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Fork and Gavel, a new eatery in the Law School, has opened for business this semester. | Page 3

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Women’s volleyball is playing two Ivy rivals this weekend at home. | Page 20

Vet School Will Expand With $63M Project

Training in progress

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

JIALI WANG / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

The Ithaca Police Special Weapons and Tactics team trains on Linden Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. The 19 member team is trained to handle incidents that are beyond the capability of patrol officers, according to the Ithaca S.W.A.T. website.

The design of a $63-million project for the College of Veterinary Medicine that will renovate facilities and allow the school to accommodate a larger pre-clinical class is in its final stages.

According to Paul Streeter, assistant dean of finance and administration at the vet school, the idea for the project arose out of the college’s strategic plan several years ago.

The pre-clinical years, or the first three years at the veterinary school, currently have classes of 102 students. However, Streeter said, the teaching hospital has the capacity to teach 120 students, and the new project aims to help the hos-

C.U.,City Spar Over MOU

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Mayor Myrick ’09 asks Univ. to give more to city

By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

The day after Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 called the amount Cornell contributes to the City of Ithaca “shameful,” the University issued a statement striking back.

“We at Cornell recognize the financial pressures on Ithaca and accept our responsibilities to contribute to our city. We remain committed to working collaboratively with the mayor and local officials,” the statement, which was published Wednesday, read.

The statement went on to criticize how Myrick asked for increased contributions from the University at a budget meeting Tuesday that was open to the public.

“Negotiations in public are rarely helpful. Demands are often counterproductive,” the statement said.

The University’s contributions to the City of Ithaca’s budget are laid out in a Memorandum of Understanding, which was written in 1995 and later amended in 2003. The MOU ties the amount Cornell gives annually to the city to the consumer price index — which measures the change in how much a bundle of goods and services costs to an average consumer — from the previous year.

The MOU is common in cities that host large universities because these institutions use city infrastructure, such as transportation, but as non-profits, are exempt from property taxes, The Sun previously reported.

The University contributed $1.23 million to the City of Ithaca budget from 2012 to 2013, and will contribute $1.25 million to the City from 2013 to See MOU page 4

New Website Catalogues Hazing

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Staff Writer

The University has launched a new website where it will catalogue the misconduct of groups in an attempt to increase transparency about student organizations’ violations of the Campus

Code of Conduct.

Travis Apgar, associate dean of students, said the website was created as an additional resource for prospective group members and as a response to community pressure for more effective communication around misconduct on campus.

“The transparency this site provides serves the community as an educational tool,” he said. “For organizations, the postings will serve to inform them of the community standards and how groups have been See WEBSITE page 4

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 signed a new sidewalk policy into effect at a press conference in his office on Wednesday afternoon.

Mayor Signs New Sidewalk Policy Under law, tax money goes into sidewalk improvement districts

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 signed a new sidewalk policy into law at a press conference Wednesday.

Myrick said that, although signing a local law at a press conference is “a bit unusual,” it was necessary given the nature of the new policy.

The policy creates five sidewalk improvement districts in the City of Ithaca, which property tax payers pay into, with the amount

varying based on the level of foot traffic in each district. The money raised in each district will be used only for sidewalk work performed in the district, according to a city press release.

“What we’ve developed is something that is very exciting, but it is very novel, and the more property-tax payers, the more homeowners know what’s coming, I think the more excited they’re going to be,” Myrick said.

The city’s former side-

walk policy required the abutting property owner to pay for full sidewalk construction and repair costs.

According to Myrick, this led to very little new sidewalk being constructed in the last two decades in the city.

“The city spent lot of hours making sure they [paid for the repair costs],” Myrick said. “It was a bureaucratic nightmare, and it is also a system that I believe is unfair.”

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Assistant vice president to assume role as University conducts national search for new V.P.

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sphere, a University press release said. According to the press release, page visits to cornell.edu increased by 1,272 percent during Bruce’s tenure, reaching 38 milTommy Bruce, vice president for university commu- lion hits in 2012. nications at Cornell, has been named senior vice presiVisits to the Ithaca campus, coordinated by the office dent for public affairs at Dartmouth College, according of Campus Information and Visitor Relations, increased to an Oct. 1 announcement in The Dartmouth. from 30,000 in 2004 to 46,000 in 2012-13.

Bruce, who joined Cornell’s staff in Additionally, under Bruce’s leadership, 2004, has been the leader of University University Communications aided in Communications since the division’s Cornell’s efforts in supporting the developinception that year. ment of Cornell NYC Tech, according to the He will be leaving the University Nov. press release.

18 to assume his new position, which is President David Skorton said he believes part of Dartmouth President Phil that Dartmouth will be gaining an distinHanlon’s senior leadership team. Bruce guished leader in the field of communications will oversee communications and marand media relations. keting functions, as well as government “Tommy’s executive savvy, forward-looking and community relations at Dartmouth. optimism and ability to creatively elevate and BRUCE Since Bruce’s arrival at Cornell, proenhance Cornell’s global profile have been found changes to the University’s brand important to the continued success of Cornell’s educaimage, as well as an increased web presence, have con- tional and public-engagement missions. He leaves tributed to Cornell’s heightened visibility in the public behind a solid, professional team, which I am confident Sun Staff Writer

will continue to serve the Cornell family with distinction,” Skorton said in the press release.

According to the press release, Bruce said he “will always keep the Cornell spirit close at hand.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to [have worked] with President Skorton, whose steady hand has led us through the financial crisis and given us the courage to begin to redress the weaknesses of our culture,” Bruce said. “In time, we will all come to realize that Cornell, under his leadership, began, once again, to rewrite the future of higher education. I owe much to my colleagues in University Communications for making such decisive contributions to this great university.”

In the meantime, Tracy Vosburgh, assistant vice president for university communications, will assume Bruce’s previous role as the University conducts a national search for a new vice president for University Communications.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

New Cafe Opens Its Doors in Law School

By ALEXANDER CHAKRIN Sun Contributor

The cafe space in the law school is no longer empty, thanks to Fork and Gavel Cafe.

The cafe, which opened in late August, is owned by Kathleen Pasetty and Pam Gueldner — the same owners of Manndible Cafe. Pasetty and Gueldner won the space in a bidding process held by the

without leaving a large [ecological] footprint,” Pasetty said.

The Fork and Gavel kitchen is located in Danby, just outside of Ithaca, so at the moment, only a limited amount of the food is cooked on site. By mid-October, however, the owners plan on opening up the kitchen in the cafe, according to Sharon Corbitt, the manager of Fork and Gavel.

While some students wel-

“There was a good following of Hughes Dining, and so this change is tough for some people.”

Kathleen Pasetty

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Students dine at the newly opened Fork and Gavel Cafe located at the back of the Law School. The cafe takes the place of what was formerly Hughes Dining.

Around The ivies Yale University’s Campus Safety report, emailed to the Yale community on Monday afternoon, shows an increase in drug and alcohol violations during 2012, according to The Yale Daily News.

The report concluded that the number of arrests for drug abuse violations and disciplinary actions for liquor law violations has increased dramatically, The News reported.

Dartmouth University showed a substantial increase in its number of forcible sex offenses, liquor law violations and burglaries in 2012, according to the university’s latest Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released on Tuesday, The Dartmouth reported. Reported forcible sex offenses increased from 15 to 24, burglary reports increased from 9 from 16, liquor law violations increased from 40 to 83, drug law arrests increased from 12 to 16 and drug law violations referred for disciplinary actions doubled from 10 to 20 between 2011 and 2012.

A male at Harvard University was allegedly robbed at knifepoint along Cambridge Common on Monday evening, according to a community advisory issued by the Harvard University Police Department on Tuesday afternoon, The Harvard Crimson reported. The male was not affiliated with the university, The Crimson reported. In response to this incident and last Saturday’s assault of three women, HUPD has increased the amount of patrols in Harvard Square.

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University. The cafe space was previously home to Cornell’s Hughes Dining.

According to Pasetty, the most difficult part of the process of opening a new cafe on campus was a lack of time.

One of the major struggles Fork and Gavel Cafe encountered out of the gate, she said, was the short timetable between the acceptance of its bid for the space and the beginning of the school year.

The process only allowed the Manndible Cafe owners two months to move in and begin serving students at the cafe.

By comparison, Manndible Cafe had nine months to move into its space in Mann Library, according to Pasetty.

In July, the owners of Manndible Cafe had a contest on Facebook to determine the name for the cafe. A few names were submitted and approved by the Cornell Law School administration. Afterward, the names were submitted to Facebook for voting. Out of a few name options, Fork and Gavel was chosen as the new name of the law school cafe.

