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Colgate Students COVE Holds Afternoon of Service Speak Out on DACA

STUDENTS SERVE : Students came together on service projects like trail-clearing throughout Madison County in remembrance of 9/11.

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By Michael Rasmussin Maroon-News Staff

The Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism and Education (COVE) held an Afternoon of Service on September 15 to commemorate the victims of 9/11. Student volunteers gathered outside Donovan’s Pub and separated into groups that drove to one of the following community organizations: Common Thread Farm, Southern Madison Heritage Trust, Friends of Roger Environmental Center, Community Bikes, Heritage Farm and the Chenango Canal.

According to one of the event’s organizers, Associate Director of the COVE Meghan Niedt, the Afternoon of Service acts as a stepping stone for students to get involved in the COVE’s extensive network of community partners in the Hamilton area.

“We want to give students the opportunity to learn more about

the community, and support the community that supports them,” Niedt said.

At Common Thread, student volunteers spent the day harvesting squash and pumpkins to sell to members of the farm share, local businesses and the Hamilton farmers market. In about three hours, eight students harvested hundreds of vegetables as they completed a task that would have taken the farmers an entire day. For frequent COVE volunteer and senior Colgate student Stephen Paolini, the afternoon on the farm provided a much-needed break from the daily grind.

“It’s a bit of a release from being a student. [When you’re harvesting vegetables], you keep going and going, and all of a sudden you’re at the end of the row. There’s something nice about picking squash and not worrying about your philosophy paper,” Paolini said.

While students harvested vegetables at Common Thread, volunteers at

Friends of Roger cleaned a trout pond, volunteers at Southern Madison Heritage Trust cleared and widened trails and others cleaned and repaired bicycles at Community Bikes.

The Afternoon of Service was performed in conjunction with a national network of volunteer events created to commemorate the victims and heroes that either died or were affected by 9/11. One of Niedt’s main goals was to have the student volunteers complete their tasks with the same sense of purpose and spirit that followed when communities came together after the 9/11 tragedy.

“9/11 reminds us of how blessed we are, and sometimes we take the things in our life for granted,” trip leader and Colgate senior Liz Arenare said. “The Afternoon of Service is the time to remove yourself from the ‘Colgate Bubble,’ and interact with the community in a way you might not normally.”

In addition to providing a space to commemorate the tragic events of 9/11, the Afternoon of Service also gives students the means to become further involved with the areas surrounding Colgate.

“You have to take the initiative and want to step out in the Hamilton community,” Paolini said. “And once you do take that step, you realize that you’ve already been a part of it. When you [think about it], there’s a lot of Colgate in Hamilton and a lot of Hamilton in Colgate, and the Afternoon of Service makes you aware of that.”

The COVE’s next Afternoon of Service will take place on January 26 to commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Contact Michael Rasmussin at mrasmussin@colgate.edu.

Professor Bourke Speaks on Sexual Violence and Medicine

By Zoe Frishberg Maroon-News Staff

On Tuesday, September 12, in the Center for Women’s Studies, Professor Joanna Bourke discussed the evolution of the treatment of rape survivors in a Brown Bag titled, “Sexual Violence, Science and Medicine: A History.”

The presentation was an elaboration of her newest study examining the relationship between sexual violence survivors and the doctors and nurses who treat them.

Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and fellow of the British Academy.

She has won many prizes for her 12 books covering a range of topics including modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and rape. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a 5-year

Wellcome Trust project titled “Sexual Violence, Medicine and Psychiatry.”

Bourke started her discussion by introducing a television show that aired on English TV in 1977 titled, “Act of Rape.” The program was seen by 2.5 million viewers at the time of broadcast and became a very controversial part of the discussion regarding how rape survivors are treated. The show portrays a dramatization of a girl being raped by her boyfriend. The show follows her story as she is doubted by police, the jury and judges. The second part of the show includes a studio discussion with rape survivors, a judge and a police surgeon, who discuss what had transpired in the sexual assault dramatization.

At that time in the ’70s, rape allegations were often disregarded. The people who primarily examined the

survivors were called “police surgeons.”

While police surgeons had other jobs like treating prisoners and inspecting DUI suspects, only a small fraction of their job was to examine rape survivors.

This position was available to anyone with a medical degree, and often drew some candidates who were not actually qualified for the role. A police surgeon needed to work late at night, collect low pay for exhaustive and time-consuming work and work in jails and cells surrounded by criminals. Most found the job “distasteful,” and the position was often filled with low-quality physicians. This posed a major problem for survivors because it was considered the police surgeon’s job to unequivocally report to the police whether or not the victim was telling the truth about his or her sexual assault.

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BY Emily Rahhal Maroon-News Staff

On September 14, a speakout was held for Colgate students to share how the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) affected their lives and families. The Batza room in CaseGeyer Library was completely filled with students and faculty on both the tables and floor. The speakout served as a space to share pizza and personal experiences and each personal story was met with an abundance of support.

The speakout created a space for students to process the recent end to DACA, a program that provided protections for children of undocumented immigrants under the age of 31 who entered the United States undocumented while under the age of 16.

The event was similar to a speakout held last year after Trump’s election.

“I think the event was truly eye opening. As a person who knows a lot of the people who spoke that night, I learned things about them that I may not been able to find out. Even those who I do not personally know, all of their messages moved me because it takes an immense amount of strength to speak up the way they did,” first-year David White said.

Brothers and the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) joined together to provide a platform for Colgate students to share their perspectives on DACA and support one another. Juniors Zachary Lee and Enrique Nuñez, senior Jonathan Burton and Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Anne Ríos-Rojas organized the event.

Lee felt that the stories shared throughout the event had a strong and lasting impact.

“The stories that people tell about their families living in fear of deportation and whatnot are really powerful. There is really nothing like the power of a personal experience and somebody being vulnerable in a space with you,” Lee said.

During the event, students had space to respond and contribute to the conversation on their own terms.

“The atmosphere was what we were going for in terms of people feeling comfortable to share their experiences and feel as though this was a space where they belong and they are valued. There were periods of silence, and everyone was in sort of a headspace where they were ready to learn and grow from what they were hearing from their peers. You can’t expect [a speakout] to have everyone constantly jumping in and out, so giving each person’s story time to sink in was part of the event that I ended up appreciating,” Lee said.

While Burton did feel that the speakout was a good way to unify students and set the precedent of collaboration between social justice groups early in the semester, he was disappointed by the low faculty and administration attendance. Organizers did their best to advertise the event via Facebook, word of mouth and direct contact with faculty, but ultimately, Burton feels the responsibility lies on faculty and the administration to stay in tune with the student body.

“People need this space, and the administration and the school itself doesn’t really make space for people in troubled times except for when the students have to take that initiative for themselves,” Burton said.

“The faculty and administration should have their eyes and ears on the ground and take an active approach in creating spaces and being a part of spaces. But I do want the professors that did come or did try to make it [to know we] really appreciate their presence,” Burton said.

Professor Ríos-Rojas could not attend the event but still wanted to be actively involved in supporting affected students. She sent a letter to the event’s organizers expressing the importance of defending DACA, which organizer Nuñez read at the beginning of the event.

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DACA SpeakOUT: Students gathered in the Batza Room of Case Library, pictured above, to speak out against DACA and share stories.

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THE BLOTTER COLGATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SAFETY REPORT Monday, 9/11 12:30 p.m.: Fire alarm at 49 Broad Street (Class of 1934 House) was caused by cooking.

12:39 p.m.: An ill student at Huntington Gym was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance.

8:05 p.m.: Fire alarm at the Townhouse Apartments was caused by cooking.

9:45 p.m.: Students at Curtis Hall were found in possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and were smoking in a residence hall. Case referred for disciplinary action.

Tuesday, 9/12 10:48 a.m.: A staff member reported her computer damaged by a water leak at McGregory Hall.

12:59 p.m.: Fire alarm at Read House; cause undetermined.

Wednesday, 9/13 3:13 a.m.: Fire alarm at Read House; cause undetermined.

Thursday, 9/14 3:04 p.m.: Fire alarm at 180 Broad Street was caused by cooking.

Friday, 9/15 8:15 a.m.: Campus Safety observed and spoke to a student who was walking in the middle of College Street.

Case referred for disciplinary action.

8:49 a.m.: Fire alarm at University Court Apartments caused by cooking.

8:51 a.m.: A resident of University Court Apartments failed to

Sexual Violence Brown Bag Continued from A-1.

The 1987 Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Scandal proved to citizens and police, who had relied on police surgeons’ reports for decades, that there was no way to unequivocally corroborate whether a rape had occurred through physical bodily signs and trauma. In the course of this scandal, it was proven that police surgeons could not even determine whether a woman had sexual intercourse before an examination through physical signs. While this scandal was deeply upsetting because it proved that police surgeons had been determining rape trials based on faulty evidence, it did prompt feminists and activists to take new measures to improve the treatment of rape survivors.

Rape Crisis Centers opened, and more female police surgeons were hired to treat victims.

The whole discussion circled around the original topic of the

televised “Act of Rape” and what that program revealed about rape survivor trauma treatment. The original assumption was of “no wound no assault,” meaning that if a woman was not physically battered, it was assumed that no assault had taken place.

Bourke compared that era of treatment to today’s treatment of victims. Some volunteers in the audience explained that Community Memorial Hospital now has a program from 6 p.m. on Thursday through 8 a.m. on Monday to help sexual assault survivors. Bourke concluded the discussion by explaining that even though we have made great strides in rape survivor treatment since the debut of “Act of Rape,” there is still much room for improvement in accommodations and treatment of sexual assault survivors.

Contact Zoe Frishberg at zfrishberg@colgate.edu.

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“We should be defending DACA not because these youth are ‘productive members of society,’ ‘have college degrees,’ or whatever other neoliberal metrics are being deployed to justify their inclusion. We should #defendDACA out of our collective sense of indignation for how its dismantling is an assault on human dignity and right to life, liberty, happiness,” Ríos-Rojas wrote.

In the back of the room, organizers spread out printed lists of the United States House of Representatives and provided a form for donations to Amnesty International, American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Civil Liberties Union. In addition, the organizers provided information for contacting representatives to defend DACA. Lee believes that students can take action beyond reaching out to representatives to tell them reasons why DACA should remain in place.

