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Drake’s new album is actually a playlist and it falls short, says Nick Mileti.

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Men’s hockey fell to Harvard in its first ECAC finals bid since 2011.

Police Jail 2 Suspected Campus Backpack Thieves

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Police arrested a man and woman on Friday and charged them each with a felony for allegedly stealing valuables from students at Cornell after 11 backpacks containing nearly $12,000 worth of computers, cash and other items were reported stolen on Thursday.

Ithaca Police arrested Richard Huyler, 39, and April Mace, 31, on Friday afternoon and charged each with crim-

Wings Over Ithaca To Open ThisWeek In Collegetown

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Wings Over Ithaca will begin dishing out and delivering wings, fries and sandwiches this week from a new Collegetown location under the ownership of four Cornell alumni.

The new location at 121 Dryden Rd. can seat about 30 people and boasts a menu of burgers, wraps, salads and 25 flavors of boneless and regular wings.

While an exact opening date is not yet set, the restaurant will open sometime this week, said Dan Leyva ’14, the main operating partner and a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration.

Leyva and the three other owners — Kevin Mok ’14, Raunak Nirmal ’14 and Mike Wang ’07 — showed a group of reporters around the restaurant on Saturday as music played from speakers and two large, flat-

screen televisions displayed live college basketball action.

Leyva emphasized that he and the current owners have nothing to do with Bruce McPherson, the former owner of Ithaca’s previous Wings Over Ithaca location on East Hill who was charged with 20 counts of tax fraud in October, shuttering the business.

When the four Cornell alumni saw that their favorite eatery had closed, they began texting each other and joking about the idea of opening up their own store. Soon after, the joking turned into planning and the Cornellians signed an agreement with the Wings Over franchise, which has about 40 locations across 13 states.

Chris Gardner worked for 9 years at the former location and said it was a rough experience when it closed under surprising circumstances, putting him out of a job.

See WINGS page 4

Jump-start | Owners and management showed The Sun around the new restaurant’s location on Saturday.

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inal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, a class E felony. The charges stem from the Thursday thefts on campus, Cornell Police said.

Mace was a lead supervisor at Cornell from 2005 to 2014 — supervising more than 100 employees, assisting in payroll management and helping to open HUYLER five dining halls across West Campus — according to posts on her Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

Reached on Sunday afternoon, Melissa Osgood, deputy director of media relations, said she could not immediately confirm or deny whether Mace had been employed by Cornell.

“I start my new job Monday,” Mace wrote in a public Facebook post in November 2014. “Bad news is that I will

be leaving Cornell, I will miss everybody the employees and the students !!!”

New York State Police arrested Huyler in January of 2016 and accused him of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine, a felony, according to multiple news reports.

Huyler was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail on Friday MACE without the option for bail and Mace is being held at the jail in lieu of $3,000 cash bail or $6,000 bond. Mace had not bailed out as of Sunday evening, according to a correction officer at the jail.

A plethora of items were reported stolen on Thursday: six Apple laptops, multiple U.S. passports, keys, textbooks, See ARREST page 4

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Amassing momentum | An organizer speaks at the People’s School’s second meeting Saturday at BJM Elementary School.

People’s School No.2 Gathers Over 100

Group debates strategies to tackle racial inequalities,social issues

By ALANA SULLIVAN Sun Staff Writer

A different type of school was in session at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca on Saturday when over 100 people gathered at the elementary school to attend the second session of The People’s School.

This meeting of The People’s School — a social justice education group comprised of Ithaca community members, activists, and Cornell faculty and students — came following its original meeting at the end of January in Klarman Auditorium.

“At our first People’s School meeting, we said the time for stargazing … has passed,” said an organizer in the event’s opening remarks. “It’s time instead to look not up, but to look around. To look to each other for our politics and for our schooling. The People’s School is both.”

Another organizer agreed, saying that they “hope to build on the

momentum of [their] last meeting and Rights Coalition, Cornell EARS and the make The People’s School a sustained Ultimate Reentry Opportunity of and shared effort to bridge theory and Tompkins County led discussion sessions practice and to build the tools neces- on topics ranging from disability rights sary to bring about a collective emanci- and support in the Trump era to ways of enacting change through techniques used pation.”

