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By ZOE FERGUSON
Sun Senior Writer
A l t h o u g h i n c u m b e n t Re p
To m Re e d ( R - N Y ) b e s t e d Martha Robertson ’75 (D) in a landslide victory Tuesday evening in the battle for New York’s 23rd, voters within Tompkins County disagreed with the majority of the district
In his victory speech Tuesday
n i g h t a t t h e R a d i s s o n Ho t e l Corning, Reed claimed that his success represented all residents of western New York
“As we declare this victor y tonight, I declare the victory on behalf of all 717,000 people of we s t e r n Ne w Yo rk , ” h e s a i d “Together, we are all Americans ”
Yet, Tompkins County voting patterns reflected political views starkly opposing overall results for the district, according to unofficial general election data from the county A majority of New York
c h spans across the Southern Tier, voted for Reed 63 percent and only 37 percent voted for Robertson T h e o p
s
majority of residents 68 percent voted for Rober tson, county data shows Only 31 percent of local residents voted for Reed
By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
Last week, dozens of signs put up by Students for Justice in Palestine in the Arts Quad were dismantled, removed and thrown into trees by unknown perpetrators, sparking a social media outcry by the organization
According to Alec Desbordes ’17, an active member of SJP, 50 signs depicting n e g a t i ve Is r a e l i i n t e r a c t i o n s w i t h Palestine were planted on the Arts Quad at 8 a m Oct 29 and were sanctioned by t h e Un i ve r s i t y t o re m a i n u n t i l t h e evening of Oct 31 “ T h e p l a c a rd s i n c l u d e d p o s t e r s
Palestine and various
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including Reut Baer ’17, the Cornell fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
According to Baer and Emad Masroor ’17, a member of SJP, the implication of all three students was a mistake, though they were all present
“I
feel like it’s ridiculous, but at the same time it was not unexpected.” A l e c D e s b o r d e s ’ 1 7
c u m e n t i n g Is r a e l’s house demolition policy, the segregation of its transport infrastructure and the recent assault on Gaza, among other issues,” according to a blog post on SJP website describing the dismantling incident
According to Desbordes, the display encountered opposition less than three hours after being put up, when a student who declined to give comment to The Sun pulled up several of the signs until she was confronted by members of SJP
SJP’s blog post incorrectly attributed the action to a total of three students,
“It was one student, and I just perceived them to be a part of the group, ” said Masroor, who is also a designer for The Sun “They were standing together, so that’s why the blog post said it that way [Baer] wasn ’ t the person who was actually pulling them up ”
According to Baer, t h e s t u d e n t w h o re m ove
was unaffiliated with any campus political o
a n d took down the signs as part of a misunderstanding she had over whether the display was properly sanctioned
“The student went to the resource center in Willard Straight and was told at the time that if there’s no stamp of approval on each one of the signs, any student is allowed to take them down,” Baer said “But afterward the SJP members let her know that they did get permission, the student looked into it and didn’t touch them again ” Police were also called, due to a complaint that SJP members were following
Insanity Morning Workout 7 a m , Common Room, Carl Becker House
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Shooting Under Fire: A Lecture by Israeli Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen 5 p m , Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall
Professor David Román University of Southern California
“In the past two years I have found that college students in general are more appreciative of classical music than they have ever been,” said Jascha Heifetz, famous violinist, in a recent inter view “As a result,” he continued, “there is a great improvement of the attitude of colleges toward concerts ”
“You know that I never tire of preaching about the future of classical music,” he stated “It will grow strong because the college students of today form the audiences of tomorrow It is to them we must look for a bright future for music, and happily the trend is for the good ”
Mr Heifetz enjoys playing before college audiences more than before most other types of listeners “ There is a naturalness in the reception of a college audience, a lack of convention, which is more or less not to be seen anywhere else,” he declared
“I get more enjoyment from my concerts than I ever have,” he said “I have graduated from a prodigy to a virtuoso The work has more meaning to me and I enter into it more seriously ” Mr Heifetz began playing the violin at the age of three years He entered the Royal
School of Music in Vilna, Russia, where he was born, at the age of five years, and was graduated three years later He was taken to St Petersburg, where he became the pupil of Leopold Auer, although he had made his first concert appearance several years earlier At the age of seven he played the Mendelssohn Concerto, and when nine years old he gave his first recital in St Petersburg At this time, he played a solo with the sympthony orchestra before an audience of 5,000 adults
“I chose the violin rather than any other instrument because my father was a violinist,” he explained “ The training my father, who was also a rabbi, gave me was invaluable It combined with my inherited love of music to make music my profession for life ”
Mr Heifetz has no favorite composer, nor is he particularly fond of a single musical composition Although his audiences in all the leading cities of the world have expressed their approval of numerous selections, he believes that the “Rondo” by Schulbert-Friedburg is especially popular
His American debut was in New York in 1917 Since then, he married Florence Vidor, actress
“Reviving AIDS: On the 2011 Revival of The Normal Heart on Broadway”
Thursday, November 6, 2014
4:30–5:30PM Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
By SOPHIA HO Sun Staff Writer
Payment through advanced technology may take over the food and beverage service industry in the not-so-distant future, according to a study conducted by Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research
In the study, Prof Sheryl Kimes, hotel administration, and Prof Joel Collier, marketing, Mississippi State University, examine the uses and customers views of payment technology including Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other mobile wallet applications
“It
will eliminate unnecessary processing steps ”
as a new frontier in customer service