“Self care and validating one another is very important, but you cannot let this be where the buck stops. One thing that I was talking to Professor Anne Ríos-Rojas about in the education department, was seeing how we can take this flash point issue of DACA, and use it to build coalitions and forge more solidarity across campus. We are talking about something that is more about acknowledging one’s humanity than it is about any sort of paperwork or citizenship. So that is really the next step I think, so using this and seeing how issues of validation and humanizing one another can apply to other issues in other spaces around campus,” Lee said.

Contact Emily Rahhal at erahhal@colgate.edu.

evacuate for a fire alarm. Case referred for disciplinary action.

2:41 p.m.: Fire alarm at Shepardson House was caused by burnt plastic.

A resident also failed to evacuate.

Case referred for disciplinary action.

8:01 p.m.: Students at University Court Apartments were found in possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and were smoking in a residence hall. Case referred for disciplinary action.

11:33 p.m.: Received a report of an underage intoxicated student at 49 Broad Street who was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by Campus Safety. Case referred for disciplinary action.

Saturday, 9/16 12:07 a.m.: Received a report of a loud group of students at Parker

Apartments who were found with a beer pong table in their residence.

Case referred for disciplinary action.

12:25 a.m.: Campus Safety was assisted by the Hamilton Fire Department with a carbon monoxide alarm at 88 Broad Street, caused by a damaged detector. Case referred for disciplinary action.

12:35 a.m.: Residents of Parke House were found with a covered smoke detector. Case referred for disciplinary action.

7:28 a.m.: An ill student at Shepardson House was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance.

2:44 p.m.: Received a report of a large gathering at Bewkes Center. Investigation revealed the area was closed, several students were trespassing and were found in possession of alcohol.

Case referred for disciplinary action.

6:06 p.m.: Fire alarm at 80 Broad Street (Beta Theta Pi fraternity); cause undetermined.

Sunday, 9/17 12:21 a.m.: Fire alarm at 52 Broad Street (Theta Chi fraternity); cause undetermined.

12:28 a.m.: Received a report of an underage intoxicated student at the Townhouse Apartments who was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance. Case referred for disciplinary action.

2:44 a.m.: Received a report of an underage intoxicated student at West Hall who was transported to Community Memorial Hospital by SOMAC ambulance. Case referred for disciplinary action.

Lutscher Lectures on Biological Invasions at NASC Colloquium

By Lucy Feidelson Maroon-News Staff

On September 15, Frithjof Lutscher, full-time professor at University of Ottawa, spoke about his work in species invasion and mathematical models to an intimate group of Colgate students and professors in the Robert H. N. Ho Science Center.

Although the lecture was titled, “Biological Invasions, Mathematical Models, and the Effect of Landscape Heterogeneity on Both,” the underlying title could have been “The Challenges of Discovery.” Throughout Lutscher’s research, some of which took him eight years to complete, he learned that ideas take time, and that mathematical equations must explain not only a pattern, but also reality.

Lutscher posited that biological invasions are a consequence of human interference. When humans transport organisms to new places, these organisms may damage and disturb ecosystems. Often, these disruptions to environments are hard to observe, which is why Lutscher has invested his time and effort to creating mathematical models to quantify and track species invasions and habitat fragmentation.

The Logistical Model is one such model used to measure these biological disruptions. Because population growth is not finite, an exponential solution will not help determine the final, lasting effects of a species invasion. The Logistical Model limits population growth by determining a carrying capacity, thus determining the correlated degradation of a specific habitat.

The Movement Model is another form of calculating species invasions.

This model simulates the process of biological invasion, although it is not

suited for analysis. It uses the diffusion equation, or heat equation, which helps interpret the amount of heat or movement produced in the field.

Lutscher adapted and adjusted his equations when he realized that although the math was correct, it didn’t biologically make sense in the real world. He was measuring the relationship between diffusion and speed, however, he was not accounting for the heterogeneity of landscape.

“I really like modeling from the ground-up. Because then if I get a result I have the feeling I can interpret this, and if I can interpret this then I can learn something,” Lutscher said.

He realized he would have to take into account every aspect of the habitats before converting biology into mathematics.

Lutscher began to define habitats as being comprised of either “good” or “bad” patches. Good patches are homogeneous areas where diffusion of a species grows linearly. Bad patches, or heterogeneous areas, display linear mortality, indicating that a species could potentially be eradicated. Originally, Lutscher applied mathematical models to landscapes as if they were all good patches.

He decided to focus on what happens at an interface between these good and bad patches. At the interfaces, there should be no gain or loss of individuals; rather, “there should be some kind of conservation of mass happening.”

With bad patches, speed is always an increasing function of diffusion.

In the areas that are less hostile, either “good” patches or mild “bad” patches, we can see oscillations that correspond to high and low density over time. This study of the interface between patches allowed Lutscher to understand the effects of species

CORRECTION: In the 9/14 issue, the pictures displayed alongside the article “Meet Colgate’s 2017 Student Government Association” were of a previous SGA body.

invasions on specific types of habitats.

Professor Lutscher emphasized the importance of invasion management. These mathematical equations, if not applied to the physical world, are essentially useless.

Large-scale chemicals are now used less frequently to minimize and stop biological invasions, as they are harmful to healthy ecosystems and have had limited success. Scientists are now suggesting and implementing a quasiring vaccination or “fire break,” both of which work to prevent the spread of invasions. Some of the preferred control measures include increasing tree diversity, removing the host if an invasive organism is host specific, and clearing infected areas.

Lutscher’s talk delved deep into mathematics. Besides understanding his process of creating mathematical equations, however, he hoped the audience learned the power of modelling.

“There are some really cool things out there that you can model with mathematics,” he said.

Contact Lucy Feidelson at lfeidelson@colgate.edu.

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Examining Ecosystems: Lutscher uses math to study invasives.

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It was October 27, 2015, and my favorite team, the New York Mets, were playing in Game 1 of the World Series. I was beaming with excitement as I walked around campus that brisk fall day, wearing my Mets hat and David Wright jersey. As I passed other Mets fans throughout the day, we couldn’t help but smile, give each other a nod and yell, “Let’s go!” to express our excitement. We were lost in the moment, nervously optimistic about what might unfold over the next week. We were so close, and we could taste it. We were naive.

That night, Jeurys Familia, the Mets pitcher who had emerged as one of the most automatic closers in baseball that year, proceeded to blow a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Mets lost that game 5-4 in 14 innings, and went on to lose the series in five games.

I should have known. And looking back on that first day, I think part of me did know. This is what my teams do. This is my lot in life as a Mets, Jets and Nets fan. I made my bed when I decided to root for New York’s “B” teams as a child. I’ve been lying in it ever since.

For those unfamiliar with this story, let me fill you in. Muddled in mediocrity for years at a time, my teams occasionally rise to the cream of the crop. These moments are fleeting, and few and far between: the Mets in 2015, the Jets in 2009-2010 and the Nets in 2002-2003, to name a few. They ascend to the precipice of the mountain top, only to find the most agonizing ways to fall short and come crashing back down to earth. Here they remain for the next handful of years, assuming their rightful place in the world as New York’s second-class franchises.

In competition, the Mets, Jets and Nets have an inherent knack for finding incredible ways to lose.

From the infamous “Butt Fumble” to the first-half no-show in the 2009 AFC Championship game against Pittsburgh, to Timo Perez taking his sweet time on the bases in the 2000 World Series (Oh, Timo). And what Mets fan can forget about Endy Chavez’s over-the-wall catch that made us all feel that, if destiny was a thing, it was on the Mets’ side that night? Well, it wasn’t – they lost that game, too.

My teams do have championship titles to their names. The 1969 “Miracle Mets” and the 1986 “Bad Boy” Mets got the job done. Broadway Joe called his shot in 1969 heading into Super Bowl III – and delivered. But in the modern era, all I have ever known is losing. My teams are perennial losers – and that can take a toll on a person.

So why do I keep coming back, season after season after season, only to be inevitably let down? Maybe I’m curious to see the new ways they will find to lose games. Or maybe it’s just habit at this point. But part of me feels – or has to believe – that true fandom is earned, and the agony of rooting for these particular teams will culminate in something magical. One day each of my teams will rise to the summit, and when that day comes, it will become clear why I even cared to begin with. Until then, I will be watching, and I will be rooting.

Contact Danielle Kliger at dkliger@colgate.edu.

Let’s Not Repeat the Past

By James Goldin Maroon-News Staff

Currently, there is ethnic cleansing that borders on genocide occurring in the nation of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) against the Rohingya Muslim population. The Rohingya have faced persecution for decades. Since a military coup occurred in 1962, this minority population has been deprived of nearly all its rights. According to a 2009 BBC article on Rohingya migration, the official view of the Myanmar military is that the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Using this argument, the government claims that the Rohingya are not citizens of Myanmar and have no legal protections. Travel within the country requires a permit just to move to one specific area, not to mention likely harassment by any military or local officials. The Rohingya population has routinely been subjected to forced labor, has no voting rights and has had its land unjustly confiscated. The Rohingya Muslim population has been dubbed “one of the world’s most persecuted minorities” by the UN Refugee Agency.

The current escalation of the crisis stems from an attack on a border outpost that occurred on October 9, 2016. A supposed Rohingya extremist from a local terrorist group orchestrated and carried out the attack that killed nine Myanmar officers. Since then, military crackdowns on the population have only increased in frequency and cruelty. Amnesty International reported instances of random arrest, rape, extrajudicial killings and destruction of property through mass arson and looting.

The Amnesty International Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rafendi Djamin has said that “the Myanmar military has targeted Rohingya civilians in a callous and systematic

campaign of violence.” Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and a scorched earth policy has seemingly been enacted. Villages are burned to the ground, and those who flee are shot. According to The Independent and The Associated Press, videos of dead Rohingya children washing up on the beaches of Bangladesh have been found.

One individual who has been at the forefront of this crisis is Aung San Suu Kyi, who serves as the State Counsellor of Myanmar, a position equivalent to prime minister. Despite being a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, she has refused to take a hard stance against the violence occurring in her country. In a conference that took place on October 12, 2016, Aung said, “Show me a country without human rights issues,” and that “every country has human rights abuses. I am taking seriously allegations of human rights violations in this country.”

