientation Week experience of incoming students at the University According to E E Hou ’14, creative director of the Eve r y 1 C a m p a i g n a student organization that addresses issues of sexual assault and consensual sex

In addition, the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity lost recognition in Ja

tions, while Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity lost its recognition for a semester for “underage and excessive alcohol consumption” violations

M i c h a e l R

After leading a campaign met with virulent opposition online, Ross Gitlin ’15, outgoing ILR representative for the Student Assembly, was elected Student Trustee, the Office of the Assemblies announced Wednesday Competing against six other candidates, Gitlin won 35 7 percent of the vote, capturing 1,769 of the total 4,949 ballots cast Runnerup Don Muir ’15, outgoing Arts and Sciences representative for the S A , collected 1,214 votes

in Gitlin as Student Trustee, citing Gitlin’s experience on the Student Assembly

“Having spent the past two years serving on the S A with Ross, I am more than confident in his ability to represent the undergraduate student body,” Muir said Current Student Trustee Alex Bores ’13 said that Gitlin has already proven himself through community initiatives within the S A

Gitlin attributed his success to the efforts of the students who assisted with his campaign, whom he said were especially suppor tive during the final days of the race

“The team that we assembled going into the campaign was tremendous,” Gitlin said “The amount of support we had from across campus held our ground game together ” Muir expressed confidence

“I think [Gitlin] will do a fantastic job He already has incredible leadership experience on campus, ” Bores said “He has a proven track record of going above and beyond ” Throughout the campaign, Gitlin said, he faced strong opposition from some students, including being named on a website that highlighted his past as former president of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity The fraternity lost University recognition after a hazing-related incident in January

“A leader takes responsibili-

Marchin g From

C.U. to Commons,

Pro

t e st er s R ally

For Fre e Sp e e ch

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornell students, Ithaca College students and other members of the Ithaca community marched in a protest that went through Day Hall, the Commons and Dewitt Park Wednesday in honor of May Day also known as International Workers Day

The march, which began at Ho Plaza with a drum circle and two speeches, promoted free speech and political activism on campus, participants said

According to Carmen Martínez ’14, one of the march’s organizers, participants protested for the right to hold p o

d a University Assembly resolution that requested placing additional sur veillance systems on University property

The protesters also asked for an increase in wages for Ithaca waste workers

The UUP resolu-

t i o n , w h i c h w a s tabled at the U A m e e t i n g Tu e s d a y, clarified the requisite procedure students should follow

w h e n u s i n g

University property for protests It stated definitively that a permit is not required, though students would still be able to submit them

When protesters gathered on Ho Plaza, Mario Martone grad, one of the protest ’ s organizers, chanted, “Injustice anywhere is injustice ever ywhere ”

According to Martone, an important aspect of the

protest was the solidarity and support protesters felt for one another, but he added that the rally was also meant to garner attention “ We are here today to actually have a rally and be as loud as possible,” he said

In the spirit of the protest, Martone referenced the student takeover of Willard Straight Hall in the April of 1969

“If ever in the future the students re a c h a l e ve l o f o r g a n i z a t i o n a n d courage which will resemble the level of courage and organizations of the [students] in 1969,” he said, then future generations of students fighting and protecting justice “will remember us ”

After protesters gathered on Ho Plaza, they then marched to Day Hall, where students gave speeches and dropped off a letter highlighting their demands regarding the UUP proposal and the increased use of sur veillance cameras to President David Skorton

Speaking about the U A resolution that promoted the

increased use of sur veillance systems, Martínez said many of the protestors disagreed with the U A ’ s approach

“A lot of us are in agreement that security cameras are not the best way to increase security It’s not going to really change the culture on campus, and we need to be targeting the culture not so much increasing sur veillance on students,” Martinez said

After Day Hall, the protesters marched downtown to rally and demand an increase in wages at a hearing the waste-water treatment workers from the Ithaca community and the Tompkins County Workers Center

“[At] the Commons, we will be doing an action in solidarity with waste workers in Ithaca who are asking for a living wage, which they are not currently receiving,” Martinez said

Finally, the march concluded at Dewitt Park, where the participants had a potluck and spoke about the the significance of May Day for them

Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

Ithaca Project Will Compile Residents’ Journal Entries

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Staff Wr ter

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Christopher Yates can be reached at cyates@cornellsun com

Harvard University announced Monday that the University received a $50-million gift to fund entreprenuership in the life sciences, The Harvard Crimson reported

The gift donated by the Blavatnick Family Foundation will fund the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which finds promising biomedical projects and helps them develop

Yale University will join Harvard, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania in covering sex-reassignment surguries for studends starting Aug 1, the Yale Daily News reported Friday The coverage has been given to faculty and staff since 2011 and unionized workers since January

With a $2 1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, Columbia University faulty and administrators plan to work on a project to create courses that will be offered exclusively abroad, the Columbia Spectator reported on Wednesday In 2014, undergraduates who study abroad will have even more courses to choose from as Columbia continues to embrace a global mind-set, The Spectator reported

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the workshop will consist of a dynamic presentation between actors and spectators

t h a t i n c l u d e s s k i t s

a n d m o n o l o g u e s based on real stories

“A lot of freshman come to campus very experienced, with little knowledge about

t

s a i d “ T h e w o rkshop’s main contribution will be to raise awareness about both

c o n s e n t a n d s e x u a l assault

Ho u s a i d m a n y students are unaware

about the pervasiveness of sexual assault on college campuses, and that a workshop of this kind will convey to entering students the importance of fostering a culture

o f c o n s e n t

According to statistics compiled by the Ne w Yo rk St a t e C o a l i t i o n A g a i n s t Se x u a l A s s a u l t , a t least one in four college women will be the victim of a sexual a s s a u l t

n g h e r academic career On the other hand, one in six men experience abusive sexual experiences before age 18, according to a study c o n d u c t e d by U S

Centers for Disease Control

A n i s h a C h o p

a ’13, outgoing at-large rep for the S A , said t h e i m p

o f t h e workshop will be to begin an initial conve r s a t i o n

g freshman about the importance of consent and fighting sexual assault

Anna-Lisa Castle ’14, co-chair of the Wo m

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hopes the presentation “is included in a more holistic, broad-

tives ” Castle is also

Assembly for Justice a group that coor-

University’s reaction

September

“I am excited that this is a conversation

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but it should not end there This is not a s o

o n by a

y means, ” Castle said “I hope the administration is as committed to continuing the

Cornell experience ”

While she said she recognizes the workshop’s goals are necessary and excellent, Castle said “there is

beyond initiating

consent ”

Gitlin ‘Learned a Ton’ From Election

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ty of his organization Ross Gitlin is not a leader,” the website said

Gitlin said that the efforts against him ultimately did not shape his campaign

“We wanted to run on the issues,” Gitlin said “We brought what we thought were the strongest aspects of our platform forward, and I think that was shown ”

Gitlin said his campaign platform was comprised of five primary areas communication and accountability, diversity and inclusion, financial aid, health and safety and sustainability

Gitlin’s first goal is to advocate for a 24/7 help center at Gannett Health Services for students to seek live help whenever they may need it

“The greatest thing is that since [the term] is two years, I have a lot of time to get things done,” Gitlin said

make decisions about how Cornell will position itself in the future,” Bores said Gitlin said that as the only undergraduate representative on the Board of Trustees, he will try to make the board more accessible to hearing as many student requests as possible

“I’ll try to break down barriers, so students can report what exactly is important to them directly to the Board,” he said

