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Report: Nearly 1/3 New Greeks Hazed Fraternity leaders: Cornell figure ranks below national average By JOE NICZKY Sun Senior Writer
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Stormy night | Parts of the downtown Manhattan area were without power Tuesday night after Hurricane Sandy moved inland, causing power outages and damage throughout NYC and throughout the East Coast.
Storm Closes C.U.Offices in NYC By DAVID MARTEN Sun Senior Editor
While Cornell’s Ithaca campus was left largely unscathed by superstorm Sandy, some of the University’s facilities in New York City were damaged or left without power in the wake of the storm, according to an email President David Skorton sent out to the Cornell community Wednesday afternoon. Some of the University’s offices in the city’s five boroughs were damaged by the storm, which made landfall as a category 1 hurricane on the Jersey Shore Monday night. Sandy caused at least $20 billion in
News Watchful Eye
Cayuga’s Watchers, a new student group that will hire students to monitor parties for risky behavior, is recruiting for an expected spring launch. | Page 3
News Booming Market
The student-run Cornell Farmers’ Market saw a successful season this year, with an increase in attendees and vendors due to its recent venue change from Ho Plaza to the Ag Quad, organizers said. | Page 3
Arts Rock On
Alice Wang ’15 names and defends her choice of six rising star musical artists that rocked the CMJ Music Marathon. | Page 9
Sports Legendary
Columnist J.C. Toledo ’14 discusses what it is that creates sports legends that will be remembered by fans for years to come. | Page 16
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damages and killed at least 62 people in more than a dozen states, according to Fox News. Among the affected facilities were the NYC offices of Cornell Cooperative Extension and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, as well as the Google office that currently houses CornellNYC Tech. The buildings have suffered from power outages and in some cases damage, Skorton said. According to Donald Tobias, executive director of CCE in NYC, CCE offices in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens suffered no damage or flooding See SANDY page 4
3 CUPD Officers Reassigned to Focus On Sexual Assaults
Thirty-two percent of Cornell freshmen who joined a fraternity or sorority last semester were hazed as part of their experience joining the organization, according to a study conducted by the University. Additionally, the survey found that 15 percent of students in other campus organizations, including clubs and “Thirty-two percent is sports teams, were hazed. Greek student leaders higher than where emphasized that although we want to be.” the 32 percent figure is higher than they would Alan Workman ’13 like it to be, it falls substantially below some national figures. Six-hundred and fifteen members of the Class of 2015 were asked in an online survey if they had been expected to participate, as a condition of joining an organization, in activities that meet the University’s definition of hazing, according to Tim Marchell ’82, director of mental health initiatives at Gannett Health Services. The University’s definition of hazing includes actions such as being paddled, kidnapped, screamed at, deprived of sleep or See HAZING page 5
Bird’s eye view
By KERRY CLOSE Sun News Editor
Three specially-trained Cornell police officers are now exclusively investigating reports of sexual assault, after a string of incidents of sexual assault and forcible touching were reported on or near campus this semester, according to Police Chief Kathy Zoner. The three CUPD officers have been reassigned to a task force that will work to resolve and investigate possible connections between the reported crimes, Zoner said. “The string of reported sexual assaults warranted See TASK FORCE page 4
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Bird-watchers, including members of the Cornell Birding Club, look for birds blown off course by Hurricane Sandy at Cayuga Lake Tuesday afternoon.
Man Charged in Connection With Commons Bomb Scare By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer
An Ithaca man has been arrested in connection with a suspicious package that was found outside the Bank of America building on the Ithaca Commons on Oct. 11, police said. Following a joint
investigation by the Ithaca Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Matthew Whitney, 37, was charged with “placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the second degree.” Several agencies, including Ithaca Police and the New York State
Police Bomb Squad, responded to the Ithaca Commons just before 3 p.m. on Oct. 11 following a report of the suspicious package. Police initially treated the package as a “possible explosive device,” according a city press release. The Commons was closed to pedestrian traf-
fic and evacuated until later that evening. Numerous businesses in the area were forced to close temporarily. The suspicious package was ultimately determined to be “non-threatening,” according to a city press release. Whitney was arraigned in Ithaca City
Court Wednesday and released pending further court action, according to IPD. The charge of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the second degree is a class E felony. Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochczevski@cornellsun.com.
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Aiming for Spring Launch, ‘Watchers’ Plan Advances [such as one] in which you would call 911 immediately and one in which you would call the host first and make an informed A new campus group that will send decision together,” Schiedo said. “For unidentified students to monitor parties for instance, say a Watcher spots someone possible health emergencies began recruit- who’s semi-conscious and then vomits. We ing members last week with the goal of would call 911 first, then send a text to all having the program ready to launch by the the other Watchers and simultaneously start of the spring semester, student orga- contact the party’s host to let them know there’s an ambulance coming.” nizers said. Schiedo emphasized that no formal proHannah James ’15, the vice president of recruitment for Cayuga’s Watchers, said tocols have yet been adopted by the group. Contrary to some students’ perception that the executive board hopes to hire 50 to 100 “Watchers” to attend and monitor of the program, it is not designed to interrisky behavior at on- and off-campus par- fere with campus social life or to punish ties, at the hosts’ request. The board will students for drinking, said Mike Ostro ’15, select its first round of Watchers after the the Watchers’ vice president of outreach. “I’ve seen some confusion expressed application period ends next month, James from students about the role or aid of the said. “We’re looking for community-minded Watchers. We are not a spy organization,” students — ideally sophomores and juniors Ostro said. “The [party] hosts know we’re there. They invite us and know the breadth of our responsibil“We are not a spy organization. ities. If it wasn’t to the hosts’ advantage, they would have no The [party] hosts ... invite us.” reason to employ our services.” Those responsibilities will Mike Ostro ’15 be clearly underscored during an extensive training program who understand the social scene, but the that each Watcher will be required to comapplication is open to the whole campus — plete, according to Schiedo. Additionally, who want to help their friends have fun in Watchers will need to pass a mandatory a safe environment,” James said. “This is a exam — in the form of a trial period spanjob opportunity. The Watchers will be ning one or two weeks — at the end of the trained to intervene, in a non-confronta- training program to evaluate their pretional manner, only in situations where paredness, he said. “Next semester, when we have our first intervening is necessary.” All accepted Watchers will be trained to group of Watchers, we are going to bring in be “risk identifiers”: individuals who iden- representatives from campus organizations tify high-risk situations and carry out an to expand on their training,” Schiedo said. established protocol in the case of emer- “For instance, we’ll have a representative gency, said Ryan Schiedo ’13, the Watchers’ from EARS come in and lecture the new Watchers on how to talk with someone vice president of training. “We are outlining [different] situations, who has been drinking. Similarly, Gannett By HARRISON OKIN
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The Watchers’ watchers | Hannah James ’15, vice president of recruitment for Cayuga’s Watchers, attends the group’s first executive board meeting Sunday in Willard Straight Hall.
[officials] will explain the effects of alcohol on the frontal lobe and the body.” Gannett Health Services representatives are eager to coordinate programs with the Watchers to help increase students’ ability to recognize and respond to risky situations, said Tim Marchell ’82, director of mental health initiatives at Gannett. “Watchers will need to understand how to recognize when there is a potential problem and how to effectively engage the people involved,” Marchell said. “That might mean stepping in to get a severely intoxicated person from doing another round of shots. Or it might involve getting a guy’s friends to stop him from trying to have sex with someone who can barely stand.” Marchell said he believes the program is a positive step toward reaching those goals. “The strength of Cayuga’s Watchers is that it will put trained students right into the parties where problems like alcohol poisoning can arise,” Marchell said. “The program formalizes the concept of prosocial bystander behavior by embedding students who are prepared to take action rather than passively stand by when there is a problem.” Cayuga’s Watchers President Eric
Silverberg ’14 encouraged students — both Greek and non-Greek — to apply to become Watchers. “Ultimately, our long term goal is to have enough Watchers [so] that for any given event, we’ll be able to send someone who is actually a member of the organization hosting the party,” Silverberg said. Schiedo said that there is not currently a requirement for applicants to be certified in either First Aid or CPR, but added that the Watchers hope to eventually recruit students who possess those skills. Over time, the Watchers executive board hopes to bring the fledgling organization to a point where it can substantially influence Cornell’s campus by reducing risk and promoting a safer social culture, Schiedo said. “If we can be effective in enhancing student safety and keep them from going to the hospital, Greek life might be able to survive on this campus,” added Schiedo, who is in a fraternity. “I am very excited. This might even create a way for freshmen to party again.” Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.
