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Grad Students Call for Clari cation of Newly-Announced Garrett Initiatives

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

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Klarman Construction Inches

Toward January Completion

By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer

Klarman Hall is on track to open in midJanuar y 2016, according to Gar y Wilhelm, proj e c t d i r e c

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Proper ties and Planning

The 33,250 square foot building along East Avenue is slated to be the first b u i l d i n g b u i l t a t t h e University dedicated to the h u m a n i t i e s s i n c e t h e 1 9 0 5 opening of Goldwin Smith Hall

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installation of glass on the roof of the building’s atrium, leaving much of the remaining work on the project to be done in the interior of the building, Wilhelm said “Constr uction workers are continuing to i

mechanical and electrical systems, ” according to Wilhelm

“The contractors have done a good job of integrating all tasks.”

m b e r 2015, but because of complications earlier in the constr uction schedule, the building is now expected to be finished early next year, according to Wilhelm

“ The contractor is behind the target schedule The causes include extra time needed for excavation and removal of rock in the spring of 2014, complications in the sequencing of the cur tain wall installation and bad weather last winter,” Wilhelm said

Workers are installing the building’s cur tain wall façade along East Avenue and have completed t h e

Wilhelm highlighted the c o m

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constr uction to Goldwin Smith Hall

“ The building connects to Goldwin Smith at four locations on the first and second floor, as well as at the ground level, Wilhelm said “For a major addition to a historic building, a ver y complicated project, the contractors have done a good job of integrating all tasks ”

Wilhelm said students and staff have been “cooperative and understanding” of the con-

N.Y. Creates Special Victims Unit for College Campuses

New unit to address sexual assault cases

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

The New York State Police Department is launching a specialized, “first-int h e - n a t i o n ” police unit dedicated to better addressing college rape cases The unit, called the Special Victims Unit, is part of the “Enough is Enough” law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N Y ) this past July

“These are serious crimes and need to be treated seriously.”

“I think an expansion in capac-

ity, and in expertise and sensitivity on the part of the police is a good idea,” said Prof Kevin Clermont, law “[Acts of sexual violence] are serious crimes and need to be treated seriously ” The new law requires all New York state colleges to have an updated definition of affirmative consent, a New York State Student Bill of Rights and an Alcohol and Other Drug

Climbers at Ithaca Falls

Two people who were stranded on a 40 foot ledge by the Ithaca Falls Tuesday evening have been recovered safely by firefighters after over an hour of rescue efforts

The Ithaca Fire Department reported on its Facebook page that the two people a male and a female had only minor injuries The rescue effort was aided by the Ithaca Police Depar tment, Bangs Ambulance and Cornell Emergency Ser vices

Firefighters used ropes to rappel halfway down the waterfalls to pull the two people to safety after the crew was called to the scene Stewart Avenue was closed as a result but has since been reopened, according to The Ithaca Voice

Ithaca Police Department Sgt Michael Nelson told The Voice that the two people may or may not be ticketed for climbing

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Philly Wedding Photo Shoot Includes Naked Bike Ride

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Here comes the bride all dressed in white And, don’t look now, but here come thousands of bicyclists not dressed in anything

Nude and body-painted participants from this year ’ s Philly Naked Bike Ride cruised through the wedding day photo shoot of lovebirds Ross Cohen and Blair Delson

The couple, who got married Saturday evening, spent the afternoon before their wedding taking photos at romantic spots around the city Their wedding photographer, JPG Photography studio owner Joseph Gidjunis, was snapping photos of them in Dilworth Plaza, next to City Hall, when they heard the buzz of about 3,000 bicycles approaching Delson and Cohen decided not to wait for the cyclists to pass before continuing with their photos She grabbed handfuls of her tulle and lace dress and scurried toward the cyclists half a block away, and he followed

Illinois City Adopts Drunk List Policy

AURORA, Ill (AP) The police department in Illinois’ second largest city is going to compile a “habitual

drunkard” list to help fight public intoxication

Aurora Police Department Sgt Tom McNamara says the list will have “certain clientele” whom police and fire departments see regularly The (Aurora) Beacon-News reports that includes people whom police and fire personnel transport six times or more in a 120-day period

The City Council approved keeping the list this week as part of an overhaul to city liquor laws Aurora is roughly 40 miles west of Chicago

Police say the goal is public safety Those on the list won ’ t be able to purchase liquor in Aurora and local businesses are expected to comply

Sleeping Burglary Suspects Caught by Police

NEW CASTLE, Pa (AP) Police in Pennsylvania say officers found a couple asleep in a garage with the light on after a homeowner reported a burglary

New Castle police tell the New Castle News that they found the couple early Saturday, shortly after the homeowner called them

Police say the homeowner had gone downstairs and found a glass jar containing cash missing, some furniture moved and cabinets opened She also found her safe on the back porch, her purse missing and her basement door forced open

Bonna Boettcher Combines Love For Music With Love of Libraries

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

As the director of Olin and Uris libraries, fe w would suspect Prof Bonna Boettcher, musicology, to have ever had an overdue librar y fine Happily

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o star t working at her school’s librar y “ T h e s t u d e n t s who worked in the music librar y didn’t

g e t c h a r g e d f i n e s , and so I thought, ‘I have to get a job here because I can ’ t keep paying these

l i b r a r y f i n e

” B o e t t c h e r s a i d “ I star ted working to avoid fines, and I thoroughly enjoyed the work ”

