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Fraternities hold events off-campus during O-Week

By HARRISON OKIN Sun Staff Writer

One year after the University ramped up efforts to prevent freshmen from attending fraternity events with alcohol, a predominant trend during Orientation Week remains: A large number of students, including freshmen, are flocking to parties held by Greek chapters at Collegetown apartments and annexes.

“There were freshmen in Collegetown. I’m not sure if some houses felt they could get away with it, or that we wouldn’t know about it,” “I’m not sure if some houses felt they Interfraternity Council could get away with it, or that we wouldn’t President Chris Sanders ’13 said. “But these chapknow about it.” ters run the risk of being Chris Sanders ’13 found in violation of University rules. They know that if something happens, they will be held responsible.”

Fraternities are prohibited from hosting unregistered events and from inviting freshmen to parties where drinking occurs. Contact between freshmen and individual Greek chapters is supposed to be eliminated entirely during the first quarter of the Greek system’s new timeline, which splits the year into four periods governed by different policies.

The first quarter includes Orientation Week.

Though these rules were already in place for Orientation Week in the past, Sanders said there was an “increased expectation” that fraternity leadership would abide by these rules this year, following the sweeping new restrictions on Greek life handed down by the administration last summer.

“Freshmen just aren’t supposed to be allowed,” he said.

Despite the recent push to prevent violations of these rules, Travis Apgar, associate See COLLEGETOWN page 5

News Better Late Than Never

After a six-month investigation by the IPD, a man was arrested in connection with a robbery on the Commons. | Page 3

News Funny Men

Tickets are currently on sale for John Oliver and Mike Lawrence’s stand-up comedy show. | Page 3

Opinion Conflicting Interests

Kirat Singh ’12 analyzes whose interests are at stake where interest rates are concerned.

Arts

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Love Sick

Clio Chang ’14 commends the Hangar Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical, next to normal. | Page 9

Sports Up and Coming

Six women’s hockey players were selected to the Candian Under-22 Development Team. | Page 16

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Mother’s Grief to Play Central Role In SAE Civil Suit

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Friendly Fire: Accusations Fly As Suit Against IPD Unfolds

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

This is part one and part two of a series on race and dissension in the Ithaca Police Department.

The Ithaca Police officer suing the city for discrimination allegedly treated minority suspects maliciously, helped demolish the property of the homeless for fun, and, on one occasion, threw deer guts into the back of a fellow officer’s car, according to the sworn testimony of several IPD officers.

Claiming the prevalence of high-level corruption in the IPD, Officer Chris Miller named two police chiefs, one former mayor, two municipalities, one district attorney, one union president and at least five Ithaca

Police officers as defendants in his sprawling, $17-million federal discrimination lawsuit. The resulting legal battle has ensnared Marlon Byrd — a black IPD lieutenant — in allegations that he aided drug dealers, and threatens to destroy the reputations and careers of many others.

But while Miller struck first, his fellow officers have since returned fire. The resulting legal battle has produced several thousand pages of testimony and court records that lay bare the inner-workings of the police department, exposing its racial divisions and providing a framework for understanding the man who has been accused, in the words of See IPD page 5

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

A previous version of this article first appeared at cornellsun.com on July 31.

Upon hearing the news of her son’s death, Marie Lourdes Andre went into such a state of “hysteria and shock” that she was immediately hospitalized, forced to lay down and given sedatives, her friends testified in court papers filed earlier this month.

Andre’s ordeal was just beginning. Despite her condition, she was immediately called upon to drive five hours to upstate New York to identify the body of her son, George Desdunes ’13, who died after a fraternity hazing ritual on Feb. 25, 2011.

The nightmare continued through the weeks ahead. Magalie Louis, a friend of Andre’s, moved in with Andre to help her in the few days leading up to Desdunes’ funeral. Louis ended up staying another six months, fearful of “what might happen to [Andre] if she were left alone.”

Though three former pledges of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were acquitted of criminal charges in June, a separate, civil lawsuit is just beginning. Seeking at least $25 million in damages, Andre is suing the national SAE fraternity and at least 15 former brothers of the Cornell chapter.

What may make Andre successful where the Tompkins County District Attorney previously See SAE page 4

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Going for gold | In addition to its compelling architectural design, Milstein Hall has been commended for its achievements in sustainability by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Sustainability Experts: Milstein Golden

By BYRON KITTLE Sun Senior Writer

The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Milstein Hall LEED Gold certification in recognition of its achievements in sustainability, design and efficient operational standards, the University announced on Aug. 23.

Opened in August 2011 as an expansion of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Milstein Hall received a score of 40 out of a total possible 69 LEED points. LEED — leadership in energy and environmental design — is a benchmark system that scores buildings See MILSTEIN page 4

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Swim Test, Senior Year | Farrell McKenna ’12

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This week, The Sun launches a new Creative Writing section — poetry and prose entirely written, as always, by Cornell students. One piece will appear in print every Tuesday, but we'll publish multiple pieces online if the awesome work keeps pouring in. Email your favorite piece or three to JKose@cornellsun.com.

They flew in a private coach for me; a guy from Potsdam, New York, to help turn my aquatic flailing into something more streamlined so that in an hour’s time I could complete the three laps I’ve been obligated to swim under supervision for four years now, more commonly known as the Cornell University Swim Test Requirement.

I don’t know why I never did it. I’ve been receiving an email every week or so from an individual named Kelli Rae Bucci for the past two years that usually reads: According to our records you haven’t satisfied the swim test requirement needed to complete your graduate requirements. This is a reminder that they have make-up swim tests scheduled the next three Fridays from 1:30-2:30PM in the Teagle Hall pool. Bring a suit, towel and student ID card. There is a $30 late swim test fee. If you cannot make that time, please contact Fred DeBruyn at 255-2629 or FWD1@cornell.edu to schedule a private swim test.

Needless to say, I have missed “the next three Fridays” about five times, and the last Friday just whizzed past relatively unnoticed. The last option, my only option, was to schedule a private swim test. And due to a series of devastatingly bureaucratic and unfortunate events, bizarrely, there was no person within a 200 mile radius of Ithaca, New York that was qualified to evaluate my swimming ability.

Into the cavernous realms of Teagle Hall one fateful Friday I went. The dank, tepid air assailed my cheeks and felt foreign. Amidst the swaying genitals of tenured professors and the clumps of disrobed attire dotting the slick, tiled

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floor, I searched for a towel. There were none in sight that weren’t being used to floss the crotches of wet men, so I went to the front desk to ask for help.

An older woman with grey caterpillars for eyebrows pumped them and looked in my direction.

“Yes?” “Hi. I don’t usually come here and I most likely never will again but I have to take my swim test so that I can graduate and I just realized that I don’t have a towel and I’d really prefer not to air dry…”

She had the upper hand.

“Well. These towels here —” (there was a large fluffy stack of unfolded towels to her right that I hadn’t immediately noticed that her paw was now on top of, laid flat) — “are for those who have a towel card, which costs $40 dollars a year.”

“Yes, that makes sense. The thing is I really have no use for a towel card seeing as this is my first time in this building and I am only coming because I need to take my swim test and you literally will never see me again in your entire life. Could you, possibly, potentially, be just a smidge merciful and lend me one length of towel so that I can just complete my test and get it back to you in fifteen minutes?”

She stood now with arms akimbo and eyed me from across the desk.

“What do you got for

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Augustin ’12 Dies in June; Student Was Scholar, Activist

By SYLVIA RUSNAK Sun Staff Writer

A previous version of this article first appeared at cornellsun.com on July 5.

Those who knew Michael Curtis Augustin ’12 –– a 33-year-old undergraduate who died June 3 –– said he was a prolific scholar influenced by his dedication to both learning and social justice.

“One of the common things I heard [at Augustin’s funeral] was Michael’s passion for learning and his passion for people,” said Victor Younger, coordinator in diversity programs, one of Augustin’s mentors when he transferred in 2010. “He was an advocate for others.”

Augustin, who in 2010 transferred to Cornell from Essex County College in Newark, N.J., was expected to receive a degree in earth and atmospheric sciences in December. He died suddenly on June 3 at the Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.

The University was not notified of the cause of Augustin’s death, according to Claudia Wheatley, deputy director of University communications.

Mahindra Mohan ’12 –– a friend of Augustin who transferred with him from Essex County College –– said Augustin will be remembered for his “shoot for the moon” philosophy.

“He will most be remembered for inspiring people to push pass their limitations and reach for goals that they would have previously thought were unattainable,” Mohan said.

Mohan added that Augustin frequently returned to Essex County College to talk to students about improving their career prospects.

“In a city where high-school drop-out rates are among the highest in the country, he spent most of his time mentoring and tutoring other students who struggled,” Mohan said.

Mohan described Augustin as a “firm believer in the power of education” and as an advocate of using the mind to “provoke action against many inequalities in the world.”

“I will always remember how he touched everyone he ever met in a profound way,” he said.

“He saw many flaws in the world and demanded change for the betterment of all people, not just by words but through bold action.”

Prof. Jonathan Payne, geological and environmental sciences, Stanford University –– with whom Augustin worked last summer –– described him as a researcher who was “bubbling over with ideas.”

