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FBI, POLICE SEIZE WEAPONS CACHE IN COLLEGETOWN

REYNOLDS ’19

Search and seizure | FBI agents and Ithaca police raided Reynolds’ apartment, 8K, in Collegetown Plaza and found a wide array of weapons and tactical gear.

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AR-15, Bomb Found in Ex-Student’s Apartment Reynolds ’19, who is 20, and in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Southwick accused him of four federal crimes: possessing FBI agents and local police seized an AR-15 rifle, a an explosive bomb, possessing a homemade gun silencer, homemade bomb, a bulletproof vest, 300 rounds of and two similar counts of providing false statements in ammunition and a plethora of other weapons, combat acquiring a firearm by paying a friend to purchase the apparel and survival supplies from a former Cornell gun for him from a vendor in Tompkins County.

If convicted, Reynolds University student’s faces up to 40 years in apartment, extracting the prison. weaponry from the cen“Collectively all of these items The unassembled ARter of Collegetown earlier certainly suggest a specific recipe 15-style weapon found in this month in an operafor large scale destruction.”

Reynolds’ apartment was tion that may have saved a Savage MSR-15 Patrol lives.

Ithaca Police Chief Pete Tyler rifle, Derek Valgora, a There is no threat to special agent at the the campus or Bureau of Alcohol, Collegetown, Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said on Friday, but the Ithaca Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, said in an Police Department, the FBI and other agencies are inves- affidavit. Valgora said he also found a 10-inch NAPA tigating why the student was hoarding so much firepow- brand fuel filter modified to form a silencer, which is illeer and protective gear in his eighth-floor studio apart- gal to own if it is not registered.

Inside a plastic bin with other fireworks, Valgora disment, which overlooks downtown Ithaca and sits just 500 feet from the edge of campus.

Police arrested the former student, Maximilien R. See SEIZURE page 4

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Unpredictable student prepared for attacks he feared, friends say

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Friends described the former Cornell student who police said kept an AR-15 rifle, homemade bomb and vast array of survival gear in his Collegetown apartment as an unpredictable, compassionate 20-year-old who prides himself on being self-sufficient but struggled with bipolar disorder and a nagging paranoia prior to his arrest.

Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19, a plant sciences major, had been on a forced academic leave from Cornell for at least two semesters before his arrest and was taking classes at Tompkins Cortland Community College while he worked at a Cornell professor’s home See REYNOLDS page 4

Unprecedented discovery brings gun,mental health debates to C.U.

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Managing Editor

The revelation from police that a former Cornell student was hoarding an AR-15 rifle, ammunition and a homemade bomb in his Collegetown apartment has shat-

tered many students’ image of Ithaca as a city immune to concerns faced by the rest of the country.

The FBI and local police’s finding of survival materials and weaponry is an unprecedented discovery in a student’s residence, officials said, and students said the raid brought

the nationwide debate over guns and mental health to the University’s doorstep.

Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19, who was on leave from Cornell,

is in the custody of U.S. Marshals and has been charged with four federal crimes including possessing a silencer and directing a friend to buy the rifle for him.

“Whenever you hear about events happening around the country over the news, it doesn’t affect you, … it just stays at the back of your head,” said Anthony Ko ’20. “But

Stored | Police searched two storage units rented by Reynolds near the City of Ithaca and found chemicals commonly used to make bombs.

something like this, it’s at home, and it hits you hard.”

Ko lives in Cascadilla Hall, just across Dryden Road from Collegetown Plaza, the apartment complex where Reynolds lived, and which the FBI, Ithaca Police and state troopers raided on March 7. Inside Reynolds’ eighth-floor apartment, officers See REACTION page 12

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NEWS

New App to Turn Cornellians’ Phones Into ‘Personal Safety Device’

By EMMA NEWBURGER

Light phone station in front of Ho Plaza in February, which replaced one of the 950 emergency phones on campus.

As crimes and sexual assault continue App users build a profile that includes to rock the campus, Cornell introduced a any personal and medical information mobile application called Rave Guardian they choose to share with designated on Friday, in which students and employresponders. The users can then deliver ees can request virtual guardians to track crime tips and chat in real-time with their location and anonymously submit campus safety officials, or select those suspicious activities to campus police. officials to be their guardian, according The mobile safety app arrives to camto the app description. pus as Cornell grapples with two separate Cornell Police can also access a user’s assaults in Collegetown last weekend: a personal profile information if the user COURTESY OF ITUNES APP STORE female Cornell student was sexually makes an emergency call, sends a tip or if assaulted in Collegetown on Sunday night as she tried to get CUPD is a selected guardian. into her home and three male students were assaulted on “We hope that the RAVE Guardian app is one additional Saturday morning — one of whom said he was harassed option among many offered by the University for faculty, using racial epithets. staff and students to use to keep themselves safe and get help Additionally, FBI agents and local police found 300 quickly if they ever need it,” Honan said. rounds of ammunition, an AR-15 and bomb-making mateEri Kato ’20 called the Rave Guardian a more advanced rials inside a former student’s studio apartment in version of the iOS location sharing app Find My Friends, Collegetown Plaza during a March 7 raid. Police arrested the and said that the app will prove useful on a campus where former student, Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19 who if convict- getting home safely at night is a “challenge” for students who ed faces up to 40 years in prison. cannot afford transportation services like taxis or Ubers.

In the midst of these incidents, Rave Guardian will act as “Most of my sisters and friends in other sororities live in a free mobile emergency Blue Light system that turns a user’s deep North [Campus] where roads can get dark and scary at smartphone into a “personal safety device,” the University night,” she told The Sun. “The University notifies us of dantold students in an email. Rave Guardian users can create gerous situations very quickly via email, which makes me safety sessions during which their selected guardians — feel safe.” friends, family, or the Cornell University Police, for instance Asked whether she’ll use the app, Kato said it all depends — can view their status and location in an emergency situ- on if her friends decide to join since they all currently use ation.

Find My Friends to share their locations when walking “Cornell University Police officers and staff take a lot of home alone. pride in our many connections to the Cornell community,” When Alexandra Farhangui ’20 saw the report that a forDavid Honan, deputy chief of CUPD, told The Sun. “Any mer Cornell student was storing weapons and a bomb in his additional connection we can make that helps keep the Collegetown apartment, she decided to download the app. community safe is an immense help.”

But she told The Sun that she might not use it.

Cornell previously installed a new variant of the Blue The app includes a timer that notifies a guardian when Sun Senior Writer

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After the fall | The bridge funding from Cornell will allow the cinema to meet its deficit for fiscal year 2019.

Cornell Cinema to Receive ‘Bridge Funding’ for F.Y. ’19

By MATTHEW MCGOWEN Sun Staff Writer

The College of Arts and Sciences will provide Cornell Cinema with funding for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, according to cinema director Mary Fessenden.

Last semester, the Student Assembly’s decision to defund Cornell Cinema was met with student protest and resulted in an estimated funding gap of $150,000, which cast doubt on the institution’s ability to survive.

However, prior to S.A.’s official decision to cut funding, Provost Michael Kotlikoff promised between $36,000 to $40,000 to the cinema for the next fiscal year.

Fessenden, who expressed uncertainty in January that the money Kotlikoff mentioned would materialize, confirmed to The Sun on Saturday that the funding would come as part of a larger bridge funding package.

“Cornell Cinema recently learned that the College of Arts & Sciences will find bridge funding for the next academic year so as to provide the needed time for Cornell Cinema to fundraise, identify other potential co-

sponsors for the program, and restructure for the future,” Fessenden said.

According to Fessenden, the bridge funding will be in place for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending on June 30, 2019. Cornell Cinema would need to have a new plan in place before budgeting for the 201920 fiscal year begins, Fessenden said.

That announcement relieves some of the pressure from the budget shortfall following the decision to reduce student activity fees contributing to the cinema from $10.90 to $0.

In response to the Student Assembly’s decision, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly voted to increase its funding of the cinema from $10.54 to $11 per graduate student, but that bump would not be enough to cover the loss from undergraduate contributions, which was nearly 30 percent of total revenue.

Though bridge funding will take some of the pressure off of the cinema in the short term, the underlying issues that lead to the funding dispute, including staff wages, are as yet unsolved.

Gabe Kaufman ’18, S.A. vice pres-

ident of finance and chair of the appropriations committee, said in January, “it’s really the staff wages that are the most problematic.”

Staff wages account for about 70 percent of the cinema’s expenditures, according to the office of the provost.

According to Kotlikoff, the arts college and Student and Campus Life are currently working closely with the cinema on a new “staffing and funding plan” and that the administration is “committed to providing the [$36,000 to $40,000].”

Cornell Cinema will host its own campaign during Giving Day this Tuesday, which will accept contributions online for a 24-hour period and factor into the cinema’s future budgetary plans.

“We hope all our supporters, including current students and alums, will consider making a donation to Cornell Cinema on Giving Day as part of these efforts to maintain one of the University’s most valuable and beloved cultural resources,” Fessenden said.

Matthew McGowen can be reached at mmcgowen@cornellsun.com.

the user has arrived home, a function Farhangui said she wouldn’t use for fear that she would forget to turn it off after reaching her destination, “causing undue panic.”

Farhangui said other app functions, like options to call CUPD, friends and family, were redundant.

“Though this is a good first step by the University and it serves to show they acknowledged the issue and are attempting to make a change, it seems like it was mainly done for the public appearance of the act,” she said.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Students to Protest NRA Online

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun News Editor

Amid national and local uproar over gun violence, Justin Langfan ’19 is leading an effort to tackle the issue from a different approach: using mass social action to “revolutionize our politics.”

Langfan is organizing a group of people to utilize social media to hold the NRA accountable as part of a movement he calls Shaping The Future. On Tuesday, everyone participating in the movement will comment the following question on the NRA’s most recent Facebook post: “The NRA has said that ‘people who are dangerous should not have access to firearms.’ If the NRA believes this statement, why is it against implementing background checks for the 22% of gun purchases that don’t require them? #JoinUsandPostThis #ShapingtheFuturenow.com” “The biggest thing is that your voice really does matter,” Langfan told The Sun. “The NRA only gets like 200-500 comments per post, so really it just takes a 100 bold people to say that I’m going to join you in doing this.”

