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Hotel School Dean to Leave Cornell Eaglin ’19 Bail,

Will assume provost role at Babson College

Bond Reduced at Preliminary Hearing

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Michael D. Johnson, dean of the School of Hotel Administration, will leave Cornell to become the Provost at Babson College in Massachusetts this July.

“It is a pleasure to welcome Michael Johnson as the new provost of Babson College,” said Babson President Kerry Healey in an announcement published Friday. “Michael is an accomplished academic and administrator who will bring valued leadership to our community.”

Johnson expressed excitement in joining Babson College, which he said is “well positioned to grow and excel in the years to come.”

“I embrace the opportunity to help lead this dynamic institution, and am committed to fostering a student-focused environment and building an inclusive community,” he said.

Johnson stepped into his position as dean of the Hotel School on See DEAN page 4

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Moving on | Dean Michael D. Johnson will leave Cornell in July for a provost position at Babson College.

Community Honors Garrett at Prayer Service

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

Cornell students and administrators gathered on the Arts Quad Friday for an interfaith prayer service commemorating President Elizabeth Garrett, who died of colon cancer last Sunday in her home in New York City.

Kartik Ramkumar ’16, president of the Cornell Interfaith Council stressed that Garrett had always recognized the importance of interfaith collaboration and said he wanted to honor her legacy at the service.

“I wanted to create a space where we could come together and pray together for not just President Garrett’s family, but also the enormous burden that we feel now,” Ramkumar said.

The event was also created to provide Cornellians with an inclusive space for grieving, according to Jordan Berger ’17,

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Rest in peace | Students gather on the Arts Quad on Friday for an interfaith prayer service honoring President Garrett.

vice president of the Interfaith Council.

“It’s really important that we’re able to bring together the interfaith community in times that the community really needs

healing, and to be able to create a sense of community,” Berger said. “We really

Attorneys agreed to waive the preliminary hearing for Xavier Eaglin ’19, a forward on the Cornell men’s basketball team, on Friday after an agreement between Tompkins County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Bonavia and Eaglin’s counsel Kevin Jones.

As a result of the agreement, the bail on Eaglin was reduced to $25,000 cash and $50,000 bond. Previously, Eaglin was remanded to Tompkins County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.

Eaglin, arrested on Sunday, was charged with firstdegree rape, three counts of firstdegree criminal sexual assault and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.

According to court documents, Eaglin allegedly told the victim she was “going to have sex with him.”

Cornell police noted in documents that the department has

EAGLIN ’19

recorded a video interview with Eaglin in which he confesses to coerced sex acts.

CUPD also says it has obtained a taped phone call between Eaglin and another person alongside a sworn statement in which he confesses to forced sex acts.

Eaglin’s father, Leon, was present at the hearing and See BAIL page 4

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C.U.Republicans Concerned by Trump’s Rise

Assert candidate does not represent their party’s interests

By SAMMI ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Cleveland on Saturday.

Members of Cornell University College Republicans voiced concern with Donald Trump’s recent primary victories and overwhelming public support, echoing the consternation of many Republican leaders around the country.

Jake Zhu ’18, first vice chair of Cornell Republicans, said he “would still hesitate to put money on it,” even though he thinks it is likely that Trump will win the Republican nomination.

Austin McLaughlin ’18, chair-

man of the College Republicans, said that while he is apprehensive because neither of the two GOP front-runners — Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) — represent the Republican Party, he is happy to see strong Republicans speaking out against Trump. “[Speaker] Paul Ryan (R-WIs.) and Mitt Romney are two fantastic individuals that actually stand for Republican principles, with the former representing a new, younger brand of the Republican party in leadership,” McLaughlin said.

Robby Dunbar ’18, second vice chair of the College Republicans,

said that although Ryan and Romney are speaking out against Trump, they are also weakening support for the Republican party as a whole and “furthering the rift in the part between those who support and don’t support Trump.”

“I foresee this as causing many establishment Republicans to vote for a third party Libertarian which would split Republican votes and essentially give the Democratic nominee the win,” Dunbar said. “I have heard many Republicans, especially those college aged, comSee TRUMP page 5

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Mad Men Writer, Producer Shares Show’s Secrets

By JUSTIN PARK Sun Contributor

Semi Chellas — writer and executive producer of the television series Mad Men — spoke about her experiences behind the scenes of the Emmy-award winning show Thursday in Klarman Hall.

Chellas called her relationship with the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner a “complicated dynamic.”

She also described his definition of a successful pitch.

“He told me once, if you pitch me something and I say no, then I come back a little later and I pitch it to you saying ‘I just thought of that,’ then you [have] succeeded,” Chellas said.

Although Weiner gave Mad Men its direction, the end product was ultimately the collective effort of the writers that developed the story, according to Chellas.

“It was his story, but not necessarily his stories,” she said.

Chellas explained that Weiner would present his vision for the season, and the writers would then come up with ten story pitches each.

“The important thing to bring in was truth,” Chellas said. “To bring in your own stories, your own memories, your own accounts of things, your own ideas on things. You have to internalize the stories, and kind of live with them and have them come forth within you.”

Chellas added that Weiner was incredibly involved,

saying his hands “were on everything on that show.” “[Weiner] was not only the auteur of Mad Men, but the very model of an auteur — it’s his voice, his characters, his sensibilities,” Chellas said.

Writing for television means making something private very public to others, according to Chellas.

“It’s about putting your writing process, that super secret, incredibly private process on display in front of eight or twelve strangers,” Chellas said. “Little bits of all of us went into all the episodes.”

Chellas added that plot points were inspired by research, collective realization and personal experience. “[Weiner] really believes that if you don’t use your own experience, then you’ll be taking something that has already been done,” she said.

Chellas praised [Weiner] and her fellow writers, making it clear that their collective effort is what turned Mad Men into “one of the smartest shows on television.”

“The great thing about writing in a group is that sometimes, you get these little unbreakable knots — instead of just a solution, you get this explosion of complexity and depth,” she said.

Chellas’ lecture, “Telling Secrets: Notes from the Writers’ Room,” was co-sponsored by the Performing and Media Arts department.

Justin Park can be reached at jp2245@cornell.edu@cornell.edu.

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Write the truth | Semi Chellas speaks about her experiences while writing and producing Mad Men in Klarman Hall Thursday.

C.U.’s Annual Chili Cook-Off Features Diverse Dishes

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Contributor

Students sampled and voted on chili dishes created by head dining hall chefs at Cornell’s 12th annual chili cook-off Thursday in Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

The event, sponsored by the Willard Straight Board of Directors, featured twelve tables of chili samples and

colorful comment boards, where students could write enthusiastic compliments like “Loved it!” or “Great vegetarian option!”

Alexandra Hegerle ’17, a member of the Board of Directors, said the event both allowed students to voice their opinions and gave chefs creative freedom.

“The chefs are usually pressed for time when cooking,” Hegerle said. “They have set menus, especially in larger dining halls, so now they have the opportunity to

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Taste the chili | Students sample the various chili dishes prepared by head dining hall chefs at Cornell’s 12th annual chili cook-off Thursday in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

get creative.”

Terrence Vallery ’17 said he appreciated the array of samples provided, such as Bronco-Bustin’ chili, Southwest Black Bean chili and the vegan Caramelized Onion and Four Grain chili.

“There are so many diverse gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian options,” Vallery said. “I’m really enjoying Cornell’s inclusive step towards better serving people with dietary restrictions.”

Beyond promoting more inclusive meal options, the chili cook-off also encouraged attendees to share their opinions, according to Kristen Crasto ’17, director of public relations.

“It’s a lot more welcoming when students see the boards and see something important is going on,” Crasto said. “We encourage students’ opinions and participation and the turnout has definitely been higher because of it.”

Crasto added that this year’s chili cook-off focused largely on inclusivity in opinions and dining options. “[The boards and voting] are really important for feedback for the chefs and the chili is served anonymously for a fair vote,” Crasto said.

Crasto explained that the winners of the cook-off will be announced on Facebook.

“We will post the winning chef and chili — there’s one vegetarian and one for meat — on our Facebook page, and hopefully chefs will see the positive response to these chilis and incorporate them into the dining halls,” Crasto said.

