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Gender Disparity Still Visible in Leadership

O f Some Student Orgs

Sixty-three years after student organizations at Cornell were officially gender desegregated, gender equality has become more prevalent in the leadership of student organizations including the Student Assembly, Haven and the Cornell University Program Board But within the executive boards of some of Cornell’s largest business clubs lies a stark contrast: much like the professions they prepare members for, these boards remain predominantly male

According to the Cornell Consulting Club’s website, its eight-member executive board consists of one female and seven males Similarly, the executive board of the Mutual Investment Club of Cornell consists of 16 males and one female, according to its website

Raimund Riedl ’14, president of Cornell Consulting Club, declined to comment on the gender disparity in the club’s leadership

According to Prof Ileen A Devault, industrial and labor relations, male dominance in business clubs on college campuses is an expected phenomenon

“I find it sad, but I don’t find it all that surprising,” Devault said about the gender inequality

Devault added that the relatively low number of women in the high ranks of business clubs is consistent with a report conducted by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2009, which found that roughly 22 percent of chief executives are female

“Most people who are going to join a business club on a college campus imagine themselves as CEOs someday, and that means they are most likely male,” Devault said “It’s hard for a women to imagine herself as something she’s never seen ”

In contrast, the Student Assembly’s Fall 2013 executive

New Weill Dean Settles In

Gar y Koretzky ’78 describes position as ‘dream job’

By JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Contributor

After his first month as the new dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Gar y Koretzky ’78, a prominent immunologist, described the position as his “dream job ”

“My overall goal as dean of the graduate school is to take an outstanding program to the next level of eminence,” Koretzky said He said that, among other goals, he hopes to make administrative and structural changes to the program to enhance students’ experience

In the long term, Koretzky said he plans to revise WCMC’s curriculum “ to ensure we are teaching the most important concepts and approaches to our students and optimally preparing them for the myri a d o f o p p o r t u n

will expand Weill’s research space by more than 455,000 square feet, is projected to open in 2014 Weill will also further its re s e a

Hunter College, which announced Oct 24 that it will purchase the fourth floor of the building to expand its public-private partnership

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t i e s i n b i o m e d i c a l research ”

Koretzky, who began ser ving as dean of the Weill graduate school and senior associate dean for research at WCMC on Oct 1, will be overseeing a large expansion of biomedical research at Weill

The Belfer Research Building, which

Koretzky said he is excited to play a part in these expansions “ The enthusiasm and excitement for the future of both the medical college and graduate school is palpable,” Koretzky said Koretzky said he hopes that the direction WCMC is taking will encourage Cornell students heading to medical school go straight from one Cornell campus to another

“I ver y much hope that as Cornell undergraduates consider the next phase of their careers, those interested in the biomedical sciences will consider WCMC for that next step, ” Koretzky said Koretzky was the vice chair for research a n d c h

Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before being named dean of the Weill Graduate School, according to

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a University press release

Spending his undergraduate years at Cornell inspired him to pursue a career in medicine, Koretzky said

“For me, Cornell was the perfect mix of academic rigor in a beautiful setting I met incredibly interesting and idealistic individuals who challenged me to think much more broadly on many topics,” Koretzky said WCMC Dean Laurie Glimcher said she looks for ward to seeing Koretzky move Weill for ward over the coming years

researcher and leader, and I am

that he will join us as dean of the Weill

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for research at Weill Cornell,” Glimcher said in a University press release “He will enable us to translate scientific discoveries

Weissman can be reached at jmw397@cornell

Ayuen Ajok Grad , Lost Boy of Sudan, Finds Refuge at C.U.

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

By the time he entered high school, Ayuen Ajok grad had already lived the horrific life of a war refugee: Over a span of 13 years, Ajok walked thousands of m i l e s a m o n g t h re e c o u n t r i e s , nearly died from disease and starvation and lost countless friends and family members to war

Ajok is one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, the 20,000 Sudanese children who were displaced from t h e i r h o m e l a n d a n d s e p a r a t e d from their families during the Second Sudanese Civil War

“As a child, I was told that Arabs would come to our villages and convert us and kill us, ” Ajok said When his village was attacked, knowing “that death was around t h e c o r n e r a n d t h a t a n y t h i n g could happen” to him, five-yearold Ajok escaped immediately, unable to meet with his parents before making the several thou-

sand-mile trek to Ethiopia on foot with other refugees

“We encountered things like people dying from dehydration, animal attacks, children being kidnapped by bandits at night,” said Ajok, adding that people died from lack of medical care, as well as from depression and suicide