Gitlin said that he has “learned a ton, ” both from the election and his opponents

“Each and every single one of my opponents ran an amazing campaign I know whoever had been elected would have done an amazing job,” Gitlin said

Muir, who said that he still looks to serve Cornell in some capacity, said the election gave him a better understanding of the concerns of the student body

“The competitive nature of this race has encouraged all seven of the candidates to come together, resulting in the emergence of the best possible platform that will best serve the Cornell community,” Muir said

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Bores said he would like to see Gitlin continue the work Bores has done in regulating Collegetown leasing procedures He said that some of the main initiatives Gitlin will work on will include continuing to reform the Greek system and helping to improve campus health facilities

“I’d love to see [Gitlin] take ownership of some of the ideas he talked about during the campaign,” Bores said Bores also said that recently, higher education has been going through a “challenging time,” citing the shift to online teaching technology, as well as public pressures regarding tuition and research funds

“We have a great institution that has stayed ahead of the curve, but [Gitlin] as a trustee will have a role in helping to

Gitlin said that he looks forward to partnering with the other candidates on future projects

“Just because the election is over doesn’t mean we’ll stop working We all got into this race to better the Cornell community,” Gitlin said

According to Ari Epstein ’04, assistant director of the Office of the Assemblies, all challenges and appeals regarding the election were resolved, and none of the candidates were disqualified

Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun com

Apgar : C.U. Needs Open Dialogue

president of the Zeta Psi fraternity, said said he believes the Greek system has been “greatly mischaracterized ”

“We are seen as mindless animals that do nothing but drink, but people forget that we are one of the largest sources of alumni donations, philanthropy and active student involvement on campus, ” Reynolds said

He also said that while the University is well-intentioned in its decisions regarding how to change the culture of the fraternity system, he is worried that the changes to Greek culture are “dangerous ” Reynolds added that a compromise needs to be made between fraternities and the administration

“If there are any changes to be made, they should be done slowly That is the only way to ensure a lasting change that meets halfway between the Greek system and the administration,” Reynolds said

Apgar said he believes that any mischaracterizations of the Greek community are unfortunate,

and that the actions of the few should not paint the rest of the system negatively

“The reality is if there weren ’ t all of these positive characteristics of these organizations and benefits of being a member of this student experience, we wouldn’t be working as hard to preserve the Greek community,” he said, adding that he encourages open dialogue among the community about the issue

Many fraternities say the four-quarter system which prevents first semester freshmen from attending fraternity parties is problematic for the Greek community

Renato Amez ’14, president of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, said he believes such a system causes fraternities to throw events in secret

“Instead of first semester being an open environment where you can go out at night and not be concerned about not getting back home safely, fraternities are seen as speakeasies,”

Amez said “With resident advisors and CUPD interrogating freshmen, it causes a lot of distrust, even among our student

population ”

Amez added that he thinks the four-quarter system pushes risky behavior underground, resulting in the consumption of alcohol by freshmen in environments that are unmonitored and less safe than open parties, according to Reynolds

“ This is college; it would be impossible to completely eliminate alcohol from the picture, but allowing for safer environments for typical college behavior is something that we all can agree on, ” he said Reynolds said it seems like the University is trying to dictate student life at Cornell He added that that while it is Cornell’s responsibility to protect the well being of students, it is not their job to “babysit” the undergraduate population

“We want to be treated as responsible adults and be put on an equal field as anyone else,” Reynolds said Fraternity presidents also said that students not involved in Greek life have also mischaracterized fraternities

According to the results of the 2013

Cornell Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences

Sur vey an online questionnaire completed by 45 percent of undergraduates this year 49 percent of surveyed students said that they either “disagree” or “strongly disagree” when asked if they “enjoy what the Greek system contributes to Cornell University ”

Amez, however, said he believes that those who speak ill of the Greek community as a whole are “ignorant” and have either had a poor experience with a minority of the several thousand members involved in the Greek System or have no friends in the Greek system

“When I meet someone new, I don’t waste my time arguing on behalf of the Greek system I let them form their own opinions after getting to know me and my interactions with the rest of the community,” he said This story continues on cornellsun com

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that they have taken the correct approach toward drafting the new policy and procedure, Policy 6 4

At the forum, Prof Dan Brown Ph D ’81, animal science, said the change to the policy which proponents say would decrease the psychological burden for victims because they no longer have to be present at a hearing cannot compensate

for the trauma that sexual assault victims experience “ There is nothing that Cornell can do to make up for what happened to a victim There are no sanctions that Cornell can put out there that would be sufficient,” Brown said “To me, you ’ re selling something to the victim that is false ” This story continues on cornellsun com

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t was a warm summer day in the summer of ’98 I was angr y after a phone call with my mother My seven-yearold self sat with a marble notebook and penned a long note expressing my grievances Though I never gave my mom that letter, I immediately felt relief This was the first time I’d experience the power of writing

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Editorial

Clarifying UUP Requirements

IN NOVEMBER, CONFUSION OVER the University’s permit requirements for on-campus protests spread when Cornell Police broke up competing rallies held by the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine, evicting the latter from Ho Plaza Members of SJP and others have claimed the administration was infringing on students’ free speech rights This Tuesday, the University Assembly tabled a vote on a change to the Campus Code of Conduct that would better define Cornell’s permit requirements for such protests The need for the U A to carefully consider and clarify policies that may restrict students’ ability to express dissent is clear

At the November rallies, CIPAC believed their UUP gave them preferred access to Ho Plaza SJP thought their lack of a UUP did not preclude them from staging a counterprotest at the same time Which of the two groups was in the right? Based on CUPD’s odd and tentative compromise forcibly ejecting SJP from Ho Plaza after waiting out nearly an hour of dueling even Cornell officials were unsure According to a recent University report, the incident shed light on contradictions that may exist within the ambiguous language of the Code of Conduct These discrepancies must be eliminated via simple and uniformly enforced guidelines

The resolution set aside Tuesday seeks to illuminate the fuzzier points It proposes changing the code to reflect two clarified policies: UUPs would be recommended, but not required, for on-campus rallies or demonstrations; and unregistered counter-protests would be permissible The resolution also rightly maintains Cornell’s authority to enforce basic “time, manner and place” restrictions that ban prohibitively disruptive protests at regular University events and activities We disagree with some who say that such restrictions which are content-neutral and thus do not allow for discrimination against groups based on the beliefs they hold infringe on basic free speech rights

However, to avoid unreasonable restrictions on students’ free expression, much clearer guidelines should be implemented to define what exactly constitutes “disruption ” Bright-line rules clarifying permissible proximity, volume and form of protests would better ensure that the University is not free to arbitrarily disband student demonstrations on a case-by-case basis Additionally, any clarification of the Code of Conduct should elucidate the role of UUPs on campus and outline what conditions are required for an event to be considered a “ counter-protest ” and thus free of permit requirements

Student groups have vocally expressed fear that if UUPs are recommended but not required, organizations will be pressured to register demonstrations to avoid the threat of disbandment If this concern is unfounded, as some University officials have implied, then the language used in any proposed policy changes should explicitly reflect that It is the ambiguity present in the current Code of Conduct that leaves the most room for potential abuse based on the content of dissenting speech The problem of confusion that occurred last semester will not disappear if the U A approves new policies that are as ambiguous as the old ones