Hegerle said she hopes the event will strengthen the relationship between students and dining hall staff.

“It’s a way to build fun competition, but it’s also a way to foster community between students and their dining halls,” Hegerle said.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at afe25@cornell.edu.

Alum Earns Prize for Research in Physical Science

By GRACE SANTARELLI Sun Contributor

Mohammad Hamidian Ph.D. ’11 was named the 2016 winner of the LeeOsheroff-Richardson Science Prize for his discovery of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures, according to a University press release.

The award, sponsored by Oxford Instruments NanoScience, promotes and recognizes the work of young scientists in physical sciences research, according to the Oxford Instruments website.

Hamidian will receive $8,000 and the

opportunity to attend the 2016 American Physical Society conference later this month, according to the website.

Hamidian is particularly commended for his research in the technology of scanning tunneling microscopy that allow operation at ultra-low temperatures, the University said.

At Cornell, Hamidian worked under Prof. J.C. Séamus Davis, physics, who he said provided him with “excellent mentoring and guidance to ask the significant questions in science, develop the necessary tools to explore those issues and think deeply about their implications.”

Hamidian invented techniques that

allowed him to search for states of electronic quantum matter that only occur at extremely low temperatures, according to the University.

Hamidian said he was honored to be awarded the prize, adding that his time at Cornell helped set the foundation for his future work.

“I’m still an experimental physicist and Cornell is where I did my graduate studies that set me off on that path,” he said.

Hamidian currently works as a research associate, managing Harvard University’s branch of the Hoffman Laboratory. He said he studies electron system interactions that give rise to new phases of elec-

tronic matter.

“The electrons reorganize themselves in ways that we haven’t always been able to predict,” he said. “So a lot of my research involves trying to understand the underlying HAMIDIAN ’11 mechanisms for those properties and those electronic organizations.”

Grace Santarelli can be reached at gs539@cornell.edu.

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Hotel Dean to Leave Following Business College Creation

Admins have stressed merger will preserve school’s identity DEAN

dents and alumni remain unconvinced.

“Essentially all I’ve heard [is] both, ‘We’re doing a new thing and everything’s going to get July 1, 2006. His departure follows the recent and better,’ and at the same time, ‘Nothing’s going to controversial decision to create the new College of change,’” hotel school student Ian Kimmel ’16 Business, which will merge the School of Hotel said at an open forum on the College of Business Administration with the Dyson School of Applied last month. “You can’t do both.”

Economics and Management Kotlikoff has been trying and the Samuel Curtis to alleviate student, alumni “All I’ve heard [is] both, and faculty concerns over the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

‘We’re doing a new thing months following the Acting President and announcement, saying the Provost Michael Kotlikoff and everything’s going to merged schools will remain has stressed that the new coldistinct. get better.’” lege will not affect the “Critically, part of this unique identities of the three plan is not just to bring [the Ian Kimmel ’16 schools. three schools] together into “A unified College will one college but also to mainadvance Cornell’s mission to apply knowledge for tain the identity and focus of those schools,” public purpose and educate the next generation of Kotlikoff said. “That’s important because as peoleaders and creators to benefit society and solve ple hear about this, the first thing they think some of the world’s major challenges,” Kotlikoff about is the school’s identity is going away.” said.

Despite Kotlikoff ’s reassurances, many stu- Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

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Religious Community Mourns Garrett at Interfaith Service C.U.student groups unite in wake of president’s death PRAYER

“extremely meaningful” because it was able to unite people of different faiths, according to need to make sure that we’re Brandon Cohen ’18, chair of creating a supportive communicultural programming for ty for everyone.”

Cornell Hillel.

At the service, representatives “A lot of times, we separate from a number of religious [religious organizations] because organizations on campus shared they have different names prayers from their respective attached to their religion, but in traditions about coping reality we all hope for with loss and adversity. the same thing,” Cohen “We pray for the loss, we pray for the said.

Rachel Chuang ’16, a member of Cornell departed soul and we come together as Saim Ejaz Chaud Cru, expressed her sup- a community ... to help each other out.” hary ’17, a member of port for the Cornell the Muslim Education community during a and Cultural Asso Saim Chaudhary ’17 time of profound loss. ciation, said the ser“In these tough vice’s power came from times, I believe that God really who face similar suffering. its inclusion of the entire draws near to us,” Chuang said.

“As we remember the legacy Cornell community.

Samir Durvasula ’17, treasur- of President Garrett and pray “We pray for the loss, we er of Cornell’s Hindu Student for her family to be comforted, pray for the departed soul and Council, asked attendees to it’s also important to keep in we come together as a commuremember President Garrett “as mind that there are many other nity, as a whole, to help each alive in each and every one of individuals across the world other out in these times of diffius.” who are suffering from illness culty,” Chaudhary said.

“President Garrett may not and suffering from cancer,” Talia Jubas can be reached at be here with us in a physical Mallenbaum said. form, but her soul lives on ...

The interfaith service was tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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through all of us who remember her and her impact on all the students she cared about,” Durvasula said.

Aaron Mallenbaum ’17, president of Cornell Hillel, reminded students that people from all over the world have experienced the same feelings of loss, asking attendees to keep in mind those

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flew up from Texas in order to be in attendance.

The case is now divested to Tompkins County Court, pending grand jury action.

The Cornell University Police urge anyone who has been a victim of sexual assault

to call 911 to receive police assistance, emergency health care for injuries (appropriate to your circumstance), get access to supportive services and – if you choose to do so – to report a crime. Resources can also be found at share.cornell.edu.

Joon Lee can be reached at jlee@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Republicans Wary of Trump TRUMP

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-ing out and saying they will vote for third party Libertarian candidate — like Gary Johnson — or writein a Republican such as Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse (RNeb.).”

Unlike McLaughlin and Dunbar, Zhu said he thinks this increased backlash against Trump will be enough to curtail his support and catapult Cruz to become the Republican frontrunner.

“My hopes is that either Ted Cruz, who is a real conservative, beats out Trump for the remaining delegates or there is a brokered convention that spoils Trump’s chances,” Zhu said. “Ted Cruz will likely get the Republican nomination if Rubio and Kasich drop out soon. I expect most of their support to go towards Cruz, which puts him in the perfect position to beat out Trump in the remaining states.”

Disagreeing with Zhu, McLaughlin said that if Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and John Kasich (R-Ohio) drop out of the presidential race, he does not think Cruz will gain enough votes from their supporters to beat Trump.

“In my opinion, Trump cannot be stopped even if Kasich and Rubio drop out,” McLaughlin said.

“While Kasich is too prideful and Rubio is positioned in a lose-lose scenario — either he drops out, or he stays in and has the chance to lose his home

state — their moderate electorate will be split, but may migrate more to Trump than Cruz.”

McLaughlin said that Cruz’s recent wins could potentially alter the course of the primary, but even with these wins, Cruz will have difficulty defeating Trump.

“I think the RNC is quite divided — either they choose Trump and divide the party forever, or they do not choose Trump and pick someone that perhaps cannot win against Hillary,” McLaughlin said. “It is unclear if the Republican leadership will stand behind him and allow party cohesion to dissolve or choose not to and cause an uproar among his majority of supporters. I would not be surprised if we are looking at the demise of the Republican party in this election cycle.”

Overall, however, McLaughlin said that he is disheartened by the Republican party and the way the primaries have been proceeding.

“I will say that I am both discouraged and jaded by the two GOP front-runners, Trump and Cruz, of whom I believe neither represent my party,” McLaughlin said. “As a moderate and not a social conservative, Cruz in particular represents very little that I stand for — that being limited government and individual rights. Trump is a cancer on the party.”

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun.com.

Man Arrested at Trump Ohio Campaign Rally CLEVELAND (AP) — A man arrested Saturday after he tried to get on the stage at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Ohio reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn’t intend to hurt anyone.

The Dayton Daily News reported that it obtained a report from Dayton police that included comments 22year-old Thomas DiMassimo of Fairborn

made to officers after his arrest. The newspaper said DiMassimo told officers he gave his car keys to his girlfriend before he rushed the stage because he anticipated being arrested.