Now on Ag Quad,C.U.Farmer’s Market Sees‘Great Success’ By OLIVIA DANG Sun Contributor
The Farmers’ Market at Cornell ended a successful season last week, as students, faculty, staff and local vendors gathered on the Ag Quad to learn about local food, buy fresh goods and listen to live music. Organizers of the market said they saw an increase in sales this season compared to last year. Organizers attributed the uptick in part to a change in venue. For the past eight Thursdays, the student-run farmers’ market invited local food and craft vendors to set up between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. outside of Roberts Hall
— a switch from last year’s weekly market on Ho Plaza. Moving to the Ag Quad contributed to improved sales and a greater number of vendors and customers. “We’ve seen such a great success and increase of sales. [Vendors] have sold out before the end of the market, and [it was] a really great season,” Boochever said. Katerina Athanasiou ’13, another market manager of the Farmers’ Market at Cornell and a senior editor at The Sun, agreed that “the [Farmers’ Market] has grown substantially” since it was first held on the Ag Quad last year. “We were a little nervous
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Eat your veggies | A student buys fresh food from a local vendor at the farmers’ market on the Ag Quad Thursday.
about the move from Ho Plaza at first, but it’s great because we have a lot more space for music and people to sit down, have a picnic and enjoy lunch,” Athanasiou said. “We have about three times as many vendors as we did last year, which we would not have had space for in our initial location.” Vendors also said they benefited from the new location on the Ag Quad. “This year there are a lot more customers, and business is better on the Ag Quad,” said Emily Burrichter ’14, student manager of Dilmun Hill Student Farm. Dilmun Hill, a student-run organic farm located on Route 366, sold freshly harvested vegetables at this year’s farmers’ market. “[The farmers’ market] is a good time for us to hang out, sell some of our vegetables that we have been working hard to grow and give back to the Cornell community,” Burrichter said. The low cost to set up a stand in exchange for access to Cornell students, faculty and staff appeals to many vendors, Boochever said. This year’s farmers’ market featured 17 local vendors every week, including the
Cornell Orchards, Dilmun Hill Farm, Tellez Mexican Catering, Honey Rock Farm, Blue Quarry Designs and Captivating Clay Creations, among others. This year, Synapsis, the graduate student organization in Cornell’s Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, sold “local food grown with minimal input — so it’s really sustainable,” Synapsis member Lindsay Wyatt grad said. Many students were drawn to the market’s wide selection of food vendors during the season. “It’s really cool. I just went down there to get lunch — I was actually going to Trillium first — but then I saw the farmers’ market and decided to eat there,” Griffin Brodman ’16 said of the market. After this season’s success, organizers said they are considering expanding the market season to span more of the academic year. “We’re thinking of having a spring market, which will be a great way to get new members and pass on leadership roles,” Boochever said.
Olivia Dang can be reached at oyd2@cornell.edu.
A campus organization, Dartmouth Students Stand With Staff, demonstrated at Dartmouth College Monday to raise awareness about what they alleged is the college’s mistreatment of its employees, The Dartmouth reported. The group’s demands included restoring pre-2011 health benefits for all Dartmouth staff, ending subcontracting labor and increase annual wages to keep up with inflation rates, according to The Dartmouth. A Princeton University alumnus died Monday in Princeton Township when Hurricane Sandy hit the city, The Daily Princetonian reported Wednesday. William Sword ’76 was killed by a falling tree while removing debris from in front of his house, according to The Princetonian. Princeton has been closed for three days so far as a result of the weather conditions in the area. Yale University outperformed many of its peer institutions in growing its endowment for the latest fiscal year, according to The Yale Daily News. Returns across the Ivy League for that fiscal period, which ended June 30, were significantly lower than the previous year, with Yale reporting a sharp decrease from its 21.9 percent reported return in 2011. Still, Yale’s return on investments for its endowment was the second-best in the Ivy League for this term, trailing only Dartmouth College’s 5.8 percent. — Compiled by Jonathan Dawson
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the formation of the task force,” Zoner said. The primary focus of the task force is to expedite the review of evidence and witness testimony in order to identify and apprehend suspects in the multiple sexual assault cases, Zoner said. On Sept. 2, three attacks were reported within hours of one another –– a forcible touching in Collegetown, a harassment in the parking lot near Hughes Dining and a rape near the suspension bridge north of the Arts Quad. Another female victim also reported an attempted rape on Sept. 27 near the trolley bridge connecting the Engineering Quad and Oak Avenue. Additionally, a female student reported that she was grabbed and harassed by a masked man behind 111 Dryden Rd. early Saturday morning. Zoner could not comment on the findings of the task force’s investigations, which have been ongoing throughout the month of October. “We’re still investigating,” she said. “In some cases, we feel firm [the reported crimes] are not connected. In others, we’re not so sure.”
The creation of the task force comes in the wake of student criticism of what some have called the administration’s lack of response to the reported incidents. Coalitions of students, including the Assembly for Justice have urged administrators to take more proactive steps in addressing sexual assaults. The task force is one way in which CUPD is responding to a need created by the series of reports, Zoner said. “This is an effort that’s solely dedicated to the reports [of sexual assault],” she said. Among other initiatives, CUPD has also increased its nightly patrols and has begun sending out weekly emails to the Cornell community, reminding students, faculty and staff of available resources such as Blue Light phones and escort services. CUPD urges anyone with information about any of the reported crimes to call its headquarters at 607-255-1111. Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.
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during the storm and will reopen Thursday. However, the main office on East 34th Street in Manhattan will remain closed because of ongoing power outages in that area of the city. Still, the NYC offices of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations — also located on East 34th — are scheduled to reopen Thursday after suffering power outages caused by the storm, Skorton said. Additionally, the NYC offices of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering — at 55 Broad — in lower Manhattan, were flooded and left without power. The building will remain closed for the rest of the week while officials look for alternative classroom space in other Cornell offices or private spaces, according to Prof. Adrian Lewis, director of the ORIE school. Despite the damage, Skorton said faculty, staff and students in the city were “doing well” and making the necessary arrangements to reopen their facilities. Weill Cornell Medical Center, which was closed Tuesday except
“Thanks to the efforts of the emergency operations team ... the college suffered only minimal damage.” David Skorton
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for “essential services,” resumed normal operations Wednesday. In his email, Skorton credited the WCMC staff for monitoring the impact of the storm on the school throughout Monday night and Tuesday. “Thanks to the efforts of the emergency operations team and staff who responded around the clock, power was maintained, patients were cared for and the college suffered only minimal damage,” Skorton said. Like the Ithaca campus, Cornell’s facilities in other areas of upstate New York were not significantly damaged. CCE offices outside of NYC did not report any problems and remained open after the storm, Skorton wrote. The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva was unharmed, although the station’s facility on Long Island did suffer “power outages, downed trees and telephone lines, and some damage to greenhouse windows,” Skorton said. The Cornell in Washington building in Washington, D.C., which was hit more directly by the storm than upstate New York facilities, was also unharmed. After “extensive pre-storm preparations,” the Shoals Marine Laboratory in Maine was also left unscathed, Skorton said. The GHESKIO health clinic in Port au Prince, Haiti, which is operated by WCMC, was in the direct path of Hurricane Sandy and experienced some flooding, but is now fully operational. In his email, Skorton announced the launch of a new blog, Cornell Disaster Relief and Outreach, which he said will “facilitate communication” among students, faculty and staff affected by the storm. Emma Court contributed reporting to this article. David Marten can be reached at dmarten@cornellsun.com.