The main thing that encouraged him to keep walking was the hope that his parents might have survived, he said

“Thinking about my parents, where they were and how their s a f e t y w a s w a s s o m e t h i n g I thought about all the time,” he said

In Ethiopia, Ajok was grouped with 27,000 children refugees into isolation camps, where he re

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“There were no houses when we got there, just trees, ” Ajok said “ We did not have tools, [and] we did not have infrastruct u

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cholera endemic became a big issue, and some of the friends I made there died It was the first time I had to witness a friend die ”

The only real adult figures at the Ethiopian camp were the volunteers there, who periodically disappeared once they were called off to war, according to Ajok

Ajok was forced to go back to Sudan once gunshots rang out one morning in 1991

“I just ran Everyone had to leave, toward Sudan We were not prepared for it, and rebels were shooting everyone They didn’t care if you were a refugee or not, ” he said

Ajok returned to Sudan as an internally displaced person For three months, he and other children lived off berries, eventually trading what little clothes and supplies they had for food

Then, in order to get to a refugee camp with real food and water, they walked further south in Sudan, single file, walking only

at night and leaving the sick and injured behind During the journey, Ajok caught malaria and had to be carried by his two colleagues Eventually, they reached a refugee camp in Kenya, where he stayed for eight years

At this camp, Ajok began his education and his eagerness for learning Though lessons were given in charcoal on pieces of cardboard and the children only had the ground to practice, Ajok said he became very driven about practicing his English

In 2000, Ajok was among the refugees who were brought to the U S to escape life as a refugee He described coming to America as a “culture shock,” only having a small idea of what America was like based off of a viewing of Charlie’s Angels in the Kenyan refugee camp

“The first night I spent in America was in a hotel in New York City,” Ajok said “I left my shoes on while I was sleeping, because I was so used to always running ”

Having refused to be placed in a foster home, Ajok was placed in a home in Philadelphia along with a relative of his mother,

“I thought I was going to another refugee camp, ” Ajok said, before discovering the lack of violence in his new home

“People walk past each other on the street without bothering each other,” Ajok said “Whether you are Republican or Democrat, in America you can still get along We never shoot each other from left to right over political differences ”

After studying hard and receiving support from a local church, Ajok was able to excel in school and graduate from high school as well as Temple University, where he transferred to after spending a year at Penn State

In 2007, Ajok finally reunited w i t h h i s m o t h e r i n Ug a n d a , where she lives as a refugee

“I view America as my first home and Sudan as my second home,” Ajok said “America gave m e t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t h a t m y country did not give me With my American passport, I can travel anywhere I want to be an advocate for Sudan’s cause For a society to move f o r w a rd , i t i n v o l v e s community, civil society and government ” A t C

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n g countries, as well as talks at local high schools He believes that for children growing up in a developed country like the U S , t h e c u r

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m s h o u l d expose students to the humanitarian crises across the world and incorporate the United Nations’

into teaching He said he thinks that on all levels, from academic down to the family level, students should be made aware of inequity in the world

“Parents should play a great role to give children a different perspective so that they grow up with enthusiasm not about their own problems, but children in

said “A lot of kids have dreams, but they don’t have opportunities Don’t take things for granted ”

Filthy/Gorgeous Adapts to Shifts in Campus Climate, Budget

ed in no medical transports

Memorial Room, which has a room capacity of 300 unseated students

Noyes has refused to host Filthy/Gorgeous due to a number of medical transports that occured when the event was held there in 2012, and increased safety regulations have made holding the event in Duffield again too expensive

Jadey Huray ’14, president of Haven: the LGBTQ Student Union, noted that last year ’ s Filthy/Gorgeous made safetyrelated improvements that result-

Even then, the event ’ s organizers say that they are optimistic about the choice of the Straight as Filthy/Gorgeous’ venue this year

Daniel Petralia ’15, one of the event ’ s organizers, said that, prior to 2012, the event was regularly held in the Straight, he said

“We decided to go back there for its natural feeling Everything is sort of laid out for us since it’s been done there for years, ” Petralia said

Echoing Petralia’s sentiment, Huray said that Filthy/Gorgeous is returning to its roots this year

“[It] is being reformatted from

its current state and returning to the original format from years ago a sort of throwback, if you like, to years gone by,” Huray said

As in previous years, the event will host a performer and possibly include go-go dancers Previous headliners have included drag performers Chi Chi La Rue, Manila Luzon and rapper Cazwell