She has been condemned on an international scale. To date, the following individuals/groups have called for a greater action by Aung Kyi or a revocation of her Nobel Prize: Malala Yousafzai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Guardian and The Economist.

International condemnation however, is not enough. No one wants a repeat of the genocides that took place in Rwanda, Darfur (which is still going on) and Srebrenica. Hopefully in the coming weeks, the UN and the other nations of the world will put stronger pressure of the state of Myanmar to quell these barbaric actions. Sanctions should be a necessary first step. If that is not enough, foreign intervention should be employed. The stain of genocide should not be allowed to exist in the twenty-first century.

Contact James Goldin at jgoldin@colgate.edu.

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What’s Left

Being Right

A Slap in the Face

Put the Pen Down, Mr. President

By James Goldin

By ryan Zoellner

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Debating DACA: Balancing Morality and Legality The most recent shouting match in American politics has been the debate over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). This Obama-era policy allows certain immigrants to obtain work permits for a period of two years, which would then be renewable upon good behavior. This has kept illegal immigrants, oftentimes brought here as infants, from being deported.

To apply, immigrants had to be younger than 31 years old on June 15, 2012, must have come to the U.S. when they were younger than 16 and must have lived in the U.S. since 2007. A key provision of the policy was that it was entirely self-funded; applicants must pay a fee of $495, thus sparing the U.S. taxpayers any direct increase in their taxes. Called out as a “Day One” repeal

by President Trump, the Trump administration has set its sights on this policy. On September 5, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the program would be repealed, and President Trump stated, “It is now time for Congress to act!”

The aforementioned provisions in the DACA policy show the callousness of the Trump administration toward nearly 800,000 individuals. The Obama policy safeguarded the status of people who have grown up in America. Recipients must have at least a high school diploma, and must exhibit good behavior (shown through the lack of a criminal record). To deport such individuals is cruel, mean-spirited and entirely xenophobic. GOP rhetoric would have you believe that these “DREAMers,” as they are oftentimes called, are stealing thousands of jobs from native-born Americans. This is simply not the case. Nearly all economists agree that immigration serves as a net boon for the economy. A study from The Journal of Public Economics found that DACA benefits labor markets as a whole, and moved a significant portion of unemployed illegal immigrants toward stable income and steady jobs, enabling them to be taxed. Over 400 CEOs signed an open letter from the Leaders of American Industry urging the retention of the DACA policy. The letter states that “DREAMers are vital to the future of our companies and our economy. With them, we grow and create jobs. They are part of why we will continue to have a global competitive advantage.” Individual CEOs also spoke out for the policy. In an interview, president and CEO of the Perryman Group, a Texas based economic research firm, Ray Perryman said that “we are at full employment with more job openings than at any point in history,” and that “we desperately need workers in this country.” Certain economic leaders also spoke out against the statements of Sessions and Trump. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, in an interview with NPR claimed that “repealing DACA is particularly wrongheaded as economic policy.”

Besides the purely illogical economic fallout that would result in a repeal and deportation of the DACA recipients, we must not forget the moral implications of such a policy change.

It would say to our temporary immigration communities that their status in the country can turn on a dime, and that their place here can completely change with the political winds. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been here, if you graduated from high school and are planning on going to college, and it certainly doesn’t matter if you exhibit good behavior. The repealing of DACA without a replacement would be a slap in the face to nearly 800,000 DREAMers, who are almost all hardworking, well-intentioned people.

Contact James Goldin

at jgoldin@colgate.edu.

On June 15, 2012, Barack Obama gave a speech announcing the implementation of an executive order titled “The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” otherwise known as DACA. The program was designed to waive the immigration status of children brought to the United States illegally for a renewable period of two years while providing them resources to secure permanent citizenship. Five years later, nearly 800,000 individuals (whom many refer to as “DREAMers” per the 2001 DREAM Act Bill) were enrolled in the program. Now, in 2017, the Trump administration will rescind DACA in the same unilateral fashion it was created.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal this week, Trump exclaimed, “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!” It is fairly rare that I quote him in earnest, but I could not agree more with this comment; individuals for whom DACA and the DREAM Act apply have little to no control over their immigration status and are indeed positive contributors to American society en masse. They have enjoyed a de facto status as Americans for the past five years, and they ought to. For all intents and purposes, they are Americans. However, the various legislative means behind this system need to be unpacked.

First, there is a very important governmental lesson to be learned here: live by the executive order, die by the executive order. The Obama administration’s decision to unilaterally approach this project was not only debatably unconstitutional, it was irresponsible. Executive precedent demonstrates that any measure done via executive order can be undone by executive order and that such a reversal is far from uncommon. Because an executive order is signed and carried out by the president alone, it can be washed away just as easily. In short, 800,000 were at risk of having their immigration status changed via a counter-executive order, and this was a fact that the Obama administration was aware of and willfully ignored. Be it for a short term legislative victory or a resume booster (more likely the latter), Obama completely dismissed the possibility of DACA’s reversal and put its hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries at risk. DACA should have been given to Congress, and the entire present situation would not even exist.

Now, however ambiguous or misguided Obama’s motivations may have been in passing DACA, Trump’s were even more tangled in reversing it. Initially, it seemed as if the DACA reversal was intended to be a nod to Trump’s populist-nationalist base, but as the week went on that became unclear.

Soon Trump was having dinner with Democratic leadership to discuss replacing the program, and outlets like Breitbart were running pieces calling him “Amnesty Don.” Later, he tweeted that no deal would be reached, and followed that up with a series of tweets describing what such a deal would look like. The future of America’s DREAMers remains unclear.

In this particular case, the Trump administration – a scatterbrained and chaotic executive of the highest order – served as a magnifying glass to the derelictions of the Obama administration and the general uncertainty of legislating with a presidential pen. The stakes could not be higher and the confusion could not be more pervasive; this is a seminal lesson as to why executive orders cannot be used to meet legislative ends. I hope future executives take note, but most of all I hope that Congress can piece together legislation akin to DACA that will more properly and permanently protect its recipients.

They are certainly some of the last people to deserve bearing the brunt of sloppy and hubristic politics.

Contact Ryan Zoellner

at rzoellner@colgate.edu.

iPhone X and the Privacy Problem

By Max Goldenberg Class of 2021

I’ve had an iPhone 4S for four years. I use it to call and text friends and family, for when I need a pocket calculator and for the Colgate mobile app. I used to waste a lot of time on social media, but eventually convinced myself to delete most of my accounts. I am also intensely uncomfortable with the fact that I’ve got a GPS locator in my back pocket at all times. I don’t keep up too much with Apple’s newest innovations – something you might be able to tell by my relic of a phone – so I was taken aback last Tuesday when my roommate suddenly called out “1 p.m.!”

“What?” I asked back.

“10 a.m. Pacific so – wow, right now. I just caught it.”

Seeing my arched eyebrow, he tacked on as an afterthought, “The iPhone X unveiling. It’s, like, right now.”

Suddenly curious, I, of course, had to watch the event too. And I, much like my roommate and countless others eagerly watching Apple pull back the curtain on its newest product, was taken aback. My reasons, however, felt somewhat different from the gasps and squeals of Apple’s massive audience.

In an increasingly online world, Apple, whether it likes it or not, is a fundamental cornerstone of big data companies. The majority of its revenue comes from physical sales, of course (something they are very good at; Apple has over $200 billion in pure liquid cash, more than the U.S. Government), but a significant

portion comes from data sale and advertisement. The more extensively advertisers know what kind of person is on a specific device (information such as what kinds of places they frequent, what their interests are, how often they have sex), the more targeted the products advertisers market can be and even more money can be made off ads. Marketing companies pay a good deal of money for that sort of information. Coincidentally, it’s just the sort of information we’re all too willing to put online and showcase on social media. And the things we aren’t so willing to divulge, companies like Apple have become increasingly clever at squeezing out of us.

Customer data profiles are consistent. Once you’ve liked a page or gone somewhere with location services activated, it’s on your dossier for good, ready to be sold as proof of your current interests to waiting marketers right up until the day they change. And while something like your fingerprint, recorded in a semi-encrypted “hash,” isn’t useful to the corporations Apple sells your interests to, it is something that might be useful to the NSA. Thanks to Snowden, we know that Apple has quietly handed over customer data and encryptions to the NSA before, among other violations of their supposed dedication to customer privacy. Once your fingerprint has been used to unlock a phone, the only thing the government needs to do to get it is ask – even if you haven’t committed a crime in the past.

With the iPhone X, Apple has upped its game. The new iPhone comes with an incredible new feature: unlocking the phone via biometric facial analysis.

Facial analytics is a rapidly developing field with endless possibilities. This isn’t a photograph of your face you’re submitting to Apple with the iPhone X; it’s a full 3-D analysis of your face, to be logged and stored. And if we’re to judge based off Apple’s use of fingerprints, it’s information waiting to be given to a great many groups with a rising interest in your face. Corporations could gauge your attractiveness and insecurities based on Apple’s analysis.

Recent breakthroughs in the field have created facial algorithms capable of predicting your sexual orientation with over 90 percent accuracy – again, from nothing more than facial data. And, of course, the government could use it to identify you with near-perfect accuracy on even the most basic of security cameras or phone recordings.

The question that poses itself is how comfortable you personally are with your entire life being in the public domain. But the issue that the iPhone X raises is that giving increasingly personal information to global corporations and governments has become a shrewdly hidden necessity of life in our consumer culture, and it becomes more and more difficult to function at a basic level in society without handing over everything you are to every group that wants your information. Perhaps, then, this is how privacy truly dies in the West. Not because of the imagined authoritarian dystopia where the government demands we fill out personal questionnaires on the census each year, but instead because the trendiest new iPhone has a facial analysis feature.

Contact Max Goldenberg at mgoldenberg@colgate.edu.

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The Truth about Tri Delta

By Jessica Blau Class of 2018

I have frizzy hair, I am a size 12 and I thought I would get a bid from GPhi or Kappa based on sheer charm and my sparkling personality. Writing this now, I laugh at my sophomore self ’s naivety. Before anyone cites any exceptions to this rule, tell me, were they on a sports team? Do they have other connections to those organizations? I think I can claim confidently that fat (I am reclaiming this word) people are quickly weeded out of our Greek process.

