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REPORT SHOWS VICTIM’S NIGHT OF C-TOWN TERROR ‘Leave us alone,’ student reportedly pleaded

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enrollment in a highly selective, one-year Master of Engineering degree program for computer science that will run for two semesters, beginning in January 2013.

Admissions to the inaugural class will be rolling and begin immediately, according to NYC Tech Campus Dean Daniel Huttenlocher. The deadline

This article is based on a copy of a report provided to the Ithaca Police Department by a student who was allegedly attacked on Sunday. The student’s name has been changed to Ian to protect his identity.

Early Sunday morning at approximately 1:45 a.m., four friends were standing in the saturated streets of Collegetown when, unprovoked, an individual allegedly accosted them with verbal and physical abuse laden with sexual and racial epithets aimed at members of the gay and Asian communities, according to Ian’s report. “‘You’re going to burn, Saigon bitch,’” the individual allegedly told a friend of Ian’s, whose statement to police has been obtained by The Sun, at one point during his reported attack. “‘Like napalm.’”

As recounted in his police statement, Ian’s harrowing ordeal went beyond repeated racial slurs.

“I was afraid for my life because this male was trying to harm me in any way that he could,” Ian states in the police report.

Ian’s account begins with him walking down Cook Street to meet three of his friends on Eddy Street. He reportedly saw an individual push one of his friends into a metal railing, so hard that his friend’s head hit the ground.

Ian then “realized that something was seriously wrong immediately,” his report states.

The group of students pleaded to the individual, “please don’t touch us. Leave us alone,” the report states.

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Taking on the tech | Before construction is completed on Cornell’s NYC Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, students admitted to the school’s first class will attend classes in Chelsea.

Wanted:Tech Campus Students

By JACOB GLICK Sun Staff Writer

CornellNYC Tech is now accepting applications for its first class of full-time students, the University announced Wednesday in a joint statement with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The admitted students will be offered

After Porch Collapse, Rental Agency Warns Of ‘Rhythmic Vibration’

By LIZ CAMUTI Sun City Editor

College freshmen may already be familiar with the laundry list of things not to do when attending a Collegetown

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A dean at Stanford will become the new vice president for development at Cornell’s NYC Tech Campus. | Page 3

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mation that we have become aware of due to this incident is that rhythmic vibration, such as dancing, can be even more damaging than jumping up and down on a structure,” the rep-

“Please exercise caution if you are going to have a party on your porch.”

Grant Wilder party: Don’t vomit on the carpet. Don’t break windows. Also, try not to punch walls.

But after a porch collapsed in the middle of a party at 208 Williams Street on Sunday, a representative from Pam Johnston Apartments added another precaution: Avoid “rhythmic vibration.”

“Please exercise caution if you are going to have a party on your porch. Another very important piece of infor-

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resentative, Grant Wilder, wrote in an email obtained by The Sun. Citing a “structural expert,” Wilder said the porch was structurally sound and that the cause of the collapse was “weight overload.” From eyewitness testimony, staff at Pam Johnston Apartments have estimated that there were more than 50 people “crammed shoulder to See PORCH page 5

Space to Spare

Google will provide temporary space for CornellNYC Tech in Chelsea until the campus on Roosevelt Island is complete. | Page 3

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Activists gather outside of City Hall on Wednesday to protest a developer’s proposal to buy portions of city-owned community gardens.

Student Hit by Egg,Racial Slur

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

A student walking through the heart of Cornell’s campus late Tuesday night was allegedly struck by an egg before being taunted with what he believes were racial epithets related to his hispanic ethnicity, according to a statement released by the University Wednesday.

The victim said the attack came from a passing car with two or three white occupants, according to Cornell’s statement. They were reportedly driving a “newer-style” white SUV, the statement said.

The Cornell police department is investigating the incident, though a search of the area and interviews with

the victim did not lead police to locate the vehicles or the suspects, Cornell said. CUPD is soliciting help from the public to learn more about the reported attack, which is said to have occurred at about 10:50 p.m. at the intersection of University Avenue and Central See ASSAULT page 5

Christo Elliot ’15 offers suggestions for the perfect celebrity Cornell student. | Page 7

Arts Unlimited Potential

James Rainis ’14 reviews Joey Bad@$$’s new 1999 mixtape — a new album featuring old tricks. | Page 9

Sports Olympic Ringer

Olivia Wittels ’12 recounts her summer job working for NBC during the London Olympic Games. | Page 16

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Report From the 19th International AIDS Conference Noon, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

The Orientation Steering Committee presented the Big Red Blowout this Monday at Barton Hall. Freshmen described the benefits of attending various events during Orientation Week, and their reaction to the Big Red Blowout.

Walking Tour of Olin, Kroch and Uris Libraries 3 p.m., Upper Lobby, Uris Library

What did you think about this year’s Orientation events, including tonight’s Big Red Blowout?

Dilmun Hill Work Party 4 p.m., Dilmun Hill Student Farm Downtown Ithaca Summer Concert Series 6 p.m., Ithaca Commons

“I think this event is really awesome. I went here with some of my friends that I met over orientation, obviously. Since this is one of the later events that we’re doing in Orientation, it’s starting to get like I think we have actual friends, as opposed to just acquaintances that you meet along the way. And this is a really fun way to spend time in the night and get to know people more in a really fun setting. I’m really thankful I get to do cool stuff like this.”

Pawan Angara ’16

Welcome Weekend: Flicks Across Cornell University 7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Uris Hall

Tomorrow ”It’s a great way to start life at Cornell.”

David Driskell Lecture: The Power to Decide: Boulder’s Energy Future 12:20 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Bryan Florvil ’16

“It’s a fun experience; you meet a lot of great people. A lot of cool events — it’s a really fun week, so everybody should try it. Go for it.”

Ahmad Akid ’16

Cornell Catholic Welcome Picnic 6 - 8 p.m., Appel Fields 24-Hour Playfest 7 p.m., Schwartz Center Lobby

“It’s great to meet new people and socialize and today was a really good event, too.”

Ammar Busheri ’16

Welcome Weekend: Casino Night 10 p.m. - 2 a.m., Main Floor and Okenshields, Willard Straight Hall

For more responses to this week’s burning question, check out the “Burning Question: Video Edition” under the multimedia tab on www.cornellsun.com.

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Stanford Dean Named to Top Post at CornellNYC Tech

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

A previous version of this article first appeared at cornellsun.com on July 19.

A dean at Stanford University will become the new vice president for development at Cornell’s NYCTech campus, the University announced July 14.

Sharon Marine, currently an associate dean for external relations at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, will “lead all fundraising efforts” for the tech campus, according to Cornell. Stanford was widely considered the University’s chief competition in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s tech campus contest, and Cornell’s new campus is expected to challenge Stanford’s prestigious place in the field of the applied sciences. “[Marine] not only appreciates the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit, she also fully embraces the campus’ mission to combine global academic leadership

with real world impact, through commercial success and through social good. We are delighted to have her on board,” Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the Cornell NYC Tech campus, said in a University press release.

On Dec. 19, the University won the right to construct its proposed 2 million square foot campus, which will house almost 2,000 graduate students and about 250 professors. The project is expected to take 30 years to complete and cost as much as $2 billion.

Marine’s appointment is the latest in a series of University announcements regarding newly hires at the campus. Earlier this summer, the University announced that former Twitter executive Greg Pass will become the schoo’s founding entrepreneurial officer. It later named Prof. Deborah Estrin, computer science, its first professor.

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Becoming a reality | Construction of the CornellNYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island is expected to take nearly 30 years, but the institute will welcome its first class in January.

Skorton Lauds Google for Providing Space for Tech Campus

By DAVID MARTEN Sun Senior Editor

A previous version of this article first appeared at cornellsun.com on May 23.

President David Skorton touted the benefits of the University’s agreement with Google to temporarily host the school’s new tech campus in a statement May 22, saying the space will allow Cornell to quickly establish a physical presence in New York City while saving money on prime real estate.

ters for free. Students and faculty will use the space while the Roosevelt Island campus is under construction.

Skorton described the location of the company’s building — the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan — as a “hotbed” of technological development in NYC. “[The agreement] will allow us immediately to have a launch of the campus that will have a presence in one of the high tech areas of NYC,” Skorton said. “So that’s number one — to be in one

“Google, as everybody knows, is one of the world’s most innovative companies.”

