09-06-12

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Ed tor

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College cheated the federal government by misusing, and then lying about, funding intended for HIV/AIDS research, three federal appeals court justices said in a unanimous ruling issued Wednesday

T h e Un i ve r s i t y i s o rd e re d t o p a y $855,714 in damages Coupled with mandated legal fees, Weill could pay more than $1 7 million, said Michael Salmanson, the lawyer for plaintiff Dr Daniel Feldman

Fe l d m a n , a f o r m e r C o r n e l l f e l l ow, brought the suit against the University under the False Claims Act Feldman said that while at a program funded by the National Institute of Health, he and other fellows spent less than half of their research time devoted to studying HIV/AIDS and instead often worked on “medicolegal” cases referred by insurance companies or attorneys in litigation

Weill’s grant application for the program stated that “‘the majority of [the fellows’] clinical work will be with persons with HIV infection,’” according to Wednesday’s ruling But, as the court ’ s decision continues, only three of the 163 patients seen by the fellows were HIV-positive

“Several fellows testified that much of the research that they performed under the grant program had no relation to HIV or AIDS at all,” the appeal’s court ruling states Fe

p p e a l t o t h e p e o p l e , w h o a re b o t h 2 1 a n d n o t 2 1 , w h o a re l o o k i n g f o r s t u f f t o d o a t n i g h t ” B o t h u n d e r g r a d u a t e a n d g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s w

W h e n t h e Un i ve r s i t y b e g i n s construction on its NYCTech Campus on Roosevelt Island, buildings are not the only new infrastruc-

ture New York City will have to support The city is currently conducting a review of Roosevelt Island, t h e t w o - m i l e l o n g landmass situated in Ne w Yo rk C i t y ’ s East River to analyze t h e e n v i ro n m e n t a l impact of the tech campus, as well as to determine whether there will be adequate transportation t o a n d f ro m t h e c a m p u s , a c c o rd i n g to tech campus Vice Pre s i d e n t C a t h y Dove

After ser ving the City of Ithaca for nearly three years, Alderperson Eddie Rooker ’09 (D-4th Ward) attended his final Common Council meeting

We d n e s d a y n i g h t Ro o k e r re c e n t l y a n n o u n c e d that he would resign from his p o s i t i o n o n t h e C o m m o n C o u n

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Rooker was set to attend Cornell Law School this year after being waitl i s t e d a t N Y U Bu t a f

h e w a s accepted off of the waitlist, Rooker decided to cut his final term on the Common Council short

“I talked with my academic advisors and people on the city council about my options and decided that career-wise and academically, NYU was a better option,” Rooker said

Roosevelt Island, which has a population of 12,000 people, lies under the Queensboro Bridge and is connected to Ma n h a t t a n ’ s m a i nl a n d by t h e

When Rooker was elected to the council in 2009, some worried he would follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Dave Gelinas ’07 After two years representing the 4th Ward w h i c h i n c l u d e s We s t C a m p u s , C a s c a d i l l a Pa r k a n d m o s t o f C o l l e g e t ow n G e l i n a s s t e p p e d down from his post

A t t h e time, howe v e r , R

e r rejected his comparison to Gelinas

“I don’t have any long term plans outside being a councilor,” Rooker told The Sun in 2009, adding that while some in the past “ may have viewed this position as something to have I see it as a way to make an impact in the community ” Now, Rooker is two weeks into his

New Tattoo Parlor

Fir st in C-Tow n

By TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer

In order to help differentiate itself from other Collegetown salons, Acute Style is now offering tattoos at its Dryden Road locale The full-service, unisex salon, which provides waxing and hairstyling, is working to compete with the more than four other salons on Dryden alone

The salon’s owner, Michelle Green, said she hopes that the addition of tattoos and body piercings to the menu of services will draw a larger crowd to the salon, which is located at 147 Dryden Rd Green said business at Acute Style has been slow, particularly with so few students around during the summer

“We might get 15 to 20 customers on a very good day We’re hoping that changes soon, ” Green said “Students keep coming in and inquiring about tattoos, so we hope it picks up I think there is a market out there, but it’s not everyone ”

Kenny Smelser, Acute Style’s first and only tattoo artist, has been tattooing for the past 10 years, working in parlors from Rochester, N Y , to Louisiana

Since the tattoo parlor opened in July, Smelser has completed tattoos on five customers He said he has created designs ranging from human hands to shipwrecks to peacocks

Smelser draws his tattoos freehand, and his skilled portraits display a talent that initially enticed Green to employ him at Acute Style, Green said She described him as “artistically gifted ”

By REBECCA FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

Smelser said he enjoys the atmosphere of working in a salon compared to working at a tattoo parlor

“All the tattoos were [done] in barber shops when they were starting out in America along the Bowery in New York in the 1920s,” Smelser said “To me that’s kind of cool A lot of people look at it as kind of different I think it’s like going back to the roots ”

The average cost of a tattoo is about $40, Smelser said or about $35 for each hour it takes him to complete the tattoo

“I work fast and like to give people a deal The reason I’ve started tattooing is to do good work on people,” he said

While there are about 20 tattoo artists in downtown Ithaca, Smelser said he believes that Acute Style offers a better deal for college students

