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C.U.Appoints First Female Dean of Arts and Sciences

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By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Gretchen Ritter ’83, a third-generation Cornellian and vice provost at the University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed the 21st dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Provost Kent Fuchs announced Thursday.

Ritter will be both the first woman and first externally hired dean to lead the arts college in its 148-year history.

Ritter, who is also a professor of government at U.T.-Austin, will begin serving as the college’s “I am honored and dean on Aug. 1. As vice provost for undergraduate education and faculty humbled to have governance, Ritter has worked to the retention of underreprethe opportunity to improve sented minorities, foster the developserve as the next ment of faculty and redesign large introductory courses in biology, dean.” chemistry and other subjects at the college, according to a University Gretchen Ritter ’83 press release.

Her roots to Cornell are extensive — beyond the bachelor degree in government, she is a member of the third generation in her family to attend Cornell.

Coming back to Cornell after having grown up in upstate New York and attaining a “great education” at the University will be “something of a homecoming,” Ritter said in the press release.

“I am honored and humbled to have the opportunity to serve as the next dean of this great college,” Ritter said. “Cornell is a special place ... as I know from my years of having been a student there. I look forward to working with the college’s extraordinary students, faculty and alumni in making a great college even See RITTER page 4

Collegetown compromise | Student trustee Alex Bores ’13 urges the Planning and Economic Development Committee Wednesday to consider students’ testimonies when voting on leasing policy changes.

Ithaca Mulls Changes to Lease Policies Proposal would delay signing of leases for C-Town houses

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

Following students’ concerns about the pressures of renting in Collegetown, the Planning and Economic Development Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to circulate a proposal to delay the signing of leases.

The decision comes after what some landlords

described as the fastest renting season in recent memory, which resulted in some students sleeping outside to sign leases for the next academic year in late September.

The proposed amendment to the city code would create a minimum notice period of 60 days for landlords to alert current tenants before they

Ithaca Resident Arrested for Selling Narcotics to Police An individual was arrested Tuesday for selling narcotics, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release. Andrea Caraccilo, 47, was arrested in the 200 block of South Cayuga Street after she sold narcotics to an undercover officer. The officer was

dispatched after IPD received a telephone tip.

Caraccilo sold Roxane pills to the undercover officer before she was arrested.

Roxane is a generic version of Opana, a prescription drug for pain relief. Opana is classified as a

Students Debate Impact of Divestment on C.U.

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

In a debate that drew an audience of approximately 100 people, students debated whether or not Cornell should divest its endowment from fossil fuels.

Representatives from Cornell KyotoNow! argued in favor of divestment, while the Cornell Republicans argued against divestment.

Those in favor of divestment said the environmental damage resulting from fossil fuels has had a large, negative impact on mar-

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To be, or not to be | KyotoNow! representatives and members of the Cornell Republicans debate divestment in Goldwin Smith Hall on Wednesday.

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ginalized communities.

“Cornell must lead the way to a sustainable future. This is a very powerful way to expose injustices,” said Alyssa Tsuchiya ’13, member of KyotoNow! and former Sun associate design editor.

Cornell Republicans, however, said they are concerned about the impact divestment could have on Cornell’s endowment.

“Divest“Cornell’s ability ment would to provide shift our in vestment furservices is ther away form areas that are predicated on more economian endowment.” cally efficient. … Cornell’s Julius Kairey ’15 ability to provide services is predicated on an endowment,” said Julius Kairey ’15, a member of the Cornell Republicans.

Members of the Cornell Republicans added that divestment would lessen the ability of Cornell to provide funding to the See DEBATE page 5

Schedule II Narcotic. Caraccilo was arraigned in Ithaca City Court and was released on her own recognizance, according to the IPD. — Compiled by Jinjoo Lee

News Rights for All

In a panel, professors discussed the legal implications of the two same-sex marriage cases that were presented in Supreme Court last month. | Page 3

Opinion Crushed

Morgan Bookheimer ’13 says that although it is fun to have light-hearted crushes online, real feelings should be expressed offline. | Page 8

Arts Yeah!

Sydney Ramsden ’14 takes Yeah Yeah Yeah’s album for a test spin. | Page 11

Sports Rainy Day

Men’s baseball game against Binghamton was cancelled due to heavy rain on Wednesday. | Page 19

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Panel Addresses Legality Of Same-Sex Marriage Acts C.U. prof says if Supreme Court upholds Prop. 8, DOMA,‘it will set things back by about a decade’

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and shared their personal predictions on what the outcome of these cases will be.

Dorf said that from a “demographic Approximately sixty people gathered standpoint, same-sex marriage is Wednesday to hear panelists talk about inevitable.” However, he said the manthe legal implications of two same-sex ner in which legalization will occur is marriage cases that were presented in the highly variable. According to Dorf, a big Supreme Court last month. concern is that same-sex supporters will In March, Supreme Court judges dis- bring these cases before the courts precussed the constitutionality of maturely, thus unintentionally setting Proposition 8, a controversial provision back their cause. passed in 2008 that banned same-sex “[There is] a worry that if they marriage in California. They then delib- brought the case to court and they say erated the constitutionality of the no, then it will set things back by about Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law a decade from what they otherwise that prohibits givmight ing federal marriage be ...

“It would be interesting if these benefits to same-sex and jusdiscussions happened more often.” couples. t i c e Depending on delayed Nina Kantovitch grad the Supreme is justice Court’s rulings, the denied,” court could potentially legalize same-sex Dorf said. “It’s not surprising that peomarriage on a federal level and grant fed- ple who brought the lawsuit challenging eral marriage benefits to same-sex mar- Prop. 8 were not part of what I think of riages. as the LGBT rights litigation communiProf. Michael Dorf, law, and Arthur ty. Those organizations got involved Eisenberg, legal director of the New York when they realized the train was leaving Civil Liberties Union, analyzed the cases the station.” from a legal standpoint. The two panEisenberg predicted the Supreme elists explained the process of these cases court will avoid making a decision on Sun Staff Writer

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Reaching understanding | Prof. Michael C. Dorf, law, and Arthur Eisenberg, legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, discuss LGBTQ rights at a panel discussion Wednesday.

the Prop. 8 case because the decision could have a major impact on all 50 states. “[The court] will duck it by resorting to a jurisdictional question but will conclude that there was not a case or controversy given [the] way state of California did not defend. As for DOMA, they may do the same, but I don’t think there is the same concern about imposing a constitutional ruling that would have application in all 50 states,” Eisenberg said.

Law students from different backgrounds — ranging from corporate to family law — attended the discussion.

One of the students, Nina Kanovitch law, said it is important to have discussions about legal topics that are complex and controversial.

“It would be interesting if these dis-

cussions happen more often. [Same-sex marriage] is a very current subject and I feel like many people take positions without necessarily knowing what’s happening and what the legal aspects of it are,” Kanovitch said.

Arthur Kutoroff ’15, a member of the American Constitution Society who said he decided to attend because he admired Dorf, said he agreed with Kanovitch.

He also applauded Cornell Law School’s ability to get experts on the issue speak with graduate students.

“I’ll be having [Dorf for a class] next year probably. [Dorf and Eisenberg] were pretty important in litigating these cases. They were very good speakers for this issue,” Kutoroff said.

Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

Students’ Stories Ju Hwa Park ’15 leaves home in South Korea, chases life of a ‘Southern belle’

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Ju Hwa Park ’15 has taken an unusual path to get to Cornell. At the age of 16, Park — known as Diana to her American friends — left her family, friends and life in South Korea for the starkly different atmosphere of High Point, N.C. Park said she was not alone in pursuing her education outside of South Korea.

Following a trend among many South Korean parents, Park’s parents sent her to a private, Christian high school in North Carolina to strengthen her candidacy for admission to an elite U.S. university.

“I always had the desire to come to the United States to study, so [after] middle school, ... my parents were like, ‘It is time for you to go and be the big person that you want to be,’” Park said.

According to Park, unlike the South Korean education system –– which she said fiercely and exclusively emphasizes a standardized college entrance exam –– the American education system focuses on the best interests of the student.

After spending a year at a public high school near Seoul, Park sought what she called a “more well-rounded” education in the U.S. After arriving in High Point, in order to cope with the new culture she encountered in the South, Park said she initially tried not to have any expectations about her host family.

“On the plane to [the U.S.], I said to myself that I was not going to imagine anything, because if what I encountered did not match up with what I imagined, it would just crush everything,” she said. “You can’t really expect too much from life because you can’t really control things.”

As the sole Asian student in her private Christian high school of 1,300 students, Park said she initially felt uncomfortable and was “not too happy” during her first few months in North Carolina.

“My high school friends didn’t even know where Korea [was]. They were not used to seeing Asians, period,” she said. “I was like everyone’s lit-

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tle doll. And I tried to fight against the stereotypes that Asians were nerdy, although I did have a big book bag.”

Although Park initially faced difficulty adjusting to a new culture, she said she gradually began to acclimate and assimilate into the culture of the South. She even started using “Southern words,” such as “y’all,” in conversations.

“I was an Asian girl trying to be a Southern belle,” she said. “I [still] make sure to say

“I like to play the role of a Southern girl.”

Ju Hwa Park ’15 yes sir or ma’am to professors or whenever I am ordering coffee. ... I have a little bit of an actress living inside of me. I think that all life is a stage, [and] I like to play the role of the Southern girl. I think I may have read Gone with the Wind a bit too much — that may be why.”