Michael Bloomberg “I think that the generosity and the foresight of the Google leadership to be a part of this movement to solidify and even further advance NYC’s role as a leader of the tech campus is a very smart move on the part of [Google CEO Larry Page],” Skorton said.

At a press conference on May 21, Page announced that the company would provide CornellNYC Tech with 22,000 square feet of its NYC headquar-

of the hotbeds of the tech sectors in NYC, which is to say to be one of the hotbeds anywhere.”

Skorton said that the agreement would also save the University money, which he said was a welcome relief after several years of budget cuts.

“At a time when we really deal with the revenue decreases of the recession, [Google’s donation] is a big contribution in saving us money on very, very excellent located real estate in NYC,

including fantastic offices and space in the building that Google owns,” Skorton said.

The University took over the space on July 1 and must be out in five-and-a-half years, by which time it expects the first building of the new campus will have been completed. Additionally, Google has offered Cornell the option of expanding from 22,000 square feet to 58,000 square feet — space that the University expects to use, according to Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of CornellNYC Tech.

“The current space will probably hold us for the next two years,” Huttenlocher said. He noted that when the campus’ first permanent building is completed in 2017, the school will have 150,000 square feet of space at its disposal.

A handful of graduate students and faculty members from the Ithaca campus will use the space this fall for seminars and workshops. New students will matriculate in fall 2013, although classes could start in January 2013 if the school is successful in quickly recruiting faculty, according to Huttenlocher.

Although he emphasized the many benefits of the Google agreement, Skorton acknowledged that there was “definitely a

concern” about backlash from faculty over fostering such a close relationship with one company.

Still, he said Cornell is “jumping in with both feet in this direction.”

Huttenlocher, defending the agreement, said that Google will not have the rights to any technology invented by Cornell faculty and students in its building.

Additionally, he said that Cornell is looking to build strong ties with a “broad range of companies” — as opposed to just Google — to develop NYC’s technology sector.

“The leading tech companies in the country pretty much all have strong working relationships with Cornell,” Huttenlocher added.

Skorton and Huttenlocher also emphasized that Cornell will be one of a number of tenants occupying Google’s building.

Although the agreement will place Cornell in Google’s building, it is by no means a formal partnership between the University and Google, Huttenlocher said.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was also supportive of the agreement, saying at the press conference that, “Google, as everybody knows, is one of the world's most innova-

tive companies.”

Huttenlocher said the rentfree lease was valued at about $10 million. While Cornell also looked at other sites that were available for rent, Google’s building offered the kind of space the University sought, with high ceilings and open space that he hopes will foster collaboration.

“Good space — space that is appropriate to a tech startup-style of working — is not going to have the same kind of feel as a university,” Huttenlocher said.

“It has a bullpen style of feel. It would be a challenge for us to find that kind of space for rent.”

The idea to let Cornell use space in Google’s headquarters grew out of “informal relationships” with Google executives, said Huttenlocher, who previously spent a summer as a visiting professor at Google.

Huttenlocher said that, when Cornell won the competition to build a tech campus in December, he reached out to a number of NYC tech leaders — among them, executives at Google’s NYC headquarters — to figure out how to get CornellNYC Tech off the ground as soon as possible.

David Marten can be reached at dmarten@cornellsun.com.

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Hungry Cornellians line up for free food at Picnic on the Plaza Wednesday, one of the Orientation Week events welcoming new and returning students to campus.

Four men were convicted Aug. 7 of stealing nearly $6 million from Columbia University, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. The men were found to have hacked Columbia’s vendor payment system in Fall 2010, according to The Spectator.

On the heels of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal involving former head football coach Joe Paterno, a Brown University alumnus, Brown has decided to

rename the Joseph V. Paterno ’50 Award to the First-Year Male Athlete Award, its original title, the Brown Daily Herald reported July 13.

Two women not affiliated with Harvard University have both reported being raped on campus last week, The Harvard Crimson reported. The sexual assaults, which occured within four days of one another, are the first instances of “stranger rape” to be report-

ed on Harvard’s campus in the past 12 years, according to The Crimson.

The Yale Daily News reported last week that Yale University will now require students to register off-campus parties attended by more than 50 people with the dean’s office.

Hosts of these parties could face university disciplinary action in the event of alcohol-related incidents.

— Compiled by Sylvia Rusnak

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NEWS

First Class a ‘Kind of Experiment,’ Dean of CornellNYC Tech Says NYC TECH

dences provided by Google’s New York Headquarters, an arrangement that was announced by President David for admissions is Oct. 1.

Skorton, Google CEO Larry “Very strong students will Paige and Mayor Bloomberg on get pretty quick feedback,” May 21.

Huttenlocher said.

Students seeking a Master of The first batch of students in Engineering degree from the the pilot degree program, University can apply to either dubbed the “beta class,” will the Ithaca or NYC campus; they study in the first of what will be will not be able to transfer multiple degree offerings by the between the two. While both time the Roosevelt Island camprograms will provide graduates pus is completed in 2017. The with the same degree credentials, “Whenever you’re trying something new, it becomes a Huttenlocher said in his statement that kind of experiment. What we learn from this program will applicants for the help us influence all the other programs.”

NYC Tech program will be expected to Daniel Huttenlocher have “strong entrepreneurial interests, leadership skills and a pasbeta class will consist of 15 to graduate technology degree sion for community engage20 students “with a strong with a real passion for making a ment.”

He added that the degree undergraduate education in difference with technology.”

Students accepted into the from the NYC campus will have computer science or a closely related field, who seek advanced pilot degree program will be a distinct “entrepreneurial credentials for employment in housed in a temporary location twist,” making the program industry or for deeper techno- in Chelsea, New York, in resi- “less like an engineering or sciContinued from page 1

logical experience to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams,” according to the join statement.

The class size is subject to change to accommodate the space confines of the temporary campus.

“The size of the class depends a lot on the number, background and caliber of applicants,” Huttenlocher told The Sun on Wednesday. “[We are looking for] students who have combined a good under-

ence school and more like a business school.”

This will include an emphasis on business and applied technology that differs from the Masters of Engineering degree currently offered at the Ithaca campus, according to Huttenlocher. In Ithaca, for example, masters students can take elective credits in any course of study; at NYC Tech, all classes not related to technology must be business-oriented.

Huttenlocher said that the NYC Tech pilot degree program seeks to emulate other Cornell schools, such as the Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell Law School. Classes will be held only on Mondays to Thursdays, while Fridays are reserved for an elective activity — often a fullday workshop, a business seminar, a meeting with a technology industry leader, or a class in public speaking — meant to inculcate real-world business skills in NYC Tech students.

The prestige of a spot in the “beta class” comes with an unprecedented opportunity to shape the course of the NYC Tech school, which will one day host hundreds of graduate students and offer eight degree programs — five one-year Cornell masters programs and three variations of a two-year dual-degree Masters of Science program with Cornell and the Technion - Israel Institute for Technology — according to Huttenlocher. While he said that “it is a stretch” to expect all eight programs to be available by the official unveiling of the campus in 2017, Huttenlocher noted that at least five will have started by then.

As the first to be introduced, the computer science program has become a sort of trial, Huttenlocher said.

“Whenever you’re trying something new, it becomes a kind of experiment,” Huttenlocher said. “What we learn from this program will help us influence all the other programs.”

Huttenlocher said that he expects the degree program to undergo gradual shifts before the Roosevelt Island campus opens.

“Usually, when we begin a new masters’ program, we like to start small so we can work out the kinks,” Huttenlocher said.

There will be three full-time faculty teaching at the temporary campus in Chelsea, as well as several professors, most of whom are tenured, at Ithaca.

The professors in Ithaca will contribute on a part-time basis to the business and entrepreneurial side of the degree program.

In addition, Huttenlocher said that he expects individuals in the New York City technology industry to serve as “industry mentors,” who will oversee student’s progress alongside faculty advisors.

New York City is counting on the interaction between the beta class and the local tech industries to boost the city’s tech industry even before the Tech Campus is fully operational, according to New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky.

“Before long, this beta class at Cornell NYC Tech will begin developing cutting-edge technologies and new spin-off companies that will strengthen the City’s economy and ensure that we continue to establish ourselves as a global hub of innovation for the future,” he said in a statement Wednesday.