Kimes said the findings of the study are significant, though the availability of payment technology is not a major factor in consumer behavior
“[The issue is] what’s it like to go to a restaurant, have a great experience and then it’s finally time to pay for the bill,” she said “You look around for the server [and try to] get the server ’ s attention, but it takes forever for the person to get to the table the process goes on ”
Kimes added that using payment technology may solve some issues that emerge during the customer experience
“Think about what it would be like to be able to use a tablet that’s on the table to pay, or to be able to whip out your smartphone and use something like Apple Pay,” Kimes said “It would make things much more convenient you would have much more control over your time Basically, customer satisfaction will go up ”
Prof Rohit Verma, hotel administration, also said he believes that adapting advanced payment technologies will increase the efficiency of service processes
“It will [also] eliminate unnecessary processing steps and also some of the associated transaction fees for service establishment,” he said
Prof Michael McCall, hotel administration, said the application of advanced payment technologies would be an asset for businesses
“It is huge for convenience time is a sellable product, and anything that saves time is valuable,” said McCall, who is also editor of the Center for Hospitality Research Report Series at the Center for Hospitality Research
According to Verma, research supports that the limited positive reflects the adapting nature of payment technology in restaurants
“Customer preferences for payment technologies are relatively lower at this time probably due to the fact that a relatively smaller number of restaurants are currently using them,” Verma said “In a companion survey of restaurant operators, we found that currently less than 5 percent of restaurants from quick service restaurants to fine din-
ing have implemented new payment technologies ”
However, Verma said that he does not believe this is not indicative of the future of the restaurant industry
“Close to two-thirds of restaurant operators are in the process of implementing payment technologies within the next two years, ” Verma said “I think [that] within the next few years, the customer preferences for and use of new type of payment technologies will increase ”
According to McCall, advanced payment technologies are generally more popular and better received by the younger generations, so he expects its demand to increase
“Younger consumers are significantly more trusting of technology [ Just] note
the success of high end vending machines for iPads and expensive headsets,” he said Referencing her most recent studies, Kimes said that more than 55 percent of subjects under the age of 30 have paid on a smartphone or tablet, compared to 45 percent of subjects over the age of 45 who have paid through a smartphone or tablet
Kimes added she believes that the results of this study align with the University’s goals towards using technology to improve service
“The University is very interested in technology and how technology can be applied to improve service,” Kimes said
By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer
A two-day international symp o s i u m e x p l o r i n g t o p i c s o f posthumanism and the posthumanities kicked off Wednesday in Kroch Library
T h e s y m p o s i u m t i t l e d
“ Ex p a n d e d C o m m u n i t i e s a n d Posthumanity” featured presentations by the symposium’s coordinator, Prof Marta Segarra, Fre n c h l i t e r a t u re a n d g e n d e r studies, University of Barcelona , a n d Pro f L a u re n t Du b re u i l , romance studies and comparative literature
Posthumanities is an “ emerging field in the discourse of disciplines,” according to Dubreuil
“The core proposal is to look at what the humanities could be, once you are challenging [the idea] that the human would be at the core of the humanities,” he said
One stream of post-humanities is linked to the field of posth u m a n i s m , w h i c h re a s s e s s e s humanistic concepts “with the idea that animals, for instance, could have a place there that would not be a marginal place,” according to Dubreuil
Another aspect stems from a growing interest in the sciences and technology and how scientific understanding can “revive the humanities,” Dubreuil said The third stream is involved with reflecting on the philosophical
meaning of being something, whether that is a human or an object
All of these approaches are represented at the conference, which is part of a greater movement to “reinvent the humanities,” according to Dubreuil
“Reinventing means that we are not forgetting what humanists used to do,” he said “The point is how are we able to take what is the strength of the set of disciplines we have been trained in and we believe in and also have a kind of infusion of new disciplines and other disciplines ”
Presenters came from universities across the globe with the l a r g e s t c o n s t i t u e n c i e s f ro m Barcelona and Ithaca
“We have some of the best specialists in the post-humanities,” Segarra said
Though studies in the posthumanities have gained traction in the United States and in some parts of Northern Europe, they h a v e y e t t o t a k e h o l d i n Southern European countries including Spain according to Segarra
Discussions in the posthumanities extend beyond academia, according to Dubreuil, who referenced a recent case in New York is questioning whether apes should be granted “legal personhood ”
The symposium’s concluding presentation, scheduled for early Thursday evening, will be given by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who is renowned for her work with great apes
According to both Dubreuil and Segarra, Savage-Rumbaugh’s e x p e r i m e n t s e x a m i n e w h a t i t means to be human
“She was basically translating sets of hypotheses that you would find already being proposed by Greek philosophers in the fifth century and she turned that into some kind of experimental protocol,” Dubreuil said
Dubreuil said he hopes that her lecture will offer yet another perspective to the conversation
“Her work and her persona show that there is a dialogue taking place that it’s not only the humanities suddenly asking you questions, it’s also that these questions are really at the core of many inquiries in the sciences,” he said
Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com
Princeton Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases, Inquiry Finds
The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights found that Princeton University has violated the law in failing to respond appropriately to student complaints of sexual misconduct and discrimination, The New York Times reported The finding, released on Wednesday, said that Princeton failed to meet the standards set forth in Title IX