“We’re charging a fair price,” he said “I believe that if we treat people well, they’ll come back ”

Many boats, bouys and barnacles later, Hilmer’s ’13 passion for the marine environment lives on St u d e n t s’ St o r i e s

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Some Students ‘Under whelmed’ by Bear’s Den Grand Opening

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catch a beer after dinner, or after classes,”

Gregor y Braciak ’14 said “But until then I can still come with my friends who are 21 even when they’re drinking ”

Although the local draught beer and the assor tment of beverages caught the attention of many students, others said space in the room that was allotted to the bar was too small

Braciak added that he found the use of the venue “under whelming ” “In my mind, I kind of envisioned a whole bar,” he said “But with the space

they were provided, I think they did a good job ”

Some students also said Wednesday that they were taken aback that their state IDs were scanned and entered into a database upon entering the pub Christine Bake well ’13 said the ID system may discourage her from returning to the Bear’s Den in the future “ The school has all of our IDs on file now, ” she said “It just str uck me as weird I wouldn’t have come if I had known that ”

Stephanie Ellis, dining manager of the Ivy Room and the Bear’s Den, said that the pub scans the front of a student’s state

ID as a safety precaution and records the date and time each student entered the pub

“[ The time stamp] does stay in our records, just, for instance, if something were to happen off-campus,” she said “So, if [students] were to leave, it does state when they were here and the date they were here ”

The system also ensures that each ID is scanned only once, to prevent students from passing their IDs to friends to use to get a wristband that allows them to purchase alcoholic beverages, Ellis said Ellis said the information obtained by the scanner would not be used for any

other purpose

“It’s nothing bad, it’s just more or less for safety, for double checking of the IDs,” she said “It’s not like it’s going to the Cornell police or anything It’s for us ”

Despite gripes over ID scanning and a lack of pub-style food, Bansal said that for the pub’s first night, organizers pulled together an enjoyable evening for students who attended “I’m excited to see where they take it,” Bansal said while enjoying a beer

Sylvia Rusnak can be reached at srusnak@cornellsun com

Schumer Proposes ‘Nerd Bus’

Roosevelt Island Bridge

“One of the reasons we are so excited about the Roosevelt Island site is its great connectivity to the rest of New York City,” Dove said “ There are a number of modes of transportation that can be used to reach [the campus] ”

At least one prominent New Yorker, Senator Charles Schumer

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m p rove a c c e s s between CornellNYC Tech and New York’s tech centers with new public bus routes that he dubbed the “Nerd Bus ”

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o d s i n d ow n t ow n Bro o k l y n , Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City and Roosevelt Island This proposed expansion would create a “tech highway” between students at CornellNYC Tech and technology professionals in the c i t y, a c c o rd i n g t o S c h u m e r ’ s office

“You don’t need a Ph D to k n ow t h a t c o n n e c t i n g t h e s e neighborhoods through a ‘Nerd Bus’ is a no-brainer The only thing separating these neighborhoods in New York City is a lack of transit connections,” Schumer said in a statement “We need a high-speed rapid transit connection between Roosevelt Island and the Brooklyn Tech Triangle,

with stops at new hubs like Long Island City and the Navy Yard, a n d re s i d e n t i a l a re a s i n Greenpoint and Williamsburg ” Dove detailed a number of options offered by Ne w York C

Roosevelt Island campus aside from the use of cars and buses over the Roosevelt Island Bridge She pointed out that the F subway train, which runs through New York’s own tech sectors in Bro o

Queens has a stop on Roosevelt Is

NYCTech and their professional counterparts throughout the city

In addition to the subway, there is a tram that provides direct access from Roosevelt Island to the East side of Manhattan The tram, along with the F train and the Q102 bus line that passes through Roosevelt Island, can be paid for with a MetroCard an electronic payment method used for public transportation in the city

While Dove maintained that there “ are a number of great transportation options now, ” she also acknowledged that there has been a push to increase public transportation in the area before the tech campus

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selected to construct the applied sciences campus, there has been discussion of extending the East River ferry service to Roosevelt Island,” she said

Residents of Roosevelt Island have also advocated an additional subway line, as well as a pedestrian and bike elevator off of the Queensboro bridge, Dove said

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that the three justices found credible

“Several core courses identified in the application were not regularly conducted for fellows, and fellows were not informed that these courses were a required component of the program Moreover fellows were never evaluated or supervised by the training committee referred to in the grant application,” the ruling states

In 2010, a lower, district court ruled that Weill and Dr Wilfred van Gorp who ran the program

but no longer works at WCMC falsified claims on three separate occasions from 2001 to 2003

Cornell appealed the ruling

“There were some serious mistakes made during the course of the trial, and we continue to believe that this was an excellent training program that did exactly what it was supposed to do,”

James Kahn, deputy counsel for WCMC, told The Sun in April 2011

The appeals justices with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, apparently, disagreed Denying the medical college’s appeal,

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the justices affirmed both the lower court ’ s findings and its reasoning

Neither a representative from Weill nor one from the University returned a request for comment late Wednesday night

The case could still go to the Supreme Court, though Salmanson said he believes this is unlikely