While the applied science campus is the product of an international academic partnership and will be situated in one of the world’s largest cities, Huttenlocher said that even with this first degree program, his aspirations for NYC Tech are at least somewhat rooted in the hills of Ithaca.

“We’re hoping for a great number of Cornell kids among the applicants,” he said.

Jacob Glick can be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com.

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Hate Crime Suspect Landlord: House Is Structurally Sound Will Face Charges PORCH

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HATE CRIME

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Ian says that the individual continued his harassment even as a couple of people, assumed by Ian to be friends of the aggressor, attempted to restrain him. The assault reportedly continued as, according to Ian, the male individual continued to yell provocations and physically pushed the victims, at one point allegedly knocking a student over onto the sidewalk.

The victims reported being confused and said they had never seen the individual before, according to the statement.

The suspect’s provocations involved both sexual slurs, including a word commonly used to shame members of the LGBTQ community, and racial insults directed toward one of the victims.

Following the yelling and pushing, the individual reportedly chased the group along Eddy Street. When the victims approached Catherine Street, they turned around to walk back on Eddy Street, and Ian called the police.

Despite the ongoing violence, Ian states in the report that bystanders on the crowded street “were just watching, not helping” — either “in shock or just ignoring it.”

As the victims made their way back on Eddy Street, the suspect “screamed to all of us ‘I’m going to put you in a ditch’ like he was insinuating that he was going to kill us,” Ian writes in the report.

However, at this point, a number of people suspected to be the individual’s friends apparently restrained him and held him down, while laughing, Ian says.

When the victims started running toward a residence, the individual allegedly yelled, “‘Just keep prancing down the street. Walk away.

Exactly,’” according to Ian. When the victims reached the residence, the aggressor reportedly tried to follow them inside but was restrained by a group of people suspected to be his friends, according to the report.

Ithaca police then arrived on

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the scene. As they asked Ian whether he wanted to press charges against the suspect, the report states, Ian spotted the individual on Eddy Street and identified him to the officers as the man who had assaulted his friends.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and President David Skorton released a joint statement Monday condemning the alleged verbal and physical assault.

Police arrested Anthony K. Stephans, who is not associated with the University, on four counts of aggravated harrassment for an incident that occured Sunday. He allegedly physically and verbally harassed multiple victims, IPD said.

He will return to Ithaca City Court on Aug. 29 for further legal action.

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

shoulder” on the 12 ft. by 12 ft. porch.

“All of the lumber and supporting structure were inspected and there was no evidence of rot or decay,” Wilder wrote. “In fact, the fractures of the floor joists splintered in a fashion which is indicative of overstress from excessive weight.”

Despite the collapse, Wilder ensured tenants that the house had been fully approved for occupancy by the City of Ithaca and had even undergone a major structural reinforce-

ment this summer during a “high quality, major renovation of house.”

“As each of the three apartments in the building were completed, the building department inspected all of this work,” he wrote.

“During each of these phases, the inspector has been to the building on multiple occasions.”

The porch is being rebuilt; it is expected to be fully operational by Thursday.

Liz Camuti can be reached at lcamuti@cornellsun.com.

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University Avenue and Central Avenue.

“Cornell condemns, in the strongest terms, all actions that threaten the safety of its community members,” the statement added. “Cornell EMS personnel evaluated the victim at the scene,

and no transport for medical treatment was necessary. He is receiving assistance and support from Cornell staff.”

Tuesday’s alleged attack is the second reported race-related attack in under one week. On Sunday, multiple Cornell students were allegedly verbally and physically assaulted in Collegetown, prompting Mayor

Svante Myrick ’09 and President David Skorton to condemn the incident.

After the first bias incident, Myrick and Skorton expressed “concern and dismay” and said that the case is “being addressed appropriately and effectively.”

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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to show up at a party empty-handed.

So I picked up a gift and proudly marched back into the office where I had spent two thirds of my collegiate life. And I was received with open arms — more accurately, the case of beer in my hands was received with open arms — and between backslaps and the clatter of bottle caps, productivity at the press ground to its familiar Thursday night halt.

I did this two more times. The second time I went back, one year later, was a muted rerun of the first.

The rate of turnover in a college happens before you even notice. I used to help run the whole place, and now I didn’t even know half the kids there. I’m sure most of them wondered who this older man was and why he was giving them free beer. There are few, if any, good answers to those questions.

It wasn’t until the third time I did this, two or three years ago, that I finally felt like yesterday’s paper.

Most everyone I knew in college was gone, and when I showed up with the case of beer in my hands, I didn’t really know anyone. I halfexpected the new editors to assume that I was on the way to an engagement party, or a baby shower or some other such horrible event and had somehow gotten lost. They would relieve me of the beer and politely direct me to the nearest unemployment office.

The writing on the wall was clear.

It was time to move on. College was over and, for the most part, so were these short jaunts back to the most fun time of our lives. Not the best — God forbid that we peaked at 21 — and likely not the greatest — sometimes I want to jump in a DeLorean and go punch my undergrad self in the face — but almost certainly the most fun.

We are five years out now. We are in our late twenties. Some of us are engaged. Some of us are married.

dare say that many — most of us, in fact — are happy and have dependable friends and fulfilling jobs and enjoy what we do, in terms of work and play. We are fortunate enough to be a third of the way through a wonderful life.

But Cornell never really ended, did it? Yes, we have moved on, and it is no longer the central linchpin of our lives. But it is there — a foundational truss, a load-bearing column. It helped make us into the lawyers, doctors, engineers and journalists we are today. And it is very much a part of our daily lives, through the mentors it provided, the education it imparted and the friends it sat at our tables.

And now, for three or four short days, we get to do it all over again.

We get to sleep in the dorms. We get to wear flip-flops to the showers. We get to eat Wings Over Ithaca, and Hot Truck and Dino BBQ. We get to say hi to Happy Dave and Zamboni Dave and Schroeder Dave.

We get to go to the Cornell Store and buy little tchotchkes for our offices. We get to take a nap on the Slope and wake up to the sight of Cayuga’s waters gleaming softly in the distance. We get to have a prayer circle at the location formerly known as The Palms and helpfully remind each other of what we did there that made us so sad to see it gone. We get to go on a wine tour and to sit downstairs at Rulloff ’s and drink straight out of the pitcher. We get to see our old friends and we get to make new ones and we get to put our arms around each other’s shoulders and sway almost-but-not-quite to the beat and sing the alma mater.

We get to go back to the old days.

Those good old days on The Hill.

Carlos Maycotte served as associate editor of The Sun in 2006 - 07, and he graduated in 2007. He may be reached at carlosmaycotte@gmail.com.

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Stamos and Garfunkel T

here are over three-thousand new faces on campus this August, and there is no doubt that among them there are star students, stellar athletes and probably some other people who aren’t as smart or good at sports. They will come from diverse and exotic places across the globe — like New York City, New Jersey, Westchester County and Long Island. What the Cornell University class of 2016 (or class of 2017 if any of you architects make it out of the studio long enough to read this) is missing though, is something to spice up the “Notable Alumni” section on the Cornell Wikipedia page.

Apparently Justin Bieber thought touring the world and playing music to thousands of adoring fans sounded a little better than trudging uphill both to and from class in the snow. Go figure.

Every year, Cornell sends recruiters to college fairs and high school wrestling matches, scouring the globe for the best students to bring to the hill. I have been to a high school wrestling match, and frankly, it was pretty underwhelming. Which brings me to the point of this column: It is time to tap into a whole new pool of college applicants — formerly relevant celebrities.

Listen up admissions office (or whoever handles new student recruitment) I have two hot leads who will be perfect for Cornell. First, John Stamos. It may seem like a long shot, but I really believe that Stamos will make a tremendous Cornell student. For one, he has dastardly good looks. Correct me if I am wrong, but Cornell is certainly the best looking school in the Ivy League (probably the world), and I think this will help John Stamos feel a little less conspicuous when he walks around campus. He already has an undergraduate degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology, and I’m not sure what he studied there, but given his career in showbiz, I will just assume he majored in chemical engineering. We all know that Cornell has great masters in engineering opportunities for former television stars. Plus being an engineer is a whole lot sexier than starring in some Greek yogurt commercials. Believe me — I can barely count the number of Greek Yogurt commercial offers I turned down, and engineering is doing wonders for

my social life.