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exposed to harsh weather conditions. Mandatory participation in drinking games and being forced to take shots of hard alcohol or eat “unpalatable” foods are also included in the list of activities that constitute hazing, according to Marchell. Greek leaders said that rather than highlight the Greek system’s shortcomings, the survey results indicate that the Greek system at Cornell is moving in the right direction. “You need to look at Cornell fraternities versus national fraternities and say we are making progress on curbing this culture,” said Ken Babcock ’13, vice president for judicial affairs for the Interfraternity Council, noting that the percentage of freshmen who reported being hazed at Cornell is substantially lower than national averages. Babcock cited a 2008 study conducted by the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention and the University of Maine that found, nationally, 73 percent of students in a fraternity or sorority experienced hazing. “I think the more significant statistic to look at is the comparison between” Cornell figures and national averages, Babcock said. “We’re looking at frats, which aren’t really comparable to other organizations ... I would never compare a fraternity, which is a social organization bound by students living together, to another organization.” Alan Workman ’13, IFC Executive vice president, added that the survey results indicate an improvement in the Greek system at Cornell over the last
few years. “We’ve definitely made major strides from where we were a few years ago, but it still shows we have a lot work to do. Below the national average is definitely where we want to be,” he said. “I think [at Cornell] you’re around a group of people who are highly intelligent. They’re acutely aware of the the consequences [of hazing] … The mentality on campus has shifted toward a cautionary one which is a good place for it to be.” Additionally, Workman said the IFC wants to reduce the number of members being hazed. “Thirty-two percent is higher than where we want to be,” he said. “I hope that doesn’t include the high-risk hazing ... I hope that people are aware of the consequences of the high-risk hazing.” Still, the results of the study show that hazing is an issue that the University must continue to address, Marchell added. “It means that hazing is present on our campus, and knowing what we know about the impact hazing can cause psychologically and physically, we have a public health challenge that we need to continue to address,” he said. Students who reported being invoved in acts defined as hazing were less likely to consider those acts to be hazing, according to the survey results. “Some people who experience an activity that clearly meets the definition of hazing do not themselves use the word ‘hazing’ to describe it,” Marchell said. “Some do not label what they experienced as hazing because they don’t understand what qualifies as hazing. Others believe that it can’t be con-
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sidered hazing if they didn’t refuse to do it. But the University policy says that activities that can be physically or emotionally harmful are hazing, regardless of the person’s ‘consent’ to participate.” Machell added that physical force is not necessary for the classification of an activity as hazing. Peer pressure or alcohol can also be used to coerce someone into taking part in unwanted activities, he said. “Too often, in hazing situations, we hear: ‘People were free not to do it. No one was forced.’ And that statement reflects, in many cases, a lack of understanding of the forms that force can take,” he said. The study also asked freshmen whether they consider hazing an acceptable practice and whether they thought their peers found it acceptable. “What we found was that a clear majority — 86 percent — of the students in the sample believe that it is never okay to humiliate or intimidate other people as part of joining a group or organization,” Marchell said. “But they weren’t so sure that others believed those types of activities were unacceptable.” The administration will use the survey results to examine its education and policies concerning hazing, Marchell said. “We are going to continue [to] expand our educational efforts around hazing,” he said. “The data will inform, in particular, the initiatives that are being developed in response to the president’s charge to ‘end pledging as we know it.’” Joe Nizcky can be reached at jnizcky@cornellsun.com.
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Smith for Fourth Ward THE FOURTH WARD IN ITHACA has had a long string of student representatives who have sat on the Common Council. The Fourth Ward, which includes Collegetown, is comprised of a large number of students, and it is important that their interests be represented. While there is one student running for the position, we feel that students’ needs will more adequately be served by Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward), an Ithaca resident and SUNY Geneseo graduate, and for that reason we endorse him for Ithaca’s Fourth Ward. Smith was appointed to fill the position vacated by Eddie Rooker ’09 and we feel that he will continue to represent the ward well. He has taken positions on city issues that we feel are pragmatic and necessary. For example, he has supported the mayor’s attempts to fill the city’s $3-million dollar deficit and was the only representative to vote to consolidate building and fire inspections in the city in an effort to reduce redundancy and costs. Importantly, he supports a budget that combines cuts with modest property tax increases. While closing the defecit is a daunting task, with Smith on the council, we feel more confident that the city will finally be able to close its huge deficit. Smith’s opponent, Misha Checkovich ’13, has taken positions that are more rigidly tied to ideology rather than pragmatism. This rigidity would substantially restrict the city’s ability to close the deficit. Checkovich has said that she would not support even modest property tax increases to minimize cuts to public safety. She has also said she would not cut public safety positions. These two positions make it hard to move in the direction of reducing the city’s deficit. While Checkovich said that the city should close its deficit by promoting business development to create new sources of tax revenue, this is only a long term solution. The city needs strong leadership when it comes to reducing the deficit in the short term. What both candidates do agree on, and what The Sun supports, is smart development and using growth to boost tax revenues. Both Smith and Checkovich have said that they support exemptions from parking regulations that would make higher density development in Collegetown possible. The addition of these high-density buildings will help decrease rent prices for students while bringing more revenue to the city. These parking exemptions will help bring a grocery store to the heart of Collegetown, for example — a business that Collegetown desperately needs. Additionally, both candidates have discussed the importance of engaging the long-term residents of the Fourth Ward in a dialogue with the students. Sadly, this is something that has constantly been discussed, but never adequately materialized. Non-student residents and landlords constantly accuse students of having no regard for the City of Ithaca, and students resent landlords for high rent prices. We hope that whichever candidate wins this election will make engaging both students and residents a top priority. Smith has shown a willingness to take a pragmatic and realistic approach to improving the City of Ithaca. He understands the importance of closing the deficit in the short run and also exploring long term solutions that promote sustainable development in Collegetown. We enthusiastically endorse his candidacy for the Fourth Ward.
He doesn’t know his biological parents. A Seattle family adopted him and another child from an orphanage in Vancouver. He is a gangly fivefeet seven-inches and weighs in at a wiry 130 pounds on any given day. He has messy unkempt hair that he calls his “mane.” It’s biblical looking. To the best of my knowledge, his wardrobe consists entirely of hiking shorts and loose t-shirts. I once saw him wearing a shirt and tie and could only think of him as a little kid who unhappily had to get dressed up for Easter at his grandma’s house. I met Cailen when I was 10 years old at summer camp in Estes Park, Colorado, about two hours from my home. He was a couple years older than me, but we still managed to become good friends. And for several summers I looked forward to the end of July and getting to spend a month hiking with him. Even after we outgrew the summer camp phases of our lives we still did our best to stay in touch and tried to get together for a good hike or two at least once a summer if we could. Four years ago, though, Cailen nearly died on the side of a rural Pennsylvania road in December. His heart stopped, he blacked out and he totaled his car. He ended up spending a couple weeks in the I.C.U. and then one more in the hospital as the doctors tried to determine what caused it. They were baffled and decided to put a computer chip underneath the skin on the left side of his chest to collect data for them to study. I imagine they are pretty proud of the advanced science and engineering that went into the design of the chip. Cailen is pretty proud of the fact that he can slide it around a few inches in whichever direction underneath his skin. Somehow, despite his heart stopping unpredictably for sometimes minutes at a time, Cailen manages to not show the effects of whatever it is
is now … the nickname “Smalls” might need to be reevaluated.) And although Cailen is no longer as involved in my life as he once was, I was still extremely happy when I found out he is engaged. Cailen had every right in the world to be upset with the cards dealt to him. His heart was failing on him at age 23, and he never let it get to him. In his mind being angry would do nothing to help resolve the issue, so instead he just decided to be grateful that he was alive. Cailen found a way to enjoy everything in his life and took every challenge he came across in stride. November brings a lot. Daylight Savings (my favorite holiday) gives us an extra hour of sleep for one night; prelim season makes its triumphant return to many of our lives; and a lot of us get to go home and see our families. I urge everyone though to not let the spirit of Thanksgiving get lost in all of the chaos that surrounds it. At the risk of sounding cliché, I urge everyone to take at least some time out of their month to be thankful for something in their lives. We are at Cornell. We go to a school with a beautiful campus, get instruction from extremely accomplished professors, and get to walk to and from class in the driving rain (thanks again, Sandy) uphill both ways. At the very least be thankful that we can complain to our eventual grandchildren about that. If Cailen is able to deal with his heart condition and manage to compare the lyrics of Biggie Smalls to the writings of Ernest Hemingway while dangling his feet over a glacial pond, then I’m sure all of us can find something to be grateful for. Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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OPINION
Looking Beyond the Bureaucracy T
he class of 2013 has seen a tragic, defining theme in each of our years at Cornell. Our freshman year saw a cluster of suicides, sophomore year untimely deaths of classmates, a string of bias incidents junior year and sexual assaults this fall. These incidents are frightening and often begin conversations throughout campus about reform and where to go from here. For the first time, though, I see more than just talk. I see action happening throughout campus across multiple spectrums. From the Assembly for Justice to the People’s School to the Student Assembly’s Illuminate the Night to Scorpions X — it’s happening. I don’t necessarily agree with each message or every means of communication. I am both happy and proud, though, that students are organizing themselves to take meaningful steps towards solutions in whichever ways they see most appropriate. We are beginning conversations, which up until now, happened mostly behind the closed doors of conference rooms or solely in the company of good friends. Though for those students that do not subscribe to one of the already established campaigns or organizations, the path to gain access to administrators is limited and unclear. From students, professors and alums, we often hear that “students are passive.” We don’t care about anything, apparently. But maybe that’s a result of the bureaucratic tangle that is this University. Maybe students just don’t know where to start, so their ideas or critiques die in their pre-natal states. Perhaps, if the University and its vast resources were more easily accessible, this campus would be a different place. Currently, no consistent, open forum exists to engage students. This is especially interesting to me because Cornell so often brands itself as an institution dedicated to public service. Just last week, the University produced a video entitled “Cornell’s Land-Grant Mission and the Spirit of Public Engagement.” The video features photos of Cornellians doing inspiring work throughout the world, which is exciting. But when looking inwards to our campus life, this mantra falls flat. Branding Cornell as a place committed to building communities and giving back seems far fetched on such a top-down, hierarchical campus. It seems this happens often. The University’s image of Cornell and reality are disconnected. The sentiments and the ideas presented are often positive and even motivational, but don’t translate into concrete action. In his most recent column, President Skorton wrote, “I invite input from the entire Cornell community.” Great! But, how? How are we engaging students?