During my sophomore year of high school, I cold-called my town ’ s newspaper l o o k i n g t o g e t i n vo l ve d I s u p p o s e I sounded official enough on the phone because they thought I was in college only until my dad drove me to the interview In my awkward pubescent stupor, I ran around town meeting and inter viewing countless kind souls It was refreshing a n d e x h i l a r a t i n g My f a vo r i t e p a r t o f being a reporter was having complete strangers share their stories with me I came to college with the expectation that I’d take more time for myself, my friends and even perhaps for my schoolwork To combat my high school burn out, I would refrain from taking on too much I can ’ t help but remember attending Last Call’s spring concert my freshman year It was their 15-year anniversar y As I watched the finale, in which Call Boys of the past and present sing in unison, I suddenly felt incredibly sad Seeing the joy they felt celebrating their timeless bond, I feared that I’d never have anything comparable Luckily, I was wrong

A year after that concert, The Sun filled the void I had felt Together, we wrote, edited, photographed and designed collaboratively to produce a physical manifestation of our craziness The process itself is pretty amazing The Sun gave me the sense of belonging so many of us search for throughout college somet h i n g t h a t t r a n s f o r m e d m y t i m e a t

Cornell

Being a reporter, columnist and editor has been a cathartic, informative, growing process one that has turned me into who I am I got to forge tight bonds with three editorial boards, meet Bill Nye, watch Svante win the Democratic primar y and even run around the Commons during a blackout inter viewing some truly hilarious folks Most importantly though, The Sun has given me a venue to write To this day, writing is my way of dealing Some run, others paint or play music, but for me, there is no greater release than the written word Being a columnist specifically has made me move past brute feelings to articulate my thoughts and cons

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So

v e b e e n n e

v ewracking Voicing your opinion in a public forum is vulnerable and uncomfortable at times But my audience has been supportive, inquisitive and productive For anyone who’s ever written a kind word or question: Thank you Your words keep me thinking, growing and moving for ward

The Sun ser ved as a catalyst for my time at Cornell It showed me the power of camaraderie, the influence of mentors, the potential of community What I didn’t realize at the moment was that I’d find different circles of peers to feed each part of my personality the aggie, the planner, the journalist In college, much of who we are is defined by what we do We dub ourselves athletes, dancers, artists, brothers, sisters, activists and comedians It’s my hope that as we transition into b e i n g t e a c h e r s , p o l i t i c

bankers, farmers, researchers, consultants and entrepreneurs, we don’t forget to do all of the things we love The communities that have welcomed me have shown me so much about what I care about and who I am Though I might find myself hours, even days from the 14850, the things I’ve learned remain That’s the thing: This is just the beginning

plantation picnics and Vitamin D deficiency By no means has this been a perfect ride But through the good and bad, Cornell has inspired me I realize the b

To

n s County fueled my love for local food and the top-down structure of this University made me hell-bent on developing more democratic cities My experiences have unleashed passion, direction and excitement I’ve found folks that love to Greek Dance, brew beer and nerd out about urban planning The people around me have stretched my brain and forced me to turn my arguments inside out In the “real world,” it’ll likely be harder to find peers to listen to all my weird ideas and terrible jokes (trust me, I have a lot of them) It might be difficult to find f u l f i l l m e n t o r f

p o s e s o

s i l y Without Club Fest and our little bubble world, it’ll likely be a challenge to find communities of people that share the same passions I’d lie if I said I wasn ’ t sad I am But I am also filled with the spirit of youthful adventure, hope and Jack Kerouac My days on the Hill have taught me a great deal about the world and about myself The things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met will come with me Anyway, I have an inkling that the best is yet to come Fingers crossed that my stay on my parents ’ couch in suburban New Jersey (the new Bushwick) will be relatively enjoyable and short-lived And hopefully, one day, I can write in as an alumna explaining that life goes on perhaps even happily! Until then, I leave you with my ultimate gratitude Thanks for letting me do what I love

Katerina Athanasiou is

in the College of

Gettin g Back

To My Roots

Let ’ s be honest with ourselves, it is May I’m tired You’re tired And in all likelihood, one of the last things you want to do is get really intellectual and provocative with me for 800 words like you have every other week this year Also, Slope Day is tomorrow which means some of you might already be inebriated, and I don’t want an angry mob of people who prefer frozen yogurt to ice cream drunkenly chasing me down Ho Plaza like they did a few weeks ago You also probably don’t want to read a column reflecting on what I’ve learned this year while still recognizing that I have a long way to go and a lot to still learn or whatever Rather, I will get back to my roots and write a column about nothing in the form of a bulleted list:

I saw that the convocation speaker this year is the mayor of • Newark, Cory Booker I’m happy that Cornell was able to get a respected and accomplished leader like Mr Booker, but after looking at the list of previous convocation speakers, I saw that it was pretty saturated with politicians (Bloomberg, Guliani, Pelosi, et al ) It makes sense politicians that achieve success like those who have spoken at Cornell’s convocation every spring typically are very compelling public speakers My issue is that most students graduating from Cornell will not become politicians Cornellians go on to do a variety of things and are very successful in a number of non-political fields I think it is about time that our convocation speakers reflect the diversity of actual Cornellians Thus, I am appealing to the convocation chair for the class of 2015 John Stamos should be the guy

I n a l l l i ke l i h o o d , o n e o f

t h e l a s t t h i n g s y o u wa n t

t o d o i s g e t i n t e l l e c t u a l

a n d p r ova c a t i v e w i t h m e

f o r 8 0 0 wo rd s .

He is a man of many talents (acting, being a Greek yogurt spokesman, etc ) and would certainly give an insightful speech that would benefit any graduating class

Although I am not a father myself and cannot really confirm • that this is true, I imagine the feeling that I get when I find a tube of chapstick that I thought I lost (and that was not destroyed in the washing machine) is probably pretty similar to the feeling you get when you return to the park to find that luckily your child wasn ’ t kidnapped

The bagel industry has a very interesting interpretation of • the word “everything ” I don’t consider salt, onion, sesame seeds, garlic, and poppy seeds to be everything Off the top of my head, water bottles, cats, the Declaration of Independence are all also things which means they should probably fall under the umbrella of the word “everything ”

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“Ithaca Police Department complains about being underbudgeted, yet most of its officers don’t pay taxes in the city IPD officers are very well paid but most choose to take that wealth and live in lower taxed towns around Ithaca. I’ve always wondered: Why aren’t police officers required to live in the cities they patrol? 1) They'd feel the tax burden that pays their salary. 2) They’d be less distant to the community they serve and better understand its neighborhoods ”

Honest question

Re: “Ithaca Police Cuts ‘Chewed Away’ at Department, Officers Say,” News published May 1, 2013

College O ut of the Box

Ilike to compartmentalize we all do Life is so much simpler when messy things like feelings and memories can be put into boxes, sealed up and put away to be revisited later During these last few months as my friends and classmates have been preparing for graduation, I have simply shifted my gaze toward other, more manageable boxes: My thesis, the job market, really anything to keep my mind off of May 26 By successfully compartmentalizing, I have avoided addressing my imminent departure from this place

After some thought (and a night of sleep), I realized that its the people the ones who have made me and my experience here immeasurably better who are the reason I should not fear the boxes This community, which to me has become synonym o u s w i t h “ c o l l e g e , ” c a n n o t b e stored away for convenience They simply can ’ t Leaving Cornell does not mean leaving behind friends, experiences and personal growth

So I guess this is the natural place to mention my friends, my immediate community the extraordinary people who have made my memories meaningful and have left me afraid of losing them These wonderful people, the ones who have made me laugh as often as they have made me proud, are the ones who have allowed me to be myself for the last four