For Park, her integration into American culture culminated when she was crowned her high school’s homecoming princess in her junior year and homecoming queen in her

senior year, and she was elected student body vice president in her final year.

Currently, Park is a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar, a member of a premed fraternity, and the Korean-Christian community, and a volunteer tutor for local elementary school students.

“I was really loved by my family and had wonderful friends, and I want to give back to people that deserve so much more than I do,” Park said. “I feel like I owe it to the world to help out people that don’t have what I had.”

Additionally, Park is an “online mentor” for readers on a blog she created.

“I have a Korean blog to help high school students seeking to study abroad in the U.S. and ... [students] struggling and adjusting to life [in the U.S.],” she said.

Park said she appreciates the diversity she has encountered in the student body at Cornell. However, upon coming to Cornell, she said she had to adjust to a new kind of culture that was different than the one she became used to in the South.

“Unlike a lot of the Northerners here, I am kind of touchy, and I like to be a Southern person,” she said.

“Giving hugs and stuff — it’s just not welcomed here [at Cornell]. I noticed that my first day here. People shake hands; they generally don’t do hugs, which is kind of sad.”

After graduating, Park aspires to go to an American medical school, specialize in psychiatry and ultimately return to South Korea. Park said that, as surgeons, her paternal grandfather and father strongly impacted her decision to pursue medicine as a career.

“One of the talents that I have is to be positive and see the good in people. Being a psychiatrist would mean meeting with mentally unstable people and people that are judged by others harshly,” she said. “From all my life experiences, I think I would be a good friend, listener and doctor for those people who feel neglected and not included.”

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Alumna Will Be Proposed Changes May Relieve First Female Arts Dean Housing Pressure for Students RITTER

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stronger in the years to come.”

As dean, Ritter will be responsible for leading the arts college, the largest undergraduate school at Cornell. She will also help lead the college’s faculty renewal initiative: efforts to hire new faculty in advance of an expected wave of retirements.

Fuchs said in the press release that Cornell will be welcoming a dean with a “distinguished academic career, welldemonstrated leadership abilities and a creative vision for Arts and Sciences.”

“Cornell is fortunate that Gretchen Ritter has chosen to return to her alma mater,” Fuchs added.

After graduating from Cornell in 1983, Ritter earned a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the press release.

In 1992, she began teaching government at UT-Austin. As a professor, Ritter has taught courses in topics such as American politics and constitutional development and conducted research on women’s role in political activism, according to her profile on the UT-Austin web-

site.

In addition to teaching at UT-Austin, Ritter has held teaching positions at MIT, Princeton University and Harvard.

In 2009, Ritter was appointed vice provost of undergraduate education and faculty governance at UT-Austin — a position through which she has overseen the college’s academic advising, undergraduate curriculum and faculty legislation, according to the press release.

Her efforts in 2010 to overhaul large introductory courses at UT-Austin resulted in “significant improvements in grades, learning outcomes and student retention,” the press release stated.

After Ritter begins her term, the arts college’s current dean, Peter Lepage, will return to teaching, according to the press release. Lepage — who, in November, was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Science Board — will also continue his research in quantum physics.

Lepage has served as the arts college’s dean since 2003.

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renew rental agreements, show the residential unit to prospective tenants or enter into a new agreement with future tenants.

The period, however, may be waived under the proposed changes if the current rental period is less than nine months, if a summons and complaint to recover possession of the premises has been filed, or if the landlord and tenant mutually agree to waive the notice period.

Eric Silverberg ’14, chair of the Cornell Collegetown Student Council, said it is very important for the proposal to be considered.

“I believe that the current system is not tenable,” Silverberg said.

“Currently, there is an immense amount of pressure on students to enter into leases early.”

Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward), however, said this is not just an issue that applies to students and said he has received calls from

residents living downtown about the issue. He described the proposed changes as “trying to ... give people breathing space.”

“This is an opportunity for both [landlords and tenants] to get more information,” he said, adding that he did not see the minimum notice as a waiting period.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, Silverberg said students need to be better informed about the decisions they make in regards to renting.

Student Trustee Alex Bores ’13, echoed Silverberg’s sentiments, saying tenants need more time to get information about housing.

“The perception exists that if you don’t sign [a lease] by the end of September, you’re never going to find a good place,” Bores said.

Bores also said he believes the proposal is a good compromise and that it will please both landlords and tenants.

Like Bores, Silverberg said the proposed changes to the city code will also benefit land-

lords by allowing them to gather more information about potential tenants.

“Changing the current proposal allows [landlords] to evaluate who is living in the property and make a good decision moving forward,” he said.

Garrison Lovely ’16, freshman representative for the Student S.A., said he thinks “these policy changes might give freshmen a chance to get good off-campus housing.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 thanked the students for giving their input at the committee meeting Wednesday. Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward) added that they “did a great job providing the student perspective.”

The proposed changes to the city code will be distributed to the public and other government bodies before being voted on again by the committee. If passed, the proposed changes will be sent to the Common Council for voting.

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.

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Castle’14: Debate ‘Epitomizes’Univ.,Students’ Stances University.

“It will damage the fundamental research and the scholarships we have,” said Kyle Ezzedine ’14, treasurer of Cornell Republicans.

Aubree Keurajian ’15, vice president of KyotoNow!, said students are not asking Cornell to completely divest from all fossil fuel companies. She added that the proposal students presented to administrators was more lenient than those pitched to other universities.

“We are not talking about 100 percent divestment now — which is much more generous that other university divestment programs,” she said.

Keurajian added that the effects of divestment on the endowment are still unknown.

“Our investment office has not performed a study on the effects on the endowment,” she said.

The debate concluded with two speakers: Greg Pitts, an investment advisor who focuses on sustainable investments, and Darrick Evensen grad, graduate student trustee.

Contrary to what Cornell Republicans argued, Pitts said he believes the effect of divestment on the endowment would be minimal. He said the energy sector usually takes up about 10 percent of a portfolio, so divest-

ment would “only maybe contribute to one percent of the overall endowment.” He also said that reinvestment could make lost portions of the endowment up.

Pitts added that divestment is important in a political context.

“It wouldn’t make a difference on the stock price if you divest; what is important about the divestment movement is raising a public and political discourse about climate change,” he said.

Although Evensen said that he is “agnostic” about the issue, he said other members on the Board of Trustees, who have experience in investment, do not recommend divestment.

After the debate, some students responded to issues raised by speakers.

Anna-Lisa Castle ’13 said she thinks the anti-divestment side debated with incorrect assumptions of what divestment supporters were advocating for.

“It seems what we are asking for, what our timeframe is and what our goals are have been somewhat misconstrued,” she said.

Castle added that the debate highlighted contrasting perceptions of divestment.

“This debate epitomizes where the administration is coming from and where we are coming from, that is reflected in Skorton’s statement as well,”

she said. “[Supporters of divestment] are not asking to divest tomorrow, and we are not asking to replace investments infossil fuels with investments in renewable energy, but it seems that these misconceptions are central to their argument.”

Alex Pruce ’13, a member of the Cornell Republicans, said the debate was important because it allowed members of the Cornell Republicans to understand exactly what divestment entails.

“I would say the Republicans want to get involved in the debate because there is a misunderstanding of what divestment entails,” Pruce said.

Overall, Castle said she thought the debate was positive.

“I think the debate was really good and healthy, and it was important to get arguments on the table. There is clearly a lot of passion on here,” she said.

Likewise, Pruce said the debate was carried out well.

“I think that both sides did a very good job at establishing what their positions were. It didn’t divulge into something that was like a spat,” Pruce said.

Pruce added that the Cornell Republicans would support other measures to promote sustainability, and that he would support more focus on research into sustainable energy.

Paras Sanghavi ’13, however,

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said that the debate felt unproductive at times.

“It felt a little unproductive at times. … I feel that there wasn’t enough talk about how divestment will hurt the endowment.”

Mona Aditya ’14 said she was disappointed with some of the Cornell Republicans’ arguments.

“I feel like [the Cornell Republicans] picked a few statements by the campaigners and drew completely wrong

and unintelligent interpretations out of them to refute the campaigners. They also did not have as much research on the trustees as the campaigners did,” Aditya said. “The quality of criticism could have been better with knowledge on campaign’s details and updates.

They would have sounded less repetitive.”

Erica Augenstein can be reached at eaugenstein@cornellsun.com.

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No Panic in Pyongyang Despite Talk of Missile Test

Georgia Firemen Held Hostage

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm.

The focus in Pyongyang on Wednesday was less on preparing for war and more on beautifying the capital ahead of the nation’s biggest holiday: the April 15 birthday of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung.

Soldiers put down their rifles to blanket the barren ground with sod and students picked up shovels to help plant trees.

But the impoverished, tightly controlled nation that has historically used major holidays to draw the world’s attention by showing off its military power could well mark the occasion by testing a missile designed to strike U.S. military installations in Japan and Guam.

South Korea’s foreign minister said the prospect of a medium-range missile launch is “considerably high.”

North Korean officials have not announced plans to launch a missile in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions barring Pyongyang from nuclear and missile activity.

SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) — An armed man who was having financial problems held four firefighters for hours in a suburban Atlanta home, demanding his cable and power be turned back on, before being shot dead when SWAT members stormed the house, authorities said Wednesday. The hostages had cuts and bruises from explosions that officers set off to distract the gunman before moving in, but they will be fine, a fire official said.