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ere we sit, on November 1, 2012, somewhere between the silliness of Halloween, Sandy’s unassuming and totally anti-climactic sweep through Ithaca and the imminent presidential election. Just another Thursday. For most, November 1 is the day after
Due to our large size — 10 colleges and schools, 745 acres, over 20,000 students — this place can be hard to manage and even harder to navigate. Understandably, a long history of bureaucracy and “big red tape” makes it challenging for students to make their voices heard or turn ideas into realities. How are students practicing their civic responsibilities without the appropriate venue to do so? Let me clarify: There is some student involvement and interaction with Day Hall. However, those meetings are few and far between. And furthermore, they require titles: Student Assembly President, Panhellenic President, senior Daily Sun Editors. By no means should these people be excluded. But the message we’re sending is a dangerous one. We are creating a community in which students must acquire titles to acquire relevance. We’re creating a divisive student culture where certain people have access and others don’t. We have, if you will, a select group of “campus leaders,” that absolutely deserve to be included in conversations, but should not be the only ones invited to the table. I see a large distance, a nearly impossible inertia, between the students that bring life to this campus and the administrators that shape the direction of the University. It’s not that I expect students to be consulted for every little decision. That’s infeasible. I am not suggesting that Vice President Murphy or Dean Hubbell guide students directly through their initiatives. But they have insight and knowledge to the University that nobody else does. When we, as students, get the opportunity to pick their brains about ideas we have, they can direct us to the appropriate resources. We leave every four (or so) years. The fleeting institutional memory of student organizations makes it difficult to pass on the knowledge one gains about “how things work” and “who can help you make things happen” without having a student or administrative mentor of sorts. The problem isn’t that we don’t have resources; it’s that we don’t know what they are or how to access them. We need administrators and staff members to play a fundamental “dot-connecting” and “people integrating” role. When we speak about creating a “caring community” or “changing campus culture,” these processes cannot persist successfully if lead by a select handful of voices. What
Katerina Athanasiou Kat’s Cradle about emergencies or tragedies. It could be about academic concerns or extracurricular needs. As President Skorton expressed in a recent column, “Yet honest conversation pursued with openness, rigor, civility and a commitment to work together toward resolution, imperfect though it may be, is an essential step in building a more safe and caring community.” Where are these conversations happening? Who is being invited? Who isn’t? I invite you to ponder these questions and perhaps, to think about how we address “public engagement.” We are told we will be innovators, problem solvers, leaders. We can do it! “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Well, how? How do we expect students to leave Cornell feeling equipped and empowered if even within the University, we see the same systems of exclusion recreated?
Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, and planning. She may be reacched at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com. Kat’s Cradle runs alternate Thursdays this semester.
Shave the Date clip off the edges of your beard.” Though the month is not specified, and I am no expert on anything biblical, my gut tells me to do as He says. However, it’s easy for me to say as I am a mere onlooker of this jovial celebration (I am choosing to sit this one out this
Hannah Deixler Shades of Grey Halloween. For many, it marks 55 days until Christmas. However, for others (perhaps the more manly amongst us), November 1 marks the first day of the most underrated holiday of the year: No Shave November. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this blissfully (and self-explanatory) hairy celebration, allow me to explain. For the next 30 days, a select group of men (or women) on Cornell’s campus will put away their razors, work through itching, scratching and probably an awkward moustache phase to develop their most burly of facial hair in accordance with God’s orders. What, you ask? No Shave November is a religious holiday? But of course! In Leviticus (19:27) God demands, “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or
makes someone a leader? What makes a student important or relevant enough to be invited to a meeting? Cornell is an endlessly complex place. We need to create more concrete, constant, accessible means of interaction between administrators and students. We need a consistent, structured, open forum through which we can express our ideas and thoughts about what is happening on this campus. Yes, the administration has hosted a number of themed meetings recently — about sexual assault, about bias and about safety. But these are reactive responses to crisis. What about a monthly “town hall” forum, where students could bring any concern to administrators and then be advised with whom to work with to move their ideas along? It doesn't just have to be
year). Men who observe No Shave November (or Noshember, as it may be), agree not only to endure discomfort (both physical and emotional) of untamed facial hair, but also sign onto going home for Thanksgiving with a gnarly beard and / or moustache and having to explain to mom the significance of the festival of hair. That alone is admirable. It is unclear if No Shave November is a celebration of all-that-is-male or an excuse to be lazy, but I think that regardless of its origins, more Cornellians should observe it. First and foremost: Being hairy can do good. No Shave November has become such a widely observed holiday that there is now a nonprofit organization, Movember, aiming to “change the face of men’s health.” By getting men involved
(the organization calls them “Mo Bros”) through No Shave November, Movember promotes (through month-long events and campaigns) annual check ups, male cancer awareness and early cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment. So, you get to be you and support a good cause. Second, if you’re worried about that awkward scruff, fear not. Tell any girl that you have an aggressive beard because you and your buds are observing the Noshember holiday, and you are automatically exempt from being thrown into the “gross and hairy” category because you have a legitimate, even God-forsaken, reason for not shaving. Cornell needs some feel good camaraderie on campus these days. In recent weeks, the mood has been appropriately somber. Men have lovingly stood behind women as we search for our safety and role on campus, and students have come together to discuss difficult but important issues facing #ThePeoplesSchool. I propose that No Shave November will provide followers with a light-hearted sense of community that The Hill currently lacks. Thirdly, if you’ve got it, flaunt it. In the same way that (some) male students are supporting — and actively listening to and engaging with — women in our efforts to celebrate who we are and who we deserve to be on this campus, I encourage men to embrace their inner dude. Brotherhood, I argue, can be found outside of fraternity basements. Lastly, I would be remiss if I preached Noshember as a be-who-you-are-feel-good
holiday without including Cornell’s female population and inviting those who feel so inclined to throw the razors away as well. Challenging gender roles and getting out of binders and into meaningful conversation is not only awesome, but also important. After all, it is just hair. There exists the potential to create a Noshemberina community amidst all this womanizing (both on campus and in political discourse) and to further challenge our role on Cornell’s campus. The idea that women on this campus would ban together and stop shaving their legs — in order to say something about who we are — seems kind of awesome. And, females, Noshember’s laziness appeal applies to you as well. In short, No Shave November is a gender-blind celebration and includes anyone who’s willing to hold on for the hairy ride. So, for any of you who woke up today feeling the post-Halloween blues or are still resenting the administration for allowing Cornell to be the only college east of Nevada to remain in session through Sandy’s ferocity, I remind you that the best is yet to come. Welcome to No Shave November. Stay warm, show it, grow and love your hair. And don’t forget: It’s never too early to start planning for Don’t Shave December or Just Don’t Shave January. Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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DINING GUIDE
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Eating Out (of the Box): Hipster Kitchen’s Top 5 Restaurants By CLARE DOUGAN Sun Staff Writer
We’ve all been told a million times over where to eat — CTB for a quick lunch, Jack’s for late-night, Aladdin’s when your parents visit. In a town this small, it’s easy to slip into routines. But if you yearn to escape the predictable, to subvert the ordinary, to live outside the mainstream — look no further! Hipster Kitchen’s got a guide for you. Let’s start slow, with a place you’ve probably heard of. STELLA’S ranks high on the hip scale in all categories: Cool atmosphere, gourmet coffee, a well-stocked bar and a cleverness that permeates every aspect of their existence. Their quirky, seasonally-inspired menu is delicious and cheeky. Last time I was there, I had a salad that involved diced roasted squash, ricotta cheese, pink-purple pickled onions and popcorn — weird and awesome to the max — and all of their drinks have magnificent names with descriptions and ingredients to match. I always like to use the Obama as an example — a half-white, halfdark chocolate mocha with a splash of