As the weather improves and the sun starts to shine a lot

• more, I fully support people who spend time outside on the Arts Quad I would like to see less canoodling though It isn’t because I find it particularly off-putting (I do), but because Ezra Cornell probably wouldn’t appreciate all of these young people engaging in tomfoolery right in front of a statue of him He made students farm during their free time when he founded the school so I’m not sure macking on the arts quad is part of the Cornell he envisioned

Until now Early Tuesday morning, I looked out onto Libe Slope and watched the sun rise West Campus looked picturesque as usual, and the grass on the slope had regrown after a seemingly never-ending winter (I hadn’t noticed) I had just spent the entire night in the Cocktail Lounge of Uris Library I was pulling my last all-nighter of college (and God willing, of m y l i f e ) a n d I w a s n o t pleased about it However, somehow, after four years of denying what I knew was inevitable, I had a moment

year together as next-door neighbors We helped our community, and we helped one another We watched anxiously as our president was reelected, a n d a n g r i l y a s m a r a t h o n e r s we re shuttled to Mass General We ate too many Souvlaki salads (red sauce on the side), but maybe took too few walks in the plantations We stayed up too late studying, and even later doing nothing We went out on Mo n d a y s , a n d s t a ye d i n o n Saturdays We ate more pizza after 1 a m than we ’ ve ever eaten in daylight We wine toured We wore costumes We traveled the world together We got bigs, and then we got littles We got old We lost coats and credit cards at Pixel and Johnny O’s We only sometimes found them We took a lot of pictures We went to apple and chili festivals and a state fair We told and created too many stories We’ve had a good run Most of the reason I was avoiding addressing graduation was because I didn t want to acknowledge how scared I was to tuck away these memories on some unreachable shelf Mov i n g f o r w a rd , o u r

I got an email from a medical school student recently with

• the words “MD Candidate” in the signature I thought this was a great idea and have since incorporated “Pulitzer Prize Candidate” and “Nobel Peace Prize Candidate” into my own email signature Keep in my neither of those descriptions are false For anyone

If you want to avoid ATM fees, just do what I do Go to • Target, buy some Tic-Tacs, and get cash back That is usually good enough for most people because Tic-Tacs cost less than most ATM fees I usually take it a step further though and return the Tic-Tacs to get my money back You’re welcome Drake (rapper) has a popular song called “Started from the • Bottom” in which he talks about his rough upbringing and rise to superstardom I looked it up though Drake grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Toronto and starred as “Wheelchair Jimmy” in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi I’m not sure which of those is “the bottom,” but my money is on Degrassi

If anyone has any information on how to get invited to join • the Illuminati, let me know I’m interested

Good luck on finals, everyone But if they don’t go as well as you would have liked (you probably should have studied more), just know that being a waiter isn’t super hard and you can live comfortably on just tips Don’t stress too much

I’m not sure if it was because I was sleep-deprived or if looking at Ref Works for so long had actually fried my brain, but gazing out at Libe Slope, it hit me like a ton of Big Red bricks: Holy shit, this is it

Realizing the end was unfortunately, but unavoidably, close, I started rolling through all of my most memorable experiences from the last four years As the memories snowballed, I realized that I was so afraid to admit that I was leaving because I dreaded having to put all of these moments into a box, seal it shut and label it “college ”

Everyone uses clichés at graduation like “The start of a new chapter” or “today’s the first day of the rest of your life ” But those are all frighteningly black and white They are all compartments Our experiences and successes are supposed to be represented by arbitrary honors cords and latin titles as souvenirs of the experience, but after graduation we are expected to pack up boxes and move onto “the rest of our life ” But I don’t want a souvenir and I don’t want a box I want the real thing

years (and haven’t given me the boot for it) It is the moments I have shared with these people that I am most afraid of losing

Because we did it We survived mice, carbon monoxide and Montezuma We drank too much, and slept too little We celebrated job offers and graduate school acceptances, but mourned losses of loved ones and consoled the occasional broken heart We went to more a capella shows than were probably necessary We bombed prelims, but we aced finals We acquired nicknames So m a n y n i c k n a m e s We s l e p t i n cramped rooms in sorority houses, and in sleeping bags in Botswana We had meaningful debates about religion, politics and Khloe Kardashian We “borrowed” things from people and places we don’t know We won ’ t return them We cheered each other on as we passed our swim tests (a few years late) We repped brown and blue at the Big Red We perfected the Jell-O shot We watched each other sing, dance and dazzle a sold out Bailey Hall We survived freshman

t e d l y look different, as we will no longer be in this free-for-all called “college” (I hear Jell-O shots are less appropriate in the “real world”) But the important part of these experiences the wonderfully kind and caring people who were right there with me won ’ t be shoved anywhere I can carry all that they are to me, and all that they have done for me, wherever I go (wherever that may be) So for that, I thank them All of them I love you all Life will look different, but it doesn’t have to mean forgetting what all of this was It is, after all, only fitting that I bid you all adieu with one last piece of meandering ambivalence for me, a final Shade of Grey Stay complicated, Cornell All the best moving forward (and hopefully without boxes), HTD

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Remember when Andy McMahon loved the Beach Boys?

Sigh Me, too

In the year since McMahon shed the title of Jack’s Mannequin, he has recorded music for the positively nauseating NBC show Smash, Instagrammed a full catalogue of dramatic doorway, bridge and escalator photos, introduced a website featuring a “Words” section (largely prose about Los Angeles as metaphor And metaphor And metaphor ) and bopped around from Alternative Press to The Huffington Post giving interviews about how he is so-very-ready for people to stop associating him with leukemia It hardly seems a coincidence that this gear-shifting E P is titled The Pop Underground, whereasthe first E P he released in remission in 2008 was titled The Ghost Overground (That’s “gear-shift” as metaphor ) The SoCo spiked-locks are gone, and so is the J M eyebrow piercing today’s Andrew McMahon is clean cut in cardigans and a bottled blonde combover á la Betty Draper? Is that an unironic mustache? Do those still exist?

The quality of his first solo E P seemed like less than a guarantee, but as a girl who once angstily considered Andy McMahon the great love story of her adolescence, I was hopeful

The Pop Underground, released a mere eighteen months after Jack’s Mannequin’s final record People and Things, opens with the track “Synesthesia,” a catchy, upbeat history of his career thus far and somewhat of a comfort for his fans’ qualms I see colors when I hear your voice,” is the explanation of that not-quite-rolling-off-the-tongue title, and despite the decidedly techno departure from J M ’ s mostly natural sound, the chorus is as catchy and charming as Jack’s Mannequin fans would expect Finally, a chance to put your dancy pants on with Andy, and it’s not an unwelcome shift But “Synesthesia” is clearly the standout track

The rest of the E P represents a logical transition for an artist almost fifteen years out from the debut album he recorded with his high school band, Something Corporate Where Jack’s Mannequin’s Everything in Transit was a break-

In a career that spans some 20 illustrious years, Michael Bay has directed some of the most hideous-looking motion pictures I have ever been witness to It’s no secret that the director behind Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy, who likely hears sonic explosions in his dreams, cares nothing for the art house scene Bay’s specialty has always been obnoxiously loud, relentlessly simple and frequently assaultive fare that, despite the loathing of critics, makes piles of money during the summer months Some of Bay’s movies are so dumb and purposefully not grounded in logic, they are fun to watch for the express purpose of laughing at how seriously they manage to take themselves (Armageddon, anyone?) How that film in particular manages to present its plot with a straight face is beyond me