Voters Express Support For Marijuana Legalization In Tuesday’s election, voters in Oregon, Washington, D C , and Alaska voted to legalize recreational marijuana, according to The New York Times
Student: Three quarters of signs were stolen or destroyed
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t h a t we e k , i t w a s j u s t p re s e n t e d , ” De s b o rd e s
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Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com
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Within her campaign, Robertson, a Tompkins County Legislator from 2002 to 2013, has taken pains to emphasize her close relationship with the county On her official campaign website, she is described as a “fixture” of the local community
According to her website, she “fell in love with the region” after attending Cornell’s college of human ecology and decided to stay in the area
“I have a bright vision of our region We live here because we love it,” Robertson says on her campaign website “I’ve been here for thirty years, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else ”
During the election, Incumbent Reed used Robertson’s affiliation with the region to portray her as “ extreme ” to a larger body of voters, and in his campaign against Robertson, Reed characterized Ithaca’s reputation as “extremist ”
In August, Reed’s campaign created a separate website devoted to
ExtremeIthacaLiberal com, includes a colorful psychedelic pattern and a caption next to Robertson’s face that reads, “Extreme Ithaca Liberal ”
The website calls Robertson “just another extreme Ithaca liberal pushing her extremist agenda on Western New York ”
Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun com
She added that she believes many people, both young and o l d , c a n n o t a f f o rd t o l i ve i n Ithaca
“I know that it’s ver y tough for ever ybody to come up with the money and it’s also tough for me too, because I’m on a fixed income,” Vannorman said J R C l a i r b o r n e ( D - 2 n d Wa rd ) s a i d h e w a s w a s c o ncerned with the effect of the tax increases on local residents
“ Fo r p e o p l e l i k e M s Vannorman, moving proper ties is not an option for her,” he said “At that point our business becomes personal, it’s really hard to figure out what works best overall ” City officials at the meeting including Myrick tried to look for legal ways to reduce the financial burden the taxes have on residents with fixed incomes
“ It l e a v e s s o m e t h i n g o f a doughnut hole for the folks who d o n ’ t q u i t e q u a l i f y, ” My r i c k said
According to Cynthia Brock (D-1st Ward), there is also an increase in the school tax levy from 17 19 percent per thousand dollars of proper ty of value to 18 057 percent per thousand dollars
Common Council members also voted to override the tax levy limit The city can currently only increase its tax levy by the percent increase in the cost of living or by 2 percent, whichever of the two numbers is lower
“Because the assessed value of the proper ties in the city has gone up, even leaving the same tax rate will have increased the tax levy rate higher than 1 6 percent increase,” Brock said “So that way we can reduce the rate but still be above the tax cap ” Additionally, the ne w budget calls for a 15 percent increase in the city’s police force, which residents have previously requested
Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun com
SEATTLE (AP) Marijuana advocates, fresh off victories for legal recreational pot in Oregon, Alaska and the nation’s capital, are already preparing for their next target, and it’s a big one: California
They are aiming to ask voters in the nation’s largest state to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2016, hoping to draw on a more liberal and larger electorate during a presidential election to help them avoid a repeat of their 2010 failed pot measure
The victories in Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia came in a midterm election that saw a low turnout and a conservative electorate hand Republicans back control of the U S Senate for the first time since 2006
“This is a Republican wave year, so we ’ re excited for our prospects, ” said David Boyer, who is leading Maine’s legal pot effort for 2016 “In a tough midterm, we gained steam ”
The results emboldened them even from a loss in Florida, where a medical marijuana proposal earned 58 percent of the vote, just shy of the 60 percent required to pass
Legalization opponent Kevin Sabet called the votes “ a bit of a wakeup call before 2016,” noting that drug policy groups had spent millions on the legalization campaigns, vastly outspending opponents
“This is going to make our side redouble our efforts to find donors who can put forth real money, ” said the president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, adding that if they can get the resources to get their message out, voters could make informed decisions
Sabet pointed to the result in Florida as well as votes in five Colorado cities banning marijuana dispensaries in saying, “I think we ’ ve slowed the legal marijuana freight train ”
The pot votes were considered by many to be the first real test of marijuana reform’s popularity since Washington state and Colorado passed the nation’s first legal pot laws in 2012, boosted then by the higher turnout among young people typical of presidential election years
“It was an extraordinary day for marijuana and criminal justice reform, and all the more remarkable on a night the Democrats were getting beat up so bad,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a major legalization backer
ST LOUIS (AP) A state judge overturned Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage
We d n e s d a y i n a r u l i n g t h a t immediately set off a rush among some same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses
St Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison said in a written ruling that Missouri’s measure recognizing marriage only between a man
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appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court, saying the constitutional challenge “ must be presented to and resolved” at that level But he said that his office wouldn’t seek a stay of the order, noting that the U S Supreme Court refused to grant stays after same-sex marriage decisions in Idaho and Alaska
Koster previously chose not to appeal a ruling requiring Missouri to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states
Harris, 35, and Kelly Barnard, 36, drove to St Louis City Hall to apply for a marriage license
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) Diplomats pressing Burkina Faso’s militar y ruler to return the countr y to civilian rule said Wednesday they are seeking names of people who could ser ve as interim head of state until elections are held