The newspaper said DiMassimo vaulted over waist-high metal railings, muscled past security guards and nearly got on the stage at the end of Trump’s rally before Secret Service agents tackled and handcuffed him. Video shows Trump, the front-runner

in the Republican presidential campaign, turning around after hearing the commotion followed by agents surrounding him protectively. Trump was campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s Ohio primary DiMassimo was released on bail Saturday after being charged with inducing panic and disorderly conduct. DiMassimo, an acting major in the theater program at Wright State University, couldn’t be reached for comment

Sunday. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.

The Daily News also reported DiMassimo was involved in an antiracism protest at Wright State in April. Video from the protest shows him dragging an American flag behind and then standing on it.

Trump on Twitter thanked the Secret Service for acting so quickly on and implied that DiMassimo has ties to the Islamic State group, an assertion dismissed by experts.

16 Killed at Ivory Coast Beach Resort GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) — Armed men attacked an Ivory Coast beach resort Sunday, killing at least 16 people and sending tourists fleeing through the historic town of Grand-Bassam in an attack claimed by al-Qaida’s North Africa branch.

Bloody bodies were sprawled on the beach and witnesses described horrific scenes as a lazy weekend afternoon was shattered by the West Africa’s latest extremist strike.

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara told reporters at the scene that 14 civilians, two special forces and six assailants were killed when the gunmen stormed the beach. The president arrived in Grand-Bassam a few hours after the attack, visiting the hotels and saluting security forces for their quick response.

“I present my condolences to the families of the people who were murdered, and of course I am very proud of our security forces who reacted so fast,” Ouattara said outside the Etoile du Sud, one of the targeted hotels. “The toll could’ve been much heavier.”

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility

for the attack, according to SITE Intelligence Group which monitors jihadist websites. The Islamic extremist group made the declaration in a post to its Telegram channels, calling three of the attackers “heroes” for the assault.

The bursts of gunfire sent people running from the beach at Grand-Bassam, a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular destination for Ivorians and foreigners about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial center. It was the third major attack on a tourism center in West Africa since November.

Some witnesses said the assailants fired at random, while others said the killing was more targeted. Witness Marcel Guy said that gunmen raced across the beach in small groups, toting Kalashnikov rifles and hunting for victims.

One gunman, who had a long beard, approached two children on the beach and Guy said he heard the man speaking Arabic.

One of the children then knelt and started praying. He was spared, while the other boy was not.

“The Christian boy was shot

and killed right in front of my eyes,” Guy said.

An Associated Press reporter saw four bodies sprawled out on the beach in front of a small resort next to the Etoile du Sud hotel, which is popular with foreigners.

Jacques Able, who identified himself as the owner of Etoile du Sud, said he rushed to the hotel after getting a phone call. He said one person had been killed at the hotel.

A receptionist at the Etoile du Sud described the mayhem.

“We don’t know where they came from, and we don’t know where they’ve gone,” said the receptionist, who would not give his name.

Beachgoers could be seen lining up with their hands above their heads as they filed out of the area. Residents who heard the gunfire hid in their homes, said Josiane Sekongo, 25, who lives across from one of the town's beachfront hotels.

An American embassy delegation was in Grand-Bassam on Sunday, but the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan said it was monitoring the situation and had no evidence U.S. citizens were targeted or harmed.

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But I couldn’t find my dent consisted of exactly one encounter. grandfather in a chat about glasnost, so Were we to have met again, I’m quite I just sat watching his daughters sort sure she would not have remembered by through his postnon-descript cards, and his white name and books, and his And what a In a manner that is rarely face. hats. massive distance The suit I was seen, the roughly 20,000 there is between wearing had a student and the students who are been purchased powers that run associated purely by the day before their university. from a store So often, the geography and similar called SUITS. relationship that studies, were a It’s a place, I I’ve felt to exactly found, where this woman, for connected and sensitive men in khaki whom I am community. slacks will sell deeply and honyou a boxish suit estly grieving, that discreetly has been fraught hides the ‘Made in’ label neatly tucked with a sense of alienation and frustraon the inside of the sleeve, rather than tion. So who was I to stand there and on the back of the collar. Prior to that call myself a mourner? hurried Friday afternoon purchase, I An answer, which I offer with a huge had never owned a suit, and this was amount of uncertainty, has to do with not a good one. But it was my suit, the depth of the relationship that a stuwhich felt masculine in a way that I was dent has with those above them and okay with. those around them. Simply by virtue of Waiting to be momentarily handed a being the president of the university I coffin, I realized that there was a vast attend, and a remarkably thoughtful range of motion that would be off lim- one at that, she cared about my wellbeits in this ill-fitting man-suit. If asked ing. It was of paramount importance to to lift anything from the ground, or her that I should be able to succeed, move it to a higher altitude, I would and that I have the university experihave to politely decline, citing the like- ence that I wanted. So too did she care lihood that it would rip every fiber of about the people around me, and the cloth on my body. Fortunately, unlike community that they comprise. the role, which I would later play, of She also matters to the people ‘male relative who holds the Torah over around me. Some more than others — his head during a Bat Mitzvah,’ this those that knew her feel her loss as did not require any such feat of athleti- something even more immediate — but cism. So I briefly held my grandfather’s her presence, and her loss, meant somecasket, then handed it off to two men thing to my community. To lose her with granite faces, who I still do not was a shock to that system, and thus to know. every individual within it. In a manner On that day, though, I did not know that is rarely seen, the roughly 20,000 how to mourn. A man of failing health, students who are associated purely by my grandfather hadn’t been an active geography and similar studies, were a presence in my life for years. There connected and sensitive community. were the memories I had of him I don’t expect anyone to ever ask my through the haze of childhood, but he why I’m grieving, but it’s still important was more a thing of stories from the to have an answer. ‘Because she was my mouths of his children. Sitting in a president,’ sounds flippant and callous, pew, I bombarded myself with memo- but I think it’s exactly right. The source ries — conversations and smiles. But of our sadness, for those of us who had much as I wanted to feel his death like some personal distance, is that there is a it had left a hole in my every day, it just special relationship between those who hadn’t. are students and those who let them be Instead, I felt his loss through a set students. I don’t know if that’s a reason of relationships. It was my grandfather, to take solace, but it’s probably a reason who, simply by being such, was of the to mourn. infinitesimally small percentage of people who would care if I broke my leg. Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the He was also a person whose death College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached would make my mother cry, so that at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester. would make me cry as well.

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Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

Why Is Glithering Not a Word?

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hile walking around North Campus the other day, I ran into a vaguely familiar freshman face.

Upon recognizing me, he brightened up, flashed a smile and exclaimed “Hey, you’re Alt Breaks Guy!” I couldn’t help but smile. Ya damn right I am.

He was referring to a training I and several others had done with his group on “diversity” (see previous column for why I hate that word.) Later on that same day, I would fail a physics test that I could have easily aced, all because I spend so much time investing energy in interacting with and learning about people, just like I did during that training. Even so, that moment with the freshman made it all worth the trouble. I have this firm, admittedly hyperoptimistic, possibly delusional belief in life working itself out that allows me to sometimes pseudoneglect all transient academic/professional endeavors for the lasting, irreplaceable moments like that one.

All of this to say that I have had the great fortune of amassing a great sum of connections and unorthodox interactions through sheer exposure to people. To that end, I am in a state of perpetual conversation. Don’t matter who they are. If they human, I can talk to ‘em. In fact, even when I’m not seeking them out, conversations

find me. Cool people gravitate towards each other. This reality, for me, is both gratifying and reassuring.

While walking to a lab meeting, I spontaneously planned four “we should catch up sometime” lunches/dinners, ran into several more acquaintances with whom I wished I had planned something and of course saw dozens more strangers whom I’d just like to know. As my cousin likes to say though, you can’t win e’ethang always, and everybody ain’t gon’ love you. During that same walk, for example, I also ran into a sophomore who took the same stress management class as me during fall 2014. From what I can tell of my apparent invisibility whenever she sees me, I probably didn’t make the best of impressions on her. Or I’m just paranoid and have too good of a memory.

Probably a bit of both. People be so funny acting.