Having said that, Michael Bay’s newest, Pain and Gain, emerges a cut above the rest To explain, this is a filmmaker who specializes in crap-infused pieces of junk that make millions at the box office In all probability, that’s precisely the reason why he makes movies like those My guess is that instead of making thoughtful, intelligent, artful cinema for the masses, Bay would rather make loud, mindnumbing, highly profitable headaches With Pain and Gain, Bay proves how savvy he is to the sheer unintelligent nature of his movies, his cinemagoers, and to an extent, Americans in general This time around, Bay is out to make a mockery of himself, his style and the millions of idiots who send him laughing all the way to the

up album, The Glass Passenger was a recovery album, and People and Things was the renaissance album about moving on from crisis and settling back into daily life and struggles on a micro-level, The Pop Underground takes an expansive view of past and future “Learn to Dance” contains lyrics about McMahon’s “unborn children” and in “Catching Cold” he sings, “baby girl you gave the blood that saved me, ” which is almost certainly a gesture to his sister Katie “After the Fire,” the final track of the EP has an awkward synth-driven chorus, but the verses are classic McMahon The lyrics, “We were dancing with the ashes falling, we were singing by the open flame” contradict the fun and upbeat track they’re about forgetting and burning things down and could certainly serve as a manifesto for the extent to which McMahon plans to leave Jack’s Mannequin and its associations in the dust An a cappella fadeout puts a clean ending on this four-track tribute to family, friends, bandmates and fans “Tomorrow is another day, says Andrew (Scarlett O’Hara?) to sum up his transition

Except for that the chorus of the song two tracks prior says that “There’s no tomorrow ” Anyway, thematically the evolution is great, but aesthetically, I think I might just smell a sell-out There’s a sense that McMahon is ready for his piece of the pie maybe not in monetary terms, but certainly in recognition After all, he is getting into his 30’s and is ready to be taken at least as seriously as his good buddy Tommy Lee I never made a gold record and I’ve never been to Mars,” McMahon sings in “Synesthesia,” a line that seems to nod at unrealized dreams McMahon recorded a plethora of songs under both Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin that referred to his abandoned childhood dream of being an astronaut As far as that “gold record” he never made, Jack’s Mannequin was a piano-rock and pop combo with an alternative fan base and a sound that never catered much to radio play This E P features McMahon’s most generous mainstream-pop leaning yet, with heavy-handed auto-tuning and synthetic beats, and it’s

bank on a regular basis

The movie itself features one of the dumbest casts of characters in cinematic history Aside from the principals, there are scenes featuring a doctor who makes explicit comments while administering injections into the nether regions, a prostitute convinced that her meatheaded friend is a CIA operative, and other usual Michael Bay film-types The three principals are Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), and Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), a trio of gym hunks who come up with a plan to kidnap a multimillionaire (Monk himself, Tony Shalhoub), and torture him into signing over his bounty

As is repeatedly pointed out, the story the film draws its premise from is true Three denizens of Miami, Florida really attempted something like this in the mid-nineties If the account of events is entirely true, these must be three of the dumbest lawbreakers in the US of A, which is saying one hell of a lot The movie chronicles just how horribly, and at times hilariously, awry their ill-conceived plan goes, on account of how stupid the criminals are That material gives Bay a certain unique opportuni-

already near the top of the iTunes chart Is Andrew McMahon trying to become the next mainstream pop sensation?

I don’t want to say that it’s definitely what he was going for I have a lot of respect for someone who would empty their bank account at age 22 to produce a record on their own terms And I basically love how he jumped down the Alternative Press interviewer’s throat to tell him that he was not going to fucking use KickStarter to put out an album, thank you very much Amanda Palmer At the same time, McMahon doesn’t need auto-tune and I’m not sure why he’s using it There’s a palpable regression, particularly in “Catching Cold,” to the sometimes-whiny, melodramatic adolescence of Something Corporate, a band which was, in hindsight, as of-the-early-2000’s as anything else Jack’s Mannequin didn’t accrue nearly the aspirational adolescent fan-base as SoCo, and though J M fans are fiercely loyal, they were never the sort to hold clout in garnering critical acclaim McMahon is obviously conscious of this in “Synesthesia”

“My friends are in the news, collecting trophies for the songs they wrote ” Yikes He’s never had a Top 40 hit or nabbed a Grammy, and he’s mostly seemed okay with it, even celebratory of it until now The intro to “Learn to Dance” has a female backup voice that legitimately sounds as if it was pulled from the bubblegum mess that was Hillary Duff ’ s musical career and the first few bars of “Catching Cold” sound like Owl City post-Carly Rae Jepsen disaster

“We are a scrappy tribe and we stand for something,” McMahon said of his fans in an article for The Huffington Post This E P , however, takes some contradictory stances on what exactly that might be There’s emotional maturity to respect in the lyrics, but there’s also some pandering to the synthetic-pop-lauding-masses I definitely preferred McMahon when he was “underground” and happy to be there

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun com

ty Doing some social satire and working with a budget of only only $25 million (chump change on all his other movies), plus only one scene featuring an explosion, works in Bay’s favor Namely, it gives him a chance to marry the incomprehensible stupidity of his filmic approach with the incomprehensible stupidity of these characters, and set us up to laugh at both Mark Wahlberg, who has shown great maturity as an actor in films like The Fighter and The Departed, could have done worse, much worse, than he does here (think The Happening) He seems to be having a good time playing a bull-headed, muscleclad dope, and it helps that at least he is enjoying himself Dwayne Johnson goes nuts playing a slightly paler version of the Hulk, about equivalent in size and mentality, plus an addiction to cocaine which send him spiraling out of control Since Wahlberg and Johnson are fully aware of the cheesiness of the movie and the thinness of their parts, the more overacting they do, the funnier they are to watch Anthony Mackie is sly and amusing as a wisecracker who recalls a less funny version of Zack Galifinakis in The Hangover In one scene, Mackie s charac-

ter tases Tony Shalhoub incorrectly, knocking him out; in another he injects a different victim with one too many tranquilizers etc Yes, it’s way too over-the-top, but without the incessant explosions and the constant crashing of metal bots pummeling one another, I was okay I couldn’t help but laugh when the three nimrods attempt to remove a dead man ’ s finger pints from a crime scene by hacking off his hands The absurdity of that is irresistible They drive to Home Depot, buy a malfunctioning chainsaw, then resort to a hatc et, and finally, dressed conspicuously in a Kiss the Cook apron, Wahlberg attempts to dispose of the hands themselves by barbecuing them

The grill creates too much smoke, so Johnson takes it outside and cooks those hands in the driveway That got a chuckle out of me

Make no mistake, I don’t care for the majority of Michael Bay’s pictures In fact, there are only two or three among them that I find decent To call Pain and Gain passable is probably more than it deserves, but that’s what it is I am at a loss for recommendation when people ask me whether it’s worth a watch I know I wouldn’t be particularly keen on seeing it again I know that in recent months, brilliant, geniusauteurs such as Quentin Tarantino and Terrence Malick have disappointed me, and a hack like Michael Bay has surprised me with this movie from left field If pressed, I would say perhaps Pain and Gain might be something worth seeing, for no reason other than to laugh at Bay and his actors, as they all make self-conscious fools of themselves

Mark DiStefano is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msd97@cornell edu

TAJWAR

One Last (Bad) Movie Review

Sun Staff Writer

As I sat in an empty movie theater waiting for a late afternoon showing of The Big Wedding on the last Tuesday of my undergraduate career, I questioned every decision that lead up to this moment

How did it come to this? All alone and watching a half-heartedly constructed star-studded mess is probably my own personal hell Was it when I decided to write for arts this semester? Was it roughly four years earlier when I first signed up for the science section? (My interests have shifted significantly since that fall of 2009) Or was it even further back than that when I decided that applying to school in hilly, chilly Ithaca would be a good idea?

a movie in which Katherine Heigel projectile vomits on him would be a good call? (Maybe he just wanted to hang out with his buddies Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon)

Why would Robin Williams play another prying clergy member/marriage councelor after it worked out so well License to Wed?