Langfan said that 140 people have signed up to participate as of Saturday, but admitted that he can’t guarantee that every single one of them will actually post on Tuesday.

It is unclear how many of those who signed up are Cornellians, but Langfan said he raised awareness for his event primarily on-campus, including campaigning around dining halls.

Everyone who signed on will receive three texts on Tuesday: the first will be a greeting from Shaping the Future; the second will contain the question itself, so that it is easy to copy and paste; the third will be a link to the Facebook post that everyone should comment on, which will be determined the day of.

“This has never even really happened before, so how do you even give the word to describe it?” he said. “Right now, we are calling it an event, but it’s really not an event. You can do it whenever you want, it takes five seconds.”

In the future, Langfan hopes to expand beyond the issue of gun violence and target a range of prominent topics and figures, ranging from politicians to special interest groups, and hopes that Tuesday’s event will be the “spark” to start the movement.

“Given the climate in our country, the gun topic seemed like a really good one to start with,” Langfan said.

Just last week, the FBI and Ithaca Police seized an assortment of weapons, including an Nationwide AR-15 rifle and a homemade Protests |The bomb, from a former stuFacebook protest will dent’s apartment, raising “questions about how follow a series of protests a former Cornell stupushing for gun-control in dent was able to many parts of the country.

See NRA page 4 ERIN SCHAFF / THE NEW YORK TIMES

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NEWS

Weapons Cache Seized from Former Student’s Apartment Teachers and friends in shock after arrest

Homemade bomb, guns, ammo found

REYNOLDS

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SEIZURE

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covered a 4-inch-long mortar firework designed to be shot into the air from a launch tube. But the firework had been modified, Valgora said: someone had taped steel or lead shotgun pellets to its exterior to act as shrapnel that could inflict “injury or death” to anyone nearby when it exploded.

The modified firework is an explosive bomb and classified as a destructive device under federal law, Southwick said.

Among the other items police said they found in Reynolds’ apartment: a gas mask, body armor, chemicals that are frequently used to manufacture explosives, ball bearings that could be used as shrapnel in a bomb, pipes commonly used to assemble destructive devices, food rations and medical supplies for traumatic injuries. Many of the 300 rounds of live ammunition discovered, police said, were in high-capacity magazine clips compatible with the AR-15.

“Collectively all of these items certainly suggest a specific recipe for large scale destruction,” Ithaca Police Chief Pete Tyler said in a statement. “I’m very proud of the team of investigators who worked diligently and methodically to prevent any potential tragedy from occurring.”

Tyler told The Sun on Friday evening that police have no reason to believe a campus rumor that Reynolds was planning to target Slope Day. If anyone does have credible information relating to the investigation, he said, they should contact police.

Neither police nor prosecutors have indicated any motive for Reynolds’ alleged stockpiling of weapons, but the former student’s lawyer said in federal court in Syracuse on Friday that a mental illness may have led Reynolds to believe he needed to protect himself.

The lawyer, Raymond Schlather J.D. ’76, said Reynolds had been diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features, and said that what drives the former student’s behavior “is a huge para-

BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Close to home | FBI and Ithaca Police discovered a weapons stockpile in an apartment complex only 500 feet from campus.

noia of the world beyond him and protecting himself from that world.”

Schlather said Reynolds had been voluntarily receiving treatment at Cayuga Medical Center’s behavioral health unit since the March 7 raid on his apartment and up until he was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday night. The attorney also said in court that doctors had found his client poses “no threat to others or himself.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thérèse Wiley Dancks ordered that Reynolds remain in Marshals’ custody and undergo a medical evaluation to assess his competency before any further court proceedings take place. Reynolds did not enter a plea.

Dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and with short, dark brown hair and a faint beard, Reynolds sat beside his lawyer on Friday afternoon in court and answered the judge’s questions with “Yes ma’am.” His mother, who left the courtroom in tears moments after the arraignment began, reentered at the end of the proceeding to blow Reynolds a kiss and tell him she loved him as he was taken away in handcuffs.

Reynolds studied plant sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and is one of three children from a wealthy family in New Jersey. He is on leave from Cornell and was taking classes at TompkinsCortland Community College until his arrest, according to the ATF agent’s affidavit.

The former student had been living in the same apartment — in the Collegetown Plaza complex at 111 Dryden Rd. — for about two years, a student who lives in the apartment next door told The Sun. Most people on the eighth floor of the building said they did not know Reynolds and couldn’t remember ever seeing anyone

walk in or out of his room, 8K, until police and men in suits showed up in the hallway several times earlier this month.

Nick Parker ’18 told The Sun that even though he’s lived in the apartment next to 8K for the last two years, he had never learned Reynolds’ name.

“I’d see him around,” Parker told The Sun when asked about the person living next door. “He was super quiet.”

Parker said he saw officers in Reynolds’ apartment earlier this month, “taking pictures, taking the whole place apart.”

The police inquiry began on March 7, when an unidentified Walmart employee now being described as a hero alerted local police that Reynolds had used a gift card to purchase large quantities of ammunition, camping gear, knives, tools and other items deemed suspicious at the store off of Route 13.

“What started as a tip from a citizen at a local business about some suspicious behavior led to an alarming discovery,” Tyler said.

Following the tip, an Ithaca Police investigator and FBI special agents spoke with Reynolds’ girlfriend inside his apartment on March 7 and found the place in “severe disarray,” Valgora said, with “what appeared to be mathematical writings” on the windows in red ink and laboratory glassware strewn about the residence.

The unnamed girlfriend said she was concerned about Reynolds, who was at a community college class when police arrived, and she told investigators that he seemed manic, was not getting enough sleep and had stopped taking his medications, according to Valgora’s affidavit.

To read the rest of this story, go to cornellsun.com.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

and farm, helping with small tasks and landscaping.

Reynolds was compassionate and funny around his peers, suffered from insomnia, took a combination of medications and harbored an irrational fear of someone attacking him or people close to him, according to interviews with nine people who know him. Some said they were concerned, in retrospect, that they had underestimated his paranoia.

Reynolds “wanted to be prepared for any event, and I think he may have taken that thinking to the extreme,” said Edwin Kye ’19, a close friend.

“This sounds a little crazy, but one of the things he used to tell me he was concerned about was a school shooting,” Kye said.

“And in that situation, he thought he’d be equipped to handle that situation.”

Kye and others said they wrote off many of Reynolds’ comments, seeing him as an excessively precautious individual, and never thought he would amass the firepower police said they found in his apartment.

Reynolds has been charged with four federal crimes and Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Southwick accused him of owning a gun silencer, possessing a bomb and paying a friend to purchase the AR-15 rifle for him.

Many of his friends said they were shocked when The Sun reported on Friday that police had raided Reynolds’ residence on March 7 and found the rifle, bomb, 300 rounds of ammunition, body armor, chemicals and trauma kit in his eighth-floor studio apartment in Collegetown Plaza.

Reynolds’ attorney, Raymond Schlather J.D. ’76, said Reynolds was diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features and had “a huge paranoia of the world beyond him.” On Friday, a federal judge ordered that Reynolds undergo a competency evaluation before the criminal case proceeds further.

Reynolds was raised in Monmouth County, New Jersey,

Students Take to Social Media to Advocate for Gun Reform NRA

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hoard weapons and combat materials in his Collegetown apartment without drawing attention,” The Sun previously reported.

“With over 90% of Americans agreeing there should be universal background checks, it is time for the NRA to hear the American people,” reads one of the statements on Shaping the Future’s website.

Langfan argued that part of the reason that organizations like the NRA are so powerful is because they promote extremist viewpoints. He said that the NRA wouldn’t be as powerful if normal people had an outlet to express their opinions.

“Right now, our politics seemed to be trapped in extremes,” he said. “Things are so tense, and there’s no way for people with like my kind of mindset to communicate, which

is that we don’t live in the extremes, we live kind of in the middle and we just want to ask sensible questions.”

Langfan was optimistic about the power of social media to implement change, calling it the “the 21st century political battlefield.”

“Sixty-seven percent of Americans get their news from social media,” he said.

Though Langfan admitted that the NRA may not directly respond to or change due to these Facebook comments, he said his larger goal is to change the way people engage with political issues.

“I think, initially, they won’t care what the people say,” he said. “But, by doing this mass action, you’re going to affect fellow Americans and by affecting fellow Americans, you’re going to then in turn affect those organizations.”

The school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February created backlash against the NRA

that has made local impact: Ithaca High School held a walkout on Wednesday and Cornell University Democrats organized a simultaneous walkout at Cornell in solidarity.

In addition, local activists will be holding a March for our Lives Rally on March 24th to advocate for gun control legislation which will be accompanied by C.U. Democrats and the Roosevelt Institute organizing a march from Cornell to the Commons.

Langfan said that he has been in contact both of these organizations to help raise awareness for his event, but said that he ultimately wants Shaping the Future to be its own separate platform.

“When you have these other organizations with these own histories, that kind of takes away from that purpose,” he said.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

and his father, Tim Reynolds MBA ’94, earned millions as a founder of Jane Street Capital, a Wall Street trading firm.

Reynolds drove a 2017 Subaru registered to his mother, authorities said, but he told some friends that he was struggling financially, despite his family’s wealth.

Reynolds told Patty Chan ’18 in the spring of 2017 that he was relieved to secure the landscaping job for $12 an hour, saying he would finally be able to pay his living expenses and eat a full lunch every day.

Kye said Reynolds viewed his family’s wealth as a matter of chance and didn’t like to ask for money from his parents.

“He would just wear boots and jeans and this big green jacket every day,” Kye said. “He never cared what he wore.”

Prof. Kevin Nixon, plant biology, said Reynolds was very quiet when he first hired him to work

“At this point there’s only one victim ... and he’s the victim of his own disease.”