“Together, we worked to channel his energy toward a study of the relationship between organism size and extinction risk using the fossil record of brachiopods,” a type of marine animal that resembles two shells melded together, Payne said in an email. “He was especially interested in finding ways to use the fossil record to help conserve tropical marine diversity because he had grown up in the Caribbean.”

Augustin, who was an undergraduate biology research fellow at Cornell, said he was “always curious as to what made the living world tick,” in a short biography on the fellowship website.

“Growing up in the small, coastal farming community of Black Bay on the island of Saint Lucia, I was surrounded by an amazing and diverse environment teeming with life,” he wrote.

“After a very eventful journey that culminated at Cornell, I realized that understanding the past is the key to unlocking the mysteries of the present and shaping our future.”

Augustin presented his research from last summer at a symposium at Stanford, as well as at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Payne said.

When Augustin returned to Payne’s lab in May to conclude his study and prepare it for publication, Payne said it was “clear that he had matured as a student.”

“Michael combined natural intellectual ability with a true passion for learning and a strong drive to succeed,” Payne said.

According to a University press release, The Michael Curtis Augustin Memorial Fund will “support a minority student interested in geosciences.”

A memorial service for Augustin will take place on campus this fall, the press release also stated.

Sylvia Rusnak can be reached at srusnak@cornellsun.com.

Man Arrested for Armed Robbery After Six-Month Investigation A six-month investigation by the Ithaca Police Department led to the arrest of a man in connection with an armed robbery of a small business at 128 East State Street in the Ithaca Commons on Feb. 25.

Michael Freelove, 51, was taken into custody without incident at the intersection of Seneca and Tioga Street on Friday.

Freelove was arraigned in

the City of Ithaca court and remanded to the Tompkins County jail without bail, according to a statement from the IPD. Freelove is believed to be homeless, and has been reportedly living in various temporary locations since at least February, according to Jeffrey Huddle, Ithaca Police investigator, who lead the investigation of this case.

“We do not suspect

[Freelove] in any other similar type crimes since February,” Huddle said in an email Monday.

The case will be prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Gary Surdell.

Freelove’s next court date, where he will be tried for the robbery, is scheduled for Aug. 29.

— Compiled by Danielle Sochaczevski

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128 East State Street | Ithaca police arrested a man on Friday in connection with a reported armed robbery on the Commons in February.

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Cornell comedy club | British comedian John Oliver from the Daily Show With Jon Stewart will perform stand-up at Bailey Hall Sept. 8.

Daily Show’s John Oliver Will Play Bailey Hall Show Up Show, in 2010.

“He’s a really solid stand-up comedian — that’s his background,” A previous version of this article first said Tajwar Mazhar ’13, executive chair of CUPB and a Sun staff appeared at cornellsun.com on Aug.14.

British comedian John Oliver will writer. “We thought he would be a perform a stand-up show Sept. 8 at good way to start the year.”

Special guest Mike Lawrence will Bailey Hall. Tickets, which went on sale Thursday, are still available for also join Oliver on stage at Bailey purchase online, according to the Hall, Mazhar said.

Lawrence recently made a name for him“[Oliver’s] a really solid stand-up self in comedy as a comedian — that’s his background.” breakout star at the Montreal Just for Tajwar Mazhar ’13 Laughs Comedy Festival in 2010. He Cornell University Planning Board. has appeared on Late Night With Oliver, a 35-year-old from Conan O’Brien and repeatedly on Birmingham, England, is best John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up known for his political satire as a Show on Comedy Central.

Mazhar said that of the roughly writer and correspondent on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. He also 1,290 tickets CUPB is selling for the plays the recurring role of Professor show, a few hundred are still availIan Duncan on NBC’s comedy series able online. Technical problems on cornellconcerts.com prevented some Community.

Oliver got his start in comedy people from purchasing tickets this doing late-night stand-up in weekend, but the site is now workEngland before moving to New York ing, according to Mazhar. in 2006 to join Jon Stewart. He launched his own Comedy Central Rebecca Harris can be reached at show, John Oliver’s New York Stand- rharris@cornellsun.com.

By REBECCA HARRIS Sun News Editor

Two Rescued From Cayuga Inlet The Ithaca Fire Department pulled a man and a 42-year-old woman from the water at the Cayuga Inlet Wednesday night, The Ithaca Independent reported. The pair were stranded under a bridge. The woman, believed to be intoxicated, was taken to Cayuga Medical Center, The Independent said.

Search Continues for Man Presumed to Have Drowned Police and rescue crews resumed their search of Cayuga Lake Monday morning for 35year-old Daniel Dymock of Union Springs, N.Y., who is presumed to have drowned while boating with his 9-yearold son Sunday morning, according to The Ithaca Journal.

— Compiled by Danielle Sochaczevski

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Andre Blames Pledges for Son’s Death Univ.Strives for SAE

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context largely absent from the criminal trial of the SAE pledges.

Andre alleges in her lawsuit that Desdunes’ death was the “direct and proximate result of the defendants’ negligence.”

Desdunes was left unattended on a fraternity couch after a mock kidnapping in which he was blindfolded, bound with zip ties and forced to consume vodka and pixie stix, according to court documents. He was found unresponsive on the couch that morning and subsequently died at Cayuga Medical Center.

But the attorneys of the SAE pledges, who were found not guilty of first-degree hazing and first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child, have argued that Desdunes was complicit in the binge drinking that preceded his death.

They noted that Desdunes was known as a heavy drinker and that he had been seen drinking the night of his death, prior to the hazing ritual. According to them, the ruling of Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 put to rest the claim that the pledges were responsible for Desdunes’ death.

"The court determined, without reservation or equivocation, that these young men are innocent. They did not haze George Desdunes or cause his death,” Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, the attorney for defendant Max Haskin ’14, told The Sun in June.

Still, the upcoming trial is likely to be different on several fronts. For one, the defendants are accused of negligence resulting in death — not hazing, as they were in the criminal trial.

The burden of proof has also changed. Whereas the district attorney had to prove the defendants’ guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the plaintiff in the civil suit will only have to show that the pledges were negligent based on a “preponderance of the evidence,” according to William Friedlander, Andre’s lawyer.

Then there are the stories of Andre and her friends, though whether they will ever be heard in a court of law remains to be seen.

Over the last few months, lawyers have sparred over where the trial will be held. SAE has requested that the case be moved to Ithaca, but Andre’s lawyers say this would prevent witnesses from providing crucial insight into the emotional toll of Desdunes’ death.

One such witness is Louis, the woman who stayed with Andre for six months and is herself a mother of three.

Louis met Andre 22 years ago, when Desdunes was a baby.

George Desdunes’ father, Bernard Desdunes, had just died of lung cancer.

“I saw George grow up from a toddler to a wonderful young man. I witnessed his relationship with his mother, and their mutual reliance and dependence on each other,” Louis says in her affidavit. “She remains devastated by George’s death.”

Another potential witness who says she could not testify in Ithaca is Christine Hooker, who called EMS for Andre when they learned of Desdunes’ death. Hooker, like other witnesses, says it would be an undue burden for her to travel to Ithaca to testify.

“I have observed the effects George’s death has had on [Andre’s] ability to continue working. She often needs days off because she is still suffering,” Hooker states in her affidavit.

The defense, meanwhile, holds that witnesses like Louis and Hooker are “completely irrelevant … to either liability or damage issues.” They note that a janitor who saw Desdunes’ body that February morning would not be able to make the trip to New York City if the case were moved there, and say his testimony is more central to the case than that of Andre’s supporters.

The fight over the trial’s location may be particularly important because this case, unlike the last, will be decided by a jury.

The criminal trial was decided by a single judge, who may have been less prone to be swayed by more emotional appeals.

Following that ruling, one defendant appeared to declare victory. “#WEWON,” Ben Mann ’14 posted on Twitter a few hours after the pledges were acquitted.

But Friendlander said he remains confident Andre will win the civil trial — and that it will be clear, after months of public controversy and seemingly endless legal wrangling, who is responsible for Marie Lourdes Andre’s grief.

“It’s uncontroverted that [the pledges] did things that led to Desdunes’ unfortunate death,” Friedlander said. “This is hopefully going to send a message to the fraternity and the members of the fraternity system that this conduct is unacceptable.

You can’t act like this. You have to be held accountable.”

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

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on a number of factors related to energy efficiency, innovative design and reduction of carbon emissions, according to the building council.

According to Kyu-Jung Whang, vice president of Cornell Facility Services, Milstein Hall was not always expected to earn such a high LEED certification. While Cornell now requires all major construction projects to achieve at least LEED Silver certification — the third highest rank, behind gold and platinum — these expectations are relatively new.

“When the project started way back in 2004, 2005, 2006, [LEED certification] was never a requirement,” Whang said. “Our design standards are such that … for us to get LEED Silver on any project is sort of a no brainer. That’s why we strive for something greater than LEED Silver; we try to go for LEED Gold and hopefully LEED Platinum someday.”

Cornell has about a dozen LEED Gold certified buildings, but none that are Platinum certified. Whang said that the architects for CornellNYC Tech, currently under construction on Roosevelt Island in New York City, are aiming to have at least one Platinum-certified building on the new campus.

Tailoring a building to meet LEED certification generally makes the building more expensive to build, Whang said.

Administrators estimated that Millstein Hall cost about $41 million, according to several University press releases.