With offerings such as antibiotic free chicken and some organic food choices, the Fork and Gavel Cafe is devoted to “[serving] local food and [supporting] the local economy

come the transition from Hughes Dining, others have been less enthusiastic.

Ben Van Horn grad said the food quality at Fork and Gavel is inferior to that of Hughes Dining.

“I feel that the quality of food at the cafe may have dropped during the transition, but I am thankful that there is a place near the law school where I can get my coffee in the morning,” Van Horn said.

He added that he would like to see a return of the salad bar that existed at Hughes Dining.

Pasetty also acknowledged that some people may be opposed to the change in dining providers at first.

“There was a good following of Hughes Dining, and so this change is tough for some people,” Pasetty said.

However, she said she hopes the law school will grow to enjoy Fork and Gavel.

Pasetty said she hopes that as more people find out about the Fork and Gavel, it will become popular among the entire Cornell community.

The cafe began serving food on Aug. 21 but will have its grand opening in midOctober.

Alexander Chakrin can be reached at awc83@cornell.edu.

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NEWS

Despite Recession, C.U. Complied With MOU, University Says MOU

Continued from page 1

2014.

Cornell also makes additional contributions to the city beyond the government operating budget, such as to the Ithaca City School District and the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Service, according to John Carberry, director of press relations for the University.

These contributions totalled $2.15 million last year and are expected to total more than $3.24 million this year, according to the statement.

The University has complied with the terms of the MOU “in every respect … despite our own financial challenges during the Great Recession,” according to the University statement.

“Of course, beyond its direct financial contributions, the University has an enormous positive impact on the local economy and quality of life,” the statement said. “Cornell and Ithaca thrive when the city and University work together constructively. ... We stand ready to conduct substantive conversations with our colleagues and counterparts in the City of Ithaca aimed at arriving at mutually beneficial solutions to difficult problems.”

The release called for cooperation between the city and the University.

“We believe as well that the likelihood of a successful resolution of our differences increases in the absence of ‘us versus them’ charges and characterizations that are not conducive to cooperation,” the statement said.

In an interview with The Sun, Myrick expressed his intent to gain increased monetary contributions from Cornell.

He said, however, that conversations and meetings with President David Skorton have resulted in “not much progress,” and noted that he did not plan the city’s 2014 budget with the expectation of an increase.

“I hope they will [increase the contribution]. I do,” Myrick said.

“I don’t know if that makes me a hopeless optimist, but I have great hopes that they will see that an investment in the city is in their best interests.”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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Myrick explained that because the former sidewalk policy did not distinguish property types by the level of foot traffic, a family would pay a similar amount or even less to replace the sidewalk by their house as an apartment building, “even though those people benefit from the sidewalk network.”

Myrick said he and the Common Council felt that changes to the policy were necessary.

“Costs need to be smoothed out and predictable with regular, yearly payments that are small, predictable and affordable,” Myrick said. “We needed to reduce the disincentive for new construction … and repair sidewalks more efficiently.”

The newly approved plan addresses all of these issues, Myrick said.

Under the new plan, low-foot-traffic lots will pay $70 annually, with all other lots paying $140 annually, plus a fee for each square foot of the building and a fee for each amount of lot frontage.

Myrick said that this new plan will let the city use more money to repair and renovate sidewalks.

“Under the old system, about $500,000 of work was being done in the city, but under the new system, we will raise $840,000 a year –– that’s nearly double the sidewalk [being replaced],” Myrick said. “[The new plan will] make it more predictable, remove bureaucratic back and forth and remove disincentives to have sidewalk built in front of property.”

The policy had originally been approved by the Council on Sept. 4 and was set to be signed by the mayor last week, but he decided to wait one week to give proper consideration to alternatives posed by other members of the community.

“I wanted to call this because last week, at the public hearing, people showed up who proposed alternatives to the local law,” Myrick said.

“They gave me [their alternatives] on Monday, and I reviewed those, but decided that the plan we have is far and away the best plan going forward.”

The mayor ultimately rejected the proposed alternatives in favor of the law approved by the Common Council, saying the alternatives were “geographically imbalanced, administratively vulnerable and unnecessarily divisive.”

Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

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New Website Part of Project to Increase Vet School Class Size Pledge to End Hazing VET SCHOOL

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held accountable.”

The site states that, in the previous school year, the University found 17 organizations responsible for group misconduct infractions.

Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 said students should use the website to carefully consider all facets of an organization prior to joining it.

“The new website provides transparency about misconduct by groups across the university. It allows students to consider more information as they decide to which groups they wish to belong,” she said.

Grant added that the scope of the new website goes beyond listing campus hazing incidents.

“The website is broader than hazing, because some misconduct may be unacceptable to a potential member, but it might be short of hazing,” she said.

Apgar echoed Grant’s sentiments, saying the site is broader in nature because it makes information about any type of group violation accessible to the public.

“It is inclusive of all infractions groups make, not just hazing,” he said.

Additionally, Apgar emphasized that the website transcends beyond Greek life and includes infractions made by any registered student organization, athletic team, or University residences.

The website was created as a response to the concerns of various organizations across campus and President David Skorton’s request to increase transparency regarding hazing incidents, according to Apgar.

He said the website is part of Skorton’s pledge to end hazing in its current form.

“According to a national study, 55 percent of college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing, yet the vast majority of them do not identify the events as hazing,” Skorton said in an August 2011 New York Times op-ed.

Apgar also stressed that the website performs a service beyond the direct Cornell community.

“It also serves as a resource for parents and interested alumni to understand what is happening,” he said. “Prospective members of various groups will benefit from now having a better understanding of just what types of activities groups are involved in.”

Though the website currently only includes September’s lacrosse team hazing incident, the University has been planning on launching it since the beginning of last semester.

“We have been planning the website for about eight months. It serves a purpose beyond simply showing that we are opposed to group misconduct,” Apgar said.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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pital achieve that goal.

The hospital has, until now, used this extra space for students who completed their pre-clinical years at other institutions and then trained their final clinical year at Cornell. The ultimate goal, however, is to have Cornell students who completed their pre-clinical years at the veterinary college fill the 120 spots in the hospital, Streeter said.

“The most expensive part of a veterinary education is the fourth year, the clinical year, but our hospital right now has that capacity,” said Streeter. “So what we want to do is take advantage of that capacity and really take advantage of that with all Cornell students and that will allow us to increase our class size for [the first] three years.”

Streeter added that, “from our standpoint we’ll be training the same number of veterinary students each year.”

While the idea for the project has been in the works for a while, it did not take concrete form until last year when the university hired the architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi to help design the project.

“We didn’t get funding to hire an architect until last summer, so the detail design and the real detailed planning for the project really began a year ago,” Streeter said.

Of the $63 million raised for the project, approximately $59 million is coming from New York State through the State University Construction Fund, Streeter said. The remaining

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$4 million will come from college resources.

Streeter explained that money was identified in the summer of 2012 that enabled the planning for the project to begin. The vet school currently aims to have capital funding available by next summer so construction can begin.

With construction scheduled to begin during the summer of 2014 and be completed in the fall of 2017, the college hopes to enroll its first expanded class size of 120 students by 2017, Streeter said.

According to a University press release, the project will demolish “68,000 square feet of existing space, replacing it with 65,000 square feet of new space, and [renovate] 33,00 square feet.”

Some of the buildings and spaces that will be affected by this construction include the James Law Auditorium, which will be replaced by a new three-story structure.

In a press release, Michael Kotlikoff, dean of veterinary medicine, stated that in addition to allowing the college to admit more students, the project would also result in many other benefits.

“The program will also benefit regional veterinary technician programs, who need greater hands-on opportunities,” Kotlikoff said. “Having access to Cornell’s facilities will empower the State University of New York and other veterinary technician training programs to attract the most promising students to their programs, provide them with the most effective training and facilitate their ongoing success in practice.”

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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New Schedule for Holiday Inn Overhaul To Keep Hotel Open

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

The current Holiday Inn in Ithaca Downtown will remain open while it is renovated, officials say.

The hotel is set to undergo extensive redevelopment, which will transform it from a Holiday Inn into an independent hotel complete with a 15,000 square feet conference center and a 10-story tower, according to David Hart, president of Hart Hotels.

The first part of the plan — which begins when the hotel’s current ten-year contract with Holiday Inn expires on Nov. 4. — includes general renovations to existing structures. The second phase will include the construction of new structures.