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legetown: THE LITTLE THAI HOUSE. Yeah, it’s pretty obscure. Right around the corner from where CTP used to be on Dryden Road, this cafeteria-style hole in the wall serves up amazing Thai food for eat-in or take-out. The atmosphere is straight out of an indie movie — all red plastic trays, flickering fluorescents and existential weirdness. I rarely encounter other people when I go there, although I often stop by just before close to pick up stirfried bok choy and red curry to nosh on while I finish a paper. Their food is delicious, and incredibly cheap. Give it a whirl, and tell your friends (if they’re cool). If you’re looking to leave the Cornell bubble for an authentic Ithaca experience, haul your hungover self out of bed for weekend brunch at CAFÉ DEWITT. This place is only open from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., does not accept credit cards and is always full of old people. How much more exclusive could they get? They make a mean eggs Benedict, their coffee is delightful and you get to enjoy a quiet meal under a canopy of tiny twinkling lights. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a seat next to the aquarium filled with vibrant and curious goldfish. Also downtown, THE PIGGERY exemplifies the new “hipster farmer” aesthetic and catapulted into public consciousness with the simulta-
neous rise in popularity of a) Bon Iver and b) Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, now visible wherever there are guys with flannel shirts and full beards talking about how they want to “get back to nature.” Designed for an eco-conscious foodie, but not for timid vegans, the Piggery is a farm-to-table operation that raises, slaughters and prepares all their own meat. I love their bratwurst, and the pulled pork sandwich — accompanied by vibrant purple slaw — is also a favorite. Also, definitely take home some bacon from their butcher case next door. And, of course, best for last: THE FARMERS MARKET. Guys. This place is so hip it’s not even a restaurant. A motley mix of food stalls and vegetable stands, the Farmer’s Market is open every weekend through the winter, and there is always something new and delicious to discover. Try the Southwest flatbread pizza from Finger Lakes Bakery, corn fritters from Macro Mama’s or one of Littletree Orchards’ apple cider doughnuts for 75 cents. Plus, it doubles as a trip to the grocery store! Pick up some produce to bring home and use in some gourmet food of your very own. I’ve got plenty of recipes on my blog, if you want to check them out. Clare Dougan can be reached at cdougan@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Kendrick Lamar Good Kid M.A.A.D. City Aftermath
AZach Reisler Kendrick Lamar is a young rapper from Compton who is intent on bringing his poetic style to the rap scene. The talented newcomer is a protégé to one of the masters of rap, Dr. Dre. Alongside the reknowned superproducer, Lamar performed “The Recipe” — his hit single with a signature Dre beat — at Coachella last year. While Lamar’s first full length album Section 80 was well-received (after Dre put his stamp of approval on it), Lamar only found nationwide success after “HiiiPoWeR” became a radio hit. Good Kid M.A.A.D City, Lamar’s sophomore album released on Tuesday, shows incredible promise and growth. Lamar has such a particular style of delivery, combining a mixture of spoken word poetry and provocative, politicized rap. He addresses racism, inequality and conditions in ghettos over unconventional beats. In some ways, Lamar is an iconoclast in both his instrumentals and his lyrics. His tracks don’t have the same old “verse-chorusverse-chorus-verse” monotony that we expect from songs these days. He often doesn’t use a chorus and often raps continuously through a song. Furthermore, his delivery is refreshingly distinct; its measured meter evokes a poetic sensibility. On the confessional “Poetic Justice,” featuring Drake, Lamar admits, “I mean I write poems in these songs / Dedicated to you / And you’re in the mood for empathy / There’s blood in my pen.” Lamar’s lyrics don’t always rhyme every line in a traditional ABAB fashion; he doesn’t let rhyme interfere with what he wants to say. He can go a few lines without a rhyme and then quickly jump back in with a flurry of lyrical genius. Waiting for that
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getting into sticky situations like smoking weed, starting a gang fight and committing armed robbery. In M.A.A.D City, he tackles racial bias and the code of conduct in the ghettos: “When you hop on that trolley / Make sure your colors correct / Make sure you’re corporate or they’ll be calling your mother collect.” On the single from the album, “Swimming Pools,” Lamar talks about his uncle’s struggle with alcoholism using a mocking hyperbole: “Why you babysittin’ only two or three shots? / Imma show you how to turn it up a notch / First, you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it.” The beat has wavering synths, sharp snares and a subdued bass to create a drunken beat. Lamar’s beats, infused with soulful samples and classic hip-hop bass, are fresh and addictive. In a departure from conventional rap albums, Lamar adds in skits at the beginning and end of his tracks. These skits, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, sound like messages his friends have left on his phone. Lamar is changing the rap game by inspiring emcees to add more substance to their music. You can sit back and enjoy the instrumentals, or focus on what he is saying and leave Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City equally satisfied. Whether you’re looking for music for partying or introspection, Lamar’s album is timely. Keep your ears and eyes on him as he continues to deliver ‘poetic justice’ to the genre of rap. Zach Reisler is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at zrr3@cornellsun.edu.
Egyptian Hip Hop Good Don’t Sleep R&S Records
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When you and your buddies release your first record of danceable, ’80s-biting electro-pop at the age of sixteen, of course you are going to be hailed as the next-big-thing. When you’re from Manchester and your band is named Egyptian Hip Hop, well, that means being the subject of all sorts of NME hype-machinery. It’s felt like eons since their first experiences of critical fellatio, but, hey, you get the luxury of time when you put out some solid material before most of your friends have lost their virginity. 2010’s Some Reptiles Grew Wings EP was an indelible slice of enigmatic pop, all skittery beats, fat basslines and cheeky song titles (the surprisingly anthemic “Rad Pitt” tells you all you need to know). Lead singer Alex Hewett spat out vague but evocative couplets with a boyishly vulnerable croon that cracked in all the right places while the band chugged along like a maximalist cross between The xx and The Cure. On their cockily titled debut full-length Good Don’t Sleep, Egyptian Hip Hop reveal that their record collections are a bit more varied this time around. “Tobago” is an indicator of some Talking Heads worship. Built on a jerky keyboard loop and a pounding African beat, it works a sinister mood as well as anything else. But while its disjointed harmonies and a gorgeously understated synth interlude signify the band’s growing maturity as songwriters, “Tobago” also serves as a harbinger of the sort of overlong, underdeveloped
jams that hold the album back. Lead single “SYH” crystallizes Egyptian Hip Hop’s potential into one track. Riding a dark, loping bassline, Alex Hewett sounds as forlorn as ever, his reverb-soaked voice almost sighing the chorus (a rather prevalent strategy that band lives or dies by). Tribal drums lifted straight from the “How To Be Joy Division” handbook pummel the listener into submission before the band retreats into ambient feedback. It’s a modern compositional style, with Egyptian Hip Hop employing dance music constructs in a synth-rock medium. While hardly original, they do it as well as any of their peers (even the ones ten years their senior). The record is hardly devoid of other highlights. “Yoro Diallo” hints at Boards of Canada’s sleepy analog experiments before launching into a trickily polyrhythmic riff. “Pearl Sound” is brooding in a manner reminiscent of The Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored;” while it doesn’t reach the catastrophic highs of that track, it’s measured, sinister delivery shows that the band can be difficult and distant when it needs to be. Album closer “Iltoise” is as satisfactory a conclusion as one could expect for the album, a spacey and wistful finale that forgoes percussion in favor of echoing guitar arpeggios and indecipherable lyrics. “Iltoise” exhibits a tender side of a band that has made it’s living on rhythmic acrobatics and menacing soundscapes that are a whole lot more krautrock than Coldplay.
However, the Egyptian Hip Hop’s many attempts at atmospheric slow-burners — “Avalon,” “Strange Vale” and “The White Falls,” to name a few — are far from inadequate but suffer due to lengthy runtimes and a lack of melodic immediacy. What made Some Reptiles Grew Wings such a charming release was that, despite their more experimental leanings, these kids still knew how to deliver one helluva chorus. Listening to “Rad Pitt” gave you a sense that these guys could not only get a nod of approval from Pitchfork, but could deliver an indie disco smash in the vein of The Klaxons’ “Golden Skans.” A lot of time on Good Don’t Sleep is spent further abstracting their tracks rather than building towards some grand moment of delivery. Though this delivery works to near-perfection on the murky slow boil of “The One-Eyed King,” it’s resulted in a somewhat disappointing release that, given a little bit of guidance and editing, could have been excellent. Regardless, this is a promising debut that serves as a sketchpad of where the young quartet goes in the future — hopefully some place tighter, more varied and a tad less indulgent. More than anything, time is on their side. Let’s hope that Egyptian Hip Hop takes advantage of this. James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jmr386@cornell.edu.