The second lead to follow for the new Cornell Celebrity Student Recruitment Task Force (or CCSRTF) that President Skorton is putting together literally right now is Art Garfunkel from Simon and Garfunkel. With those royalty checks from “The Sound of Silence” and “Mrs. Robinson” certainly coming less and less frequently, and expensive hair products to upkeep that glorious do, it may be time for Art to find a new gig to finance that hairstyle.

Moreover, there are probably some deep-seated inferiority issues about being one of folk music’s most famous second bananas ever.

Sure, Paul Simon may have made a multiplatinum album or two, but you want to know what he definitely does not have?

An Ivy League education. Art Garfunkel would jump at the opportunity to finally have something over his more successful musical counterpart other than his killer blonde afro.

Imagine it. You walk into your first physical chemistry lab early in the semester, and Uncle Jesse is your T.A. Or you sit down in Introduction to Oceanography and who is there next to you but former folk music sensation Art Garfunkel. We saw what Emma Watson did for Brown, and star power like Stamos and Garfunkel would definitely outshine her.

Realistically though, it seems a little bit absurd to think that John Stamos or Art Garfunkel would come to Cornell. (It really might be better suited for a Dave Collier from Full House or Daryl Hall from Hall and Oates.) As it turns out, Stamos is playing drums with the Beach Boys and Art is 70 years old. They would probably just end up being those old students who raise their hand to ask a question but instead just tell an anecdote about their life and just makes everyone a little bit uncomfortable.

It looks like we will just have to make due with what we have now — students who will eventually make their way into the “Notable Alumni” section of the Cornell Wikipedia page. There certainly are plenty of students here who will do that. The only real problem with this is that there is no way of knowing who they will be. How disappointing would it be to see the world’s next Bill Nye or Christopher Reeve years after Cornell and think, “Hey! That guy sat next to me in Integrated Cattle Nutrition, and I never talked to him?” Literally anyone could be the next

Christo Eliot The Tale of the Dingo At Midnight notable alum.

So as the new school year starts and your schedule fills with hours of classes, it is the perfect time to befriend the next John Stamos. They don’t need to find a hit sitcom with the Olsen twins to be famous, though that definitely can’t hurt their chances. Maybe they’ll be the architect of the next Empire State Building, the author of the next great book or the next owner of the Four Seasons Maui (free room service anyone?). There is no reason not to introduce yourself. The first few weeks of each college semester are one of the few times in life where it isn’t weird to start a conversation with a total stranger. Why not take advantage of it? Maybe you’ll end up sitting next to the future Art Garfunkel.

Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Welcome Home C

ongratulations Class of 2016, you have thus far made it through dorm move-in, five days of orientation, nights in crowded Collegetown living rooms and, perhaps most impressively, your very first day of classes. As an old and wise senior, I can very clearly remember my first day of classes at this wonderful institution: I rushed into Uris auditorium at 9:04 a.m. for Bio 101 (after admittedly misreading my campus map and going to

the slide in front of us, or the twelve page syllabus that was being passed out. I had arrived. College.

But for me, starting college was less glitzy than I had fantasized. Rather, it was entirely overwhelming. I felt like I had been thrown into a pool and was expected to swim (oh wait, we actually do that to Cornell freshmen). For starters, we speak a different language at this school that was, at first, gibberish. What’s a “prelim?” Where’s this

Hannah Deixler Shades of Grey Uris library first, looking around for a classroom and quickly realizing I was that embarrassing freshman who didn’t know that there were multiple buildings with the same name). After finding the right lecture hall in the correct Uris, I slipped into a chair towards the back, spilling coffee on my shirt, wiped the sweat off my forehead and looked into a sea of students who, to me, seemed wide awake, well-adjusted to this “college” thing and not at all intimidated by the huge classroom, the Cornell University logo projected on

place “Mann” everyone keeps talking about, and why is Bear Necessities called “Nasty’s?” Why does every other girl have Greek letters on her book bag, and why don’t I know why it’s significant that she’s an Omega Delta (don’t worry Freshmen, it’s really not). This huge university, can, for newcomers, feel like a huge life-size maze through which everyone else moves easily, unaffected by the jargon, the anonymity, the disgusting aftertaste of Keystone Light and oh, those steep hills.

To any freshman reading this

(although I imagine there are few as there are still books to be purchased, friends to be made and schedules to be sorted before any sort of recreational reading can be done), please rest assured: If you are, five days in, feeling over your head at the Ivy League institution you had always dreamed of attending, I promise you are in good company. Although Cornell prides itself on its diverse student body, we all share one thing in common: We identified as extraordinary in high school.

Maybe you discovered new subatomic particles or won twelve state choir competitions. Or perhaps you’re that kid who broke your schools’ track record by fifteen seconds, or traveled the world feeding hungry children a new protein-rich powder you developed.

The secret is: Everyone in the community is extraordinary and you are too. But after a day of classes and less than a week on campus you may be overwhelmed and unsure of who you are, or even what you’re capable of doing. I certainly was. An exciting kind of overwhelmed, of course, but overwhelmed nonetheless. However, I can assure you — as can every other student who looks like they’ve got this place figured out — you will find your way through the maze. Wrong turns teach you which way to take next time, and sometimes, land you at that awesome coffee spot on campus you didn’t

know existed. If you doubt yourself, fake it until you make it. Keep going, keep working, keep trying to make sense of this place because each of us not only deserves to be here, but also, and perhaps more importantly, makes this place what it is. If you doubt yourself — socially, academically, emotionally or athletically — fake it, at least for now. The truth is you have been thrown into this pool I now call home, but you are here because you have the skills to figure out how to swim (or at least tread for now). Soon enough, you will realize that you belong here, you have a niche here and you can make Cornell your home. Trust yourself, and understand that that girl in the front row of Bio 101 who you may believe by Day One has got this place wired is feeling the same panic that you are.

You’re not alone, it gets better and you deserve this.

And, for those who conquered move-in, love your roommates, have found your “OMG amazing” college friends and feel confident about your course load: Just wait, prelims (and winter) are right around the corner.

But to all of you — the overwhelmed, the excited and everyone in between, welcome home.

Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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By ELIZABETH YOUNG

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The start of fall classes always brings mixed feelings. A week ago or so, most of us had reached that point of the summer at which we’d done everything we wanted to do over the three-month break — work at internships and jobs, go on vacations, hangout with hometown friends or generally laze about and take pleasure in doing absolutely nothing. Some of us may have begun to feel the itch to get out of our parents’ houses, get together with friends on campus and (dare I say it?) get back into the classroom.

However, now that we’re back, we might begin to long for those summer days, especially when we already have trees changing colors to remind us that fall is not far ahead. So before we despair at the multiple class syllabi and looming due dates and exams, here are my top five refreshments around Ithaca to cool you down during the first few hot weeks of the semester. And maybe, just maybe, that last drop of summer in your cup will make your transition into the school year a little easier.

3. THAI ICED COFFEE FROM TASTE OF THAI For those of you who need your caffeine fix and prefer to have your coffee sweet, I suggest the Thai iced coffee from Taste of Thai in Ithaca Commons. This drink combines strong black coffee and lots of sugar and is topped with a generous serving of cream; I like to take a spoon and mix the coffee and cream together. I would especially recommend this to those of you who want a sweet coffee drink that isn’t as much of a sugar bomb as the blended coffee drinks from Starbucks and the like.

“Maybe, just maybe, that last drop of summer

in your cup will make your transition into the school year a little easier.”

1. CTB SMOOTHIE FROM COLLEGETOWN BAGELS Most of the time, I can’t stand dining out in the summer. When it’s already 80 degrees with 80 percent humidity at eight in the morning, the last thing I want to think of is eating hot food for breakfast. But this CTB smoothie — a combination of strawberries, bananas, yogurt and orange juice — does the trick. The drink has a natural sweetness that’s tempered by the tangy citrus-and-yogurt duo. The yogurt also lends a thickened texture to the smoothie to complete the drink as a satiating breakfast that doesn’t require a toaster or a frying pan.

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2. GINGER LASSI FROM MEHAK CUISINE Interestingly enough, when I finally muster up an appetite in the summer’s heat, I always crave Indian food and, in particular, Indian lassis. Many of you may be familiar with the sweet mango lassi, but for those of you willing to be a bit more adventurous, I recommend the ginger lassi from Mehak Cuisine on Eddy Street in Collegetown. Speckled with black salt, this creamy yogurt drink is the saltier and subtly bitter cousin of the mango lassi. Its flavors, however, complement the savory components of your meal and are a refreshing contrast to the typical overly sweet summer beverages.