Prof. Kevin Nixon on the property and that he would have “good days and bad days,” sometimes finding it difficult to follow directions.

“I kind of became attached to him because he’s extremely likeable,” said Nixon. “Never at any point in time did he voice any ideas of violence, any anger, and I never felt uncomfortable at all around him.”

Nixon said Reynolds kept a knife in a sheath strapped to his leg while landscaping and enjoyed using it for opening boxes and other tasks, but Nixon said he never felt uncomfortable when Reynolds used it around him.

Police interviewed Nixon following the March 7 raid of Reynolds’ apartment and asked him about the former student, whom Nixon employed but never taught at Cornell. The weapons in Reynolds’ apartment show that he “clearly was a danger,” Nixon said, adding that he was glad police arrested Reynolds but hopes the student avoids prison and gets any treatment he needs.

“At this point there’s only one victim and that’s Max and he’s the victim of his own disease,” Nixon said. “I don’t think anyone gets anything from scapegoating him as some kind of evil force.”

Many people who know Reynolds said he is an incredibly smart person who enjoys teaching himself math and history and learning about plants.

“He was always a diligent worker in labs just like all of us, and like me, he shared a passion for the botanical world,” Yuqi Chen ’19 said of his freshman year at Cornell, when she took several classes with him.

“He had an insatiable curiosity and was really driven to understand the world around him,” See SUSPECT page 13

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Editorial

It’s Time for Stricter Gun Control LAST WEEK, CORNELL NARROWLY ESCAPED becoming the latest entry in a list on which no school wants to appear. After a timely tip from Walmart, Ithaca police and the FBI were able to seize weapons, ammunition and explosive materials from a former student’s Collegetown apartment, according to court documents unsealed Friday.

Cornell is lucky, but that a very flawed system worked this one time is not a consolation, nor should it be used as evidence that America’s gun problem is anything less than incredibly dire.

It is not right for a 20-year-old to be able to obtain an assault rifle, significant amounts of ammunition, tactical gear and bomb-making materials — all of which amount to what IPD called a “specific recipe for large scale destruction.” It is not right that the only thing illegal about Reynolds’ possession of that rifle was that he obtained it through a so-called “straw purchase,” wherein he paid another man to buy it for him. We must consider whether anyone, regardless of method of purchase, should be able to hoard such weapons.

And it is not right that this news, while unsettling and frightening to all those affected, is so incredibly unsurprising. After Parkland, after Las Vegas, after Sutherland Springs and Orlando and Sandy Hook, no one should be surprised by the next tragedy.

In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, teenagers from across the country have taken to the streets to demand stricter gun control. The Reynolds case only continues to prove their point, and perhaps now that this issue has touched his own constituents, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) will reconsider his stance on an assault weapons ban, and will put forward more than words when it comes to strengthening background checks.

To the Editor: We, the undersigned, are a group of community members concerned about preserving the freedom of expression at Cornell, namely the dangerous response to Mark Colbran’s collection at the CFC 2018 Fashion Show. Some of us know Mark personally, others do not. Some of us enjoy, or agree with, his collection, others do not. However, we all find alarming the policing of speech at Cornell, either by university affiliates or by independent groups such as The Cornell Daily Sun, through silencing, misinformation and false equivocation.

The article in the March 12, 2018 edition of The Sun written by Meredith Liu and Paris Ghazi under the banner “Fashion Show Disrupted,” relating to events at the CFC 2018 Fashion Show, contains many factually incorrect statements and dangerously equates the peaceful expression of dissent with targeted harassment. The following discussion will not address all of these errors, nor the biased nature of the piece, but will address the most egregious errors and policing of dissent.

The authors of the article, and The Cornell Daily Sun, owe Mark Colbran an apology. They also ought to reflect on their role in protecting the freedom of expression as journalists and students.

Mark Colbran’s design collection did not include an elephant tusk, but it did include a large wooden club that he personally carved for his collection. Nor did he flail a “banner.” The writers’ characterization of that item completely missed the point: which is that it was a cloak that Mark, after displaying, attempted to wrap around himself as he walked off stage. One side expressed his rejection of hate and his dissent of institutional negativity. The other side, covered in a field made up of the word “LOVE” and “FSAD BOYZ 4 EVER,” expressed his embrace of positivity and the creative community. The latter message was meant to be the final message as he walked off stage. A message that was silenced by the aggressive and uninvited interference of Jessa Chargois.

Mark did not approach Jessa, but she did attempt to aggressively silence the final moments of his exhibition. Jessa did not try to “wriggle” the cloak from Mark, as the reporters wrote apparently seeking to minimize the violence of her intervention. She aggressively grabbed the cloak and vigorously wrestled it from him. Mark at no time “put his hands on [Jessa],” as The Sun reported. A review of the immediately available official CFC video coverage shows clearly that he only held on to his cloak and pulled back on it in an effort to retain possession of his property. When it was clear any further action to retain his property would escalate the situation, he let go of the cloak and peacefully walked off stage. Her accusation that he put his hands on her is untrue and, if she was correctly quoted, defamatory. Jessa’s unwarranted action on stage to silence freedom of expression and creative liberty at Cornell causes all of us distress.

Moreover, the article suggests no members of the audience expressed approval for Mark’s collection, instead responding with “whispers” and “gasps.” These statements are essentializing and revisionist. Although people responded disparately and in their own way, cheering for his creative expression occurred throughout the crowd: both in reserved seating for those who attended to support him personally, and in general seating for those who did not.

Mark Colbran’s collection was not targeted harassment, and the false equivalence of peaceful dissent and harassment is unacceptable. The headline characterization of the message on the cloak as “obscene” is conclusory and incorrect. The use of the language on the cloak was intended to be, and was clearly, an emphatic expression of his dissent. It was not in any way sexual.

Additionally, there was at no time any “targeted harassment” of any individual or any group of people by Mark or anybody else, as is suggested in the article. Further, Mark at no time suggested by his actions that his collection or expressions represented the view of anyone other than himself. The suggestion that any of the designers who presented their collections on Saturday night were seeking to “represent the opinion of everyone involved” fundamentally misconceives the nature of creative work, and the relationship between designers and those who assist them in executing their creative vision. The work of a designer is purely a matter of individual expression.

There was also some controversy surrounding David Wild’s collection. Although Mark and David are co-founders of the FSAD BOYZ brand, both Mark and David presented their separate, disparate and individual expressions of fashion through their own creative work. They did not act in concert or speak collectively, nor did they purport to speak for anyone other than themselves as individuals.

However, what troubles us most is that both Mark and David were not allowed to walk back onto the stage at the end of the show. In fact, before the finale, both were asked to leave the building, contrary to Jessa’s quoted statement that David “was not asked to leave.” Mark was not “escorted out by the police” as Jessa is quoted as having said. Mark was asked by the coordinators of the show to leave the building and he immediately and politely left. Although two police officers were in attendance when the request was made, once again, the implication by Jessa that Mark was escorted out under duress is misleading and defamatory. Mark and David left the building alone.

It is unfortunate that the overreaction of Jessa and her colleagues not only unnecessarily soured the event, and deprived Mark and David of the opportunity to join their fellow designers onstage at the end of the show to celebrate four years of hard work, but also deprived their assistants of the opportunity to join them on stage in celebration. Additionally, Mark’s models, who were in no part involved in his interaction with Jessa, were barred from watching the show to which they personally contributed.

It is also very unfortunate that the authors, in an apparent rush to publish, chose to sensationalize the coverage of Mark’s actions and cast his peaceful artistic expression in a negative light, rather than first determining the underlying story and focusing on the facts. His collection aside, it is a rare sight to see a group of models with diverse lived experiences, body sizes, body types, gender expressions, sexual orientations, races and ethnicities participate together on stage at a fashion show.

Regardless of if someone personally enjoyed, or agreed with, Mark’s collection, we believe they should be troubled by the discussion around it if they believe in a society with freedom of expression. We are saddened that The Sun chose to publish a piece rife with misinformation that falsely equivalates peaceful artistic expression with targeted harassment or obscenity, instead of choosing to contemplate, corroborate and fact check their journalism prior to publication.

It is notable that the more measured article covering the show in the Arts and Entertainment section of the same edition failed to mention Mark’s collection at all. One might speculate as to the motives behind this omission. Perhaps it is simply that so much journalistic space and opportunity had already been squandered.

Richard Wang ’17 production assistant and model, “Solastalgia” by Mark Colbran

Dale Barbaria ’19 vice president of internal operations, Student Assembly

Bjorn Bjornsson ‘18 model, “Solastalgia” by Mark Colbran

Jason Jeong ’19 Sun opinion columnist

Varun Devatha ’19 executive vice president, Student Assembly

Kristin Zak ‘18 model, “Who Are We?” by David Wild

Charlie Liao ‘18

Salma Shitia ’18

Adam Shelepak ‘17

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OPINION

Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

When Coming to Cornell Means Grappling With Guns “But it didn’t happen,” is the chill response I got from some friends (and my mom!) after learning that we may have been tiptoeing along the asymptote of terror.

Apparently being on the brink of tragedy doesn’t cut it anymore, and why should it? Our generation found perverse unity in the w h o l l y American constancy of lockdown drills, in the nonchalance of backpack searches and school security cameras.

If you were to print the Wikipedia page for “List of School Shootings in the United States,” it would be 172 pages long.

(For comparison, “List of awards and nominations received by Meryl Streep” is just 35.)

Gun violence is so routine that it’s easy to forget that we’re living in an international abnormality. This kind of carnage is so

often presumed to be constant in the U.S. that I was surprised when, while she was consoling me in Klarman on Friday afternoon, Shaina Verma ’18 mentioned that gun violence had been a pretty big factor when deciding whether to come to college in the U.S. “Even when I was touring colleges, my mom was worried about letting me go to America for university,” said Shaina, who is from India, but went to secondary school in the U.K. “She told me, ‘They have guns.

I’ve heard about school shootings, and that could be you too.’”