T h e p re s i d e n t s o f Ni g e r i a , Se n e g a l a n d Gh a n a a re i n Burkina Faso to mediate after the
A f r i c a n Un i o n g a ve Bu rk i n a Faso’s militar y a two-week deadline to hand over power or face sanctions that could cripple the l a n d l o c k e d , d e s p e r a t e l y p o o r countr y In a sign of growing tensions, though, a meeting that brought together the political opposition and others descended into chaos Burkina Faso’s president of 27 years, Blaise Compaore, stepped d ow n Fr i d a y a m i d m o u n t i n g opposition to his bid to seek yet another term in office Compaore never identified a potential successor and his departure has created a power vacuum in which at least three people have tried to
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tious optimism about whether the international face-off over Iran’s nuclear program will be
White House to maneuver with
Obama spoke at a ne ws conference the day after his par ty was thrashed by Republicans in midterm elections, leaving the GOP soon to be in charge of both the House and the Senate
against extremists who have captured territor y across Syria and
Iraq, Obama used legal grounds of congressional authorizations that President George W Bush relied on more than a decade ago The White House maintained then that the Bush-era congressional authorizations for the war on al-Qaida and the Iraq invasion gave Obama authority to act without new approval by Congress under the 1973 War Powers Act
take over control of the countr y in the past week
Op p o s i t i o n m e m b e r s a n d other activists stormed out of Wednesday’s meeting shouting “ We don’t agree!” after some from the former ruling party showed up for the session “ We can ’ t sit in the same room as those who are to blame for the deaths of the victims whose bodies we have not yet even buried,” said Mathias Tankoano, a human right activist and member of the civil society delegation “ They s h o u
h e deaths and for acts against the constitution that have resulted in violence in our countr y ” U N Secretar y-General Ban Ki-moon backed the mediation effort by the three presidents and reiterated his call for “ an inclusive d i a l o g u e ” t o c o n t i n u e , U N s p o k e s m a n St e p h a n e Du j a r r i c said The U N chief encourages all parties to reach an agreement for a peaceful civilian-led transition as soon as possible, he said
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hings You Could Do During a Lady Starlight set:
1 Write a column
2 Edit said column
3 Plan your pre-enrollment schedule
4 Ponder on the sad reality of your friends being more successful at life than you
For those of you who don’t know, Lady Starlight is Lady Gaga’s best friend They started off as a duo in the early 2000s, back when Gaga wore disco ball-bras and wasn ’ t selling albums For the past five years, Gaga has had Starlight open for all her concerts, and it always ends (starts?) poorly Starlight, in some sor t of illicit-substance-stupor, “D J s ” for about 30-40 minutes while fans ponder why they paid $70 for this intermission of biblical length She literally plays on two drum machines, repeating the same
b e a t s a n d h i - h a t s , while rocking out to
h e r m u s i c i n
u n f o u n d e d e u p h oria
I ’d b e s o c o ncerned for her health if I wasn ’ t so bored and annoyed at this
s a d e xc u s e f o r a n
and bigger paychecks, but annoyed them to no end I’m a stranger to my graduating class, save the few friends that I had for all my childhood and the ones who also did dual-enrollment My memories of high school are going to college at the age of 16, and juggling all that wonderful chaos with the 80 or so other privileged, but deser ving members of my academy
So it’s time to live in a bubble.
... No man is an island, but not every island is home. It’s time for me to focus on my own career prospects and not worry about the success of others; it’s game time.
o p e n e r I g e t t h a t Gaga needs a long time to slip into her incredulous costumes, but putting on C-SPAN would be slightly less boring than Lady Starlight’s “ sets ” For goodness’ sakes, I’m literally writing my column during this opening, in full Little Monster garb and with some intent to enjoy this concert
So let’s get to the deep-introspective part of my column, enough exposition, time to give you advice: Don’t be a Lady Starlight Or don’t mooch off your friends Better yet, don’t always live in the shadows of those you perceive as “ more accomplished” than you! Yeah that’s it, that’s the message of today
“But didn’t you already write a column about your crippling anxieties from all your friends getting job offers?” you may ask Yes But this is slightly different So, recently, my high school is planning it’s 10-year anniversar y (not reunion, but opening of the school, yes, it’s that young) and I was added into the Facebook group The group went from people being confused about math (typical Doral) to a soapbox for ever y alumni to brag about their accomplishments and say how they all miss high school and blah blah blah
It’s so cheesy and I have this weird resentment from it
So what better way to explore my feelings for it than to air it out for ever yone to read? It’s not that I didn’t like high school, because I did But, due to being an overachiever, and choosing to do a dual-enrollment program, my high school experience at least from my original high school is soured to this day I don’t love my whole graduating class from my high school, I don’t have fond memories of my administrators acting foolish at pep rallies and I don’t have “Bison pride ” My administrators saw me as a thorn on their side, a logistic that brought the school a higher GPA
So yeah, I’m not exactly Mr School Spirit, and this group brings me back to t h a t we i rd l i m b o : b e l o n g i n g , b u t n o t Instead of feeling happy about the success of my vaguely remembered classmates, I feel an odd sense of inadequacy, seeing their degrees and jobs posted proudly and lauded by my other classmates And it’s not like I don’t have my own accolades to brag about, but I guess the disconnect still exists My happiness towards them is an objective one, and vice versa So it’s time to live in a bubble Be that shark, be the go-getter that only cares for oneself, or at least is o n l y c o n c e r n e d f o r oneself No man is an island, but not ever y island is home It’s time for me to focus o n m y ow n c a re e r p r o s p e c t s a n d n o t worr y about the success of others; it’s game time We need to worr y about our own prelims instead of wasting time talking to our friends about them Ditch your friends and go lock yourself in Mann Librar y until you finish that cover letter!