4. TARO BLACK MILK BUBBLE TEA FROM THE OLD TEAHOUSE Whether you’re a longtime devotee of bubble tea or you’ve always been curious to try it, The Old Teahouse on Dryden Road in Collegetown is the place to go. The number of options and flavor combinations is mind-boggling: Green apple black tea or green apple green tea? Milk or no milk? Tapioca bubbles or fruit jellies? Although The Old Teahouse has plenty of recognizable fruit flavors, I recommend trying the taro black milk bubble tea. Its sweet-potato-like taste is a welcome departure from the typical strawberry or watermelon flavors and the chewy tapioca balls complete the drink as a fun afternoon snack.

5. SIN SMOOTHIE FROM JANSEN’S MARKET I almost hesitate to call this one a “smoothie” because in my mind, anything made with a frozenyogurt base is really just a slightly different version of a milkshake. Found in Jansen’s Market on West Campus, this yogurt shake comprises the classic peanut butter and banana pairing, now laced with dark chocolate. The first time I tried this smoothie, I asked for a whey protein supplement to try to justify my purchase. No such luck. This drink is rich, decadent and all sorts of wrong in a cup. Then again, what more can you ask of a summer refreshment? (For those of you who answered, “Alcohol,” that is completely your prerogative.)

Elizabeth Young can be reached at eay23@cornell.edu.

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Something about Kreayshawn or The Based God is very of the moment. That is, I doubt that, five years down the line, we’ll be listening to “Gucci Gucci” with nothing more than the ironic glee that attracted us to the track in the first place.

Even artists that seem above the fray — Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Das Racist and, hells yes I’m including her, Kitty Pryde — subvert the expectations we normally reserve for “serious rappers”; trash culture references, ridiculously understated brags (Das Racist’s Heems is “known to rock the flyest shit and eat the best pizza”) and tongue-in-cheek sample selection, from Billy Joel to Carly Rae Jepsen, replace the socially conscious, struggle-obsessed rap that was huge in the 1990s.

Joey Bad@$$’s 1999 mixtape evokes the latter style not only nominally, but sonically and lyrically as well. Since Bada$$ is a member of the teenaged Pro Era collective, the lazy comparison would be troublemakers Odd Future, but he has a lot more in common with elder statesmen like Nas, Common and, especially, Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s work on the Blackstar record. Whereas his contemporaries opt for kitsch, Bad@$$ chooses jazzy chords, haunting vocal samples

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Furthermore, 1999 succeeds because Joey presents himself as a multi-dimensional, multifaceted human being. On “Waves,” he compares his humble origins with his ambitions to be a mogul, hang with Jay-Z and give his mom a Range Rover. “World Domination” spotlights the streetwise emcee in action, deftly spitting out lines about his potential (referencing both Nas’ Illmatic and Jay-Z’s The Blueprint) over a ragtime beat and, for all the ’90s kids out there, a pitch-shifted “Pinky and the Brain” sample. “Pennyroyal” is particularly intriguing; Joey is clearly hurt by a girl who has left him, but hides his emotions because he has to project the “player” image that rappers need to maintain. Instead, he aims to “make the song cry” for him, illustrating his use of music to express these complex emotions he has suppressed elsewhere.

The highlights of 1999 — and, perhaps, this entire year of hip-hop — are “Survival Tactics” and “Hard Knocks.”

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1999 paints a very complete portrait of a young man who has unlimited potential; Joey Bad@$$ already sounds wise beyond his years, an old soul in a young body. His accomplices in the Pro Era crew — especially Capital STEEZ and CJ Fly — show that he even attracts top talent to collaborate with him, which, in today’s feature-happy rap scene, is a definite measuring stick for someone’s staying power. While I could have written this review solely by quoting the 10 best couplets on the mixtape, I didn’t. Instead, I’ll leave you with this: 1999, while not necessarily pushing boundaries or changing the game, shows a kid doing old tricks very, very well, reminding us why we love the genre in the first place.

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Bowerbirds Talk Music, Success and Bon Iver

BY JAMES RAINIS Sun Senior Editor

This article first appeared on cornellsun.com on June 14.

The Daily Sun had the pleasure of sitting down with Philip Moore, singer and guitarist for the indie-folk act Bowerbirds, as he and the band — which includes Moore, his girlfriend Beth Tacular on accordion and Mark Paulsen on violin — prepare for their upcoming tour in support of their new record, The Clearing.

Moore talks artistic development, the new Here We Go Magic record and getting boxed in as a folk artist (by none other than yours truly).

record?

P.M.: Well, we had our drummer with us this time, which was great. We recorded just the three of us — me, the drummer and Beth — and we went to an actual studio. It was a new experience. On Upper Air, we were just trying to get the songs out right then.

SUN: So it was more: Record it, release it and get the music out?

P.M.: Exactly. We had a tour schedule set and we needed to do it quickly. It was, I

helps to create kind of an intimate feel.

SUN: Parts of the new record were recorded in Bon Iver’s North Carolina studio. What was it like working with him, to whatever extent you did? Have the Grammy’s and SNL nods gotten to his head?

P.M.: He’s totally taken it all pretty gracefully, though he wasn’t there for most of it.

We worked with our own producers. The studio is just a beautiful place with great equipment, weird drawings. Brian Joseph was actually a friend of ours — he’s actually COURTESY OF DLANDERSON.COM

THE SUN: So, where are you now and what are you doing to get ready for the upcoming tour?

PHILIP MOORE: Well, we’re starting the tour on the seventh, I guess. We’ve had rehearsal, all that stuff, but the two of us have basically been crashing all day today.

SUN: Three years between records is a pretty long time, especially in the era of blogs and Hype Machine. Obviously, much has been made about what has transpired for you guys between Upper Air and The Clearing.

Personal travails aside, how do you think the band has changed musically between these two records?

P.M.: I just feel like it’s a little more lush and expansive. The cores of the songs are obscured more, in a way. A lot of the elements surrounding the music are more lush.

Most of all, though, I feel like the lyrics are more spot on — they’re based on my actual life. It’s a lot more autobiographical rather than not, I suppose.

SUN: One of the first things everyone notices about The Clearing is how rich it sounds compared to the first two records.

Was there a conscious effort to expand your sound palette and create a more ornate

think, better for it that way. The Clearing took a while, and we did a lot of re-recording. We came back home and we redid entire songs and it was kind of, like, a huge process, trying to figure out how to make a complete song out of the basic elements.

SUN: The editing process seems fairly alien when the first time you record something is usually how it stays for the remainder of its existence. Once your record it, it’s set in stone.

P.M.: Yeah. The first album was recorded all live, down to the vocals, actually. Maybe a violin or two was over-dubbed, but otherwise it was just completely live. I suppose that

related to the [psych-folk band] Megafaun dude. It was a really comfortable situation.

SUN: Folk music risks falling into old clichés, especially for listeners who don’t know it too intimately. There are limitations in instrumentation and lyrical themes. Why do you find yourself drawn to folk music, and how do you keep it fresh?

P.M.: I feel like I’m not necessarily drawn to folk music or that I really write folk music.

I always thought that folk music was always like traditional cover songs. I never thought that I wrote songs that people could play easily or songs that have a message or something. I love Bob Dylan and Nick Drake, but

I also love a bunch of punk rock and other music that doesn’t come up in conversations when people talk about Bowerbirds. I guess it’s just easier for me to sing and play on acoustic guitar, which isn’t really what folk is to me. It’s fine if people think that; I just don’t think that I’m drawn to folk music and it’s trappings like you’re saying. I try to draw from a lot of different places.

SUN: Do you ever see yourself making any stylistic shifts in future songs, or have you basically figured out what you do and how you do it?

P.M.: It’s more what you can do to make people think that you’ve changed your music. I think I might write a song that doesn’t necessarily fit into the Bowerbirds mold. I don’t know if we would change so drastically, but we’re more likely to start different projects. We’ll see what happens.

SUN: You guys kick off your tour on June 7 (with a stop at The Haunt on June 17).

What rigorous preparations have you made for the tour?