And Amanda Siegfried, why do you always play a bride? (I suppose she does look great in white)

The latest entry in the older people having sex/we love messy modern families genre, based on the Swiss-French Mon Frère Se Marie, is painfully bad Raunchy lines have never fallen so flat

this means trouble! and hijinks! ensue

Along for the ride is bitter older daughter Katherine Heigl and son, 29-year-old virgin doctor Topher Grace For added weirdness, Grace’s character spends the duration of the movie trying to get into his adoptive brother’s biological sister’s pants

Confused? So was I Choppy editing and badly timed deliveries did not help

For a family that had trouble communicating their problems, this clan is surprisingly good at voicing their contrived feelings Only a small nudge is needed before the any one of the ensemble cast members goes on an expository rant

Maybe one day I too will create something and, just maybe, today won ’ t be the last time my name appears in The Cornell Daily Sun’s arts section

Some may argue that a liberal arts degree has little value I would retort, however, that while this brand of education may lack employability, it makes us better and more accepting humans The liberal arts encourage perception and consciousness of motivations They open our minds and increase our sympathy with our fellow man

So I’ll use the thoughtfulness that I have garnered over the past four years when I approach the mess that is this contrived family comedy

Why would Robert De Niro, the living legend of Goodfellas and The Godfather, think that

“IFamily patriarch Robert De Niro lives with his ex-wife Diane Keaton’s former best friend, Susan Sarandon Their adopted Columbian son is marrying into Amanda Siegfried’s conser vative Catholic family Her bigoted parents fear having beige grandchildren But they should not worry their “ nonCaucasian” son-inlaw is played by the very Caucasian Ben Barnes

During a prewedding meeting with Priest Robin Williams, it occurs to Barnes that his adoptive parents ’ divorce is a sin for his orthodox birth mother, who will be attending the wedding Obviously, he now has to get his parents to pretend they’re still married Obviously Yah, I don’t get it either But luckily

This is the type of movie where people keep falling down and bumping into one another

At one point, things got really bad for me and no amount of popcorn could make the anger subside and sadness subside I shouted expletives at the screen, but no one was there to hear me

I have an underlying dread that those who can ’ t create, critique I don’t think I’ve ever offered to review a film I felt would be good, but it s open season on films that feel scripted in a boardroom

I can ’ t help it though I love movies more than anything I relish both the escapism and the harsh reality I adore storylines, character development and attempts at capturing the human condition

But if none of the above is possible, at the very least I would like to laugh And that’s why The Big Wedding fails big time

Until then, I leave you with this at Cornell the days are long, but the weeks are short After a while, time is parceled into moments between prelims and papers, between when problem sets are due and applications need to be completed So much of your time at Cornell will be marked by deadlines, and deadlines have a way of speeding things up You have been told this before You will be told this again, and again but take advantage of Cornell Be grateful for your beautiful campus and your brilliant peers

But most importantly, avoid movies where lines like “I truly loathe this place” are delivered solemnly in the trailer We all know better than that (I’ll just be crying myself to sleep rewatching Taxi Driver until graduation)

Wrong in All the Right Ways

got hurt in the Cornell game, ” writes Erich Segal in Love Story Of course, Segal’s protagonist is a Harvard hockey player mulling over a dismal outing to the “wintry wilds of upstate New York,” but allow me to wilfully ignore this I’m glad Cornell was hard, because it’s too easy to confuse comfort with happiness or meaning I’ve had three relentless and stunning years, one of them at the helm of the arts desk, and I have survived to say: Anything can happen Don’t ever write off anyone, especially yourself But before I continue my descent into sappy clichés, I ll invoke Stephen Fry s wisdom: “I am a cliché and I know it but, it is my story and worth no more or no less than yours or anyone else’s ”

I’ll relate the travails of my freshman year because graduation columns tend to only celebrate the awesome I want to say to anyone who isn’t (yet!) having an awesome time: You’re not alone, and you will survive Don’t lament the lives you didn’t lead As you find yourself, learn to accept yourself, too As P!nk has said, “ you ’ re wrong in all the right ways ” Away from everything I’d ever known, I had the freedom to question everything, even the re l i g i o n I ’d g row n u p with I c a m e t o C o r n e l l dazed, hopeful and terrified I’d spent my whole life in Singapore (“you’re Si n g a p o re a n Si n g a p o rean?”), and it took me some time to appreciate h ow, u n d e r t h e a l lencompassing term of “international student,” there are different degrees of foreignness As a freshman, I found Morrissey’s words searing and amusing “shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you, from doing all the things you’d like to ” But it only made me self-conscious when 30 seconds into nearly every conversation I had, I would be asked where I was from on account of my mysterious accent (I can completely identify with Sofia Vergara, of Modern Family, when she talks about the impossibility of mastering the American accent) And what was this discordance that I felt with so many classes and so many people? Some kind of existential crisis, personality flaw or culture shock? How, if ever, would I fit in and stand out? How could I be myself when I didn’t know who I really was? All around me, everyone seemed so confident, so purposeful They knew what to say, what to join and where to

go I was not having the time of my life and honestly, I was really guilty about it I was in a great school on a great scholarship that came with a job I saw as meaningful and essential what shouldn’t I be happy about?

In a way, The Sun saved my life It taught me to be relentless and fearless; you kind of have to be if you ’ re writing about shows you know nothing about I joined The Sun my first semester, excited about snagging a press pass to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra show, for which I wrote a mystifyingly brief review at 281 words, this was about 400 words shy of the required length In the three years since, I have come to understand a little more deeply what it means to fall hard for something This is probably uncharacteristic for an arts writer, but my defining moments have also been my quietest I have stood in the hallowed presence of Marcel Duchamp’s “La boîte-en-valise” (“Box in a Suitcase”), Tibetan religious paintings and Rembrandt etchings and then tried to say something intelligent about them As I ventured into the Johnson more and more, I started to question why I was moved by what I saw So I started taking art history classes That was the start of a series of fortunate events that have led to my acceptance to graduate school, w h e re I w i l l s t u d y v i s u a l anthropology

So, I am going to give these last words to the people at The Sun who continue to show me how much bigger the world really is:

• The impossibly cool and immensely talented arts staff writers and illustrators Special thanks to Zander, Santi and Rachael for working on my columns

• The always fearless 130th Editorial Board

• The Arts editors who came before, and taught me so much: Peter and Ruby, James and Joey I will always be in awe of all of you The arts editors who came after: Sam and Arielle, you are perfect Well, almost Your sense of adventure will take you places

• My co-arts editor Zach: I don’t even know where to begin It’s been exceptional working with someone who cares so much If I watch a movie any movie and start tearing up before the opening credits are over, the fault is completely yours