A music student through her undergraduate and grad-

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Boettcher said she discovered her pass i o n f o r l i b r a r i e s when she found an excellent mentor in one of her super vi-

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Boettcher said “Now instead of technology being something that is its own segment, something of a novelty, it has permeated all segments ”

Boettcher said the technology she now sees in the Olin and Uris libraries offer endless possibilities, but added that future technology needs to filter results such as in database searches to better avoid i n f o r m a t i o n o v e rload

s o r s T h e m e n t o r directed Boettcher towards a second graduate education in librarianship

Boettcher went to librar y school at the University of Western Ontario and graduated in 1990 The timing allowed her to see the early applications of the internet to librar y practices and peek into the future of libraries

“I think one of the big shifts was to go from a flat text based str ucture to the graphical browsers,”

“ When you find more than you can

p o s s i b l y u s e , h o w do you evaluate it?”

Boettcher said M o r e o v e r , Boettcher said current technology has not done away with the need for printed b

said she still sees a

k s remain inaccessible online

“ We are cer tainly s e e i n g t h e a d v a ntages of being able to access a lot of information quickly, but that still has n o t p re c

Boettcher said “ We still have a lot of books that aren ’ t available online ” Besides dealing with technological changes in the librar y, Boettcher said she and her co-workers must balance the librar y ’ s diverse consumer base

Because Olin and Uris libraries attract undergradu

, Boettcher said she must balance the demands of these different groups “ We have a wide ranging user base, and it is a

question of how you satisfy all of them without alienating any of them,” Boettcher said “I think we strike a reasonable balance ”

However, these groups of people despite their differences create a critical space on campus in the libraries, according to Boettcher “ There is incredible energy in these libraries,”

Boettcher said “ They are a real draw Olin and Uris are major hubs for the Cornell community ”

Boettcher also highlighted the work of the staff in the success of Olin and Uris libraries As director, she oversees all the different depar tments in Olin and Uris, as well as the annex librar y “I am for tunate to work with people with such exper tise who also care so deeply about the students and faculty at Cornell in making sure we provide what people need,” Boettcher said

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Boettcher said she still manages to keep music in her life through her work as an adjunct professor in the music depar tment She also pursues a passion both academically and personally for musicians in por trayed literature, especially in mysteries

“I am intrigued by how people write about music and musicians, but in fiction rather than in non-fiction,” Boettcher said “How does someone define a musician and what can I learn about the socio-cultural issues of the time based on what this author was writing ”

Additionally, Boettcher said she still finds the occasional time to play the piano With self-proclaimed eclectic musical interests, she has been playing since she was young

“I still play the piano but I don’t play in public any longer,” Boettcher said “It varies by week, but sometimes I’ll spend a little time at home [playing] ” Boettcher also still finds the time to explore the Olin and Uris Libraries, and says that she always enjoys the Kinkeldey Room on the second floor of Uris

“I love the Kinkeldey Room The windows, the vie ws, there is just something about the whole atmosphere of the room, ” she said

New Student Exhibit Explores ‘Metal as Counterculture’

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

From Frank Sinatra’s mistress’ sequined bikini to a haute couture butterfly gown, a range of metal fashion pieces was showcased in “Heavy Metal: The Malleability of Fa s h i o n , ” a n e x h i b i t i o n t h a t o p e n e d Tuesday evening in the Human Ecology Building

T h e e x h i b i t i o n w a s c u r a t e d b y Samantha Stern ’17 and supported by the C h a r l o t t e A Ji r o u s e k Un d e r g r a d u a t e Re s e a r c h Fe l l ow s h i p i n t h e C o r n e l l Costume and Textile Collection, which was established through an anonymous donation

“An anonymous donor has donated money for the next four years to support one undergraduate student to do research in the collection and then to curate an exhibition,” said Prof Denise Green ’07, fiber science and apparel design, director

o f t h e C o r n e l l C o s t u m e a n d Te x t i l e Collection

The first Charlotte A Jirousek fellow, Stern said she was inspired to “explore metal in its various forms in clothing” by her childhood collection of vintage metal purses

“I’ve always loved metal with purses

I ’ v e c o l l e c t e d since I was ten ye a r s o l d a n d je welr y that I have made and I really like

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e x p e r i e n c i n g metal as more t h a n m e t a l mesh [such as] invisible metal, metal as counterculture, wearable metal [and] haute couture, ” Stern said

The exhibition is comprised of work from various sources, both personal and professional, according to Stern

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CCTC,” she said “I also secured loans from Southpaw Vintage, The Way We Wore, Jen Ayres, some are from me, few [are] from Prof Denise Green, and various other sources ” T h e a u d ience present at the exhibition’s o p e n i n g expressed their interest in the c o l l e c t i o n ’ s diversity

“ I ’ m v e r y impressed with the curation of t h e p

c e s [and] the different variety of cultures in the collection from Bali to Romania, with the one connection being metal,” Joanne Kim ’17 said

“[It was] really interesting to see her interpretation [of the exhibition],” said Helen Trejo grad “I didn’t even know that

these different types of metal costumes were in the collection I’m really glad that she pulled them out [I liked] how she had the range of dresses to clothing and accessories, and how she tied it into culture I think that’s really cool ” Preparation for the exhibition began in the spring, according to Stern