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IPD Officers Berate Miller’s Character Frats Are Choosing IPD

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one officer, of wanting to “burn [the IPD] to the ground.”

The relevance of Miller’s past to the plausibility of his claims will ultimately be decided by presiding Judge Thomas McAvoy. As McAvoy prepares to assess Miller’s allegations in court this September, he may be persuaded by the defendants’ characterization of Miller — who is white — as a racist, sexist loose-cannon entirely lacking credibility.

But Miller is not alone in his fight. And many of his claims — particularly in regard to his superiors’ alleged transgressions — appear grounded in the reams of documents he has submitted to the court.

Several other officers and civilians have testified in support of his varied allegations, and one, Sgt. Douglas Wright, has filed a $10.5-million discrimination lawsuit of his own. Miller, in fact, is just one of four municipal employees currently suing the city for discrimination.

But while these lawsuits generally focus on discrimination, the scope of Miller’s is broader. He claims that there is widespread acceptance of criminal behavior at the top levels of the IPD — that the police force spending more than $11 million a year in taxpayer money, or 18 percent of the city’s budget, is rife with wrongdoing.

His stories form a searing indictment of the IPD that — depending on one’s interpretation — read either like one man’s moral crusade or the airing of personal vendettas.

Take, for instance, Miller’s testimony about Andrew Navarro, a Latino IPD officer who has since joined Cornell Police.

One day, Miller and Navarro were assigned to drive around Collegetown in plain clothes to gather “intel” on the neighborhood — but for the first hour and fifteen minutes, Navarro did nothing but read the paper and get coffee, Miller testified.

“I was like, ‘What am I doing? We’re not doing anything,’” Miller recalled in his testimony. “[Navarro’s] words were: ‘We don’t have to do shit. We’ll just drive around all night and get paid for it.’”

Miller testified that he knows “firsthand what a piece of shit [Navarro] was … Everybody on the SWAT team that I know in the county and IPD despised him.”

Navarro, for instance, regularly talked at work about having sex with his wife, Miller said.

When questioned by Miller’s lawyer, Navarro did more than deny the accusation. He attacked.

“No, I would never talk about having sex with my wife in the workplace,” Navarro said in his sworn deposition. “And, in fact, the most egregious example of someone talking about someone’s wife in our workplace … is when Chris Miller called Doug Wright’s wife a whore to Doug Wright’s face.”

This example fits within a broader narrative of Miller’s purported misconduct that, according to the defendants in the case and other officers’ testimony, long predates Miller’s time in Ithaca.

Part II – ‘I Am a Dick’ – Miller’s Time as an Officer in Vinton, Va. “Marijuana burned in barrels and flushed down toilets. Stolen weapons recovered but not returned to their owners.”

“Bikes for needy children given to the police department’s families and friends.”

“Slush funds. Unlawful arrests. Intimidation of witnesses.”

Replete with allegations of negligence and corruption at the highest levels of the police department, the passage reads like a section of Chris Miller’s lawsuit against the IPD. But it comes instead from the lead story of The Roanoke Times on Feb. 19, 2000. The Virginia newspaper obtained a grand jury’s report on Chief Rick Foutz and Lt. Bill Brown, the former number one and two ranking officers in the police department of the Town of Vinton, Va. The grand jury’s findings said that Brown ruled the department with “fear, intimidation and retribution,” while Foutz “willfully chose to ignore these grave problems,” according to The Roanoke Times.

It was here that Chris Miller got his first introduction to the world of small-town police. At 24, the young officer moved to Virginia in 1995 one year after he received his degree in criminal justice from Long Island University.

In their report to IPD, Miller’s bosses in Vinton noted that he was frequently cited for minor violations.

He failed to have his shoes shined properly. He carried a dirty firearm. He did not have the proper registration on his car, the Vinton officers say in their report.

And then, having already been placed on probation for “his failure to follow departmental procedures,” Miller scratched “I Am a Dick” into the shooting glasses of Paul Hickerson, his fellow officer in Vinton, the court documents say.

As Miller told it, he and a group of other officers were “fooling around” in the locker room and playing a prank on Hickerson. One officer threw a bucket of cold water on Hickerson, another messed with his shoes and Miller defaced his glasses.

According to then-Chief Foutz, Miller participated in “the destruction of another officer[’s] personal property … because he did not like the officer.” Miller was then terminated.

The City of Ithaca holds that Miller was fired in part because he did not disclose, in his job application to IPD, that he had worked in Vinton.

They believe that this omission is of crucial importance for two reasons: One, it shows Chris Miller lied to the IPD, which justifies their decision to fire him, and two, they say, it shows that Miller has a history of insubordination.

But the city’s argument does not acknowledge the reports of widespread corruption at Vinton — alleged

by Miller and supported by the grand jury’s testimony of unlawful arrests and widespread corruption — and its implications for the credibility of those who disciplined Miller.

For Miller, as he says in his arbitration hearing, the malfeasance of his superiors is inseparable from the punishment they meted out. His testimony on the matter shines with righteous indignation.

“If people are going to sell drugs and steal guns and lie on reports and things like that, how are they going to judge someone else? I don’t think it’s appropriate for that individual to make, [to] pass judgment on someone else,” Miller said of the Vinton police. “It was similar to — but not as bad as — here in Ithaca.”

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However, Whang said that over the lifetime of a LEED-certified building, savings accrue from lower energy costs related to some of Cornell’s sustainable building practices, which include Lake Source Cooling — a system that uses cold water from Cayuga Lake to reduce the need for temperature control — and the use of natural lighting from skylights and windows.

“If you look at the building through its entire life cycle, it’s much less costly,” Whang said.

According to University architect Gilbert Delgado, the University also requires its LEED

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“You build a building that consumes less fossil fuel and energy and it helps the environment — and there’s a cost to that,” he said, referring to the higher initial price tag for LEED-certified buildings.

But Whang added that reducing carbon emissions is such an important goal that price should not matter.

“The fact that we are putting greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, there’s no way to put a price tag on that. We know that it harms the environment and, ultimately, it’s going to kill us eventually,” he said.

Byron Kittle can be reached at bkittle@cornellsun.com.

Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.

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

buildings to use at least 30 percent less energy than non-LEED certified ones.

“We’re continuing our efforts in sustainability in all the new buildings that we’re doing,” Delgado said. He added that in moving forward with CornellNYC Tech, the University will aggressively pursue the construction of “net zero” buildings that will “produce as much energy as [they] use.”

“We are very committed to these ideas, and our future projects will show that,” Delgado said.

Whang said that LEED-certified buildings are especially important in promoting efforts to combat climate change and reduce carbon emissions.

COLLEGETOWN dean of fraternity and sorority affairs, said Monday that he has heard of several instances during Orientation Week in which fraternities used Facebook to send out invitations to annex parties. Apgar said that it is often difficult to determine whether a Collegetown house is affiliated with a fraternity chapter.

In the event that an incident should occur, Apgar said, the University would investigate who hosted the event, what guests were invited and whether the event served a recruitment purpose.

“It’s our hope that the fraternities aren’t trying to find loopholes and put themselves — and their guests — in risky situations,” he said. “Just because the event is happening outside of their house doesn’t mean it isn’t a violation.”

Sanders said that although the IFC has not yet met to discuss whether any infractions occurred during Orientation Week, he cautioned that fraternities are not above the rules.

“They are choosing to play with fire,” Sanders said of chapters who held open parties with alcohol last week. “If it’s reported that they served alcohol and hosted freshmen, they need to understand that the IFC will act on it.”

Ken Babcock ’13, IFC vice president for judicial affairs, said that, at this point, he is not aware of any specific incident in which freshmen were reported drinking in a fraternity annex.

He also said he could not determine whether fraternities were primarily responsible for the high level of drinking in Collegetown.

“If an event is contained within someone’s house, which might not even be a fraternity, police are not going to enter a private household with the assumption that it’s a frat breaking the rules,” Babcock said. “The primary concern is safety. If an event was visibly out of control, it was broken up.”

Avoiding run-ins with police is the best way for a fraternity to protect itself while hosting freshmen at parties with alcohol during Orientation Week, said one fraternity president who wished to remain anonymous in order to detail, without fear of recourse, how his chapter skirts IFC rules and regulations.

“There’s a lot of freshmen coming through, and you don’t know the risk that all of them pose to your party, your fraternity,” he said. “But if you do a good job of managing the risk, it’ll work out.”

He added that “the police are pretty upfront about their rules,” which he said include avoiding open containers of alcohol, keeping people off the porch and “not making a scene” outside.

“If you keep people off front porches and keep outside noise to a minimum, then you’ll have fewer problems,” he said.

“Make sure to station guys at the door who are responsible enough to manage the front of the house but menacing enough to scare away drunk clowns from turning your private party into an uncontrollable disaster.”

Babcock said that he did not know of any “public” Facebook invitations to parties during Orientation Week. Rather, he emphasized that fraternities are allowed to use the social medium as a channel for event invitations, as long as the Facebook event is “private” and no freshmen are invited.

Babcock added that he believes the new rules enacted over the last few years have made fraternities more aware of the need to find a balance between organizing alcohol-fueled events and meeting new freshmen in an alcohol-free setting.