Minutes before the police announcement on the resolution, a huge blast could be heard a quarter-mile away from the home, shuddering through the Suwanee neighborhood, setting off car alarms.

Earlier Wednesday, five firefighters responded to what seemed like a routine medical call and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house, police said. The gunman released one of the firefighters to move a fire truck but held the other four.

Dozens of police and rescue vehicles surrounded the home and a negotiator was keeping in touch with the gunman, police said. The situation remained tense until the blast rocked the neighborhood of mostly two-story homes and well-kept lawns. Residents unable to get into their neighborhood because of the police cordon flinched and recoiled as the enormous blast went off.

Soon after the stun blast, officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect and a SWAT member was shot in the hand or arm, but should be fine, said Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter. Ritter would not saw how the gunman was fatally shot, saying it was being investigated.

“The explosion you heard was used to distract the suspect, to get into the house and take care of business,” Ritter said in a news conference minutes after the resolution. He said the situation had gotten to the point where authorities believed the lives of the hostages were in “immediate danger.”

The gunman, who has not been identified, demanded several utilities be restored, Ritter said. According to public records, the home is in foreclosure and has been bank-owned since mid-November.

Obama Budget Proposes Spending Cuts, Higher Smokers’ Taxes WASHINGTON (AP) — Mixing modest curbs on spending with tax increases reviled by Republicans, President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget on Wednesday that would raise taxes on smokers and wealthy Americans and trim Social Security benefits for millions.

Obama’s 2014 blueprint combines a $242 billion infusion of new spending for road and rail projects, early education and jobs initiatives - all favored by Democrats - with longer-term savings from programs including Medicare and the military. It promises at least a start in cutting huge annual federal deficits.

The president pitched his plan as a good-faith offer to his GOP rivals since it incorporates a proposal he made to Republicans in December that wasn’t radically different from a GOP plan drafted by House Speaker John Boehner. But it follows January’s bitterly fought 10-year, $600 billion-plus tax increase that has stiffened GOP resolve against further tax hikes.

“I have already met Republicans more than halfway, so in the coming days and weeks I hope that Republicans will come forward and demonstrate that they’re really as serious about the deficit and debt as they claim to be,” Obama said.

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Comeback: Weiner Says He May Run for NYC Mayor NEW YORK (AP) — A bold comeback attempt or the height of chutzpah?

In what could be the start of one of the most intriguing second acts in American politics, Anthony Weiner, the congressman who tweeted himself out of a job two years ago with a photo of his bulging underpants, is considering jumping into the New York City mayor’s race.

The Brooklyn Democrat said in a New York Times Magazine story posted online Wednesday that he realizes he would be an underdog, but he wants to “ask people to give me a second chance.”

“I do recognize, to some degree, it’s now or maybe never for me,” Weiner, 48, said in a long and highly personal profile that he clearly hoped would be the start of his rehabilitation.

But are voters ready to forgive? Will they at least stop giggling long enough to hear what he has to say?

Political analysts say Weiner would face a steep climb to get past his past, but his political skills, his rich reserve of campaign money and the dynamics of a crowded Democratic primary could make him a player, if not a clear winner, in the contest this fall to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor of the nation’s largest city.

Known as a congressman for his in-your-face style, he could punch up the forums and debates. And he certainly doesn’t lack for name recognition, for better or worse.

“He’d be a real candidate,” said Maurice “Mickey” Carroll, director of Quinnipiac University’s polling institute. “His pluses are known. His minuses are known.”

But Weiner’s problem could be less about what he exposed than about his attempts to cover it up.

“People will say, ‘Why should we trust him again? He lied to us before — he’ll lie to us again,’” said veteran New York Democratic political consultant George Arzt, who isn’t working with any candidates in the mayoral race.

Weiner’s downfall came in 2011 after a photo of a man’s underwear-clad crotch appeared on his Twitter account. The seven-term congressman first claimed his account had been hacked. Then he denied sending the picture but told reporters he couldn’t say for certain whether it was a photo of him.

As more pictures surfaced, including one of Weiner posing shirtless in his congressional office, the married congressman was forced to come clean and acknowledged exchanging inappropriate messages with several women, though he said he never met any of them. He resigned within weeks.

If not the biggest scandal in U.S. politics, it was perhaps one of the most cringeworthy.

Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said they sought the magazine interview to show voters he is a changed man: He entered therapy soon after the scandal broke and has spent most of his time as caregiver to the couple’s 13-month-old son, Jordan.

Abedin told the Times she struggled to forgive her husband.

“I did spend a lot of time saying and thinking: ‘I. Don’t. Under.

Stand.’ And it took a long time to be able to sit on a couch next to Anthony and say, ‘OK, I understand and I forgive,’” she said.

Americans have proved willing to forgive politicians many misdeeds. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who turned “hiking the Appalachian Trail” into a euphemism for an affair, is on the road to redemption, having won the Republican nomination for his old seat in Congress.

Other Democratic candidates greeted the prospect of a Weiner candidacy with restraint Wednesday, with several saying they would welcome him to the contest.

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Demonstrators rally near the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) Wednesday, advocating an immigration overhall that supports a clear path to citizenship.

N.J. Diner Owner Hires Hitman to Kill Uncle TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) — The manager of a popular New Jersey diner who felt he wasn’t getting his fair share of the profits tried to have a hit man kill his uncle, who co-owns the restaurant and a second diner in New York City, authorities said Wednesday.

Georgios Spyropoulos, the 45-year-old manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, asked an undercover trooper posing as a hit man to kill Alexandros Sgourdos and to get rid of the body so it couldn’t be found, authorities said.

The 57-year-old uncle also manages the other Tick Tock diner, a popular tourist spot across the street from Penn Station, in Manhattan.

Authorities said Spyropoulos resented the control his uncle exerted over the New Jersey restaurant, which was featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network

show, “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” They said he also felt his uncle was taking an unfair share of the profits.

“I think it’s an understatement to say they weren’t close,” Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa told a news conference.

Spyropoulos was being held in lieu of $1 million bail on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. A message was left for his attorney.

Chiesa said investigators believe Spyropoulos was motived by greed and wanted to steal a large amount of cash that his uncle kept in a safe.

Spyropoulos told the undercover officer, Chiesa said, to make sure to get the combination to his uncle’s safe before killing him.

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Social life at Cornell: Fixing more than just the Greek system To the Editor: Re: “Debate Weighs Pros, Cons of Greek System at Cornell,” News, April 10

Tuesday’s public debate on the Greek system’s merits reminded us that reforming Greek life is as uninviting as a frat bathroom. The discussion, however, missed a greater point. Cornell’s broken social scene stretches far beyond the liabilities facing fraternities and sororities. What Day Hall has taken away from student life by suffocating the Greek System has deflated Big Red pride — a move that will ultimately produce more detached, disheartened alumni.

Remodeling campus life is a task for two teams. In the case of Greek life, it feels like only one’s been playing. Undergrads have neither the permanence nor the money to rebuild Cornell’s social scene in the wake of Greek life’s diminished presence (e.g. the dwindling bars and the stalled student-led attempt to start a non-profit Collegetown gym). Cornell and East Hill offer a menu of largely unexplored resources. Nothing binds administrators to make Cornell more fun. While the University need not spoonfeed us our social lives, they can and have done better.

In 1924, President Livingston Farrand commissioned Willard Straight Student Union because “education in the art of living is as practical as a course in engineering.”

Or as Prof. O.D. von Engeln wrote in 1917, “Many good people consider the greatest benefit of a college career to be its social opportunity. These social opportunities, that should properly be only secondary advantages of a university career, are often of preponderating importance in after life.” We’ve boosted mental health services and reformatted the academic calendar to reduce stress. Lively campus life, however, remains the first line of defense against gray skies, steep hills and rough prelims.

Going forward, administrators can help launch more traditions that rally students, like Cornell-Harvard hockey games, Dragon Day and Slope Day. We can fund additional concerts. We can make West Campus life attractive to more students. We can boost funding for Slope Day Programming Board, the Cornell University Programming Board and other groups. We can get serious about filling empty Collegetown storefronts. The Ivy Room Bear’s Den and RPCC Dance Club serve as admirable starts. But few want to spend their nights under the fluorescent lights where they just ate lunch. Simply put, students lack the funds and the foresight to revamp social life at Cornell. Yet this would cost Day Hall so little to fix.

The question is: How long can the University anesthetize Cornell’s social scene without sending it into a coma? I’ve loved my college experience. Yesterday’s debate made clear, though, that many Cornellians don’t feel the same. With graduation around the corner, I worry that Day Hall is distancing young alumni with its campaign of campus life Whac-A-Mole. Our alma mater is too uniquely wonderful to beget disenchantment. So I ask, will the University help us get more Cornellians excited about Cornell again?

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f you haven’t heard of it, Cornell Crushes is a Facebook page where people can anonymously post a message about their crush. While people mostly tend to make puns about peoples’ names and tell them how much they want to have sex with them — “Morgan, you can write a page in my Book because you’re writing makes me want to bang you,” for example — some actually seem cute.