“Frankly I don’t think that’s going to happen,” he said “They’ve been ruled against since 2003 It’s been nine years Today, we were elated ”

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A Broken Contract With Collegetown

IN 2009 COMMON COUNCIL MEMBER (D-4th Ward) Eddie Rooker 09 was elected to the Ithaca Common Council representing West Campus, Cascadilla Park and most of Collegetown Prior to Rooker’s election, the seat was held by a mayoral appointee due to the abdication of Dave Gelinas ’07, who quit the post before his four-year term expired

Like Gelinas before him, Rooker has announced that he is vacating his position before his term expires The Sun is disappointed in Rooker for abdicating his office

In 2009, Rooker received considerable support as a candidate largely due to his commitment to serving all four years of his term

A Sun article at the time reported that Rooker “[found] the comparison between him and Gelinas to be misleading, primarily because Gelinas had only planned to stay two years, whereas Rooker plans to stay all four ”

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 who was a member of the Common Council at the time of Rooker’s election, vouched for Rooker’s commitment to the position Myrick told The Sun, “It’s a big reason why I endorsed him, I believe Eddie is fully committed ”

On the eve of his election, Rooker further testified to his own steadfastness saying, “I don’t have any long term plans outside being a councilor,” and that some councilors in the past “ may have viewed this position as something to have I see it as a way to make an impact in the community ”

Rooker is resigning his seat in order to enroll in NYU Law School, which he was admitted to off of the waitlist He had originally planned on entering Cornell Law School, a position that may have allowed him to maintain his duties in the 4th-Ward A week after hearing his acceptance to NYU, Rooker announced that he was resigning his position

Over the past few years, tensions in Collegetown have grown measurably, with a climate of hostility growing between permanent residents, students and landlords

Permanent residents are upset with the disorder left in the wake of students’ revelries, landlords are frustrated that students are more reckless than ever and students are growing weary of ballooning rent prices The heated nature of the times calls for bold leadership, something that Rooker promised to provide three years ago

Instead, Rooker is skipping town, leaving Myrick to find a way to fill the void

Rooker’s decision to resign his position is reflective of the careless attitude that Collegetown’s permanent residents and landlords have been accusing the student population of exhibiting

Instead of working with students to disprove those accusations and work toward solutions, Rooker is now exhibit A for Cornell students’ alleged reckless disregard for the Collegetown community

Rooker ran for the position as a means of making “ an impact on the community ” We are deeply saddened that he is choosing to leave that impact for somebody else to make

A n Alternate Voice: A Perspective O n Mental Illness

Mental illness, when covered by the popular media, is generally considered in one of two contexts: stories about violent crime or exposés on the shortcomings of drug company marketing The American p u b l i c w o u l d b e b e t t e r s e r v e d b y greater consideration of the ever yday success stories made possible by the revolution on psychiatric pharmacology

The emphasis on stories about the criminally insane, however much it may sell tickets to blockbuster movies like Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island,

has the effect of scaring people who could ver y well profit from psychotherapy As a veteran of many years on the proverbial couch I well remember how difficult it was to initially accept the much needed help This initial resistance came, at least in part, from a fear of the prospect of having to think of myself as “mentally ill ” The classification carried all kinds of terrifying overtones that I wanted to avoid at all costs Mental illness was not discussed It was alien It was a sign of catastrophic failure Above all, I did not want to think of myself as one of those people

The scare factor associated with mental illness leads directly to the fierce taboo against open discussion of what might be considered the most human of chemical and biological problems Not only is the person who suffers from one of these deficiencies afraid to reach out for help in the first place, but when they do take the brave step of seeking help, the taboos inevitably leave them feeling isolated and alone As long as the lead stor y on the six o ’clock news is about the mentally ill man who pushes someone in front of a moving train, the millions of others who quietly make their way to and from their therapist and the pharmacy counter will be left without a voice For me, it took a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital, the result of abusing lifesaving drugs, to realize that there were others just like myself And there are others Just look at the numbers Millions of these prescriptions are being filled ever y year, the vast majority for people who are quietly get-

ting better

When the stor y isn’t about some violent and heinous crime, it is often about over the top and possibly irresponsible marketing practices of the pharmaceutical companies Doubtless,

advantage of their new found power as witnessed by the three billion dollar

companies whose products have none of the redeeming qualities, the pharmaceutical companies have been pun-

ished When, however, these excesses are allowed to overshadow the enormous positive advances in psychiatric pharmacology that have been made in the past 20 years, a disser vice is done to us all Psychiatrists now have at their disposal an arsenal of useful medications to help individuals suffering from debilitating forms of illness They have learned to use them well and people are getting better

An alternate stor y is being written by thousands of recovering writers and filmmakers, individuals who have witnessed the progress of 21st centur y psychiatr y first hand They are placing their stories of sur vival and triumph in the hands of self-publishing companies in the form of autobiographical novels and memoirs This past month a movie was released, OC87, that provides a director’s perspective from behind the camera of decades of illness and recover y These stories are not as exciting as those that tend to lead the six o ’clock news, but they are just as important They are the stories of one of the greatest successes of our time, the stor y of how committed doctors and therapists, assisted by ingenious scientists, have devised ways of curing those willing to face down fearsome societal judgment and undertake the hard work of getting well