“Cornell students are smart enough,” he said. “Even if the chapters decide to invite freshmen, they understand where the rules stand. They’re less likely to take higher risks and promote unsafe behavior, especially if freshmen are there.”

According to Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner, it is not CUPD’s duty to ensure fraternities are following the rules.

Instead, she said their focus is to reduce risky behavior linked to alcohol consumption.

“We’re working on an effort to make Collegetown a place where students and permanent residents can coexist peacefully,” Zoner said. “Aside from the alcohol-related crimes that were committed last week, the biggest disappointment was how Collegetown residences were left after parties. It is very insulting to have to wade through an ocean of red solo cups on your way to work.”

Zoner and David Honan, deputy chief of operations, said that CUPD is working this year to foster a stronger partnership with the Ithaca Police Department — which has more legal jurisdiction over the privately-owned homes in Collegetown — an effort they hope will allow them to better reduce risky behaviors within the community.

“We patrol the streets early in the night,” said Honan, who described the pre-party phase of alerting students they see walking in Collegetown to stay safe and stay off of the streets. “There were numerous incidences of alcohol over-consumption and hospitalization. If we catch anyone doing something illegal, we will report it.”

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e have this habit of fitting things into neat little boxes when we don’t know how to make sense of them. Our academic experiences tell us there should be a right and wrong box to fill in for every question. We even fit the “Cornell experience” to a package of checkboxes: a list of 161 things every Cornellian should do before graduating.

We get rubrics for how our stories should be written, whether or not we choose to adhere to them. Four years ago, those lists sparked excitement for all the things we could and would do. But looking back from our last days at Cornell, it’s hard to dodge a pang of nostalgia for what we’ve checked off and what we’ll miss out on. There’s still time to make the "lasts" count, because that’s what we saved our bests for — right?

You know, I don’t think it really matters if your last days at Cornell are your best or worst. When years or months from now you scramble for a foothold that brings you back to them, you probably won’t remember the bad parts. You’ll remember how the sky felt on the Arts Quad that Friday, after you completely bombed your final exam in — what class was it?

happens first.

And here it comes: Nostalgia.

Nostalgia, for a time and place, for memories and stories, creeps its way into our identities. It unites us, because we know the rest of the Class of 2012 is writing a version of the same story. But it divides us, because what we identify with is and always will be based on our own stories, written in original thoughts and experiences.

We need those stories. They help us know that as we leave the Hill and start new chapters, the choices we made here will somehow matter — trite as it sounds, we will all be a part of Cornell, because our Cornell stories will be a part of us.

In the end, our choices — our words and actions — are what matter. They write our stories. They are all we leave, all we have, all we’ve been and all we will be. And, most of the time, they’re completely within our control.

In the past four years, we’ve accumulated achievements and failures, memberships and leaderships, friends and acquaintances, and academic and nonacademic honors.

Which one of these would you choose to define your Cornell experience?

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Cornell: Accountable To Collegetown

THE STATE OF COLLEGETOWN this year has deteriorated. Hordes of students have taken to the streets in search of the many parties on any given night, resulting in loud music, excessive consumption of alcohol and filthy sidewalks.

Multiple members of the Ithaca Common Council have openly complained about and lamented the status of their neighborhood, for good reason. The current situation is a direct result of University policies that limit parties on campus. As this is the case, the University should step in to mitigate the increasing problem.

The problems associated with Collegetown parties have grown since the University increased restrictions on fraternity events. Parties are being held in Collegetown with greater frequency, as fraternities and other large organizations move their parties off campus. At fraternity houses, these events were supervised by sober monitors, did not interfere with Ithaca residences. Additionally, fraternities were held accountable to strict rules that prohibited the serving of hard alcohol.

Even though its decision to ban freshmen from parties on campus led to the migration of parties to Collegetown, the University has not taken responsibility for the worsened state of the neighborhood. We recognize that the previous arrangement created legal issues for the University that needed to be addressed. However, its outright ban on freshmen attendance was not the right approach. It has created a vacuum for weekend social life. Collegetown has filled the void, but for worse.

We believe Cornell should recognize the adverse impact of its action to limit its own legal liability. While the University does not have legal authority over what happens in Collegetown, the University should still take responsibility for the situation.

It should act as an intermediary between students and other stakeholders in Collegetown and work to change this destructive climate.

However, this is not solely an issue of the quality of the neighborhood, but also of student safety. While protecting itself, the University has failed to protect students in Collegetown. Cornell should reconsider the restrictions it has placed on fraternities to hold events at their houses. The burden that these restrictions place on Collegetown is unfair to its residents and the greater Cornell community.

It doesn’t really matter what we accomplish, or what we don’t. It doesn’t really matter what we’re told we should do. And it doesn’t really matter if we check everything off our lists. What sticks with us is the experience of trying, and failing. Or succeeding.

What matters is how we collapse our little boxes and take control of our own stories.

What matters is how we choose to remember.

I’ve remembered, re-read and re-written a lot of stories. Since March they’ve been my own stories for a change, as I’ve tried my best to live away from the Ivy-covered bricks, scribbled dry-erase boards and comforting smell of newsprint at 139 W. State Street. Now, after four years of skewed priorities in the name of The Sun, friends and family are quick to ask, “So why did you do it?”

Sometimes I laugh and shrug.

Sometimes I groan. Often I half-sarcastically quote Kurt Vonnegut, that “I was happiest when I was all alone — and it was very late at night, and I was walking up the Hill after having helped put The Sun to bed.”

But really, I think Vonnegut remembered it wrong. If I was happiest then, it was the illogical, giddy kind of happiness that comes with caffeinated sleep deprivation and anticipation of the week’s all-nighters. Rarely was I alone — and usually it was very early in the morning, and I was driving all the way to North with a car full of night editors. Head full of Quark commands and oxford commas, stomach full of Shortstop, ears still ringing from Schroeder’s screwball playlist of choice.

Or maybe he remembered it right. There was also the fiery, energized kind of happiness that comes with a hard-won scoop and anticipation of tomorrow’s front-page story.

Sometimes I was alone — and it was almost always very early in the morning, and maybe I was driving to the plantations to watch the sunrise after having helped put The Sun to bed. Head full of half-thoughts and excitement, stomach still full of Shortstop, ears enjoying the silence until the paper is delivered or sleep is within reach — whichever

My answer is none of the above. Or maybe a little of all of the above.

I do know this: My Cornell experience isn’t the same as anyone else’s, but a few shared pages stand out. I hope you know who you are, but to everyone who contributed anecdotes, inspired plot lines, edited my rough drafts and helped cure my writer’s block: My story would be dull without you.

The moniker for this column, Collapse the Box, comes from the British street artist Banksy — opposer of dullness, champion of originality, hater of boxes: “Don’t just think outside the box. Collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

I’ve strived to “think outside the box” since sixth grade, when I signed up for Odyssey of the Mind (my first extracurricular activity, and the beginning of my path to overachiever-dom) and someone told me that’s what my goal should be. The “creative problem-solving” program also told me that if the rules don’t say you can’t do something, it means you can — and probably should.

More creativity meant more points.

That was all fine, until I realized that by trying to think outside of one box at a time, I was falling into a Matryoshka Doll of even bigger boxes.

In the decade since I started thinking outside boxes, I’ve learned that unless I’m moving, or sending a package, I have little use for boxes altogether. I discovered that even if the rules to a problem say you can’t do something, there’s usually a creative way around them. And somewhere under The Sun between High Rise 5 and Collegetown, I learned how to deconstruct things like rules and boxes. It’s pushed me to write a much more original story.

So forget the Big Red boxes, and just make your Cornell story a good one.

Dani Neuharth-Keusch served as associate editor of The Sun from 2011 - 12, and she graduated in 2012. She may be reached at dneuharthkeusch@cornellsun.com.

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, Monday’s opinion column, “Looking Forward to a New Year” omitted an introductory paragraph. The column was meant to begin, “Welcome to the start of the 2012-13 academic year — an exciting time for all of us, whether we have been at Cornell for many years or are new to the Hill. The new academic year is a time to consider how we can make the most of the wonderful opportunities available to all of us here.” The Sun regrets this error.

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Not Enough Interest A

t 11 a.m. every morning for the past 26 years, the news agency Thomson Reuters has released a set of interest rates on behalf of the British Bankers Association. Known as the London Inter-bank offered Rate (LIBOR), this set of rates has affected financial markets in myriad complex ways.

The essence of its impact stems from the fact that LIBOR, expressed for many different currencies and for many different repayment schedules, is the rate at which banks can borrow money. Interbank lending is crucial for the health of the banking sector. Your bank keeps liquid reserves to make sure that the checks you write and the credit and debit cards you swipe can be honored. In the event that they begin to run out of these reserves, however, banks have the ability to borrow from each other. The LIBOR rate is the cost of this borrowing. If it rises, banks all around will spend more to meet daily requirements, increasing the cost that you and I have to pay to take out loans from our banks. Not surprisingly, a rise in this rate hurts the overall economy because consumers begin to spend less and producers invest less.

In May 2008, The Wall Street Journal ran a story that suggested LIBOR rates might have been consistently underestimated in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy. The story was rubbished by reputed agencies like the Bank of International Settlements and the International Monetary Fund. In fact, the story turned out to have some merit.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating possible LIBOR manipulation. In June, Barclays Bank became the first financial institution directly implicated in LIBOR manipulation. It was fined a cumulative $450 million by American and

British regulators.