No, that’s too far we still need friends to like our FB statuses don’t ditch them completely But in reality it’s good to work on our own advancement in life Once we ’ ve reached a nice level of accomplishment is when we can start to brag and “remember the good ol’ days ” For now we ’ re just a work in progress I don’t think I’m going to post on that Facebook group anytime soon Not until I feel comfortable enough sharing something worthwhile Not until I can write something sincere, without being snarky or resentful
So m a y b e I s h o u l d n ’ t j e e r a t L a d y Starlight We shouldn’t plan to be like her though; I think we should all aspire for equal stardom Let’s not be the friend eternally under another’s shadow, but rather become our own accomplishment, rooted on our own success but also with the support of others I’m currently reaching out, far out into my network, to see what opportunity I can catch Hint: Dear employed readers, hire this snarky, ambitious, but h o n e s t c o l u m n i s t ! In c l a s s w e s t u d i e d Milgram’s six degrees of separation, and I could easily plan a route from myself to Kevin Bacon, which goes to show what a great resource alumni relations can be The trick is to become a part of the network, another working node, not just someone who depends on the network
Kevin Milian is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com Milian Dollar Baby appears on alternate Thursdays this semester
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There’re a lot of people out there the loudest (both literally and figuratively) of whom are mostly musicians who are under the impression that 1963-1973 was undoubtedly, unequivocally, unarguably, unimpeachably the best span of ten consecutive years to have ever graced mankind And with all the racial tension, civil unrest, the Vietnam War and throngs of smelly hippies, it’s pretty hard to argue with ‘ em Personally, I’m a bigger fan of the ‘90s: There’s something about the guillotine and powdered wigs that just kinda gets me going, I guess Anyways, these devout ’60sists (as I like to call them) have been spewing nostalgia, with varying degrees of success, since about 1970 A few were and are still doing pretty damn well at it, but the best of the sonic rubberneckers are not and have never been the fanatics: the ones who do it right take the ’60s as a suggestion; the ones who do it wrong as scripture Falling into the latter category on their newest release, And Star Power, are Foxygen
Before even opening the record (if you scored yourself one of them fabled physical copies, for nostalgia’s and capitalism’s sake), you can tell that the band is aiming at something lofty They ostentatiously name each side of the album (which itself clocks in at over 80 minutes) Side One actually gets two parts, “The Hits” and “Star Power Suite ” Side Two is “The Paranoid Side;” Side Three, “Scream: The Journey Through Hell;” and Side Four, “Hang on to Love ”
Taking the length of the record and the side naming into account (along with the existence of a suite, that supposedly long-dead psychedelic remnant that might’ve been wellimplemented once for every ten cheesy cracks at it), it’s clear that the intended effect of this record is to give the listener a sonic tour de force/compendium of just about everything that the yuppies thought was awesome about the ‘60s, but
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Tyron Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun com
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the true revolutionaries (aural or otherwise) wouldn’t’ve bothered glancing at with a gun to their head
The record actually starts off with something that’s pretty promising The first minute of the first disc, otherwise known as “Star Power Airlines,” suggests some sort of postpunk noise throwback That dream is pretty quickly slashed as soon as the second song, “How Can You Really,” takes over with its Rundgrenian instrumentation and lo-fi mentality This actually could’ve been quite the ploy (ugly noise rock balanced by pretty Stereolab-channeled quasi-pop), but they don’t stick with it Instead, the first side of the record is filled with more poorly conceived power-pop throwbacks (“Coulda Been My Love”), way-too-obvious and unsuccessful glances at Barretism (“Cosmic Vibrations”) and Beatles yearnings (“You & I”), followed by that aforementioned farce, the four-part “Star Power Suite, which takes the Rundgren paradigm to the stars, which is a few light-years further than anyone should be channeling good ol’ TR in 2014
Side Two (“The Paranoid Side”) sticks with the lo-fi power pop/psychedelia idea set up on its predecessor for the most part, but sneaks in some more prominent hints of New Wave/Industrial, which admittedly seem pretty out of place None of the songs here are necessarily bad, but there’s nothing phenomenal either; it basically feels like a full side of filler “666” is a pretty good ode to Aphrodite’s Child (I think), “Flowers” sounds alternately like a more utopian Throbbing Gristle on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and a slightly heftier Sister Irene O’Connor and “Hot Summer” could well be a lost track from the Suicide sessions (although one Vega and Rev would’ve cut for good reason, cuz it’s not too good) All of these songs seem a bit ill-conceived, like their influences are more prominent than the music itself The
most confusing track, though, is “Cannibal Holocaust;” I just keep on listening to it, and I still can ’ t figure out how the Chiltonian melody has shit to do with its namesake found-footage freak-out film, a favorite of mine which I really don’t want to associate with this mediocrity If there is a worthwhile side to this record, its “Scream: A Journey Through Hell,” which harks back to the true ’60s revolution, i e that of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground (and a little Rolling Stones) “Cold Winter/Freedom,” the side’s opener, is a noise rock dirge filtered through “We Will Fall ” It’s followed by “Can’t Contextualize My Mind,” which, despite being a direct and indirect ripoff of Link Wray and the Stooges’ Fun House, respectively, succeeds in its facsimile The rest of the songs on this side seem to take pages out of the books of the ’60s’ psychedelic baddies and garage-rockers (i e the Deviants, the Fugs), which, while not being revolutionary, is at least worthwhile
Side Four stretches for only ten minutes, and contains the half-assed Uncle Meat-era-Zappa-tinged “Everyone Needs Love” and the boring indie-psych “Hang ” So basically, And Star Power is a full double album that could’ve easily been distilled to a pretty good EP At least three quarters of the record is filler, the rest is relatively successful ’60s and ’70s copycat work, and the work as a whole is underwhelming It does deserve credit, though, for its near-exhaustive compilation of the sounds of the ’60s Whether or not Foxygen knows how to make a good song aside, they sure as hell know how to make themselves sound like a whole bunch of someone elses
Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tfs48@cornell edu
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It ’ s cold now Soon, the subzero treks to class and daily existential crises before your 8:40 a m class will engulf us all into a doggedly Ithacan melancholia that not even the glorious prospect of beanie season and festively spiced beverages can rock In this season of unshakeable Mondays, it’s easy to glamorize your delirium into something tragic and beautiful, especially when compounded with the potency of Seasonal Affective Disorder (get a Happy Light!) and moodiness of our Menses But, as a firstorder caution from this first-order fella, you have been forewarned: Do not fall for the romance of the iceberg even as it sinks the ship In this arctic tundra, maybe you have once gotten to the point of hating yourself where you hate yourself for hating yourself, but that does not make you Sylvia Plath, or Vincent Van Gogh, or Kurt Cobain In Hollywood, the romanticization of mental
illness has transformed the artist who falls on his sword for his work as the New Age martyr The trope of the tortured artist has existed for centuries, but understand vitally that there exists a slippery slope between the overly critical eye you appraise your own work and the severe chemical imbalance of a depressive brain
The correlation between creativity and mental illness has been a relationship that psychologists and neuroscientists have tried to support empirically for ages, with only shaky statistical significance As a causality angsty teenage girls and Bushwick Brooklynites have championed for as long as creation and self-loathing have coexisted which is to say forever there is this infectious myth that great beauty must be wrought from great pain And yet, conflicting research shows that creativity is best fostered by positive moods Numerous examples of great art wrought without pain, or in the recent absence of pain, also prevail (Hello, Robert Downey Jr , post-rehab) Maybe stability sounds bland, but not ever y artist is a shaman, devoting his life to a singular vision, trading earthliness for brilliant mania As Jonathan Franzen once said of the late, great David Foster Wallace, can you even conceive of “the sick mental pathways by which suicide comes to seem like the one consciousnessquenching substance that nobody can take
away from you?”