That’s starkly different from how my family reacted to the news of one of our classmates stockpiling weaponry in his Collegetown apartment. When I sent the link to the story in my family group chat, it was completely ignored and the next message was my mom saying “@Dad can u go

While we’ve set such poor expectations of safety ... students and parents across the globe have been paying close attention.

to costco?” When I called her Friday night in distress, she told me “These things can happen. You could also get into a car accident at any point. We are risking our lives all the time.”

She’s right, as moms tend to be, but her outlook is extraordinarily grim. And while we’ve set such poor expectations of safety for ourselves, our children and our peers, students and parents across the globe have been paying close attention. Lily Liu ’20, who is from a seaside city in southern China, tells me she was similarly primed to think about guns when deciding on where to go to college.

“We had heard some terrible stories about gun violence happening near some U.S. college campuses,” she says, adding that these stories have real effects on how families come to decide on a university: “Some Chinese parents think Columbia University is not in a safe [neighborhood] of New York; they may be worried if their kids decided to apply to Columbia.”

While gun violence isn’t at the top of every international student’s mind when deciding on whether to study in the U.S. (As columnist Lorenzo Benitez ’19 told me, “I still think I’m more likely to get hit on

the head with a coconut.”), a university’s location often serves as a proxy for these concerns. Though Rohin Garg ’19 — who comes to Cornell from India — tells me that gun violence didn’t play a role in his decision, he qualifies his claim by noting, “Ithaca is a pretty liberal town, and Cornell is a pretty liberal university, and so the probability of such things happening was assumed to be low.”

When a shot is fired, its sound travels around the world. And while many of us have grown numb from being folded up under desks in dark classrooms in morbid drills, the rest of the world — including our own classmates — are still alert. How we choose to respond to national calamity or local distress (no matter how liberal the locality) has real and tangible effects on how others internationally choose to join and interact with our communities.

The world is watching, and has been for a while now. It's about time we started looking harder as well.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays.

Sarah Park | S*Park Notes

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ver wonder what happens to the discarded frogs from Trump’s drained swamp?

It seems that quite a few of President Trump’s cabinet members have fallen from his good graces.

Perhaps he overstated his access to the best people, best managers and best dealmakers — or he hasn’t been able to shed his love for firing people. As an ILR student, I know that his hundreds of vacancies and record-setting turnover rates can indicate crippling inadequacies in the strategic management of his administration. But let’s not worry ourselves with such silly speculation. Instead, let’s take a closer look at the dear departed to see where they are now!

James Comey In one of the most surreal events of 2017, the FBI director glanced at the television to watch the news of his firing break. He has since become a hardcore Hillary groupie.

Sean Spicer Trump’s first White House press secretary was hired by MS-13 as an official spokesperson. He figured if he’s defending illegal actions, he might as well get paid like it.

Anthony Scaramucci Just ten days into his tenure as White House communications director, the Mooch was fired over a verbal tirade against presidential staff members. After a year of growth, new ventures, and reconciliation with his wife, he landed a job as Kim Jung Un’s press secretary and hopes to last more than two weeks.

Former Trump Staffers: Where Are They Now? Stephen Bannon After the fiery populist chief strategist and master manipulator was removed over clashes with staff members, he returned to his post at Breitbart. However, since his January removal from Breitbart, Bannon has been desperately trying to improve his popularity. He’s considering following in the footsteps of American hero, Kim Kardashian, and releasing his sex tape with his cousin to get back into the good grace of the deep south.

Tom Price The former secretary of Health and Human Services was fired after failing to cut the ACA and spending $400,000 on chartered flights.

Tragically, he died of the common cold after realizing that the government would have to pay for his healthcare. His tombstone reads “socialized medicine will kill us all”.

Omarosa Manigault Newman The former Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice, and All-Star Celebrity Apprentice contestant joined the 45th season of the White House as the communications director of the office of public liaisons and only African-American woman. She was evicted from the White House after 11 months, but not before bringing her 39-person bridal party to the White House for a photo shoot.

She has since appeared in Celebrity Big Brother, where she placed 5th and is a top contender to be the 14th Bachelorette.

Dina Powell The Bush administration alum served as the White House deputy

national security adviser and was critical in drafting the National Security Strategy and working towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Once she discovered the extent of the power-hungry money-grabbing self-serving male-dominated culture of White House politics, she retreated to the relative sanctity of her executive position at Goldman Sachs.

Kellyanne Conway After stunning us all with her Olympic-level logical backflips, artful pivots, and breathtaking spins, Kellyanne has been noticeably missing from the public sphere.

While she has not officially stepped down as counselor to the President, we suspect her role has been significantly downsized as it has been months since a new Kellyanne meme has surfaced. We fear that she’s fallen victim to the Second Coming of the Bowling Green Massacre. If anyone has any reports, please let us know. We miss you, Kel. Carl Higbie The chief of external affairs for corporation for national and community service resigned after reports surfaced of his offensive remarks about black people, Muslims, gays and veterans with PTSD. He has since joined the underground pledge class of Cornell University’s Psi Upsilon.

Brenda Fitzgerald The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director resigned after reports surfaced that she purchased stock in Japan

Tobacco despite the CDC’s goals to prevent smoking. She now sells Juul pods to teens.

Rob Porter This Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar served as the White House staff secretary and resigned after not one, but two, of his former wives reported physical abuse. He has since become an amateur MMA fighter and is set to face off with former Trump speechwriter and fellow domestic abuser, David Sorensen. He also listens to a lot of Chris Brown.

Rex Tillerson The former Secretary of State was fired last week via Twitter, which is the presidential-equivalent of ending a relationship by changing your status on Facebook. He’s decided to take a gap year to backpack through Europe and really just find himself. In the meantime, he’s been spending a lot of time at gas stations.

Gary Cohn The former Trump aide and National Economic Council director decided to break the White House to Goldman Sachs pipeline, working for J.P. Morgan instead.

of Trump. She left her dead-end job as White House communications director to pursue other opportunities. She is updating her resume and has enlisted Victor Cheng to help her practice quantitatives for consulting recruiting season in the fall.

Rick Dearborn Trump’s deputy chief of staff resigned from his post to save government funds after realizing there was no need for a deputy chief of staff in the wake of such a rapid declining number of staffers. He now serves as Barron Trump’s executive tutor.

Andrew McCabe On Friday, the deputy director of the FBI was fired two days before he could retire. He’s decided to take this opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a rapper. He’s working with Comey on a fire Trump diss track which is set to drop any day now on Soundcloud.

Ben Carson The leading neurosurgeon returned to work at a pediatric hospital, forgetting he’s the secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

For all these white men and stray women, while their time at the White House was cut short, they can leave with their heads held high, knowing that they contributed to the least popular presidential administration in the polling era. We will miss all these fine swamp animals dearly, but we’ll be sure to see them at the reunion, when they testify for Robert Muller!

Hope Hicks The 29-year old former model resigned the day after testifying that she had told “white lies” on behalf

Sarah Park is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at sarahpark@cornellsun.com. S*Park Notes appears alternating Mondays this semester.

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Lorenzo Benitez | Not a Cop

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Science Never Disproved God

hen I was 14 years old, a substitute teacher at my Catholic school decided to overstep his responsibility and debate God’s existence with a student. That student was me, and at the time I was firmly in the “God exists” camp, while he, ironically for a Catholic school, was very much of the opposite belief.

If I remember properly, it was in science class, for when I challenged him for a disproof of God’s existence, his answer was to “look at science.” As my credulity toward science at the time was equal to that toward God’s existence, I had no response. I felt defeated, unable to defend the ideology that imbued my life with a profound sense of direction and meaning.

In the eight years since, my religious beliefs have oscillated between devout Catholicism and militant atheism.

At around 16 years of age, I even thought it was my calling to become a priest. Indeed, as someone who has lost countless hours of sleep nervously wondering whether his prayers were just insane ramblings to a more sociallyacceptable imaginary friend, I don’t think there has been a single day of my life I haven’t at least momentarily considered God’s existence.

Consequently, it continues to bother me whenever people cite the limited findings of the empirical sciences to assert that the question of God’s existence has been settled. While the scientific method mandates that the burden of proof lies squarely in the “God exists” camp — to paraphrase the late Christopher Hitchens, that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence — science has never logically disproved God’s existence. Sure, to claim that God exists is strictly just as logical as the claim that there is at this moment a teapot orbiting Mars, in the sense that neither can be deductively proven or disproven. However, unlike a teapot orbiting Mars, a spiritual, transcendental life force is something humans have been organically intuiting for as long as history, while there aren’t many who can’t help but sense there exists a rogue interplanetary piece of china.

Moreover, the existence of God remains compatible with today’s most widely-accepted physical theories: it’s perfectly reasonable to intuit that something couldn’t have possibly come from nothing, in reference to the enduring mystery of what might’ve preceded the singularity of the Big Bang.

As we first learned from Descartes, the philosopher who gave us the plane upon which we perform calculus, something that’s imaginable is metaphysically possible. If we can conceive it, it is within the realm of our intuitions, and the realm of our intuitions has a lot to offer by way of possibility. Admittedly, it might be conceivable due to ignorance, like how since-dismissed physical theories such as the earth’s flatness were once conceivable.

However, since the persistent unknowability of God will never be resolved — God purportedly transcends the physical universe, so it’s unimaginable that the physical sciences can ever furnish a metaphysical proof or disproof — it’s not irrational to lend this conceivability argument the necessary credence to resolve it instead.

This view is especially reasonable considering how literally all knowledge ultimately depends to some extent on unprovable intuitions. To many, HEESOO PARK / SUN SKETCH ARTIST mathematics is already the most foundational and rigorous of all knowledge, and yet mathematician Kurt Gödel proved that even basic arithmetic depends on intuiting certain unproveable “truths.” Mathematics, and hence the physical theories expressed using it, will always depend on some fundamental intuitions that will never be proveable, which isn’t unlike the reasoning posited by theists in defense of God’s existence. So, whatever credence we lend to mathematical statements can arguably be extended as well to metaphysical statements, including those concerning God. Funnily enough, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems caused in me an epistemic epiphany so powerful that it pushed me away from atheism altogether.