To understand the accusations against Barclays, one needs to understand the method of setting LIBOR rates. It remains an unbelievably anachronistic ritual in an industry that is dominated in the popular imagination by supercomputers, programmed by quants, trading intimidatingly complex financial derivatives. Eighteen banks report to Reuters the interest rate at which they expect to be lent money.

Reuters discards the highest and lowest four quotes and averages the rest. This rate serves as the benchmark for interbank borrowing for the following 24 hours.

One needs little formal expertise to see that this system is ripe for exploitation.

The first, more obvious, route to manipulation is by artificially lowering the rate you report. That the rate might not actually fall (your “low” quote might be discarded being one of the lowest four) does not matter. It indicates the financial health of your institution and this helps builds trust with other sources of funds, lowering the price you must pay to borrow from them.

The second route is vastly more devious. With increasingly complex financial engineering, capital markets today trade in many instruments and derivatives whose values are dependent on the whims of these 18 banks. For instance, small businesses that export to or import from other countries usually use “forward rate agreements” to protect against dramatic changes in exchange rates. The costs of these agreements are strongly impacted by changes in LIBOR. Similarly, derivatives called interest rate swaps that have a gross market value touching $14 trillion also use LIBOR as a reference rate. Banks that have engaged in such transactions stand to gain massively from the slightest deviation in LIBOR if learned about in advance.

Barclays, along with other banks, is accused of engaging in both kinds of manipulation and there is some evidence to suggest that the Bank of England might have covertly supported the first kind. In the worst months of the crisis when interbank lending had frozen, the central bank might have seen some merit in a lowerthan-actual LIBOR to boost market confidence. While this might prove a mitigat-

ers that exploit, profit from and thereby eliminate imperfections in the market, it simply is not so. When a key parameter like LIBOR is determined by the voluntary input of just 18 voices, each quoting a self-interested figure, substantial opportunities for arbitrage persist in the hands of those who have a say in the process.

This scandal was a level above insider trading rackets. Not only were the accused

Kirat Singh Evaluating the Discontents ing circumstance in some court of law for -Barclays, it must not be twisted into a defense of a system that is problematic by construction. So long as the road to monetary management for the central bank remains inextricable from a route to private profiteering, the road needs to be shut.

The LIBOR scandal raises two more red flags that any reform proposals must consider. I alluded to the first one earlier: obscurity bears little correspondence with triviality. The topics in financial sector reform that capture public imagination, such as outsized executive bonuses and “too big to fail” banks, are tremendously important to address. However, we also need to grasp at the grimy underpinnings of strategies adopted by these oft-vilified institutions. The LIBOR estimation procedure is a prime candidate.

Second, for all the talk of the industry’s domination by impersonal supercomput-

parties illegally using information, they were creating information tailored to their needs.

The deeply entrenched nature of LIBOR means that the fixes are likely to only tweak the system, such as including more banks in the determination process.

Even if this prevents future manipulation, some losses will not find easy reparation.

Prime among these is the loss of trust in regulators like the Bank of England. At a time when central banks increasingly rely on this credibility to get financial institutions to do their bidding, this destruction of credibility might be yet more lamentable than the profits Barclays wrongly wrangled.

Kirat Singh is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun.com. Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Akin to Many I

t has happened to all of us and let me tell you something else. We hated it; we loathed every single second of it. We regretted it the instant it happened until the day that people stopped mentioning the fact that it occurred.

Some of you might be wondering what I’m referring to. I’m referring to a time when you and I allowed something stupid or rude to slip out of our mouths only to the shock and appall of those around us. I’m referring to the horrific comments senatorial candidate Todd Akin allowed to slither

Additionally, if you break down his quote you begin to realize that he seems to propose that most of the time when a woman gets pregnant from rape, that it was not a “legitimate rape.” To really put this comment into perspective I must create a scenario in which his reasoning is put into action.

Imagine a woman who, after a few weeks of attempting to recover from being raped then realizes she is also pregnant. Although she had feared to come forth with the fact that she was raped, the newfound information spurs her to report it to the district attorney. After a miserable exchange of words with the D.A., she is told that because she is pregnant she cannot press charges against It’s Not Me, the culprit because It’s You she was not “legitimately raped.”

Imagine the type of backwards world in which an incident such as this might occur.

This is the type of world that Todd Akin lives in.

This is the type of world we will live in if people such as Todd Akin are elected. I am not calling out Republicans in this case; I am calling out representatives that are insensible, biased and just plain ignorant.

Mr. Akin’s comment has, of course, become a heated topic of debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign. President Obama has been fueling the issue, pointing out the fact that Romney’s fellow Republican made such obscene comments. Whereas Mitt Romney has been distancing himself from Akin even going so far as to ask him to exit the senate race “in the best interest of the country.” It saddens me

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out of his muzzle. I completely understand that we all say something stupid from time to time, but how could words so ignorant and sexist come from the mouth of a man running for a position that requires one to be informed and representative of the people?

Mr. Akin stated, “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare, if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” The statement is so entirely ridiculous that it is difficult to know where to start analyzing it. Nonetheless, I figure we can begin with the absolutely ludicrous notion of “legitimate rape.” Legitimate rape seems like a justification for rape. Rape is such an unnatural and abhorrent action it is simply heinous to make a claim that any form of it is “genuine.”

how this has become an issue of whether or not democratic candidates are less ignorant than republican candidates. We need to realize that before these comments were made, a man who thought that women could not become pregnant from rape had a good chance of being elected as a senator.

This needs to be an issue of making sure that our elected representatives are more informed than their electorate. What is the point of voting for a candidate that is less informed than you? How can someone make good decisions that will affect your life if he does not know the information necessary to construct a valid argument for the issue?

The correct answer is that he cannot. With that in mind, we must put in place a system that vets out uninformed candidates. However, that has not become the issue so it is infeasible to believe that this will happen. President Obama should stated that after realizing that many candidates, and even current representatives, may be uninformed that he would strive to make sure that he and other Democrats would work to create a system that makes sure everyone is constantly informed on important issues.

Rather, President Obama chose to use his chance to make actual “change” to ridicule his opposing party. I believe that politicians in general need to do a better job of trying to improve the lives of their electorate. I believe even more strongly that Mr. Akin needs to do what is best for the country and exit the senatorial race; we do not need people like him in office, and Mr. Akin, trust me when I say it’s not me it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com.

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As musicals go, next to normal, as it is styled without capitals, is not exactly your standard fare. Foregoing much of the sound and fury of its more lavish contemporaries, it opts instead to be an intricately crafted study of mental illness and its effects on the lives of an otherwise run-of-the-mill suburban family. Wildly acclaimed during its Broadway run, having won three Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the musical is one of the highlights of the Hangar Theatre’s main summer lineups and its penultimate production for the season.

The play deals with the worsening bipolar disorder of stay-at-home mother Diana Goodman (played by the acerbic Andrea Burns) and the destructive effects it has on her family, consisting of bespectacled lovingbut-boring husband Dan (Chris Hoch, of the chiseled jaw), emo and overachieving daughter Natalie (played to brattish perfection by Alison McCartan) and teenage son Gabe (Noah Plomgren). Diana initially appears fine, notwithstanding apparent sexual frustration with her husband, but when she’s caught making sandwiches on the floor, things take a turn for the very bad. In an apparent indictment of the pill-popping zeitgeist of modern psychiatric treatment, Diana’s medications fail to restore her life’s balance and instead tip her into a zombie-like state of unfeeling. Frustrated, she throws away her medication and switches to a new therapist, Dr. Madden (played by a diabolically hairless Nehal Joshi), who talks her through her issues rather than dosing her with drugs. She enjoys a short reprieve, but in a very clever, almost Fincher-esque plot twist, the hitherto unknown underlying cause of her condition is revealed, heralding a catastrophic mental breakdown that eventually leads to her

receiving electro-convulsive therapy (shock treatment for the uninitiated) and subsequently suffering memory loss.

It’s not all about Diana, however.

Supportive husband Dan is shown suffering as he struggles to find a way to help his wife and to cope with the situation, and bit-by-bit the reasons for Natalie being such a brat are revealed, making her character gradually more sympathetic. Her stoner boyfriend

ness that’s told through the admittedly unlikely medium of musical theatre.

Surprisingly, it works not despite, but rather because of how smartly written and full of subtext and complexity the lyrics are. The musical numbers are evocative on a wide range of musical styles — from the countryesque lament “I Miss the Mountains,” sung so pensively by Diana (Burns), to the teenage, comic book allusion-ridden COURTESY OF THE HANGAR THEATRE

Crazy, in Love Henry (Adam Fontana) provides (often dazed) emotional support to her maternal abandonment issues. The central theme of this narrative is how this dysfunctional family struggles to come to an existence that is, if not normal, then next to normal. Hence the title.