The day I learned that I had been cut from both Kappa and GPhi before I could even make it there for Philanthropy Night was one of the worst days of my life. I know there are way worse things going on in the world – Greek life is so trivial! But to me, it felt like a personal judgement on my appearance, something I had always been generally confident about, until that day. I could not get out of bed and my roommate had no clue what to do with me. I couldn’t even talk to her because I was crying so uncontrollably. I told my parents Colgate wasn’t the place for me after all, a place I had gone to partially for its Greek life, and I looked into transferring.

I would not consider my bid from Tri Delta for a second. I thought, if I couldn’t be with the “popular girls,” I wouldn’t be participating in Greek life at all. Many people who have written the recent blog posts about Greek life have said they did not receive a bid “anywhere,” and seemed to have taken the same attitude as me, where getting a bid from Tri Delta was akin to not receiving a bid. I understand that attitude but I also want to point out that some of these girls did in fact receive a bid from Tri Delta, and chose to reject it. These people, unknowingly and unintentionally, played into the system that they were so adamantly rejecting. By classifying their bid from Delta as beneath them and something to be automatically dismissed, they were playing into the hierarchy that is Greek life at Colgate. I do not claim that all of these women

rejected their bids from Tri Delta for this reason (there are financial considerations among others that are all reasons to reject a bid); I am only addressing those who rejected their bids and then claimed to be rejected from Greek life.

I also played into this hierarchy – on the morning of Bid Day, I was certain I was not attending. In the end, my roommate talked me into at least giving it a try, and here I am, still in Tri Delta with many friends whom I would not have met otherwise.

The Greek system should end at Colgate. No one should have to feel what I felt, and what I’m sure many others feel, after being cut because you don’t “fit into the culture of our sorority.” However, if Greek life has to continue, I must advocate for Tri Delta as the most underrated and accepting Greek organization on this campus.

When I was reading the blog posts last week, one in particular stuck out to me – someone wrote about Theta Chi and how “you just didn’t talk about Delta” if you were hooking up with a girl there. This line was taken down quickly because it upset many in my chapter. While I understand that, the reasoning behind this attitude commonly held by fraternities on this campus needs to be discussed and exposed. I have seen this pattern repeated in a million different ways – including my sisters in Delta being told (in varying ways) to keep things on the “DL” with someone whom they were hooking up with. We all knew what that meant – the guys were embarrassed about being associated with someone in Delta and did not want their “brothers” to find out.

Frat men are deciding which sororities have hot enough women for their brothers to hook-up with, and this is unacceptable. Sororities should not be evaluated by the aesthetic of their members – they should be evaluated by the work that they do and the sisterhood they create. Just as we have begun working to value women not by how well they fit the stereotypical vision of beauty, but how incredibly strong, kind, smart, etc., women are, we should be doing the same with sororities.

Delta has a bad reputation among most of the men and

women on this campus – that is an open fact – and yet people still stay in and join Delta every year. Why? There is absolutely no social capital gained by being in Delta, but people stay, and I stay, because of the real sisterhood created in Delta. Maybe it’s because of our struggle to prove ourselves on this campus, or because the women of Tri Delta actually work to empower each other, or because we actively participate in philanthropy (97 percent of all Greek-letter organization philanthropy is done by Tri Delta) that brings us all closer together. Most of our events in Delta are sisterhood bonding events. These include self-care nights, movie nights, Sisters Only Jug nights, Slices/Eatery study breaks, family dinners, sisterhood hikes, workshops on inclusivity and diversity and so much more. We are encouraged to attend each other’s events, and because we are involved in so many different groups, this always leads to learning something new. We also have strict Fraternity Demands that stemmed from last semester’s culmination of sexual assaults and our discussions about safety at parties – and we will stick by these even if it means we have less social events. We care more about our members’ safety than securing more social events with frat men who do not like us. Sororities will never be completely inclusive, diverse, safe, etc. for all identified women, but Tri Delta is at least striving to do better.

When I look around at any Delta event, I see empowered, strong, smart and beautiful women, who each bring their own unique personalities to our sisterhood. This lack of conformity and boring sameness is what makes me so proud to be a Tri Delta. Recruitment/the Greek process makes people feel horrible – this is not acceptable. But if Greek life cannot be removed completely, let me advocate for what I feel is the only accepting Greek house on this campus, and one I am proud to be a part of: Tri Delta.

Contact Jessica Blau at jblau@colgate.edu.

The Deplorables Among Us

By Helen Misiewicz

By Fabrizio Herrera

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Working with incoming first-years as a Link during their first few days on campus presents its own unique set of interesting situations. Questions shifted from navigating our limited campus to navigating an unlimited social scene. Most of the time, I responded with honest answers that any Colgate student would approve of. But the question “Why does Colgate have such a strong hookup culture?” proved to be a question that I not only asked myself countless times before, but also a question I didn’t have an answer to.

According to the “experts” at Urban Dictionary, hookup culture is defined as, “the era that began in the early 1990s and has since prevailed on college campuses and elsewhere when hooking up has replaced traditional dating as the preferred method of heterosexual liaison.” So basically, the majority of people at Colgate don’t date. Why is that? I don’t think it’s due to a lack of places to go on dates, or the character of the students that go here. After talking to some of my friends, and even some hookups of my own, it became apparent that people weren’t dating in the traditional sense because “the timing just isn’t right.”

Being a college student requires a significant time commitment on its own. Then, add in rushing a sorority or fraternity. And then club sports. And research. And traveling abroad. And don’t forget the Jug. Ultimately, a majority of people at Colgate claim to be too busy and too involved to devote themselves to a relationship. This rationale makes sense when you first hear someone explain it to you. But one thing we seem to forget in this story is the nature of life. No matter where you go to school, what you’re doing or where your life is taking you, there is never going to be a perfect time to simply start up a fulfilling relationship with your potential soulmate. Part of what makes relationships so meaningful and profound are the sacrifices you make to be with your partner.

So, are Colgate students really too busy to bother with relationships or is that just a cop-out that we tell our hookups to let them off easy? Several days after first posing this question to myself, I was talking to an upperclassmen in a fraternity. When he told me that he started dating his long-term girlfriend just weeks before Rush, I was shocked. Wasn’t this the worst time to commit yourself to someone? Aren’t you supposed to stay single if you’re joining Greek life? “It was really easy,” he told me. “She was my best friend and it just felt right. There’s no one I’d rather be with at any time.”

The phrase “at any time” really echoed in my mind. Timing is something that people use to justify why they can’t be with someone. But actually, it’s the reason why we invest ourselves into relationships.

To spend time with that person. “Pretty simple,” I thought to myself.

After thinking about his response, I realized a couple of things. First off, I think that you need to acknowledge the difference between someone you may want to just hook-up with once or twice, and someone you want to bring around Parent’s Weekend. But once you do, don’t let the commitment of a relationship scare you away from someone who can support you, care for you and make you a better person. It’s one thing to not be ready for a relationship; it’s another to be scared of one. There’s never going to be a perfect time for dating. Life is crazy, and the unpredictable paths that we venture on never lead us to an expected destination. But, when you find the right person, they’ll be worth the sacrifices you make along that odyssey. And eventually you’ll realize that the time you spend with that person will be the only timing that matters.

Contact Helen Misiewicz

In a “Trumpist” era, minorities all across the United States find themselves in danger of a widespread xenophobic sentiment. This is a sentiment which happens to be directed toward them. We often hear of the racist behavior committed by Trump supporters across the U.S., yet one would never expect to find such behavior in a prestigious liberal arts college like Colgate University. Sadly that expectation might be too optimistic.

Within my first few weeks here at Colgate as a first-year, I have crossed paths with multiple Trump supporters. Of these supporters, one of them happened to be a bit more “deplorable” than the others. This avid Trump supporter was not afraid of sharing his beliefs. In a one-on-one conversation that quickly became the most uncomfortable moment of my life, I finally learned what it felt like to be explicitly discriminated against in an almost-jovial tone. Xenophobic comments like “Colgate should’ve remained all white” came flying at me. This avid Trump supporter went so far as to say that the acceptance of my “people” on this campus was an “injustice.” An injustice in the sense that my “people” were incomparable to that of white people. That we would always fight the unwinnable fight. That by being here, my time was wasted, because I would never be able to reach their level.

As somebody that happens to be fully Latin American, born and raised in Costa Rica, this came off as a culture shock. Never in my life had I met anyone that had such ignorant beliefs, coupled with such belligerent confidence. The avid Trump supporter then went on to more fictional ramblings such as the supposed infusion of estrogen into America’s water supply, to make men across America more effeminate. It almost felt like I was listening to Alex Jones from “Infowars.”

The level of discrimination within that short conversation was almost exceptional in its own way. Yet one thing was clear: this was one of the effects of a Donald Trump presidency. Trump brings out the worst in people. Trump made it so that racists across America are no longer afraid of stating what’s on their mind, regardless of political correctness. Political correctness cannot exist in a society where the president’s supporters are happy to go strolling around Virginia chanting “Jews will not replace us.”

Donald Trump has found a way to jeopardize the life of every single American who isn’t the right skin color. One can now expect the safety, comfort and well being of every single person of color to go out the window. Now more than ever, we find ourselves in a position where we have to be involved – regardless of race or color – to combat belligerent xenophobia. Conversations like the one I was in should not be allowed to take place. Instead of shying away from this issue, we have to deal with it head on. We tend to underplay the importance and impact that this issue can have. Yet here I stand confronted by it, at my own university. Racist ideologies like that do not belong in an institution of such prestige.

at hmisiewicz@colgate.edu.

Contact Fabrizio Herrera at fherreraalfaro@colgate.edu.

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Living Writers Series Kicks Off

By Lauren Hutton Maroon-News Staff

In The Light Tim Englehart By tessa ruff Maroon-News Staff

Senior Tim Englehart is originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts, a small city about 40 miles north of Boston. He decided to attend Colgate because of its scenic rural setting, which he felt would be a conducive setting for running and studying.

Englehart is a member of the Colgate cross country and track and field teams. Englehart noted that the team cohesion is his favorite part of participating in Colgate sports.

