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Student Trustee Candidates Debate C.U.Future By LINDSAY CAYNE Sun Staff Writer
Candidates running for Student Trustee debated possible University responses to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, whether Trustee meetings should be open and faculty diversity among other topics in Klarman Hall on Wednesday. One undergraduate student will be elected, although graduate students and professional students can also vote in the election. The elected Student Trustee will become a full participant on the Board of Trustees, according to an email from the Trustee Nominating Committee. The five candidates running for this position are Olivia Corn ’19, Lauren Goldstein ’20, Dustin Liu ’19, Jimmy Putko ’19 and Caleb Sturman ’19. See DEBATE page 5
Sofia Hu ’17, editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun, moderated the debate. She began the debate with a pop quiz testing their knowledge of Cornell. Each candidate then gave an opening statement and proceeded to answer Hu’s questions. Hu first asked the students their stance on Trump’s immigration plan and what the University’s role should be in protecting undocumented students. Sturman answered that Cornell councils should provide legal services, without risking federal funding, to protect undocumented citizens and defend anyone charged with an immigration crime. Goldstein said that she would work to ensure that Cornell becomes a sanctuary campus and would enforce the Cornell administration’s already-present commitment to
diversity and international students. She added that she wants to be responsive to the political environment and make sure that students feel safe. Putko noted the “tremendous risk” international students take when choosing to study at a university in a foreign country. He said this risk creates “an extremely vulnerable position” for the international students who therefore need more attention than domestic students. Liu emphasized that students should not have to feel worried about possibly being deported. He said that the role of the student trustee is to bring their voices to the table. “I want to affirm every student’s ability to study at this University,” Liu said. “I want every student to reach their fullest potential and with that, we need support from this University.” CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Trust in me | Student Trustee candidates answer questions and clarify their platforms as they try to win the election.
OCR Open Forum Reveals Concerns Schwartz Plaza Set Regarding University’s Title IX Office For a New Fall Look Focus group calls investigators‘unresponsive’to campus sexual violence By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer
A Cornellian’s Oscar bumble on Sunday was not the only bad omen for Cornell this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, four attorneys from the Department of Education’s New York Office for Civil Rights held open focus groups during
which members of the public could discuss the campus climate surrounding sexual assault and harassment. The Sun attended one of these three meetings. All participants in the focus groups whose personal stories are cited in this article gave The Sun clear permission to publish their stories and any other potentially identifying information. The Sun is omitting all information
that could identify participants who did not give their express consent to The Sun to be included in this story. However, The Sun will include nonidentifying information that pertains to Title IX compliance — a similar standard to the one OCR investigators said they use in deciding which disclosures See TITLE IX page 5
C.U. Alumnus Responsible for Oscar Award Flub By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer
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At Cornell, Brian Cullinan ’82 was a masterful javelin thrower whose 250-foot heave is still the longest toss in University history. At the Academy Awards on Sunday night, it was a simple envelope handoff that tripped him up, leading to the biggest bungle in the Oscars’ 89 years, followed by apologies, befuddlement and sympathy. The accounting firm tasked with handling top-secret Oscars envelopes since 1935 said the former National Junior Olympic champion had relayed the wrong
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Cornell plans to vastly redesign Schwartz Plaza in Collegetown — complete with benches, tables and chairs — in time for the fall semester, when open seats at Collegetown Bagels across the street are a hard find. “We’ve been talking about this project for probably close to five or six years,” David Cutter ’85, campus landscape architect, told The Sun. Construction on the plaza will begin in June, pending Planning Board approval, and Cornell expects the new gathering space to be completed in mid-August. Schwartz Plaza, in front of The Schwartz
Center and diagonally across from CTB, is currently surrounded by walls and rarely filled with students — or anyone. “That space has been sitting essentially unused, behind a wall,” Cutter said. “The only way you can get in is [through] a little slot ... and when you go in there, there really isn’t anything to do.” Collegetown is the most dense area in Ithaca, Cutter said, adding to his desire to create a space where students and Ithacans can relax and study outside. A frequent criticism of Collegetown is that there is no park or other sizable space for students to congregate outdoors. See PLAZA page 3
envelope to presenters, commencing a social media firestorm and less-than-desirable publicity for the firm, PwC. “PwC Partner Brian Cullinan mistakenly handed the backup envelope for Actress in a Leading Role instead of the envelope for Best Picture to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway,” PwC, formerly known as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, said in a statement. “Once the error occurred, protocols for correcting it were not followed through quickly enough by Mr. Cullinan or his partner.” To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun.com.
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Developing mental health programs to support minority groups By RONNI MOK Sun Staff Writer
After attending a Conference on Mental Illness at Brown University, the Cornell delegation hopes to bring the discussion topics back to campus and implement new mental health initiatives that recognize different cultural backgrounds and nationalities. “Cornell must understand that mental health support cannot take a ‘one size fits all’ stance,” Carumey Stevens ’19 said. “When we discuss and assess mental health initiatives, we must consider that many Cornellians have different cultures, backgrounds and stories.” During the conference, students from the around the Ivy League discussed potential plans for medical leave and time off, resources and support systems, ableism and accessing accommodations on campus, mental illness and marginalized students and public health policies employed at schools. “Our main goal [was] to have a group of mental health activists from every Ivy League [school] work together to create lasting, positive change at each of their institutions,” said Molly Hawes, chair of the internal operations team at Brown. During the conference, students participated in
workshops, panels and problem-solving sessions, and presented on the state of mental health at their respective universities. “Some campuses are doing better in some areas, while others are struggling,” said Matt Jirsa ’19. According to Stevens, the delegation is looking to work with Gannett and organizations like Cornell Minds Matter in hopes of “institut[ing] more programming to help voices that are often marginalized or silenced.” Some of these initiatives include encouraging professors to address mental health issues in their syllabi and classes and establishing an anonymous communication platform for students to reach out to trained peer counselors, Stevens said. “There are a lot of ideas that are in development and its important to consider the power every Cornell student plays in implementing this concrete change by working with the administration,” Jirsa said. “We have to realize that we have made tremendous progress, but there are uncertain obstacles ahead that we can tackle together as an aware and united community.” Ronni Mok can be reached at rmok@cornellsun.com.
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Just call in | Labor advocacy group COLA organized a call-in to urge Cornell to rethink its licensing agreement with Nike.
COLA Protests C.U.Ties With Nike at Call-In By JACOB WEXLER Sun Staff Writer
Campus to Demand Immigration Action By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Staff Writer
In response to the recent executive order on immigration, Cornell faculty, staff and students will gather on the Arts Quad tomorrow to demand explicit action plan providing sanctuary protection to marginalized students from the University. Prof. Russell Rickford, history, organized the event with the Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy. “[We] hope to underscore the need for the University to take concrete steps to protect the safety, security, privacy and dignity of some of the most vulnerable members of our community,” Rickford said. Their demands from the University include establishing an alternative source of funding for students with and without Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, strengthening the Cornell police department’s commitment
to nondisclosure, providing housing for vulnerable students, hosting international scholars fleeing dangerous countries and lobbying in Albany and Washington, D.C.
“Justice — not professionalization — is what education is ultimately about.” Prof. Russell Rickford “[These measures] draw on the best aspects of Cornell and Ithaca’s abolitionist and sanctuary traditions,” Rickford said. “Cornell has a duty to create an atmosphere of dignity, human rights and academic freedom.” Despite Interim President Hunter Rawlings’ earlier statement to the Cornell community that addressed most of these measures, Rickford explained that the administration is not doing as
much as it should. “Cornell continues to lag behind scores of universities and colleges across the country who have taken much more robust steps to protect targeted and potentially targeted members of their communities,” he said. Rickford also rejected the idea that protesting on campus is detrimental to education. “Taking a stand on the protection of human rights helps place the discourse of justice at the center of university life,” he said. “And justice — not professionalization — is what education is ultimately about.” Rickford hopes that a “public demonstration [will] display the power of dissent” and force the University to create a specific plan. “We say ‘any person, any study,’” he said. “Now is the time to prove it.” Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.