Anyway, I’ve learned one thing from all the conversations I’ve had: We all have our shit. Whether it be depression, anxiety, being black, grappling with our sexuality, being a woman or just trying to figure out what the hell we’re doing in college, we all have our shit. At the risk of sounding like an angsty teenager, I am quite flawed, open and vulnerable myself, a reality which has lent itself to some incredibly candid stories being shared with me on a relatively fre-

quent basis. At one time, this seemed seductive to me. I fed off of people’s intimate thoughts, distorting every conversation until it became, in my mind, a cinematic endeavor. But I’m realizing slowly that, while art can help me slog through all of our collective shit, I had been going about this all wrong. That’s not what art is about, and it does nothing for the people who share themselves with me.

I’m not going to tell you what art is about because I don’t know.

What I do know, though, is that no matter how different the many people with whom I’ve had a conversation are, they all are going through the same struggles separately, albeit in different forms.

And what makes art so resplendent to me is how easily it reminds me of that fact, because every song or film serves to inspire another.

The irony is that the presence of difference is and always has been unavoidable, and this difference will diffuse into our art, whether we like it or not. The blues, born out of slavery, remains the criminally underappreciated foundation of pop, rock and hip-hop.

Everything we are going through or talking about, in some way or another, has already been. Okay, I admit that this sounds a bit too metaphysical, but all I’m trying to articulate is that we as a species are far less original than we’d like to believe.

Take I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, for instance. That the ideas, experiences and stories of Maya Angelou, even after 40 years, mirror my own understanding of myself and my life so closely, is both remarkable and slightly infuriating. Who am I in the face of her book, which is freely and fully written, bursting and bursting with elegant, lurid language, as well as sweeping thematic scope and resonance? The concussive force of emotion in her words compels me to admit that, well, she beat me to the punch. The harsh reality that she had perfectly explained the beauty of “codeswitching” long before I was ever born, right down to the use of the phrase “it be like that sometimes,” was humbling. It’s like Kurt Vonnegut ’44 saying music was the only true proof of God’s existence, capturing the magic of music in a way that makes me jealous of him for being born first and thus laying stake to that quote.

Lucky bastard.

Art and good conversation will be requisite in my future household, because the vast majority of my empathetic education is a result of the two. Most of my love and kindness came from interacting with people. And in art I see the darkness of the world reflected, but also the world in all of its raw beauty. The right song or film can teach you as much about your own perception as a well-written

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And so, with what little I have left in this most recent addition to my collection of overstuffed, disorganized Sun columns, I present to you an all-too-brief and certainly non-exhaustive glimpse into some of the films, books, shows and games that have touched me deeply: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Snow on tha Bluff, Wings of Desire (the German one), Dead Presidents, Skyrim, Oldboy (the Korean one), Louie, Loser by Jerry Spinelli, City of God, The Iron Giant, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and anything by Hayao Miyazaki. As for music? Hit me up for a conversation some time if you really want to know — too many songs to count.

Of course, these barely begin to begin to scratch the surface of the tip of the iceberg. And despite my desire to tell you even more about what I mean, confounded by my knowledge that I will always lack the language to match art’s profundity, my absorptive relationship with art remains. Art will go on to do what it does anyway, always being there. And that, like those conversations, is quietly reassuring.

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com.

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Emily Hardin | Free Lunch

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Ted Cruz Is Not the Zodiac Killer,Probably

he name Zodiac Killer refers to the still-unidentified serial killer responsible for the deaths of anywhere between five and 37 people in northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The nickname comes from a series of threatening letters sent to local newspapers during this time period.

To this day, the identity of the Zodiac Killer has not been confirmed, and the case remains open in several cities.

This election cycle, a rumor has been circulating around the Internet that presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (RTexas) and the unnamed Zodiac Killer are in fact the same person. The meme was spawned on Twitter and has since generated an incredible amount of traffic on its Facebook page and other forms of social media. Many serious news outlets, including the Washington Post and Vox, have run real articles debunking the impossible claim that Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.

Ted Cruz was born in 1970, over two years after the first confirmed Zodiac killing. The utter impossibility of Cruz being the Zodiac Killer makes this the most brilliantly self-aware political meme of our generation. Supporters of the meme are quick to point out that Cruz has never presented his birth certificate, nor has he denied the claim that he is the Zodiac Killer. The absurdity of these arguments both echoes and parodies the “birther movement” that exploded in 2008 regarding the unfounded theory that President Barack Obama’s citizenship may have been illegitimate (of course, this was conspiracy has since been disproven).

The genius of this Zodiac Killer theory lies in its satirization of the combination of the illogical political discourse that has characterized this election season and the strange unlikeability of Ted Cruz as a person. What separates this meme from a normal conspiracy theory is the fact that virtually everyone responsible for its existence is in on the joke. No sane person would actually believe that Ted Cruz is

average voter’s information level. The current state of affairs might seem unfortunate, but this is how democracy works: the vote of someone who believes that a United States Senator might be the Zodiac Killer carries exactly the same weight as someone with a Ph.D. in political science.

The depressing reality of our country’s voting base is not without a silver lining,

This is how democracy works: the vote of someone who believes that a United States Senator might be the Zodiac Killer carries exactly the same weight as someone with a Ph.D. in political science. the Zodiac Killer, right?

So one would think. A few weeks ago, the respected Public Policy Polling organization found that 38 percent of votingage Floridians (one of the most influential states in determining the outcome of the presidential election) cannot rule out the possibility that Ted Cruz may indeed be the Zodiac Killer —10 percent of voters think he is and another 28 percent remain unsure.

Has this joke gone too far? The numbers are astonishing, to say the least. It’s difficult to maintain faith in the decisionmaking skills of America's voting base when over two thirds of a state’s voters legitimately think that a presidential candidate might be a serial killer. Polls like this force us to confront the reality of the

however. Tim Faust, a fan of the “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer” meme began selling T-shirts featuring an artist’s interpretation of Cruz’s face morphed with the police sketch of the actual Zodiac Killer.

Faust estimates he sold around 7,500 shirts equivalent to proceeds of nearly $70,000, which he donated to the West Fund, a center in southwest Texas (the area most affected by Cruz’s anti-choice policies) which provides abortion services, support and funding for women.

The fact that 38 percent of polled voters in Florida think Cruz may be the Zodiac Killer is about as funny as the fact that Donald Trump will probably the Republican nominee. It would be much easier to find the dark humor in this situation if the violent rhetoric and policies

proposed by these candidates weren’t threatening the the livelihood of a large percentage of the population. It’s often easy to joke that we’ll move to Canada if Trump or Cruz is elected, but this response ignores the political and geographic mobility that we often take for granted. The rhetoric that perpetuates racism and other forms of discrimination is life-threatening to racial and ethnic minorities, foreign-born citizens, women, religious minorities, LGBT individuals, the working poor and so on. Policy proposals that aim to reduce access to welfare, education, healthcare and other social services disproportionately harm these groups as well.

As citizens of the strongest democratic republic in the world, our freedom hinges upon the same self-rule that permits us to vote in a presidential election without ever having researched a single candidate’s platform.

Full political, social and economic participation is key to any functioning democracy — even if said participants have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

Thus the very same political freedom afforded to us by democracy may simultaneously be our biggest limitation. At the very least we can hope that people don’t vote for a candidate they think might be a serial killer.

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at enh33@cornell.edu. Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Kim Kardashian West: A Feminist Hero?

L ast week, the Internet exploded after Kim Kardashian West tricks, vanity and more, because anything that is coded feminine posted a (censored) nude selfie taken in a bathroom mirror, is usually devalued. And I also appreciate how she’s never tried to captioned “When you’re like I have nothing to wear LOL.” hide just how much work it takes to look the way she does, postKim Kardashian West has of course appeared nude or semi-nude ing frequently about all the “behindin plenty of platforms before. But I guess something about it the-scenes” elements of Hollywood being a bathroom selfie, rather than an airbrushed and well-lit beauty rather than pretending it is magazine photo, sparked such an intense reaction. What fol- effortless. She popularized contourlowed was a fascinating study in the policing of women’s bodies, ing by being open about its usefulwith moral-panic-over-female-nudity and slut-shaming abound. ness in manipulating your facial Besides the average run-of-the-mill Twitter outrage, the post structure. A few weeks ago on sparked some reactions from celebrities that mostly got attention Instagram she posted a picture of herbecause Kim took the time to respond to them (hilariously). self using her “red carpet cleavage Piers Morgan wrote, “I know the old man’s $50 million in debt, tape trick,” and she has talked about Kim — but this is absurd. Want me to buy you some clothes?” getting laser treatments, chemical Kim responded: “hey @piersmorgan never offer to buy a married peels, botox and lots of other painfulwoman clothes. thats on some ashley madison type shit #forre- sounding beauty treatments. You search.” What was notable was not so much Morgan’s joke but can’t say she doesn’t suffer for her art, the full length article in the Daily Mail he wrote after apparently or for her business. One of my favorite responses in the aftermath of taking offense to her response.