Other parts of the event, however, will change with the organizers ’ efforts to reduce the cost of hosting Filthy/Gorgeous, according to Huray

The increase in the cost of holding Filthy/Gorgeous last year became an “unjustifiable” expense

on Haven’s budget, Huray said It also “vastly changed the nature of the event, which has previously been far more accessible to the LGBTQ and wider Cornell community, and made us question the sustainability and reach of the event to the student body that we serve, ” she said With Filthy/Gorgeous’ smaller scale, the event organizers hope that they will be able to rein back expenses to a more manageable level

Huray added that she thinks that, over time, there has been a shift in the campus climate regarding LGBTQ issues that will

facilitate the change in Filthy/Gorgeous this year

“Filthy/Gorgeous was established at a time when LGBTQ students were uncomfortable and did not have any, if not a few, safe spaces on campus to celebrate their array of identities in a social [or] par ty setting Hence, Filthy/Gorgeous stood as a capstone event, once a year, that allowed these students to feel at ease and occupy a space that they could truly be themselves in,” Huray said “I believe that more informal and formal events or initiatives have been created that have led to the formation of such spaces beyond Filthy/Gorgeous and any other Haven event ” Matthew Carcella, director of the LGBT Resource Center, echoed Huray’s sentiments, saying Filthy/Gorgeous will be “in a different form than before to make sure that we are keeping the event relevant ”

Petralia said he hopes Filthy/Gorgeous will be a successful event again this year and on part with “what people have experienced in the past ”

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board is about 45 percent female and 55 percent male, according to the S A ’ s website This is an improvement on previous years: over the last six years, the percentage of females in the S A has ranged from 14 to zero perc e n t , a c c o rd i n g t o t h e S A ’ s website

Juliana Batista ’16, vice president of outreach for the S A , said she thinks females are well represented in the organization this year, adding that previous e xe c u t i v e b o a rd s h a v e b e e n largely male due to a lack of female interest in attaining such positions

“I would say that this year the ratio is fairly good,” Batista said “I think, in terms of student poli t i c s , i t ’ s n o t t h a t w e a r e n ’ t encouraging women to go out for these positions –– it’s just who’s naturally drawn to them and who has the best platform ” Haven also reported having nearly equal representation of genders in its executive board over the last three years, according to Jadey Huray ’14, president of Haven

The current board consists of two females, two males and one individual who identifies as

Huray said

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Evaluating O bama’s College Af fordability Plan

IN A FORBES OP-ED published this week, “Rating President Obama’s College Ratings,” President David Skorton and Glenn Altschuler, vice president for University relations, join the critics who express skepticism of Obama’s college affordability plan Given the widening gap between tuition costs and family incomes and affordability continuing to slip further out of reach, bold and creative higher education reforms are much needed Obama’s higher education plan is a step in that direction, with compelling underlying concepts and some clear, beneficial changes But we agree with some national education experts that the proposed college ratings system is flawed

The ratings system would assign performance-based values to U S colleges and tether federal financial aid eligibility to those rankings Connecting aid with outcomes is an ambitious idea But we worry that relying on rigid, numbers-driven metrics will lead some universities to take a numbers-driven approach to reform instead of pursuing true qualitative change Obama’s suggested criteria may push universities not toward enforcement of higher standards, but rather toward reduced rigor and grade inflation Experts recall the backlash seen with No Child Left Behind, where some K12 schools lowered academic expectations in order to drive up graduation rates Alternatively, if colleges that fear a low rating become more selective in admissions, some students in need of financial aid may be left out in the cold

Still, there are aspects of Obama’s proposal we support as written, such as the requirement that, in order to receive continued assistance, undergraduates must prove that they are making progress toward acquiring a degree Holding students accountable for earning their financial aid through demonstrated academic advancement can help ensure that the government is investing wisely in young people who will become productive members of the workforce It would also incentivize students to graduate in a timely fashion, reducing the average aid doled out to individuals

Expanding and improving awareness of the Pay As You Earn federal aid program capping loan repayments required of student borrowers at 10 percent of their incomes is another way the plan could make financing a college education more feasible for more people While college tuition has risen by more than 250 percent, average family incomes have increased by only about 16 percent, according to recent College Board and Census data cited by the White House

With the persistence of such discrepancies preventing so many students and families from being able to comfortably finance higher education, substantial and immediate systemic changes are necessary Obama’s plan includes some quick and positive measures that should be implemented in the U S as soon as possible But in considering college ratings, we urge caution; the system in its proposed form could potentially do more harm than good