Now, six years after his passing, the great tragedy of this author’s death is not so much that Pale King was left unfinished or his stu-
dents left un-mentored, it’s that his suicide so intertwined his genius with his illness so as to make them altogether one However, it was always DFW who said that he wrote Infinite Jest in his healthiest, happiest moments, post-depressive fugue To oversimplify a public legend by his most hidden and least favored aspect, to flatten his many dimensions into his mere mental addictions, is to make hollow a man whose warring with internal demons had only stifled his genius, not fostered it
We are not, as it turns out, ordered by Charles Bukowski who once advised, “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it ” Admittedly, this is tempting It’s true that there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness And it’s true that it’s easy to love a breakup song And it’s true that because our mothers told us, “You can be anything,” we heard, “You have to be everything,” and we’ll always feel a certain amount of contempt for that But if you are sick, you get help I’ll say it again: If you are sick, you get help If you still think there is something romantic about the death of a creative, of the torment of an artist, please see the raw
remembrance of DFW in an elegy by Jonathan Franzen: “One of the last times I talked to [Dave] after that, in August, on the phone, he asked me to tell him a story of how things would get better I repeated back to him a lot of what he’d been saying to me in our conversations over the previous year I said he was in a terrible and dangerous place because he was to trying to make real changes as a person and as a writer I said that the last time he’d been through near-death experiences, he’d emerged and written, very quickly, a book that was lightyears beyond what he’d been doing before his collapse I said he was a stubborn control freak and know-it-all ‘So are you!’ he shot back at me and I said that people like us are so afraid to relinquish control that sometimes the only way we can force ourselves to open up and change is to bring ourselves to an access of misery and the brink of self-destruction I said he’d undertaken his change in medication because he wanted to grow up and have a better life I said I thought his best writing was ahead of him
And he said: ‘I like that story Could you do me a favor and call me up every four or five days and tell me another story like it?’
Unfortunately I only had one more chance to tell him the story, and by then he wasn ’ t hearing it He was in horrible, minute-byminute anxiety and pain The next times I tried to call him, after that, he wasn ’ t picking up the phone or returning messages He’d gone down into the well of infinite sadness, beyond the reach of story, and he didn’t make it out But he had a beautiful, yearning innocence, and he was trying ”
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CHARLOTTE, N C (AP) Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim once hired Louisville’s Rick Pitino as an assistant, coached against North Carolina’s Roy Williams in a national championship game and served as an assistant to Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski for two gold medal-winning Olympic teams
The four coaches have crossed paths for decades, racking up a few thousand wins and nine NCAA titles between them on the way to the Naismith Hall of Fame
Now they’re all chasing the Atlantic Coast Conference championship
“I’m worried about the guys they’ve got on the court and how they’re doing,” Boeheim said “It’s not head-to-head [among coaches] in the sense that everybody else thinks it is It really isn’t It’s not ever about that ”
Maybe not to the foursome, but it’s impossible to overlook the star power on the sidelines in the tradition-rich ACC with the arrival of Pitino and the Cardinals this season
The quartet has a combined 3,350 wins, 29 Final Four trips, 84 conference regular-season or tournament titles and 132 seasons of experience, according to STATS They’ve also won nearly 76 percent of their 4,411 games
Krzyzewski, entering his 35th season at Duke, is the winningest coach in men ’ s Division I history with 983 wins Boeheim, in his 39th year at Syracuse, is second with 948
Williams, who is entering his 12th season at UNC after 15 years at K a n s a s , r a n k s f o u r t h a m o n g active coaches with 724 wins and second to Gonzaga’s Mark Few among active coaches with a 79 2 percent win mark
“It can get ugly on some nights.”