City officials and Hart say the hotel will help revitalize Ithaca’s downtown area.

“This will be a facility that will change the hotel business in Tompkins County,” Hart said. “We feel that in our business positioning, we would work better as an independent hotel.”

The original plan for the building’s transition would have closed the hotel for six months for renovations, which Hart said was “was going to be a hardship for employees.”

“We’ve had people here for the 21 years the hotel has been open, and now they would be out of jobs for half a year,” Hart said.

According to Hart, the hotel now plans to remain open while interior renovations occur. The new conference center will begin construction in March, while the construction on the 10-story tower will begin in May. “We’ve got a hundred rooms in low rise buildings that we’ll demolish and build the new conference center on top. The new tower will go on the area facing Clinton Street,” Hart said.

Taking the Cornell and Ithaca College academic calendar into account, Hart plans to complete the first phase of the renovations

by May 14, so the hotel has rooms available for graduation season.

“We have to be mindful of the calendar. Business goes down during the winter, so it it’s a good time to renovate,” Hart said.

Currently, Hart said he does not know the estimated completion date for the entire project.

“I’ve been planning this for two years, so it’s a big project for us and the City,” Hart said. “The reality is that the renovation is necessary so there’s no reason to stop that process. If we need to take an extra year, it’s well worth the short delay.”

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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few weekends ago, I reunited with my old friend, Jake. He had been my best friend during my first year of college, and I hadn’t seen him since he left to study abroad last fall. When I walked into his frat’s basement, he lifted me up and spun me around, then whisked me away to the bar to buy me drinks. We spent the night laughing and catching up, only breaking the conversation to down some pizza at 3AM. It was like nothing had changed between us in the year since I’d seen him last. Except, instead of going home at the end of the night as I had planned, I wound up back at his place, where he kissed me for the first time.

None of my girl friends seemed surprised. “It won’t be weird,” they assured me, “you guys are best friends.”

The following night, rather than greeting him with enthusiasm, I hung back and watched as he went about his usual routine of getting blackout and putting his hands all over every girl in the room. It was a familiar scene, and one that I had laughed about countless times in the past. But something felt different now. It wasn’t funny anymore.

The dynamic had shifted. In the past, being around Jake was care-free and easy. He was someone who knew me inside and out, and who had seen me at my worst: unapologetically devouring an entire box of Cheez-its while agonizing over the number of exclamation marks to include in a text to my freshman year love interest. Now, suddenly, I didn’t know what to say to the one person who it had been safe to say anything to. The weirdness overwhelmed me and I left his frat that night in tears, panicked that I had ruined our friendship.

Some people are able to hook up with their friends without thinking anything of it. But the reality for the rest of us is more complicated; when you hook up with a friend, you violate the nature of friendship itself. Friendship is inherently straightforward and unassuming, free of ulterior motives or expectations.

With a friend, you take things at face value. The moment you start questioning intentions, the nature of friendship is threatened.

When Jake and I first met, we were both dating other people, so there was no hidden agenda on either end. In my experience, that is an ideal situation for a friendship to thrive; you can relax and be yourself because you are in a safe bubble. The possibility of being together is not on the table and there is nothing to

psych yourself out about. The moment something bursts that bubble, it is all subject to change. Where the line between friendship and love interest blurs, the twilight zone begins.

In the twilight zone, the things that we put up with or consider endearing about a friend (like drunkenly flirting with everyone, for example) suddenly become things that get under our skin the most. The actions we once paid no mind to — like a friend being too busy to hang out — suddenly feel like personal affronts. Our interactions become heavier, more serious. We stop taking things at face value and instead try to gauge what the other person is thinking.

We start second-guessing our intentions and over-analyzing text messages, and, in doing so, we lose candidness. We find ourselves wondering if things will ever go back to the way they once were, and the next thing we know someone is caught crying in a frat basement.

A few days after my dramatic departure from Jake’s frat, everything seemed normal again. I’d had some time to clear my head, the momentary insanity created by the hook up had passed and I was back to viewing Jake as a friend. It had been a brief, disorienting sojourn into the twilight zone, and I chalked it up to a lesson on how impulsive our feelings can be: The same person who you would never consider hooking up with one day could be the love of your life the next day, and vice versa.

People are quick to prescribe all sorts of rules, from “never hook up with your friends ever,” to “the best relationships begin as friendships,” and everything in between. In the past, I had been eager to settle on one of these arbitrary rules.

But what I have since learned is that there is no one answer — no universal law that we should be afraid to break.

The reason people swear by all of these different theories is because we’ve all had a million different experiences.

Sometimes two friends hook up and go on to get married. Sometimes one of them develops unrequited feelings and the friendship suffers. And sometimes — if the friendship is strong enough — it is weird for approximately four days, and then everything goes back to normal.

Liz Kussman is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. She may be reached at lkussman@cornellsun.com. Up to Date appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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ou’re 22. Stop trying to make good decisions. See me tonight.”

That was the last time I saw my exboyfriend, who I had dated for more than three years.

It was June 22 of this past summer (I’m weirdly good with dates, don’t judge me) and I had just ended things with the boy I was dating at the end of spring semester. He had been great in bed and a lot of fun to hang out with, but I was in the city for the summer and he was stuck in Ithaca (what a drag).

What better way to lighten my mood than to see my long-term ex?

I guess you could say I used my ex when I was lonely and vulnerable. I guess you could also say I abused information — namely that he thinks his current girlfriend is very mediocre in bed (this is the kind of information you should never make your ex privy to … just saying).

That being said, I don’t think I did anything wrong. Maybe I acted a little selfishly, but everyone is allowed to be selfish sometimes.

We hadn’t spoken in a long time, hadn’t acknowledged each other’s presence when we ran into each other on campus. He hadn’t even wished me happy birthday on my 21st.

But when we saw each other that night, the sexual tension was so strong, so palpable that I ripped his clothes off, got on my knees and immediately began giving him head.

As I heard him moaning, a smile crept up on they were shocked; our breakup had been so my face. It was so effortless to please him hard for me, he was seriously dating someone when I knew exactly what he wanted. else, we hadn’t talked in so long … What He threw me onto the bed and fucked me happened? Why did I talk to him? How was hard and fast, with my legs wrapped around I feeling? his back. I climbed on top, the position we I know I’m not the first person to turn to had finished in together for years. I let him an ex in a time of loneliness and emotional watch as I squeezed my nipples and played instability — it’s a pretty common phenomewith myself — the visual stimuli that I knew non from what I’ve seen with my friends. We would help him finish. It was like almost no think we’re “strong” for having emotionless sex with sometime had one we once passed and I was 18 again.

That’s exactly the problem with ex sex: cared deeply about.

We All of the While it seems like that emotional think we’re motions were “better” than there. I knew connection will be there, it feels empty the other perwhat he liked son because and wasn’t getand pointless afterward. the sex meant ting, he knew nothing for us all the positions that got me off. It was like pieces falling but meant something for them. We think into a puzzle — everything that was comfort- we’ve “won” (as if a breakup is a competition ing and familiar, everything that I knew felt with winners and losers) because they caved right and good. A fleeting thought passed and agreed to see us. through my head as I stared at his handsome It feels really good to go back to something face: “Do you ever feel like you’ll love some- familiar. It feels really comforting and, in a one this much again? “ weird way, gives us hope that maybe not all the As I felt him finish inside of me, I col- love is lost. We live in a place and time where lapsed and lay on top of him. He smelled the emotional connection is rare; when it happens way he always had and his skin still felt it’s this overwhelming feeling of completion. smooth and electric against mine. I buried Returning to something that once was gives us my face in his neck and stroked his hair, hope that, in a sea of drunken booty calls and inhaling his scent and reveling in the comfort DFMOs, there is actually something more for of him. us to look forward to.

When I told my friends what happened, However, that night we went our separate

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ways. I went downtown to drink with friends, he stayed uptown. There was an emptiness as we went through the motions of putting our clothing back on and leaving his apartment together. We didn't even talk afterward except the one time he called me for phone sex a few weeks later (this poor girlfriend of his …).

That’s exactly the problem with ex sex: While it seems like that emotional connection will be there, it feels empty and pointless afterward.

Breakups are messy. One party is inevitably hurt more than the other (regardless of what people tell you). People end relationships for good reason — returning to the past dredges up a lot of good memories, but a lot of bad ones too. Returning to the past instead of moving forward into the future only reminds us of what once was, but no longer is.