I’ll be the first to admit that I always have crushes on a large number of people at once. Since a crush is just an unfounded admiration from afar and all I do on campus is look at boys, I’ve obviously collected a few. When I used to take larger classes that were less than 90 percent women (thanks dietetics), I had at least one crush per class. It was great — it motivated me to come to class! How else is a girl going to care about intestinal peptide transport? Pure fascination and the love of learning? No. Ever wonder why people dress up for class? Crushes. You can spend hours perfecting your hair and your outfit before you go out at night, but the time people can most accurately assess their attraction to you is in the sober light of day.

Dark and drunk at Dunbar’s? You might as well wear a parka.

Maybe because my classes have diminished in size and my crush count has inversely grown, I have never posted on Cornell Crushes. I also kind of feel like it’s a phenomenon that is past my time. I’m just a little too old, like your 30-year-old cousins on Facebook: they aren’t embarrassing like your mother, but they don’t really use social media the way

you do. If I were a sophomore or a junior, I would probably partake.

I’ve also never posted because it’s anonymous, so what’s the point? Half the fun of crushes is the danger! That’s why you tell your friend you think he’s cute: There is a chance she’ll start gossiping like a middle school girl and it will get back to him. That’s why you sit near them in class and ask to borrow a pen: You learned in Intro Psychology that familiar faces are more attractive. Posting an anonymous crush is zero danger, zero excitement.

Of course, it is cool if someone posts about you. Someone not only has a crush on you, but they spent the time to draft a Facebook post about it! But then again, that could be your best friend just trying to make you feel good. Or you have a pun-worthy name.

Like really Cummings. Or Vijay.

At least Cornell Crushes are lighthearted and not love letters. Concurrent with the Crushes page came the Cornell Confessions page, where people anonymously confess whatever they want. On that page, you’ll find the real gushings of emotion. Those make me sad. Not telling someone how you feel if you are legitimately in love with them is classically the wrong move. Ask anyone who missed their chance.

So get off the Internet, fools! Go tell your soulmate you love them, and go flirt with your crushes. Spring is in the air!

Morgan Bookheimer is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. She may be reached at mbookheimer@cornellsun.com. Behind the Time appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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n the spirit of AH-I’M-ALMOSTG R A D U A T I N G - A N D - N O TREADY-TO-BE-A-REAL-PERSON nostalgia, I thought it’d be a good time to share some of the sexual highlights of my time at Cornell. Originally, when I set out to be the sex artist that I am today, I thought it would be sufficient to do everything on the 161 list and then add “and then have sex afterwards” to each one of them. Now, this isn’t that bad of an idea and for most, it’s probably sufficient. For the few who want to herald the new wave of sexual artistry though — the Picassos of positions, the Rembrandts of romance and the Mondrians of making love — that just simply isn’t enough. It’s for you special few that I write this column, based on my own search for higher meaning in random sex at Cornell.

Light something on fire, throw it off the gorge, and then have sex afterwards.

Pro tip: Throw a flaming pair of underwear into the gorge. Turn to your partner, but don’t say anything about your loins being on fire. He or she would have expected that. Now you’re mysterious, witty and a bad-ass rule breaker. That’s like

killing 9 birds with a flaming pair of underwear.

Visit all seven continents.

Sleep with someone from each college.

Ostensibly not that hard, but each college has its own problems. Here are my tips Start a sex themed club.

Sophomore year I was the proud pres- for getting close to someone from each ident of “Chessex-boxing club.” I told my one.

CALS: Pretend that you have found a advisor that was a form of English chess boxing, while in reality, it was a round of bovine in need. Say the word “ruminant.” chess, then a round of boxing and then a The CALS student will now be too into you to notice round of sex. there’s no Remember, The true master doesn’t reveal all of his cow in need if anyone of assistance. asks why secrets. You cannot be told how to Human there are paint –triptychs with your toungue tricks: Ecology: Ask weird noises if one of coming from The road to sublime sexual artistry takes them needs the room Monet-years of practice. help modely o u ing their new reserved, the moaning is because chess/boxing/defi- underwear. One/all of them will. Proceed to look sexy. nitely-not-sex is so much fun.

Hotelies: Get one them talking. He or she will eventually tire of talking about Sleep with an engineering problem his or her hotel passion of choice (cookset group. ing, cleaning or walking around like a Start by having sex with your neighmanager) and eventually ask if you want bor. Gather all of his or her able bodied to have sex in the Statler. Say yes. children and move down the street, Arts and Science: Pretend you have a repeating at each house. Continue this job. You’re now 500 percent more likely way until you reach Syracuse or are poito get laid. In the morning say you’re here soned. getting your MBA. He or she will leave

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instantly.

Engineering: Tell him or her that you know the TA in one of their classes and will provide a reasonable excuse for why the homework was turned in late. Have a 3 minute quicky and sigh as he or she goes back to work.

AAP: Tell one of them your father was shortlisted for the Pritzker Prize and is looking to expand his company. This only works for archies, but hey, I bet you didn’t know the other A and the P stood for anything, did you?

ILR: Just hint that you know someone who’s a high-up in an investment bank or a politician. You will get laid, but it will be called “networking.”

Ok, that’s enough. The true master doesn’t reveal all of his secrets. You cannot be told how to paint triptychs with your tongue tricks; The road to sublime sexual artistry takes Monet-years of practice.

Indeed, my stopping early in the list is definitely for this reason and not because I don’t want to discuss the intricacies of trying to have sex in a tree on every quad.

Jimothy Singh is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jsingh@cornellsun.com.

Quest for the Perfect Tale appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Erotic Epiphanies

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e live in a world where sexual dominance is look at his penis, then do not touch it. If you want it no for days each month during your cycle. For days on end overridingly held by men. Even in our some- where near your mouth, do not trail your tongue past his during menstruation, women experience vasocongestion what progressive Cornell bubble, guys are usu- navel. And if you intend no P and Vagi action, let no of the uterus. Blue balls ... of the uterus. So, don’t feel ally the instigators, as well as the terminators, of roman- dick near your hallowed hollow. Stick to your laurels, bad for men who cry blue. Unless the same guy showed tic relationships. In bed, guys sometimes feel like they ladies. If his cock is throbbing for third base or home up last week with chocolates and a heating pad to soothe have the power to get girls to do their bidding. Guys may plate, let it throb and if the (base)balls turn blue, then your menstrual woes, say, “Bah!” to his cries, ignore his sometimes coax ladies into going further than intended boo-hoo: Bid him adieu. standup friend and turn away. Show him the authority of in the bedroom with unoriginal lines such as, “Just your womanhood and your strength against his manlick it once, baby,” “I only want to feel you wet on my hood. cock,” and the age-old, “Just the TEP?” Such verbal This next message applies to both genders — sorry sexual embarrassment is too often condoned by ladies for the initial one-sidedness, men. It’s just one of We shall not let others pull our strings in who give in to such wishes. However, let me make it those hate-on-dicks kind-of-days. In order to stand known that I do not judge this compliance. I fully the bedroom uness we first tell them which up strong for ourselves, we must be straightforward, recognize the temptation prompted by naughty grounded and consistent in how we outwardly prestring to pull and how hard to pull it. requests whispered in our ears, interrupted only by sent our needs and our values. If one decides not to the purpling of our necks through hickeys intended “give it up,” then don’t pretend to give it at all. to seduce. I have been there, and it is hard to back out Without consistency in our decisions, one may cause — to say “No! That thing is going no where near my confusion and therefore may allow themselves to be (insert body part here in which insertion is unwelAre blue balls actually legit, anyway? According to my taken advantage of. We shall not let others pull our come),” It is especially hard to stand your ground when scholarly sources, (thank you Wikipedia) yes, fine, it is a strings in the bedroom unless we first tell them which it’s hard — rock hard — right next to your naked body, real thing. What we call “blue balls” is medically termed string to pull and how hard to pull it. standing up tall to greet you. But, ladies, let no penis, vascocongestion, a fluid buildup and subsequent increase large or small (but especially small) or the man attached in blood pressure. When this buildup is prolonged, withto said penis steer you (or stir you) when you did not out release, it becomes a localized cramping — a dull Mona G. is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She want originally want it. pain. Yet, contrary to popular belief, this condition is not may be reached at monag@cornellsun.com. Erotic Epiphanies appears If you intend to get into bed with a guy and solely exclusively a male issue. Ladies, recall the pain you feel alternate Thursdays this semester.

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your choice and broccoli, all mixed in a sweet soy sauce. Lastly, the fried rice is accompanied by egg, tomato, onions, Chinese broccoli and cucumber and is very flavorful, with hints of pepper and ginger. Best of all, this food is always delivered hot. Tamarind is prompt and efficient in its delivery service, which is perhaps why I’ve never felt the need to venture to the restaurant itself.

For this article, however, I did.

Not only had I never been to Tamarind before, I didn’t even know where it was. Perfect for a date, the inside of Tamarind Thai Restaurant, on Meadow Street, is small and cozy, but not overcrowded. The lighting is low and soft jazz music plays over the speakers, creating a calming atmosphere.

For an appetizer, we ordered the butterfly shrimp. The shrimp themselves were delicious — tipped in panko bread crumbs and fried in batter, they were crisp and crunchy on the outside, but soft and tender on the inside. The dish was beautifully presented on a jade-green ivy-leaf shaped plate, and the sweet plum sauce served with the dish complemented it

beautifully. What truly made the dish a delight, however, was that it was also served with broccoli, green bell pepper, string beans, onions, carrots and baby corn, battered and deep-fried tempurastyle. These vegetables were crisp on their batter-fried outsides, and soft — but not overcooked — on the inside. Flavorful and filling, the butterfly shrimp is definitely an appetizer I’m going to start ordering when I get takeout from Tamarind.