“I began the application process in March and began work in April through the summer, ” she said “I also returned to campus two weeks early to install the exhibit ” Stern said she hopes other people will continue to enjoy the exhibition for the duration of its run

“ The collection is a wonderful resource, and I would highly recommend scheduling meetings and coming in and seeing all that it has to offer,” she added

The exhibition is running until Dec 1 in the Human Ecology Building

Graduate Students Respond to Garrett Initiatives

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the administration in crafting and implementing policy, adding that the GPSA “will be working with [Garrett] and other administrators to ensure those and other policies are well thought out and beneficial to students ”

Representatives from the Cornell Graduate Student Union had a similar response to Garrett’s presentation, applauding her commitment to the graduate student community while pointing out areas for improvement

“ While CGSU is encouraged by President Garrett’s announcement and her candor and willingness to discuss these issues, we are also concerned by the lack of str uctural change they conceal,” said James Ingoldsby grad, communication and outreach chair for CGSU

The CGSU was formed in early 2014 with a declared mission of formalizing the status of graduate students as employees of the University, according to Ingoldsby Over their nearly two years of working toward this goal, they have encountered a number of

roadblocks

“ The lack of access to workers’ compensation, the decision to adjust the base-pay of [teaching assistants] versus [research assistants] and the administration’s lack of fiduciar y transparency have all been issues on which we have approached Cornell’s Office of the President, Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations and graduate workers,” Ingoldsby said

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Monday included a policy reversal on research assistant base-pay and assurances of access to workers’ compensation, Ingboldy cautioned that “neither of these decisions ensures that graduate workers will be consulted on pay or compensation issues in the future ”

In April of this year, the CGSU submitted a letter to the administration asking for formal recognition as the exclusive bargaining representative of the graduate student employee body, The Sun previously repor ted

Although the two organizations work towards similar goals and are drafting a memorandum of understanding, the GPSA has chosen to “remain neutral” as

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Dave Janeczek can be reached at djaneczek@cornellsun com

Tejapratap Bollu grad, executive vice president of the GPSA

“ We are two separate organizations, though some of our membership overlaps,” Walroth said

The CGSU shared this sentiment, noting that there is a fundamental difference in how the groups define their constituencies and in how they want to cast their relationship with the University

“[ The] GPSA represents the graduate community as students and CGSU represents it as workers,” according to Ingoldsby

While the GPSA will continue to work closely with t

Ingoldsby said the CGSU hopes to move in another direction

“ We [CGSU] want to see these types of changes enshrined not as policy unilaterally decided by the University administration, but as a contractual agreement between management and workers,” Ingoldsby said

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com

Unit to Examine N.Y. Colleges

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Amnesty principle, according to Ryan Lombardi, vice president of student and campus life In addition, Cuomo has also allocated $4 5 million to train college administrators and local police to better respond to sexual assault on university campuses New York currently has 20 schools, including Cornell, under investigation by the U S Department of Education for possible violation of federal law in the handling

of sexual assault charges

“An interim Policy 6 4 was enacted prior to the start of this academic year to bring Cornell into compliance, ” Lombardi said “A more comprehensive overhaul of the policy is still ongoing and will include several opportunities for students, staff and faculty to provide input ” According to Lombardi, Cornell has also hired a public health fellow who will focus solely on sexual violence prevention by working with student leaders to foster a positive sexual and social culture on cam-

pus Some critics of the Special Victims Unit argue that sexual assault crimes are already under-reported and this new police unit will just make students more afraid to report crimes “ The challenge will be for the Cornell system Having prosecutions on two levels always is a big difficulty,” Clermont said “A greater reach of the criminal system will hamper Cornell’s ability to enforce its own rules ”

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Man Who Got Life For Marijuana Charge Goes Free In Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) A man sentenced to life without parole on a marijuana-related charge was freed Tuesday from a Missouri prison after being behind bars for more than two decades a period in which the nation’s attitudes toward pot steadily softened

Family, friends, supporters and reporters flocked to meet Jeff Mizanskey as he stepped out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center into a sunny morning, wearing a new pair of white tennis shoes and a shirt that read “I’m Jeff & I’m free ”

“I spent a third of my life in prison,” said Mizanskey, now 62, who was greeted by his infant great-granddaughter “It’s a shame ”

After a breakfast of steak and eggs with family, Mizanskey said, he planned to spend his post-prison life seeking a job and advocating for the legalization of marijuana He crit-

behind bars as “hell ”

His release followed years of lobbying by relatives, lawmakers and others who argued that the sentence was too stiff and that marijuana should not be forbidden

Kentucky Clerk, Citing God, Defies Courts on Gay Marriage

MOREHEAD, Ky (AP) Invoking “God’s authority,” a county clerk denied marriage licenses to gay couples again Tuesday in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail

“It is not a light issue for me, ” Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said later through her lawyers “It is a Heaven or Hell decision ”

April Miller and Karen Roberts, tailed by television cameras and rival activists, were there when the doors opened Tuesday morning, hours after the Supreme Court rejected the clerk's last-ditch request for a delay

They said they hoped Davis would accept that her fight was lost and issue the licenses, ending the months-long controversy that has divided Rowan County, where the seat of Morehead is considered a progressive haven in Appalachian Kentucky