Understandably, the image of a bearded man sitting

just outside the limits of our physical universe can be just as hard to accept as that of a teapot orbiting Mars.

However, there are multiple interpretations of how God manifests that warrant greater credulity than the anthropomorphic image we conjure of Them. As someone schooled by the Jesuits, who emphasize finding God in all things, Spinozan monism in my opinion offers a compelling interpretation of God’s immanence. (Let’s not forget that many great scientists throughout history, including Newton and Einstein, were themselves theists.)

Surprisingly, my undergraduate studies in an analytic

philosophy department have since tempered whatever atheistic tendencies I once had. Today, I calmly sit at the polite middle of agnosticism, recognizing the equal strength of intuitions in either direction. But, the question of God is currently and will likely forever remain unsettled, and so for atheists to pretend otherwise by invoking the finite sciences is to embellish an ideology because it fits more conveniently with their existing views. And that, to my mind, is even more irrational.

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com. Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

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y nature, student organizing is ephemeral. Its leaders are passionate and authentic; the moments they create are powerful and important. Yet the inescapable truth is that student activism is always the flawed product of temporary citizenship. The opinions we form about our university have just four years to emerge and instrumentalize before Cornell evaporates from our lived experience.

As a result, campus movements often have quite a short half-life. This is not due to a lack of dedication among advocates, and it does not mean that they can never be successful.

But these movements exist to confront broad and complex problems that require immense institutional solutions. If we want a university that fully reflects the image and interests of its student body, we cannot afford to be temporary citizens. We need our alumni to do better, and they need to do much, much more.

Cornell alumni, for the most part, are asked to be fans. They should stay updated, give back and cheer us on. They should hang a pennant in their office and carry our values into each new space they enter. They should click New York Times links about Ezra’s Tunnel and live stream the hockey games.

Sometimes being a good fan means attending a reunion or an alumni event, other times it just means reading the newsletters. Certainly, it always means donating when asked. So while students occupy a role that sits somewhere between citizen and customer, graduation seems to trigger some shift to passive supporter.

This is not to say that alumni never wade into campus issues, but when they do it tends to bear three important characteristics. First, it is almost always in favor of things as they used to be. Whether it’s the troubling tenden-

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cies of the Greek system, or the half-measure commitment to diversity and accessibility, we always assume that our alumni will be the greatest obstacles to change. It’s that massive, amorphous bloc of rear-looking stakeholders that makes every battle seem nosebleed-steep.

You can find them writing one-off op-eds and commenting in the space below this article. However, their presence is really felt in extreme incrementalism practiced by university leadership across the country who fear that any dip in donations will upset the delicate budgetary ecosystem they have constructed.

Part of this is the natural tendency towards rose-colored hindsight. New concerns supplant old ones, and the frustrations that many students feel are brushed aside as youthful ignorance. It’s a mildly patronizing perspective, but one that’s so universal that it can’t really be faulted.

A more troubling source of this status-quo bias is rooted in the particular construction of the alumni-alma mater relationship. While alumni are encouraged to think critically about their university, it always carries the basic premise that their college is, and always has been, fundamentally good. This is especially true of institutions like Cornell, which traffic so heavily in legacy and past greatness.

As a result, the most common criticism we hear is that the University has failed to achieve some past virtue, not that it’s been flawed from the jump.

The second deficient characteristic that alumni involvement often carries is that it is woefully disjoint. Even when someone takes up a noble cause, genuine collective action among alumni is virtually non-existent.

Instead, the only truly effective advocates are those individuals who are endowed with the

financial clout to personally apply leverage.

And this is not for lack of pressure points.

Cornell really does rely on a stream of small donations to support a lot of its key programming. For example, next week is Giving Day, Cornell’s annual made-up holiday that it celebrates by asking people to give it stuff. This is precisely the kind of moment that carries acute, obvious leverage. Moreover, alumni always have greater normative power to make demands because they do not suffer the tired label of “ungrateful-students-who-don’t-really-get-it.”

What they do lack, however, are modes of easy assembly and communication. They are spread around the world, and identify with countless communities more strongly than their alma mater. However, this is only to say that it is more difficult, not prohibitive.

The last, and most crucial, fact about the way alumni care is that it’s necessarily impersonal. While we are here, students experience institutional policy and our campus community fully and tangibly. Tuition hikes and aid changes mean new loans and third jobs. Acts of hate and intolerance mean lost safety and peace of mind. Even those issues that do not touch our lives directly often affect our friends and classmates.

As soon as we step away, the tangible, personal issues in our lives are suddenly something different. They become local government decisions, workplace dynamics and national politics. I am well aware that one year from now, there will be much less reason for me to care about this community and the policies that affect it.

Of course, Cornell alumni have diverse interests and beliefs, and many do not agree with the causes I support. However, I think that there are many who do, who we rarely

hear from in a meaningful way. So many students care very deeply while they’re here, only to have that energy dissipate soon after they leave. The result of all this is that while students are able to affect change around the margins, the basic direction of the University and the fundamental logic behind its decisions are dictated the independent discretion of administrators and the interests of the most vocal, most wealthy alums.

So, as I hurdle towards graduation, I want to offer a handful of guidelines for being an effective, permanent citizen of this university: We should hold onto the issues that affect us today, because they will absolutely matter to those that come next; and we should hold onto the frustration, the emotion and the urgency of it all, because these problems aren’t less tangible just because we don’t touch them. We should be shameless in the things we demand, even when it risks the appearance of complacency and ingratitude.

Crucially, we have to maintain the sense of community, and the capacity for collective action that makes student activism so unique.

Whether it is mobilizing alumni around issues or collaborating with students on campus, we cannot become atomized the moment we graduate. Finally, we need to recognize power where we have it. In the last year, President Pollack has attended 103 alumni events, meaning the most indispensible public for this university is its alumni.

The only way to honor our university is to never let it take us for granted.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com. The Common Table appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Gay Man’s Take on Love, Simon

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

For a while, Love, Simon flew under my radar. Once I first saw trailers for it though, I became intrigued — but also cautious. I didn’t know how a teenage romance movie would handle a gay protagonist. The film, directed by Greg Berlanti and written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Bergerm, could easily go so wrong. Luckily, my fears have been dispelled. Love, Simon reflects the anxieties of coming out in our world today with a solid teenage drama to carry the message.

Love, Simon stars Nick Robinson as the titular Simon Spier, a high school student living in a model nuclear family. He has a close circle of friends and participates in the school’s drama productions. He has a secret though; he has not revealed to anyone that he’s gay. One day, a post in the school’s anonymous confessions web page sets everyone ablaze. There’s a closeted gay kid at school, who only signs his post with the pseudonym “Blue.”

Simon reaches out with a different email and his own pseudonym, “Jacques.” The two begin to build more and more of a rapport, with Simon thinking about who Blue might actually be. One day though, another kid named Martin (Logan Miller) finds Simon’s emails left open on a computer. Martin threatens to out Simon, unless Simon helps him score a date with one of his friends.

Simon has to juggle an growing tangle of relationships as he struggles to keep everything from falling apart.

One of the best things about the movie is how the characters are built. For years, media about high school have been dominated by tropes Saved By The Bell and High School Musical. Love, Simon steers away from many those tired tropes. Simon himself feels like a relatable, average kid. He likes going to parties with his friends, he spends time with his family, he has a good relationship with the school authorities. He’s a kind person who grapples with anxieties that many people can relate to. Meanwhile, his three friends, played by Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp and Jorge Lendeborg Jr., all have distinct personalities.

They feel like many people I knew in high school, and give the film a sense of sincerity.

Simon’s family further helps to ground the story.

His mother, played by Jennifer Garner, works as a therapist, and in her free time devotes her efforts to social justice marches. His father, played by Josh Duhamel, is a well-meaning guy who’s not afraid to show his soft side, but still has a tendency to tell the wrong jokes at the wrong time. Simon’s little sister, Nora (Talitha Bateman), aspires to be a culinary master, and often prepares meals for the family, some of which are stomached purely out of love. The family shares banter back and forth, but also expresses their support for one another. Between Simon’s friends and his family, we have a solid emotional base that powers

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Simon Spier talks to his high school friends in Love, Simon. the heart of the movie.

And then we have Martin, the guy blackmailing Simon. Martin is obnoxious and grating in all the right ways. He doesn’t feel outright evil or cruel.

Instead his selfishness feels more casual, which curdles the stomach even more. He speaks and acts without thinking about how it will hurt others around him. In short, he feels real. Logan Miller plays the role with vigor, and the story handles the character well. Most importantly, even though he later expresses regret for some of his actions, the story doesn’t “redeem” him.

It’s crystal clear that his actions carry consequences that he cannot fix with apologies, and that’s important.

The rest of the supporting characters round out our cast. You have a couple of bullies who actually use language you’d hear in a high school environment.

They’re brutal and nasty, not cleaned-up as is often seen in films like this. There’s also Ethan, who has been openly gay for a while. In a way, he’s a foil to Simon; Simon is a typical kind of guy, while Ethan… well, when he came out, nobody was surprised. You have a vice principal, a drama teacher and other people you’d expect to see in a high school movie. So sure, it does sometimes play into stereotypical high school movie. Every now and then things get a little cheesy

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and “out there,” and it detracts a bit from the film.

But far more things do work rather than don’t work, so the flaws get outweighed.

With all these characters assembled, the plot flows along with fluid motion. One thing leads to the next in a logical pattern. Besides the tension between Simon and Martin, the plot also hinges on the identity of Blue. It’s like a “whodunit” of gayness. I followed the roller coaster of ups and downs. I laughed and I cried (a lot), because so much of the film resonated true with me. It’s thanks to this well-built story that it earns the right to talk about such a crucial, intimate topic.

Love, Simon manages to capture so much of what it’s like to be young and gay in 2018. For one thing, technology has enabled relationships to blossom longdistance. That same technology can also threaten our privacy, though — a special threat for people who, for whatever reason, are not ready to come out yet.