Josh Greenfield is a Cornell alumnus Class of 1984 He may be reached at joshuagre@aol com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

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Gregar Brous, proud owner of the maniacally popular Collegetown Bagels, knows how to do business With a knack for transforming fairly simple ideas such as a bagel shop into fullyfledged, elegant conceptions, he and his family have been comfortably presiding over the Ithaca food scene since their acquisition of CTB and Ithaca Bakery in the ’80s It’s natural, then, for the man to want to branch out Indeed, in April of this year, Brous ventured away from baked goods and introduced us to his own style of casual fine dining with the southwesterninspired restaurant Agava, and, as expected, the same sense of elegant simplicity remains apparent

I don’t think there’s a better way to put this: This restaurant is really cool Located in the old East Ithaca Train Station, contracted in 1876 by Ezra Cornell, Agava proudly displays the location’s histor y; black-and-white photos from

Ithaca’s past adorn the walls, and much of the original train depot is woven seamlessly into the building’s chic, rustic restorations A desert landscape straight out of a classic Western is painted on one wall, producing the sensation of being both home and far away at the same time The ceiling and walls are lined with wooden beams and planks, and the glow of a wood-fire oven gently leaks out of the kitchen There’s a nice, warm feeling to it all

My friends and I opted for the equally cozy back patio, a beautiful space for a calm summer evening Christmas lights line the picket fences, and an awning stretches itself between the waning sunlight and the diners The sun finally did set behind our table, echoing the pinks and purples of the painting inside

The menu was about as vaguely defined as the term “southwesterninspired,” but certainly not to any disadvantage We had the choice among all sorts of tacos, flatbreads, sandwiches, salads, meat entrees

and ever ything in between If you ’ re a sharer, you can order small platters of mussels, scallops, Mexican “Street Corn” or choose from a variety of other tapasinspired dishes from the Share section of the menu I was fortunate

enough to go with a larger group, and we were smart enough not to pass that opportunity up We started off by sharing a unique ceviche-of-the-day fish, sweet potato, corn, beans and habañero peppers followed by some perfectly fire-roasted garlic cauliflower, gazpacho and Mexican Street Corn (a hearty cob lathered with chipotle mayo, cheese, lime and chili powder) All of these smaller dishes were excellent, in particular the corn, which launched an all-out flavor assault on our palettes not in a spicy way, but rather in a limey, buttery way Anyway, I suppose what matters, and what I realized halfway through my refreshing bowl of gazpacho, is that this Share menu was actually getting me excited about my food, and in ways that most restaurants in Ithaca can ’ t there were simply too many attractive

options, and I wanted them all! And at such reasonable prices, I well could have had them

My roommate is from Baja, Mexico, and he likes to consider himself somewhat of an expert in authentic Mexican cuisine, particularly tacos So, after dinner I brought him home a trio of steak tacos just to see what his authoritative taste buds would declare:

“They’re really good,” he told me Well, there you have it folks Agava is a wonderful new eatery, boasting a warm, trendy atmosphere and a menu of local food that both feels authentic and original Please, go check it out don’t be intimidated by the five-minute cab ride And in the meantime, be thankful; we are truly lucky to have Gregar Brous in our Ithacan midst

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Remember that awful Lou Reed and Metallica album last year that no one wants to talk about anymore? Lulu served as the perfect example for what happens when two artists with domineering personalities try to share the same stage Lulu’ s droning spoken word paired with mediocre riffs got music critics laughing and scratching their heads at the same time

Such a combination meant that, in theory, the collaboration between two other eccentric musicians, David Byrne and St Vincent (real name Annie Clark), should be pretty bad too (okay, not as bad as Lulu) But Love This Giant isn’t even close to Lulu: It recalls the best works from both artists’ pasts while sounding fresh, and more importantly, like nothing either had done before Love This Giant (streaming now on NPR) manages both because Byrne and Clark share key ground in their specific aesthetic Both make music that teeters between joy and insanity, both sing between extremes of crooning and yelping and both manage to make weird so outrageous that it looks cool

It is this compatibility that makes the album one of Byrne’s better collaborative efforts Even though the albums that Byrne has released with other huge names like Brian Eno and Fatboy Slim are great by their own merits, they often seem too much like a forced effort by Byrne to move from his Talking Heads discography (See his alternative dadrock song Like Humans Do,” in the sample music folder of every Windows XP installation) With Love This Giant, Byrne keeps the same funk that made Talking Heads so great