“As much as I love it, running can be a grueling and painful sport. Running at Colgate year-round means consistently going out for 10 or 15 mile runs in single digit weather in the winter. Having a great group of friends to do it with makes those runs manageable, and in turn getting through those runs make me a lot closer with my teammates,” Englehart said.

In addition to running competitively, Englehart is member of the Sociology and Anthropology club and is a regular at The Write-In, a weekly meeting of creative writers on campus. Englehart is a sociology and creative writing concentrator. He was drawn to sociology after participating in the Office of Admission sit-in during the fall of 2014, Englehart’s first semester at Colgate.

“The sit-in made me aware of inequities and structural oppression that I was blinded from seeing growing up in a homogenous community. One of my best friends at the time was a junior Sociology major who was heavily involved with the protest. I decided to check out the discipline and loved it, even though it forced me to come to terms with social inequalities that exist in my own life,” Englehart said.

After his first year at Colgate, Englehart spent his summer running and teaching English in Peru. Englehart spent the next two summers at Colgate conducting research.

“I love the summer at Colgate. The weather is gorgeous. It’s also a great opportunity to branch out and meet new friends, and to really immerse yourself in a research project,” Englehart said.

Overall, it is the academic culture at Colgate that Englehart will miss most.

“I tell everyone who asks me about the school that the professors are my favorite thing about Colgate,” Englehart said.

When asked what advice he would give to first-years, Englehart emphasized the importance of not getting caught up in the social hierarchy at Colgate.

“The longer I’ve been at Colgate, the less I’ve cared about fitting that construction, and the happier I’ve been,” Englehart said.

Before facing the scary experience of moving away from home, firstyears were instructed to read about the equally scary but much more fatal effects of human interaction: extinction on a mass and unprecedented scale. In her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, author Elizabeth Kolbert tackles the detrimental effects humans have had on both fauna and flora, and argues that humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in the history of our planet. Kolbert traveled to Colgate on Thursday, September 14 to kick off this year’s Living Writers series with a talk about her book followed by a question and answer session and book signing.

Associate Professor of English Jennifer Brice, who co-coordinated the event with Associate Professor of Biology Catherine Cardelús, introduced Kolbert to the full chapel of attendees. Brice touched on why Kolbert was selected as the first Living Writers speaker and why her book was this year’s choice as the assigned reading for first-years.

“The fact that a journalist comes along who’s possessed with the energy, intelligence and curiosity … to tell a complex series of interlocking stories that all point to a singular hard-to-swallow truth, and that tens of thousands of people, including most of us in this room, have read that story not just willingly but hungrily, suggests to me that The Sixth Extinction ought to be read not as an epithet or a eulogy but perhaps as a manual for our survival,” Brice said.

“People told me they wanted to hear more about what they could

do to solve the problems the book addresses: climate change, ocean acidification, invasive species and habitat destruction,” Kolbert said.

While the book lacked those solutions, her speech attempted to provide some answers. Kolbert divided her talk into three main sections, each focusing on an endangered species: the African elephant, the chestnut tree and the kakapo.

Kolbert addressed the work of Sam Wasser, Director for the Center of Conservation of Biology in Seattle, Washington, who discovered how to obtain DNA from feces. With this technology, Wasser matched DNA from elephant tusks taken in the ivory trade to discover where illegal poaching was taking place. By locating the two areas where poaching was prevalent, he put pressure on the Tanzanian government to assemble a task force that successfully took down a major ivory poacher.

After demonstrating the value in individual activism, Kolbert spoke of an equally devoted environmentalist focused on saving the chestnut tree. A Japanese fungus accidentally transported by humans to America essentially wiped out the chestnut tree, but thanks to the work of William Powell, genetically engineered chestnut trees that are resistant to the fungus now exist.

Finally, Kolbert spoke on the progress that has been made to save the beloved New Zealand kakapo, which became endangered due to the introduction of several invasive species. In an effort to save the remaining native birds, the New Zealand government enacted a national initiative titled “A Predator Free New Zealand,” which encourages children and adults alike to set traps and kill predators such as the pacific rat, hedgehogs and wild cats. Thus far, the project has been incredibly successful in eliminating unnatural predators.

“I personally really admire these projects and the people behind them,” Kolbert said before acknowledging that none of the initiatives are true “solutions” and that action is still crucial.

A book signing followed the presentation. The line, consisting of firstyears and upperclassmen alike, stretched throughout the Chapel as students eagerly awaited meeting the author.

“It was really cool because we were required to read this book and it sort of brings it all together,” first-year Jacob Licker said. “To actually meet the author and hear about the work she’s been doing and then to end it all with a signed copy of the book is a pretty incredible experience.”

Kolbert is currently working on a piece for The New Yorker that tackles the idea of removing carbon from the air, but she enjoyed her time off, visiting and speaking to the Colgate community.

Contact Lauren Hutton at lhutton@colgate.edu.

Warning words: In the first Living Writers installment, Kolbert addressed environmental issues.

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An Inconvenient Sequel Inspires Hope By andrew kish Maroon-News Staff

Colgate’s emphasis on environmental awareness and activism reached a high point on Thursday, September 14, when Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the The Sixth Extinction, spoke to the campus body. The Friday Night Film Series, a regular staple of the Film and Media Studies department, showcased An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power on Friday, September 15 at the Hamilton Movie Theater, in tandem with Kolbert’s work. The film is a continuation of and a response to former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The first installment was a seminal contributor in bringing climate change and policy to the public eye.

The Director of the Film and Media Studies Program Mary Simonson, stressed how special

it was to be screening An Inconvenient Sequel as part of the Friday Night Film Series.

“Still a limited release, we didn’t think we were going to be able to get [An Inconvenient Sequel], but the stars aligned and it’s here,” Simonson said.

The documentary opens with panoramic views of exploding glaciers, akin to a Michael Bay movie, set to a sound montage of global warming denials that must have cut straight to the heart of former Vice President Gore. The notion that rings as the ultimate plea of the documentary is that the world we live in today consists of a barrage of rhetoric that denies scientific fact too easily validated by extreme climate and weather patterns. The film claims that the environment is rapidly adapting to our destructive habits, and we aren’t responding fast enough.

Gore’s travels intersperse the film as we see him delivering lectures and experiencing the firsthand effects of climate change across the world. He finds himself in flooded streets in

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Florida, which are due to sea levels rising. The scene’s images are analogous to those of Hurricane Irma, which hit Florida just this month. As state officials gather with Gore around a water pump failing to keep the streets clear, he looks on with a disappointed face and cold eyes.

“You can’t pump the ocean,” Gore said, leaving a bitter look of shame on the officials’ faces for their lack of action in attempting to curb climate change.

Indeed, political inaction is a common theme in the film. We see Gore struggling against an obstacle of leaders who refuse to aid in environmental activism. And when current President Donald Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement, completed at the Conference, Al Gore meets his toughest battle yet.

But Gore pulls through the wreckage of the president’s decision and leaves the documentary with a note of hope. He details the massive strides countries around the world have taken to use renewable resources, citing a trade deal between a solar panel company and India. Nowhere in the documentary is hope lost, even if it will take time to start moving in the right direction.

After the film, as I trekked back up the hill to Colgate, the image of Gore, sweaty and shaking with passion, remained imprinted in my mind. His words resonated in my ears.

“We are close,” Gore said, quite simply in reference to the success of the modern environmental movement.

I looked around our campus and its attempts to educate and improve in this world of environmental disaster, and couldn’t help but agree. We are close.

Contact Andrew Kish at akish@colgate.edu.

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Mount Kimbie’s Love What Survives Review: Alternative Music for the Average Soul

By Tristan Niskanen Maroon-News Staff

“Damning in the corner/ Feeling like I don’t need anyone/ Losing my balance/ Making problems out of whatever I see.”

These lines from Mount Kimbie’s “You Look Certain (I’m Not So Sure),” featuring Andrea Balency, seemingly define the album Love What Survives. It’s an album about pain and punishment, uncertainty and anxiety and the idea that although everything might be destroyed, you have to love what survives.

British duo Mount Kimbie’s latest electronic lament is filled with vivacious energies; their post-dubstep sound is as refined as it is raucous. Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, the two musicians behind Mount Kimbie, successfully focus on the details of each beat.

“Four Years and One Day,” the album opener, could be the soundtrack of an alien invasion. It is ominous, psychedelic and absolutely spectacular. It leads right into the King Kruleassisted “Blue Train Lines.” The song is a double-reference to trains and veins. Krule sounds especially angsty with his poetic narrative in this song.

The album’s features are sparse but fitting. Besides Andrea Balency and King Krule, Mount Kimbie collaborates with singers Micachu and James Blake. Micachu delivers the catchiest vocals of the album on the song “Marilyn.” Mount Kimbie’s production on “Marilyn” is groovy and filled with swing. James Blake is featured twice, and his angelic voice dazzles. The outro to the album, “How We Got By (ft. James Blake),” is haunting, both in production and verse. Blake’s lyrics are bleak, repetitive and concise.

Love What Survives is an interlude. The 39-minute album ends abruptly without any full sense of cohesion, paralleling the angst characteristic of the music and the lyrics. Mount Kimbie likely intentionally left the album this way to add a layer of incongruity. Thus in a certain sense, the album is complete – Love What Survives is for the listener. It can be taken as a meditation, therapy or a confirmation of the dreary coldness of the world.

The best song of the album is the instrumental “Delta.”

Think car racing video games, running montages and intense day dreaming. The song builds on itself and at times sounds similar to some moments on Radiohead’s Kid A. For those unfamiliar with Mount Kimbie, Love What Survives is just as good an introduction to the group as the duo’s previous two albums, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth and Crooks & Lovers.

13 Beats of the Week

By Jonathan Santiago Arts & Features Editor

“Guess Your Major” Edition 1. “Maps” by Maroon 5 Elevate your music tastes with this song and you’ll really find yourself a hit.

2. “The Circle of Life” by Carmen Twillie & Lebo M. This song will really breathe some life into your playlist with its catchy beat.

3. “Love on the Brain” by Rihanna You’ll love Rihanna’s inspired song about the twists and turns of love and how it can really question your sanity.

4. “Piano Man” by Billy Joel If you haven’t heard this song, you’re living under a rock. “Piano Man” is the perfect song no matter the time or place.