It also captures how society is far more tolerant than it was even a decade ago, but being gay is still considered somewhat “abnormal.” It changes how people perceive you, consciously or otherwise. Simon knows people around him will support him, but he fears the way his life could change beyond his control.

The film shows how it can be an awkward conversation. It even demonstrates how being outed against your will can hurt, a lot. That’s something I experienced too… being outed without your consent is not a light action. It’s a gross violation of privacy, and a dramatic violation of trust. Love, Simon treats it like that.

Alongside its dramatic elements though, Love, Simon also brims with joy. It’s heartwarming and fun.

Some of the best parts are Simon’s fantasies. For example, he pictures Blue as different guys around school.

There's also the advertised scenario, “What if straight people had to come out?” My favorite segment is Simon thinking that he can at least come out at college. He proceeds to envision his dorm room covered in pride materials, and dances down the staircase.

People in rainbow shirts follow him to the yard in a big spectacle — then he returns to reality. “Okay, maybe not that gay.”

Love, Simon stands head and shoulder above other teenage romances. It deals out both drama and fun, while also giving a window into what it’s like being gay in the United States today. Sometimes it gets a little too cheesy for its own good, but at heart the film beats true. It was an absolute delight to watch, and it's definitely something that a lot of people need right now.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun.com.

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Adam Kanwal From the release of his debut mixtape Young Sinatra, Logic has been dropping the jaws of listeners with his fast-paced lyrical acrobatics. His discography includes three studio albums and seven mixtapes consisting of a diverse collection of bangers and vibes, each packed with jumbles of tongue-twisting talent. Drawing on inspiration from directors like Quentin Tarantino and artists like Jay Z, Logic writes concept albums that tell stories in which science fiction meets street and emotional vulnerability meets eye-rolling confidence.

On March 9, Logic released his newest mixtape, Bobby Tarantino II, as a follow up

Monday, March 19, 2018 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 9 to 2016’s Bobby Tarantino. The original Bobby Tarantino was widely criticized for its lack of a coherent concept, its simplicity and for the aloof, braggadocious version of Logic that it presents. Despite the criticism, with hits like “Flexicution,” “Super Mario World” and “The Jam,” there is no denying that the album slaps.

Bobby Tarantino II starts off with “Grandpa’s Spaceship,” a dialogue between television characters Rick and Morty, during which the two are choosing what music to play on a spaceship ride. After a long, extremely explicit conversation, they finally decide on Bobby Tarantino, because they view it as the perfect combination between rap with meaning, and rap that just bumps.

The dialogue leads straight into the simple but bouncy “Overnight.” This track consists of a simple synthesizer riff with seven repeating notes. Logic uses a lyrical pattern in which the first two beats of each bar consist of a slow delivery of stressed syllables, and the next two are fast and choppy.

In the song, he maintains the braggadocious theme of the last installment to the Tarantino series but adds a flavor of wisdom.

Amidst an array of self-aggrandizing lyrics, he says “I treated everybody with respect and now I’m rich.” Although this song could have fit perfectly into the 2016 album, the wisdom that is lightly incorporated into it presents a version of Logic that, though still intent on bragging, is able to reflect on his success, emphasizing the prosocial qualities that he embodies and that many ignore in chasing money and power.

“Boomtrap Protocol,” the mixtape’s fourth track, is unique. It begins as a classic Bobby Tarantino banger, with a sample peeking in at the intro, a beat drop four bars in and a quick and slick entry by Logic. He begins rapping over the beat in his classic double-time triplet rhythm. By the end of

the verse, though, he transitions to a Drakestyle flow in which he raps fast in the beginning of the bar and leaves silence at the end. The remainder of the song consists of Logic singing in a slightly autotuned voice. It seems that he is embracing a Ty Dolla Sign-esque style.

Although the lyrical content fits within the Bobby Ta r a n t i n o theme, the style represents Logic’s embrace of yet another new sound.

Perhaps two of the most exciting tracks on the album are “Indica Badu (feat.

Wiz Khalifa)” and “State of Emergency (feat. 2 Chainz).” These tracks are complete opposites, with “Indica Badu” acting as a chill stoner’s anthem and “State of Emergency” acting as heavy hitting trap banger. What is interesting about these two pieces, however, is that they showcase an ability of Logic that was not apparent in the 2016 mixtape: his adaptability. The previous mixtape only contained one feature — in “Wrist (feat. Pusha T),” Pusha seemed to conform to Logic’s style. Contrastingly, in “Indica Badu,” Logic takes up the persona of a stoner, and by doing so, he both compliments and highlights Wiz’s iconic stoner vibe. On the other hand, some would say 2 Chainz and Logic are opposites. While 2 Chainz focuses on making hard-hitting trap anthems filled with difficult to distinguish, slurred, misogynistic words, Logic often focuses on making crisp, smooth, woke (yet

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Nevertheless, Logic adopts 2 Chainz’ style in “State of Emergencies,” using a slower delivery and taking many breaks to make the listener anticipate each hard hitting drum.

The beauty of this mixtape as an addition to the Bobby Tarantino collection is that it actually supports what Logic has spent 24 tracks bragging about. He can be thought of as what rapper Q Tip calls a “rap chameleon.” This album presents an artistic expansion to a new range of unexplored styles by Logic. Somehow, in adapting to new instrumental and artistic environments, he doesn’t compromise his own abilities or uniqueness. In his own words, “You can’t put me in a box / my talent put me in a mansion.”

Adam Kanwal is a freshman in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at ask272@cornell.edu.

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found 300 live rounds of ammunition, a bulletproof vest and other survival materials, The Sun previously reported.

The seizure of the rifle, highcapacity magazine clips and many survival items — a gas mask, chemicals, shrapnel, a trauma kit, food rations — from a Collegetown residence is unprecedented in recent memory, police officials said.

“I’ve been here 36 years,” Vincent Monticello, deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department, said in an interview.

“Occasionally, we have a suspicious device, … but when it comes to this, this is something — the first time I’ve seen something like this.”

“I know where this is,” a Cascadilla Hall resident, Sarah Li ’20, said of Collegetown Plaza.

“My friend lives in this building. I can probably see it when I look out of my window.”

Students who live in Collegetown Plaza told The Sun they were concerned that they did not learn of the arrest and seizure of the rifle, homemade bomb, and other tactical supplies until Friday, when Reynolds was arraigned in court, more than a week after the initial raid on March 7.

“It’s frightening to know that someone who is in possession of guns and other artillery lives in the same building as I do,” said Shiana Kuriakose ’20. “Also, if this happened a week ago, why were building residents never notified?”

When investigators raided Reynolds’ apartment on March 7, he agreed to be committed to the behavioral unit at Cayuga Medical Center. Federal agents did not arrest and charge him until more than a week later, on Thursday night, when they learned of the possibility that Reynolds was going to be transferred to a different hospital, federal prosecutor Richard Southwick said in court.

Elizabeth Yardley ’19 heard about the arrest from friends and said she felt as if “the exterior world [is] seeping into a place like Cornell.”

“We mostly hear of shootings in high schools,” Yardley said, pointing to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last month that killed 17. “But college incidents are not unprecedented and I think we all need to realize that.”

“It seems so strange, hearing stories of shootings and other crimes at other universities, believing that it can never happen here,” Yuqi Chen ’19, a plant sciences major, said. “But this is the reality, I suppose.”

Zhun Che ’18 said the arrest of Reynolds arrest was a wake-up call that Cornell is not inside of a bubble.

“On campus, there is this sense that nothing can happen,” Che said, recalling that many of his friends frequently leave their doors unlocked.

Cornell Police Chief Kathy

Zoner told The Sun that leaving doors unlocked “is never a good idea” and shows that many students do not fully understand the potential for danger in Collegetown or on campus.

“While on one hand I’m really proud that students can feel that kind of safety here in Ithaca, it’s necessary to face reality, and for students to take some basic measures to help preserve their own personal safety,” Zoner said.

The seizure of an AR-15 and wide array of chemicals and survival gear from a student’s Collegetown apartment may be without precedent, but it is far from the first time guns have been found on an Ithaca resident.

Police found two assault rifles, a shotgun, four handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in a car driven by Corbin Whyte, 31, in April 2016. He was sentenced to eight years in prison last year.

The unassembled AR-15 rifle police said they found in Reynolds’ apartment is the same style of semi-automatic weapon used in last month’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida.

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), who represents Ithaca in Congress, said following the Florida shooting that he would vote against any ban on weapons like the AR-15, saying he was concerned that a law that did so would violate the Second Amendment.

“I’m afraid the knee-jerk reaction of banning certain items would pacify, but not solve the problem,” Reed told the Olean Times Herald.

For students in Ithaca, the mere possibility that police officers’ arrest of Reynolds may have saved lives has them advocating for improved gun control legislation.

“He asked someone to buy a gun for him,” Che said. “The fact that you can just ask a random person to buy you a gun, that points to a serious flaw.”

The ex-student’s lawyer, Raymond Schlather J.D. ’76, said in court that Reynolds had been diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features, a claim that some students said made them more concerned that he was apparently able to acquire a gun, even illegally.

“While I’m not in a position to comment on his personal situation, it is scary that someone diagnosed with such unstable mental health has access to weapons and guns like that,” Che said.

Ko said the case highlights that “in a campus this big,” students should look out for each other, and “if you think someone is having a bad day, you should take the time to help them out.”

“Everyday you see all these people and you don’t know what’s going on in their heads,” he said.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs ’19 contributed reporting to this article.

Girisha Arora can be reached at garora@cornellsun.com.

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Chan said of his time at Cornell.

Reynolds had hoped to return to Cornell and applied to come back in the fall. Reynolds told Nixon that the University rejected his application because some kind of mix-up at the community college had left him with an “incomplete” marking for a class he had intended to drop.