Kim’s post was by The article was Twitter user called: “You’ve still got @TwoScooters, a great body Kim, but who wrote in if you’re really so sucresponse to a comcessful, so secure and mon criticism so rich why do you still lobbed against feel the need to pose Midnight Kim: “‘She’s just nude at 35?” Morgan professionally went on to suggest that Radio beautiful.’ Ok but Kim posted the photo so’s the Mona Lisa, in an act of desperation, for fear of losing the spotlight to her younger sisters — and it’s worth millions, which do you oh, that Kim had not really posted her snappy insults to her crit- think took longer to create? More ics herself, but that Kanye had taken control of her Twitter. The work?”

People who criticize the not-only-sexist-but-agist article operates under the obviously problematic assumptions that women must be insecure if they Kardashians as being desperate for displaying their bodies and seek attention, that women over 30 attention, vapid or stupid also forget need to let go of the spotlight because their time is clearly over that they are, above all, a family of very hard-working entrepreneurs sitting on top of a giant female-run business empire and that respectability is mutually exclusive with nudity.

When people bash the Kardashians, it almost always feels around their brand. Sure, you can take issue with the capitalist sexist, because I feel like what they are really bashing is the sup- system/unearned privilege that allowed them to get to where posedly awful, self-obsessed, social-media-addicted (female) they are and become millionaires, but they’re really not any difMillennial culture that everybody loves to hate. So I almost have ferent than any other business moguls in that way — they just to admire the way they unashamedly embrace selfies, beauty commodify their bodies in a more direct way than we are accus-

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tomed to women doing. But they have the right to do that.

I see no reason why any of the criticisms against Kim need to be gendered in nature or tied to the fact that she is a mother, predicated on antiquated ideas of how “respectable” women should act. While Kim can obviously take care of herself, Twitter harassment and abuse directed toward women is a very real issue. The afrorementioned twitter user @Twoscooters, after a bunch of tweets in support of Kim, a few hours later, tweeted: “Today I’ve been called a slut, whore, stupid, bitchy, a feminazi, etc just for saying @KimKardashian is legit. I feel bad for HER mentions.”

No, sexism against Kim Kardashian West is not the most important feminist issue, by a long shot. But feminism is definitely not about policing the choices women make about how to display their own bodies. Especially at a time when revenge porn is a thing, and stealing and leaking nude images of COURTESY OF RIZZOLI PUBLISHING women has such devastating power — Kim herself was a victim of this — maybe Kim Kardashian West taking back the power into her own hands by posting nude photos of herself is a feminist act.

Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kobrien@cornellsun.com. Midnight Radio runs alternate Mondays this semester.

Klarman Hall: Disorganized Human Filtration With Soul Mate Finding Potential

BY DANICA DAVIS Sun Contributor

The humble Temple of Zeus has relocated to the shiny new Klarman Hall, and although the soups may never again run out, my patience for people might. Repurposing the small, chateauesque appendage in the rear of Goldwin Smith Hall to house the Temple of Zeus (and direct people into the atrium of Klarman Hall) is a smart idea with visible problems.

The architecture is interesting, the renderings deceiving and the humans’ spatial understanding humiliating. As one enters the central and grandiose entrance, it delivers people to the middle of a line with an unknown destination. Inside this clusterfuck of columns, tables and sheep actively debase human development. It’s like you’ve traveled to a forgotten time, where one can see and experience the ancient art of oral tradition. A southern wind brings whispers which speak to a younger generation, saying that this is indeed the sandwich line. On the opposite horizon stands a separate line for soup that marches in the direction of the sandwich line. The two lines merge into each other and leave the customer in an area of no significance.

But what if the Temple of Zeus were to use the poor organization to its advantage and include a dating service with your lunch experience? Once you get your soup, you could look up to lock eyes with your sandwich coun-

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terpart. At this point you would be able either to ignore or to act upon this opportunity by finding a table and sharing your complimentary foods with your potential life partner. But wait, you forgot to pay! The register is back by the door, blocked by the thick wall made of the

similar to the love story that explains the counterintuitive nature of the entrance to Uris Library. Oh, Ezra.

If the dating service potential is to be overlooked and the circulation problems corrected, the higher-ups within Cornell should invest

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sandwich line.

Now you must excuse yourself to customers to pass through and go about your day; but wait again! What if that was your true soul mate? Now you have the ability to choose from your two forced interactions thanks to the organization skills of the most either incompetent or lovestruck architect of all time. Not dis-

further in pedestrian traffic guards and their government issued-signage. Although they have already shelled out some money for retractable stanchions, the maximum limit of the budget is unavoidably tangible. Unless they planned for adults to eat their lunch on the floor, the boundary between where furniture exists and where it doesn’t, marks the end

of the budget. After they filled the Temple of Zeus with tables and chairs I imagine they must have said: “that’s it, I’m drawing the line. $61 million dollars and a couple hundred bucks is just excessive. Nothing more than the $61 million. Klarman Hall is a hall, the title offers no obligation to provide accessories that make doing anything other than walking or sitting possible.”

I hear rumors that they actually never intended to place furniture in the hall and that they are trying to make Klarman the next creative incubator. Tables and chairs would only hinder the imagination of the college student.

Fifth year architecture student, Daniel Toretsky, chairman of the imaginary student coalition of Klarman Hall gives it two thumbs up.

After all this slightly garish and completely unnecessary criticism, I have to look inward and question my authority to make these judgements and weigh alternative viewpoints.

Maybe it’s the foundation of some complex and superior human circulation system that we are just now beginning to figure out and owe our incompetence to. Maybe Klarman Hall will go down in history and become the standard floor plan to all future human organization, but now … all we can do is wait. And hey, the soups are just as delicious and the workers are just as friendly — at least now it looks more like a temple; money well spent.

Danica Davis is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. She can be reached at dmd299@cornell.edu.

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Shay Collins Desolation, betrayal, evil and, above all else, sacrificial love feature prominently in Kurt Riley’s 2016 release, Kismet. Riley — the musical alias of Industrial and Labor Relations student Kurt Fritjofson ’16 — crafted Kismet around a narrative that draws upon grand and utterly thrilling science fiction motifs. In brief, Kismet follows King Bandele, a character whom Fritjofson often sings as and portrays in his music videos, as he travels to Earth in pursuit of his Queen, Heaven Snow.

Bandele lives in a civilization that, I would argue, seems to be a reimagining of the human race’s trajectory. In place of human greed and violence, Bandele’s society is selfless, thoughtful and compassionate; Bandele’s contemplations of the duality of human cruelty and kindness drive much of the album’s tension.

Riley’s earnest, expressive vocals allow him to carefully inhabit the role of wide-eyed, heartsick Bandele.

Without divulging too much, the moral elevation of Bandele’s civilization makes their lapses all the more fated, and all more painful for the listener when they do occur.

Kismet is, furthermore, an album that is inextricably linked to Ithaca. Fritjofson recorded in Cornell’s music building — Lincoln Hall — and his West Campus dormitory, and released the record on Ithaca’s student-run record label — Electric Buffalo Records. The musical and artistic contributors whom Fritjofson collaborated with to craft Kismet and its accompanying music videos largely hail from or currently live in Ithaca. The sense of connection between Kismet and Ithaca is nowhere stronger than in the music videos for “Hush Hush Hush” and “Whore (feat. Asanté),” which were both directed by Alan Williams. The scene of Domino, the

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prostitute who aids and befriends Bandele, sleeping on the TCAT and of Bandele jogging down Dairy Home Alley will resonate with Ithaca residents. The excitement runs deeper than simple recognition. Rather, it is the pleasure of seeing someone take locations that are easily forgotten and taken for granted and transform them to build a vast, inventive world.