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Pavilion changed the game for the Baltimore indie group in a lot of ways Before its release, Animal Collective was a bunch of fringe-pop noisemakers known for its occasional flirtations with flawless songcraft (Feels’ “Purple Bottle,” Strawberr y Jam’ s “Fireworks” and Sung Tongs’ short-but-sweet “College” are just a few examples) amid more out-there psychedelic experimentation It was obtuse and likely to challenge convention a critics’ band through-and-through Merriweather changed all of that Effectively combining the dense orchestrations and vocal harmonies of The Beach Boys’ masterpiece Pet Sounds with their more explorator y sonic production, Merriweather Post Pavilion was a capital-S Statement, loaded with modern anthems l i k e “ My Gi r l s , ” “ Su m m e r t i m e C l o t h e s ”

d “Brothersport ” It was a record that established the quartet as a genuine force in the music world, and Animal Collective’s post-Merriweather output the gorgeous Fall Be Kind EP, impressive solo outings from Panda Bear and Avey Tare and even a well-received installation in the MOMA bore well for them to inherit the mantle of “world’s most important band ” After years of merely being considered experimental, the band was one record away from establishing themselves, instead, as groundbreaking Centipede Hz is not that record It’s undeniably

while evolving in a more organic manner

While Love This Giant gives Byrne a chance to move on, it gives Clark an opportunity to put her old work into context Last year ’ s Strange Mercy still had the same guitar screeches and the demented beats that characterize Clark’s music, but they were so overpowering that it would have been impossible for even Byrne’s distinctive voice to be heard Clark has not yet given up on the guitars or the drum machine, but here we see a less bombastic Clark willing to pull back to allow space for Byrne’s distinctive voice to shine Byrne and Clark recognize that restraint is as vital a component to their success as the lyrics, notes and rhythms they write Never is there a point where they blend their aesthetics together, and we rarely hear both sing at the same time At best, they are stacked and layered upon each other, coexisting peacefully but as distinct entities As Clark told Pitchfork, the album is a “straight-down-the-middle-thing I’ve never been that closely entwined in the songwriting, arranging, singing and lyric-writing process with anyone ” Both artists make compromises, not concessions Byrne and Clark deliver these compromises with a very prominent horn section This is smart because brass is already featured prominently in their music with St Vincent’s “Cruel” and Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime ” But it is hard to really point out any specific songs in the album where this really shines whereas the horns in Byrne and Clark’s previous work were relegated to choruses and refrains, there is hardly a second in any of the

songs where a horn isn’t tooting away Despite increasing the novelty’s lifespan with multiple layers and increasingly complex melodies, the horns get boring very quickly towards the second half of the album

While the horns may be a little too consistent, the other instrumentation on the album varies considerably to prevent the album from collapsing Towards the second half of the album, Byrne gives Clark ample breathing room for her to sound more like herself: “Lazarus” features a drum machine with steady big beats, occasional breaks and little horn In classic St Vincent fashion, a scratchy guitar flutters in “Optimist,” assembling a calm, lulling environment along with some synth backdrops not unlike that in Strange Mercy’s “Northern Lights ”

Even though it’s her first full-album collaborative effort, Clark already knows a good thing when she sees it “I think I’ve reached the pinnacle of who I want to work with,” she told Pitchfork, and it’s not hard to see why From weirdness to talent, this is a rare moment where two prodigious, musical whizzes have found themselves in each other, deciding to cooperate equitably instead of jamming separately in the same studio or telling another exactly what to play Hopefully both artists think of revisiting this relationship in the future, if not to make new music, but to show others how collaboration is really done

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be contacted at kng@cornellsun com

messier; from opener “Moonjock” onward, one gets the feeling that too much is going on The restraint that char-

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n t s (“Almost Frightened” and “Bluish,” in particular) is missed Instead, we are treated to the familiar gurgling synths and Avey Tare vocal freakouts that marked earlier releases While these stylistic regressions are not altogether unwelcome after all, many felt that Merriweather’ s pop sheen took away Animal Collective’s more captivating tendencies it’s a mild letdown to be listening to what is merely an expansion of Strawberr y Jam’ s psychfolk soundscapes rather than a proper sequel to one of the most compelling releases of the 21st centur y All gripes aside, not being groundbreaking does not mean you can ’ t be good And for those who tempered their expectations, Centipede Hz is, at points, pretty good Songs like “Rosie Oh” have melodies that border on being downright goofy but provide the heavy-handed beats with a little much-needed buoyancy While “Applesauce” and the Deakin-sung “ Wide-Eyed” are stretched-out beyond their welcome, lead single “ Today’s Supernatural” is a chaotic, joyful track that climbs to a satisfying climax during its syncopated chorus (complete with lilting vocals from the inimitable Avey Tare) It even admits that “ sometimes you gotta get mad,” an altogether new message from the typically cheerful goofballs There are other highlights: “Monkey Riches” expertly layers sound on

until the point of implosion, before returning to its glitchy ostinato “Pulleys” avoids the confrontational approach of the other songs by bubbling into existence rather than crashing Unfortunately, it’s the rare moments that either stray from Centipede Hz’ s beaten path or effectively utilize the jitter y wall-of-sound approach that end up standing out from the rest of the record

Lots of people who listen to Animal Collective for the first time joke that you must need to take drugs to get it It’s experimental and expansive in a way that the Grateful Dead were, so it’s an expected and clichéd joke But in a live setting, Animal Collective has definitely taken after the jam band legends, extending songs well into the tens of minutes and embarking on sonic adventures that, from time-to-time, are known to meander and appeal most to the crowd’s less, ahem, inhibited participants Centipede Hz comes off as just that: extended jams drawn out far past their welcome While Animal Collective gets by on its own compositional know-how enough to put out something that bears listening to, it all feels ver y haphazard and unedited With no gooey pop crossover to get excited about and not ver y much new sonic ground being broken, Centipede Hz under whelms