Whether it’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday or midnight in the library, Billy Joel will get you through it.

5. “History of Everything” by Barenaked Ladies You’ll probably recognize this Barenaked Ladies track as the theme song of “The Big Bang Theory,” but the song is worth a listen on its own. At the very least, it’ll remind you of your favorite episodes!

For those on a time budget, watch the music video for “Delta.”

It is a short film about a robbery. The footage is vintage and the video is entertaining.

The artwork on the album cover is some of the most fascinating this year. Love What Survives is worth checking out based on its cover alone.

Bottom line: if you’re into any sort of electronic music or alternative/indie rock, Love What Survives is worth the listen.

The album is ripe for repeat listens and has the potential to ferment into something greater.

Rating: 8.6/10 Contact Tristan Niskanen at tniskanen@colgate.edu.

Entertainment Update Your Week in Preview

By Sonali Byrd Maroon-News Staff

Clifford Gallery Exhibition: It’s so sunny that it’s dark Make sure to check out Scherezade Garcia’s new exhibit, “It’s so sunny that it’s dark,” which combines themes of displacement and adaptation to tell a story of what it means to integrate. Garcia uses symbols as well as visual vocabulary to share her story while also encouraging the viewer to reflect on themselves. You can see this exhibit on September 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Little Hall.

Living Writers Series: Alice Sebold Reading On Thursday, September 21, author Alice Sebold will deliver a reading of her book Lucky as part of the Living Writers Series. The memoir is featured on The New York Times Bestseller List. Sebold’s previous books, The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon were both bestsellers as well. Don’t miss this event at 4:30 p.m. in Love Auditorium.

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6. “Rocket Man” by Elton John Another classic, this time from Elton John. This song will take you out of this world, and you won’t want to come back after getting lost in the lyrics.

7. “Hallelujah” by Rufus Wainwright It was between this and a Gregorian chant, but Wainwright’s cover of this song for Shrek 2 was nothing short of masterful.

8. “Classic Man” by Jidenna Who could forget Jidenna after his 2016 SPW performance that will go down in Colgate history? “Classic Man” is perfect for pre-games, nights at the Jug or even workouts.

9. “Human” by The Killers What is it to be human? Who knows...

10. “Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads The chorus is a stand-out that will ensure this song remains stuck in your head. Talking Heads was a staple on the New York punk scene in the ‘70s, and “Psycho Killer” is evidence of their prowess.

11. “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay You might think this song belongs in a museum, but it’s really a work of art that is still wonderful to listen to today.

12. “Superwoman” by Alicia Keys Who doesn’t love Alicia Keys and this song about female empowerment will surely make you feel super.

13. “Lolita” by Lana Del Rey Lana Del Rey seems to really be on the same page with her fans with this classic tune.

Contact Jonathan Santiago at jsantiago@colgate.edu.

Friday Night Film Series: LONG STORY SHORT Make sure to stop by the Friday Night Film Series in Golden Auditorium on September 22 at 5 p.m. to see Long Story Short directed by Natalie Bookchin. This film combines over 100 interviews with men and women in homeless shelters, job training centers and food banks to explore poverty in the United States.

Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, dan tranh zither & dan bo On Friday, September 22 at 2:30 p.m. don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear Emmy Award-winning Vietnamese composer, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ. Her compositions have been included on the award-winning soundtrack for the documentary “Boliano 52,” the soundtrack for the Sundance Best Documentary Daughter from Danang and the recent documentary A Village Called Versailles, which won the New Orleans Film Festival Audience Award. This special event will take place in Brehmer Theatre.

Unsettled Conditions: How We Talk About OUR PLACE IN THE Environment On Friday, September 22 at 10 a.m., you can see this exciting new exhibit at The Longyear Museum of Anthropology. This student co-curated exhibition explores human interactions with diverse environments and questions how we, as people, shape the communities around us. This exhibit also requires viewers to look forward to our future environments, drawing attention to our role in preserving and protecting our world.

Alternative Cinema: Up Rise by Nick Cave On September 26, head to Golden Auditorium to see a special screening of Up Rise by Nick Cave. There will also be a live question and answer with the artist following the screening. The film will begin at 4:30 p.m.

Contact Sonali Byrd at sbyrd@colgate.edu.

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Fenty Beauty Review: Diversified Perfection

By Angie diaz Maroon-News Staff

Fenty Beauty, the makeup line created by Rihanna, finally launched this month and makeup lovers everywhere lost their minds. Who can blame them? The makeup line certainly lived up to the hype. The collection consists of 40 foundation shades, a primer, four duo highlighters, two single highlighters, 20 matte match stixs, ten shimmer match stixs, one universal lip gloss, blotting sheets, powder and a set of brushes. The launch defined Fenty Beauty as a complexion-based line. Rihanna has said she wanted to ensure her makeup line would fit all skin colors, and Fenty Beauty’s commitment to diversity makes it stand out, especially compared to other collections that cater to lighter skin tones. Some brands have 30 shades of ivory but only seven medium to dark shades. In fact, Almay’s foundation shades do not even match tanned light skin.

Fenty Beauty’s Soft Matte Longwear Foundation provides a decent medium coverage; it is humidity-proof and fits all skin types. The 20 matte stixs can be used to contour and conceal, while the 10 shimmer stixs provide a fun pop of color. The duo highlighters consist of two complementary highlight shades, one more muted and the other more intense. The single highlighters are a good option for those seeking a more dramatic glow. Trophy Wife, a glittery golden shade, and Metal Moon, an iridescent white shade, are the standout highlight shades. They can even be used as eyeshadow if you like the colors but aren’t looking to highlight.

One thing that did shock me initially was the absence of a red lipstick in the collection. However, I got over that quickly. Giving “my lipgloss be poppin’” vibes, the Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer comes in a universally flattering

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rose shade. The blotting powder and sheets provide oily-skinned girls with that much-needed shine relief.

Fenty Beauty’s white and nude-pink color scheme is gorgeous. The packaging style is minimalistic but incredibly chic. Many of the products have an octagonal shape, and some (the match stixs and the portable brushes) are magnetic. The magnetic products can stick together in a purse, allowing for a quick touch-up without the hassle of rifling through your things. Plus, the honeycomb shape created when combining the match stixs and portable brushes is too cute to pass up. The blotting paper packaging is a refillable mirrored compact that has the appearance of a lipstick case. If you’re into glowing and healthy-looking skin without too much hassle and are looking for a diverse range of cruelty-free makeup, Fenty Beauty is the brand for you.

Contact Angie Diaz at adiaz1@ colgate.edu.

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The Big Sick Movie Review: A Refreshing Rom-Com

By Gloria Han Maroon-News Staff

It’s hard nowadays to find a good romantic comedy, or even just one that transcends overworn cliches and cheesiness. The last rom-com I watched on Netflix was Playing It Cool. The cast was fantastic and the chemistry between the leads (Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan) was tangible; the two, however, could not overcome the film’s weak plot and poorly written characters. Not only was the male lead (Evans) undeserving of sympathy, but I also found that I didn’t care if he would get the girl in the end. And this is the lovable Captain America I’m talking about. The Big Sick, however, has restored my faith in the romantic comedy genre. But romantic comedy may not be the best description for it; rather, it’s a multi-dimensional film that contains the two elements, romance and comedy, within it.

The Big Sick revolves around Kumail Nanjiani, an Uber driver and comedian, who begins dating Emily (Zoe Kazan), an audience member at one of his shows. He doesn’t reveal the relationship to his immigrant parents, who continue to set him up with Pakistani women in hopes of securing an arranged marriage. When Emily discovers this secret and realizes that Kumail sees no future with her without losing his family, she breaks up with him. Kumail later reevaluates their relationship upon the news that Emily is hospitalized – and meets her parents as well.

The cast is impeccable: Nanjiani shines as his namesake, as do the dependable Ray Romano and Holly Hunter as Emily’s parents. Bo Burnham and “Saturday Night Live” favorite Aidy Bryant also appear in supporting roles, as fellow comedians. Aside from the cast, the movie is elevated by its solid script. The situations and dialogue are clever, culturally relevant and hilarious; look out for a great scene between Hunter’s character and a fraternity brother. There is a visible realness to the movie as well, most likely due to the true story on which it is based: Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon’s own romance. The two also wrote the screenplay together, making it all the more charming.

Not only is the movie amusing and heartbreaking, it is also important for several reasons. First, it’s very rare to see actors of South Asian descent as leads in Hollywood roles. Being of Asian descent myself, this is refreshing to see. The success of The Big Sick and other entertainment such as Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” give us hope for more diversity in comedy, though there is still a long way to go. Secondly, the film provides insight and enlightenment into a culture that many Americans don’t know much about. Nanjiani highlights and humanizes Middle Eastern and Muslim values and practices, steering viewers away from the negative stereotypes Americans often cite in ignorance. This ties into my third point: the prominent theme of cross-cultural

encounters. Through his own struggles of identity, tradition and interracial relationships, Nanjiani delves into the significance of “Americanness,” and its own contradictory nature.

I believe many viewers will be able to relate to this to some degree.

The Big Sick is an intelligent romantic comedy-drama with depth, certainly not just a romantic comedy. I don’t just recommend this movie, I strongly believe people should watch it, for diversion but also for greater awareness. Nanjiani is a gem, and I think most people would agree that we need to see him more. The Big Sick arrived relatively late to Hamilton, but this is all the better for those who missed their chance during the summer. Second chances don’t come often, so I suggest that you take them when we can – you won’t regret it!

Rating: 4.5/5 Contact Gloria Han at ghan@colgate.edu.

A REAL LOVE STORY: Zoe Kazan (left) and Kumail Nanjiani (right) star in The Big Sick, which is based on Nanjiani’s relationship with his wife.

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Tennis Off to Successful Start Women’s Soccer Victorious in Loyola Faceoff at Daemen Invitational

By Gabe Alter

By Dana Monz

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The men’s and women’s tennis programs got their seasons off to an electric start with successful performances at the Daemen Invitational. Head coach Bobby Pennington’s squads looked sharp as both teams dominated the competition with a combined 63 victories over the weekend. Heavy contributions from seniors as well as first-years propelled the Raiders into a weekend that they hope will set the tone for the remainder of the season.