Instead, Davis once again turned them away On their way out, Miller and Roberts passed David Ermold and David Moore, 17 years a cou-

p l e “ D e n i e d a g a i n , ” Ro b e r t s w h i s p e r e d i n Moore’s ear

Ermold said he almost wept They demanded to talk to Davis, who emerged briefly on the other side of the counter

“ We’re not leaving until we have a license,” Ermold told her

“ Then you ’ re going to have a long day,” Davis replied Davis, an Apostolic Christian, stopped issuing all marriage licenses in June rather than comply with the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage nationwide

Gay and straight couples sued, saying she should fulfill her duties as an elected official despite her personal religious faith U S District Judge David Bunning ordered her to issue the licenses, an appeals court affirmed that order, and the Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene, leaving her no legal option to refuse

And yet, she did

“Stand firm,” Davis’ supporters chanted as a tense standoff erupted in the lobby

“Do your job,” marriage equality activists shouted back Davis retreated into her inner office, closed the door and shut the blinds The sheriff moved ever yone outside, where demonstrators lined up to shout and sing at each other

Davis knows she faces stiff fines or even jail if the judge finds her in contempt, her lawyer said Her supporters compared her Tuesday to the Biblical figures Paul and Silas, imprisoned for their faith and rescued by God

But the couples’ lawyers asked that she not be sent to jail, and instead be fined, since she cur-

rently collects her salar y $80,000 a year while failing to perform her duties They asked the judge to “impose financial penalties sufficiently serious and increasingly onerous ” to “compel her immediate compliance without delay ”

Bunning ordered Davis and her six deputy clerks to appear before him Thursday morning at the federal courthouse in Ashland

Davis also faces a potential state charge of official misconduct, a misdemeanor meant for public ser vants who refuse to per form their duties

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, now running as the Democratic nominee for governor, is studying a complaint filed by a couple she turned away, and will decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor

Davis said she never imagined this day would come

“I have no animosity toward anyone and harbor no ill will To me this has never been a gay or lesbian issue It is about marriage and God’s Word,” her statement said

Her critics mock this moral stand, noting that Davis is on her four th husband after being divorced three times

Joe Davis, who described himself as “ an old redneck hillbilly,” came by to check on his wife Tuesday It’s been an ordeal, he said She got death threats and they’ve had to change their phone number He pointed to the people calling for gay rights on the courthouse lawn

“ They want us to accept their beliefs and their ways, ” he said “But they won ’ t accept our beliefs and our ways ”

Mat Staver founded the Liberty Counsel, a Christian law firm that represents Davis He said she had been a sinner until she went to church four years ago when her mother-in-law died She was born again after the preacher read a Bible passage about how forgiveness grows from the grace of God, he said

“She’s made some mistakes,” he said “She’s regretful and sorrowful That life she led before is not the life she lives now She asked for and received forgiveness and grace That's why she has such a strong conscience ”

Davis ser ved as her mother’s deputy for 27 years before she was elected as a Democrat to succeed her in November Davis’ own son is on the staff As an elected official, she can be removed only if the Legislature impeaches her, which is unlikely in a deeply conser vative state

Davis’ supporters blame Gov Steve Beshear, who ordered resistant clerks to issue licenses or resign The Kentucky County Clerk’s Association has proposed legislation to make marriage licensing a function of state government, relieving clerks of the burden

Massive Manhunt Targets Suspects

In Illinois Cop Killing

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Mayor Donny Schmit described t

Joseph Glinie witz, as a personal friend, a three-decade member of the depar tment and a father of four sons

“ We lost a family member,” Schmit said of the 52-year-old officer known around town as “GI Joe ” “His commitment to the people of this community has been unmatched and will be dearly missed ”

Au t h o r i t i e s s a i d G l i n i e w i t z radioed in to tell dispatchers he was chasing three men on foot in the village of Fox Lake, 55 m i l e s n o r t h o f C h i c a g o Communication with him was lost soon after, said Lake County Sheriff ’ s Office spokesman Sgt Christopher Covelli

“His backup arrived shor tly t h e r e a f t e r a n d f o u n d h i m injured with a gunshot wound,” Covelli said “ The officer has succumbed to his injuries and

passed away ”

Undersheriff Raymond Rose told the Chicago Tribune that t h e o f f i c e r h a d a l s o b e e n stripped of his gun and other equipment

L e s s t h a n a n h o u r ’ s d r i v e from Chicago, the area is popular with boaters and for other outdoor pursuits because of its forest preser ves and a chain of lakes that par tly encircles Fox L a k e S o

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It is true James Smith (who definitely made the right decision taking a stage name standing for Ladies Love Cool James) was hardly making a comeback when he released his 1990 album Mama Said Knock You Out It was his fourth album, and Cool J had spent much of the preceding three years near the top of Billboard’s R&B and Top 40 charts with hit singles like “I’m Bad,” “Going Back to Cali” and the unforgettable “Big Ole Butt ” His 1987 single “I Need Love” reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Black Singles chart (the name of which which has since been changed to Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs shortly after the dot-com boom resulted in a number of people being frustrated to find LL Cool J and R Kelly songs in their search results when they were really only looking for love)