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun com

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oday, I had a relationship with my burrito I mean I literally gre w emotional over my burrito And I looked over the table, to this girl also deeply engrossed in her burrito As we silently communicated our intense admiration for this ne wborn, infant-sized sack of meat and cheese, I realized we could be really good friends I don’t know I always find it’s the little things like that that communicate so much about the type of person you are Whether you dog-ear pages in a book How much you pack for a trip If you enjoy spicy food I didn’t make these r ules, but I abide by them Here are some things that inexplicably say a lot about what kind of person you are:

IF YOU WILLINGLY WAKE UP BEFORE 11 A M

We can ’ t be friends I’m not even totally sure time exists before then Waking up causes me both physical and psychological pain On days when my 10:10 makes me aware of the world’s existence before noon, I become unfathomably angr y at all “morning people ” Those mutants But then again, this is coming from a girl who once said, “Six o ’clock? There’s one of those in the morning too?” in all seriousness, so take from this what you will

IF YOU DRINK TEA

It’s like a hug from the inside! The tea you choose also matters Basic Lipton vs loose leaf dragon rooibos? It’s quite a comprehensive spectrum I can dig a man who enjoys a good earl grey but not one who drinks chamomile There’s a difference between a man who can be vulnerable ever y once in awhile and a man who has a vagina

IF YOUR FAVORITE BOOK IS THE DA VINCI CODE

Oh, and you love Dave Matthe ws Band, too? Shocker You also probably extol the genius of Jodi Picoult And the last book you volunteered to read, not counting 50 Shades of Grey which you skimmed beachside, was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo You genuinely enjoy daytime television, and may or may not have ingested a Lean Cuisine within the last 72 hours You assume Pitchfork is a website for farm tools

IF YOU DISLIKE TOM HANKS W h a t d o y o u a l s o

human being would ever insult Tom Hanks When Tom Hanks speaks, the clouds par t and an angel gets its wings W

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Radcliffe weeps softly against a windowpane When Tom Hanks speaks, Homer writes an epic poem about it Disliking Tom Hanks is on par with d

Mer yl Streep’s per formances There’s just no apology profound enough to come back from that All other for thcoming opinions from you are automatically invalidated

IF YOUR FINGERNAILS ARE CLEAN

And hands in general If you have long dragon lady nails, you ’ re either from the ’80s or tr uly ghetto Cleaned

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A l o n e ” d o e s n o t l i ve u p t o l e a d s i n g l e s t a t u s , w h i l e t h e b a c k e n d o f t h e a l b u m i n c l u d e s o n e t o o m a n y s l ow b a ll a d s T h e a l b u m ’ s t i t l e t r a c k i n p a r t i c u l a r c o u l d d o w i t h a s h o t o f Fi ve - Ho u r En e r g y Be a c o n l a c k s d e g re e s o f a m b i t i o n i n i t s m e s s a g e a s we l l , w i t h t h e a l b u m r a re l y a d d re s s i n g t h e m e s b e yo n d a l i t t l e l o

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Brian Gordon is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at bgordon@cor nellsun com

g been a universal sign of fastidiousness My parents, who gre w up in Communist China, used to get their fingernails checked by their teachers in school as often as we recited the pledge of allegiance If they weren ’ t clean enough, they would literally get spanked and sent home, but I’ve never quite paralleled their level of anal retentiveness in that arena I’m not asking for the American Psycho level of Patrick Bateman’s manicured tips with biweekly applications of nail enamel strengthener, but not looking like a hobo is generally a good thing, I think

HOW YOU TREAT THE WAIT STAFF

If the bill is less than $200, and you do not leave at least a s o l i d 1 5 - p e r c e n t , I t a k e s e r i o u s i s s u e This topic’s personally a little touchy considering my parents

own restaurants in which I’ve gotten to know the immigrant wait staff people for which tips comprise their entire livelihood But honestly, stinginess is just not attractive How a person treats the wait staff, or any person in a subordinate or ser vice industr y position, says a lot about their character regardless of their own socioeconomic posi-

tion If the ser vice is actually spotty though, which I quantify as asking more than thrice for water refills or similar requests, then I concede to some subtractions Admittedly, I once received so many unanswered breadsticks refills at Olive Garden (the sole reason for going there,), that I left the waitress with an infographic depicting the directly inverse relationship between “time spent waiting for service” and “ amount tip” written in mustard on the table top I swear, I’m not a needy restaurant-goer, I just don’t believe it counts as “endless soup, salad, and breadsticks” if they only approach your table twice in two hours

IF YOU EVER FORGET TO EAT

What, did you forget to breathe too? Forgetting to eat is like forgetting a limb Except for warm puppies, which are own my personal heaven, there’s nothing I like more than food Literally I take food ver y seriously, as you can probably tell by my sultr y relationship with my aforementioned ne wborn burrito baby Dir ty talk to me includes the whispers of sweet “Philly cheese steak” in my ear If you ever give me a cupcake, I must not be held liable for possibly falling in love with you My spirit animal is a red velvet cake I am a fatass and I make no apologies

Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences

She can be reached at awang@cor nellsun com Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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Roddick Makes Bittersweet

Exit From His Final U.S . Open

NEW YORK (AP) More than an hour after hitting one last shot as a professional tennis player, then delivering one last, voice-wavering speech to an adoring U S Open audience, Andy Roddick exited the locker room one last time

Accompanied by his wife and other family members, a black baseball cap tugged low over his eyes, Roddick slung a racket bag off his aching right shoulder the one responsible for so many high-speed aces, violent forehands and the most recent Grand Slam title by an American man and tossed the equipment in the back of a waiting van

Won't need that any longer

Serenaded by choruses of "Let's go, Andy!" that rang through Arthur Ashe Stadium in the closing moments of his career, the 2003 U S Open champion headed into retirement with a 6-7 (1), 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-4 loss to 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday

"If we do badly, then it costs us something; if we do well, we get great things This was about something bigger It wasn ' t about ranking points or paychecks or anything else," Roddick said "This week I felt like I was 12 years old, playing in a park It was extremely innocent That was fun I enjoyed it "

It was a bittersweet goodbye, for the fans who gave him a standing ovation at the end del Potro joined in, rising from his changeover chair to applaud and for Roddick himself

He covered his face with a white towel while seated on the sideline after sailing a running forehand long with the final swing of his racket Earlier, he appeared to be trying to avoid crying while serving in the nextto-last game; in the stands, his wife, model-actress Brooklyn Decker, stuck a finger underneath her dark sunglasses to wipe away her tears

"Playing the last five games was pretty hard Once I got down a break, I could barely look at my (guest) box," Roddick said during a news conference sprinkled with the sort of witty one-liners he quickly came to be known for after turning pro in 2000 "I don't know what the emotions are I'm a little overwhelmed right now I normally feel like I can grasp things pretty quickly and clearly I certainly don't feel that way right now "

During an on-court address to the crowd, Roddick got choked up, particularly when making a reference to his longtime agent, Ken Meyerson, who died last year

When handed a microphone, Roddick began by saying: "Oh, wow For the first time in my career, I'm not sure what to say "

"Since I was a kid, I've been coming to this tournament I felt lucky just to sit where all of you are sitting today, to watch this game, to see the champions that have come and gone, " Roddick told the fans in a moment reminiscent of Andre Agassi's farewell speech at the 2006 U S Open after his final match "I've loved every minute of it "

It was appropriate that Roddick would leave tennis at Flushing Meadows, which is why he surprisingly announced last Thursday, his 30th birthday, that the U S Open would be his final tournament A perfect bookend: He visited the hard-court Grand Slam tournament at age 9, a trip his parents gave him as a birthday present

He would go on to win a junior title in New York, then the 2003 men ' s trophy at age 21, allowing him to end that season No 1 in the ATP rankings He later participated in four other major finals one at the U S Open, three at Wimbledon and lost each to Roger Federer, including a 16-14 fifth set at the All England Club in 2009

"In my mind," Federer said last week, "he is a Wimbledon champion "

Roddick finished with a record of 612-213 (a winning percentage of 742) He won 32 tournament titles, led the United States to the 2007 Davis Cup championship, and injected a say-what-you-think personality into his sport

"People always try to beat him up: 'You should have won more ' No, he got the maximum out of his game, " said Roddick's coach, Larry Stefanki "He's a man of his word A phenomenal competitor He got all the hard work in He prepared He was a true professional And he learned a lot over the years He did it the right way He's a first-vote Hall of Famer, no doubt in my mind He can downplay that all he wants, but it's not even close, in my opinion "

Del Potro's quarterfinal opponent will be defending champion Novak Djokovic, who advanced when No 18 Stanislas Wawrinka stopped playing Wednesday because of illness and fatigue while trailing 6-4, 6-1, 3-1

That match, like Roddick's against del Potro, was suspended by rain in the first set Tuesday, and Djokovic took a jab at organizers of a tournament that has finished on Monday instead of the scheduled Sunday the past four years because of uncooperative weather

Essentially, Djokovic wants to know why the U S Open doesn't pull tarps over the courts when it rains (the way Wimbledon does) or have at least one court with a roof (the way Wimbledon does)

"I'm sure that they are already thinking about several solutions for upcoming years, " Djokovic said, "but obviously (a) roof is something that would help the players, the tournament, everybody "

Djokovic's Serbian Davis Cup teammate, No 8 Janko Tipsarevic, finished his rain-interrupted 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory over No 19 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, and gets No 4 David Ferrer of Spain in the quarterfinals

Olympic champion Andy Murray was the first man into the semifinals, turning things around after being a point from a two-set hole against 12th-seeded Marin Cilic and winning 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-0 Next for Murray will be a match against 17-time major champion Federer the man the Brit lost to in the Wimbledon final in July, then beat for a gold medal at the Summer Games in August or No 6 Tomas Berdych

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Red Look s to Bounce Back at Fordham Hill Classic

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend, the Red (0-3) travels down to New York for the Fordham Rose Hill Classic The volleyball team will compete in two matches on Friday and another two on Saturday

“Right now I think it’s a quality tournament, ” said head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose “I think all of our opponents are kind of at the same level there’s not one over the other We definitely will have to come ready and be prepared to play everybody ”