Organization for Labor Action held a call-in in hopes of repeating history and pushing the administration to reconsider its licensing agreement with Nike Wednesday. After the Worker’s Rights Consortium, an independent labor watchdog, issued a report detailing Nike’s violations against its factory workers, COLA delivered a letter urging the University to reconsider its business relationship with Nike to Interim President Hunter Rawlings last month. Following the letter, the event was organized so students could call administrators to share their opinions directly. “It is a good way to get the administration to notice that we do care,” said Alfie Rayner ’18, a COLA member. Rayner explained that several years ago, Cornell terminated its contract with Nike due to its violations of the Bangladesh Health and Safety accords, as well as with Russell Athletic and Jansport over concerns of workers’ rights violations.
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The new “urban plaza,” as an Ithaca Planning Board member called it, would give students a place in Collegetown to work, chat or bring meals. The project will need to be approved this month by Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board, which showed general support for the project on Tuesday. Cutter, as well as members on the Planning Board, are hopeful that the project will serve as a catalyst for other enhance-
ments near the intersection of Oak and College avenues. “This is really kind of a first step toward a lot of different im prove ments in that corridor between College Ave. down to Eddy Street and along the gorge there,” Cutter said, adding that he hopes people notice the difference the plaza makes and support future projects. The plaza, Cutter said, “is really part of a bigger effort that we have for looking at that whole corner,” from the stone arch bridge over Cascadilla Creek down to the
Eddy Gate — the ornate gateway at the upper end of Eddy Street donated to the University by Andrew Dickson White. Other potential projects include en hancing the walkway around the Schwartz Center, upgrading the octagonal pavilion with technology showing the next TCAT bus arrival, converting the intersection into a “T” intersection and ex panding pedestrian and bicycle travel. None of those possibilities have been proposed yet. The project, funded by Cornell and the
Student Assembly Infrastructure Fund, is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, although a figure will not be known until the project is awarded to a company in the spring, pending Planning Board ap proval on March 28. Landscape architecture firm Trowbridge Wolf Michaels has been working on the plaza’s design process, which began with a community design input session in Saint Luke Church in Collegetown. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogelburroughs@cornellsun.com.
“We have the ability to influence policies,” Rayner said. “Our efforts have worked in the past and led to tangible action.” Since then, Cornell has reached out to Nike demanding that it clarify its commitment to following the guidelines of the WRC, but Nike has not responded, Rayner added. “Given Nike’s action throughout the past year, anything less than a clear commitment to allowing the WRC future access would be evidence of Nike's unwillingness to respect the rights of workers it profits,” said Katy Habr ’18, another COLA member. Habr was determined to see tangible action from the University and explained that COLA would not wait for the University. “Although we have faith the administration will hold Nike accountable for its violations of our contract and code of conduct, we are prepared to escalate if we see that appropriate actions are not being taken,” Habr said. Jacob Wexler can be reached at jwexler@cornellsun.com.
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you shouldn’t be there,” Sturman said. Goldstein emphasized that the issue is less about the openSofia Hu ’17, editor-in-chief ing up the meetings but more of The Cornell Daily Sun, modabout the lack of panels with erated the debate. She began Trustee Board members for stuwith a pop quiz testing the candents to come to and ask quesdidates’ knowledge of Cornell. tions. Each one then gave an opening After Hu finished asking her statement and proceeded to questions, she allowed the audianswer Hu’s questions. ence to ask their own questions. Hu first asked the students One audience member brought their stance on Trump’s immiup the resolution presented to gration plan and what the the Student Assembly regarding University’s role should be in an increase of faculty diversity protecting undocumented stuof opinion. dents. Corn said she co-sponsored Sturman answered that the resolution because diversity Cornell councils should provide is incredibly important. She legal services, without risking said that Cornell federal funding, to should “put money protect undocument“We don’t want to overshadow one toward finding profesed citizens and defend identity over another, we should be sors from all walks of anyone charged with life.” an immigration crime. thinking holistically.” S t u r m a n , Goldstein said that Goldstein and Putko she would work to Dustin Liu ’19 agreed with Corn that ensure that Cornell there should be an becomes a sanctuary campus and would enforce the and does not think that the increase in diversity among Cornell Professors. Cornell administration’s board has anything to hide. Liu also said that as an advoLiu also said meetings already-present commitment to diversity and international stu- should perhaps be open to the cate for the LGBTQ and Asiandents. She added that she wants public. However, he added that American communities, he to be responsive to the political it is more important for there to fully believes in increasing environment and make sure be increased opportunities for diversity among professors. students to work with Trustee However, he said that he did that students feel safe. not agree to the resolution prePutko noted the “tremen- Board members. Corn expressed that there are sented because the language was dous risk” international students take when choosing to study at a parts of the meeting that should not right. “We are looking for someuniversity in a foreign country. not be open to the public, He said this risk creates “an because there is a lot of sensitive thing that does not overshadow extremely vulnerable position” and confidential information others,” Liu said. “We don’t for the international students discussed at these meetings. She want to overshadow one identiwho therefore need more atten- said that some of this informa- ty over another, we should be tion would only create unneces- thinking holistically.” tion than domestic students. The debate ended with the Liu emphasized that stu- sary panic among students. Sturman said that there is no candidates sharing their persondents should not have to feel worried about possibly being simple yes or no to this ques- al statements. Students can vote for one deported. He said that the role tion. He said that rather than of the student trustee is to bring having all meetings open to Student Trustee online starting everyone, there should be meet- on Wednesday, March 8th at 8 their voices to the table. “I want to affirm every stu- ings that are open to relevant a.m. and ending March 9th at 8 p.m. dent’s ability to study at this parties. “Sensitive information is disUniversity,” Liu said. “I want every student to reach their cussed, so if you don’t have an Lindsay Cayne can be reached at fullest potential and with that, invested interest in the issue, lcayne@cornellsun.com. DEBATE
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to put into the investigative record. The public consensus of the few — a single-digit number — who attended the event: it’s bad. Of the six open OCR investigations against Cornell, most are to determine whether the University responded “promptly and equitably” to sexual assault complaints. At least one of these investigations is to determine whether the University discriminated against a party to a sexual assault investigation on the basis of sex. Attendees disapproved of the University’s treatment of both parties in Title IX investigations. From the perspective of a complainant, a number of participants said that the Title IX office cares more about avoiding litigation than it does about seeking justice. Some attendees said that in their experience, the Title IX office looked out for the University’s interests rather than those of the complainants. Instead of offering the complainant several legal avenues to handle the complaint, the attendees said the Title IX office tried to keep the complaint internal and quiet. Several focus group participants went on to say that the University’s Title IX investigators were slow and unresponsive. Sometimes, participants claimed the Title IX office would wait over a month before responding to complaints. During this delay, attendees warned, witnesses’ recollections of events could fade and taint their testimonies. As audience members shared their thoughts, OCR’s attorneys were scribbling notes and asking follow up questions to almost all who spoke. The attorneys never tried to turn the conversation in any particular direction. Instead, they let attendees direct the conversation from the start. One topic that invoked a high number of follow-up questions and copious scribbling was that of the no-contact order — although the terms of these orders differ, they generally require that a student accused of sexual assault leave spaces where he or she could come into contact with their accuser. No-contact orders were not popular among the attendees. Some attendees said that these orders are too weak and difficult to enforce closely because the University would have to monitor the accused person’s movements at all times in order to completely enforce the order. Other attendees took the opposite position. They worried that no-contact orders presumed guilt and were prejudicial. These orders are imposed by the Judicial Administrator, who can issue the order “after making a reasonable effort to meet with the accused if appropriate to do so,” according to the Campus Code of Conduct. No formal trial or finding of guilt needs to precede a no-con-
tact order, according to the code. Branching from the no-contact order discussion, a few attendees began to echo each other’s concerns about potential unfairness toward students accused of sexual assault. The discussion was ignited when a Cornell parent, who asked The Sun to identify her as ‘Judy,’ reported that a lawyer experienced in sexual assault matters cautioned her against sending her son to Cornell based on the University’s reputation for treating students accused of sexual assault unfairly. When the OCR attorneys asked for specifics on how the University might treat accused students unfairly, attendees quickly responded with a list of grievances: respondents have no ability to examine or confront accusers or to question witnesses or be represented by an attorney, and they, like complainants, are unaware of the investigation’s timeline, according to the attendees. Most of these grievances, when stated out loud, drew a few nods of agreement from others in attendance, with the OCR attorneys seeming particularly interested in the timeline of the University’s Title IX investigations. During this part of the discussion, OCR’s attorneys asked open-ended, opinion-driven questions. For example, one investigator asked an attendee if he thought the University’s use of no-contact orders was fair and why he felt the way he did. To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun.com. Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.