But Cool J was criticized by the hip-hop community he came from for the for the overly-commercial vibe of his 1989 album Walking With a Panther despite it having the best cover art I have ever seen on a late-80’s hip-hop record For him, Mama Said Knock You Out was not a comeback but an opportunity to prove he should again be embraced by the hip-hop world Did it work? Well, 25 years later he is now the host of Spike TV ’ s Lip Sync Battle, and if that’s not hardcore hip-hop then I don’t know what is

At the beginning of August, I texted my editor to ask her if I would be allowed to continue penning columns for The Sun Her response? “You have been doing this for three years, and your writing has definitely lost the spark that once made it a palatable read People sent in a lot of mail asking for you to be removed as a columnist, and we really only kept you around last year to avoid hurting your feelings Do you really think you have what it takes to make a comeback?” Sloane, don’t call it a comeback This is my column and

“The only way Trump wins the general election is with the democratic nomination going to Sanders That would be a very close race that could honestly go either way (I’d put money on Trump over Sanders).”

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not some other, more talented and more deserving writer’s E di tor ’ s No te : Not to split hairs, but I believe my exact response was “I’m thrilled you want to keep writing ” We are all coming back in a sense though Maybe you, like me, are coming back to Ithaca for a fifth year to pursue a graduate degree Maybe you are coming back for a fifth year because you spent a little too much time in Dunbar’s over the course of the preceding four years and not enough time in the stacks Maybe you are coming back as a sophomore and are ready to face all the challenges Cornell throws at you because you “totally get it now ” You’ve washed off that new freshman smell and never again will you fall into the trap of hanging the tail of a lanyard out your pocket or eating Okenshield’s sesame chicken beyond the brink of nausea Some people are spending a year at Cornell for the first time, but if we stretch the definition of comeback, I’m sure there is some flavor of one in their lives as well Regardless of what is bringing you back, the beginning of the year is an excellent time to decide how you would like to characterize the months to come

Comebacks are motifs in some of the greatest stories of all time Michael Jordan arguably the best basketball player in the history of the sport took a brief hiatus to pursue a baseball career in late 1993 before returning to hoops in March of 1995 Jordan certainly would have left a legacy had he become a two-sport athlete and never looked back, but before he even played a post-baseball quarter of basketball, his comeback drew attention all the way from the Cabrini Green blacktop courts that idolized him to the Oval Office, where Bill Clinton attributed the increasing employment rate to His Airness’s return Steve Jobs resigned from his position at Apple when he learned a proposed business restr ucturing had been set in motion to render him essentially powerless in the company How did he respond? He left, started Pixar and executively produced Toy Stor y (mic drop) You better believe Apple was willing to spend the $427 million dollars it took to acquire Jobs’s newer software ven-

ture and get him back in the driver ’ s seat of their company Now mealtime has forever been changed from a time to refuel and engage in conversation to an opportunity to flex your photographic talents and let everyone know you had an avocado at lunch today

The number of stories like this are countless Sure, there are also disappointing comebacks like the ninth season of Scrubs and that tenacious boyish acne you keep thinking you ’ ve finally outgrown There are even some questionable comebacks like the Star Wars trilogy reboot around the turn of the millennium, Brett Favre’s second and third comebacks and most “ your mom ” jokes, but we will just forget about those for now Germany’s economy went through a bit of an “awkward phase” in the 50’s and 60’s only to emerge as a European power and now gives countries like Portugal and Greece a generous allowance Lance Armstrong beat cancer, doped better than all of those other bike-riding dopers out there to the tune of seven Tour de France wins and got everyone to wear a yellow piece of silicone gel around their wrists, raising millions of dollars in the fight against cancer Jesus Christ was literally murdered on the cross before he told the world “Don’t call it a comeback,” came back to life and became the protagonist in the most widely distributed book of all time Clearly, there are a lot of ways to successfully model your annual comeback to Ithaca So how do you envision your upcoming year? What do you want to accomplish? You can become a lead on a project team You can be published You can complete the Pinesburger Challenge You can, but maybe shouldn’t, steal and eat an entire pie from RPCC around closing time Cornell is a world lousy with opportunities for learning and self-improvement; the responsibility falls on the individual, however, to find them and follow LL Cool J’s grandmother’s advice to “knock out ” the critics who doubt you

Christo Eliot is a graduate student in the College of Engineering He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun com Christo s Largely Unmoderated Creative Space appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Grace Ahn can be reached at gsa33@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sic Semper Minionibus

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Since their debut in Illumination Enter tainment’s Despicable Me, the minions those rubbery, babbling, pintsized evildoers have become ubiquitous and polarizing But even those who wish to do despicable things to the next minion plush toy or backpack they see cannot deny the minions’ commercial success Beyond untold merchandise sales (a February 6 Hollywood Reporter article notes that prerelease, the Minions franchise had “850 worldwide toy licensees”), Minions, directed by Despicable Me director Pierre Coffin, has already outdone both Despicable Me films in box office sales, grossing over $1 billion When minions babble, people listen Despite its ridiculous protagonists, Minions explores interesting grey areas between good and evil and childhood and adulthood

Minions arguably represent the childhood of which many young viewers dream The minions undoubtedly act childishly they share a gibberish language, they quarrel, they adore toys More importantly, however, the minions lack a concrete authority figure to tell them when to go to bed or to stop shrieking at the tops of their lungs This absent parent drives the minions to seek out attention and compassion from various authorities, a driving force of Minions’ plot