Next to normal is a sensitive and — importantly — authentic study of mental ill-

“Superboy and the Invisible Girl,” sung by Natalie and Gabe (McCartan and Plomgren). The musicality of the play allows for thematic devices to be instituted in a way that can be difficult in a regular play. For example, the parallels between Diana and Dan’s relationship and that of Natalie and Henry’s are wonderfully expressed in the number “A Promise,” in which both couples

The Sun Asks WHY? TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer

The Sun talked on the phone with Josiah Wolf, drummer and multi-instrumentalist for indie-rock-hip-hop group, WHY?, on the benefits of solo work, swearing and piracy.

THE SUN: Josiah Wolf, thanks for speaking with us. Your band, WHY?, just released a new EP, Sod in the Seed, and you just started touring for your upcoming album, Mumps, etc.

JOSIAH WOLF: Yes, right now we’re in Columbia, Missouri. Tonight’s the first show of the tour, so it’s all kicking off right now. I’m just really excited about this band, I think it’s the best WHY? outfit yet. We’ve got six of us on stage, with two drummers, and it’s just gonna be a lot of fun.

SUN: So it’s been three years since WHY?’s most recent album, Eskimo Snow. Has that been a period of hibernation, or have you guys been playing together and working on this record all that time?

J.W.: You know, we recorded this record over a year ago now. I was also touring without WHY? — just me and my wife Liz. SUN: You also recorded your solo album, Jet Lag, during that period. How do you feel your solo work relates to your work with WHY? Is there a lot of shared creative energy between those two projects, or are they very separate musical worlds for you?

J.W.: It’s pretty separate. Sometimes something I come up with could work for either one, but most of the WHY? stuff is written by Yoni [WHY? frontman and Josiah’s younger

brother Yoni Wolf]. That stuff is all his. I do have a base of different ideas that I’ve used with WHY?, but mostly use for my own stuff.

SUN: Listening to WHY?, what often strikes me are the really vile lyrics. Stuff like, “Sucking dick for drink tickets at the free bar at my cousin’s bat mitzvah,” etc. On some level I really love it, but on some level it’s really aggressively grotesque. Do you ever have any reservations about putting that sort of energy into the world?

J.W.: Gosh, Tom. I don’t have reservations about putting that out there. I don’t think it’s negative or harmful. That’s Yoni, and those are the songs he’s written, and that’s where he is. I find generally people come up after the shows to talk to us, and they say they really relate, and that it’s helped them through hard times. He’s not inciting violence or anything like that.

SUN: How much of those lyrics are grounded in reality, and how much is fiction? Take “Probable Cause,” one of the tracks on your new EP, where Yoni talks about an encounter you and he had with a state trooper in Pennsylvania. True story?

J.W.: Most of the stuff is partially true, and that would fit into that category, I guess. Yoni writes all the lyrics, so when it comes to that stuff, he would be better to tell you. For that particular song, though, I was actually there, and I’d say it’s partial truth. I think it’s maybe more about how Yoni feels in other ways. I think it relates to other things about me, about our relationships, and about other stuff, too. I don’t want to analyze his lyrics too much, but yeah — a lot of partial truths.

harmonize a single tune with the same lyrics, reaffirming their continual support of each other in trying times. The music and lyrics help transform the story into something akin to poetry, with its layered subtext, and adds emotional texture and complexity to the characters.

However, despite being a production that exhibits the sheen of painstaking refinement, with its smart songs and a well-crafted narrative pulsing with emotional power, it’s hard not to notice that underneath it all, next to normal’s story is not particularly original.

Being an archetypal study of mental illness, it approaches the subject courageously and authentically, but conventionally. The barebones plot itself is almost a cliché in how it goes through the laundry list of required narrative hinges. The unconventional presentation of subject matter belies what is at its heart almost a soap opera about the travails of a suburban family that has to grapple with the specter of mental illness. As an archetypal ‘mental illness’ story, however, next to normal is perhaps difficult to fault for being so by the book about the blow-by-blow stages of progressive mental breakdown and recovery.

It’s a relief that the technical and writing chops of the production hold up the story such that the cliché rarely becomes trite.

All in all, next to normal is an accomplished, authentic “play that people happen to sing,” as the show’s director Tracy Bridgen puts it. Don’t let the presence of musical numbers mislead you — this is one production that ventures to explore the power of the stage musical with a theme often spoken in hushed tones, if at all.

Next to normal plays at The Hangar Theatre every day except Mondays through Sept.

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Clio Chang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cchang@cornellsun.com.

COURTESY OF WHY?

SUN: How do you feel about music pirating? I, for example, may have pirated most of WHY?’s discography. How guilty I should feel?

J.W.: I see the Internet as more helpful to us than hurtful, in terms of increasing access to music. I’m not a hater about that stuff. It definitely makes some things difficult, and makes trouble with the label, but the amount of people that have heard us that would never have heard us before makes up for it. And, you know, we make our money playing shows, we don’t really make much money selling records.

SUN: That’s definitely an argument I hear a lot — that musicians make their money touring anyways — and they’re happy to get their music out there any way they can. Does that ring true with you, or is that just some BS people use to justify stealing music?

J.W.: I think it’s true. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with downloading stuff and checking stuff out for free. I think if it’s something you like, you should go to the show and buy something. Many people who are big fans of [WHY?’s 2008 album] Alopecia and got it for free many years ago come to the shows now, and are like, this is my favorite record, I’m gonna buy the record. But no, I’m not a hater about the whole thing.

WHY? will play at The Haunt on Sept. 11. Their new EP, Sod in the Seed, was released on Aug. 14, and their new album, Mumps, etc., will be released on Oct. 9.

Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com.

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Let There Be Sparks enthralled by Ruby’s quirkiness and wonderful cooking. His brother insists that he take advantage of his power by molding We all have an ideal romantic partner. Ruby into the person he wants her to be.

Perhaps they bake. Perhaps they recycle. Calvin refuses … until the relationship Perhaps they bake and recycle. Most of us begins to sour.

The consequences of his actions are what reluctantly admit that no ideal can ever replace the real person when he or she final- make the movie so powerful. The first half ly comes along. But what would happen if of the film tries very hard to get laughs, but that figment of your imagination, that ful- is unsuccessful, most likely because the fillment of your every desire, became a real- audience has seen many of the gimmicks ity? Ruby Sparks, directed by Jonathan before: a clumsy man who has no idea how Dayton and Valerie Faris and starring Paul to relate to other people; a free-spirited girl Dano and Zoe Kazan, explores this possi- who likes to paint; a New-Age mother who bility, resulting in a film that is simultane- feels liberated by her husband’s death. The mushy dialogue between Calvin and Ruby ously disturbing and touching.

Calvin Weir-Fields (Dano) is a painfully is overly sweet, and the first 45 minutes in reclusive novelist who is facing a rather general are about as intriguing as the blank nasty case of writer’s block. Both his thera- white walls of Calvin’s house.

However, the film hits its stride when pist Langdon (Steve Coogan) and his macho brother Harry (Chris Messina) Ruby begins to transform from a zany charencourage him to meet new people in an acter that likes watching vampire movies in a graveyard attempt to jumpand takes off start his new novel.

Ruby Sparks her panties at Reaching out is a party to a easier said than Directed by Jonathan real person done for the quiet, Dayton and Valerie Faris who wants to awkward Calvin, have other whose only friend Featuring Paul Dano and hobbies and seems to be his Zoe Kazan meet other Scotty. dog, p e o p l e Inspiration finally arrives when Langdon gives him a writing besides Calvin. While she enjoys her one assignment: Thus, Ruby Sparks (Kazan) is night a week away from Calvin, he lies in born, literally; she arrives in his kitchen bed miserably, holding Scotty for comfort. early one morning. While he is frightened When she further asserts her independence, and confused at first, Calvin is soon Calvin takes to his typewriter again and LUBABAH CHOWDHURY Sun Staff Writer

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writes the fateful sen- COURTESY tence, “Ruby was OF 20TH miserable without CENTURY FOX Calvin.” She returns to him, but is reduced to a weeping, clinging child who cannot go anywhere without him.

She breaks down when Calvin lets go of her hand to simply take a phone call.

When Calvin writes her sadness away, she becomes manic — laughing and giggling at everything and nothing.

Calvin’s journey is rather disconcerting, but necessary. When he realizes that he is thwarting Ruby’s ability to be herself, he tries to free her, only to find their relationship crumbling yet again. His attachment to her is not one of love, but one of obsession. In a way, it is difficult to condemn someone so lost and alone in the world. As the narrative progresses, he treats her like his property rather than his girlfriend. It is difficult for him to see Ruby as a person because in a way, she is part of him, part of his imagination that has somehow materialized in front of him. His inability to accept her, with all her imperfections and varying emotions, is ironic, considering his constant complaint that no one can accept him for himself. He falls prey to the same kind of idealization and fantasizing, not only with Ruby, but also with his previous girlfriend

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Lila (Deborah Ann Woll). It is only when Calvin realizes that he, as Ruby’s creator, is the only one who can set her free that either of them can find any sort of peace or happiness.

Though Ruby Sparks starts off as a lighthearted romantic comedy, the film progresses into a warning against the dangers of objectifying and idealizing other people.

Calvin’s final act of the movie not only shows his growth as a person, but also as a writer. A writer is, of course, obliged to imagine and develop characters, but if a character is to become a person, one cannot forget to set them free.

Ruby Sparks is now playing at Cinemapolis.

Lubabah Chowdhury is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lchowdhury@cornellsun.com.