we need support from this University.” Corn said she would do whatever is possible to protect undocumented students, while making sure that the University stays within its legal bounds. The candidates gave more varied answers when asked if they believe that Cornell Trustee meetings should be open to the public. While Putko gave a hard yes to this question and Corn gave a hard no, Liu, Sturman and Goldstein gave more nuanced answers. Putko said that meetings should be open because he wants to involve more students
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The Sun Always Rises JOURNALISM TODAY IS an important public service. In the past year especially, we have seen the traditional media fail in disappointing ways to cover many of the relevant issues and to hold various people and institutions accountable. These failures constrain the agency and imagination of our communities to build a just and democratic future. The responsibility that reporters and editors are tasked with — the responsibility to keep the public informed — is gruesomely demanding but nevertheless essential. The Cornell Daily Sun is exempt neither from the challenges that journalism faces today nor the obligation to serve the community. Undoubtedly, we fail and make mistakes, but we are also continuously growing to meet those demands. Complacency has no place at The Sun, which is why, over the past year, we have recommitted ourselves to publishing comprehensive, quality reporting. It is also why we have restructured our print production and doubled down on pursuing an ambitious vision of The Sun online. In the time since we decided to print only three days a week, we have published more investigative pieces, widened the breadth of our coverage and improved the digital presentation of our stories — and that’s just the start. While so much at The Sun has changed in this digital era, it’s important to also remember what hasn’t. The Sun continues to be not only a newspaper essential to keeping the Cornell and Ithaca communities informed, but also a community that bridges together students from different disciplines and backgrounds. Friendships made here last a lifetime, lessons learned here stick with us forever. I am incredibly thankful to have had the unique privilege of leading The Sun and its 134th editorial board. The editors and managers on this board have accomplished more than I could have imagined when we first set foot into the office the day after elections. The newspaper you hold in your hands right now was made with the grit and care of students who could have easily decided to take a nap, catch up on homework or grab a drink instead of dedicating themselves to putting out the best journalism possible. The soon-to-be editors of the 135th editorial board have large shoes to fill, but I have no doubt that they will do so, and more, with ability and passion. The way forward is uncertain and daunting — but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Sunnily yours, Sofia Hu ’17, editor in chief
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Lawsuit Free at Last Dear Shu: In planning to write this letter, I had intended to mine the archives of our Facebook conversations for our best inside jokes, our most outrageous memories and all the nonsensical things that have occurred in between. However, since you deactivated your Facebook account (guess we should have used Slack) and temporarily erased the historical record of all our shared despair and triumphs, all I am left with is unabashed sentimentality. So, if the following letter makes you uncomfortable, which I believe is the point of these letters anyway, you have only yourself to blame. From your first tipsy speech at elections to your last avoided midnight edit, you have indelibly left a mark on this great institution, The Cornell Daily Sun. While you would have consumed less Gorger’s fries, shed fewer tears and gotten more sleep (doubtful) if you had never made the last minute decision to run for EIC, The Sun would definitely have been poorer without you. Faced with some of the worst quandaries The Sun has had to face, you’ve handled it all with tepid enthusiasm and paralleled dedication. Making difficult decisions and being accused of things you only wish were true, you led The Sun into the 21st century. In actuality, you really have managed to maintain your integrity, scare away relatively few compets (at least fewer than me) and hold onto your insanity through it all. In the future, when The Sun has eliminated even its digital edition (advertisers will livestream directly to our brains and the rest is comics), I will still use your password to delete all the Oxford commas I find. You inherited quite a handful, and your ability to lead through these uncharted territories has been inspiring. I can’t guarantee that in years to come you’ll be remembered forever in the footnotes of The Cornell Daily Sun’s history or even in The Sun’s online archives (RIP The Sun’s Tumblr), but I can say that on this day and in this moment, I recognize all that you have done for The Sun and for the Cornell community at large. See you soon a couple hours after the deadline. — Glee
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OPINION
Kevin Kowalewski | Democratic Dialogue
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The Heights of Insincerity
n the House Chamber, President Donald Trump managed to successfully read out loud for nearly an hour. He did not call anyone ugly, ask Russia to hack his political opponents or mock the disabled. Remarkably, he somehow managed to begin his address by saying that anti-Semitism and racism are actually bad things. For these achievements, the president has been widely praised. By merely making an attempt at the basic composure expected of him, he has earned a set of headlines proclaiming a “New Trump.” However, on any issue of substance, the address represents virtually no change from the authoritarian policies of the his administration. In fact, the only discernable difference is a slight change in tone. Was our problem with proto-fascism that it just wasn’t eloquent enough? At this moment, Trump realizes that he can clear the lowest of bars by ascending to the highest heights of insincerity. He has set expectations so incredibly low — and successfully cultivated an utter disregard for details and facts — that he can generate positive headlines with the slightest of effort. Even Trump, ego and all, is capable of understanding that his first month was a disaster. And now, we should not be shocked that a man savvy enough to win the presidency is capable of occasionally deviating from his temper tantrums. It won’t be long at all before Trump is back to incoherent rants and angry tweets.
But before then, let’s assess this moment on the merits. Despite his frequent calls for unity, Trump advocated for his standard policy agenda. He urges Democrats to join him, while giving them no reason to do so. In the few cases where potential compromise may be found, his words ring out as exceedingly phony. It is so easy for him to say these things, and so hard to imagine them actually coming to fruition. On policy, one of Trump’s most appealing initiatives is a proposed one trillion dollar reinvestment in American infrastructure. Yet this initiative offers good reason for Democrats to be skepticism. Rather than directly spending government money to rebuild our roads and bridges, the indication is that Trump would prefer to offer tax credits to private developments. This plan would enrich corporations, while neglecting areas with less potential for profit. It is perverse to speak of rebuilding America if your policies will ignore the places that need it the most. And then you have his request for childcare and paid family leave, ostensibly an addition pushed for by his daughter Ivanka. Why should anyone believe that this idea has any hope of passing through this Congress? These uncertain promises and murky details can also be found in his pathetic discussion of the Affordable Care Act. After seven years of excoriating Obamacare, the Republican path forward on health care remains opaque.