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Dining Guide

Foodie Face-Of f: Campus Edition

Battle of the campus salad bars:

Ivy Room vs. Terrace Restaurant

By HANNAH MEZHERITSKY Sun Contributor

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sense of excitement on my walk down the stairs to the Ivy Room

The Ivy Room has just about any food a Cornell student could be c r a v i n g , ye t t h

l a d l i n e i s always one that is almost out the door While this line could be a result of the lag that comes from the ability of being able to customize ever y ingredient in your salad, it is clear that it is also the product of the high demand that comes for a personalized, crisp salad with the freshest ingredients In the Ivy Room, Straight From The Garden offers exactly that It is made clear from the start that the ser vice you will receive upon embarking on this journey will not present to you the smile and warm face you might get e l s e w h e r e T h e f e w p e o p l e behind the glass of the countless ingredients you have to choose from are strictly business, which may not be so bad when the line starts growing at the quick rate it normally does during the lunch rush Though some of the workers are more efficient than others, which happens to be the luck of the draw, the entire team is certainly orderly and organized as a whole All ingredients, the 50 or

more that there are, seem to be restocked regularly In the time it took to have my salad handed to me, around ten ingredients were refilled from the refrigerator that k e p t t h e m f r e s h a n d c r i s p, i nclud i ng t he rom a i ne let t uce and mixed greens that you first get to choose from The options you get are endless, and to just name a fe w, r a n g e f r o m a l l s o r t s o f f r u i t ( b l a c k b e r r i e s , c a n t a l o u p e , pineapple, grapes), to hummus, w a t e r c h e s t n u t s , v a r i o u s chopped veggies (peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots), black beans, sprouts and all sor ts of nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds, p i st a chi os) T he or i gi na li t y of ingredients seems unbeatable no other eater y on campus is able to offer as many original and freshly kept ingredients for salads as the Ivy Room Equally i m p re s s i ve a re t h e c h o i c e s o f house- m a d e d ressi ngs, r a ngi ng from the “Straight From The House” honey Dijon vinaigrette to the “Arnot Forest Maple Vina i g r e t t e , ” w h

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While the classic bottled dressi ng op t i ons a re a va i la b le, t he house-made dressings offer a different touch that other salad stations on campus may not be able to offer

To a new salad explorer like myself, though, I was unaware of all the hidden possibilities that were available to me If it wasn ’ t for the girl in front of me, I wouldn’t even have known that shrimp is normally offered, but was not available that day A

e options possible, especially the ones kept behind the counter, stowed away from first glance This would not only speed up the entire process of picking toppings, but also show to people how truly extensive the list is

While the salad I put together myself was not one that I thoroughly enjoyed, I did appreciate the immense variety presented at the Ivy Room It truly is an art to pick exactly which ingredients will go well together, and which dressing to top it all off with I now know, for example, that the fresh green peppers I chose do not mix well with the sweet, thicker sesame ginger dressing with which I garnished my salad Pe r h a p s w i t h m o r e t r i p s t o

Straight From The Garden, I will have more experience and know exactly which choices will make the perfect salad, just as the customers in front of me seemed to be able to do A perfect salad is somewhere among those ingredients, it just needs to be chosen and created among all the possibilities

Hannah Mezheritsky can be reached at hmezheritsky@cornellsun com

By EMI BOSCAMP Sun Contributor

Terrace is a scene; people go to be seen If you ’ re willing to weather the infamous salad line and have a friend saving a seat for you, you’ll find yourself with a tasty, topping-heavy salad at a reasonable price

But is the salad worth the wait? If you arrive between 12 p m and 1 p m , the line will extend the length of the outside hallway It’s a considerable distance, and there are usually only three or four people making the salads at a time To their credit, though, they move at an impressively rapid pace, usually maintaining their smiles

Terrace’s ingredients are pretty consistent, but somehow your salad will change every time Depending on the person who crafts your salad, it could end up mostly lettuce, mostly toppings or a heaping portion that overflows the box or a meager portion that only fills it halfway I would recommend getting the half-salad because they usually overfill it and you pay less for the full salad portion There isn’t an overwhelming selection of ingredients, but they’re always fresh, though some are from cans The selection usually consists of romaine lettuce, mixed greens, crumbled blue cheese, shredded mozzarella, (extremely watery) diced tomatoes, segmented oranges (watery as well), shredded carrots, diced cucumbers, chopped hard-boiled eggs, crumbled bacon, diced chicken, diced ham, tuna salad, kidney beans, chickpeas, sliced black olives,

baby corn, diced beets, edamame, sunflower seeds, croutons, crispy Asian noodles and dried cranberries They do change it up sometimes, substituting the usual cheeses for other types, like Parmigiano-Reggiano, replacing the oranges with canned sliced peaches or throwing in another crunch factor with strips of multi-colored tortilla chips My topping selection has remained the same throughout my years here: mixed greens, blue cheese, eggs, chickpeas, edamame, beets, cranberries and crispy Asian noodles I love the combination of sweet and savory, and I need the variation in texture