For drinks we ordered Thai iced tea and Thai iced coffee — if you want to try some of the best Thai iced tea I’ve ever had, go to Tamarind and ask for Nounou.

As our server, she was almost as sweet as the tea she made, and extremely prompt and capable with her service. For entrees we ordered a classic, the Panang curry, as well as Pad Priew Wan, or “Sweet and Sour.” Tamarind is part of the growing trend of restaurants that lets diners choose their spiciness level; they have a scale from 1-5. A warning: we ordered our curry at a “2”, and it was still very spicy — and I’m not a spiciness baby. The Pad Priew Wan, on the other hand, was def-

initely more ‘sweet’ than ‘sour’, bordering on a touch too sweet.

So we had a revelation: mixed together, the sweetness of the chicken Pad Priew Wan toned down the spiciness of the beef Panang curry, and vice versa. I don’t know how comfortable you are about mixing your own foods, but the mixture of these two dishes was exquisite. The mixture of the chicken, stir-fried pineapple chunks, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers in the Pad Priew Wan and the beef, coconut milk and kaffir lime leaves in the Panang Curry made the combination of these dishes diverse and flavorful.

While we passed up on dessert, Tamarind has an assortment of desserts including Roti with sweet condensed milk and fried ice cream. Overall, Tamarind Thai is a wonderful place to have a relaxing meal with friends or a romantic date — with delicious food, a wonderful atmosphere, friendly and efficient servers and relatively low prices, it’s hard to go wrong.

Emily Foster can be reached at efoster@cornellsun.com.

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Even with only four albums under their belt since their 2004 debut LP, Karen O, Brian Chase and Nick Zinner still manage to stay fresh and sound new again with each record.

Unlike some of their peers, the YYYs have aged very gracefully and, as proven by their latest release, Mosquito, still have even more potential to grow. Mosquito is a natural progression for the band that manages to at once surprise us and give us just what we expect, resulting in a final product that’s nothing spectacularm but nevertheless full of shining moments.

Mosquito is pretty much an amalgamation of everything the YYYs have done already: there’s bratty, Fever to Tell-era punk on the title track; there are anthemic ballads like the Show Your Bones-esque “Despair”; and the occasional venture into disco on tracks like “Always” and “These Paths” that harken back to It’s Blitz. The record thus leaves us with a reminder that even as the band continues to expand its

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But the album’s really exceptional moments are found on tracks where the group experiments with new sounds. Lead single “Sacrilege” appropriately features a gospel choir, while on James Murphy-produced “Buried Alive” the band enlists Dr. Octagon to rap a verse over Chase’s thundering percussion and Zinner’s distorted riffs.

These journeys into territory previously unknown to the band enhance already great songs, leaving us with album standouts, most notably the best track on the record, “Under the Earth.” The booming, reggae-tinged track is the album’s funkiest and catchiest, reminiscent of what is arguably the band’s best post-Fever to Tell release, the 2007 EP Is Is. It’s also the album’s darkest song, with Karen O burying a suitor in the ground.

And then there’s Karen O. She’s probably the closest thing to a rock goddess our generation has. Her infamous live performances have seared her into fans’ minds as a flamboyant, feather- and sequin-clad, beer-swilling (and spitting) hooligan. But as the years pass, she continues to transform into a more refined frontwoman with the same commanding, powerful stage presence.

Her toned-down live performances as well as her newly refined lyrics and delivery could be a result of maturity, but we also must remember that Karen O, who used to scream “I gotta man who makes me wanna kill” and “ride daddy

Dawes will open for Bob Dylan at Barton Hall this coming Sunday. Still an emerging band, the choice may seem obscure. Yet, Dawes’ 2011 album, Nothing is Wrong, gives them every right to set the stage for the fabled folk legend.

Their sound has a retro feel, almost reminiscent of a classic rock band like the Grateful Dead. But make no mistake, while some bands may cringe at this comparison, Dawes embraces the soul of a previous generation, while also bringing their own style to the table. They play relaxed, letting lead singer Andrew Goldsmith’s voice anchor a vibrant movement of warm harmonies. It’s almost as if the music comes easy to these guys, and who’s to say that it doesn’t?

The band embraces simplistic instrumentation, employing a tight-knit mix of guitar, piano, vocals, bass and drums. Yet Goldsmith’s lyrics provide depth where needed, as evident in the opening lines to “From the Right Angle”: “You have found me on the other side of a loser’s winning streak / where my thoughts wander further then

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ride,” is now a wife. This could probably explain her shift from not-so-subtly erotic lyricism to more heartfelt, loveydovey sentiments. The album’s closer, aptly titled “Wedding Song,” has her cooing ethereally, “You’re the breath that I breathe,” while on “Sacrilege,” she compares her lover to an angel that fell from the sky. She also sings to her first love, New York City, on “Subway,” singing in a wistful falsetto over Zinner’s fluttering guitar line.

But on other tracks, she proves that while you can take the crazy out of Karen O, you can’t keep Karen O away from the crazy. The title track has her wailing her signature wail on the chorus (“I’ll suck your blood!!!!!!!”) and the sci-fi “Area 52” has her snarling, “I wanna be your passenger / take me as your prisoner.” Songs like these make fans thankful that the band hasn’t forgotten its roots.

But, as the saying goes, there’s a time for everything, and with Mosquito, the band just can’t figure out its footing.

Clearly, the songs here have a place somewhere; each one is wonderful in its own way. But they don’t necessarily belong on Mosquito; in fact, they belong on a number of other albums.

Sure, Mosquito lacks cohesion, but hey, Karen O and crew are back in a big way.

Sydney Ramsden is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be contacted at srasmden@cornellsun.com.

they should / let me sing to you my solitude, let me pay for your next drink/let me defend these hearts which are so rarely understood.”

In a way, this is an album about humility, which is helpful for a band now stepping further into the spotlight.

On the opening track “Just Beneath the Surface,” Goldsmith confronts the all-too-common war between self and appearance: “Just beneath the surface is another one of me / at the root of all my trouble, in the twitch before I speak.” While admitting feelings of solitude, confusion and even defeat, Goldsmith counters with an appreciation for life: “And she thinks, most people don’t talk about how lucky they are / Most people don’t talk about the love in their hearts.”

It’s hard to see this band letting fame or fortune get to them. No matter what comparisons they might draw, their second album gives them the right to stay true to themselves going forward. Trust me, that’s a good thing.

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Scott Goldberg is a freshman in the School of Industrial Labor Relations. He can be reached at smg292@cornell.edu.

Imagine the musical version of a red-hued, heavily lens-flared photo of an underemployed twenty-something in aviator sunglasses on a beach. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably imagining “Wakin on a Pretty Day,” the opening track on Kurt Vile’s new album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze. The ten-minute track is simple and meandering without much progression, but it feels like one could listen to it for another 20 without losing interest. This song is the perfect introduction to a 70-minute journey filled with musical and lyrical movement that is almost zen in its balance.

Kurt Vile has been an indie staple for the latter half of the last decade, but he truly hit the limelight with his 2011 LP, Smoke Ring for My Halo. As he matured in life, so did he musically. Rather than veering off into aimless rambling, as some of Vile’s long older tracks had a tendency to do — every track on Wakin on a Pretty Daze is attentively composed. His notably intricate and perfectionist songwriting seems like it was effortlessly done in minutes even as he’s able to hold the listener’s attention seemingly into infinity. Throughout all 70 minutes, I never once looked at my watch. Instead, I felt like I could lounge in the songs’ musical warmth all day.

Producer John Agnello, who also produced Smoke Ring for My Halo, expertly sharpened Vile’s contemplative, nebulous ideas while keeping Wakin on a Pretty Daze the perfect representation of sunny peace. The first and last tracks provide serene bookends to a slightly more mature middle, featuring dreamy “Was All Talk,” guilty “Shame Chamber,” and sparkly “Too Hard,” whose lyrics try to balance maturity and carefree youthfulness. With lines like “I will promise not to smoke too much and I will promise not to party too hard,” it’s easy to see that Kurt Vile is trying to reconcile his relaxed past with the reality of being a father, all without ever getting too heavy.

The tracks on Wakin on a Pretty Daze tend to blend together, but not in the way tracks on an unmemorable album do. Instead, they blend like the days and weeks of a delightfully uneventful suburban summer — calm, chill and at ease.

Mike Sosnick is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mhs256@cornell.edu.

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Shaking the Habitual, the new record from Swedish electronic duo The Knife, was accompanied with something of a manifesto upon its announcement. In it, they lash out at hypercapitalism, McMansions, Monsanto and fracking; they describe their latest work as an album about “not knowing.” “No habits! Of course we’re growing restless,” it ends, ominously. While such a missive may be denigrated as pretentious, you are forced to admit that at least Karin and Olof Dreijer walk the walk: They have protested the male dominance of the music industry by boycotting the Swedish Grammys when they were awarded Best Pop Group, Olof Dreijer has refused to play festival bills that don’t have equal gender representation and Karin references feminist theorists like Judith Butler in interviews. It’s clear that The Knife, with Shaking the Habitual, are striving to make capital-A Art that affects you both intellectually and emotionally.

