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Music Makes Us Lose Control?
August 11th, 2008Alcohol.edu needs to add a new section because music has now been linked to alcohol intake. Results from a new study show that bar-going, loud-music-listening drinkers could be more likely to hug the toilet the next morning. Research done on the effect of music and alcohol consumption found that loud music leads to more alcohol consumption in less time. Read More
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Weathering the storm: Design's take on print journalism's decline
August 9th, 2008The old school folks bringing you your morning daily are not about to concede defeat to the inter-webs. Read More
Stormy Waters: Charting The Sun’s Place in the Journalism Industry
August 7th, 2008Anyone who’s followed the media industry in the slightest knows that print journalism isn’t what it once was. But amid all this hustle and bustle, where does The Sun stand? Read More
Sun Correspondent Goes to Grassroots Festival, Forgets Why
August 6th, 2008For those of you Cornellians unfortunate enough to have high-powered internships in Manhattan, D.C. or wherever you may be, let me assure you that you've been missing out on a shit-ton of fun here in sunny Ithaca (as difficult as it is to believe the words "sunny" side-by-side, it's true). The Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg was just the latest event that made me happy I've stayed up here, away from the hustle and bustle of real life. Unfortunately, your unreliable correspondent has less in the way of specific details then he would like — Grassroots is a BYOB affair and he's never been given to doing anything in half measures, particularly when it comes to bringing beer. In short, your correspondent came loaded for beer and consequently did not take comprehensive, or even comprehensible notes. That being said, some overall impressions still came through the self-induced haze of drunken bemusement. Read More
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Insert Eclipse Pun Here
August 5th, 2008A few days ago, I received the email of doom from our resident newsroom god, John C. Schroeder ’74. “Who is going to make the dummy pages [for the Eclipse supplement]?” A little piece of me died as I said ‘goodbye’ to my summer and ‘hello’ to redesigning The Sun’s magazine-style weekend supplement, Eclipse. It wasn’t until I sat down at my laptop and opened up Quark 7, our publishing software, that I began to feel a bit of excitement at the task before me. Read More
Monuments to the New, New China
August 4th, 2008When I look through both American and Chinese history, I see a common thread in our shared pre-occupation with monuments. Americans have the countless presidential monuments in D.C. as well as war memorials, not to mention our grand public works projects such as the Hoover Dam and Interstate Highway System that represent our belief in power and hope for America. Read More
Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places
July 29th, 2008As my friend and I pulled up to the Bonnaroo security checkpoint, I heard a whistle and was confronted by a guy in a neon concert shirt apologetically telling me that my “number had come up.” Evidently, I had won a chance to have my car searched, not by concert security, but by Tennessee’s finest. By entering the festival grounds, I had consented to the agenda of sunburned cops with nothing better to do than to harass music enthusiasts. I didn’t receive one of the 124 citations the police handed out throughout the weekend; I just got manhandled a little bit before I went to see Stephen Marley. Read More
Counting Down the Days to “New Beijing, New Olympics”
July 29th, 2008With pollution concerns for the Olympics in China brought up as early as the bidding process, the organizers are making a science out of weather control. Both Xinhua (China’s state news agency) and the word on the street (sometimes a more effective medium) have reported that the government has, and will if necessary, shoot rockets into the atmosphere that “seed” the clouds with mercury, forcing rain. In a prelude to what may happen in the weeks leading up to the games, June was the wettest month in recent memory for normally arid Beijing. The forced rain, more times than not clears the air for awhile but not for good, yellow skies return after a few days. I’m expecting that as the big day rapidly approaches to have to dodge rain storms left and right to make it to work. Read More
Dear George Clinton: Bring Back the Funk, Please
July 28th, 2008July 2, 1979: the day that Funk died. According to the legend (courtesy of The Mighty Boosh), Funk is actually a living creature, fallen to Earth from another planet. Discovered by Bootsy Collins, the Funk was milked, which was turned into a Funky milkshake and consumed by Bootsy, bringing himself some Funk transforming him into the funk-master he became. Funk’s death was a tragic accident — while Parliament was touring, George Clinton knocked it off the mothership. George Clinton is responsible for the death of Funk. Supposedly. I don’t believe that Funk is dead. I, in fact, witnessed the funkiness of George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars at BB King’s a few weeks ago and have concluded that George, in fact, kidnapped the Funk for his own selfish needs. Read More
A Conspiracy Theorist in Design
July 27th, 2008As one of the most (coolest?) liberal sections of the paper, it comes as no surprise that the Design department believes conspiracy theories... but when an interesting anomaly is discovered in the pages of Cornell's Comprehensive Master Plan, has CMYK stumbled upon a new mystery, or just some Photoshopped fooey? Read More