They have the standard bottled dressing choices: ranch, blue cheese, balsamic vinaigrette, French and Italian but everyone ’ s favorite is their housemade sesame ginger dressing, which is tangy, sweet, thick and extremely caloric a recipe for fingerlicking addiction While it is convenient that the salad makers toss your ingredients with your dressing in a bowl before transferring into a box, I would recommend getting your dressing on the side They always overdress the salad, creating a sweat-inducing vinegar soup at the bottom of your box

Terrace is a safe bet if you ’ re looking for a quick hunger fix with a lengthy wait, but if you ' re looking for a wider variety of unique ingredients, head over to the Ivy Room There, you can always see the end of the line

Emi Boscamp can be reached at eboscamp@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Hype is a funny thing, isn’t it? Just about every highly anticipated release be it from Radiohead, Kanye West, Daft Punk or someone else incites a cycle of immense or unqualified praise, cynical backlash and the kind of partisan bickering that would make Ted Cruz blush Arcade Fire’s latest release, Reflektor, has proved no exception to this rule, and it seems this is exactly what Win Butler and his merry band of fools wanted From utilizing controversial viral marketing techniques to a creating a celebrity-filled mini-documentary, Arcade Fire has delighted in stoking the bonfire of anticipation surrounding the new album and in provoking those critical of its work to reach for their pitchforks

Thankfully, the attention the group has garnered for its follow-up to 2010’s Grammy-award winning LP, The Suburbs, is more than justified Gleeful and self-aware, the record represents an important shift for a band known for meditations on memory, innocence and hope that tend to avoid irony in favor of honest emotional introspection Produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem fame and featuring two Haitian percussionists alongside an already-sizable group, this record reveals an Arcade Fire that can get loose, get loud and have some fun

In many ways, though, Reflektor is more an evolution than a revolution: “We Exist”’s tongue-in-cheek musical reference to “Billie Jean and a brief clip of Jonathan Ross featured in “Normal Person” still exist beside weighty themes religion, love, individuality and alienation in a technological age much as past releases have dealt with suburban isolation, the vacuity of religion and the like Here, however, the band has

Ignore that silly album cover for a second In fact, forget about that multicolored motto on the cover imploring you to “free your mind,” too The best way to “free your mind” is to just listen to the album

Cut Copy made a splash in 2008 when its second album, In Ghost Colours, dropped, bursting with melodies that seamlessly blended in a haze of ambient noise Amid the demise of early 2000s

d a n c e - p u n k r e v i v a l , t h e a l b u m ’ s Ne w O rd e rinspired dance was welcome and cemented Cut Copy’s reputation as a group of musicians with a knack for infectiously catchy melodies Follow-up Zonoscope brought some much-needed focus with hypnotic hooks and a psychedelic bent, but its long songs often seemed too dragged-out Free Your Mind finally reconciles these two opposite directions by combining what was best As a result, the album is full of concise dance-pop gems with little filler that make the album one of best dance records of the year

Free Your Mind succeeds in taking the same hypnotic, dancey baselines in Zonoscope that could have gone on forever and taming them into the strict str ucture of a rock song Unlike other recent

learned an important lesson: Even an album that addresses serious ideas does not need to sound like it’s taking itself too seriously

The album opens with a bang, in the form of its eponymous first single, “Reflektor ” It is a pulsing, polyrhythmic introduction to the “ new Arcade Fire,” as well as to a major theme of the album: love in a “reflective age ” where narcissism and vacuity reign over true emotional depth “Reflektor” is among the album’s strongest cuts, with a potent blend of Remain in Light-era Talking Heads and Bowie glam, the latter of whom is featured in the track’s bridge It also hints at the album’s entirely separate influences namely, afrobeat, Jamaican voodoo and the lively, carnival rhythms of Haiti Thematically, Butler takes aim at the ambiguous relationship we have with technology At a particularly powerful point, he sings, “The signals we send are deflected again/We’re so connected, but are we even friends?”, an idea that is echoed by the track’s amalgamation of musical influences Love and music may both be timeless, but, as illustrated by the track’s uneasy blend of synth-heavy disco, afrobeat and modern electronic music, technology distorts and disorients each