The sex was fine, sure, but it didn’t make me feel any better about my state of boyfriend-less-ness. In fact, it just made me miss my ex-boyfriend and wonder if I would ever again have the fortune of loving and being loved. All that was left at the end of the night was a long subway ride downtown, feelings of bitterness about what no longer was, and this realization: Ex sex just isn’t worth it.

Amy O. is a senior in the College of Human Ecology.

He may be reached at amyo@cornellsun.com. Some like it Rough appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Headshakes and High Fives

Kneel or No Kneel

fter a comment on my last article, I had two people email me requesting that I make this week’s piece a list of rules for a hookup game. Although two people is not many, it’s still two more requests than I needed to make me do it anyway. So, it’s time for Donny J.’s “Kneel or No Kneel (cue intense music)!”

So, you have a few friends who are in committed relationships with people they care about with all of their heart, fully understanding what it truly means to be a human experiencing the beautiful phenomenon of love?

Losers — they don’t get to play this game. Gather up all of your single friends and have a blast with this, though remember it is highly dependent on everyone following the honor system. The basic idea involves allocating points to all competitors for hookup successes, while at the same time penalizing points for anything embarrassing or ”not cool bro/girl.” You can set the time frame of your game to be one weekend, multiple weeks or even a single night for those of you who are more hardcore.

I know what some of you out there are thinking: “Donny, how’d you get to be so handsome and charming?” I also know that some of you may be looking in disgust at this article: “Like, oh my God, this is just horrible.

How can you treat sex like some kind of game?” Well, stop it. If you don’t get that this is all just for fun, then you really shouldn’t be reading this page every other Thursday.

Without further ado, I present the rules of KoNK: High-Five Points: Add up for each action and accumulate for multiple hookups 5 Points: • Making out • Hooking up in public (i.e. dancefloor, corner of the room, on the milkshake machine at Okenshield’s) • Receiving a text from a friend complimenting you on how hot your guy/girl is

• Hooking up on a night other than Thursday, Friday, or Saturday 10 Points: • Giving or receiving “second base” (touching stuff, for those who never understood the analogy) • Giving oral • Taking a “grenade” (hooking up with someone less attractive so your friend can get the hotter girl or guy) • “Stage setting” (such as texting the other person during the week leading up to said hook-up — basically making the mood and motives clear)

Gather up all of your single friends and have a blast with this, though remember it is highly dependent on everyone following the honor system.

15 Points: • Receiving oral • Privately hooking up some place you “shouldn’t be” (i.e. the gorges, a friend’s bed, the back of a police car) • Hooking up with someone you don’t know and who doesn’t know you, while you’re both sober • Getting breakfast the next day (It’s cute. We like to reward being cute here.)

20 Points: • Sex • Hooking up with someone who your friends told you was too hot for you (#suckit) • Scoring any student of higher authority than you (teaching assistants, presidents of organizations you’re in,

etc.)

Headshake Penalties: Deduct for each offense, and yes you can go into negatives.

5 Points: • Not getting his/her name first • A “desperation” hookup (i.e. last one at the party, usually after 2 a.m.)

10 Points: • The other person pukes • You or the other person finishes and leaves #hitandquitladiesedition 15 Points: • You puke (lose 5 more if you don’t clean it up) • Not using a condom • Falling asleep during sex • Cockblocking (and Donny J. will personally come to whatever party you’re at and take a bat to your kneecaps) 20 Points: • Blacking out (if you don’t remember, you don’t deserve the points) • Home-wrecking a couple, even by accident • A one-night stand with a friend’s ex Lose All Points: • Taking the virginity of someone you met for the first time that night (and then go to confession you sick bastard) • Not telling him/her you have an STD (and you’re never allowed to play again) There you have it, folks. Remember that this is all just for fun, unless you making this into some kind of money pool (which for low-budget college students, I highly discourage).

Donny J. is a senior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at donnyj@cornellsun.com. Headshakes and High Fives appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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By CLARE DOUGAN Sun Staff Writer

I can remember every single time I’ve ever eaten at Aladdin’s, because every time I’ve been there it’s been worth remembering. Since Aladdin’s is one of my favorite Ithaca eateries (and by far the winner in the battle of the Collegetown Greek restaurants), I jumped at the chance to review it.

The first time I went was with my freshman orientation group, during O-Week. Later, when a dear family friend and Cornell alum stopped to visit me, she insisted that we go to Aladdin’s –– apparently the chicken salad plate has been her favorite meal in Ithaca

since the mid-1980s. On the last day of freshman year I spent my farewell dinner sneaking bites of perfect moussaka off the plate of the boy sitting next to me; four years later I did the exact same thing when that boy, now my boyfriend, invited me along to a graduation dinner with his entire family.

Aladdin’s has become a Cornell tradition, and it’s not difficult to see why. If you’re looking for simple, healthy, classic Mediterranean food, there’s no place that does it better, not even Collegetown’s Greek food mainstay Souvlaki House. Everything I’ve ever had ordered at Aladdin’s is great, but I’ll fill you in on a

few of my favorites. When you’re feeling ravenous, get the chicken souvlaki plate –– sizzling bits of marinated meat and grilled vegetables atop a bed of chopped greens, in a portion big enough to satisfy any appetite. If you’re just a little peckish, try a bowl of the chicken lentil soup –– it’s quick, wholesome and satisfying, and my roommate raves about it. If you’re craving comfort food, go with an order of pesto pasta –– a heaping pile of warm, gratifying carbs, glossy with oil and fragrant with basil. If it’s dessert you’re after, there’s an entire case of eye-catching sweets to choose from, but my heart belongs to the baklava –– a sticky, sumptuous confection of honey and walnuts and papery phyllo dough that makes a huge mess and tastes like Greek sunshine.

If you’ve never been to Aladdin’s, it’s time to change that. Gather a friend or two to accompany you –– or don’t, if you feel like getting some quality alone time. Plan to spend at least an hour there, basking in the glow from the yellow stucco walls, savoring every bite of food and generally having a wonderful time. I promise you it will be memorable.

Clare Dougan can be reached at cdougan@cornellsun.com.

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The Souvlaki House is a Cornell institution. Its unpretentious, be-as-loud-as-you-want ambiance keep the restaurant packed with students year after year. The food is not necessarily the highlight, making it the loser in this Greek food face-off — the atmosphere is what really makes it worth visiting.

When you go to the Souvlaki House — let’s face it — you’re not going for gourmet food. If you’re expecting the Souvlaki to have juicy and moist medium rare lamb on skewers, you need to adjust your expectations. But the accompanying tzatziki sauce is tangy, cool and light — the perfect counter to the dry pieces of meat.

The pita is warmed, but unfortunately it’s not fluffy; it’s pretty flat and gets soggy almost instantly as it is placed beneath all the ingredients. The Souvlaki comes with a Greek salad and breadsticks. And by breadsticks, I mean toasty hot dog buns brushed with tons of butter (nothing wrong with that).

And by salad, I mean some chopped Iceberg lettuce (the most flavorless lettuce choice), un-pitted Kalamata olives, sliced, pale tomatoes (it’s not summer anymore), oil and lots of vinegar and a healthy handful of feta. I recommend getting the feta on the side because it absorbs the vinegar like a sponge and becomes soggy. The hummus should be the star of the show in a Mediterranean restaurant, but here, it is my least favorite thing on the menu. It is entirely overpowered by garlic and has an offputting, grainy texture.

The Souvlaki House does not try to be anything more than what it is: a casual eatery. The walls are adorned with various fraternity and sorority composites, honoring the history of much of its clientele.

People come in packs, filling up wine glasses to their brims and shouting to their friends across the restaurant, because, really, anything goes here.

If you expect haute plating, you’re in the wrong place. Is it an authentically Greek restaurant?

Absolutely not — there’s Aladdin’s for that. But its warm atmosphere, hefty portions and cheap prices have made it a defining Cornell landmark.

Emi Boscamp can be reached at eboscamp@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Lorde Pure Heroine Universal

Meet Ella Yelich-O’Connor, better known as Lorde, best known for her single “Royals” off of her The Love Club EP. If you haven’t heard the song yet, you may be living under a rock. The 16-yearold singer from New Zealand may be young, but she has some of the most mature lyrics out there on her new album Pure Heroine.

It’s hard to believe that Lorde was signed to Universal at 12 and wrote the majority of this album about a year ago when she was just 15.