P.M.: Well, we’ve ramped our lineup up from three people to five. We’re rearranging almost all of our songs for the new lineup. It’s taken quite a lot of work to get all the buttons pressed at the same time. We’ve been working with getting comfortable in the new setting.

SUN: One last question: What record from 2012 will you guys be playing in the van as you tour?

P.M.: Here We Go Magic’s latest is pretty good. I think the production is really special.

SUN: Didn’t they pick up John Waters while he was hitchhiking?

P.M.: [laughs] Was that them?

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

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The Music Doesn’t End at Bonnaroo

BY DAN ROBBINS Sun Senior Editor

This article first appeared on cornellsun.com on June 14.

Since the late 90s, festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Coachella have grown from jammy aftertastes of the hippie dream into rites of passage for any college kid with a decent pair of Beats. And so the 11th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival neither lacked big names (Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish) nor big surprises (D’Angelo, Lionel Richie). Everyone from The Beach Boys to Skrillex worked their stuff in the Tennessee mud.

The best part of Bonnaroo, though, is bopping at the feet of the many talented, emerging artists. With 150 acts across 11 stages over four days, the choices are as dizzying as the Southern sun. Here are five upand-comers worthy of your summer playlist.

1. The Main Squeeze The Squeeze are a five-piece funk experience you can't help but elbow to center stage for. Hailing from Indiana, they hook soulful vocals and tight bass lines with head-swing-

ing guitar and keyboard. Think Galactic meets Robert Randolph. For their first Bonnaroo, The Main Squeeze powered through their recently released debut album “First Drops.” Tracks like “Dr. Funk,” “Mixed Up” and “Mama Told Me” overwhelmed a small Miller Lite Lounge. The finale, “Gimme One More,” had the evergrowing crowd jumping in unison to calland-response riffs. Expect The Main Squeeze to become a staple on the festival circuit.

2. Gary Clark Jr. Since his breakout performance at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, all blues ears have perked toward Gary Clark Jr. Last year at Bonnaroo, the young Texan’s downhome grind commanded the Miller Lite Lounge. This year, he joined The Beach Boys, Bon Iver and Phish on Sunday’s Main Stage. An ability to channel John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters into the twenty-first century hums through Clark’s success. “Bright Lights” could’ve come from Eric Clapton — “Things Are Changing” from John Legend.

It’s an eargasm fit for nearly anyone’s iPod. 3. Big Gigantic Bonnaroo couldn’t get enough of Big

Gigantic. And the Colorado duo, whose livetronica blends hip-hop and jazz, seemed to know it. They not only killed their Thursday night set, but also drew screams by joining Umphrey’s McGee unannounced as the sun rose Saturday morning. Some critics have dismissed Big G as Pretty Lights with a sax. The two frontmen, however, boast a greater versatility and musical awareness.

Both have classical training (saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli graduated from the Manhattan School of Music) and have amassed an impressive festival resume (Bonnaroo, Ultra, All Good). Their 2012 album Nocturnal grooved to number two on the iTunes electronic chart. Don’t be surprised if their next drop does even better.

4. Kendrick Lamar Heavy beats, explicit lyrics and mindnumbing verses about the temptations of Compton’s streets. This isn’t N.W.A, but 24year-old lyricist Kendrick Lamar. Although he’s yet to lay down a chart-topper, Lamar’s Cali brand of raw storytelling has a cult following. Maybe that’s why Dr. Dre recently signed Lamar and joined him on “The Recipe.” Bonnaroovians bounced to Lamar’s tracks on inner-city childhood, ethnic toler-

For the Love of Girls Girls, the Judd Apatow-produced HBO comedy, is my newest obsession. Written, directed and acted by Hollywood’s new indie wunderkind, Lena Dunham, Girls is a semi-autobiographical interpretation of twentysomethings making it in the big city. Dunham herself professes to the show’s essence as “hashtag white people problems,” a truth that happens to be precisely the best and worst thing about Girls. The show surrounds the ceaselessly entertaining (and oftentimes awkward) Generation Y issues of getting cut off by your parents, trapping a none-too-interested boyfriend and accidentally smoking crack before running around Brooklyn pantless — what?

Exactly. Girls is real, self-indulgent and strangely self-aware of its own self-indulgence. If that doesn’t eerily sound like a description of yourself, then perhaps these five memorable moments from the first season of Girls may intrigue you.

5. Alabama Shakes The Alabama Shakes might already be too big for this list. In less than one year, they’ve howled from virtual anonymity to Ryman Auditorium and the Troubadour. The draw is lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard. Her Joplin-esque roots rock earned spots on several “Don’t Miss” lists before Bonnaroo and even more “Top Performance” recaps afterward. While the rest of the Shakes seemed timid, Howard spun around delighted in her own wails. In a music world of good talent and better looks, the slightly overweight, frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing Howard proves that authentic, heart-wrenching melody trumps all. It’s the Adele effect, but with more crunch.

Dan Robbins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at drobbins@cornellsun.com.

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where the ongoing flirtation culminates with his final line: “But I want you to know that the first time I fuck you, I might scare you a little.

Because I’m a man and I know how to do things.” Literally, shivers.

Somehow, “man” is really not the first word that comes to mind for “that Lonely Island Guy” but yet Taccone as Booth is strangely convincing.

Then Marnie does the only likable thing she’s done all season thus far: She runs to the gallery, locks herself in the bathroom and masturbates to Gang Gang Dance’s “Mind Killa.”

And in a baffling way, the release from her climax results in a little bit of a release in our own audience tension from watching high-strung Marnie’s rigidity finally dissipate.

THE CRACKCIDENT Shoshanna, a spoiled NYU student from Long Island and one of the four main characters in Girls, attends a poppin’ warehouse party in Bushwick. Having taken a toke of a mysterious glass cigarette she assumed to be bud in the bathroom line, she BAGGAGE literally runs into her too-cool cousin, Jessa. Jessa, ever the Shoshanna and central character Hannah (Lena Dunham) worldly traveler, informs the hyperactive Shosh, “You smoked crack.” But it’s cool cause she’s going to be “her crack spirit watch their favorite Gameshow Network series, Baggage, in guide” — except she ditches Shoshanna and her random friend which three female contestants each have three suitcases: a Ray takes her place. He protests the babysitting (“I’m not a small one, a medium one and big one. They also each have fucking JAP daycare!”), but Jessa says all he needs to do is “make their hidden ‘baggage’ (their embarrassing secrets), which, if sure she doesn’t jump off a roof or get fingered by a beat boxer.” too freaky, will get them eliminated. On the show, one chick’s smallest baggage is the thousand dolEventually, Ray ends lars a month she spends on her weave up chasing a skirtless (“Unbeweaveable!” proclaims host Jessa down the streets Jerry Springer), her medium baggage of BK. The nearly naked Shoshanna is that she plans weddings after the first date and her biggest baggage is karate chops Ray because she mistakes that she pokes holes in condoms. As Profanity him for a rapist, but for Shoshanna, her smallest baggage is Prayers upon realization of her irritable bowel syndrome, her his true identity gives medium baggage is that she truly him a “totally nondoesn’t love her grandmother and her sexual” physical therapy massage in his hurt crotch. In this biggest baggage is that she’s a virgin — the crux of her storyscene, Dunham manages to cultivate the most unexpected love line for the rest of the season. Though many of the season’s interest between two completely polar characters in a manner memorable scenes are often rooted in the inherently fascinatso bizarre it somehow works. ing topics of sex, drugs and violence, Girls proves clever dialogue and a compelling concept (seriously, what would my I’M A MAN baggage be?) can carry any moment into television history.

Marnie, this beautiful, uptight gallery girl, has unpleasant sex with her boyfriend, Charlie (whose touch, she says, feels HOOKER ROLEPLAY like that of a creepy uncle under the Thanksgiving table — The truly weird tangle between sex and power continues as ouch!). When she meets the arrogant artist Jonathan Booth, Hannah and her pseudo-boyfriend, Adam, whose dick she played by Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, at an art show, she’s “chased like the Beatles,” have a fascinating role reversal. It’s all kinds of hot and bothered. They go to the High Line, always been Hannah who comes to the ever-aloof Adam for

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ance and chasing girls. His only misstep was cutting out too many lines, waiting for the audience to fill in lyrics many didn’t know.