Then there’s Pitino, who has 695 career wins in 29 years and was the first coach to win NCAA titles at two schools (Kentucky in 1996, Louisville in 2013) as well as the first coach to take three programs to the Final Four (Providence, Kentucky and Louisville)
“My gosh, a couple of years ago I said this: you better be ready to play regardless of who you ’ re playing or where or you ’ re not going to win,” Williams said “Now you can exaggerate even more you better be ready to play to the best of your ability regardless of who you play or where you ’ re playing or you ’ re going to get massacred
“It’s a league that with the coaches and teams we have, it can get ugly on some nights if you ’ re not ready to play ”
Once Pitino gets his 700th win this season, the ACC will be the first league in NCAA history to have four active coaches with at least 700 career victories The previous high was three by the Big East during the 2011-12 season with Boeheim, Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins
Buzz Williams coached in the Big East with Marquette that year Now entering his first year at Virginia Tech, he knows it’s a tough neighborhood
“If we could get coach [Larry] Brown in the league somehow, maybe get SMU in the league, that would be every active Hall of Fame coach all in one league,” Williams said “We’ve got 80 percent of the active coaches in the Hall of Fame I don’t think that’ll ever happen again in the history of college basketball ”
That explains why Krzyzewski was quick with a quip when asked during the league’s preseason media day about the initiation process for Pitino as he transitions to a new league
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Lion’s den | Detroit Lions running back Joique Bell (35) with the ball in the third quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N J , Sept 28, 2014 A 24-17 loss to the Detroit Lions at MetLife Stadium has plunged the New York Jets into a state of flux heading into a game at San Diego
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team as whole is worse than Denver and Green Bay
My Revised Super Bowl: Broncos Over Packers OK, OK, so my preseason pick of Seahawks over Bengals isn’t looking so great The Seahawks are 5-3, with a bad loss to the Rams The Bengals have been shutout and looked dominant Same old Bengals I was hoping to see more consistency out of Cincinnati Maybe some of their woes will be solved by the health of AJ Green, who has missed three games Both teams can make the playoffs still and I’d still be surprised if Seattle missed out However, Cincinnati is in a dogfight in a division where it once looked like they had the capacity to dominate But it doesn’t look like Andy Dalton is leading the stripes to the AFC title anytime soon
Moreover, the Broncos and Packers are on track I’m really tempted to pick the Cardinals, but I just have a hard time seeing them actually win the NFC, although they’re marching towards a division title and a bye The Broncos did just absorb a thrashing by the Patriots, but the Broncos are still the most talented team in football They still have the most dangerous receiving corps in football, a stout offensive line and the greatest statistical quarterback ever The Broncos are simply the most talented team in the NFL They’ll be OK
A Crazy, But Very Possible Super Bowl I’m
Rooting For: Steelers Over Lions
Watch out for the Pittsburgh Steelers In two weeks, Big Ben Roethlisberger has put up twelve touchdowns And that’s before he plays the Jets Sure, the defense isn’t what is used to be But they still have playmakers after all, Troy Polamalu is still playing safety The Steelers are a dynamic offense, led by Leveon Bell and Antonio Brown an offense worthy
of winning a title
The Lions, with a healthy Calvin Johnson, feature an unstoppable receiver and a well balanced attack Matt Stafford, although not an MVP quarterback, is good enough to catch fire and lead a team to a Super Bowl appearance And let’s not discount their defense, which features a disruptive defensive line, anchored by Ndamukong Suh, who may be leaving the motor city very soon
Most Surprising Team: The Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals were pretty good last year, missing the playoffs despite winning 10 games This year, they’ve been the best team in the NFC, despite absorbing key losses Their secondary is elite and the play calling doesn’t get any more aggressive than Bruce Arena’s However, I still don’t see them actually winning it all
Most Disappointing Team: Seattle Seahawks
It’s between them or the Chicago Bears But the Seahawks were supposed to be the start of a dynasty One of the youngest teams to ever win it all, led by a third year quarterback in Russell Wilson, they’ve barely skated by to a 5-3 record, looking up at Cardinals in the standings I suppose part of it isn’t their fault The departures of Browner and Thurmond from the Legion of Boom were not insignificant Trading away Percy Harvin wasn ’ t a panacea The Seahawks are only getting less talented No team is infallible The Seahawks are simply more flawed than previously thought, their cracks masked by the glow of a Lombardi Trophy However, the division is still attainable They still have to play the Cardinals twice, a perfect way to make up a two game deficit If the defending champs get in, they’re a tough out
John Zakour is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be contacted at jzakour@cornell edu Point Blank appears every Thursday this semester
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Questions Columnist Anna Fasman ’16 caught up with senior captain David Melly to talk about ever ything from baking to his pump up playlist, which would be incomplete with Kesha
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I star ted r unning in eighth grade to stay in shape for swimming actually I star ted out as a swimmer and then I just more and more fell in love with [r unning] and improved so I wasn ’ t bad at it anymore Then, my sophomore year, I star ted doing cross countr y and the rest is histor y
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I would always remind yourself what your goals are to keep you motivated day to day, but I also think that when you ’ re racing, it can be really helpful to not over think things That’s definitely been a problem I’ve had in the past Just keeping it simple and reminding yourself what you want and why you are doing the training that you ’ re doing, while still not getting inside your own head on race day and staying relaxed is really impor tant This year, we ’ ve been really good as a team at staying relaxed and loose and kind of goofy on race day
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I bake a mean cookie, I will say I really enjoy baking
Boston is actually a great r unning city It’s funny how it comes back to that It’s the per fect combination of not too big, but not too small, exciting, but also familiar and friendly People there
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ground fitness group that star ted in Boston There’s been a lot more pros there and the Boston Marathon is one of the coolest spor ting events you will ever watch
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w o u l d y o u w a n t t o b e o n a n d w h y ?