Many readers remember the ending of Despicable Me when super villain Gru kisses each

Jack Jones

Has there ever been a release story as lengthy, complicated and ultimately triumphant as that of Dr Dre’s new record Compton? It comes after a dry spell of 15 years; since his last album, 1999’s misleadingly titled 2001, Dr Dre labored on a project called Detox Eventually becoming the rap equivalent of Guns N’ Roses’s Chinese Democracy, Detox went through so many cycles of promise and delay that many concluded that it would never see light Then on August 1, Dr Dre announced in quick succession that Detox had been scrapped and that he had completed another album, titled Compton Dre said simply of Detox, “I didn ’ t like it and I don’t think I did a good enough job ” He continued that he had been so inspired by being on the set of the N W A biopic Straight Outta Compton that he had “started recording an album I kept it under wraps, and now the album is finished I’m really proud of this ”

He deserves to be The fact that Dr Dre released an album at all in 2015 is enough for the rap community to rejoice at But nobody could have expected, with Detox’ s infamous history of empty promises, for Dre to deliver an album as complex, satisfying and relevant as Compton This is an album bursting with ideas and flourishes, from pulverizing G-funk to jazz trumpet freakouts, from intricate wordplay to soaring choruses, from Babylonian depictions of wealthy excess to (most surprisingly) trenchant political commentary

As always, Dr Dre relies on a deep pool of talent It is no secret in the rap industry that Dre employs ghostwriters for his raps, and Compton is said to be no exception However, Dre’s typically clunky rapping sounds noticeably invigorat-

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Similarly, Minions’ supervillain Scarlet Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock) visits the minions Kevin, Bob and Stuart (voiced by Pierre Coffin) at bedtime and tells them a thinly veiled threat in the form of a bedtime story Although the scene primarily establishes tension between Overkill and the minions, it also depicts a parent-child interaction Minions’ bedtime scene in fact epitomizes the film’s strangest dynamic: a blending of love and evilness In fact, the minions’ specifically Kevin, Stuart and Bob’s search for a new authoritative overlord drives the first half of the plot, resulting in a coming-of-age moment in which the minions claim the crown for themselves, returning it to its rightful owner Still, the movie ends not in the minions’ return to good, but rather their return to a familiar father figure a younger Gru Minions, after all, focuses specifically on the propensity of children and child-like characters to do evil things Early on in Kevin, Stuart and Bob’s adventure, they encounter a family with two children that robs a store and fires a bazooka at the police together Minions’ treatment of evil is especially interesting to note, given that the majority of the evildoers are vie’s opening sequence beautifully establishes the il root As The Turtle’s dark and entrancing Happy Together” plays, viewers watch the minions ounce from master to master through evolution, om amoeba to lurking fish Therein lies the mewhat unsatisfying) explanation of the minions’ evil streak: No one event caused the minions evil bent; rather they simply acted out of self-preservation as their environment ensured the survival t evil being Throughout the movie, the minions

lack any semblance of ill will, instead seeking out the next adoring, evil parental figure However, Minions’ desire to treat evilness and despicability favorably becomes even more bizarre when developing other characters’ backstories

by Pierre Coffin Starring Pierre Coffin, Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm

For example, Scarlet Overkill explains her motivation for attempting to steal Queen Elizabeth’s crown after she drafts Kevin, Stuart and Bob to join her Overkill does not desire money, complete control or the deaths of her enemies Rather, she explains that as a young and neglected girl, she always wished to be a princess Overkills’ innocent motivation to commit evil also returns to the theme of youth and childhood Minions’ writers seem hell-bent on writing about evil without touching on malice or pain, or including any visible victims of the destruction wrought by the main characters The absurdities speak not so much to any failing on the writers’ part, but rather the bizarre dynamics that arise in a PG-rated movie about pure evil Minions’ attempt to create evil but family-friendly characters brings about a film with strange, convoluted morals and two-dimensional characters Perhaps Minions would have fared better as ninety minute-long conglomeration of plot-less minion weirdness At many points, the plot moved rigidly and inorganically through the introduction, character development, conflict and resolution and it seemed that the writers simply sought to check off boxes: one slapstick scene, one musical scene, one cameo by Gru Still, as the lights came up in the theatre, all of the five-and-unders in the audience with me wriggled and shouted with excitement Perhaps that provides a better review than a nineteen year-old close-reading a movie about a group-thinking mass of infantile, banana-yellow malefactors

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the college of Arts & Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

ed from the start, most notably on the standout track “Genocide ” Dre also avoids the awkwardness inherent in aging rappers trying to sound fresh, mainly by focusing on the stresses and trials of street life and memories of pre-fame struggles Rather than a frontman showcase, Compton is a fantastic team effort There is a moment in the spotlight for nearly everyone who has been involved in Dre’s long and impressive career of mentorship, including Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, The Game and Kendrick Lamar, as well as a crop of energizing newcomers like King Mez and the inexplicably punctuated Anderson Paak Of all these guest appearances, the only one that falls truly flat is Eminem’s wearying tirade on “Medicine Man,” to say nothing of its nauseating but unsurprising rape joke