Nonetheless, it was the sort of conscious hiphop that reassures fans good ol’ rap is alive and well. Lamar’s debut album A Good Kid In A Mad City is set for release later this year.

some kinky and (lightly) abusive 50 Shades of Grey sex, but this time she comes out of his bathroom to see him jerking off in front of her. Realizing Adam wants a serving of his own sexual humiliation and good old-fashioned degradation, Hannah expertly scripts her dominatrix dirty talk. Toward the end, she even throws in a little hooker roleplay telling Adam, “You heard me, you filthy boy, I want cab money!” Considering the first half of the episode revolved around Hannah’s failed sexual exploitation of her boss, this is a sign of evolution in her character arc in that she was able to make the elusive Adam her sexual and financial slave — if even for just a moment.

THE LEAST VIRGIN-Y VIRGIN EVER In this scene, Shoshanna finally gets a proposition to remove her v-card from an old camp friend, David. He strips her “hot rod little bod” down to her set of matching lingerie, but then gets all gun-shy when Shoshanna mentions she’s never had sex before. Suddenly David’s all like, “I’m totally fine having sex with you once you’ve already had sex but virgins just aren’t my thing.” To this, Shosh responds, “Except for the fact that I haven’t had sex, I’m like the least virginy virgin ever!”

David goes on: “You know, virgins get attached … and they bleed.” Shosh is resilient: “It’s amazing cause I’m totally not an attached bleeder.” And so in the most uncomfortably believable rejection of sex, Shoshanna’s v-card survives another day.

Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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SPORTS

Mets’ Santana Out for Remainder of Season

NEW YORK (AP) — Johan Santana is done for the year, and to say he had an up-and-down season would be an understatement of Cy Young proportions.

Explaining that their ace is worn out from two years of rehabilitation and maintenance, the New York Mets placed Santana on the 15day disabled list Wednesday with inflammation in his lower back and said he is not expected to pitch again in 2012.

Doctors recommended rest, but not surgery.

"I wanted to keep pitching. I felt that I could pitch. But at the same time, I'm listening to them," Santana said. "They said that everything that I have done has been a lot. At some point I have to take some rest.

At this point I think I agree with everything and we've just got to make sure we stay healthy and look forward to next year."

The 33-year-old Santana missed last season following major shoulder surgery in September 2010. He got off to a strong start this year and pitched the first no-hitter in Mets history June 1 against St. Louis.

But he threw a career-high 134 pitches in that game and is 3-7 with an 8.27 ERA since.

"I don't have any second thoughts about the way it was handled," general manager Sandy Alderson said. "This has not been a shoulder issue. So from that standpoint, I just don't see a direct correlation."

The tailspin got especially ugly after Chicago Cubs outfielder Reed Johnson stepped on Santana's foot on a play at first base July 6.

Beginning with that outing, Santana went 0-5 with a 15.63 ERA in his final five outings — becoming the first Mets pitcher to give up at least six runs in five consecutive starts.

The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner was 6-4 with a 2.76 ERA through June but ended up 6-9 with a 4.85 ERA. He threw 117 innings in 21 starts.

A few weeks after Johnson stepped on his foot, Santana was placed on the DL with a sprained right ankle. He was sidelined for three weeks, a period of rest that was also intended to recharge his surgically repaired shoulder.

But in his first game back, Santana lasted only 1 1-3 innings against Atlanta — the worst start of his career. He said Wednesday that he's been feeling tightness in his back for a couple of weeks, but it really stiffened up on him in his most recent outing last Friday at Washington.

He had an MRI on Tuesday that revealed the inflammation and Santana was prescribed rest, medication and intermittent exercise. He was placed on the DL retroactive to Saturday and New York will bring up right-hander Collin McHugh from the minors to start in Santana's place Thursday against Colorado.

Now, the left-hander will look toward 2013, the final guaranteed season of his $137.5 million, six-year contract.

"I'm very positive that everything's going to be fine," Santana said.

"It's too bad that I have to go down like this, but it's part of the game."

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FENCING

Red Adds Nine Recruits And New Assistant Coach

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After an up-and-down 2011-12 season that featured a school record in wins, the fencing team brought in nine freshmen as well as a new assistant coach this year.

The squad started off last season strong, winning ten of its first eleven matches between the Vassar and the Brandeis Invitationals. The Red then came away with three wins at the Philadelphia Invitational, but finished the season on a six game slide against Ivy competitors — arguably the best fencers in the country. At the Ivy Championships, the squad went 0-6, but the round robin event featured some standout individual performances by Cornell fencers. Junior April Whitney finished eighth overall individually, and Rebecca Hirschfield ’12 and junior Christine McIntosh finished Top-14 among the 27 total competitors at the match.

This year the Red has nine new faces on its roster to help it fare better as a team at the 2012-13 Ivy Championships. Of the nine freshmen, three are foils, four are epees and two are sabers. Foil Angelica Gangemi brings some international fencing experience to the Red, as she has competed in the 2010 Junior Olympics and the 2010 Summer Nationals, placing in the Top-16 in both tournaments. She also sports a gold medal from the 2011 Division 1A Women’s Foil Summer Nationals Qualifier. Fellow foil Amanda Marks was named the Pacific Coast

Fencer of the Year in both foil and saber in 2007 and 2009. Their new teammate, also at foil, Ediona Sera, was the captain of her high school team for all four years and earned all-county honors.

Epee Taylor Yang has already made a name for herself by competing for five years for the Los Angeles International Fencing Center. She came in second in Division II Epee at 2011 Summer Nationals and third at the 2010 Junior Pacific Coast Championships. Fellow epee Ashley Muller placed first at the FAW Qualifiers for Summer Nationals, and teammates Laura Isby and Jenny Zheng both fenced competitively in high school — Isby for Empire United Fencing club, and Zheng for Lingston high school where she earned four varsity letters and won first place in her district.

Saber Eunice Ko joins the Red after spending a year fencing for rival Brandeis, where she was a starter for the saber squad.

Alaina Uhouse, who will also be competing as a saber, led her team to a district title in 2010 and 2011, and to a state title in 2009.

In addition to the nine recruits, the Red has added a new assistant coach to the staff — Oleg Brusilovsky. He is a former Soviet Union Champion and a five-time Ukrainian National Champion who will help to bring some more international experience to the Red. SHAILEE SHAH / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

Forging new talent | With a senior-heavy roster this year, the women’s fencing team has a strong freshman class to develop for its future.

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how to make and caption photo galleries, create athlete biographies and research prior Olympics.

When the U.S. Olympic Trials rolled around, I arrived at the office for the five p.m. to 12 a.m. night shift, where I mastered the art of cutting live feeds for highlight videos, a task that I, as a technologically-challenged person, found incredibly daunting. (Really, I almost cried when they told me I’d be cutting highlight film.) Yet after some practice, the cutting became routine and I could actually enjoy watching the gymnasts and swimmers without worrying about missing a record swim, perfect routine, or a fall on beam.

About a week before Queen Elizabeth “jumped out of a helicopter” to declare the official start to the Games of the XXX Olympiad, the pace in the office really took off. As my boss and some sports producers headed down to London, their desks were filled with other producers brought in specifically for the Olympics.

The room was crowded and there was a noticeable buzz in the air as the Games neared.

And then they began, and the office environment was electrifying. Employees worked crazy hours on London time, with NBC supplying meals and snacks for everyone who didn’t see the light of day for two and a half weeks — as an intern, I was spared the crazy hours. Yet even with the lack of

sleep and constant action, I never heard a complaint. It seemed there was an unspoken consensus among those working for the Games: without question, the effort was worth the final outcome. If you tuned in to the Olympics at all this summer, you’d know how impressive and mesmerizing the coverage was.

I also found that despite being under pressure and having obvious deadlines, the office was remarkably relaxed.

My absolute favorite moments occurred during big Olympic events, like Usain Bolt’s 100meter sprint final or Michael Phelps’s race for a record 19th medal. For those few minutes, everyone would stop what they were working on and gather around one computer, waiting in excited anticipation for what was to come. The gun sounded, the Olympians took off and the office started cheering. My heart raced during these short episodes of history that I shared with my co-workers, as we were all blown away by the sheer athleticism of those superhuman competitors.

There is so much pride that stems from watching the Olympics, but I think behind the scenes there is a different kind of gratification. Everyone worked tirelessly to make sure the rest of the world could experience those same heartstopping seconds, a kind of magic that only happens every four summers. It was truly emotional; my eyes welled up watching Phelps on the podium after his final career race and I so often gasped at the tal-

ent of the gymnasts who seemingly defied gravity.