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CMJ: The Search for the Next Arcade Fire
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roperly bushed from New York City’s 31st annual CMJ Music Marathon, I’ve settled back in stormy Ithaca with an iTunes full of promising talent and potential chart-toppers from my week of catching 50 or so live sets. Spanning 80 venues in both Manhattan and Brooklyn from Oct. 16-20, CMJ’s deluge of 1300 acts is the perfect breeding ground for the newest up-and-comers to make it big. It’s where the ravenous press flock to stake a claim on the next greatest discovery. It’s where all the reps from the music biz sign the (mostly) secondary line-ups for the summer festival circuit. It’s where the grassroots music crowd (read: hipsters) sees all the unsigned bands that provide the pretentious fodder for their I-saw-them-beforethey-were-famous braggadocio. All in all, CMJ was 60 percent bad music, 10 percent good music and 30 percent of just riding back and forth on the L-train (ew). But through the haze of Aztec-print cardigans, $12 beers and questionable facial hair, there lies waiting the next Arcade Fire or the next xx (both discovered at CMJ), and so I soldiered on the L into Williamsburg for that last 2 a.m. set. Here are the bands that are sure to be buzzed about:
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Dream.” She has also dabbled in polished alt-country and even Katy Perry-esque pop with her radio-friendly “Obession” — she has since openly derided this era in her life. At her Santo’s Party House set on Oct. 19, Sky (looking like she belonged on the cover of Nylon Magazine) was decidedly rock-and-roll, a happy medium between her many transformations, a welcome iteration of her evolving forms. AVA LUNA One of the buzziest bands at CMJ was Ava Luna (bonus points for being named after my favorite Isabel Allende novel). Ava Luna delivered with its splayed-out harmonies (think Dirty Projectors) and surreal free-form funk. Add in some loose jazz and throaty vocals to create one of the coolest rock and soul performances ever — all coming from the dude dressed in his office attire of chinos, specs and button-downs. Big things come in nerdy packages, apparently.
ICONA POP This DJ and electropop duo is comprised of two tough Swedes, Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt, full of popular house, punk and indie rock influences that would make them fit right in on the next HBO Girls’ soundtrack. After receiving reasonable notoriety in 2011 for its feature in Chiddy Bang’s “Mind Your Manners” single, the band has yet to explode. Icona Pop has skillfully evaded the stale predictability that accompanies so much of European-style pop today to provide the chorus-driven and bass-heavy grooves off its seriously feelgood Iconic EP. The massively anthemic chorus on its debut single, “I Love It,” should be firmly placed in the too-catchy-to-be-ignored category — and after it undoubtedly blows up, ignoring Icona Pop may not be an option.
ANGEL HAZE Trapped in Gramercy Theater, I waited hours for Ghostface Killah to come on, sitting through some truly pitiful hip hop sets (in which Bodega Bamz got so angry at the unenthused crowd that he started throwing water to wake us) and listening to the emcee quote lines from past rap battles to pass time between sets (“Harriet Tubman was more of a man than your father!”). Out of nowhere, Angel Haze came on to rock the unsuspecting crowd with her ridiculously filthy and impossibly long breathless verses. Just five feet tall, Angel Haze commandeered the stage like someone of much greater stature or status. She’s got the attitude of Azaelia Banks, the lung capacity of Nicki Minaj (minus the weird Gaga-ish style) and the appearance of Profanity Aaliyah. And, so far, she’s Prayers dropped some of the nastiest beats this year. Check this tiny package out in all her untainted glory before she blows up and collabs with like, Big Sean, or something.
SKY FERREIRA Like Icona Pop, Sky has dabbled in electropop, but her many disparate reincarnations have defied any genre. My favorite version of the too-beautiful, too-versatile Sky is her whisper-grunge self, as in her singles “Red Lips” and “Sad
SAVAGES By far, the most buzzed about band was the British postpunk outfit, Savages. Its shows, no matter what time of day, drew a packed house, and its pedal-less, (mostly) synth-less tunes were refreshingly minimalist in its blisteringly intense
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live shows. Though the group wasn’t totally my style, it didn’t matter — its truly transporting performances still rendered me speechless. It had every member of the press asking each other how many sets of the Savages they got to catch. FOXYGEN It’s a pretty common practice at CMJ to only publish the schedule of main acts with inaccurate times in order to draw crowds and trap them with hours of sets from unpopular and usually unrelated sets before the main show. See Angel Haze above. This also occurred at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. After frantically running from the Bedford station to make the 8 p.m. Generationals show (30 person cap), I got there to find that the Generationals wouldn’t come on until 12:30 a.m. What’s a girl to do, stranded in BK? I killed time going to any nearby set, landing me randomly at the Foxygen’s. It was a happy accident as Foxygen proved to be a winning combination of cleverness and retro quirk. The group’s sound is hard to identify — there are hints of old psychedelic rock and bits eerily like Talking Heads, but otherwise, the sound is wholly intangible and altogether intricate. Plus, Foxygen has charisma in spades, making the band one of the most easily watchable acts all week, with all its Mick Jagger swagger. The on-stage magnetism of Foxygen was second only to that of Julian Hamilton (vocals for The Presets), whose adorable dance moves comprised approximately 70 percent of the set’s allure. Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
Stripping Risley Bare BY CHARLEY DU Sun Contributor
With a cast composed of students from Cornell, Ithaca College and members of the Ithaca community and featuring almost two-and-a-half hours of rock-and-roll, bare: A Pop Opera is a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Produced by the Melodramatics Theatre Company, bare adds a modern twist to Shakespeare’s classic with its two leads: two closeted gay teens, Jason and Peter, attending Catholic school. However, director Spencer Whale ’14, in an interview with The Sun, expressed his desire to have the audience think of the production as not only a “political piece,” but also a trigger for greater conversations concerning unity, acceptance and change. Whale, who initially had doubts about directing the play due to its subject matter, found the music absolutely beautiful and the text well-written as he contemplated it over the summer. He accepted the position of director with Melodramatics, convinced that the play’s theme would resonate well with Cornell students and the Ithaca community alike. Nevertheless, Whale warns the audience against seeing the play as solely dealing with the role of the church on sexual identities. He highlighted the struggles faced by each character, including the high school students’ “isolation and loneli-
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ness on the cusp of adulthood,” as well as the adults’ difficulty in reconciling their Catholicism with their personal morals. Even though Jason and Peter’s religion is a large source of their identity crisis, “religion is not a bad thing,” said Whale. Given that Shakespearean theatre is Whale’s forte, it is not surprising to find elements from Romeo and Juliet weaving in and out of bare. It is interesting that the former works on two levels in the latter: On one hand, the theme of forbidden love mimics that of Romeo and Juliet; on the other, at the play’s conclusion, the characters prepare for their own Shakespearean production. Well-known verses and events from Romeo and Juliet, including the prologue and epilogue, are incorporated into bare in the form of electrifying songs, making Shakespeare less daunting for the audience. Rock dance routines represent Catholic rituals, tying the Shakespearean original and the adaptation together. Though there were many sources of inspiration for directing the production, given the ubiquity of Shakespearean plays, Whale noted the importance of “taking nothing for granted” as he tried to put the play and the songs in his own context to tell a more compelling story. Considering the massive scale of the production, the team faced numerous structural difficulties in bringing bare to the stage. The cast and crew had to adapt to
the rapidity of costume changes. Extra steps were taken to ensure that the cast would depict a huge high school rave on stage without compromising its quality. Additionally, Whale praised the cast’s diligence and talent in tackling a very challenging score, despite their lack of experience. Dan Middleditch, who plays Jason, said that he found it easy to connect with his role, as he also went to a Catholic school himself and felt that he did not belong. Still, to better understand Jason’s character, Middleditch spoke to friends who have been in Jason’s position. He cited that as an example of how the cast went the extra step in order to render their roles more authentic. Though it looks like a brave play about teens dealing with homosexuality and religion on the surface, bare promises to deliver much more. With an amazing cast, a full orchestra and a score that is sure to captivate the audience, it is one of Risley Theatre’s biggest productions yet. Comedic elements are interspersed throughout the play, which also deals with much more profound issues, such as identity, doubt and suicide. It will raise questions for those looking for high-school drama and philosophizing about life alike. When the characters’ meager problems become “very real,” as Whale put it, we are bound to fall in love with the characters and think about “enact-
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ing changes on our own.” bare premieres tonight at Risley Theater and will run until Nov. 10. Charley Du is a freshman in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at csd85@cornell.edu.