Maybe it’s because she doesn’t write about what the other “young stars” (I guess only the Disney Kids are a good age comparison here) write about. Not once does Lorde dedicate a track to a crush, boyfriend or the bedroom. Instead she chooses to talk about aging, friendship, love and reality in a way that is refreshingly real. Rather than boasting about money or fame or buying things, Lorde creates beauty out of the day to day. Though Lorde may (now) be considered a “pop star,” she could never be confused with the likes of Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha. In “Royals” she boasts a different kind of outlook on life, “But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your time piece. / Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash. We don’t

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care, we aren’t caught up in your love affair.” In “Teams” she talks, though not specifically, about her home city of Auckland, describing how “[she] would never see it on screen.” She describes being 16 in songs like “White Teeth Teens,” a song about the cool kids in school, the way that I felt when I was 16 — wanting to join the “White Teeth Teens” for a while, but never doing it; not loving doing nothing. The fact that she talks about getting old in “Ribs” and “laughing till [her] ribs get sore, but that will never be enough,” is pleasantly simplistic.

Lorde’s feminist point of view on songwriting has actually gotten her into a bit of trouble lately.

In a recent interview, the singer commented on Selena Gomez’ “Come and Get It,” remarking, “I love pop music on a sonic level. But I’m a feminist and the theme of her song is, ‘When you’re ready come and get it from me.’ I’m sick of women being portrayed this way.” She has since apologized for the statement, but it was nice to hear someone say it. Amid the Miley Cyrus VMA, Bangerz hype, its good to hear an artist showing she is mature without flaunting her sexual organs.

There are a lot of artists who write about being a “kid” and growing up, but many of them are far

Haim, three sisters from the San Fernando Valley, can best be described as if mid-80s female-driven pop was geared for bright SoCal shores more than neon-infused clubs. Ever since last year’s release of their first two singles, “Forever” and “Don’t Save Me,” Haim has been one of the buzziest buzz bands on the internet.

Lauded for their soulful yet feminine vocals, masterful harmonizing and feel good songwriting, Haim took off to become the “indie” pop band of the summer. (I use “indie” in quotations because they’re signed to Polydor.) With the release of their highly anticipated debut LP Days Are Gone, we see the sunniest album in recent memory, filled with swinging, genre-blending tracks to relax in the sun to.

The sisters Haim grew up performing: First with their parents, and then as the middling girl group the Valli Girls. Being raised onstage has given Haim an immediate level of polish and musical professionalism that modern buzz bands tend to lack. This glaze allows them to effortlessly blend the disparate genres of R&B, dream pop, pop-rock and surf rock without ever sounding derivative. Moreover, they meld the ’80s and ’90s with the present while still managing to sound timeless. This sheen does at times lead Haim to run the risk of becoming sterile and lifeless, but they

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too old to give an honest perspective, or end up writing about youth in stereotypes. Pure Heroine mostly steers clear of the normal topics. Still, if all of her “ambitions” and urgings to “let [the haters] talk” pan out, she may not be able to live in her Auckland bubble for much longer.

Then again, maybe it’s the minimalistic music she sings over that makes her tracks so addicting.

I’ve listened to this album countless times now, and though most of the songs are three to four and a half minutes long, they all seem to end too soon.

Now, Lorde is on tour with only a keyboardist and a drummer, and somehow the songs sound just like the album.

So, yes, the album is worth a listen. It would be a shame if the only song people heard from this this talented young artist was “Royals.” It’s a good song, and worthy of the ad-nauseum radio play, but so are the albums’ other nine tracks.

Arielle Cruz is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

combat this by embracing their breeziness in their lifestyles, interviews and performances. The sisters appear to be truly lighthearted people who genuinely want to make smiley, benevolent tunes for gently bobbing crowds. Such sunny bands often have a tendency to loosely ramble, but Haim is an exception. Thanks to tight songwriting, compact percussion and exceedingly light production touches, the tracks on Days Are Gone never unravel. Instead, they stay catchy and infectious, like the airy, bouncy chorus of “Falling,” the bright guitars of “Honey & I” and the sparse, spacey drawl of “Go Slow.”

Despite Haim’s polish, firmness and well-defined sound, each track on the LP has its own distinct character; from the hard rock of “Let Me Go” to the inspirational effervescence of “Running If You Call My Name,” the album never becomes boring or repetitive. Track by track, the record is jam-packed with compelling tunes. But when taken as a single project, Days Are Gone cements Haim’s serious musical identity with a breezy album that’s above all, incredibly fun.

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Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

This Swedish duo couldn’t have chosen a more apt name. The story goes that Caroline Hjelt’s mom was having a conversation with her Italian friends when one of them said (in Italian) that they were going to be “the next pop icon,” or “icona pop.” I’m here to tell you that if Icona Pop aren’t that already, they certainly will be. You’ve all heard “I Love It.” If they fizzle out as one-hit wonders, I will have lost faith in pop music. It’s rare that an album comes out that bumps as consistently hard beginning to end as does their debut LP, This Is… Icona Pop. Literally every track (with the potential exception of the awesome pop ballad “Just Another Night,” which would still work well on the radio) could be a smash hit on the dancefloor. I can’t remember the last time it’s been so hard to control my limbs from flailing wildly for an entire 32 minute album. It has even gotten to the point that I struggle to listen to Icona Pop in public places because I worry about people staring at my so-called “dancing.” It’s that rocking.

If I was forced to pinpoint flaws in This Is…, I’d probably only find one: They shouldn’t have jam-packed a single LP with so many irresistible songs. Unless they milk singles out of this album for three

years, the public will be deprived the wonder of tracks like “Ready for the World” and “On a Roll.” From the standpoint of their wallets, maybe they should have kept some of those energetic tracks in their back pockets for later. Basically, this album might be too good for the economics of pop music (unless they gain enough commercial traction to pull what Katy Perry did with Teenage Dream). As a listener, though, I’m not going to complain. Whether you’re sticking your tongue out to “Girlfriend,” making hand dolphins out a car window to “In the Stars” or violently punching the air to “Then We Kiss,” any person healthy enough to dance would find it hard not to. The consistent greatness of This Is… leads me to pin it as a top example of dance-pop of the early 2010s with its strong female vocals, fun synths and pulsing rhythms. Sure, nobody would hesitate to call this LP mindless, mainstream pop music, but that’s exactly what it’s trying to be — and it’s succeeding brilliantly. I’m sold on Icona Pop as my new pop icon.

Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

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In a World ... Where a Woman Finds a Voice JULIA MOSER Sun Staff Writer

The phrase “In a world” was coined by famed voice-over actor Don LaFontaine who, during his lifetime, recorded over 5,000 movie trailers and a whole lot of commercials. Though LaFontaine was perhaps the most famous voice-over actor, he was certainly not alone in his almost entirely male-dominated field.

Actress Lake Bell noticed this lack of female presence in an industry that permeates all our lives. In response, she wrote, directed and stars in In a World … which tells the tale of a struggling female voice actress trying to break into the field.

Bell, best known for her roles in Boston Legal, Childrens Hospital and as the bitchy antagonist in many, many romcoms (It’s Complicated, No Strings Attached and others), plays Carol Solomon, the daughter of a well known voice actor, played by Fred Melaman, who is about to receive a lifetime achievement award. Carol, on the other hand, has been making ends meet by voice-coaching celebrities such as Eva Longoria to fix their terrible movie accents.

Carol, who is in her thirties and spends the majority of the film in sweatpants, still lives with her unsupportive and egotistical father. He eventually kicks Carol out of his house so that his

new girlfriend (with an unironic Midwestern accent) can move in.

Carol then goes to stay with her sister (Michaela Watkins) and her brotherin-law (Rob Corddry).

Unwittingly, Carol snags a small job away from the upand-coming Gustav Warner (Ken Marino) who her father has backed for a new movie trailer which is apparently so epic that it will dare to resurrect LaFontaine’s “In a world.” Demetri Martin plays the sweet, funny, (and probably nonexistent in real PHOTOS COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES life) recording studio Much of the film focused on the literal and employee who believes that figurative idea of “finding your voice.” Though Carol can get the job.

In a World... this became a little preachy at times, for the most Martin is bumbling and Directed by Lake Bell part it was done in a clever, funny way that makes charming and he makes an you realize how stupid girls sound when they end adorable love interest for Starring Lake Bell, Fred all of their sentences in questions.