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reminiscent opener “A Tooth for an Eye“ identifies the opposition as the conservatives who “rewrite history to suit (their) needs” and posits the use of “dance as weapons,” a statement of intent on a record of political electro-pop. There are some excellent moments where the politics and the sonics match up perfectly.

When, on lead single and instant terror disco classic “Full of Fire,” Olof sings “Let’s talk about gender, baby,” the song almost dies out of exhaustion amid buzzing filters and a brutal stomp-beat, serving as a lament to society’s aversion to honest discussions of sex.

“Networking” is itchy and antagonistic, sounding like a night out on some bad ecstasy; it takes on the “manufactured knowledge” of the information age with queasiness. “Fracking Fluid Injection” is a moaning drone piece that sounds like the inner workings of an oil rig. While at 9 minutes it’s a bit of a slog, it serves to disconcert the listener as its initial squeak devolves into a caterwauling cry.

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ous as ever. Throughout Shaking the Habitual, the band utilizes a wide range of percussive elements. Abrasive tones, like the booming teakettle beats of “Full of Fire,” run rampant in the duo’s throbbing dystopian dance music; paired with The Knife’s newfound penchant for creating their own instruments, it creates a bleak and disconcerting soundscape where woodwinds fight for space against rattling boiler-drums and Karin Dreijer’s idiosyncratic wail. However, the band also finds time to completely alienate listeners by exploring the field of electroacoustic drone. When it is first attempted on “Cherry On Top,” it feels challenging, but worthwhile, as it eventually ekes out a song at the end. The nineteen-minute warbling of “Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized,” though, is sure to have all but the most patient of listeners reaching for the skip button (granted, it’s the end of Disc 1, so perhaps I was listening to it out of context).

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albatross of an album. At 98 minutes, it is a lot to digest, and, like Swans’ The Seer, it demands your full attention. In this vein, it succeeds: enigmatic and original, you likely won’t hear anything seething with as much paranoia as “Full of Fire” or with as much cinematic buildup as “Wrap Your Arms Around Me.” While the experimental ambient pieces erase any chance of casually popping on Shaking The Habitual while drinking some beers with your friends (an entirely laughable endeavor), avantdance workouts like “Stay Out Here” and especially “Without You My Life Would Be Boring” might sneak their way onto a BBC Essentials Mix sometime soon. I am quite positive I haven’t yet digested all that there is on Shaking The Habitual but it is clear that The Knife remain an artistic tour-de-force, albeit a fairly alienating one.

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

What’s a Storm Tharp?

No one goes to the Johnson. I know this because I go to the Johnson, and the only people I see fall into three categories: townie toddlers, touring pre-frosh accompanied by parents, and students required by their arts-related classes.

Admittedly, I used to belong in the last category, but after having had sketched the museum interiors on numerous occasions, I’ve come to appreciate this remarkable structure of Brutalist architecture. The I.M. Pei-designed Johnson houses some really tremendous works — and tremendous for the States, not just Ithaca. With over 35,000 pieces in its permanent collection, two windows from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House and works by Stiglitz, O’Keefe, and Rauschenberg, it’s a wonder that anytime anyone mentions the Johnson, it’s only to call it an eyesore.

Okay, okay, it kind of looks like an old school sewing machine. And yes, those highway medians placed at the entrance are a bitch to dodge (that’s the point—it’s part of the installation!). And those Leo Villareal LEDs above the sculpture court are cool. But if you’ve run into me any time in the last three months, you’ve probably heard an effusive exhortation to catch Storm Tharp’s Third Person exhibition before it ends. Well, now it has ended. It was over on Sunday. You missed it. You missed everything.

The only response I received from my vehement beseeching was, “What’s a Storm Tharp?” Like it’s some waterproof covering to protect valuables during hurricanes, or something. In fact, Storm Tharp is a Portland-based mixed media artist, and he just so happens to have the coolest made-up-sounding name ever to not be made-up (since Benedict Cumberbatch). Maybe this all means nothing to you, but Tharp ’92 remains the youngest alumnus to hold a monographic show at the Johnson, and it’s obvious why.

Possessing equal parts technical facility and conceptual continuity, Storm Tharp was most likely that kid in your studio to whom everything came easy. You know, the one who breezed through crits unscathed, who could shit prettier than you could ever draw. The one you loathed out of pure envy.

Even his notebooks and studio ephemera, which formed part of the Third Person exhibition, exemplified this exasperating, effortless quality. With sketchbooks full of quick studies that seem so easily masterful, just a single-stroke line drawing of kimono folds seemed remarkably adroit, and each

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drawing, hastily sketched, seemed fit to be framed.

The extent of his technical prowess is under total scrutiny in Third Person’s exhibit of large format portraits. With pieces scaling in at 53 by 42 inches, composed primarily of ink and gouache, Third Person refines Tharp’s signature style of grotesque portraiture, in equal parts inspired by old master European portraits and Chinese ink drawings. The maelstrom of these two polar influences results in the complex nature of Storm Tharp’s paintings: The dichotomy between the traditionally stiff portrait format and loose ink dispersal, the immaculate technical detail of the subject’s dress and the haphazard, blooming ease of the subject’s flesh, strikes just the right balance between risk and rarefied control.

To create these portraits, such as The Duke of Albuquerque or Boom, Storm Tharp draws contours on paper with water and then applies mineral ink randomly across the wet surface to create bleeding pigments. From these intricate tributaries of ink and black nebulous splotches, Tharp retroactively fits the figures’ facial features, creating the illusion of clownish and woolly countenances. Thus, the figures’ features seem to slip in and out of focus — like a broken camera, a foggy memory, or even a ghostly spirit, waffling between fantasy and reality. In The Duke of Albuquerque, there is a Profanity sort of special balance Prayers between the cancerous ugliness of the Duke’s flesh and the painstaking precision of the Duke’s dress, but it is exactly this balance that generates Tharp’s rare visual interest. The former without the latter (or vice versa), such as a piece entirely amorphous or a piece entirely methodical, would only serve to overwhelm the viewer with its predictability.

But still, the scrupulous exactness of each portrait subject’s attire is notable — a throwback to Tharp’s dalliance with fashion and a testament to his expertise in the medium. The sharp lines, perfect squares, and application of pattern lend a sense of reason or geometry to the lower half of the portraits, but when adjacently placed beside the vague bleeding blemishes, they only serve to mystify. As in The Duke of Albuquerque,

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would a man with a two-foot afro likely dress like a stuffy Classics professor? Or as in Einstein, would a man with purple coiffure wear a kimono? It’s these types of questions that Tharp invites the viewer to ask, allowing us to dream up the strange narratives that such a peculiar character may carry.

But what are we questioning exactly? It’s difficult to determine, but perhaps this is what Storm Tharp wants — the hard-to-define in-between quality of it all, of character, of existence. The overall effect is jarring. Either the viewer is hallucinatory, creating these amorphous forms in his or her mind, or the subject is some shape-shifting, otherworldly being, haunting the canvas. What is the figure expressing about himself? In which realm does he occupy? Does he even exist? Though the facts of each figure’s origins are never quite clear, what is plainly evident is our constant quest to obtain them.

And so, in the end, the viewer must complete the narrative of how this character came to be. Here, Storm Tharp succeeds in rousing the viewer to contemplate the qualities of an elusive character and a bizarre existence not only unto the The Duke of Albuquerque or Boom or Einstein but also unto themselves. And this, beyond the downright enviable technical genius of Storm Tharp, beyond the rich cultural references to Hiroshige prints and Nabokov, is the true value of Third Person. For a few months, this is what made walking into the Johnson feel like you were ducking into the Met for some solace from the bustling chaos of the city. This held that meditative contemplation that only a museum can provide. This is what you missed. This is Storm Tharp.

Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Jay-Z May Be Leaving Brooklyn Already

NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets are losing one of their biggest names as they prepare for the playoffs.

Jay-Z owned just a little piece of the team, but was a large presence when the franchise changed homes and identities this season.

The rap mogul is selling his stake in the Nets so he can become certified as a player agent, possibly before the end of the season.

The process is underway, a person with knowledge of the details said Wednesday.

NBA rules prevent anyone from being involved in ownership and player representation.

Yahoo Sports, which first reported Jay-Z’s plans, said his Roc Nation company has partnered with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and hopes to compete for players in this June’s NBA draft.

Jay-Z owns less than one percent of the Nets, but has had a major impact with the franchise’s move to his hometown.

The Nets hoped his reputation and friendships would help them three years ago when James led a loaded field of free agents, but the Nets, then playing in Newark, failed to land any of them.

Jay-Z attended only a handful of games this season, but his affiliation with the franchise provided a necessary buzz for its first season in Brooklyn. He sat in his courtside seat next to wife Beyonce in November when the Nets beat the Knicks in their first matchup as New York rivals, providing the trash talk afterward when he tweeted that the city was under new management.

The Nets have clinched their first playoff berth since 2007 and are in position to have home-court advantage in their first-round series.

Illegal Bookmarking Coup Caught by Feds OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses 34 people and 23 companies, many of them registered in Central America, of operating an illegal sports bookmaking business that solicited more than one billion in bets.

The 95-page indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City on March 20, accuses the defendants of operating from San Jose, Costa Rica, and Panama City to take bets from gamblers in the U.S. The indictment says that since 2003 the operation known as Legendz Sports used the companies to operate as payment processors, launder gambling funds and make payouts to customers. It alleges a conspiracy and accuses the defendants of violating federal racketeering and money laundering statutes as well as operating an illegal gambling business.