Trump’s most egregious doubletalk, however, is his pledge to protect clean air and clean water. That very same day, Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, began to rollback a major Obama administration rule to prevent water pollution. Furthermore, Pruitt has set his sights on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, a critical regulation aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly, at the end of the warmest February ever recorded in Washington, D.C., President Trump couldn’t utter a single word about climate change. The media has also seized on the fact that Trump spoke about a potential immigration compromise. Yet there is no indication that any such moderation has actually occurred. In fact, by priors standards, Donald Trump’s speech represented an unprecedented demonization of the immigrant community. Just remember that Trump promises a new federal office to serve the victims of “immigrant crime.” Divorced from a context besides the past 18 months, this idea would have been greeted as wild demagoguery. Indeed, highlighting the specific crimes of one group of society is a textbook tactic of authoritarian regimes. Apparently, however, this doesn’t matter. Trump said it in a softer tone. It is astonishing that anyone who has followed Donald Trump could be convinced that this address represented any real sort of change at all. We cannot be distracted by
meaningless shifts in rhetoric. Instead, while we may lend an ear to what Trump says, our eyes must be steadily fixed on what Trump does. After all, a president who cloaks his discrimination is not something to celebrate. I would argue that Trump remains quite candid about many of his intentions. But when discrepancies do arise, they must be aggressively called out. And we must say what he won’t. To name just one example, President Trump was not willing to defend his recent order rescinding protections for transgender youth. That offers no solace to the student who no longer feels safe at school. Under this administration, we cannot expect that anyone in power will ever amplify the voices of the marginalized. The responsibility is now ours. I stress that the American people must keep our standards high. Trump’s failures to date do not give him the benefit of being graded on a curve. He has done nothing to earn our trust, and yet millions still trust him. The biggest problem with Trump is hardly his immature behavior, as unbecoming as it might be. It’s his savvy ability to manipulate the public into believing that he’s defending the very American ideals that he attacks. Don’t be complacent. Don’t underestimate him. And don’t believe him. Kevin Kowalewski is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at krk78@cornell.edu. Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged
Let SiliconValley Thrive: Part II I
n my last column, I discussed how the federal government should take steps on an international level to help grow the tech industry. I firmly believe that Silicon Valley represents the height of American entrepreneurship, ingenuity and creativity –– and the government must take every step possible to ensure that the tech world’s potential is fully realized. In this article, I want to look at what the government can do on a more domestic level to help expand Silicon Valley and the rest of America’s booming technology sector. Perhaps the most important step forward for Silicon Valley is a radical change in our secondary education system. For there to be a massive expansion in the tech industry, students across the nation must receive a highly robust education that fosters a love and intellectual curiosity for science, technology, engineering and math. Unfortunately, the vast majority of American students are not receiving this kind of education. Currently, well-developed STEM curricula are reserved only for private and elite public schools in America’s wealthiest neighborhoods. In these schools, students are given the opportunity to have strong introductions to complex topics such as neuroscience, microelectronics, algorithms, software engineering and molecular genetics. Armed with this strong background in STEM, these students are able to attend highly competitive universities and achieve great levels of success. Yet most of America’s students are not given this opportunity. Instead, most students across the nation face science and math curricula that are overly broad and highly lacking in depth of content. The lack of a well-developed national STEM curriculum is the product of federal mismanagement and a lack of proper funding. The Department of Education has, for too long, focused on achieving high levels of performance on standardized tests. The focus on standardized testing has distracted
the Department of Education from encouraging the development of a modern education system that fosters an understanding of STEM topics. At the same time, most school districts across the nation are severely underfunded in their math and science departments. Though I almost always favor a more fiscally hawkish approach the budget, I strongly believe that we must expand federal education funding. Every child, regardless of socio-economic status, deserves access to in-depth and well-devised math and science curricula. With better access to proper STEM education, more students than ever before will be able to enter the fields of engineering and technology. Previously untapped talent will enter the market and help expand the world of technology, while tech firms across the nation will have a much larger pool of candidates to fulfill critical company roles. Yet while education reform is crucial step forward in growing Silicon Valley, it is not the only step that the federal government must make on the domestic level. One of the great challenges to start-ups in Silicon Valley is the immense regulatory and tax burden of the federal government. To navigate the massively complex tax and regulatory codes, startups must immediately hire an expensive legal team –– an expense that drains valuable capital from young companies. To create an environment in which start-ups can thrive, the federal government must greatly reduce the size and complexity of the tax and regulatory codes. With simpler and smaller codes, companies will find it much easier to navigate regulatory waters –– which, in turn, will reduce legal fees and thus increase the capital available to grow new companies. The final step to ensure Silicon Valley’s growth is a rather broad policy proposal: infrastructure reform. One of the greatest hurdles to technology expansion is the nation’s
crumbling infrastructure. From roads to bridges to airports to even sewer systems, America’s infrastructure is decaying at an astonishing rate. Without a strong infrastructural base, the growth and expansion of tech firms will forever be relegated to the select regions of the nation that have access to the best infrastructure. One of the first steps that should be taken to benefit the tech industry in the world of infrastructure is to expand internet access, as the lack of strong internet access in certain regions of the nation makes the tech world inaccessible to millions of Americans. To fix this problem, the federal government should encourage widespread access to Wi-Fi via tax rebates and cooperation with local governments. At the same time, a rebuilding of our roads, bridges and airports is necessary for the growth of tech firms. President Trump recently proposed a major project that would help to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. And while I don’t see eyeto-eye with President Trump on many issues, I think we should take the president’s lead on this one. Though the project will be costly, our nation — especially our technology sector — cannot function if our roads and bridges are crumbling beneath us. Overall, I firmly believe that Silicon Valley, and the tech industry as a whole, is a force for good. The sheer numbers of jobs that the tech industry supplies, combined with the massive expansion of information facilitated by tech companies, shows how important Silicon Valley has become to our economy and way of life. It is for this reason that the government must take these crucial steps to ensure that Silicon Valley will continue to thrive. Michael Glanzel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mg786@cornell.edu. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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Gaby Leung | Serendipitous Musings
Guest Room | Mitch McBride
Hot Politics
Mitch McBride: In My Own Words
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tattoo of Earth inside a Haida raven on his left shoulder. Sightings at boxing matches. Articles and pictures of his rear in slacks. Ever since October of 2015, popularity over a certain world leader emerged. But since a highly controversial president was elected in America, not only has Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s popularity skyrocketed, but his status within this country has as well. He has become a symbol of hope. It’s no accident that his growth in popularity came as Trump entered office. Since then, countless videos have been created comparing the two of them talk about uranium and quantum computing — emphasizing Trudeau’s knowledge and eloquence and Trump’s lack thereof. There are articles on how Trudeau was able to take control of Trump’s uncomfortable handshake and humorous images of Ivanka Trump apparently “swooning” in the Prime Minister’s presence. And with the president’s recent defense of a travel ban placed on refugees, Trudeau’s statement that he will take the United States’ banned refugees touched the hearts of Americans who believe a ban would be inhumane and unjust. Amidst the disappointment, fear and outrage that many Americans have felt since the election and will continue to feel for the next four years, Trudeau stands as a sort of symbol of hope and progress. At a town hall forum in Belleville, Ontario, Trudeau stated, “I’m never going to shy away from standing up for what I believe in — whether it’s proclaiming loudly to the world that I am a feminist, whether it’s understanding that immigration is a source of strength for us and Muslim Canadians are an essential part of the success of our country today and into the future.” His statements, which so many people in this country relate to, have acted as a catalyst for the adoration of this world leader. Although recorded a year ago, videos of Trudeau declaring himself a feminist have also recently arisen in contrast to Trump’s lewd remarks on women. Much of what Trudeau has said and done has resurfaced as a result of Trump’s own actions. People are most attracted to the ideals for which Trudeau stands. What they wish a president would do, he has done. He went to the airport to personally welcome Syrian refugees into Canada and gave them winter coats. He acknowledges that climate change exists and he promotes clean energy practices — 81 percent of Canada’s electricity is provided by solar, wind, hydroelectric or nuclear power. He is an LGBTQ ally and walked in Toronto’s Pride Parade. When he was sworn in as prime minister, he established a diverse cabinet with an equal number of men and women. According to an Ipsos poll conducted by the Global News, if given the choice, more Americans would rather have Trudeau in the White House than Trump. Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, told Global News, in regard to the popularity of the Prime Minister,“part of it is Trudeau on his own, part of it is what’s happening in the U.S. right now.” Devoid of politics, there is no doubt that the public is also infatuated with his handsomeness — a seemingly trivial thing, but real and powerful nonetheless. John F. Kennedy was another president who caught the attention of the public with his good looks. In the first-ever televised generalelection presidential debate in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Kennedy’s handsome and charming appearance dispelled much of the public’s worry that he was too young and inexperienced to be president. Much of the attention Trudeau has gained is in his ability to cause a stir on social media through his appearance. Social media has indeed done an effective job in circulating photos of Trudeau’s looks and the effect he seems to have on everyone, from excited crowds to celebrities like Kate Middleton and Emma Watson. There are videos of him dancing, pictures of him balancing babies on one hand and photos of him boxing shirtless. Just recently, major news outlets have published articles on how photos of young Justin Trudeau are burning up the internet. I focus on the popularity of Trudeau within the United States only, however, for a recent forum poll shows a decrease in his approval ratings in Canada. Canadians have their own views on how he is dealing with their policies. Many people aren’t aware of the problems Canadians are facing within the country and how Trudeau is dealing with them. His political decisions in the country remain removed from what we know and understand here. But in the United States, his popularity has continued to grow. Whether people agree with his policies or not, Trudeau has become an icon for Americans. He is such a contrasting image to Trump that people have found him a source of comfort. No matter people’s obsession with his good looks and charm, his progressive thinking and actions resonate with the discontented hearts of Americans. Gaby Leung is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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hat is free speech? We often proclaim its importance, but rarely is it defined. Free speech is when everyone, yes everyone, has the ability to speak and be heard respectfully. Shouting down speakers we disagree with is antithetical to free speech. In an academic environment such as Cornell, it is of fundamental importance to engage in various debates and to allow for a variety of opinions. This is how knowledge is created. For those who disagree with lecturers, allowing them to speak is how misguided beliefs can be brought to face the test of reason. In defending free speech, true free speech, and in trying to assist in the upholding of the Campus Code of Conduct, I videotaped protesters who were trying to stop Michael Johns, a co-founder of the Tea Party, from expressing his viewpoints. I videotaped them as they were clearly violating the Campus Code of Conduct, a point to which the protesters themselves later admitted, and I wanted to gain evidence of their actions. I would normally reserve myself and expect the proper authorities to take judicial action, but from my role as chair of the Codes and Judicial Committee in conversation with the judicial offices of the University, I learned that the police are not directly charged with enforcing the Code;rather, the police merely act for public order and safety. It is the responsibility of every member of the community to make sure community members adhere to the Code. Additionally, I have noticed what I believe to be a failure of the administration to enforce the Code itself. The administration does not want to engage in conflict with protesters. Senior members of the judicial process have confirmed this fact with me. The protesters have mounted a smear campaign of character assassination against me because I was the first person to ever really stand up and speak out about the imbecility of their improper actions. They have
claimed that I invoked my authority as an elected official to gain authority while videotaping them. While I did mention that I was chair of the Codes and Judicial Committee, it was only in response to their question of what specifically I was elected to and how I knew what the requirements of the Code were related to protesting. Many people advised me that it would have been in my best political interest to apologize so I would not be removed as chair of the CJC. While it would have been in my best
my actions on the basis that they prohibited free speech and hampered the intellectual diversity of campus community members. Diversity of thought is part of diversity, whether liberals want it to be or not. On the other hand, I do concede that we must allow for protests in order to hear protesters’ opinions as well. I have consistently supported respectful and legal protests in all of my time in governance at Cornell. We must practice what we preach. While we claim to adhere to due process before issuing a verdict, the University Assembly had motions to remove me before even hearing my perspective. The Sun articles were extremely powerful in shaping people’s opinions, which were hard to change after being framed in such a negative way. The University Assembly almost didn’t let witnesses speak who supported me, and they did not review the video of the incident before making a decision to remove me. This undeniably shows how the decision of the University Assembly was purely political. Members were upset that I stood up against protestors, even though it was completely within my rights, and some have admitted that privately. Many have admitted that I did not do anything “technically” wrong, but the mere fact that I didn’t apologize was the reason they removed me, as a few protesters had their feelings hurt that I videotaped them. I remain firm and content with my decision to not apologize. I will not apologize for defending free speech and the truth, and I will continue to record and report instances where I see Code violations. I was removed for defending free speech, upholding the Campus Code of Conduct and not allowing the ignorance of a few ruin the intellectual inquiry of many. If that’s a sin, I’m a sinner.
While it would have been in my best interest politically, it would have been a lie — I do not regret any of my actions. interest politically, it would have been a lie — I do not regret any of my actions. I simply videotaped a violation of the Code in order to uphold free speech on campus, and answered the protesters’ question truthfully and in a straightforward manner. One might think this failure to apologize is unreasonable, but sometimes the truth is not naturally pleasing to our psychological drives to compromise. This scuffle illustrates a broader and more important point. If conservative students were protesting the mere ability of a liberal lecturer to speak, the campus would find their actions despicable. But the reverse, which regularly occurs, does not seem to bother the community. Many people simply claim that “fascists” should not be allowed to speak and this is the end of it. For liberals, I would suggest they look up the word “liberal.” It represents an openness to ideas and opinions. As an academic community we must hear from those whose perspectives differ from our own. We must have more faculty on campus, for example, that represent these distinct viewpoints. I sponsored a resolution that would have promoted ideological diversity and free speech. The S.A. voted it down, and a week later, with no hint of irony, decried
Mitch McBride is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the University Assembly. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Don’t Call Me Son Explores Privacy and Gender Identity
Watching Don’t Call Me Son, a 2016 Brazilian film directed by Anna Muylaert, was one of the most stressful, quietly terrifying viewing experiences I’ve ever had. It is by no means a horror movie, making this accomplishment all the more notable. Don’t Call Me Son stars Naomi Nero as Pierre, a highschooler who wears stockings and garters under their jeans, shaves their chest hair and takes their time after showering to try on lipstick while the bathroom door is locked. The plot of the movie revolves around the revelation that infant Pierre was stolen away from their biological parents at birth and that the woman they believed to be their biological mother is, in fact, not. Brazilian social services take Pierre away to live with a new mother, father and brother they have never known. In the new family’s house, Pierre loses their name and becomes “Felipe.” Don’t Call Me Son is a depiction of what goes on behind closed doors. The film’s tension, character conflict and unsettling horror all revolve around questions of privacy. For Pierre, a queer person who passes in day-to-day life as a man, their privacy is extremely important. Several borders conceal the nuances of Pierre’s identity from the outside world: a bath towel, a locked bedroom door, a suitcase hiding a dress or red changing room curtains. The opening scene of the movie establishes, in stark contrast, the divide between the public and the private. Pierre is first seen on a party dance floor, their body intertwined with their dance partner’s. The dim, colored lighting obscures the action of the scene. But as soon as they find their way off the dance floor — when they are alone, behind a locked door, in privacy — the lighting becomes harsh, white and entirely clear. As Pierre begins to have sex with their partner (in an energetically depressed manner that quickly becomes their modus operandi for most of the movie), the camera pans down to their garters and stockings, shone plainly in the bright light. It is only in private that Pierre can share this part of their identity with another person. Don’t Call Me Son is at its most anxiety-inducing when these boundaries begin to slowly crumble. Pierre is thrust into
increasingly uncomfortable public situations. Crowds of people roughly handcuff Pierre’s former mother. When Pierre sees their no longer protect them, but rather place them at the center of new family’s house, a few things stand out: the freshly painted scrutiny. At the same time, Pierre’s privacy gradually erodes. walls, compared to the cracked façade of their old home, the gate Previously, Pierre’s privacy was an opportunity to explore and that surrounds the complex and the expensive-looking art pieces reflect on their gender and sexuality. Now, it becomes a self- that hang everywhere. And they have a maid who is darkerskinned than anyone else in the movie. imposed prison. Watching as Pierre’s public and private life are slowly conThe film refuses to explicitly address questions sumed by the pervasive, intrusive gazes of Pierre’s class, gender and sexuality, but it has a of others was scary. lot of rich commentary to offer on an implicit level. In my mind, this is to the film’s credit. Pierre’s mounting anger and frustraDespite the unique perspective provided in tion at their situation is palpable. There moments when we the audience become voyeurs are a few points in the movie when to Pierre’s privacy, these snapshots of Pierre are still what happens behind closed doors is highly ambiguous. It’s unclear what Pierre intends not sexual but violent — in other COURTESY OF ZEITGEIST FILMS words, Pierre gets tired of dealing with to do with all of the selfies they have of themselves nonsense and lashes out on the world around them. Pierre’s with lipstick on or for what exact reason they’re putting on lipstick anger makes the scenes in which they’re surrounded by overly- in the first place. But it certainly seems like Pierre doesn’t have the answers to these questions either, or to any questions we might have friendly and enthusiastic “family members” all the more tense. Throughout the movie, I anticipated with substantial dread as to the “technicalities” of their identity. After I occupied varying states of dread for most of the when everything would snap. The movie builds, bit by bit, this hidden energy. It grows every movie, at the ending I felt completely at ease. Throughout the time someone calls Pierre “Felipe” film, privacy is something that Pierre partakes in alone, an and every time their new mother opportunity to see to what extremes they can take their exprescalls them “son.” Pierre’s resent- sion in clothing, cosmetics, anger, romance and sexuality. But ment at being constantly at the end, Pierre’s privacy becomes shared and no longer misidentified is all the richer for extreme. Instead, it is halting and awkward, the first steps its two dimensions, which are also towards something more intimate. Cornell Cornell Cinema is showing Don’t Call Me Son on Thursday, apparent in the title of the film. Cinema Pierre is not your “son” because March 2nd, at 7:00 p.m., and Sunday, March 5th, at 4:30 p.m. their gender cannot be so easily defined, and they are also not Albert Chu is a junior in the College of Engineering. He can be your “son” because, they had a family before their new one. reached at ac2369@cornell.edu. I was scared for the entire movie because I slipped so easily into Pierre’s mindset. They’re surrounded by people who conThis Weekend in Arts stantly scrutinize, misidentify, and frustrate them. Eventually, someone or something is going to go too far. CatVideoFest, a showing of approximately 100 Don’t Call Me Son also deserves praise for vividly depicting a videos of cats, is at Cornell Cinema, number of power structures while barely saying a word about any Friday 7 p.m. and Saturday 2 p.m. of them. Besides the obvious queer and transgender issues, there The Head and the Heart at The State Theatre are also other unspoken points in the movie that still scream, quite Saturday 8 p.m. loudly, about other inequalities. There’s the way that the police Adult Mom at Cayuga Lodge Saturday 9 p.m.