So, this column, which I’ve literally spent two days writ-

ing, hasn t turned out as I d expected I was going to make it far more exciting and heroic But most goodbyes are imperfect, anyway

A final note on leaving This is mostly directed to seniors who wonder if they’ll be remembered after they leave My sophomore year, I encountered two especially striking works of art: The Chinese contemporary artist Song Dong writes his diary on stone with water In Bihar, India, women still engage in Madhubani painting to celebrate special occasions and festivals To make the vivid, geometric patterns, the women smear paste made of powdered rice on canvasses, cloth or newly plastered walls The painted prayers (to borrow Stephen Huyler’s phrase) last for days; the water diary entries last only for hours But they were there, once, and maybe, that’s all that matters As Huyler observes, “it is the moment of creation, the intent of the heart, that is important Art, like life, is considered transitory ”

A Cornell Foodie’s Final Ithaca Feast

By ELIZA LAJOIE Sun Senior Writer

Over the last four years, I’ve changed a lot from the shy, cautious freshman who subsisted on corn chips without leaving her room I ventured out of the culinary wasteland of North Campus, i n t o t h e v i b r a n t m a rk e t s a n d restaurants of Ithaca As graduation draws near, I have been revis-

scrambling to visit the ones I’ve yet to try Here is my list of the basic, best Ithacan foodie experiences that ever y senior should take away with them into the real world

WANDER THE FARMERS MARKET T h

would be enough reason for me to spend an afternoon among the stalls at the steamboat landing Follow your nose to Finger Lakes

Flatbread’s smoky Southwestern pizza and don’t miss the crisp corn fritters from Macro Mama’s SLURP SOUP AT SAIGON KITCHEN

Sa

ORDER CURRY FROM TASTE OF THAI EXPRESS

y has overshadowed the merits of another of Ithaca’s Asian food

because the hearty offerings at Taste of Thai Express deserve our love I am particularly enamored of the creamy yellow curry buttery coconut flavor with the sassy bite of cayenne pepper ATTAIN BURGER NIRVANA AT ITHACA ALE HOUSE

If you haven’t gone, you need to Their Perfect Burger made even my skeptical ex-vegetarian stomach join the admiring chorus

BRAVE A BLOODY MARY AT STELLA’S

This drink is basically summer y, alcoholic gazpacho with enough spiciness to justify the glass of milk that Stella’s kind bartender seeing my watering eyes offered me along with it Adventurous drinking at its classiest

As we seniors move into our last month in Ithaca, it’s easy to get nostalgic and even a little panicky But moving on also means new adventures I’ve started scoping out the restaurants in my new home of Washington, DC, where I plan to fling myself into the Ethiopian food scene (spicy lamb stew, anyone?) There’s a lot of risk in a new dish and a new life But there’s always something to savor Let’s dive in

Sun Sudoku

Liao Ends Spring With Shout-Outs

approaching a homeless man ’ s beard I don’t think he even trims it anymore I really wonder how long he’ll keep this up until he retires? It is firmly his identity at this point, but it is getting a tad ridiculous

Shout-out to DeAndre Jordan for his dunk on Brandon Knight Weekly, I take a break from my homework, put this

video on repeat and just sit back and enjoy It pumps me up every time I see it

Shout-out to the Cornell men ’ s ultimate team, the Buds This past weekend, the Buds competed at regionals and won for the fifth year in a row by beating UConn in the finals, 156 They are the only team in the nation to have won their region and advance to nationals for five consecutive years The team doesn’t get much publicity because they are not a varsity sport, but it’s quite an achievement

Shout-out to anyone who reads my random musings about sports I don’t do any actual reporting or say anything meaningful, but I hope you have learned some things from my columns and enjoyed my opinions Either way, expect one more year of the same Have a great summer!

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun com

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Enjoys His Instagram

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account that was created last year, and I still don’t know who it is I’m assuming it’s someone on the team, maybe one of my friends

It’s a little creepy actually because I’ll be in the library and they’ll tweet something about me being there and I’m not even following them It started when I broke my foot and someone created the Twitter account thinking it’d be funny to update on Rob Pannell’s injury status and now it’s become Rob Pannell spotted at Pixel

Have you been making a conscious effort to figure out who s behind it?

No I think it’s funny and was funnier when it first came out, but I haven’t seen too many tweets from them lately Maybe it’s someone from The Sun

8 Who are the three kings?

So that’s our attack line of Steve Mock, Matt Donovan and myself I guess we kind of labeled ourselves as the three kings, I think it was Matt Donovan who came up with the name We just stuck with it and it has become the joke of our team because the three of us get a lot of the press

Do your teammates actually refer to you three as that?

Sometimes We’re trying to get it trending #Twitter

Where does your personal nickname of Hollywood originate?

I tend to be one of the more trendy, into style guys on the team I like to dress well I’m always wearing sunglasses with my suits, or color combinations, so Tom Freshour gave me that nickname, which is funny because my uncle’s nickname is Hollywood, and I kind of like that nickname He’s the only one who uses it though

Do you have any other good nicknames?

RP3 is my favorite It was given to me my freshman year by Max Seibald There’s Chris Paul, CP3, and RG3, so RP3 is probably one of my favorites

9. Who maintains body hair better, you or Russell Scott?

I’ll have to go with myself I like to keep myself well groomed, and guys on the team think that that’s a little weird I’m just not a big fan of hair It goes hand in hand with the Hollywood thing

Marry chill or ditch: Russell “Gator Scott Tony “Phat Tony Britton, or Matt “ T-Man Taylor?

Marry Tony, chill with Russell Scott and ditch T-Man, for obvious reasons

If you had to choose, would you rather have your own or Chris Langton’s body?

I’ll say Chris’ He’s an Olympic athlete, so that’s all that needs to be said I’ve worked very hard for mine though; Chris’ is very natural

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Reena Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun com

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Ten Questions Columnist

Reena Gilani caught up with senior Rob Pannell to chat about the ESPYs, girls named Jessie and the future

1 How did you get involved with lacrosse?

I started playing in fourth grade I had always played baseball growing up my dad played baseball and football at Brown so I was always a baseball player, but one of my best friend from home played lacrosse and I was over his house playing and he said I should try the sport, and I got into it immediately I put my baseball mitt away and have been playing lacrosse ever since My uncle had played at Hofstra [and] my family knew a little bit about it, so I started playing What made you like lacrosse more than baseball?

It’s just faster paced, which is what I loved most Lacrosse is constant action, and the position I play allows me to have the ball in my stick a lot, which I like, and I like to be a part of what’s going on It’s more exciting and fun for me

How did you choose Cornell and what has your experience been like here?

Cornell was really the only school that was willing to give me a shot as far as top tier, Division I schools go They were the only school that really wanted me, and they had never even seen me play live I came up on my visit here, and I loved the passion that the coaches had for lacrosse and winning They talked about family, and I could really see something that I wanted to be a part of, which it has been I’ve made friendships and learned lessons that are going to last me forever It has truly been a remarkable experience, so much that I have been here for five years, and it’s great How did you make the decision to redshirt?

It was after I broke my foot College lacrosse is the pinnacle of lacrosse; it’s the highest level as far as I’m concerned, the most competitive and there’s nothing like it To have one of those four years that you ’ re guaranteed taken away from you and to have a chance to come back for a fifth year was really a no-brainer I love Cornell and the program so to come back for another year and play for Coach DeLuca and with my teammates was cer tainly an opportunity I wasn ’ t going to pass up on

Are you playing for the Lizards next year?