The loftiness and boldness of Kismet’s story is equally matched by its music. Kismet is a tribute to decades of glam-rock anthems, dance-rock hits and ethereal ballads. Kismet journeys through its universal setting in a long, instrumental opener — the aptly named “Eternity.” For more than four minutes, the listener hears nothing but slowly shifting synthesizers and bells.

It is, on first pass, a drawn-out, difficult track. Yet, on successive listens, “Eternity” sounds like a statement of purpose, a commitment to fully realizing the romantic, sprawling world that Riley seeks to construct.

While musically solid, Kismet also presents a multitude of selections that appeal to any listener who has ever leaned back, shut their eyes and hit replay to take in the momentum and glow of a great solo. Consider, for example, the opening of the second verse of “Whore.” After a brief tacet for every element except a single guitar note and Riley’s vocals — a quiet, murmuring “Let me tell you what I’m talking about/Let me tell you now” — a subtle mosaic of instruments cut back in. The active bass line, the ghostly acoustic strumming, the shimmering electric track and the gritty, hihat-focused drumming all fit together into a compact, brooding jigsaw.

In contrast, one of Kismet’s final tracks — “God’s Back In Action” — seems drawn from another sonic world. “God’s Back In Action” could easily fit in

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amongst the tender, heart-on-the-sleeve synth hits of the mid-’80s. At times, Kismet can sound a bit sprawling musically, with its vast range of instrumentation, tempos and structures working hand-in-hand with a cogent, fully fleshed-out storyline. Riley and his collaborators are at their absolute best when crafting songs that interweave the musicians’ palpable study of rock history with a yearning for plain, simple beauty. “Hush Hush Hush” and “Theft of Fire” especially evidence the unshakable musical core of Kismet.

In retrospect, Kismet attests to one of the simplest ideas about music performance. When artists believe in the music that they make, when they attempt to use music to communicate a carefully articulated, unique way of seeing the world, it shows. It is evident that the outer realm-focused aesthetic of Kismet is not something that Riley has merely adopted as a gimmick.

Furthermore, Kismet is not simply the product of Riley’s passion alone.

From John Mason’s ripping sax solos on “Engines Are Go!” and “God’s Back In Action” to the solid rhythm section of Charlie Fraioli on bass guitar and Olivia Dawd on drums, all of Kismet’s collaborators sound committed to spinning out a substantial, but detail-oriented album. Kismet is an intergalactic fantasia. It gazes both at the history of rock ‘n’ roll and at a dream of a more moral existence. Both musically and conceptually, Kismet is undoubtedly an optimistic album. It is optimistic about the potential of compassion and, most of all, about the future of music itself.

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

Son of Saul: Harrowing and Focused

BY LORENZO BENITEZ Sun Contributor

And Every Single One Was Someone is a 1,000 page-long book that has only one word in it; reproduced more than 6,000,000 times throughout its thin, harrowing pages is the word “Jew.” As an elegy to those who lost their lives to the Holocaust, it imbues the detached, abstract notion of “six million deaths” with a palpable intimacy — a literal weight that physicalizes the immensity of what is arguably humanity’s darkest chapter. I’ve never held a physical copy of the book, but those who have claim that they felt unable to stop turning its pages, encountering the same word repeated over and over, as if the dead were pleading for our remembrance.

To represent the Holocaust is to bear witness to an atrocity that eludes any sense of holistic representation. The implicit argument of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, a nine-hour documentary constituted entirely of survivors’ testimonials, is that art — despite its beauty and nuance as a means of describing the indescribable — is unable to account for a total representation of murder on such an industrialized scale. It instead posits that the only way we can somewhat comprehend the barbarity of what occurred is by allowing those who endured it to recount their suffering: that the closest we can get to an “objective” understanding is to weave together a tapestry of subjective experiences.

Son of Saul, which closely follows the daily activities of a Hungarian Jew in 1944 Auschwitz, recognizes this inherent impossibility of total representation by instead choosing to concentrate entirely on the dehumanizing effect of the Holocaust upon one individual. Our titular protagonist is a Sonderkommando member, one of the “special” prisoners given the horrific task of herding people into the gas chambers, before disposing of their bodies afterwards. From the very opening shot, Hungarian director László Nemes maintains a tight close-up of Saul’s pained stoicism: an initiallydisorientating choice that quickly becomes secondary to the harrowing events which unfold. For the entire film, we shad-

ow Saul from this perspective, discerning the Holocaust in the peripheries of the frame, but primarily witnessing its numbing impact on him.

This is a film whose formal innovation appropriately serves to better communicate its horrifying atmosphere, rather than the “virtuosity” (i.e., insecurity) of its director.

Too often do a director’s stylistic choices distract from their portrayal. But here, Nemes recognizes the essentiality of a singular concentration — how long, uninterrupted takes are most effective when they seek to maintain an unbroken atmosphere of horror and immerse us in Saul’s quiet testimony, rather than call attention to his directorial presence. The locus of his attention — Géza Röhrig as Saul — is more than a third-person surrogate; the atrocities surrounding him are filtered to us through the subtlety of his performance, which is why his naturalistic reactions are so instrumental to the film’s potency.

What unites And Every Single One Was Someone and Son of Saul is a noble desire to prevent our collective understanding of the Holocaust’s enormity from being reduced to a mere statistic by temporal distance. Rather than allow 6,000,000 deaths to become an abstraction found only in history books, they re-animate the tragedy by either concretizing this figure in a graspable, physical form, or, as in Son of Saul’s case, by envisioning, with such unshakeable realism, the brutality of a concentration camp, as experienced by the subjective perspective one of the millions who went through them.

Indeed, while some other critics I respect have dismissed the film’s directorial constraint for failing to convey enormity of genocide, they ignore how it is not only possible to catch more than mere glimpses of it in the peripheries of the frame, but also that by focusing on the pain of one person rather

than a depersonalized mass of bodies, the film pioneers an arguably more “truthful” representation of the Holocaust's damage. Two significant charges levelled against the film are: that it is exploitative for purportedly being a film about the Holocaust in which audiences do not see much of the Holocaust, and that it superfluously leaps to the defense of Sonderkommando members when nobody ever criticized their culpability. However, what the first fails to acknowledge is that this is not a film whose literal aim is to reenact a tragedy of which there exists archival footage and countless other re-enactments, but instead to portray a more accurate account by attending to the depth of a single experience rather than feebly encompassing the breadth of millions.

The second, made by COURTESY OF MOZINET FILMEK Richard Brody of the New Yorker, seems to ignore the fact that the film still acts as a harrowing reminder of Jewish suffering, irrespective of whether you additionally perceive it as a defense of a Sonderkomando’s coerced participation.

The German philosopher Theodor Adorno once said that “suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream.” With this knowledge, it becomes apparent that Son of Saul’s stylistic originality creates one of the most authentic cinematic expressions of the numbing, depersonalizing, claustrophobic horror born of living amongst genocide. By mirroring the tension felt by a solitary Sonderkommando member, it ultimately proves that cinema’s limitless possibilities can never elegize the Holocaust to the point of exhaustion.

Lorenzo Benitez is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at llb224@cornell.edu.

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Hamden Heartbreakers: Red Eliminated From ECAC Tourney M. HOCKEY

py of a game and penalties are penalties.”

Yet again, Schafer lauded his team for the bounce-back ability in the third tilt with have to kill that, so it was a lot of accolades for Quinnipiac. our guys as far as their character and work ethic. “[I liked] the fight back, trying to overcome They competed tonight. I didn’t think we com- adversity in all different ways, shapes and peted well last night.” forms,” Schafer said. “Being down in the series The biggest difference between game one and and coming back from from two goals down two was, without a doubt, the ability to limit and they kept fighting throughout the course of Quinnipiac’s shot total. After totaling 41 in the the night.” first game, Cornell only allowed the Bobcats to At the end of the game, Schafer made the very get 28 through to junior goalie Mitch Gillam, classy move of putting in junior goalie Ryan who appreciated the Coon, allowing him to help from his team. get his first official ice “[I liked] the fight back, trying to “We just put in a lot time at the collegiate more effort tonight,” level. overcome adversity in all different Gillam said. “I thought “Our team is a ways, shapes and forms. They kept we battled hard and close-knit team and I blocked a lot of shots. didn’t even think of fighting throughout the course The guys played really [putting Coon in] of the night.” great in front of me and until [Quinnipiac put made my job a little bit their backup goalie Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 easier.” in],” Schafer said. “It Game three was a was a good opportunimix of the first two games in how it played out. ty for Coon to go into the net. The guys love him.