I am super inflexible, so that gymnastics team, if I had that ability, would be really cool Also, any spor t that has a ball and involves hand eye coordination, I’m super admiring of because I can ’ t do that I often joke that if I could play real spor ts, I would, but instead I’m just stuck with r unning
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I a c t u a l l y h a v e r a c e d C a r o l i n e Kennedy and Jake Gyllenhaal before in t h e s a m e r
Vineyard, so that’s pretty cool, but if I could race anyone dead or alive it would probably be Steve Prefontaine That’s a pretty standard answer, but he’d kind of the rockstar of the r unning world, so that would be really exciting
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Where do I even star t? I will say that the track and cross countr y teams are [two] of the most suppor tive, diverse, just incredibly accomplished communities at Cornell I am just inspired ever y day by my teammates They are so incredible in so many ways that go way beyond just what they’re doing on the track I sometimes feel intimidated on my own team because a lot of them are just such incredible people There’s also a lot of love on our team, and it’s rare to have a group of guys so invested in each other’s success and so across the board dedicated to the team They put their time at Cornell to the best use possible,
and I think that reminds me how lucky I am and keeps me striving ever y day to do bigger and better thing
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I am the copresident of the Red Key Society, which is a student athlete honors society I was one of the founding members of Athlete Ally, which is an awesome group star ted by my friend Atticus, who does great things for the LGBTQ and athlete communities and I am also the domestic policy director of the Cornell Roosevelt Institute, which is a student-r un think tank That indulges my political junkie side, which is a ver y different world from the track or cross countr y course
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I can think of one from just this past weekend We were going to Heps and we were ver y insistent on following our schedule and getting ever ything taken care of I myself am a ver y hyper-organized, tightly wound kind of person I am always the one who plans and packs and I was taking care of about 15 things at once that morning and thought I had gotten ever ything under control We got on the bus and the 24 runners and five coaches were rolling out of Ithaca We had just passed Gates Hall when I realized that I had forgotten my running shoes I had to make the entire bus turn around and go back because I had forgotten something, which is super embarrassing but funny in retrospect, I suppose
Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun com
By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
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c o m p a re d t o p re v i o u s s e a s o n s , i s we re s t r u c t u re d o f f - s e a s o n We w a n t e d t h e p re s e a s o n t o b e ve r y l o g i c a l , i n t h a t i t w a s a n a t u r a l p ro g re s s i o n f o rw a rd t o p re ve n t i n j u r i e s a n d m a k e t h e m o s t s e n s e i n t e r m s o f t r a i n i n g , ” Ga n g e m i s a i d “ We s t a r t e d o f f w i t h a we e k o f s t r a i g h t c o n d i t i o n i n g a n d t h e n m ove d o n t o i n c o r p o r a t i n g f o o t w o rk a n d d r i l l s a n d t h e n a d d i n g f e n c i n g I t h i n k t h a t re a l l y h e l p e d t o g e t o u r b o d i e s re a d y a n d t h e n g e t b a c k i n t h e f e n c i n g m i n d s e t ” T h e c h a n g e i n s t r u c t u re c l e a r l y p a i d o f f, w i t h
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It’s the season ’ s halfway point for most NFL teams, so it’s a g o o d t i m e t o re f l e c t o n t h e biggest storylines developing
MVP: J J Watt
As I polled my friends on who the NFL’s MVP is, a common
re s p o n s e w a s e i t h e r De Ma rc o Mu r r a y, Pe y t o n Ma n n i n g , Andre w Luck or maybe even Aaron Rodgers And then I suggest my MVP, Houston Texans
d e f e n s i ve e n d J J Wa t t T h e
response was generally the same “A defensive player can ’ t win! How much impact can a DE have on a season, especially one on a 45 team?” To that I say why not? Yes, the average defensive end cannot affect a game like a quarterback And historically, MVP is a quarterback or running back's award But J J Watt is more than an average defensive end He scores touchdowns (including a game winner against Buffalo) and regularly swats away passes He is also the best high motor pass rusher in the league Watt com-
pletely changes the game from a defensive perspective He has 39 tackles, one forced fumble, three fumbles recovered and 8 5 sacks
If you let him, Watt will ruin yo u r d a y Ac c o rd i n g t o Pro Football Focus, which rates every play by every player (if you ’ re into that), Watt has had the best game they’ve rated Ever By any position Watt is the best defensive player of this generation and deserves an MVP award Ba r r i n g Wa t t t a k i n g s o m e
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snaps under center, I know he won ’ t win So if I had to pick an MVP with a shot of winning, I’d go with Andrew Luck Maybe it’s just because my recent memory of Peyton Manning is being shellacked by the Pats, but Luck has p e r f o r m e d t re m e n d o u s l y t h i s year He’s turning the Colts into an offensive juggernaut again And unlike Rodgers or Manning, he’s had less bad spots Luck is also on pace to break Peyton’s yardage record and the Colts
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The Four Nations Cup, taking place in British Columbia, Canada, will feature a mix of seven current and former Cornell women ’ s hockey players The Cup, an annua l w o m e n ’ s h o c k e y t o u r n a m e n t h e l d between Sweden, the United States, Canada and Finland, is one of the first major hockey events of the season One of the players, senior defender Alyssa Gagliardi, will represent the United States, with the rest of players, senior for wards Brianne Jenner and Jillian Saulnier, and former players Laura For tino ‘13, Lauriane
Rougeau ‘13, Rebecca Johnston ‘12 and forward Jessica Campbell ‘14, playing for the Canadian side
So far, only the United States and Canada have won the Cup, which has been around since 1996 The tournament, which star ted on Tuesday, has seen the United States, Canada and Finland takes wins The next game, set to be played tomorrow at 4 p m , w i
Sweden
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