I have been drafted with them, and I h a v e

the oppor tunity to play for them, so I will decide at the end of the season, but it was awesome to have been drafted

2 Can you tell me about your time at Deerfield Academy?

My time at Deerfield was great I met J J Gilbane there, and we became best friends instantly We share a lot of the same things and same passions for everything J J was really one of the first people who got me into working out, so we were known for going into the weight room at night and we had fun It was an awesome experience at a very prestigious academy and a special place to be a part of Did you both already know you were coming to Cornell when you met?

I didn’t, but J J knew I wasn ’ t being recruited by Cornell at all at this point but he actually told the coach about me, which I think helped a great deal I owe him a lot for coming here

3 Do you have any behindthe-scenes scoop from the ESPYs?

So the night of the ESPYs there’s an award ceremony and then an after party Cee Lo Green and Lupe Fiasco

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you are right in front of them, which was really cool

Did you meet any other celebrities?

Yeah, a bunch My ex-girlfriend who was with me at the time was neighbors with Matt Hasselbeck and he was there with his wife, so I went right up to him and introduced him to my girlfriend since they didn’t really know each other They ended up talking and his wife came over and that was pretty cool Later in the night there was a chicken and waffles after-after party with a bunch of late night food My ex-girlfriend and I were on line for the food with people like Dirk Nowitzki Tim Tebow, Tyson Chandler and Jason Kidd, so it was pretty special

Why do you only date girls named Jessie?

It’s just a great name The two girls I’ve dated are named Jessie: Jessi Steinberg who played lacrosse here and graduated last year and Jessie Neiman who currently goes here, is abroad right now It just happened to work out that way and I’ve been getting the brunt of it ever since, so now I strictly go for girls named Jessie It wasn ’ t ideal that they spelled their names differently though; resulted in some awkward, not ideal, s p e l l i n g

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I went with J J Gilbane and two friends from home J J and I were touring Europe for two weeks by ourselves before my other friends got there and we were winging it the whole time, booking hotels and flights as we went At times it wasn ’ t the most organized trip, but we had a great time Ibiza was the best We also went to Oktoberfest and we stayed in tents at this place called Stoke Travel It was the joke of the trip because the tents weren ’ t big and there were three of us in a tent At this point, there was J J , my one friend who was 6-4 and me It was a six-foot by sixfoot tent, so as you can imagine the setup of three grown men in a tent wasn ’ t exactly ideal They gave us a yoga mat to sleep on, and a sleeping bag that wasn ’ t much of a sleeping bag One night, I fell asleep on my iPad as my pillow I think we stayed in our clothes for three straight d a y s T h e m o t t o f o r St o k e Travel where we stayed is “ your tent or mine,” and I’ll leave it at that

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Seniors Rob Pannell (left) and Steve Mock (right) strum on their guitars to celebrate their success with the Red

g i r l f r i e n d ’ s name wrong situations What other features do you look for in females? They have to be shor ter than me I tend to l i k e b r u n e t t e s , tiny girls The two Jessies that I’ve dated have been pretty similar, so I guess that’s probably my type I tend to like exotic looking girls, not sure why

4 Has your big butt contributed to your athletic success? Absolutely Through the years working out I’ve only added to my big butt, but it helps move me around the field It shields me from my defenders The “lax babes” know what I’m talking about

5. Do you have any memorable stories from your trip to Europe last semester?

6 What kind of hairspray works best?

Ah, of course, the h a i r s p r a y c o m e s u p I have hairspray in my locker so the guys make fun of me for it I like to be presentable, so after I shower, I put a little hairspray in my hair Ever yone on the team has their own naturally flowing hair and mine doesn’t flow ver y naturally, so I need a little bit of stick and hold I’ll usually go with the biggest bottle I can find that’s on sale

7 Tell me about your Instagram Instagram straight flexin’ I love Instagram and get made fun of for it by the guys because I have a lot of little kids that follow me and like my pictures It’s a joke on the team for me to tag my teammates in all my pictures so they get some followers, so they’re always tr ying to get me to put their names in it

Does it work?

Yeah it does I know they’re just mocking me when they get some new followers, but I think it’s great I like it a lot better than Twitter and how you can connect ever ything with it It’s become a running joke that if someone has a picture, ‘just let Ro b In s t a g r a m i t , ’ b e c a u s e ever yone ’ s always commenting on them, so I just go with it

How do you get some of the cool angles of your pictures?

A lot of my pictures are during practice and if I’m not practicing I’ll try to lay down on the turf and get some pretty good pictures One of our assistant coaches also takes a lot of pictures because he’s a big picture guy On the topic of social media, what is ‘Pannellwatch’?

‘Pannellwatch’ is a Twitter

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Riders Finish S eason at National Competition

The equestrian team is wrapping up its season at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national competition in Harrisburg, P A The final competition is a three-day affair, taking place between Thursday and Sunday Although the Red only has one rider qualified to compete freshman Meridith Meyer the team will also send three additional members and one horse to help out at the show

“Last year I came down specifically to help take care of our horses, but this year, [sophomore] Sofia [Steinberger] and I are here as official IHSA volunteers,” sophomore Mary Beth Hannon said Hannon will be voIunteering alongside Steinberger and senior tri-captain Emily Kowalchik “I think we will be helping with setting the jump courses and [be] ringside to do whatever tasks are needed throughout the day,” she added Since nationals is not hosted

by one specific school, all of the schools in the venue ’ s zone contribute horses to the competition Eighteen schools will be bringing horses this year, according to Kowalchik This year, nationals will take place in Cornell’s zone When it came to choosing a horse to bring to the show, the team looked for one who would be able to handle the over whelming event

“We try to bring the most reliable horses,” senior tri-captain Emily Webster said

“ This is the biggest venue [nationals has] been in in a long time which can be kind of spooky,” Kowalchik said

Luckily, Fern, one of the Red’s newer horses, seems to be up to the task

“Fern thrives under work, so it’ll actually be good to have him work for a whole week,” Kowalchik said

After a strong first season on the team, Meyer is heading to nationals to compete in the open flat division Meyer was Ivy League reserve champion in both

open flat and fences and also placed second in the Cacchione Cup and individual season-long competition between the open riders in each region Bronwyn Scrivens ‘12 won the Cacchione Cup last season and went on to be the first Cornell rider to compete in the Cacchione class at nationals Meyer feels well prepared for the competition and is looking forward to the experience

“I want to be relaxed as I go into the arena because at that point, I’ve done everything I can to prepare, ” she said “I also just want to have fun It is an awesome experience to even make it to nationals; I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself ”

This will be head coach Todd Karn’s first trip to nationals, as well as Meyer’s Karn is a seasoned competitor, trainer, and horse show judge, so the squad predicts that he will take the competition in stride

“[Coach Karn is] really good at not getting fazed by the horse show and sticking with the basics and staying focused regardless of

what’s around [him],” Webster said “I don’t think it’ll be that different from any other show because he always expects the best from us whether we ’ re at practice or we ’ re at nationals ”

The Red competes in the toughest IHSA zone in the nation, according to Kowalchik Skidmore and St Lawrence usually dominate the competition in Cornell’s zone, and both schools will be sending teams to nationals

Last year, Skidmore was the first place team at nationals and St Lawrence came in second Meyers’ victory at zones proves that she has the ability to stand out amongst these tough competitors

“I just hope to gain the experience of competing at nationals because [the opportunity] may never come again,” she said “Hopefully, this experience will help me become a better competitor throughout the next three years on the team ”