Cornell begins play on Friday at 11:30 am, taking on host team Fordham Later that day, at 4:30 pm, the Red will face

the Bucknell Bisons On Saturday at 9:00 am Cornell is slated against the Stony Brook Sea Wolves, and will close out the weekend at 2:00 pm against NJIT

The four teams Cornell will be facing this weekend are all from different leagues the Atlantic 10, the Patriot League, the American East and the Great West, respectively

“Our expectations are more just at this point in the preseason, working through our different lineups I think we are really just focused on the process and doing the little things as far as winning the passing and serving game and doing those little bits of that will feed a lot of success there,” BatieSmoose said

The Red holds an all-time record of 11-1 against the

A S oundtrack to P rofessional Ba sketball

We all have that one musical artist or group that we could listen to until the day we die Whether it is the music that you grew up with, or the music you play, or the music that changed your life, there is always one genre or individual that you listen to no matter what you are feeling at the time

For sports fans, we have our teams that we will support until the day we ’ re buried in the ground We have the colors that we would be willing to paint on our face and chest and rock out in 20-

achieved over the course of the history of professional basketball

By virtue of the freedom I have as a writer, I would like to lay out what my NBA playlist consists of by likening the NBA franchises I enjoy watching to the music that I find myself able to listen to time and time again

I would be remiss if I did not begin where my heart as a sports fan lies, and that is in Los Angeles at the Staples Center where my Lakers reside There exist two dominant basketball franchises in the history of

Juan Carlos Toledo

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degree weather I know I do I bleed Laker purple and gold I will always root for the Los Angeles Lakers no matter where I am While I am a die-hard Lakers fan, I also consider myself a diehard music fan

Like many people who love their music, I don’t listen to the same song or artist over and over again I don’t watch the same teams play over and over again

Like music lovers who appreciate all types of musical genres and artists, I too have an appreciation for several different NBA franchises and what they have

t h e N B A t h e Los Angeles Lakers

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w i t h 1 7 L e t u s consider these two teams to be The Beatles and The Rolling Stones The distinction between who is better and who has a greater and longerlasting impact on basketball or music is very subjective and for each individual to determine based on what their tastes are

Since I prefer The Beatles, for me, the Lakers are The Beatles in my NBA playlist coming out of obscurity from a foreign land, in our case the foreign and alien land of Minnesota (no offense to you Golden Gophers out there), and making what I consider the

largest impact on what has become the modern NBA and in a larger sense basketball today And of course, we all have our favorite albums by our favorite artists, the albums we would save in a burning building if we could only take one In my case, Kobe Bryant, who I would liken to “Abbey Road,” is the one “album” of the Lakers that I would never want to be destroyed or forgotten Respect, of course, has to be given to their biggest rival the Boston Celtics, who I would consider The Rolling Stones Songs like “Paint it Black” and “Gimme Shelter” are songs that I would never want to lose The Boston Celtics dominated the NBA in the 1960’s and with the help of players throughout their history such as Bill Russell and Larry Bird have made their impact on the NBA today Although I still consider the impact of the Lakers greater than that of the Celtics, I give respect to The Rolling Stones even though I prefer The Beatles

In f l u e n c e d by a r t i s t s w h o c a m e before them, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a genre all to themselves, and no one else has ever done what they have done or sounded like they sound This is a band that puts on a live show that few can compare to and will blow you away with the diversity of their sounds and

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Bisons and a 3-0 record against the Sea Wolves, while Sunday marks the first ever meeting between the Red and NJIT

“Were just going to go out there and bring our best,” said sophomore setter and tri-captain Kelly Reinke “We’re just really excited to be back on the court and showing what we are working for ”

The Red opened the season last week at the Omni Hotels Colorado Volleyball Classic hosted by the University of Colorado Tournament There, Cornell faced Pac-10 opponents and lost in straight sets to Fresno State, Colorado and Northern Arizona

“I think after last weekend [where] we came back from the West coast playing high level conferences bigger and stronger athletes That will help us going into this weekend,” BatieSmoose said “Just playing that higher level of competition will help us for this weekend a lot ”

Reinke echoed these sentiments and expressed optimism for the Fordham tournament ahead

“I think coming off of last weekend we are learning a lot as a team and the preseason is the time to grow and hope we get better every game, ” she said “We are really excited to get into this weekend ”

The Red has seen some significant changes from last season, including four new freshmen and a new head coach

“I think it’s a really good atmosphere this year, ” Reinke said “We have a new head coach and one assistant is new too They are bringing a lot to the team It’s been a lot more competitive It has been fun getting to know everyone and playing as a team ”

The new team is already hard at work

“We’ve been working a lot on serving and passing and a lot of ball control,” Reinke said “Hopefully that will all come together for this weekend ”

Batie-Smoose also has specific areas she wants to work on with her new team

“Our focus is to the scoring system and being really aggressive with that,” she said “Another focus of ours is scoring points on the end line and serving [Hopefully] the rest will take care of itself ”

Next week, on Sept 15, Cornell will play at the Temple Tournament in Philadelphia, Pa the Red’s last tournament of the season

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun com

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