The Newsroom’s Context Problem

he Newsroom is not a truly bad show, but it is not a particularly good one, either. More than anything, The Newsroom, which ended its first season Sunday night, is frustrating. Vulture summed it up pretty perfectly this weekend with a “Frustration Almanac,” an alphabetic list of the show’s many specific flaws and issues. It’s easy to pick out The Newsroom’s failings, large and small, and imagine how the show might be better if something (or, more likely, some things) was different.

I think much of this stems from the basic idea of The Newsroom, a unique mix of fact and fiction. News Night, the fictional nightly news show on Newsroom, tackles the events of the recent past as they should have been reported, armed with the power of hindsight through the magic of television.

It’s a compelling premise, but one that never reaches its full potential.

What makes The Newsroom distinct from other programs is that you are penalized for being an active viewer, an inescapable weakness of the show that was demonstrated again and again over the first season. People familiar with Newsroom creator Aaron Sorkin’s television oeuvre (the consistently excellent Sports Night and The West Wing, and the often imperfect Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), will note blatant rip-offs from his previous programs. This gives The Newsroom an awkward recycled overtone and diminishes the impact of Sorkin’s often-unparalleled writing.

It makes it harder because we know his tricks. We’ve seen them before and, perhaps because there was an element of freshness then, they were done better. In one episode, News Night anchor Will McAvoy reveals he was once considered for a late night talk show, but turned it down to do “the news.” This packs a little less punch than it should, if only because the same exact conversation happened on television 14 years ago, when Sport Night’s Casey McCall admitted he turned down Late Night to keep talking about sports.

However, it’s not just minor Easter eggs (to be nice) that make Newsroom hard to watch for Sorkin fans. That same episode is structured as a flashback derived from a character’s session with a psychiatrist. While a flashback episode is common enough on any T.V. series, this very specific type of flash-

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back was used on both Sports Night and The West Wing, as characters on each show helped frame a story by relaying it to a psychiatrist. If only for the selfish reason of “not this again,” I literally groaned while watching this. Third time is not the charm — it is repetitive and, regrettably, now boring.

Likewise, people who have any knowledge at all of real life events better forget it, as all that matters on The Newsroom is the newsroom. Death, destruction and disaster take a backseat to the team at News Night, and The Newsroom’s audience is hurt by any knowledge of the real life events the show wraps in its own fiction.

God help the viewer who has the bad luck to fall under Sorkin’s wrath. His is the only show I can think of that targets potential audience members, and intentionally isolates them. Are you, heavens Big Talk forbid, a consumer of gossip magazines or trashy television? Did you dare pay attention to the Casey Anthony trial when there were economics happening? Do you “troll” the Internet, or even just sometimes use it? Well then, as this season proved, you’re explicitly not welcome at News Night, much less The Newsroom.

Critics of The Newsroom have been loud since its premiere. There have been articles lambasting the show for everything from outrageously simplifying the reporting process to its, let’s say, complicated depiction of women.

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However, the criticism that stuck with me most, and which I think addresses an issue inherent to The Newsroom, is the show’s prioritization of the importance of its own fictional characters over real, actual flesh and blood people.

This is, unfortunately, best highlighted in The Newsroom’s, and thus the News Night team’s, coverage of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. As Will reports on a real life event that caused the deaths of actual people, his fictional news team is preoccupied with their own relationships. If you’ll excuse my excessive moralization, The Newsroom privileges the seemingly minor problems of their fictional characters over the truly tragic events that affect the real world and real people. And that makes for some uncomfortable television.

I can just see the News Night team freaking out that their coverage of the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin might be hindered by Will’s bad hair day. Or, more realistically, Will doesn’t give Barack Obama’s support for gay marriage enough attention because he’s having a “New York renaissance.” It’s either that, or Will going missing right when Todd Akin designates some rape as “legitmate,” and is discovered in a church questioning God for the sudden death of his long-time personal secretary after everyone found out he had been hiding multiple sclerosis. Also, his father probably had an affair for over 20 years.

Whatever it is, we’ve seen it all before, on the news or from Sorkin himself. And while the truth might be stranger than fiction, mixing the two only diminishes both.

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun.com. Big Talk appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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series Aug. 16, 17 and 19 in Calgary, Alberta. The Canadian Cornellians were competing against a teammate of theirs — are so talented is very humbling. It’s so junior goalie Lauren Siebodnick — who exciting to play against these girls that are was selected to the United States Under22 team just a day after her Red teamthe best in the world.”

Campbell, Sauliner and Poudrier also mates were selected to Canada’s.

“Making have some prior the team experience — “To be selected among so many was awethey helped earn some, and a bronze medal girls that are so talented is very so was playfor Canada at the humbling.” ing against 2012 Meco Cup Laura Fortino the States,” in Germany.

Fortino Fortino credits much of the Red’s success in getting to said. “That’s our biggest rivalry … and to the Under-22/Development team to their have the chance to play them on the big stage was awesome.” level of dedication here on East Hill.

The United States won all three games, “It was pretty awesome that from one team we could have that many girls repre- marking its first victories in regulation senting Canada,” she said. “That just against Canada since 2004.

Representatives of the Red on Team shows how well developed our players come out of this program and how much Canada are ready to take their summer knowledge Coach Derraugh ’91 gives us experiences with them into the 2012-13 and how much we develop every day ECAC season.

“I think [playing on the Under-22 here.”

The team competed against the United team] will have a good impact and elevate States Under-22 team in a three-game my game that I’m able to bring to Continued from page 16

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Learning and leading | Junior forward Brianne Jenner was selected as one of the alternate captains for the Canadian Under-22/Development team.

Cornell,” Campbell said. “We have such a strong group of girls on our team; we all push each other and having experience with the national team gives us confidence to really raise the bar and keep pushing ourselves to get better. This should elevate not just myself but the team as a whole.”

Fortino agreed with this sentiment and expressed optimism for Cornell’s upcoming season.

“Any time you go to a camp like that with such a high caliber players, you obvi-

ously know the levels to play at to continue making the team,” she said. “You find your weaknesses and work harder every day to improve those. I think that it’s an advantage going forward because you can see where your game needs to be and play at that level.”

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun.com.

Cornell to Induct 11 Athletes to Hall of Fame in November HALL OF FAME

continued with football after graduating from Cornell, going into coaching before joining the second oveall at Heps during his ranks of the Atlanta Falcons, senior year. He also graduated Washington Redskins and Seattle with the fourth-best time in Seahawks. Lazor currently preCornell program history at New sides as the offensive coordinator York’s famed Van Cortlandt Park. at Virginia since 2010.

Nuttle served as team captain King’s career continued spiraling upward after graduation, fin- during his senior year with the ishing sixth in the 3,000-meter Red, and was a three-time honorsteeplechase at the 2012 able mention All-American as a Olympic Trials. He won the lacrosse attackman. He became 2011 World Mountain Running the second Cornellian to earn Championships in Albania, earn- that many All-America honors in ing recognition as the first lacrosse, joining Joe Rooney ’24.

American to do so in 14 years. Nuttle was invited to play in the King also claimed the Xterra 1951 North-South Senior AllTrail Run World Championships Star Game and took home the t e a m ’ s Lawrence Van The inductees will be honored at a B u r e n special ceremony and at halftime of Wo o d w o r t h Memorial in the Cornell-Dartmouth football game. Award 1951, which was given to from 2008-10. He finished sixth the player who most exemplified at the Baltimore Marathon in a fair play and the competitive time of 2:15, which earned him a spirit of lacrosse. The award was second bid to the U.S. Marathon named after former teammate and captain Larry Woodworth.

Trials.

Platt made a mark for herself Lazor made a name for himself on the gridiron, establishing as a member of the 1997 ECAC Cornell passing records for yards, championship team. A two-time attempts, completions, 200-yard second-team All-Ivy pick, she games, total offense yards and was the first Cornell player to plays during his three years start- ever bat over .400 for a season — ing behind center for the Red. hitting .423 in 1996. Her overall He earned a nod as an honorable career .375 batting average and on-base percentage mention in the All-Ivy League .419 pick in 1992. Lazor was chosen remained at the top of Cornell to play in the Epson/Ivy Bowl in records until 2005. Platt was a Tokyo, Japan. Exhibiting great three-year letter winner and coleadership on the field, Lazor was winner of the team’s Rookie of a team co-captain during his the Year award in 1994. She final year with the Red and played as a member of the Ivy earned the team’s Charles League’s Silver Anniversary Team Colucci Award twice as the non- and was named MVP twice for senior who contributed most to the Red. Platt returned to her the team, as well as the Coaches alma mater in 2002 and has Award, team co-MVP and Paul served as assistant and then assoHunt Citizenship awards. Lazor ciate coach for her former team, Continued from page 16

coaching the squad to three Ivy crowns and NCAA tournament appearances.

Puidgemont-Sola played for the women’s squash team during her time at Cornell. She was a four-time first-team AllAmerican and four-time All-Ivy pick, as well as the 1999 Ivy League and national Rookie of the Year. She finished her collegiate career with a 62-17 overall record and ranked as highly as No. 2 nationally during her final year with the Red. PuidgemontSola also lettered four times and earned Academic All-Ivy recognition twice. After graduating, she continued on to rank as high as No. 39 in the world during 2005. Puidgemont-Sola also served as a member of the Spanish national team.