As the first disc of this massive double-album progresses, intense themes permeate each track, but the band maintains its newfound and entirely refreshing irreverency “We Exist” follows characters “going nowhere, under the microscope of their peers (Facebook, anyone?) who are trying merely, as the title hints, to exist; all the while, the track employs Michael Jackson’s famous bassline Later, “Here Comes the Night Time” gives us a mix of peppy Haitian rhythms and relaxed,

down-tempo dub, which, as the title implies, surrounds death, pain and sadness The first half closes with one of Arcade Fire’s finest and most rousing efforts yet, “Joan of Arc ” It starts at breakneck pace, with thrashing guitars and punk-rock drums, but quickly settles into a tense and unbelievably catchy groove On the track, Butler seems to anticipate his critics when he sings, “First they love you, then they kill you, then they love you again ” Like the track’s famed title-woman, Butler knows that in life, as in music, one day you ’ re revered and the next day you ’ re reviled In its entirety, the first half represents a more radically new direction than the second half

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: The airy, dreamlike atmosphere of the Reflektor’ s second disc is punctured by moments of intensity that take your breath away particularly on “It’s Never Over” and Butler’s lyrical prowess shines as he poignantly addresses love, loss and the afterlife

As the final track, “Supersymmetry,” brings Reflektor to a close, the band pulls a Sgt Pepper’s by including almost five minutes silence punctuated by contemplative synth textures and electronic feedback This reference is blasphemous, but of course, it is meant to be Reflektor is a proud and bombastic attempt to voice the concerns of a lost generation, and against all odds, it largely succeeds Sonically, rhythmically and lyrically, Reflektor is a satisfying and truly ambitious breath of fresh air

Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

’80s synth throwback albums (Hot Chip, anyone?) that move from one hook to the next with the memor y of a goldfish, Free Your Mind acts like a good rock song, returning to its best par ts to flesh them out “Let Me Show You Love” touts a groovy, four-note disco baseline, not unlike the one on Donna Sum m er ' s d i sco cla ssi c “ I Feel Love” : Minimal beats and air y vocals evince that all attention should be paid to the endlessly repeated and ingenious synth line It is only towards the end of the song that the driving bass is upped a pitch for the climax

Before Cut Copy put Free Your Mind up for streaming, the band had forced eager listeners to travel to different worldwide billboards to hear its first single This annoyed some fans, and five minutes after the initial announcement, someone had a lrea d y fi gured out how t o st rea m t he song Regardless, this viral marketing campaign is par t of a newfound confidence and directness for the band Free Your Mind so unabashedly puts its music at the forefront that the ambience and reverbs in the previous two albums feel like insecure gimmicks The house influences in “Footsteps” thump the whole way through, not unlike the best of The

Juan Maclean’s songs The chor us in “ Take Me Higher” does indeed sound like a hazy halcyon memor y of the album’s purpor ted influence, 1967’s Summer of Love Title track “Free Your Mind” is the most unabashedly psychedelic song Cut Copy has made yet, but the piano on it contributes just a hint of acid house that works beautifully

Listeners who hear Free Your Mind with In Ghost Colours in mind will be disappointed that the two don’t match up, but this is an unfair comparison It is unlikely that the band will pump out another In Ghost Colours with its LCD Soundsystem influe n c e s ( t h a t

Ti m Goldswor thy who is par t of the DFA production duo; the other member is LCD’s James Murphy) The band has proved with this album that it can seamlessly incorporate other genres into its oeuvre and, as a result, they have little incentive to revisit old works Throughout Free Your Mind, Cut Copy seems to have a clear sense of what they want, and the exuberance they bring proves they can pull it off

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at kng@cornellsun com

Booooooo! (No, Seriously)

Since today is Halloween and Zach Zahos already beat me to the punch with a fittingly touching tribute to recently deceased art-rock curmudgeon Lou Reed

I’m inspired to do something thematic

However, I feel like Halloween’s been devalued Instead of fake blood and scary clown masks, we get a bevy of supposedly “timely” pop culture references and slutty reinterpretations of blue-collar occupations I mean, I love an ironic “What Does The Fox Say?” costume just as much as the next guy, but when was the last time something on Halloween scared you? (And, no, I’m not referring to the time that girl on your freshman floor starting puking blue or the time you saw that dude from the football team undoubtedly a freshman offensive lineman wearing a thong )

