get travis build to use non-ancient version of cassandra

[sullivan-]

There are a couple tests that intermittently fail on travis. i cannot reproduce the failures at home. I'm pretty convinced they arise from the fact that travis is using an ancient version of cassandra. We should be able to address this by installing/launching a more up-to-date version of cassandra myself.

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