The indictment also accuses the defendants of violating illegal gambling statutes in several states, including Oklahoma, California, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, New York and Texas.

“Legendz Sports solicited millions of illegal bets totaling over $1 billion on sports and sporting events from gamblers in the United States,” the indictment alleges. As part of the conspiracy, Legendz Sports operated Internet websites and telephone gambling services from facilities located in Panama, the indictment says.

U.S. Attorney Sanford Coats of Oklahoma City said the charges culminated a multiyear investigation by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service.

“The defendants cannot hide the allegedly illegal sports gambling operation behind corporate veils or state and international boundaries,” Coats said.

The acting chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, Mythili Raman, said the government is determined to crack down on illegal online gambling by U.S. citizens, regardless of where the business operates or where the defendants live.

“These defendants allegedly participated in an illegal sports gambling business, lining their pockets with profits from over a billion dollars in illegal gambling proceeds,” Raman said.

Among the individual defendants listed in the indictment is Bartice Alan King, 42, of Spring, Texas, who's accused of conspiring with others to operate gambling services that took wagers almost exclusively from U.S. gamblers.

The enterprise allegedly used bookies in the U.S. to illegally solicit and accept sports wagers as well as settle gambling debts. The 34 individual defendants were allegedly employees, members and associates of the Legendz Sports enterprise, the indictment says.

Bob Troester, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oklahoma City, said King remained at large Wednesday but that 22 other defendants including King's former wife, Serena Monique King, had been taken into custody.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison for racketeering, up to 20 years for conspiring to commit money laundering, up to 10 years for money laundering and up to five years for operating an illegal gambling business.

In addition, the indictment seeks forfeiture of at least $1 billion in numerous assets including real estate, bank accounts, brokerage and investment accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs, domain names, an aircraft, a gas lease and several vehicles.

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is just way below.

What about Nicki Minaj?

Ugh, no. If you could lock someone up in solitary confinement and never see them again for the rest of your life, it wouldn’t even be good enough for Nicki Minaj. She is a terrible human. I feel the same way about Kim Kardashian. You know how you report diseases to the CDC? I would report those two to the CDC. What type of events do you feel are worthy of reactivating your Facebook?

If Beyonce texted me and told me she would friend me on Facebook and she would delete all her other friends and I would be her only friend, probably that. But the truth is, I have my roommate’s password so I can still creep on everyone whenever I want.

8. What significance does the term ‘coco radiant’ have?

Okay so in America, we use the terms ‘black’, ‘white,’ whatever, to describe people’s skin colors. I am not black. My skin color is not black. It’s not a Crayola marker. I believe I’m coco radiant. A little bit of coco color and I’m radiant. I want to copyright it, market it.

9. You are in charge of social awareness for your sorority and you are quite the personality on Twitter, but you apparently have hundreds of text messages that you have chosen not to open. Why is that?

Okay, sometimes people send you text messages and there’s just no response to them. It’s like cool, good for you, I don’t care. So there is no point in me replying. I’ll just see you in person. I think right now I’m up to about 131 text messages that I haven’t looked at. But in my defense a lot of them are group

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texts that I just don’t want to read because I’ll get caught up in like an hour of responding to them.

I hear you are famous especially among people who have attended hockey games. Were those jumbotron feature videos your on-screen debut?

(Laughing) Okay, so that advertisement played at MSG and there were like eight different commercials with people way more important in the athletic world than I am. But they decided to show the one of me running in slow motion with the title “Fast” like what is that? It was my on-screen debut and I’m kind of disappointed that more famous athletes didn’t text me. I didn’t get more followers on Twitter, Beyonce didn’t friend me. Like seriously, B, I’m at Madison Square Garden, what more could you want? Jay-Z played a concert here only a few weeks before. I’m doing everything I can do.

Beyonce, where are you?

Do you have any hopes to be on TV in the future?

I actually tweeted the other day that I hope Oprah doesn’t become irrelevant before she can name me as her successor. I feel like the best outlet for myself is on TV maybe in a self-help show where I tell people what they’re doing wrong.

If you had your own TV show, what would it be called?

That’s a good question. I was talking about that with my mom the other day and I really couldn’t decide. I think maybe ‘Ebolutalese: Coco Radiance.’

10. What other Cornell team do you like to hang out with the most?

Boo-yah. Technically, I should say the men’s track team, but they haven’t been doing enough abs lately for that accolade. I think maybe men’s soccer team because I like what they’ve been doing lately. I’m a big fan. Keep doing what you’re doing.

Katie Schubaeur can be reached at kschubaeur@cornellsun.com.

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talent is still over a year away. Their top hitting prospect, outfielder Christian Yelich, projects as an impact talent but is yet to play an inning in Double-A. There will be growing pains, as only Fernandez will make an impact this season. The Marlins future is promising, but it’s a ways off.

On the other side of the trade, the future is now. In direct contrast to the disgruntled Miami fan base, fans are excited north of the border. Under general manager Alex Anthopoulos the Blue Jays have always been active in the trade market. Since Anthopoulos took over in 2009, Toronto has trending in the right direction. They’ve been getting better by making smart trades and signings, with an eye towards the future. Under Anthopoulos’ regime, both Vernon Wells and Roy Halladay were shipped off while the Jays got younger without getting worse. But the problem was always the presence of three extremely talented teams for all Anthopoulos’ tenure, the Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays.

But things changed in 2012. After sky high expectations, the Red Sox collapsed and sent their under performing and over paid players to L.A. The perennial bottom feeders of the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles won 93 games and made the playoffs, largely on the strength of their record in close games. The O’s went 29-9 in one run games and 74-0 when leading after seven innings. The Yankees won the division again; winning 95 games in the process, but were swept out of the playoffs by the Tigers and followed this up by losing several key pieces to free agency or injury. The Rays are still the Rays, ever the model franchise, finding a way to 90 games with a roster filled with unproven talent. All of this meant the Blue Jays finally had their chance, and made their bold moves, shipping off three of their top four prospects and five top 100 prospects in total.

After trading with the Miami Marlins, Toronto added all-stars Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, and obtained reigning NL Cy Young award winner Robert Allen Dickey from the New York Mets. Toronto also signed center fielder Melky Cabrera, adding over $40 million of payroll to a roster of established players like possible ace Brandon Morrow, sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, and the promising Colby Rasmus. Their starting pitching is solid and their lineup should be powerful. The Blue Jays are banking on the Yankees and Red Sox both having rare down years while the Orioles regress after a stellar year, paving a path to the playoffs and a chance at the ultimate prize. Make no mistake; the Blue Jays are going all for it in 2013.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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Who runs the world? Girls | Senior Ebolutalese Airwele explains her love for Beyonce, ranking the singer right behind her mom.

Ten Questions columnist Katie Schubaeur sits down with senior Ebolutalese Airwele to discuss her nickname, love for Amazon and her love of Beyonce.

1. O.T., you are a junior on the women’s track team. What has track meant to you over the course of your college career?

I’m from Ithaca, so I had a bunch of friends coming into Cornell and I thought I was set with friends. But then when you join the track team you’re automatically pulled together with this big group of people. It’s not like in high school where you just do it because it’s something to do after school and it’s a coed sport. You really love it and are passionate about it and everyone on the team is as good as you are. It’s amazing.

You have this big family of girls and guys that are really passionate about something and we all love each other. We’re the only ones here who really understand having an all-year season. We start in August and end in May so we have lots of movie nights together and we go out together when we can. It’s like having a big family on campus. You never feel lonely.

Who is your favorite teammate?

That’s a really hard question. I guess on the girls’ team it would have to be my roommates because they’re all awesome and I live with them so they have to deal with me on a daily basis. But by far my best friend is Daniel Scott. He’s the greatest. He’s me in a guy form.

Can you tell us about the unofficial track awards ceremony freshmen year?

Oh. Alright. Well, we have a ceremony with the team where we give out awards to each other and they pretty much just call you out for funny things you’ve done over the course of the year.

My freshmen year, I got called out for a lot of craziness. It was good because it changed me as a person, but it was kind of a painful night.

Is it true that even as a varsity athlete, you hate water?

I think it’s disgusting. It’s pointless. It tastes like nothing. It’s a waste of my time. I recently discovered that seltzer counts as water, so I’ve been drinking a lot of seltzer lately. Water is just dumb.

Like animals drink water. Why should I drink water?

2. Your real name is Ebolutalese, but everyone calls you O.T. Where did that nickname come from?

Okay, so when I lived in Nigeria, I was a tyrant as a child. It was my way or the highway. And in my mom’s language, O.T. means ‘no,’ so my nanny would say ‘no’ to me all the time. She would say ‘no, no, no,’ but there, it was ‘O.T., O.T., O.T.’ So everyone just started calling me that. And it’s better than E.T. Is it true that you think you’re a Nigerian princess?

OK, Nigeria doesn’t technically have a royal bloodline, but if there were to be one, I would say I would be pretty up there. So yes. And if other people want to believe that I am one that would be fine with me.

3. Can you please describe your love for Amazon?

(Gasps) Oh God. I don’t know how to describe the feelings I have for Amazon.