Senior Jacob Daugherty started his season strong, and was one of six Raiders to record six individual victories over the weekend. Junior Alec Dardis and first-years Scott Bickel, Peter Hartman and Jack Ablon were equally dominant in their outings and shouldered the load for the Raiders.

First-year Tyler Krantz, sophomore Kun Tan and juniors Cameron Swanson and Noah Rosenblat were dominant as well, recording five individual victories each. Dardis was distinctively successful, winning 6-1, 6-2; 6-2, 6-0 and 6-0, 6-2 in his three singles matches. He and Ablon were a stand out duo as well, cruising to easy victories in all three of their matches. But out of all the raiders who competed over the weekend, Daugherty was the most dominant, cruising to a 6-3, 6-0 victory in his final singles match of the weekend. It was a solid start for the Raiders, who will participate in the Binghamton Invitational next weekend and look to continue their winning ways in the early stages of this highly anticipated season.

The women’s team was perhaps even more dominant at Daemen than the men’s team, cruising to a combined 30-1 individual record and setting the precedent for a strong 2017-2018 season.

HYLAND HITS A WINNER: Junior Lauren Hyland back in action.

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Colgate won six of seven singles championships and tacked on three doubles championships over the weekend, receiving major contributions from athletes in each class.

First-year MacKenzie Deeter, junior Lauren Hyland, sophomores Lauren O’Brien and Jordan Williams and seniors Kelly Klein and Cheyenne Brown each contributed six victories. Hyland was dominant in her three singles matches, dropping just one set en route to a weekend in which she boasted a game record of 42-19. The doubles team of O’Brien and Deeter could not be stopped all weekend, going 3-0 and dropping just five games in total. Equally successful was the Klein/Brown squad who dropped just nine games in their three matches. The team will participate next in the West Point invitational hosted by the Black Knights.

The outlook for the Colgate tennis program is bright. Pennington’s 11th season at the helm is off to a strong start, as both teams look to carry the momentum into this upcoming weekend.

Contact Gabe Alter at galter@colgate.edu.

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The Colgate women’s soccer team had a successful week, defeating Loyola and building on its winning streak as its overall record moved to 4-4.

This past Saturday, the team hosted the Loyola Greyhounds. The Raiders clinched a quick lead just over six minutes into the game with a beautiful goal from sophomore midfielder Mara Cosentino off a defensive break.

Cosentino received the ball and one-touched it over the Loyola goalkeeper’s head into the back of the net. Senior forward Emily Crichlow, after assisting Cosentino’s goal, tallied a goal of her own midway through the first half of the competition. Crichlow managed to volley the ball right into the back of the goal for a 2-0 lead off a cross from junior midfielder, Martina Loncar, through the defender on the back door of the net.

With just 2:43 left in the first half, junior attacker Shannon Pawlak scored her first goal of the season by rocketing the ball from 35 yards out just below the cross bar into the net to make the score 3-0 going into half time. Early in the second half, the Greyhounds managed to get one goal past sophomore goal keeper, Kelly Chiavaro. Notably, Crichlow tallied a goal and an assist recording her second most points in a game, while Pawlak recorded her second career goal in the game. These successes lead the Raiders to comfortably clinch a 3-1 win against the Loyola Greyhounds.

“Loyola knocked us out of the Patriot League Tournament two years ago, so we always

LADY RAIDERS: The team dominated in their first Patriot League game. Jared Rosen look forward to this match up. We came out very strong and put together three sweet goals going into half time. It was enough for us to come out with a win and start off Pat League 1-0,” senior midfielder Eliza Doll said.

With this win the Raiders improve to 4-4 overall and 1-0 in the Patriot League, while the Greyhounds fall to 2-6 overall and 0-1 in the Patriot League record as they tally their third consecutive loss. The Raiders managed to outshoot the Greyhounds 21-2 and 9-1 in shots on goal.

“There is so much parity in the league and its so important to get that first win, and the fact that it came in the first Patriot League game is huge for us. It’s good to see that come out and it’s good to see these players’ personalities come out in their creativity and how well they play together,” head coach Kathy Brawn said.

The Raiders move forward to take on West Point on Saturday, September 23 at 7 p.m. on Beyer-Small ’76 Field.

Contact Dana Monz at dmonz@colgate.edu.

Football Suffers Second Loss after Contest with Bulls

By Lindsay West

Maroon-News Staff

Following a closely-contested loss to the Richmond Spiders at Andy Kerr stadium last week, the short-handed Colgate Raider defense stepped into the spotlight of FBS level Division 1 football only to fall to Buffalo, surrendering 30 points by halftime and ultimately losing with a final score of 33-10.

With a 6 p.m. kickoff broadcasted on ESPN3, it was a night that clearly belonged to the Buffalo Bulls, playing at home for the first time this season. UB came out strong on offense with a 13 play touchdown drive to start the game and had built a 20 to 3 lead by the end of the first quarter.

Each of Buffalo’s first four drives would result in a touchdown. The Raiders were without some of their top defensive talent which included injured defensive starter and All-American senior Pat Afriyie, senior Trent Williams, junior Tyler Castillo and junior Ben Hunt, all of whom had previously combined for 57 starts.

The Raiders struggled to contain the Buffalo’s run game, allowing a season-high 302 yards on the ground and 486 yards of total offense.

After a three-and-out by the Raiders on their first possession, Buffalo only needed

RAIDERS FALL TO BULLS: Despite the team’s best efforts, injury and inexperience contributed to Colgate’s loss to the Buffalo Bulls this past weekend.

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four plays to score their second touchdown of the game. Although Colgate would score on sophomore Chris Puzzi’s 22-yard field goal on the team’s next drive, UB marched right down the field again to take a definitive 20 to 3 first quarter lead, and never looked back.

Colgate’s first and only touchdown came on a 12-play 76 yard touchdown drive in the third quarter. First-year Malik Twyman capitalized on a 5-yard run, his first collegiate score. Making his first

start for Colgate, first-year Grant Breneman completed a mere six of 23 passes for 56 yards, but was able to add 68 yards on the ground.

“He did some really nice things. He made some tough plays, some long runs that bailed us out. Obviously again we have to get more effective throwing the football from his end of thing,” head coach Dan Hunt said.

Particularly notable on the defensive side of things for Colgate was an 18-tackle

performance by junior TJ Holl, setting a personal career high for the second time in three games this season. Holl came into the game leading the Patriot League in tackles.

“He’s what you want out of a linebacker, you seem him side-to-side, he makes things happen,” Hunt said.

Hidden by the lopsided score, Colgate had some success running the ball with 192 yards led by Breneman. Hunt noted his team’s success on the ground.

“Early on we were able to run the ball pretty well, but it got to the type of game where we just didn’t have the time to do that,” Hunt said.

In his postgame comments, Hunt spoke about the impact of having so many prominent players injured and how it’s influenced the team.

“We had a lot of kids playing tonight who haven’t normally played. Down the road there may be a silver lining as far as experience, but we’ve got some work to do to get ready for another good team next week,” Hunt said.

Looking forward, Colgate plays their next three of four games at home – their sole away game at Cornell on September 30 – starting with a matchup with Furman University next Saturday afternoon.

Contact Lindsay West at lswest@colgate.edu.

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Field Hockey Suffers an OT Loss on the Road

By Kate Kelly Maroon-News Staff

The field hockey team was on the road this weekend, battling Lafayette in a tough match until the very last whistle. The Leopards had the lead for the first half of the game, going up 2-0, but the Raiders didn’t give up for a second. They gave a hard fight and fell short by just one goal in overtime play, when Lafayette’s first-year midfielder Anna Steps scored her first and game-winning goal 1:15 into overtime.

Senior goalkeeper Maria Krull had yet another outstanding performance and was a crucial force on the defensive end for the Raiders. She held her own with a remarkable sixteen save game, which put her at 446 total saves in her career and now sixth place in alltime program history. Although a key player throughout the entirety of the game, Krull stood out most in the second half, stopping all twelve shots she faced.

“On Saturday we opened up our Patriot League play with a tough game against Lafayette. The team showed a lot of grit and character by coming back from a two goal deficit to force the overtime. And although the outcome was not what we wanted, it is a game we can learn from and build on in order to prepare for the remainder of our season,” Krull said.

Lafayette’s first two goals came in pairs as they were scored within two minutes of each other late in the first half, putting them up 2-0. The first goal came off a rebound as Sam Di Maio buried the ball to get a 1-0 lead.

Next, senior forward Rosie Shanks scored on a penalty corner and the Leopards went up 2-0.

This two goal deficit did not phase the Raiders as they continued to push through and bounce back with an incredible showing in the second half. Just like Lafayette, the goals came in pairs and the game was quickly tied up within twelve minutes of the second half.

First-year midfielder Michaela Corvi scored her second goal of the season and the first of the game to spark the offensive play for the Raiders early in the second half. And just six minutes later, Colgate was awarded a penalty stroke that senior defender Molly Klare buried into the back of the net past Lafayette’s goalkeeper, sophomore Sarah Park.

Tied, the game went into overtime, and unfortunately the Raiders fell to the Leopards. However, head coach April Cornell was proud of the team’s performance.

“I am extremely proud of our effort and tenacity today. Lafayette is a very fast and skilled team, and we stuck to our game plan. Every game play, we get stronger and stronger and I know if we continue to compete like we did today we will be successful,” Cornell said.

Sophomore Emily Lambert was not discouraged by the loss.

“It’s always tough losing, especially in overtime, but overall we played awesome and I’m excited to show the rest of the patriot league the new Colgate field hockey team,” Lambert said.

The Raiders are ready to bounce back from this loss and face their next challenge, away against Holy Cross on Saturday, September 23 at 12:05 p.m.

Contact Kate Kelly at kkelly@colgate.edu.

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LaVar Ball: The Funniest Dad in the NBA Ball Has His Boys in the Spotlight

By Eric Fishbin National Sports Editor

Taking an unpopular position on a polarizing figure can sometimes be fun if the context is less serious than it is made out to be by the media. LaVar Ball is undoubtedly one of the most outrageous and hilarious figures in recent sports history, and people either love him or hate him. But even if you get caught up in the unpredictable Ball family drama, the three things that matter most to LaVar come through consistently: family, loyalty and success.