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Nick Sachvie On Girls,Eyes And Shaving SACHVIE
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8) Many of your friends have described your unique habit of shaving your nipples. Why do you do so? Yeah I don’t know. I just don’t like nipple hair. Girls don’t have nipple hair, why should I have nipple hair? I don’t have a lot of body hair, but I have some. And then all of a sudden my nipples have all this hair and it just doesn’t look right. It looks like I got a beard on both my nipples and I just don’t want it there anymore. So I have to shave it off. Do you have any unique study habits? Yeah. Well Owen and I are in the same Oral Comm. Class together and his speech was the week before mine. And then when I was practicing mine, Owen found a women’s thong in his laundry bin. We share laundry with girls. So one night he and Arjun were chilling, and I put the thong on and practiced in front of them. I thought if I can do it in a thong, I can do it in normal clothes in front of people. So I put on the thong and recited my Oral Comm. speech in front of them. It turned out pretty well. I wore clothes. I did wear the thong underneath my jeans though for good luck. 9) Is it true that one of your eyes cannot look up? Yes. I don’t know which one though. But if I ever try to look up with my head straight one eye stays. I first noticed it when I was in grade four. I was at summer squash camp with my buddy and we were staying in dorms. We were like jumping around at like two in the morning talking about our girl crushes and stuff and all of a sudden he was like, “whoa, what’s wrong with your eye, man?” and I went and looked and I saw it. For like a year I was freaked out and I never told my parents or anything. I just let it go ‘til now. Now I don’t mind busting it out here or there at a party. You know, like for Halloween tonight I might use it to my advantage. We’ll see. 10) Which other Cornell team do you like to hang out with the most? I’d have to say girls lax. We’ve been hanging out with them a bunch lately and uh … they fancy us. What would women’s squash have to say about that? I think they’re a little jealous for sure. We used to be a little tighter with women’s squash in the past, and we haven’t done too much with them this year, but I really don’t care what they think (laughing).
Katie Schubauer can be reached at kschubauer@cornellsun.com.
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Recalling Memorable Moments In History That Distinguish the NBA’s Pure Winners TOLEDO
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game was over for the Pacers. A six-point deficit with less than 20 sec to play may have seemed insurmountable. However, entering the game was a lanky, 6’7” shooter who wanted nothing more than to beat the Knicks in their house and try to bring a championship to Indiana. The man I’m referring to is Reggie Miller. The Pacers had posession and Miller quickly made a three-point shot to cut the lead in half, which led the Knicks to inbound the ball. After a poor inbound pass from Anthony Mason, Reggie stole the ball and had the presence of mind to dribble back beyond the three-point arc and shoot another three pointer, sinking it and tying the game. After a Pacers foul against Knick John Starks, Starks went to the line and missed both free throws. Patrick Ewing then missed a put-back jumper, and Miller came down with the ball, getting fouled on the play with a chance to go to the line and take the lead. Miller sank both free throws, making the score Indiana 107, New York 105. The rest — as they say — was history. Probably one of the most iconic single instances of a player living in winning time was during Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals. With the Bulls down 86-85 against the Utah Jazz and with a 3-2 series lead, it was do or die time for the Bulls with just seconds left in the fourth quarter. Who else but Michael Jordan had the ball, and after a crossover and step back, he put up a twenty-foot
jump shot and sank the proverbial dagger into the hearts of the Jazz and every Utah fan in the Delta Center. Could there possibly have been a better way for Michael Jordan to take his final shot as a member of the Chicago Bulls than a game-winner for his sixth NBA Championship? Although this was well before my time, before MJ, Reggie, and some of the other guys I grew up watching, Magic Johnson was the standard for a basketball player who was at his best when the pressure was highest. If you disagree, look up Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals. It was Lakers against Celtics — one of the biggest rivalries in sports history. In the closing seconds, down 106105, after setting a pick on Kevin McHale, Magic Johnson caught the inbound pass. With a significant speed advantage over McHale, a post defender, Magic was able to drive into the key and put up a sky hook shot that just cleared the fingertips of McHale and swished through the net to win the game. Although this shot did not clinch the series, it came at a time when his team needed it most. My favorite “clutch” player, thanks to my own personal bias, has got to be the one and only, “Guard, 6 foot 6 inches from Lower Merion High School, number 24, Kobeeeeeee Bryaaaaaaaant.” I don’t think that I’ve ever seen another athlete who in winning time, for better or worse, wants the responsibility of winning or losing the game for his team more than Kobe. This is a guy who lives for the biggest stages. This is a guy who
no matter what, when the stakes are at their highest, wants to shoulder his team and be either the reason why the Lakers lose or the reason why they win. Kobe has the confidence in himself to rise to the occasion when it matters the most. When I saw Kobe sink a game-winning three pointer over Dwayne Wade against the Miami Heat, I jumped up and down going absolutely nuts, screaming my lungs out because Mr. Clutch had done it again. Being confronted with an intense amount of pressure is like coming to a fork in the road, but the route we take is not based on our own choice. Rather, this choice is made by the content of our character and our toughness mentally and physically. We can either allow this pressure to consume us and be overwhelmed by the situation, or we can rise above the pressure, thrive in it, and use it as a catalyst for our own spectacular performance. Those who are able to achieve the latter are those who not only live in the moment, but also transcend the moment. When an athlete can be greater than the moment, and wants to rise to any occasion — regardless of the setting — over the course of his or her career, he or she becomes a legend. Being a legend is not about statistics, or championships, or anything solely tangible, it is about rising above the game and making a mark on the memories of fans everywhere. Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.
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Dartmouth will certainly be challenging for Cornell. The Green is 5-2 in Ivy League play and has won four out of its last five games. According to Bannon, the Red are expecting a tough contest and have been working in practice on elevating its game in order to come away with a victory. “Dartmouth is always a really competitive opponent for us, so we’ve been working hard to make sure that all of the aspects of our game are solid, from the defense to the forwards,” she explained. “We want the defense to be good at getting the ball to the forwards, so that we can get a lot of shots against them.” Last year, the Red lost a nailbiter to the Green in overtime, 2-1. 48 seconds into overtime, Green forward Ali Savage found the back of the net for the gamewinner off an assist by Lisa Masini. Savage and Masini lead the Green attack again this year, which features a dozen players that have recorded one point or more on the season. According to Bannon, the Red has also been working in practice on improving its execution in the offensive zone. “We’ve been working on getting the ball in the circle in order to get shots in the corners, which are great opportunities for scoring,” she explained. If the Red can execute what it has worked on in practice, it could head into the offseason with the taste of victory. Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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Ten Questions Columnist Katie Schubauer caught up with senior Nick Sachvie to talk about everything from squash at Cornell to his cross-dressing habits, his recent run for Ivy Man of the year and his exotic dance moves. 1) Nick, you are a senior on the men’s squash team. What has Cornell Squash meant to you over the course of your college career? It’s been awesome. Coming to Cornell as a transfer, my brother had been on the team, my sister was still on the team when I got here so I knew a lot of people already, especially my boys [senior teammates] Arjun [Gupta] and Owen [Butler]. They’re both from Toronto. I was an hour away growing up, and I’ve probably known them since I was about eight or nine. So coming in I already felt like I was at home on the team. Who is your favorite teammate? My favorite? I’d have to say it’d be a tie right now between Arjun and Owen because we do everything together. We live together. I’d say me and Owen do more stuff together because Arjun is always napping like all day. But other than that, it’s both of them. I can’t choose. I don’t want to make them mad or anything, you know? While you have two, maybe three, guy friends total, would you describe yourself as a “gal-pal”? Yeah, I could be a gal pal for sure. I like talking to girls and stuff. I’m just trying to find my future wife to take care of me. 2) Do you suffer from any on-court anger management issues? Yes. I used to be worse. Now I’m not as bad but sometimes I just have weird outbursts and will say random stuff. I am still known as the kid who broke a racquet over his head four years ago. I lost a big match and decided to smash my racquet on my forehead in front of probably 100 people at a tournament once. I still get comments
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on it from people all over like when I see them at tournaments or at home sometimes it comes up. And ever since then, I sort of consider myself the Happy Gilmore of squash. The fans love to watch him and he’s badass. I guess I consider myself a bad boy, but more of a goon. 3) You recently appeared in Cornell’s Ivy Man Competition. Can you describe that experience? I was really nervous and at first I wasn’t really sure I wanted to do it, but as soon as I met all the other guys and we started practicing right before the show, I started getting into it. It was a lot of fun and a good experience and it put my name out there with the ladies, which is good. How did you prepare for that experience? Well, we were assigned two coaches but I actually did most of it myself. Like my talent—I made the mix and practiced in my room. I would practice for my roommates and do my dance for them so that was pretty funny. Why do you think you did not come in first place? Well, my dance routine — I actually didn’t do anything that I had practiced. I was so nervous to be there that I didn’t even remember anything — I sort of blacked out if you will. But I think what really did it was the Q&A. I got a bad Q&A. It just messed me up. It was something about the states like Mississippi and Missouri and Delaware and I’m from Canada so I didn’t really know what to say. Some of the photos from the competition featuring you in very minimal clothing have appeared on Facebook and I know your parents have Facebook. What were their reactions? My mom was so excited. She left me voicemails saying good luck and she tried getting me all these songs I could dance to, she liked all the photos on Facebook. She showed them to all the people she works with and my aunt and her friends of me in my little underwear. It’s kind of disturbing.