Quinnipiac started out very strong, like they did He is a great kid, a great teammate.” in game two, but Cornell had its own spurts of What was fascinating about the year-long resiliency here and there, keeping the game close, series between Cornell and Quinnipiac was how like in game one, until the Bobcats blew it open well, for the most part, the Red played against the towards the end of the second period.

Bobcats, especially for being a number one “It was a special teams game and when ranked team.

Quinnipiac gets in a special teams game they’re “Quinnipiac is a good hockey team,” Schafer really good,” Schafer said. “They came out and said. “A well deserved victory in a hard-fought we didn’t respond very well early on.” series. They have great players and I’m sure Cornell’s kryptonite the entire series was they’ll go a long way and represent our league penalties. The team gave up a total of 19 penal- very well.” ties, totaling 38 minutes. Quinnipiac was able to While Cornell is out of the ECAC tournacapitalize on three of those over the three-game ment, they still have a slim, but real chance at series. receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA tourna“Officials are officials,” Schafer said. “I didn’t ment, which will be revealed on March 20. think they forced us into penalties. We took a couple penalties. There were a couple question- Zach Silver can be reached able calls both ways. I don’t think it was that chip- at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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Motivation: It Comes From Within LEE

need to prove themselves or need to draw from an additionally source of motivation. It’s a gifts you have, but there needs story that’s written countless to be self awareness as well. times every year when a player Brady knew that he wasn’t the feels disrespected by a former most athletically-gifted quarter- team, is passed over by team back in the world. It’s the reason after team in the draft (just look why two-sport professional ath- at Aaron Rodgers and Tom lete Drew Stanton started over Brady) or an athlete is just genhim at Michigan. Brady identi- erally undersized (Danny fied his weaknesses, fueled him- Woodhead, Isaiah Thomas, Wes self to work hard based on his Welker, the list goes on and on). draft position and became one Being doubted is a really of the best, if not the best, to interesting form of motivation ever play football. that’s applicable beyond just the The term s p o r t s “chip on world; it’s “Nobody can force you to shoulder” way that o r i g i n a t e s work hard. You have to give p e o p l e from the 18th motivate yourself a reason to work century where themselves grunt men in generally your ass off. ” London shipin life and Joon Lee ’17 yard put wood becomes a chips on their source of shoulders and pride, self asked other identificaworkers to knock their block tion and gravitas. Hell, the off. The physical manifestation Golden State Warriors, despite represents the idea of someone winning the NBA title last seachallenging others and proving son, built their entire motivatime and time again that they tion for this season off of people can best other people, signaling believing last year’s champia deep wound, now part of onship run was a fluke. And someone’s character, that can now they seem all but destined never heal. to post the record in the history The idea of a chip on a of the NBA. shoulder is an overdrawn cliche, Motivation in general can be especially in the context of a hard thing to pin down. I’ve sports. It’s often brought up discovered that a lot of what driwhen an athlete feels as if they ves a person comes from within.

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Nobody can force you to work hard. You have to give yourself a reason to work your ass off.

Sometimes, the internal reasons and motivation to do something are pretty simple: to not fail a class, to not piss off a significant other, to make our family proud. At other times, that motivation came stem from a place of self-inflicted delusion: everyone in the world doesn’t believe in me, everyone in the world is out to get me, everyone wants me to fail.

You would have to be delusional to believe, at this point in Brady’s career, to not think he’s one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time. But Brady needs his reasons to continue to push himself, to push himself to get better. I think that there’s a small bit of delusion that plays into him continuing to use his draft position to fuel his success.

Complacency, whether that’s in school, work or just life in general, is the worst place to be in, and a chip on the shoulder can often be a cure for this. I pride myself for generally being a realistic optimist. I don’t want to delude myself of thinking things are better or worse than things are.

But sometimes, a little delusion might not be a bad thing.

Joon Lee can be reached at jlee@cornellsun.com.

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U.S.Women’s Soccer Star Discusses Sexuality in Sports

Megan Rapinoe, an openly gay national team midfielder, dedicates her life to LGBTQ advocacy

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Senior Writer

Although the acoustics in Newman Arena made it hard for an eager audience to hear her, Megan Rapinoe made her message loud and clear at Cornell Athlete Ally’s event on Thursday: it’s okay to be gay.

“I’m comfortable being labeled as gay,” she said. “That sits well with me. … [But] you don’t have to be one thing or another, exactly this or exactly that.”

As a player on the U.S. women’s national soccer team and a midfielder for Seattle Reign, Rapinoe and her fellow teammates have seen a surge in popularity in recent years as more and more Americans have taken interest in soccer, due in part to the success of the women’s team.

Rapinoe has used her fame to further her advocacy for LGBTQ rights, both within the world of sports and outside of it.

An ambassador for Athlete Ally — a nonprofit organization focused on ending homophobia in sports — Rapinoe travels to schools and college campuses across the country, speaking about how to end the stigma. Additionally, Rapinoe does work for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

“I have walked in your shoes, and walked the road ahead of you, and want you to know you will be okay, and you have more support than you ever dared to dream of," Rapinoe said in an Athlete Ally webpost.

Not only did Rapinoe focus on her own coming out and how that affected her relationships with her teammates, but she also took the time to discuss what being an advocate and an ally means to her. “[I want] for straight allies to take a second to think about it and have empathy and sympathy,” she said. “You don't have to know everything we’re going through but I think you can empathize in a certain way and stand up in a way that’s really powerful. You don’t have to be gay to make a difference in the gay community.”

For Rapinoe, being openly gay as a professional athlete has not hindered her career in any significant way. However, she did take the time to discuss homophobia in the world of men’s sports and how it is still very much a problem, especially within the NFL.

“I think it’s gotten to the point where it is so generally accepted within the teams,” Rapinoe said. “Your normal life isn’t inhibited in any way being a female athlete and being gay in a lot of ways.”

Rapinoe also spoke about the problems women in soccer face, such as unequal pay and worse field conditions during practice as compared to the men.

“People at the top are making a choice for unequal conditions for men and women,” she said. “The men’s World Cup makes more money than the women’s World Cup [and] we’re not asking for the same salary but just something that is fair.”

While Rapinoe explained that she felt safe coming out to her teammates, she also acknowledged that she may have closeted teammates who aren’t coming out despite such an open culture amongst her squad.

“There’s always been gay players on the team and it’s been a pretty open and accepting culture the whole time,” she

said. “There’s this element of being so open but also, why isn’t anyone else coming out?”

While Rapinoe’s family was ultimately supportive of her, she acknowledged that this is not the case for everyone, and that is why advocacy for LGBTQ issues remains important to her.

“There are so many avenues so even if your parents aren’t ok [with you being gay], the internet has resources, so seek that out,” she said. “A lot of people are in homes or communities that are homophobic or even violently homophobic … but there are so many avenues to seek out.”

To Rapinoe, coming out and supporting gay rights was not just important on a personal level, but also more broadly in helping others who are struggling to do so.

“It’s important to me, but it’s also important in a bigger level,” she said. “Being out is important.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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Women Laxers Top Columbia,Continue Undefeated Season

By JEFFREY ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

Powered by great performances across the board, the women’s lacrosse team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) faced off against Columbia (2-3, 0-2) and continued their undefeated season in a 14-7 win over the Lions.

Seniors Olivia Mattyasovszky, who is also a staff writer for the Sun, and Jessica Schwab were the leaders on Saturday’s statsheet.

Mattyasovszky netted a career high five goals and Schwab added three of her own along with an assist.