Carol, though their plotline Melamed, Demetri Martin Even though the film is about serious subjects is mostly peripheral. like identity, family, larger forces that keep one While the film is prifrom attaining one’s goals like sexism and annoymarily about the sexism of ing people, In a World… does a wonderful job at the voiceover industry and not taking itself too seriously. There is no stretch Carol’s decision to try and of the film that goes on too long without a laugh combat its wrongs, the film sprinkled in. Besides fitting neatly in the comedy also heavily involves her dysfunctional family. Carol’s sister and her husband have a lot of genre, In a World… is definitely not a romcom or chickflick. As marital drama that is fairly amusing at times and even involves a mentioned earlier, the romance is a minor, but necessary (for better or worse) part of the movie, and the film’s demographic is cersandwich bar.

At times, this storyline seemed somewhat pointless to the tainly at least 48 percenr male.

Although In a World… wasn’t perfect, it was certainly charmoverall film (though I would never complain about getting to see more Rob Corddry). It would have been more central to the plot ing and hilarious. Bell succeeded in writing a fresh comedy about to focus on the origins of the sisters’ strained relationship with an unexplored subject, which is hard to do nowadays. It’s curtheir father, which is briefly addressed, but not explored thor- rently playing at Cinemapolis, and I highly recommend using this movie as an excuse to procrastinate studying for prelims. oughly.

Another great source of amusement comes from Carol’s colleagues in the voice world played by Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Julia Moser is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com.

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Ke$ha: A‘Weird, Benign STD’ I

’m still covered in glitter. Well, I suppose not covered. But there’s no doubt that, even three days after Ke$ha’s triumphantly trashy Barton Hall performance on Sunday night, I’m still finding the shiny stuff all over my body (yes, Ke$ha, in kinky places, too). Even throughout campus, there are trails of glitter that persist, shining like fool’s gold in the (surprisingly hot) October sun. Like a weird, benign STD, Ke$ha has found a way to leave behind a physical manifestation of her presence.

It wasn’t just the persistence of the arts and crafts herpes that made this show memorable: Ke$ha’s performance was the most profoundly odd show I’ve witnessed since Sufjan Steven’s “Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long: Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant on Ice.” There were drag dancers, guys in animal costumes, a random dude in a Santa hat trying to get the crowd amped up, an inflatable set of legs straight from the set of an AC/DC tour and, of course, her mother wearing a penis costume.

It was a celebration of outcasts, sex and, most importantly, outcasts having sex. Ke$ha prowled around stage in an assortment of skintight leotards, spitting champagne into the crowd and casting sensual looks in the direction of her many revelers.

Typical pulpy pop musician stuff, right?

However, I believe that Ke$ha knows what she’s doing. She’s whip-smart — she was slated to attend prestigious

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Barnard College before the whole pop star thing happened — and she knows what sells. When she released her platinum-selling debut single “Tik-Tok,” public outrage at her dental hygiene practices and sexual misconduct made her into nothing less than a sensation.

Through her music, videos and reality show (My Crazy Beautiful Life), she has carefully maintained this image of a glitter-loving party girl.

Despite the sleazy persona, Ke$ha seems to have her shit together. You never hear of Ke$ha falling out of a limo with her vulva showing, or getting arrested for drug possession or anything else remotely off-color. She’s a vocal advocate for LGBT and animal rights. She is credited for co-writing songs for artists from Alice Cooper to Nickelodeon’s Miranda

James Rainis Irresponsible Listening Cosgrove. All in all, she’s a reasonably productive human being. The trashy image is just a heavily calculated and astoundingly well-managed scheme to keep her audience engaged. Hell, I bet it was Ke$ha who spread the rumor that she was going to be partying at Pixel following the concert.

Ke$ha is not the only female pop

artist leveraging scandal to her advantage: Miley Cyrus, too, is showing that she has a savvy marketing mind that would make even Don Draper jealous.

The MTV documentary Miley Cyrus: The Movement revealed that her absurdist videos and explicit interactions with Robin Thicke’s crotch were all part of a devious plan to take America by storm.

The best moment in the documentary comes from Cyrus’ interactions with idol Britney Spears. Cyrus talks about Spears’ own VMA scandal — her salacious, but obviously staged, kiss with Madonna — and its influence on her decision to become a musician. “You’re not gonna be topless on stage, right?” an embarrassed Spears asks. “I tried!” Cyrus responds, prefacing her own world-conquering moment.

Cyrus and Ke$ha want to be bona fide pop stars, the sort of monolithic entities that pop culture enthusiasts revolve around whether they want to or not. By employing their sexuality (along with some ridiculous histrionics), they’ve found a way to, as Cyrus puts it, make the public “talk for two weeks instead of two seconds.” And while I don’t want to criticize them for embracing and exploring sex, it has its consequences for other female artists.

Earlier this week, Lauren Mayberry, lead singer of hotly tipped synth-pop act CHVRCHES, penned an editorial for The Guardian that discusses her daily bouts with online misogyny. She points to some ludicrously crude comments (“I have your address and I will come round to your house and give u anal and you will love it you twat lol”) that get direct-

ed at her via the band’s Facebook.

Mayberry is not some sort of sex kitten sauntering about the stage in her underwear while making sex eyes to her audience. Hell, on Later ... With Jools Holland she wore a grandma-approved white sweater! And still, men threaten her with anal rape on the regular, like it’s no big deal (not that wearing a miniskirt or something invites this sort of behavior, but she’s not even throwing these douchebags that bone).

While it would be extreme and highly inaccurate to say that Ke$ha (who, under the right lens, could be considered an outright feminist) and Miley Cyrus are to blame, their embrace of the over-sexualized female singer stereotype forces artists working outside of that frame of mind to face ludicrous criticisms, comparisons and threats. Being an attractive pop singer can involve an exploration of sexuality; some amazing songs — Kelis’s “Milkshake” comes to mind — are about hyper-sexualization.

Even if it’s all just an act — and, in the case of both Ke$ha and Cyrus, it obviously is — we must be conscious of the kind of expectations this kind of sexual exhibitionism places on all female public figures. In a world where even Hillary Clinton faces scrutiny for looking “unattractive,” it becomes somewhat of a crutch to rely on sex, however intentionally, to sell your music.

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

Irresponsible Listening appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Rookie Linebacker Is Integral Part Of Bills’ Defense ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Not long into Kiko Alonso’s first practice, Bills coach Doug Marrone had to pull the overeager rookie middle linebacker aside to remind him that these were supposed to be noncontact sessions.

“He looked like he was ready to start tackling today,” Marrone said in May. A month into training camp, the Bills had to rest Alonso for a few days after electronic conditioning monitors indicated he was in danger of overexerting himself because of the amount of ground he was covering in practice.

Four weeks into the season, the second-round draft pick out of Oregon has remained a relentless, havoc-creating presence.

“He’s full-tilt,” defensive end Mario Williams said.

And here’s the scary part, according to Marrone: “He’s actually getting better and better each week, too.”

That’s a frightening proposition for a player who has quickly established himself as one the NFL’s most promising defensive rookies. After four games, Alonso is tied for the NFL lead with four interceptions, to go with one sack, a forced fumble and recovered fumble. His 32 tackles are tops in Buffalo (2-2) and among league rookies.

And with two interceptions in a 23-20 win over Baltimore on Sunday, Alonso became the league’s first rookie linebacker since Al Richardson in 1980 to have an interception in three straight games. In Buffalo, no Bills linebacker has had a threegame streak since Darryl Talley in 1993.

Alonso’s production has led to national TV interviews and prompted a trend on Twitter.

Using the hash tag “LegendOfKikoAlonso,” fans have concocted various amusing and unfathomable myths about the player, such as: “He once intercepted the same pass twice,” and “Kiko Alonso went tubing over Niagara Falls. Or as he calls it, ‘the lazy river.’”

Unrelenting as he might be on the field with his sideline-to-sideline range, he’s soft-spoken off it.

He even projects an air of anonymity in wearing a woolly Bills cap pulled tight across his ears and forehead.

Alonso has paid very little attention to the Paul Bunyan-size hype he’s generated.

“Nothing changes in what I’ve got to do,” he said. “I don’t think much of it. It’s great, but I know I just have to get a lot better.”

And with that, he sat back down at his locker to enjoy a warm plate of his mom’s homemade paella before rushing off for a team meeting to prepare for the Bills’ game at Cleveland on Thursday night.

Kiko is hungry for more.

Kristian “Kiko” Alonso has been pegged for an NFL career since his high school days in Los Gatos, Calif. That’s where he played for Butch Cattolico, who also coached Vikings defensive end Jared Allen and former Bills quarterback Trent Edwards.

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Four ACC Teams Remain Undefeated, Rank in Top 25 The Atlantic Coast Conference won in the board room and now its teams are winning on the field.