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My dad was like whatever. He’s used to it now. He thought it was a little bit too much but he’s pretty used to it. 4) What did you do out of the window last year that made your teammate Arjun so disgusted he started throwing up? I dropped a homemade bomb out of the window. No one was hurt but it smelt really bad and when it exploded it looked really gross and the sight of it made Arjun throw up the meal he just ate. He has a really weak stomach so he can’t deal well with things like that. 5) Can you tell us about your hobby of dressing up in women’s clothing? I’ve had a past of jokingly trying on women’s clothes and surprising people. When I was younger, I dressed up in my mom’s silky black bikini with sparkles, and I was probably like seven. And ever since then, my sister has the photo on her iPhone and in the summer when I worked with her, if I ever uploaded a picture of her at work with like … whatever a double chin or just looking awkward, she would threaten me with the photo, saying she was going to put it on Facebook. And if it was on Facebook, I would probably be so embarrassed. It’s probably the worst photo of me ever. I have my finger in my mouth, like posing sexually. It’s pretty bad. Speaking of your childhood, have you ever gone to the bathroom in a public pool? Oh (laughing). Yeah, I did. Can you tell us about it? So when I was little, I went to a squash tournament. I wasn’t allowed to play in it yet because I was too young, so I was probably about five. I could have made better decisions at the time, but I had to go to the washroom and it was in a maze sort of thing. I couldn’t find it. So I went to the washroom behind a bush near the pool and then I ran into the pool and cleaned myself in the water. And the next day they had the pool closed and they had to like drain it. They had guys in full-out chemi-
cal body suits cleaning my feces. 6) Do you really think of yourself as “the man”? (Laughing) yeah, so I was sick one time last year and it was late at night at our house on Delaware. I don’t know if they had gone out that night, but all my roommates were in their rooms in bed and I was in the washroom getting sick over the toilet. And I started talking to myself and they were upstairs and they could hear me saying things like, “you’re the man, Nick” and “hooking up with girls, you’re the man, you’re the man!” They come down and they’re just laughing at me and I had no idea what was going on. I was so out of it because I felt so sick. 7) Would you consider yourself a good dancer? Yes. Where did you learn your infamous dance moves? When I was little, I just used to dance around and stuff. And I used to love Michael Jackson, so I would just put Michael Jackson on and do his dance moves. Ever since then, whenever there’s a good beat on I’ll just start dancing around anyone. It could go on for an hour total, me just dancing in my living room and stuff. Do you think you have what it takes to be an exotic dancer if you choose that career path? Yes, for sure. I’ve actually had some job offers lately. They saw my (facebook) page and then after Ivy Man, I’ve gotten a few phone calls. I think I got what it takes. I could be the next Magic Mike. Do you think you would enjoy that lifestyle? Yeah, I would. Chicks would be all over me, money … it’s not a bad life when you think about it. As long as I’m dancing for women I’m happy. See SACHVIE page 13
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Magic Nick | Senior Nick Sachvie takes pride in his exotic dancing abilities, which he recently displayed at the Ivy Man Competition.
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Sophomore Captain Makes Presence Known at Young Age By SKYLER DALE
they set as one of the biggest reasons why she and her fellow captains were able to take on an important leadership role at such a young age. Sophomore Kelly Reinke first decided she was going “[They] set us up for being leaders on the team,” she to be a setter in the seventh grade. Seven years later, after said. an illustrious high school career that included all-conferReinke continues to find inspiration on and off the ence first team and local all-area honors, and after a fresh- court from her parent’s hard work. Throughout her life man season in which she averaged 4.29 assists per set, she has admired the strong example they set for her. Reinke has become one of the youngest team captains in “[They] came from small towns and didn’t have a ton the volleyball team’s history. to work with,” she said. “But they Reinke, who grew up in Glen Ellyn always stressed to try my best and do “I think we’re on the as well as I can.” Illinois, has been playing sports since she was very young. Although Reinke has already found right track, we just “I played almost every sport in success in her short career at Cornell, need to keep grade school,” she said. she has her sights set on a much bigHer love for sports met her knack ger goal in her next two years with the working hard.” for leadership in high school. She was team — an Ivy League championship. Kelly Reinke the captain of the volleyball team her According to Reinke, head coach senior year, as well as the basketball Melissa Batie-Smoose — in her first team both junior and senior year. year with the team — has put the When it was time to pick a college, though, Reinke team in the right direction so far. With four games left visited Cornell and fell in love with the team. in the 2012 season, the Red has already surpassed its win “I thought it was a really good atmosphere,” Reinke total from last year. said. “And the education is really good too.” Although Reinke acknowledged that this season is Throughout her freshman year, Reinke made an essentially a rebuilding year for the Red, she also lauded impact on the team early on. She split time with senior the team’s new coach for “turning the program around.” setter Jordan Reeder, playing in 25 matches and making Fortunately, Reinke has two more years at the helm her presence known on defense as well, recording 2.03 of the team to work with Batie-Smoose to keep the Red digs per set on the year. She also tallied double digit fighting for its ultimate goal of an Ivy title. assists in 18 of the 25 matches she played in, including “I think we’re on the right track,” she said “We just a career high 35 assists in a 3-2 win over Ivy foe need to keep working hard.” Harvard. Reinke also spent much of her time freshman year watching the seniors, learning what it was like to lead a Skyler Dale can be reached team at the collegiate level. She credits the examples at sdale@cornellsun.com. Sun Staff Writer
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For love of the game | Sophomore setter and tri-captain Kelly Reinke has been playing volleyball since the seventh
Winning Time: What Red Closes Out Season Against Dartmouth Makes a True Legend? W FIELD HOCKEY
By BEN HOROWITZ
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hat is it that separates a great player from just a good player? What separates legends from losers? What separates heroes from the forgettable? What separates the names carved in stone from the names written in sand for the waves to wash away? It’s a little thing I like to call winning time. Winning time is not when
line to see who will emerge victorious. Winning time is when your superstars remain in the game with 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter and the game is on the line. Winning time is when against all odds, one athlete puts the weight of his team on his shoulders and says “Give me the ball, I want to take the last shot.” Winning time is when the stakes are at their
The Cornell Field Hockey team will complete its 2012 season with a match against Dartmouth (10-6, 5-1 Ivy League) on Saturday at Marsha Dodson Field. The Red (8-8, 3-3) has had an up and down season thus far, which began with a 4 game losing streak but has also included a six game winning streak. The squad defeated Holy Cross in its last matchup and now looks to finish
the season with two consecutive victories. “Ending the season with a win would be fantastic, especially because the game against Dartmouth on Saturday is Senior Day,” said Junior midfielder Mallory Bannon. “The Seniors have put in so much effort and have done a great job with the team and bringing everyone together. So getting a win would be great for the team and would be a great finish for the seniors.” Defeating the Green would also mean the Red will finish with
a winning record overall and in Ivy League play. According to Bannon, a winning record would be a testament to the Red’s improvement over the course of the season. “Finishing with a winning record would demonstrate how much we’ve improved over the season,” she said. “It would show how we’ve been able to connect as a team, work well off of each other and learn each others’ styles of play.” See FIELD HOCKEY page 14
Juan Carlos Toledo Showtime at the Forum you blow away an opponent and beat them by some ludicrous score differential. Winning time is not when your team dominates the game and pulls away early to seal the deal. Winning time is not when one team shows up and the other does not. Winning time is not when the starters are pulled out near the end of the game to allow the reserves to get some playing time. Winning time is when the game remains even for its entirety, or at least towards the end. It is when neither team dominates but are evenly matched. Winning time is when both teams show up and match up in an all out sprint to the finish
highest; when a game or a season or even a championship is on the line. Winning time defines greatness, because it is when all of this chaos is looming in the air that timeless legends show their true colors. I can think of few better examples of an athlete thriving in winning time than Game 1 of the 1995 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals. The Indiana Pacers trailed the New York Knicks 105-99 with 18.7 sec left in the fourth quarter in Madison Square Garden. For most, it would have felt like the See TOLEDO page 14
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Senior send off | A win over Dartmouth this Saturday would mean even more for the Red as it says good bye to three seniors — Kat DiPastina, Genevieve Collins and Paige Mollineaux.