“He was going through a really rough time in his life … and it very much seemed to be a rollercoaster,” Chan said. “In October, he sent a text and it seemed like he was very much on an upward trend, and afterward he sent me something that indicated he was in a bit of a troubled spot both financially and emotionally.”

“He was going through a really rough time ... [his life] very much seemed to be a rollercoaster.”

Patty Chan ’18 Several friends said they lost touch with him at various points in the past year. Chan said she hadn’t spoken to him since November, when he was “stressed about his life situation and [there were] a lot of people near and dear to him that he was worrying about.”

Reynolds’ girlfriend, identified in court documents as N.H., told police that she was concerned that Reynolds seemed manic, was not getting enough sleep and had stopped taking his medication.

But others said he appeared to be doing better in the months leading up to the arrest, seeming to indicate the changing nature of Reynolds’ persona.

Reynolds told Kye that he was starting to enjoy Ithaca more in recent months and the two explored the community, frequently getting dinner at a chinese restaurant on College Avenue.

“Surprisingly, I had a lot of conversations with him in the weeks before the [arrest] and he seemed 100 percent normal, as he had been before,” Kye said.

“Actually even more so. … He was super [responsive] and very alert. This was a complete shock to me.”

When he first began working at Nixon’s property, he would apologize frequently and profusely for minor mishaps and was very timid, but seemed to increasingly be coming out of his shell, Nixon said.

Some said they were surprised, at times, by Reynolds’ restraint in moments that could make the average person furious. Once, in freshman year, a drunk student accidentally stepped on and killed Reynolds’ pet turtle, Kye said, and while Reynolds was upset, he told the student not to worry and that he understood it was unintentional.

Nixon said Reynolds showed up late one day to work after popping a tire backing over a broken glass bottle that was behind one of his car’s wheels. Reynolds told Nixon that someone may have

placed the bottle there intentionally, but he was disgusted — not angry — about the possibility.

But Reynolds also carried some irrational worries, friends said. He was detained by Ithaca Police in June of 2016 and stayed at Cayuga Medical Center, according to an affidavit filed in court and a friend at Cornell.

Sarah Marino ’19, a plant sciences major, said she spoke with Reynolds frequently in the fall semester of their freshman year.

He was kind, but spent a lot of time alone and spoke to her several times about trying to find a specific plant with poisonous berries, which she found odd.

Chan said that “while he could be perceived as a loner by people who didn’t know him well, he was the kind of person that could open up in a smaller group” and that there is “a bit of unpredictability with his personality.”

Reynolds also spoke to Kye about being concerned, with no evidence, that someone was going to hurt his younger sister at Cornell.

He was worried about someone attacking his loved ones, “and so that’s why he accumulated what he had,” Kye speculated.

“He was 100 percent defensive in nature. He never talked bad about anyone, never had any grudges.”

“In this current climate, if you didn't know him, then you would naturally jump to conclusions,” Kye said, stressing that the stereotype of the white, male school shooter doesn’t apply to Reynolds.

“It wasn’t like he was isolated or ostracized or anything like that,” Kye said. “Anyone who knew him liked him.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After starting the season by suffering a pair of threegame sweeps at the hands of dominant opponents, the Red found the win column at Fordham this weekend.

The team’s first win didn’t come easily — Cornell (18) dropped a 4-3 contest in 10 innings in game one before winning by the same score, again in 10 innings, in the series’ middle game.

Trailing 3-2, the Red sent game two to extras on a bases-loaded walk from freshman outfielder Jason Apostle. In the top of the 10th, senior outfielder Kyle Gallagher’s hot bat produced at the right time, scoring senior catcher/outfielder Ellis Bitar in what ended up being the game’s winning run.

Gallagher, one of few bright spots offensively in his team’s first two series, continued his early success at the plate, in games one and two, going a combined 3-for-5 with six walks. In game three, though, Gallagher went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts.

Sophomore Andrew Ellison earned the win for Cornell, coming out of the bullpen to throw 3.2 scoreless innings.

In game one, the roles were reversed, with Fordham earning the game’s winning run in the bottom of the tenth. The Red took a 3-2 lead on Apostle’s two-run homer in the fourth. However, after senior Tim Willittes set the Rams’ lineup down in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh, Fordham plated a run in the eighth to tie the score.

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On pitch | After failing to post a win in the season’s first eight games, the Red finally landed a victory in the form of a 10-inning thriller against Fordham.

In the rubber match, Cornell took an early 2-0 lead thanks to Will Simoneit’s 2-run single in the first. But Fordham tied the game at three in the fifth. The Rams took a 4-3 lead in the seventh on a bizarre play on which the Red committed multiple errors, making three errors in the fifth inning alone.

In the eighth, Fordham extended its lead to two runs, earning a 5-3 victory and series win.

Cornell committed four errors in the series’ deciding

game after making two in game one and three in game two.

After nine straight road games to start the year, Cornell hosts Niagara in its home opener next weekend.

The Red will take on the Purple Eagles in doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday at Hoy Field.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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against a tough team. But, we got some guys that need to grow up. We need to get more experience.”

Experienced teams tend to be more polished and make few “rookie” mistakes. Cornell, however, had its share of mistakes Saturday, specifically in the turnover department, with a total of 14.

The Bulldogs’ Ben Reeves — a two-time Tewaaraton Award Finalist and two-time first team All-American — and Jackson Morrill were both a

headache for the defense, combining for eight of the visitor’s 13 goals.

In a game where it needed to excel, the Red instead turned in a relatively average defensive performance, conceding 13 goals to a Yale team that averages 11 per game.

“They are a very experienced group,” said senior defenseman Jake Pulver. “A lot of those guys have been playing together for a while and they just exploited some little mistakes we made maybe being out of position here and there and they capitalized on it.”

Fifth-year goaltender Christian Knight, who is off to a hot start this season, was unable to pick up the win in the cage today. The netminder made 11 saves on 24 shots on goal.

At the end of the day, Cornell once

again showed it can play a nationallyranked team tight, just as it did against No. 1 Albany. But for Milliman and his squad, losing close doesn’t cut it.

“I think we have proven we can play with some top-10 teams, but that’s not a moral victory for anybody,” Milliman said. “I don’t think anyone in our locker room is satisfied with that. We want to win the Ivy League, we want to compete for national championships and we want to do it every year.”

Cornell continues Ivy League play next weekend against Penn on the road at noon Saturday.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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expected.

“Their response was kind of surprising to us as a coaching staff,” Schafer said. “I don’t know what their mindset was after [Princeton] scored that second goal, whether they were feeling sorry for themselves, or they thought it was going to be easier or what.”

In the end, Princeton goaltender Ryan Ferland came up big for his team when it needed him, holding the Red scoreless down the stretch.

Princeton’s Max Veronneau scored his team’s third goal of the game, and the Tigers notched an empty-net goal in the game’s final minute. “[Ferland] is a good goalie,” Rauter said. “I wouldn’t say that he stole the show by any means, we

got good pressure.”

Despite coughing up its early lead, the Red entered the second intermission down by just one goal, but Cornell seemed unable to get it going late in the game.

“We were down one goal going into the third period,” Rauter said. “But we didn’t do what we needed to do to get back into it.”

The performance Friday was a stark contrast with the way Cornell played just last weekend — a dominant quarterfinal series win over Quinnipiac in which the Red looked near unbeatable.

“We were confident, we had a great weekend last weekend,” said senior forward Trevor Yates. “Maybe we were overconfident.”

Yates scored the game’s first and the Red’s only goal.

It was his first tally since Jan. 6.

Even with its lackluster

effort in the final two periods, Cornell matched up well statistically with the Tigers, outshooting them 28-18 and holding Princeton’s best-in-the nation power play scoreless on the day.

“If you told me we’d come in tonight and we’d hold [Princeton’s top line] to one shot, outshoot them 28-18 and they’d go [0-for2] on the power play, I’d say there would be a pretty good opportunity to win the game,” Schafer said.

One of the drastic differences in the game was the international size ice sheet on which the conference tournament is played — Lake Placid’s Olympic ice is 13 feet wider.

“Anybody who says [the bigger ice] is not a factor, they’re lying,” Schafer said.

“I personally don’t like it …

There’s not one team in our league that plays on an

Olympic ice surface.”

Princeton advanced to the conference championship on Saturday where it defeated third-seeded Clarkson in overtime to win the Whitelaw Cup. The loss ends Cornell’s conference season, which saw it clinch a regular season championship for the first time in more than a decade. It was just Cornell’s fourth conference loss in 23 games this season. “[The players] will be disappointed in themselves,” Schafer said. “They had a great year and worked very hard to get to this point.”

Cornell will play as the No. 1 seed in the Northeast region of the NCAA Tournament, set to begin this coming weekend.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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nation, an improvement from its eighthplace finish a year before.

Cornell finished inside the top 10 in the nation for the 11th straight season.

“We have finished top-10 every year ... that’s just the expectation,” Koll said.

The highest seeded Cornell wrestler in the tournament was Darmstadt, who sported an impressive record of 31-1, with 25 bonus point victories, entering the weekend.

The 197-pounder’s path to a national title was stopped short in the semifinals where he lost by fall to No. 3 seed Jared Haught of Virginia Tech.

Darmstadt would lose his next two consolation matches, placing sixth.

Nonetheless, Darmstadt exceeded expectations in his freshman campaign. “ [ D a r m s t a d t ’s ] expectations were to finish higher,” Koll said.

“But, there’s a two-time national champion who didn’t place in this tournament, so you got to be thankful for being in the top eight. The reality is, Ben didn’t start off as a varsity this year. He was beaten off the

team.”

The third freshman to make the trip to Cleveland was Dean, who finished in eighth place and also had an impressive rookie campaign for the Red. “Dean has just worked his butt off,” Koll said. “But I don’t think anybody would have expected him to place this year ... Just based on his accolades, he wasn’t an AllAmerican caliber kid.”

Dean fell out of the main bracket after losing in the quarterfinals to top-seed Bo Nickal of Penn State at 184 pounds. Nickal defeated Dean’s brother, Gabe, in the 184 title match in 2017.

