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Nick Smith ’20 reviews Hidden Figures, a film about breaking racial barriers in the early ’60s. | Page 10
Law students remind Trump that all ‘pieces’ of the Constitution count. | Page 3
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BLM Activist Promotes Art By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Staff Writer
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Live like a refugee | Although Catholic Charities (above) was set to help refugee families resettle in Ithaca, those families have been thrust into limbo by Trump’s executive order.
Ithaca Refugee Intake Halted By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer
Three refugee families from Syria and Afghanistan that had been approved to relocate to Ithaca are in limbo after President Donald Trump’s executive order halted all refugee admissions for 120 days and indefinitely suspended the admission of refugees from Syria, a local charity said Monday. Renee Spear, executive director of Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga, said
the charity had planned to bring up to a dozen refugee families to Ithaca this year and that Trump’s “unconscionable” executive order should be immediately rescinded. “We are heartbroken for these parents and their children who had come so close to escaping the misery and precariousness of their life situation,” Spear said in a statement. Sue Chaffee, Director of Immigrant See REFUGEE page 5
Reverend Osagyefo’s lecture on Monday afternoon at Goldwin Smith Hall quickly became standing room only. Sekou, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist as well as an author, theologian and musician, spoke on the role of the artist in a postmodern age. “What is the role of the artist, the task of the artist, in the time of monsters?” he began. “While monsters spew foul words, the artist does not delight in such talk because demonization does not defeat demagoguery. Artists must be legislators of hope, parliamentarians of possibilities. They remind us that monsters are not new, although they may be meek.” To Sekou, the current state of U.S. politics — though “monstrous” — indicates much deeper, more systemic issues. “If ‘he who shall not be named’ can be the repository of everything that is wrong with America, it allows us a kind of escapism,” he said. “For nation states produce monsters.
Monsters let us hide from the fact that all nations breed monsters, and nations love monsters — but not its artists. For artist the “While knows that all nations monsters are morally spew foul bankrupt and that all words, the politics are artist does diseased.” A longnot delight in time activist, such talk Sekou was a because senior advisor to the demonization 2004 Ku does not cinich Presidential camdefeat p a i g n , demagoguery.” according to the lecture’s Rev. initial press Osagyefo Sekou release. After the death of Michael Brown in 2014, Sekou traveled to Ferguson to train hundreds in nonviolent civil disobedience. See BLM page 14
Hundreds Protest Trump in Syracuse By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer
Hundreds of immigrants, college students, toddlers and concerned citizens converged on Syracuse Hancock International Airport Sunday evening to protest a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump that halted travel to the U.S. for citizens of seven predominantly Mus-
lim countries for 90 days. The Central New York Solidarity Coalition organized the rally at Terminal A and hundreds of people came from around Upstate New York to protest the executive order Trump signed on Friday, which also indefinitely banned Syrian refugees from being admitted to the U.S. and halted admission of refugees from any country for 120 days. “Especially with the election of Donald Trump I’ve tried to really commit to taking more grassroots rebel action e v e n
though that’s something I don’t normally do,” said Lisset Pino ’17, who drove 50 miles from Ithaca to Syracuse for the protest. Dozens of travelers from the seven countries included in Trump’s executive order — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — were detained at airports throughout the country See PROTEST page 5
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From Rome to Ithaca | Students with the Paideia Institute, where Daniel Gallagher teaches a living Latin course, examine temple ruins dating from the era of the Roman Republic at the Largo Argentina in Rome.
Pope’s Latinist to Join Faculty By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer
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Look what’s going down | Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner (right) tells protesters Sunday not to be silent, as she affirms that her city will welcome immigrants.
Switching his boss from the Pope to Cornell president-elect Martha Pollack, Daniel Gallagher is leaving his post as papal secretary in the Vatican to teach in the classics department starting this fall. “The appointment of Dan Gallagher to Cornell’s classics department is a milestone in the teaching of Latin nationwide,” Interim President Hunter Rawlings told The Sun. “Dan is the foremost exponent of spo-
ken Latin in the world.” The position of ‘Professor of the Practice’ is given to faculty with significant experience in industry or other non-academic organizations to complement tenure-track or non-tenure track faculty within a department. “I think this may be the only Professor of the Practice we’re likely to see,” said Prof. Mike Fontaine, classics. “It’s the chance of a lifetime to nab the successor of Poggio Bracciolini and Lorenzo Valla or these See VATICAN page 5