A month into the season and with its long-term future seemingly secured, the top of the often-ridiculed league is flexing its football muscle among the nation’s premier conferences.

No Bowl Subdivision conference has more undefeated teams than the ACC, which had four teams — No. 3 Clemson, No. 8 Florida State, No. 14 Miami and No. 25 Maryland — start 4-0 for the first time in its 60-year history.

It’s also the first time in two years that the league has put that many teams in the top 25.

And for three others — Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State — their only losses have come to teams in the top 10.

“It’s been off to a good start,” Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said.

“Hopefully, we can finish the thing up as a league.”

In its final year in the ACC, Maryland has been the biggest surprise.

Coach Randy Edsall said the foundation for the league as a whole was set during its annual spring meetings, when the topic of finding ways to win those important out-of-conference games came up.

“The ACC has done a very good job this year of doing the things they wanted to do in terms of gaining respect and recognition,” Edsall said. “If you want to want to get that kind of respect, you’ve got to go beat people. That’s kind of what we did.”

The ACC is 6-6 against the other five conferences with automatic BCS berths, including a 2-2 record against the Southeastern Conference. That counts as progress: The last time the ACC was better than .500 against the SEC was in 2003.

ACC teams are 31-8 against nonconference opponents with 17 more remaining, and its .795 winning percentage in those games is by far its best since 1996.

“I think it speaks volumes to where the ACC is headed,” Syracuse coach Scott Shafer said. “In 10 years, this conference will be playing to be No. 1 with the SEC. I believe that in my heart.”

Clemson, which opened by knocking off then-No. 5 Georgia, and Florida State give the league two serious national title contenders.

Miami’s win against No. 18 Florida and Maryland's victory over West Virginia gave the ACC further credibility. The Tigers and Seminoles meet Oct. 19 in what could shape up as the de facto Atlantic Division title game.

“I never thought the league was bad any year,” Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe said. “We never get much credit, and no league does unless you’ve got some national title contenders. It’s just not happening.

“Now, with Clemson playing as good as they are and Florida State is up there in the ballpark, there’s some good football teams in this league.”

Another explanation, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said, is stability: Each of the unbeaten teams has a coach who has been there for at least three years.

Pirates Return to Playoffs After 21-Year Absence PITTSBURGH (AP) — Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis.

The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story in baseball to become something more than a novelty act.

Liriano tossed seven dominant innings and the Pirates roared past Cincinnati 6-2 in the NL wild-card game Tuesday night then headed to St. Louis for the NL division series beginning Thursday. A.J. Burnett will start for the Pirates in Game 1 against Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright.

“He had the expectancy to win,” Pittsburgh centerfielder Andrew McCutchen said.

“When he showed up with his suit on, that got me hyped up.”

St. Louis likely won’t face Liriano until Game 3 at the earliest, though Liriano’s teammates believe his performance set the tone for what they hope is an extended October stay.

In front of a black-clad crowd savoring its first postseason game since 1992, Russell Martin hit two home runs, Marlon Byrd also connected and McCutchen reached base four times.

“We’re for real,” McCutchen said. “We’re definitely for real.”

You won’t hear the Reds argu-

ing after Liriano continued his mid-career renaissance. The lefthander scattered four hits, struck out five and walked one to win his first playoff game and serve notice the Pirates have no intention of going quietly after spending two decades at the bottom of the standings.

“We didn’t talk about one and done, we talked about one and run,” manager Clint Hurdle said. “Win one and run to St. Louis.”

Cincinnati starter Johnny Cueto struggled in his third start since coming off the disabled list last month. Cueto gave up four runs in three 1-3 innings and appeared rattled by a raucous ballpark that taunted him by chanting his name.

“He couldn’t get the ball where he wanted,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “Usually he can throw that ball through the eye of a needle. Tonight he was up.”

The 36-year-old Byrd, acquired by the Pirates in late August from the New York Mets, celebrated the first postseason at-bat of his 12-year career — 1,250 games — by sending Cueto’s fastball into the seats to give the Pirates the lead in the second inning. The shot sent another jolt through an already electric crowd, which began singing “Cue-to, Cue-to” in unison when Martin stepped in.

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Campus cuisine | Junior riders Georgiana de Rham and Sofia Steinberger list Synapsis and “Club Trill” as among their favorite places to eat on campus.

Sports Editor and 10 Questions columnist Haley Velasco sat down with equestrian juniors Georgiana de Rham and Sofia Steinberger to talk about everything from Dunkin’ Donuts to teleportation.

1. You are both juniors on the equestrian team. What has equestrian meant for you both over the last three years?

S: The equestrian team has meant everything to me in my Cornell experience. They are my best friends. They are the people that I rely on the most. They are the people that I spend the most time with.

G: The team is such a huge part of my life. I feel like since day one when I got here and tried out for the team, I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. It has been a community and a learning experience. All of my good friends are from the team.

S: It also means a lot of early mornings and a lot of food. We joke that we are an eating team first and then an equestrian team. Our food bill has been very high at horse shows.

G: We could, like, enter a contest.

What’s the thing that everyone likes to eat?

What’s the favorite?

S: Dunkin’ Donuts before every horse show.

That’s a tradition?

S: Yeah.

G: We don’t limit ourselves to donuts alone. Like the egg sandwiches. There was like a weird NCAA thing for a while where you couldn’t order donuts. Everyone flipped out but we were like it’s okay, there are other options … I feel like pretzels are always a big thing.

S: Mike & Ikes.

G: Gatorade.

Any specific flavors of Gatorade?

G: Lots of purple and orange. Todd is kind of anti-bagel.

S: Yeah, I brought bagels to practice yesterday and he was jokingly unhappy.

G: He’s a slim and trim kind of guy.

2. So Sofia, I heard that you drive to class a lot?

S: It’s really cold and Cook Street is really steep. Bartels is just a lot closer to the Ag Quad.

3. Georgi, I heard that you are a big biker? People see you on a bike a lot?

G: Yeah, I had a really dorky bike helmet for a while but luckily it broke, which is probably a blessing in disguise. I bought my bicycle over the summer after my summer job ended, and it has revolutionized my efficiency because if I could have super powers, one of them would be teleportation, and the bike is a little bit closer to teleportation.

Have you ever fallen off your bike?

G: No, but I have had many near incidences. My bike seat is really high and I can’t get it to adjust lower so I can’t touch the ground while sitting on my bike. So if I am at an intersection and there is a red light and there is not a curb, I have to awkwardly throw myself off the seat. It’s really embarrassing.

4. What is your most embarrassing fall of a horse story?

G: There are so many.

S: I was at a horse when I was like 14 and at horse shows, the camera men have cameras that will take six shots right in a row over a jump. But my horse like ran out and didn’t jump the jump so I started to fall.

There are six shots of me on the side of the horse — getting lower and lower and then on the ground and then her stepping on me. I bought them all.

G: This one time when I was trail riding a horse and we were going down this steep hill and my saddle didn’t fit very well and me and the saddle fell off the horse’s head.

5. Georgi, I heard you are the busiest

person that your friends know. What are you up to?

G: Well, last year, I was busier because I rode off campus too. This year, I haven’t been riding off campus because the gas is crazy. I am busy going to school; I am big about going to my classes. I have a lot of reading which I guess comes from being a French and English major. And I have my job and then I have riding.

6. Sofia, I heard you get a little silly during horse chores; I heard you might occasionally sing. Can you tell us about that?

S: Yeah, whatever mood I am in, I go along with that. I sing, ‘There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.’ I sing that one a lot. Sometimes, I break out the Shakira.

G: I have heard some TSwift from you.

Adele.

S: Repping girl power. The Spice Girls.

G: Sofia is actually a song writer.

S: Yeah, Mary Beth and I, every year at Ivies, we make up a song to a tune.

Freshman year, it was “Rolling in the Deep.” Last year, it was “Trouble” by Taylor Swift. We perform it for everyone on the way.

Is there dancing involved?

S: No, it’s more like we are so embarrassed that we are actually doing this that we look down.

G: We are just mesmerized by their voice.

7. Who is your favorite horse to ride in the barn?

S: Chloe. I leased her last summer. I call her Chloe-isha. She is, like, too fancy, so we have to bring her back down. She’s my favorite because I spent a whole summer riding her.

G: I love Calumet. He was kind of a bandit when he first came but he kind of settled down. We had this joke last year that

he was half Chinese and I am half Chinese so we are connected on a deeper level. He’s just amazing.

8. What’s the funniest story that you guys have?

S: I called our old coach ‘a big fat poopy face’ by accident.