“It was awesome to see Liv [Mattyasovszky] finish so well,” head Coach Jenny Graap said.

“Five goals was a superb output, and her team-

mates fed her beautifully.”

By the end of the first half the Cornell was already up 8-1 on the Lions. In the second half Columbia tried its best to mount a comeback, but couldn’t outplay the Red, who were firing on all cylinders.

Schwab had an amazing day,” she said. “She had a hat trick and was such a calming force behind the net against some really tough defensive pressure. Catie Smith on the defense had an unbelievable game, causing so many caused turnovers for us. Catherine Moubayed

“We feel very fortunate to be undefeated at this early stage of the season, but our squad is still a work in progress.”

Head coach Jenny Graap While Mattyasovszky was the leader in points on the day, she had nothing but praise for her teammates.

“I think in the game against Columbia

had a tight mark on one of their top scorers and she did her job perfectly; completely shutting down one of their best players.”

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Gone streaking | Senior forward Olivia Mattyasovszky led Cornell to its fifth straight win this season, keeping the team’s undefeated season intact.

feated, continuing their best start to a season since 2013. Even with all their success, Coach Graap is ensuring that her squad continues to improve.

“We feel very fortunate to be undefeated at this early stage of the season, but our squad is still a work in progress,” Graap said.

“Frankly, we’ve gotten away with some sloppy play and mental errors in early games which need to be cleaned up.”

Improvement and development is rooted in strong practices during the week, Graap said.

“Improving at practice is an important focus,” she said. “Players need to push each other to raise the bar individually and collectively. If we want to compete with the best teams in our conference and the best teams nationally, we need to put in the effort.”

Mattyasovszky had a similar mindset to her coach’s; celebrating the victory while still aiming for improvement.

“Starting the season 5-0 has been amazing, but we’re still learning and have a lot to work on,” Mattyasovszky said. “The second half of our season will be a huge test and we’re playing some really talented teams.”

Even with the focus on improvement still at the forefront of the team’s collective mindset, Cornell has much to celebrate with their outstanding start to the season. The Red has already faced two of their Ivy rivals and came out both times with solid wins, boding well for their eventual goal of an Ivy League championship.

“Since the fall our goal for this season has been to win an Ivy League Championship, especially for our senior class,” Mattyasovszky said. “If we work hard and stay connected I don't think there's a limit on what we can do.”

Jeffrey Asiedu can be reached at ja542@cornell.edu.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Bobcats Take Quarterfinals;Red on Brink

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It was a series of ups and downs, but unfortunately for the men’s hockey team, the downs proved too much, as evidenced by a 6-3 game three loss to No.1 Quinnipiac in the ECAC quarterfinals, allowing the Bobcats to sail to the semifinals.

It was a hard-fought, gritty series between two teams who clearly did not like each other. Many expected Quinnipiac to run away with this series, so forcing game three was, in itself, a small win for the Red. In game one’s losing effort, the Red started scoring early, but eventually Quinnipiac’s high-power offense proved too much for Cornell, taking game one, 5-2.

“I thought they played well and I don’t think we played well,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said. “I don’t think we did the things we did last week, which was pick guys up around our own net and be solid on special teams.”

Game two was a different story, however, as the Red never led until Trevor Yates sunk Cornell’s fifth goal with just over five minutes played in the third, beating the Bobcats 5-4.

“Our team showed a lot of heart and soul coming back tonight in the game being down 2-0, then 2-1,” Schafer said. “Then [Quinnipiac] gets a 5-on-3 and we See M. HOCKEY page 14

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Hanging on for life | Despite junior forward Jeff Kubiak’s and the men’s hockey teams resilient efforts against Quinnipiac, they were not able to steal the series and now depend on an at-large bid for any NCAA tournament hopes.

Playing Men Upset No.17 Virginia at Home With a Chip I MEN’S LACROSSE

By SHAN DHALIWAL

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going into the fourth. The Red then scored five goals in the fourth to seal the 14-10 victory.

The Cornell freshmen scored seven of the Red’s 14 goals. Freshman attack Colton Rupp led the charge with four, midfielder Clarke Petterson accounted for two and forward Ryan Bray added another. One of the team’s major goals all season has been to acclimate the large freshman class to the collegiate lacrosse environment.

“I think that this is a very hard working, determined group of young men,” Kerwick said. “They take great pride in representing cornell and playing the way that Cornell lacrosse always plays, which is a tough style, a physical style, a com-

Virginia game this past weekend, and Bray also now has three goals on the season after the Virginia game. Despite this improvement, though, outsiders can often judge a team too quickly by just looking at its makeup.

“I think there [are] a lot of teams [and] people counting Cornell lacrosse out because we dropped a one-goal game to Penn State on February 20th, and we know that we’re working extremely hard and it’s all about building throughout the course of the season,” Kerwick said. “We have a lot of growth to still happen.”

The Red travel to Hamilton, N.Y. tomorrow to take on Colgate, who the Red defeated in overtime last season, 10-9.

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team improved to 2-2 with a win this past weekend, upsetting No. 17 Virginia in a 14-10 effort.

The win also improved the team’s alltime record against Virginia to 6-10, including three wins in its past four meetings with the Cavaliers.

“It was a complete team win,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “Those are always exciting to be a part of as a coach.

In terms of from a coaching perspective, it was one of the best team efforts I’ve been around in quite some time just in terms of everybody going out and doing their job and knowing their role and then performing up to the level they’re capable of.”

Senior goalkeeper Brennan Donville was the star of the match, picking up a career high 16 saves — 10 of which came in the third quarter — and limiting the powerful Cavalier offense to just 10 goals.

“10 saves in a quarter is not norVIRGINIA @ CORNELL mal, and he was on it,” Kerwick said.

10 14 “He was very Game: 2ND 3RD 4TH 1ST focused, he was seeYale 4 2 1 3 ing the ball very Cornell 5 1 5 3 well, and if he can get himself in posiMICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN FILE PHOTO tion to have 11, 12, 13 saves a game and then every once and while steal some saves Cavalier crushers | Freshman Colton Rupp led the Cornell charge with four goals, like he did yesterday, then we’re going to helping the Red defeat Virginia for the third time in the last four meetings. be in a position to win some tight ball “Colgate’s an excellent team, and we’re peitive style, and the team is doing a great games down the stretch.” at their place, so we’re going to have to put Brennan’s influence on the team goes job of that everyday at practice.”

The freshmen have shown marked this one behind us and savor it and enjoy deeper than being an excellent goalkeeper.

“He’s one of our best leaders and epito- improvement already this season. Rupp it,” Kerwick said. “It’s on to Colgate now mizes what we want our players to be and scored one goal in the first game of the and you’re only as good as your last game, that’s selfless, team-first guys,” Kerwick said. season against Penn State, two against so we need to go into Colgate playing “He’s always been that way since he arrived Hobart, and then four in each of the past even better than we played against on campus, so I’m very happy for Brennan two games. He is leading the team with Virginia.”

11 goals, which accounts for 28 percent of cause he’s earned it.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at The match was neck-and-neck for the the team’s scoring over the season.

Petterson’s first two goals came in the sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com. first three quarters and ended up tied

t’s easy to hate a guy like Tom Brady. He’s one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time on a team that is inherently hateable, is married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen and just generally lives an incredibly enviable life.

Joon Lee Sports Joonalism But before he was Mr. Perfect, Brady was overlooked. Even after all four Super Bowls, all of the records, all of the general life success, Brady still feels like he has something to prove. Before the 2014 season, Brady reminded people that despite everything that he has now, he still thinks about being chosen 199th overall in the NFL draft, the seventh quarterback taken in the 2000 draft after stars like Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redman, Tee Martin and Spergon Wynn.

“If you want to be special at this game, you have to do what it takes,” Brady said. “Some things come a little more naturally to some people than others. The mental part came naturally for me. I think I’ve really had to work hard on the physical part, what it takes to be an NFL player. There was a reason I was a sixth-round pick. I didn’t have much ability.

I have to try to work hard to improve those things over the years, while still keeping my mental game sharp.”

Here’s what’s key to what Brady identified about his situation. Yes, it’s important to have a motivation to be great, to be the best you can be and to maximize whatever God-given See LEE page 14