What’s most surprising and exciting about Compton is how gloriously weird it all is “Darkside/Gone” begins with clanking guitar and King Mez playing the good kid caught in the madness: “Now I ain’t never been no gangsta, but I know niggas, know niggas, from the darkside ” A minute and a half in, the song comes to a complete stop and then breaks into a soaring chorus by Marsha Ambrosius, followed by a fantastically tongue-twisting Kendrick Lamar verse

The beat of “Genocide,” which builds on the sound of a car revving up, sounds unlike anything Dre has made before, while the DJ Premier-assisted “Animals” bumps like vintage 90s socially-conscious hip hop

Even the skit that most superfluous and irritating of rap album conventions is redeemed by two truly harrowing moments “Loose Cannons” forces the listener to eavesdrop on a horrifying incident of domestic violence that ends in murder, followed

by a secret burial by the murderer and his associates (Dre, who has been accused by several women of violently abusing them, recently apologized publicly “ to all the women I’ve hurt ” Perhaps this skit is Dre’s nightmare of how one of these incidents might have ended ) And the haunting skit that ends standout track “Deep Water” is perhaps the album’s artistic high watermark Over spazzy trumpet, Anderson Paak gurgles and chokes like a drowning man for over a minute, screaming, “Help me! Help me! I can ’ t breathe!” The uncomfortable length of this moment seems to say, “You cannot ignore this man ’ s death ” The repetition of “I can ’ t breathe” echoes Eric Garner’s last words, but the metaphor is left open to interpretation: Is he drowning in the whirlpool of gang life, or simply under the crushing waves of poor, black existence?

Compton consistently shocks with genuinely moving moments On the album closer, “Talking to My Diary,” Dre reminisces over a rolling G-funk beat about when he and N W A were on the come-up Dre sounds closer to mistyeyed sentimentalism than he ever has when he raps to his deceased companion Eazy-E, “I remember when we used to do all-nighters / You in the booth and Cube in the corner writing Damn, I miss that / Shit, a nigga having flashbacks!” Compton succeeds both as the final brick in a remarkable legacy, and as a record as pertinent and exhilarating as any in 2015 Who knew the 50-year-old mogul still had the drive to make, say and feel this much?

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at djones@cornellsun com

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Freshmen look to play important role in Cornell’s overall success

need a reality check, and they bring some of that in here,” Kennett said

you didn’t know who you were racing,” Kennett explained “Instead of being their own team, now [the freshmen] are in the varsity group ”

As a strong, talented group, the freshman are likely to make an impact right off the bat

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“My expectations for them are to jump right in,” Colella said “Cornell rowing is a ton of fun and they’re going to work really hard and they’re going to be a par t of a great team ”

Even though Colella is a named leader of the team, he fully understands and embraces that ever yone on the team has an impor tant role to play

“My expectations for [the freshman] are to jump right in. They’re going to work really hard.”

Coach Kennett will look to the older guys, such as Colella and Davis, to be a link between the ne wly integrated team and the coaching staff

“Michael and Greg are the bridge between the student athlete team and the coaching staff, so they bring some realism to me Obviously I’m a coach and I want to go fast, so I think sometimes, even though I was a student here, I do

“Rowing is reliant on ever ybody,” he said “I mean, you have nine people in a boat Ever yone is a leader on the team and works together

The team will begin its season on Oct 19 with the Head of the Charles race Kennett said he wants to make sure the team ’ s focus remains on the right track until then “ Winning isn’t an ordinar y thing, it’s an extraordinar y thing,” he said “ Therefore, we need to continue moving on, we do need to sacrifice and we do have to pay attention to what we ’ re doing ”

Jamil Rohman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun com

Making a splash | Several freshmen look to play a factor on this year’s heavyweight rowing team

Los Angeles Receives Olympic Candidacy Bid

LOS ANGELES (AP) The U S

Ol y m p i c C o m m i t t e e o n Tu e s d a y named Los Angeles as its candidate for the 2024 Games, replacing Boston’s soured bid and marking a comeback for LA’s dream of becoming a three-time Olympic host

The announcement by USOC CEO Scott Blackmun came under a summer sun at Santa Monica Beach, where the city’s plan calls for staging beach volleyball on the site where the sport was founded

“I want to thank Los Angeles for standing up, once again, as America’s bid city,” Blackmun said, adding that LA’s proposal squares with the Olympic movement ’ s goals of watching the bottom line while investing in projects that dovetail with community needs

Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city was inspired to bring the games back to the U S for the first time in 28 years

“ This is a quest that Los Angeles was made for,” the mayor said “ This city is the world’s greatest stage ”

Earlier Tuesday, the Los Angeles

C i t y C o u n c i l c l e a re d t h e w a y f o r Garcetti to strike agreements for a 2024 bid The 15-0 vote came about a month after Boston was dropped from contention amid shaky public support and questions about taxpayer spending and liability

Garcetti has said Los Angeles, home to the Olympics in 1932 and 1984, would stage games that are both spectacular and profitable

The city’s selection as the U S nominee marks the start of a two-year competition The International Olympic

Committee will pick the host city in September 2017, and Rome, Paris, Hamburg, Germany, and Budapest, Hungar y, are also in pursuit of the 2024 Games

“ The focus needs to be on convincing the 55 or so IOC members that Los Angeles is the best city to host the Olympics That process starts immediately,” USOC Chairman Larr y Probst told reporters in a conference call