So, in an attempt to get in the true spirit of the holiday, I’m going to suggest some actually scary music

No t e : I ’ ve reserved for consider-

a t i o n o n l y i n t e ntionally scary tracks

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Editor Liz Camuti’s suggestion of Kevin Federline’s “Playing Wi t h Fi re ” d o e s

“JOHN WAYNE GACY, JR ” BY SUFJAN STEVENS

Sufjan is not known for his dark side Hell, some might even call him twee, and, with two albums each dedicated to U S state histories and Christmas, they’re pretty much correct What Sufjan does best, however, is provide unique perspectives on his song ’ s topics his Christmas song cycles often question the commerciality of what is supposed to be a reverent time of year and the most starkly disturbing example of this is his character study of serial murderer John Wayne Gacy In talking about Gacy’s abusive father, you get uncomfortably close to the cycle of abuse that produces such sick individuals

Solemn and purposefully non-graphic, “John Wayne Gacy, Jr ” is an emotionally affecting and intimate exploration of a verified creep

“COME TO DADDY”

BY APHEX

TWIN

elicit a certain existential dread, it’s hardly done on purpose, and I’d like to focus on the real terror artists here I’d also like to prematurely apologize for omitting all metal The average non-metal fan thinks it all sounds sort of scary guttural pig squeals and down-tuned guitars are not for everybody so it really does me no good suggesting it

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those

tracks that

heard If I were to be possessed by a demon and inspired to murder a camp filled with innocent-but-horny teens, I’d want “Come To Daddy” to soundtrack it For bonus creepiness, check out the equally disturbing video

“DANCE WITH THE DEVIL” BY IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE

I remember in high school, sometime during my senior year, some guys I had been going to lunch with were adamant that I listen to some rap song I obliged That song was “Dance With The Devil,” and, just, Jesus, it just ruined my day As menacing as the track sounded that haunting Henry Mancini piano sample, those moaning vocals, that lo-fi drum sound nothing beats the absolutely harrowing twist ending Some might complain that Immortal Technique gets a little too preachy with his politics, but “Dance With The Devil” is akin to German fairy tales before Disney got to them: a lesson learned via sheer terror

“THE CUE” BY SCOTT WALKER

with the uncomfortably slow accompaniment, it’s hard to imagine that they’re anything other than nightmarish

“GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN” BY SLINT

man/machine/psychopath behind trailblazing ’90s electronic alias Aphex Twin, beat them all to the punch with an absolutely brutal track whose explicit vocal sentiment (“I will eat your soul / Come to daddy”) doesn’t even hold a candle to the spazzy drum patterns and filthily distorted basslines And in place of a drop: A brief interlude into a lilting melody sung in a child’s voice, more disconcerting than any wub-wub I’ve

Scott Walker’s voice is a unique instrument As a young man, it garnered him the adoration of teenage girls across England; at a time, his fan club was bigger than that of The Beatles’ However, as he aged, Walker has grown interested in experimental orchestral arrangements His lyrical interests too have matured, turning from schmaltzy pop ditties into darkly impressionistic short stories The Cue” is a prime example of his particular allure: His quivering baritone sings, “From the voice flooded semen clotting to paste / Can’t swallow it then bury it,” while tense string vamps and erratic drum accents erupt below Walker has been silent as to the meaning of its inscrutable lyrics, but,

Slint’s Spiderland might have been the inspiration for the epic crescendos and orchestral pomp of post-rock, but its instrumentation is a lot more modest Recorded live in four days, its simple ingredients coalesced into some of the most bizarre music many had ever heard On “Good Morning Captain,” Spiderland’ s concluding track, the band is firing on all cylinders At the climax, quietly dissonant riffs explode into burnt-out guitar fuzz as singer Brian McMahan screams, “I miss you ” The lyrics a tale of a captain being refused refuge following a shipwreck are difficult to parse, but the foreboding mood and atonal melodies sent chills down many a record nerd s spine

James R ainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at jrainis@cor nellsun com Irresponsible Listening appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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terns a lot of the basics so when we got there, everybody was pretty well equipped ” The Red’s next show, which will be hosted by Nazareth College, will also be held at Lehman Farm, according to de Rham Steinberger hopes that the riders will have a more relaxed attitude at the next competition

“We’re all Cornell students and I think sometimes that causes us to go into the ring and be upset if we make one small mistake,” she said “Sometimes, we stress ourselves out so much that we don’t do well because of the stress we ’ re putting on ourselves ”