Of the seven who competed at the NCAA Championship, not a single wrestler was a senior. For Koll and the rest of the program, it’s exciting to consider what the future holds for Cornell wrestling next season.

“I don’t think our team has ever had five All-Americans returning; I’d be surprised,” Koll said. “Very few teams have that type of power ... It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

MEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Fall Short,Drop Ivy Opener to No.7 Yale at Home

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It was a tough one to swallow for Cornell men’s lacrosse. Taking the lead on seven different occasions, the home team had several chances to win. But down the stretch, the defending Ivy League champions held the edge in the game’s critical waning moments.

In its first Ivy League game of the season, the Red fell to Yale, 13-11. Neither team trailed by more than two goals during the contest, and the game was tied with under five minutes remaining. Nonetheless, the underdogs

were unable to finish the job.

“It’s obviously a disappointing loss,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman. “We wanted that one very badly. I felt like we were competing well enough to deserve it, but we didn’t earn it at the end of the day.”

Down by a goal with two minutes left on the clock, Cornell had the ball on the attack following a Yale timeout. This was the chance to even the score and at the very least send the game to overtime.

Having notched six points on the day at that point, sophomore attack Jeff Teat naturally had the ball in the situation. But Teat,

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Possession battle | The Red fell short in its first conference matchup of the season after costly turnovers down the stretch allowed Yale to claim victory at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday — bringing Cornell’s overall record to an even 3-3.

attempting an ill-advised pass across the field, turned the ball over to Yale’s Christopher Keating. Teat had seven turnovers in the game, comprising half his team’s giveaways.

“I think it came down to the end of the game, the fourth quarter,” Teat said. “We had a good amount of turnovers, specifically me, going down the stretch, not making plays. I think that was the difference.”

The Bulldogs would go on to score their 13th goal and seal the deal for the visiting squad.

“There was some plays there that made the difference and [Yale’s] a very good team, they play quality lacrosse,” Milliman said. “They make you earn everything and in a game like that it’s really important that you execute across the board. We had a few too many turnovers and some mistakes in some certain places.”

The Red beat out the Bulldogs in the ground ball game, executed all but one clear and won the faceoff battle — an area the team has struggled with — by a significant margin with the help of sophomore face-off go-off Paul Rasimowicz.

“I’m proud [of ] our faceoff unit specifically,” Milliman said. “[Rasimowicz] fought hard and got some scrappy victories there.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Downs Massachusetts in Double Overtime Nail-Biter Farinholt’s game-winner lifts Cornell over Minutewomen for third straight win

By GRACIE TODD Sun Staff Writer

With just 1:56 left in the second overtime period, senior captain Ida Farinholt eked out a last-minute goal to power Cornell women’s lacrosse past

Massachusetts. Assisted by fellow senior captain Taylor Reed, Farinholt’s clutch shot brought the final score to 11-10.

The win marked several season firsts for the Red (4-2, 1-1 Ivy). It was Cornell’s first victory on the road, breaking a string

of disappointing defeats away from Schoellkopf.

It also marked the first time this season that the Red overcame a halftime deficit to win. The squad trailed the Minutewomen (4-3) 6-7 at the half.

“It gave our team confidence

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Final countdown | Despite a strong offensive performance — which saw six players contribute goals — the Red did not clinch the win over Massachusetts until senior captain Ida Farinholt scored with 1:56 left in double overtime.

knowing that even in tight games we never give up and can pull out the win,” said Reed.

This win also meant vindication for Cornell, since they last met Massachusetts in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2016, where they were defeated 7-6.

“We knew that they were going to be a scrappy team from the beginning,” said sophomore goalkeeper Katie McGahan.

“Going into the game we were ready to fight hard.”

The Red’s fight paid off as it gutted out a double-overtime victory. The Red now enjoys a 3-1 advantage in the all-time series against the Minutewomen.

Cornell’s offense played prolifically, showcasing great depth with six different scorers. Junior captain Sarah Phillips set the tone with a goal in the first two minutes of the game. Junior Hannah O’Reilly, senior Taylor Reed, junior Tomasina Leska, and sophomore Caroline Allen each followed Phillips’ lead with one goal a piece in the first thirty minutes.

Reed and Allen further flexed their prowess with a hat trick each and senior midfielder Joey Coffy scored a goal in each half.

“We all knew we had to fight

hard,” Reed said.

Despite a strong offensive showing, Cornell’s defense arguably was even more impressive. After seven total goals were scored in the first 18 minutes of the second period, both teams did not score for the rest of regulation.

McGahan, who made 10 crucial saves throughout the game, proved key to the Red’s defensive success.

“I try to be as calm as I can during the game,” McGahan said.

She credits her teammates for much of her success.

“We have a really strong defense this year,” McGahan said. “Which makes my job a lot easier.”

Supporting McGahan, Cait Callahan and Farinholt caused four and three turnovers, respectively. Cornell notched 27 turnovers in total, narrowly besting Massachusetts’ 26.

The Red next squares off against Syracuse at home, Tuesday, March 3rd.

“We took a lot of positives away from the game [against UMass] and are excited to face Syracuse,” Reed reflected.

Gracie Todd can be reached at gtodd@cornellsun.com.

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Grapplers Earn 7th-place Team Finish at NCAAs

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By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

COURTESY OF TONY ROTUNDO

Historic win | Yianni Diakomihalis is only the second Cornell freshman to win a national championship.

Diakomihalis Wins National Title

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

Rochester native Yianni Diakomihalis became the first true freshman to win a national championship for Cornell wrestling since the legendary Kyle Dake ’13 did so in 2010.

At 141, Diakomihalis defeated top-seeded Bryce Meredith of Wyoming by 7-4 decision on Saturday evening in the final round of the NCAA Championships in Cleveland.

Diakomihalis has been among the standouts for the Red this season, sporting a 31-1 record prior to the national tournament, including 24 bonus point wins.

At the NCAA Championships, Diakomihalis was placed as a No. 3 seed and grinded his way to the finals,

knocking off the No. 2 seed Jaydin Eierman of Missouri — the same wrestler that handed Diakomihalis his only loss earlier in the season.

In the finals, Diakomihalis readied to face Meredith — a wrestler he had already beaten this season at the Cliff Keen invitational on Dec. 2, 2017 by a 4-2 decision. Meredith took a 2-point lead in the 3rd period, but Diakomihalis stayed strong, earning a late takedown and near fall of his opponent to earn another victory.

It’s the Red’s first national champion since Gabe Dean ’17 and Nahshon Garrett ’16 won at the national tournament at the end of the 2015-16 season.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

Dean (184) and junior Jon Jay Chavez (165), earned All-American honors over the weekend.

Koll was nothing less than pleased with his team’s results from this weekend, and the season overall.

“If you told me at the beginning of the year we would have four All-

With less than 30 seconds to go in the 141 pound title match, it looked as if Cornell wrestling would go a second straight year without a NCAA champion.

No. 3 seed freshman Yianni Diakomihalis (141) had other ideas.

In the final moments “I don’t think our the match, of Diakomihalis executed a team has ever had masterful four-point crafive All-Americans dle to defeat top-seed returning. I’d be Bryce Meredith of Wyoming, 7-4, and surprised.” become a national chamHead coach Rob Koll pion. “[Diakomihalis] usually waits until like 15 Americans, win the Ivies seconds left to win it,” and again have a 13-2 said head coach Rob record, I would have Koll. “It was a little nerve been a little cynical to be racking, not going to quite honest,” Koll said. deny it. But there wasn’t a “Only one person on this time where I felt like, team ... who was there ‘okay, he can’t win; he this weekend, had ever can’t pull this out.’” been to a national chamThe young grappler pionship, and walking joins four-time national away with four Allchampion Kyle Dake ’13 Americans is just remarkas the second Cornell able.” freshman to win the Cornell came in at tournament, also at 141 35th in the preseason pounds. rankings but went on to Diakomihalis, along- finish seventh in the side classmates Ben Darmstadt (197), Max See WRESTLING page 14

Red Sent to Mass.

As No.1 Seed in NCAA Tournament

MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Falter in ECAC Semifinal Fluke goals doom Red in Placid loss to Tigers

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — A week after dominating the conference quarterfinals, Cornell men’s hockey fell victim to an underdog Princeton team on Friday at an ice rink known for upset victories.

Cornell was leading 1-0 after the first period, after which it seemed to be in control of the game. But two fortuitous bounces allowed the Tigers to score two straight goals in the second, and Cornell was never able to catch up, ultimately falling by a score of 4-1.

“Honestly I think we just got away from our own process and our game

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Bitter end | The Red’s dominant conference season came to an end on Friday evening without a conference championship.

plan,” said senior captain Alex Rauter.

“We had a great first period … you’ve got to give them credit, but I don’t think we played our best game. “ Trailing by a goal in the second period, Princeton defenseman Josh Teves sent a long shot wide of freshman goaltender Matt Galajda. The puck ricocheted off the end boards and off the Tigers’ Eric Grande’s skate and past an unsuspecting Galajda, tying the game, 1-1.

“The hardest part, at least for me, is

that we knew exactly what we had to do to win the game,” Rauter said. “We knew how to be successful, and we just didn’t do it.”

The Tigers’ second goal came courtesy of an Eric Robinson breakaway after a blocked shot sent him in all alone against Galajda.

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After its best regular season since it advanced to the Frozen Four in 2003, Cornell men’s hockey will head to Worcester, Massachusetts, and face longtime rival Boston University in the NCAA tournament.

Despite an upset loss to Princeton, the eventual ECAC champions, in the conference semifinals, the Red had already locked up a No. 1 seed.

Cornell, the No. 3 overall seed, faces the Terriers in the northeast regional. If it wins its game March 24, it will take on the winner between Michigan and Northeastern in the national quarterfinals.

The Red takes on B.U. at 1 p.m. March 24. The game will be broadcast on ESPN News, and the winner will take on Michigan or Northeastern at 4 p.m. March 25.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler @cornellsun.com.