A k e y i s s u e h a s b e e n w h e t h e r approval of the resolution by the City Council would saddle Los Angeles with potential cost overruns for an event that historically runs over budget Council members were assured repeatedly that the approval starts a negotiation with Olympic officials and does not commit taxpayers to future spending to stage the Games

“ This is the engagement, not the w e d d i n g , ” C o u n c i l Pre s i d e n t He r b Wesson said

The city’s 2024 plan, which outlines over $6 billion in public and private spending, calls for staging events from volleyball on Santa Monica Beach to mountain biking in Griffith Park, one of the nation’s largest urban green spaces As was the case in 1932 and 1984, the Memorial Coliseum would ser ve as the centerpiece of the games

A so-called host city contract, which essentially sticks the city and state not the IOC with the burden of any cost overruns, became an obstacle in Boston

For Los Angeles, negotiating and striking a host city contract would come later, if the city is selected to stage

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the 2024 Games For now, that temporarily pushes aside looming questions about costs

“ We are in this to win it, and I think w e w i l l , ” s a i d C o u n c i l m a n Pa u l Krekorian “ We can ’ t do that at the risk of exposure to our taxpayers ”

Over the years, the Olympics have been notorious for cost overruns, and studies have questioned whether host cities benefit economically Russia has been struggling with costs from the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which have been called the most expensive Olympics of all time

Many financial details of the Los Angeles plan remain vague

The bid calls for building a $1 billion athletes village on a rail yard the city doesn’t own, and government analysts have warned that developing the site could significantly exceed the projected cost

A private developer would invest most of the $925 million to build the village, but who would build the site, how the company would be selected and what type of financing would be used is unclear The plan refers to nec-

given

City analysts last week said they didn ’ t have enough information to verify the overall 2024 budget or determine the financial risk

The IOC had set a Sept 15 deadline for cities to enter the race for the 2024 Games

The U S hasn’t hosted the Summer Games since 1996 in Atlanta

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Red Sox Take Down Yankees at Fenway

BOSTON (AP) The big numbers are atop the Green Monster for everyone to see It was only fitting that David Ortiz’s homer sliced toward a milestone that many are coming to see in a lost season for the Boston Red Sox

Big Papi hit his 495th home run and Jackie Bradley Jr had three hits and threw out a runner at the plate to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Monday night

“It’s exciting,” Red Sox interim manager Torey Lovullo said “When we walk in every day, it’s bigger than a lot of things that are happening right now It would be fun if he gets that 500 ” Ortiz lined a shot into the first row of Green Monster seats off Ivan Nova (5-7) It landed about 10-15 feet to the right of three new changeable white numbers on signs with red trim that were affixed to the stanchion of a light tower, signifying his countdown to 500

Mookie Betts hit a two-run homer for the Red Sox It was their ninth win in 13 games

But it was Ortiz’s homer that’s getting the attention for the Red Sox, last in the AL East

“It’s amazing,” Bradley said “It’s a great accomplishment He’s getting close ” Ortiz wasn ’ t around after the game to talk about his chase

“He’s downplaying it,’ Lovullo said “David, in his humble way, doesn’t want to make it a distraction He wants it be about the team ”

Red Hopes to Make Jump to Nationals

The Cornell Equestrian team is looking for ward to starting its upcoming season the way it started last year ’ s seasonwith a first place win Like last season, the Red’s first match will be against the Ro c h e s t e r In s t i t u t e o f Te c h n o l o g y

After earning the first place title during last season ’ s match, the Red is confident in its ability to be victorious in its upcoming match

The team has grown a lot with the p a s t f e w ye a r s , a c c o rd i n g t o j u n i o r

Gabby Stephenson

“I have watched this team grow and unite over the past four semesters that I've been on this team, ” Stephenson said “Ever y year we get closer and closer to our team qualifying for Nationals and I think this is our year I know this team is ready to excel ”

The equestrian recently made a new h i re a t t h e h e a d c o a c h i n g p o s i t i o n ,

Jo a n n a Nov a k ov i c Nov a k ov i c h a s proven her coaching and training abilities last season when she led the team to the IHSA National Show and the Ivy Show, where the team earned the first place title

“Our coach has done so much already to bring this team together, and make us more competitive as a whole,” said freshman Amanda Ko “Even though we didn't make it as a team to Nationals last year, we still sent the most individual qualifiers of any team in the countr y with our five riders, with some of them having qualified in multiple divisions ”

Though the team had many of its top

riders graduate last May, including last year ’ s co-captain, Georgiana de Rham, the team is ver y optimistic about its success this upcoming season Not only is the Red hoping for team success, but also each individual player is determined to achieve personal success throughout this upcoming season All of the riders are enthusiastic about the opportunity to make it to this season ’ s National tournament

“ The line-up for our incoming class seems to be a strong group, and we plan to build on what we have, practice harder than before, and be a force to be reckoned with throughout the entire season, a

Nationals , ” Ko added

Although the team did not make it as a whole to last season ’ s National tournament, it only missed the National mark by one point, and had five riders individually make it The team is confident that it will make it to Nationals, and hopefully come out on top at the tournament this upcoming season

Even without the team ’ s seniors from last year, the Red is tenacious in its pursuit to be victorious this season The Cornell Equestrian team is looking forward for its season to start

Squad Looks to Repeat Last Season’s Success

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