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Nine Performances That Deserve an Oscar More Than a Sexual Predator
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n Sunday Night, Casey Affleck stood on the stage of the Oscars wearing a very nice suit with and a very nice beard and a very nice ACLU ribbon on his jacket, and accepted the Academy Award for Best Actor. A great number of journalists have written detailed accounts of Affleck’s sex crimes of intimidation, harassment and physical assault against Amanda White and Magdalena Gorka on the set of his 2012 film I’m Still Here. Whether or not you knew that Casey Affleck was a sexual predator, the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences assuredly did, and decided that his deeply whatever performance as a sad janitor was worth more than women’s dignity. I am personally still waiting to see a film so good that it is worth legitimizing sexual violence in order to reward it; a movie more compelling than my own humanity. If there were such a film, I think it would likely star Kate McKinnon and Ellen Page and Issa Rae and Meryl Streep and Quvenzhané Wallis and tell a tense, wrenching story about complex networks of female affect, intimacy and emotional labor through the lens of a staff at a nursing home or the crew of whaling ship. However, remarkably, none of those artists have sexually harassed anyone, and cool female-driven movies like this don’t get produced by Hollywood, so this situation is an impossibility! When we artistically knight men who commit sexual violence, we spit in the face of all women, but especially the women who are victims of it. Most of all, we spit in the faces of women artists who are victims of abuse at the hands of their male colleagues, and whose art is apt to be denied the recognition we hand to their abusers as a result of the same social power imbalances that ordained their humiliation. Art made by men who commit sexual violence should not get Oscars. I actually cannot think of any art less deserving of important, powerful awards — and our big terrible, glitchy world is literally brimming with both bad, terrible, disastrous art, as well as luminously mediocre, undistinguished nothing art. So, I have taken it upon myself to compile a not-evenremotely comprehensive list of some of the terrible and nothing art that is still more deserving of an Academy Award than sexual abuser, Casey Affleck’s performance in Manchester By The Sea. Ray Romano as Manny in Ice Age 3: Dawn of the
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Dinosaurs Who doesn’t love that big grumpy condescending mammoth!!!??? Unlike Affleck in Manchester By The Sea, Romano showed extraordinary emotional range in this role, as Manny progresses through stubborn arrogance and pride, the anxieties of being a new father, tender vulnerability when his family is threatened, and compassion for his friend Sid, a sloth trying to raise three young Objectivity dinosaurs. Bites Alexander Skarsgård as Meekus (one of Derek’s roomates who dies in the freak gasoline fight accident) in Zoolander Skarsgård briefly explores the life of a deeply hedonistic and arrogant young model, Meekus. His performance is brief, as Meekus dies 7 minutes into the iconic film, but poignant — provoking questions about the inherent fragility and degradation of human life. The hamburger phone in Juno This sweet piece of kitsch honestly just sat in Juno’s bedroom for most of the film, arriving at its moral climax when Juno uses it to phone her local abortion clinic. But you know, what, it got the job done and didn’t sexually harass anyone on set. January Jones as Jeannie in Love Actually January Jones slays this corny as hell role as a British fuckboy’s fantasy of a midwestern American dreamgirl, Jeannie, from her nail-biting to shoulder-shrugging to that perfect giggle — I was convinced. Unfortunately, we only really get to empathize with Jeannie through her brief flirtation with fuckboy Collin at a bar in Wisconsin. She spends most of her screentime asking Collin to pronounce words like “table” and “straw,” but I think her character really could have had potential, if the film returned to her and explored her feelings of rejection after Collin ultimately chooses Harriet to be American dreamgirl bride. Oscar for January. Orlando Bloom as Paris in Troy Orlando Bloom spends the entirety of this campy, swordsand-jock-straps, two-and-a-half-hour long fantasy porn flick with a look of mild confusion on his face and profound blankness in his eyes, is entirely upstaged by Eric Bana (Hector) and Brad Pitt (Achilles), and serves largely as a set of abs in the narrative arch of this extremely long bad and profoundly historically inaccurate
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film — but Bloom didn’t crawl into anyone’s bed and demand sex from them during its filming! Give that boy an Oscar! The child demons who murder everyone in David Cronenburg’s 1979 body horror, The Brood The creatures of The Brood are the embodiment of a woman’s anger and trauma as the result of her childhood abuse — whenever she gets emotional, she gives birth to a new monster that terrorizes anyone her rage is directed at. While this is a deeply sexist narrative, these actors perform as the embodiment of trauma, which, when you think about it, is some avante-garde shit that has gone tragically unrecognized in the film world. The brood creatures >>>> sadboy sexual predators! Jake Lloyd as young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace That kid can’t act for shit but he probably didn’t refer to women as cows or ask them why they weren’t married yet on the set of The Phantom Menace, making Jake more deserving of an oscar than Casey Affleck! Hayden Christenson as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones Hayden Christenson’s performance as Anakin Skywalker is some of the most cringeworthy, most overwrought, collegedrama-class acting I’ve ever seen on the big screen, or the high school auditorium stage. Watching his blank rat-tailed face, I always get the sense he’s about to forget his line, and just barely remembers at the last second. He tells his girlfriend “that’s wonderful!” when she announces she’s pregnant, and I do not believe that shit for one second!! He sounds like a man who wants the hell out. When he says, “No, no, it’s because I’m so in love with you” with weird emphasis on the “with” and then laughs his creepy-supposed-to-be-charming laugh, I can feel my body literally recoil. This role is the product of the worst casting choice of all time that someone probably got fired for, but as far as I know, Hayden Christenson didn’t threaten or humiliate his women co-workers! I’m excited to announce that the Oscar for best actor goes to Hayden Christenson. Ron Orbach, as the guy who gives Cher her DMV test in Clueless Orbach berates Cher in a Jewish accent for a few minutes on-screen as she weaves across lanes of traffic, but as far as I know, respected her humanity, making him more deserving of an Oscar than Casey Affleck! Jael Goldfine is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Objectivity Bites appears alternate Thursdays this semester. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.
