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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
After Sold-Out Bailey Hall Show, John Oliver Talks Politics, Comedy
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ties are involved in. Samantha Bee did a piece on pro-life [RNC delegates], which was something we had an idea of beforehand and we knew, more or less, how to execute that. We also “fired” states that were failing, which was another idea we planned. Those were broader, consensual things we fleshed out before, so we knew what we were going to get. It’s a mix between preparation and, you know ... Clint Eastwood talking to a chair.
The University has revised its medical amnesty protocol to protect students from action by the Judicial Administrator if they call 911 to report a drug overdose while on campus. The previous policy, which was implemented in 2002, only granted amnesty to students who called concerning alcohol-related emergencies. The Good Samaritan Protocol, which went into effect on July 1, brings Cornell’s policy in line with New York State’s Good Samaritan Law, which went into effect last September, according to Deborah Lewis, alcohol projects coor“[The new policy] is an dinator at Gannett expansion of what’s Health Services. The covered under amnesty.” state law, passed in 2011, protects anyDeborah Lewis one calling to report a drug or alcohol-related emergency from underage drinking charges and other legal ramifications. “One of our changes is just this name change to bring it in parallel with the New York State law,” Lewis said. “The other piece around this is it’s an expansion of what’s covered under amnesty.” Prior to the implementation of Cornell’s new policy in July, students on campus could have still faced punishment from the judicial administrator, but students off campus were out of the J.A.’s reach. Students both on and off campus already received amnesty when calling about an alcohol-related emergency and
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By ZACHARY ZAHOS and JULIA MOSER
Sun Staff Writer
News Filling in the Gap
Stephen Smith was nominated Saturday to replace Eddie Rooker ’09 as the alderperson of the Fourth Ward of Ithaca. | Page 3
News Starting the Conversation
Student leaders met Saturday to open discussion on racial bias and forcible touching. | Page 3
Opinion What Drives Us
Sebastian Deri ’13 pauses to reflect on the realization that people’s motives are often mysterious. | Page 7
Arts The Funny Man Speaks
The Sun reviews John Oliver’s Saturday show, which packed plenty of jabs at America. | Page 12
Sports First Time for Everything
Daniel Haber, a junior forward on the men’s soccer team, scored the Red’s first hat-trick in five years on Saturday. | Page 20
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John Oliver is exhausted. In the span of 24 hours, after two weeks of covering the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, The Daily Show correspondent flew from the DNC host city of Charlotte, N.C., changed flights in Philadelphia, Pa., and touched down in Ithaca, only to perform a killer stand-up set hours later. Following Oliver’s sold-out Saturday night show at Bailey Hall, The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment section sat down with the comedian and talked about his Cambridge roots, the political media circus and the ever-lovable Herman Cain. THE SUN: How tired are you right now? JOHN OLIVER: Very, very, very tired. In Charlotte, I was generally averaging three to four hours of sleep a night. The last two weeks have been non-stop — it’s all a blur. It feels like being away for one long day, and then you realize it’s actually been 14 days. SUN: Did you do any special preparation before the conventions? J.O.: Yes, we did. We try and split it between reacting to what’s happening and also thinking about broader concepts the candidates or the par-
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C.U.Remembers Former President Corson at Memorial By LAUREN AVERY Sun Staff Writer
In a memorial service at Sage Chapel Saturday, friends and administrators honored the life and achievements of former University President Dale Corson, who died on March 31 at the age of 97. Corson, who served as president from 1969 to 1977, was recognized at the service for a wide array of academic accomplishments in the field of physics. In 1940, Corson was part of the team at the University of California at Berkeley that discovered astatine, the 85th element in the periodic table. His accomplishments also led him to earn a Presidential Certificate of Merit in 1947 and several awards from the National Academy of Sciences later in his life. But in his welcome address, President David Skorton highlighted Corson’s humble background, noting that it made Corson modest and reserved about his successes. “We talk about first-generation college students, but [Corson] was the first in his family to attend high school in Emporia, Kansas, where the
family moved after their farm failed,” Skorton said. “[Corson] obviously rose to the very highest levels within his profession, but he remained true to the values of his Midwestern roots … always exemplifying integrity and competence and great and hard-formed wisdom.” According to Prof. Emeritus
Maury Tigner, physics, Corson –– prior to his arrival at Cornell –– put his scientific expertise to use during World War II. In 1941, he began working with radar technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying how it could be used in war airplanes. In 1946, he helped found the
Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., a facility “that focuses on the application of the sciences to national defense,” according to Tigner. Corson arrived at Cornell in 1947 as an associate professor of physics, and was promoted to See CORSON page 5
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Remembering a leader | President David Skorton reaches out to former University President Dale Corson’s wife, Nellie Corson, following a memorial service held in Sage Chapel on Saturday.