Reynolds played both lacrosse and volleyball for the Red, earning recognition as the first fourtime All-American in women’s lacrosse — the third in any sport at Cornell. She was one of the three finalists for National Player of the Year during her final season at Cornell. Reynolds was named the 2002 Ivy League Player of the Year, graduating with 11 school records, including goals scored, career and season points, ground balls, caused turnovers and draw controls. She was a four-time first-team allregion pick and eventually earned a place on the AllAmerica third team in her first three seasons with the Red before finally capturing first-team honors as a senior. Reynolds was the NCAA New York Woman of the Year and one of 10 finals for the NCAA Woman of the Year in 2002. She was also a Honda Award finalist that same year.

Reynolds played an important role in helping the 2002 squad earn a spot in the NCAA Final

Four — becoming the first women’s sport at Cornell to reach a national semifinal. Reynolds was named The Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete, the Cornell Daily Sun and Ithaca Journal Female Athlete of the Year and recipient of the Richie Moran Red Key Leadership Award. She also lettered four times with the volleyball team, earning a place in school history with her 1,023 assists at setter in 2001 placing her in the Top-10 in the program.

Riggs was the 2001 and 2002 USPA National Player of the Year, as well as a four-time AllAmerican. She helped the polo team to a four-year overall record of 81-3-5, as well as three national titles along the way. Riggs was MVP of the Eastern Regional during her final year with the Red. She contributed her talents to four straight regional crowns for Cornell, while she served as captain for the last three seasons.

Underhill made a name for himself in Lynah Rink, where he played as a goalie for the Red. He was a first-team All-American as a senior and won the ECAC’s Ken Dryden Award as the league’s top goalie in 2002.

Underhill led all conference netminders and sat at fourth in the country with his 1.80 GAA and a .922 save percentage as a senior, making him a first-team All-Ivy League and All-ECAC selection.

He also ranked No. 7 nationally during his final year on East Hill.

Underhill also ranked nationally in the same categories as a junior, helping Cornell to an Ivy crown and ECAC title. He graduated ranking among the Top-10 career list for saves (2,052), goals against average (2.30), save percentage (.913), shutouts (6), wins (42) and minutes played

(5,070). Underhill was a sixthround NHL draft pick of the Calgary Flames in 1999.

Weiss became the first person to endow a head coach’s position in the history of football in 1982.

From 1988 to 2000, he served on the Cornell University Board of Trustees and was later named a Presidential Councillor, which is the highest honor the University can bestow upon an alumnus.

Weiss has been a generous benefactor to the Red, continuing to be one of the most effective alumni advocates for the Athletics Department. Over the years he has also acted as a mentor, helping many former Cornell athletes transition beyond their Cornell playing careers and into the future. Weiss’s philanthropy involvement with Cornell has also made a giant impact on the lives of multiple coaches, athletes and alumni, as well as many people in the greater Cornell community.

Wydo, like Lazor, earned his place in the Cornell history books for his contributions made on the football field. He was a third-team Associated Press AllAmerican tackle in 1949, and was named to the Cornell Football Association’s All-Time Team in 2003. Wydo was a thirdround selection in the 1947 NFL draft, where the Pittsburgh Steelers chose him as the 29th overall pick. A 1949 first-team All-East selection, Wydo was also a second-team All-Pro pick in 1953. He played for the Steelers from 1947-51, before trading Pittsburgh for the city of brotherly love. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1952 until 1957.

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C.U.Adds Hall of Famers night, but also at the halftime of the Cornell-Dartmouth football game the following afternoon.

Feeney is a Presidential Councillor, memOn Aug. 24, Cornell Athletics announced that 11 new members have been ber of the School of Hotel Administration’s selected for induction into the Cornell Dean’s Advisory Board and lifetime member University Athletic Hall of Fame. The 36th of Cornell University Council. Known as annual ceremonies will be held on Friday, one of the world’s greatest philanthropists, Nov. 2, when the 11 inductees, including he founded The Atlantic Philanthropies and seven All-Americans, will join the presti- has made gifts of $6 billion over the past 30 years to support multiple groups of people gious ranks of Cornellians before them.

The All-Americans who will be inducted and various causes around the globe.

Through Atlantic, into the Hall of Fame are Feeney made generMax King ’02 (cross coun- Of the 11 athletes that will ous donations to the try and track and field), Tom Nuttle ’51 (lacrosse), be inducted into the Cornell Cornell Department of Athletics & Olga Puidgemont-Sola ’02 University Athletic Hall of Physical Education (squash), Jaimee Reynolds which have strength’02 (lacrosse and volley- Fame in November, seven ened various athletball), Melissa Riggs ’02 are All-Americans. ics programs. One of (polo), Matt Underhill ’02 his biggest contribu(ice hockey) and Frank tions to Cornell included a $10 million Wydo ’50 (football).

Other members who have been selected grant in 1999, which allowed the Athletics to be inducted are Chuck Feeney ’56 (special Department to pursue its Cornell Victories category), Bill Lazor ’94 (football), Julie campaign. His generous donation allowed Platt ’97 (softball) and Roger Weiss ’61 (spe- Cornell to focus on infrastructure improvements and endowment. cial category).

Feeney’s impact for Cornell Victories has Also selected to be enshrined in November are Chuck Feeney ’56, special helped the Red, as Cornell has won a total of category; Bill Lazor ’94, football; Julie Platt 22 Ivy League championships in the 10’97, softball; and Roger Weiss ’61, special years period beginning during the 1992-93 category. The inductees will not only be school year. The following 10 years proved honored at the special ceremony on Friday to be even more successful for the Red, as

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Etched into memory | Goaltender Matt Underhill ’02 is one of the seven All-Americans that will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame in November.

Cornell brought home 69 Ivy titles since the 2002-03 school year. The Red experienced a 214 percent increase between the two periods. Feeney has also contributed generous donations with Atlantic, which have supported Bartels Hall and athletic facilities on North Campus. The mission was to ensure that all students at the University have access to the best facilities and programs possible.

Feeney and Atlantic were also behind a $350 million gift donated to support Cornell’s New York City tech campus.

King was an All-American and won titles

at both Heps and IC4As in the steeplechase.

He exhibited great athletic prowess on both the track and cross country trail. King broke Cornell’s steeplechase record by more than 10 seconds as a senior, finishing in 8:40.12 in his final campaign. He won the steeplechase as both a junior and senior, and captained both the track and field and cross country teams during his final season with the Red. King was a two-time first-team AllIvy honoree in cross country and finished See HALL OF FAME page 15

Women’s Ice Hockey Welcomes Eight New Faces to its Roster

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Playing with pride | Junior forward Jessica Campbell is one of six Cornell players to be selected to Canada’s Under-22/Development team this summer.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Red Plays for Canada

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

On Sunday, Aug. 12, Hockey Canada announced the roster for its Under-22/Development team. Six out of the 22 selected are Big Red women’s hockey players. The players selected came from a pool of 40 women that were being considered, which included sophomore forward Emily Fulton.

The six Cornellians representing Team Canada are senior defenseman Laura Fortino, junior forwards Jessica Campbell and Brianne Jenner and defenseman Hayleigh Cudmore, sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier and incoming freshman defenseman Cassandra Poudrier.

“It’s always an honor to represent your country no matter what the level is and I think to have such a large

group represented from Cornell and to be a part of our national program is something really special,” Campbell said. “It’s always such an honor to put on our country’s jersey, and I am really excited that I was fortunate enough to make the team.”

Fortino and Jenner were also selected to be alternate captains for the Under-22/Development team.

This is not their first time representing Canada, as they have played for the Canadian Senior National Team.

Back in April, they won gold at the IIHF World Championship in Vermont.

“Of course, whenever you get the opportunity to represent your country it’s a great honor,” Fortino said. “[And] especially at this stage, there are so many girl hockey players that See W. HOCKEY page 15

With the graduation of senior forwards. Zorn also add to the team.

Finally, goalie Stefannie eight seniors from the adds some lineage spirit, as 2011-12 roster, eight fresh- she is the younger sister of Moak rounds out the new men join the squad in Liz Zorn ’10 — a key for- batch of players and brings preparation for another ward on the 2009-10 the Red netminder count competitive season. The Cornell team that made an back up to three. With A m a n d a new class feaMazzotta ’12 tures a group of The new class features a group of now gone, the four strong forstarting goalwards, a trio of four strong forwards, a trio of tending spot is defensemen and defensemen and a goaltender. open, and Moak a goaltender. has an opportuThe new fornity to prove wards — Anna Zorn, Jess Brown, Victoria unprecedented run to the herself and fight for it.

The eight new faces Pittens and Taylor Woods NCAA finals.

In the defensive zone of show great potential to help — sport experience from national Canadian Under- the rink, the team will see the Red continue to pose a 19 competition and U.S. newcomers Kelly Murray, threat in the league and find Under-16 competitions, Morgan Richardson and another year of strong and will look to help on the Cassandra Poudrier. The results. offense with spots left three women come from — Compiled by vacant by five of last year’s Canada and have skills to Reena Gilani

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Success frozen in history | In the 2011-12 season, the Red made it to the Frozen Four for the third year in a row.