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Attackers Trying to Put Pieces Together With Young Talent Despite young offensive core, team will look to build on positives M. LACROSSE
obviously this year we have some younger guys starting and playing with the older guys, so it’s going to take some time to build that chemistry, “We’re just continuing to work hard, and this that flow, but we’re getting there, we’re feeling group is motivated to do that — we challenged better every day,” Matthews said. them early this week, and they’ve responded very The Red has faced two formidable opponents, well,” Kerwick said. “The consistency piece is and this weekend will be no different. Albany is 2something we’re really working for right now. 1, and is home to goalie K. D. Colarusso, who Another great opponent coming to us this week, leads the nation with 16 saves per game. and we have to play The Red dropped from start to finish if last year’s game against we’re going to put our- “We have to play from start to finish Albany, 12-8, and selves in position in the Cornell’s last postseaif we’re going to put ourselves in fourth quarter.” son game came against position in the fourth quarter.” In its games against Albany in the first Penn State and Hobart, round of the 2015 Head Coach Matt Kerwick the Red has been douNCAA championships, bled up with 20-10 and where the Great Danes 16-8 score lines, respectively. Despite allowing handed the Red a 19-10 loss. In that bout, thenboth teams to light up the board on more than 15 goalie for Albany took off down the field and occasions, the Red defense remains confident. went end-to-end for a viral and embarrassing goal “At the beginning of the year, we’re talking against the Red in front of the home crowd. about focusing on the little details — something The team is hoping that this weekend will as simple as getting in a couple more inches, or bring some confidence as it returns to Schoellkopf turning your head and seeing your man, can result for the season home opener. Faceoff comes 1 p.m. in goals against good teams,” said junior defender Sunday in Ithaca. and co-captain Jake Pulver. “I think this week “We pride ourselves on playing very tough on we’re really focusing on that and playing team Schoellkopf, and Albany’s a very resilient group defense and [not] being afraid to support our — they’re opportunistic, they scrap, they play short sticks and other guys that have tougher hard, so it’s going to be a fast game and a very matchups.” intense game, but that’s the way we like it on Part of the issue for the Red is that it is still try- Schoellkopf,” Kerwick said. “We’re very eager to ing to fit the pieces together, especially the play at home.” younger ones — the team has 17 sophomores and 14 freshmen on the team, compared to 18 juniors Jamil Rahman can be reached at and seniors combined. “Every year you get a new group of players — jrahman@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 16
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lar season. The Red came away with a tight 19-18 upset, including a win by senior Brian Realbuto (174) over then No. 1 Bo Jordan. The Red now enters championship weekend with a No. 2 wrestler in Realbuto and No. 1 in senior Gabe Dean (184). In addition to those two, Cornell has a promising lineup from the 125 to the heavyweight class — eight other wrestlers will be competing to punch their tickets to St. Louis for the NCAA Championships. “I expect everyone to succeed,” Koll said. “Obviously we won’t have 10 champions but I would, and should be, the last person to cast doubts on one or more of my wrestlers’ ability to win.” Despite a season filled
with injuries, the Red have everyone they could hope for in the lineup. “At this point in the season, barring a note from a mortician, you aren’t permitted to be hurt,” Koll said jokingly. “They have all summer to heal.” A total of 43 NCAA Championship bids will be awarded according to placement in the EIWA tournament. The Red has placed in the top five of the NCAA Championship in six of the last eight season and will need a strong showing across the board this weekend to ensure success in St. Louis. The 113th EIWA championship tournament will take place at the Sojka Pavilion in Lewisburg, Pa. The two-day meet will begin Friday, March 3. Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.
By SMITA NALLURI Sun Contributor
Coming off a narrow loss against No. 6 Penn St. (5-0), the No. 15 Cornell women’s lacrosse team (1-1) shifts its focus to league play as it takes on the No. 10 Penn Quakers (2-0) Saturday at Franklin Field. The last time the two teams squared off was at Franklin during the Ivy League Championship Tournament last year where Cornell dealt Penn a narrow 11-10 loss. Now the Red prepares itself for battle as it tries to improve its 16-28 alltime record against the Quakers. “Every game matters and our goal is to win the regular season title and the [Ivy League] tournament and that starts with beating every team in the league,” said senior attack and captain Catherine Ellis. “Everyone steps up their game to play against a league opponent.” The Quakers are undefeated so far this season and will prove to be formidable opponents for the Red. “[Penn] has been a top team probably for at least 10 years or more now — they’re the top of the heap,” said head coach
Jenny Graap ‘97. “We know it’s going to be a battle and they’re coming in undefeated and they’ve had two wins under their belt. I think we have to come in hungry as we always do. For us, it’s starting off our Ivy season and the importance of
“Every game matters and our goal is to win the regular season title and the [Ivy League] tournament.” Senior Attack Catherine Ellis our conference play is absolutely a part of this.” Ready to prove itself as the dominant team in the conference, the Red has worked tirelessly this week to eradicate its weaknesses and hone its strengths. “I think the identified area that we need to improve on is we need to be able to score more goals in just the flow of the game, not relying on the penalty shot so heavily,” Graap said. “We’re really trying to step up some of that area to get ready for our first Ivy game.” Though the Red graduated a stellar senior class of defenders last year, the team proved that it
is still a force to be reckoned with by holding Penn St. to just nine goals last weekend. “A lot of underclassmen have stepped up and even a lot of upperclassmen have really stepped up to the plate to be those leaders out on the field,” said sophomore attack Sarah Phillips. “I think our team is different [from last year], but we’re just as good. [Last year’s seniors] were always setting the bar higher, so we’re just excited and hopefully we can do it all again.” With four out of the eight teams in the conference being ranked in the national top 25, winning the Ivy League title is no easy task. But no stranger to hard work, the Red is committed to reaching its goals simply by getting better everyday. “Our motto this year is ‘better every day’. And that’s something I think we really try to take pride in and we take seriously — that every single day at practice we’re there to get better, not to just stay stagnant,” Phillips said. “By you getting better everyday, you’re making your teammates better everyday. So by pushing each other we’re only going to get better.” Smita Nalluri can be reached at sgn28@cornell.edu.
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ailing from Oklahoma, I had never been to DiBella’s Subs. It is a chain restaurant found in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, and it just arrived in Ithaca. After browsing through the DiBella’s website, I expected the place to be similar to the chain Subway restaurants, with run-of-the-mill madeto-order sandwiches. The menu consisted of a variety of cold cut sandwiches with quaint names like “The Godfather,” “The Cowboy” and “Uncle Louie’s.” I wasn’t expecting much based on the online menu. Luckily the TCAT stops in front of Five Guy’s, right around the corner from DiBella’s, so my friends and I didn’t have much difficulty getting there. Stepping off of the bus, we came to DiBella’s Subs, a brick building standing
alone on South Meadow Street with a new, promising exterior. Walking into DiBella’s was a pleasant surprise. The restaurant was quite large and had a nice forest green retro-themed interior, featuring a black-and-white tiled floor and bright red neon signs flashing “A Family Tradition Since 1918.” As my friends and I entered the restaurant, we were promptly greeted by an employee and hand-
ed paper menus. DiBella’s is casual in their ordering system — rather than speaking with a waiter, we placed our order and paid at a counter. The sandwiches could be personalized with a variety of veggies, cheese and condiments. The ordering process felt familiar, even though I had never visited the restaurant before, because of its similarity to Subway and similar sandwich shops. I ordered the clas-
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sic turkey sub while my friends opted for the chicken philly and albacore tuna salad subs. Along with the sandwiches, we ordered a pasta salad and chocolate chip cookie to share. The meals were reasonably priced, coming to about $10 per person. As we left the cash register and headed toward a shiny vinyl booth, the restaurant started filling up more with the weekday lunch rush, attesting to an employee’s claim that the restaurant had been quite busy since its opening on February 16th. We all selected sesame bread for our sandwiches. The bread had a good consistency — not too hard and not too flaky. However, the tuna salad was bland and the grilled onions in the chicken philly were too salty and soggy, though the chicken itself was wellcooked. My turkey sandwich had a good mixture of veggies and cheese that wasn’t overpowered by the meat. The pasta salad had an
uneven ratio of dressing and pasta, and the Despite the faults, the subs served as a filling lunch, and I ended up with leftovers for the next day. Overall, the dining experience at DiBella’s Subs was an enjoyable one — the welcoming atmosphere slightly made up for the meal. I haven’t been to many sandwich shops in the Ithaca area (other than CTB) but it is similar to the delis back home — nothing really special but nothing very terrible. The best word to sum up the meal was average. If you are in the area, DiBella’s Subs would be a great place to grab a quick bite to eat in friendly surroundings, but if you aren’t nearby, I wouldn’t go out of my way to make the trek there. All in all, it might just be better to stop by CTB for a slightly more expensive sandwich. Cheryl Kalapura is a freshman in the School of Human Ecology. She can be reached at crk86@cornell.edu.