Whether he is talking about his own aptitude or that of his kids, the man absolutely radiates confidence. Everyone remembers him saying he could “kill” Michael Jordan one-on-one back in his heyday. And before Lonzo has even played his first game, LaVar said Lonzo could take on the two-time MVP. If you can get over your first, “Is this guy for real?” reaction and just go with what he is saying, LaVar is incredibly funny and, more importantly, effective.

We can laugh at him all we want, but sometimes the man is right. In February, he asserted his son would only play for the Los Angeles Lakers.

A few months later, the Lakers selected Lonzo with the second overall pick. The Big Baller Brand (BBB), headlined by Lonzo, has the potential to be huge considering you probably know the name of LaVar’s son who hasn’t even played in college yet. The Ball brothers, Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo, could all be in the NBA together in the near future. Although expectations are high, if the boys can perform it will take off.

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Being a part of the Big Baller Brand, an extension of the Ball family, can come with rewards. LaVar takes care of his own, and he recognizes loyalty. When his handyman’s truck broke down, LaVar bought him a brand new one, bringing the man to tears.

However, if you throw shade at the BBB, watch out. He does not discriminate on who he attacks, be it Charles Barkley or (perhaps most famously) Kristine Leahy. When Ball appeared on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, Leahy went after LaVar’s Big Baller Brand

for not marketing to women. Ball famously responded “you are a hater” and warned her to “stay in [her] lane.” Ball does not hold back on speaking his true opinion in any scenario.

He wants the best for his kids and stomps on anyone who disrespects the name of the Big Baller Brand.

Many of his actions are exaggerated for attention, a skill LaVar has cultivated and perfected over the past few months in the limelight. Usually, the message he sends is sincere but the delivery and phrasing is

intentionally absurd. Next time you see LaVar Ball on your television screen, try not to take what he is saying seriously because he is an amusing media personality just like Stephen A. Smith and anyone on Fox or CNN. He knows how to pull your strings and is doing it on purpose. Instead, just go along with it and try to laugh with him. Trust me, when the cameras go off and he’s back at the Big Baller mansion, he’s laughing too.

Contact Eric Fishbin at efishbin@colgate.edu.

Cleveland Indians Make History Record Win Streak Snapped at 22 by Royals

By THEO ASHER National Sports Editor

The circumstances were unlike anything else I’ve witnessed while watching a baseball game in mid-September. The Cleveland Indians had previously won an American League-record twenty-one straight game. But, the Kansas City Royals were winning 2-1 in the 7th inning; realizing the magnitude of the moment, my friends and I immediately shut off the Thursday Night Football game and turned on baseball.

What transpired next was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my many years watching baseball. Down to the last strike of the game and potentially the win streak, Francisco Lindor roped a gametying double that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Jay Bruce would double in the winning run in the next inning, and the streak was extended to an unprecedented 22 victories in a row.

Unfortunately, Cleveland’s win streak was finally halted by the Royals the next game, as ace Jason Vargas proved too much for the normally lethal Indians offense. So, here we are, left to reflect on what was, in my opinion, the single greatest run by a team in baseball history.

We can compare the Indians’ streak to the two other most impressive streaks in MLB history, the record-setting 1916 New York Giants’ streak of 26 games and the 2002 Oakland A’s streak of 20 games.

For the former, we must consider that many of the games within the course of the “streak” were ties, since that game result existed at that time. In addition,

POUR ONE OUT: The Cleveland Indians celebrate their dramatic walk-off victory over the Kansas City Royals on Spetember 14, which extended their win streak to an unprecedented 22 games. Outfielder Jay Bruce delivered the game-winning double.

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there were less members of a baseball team and less teams in the league. The Giants probably had more familiarity with their opponents and were able to reuse players more frequently unlike the 2017 Indians.

As for the 2002 A’s, whose influence was great in the grand scheme of baseball philosophy, the Indians were a much stronger team in general. They dominated

opponents during their 22 consecutive victories, with their only walk-off occurring in the final chapter. The A’s had four walk-offs and generally began to regress in performance late in the streak. On the flipside, as the stats will illustrate, the Indians were intensely dominant during their 22-game tear.

22 games equates to just about 198 innings. During Cleveland’s streak, the

team trailed for only eight of those 198 innings. Considering how often a baseball offense can explode in a flurry of runs in one inning, that is pretty darn good pitching and defense. While we’re on the subject of Cleveland’s pitching, it is also important to note that during the streak, the team threw seven shutouts, which is more than 18 out of 30 MLB teams have had this whole season.

As the team’s pitching staff pulled its weight, the Indians’ offense was nothing short of explosive during the 22-game win streak. They outscored opponents a laughable 142-37, with the average margin of victory being 4.77 runs. When a baseball team wins by five runs in one game, that can be certifiably labeled as a rout. Therefore, the Indians destroyed or nearly destroyed their opponent in every single game they played.

Watching the Indians win that 22nd game in a row was truly unique. It was the middle of September and I felt as if I was watching a Game 7 in the post-season. That is what is so important about the Indians win streak. Remember how they gave up a 3-1 World Series lead to the Chicago Cubs and came daringly close to winning Game 7 of that epic series? Well, as this astonishing streak has demonstrated, the Indians are more than capable of sealing the deal this season.

Contact Theo Asher at tasher@colgate.edu.

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Question of the Week: You Are Stuck on an Island, Which NFL Player(s) Do You Bring?

By MATT GENTILE

Assistant National Sports Editor

With a provocative question such as this, there are many directions I could go with my answer. At first, I thought I needed someone who will entertain me on this island. But after more thought, I quickly wised up and realized I need to prioritize a player who will increase my chances of survival the most. With this in mind, the answer is easy: Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck.

Luck is commonly thought of as one of the smartest players in the NFL, in large part because he attended Stanford University. My strongest piece of evidence for choosing Luck is not where he went to school, but what he studied while there. Aside from tearing it up on the field, Luck managed to graduate with a degree in architectural design. This would certainly come in handy when building a shelter or the raft that we would use to escape (think Tom Hank’s character in Cast Away). There isn’t anyone I’d trust more than Luck and his Stanford architecture degree.

There are other players in the NFL that also carry around the reputation of being a smart guy. Ryan Fitzpatrick, current backup quarterback on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, holds the record for the Wonderlic test (a sort of IQ test taken during the NFL Draft combine). However, he does not bring the winning attitude and leadership qualities that Luck’s teammates and coaches have praised.

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Last but definitely not least is Marshawn Lynch. To round out my island dream team, I would want someone with some real survival knowledge and experience. Lynch actually appeared as a celebrity guest on “Running Wild” with adventurist Bear Grylls, so hopefully he would have picked up some useful tips to help us survive. At the very least, Lynch would serve as a hilarious addition to the team, and he would hopefully bring enough Skittles for us to survive for a while.

My one hesitation with my selection is Andrew Luck’s lack of technological prowess.

It is a commonly known fact that he still uses a flip phone, so he would not be much help in any attempt to create a radio signal to call for help (think Lost Season 3).

By ETHAN MARCHETTI Maroon-News Staff

First of all, I would want my dream team of island companions to include someone with wisdom and knowledge, and I think Ryan Fitzpatrick is a perfect match. The Harvard graduate and current Buccaneers quarterback is no stranger to high pressure situations, both on and off the field. Fitzpatrick even scored a 48 out of 50 on the Wonderlic test, an IQ exam administered to NFL rookies. With all of these academic and intellectual accolades, I think that Fitzmagic would be a valuable source of knowledge and decision making to have on a deserted island.

A second player I would like to be stranded with is definitely James Harrison. The “brawn” to Fitzpatrick’s “brains”, Harrison could be our tough guy on the island. If you have ever seen any of his workout videos on Instagram, you know that this man is an absolute beast. Harrison is a physical force, and his insane strength would definitely come in handy on the island, especially when fending off wild animals.

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If I was stuck on an island with three NFL players, the first person I’d choose would be Browns’ center Joe Thomas. One of the best centers in the league, Thomas is extremely protective of his quarterback, even though that changes multiple times per season. I’d hope that he’d be equally as protective of me on a remote island. Also, he recently played his 10,000 consecutive snap, demonstrating how durable he is even in the worst situations, which, in his case, is playing for the Browns.

The second player I’d choose would be star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Odell would be in charge of catching fish because the man can catch ANYTHING. As one of the best wide receivers in the league, Odell has a history of beating islands, especially former

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The final man on the island is Marshawn Lynch. How did Marshawn end up on an island? He has no clue, and he’s alright with that. Our island morale will never be higher, especially if he keeps up his positive attitude from Sunday’s win over the Jets. Our diet will consist of Odell’s Catch-ofthe-Day and Marshawn’s Skittles, getting all of our daily vitamins and minerals. Having a core of Joe Thomas, Odell Beckham Jr. and Marshawn Lynch will not only allow me to survive, but thrive on this island. I’m just hoping that Goodell doesn’t show up and ruin all our fun.

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Imagine you’re in a dark room. The room is completely empty and void of life. It has a similar feel to the Upside-Down from “Stranger Things,” but Barb isn’t there. You look all around, hoping to find anything at all, but to no avail. Where are you right now? You’re in the mind of Eric Fishbin, who currently sits in last place in the Beat the Experts standings. Eric, I hope you’re reading this, because we’re in week 3 of the NFL season already. Get your $#!% together. While there might not be much going on in Eric’s head, there’s a lot going on in the Maroon-News office with former players stopping by all week. Hall-of-Famer Michael Strahan took a break from hosting $100,000 Pyramid to come to the middle-of-nowhere. When he met President Brian Casey, Casey insisted Strahan tackle him. Strahan is now in Hamilton Memorial Hospital with a concussion after taking a Brian Casey stiff-arm to the face. Get well soon Michael! In addition to hosting Hall-of-Famers, we had former players who left the league for ... various reasons. Former Browns wide-receiver Josn Brown, who is trying to make an NFL comeback after multiple suspensions for marijuana, sat down with us earlier this week. When asked if he liked the scene at Colgate, Brown responded, “Bruh there’s no more Field of Dreams and slices are a dollar-seventy five. You think I like it here?” Excellent point, Joshua. We also brought Johnny Manziel to campus, but he’s been stuck in DU for 3 days. Come back next week for more Beat the Experts!