It was also amazing to watch sports all day—I always had at least four live streams going on my computer, plus the televisions on the office walls; sometimes, I found myself turning my head rapidly because I simply didn’t know where to look. What was especially enjoyable was being able to talk about the events and the athletes with the other incredibly dedicated sports fans around me — everyone who worked there was in one way or another emotionally invested in the Games. I often turned to my neighbors, asking if they saw that shot/dive/save because I knew they’d be watching too. And best of all, no one judged me for wearing my Roger Federer t-shirt to work for his tennis matches; my borderline abnormal infatuation with him was actually appropriate in this office.

As a sports writer for the Daily Sun, I have an obvious passion for athletics. After interning at NBC, I have an Olympic obsession. This summer was one I will never forget — the Games were literally all I could talk about all summer — and I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity. The only consolation I found at the end of the 2012 Games is that the winter Olympics are only two years away…Sochi 2014, anyone?

Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@cornellsun.com.

Home Gold From Lithuania ROWING

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weight Quadruple Scull. Both rowed for the varsity eight last year, helping the Red to a silver medal at the EARC sprints and a fifth place finish at the IRA Championship.

For the women, Solveig Imsdahl was picked for the lightweight double race and AllAmerican Taylor Goetzinger rowed for the women’s eight squad.

All eight rowers represented Cornell with pride, coming away with three gold medals at the Championships. Yost and Voter carried the men’s eight to a gold and Goetzinger led her women’s eight squad to a first-place finish as well.

It was a neck-and-neck race on the men’s side, with the U.S. team racing towards the finish with Germany on its tail. The U.S. took the lead in the final 250 meters, though, and was able to defend its world title by a narrow margin.

The Red’s other five participants in the championships also fared well. Gould and Redos helped the lightweight men’s quadruple scull to a fourth place finish in the B-final. Imstahl — part of the women’s lightweight double scull — helped her squad dominate the C final, finishing 13th overall by more than 14 seconds over the next best competitor. Massey, the last Cornell participant in the race, finished

in second in the C-final with the men’s quadruple scull for 14th place overall.

The Red was also represented at the London Olympics this summer. Ken Jurkowski ’03 earned his second Olympic berth after he won the men’s single event at the 2012 USRowing Olympic Trials.

Back in Ithaca now after an extremely successful trip to Lithuania, the rowing teams have their sights set on a strong 2012-13 season.

The women’s team — after recording one of its most successful seasons in the past 20 years — has recruited ten new freshmen to help provide depth for the Red. Seven of the eight members of the varsity eight boat last season graduated, and the squad will need to develop its freshmen to eventually take their places.

The men’s heavyweight, lightweight and women’s teams will all kick off the year with three meets in October. Their fall season begins with the Head of the Genesee in Rochester, N.Y. The Red will then travel to Boston, Mass. on Oct. 21 for the prestigious Head of the Charles and will finish the fall season with races at Princeton and Syracuse.

The squads will then have a five month break before beginning their spring season.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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Experiencing the 2012 Olympics Inside NBC When U.S. women’s soccer player Alex Morgan scored in the final 30 seconds of overtime against Canada in the semifinals of the London 2012 Olympics, I threw my hands up and yelped as if the American team could hear my exuberance at its making the finals.

Needless to say, I was not sitting on a couch in the comfort of my own home, or in an English pub, or in any other place that might be deemed appropriate to cheer like a crazed, maniacal fan. Instead, I was sitting at my desk in the middle of the Stamford office where my summer internship was located.

Olivia Wittels Guest Column Indeed, one might argue that appropriate office behavior does not include yelling out loud in your cubicle, nor does it normally involve watching television — unless, of course, one was fortunate enough to land a summer internship with NBCOlympics.com. So in the moment that Alex Morgan scored her glorious header, my enthusiasm was in no way out of place. Instead, my excitement was matched by the entirety of the office around me, where the cheers and obvious pride for our American team equaled my own sentiments.

The office was not always as exhilarating as that particular moment — perhaps no Olympic soccer match will ever be as thrilling as that one — but it was certainly busy. I came to Stamford at the end of May and immediately was assigned numerous projects that needed to be completed before the Games. All the individual sports producers were deep into preparations for London, constantly writing articles, updating the website’s pages and ultimately staying on top of the news in their specific sport.

I was nervous that as an intern there wouldn’t be much I could personally do to help the process, but only a few days were needed to assuage me of that opinion. I learned to use the online publishing site, See COLUMN page 15

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sporting some hardware | Two members of Cornell’s men’s varsity eight squad — James Voter ’12 and Gardner Yost ’12 — came home from the U23 Rowing World Championships with gold medals.

ROWING

C.U.Competes at U23 Worlds

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

One week before the opening ceremonies were set to begin in London, eight current or former members of Cornell’s heavyweight, lightweight and men’s rowing teams were representing their country at a different venue — the 2012 U23 Rowing World Championships.

The race was held from July 11-15 in Trakai, Lithuania. The eight members from Cornell’s rowing program had to endure a series of USRowing selection camps and a day of trials in New Jersey before being selected to participate in the World Championships. All three Red crew teams were rep-

resented at the race — four from the heavyweight team, two from lightweight and two from the women’s team.

Gardner Yost ’12 and James Voter ’12 rowed in the men’s eight and Alexander Karwoski rowed for the men’s squad. Last year — as part of the men’s varsity eight squad — the trio led the Red to its fourth straight Madeira Cup with a five-race sweep against No. 14 Penn. Senior Chris Massey also participated in the men’s quadruple scull.

For the lightweight team, seniors Dylan Gould and John Redos were selected for their second straight U23 World Championship in the lightSee ROWING page 15

APR SCORES

Eleven Cornell Teams Honored by NCAA Academic Progress Report

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Cornell was placed among the best according to the NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report for 2010-2011. The University had 11 teams honored – baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, men’s and women’s soccer and softball.

The APR ranking is measured by utilizing semester-by-semester records for every individual team in Division I with regard to each team members’ continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation.

The NCAA "commends" teams that have APR scores in the top 10 percent within their sport, with the necessary score ranging from 975 to a perfect 1000. A total of 131 Ivy League teams were "commended" for an average of 16.4 teams per school. Ivy teams comprised 13.7 percent of the 954 teams honored from across the Division I ranks. A team's APR is the total points earned divided by the total points

possible.

Since the start of the rankings, Cornell has had a total of 71 teams in 20 sports honored with public recognition.

In addition to overall high APR scores, there have been multiple other Cornellians who have received accolades for their performances on and off the field.

The hockey team grabbed a host of awards and recognition as their players performed on and off the ice. Fifteen members of the men’s hockey team were named to the ECAC Hockey AllAcademic Team - Keir Ross ‘12, Locke Jillson ‘12, Sean Whitney ‘12, Sean Collins, seniors Erik Axell, Nick D’Agostino and Omar Kanji, juniors Rodger Craig and Andy Iles and sophomores Vince Mihaelk, Cole Bardreau, Kevin Cole, John McCarron, Vincenzo Marozzi and Jacob MacDonald. Senior defensemen Keir Ross was also named the 2011-12 ECAC Hockey Men's Student-Athlete of the Year. The award recognizes academic achievement, as well as accomplishments on and off of

the ice of ECAC Hockey studentathletes. Ross was one of 12 nominated for the honor and the second from Cornell to win the award over the last three years, following Colin Greening ‘10.

Seven Cornell gymnasts were also named Scholastic AllAmericans by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women including senior McKenna Archer, senior Ashley Maher, junior Mackenzie Sato, sophomore Maia Vernacchia, Tiffany Chen ‘12, Bethany Neczypor ‘12 and Melanie Standridge ‘12.

The Red can also boast that eight members of the Cornell women’s track and field team made the 2012 Division I AllAcademic Track and Field Team.

These players include Molly Glantz ‘12, seniors Claire Dishong, Aillish Hanly and Katie Kellner, juniors Ebolutalese Airewele, Devin McMahon and Anjelique Parnell and sophomore Emily Woodford.

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

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Academic prowess | Keir Ross ’12 was named the 2011-12 ECAC Hockey Men’s Student-Athlete of the Year last season.