G: To his face.

S: It was all in good fun. We were joking around and we were at Nationals our freshman year. We were all joking around and he said something and I was like Chris, you are just a big fat poopy face. And the second I said it, I was like, I just crossed the line but I couldn’t stop laughing. I wanted to cry. I was so scared that he was going to get really mad at me.

G: Our whole trip to Nationals was really funny. We tried to have an entire evening without saying the letter S. So we substituted the letter Z. 9. Where is your favorite place to eat on campus?

G: Whoa. I feel like Synapsis or Trill maybe.

S: I am a fan of Trill.

G: We call it Club Trill.

S: But I actually don’t even like it that much but it’s just convenient. I think Synapsis because we always go there post lift and we have so many memories.

10. If you could trade places and be on any of the men’s athletic teams here at Cornell, which one would you pick?

G: I am not very hand-eye coordinated so I would probably go for something like running or rowing. I am not very good at catching or kicking things.

S: I could be a heavyweight wrestler so I could just eat a lot.

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

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Red Aims to Build Ivy Win Streak

Princeton, Penn travel to Newman for league match-ups

By ARIEL COOPER

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Rookie contributions | Freshman Alyssa Phelps, who has taken over the Red’s starting setter position, dished out 45 assists in the five-set victory over Columbia last weekend.

The women’s volleyball team broke a two-game losing streak this weekend when the Red took down the Columbia Lions, 3-2, in its first Ivy League game of the season. The squad will continue its Ivy League play with home games against Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 4 and 5, respectively.

The team’s first Ivy win set a confident tone for the squad’s upcoming league games, senior middle blocker Rachel D’Epagnier said.

“Winning our first Ivy game was a huge confidence booster,” she said. “It showed us how much fight we have in us, and that if we work together we can beat anyone in our league. Going into this weekend, we know we’re capable of bringing the level of play and the mindset we need to be successful.”

The Red’s victory over the Lions did not come easily, however. The Red dropped the first and third sets and only forced the decisive fifth set after battling the Lions back in an extended 28-26 fourth game.

“The win against Columbia really helped our team’s confidence and shows we can fight in the close games to come out with a win, which is a good feeling to have against Penn and Princeton,” senior outside hitter Sierra Young said.

“Also, being at home always adds extra motivation.”

Home court advantage has served the Red well against both the Tigers and the Quakers in the past, according to D’Epagnier.

“We ended our season last year at home, beating both Penn and Princeton for a sweep of the weekend,” she said.

“They’re both good teams, but I believe that if we prepare well through practice this week and come out with confidence, we’ll be ready to play our best this weekend.”

Penn and Princeton faced each other

“Our ability to work together as a team has improved.”

Breanna Wong for both teams’ first Ivy League match of this season. Princeton pulled out the final victory, defeating the Quakers in five sets. Princeton sophomore Kendall Peterkin, who received first-team All-Ivy honors last season, led her team with 21 kills, eight digs and two service aces.

“We want to go into these games with a defensive mindset,” sophomore outside hitter Breanna Wong said. “One of our goals is to pass well and sideout more efficiently.”

With this focus on defense, the Red has turned into a fighting team, D’Epagnier said.

“I think the biggest improvement is

that we’re more relentless and confident when fighting for points,” she said.

“We’ve won a few games now simply because we refused to give up on the ball and outworked the other team. That’s a huge improvement for our team that will take us far this season.”

The team is also working towards becoming a more cohesive unit.

“Our ability to work together as a team has improved,” Wong said.

With teamwork in mind and a fiery spirit, the Red hopes to be good competition for the Tigers and the Quakers this weekend.

“We’re going in with the mindset that we are going to work as hard as we can to win,” Young said. “Especially for home games, it’s important to defend our home gym and really leave everything we have on the court.”

If the Red can apply what it has learned so far, the team has a good chance of success, D’Epagnier said.

“We want to serve tough, get them out of system, and force them to do things they don’t want to do,” D’Epagnier said.

“With the fight we showed in our win over Pitt and our win over Columbia, we’re going in with the mindset that if we work hard for every point and work together as a team, we’ll be successful no matter who is on the other side of the net.”

Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.

Taking a Swing at Designated Hitters

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s a sports fan, you form strong, mostly irrational opinions about people you’ll never meet. You can form deep-seated, personal opinions about guys you will never talk to in your life. Ask a baseball fan about Alex Rodriguez and you’ll see what I mean.

But no one inspires more mixed emotions in me than David Ortiz. I look at David Ortiz and see a moral dilemma.

I’m a die-hard Mets fan and a National League man through and through. I find National League baseball more exciting. I routinely call the designated hitter an abomination. I hate the DH as much as someone like me can hate something like that.

It bothers me. It saps strategy from the game and allows one dimensional players to exist for longer than they should, like hulking power-hitting weeds.

Only football players should be allowed to play one facet of the game, and even a quarterback has to at least pretend to try to tackle after throwing a pick. Do designated hitters even need to own gloves?

Despite my outrage, no harm has come from the DH. Big name players hang around later and slightly more runs are scored in the American League, which is okay. Paul Molitor,

firmly entrenched in the Hall of Fame, has played 1,188 games as a DH. The DH gives some personality to each league. Interleague play is more notable in baseball than in the NFL. Playing the AL West is different from playing the NL West.

Personally, I like David Ortiz and his impeccably groomed facial hair. I’ve never had a problem with anything he has done. And I hate what he stands for. I look at David Ortiz and see an intrapersonal struggle of (baseball) good and (baseball) evil. He is my real life (baseball) Tony Soprano, where I cannot marry the good feelings I have about him to how he goes about bringing them.

Ortiz is responsible for one of the great scenes of the year in baseball. When the Red Sox were playing the O’s one Saturday night, David Ortiz disagreed with a call from the home plate umpire that eventually led to him being called out on strikes. Ortiz walked back to the dugout and laid into the phone with his bat, shattering it in the process. Dustin Pedroia,

risking his life in the process, calmed him down. I enjoyed this immensely. I like seeing a player’s emotions boil over, to see he cares as much as he should. And if I was the com-

that,” Ortiz owes his success to a group of AL executives just as much as his dedication to his trade. Baseball is a game of nine versus nine, not nine and half versus nine and half. When I see ‘DH’ listed as a position, I scoff. It’s not a position. It’s a skill.

And skills are important, as are pinch hitPoint Blank ters, runners and players that come in just for their defense. But it should be a trade-off. When a NL team signs a plodding slugger like Prince Fielder or Adam Dunn, they do so knowing they’ll have to put up with subpar defense to go with their stellar production. And when their offense drops from stellar to good, their playing time drops (both Fielder and Dunn are with American League teams currently). A run saved is just as good as a run scored.

So what, though? Is it a matter of principle or a matter of being stubborn? Preservation or resistance to change? This is just a silly stance from someone who likes seeing pitchers flail away at baseballs and double switches. I know the toothpaste isn’t going

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missioner of baseball, David Ortiz would never see the field.

David Ortiz is a complicated guy. Dominican born and raised, he was drafted by the Mariners as David Arias, came up with the Twins, and calls Boston “our f**king” city. Ortiz is known to connect with both Latin American born and American players equally. Every teammate seems to love him. He is as associated with the championship Red Sox teams as anyone, and he’s a fan favorite in Boston, despite his name appearing on the Mitchell Report. Do I really want to take all this away? Isn’t this fun? Isn’t David Ortiz a shining example of the unifying quality of sports?

But then I think “screw

back into the tube. The designated hitter has been around since 1973 when Ron Bloomberg walked in the first plate appearance ever for a DH. The DH isn’t going away. The MLB players association, considered one of the strongest unions in the all of the U.S., wouldn’t let it happen even if MLB wanted it gone. The MLB PA wouldn’t sit idly by and let 15 or so guys lose their jobs.

And hell, most AL teams don’t even have their DH spot figured out. They will use it spell regular players, but do not have an ‘everyday’ DH. It’s a position to fill, just like the others.

So I guess nothing changes. I like David Ortiz. I hate the DH. But I will begrudgingly accept its presence and maybe even think about Oritz one day being admitted into the Hall.

Sometimes you have to be flexible. But I’ll still take the National League’s smug unchanging sense of superiority over the American League’s flashy designated hitters. And the senior circuit is in no hurry to add the DH. I’m okay with the status quo. Baseball has bigger fish to fry.

John Zakour can be contacted at jzakour@cornellsun.com. Point Blank appears Thursdays this semester.