However, the strong team spirit was able to keep the riders at ease this weekend The rookies found the veterans extremely helpful when it came to preparing for the show, according to Coffey and Ko

“I was super nervous going into [the show], but the team is so supportive and everyone ’ s so helpful and Todd prepares us really well,” Coffey said “It was nice having a

bunch of older teammates there to coach us through it ”

Ko said she was comforted by the veterans ’ knowledge and experience

“It’s definitely calming when you just go ask a question and someone immediately has the answers, ” she said

The squad made sure to support each rider as she competed, according to de Rham and Coffey It seemed as if the arena was filled with red

“Sofia and I looked over our shoulders at one point and there was just this sea of red jackets at the in-gate,” de Rham said

Overall, the Red is pleased with the strong start to the season, Karn said

“It shows what we can accomplish right out of the gate, ” Karn said

“[We are] being supportive of one another and working hard and keeping our skill set honed I think it’s a really good start and I hope we [carry the momentum] all the way through ”

Lakers Face Crisis; Threat of Rebuilding

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Riders Win O pening Shows

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Lehman Farms arena in Rochester, N Y , bled red this weekend when the Cornell equestrian team took the competition by storm The squad opened its season in spectacular fashion, winning both of its first shows of the season to snag a 20-point lead in the regional standings

“It feels like we ’ ve achieved this huge milestone, ” junior co-captain Georgiana de Rham said “We really wanted to have a positive start and we really wanted to be strong, and I feel like we made a lot of big changes and big efforts to really try to be successful and we were and it’s just really rewarding ”

The strong start mirrors the beginning of the team ’ s 2011-12 season, when the Red was nearly undefeated

“It felt like [our freshman year] again,” junior co-captain Sofia Steinberger said

The Red put in a solid performance on Saturday, sweeping the fences divisions and finishing just eight points shy of a perfect score, according to Steinberger Sunday’s show was a little bit more challenging, but the team rallied and took the winning ribbon once again

“Everybody worked really really hard and we gave them all the tools to be able to go up to the show and do well and they did,” head coach Todd Karn said “[On] Sunday, we were off to a little bit of a slow start, but everybody picked it up I think it was hard to have the energy flowing the same way the second day,

[but] we picked it up and won Sunday as well and everybody was very pleased ” Intercollegiate Horse Show Association shows feature both team and individual competition The highlight of the Red’s individual achievements was the high point rider contest between freshmen Amanda Ko and Shana Coffey on Saturday Ko shows in the open flat and intermediate fences divisions, while Coffey competes in novice for both flat and fences When the riders won all of their classes on Saturday, they then faced off for the title of high point rider After being asked a series of knowledge-based questions, Ko was named high point rider while Coffey received reserve high point rider

“It was completely friendly,” Ko said of the competition Coffey agreed, saying, “It was a lot of fun ”

“It wasn ’ t super competitive, we were kind of just happy to be there,” Coffey said Karn said that he was pleased to see Ko and Coffey end up in the high point ride off

“It’s unusual to end up in a high point ride off so for us to have two riders in that is terrific,” he said

During practice, the squad has been focusing on the fundamentals of riding to ensure that each rider has a solid foundation, according to Karn

“We’ve been spending a lot of time just on the basics,” he said “We did a lot of individual drills, whether it be a gymnastic or riding without stirrups on the flat, figure eight pat-

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Country fan | Volleyball senior

Rachel D’Epagnier (left), sitting next to teammate Breanna Wong, said she listens to country artists Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean before games

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before a game, what would be on it? I am kind of funny because I don’t listen to a lot of modern day rap or hip hop, I am actually a huge country girl This sounds funny and my teammates make fun of me for it, but country music is what gets me pumped up some Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean W I T H T E N Q U E S T I O N S R A C H E L D ’ E P A G N I E R

1 You are a senior on the volleyball What has Cornell volleyball meant to you over the last four years? Cornell volleyball has taught me an incredible amount of life lessons, and it just means so much to me to play on a Division I

team in college It’s something that I never really thought I would get the chance to do It means a lot to me because it let me reach a dream that I had and also allowed me to have different relationships and friends I have friends now that I don’t think I would have ever had if I hadn’t met them on the volleyball team

2 You have six sets of games left in your

senior season and then potentially the postseason What does that mean to you? Are you feeling a little sentimental? I am It’s all starting to sink in because it’s so close and I am graduating a few weeks after the season ends, so it’s all hitting me My primary goal for the rest of the season is just to have fun

3 If we opened up your music playlist

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