It’s kind of like when I’m feeling tired or sad or had a bad day I just go on Amazon and start shopping. Maybe I want some beige wedge heels. I start browsing. Three hours later I have like 80 things in my shopping cart. You can buy toilet paper on Amazon, gushers, candy — I heard you really enjoy buying gushers

from Amazon.

Yeah, you can buy a 36 pack box so I don’t need to go to the store … ever.

There’s no point. Shoes, pants — nothing I’m wearing today is from Amazon but yesterday was an all-Amazon outfit. I just love it, and I think that I should be their most valued customer.

to me as I’ve gone through my years here.

I also love bad boys, what can I say?

On the topic of boys it true you have a different boy cooking for you every night?

That is not true, everyone! I don’t know how to cook. Sometimes people I meet like to volunteer to teach me how to cook. That’s fine. And I like breakfast.

4. In terms of your going out habits, I’ve heard that you enjoy getting ready to “Anastasia” and other Disney songs. Is that true?

Yes. A lot of times when I get prepared — I know people have a party playlist — but I like to go back to Disney tunes, specifically “In the Dark of the Night.” Lion King has been on a few times, Little Mermaid, definitely Aladdin. It really gets me pumped up. And once in a while I throw a little Celine Dion in there. Mix it up.

How do you feel about a capella?

It’s pointless. One of my best friends is in an a capella group and I had to listen to the concert. Good for her. Whatever.

But like I lived in Balch my freshmen year, and there would be all these arch sings with all these people singing and you can’t get into your dorms. I would like to study for my finals. I don’t want to hear you singing for three hours outside my dorm. Also, what are we, the twentyfirst century? Evolve. Get a keyboard.

Buy a musical instrument. Like Stevie Wonder has a great voice and what did he do? He played piano. A capella is stupid.

Evolve. I hate it. Invite me to your concert and I won’t go. It’s pointless.

6. What is ‘Rachet?’

You know what the word “ghetto” is?

Rachet is the ghetto word for “ghetto.” So let’s say you’re at Walmart and you see a lady that you identify as “ghetto” and then you look at her outfit and she’s wearing high-heeled Timberland boots, a jersey jacket [and] her hair is like seven to eight different colors: she’s rachet. She has no holds bar. Rachet is like if the only team you’re on is the twerk team, then you’re rachet. I’m a huge fan. There aren’t a lot around Cornell.

Speaking of hair, how do you feel about people touching your hair?

Don’t. Just don’t. It’s not a petting zoo.

You can look but you can’t touch. You can’t ever. I will lose friendships over it.

You are not allowed to.

5. Can you tell us about your love for prisoners?

I think that a society is defined by how it treats the worst in society. So I have developed a love for prisoners and prisoner reform. I actually met a former prisoner at Cornell that really has meant a lot

7. Can you describe your feelings for Beyonce?

(Sighs) You know sometimes when you go to church and the pastor really gets into what he’s saying? That’s how I feel about Beyonce. I shake whenever I see her, I cried when I learned she was pregnant — I cried for hours. I think that Beyone is the perfect everything. Like so what if she’s in the Illuminati? She should be if she wants to. She’s perfect. I love her.

Everything about her is perfect. I love my mom. I really, really love my mom and she’s like up here, and Beyonce is only a tiny bit below her, and then everyone else See 10 QUESTIONS page 17

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Speedskater Farrell ’08 Speaks Out on Sexual Abuse After a seven year hiatus, the Olympic hopeful returns to long track to train for the Olympic trials

By HALEY VELASCO

“For the ’98 Olympics, [Gabel] moved to Saratoga in 1997, and that was when we started training together. There were about 15 to 20 people training ranging in ages from 15 to 33. Over time, he started to spend more and more time with me. He would drive myself and another girl home but would always drop her off first. He would take me home, and then one day, he should have gone right to go to my house but he went left, and that was the first time that anything physical happened between us. It kind of escalated from there. It went on from summer of ’97 through the last time in March of ’98.”

In her interview with the Milwaukee station, WUWM, who she trusted with the first recount of the story, Farrell says that she always knew that it was not right.

“I knew it was always wrong. And I knew it that because he made it be a secret.

But I will say the 15 year old thought it was exciting. The 15 year old was starstruck,” she said. ‘And so, I don’t know, you know you take the good with the bad, and this is ‘shit’ you hear about this all the time.”

The question is: why choose to come out with the story now?

Farrell, now 31 years old, said she feels that she is ready to share her story. She says that she is not out there to destroy Gabel or get revenge for what he did, but to tell her side of the story.

“I didn’t come forward in hopes of retaliation or hopes of anything against Andy. It is not a revengeful or vindictive kind of thing,” she said. “It was much more peaceful for me. It happens to coincide with me returning to the rink.”

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Bridie Farrell ’08 is currently training in long track speedskating with the hopes of making the U.S. Olympic team for 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

“I am going to compete at the 2014 Olympic trials. I have to improve a lot to make the team, but it’s not impossible.

That’s my goal in the short term,” Farrell said.

However, her story is much more complex than a Cornell diploma from Human Ecology and skating around a track. In 1997, at age 15, Farrell was training at Milwaukee’s Petit National Ice Center with the hopes of becoming a top speedskater.

“I started ice skating when I was six years old in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. My club was, and is again, a Mecca for short track speedskating primarily because of the coach that we had,” Farrell said. “Folks would come and train in Saratoga Springs to train under that coach.”

Andy Gabel came to Saratoga Springs for the first time to train for the 1994 Olympic trials and this was the first encounter that Farrell and him ever had.

Over a period of several months, Farrell had sexual contact with four-time Olympian and former head of U.S. Speedskating, Andy Gabel, who at the time was 33 years old. Though according to Farrell, the relationship never included sexual intercourse, but was still inappropriate.

“It’s disgusting. It’s absolutely disgusting,” she said in a statement on Feb. 28.

The sexual abuse was kept a secret and no one, other than the two, knew it went on for many months — until Farrell told a few family members in 2007.

COURTESY OF BRIDIE FARRELL ’08

Speaking out | Bridie Farrell ’08 spoke out about her sexual abuse at as she prepared to compete for a spot on the 2014 team that will head to compete at the Olympics.

Marlins and Jays Linked by Trade N o team in baseball was more disappointing than the NL East inhabiting Miami Marlins last season. The Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays made headlines with a blockbuster trade in the offseason, but are headed in very different directions. If I had to make a prediction (always a sure way to be wrong) I’d say the Marlins finish last in the NL East, while the Blue

Reyes, Josh Johnson, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio were all traded away. One figures closer Heath Bell would have been gone if the Marlins could’ve found a taker. Although they were quick to pull the ripcord on the season, it was probably the right decision.

By gutting their big league roster, the Marlins got some quality returns. Marlins fans have a right to be upset about how it all went

Point Blank John Zakour Jays win their division on the strength of their balanced roster.

A year ago in Miami, expectations were high after acquiring Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Heath Bell, and Carlos Zambrano. The Marlins opened a brand new stadium, swapped the “Florida” in their name in favor of “Miami” and made new (orange) uniforms.

The Marlins season, however, came undone early and the Marlins did what they do bestblew it up. Hanley Ramirez, Jose

down, but the reality is the Marlins were never going to be competitive with their core- so they trimmed payroll and traded away veteran talent like no other team before them. Part of their fire sale was simply dumping payroll, as they did cut $60 million in payroll in a season, but it pays dividends in the future to be bad.

The fastest way to rebuild is to get very bad and stockpile high draft picks.

Of course, rebuilding is nothing

new to the usually cash-strapped Marlins. In fact their dismantling of the 1997 World Series Champion Marlins is the only fire sale in recent memory comparable to their latest one. And given their propensity to rebuild, they’re actually pretty good at it. The Marlins acquired exciting prospect Adieny Hechavarria and other young, cheap talent. The Marlins now lay claim to six of the top 100 prospects in baseball, according to recent MLB.com rankings, and are one of only two teams in the majors that have two top 10 prospects in baseball. Their former top prospect — pitcher Jose Fernandez made the huge jump from single-A ball to the majors and the early returns are very promising. In his first start, Fernandez baffled the Mets lineup through five innings, putting up eight strikeouts against one walk and only one run in 80 pitches of work. Fernandez’s lethal curveball has already earned a nickname from teammate Logan Morrison — “the defector”— a reference to the strife the Cuban born Fernandez had to endure just to get to the majors. But, most of Miami’s See ZAKOUR page 18

Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

Faceoff Against Binghamton Gets Cancelled Due to Rain The men’s baseball team was scheduled to play Binghamton Wednesday at 4 p.m. on Hoy Field but rain thwarted that plan. The Red was ready to play the Bearcats after coming off of a split with Dartmouth.

The game against the Ivy League Red Rolfe Division Champion Dartmouth showcased sophomore pitcher Brian McAfee and junior pitcher Zach McCulley, in a 1-0 loss in the opener and 3-0 win in the second of the two.

In that game, Cornell only surrendered one run in 16 innings and batted above .300 for the season.

However, the game against Binghamton was in rain delay at 5:20 p.m. after Binghamton lead the game, 3-0, with two outs in the top of the fifth. The teams waited until 6 p.m. in the dugouts, but because of flashes of lightning, the game was ultimately cancelled.

The Red (17-10, 5-3 Ivy

League) will return to gameplay this weekend with a four-game series at Columbia.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

MONICA SUH / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

It’s raining, it’s pouring | The Red will face Columbia this weekend in a four-game series.