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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 129, No. 31
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
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ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Professor Called Founding Mother of Colonial History Saturday, more than 100 professors, doctoral candidates, undergraduates, librarians and history nerds Benjamin Franklin, Thomas called for one professor — Prof. Jefferson, John Adams — the Mary Beth Norton, history, the first Founding Fathers of the Revolution woman ever appointed to Cornell’s history department — sit exalted in America’s to be recognized in the historical pantheon, illustrious ranks of those inseparable from the who have defined our movement that birthed a understanding of the country and irrevocably American Revolution. altered world history. “[Norton] means so Now, perhaps, a difmuch to American hisferent pantheon is being toriography ... She really constructed: one for the is one of the very first scholars who revolutionPROF. NORTON people to make it a legitized the study of the revolutionaries, themselves entwined imate focus of study to look at with the upheaval that severed the everyday women and American colonies from Great Britain more women and their actual experiences,” said one of the event orgathan 200 years ago. Through a series of discussion forums held on campus Friday and See NORTON page 5
By JEFF STEIN
Sun Managing Editor
Self-Proclaimed ‘Beer Prof’ Teaches Students Brewing By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor
When Ezra Cornell declared he would “found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” he may not have considered one subject in particular: beer brewing. But for Prof. Karl Siebert, food science, studying beer is all in a day’s work. Siebert, who spent 18
years working in the brewing industry before entering academia, has spent decades researching the golden, frothy beverage in his laboratory at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. “If you search Cornell’s website for two different things — See BEER page 4
SEYOUN KIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Prime real estate | Students form a line in front of the Ithaca Renting Company office on Dryden Avenue. The students camped outside the agency overnight Thursday to sign housing leases for next year.
C-Town Housing Rush Intensifies
During early rental season, students sleep outside housing agency By LIZ CAMUTI Sun City Editor
and MANU RATHORE
Sun Senior Writer
In what some landlords are calling the fastest renting season in recent memory, students are rushing to claim housing in Collegetown, even sleeping outside rental agencies to be the first to secure the area’s most lucrative real estate. Around 15 students camped outside the Ithaca Renting Company office on Dryden Road Thursday night to sign leases for a range of living arrangements, including two “coveted” four-bedroom apartments and a 14-person house snatched by the baseball team, according to Christina Kim ’15 and Nicholas Busto ’15. “We think, honestly, it’s worth it to suck it up
and take shifts and have a shitty hour-and-a-half in the night to have housing for next year,” Busto said. “It is kind of getting late [in the ren and we don’t want to be screwed out of housing.” Unlike many other rental agencies in Collegetown, Ithaca Renting Company requires residents to sign leases on a first-come, first-serve basis — the primary reason people camped outside the office overnight, according to Lisa M. Everts ’92, the company’s rental manager. “The reason we have people camping is because we don’t tell people they might get an apartment; it’s on the spot,” she said. “We have had tours going on for several weeks but then people are expected to come in and sign for available apartments, first come, first serve.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Host Event at Bailey Hall By LIZ CAMUTI Sun City Editor
Actor Joseph GordonLevitt will take the stage at Bailey Hall on Nov. 18 to host an evening of entertainment and interactive art making, according to the website HitRECord.org. Gordon-Levitt will serve as a host for the HitRECord event, presenting short works of video produced collaboratively by artists around the world. He will also direct and perform alongside audience members in live sketches, readings and musical performances, according to a HitRECord.org press release. Best known for his roles in the movies 500 Days of Summer and The Dark Knight Rises, Gordon-Levitt
launched the professional production company HitRECord.org in 2010 in order to collaborate with artists from all over the world, accord-
ing to the press release. Tickets for the event will go on sale Oct. 4 on the Cornell Concerts website, according to Tajwar Mazhar ’13, exec-
utive chair of the Cornell University Program Board. Mazhar hailed Gordon-Levitt as an actor who has remained
“We are really excited to do something different.” Tajwar Mazhar ’13
committed to encouraging cooperative creativity throughout his career. “It’s really great to see someone who has gone from TV to huge blockbusters and is still interested in the grassroots process of creating videos,” she said. CUPB, which has recently hosted stand-up comedians John Oliver and Seth Meyers, was seeking to diversify its campus offerings when booking Gordon-Levitt to perform, Mazhar said. “We are really excited to do something different … The Billy Joel show was pretty interactive, but we haven’t done anything like this in recent memory,” she said.
COURTESY OF HITRECORD.ORG
Interactive acting | Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt will stop at Cornell on his HitRECord.org tour, taking the stage at Bailey Hall on Nov. 18.
Liz Camuti can be reached at lcamuti@cornellsun.com.
See C-TOWN page 5
News Big Red Groundbreaking
Construction began Sept. 22 on the new Big Red Band building at its site adjacent to Schoellkopf Stadium. | Page 3
Opinion Speak Up for Change
Tom Moore ’14 encourages students to participate in the University’s efforts to increase safety on campus. | Page 7
Arts Jazzing It Up
The Sun talked to the Steve Brown Quartet, who will perform on campus Thursday. | Page 14
Sports Sad Times Soccer
Women’s soccer fell to the Penn Quakers in a home game on Tuesday. | Page 15
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