How to Survive as a Vegetarian in Paris By EMILY JONES Dining Editor
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o frog legs count as meat or fish? In my year and a half of pescetarianism, I had never before been faced with the question. Then I arrived in Paris. On my first night there, my host mom asked why I’m vegetarian. I told her my reasons were partly moral, partly environmental and partly health-conscious. She said she had previously hosted a vegetarian student who became a carnivore again during her time in Paris after realizing how much more humane the French meat industry is than the American one. I told her I’d see. According to my host mom, vegetarianism and veganism are gaining popularity in Paris — but compared to New York and especially to Ithaca, it’s much more difficult to find meatless (and animal-productless) options. Menus most often offer
crêpes, quiches or sandwiches au poulet (with chicken), au jambon (with ham) and aux lardons (with bacon), among other carnivorous toppings; croque monsieurs (grilled sandwiches with cheese and ham); or a hunk of meat itself. At informal crêperies and sandwicheries, usually only one type of crepe, quiche or sandwich per menu is vegetarien. Because of this, I’ve gotten quite acquainted with the single meatless option at my go-to hangouts: a crêpe au fromage from the crêperie on the corner, a quiche au fromage from the nearby sandwicherie or, if I’m feeling particularly indulgent, a sandwich aux trois fromages from the university cafeteria. More formal cafés and brasseries might offer omelettes or scrambled eggs for the octo-vegetarians out there, or fish for the pescetarians. But meat definitely reigns supreme. Beyond Paris, the same carnivorous mentality seems to dominate. A few weeks ago my
program took an excursion to the nearby northeastern city of Reims. After a morning of sightseeing, we went out for lunch, where our set menu consisted of carnivorous entrées (appetizers) and plats (entrées). As a last minute accommodation, I was served an entrée salad of vegetables and potatoes, followed by a plat of different vegetables and potatoes. They were good vegetables and potatoes, and I appreciated the break from cheese, but the, er, “meat and potatoes” of the meal seemed to be missing. It’s not only that meat is popular; it seems that food groups essential for a vegetarian diet, like vegetables, are often overlooked. Though I have discovered certain vegetables here that I’d never eaten before (like célerirave, or celery root), I’ve struggled to find others. As Kristen Beddard describes in her book Bonjour Kale, kale was virtually nonexistent in Paris when she first moved to the city in 2011,
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so she started a movement to bring back the légume oublié (forgotten vegetable). Other veggies can be found in Paris, but only with determination. The other night, in scavenging for ingredients to make a stir fry, I couldn’t find broccoli at the first three supermarkets I visited. Perhaps broccoli isn’t a favorite French vegetable. But in general, the vegetable selection is more limited in the typical Parisian supermarket than it is in the typical American supermarket — and much more limited than the meat selections. Maybe I’m just a silly American who should learn to appreciate the fine, fleshy delicacies of French cuisine. Maybe there’s a vast network of vegetarian and vegan restaurants I’ve
missed while intoxicated in a cheesy haze. But if French cuisine is to continue to be heralded as amongst the most refined in the world, it should start refining its vegetarian, vegan and other dietrestricted dishes. My host mom served frog legs for dinner tonight. “It’s not a myth! French people actually eat them!” She said as she coated them in flour and pressed them, sizzling, into a buttery sautée pan. I decided that frog legs count as fish, and that I couldn’t leave France without trying them. Surprisingly, they weren’t bad. Emily Jones is a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ej68@cornell.edu.
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WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Icers Head to Potsdam for ECAC Semifinals By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer
After sweeping Colgate in the ECAC quarterfinals, the Cornell women’s hockey team will travel to Clarkson’s Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y. where it will take on St. Lawrence in the semifinals on Saturday. In game one of the best-of-three quarterfinals last weekend against Colgate, the Red (19-7-5, 13-4-5 ECAC) was aided by a goal on a penalty shot by freshman forward Kristin O’Neill in the waning minutes of the contest, lifting Cornell to a 2-1 victory. In the second game of quarterfinal series, freshman forward Amy Curlew’s second period goal proved to be the difference, as the Red defeated the Raiders 1-0 behind senior goaltender Paula Voorheis’ 29 saves. The game not only clinched a semifinal berth for the Red, but also marked Voorheis’ ninth career shutout. “Both games against Colgate were extremely close, and we all know that every game that we will play for the rest of the season will be close,” said senior forward Hanna Bunton. “So knowing that we were able to come out on top on both of those occasions was really important for our confidence and was good preparation heading into the semifinals.” In St. Lawrence’s quarterfinal bout with Yale, the Saints won both games handily, accumulating a goal differential of 8-1 in the series, which included a 4-0 win in the second game. The Red will come into the matchup as the heavy underdogs, despite being ranked No. 7 in the country. The Saints are led by forwards Brooke Webster and Kennedy Marchment who lead the team with 56 and 55 points, respectively. In addition to being a strong offensive team, sophomore goalie Grace Harrison has started 31 games this season and has saved 93 percent of the shots she has faced.
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Taking charge | The Red has one major roadblock remaining before it has a chance to capture an ECAC championship. “They have the best offensive line in the country — they are solid on defense, and they also have one of the best goalies in the nation,” said Head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “They have all the components, and this game will definitely be a good challenge for us — but it is the playoffs, and we are certainly looking forward to the game.” Cornell will have to rely offensively on the trio of Bunton, O’Neill and Kaitlin Doering, who lead the way in points for the Red. “We didn’t score a lot of goals this past weekend against Colgate, and St. Lawrence also doesn’t allow many goals, so we have to find ways to get our offense going as well as our defense,” Derraugh said. Goaltenders Marlene Boissonnault and Paula Voorheis have nearly split the playing time in net, so it is a tossup as to who Derraugh decides to start. Nevertheless, Voorheis started and won both games against Colgate in the quarter-
finals, which could be an indication that she will likely be in goal come Saturday. In their previous two meetings this season, St. Lawrence won on its home ice, 5-2, and when the squads met again in Ithaca, a closely contested battle ended in a 2-2 tie. In the second game, two unanswered goals in the third period by Cornell knotted the game at two apiece. “I feel that there is nothing major that we need to change heading into this weekend,” said sophomore defenseman Micah Hart. “We had success the last time we played them, and we just need to focus on playing our game.” The winner of the series between the Red and the Saints will face the winner of Clarkson and Princeton on Sunday at Cheel Arena. Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun.com.
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Sticks high | The Red looks to rebound after two tough losses to open the season.
MEN’S LACROSSE
Red Staying’Laxed and Confident Heading Into Home Opener
By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer
Regardless of the sport or level of competition, every new season brings with it a refreshing new start. This season was no different for the Cornell men’s lacrosse team, as it is looking to rebound from its first sub-.500 season since 1998. This season has not started the way the team would have liked it to — the Red has dropped both opening games and is still looking to piece things together. However, the locker room was not filled with panic. “Obviously two games that didn’t go the way we wanted them to go, but I would say we’ve still got a great group of guys, great group of players and there are
signs, some in practice, some when we’re playing, that are very positive,” said senior midfielder and co-captain Ryan Matthews. “I think we can continue to build on our skills and our chemistry and we’ll eventually get there, but we’re definitely improving every day, and we’re looking forward to getting after it this weekend.” The Red (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) is coming off a weekend where it dropped its first game against Hobart since 2004. The game snapped Cornell’s 12-game winning streak in the rivalry, the longest streak for either team in the historic 137-game rivalry. The game was also the first ever loss for head coach Matt Kerwick against his alma mater and old coaching gig. See M. LACROSSE page 13
By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor
It’s not over yet. Despite winning a 15th straight Ivy League title and ending the dual meet season in dominant fashion with an eightmatch win streak, Cornell wrestling still has work left to do. The Red (13-2, 5-0 Ivy) will look for an 11th consecutive Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championship and attempt to qualify its wrestlers for the NCAA Championships. Ithaca has been home to the EIWA trophy for the past 10 years — the longest streak in the more than 100 year history of the tournament. Head coach Rob Koll and the Red expect that trophy to come home with them once
more. “The culture is such that anything less than a championship will be a disappointment,” Koll said. It may seem that the No. 7 Red should be an easy favorite given that the squad has dominated the meet for the last decade, but this will not be the case this weekend at Bucknell, the site of the 2017 tournament. The team understands that there is no room for complacency. “This is the first time in many years that we don’t head into the Eastern Championships as the prohibitive favorite,” Koll said. “Lehigh will be the team to beat and we need everyone to wrestle at their best if we hope to bring home our 11th consecutive EIWA Cham-
pionship.” No. 11 Lehigh has been EIWA runner-up in six of the last eight years. Cornell put up 170.5 points in the 2016 EIWA Championship to slightly outperform Lehigh at 160. Cornell has also seen Lehigh earlier this year. On Jan. 21, the Red edged out Lehigh, 21-20, on its rival’s home mat. Lehigh will give the Red a run for its money this weekend in the Mountain Hawk’s home state of Pennsylvania. Cornell welcomed No. 6 Ohio State for the NWCA National Duals Championship Series — where Big Ten teams wrestled non-Big Ten teams — on Feb.19 to close out the reguSee WRESTLING page 14
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High expectations | Despite 10 straight EIWA Championships, the Red still comes in underdogs.