Organizers of the event declined to in the Theatre of the Oppressed. give their names, with one organizer saying “The time for stargazing has passed. It’s that to do so would be time instead to look not up, but to against the spirit of the look around. To look to each other.”

People’s School, as “we are all teachers, we are People’s School organizer all students and we are all organizers.”

Delmar Fears ’19 facilitated a disIn contrast to the group’s first meeting, which was just a week after cussion on behalf of Cornell’s Black President Donald Trump’s inaugura- Students United that focused on idention, the second meeting was limited tifying and exploring ways of combatto focusing on the failures and effects ting what she called “distractory tacof racial capitalism through the topics tics.”

Fears explained that these are “tacof education, creating community, labor, food, mass incarceration, immi- tics used to distract from the real issues of institutional white supremacy and gration and housing.

Representatives from groups such as See PEOPLE’S SCHOOL page 4 the Tompkins County Immigration

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Student support | A panel, representing deans and Cornell law professors, clarified University policy and responded to audience questions regarding concerns for DACA students.

Panel Addresses Questions, Concerns From DACA Students

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

Aimed to address the community’s concerns for students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, particularly following President Donald Trump’s election, the University held a panel discussion to elaborate its policy.

The four panelists — Carlos Gonzales, executive director of the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the Graduate School, Prof. Estelle McKee, law, and Vijay Pendakur, dean of students — fielded questions and explained what they know about the current situation and ways the University can assist.

Most of the audience's questions centered around financial aid and monetary initiatives to help DACA students.

Knuth said all DACA students have been eligible for the same need-based financial aid as U.S. citizens at Cornell since November 2016.

“Last year a working group I chaired, that was appointed by the provost, whose undergraduate student, faculty and staff members — called the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group — developed a recommendation ... to move students who have DACA status into our domestic admissions pool for undergraduate and our domestic financial aid pool,” Knuth said.

The University is also currently appealing to

donors in an effort to expand their financial resources for DACA students, according to Knuth.

Knuth also said efforts will be made to help fund graduate students with DACA status but financial aid may not necessarily be provided. However, she said that the University still offers loan options for students in need of summer housing.

Panelists also answered questions about the Cornell University Police Department’s policies and student resources.

McKee explained the services that Cornell Law School has offered so far include providing legal counseling for anyone in the Cornell community in need. Should the occasion arise, McKee said, the Law School may extend these services to meet mounting demand.

“Right now the immigration law faculty is able to handle the counseling needs, but should they become too much, then we, the Law School, [are] prepared to start a clinical fellow to work on these,” McKee said.

She also addressed the resolutions the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County passed, confirming that the city and county will not honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detainer requests nor will they carry out administrative warrants or warrants of removal unless judicially issued.

According to McKee, the Law School is also See DACA page 4

Students Host 92nd Annual HEC Conference Hotelies take over operations of Statler Hotel for weekend

By DYLAN MAJSIAK Sun Contributor

As faculty, alumni and members of the hospitality industry flooded the Statler Hotel for the 92nd Hotel Ezra Cornell Conference, hundreds of hotel school students successfully took over the management of the hotel from Thursday to Saturday last week.

The student-run event is planned and organized nearly a year in advance by 16 board members and over 200 student volunteers spanning the “Hotel School and Beyond,” said Warner Hazell ’17, managing director in the conference program.

The conference featured events such as guest lectures on the topic of advancements in the hospitality field, sponsored activities such as “Starbucks Tasting” and networking opportunities with prominent figures in the industry.

These events centered around this year’s theme: Face the Future, Preserve the Past, which emphasized both the transitioning hotel school and the evolving hospitality industry in today’s increasingly technology-based world.

“We’re ready to adapt to the future but at the same time we

“This experience is what really helped me land my next job after graduation.”

Franklin Yang ’17 want to recognize our identities as hotelies and to allude that to the hospitality industry as well,” said Jaimie Kim ’18, program director. “No matter what kind of changes that may come through technology or other types of policy changes, we should be able to

retain the essence of hospitality, which is service.”

While faculty advisor Prof.

Heather Kolakowski, food and beverage management, offered consultations with the students, the event was primarily executed by the students themselves. This served as a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the different aspects of the hospitality industry, according to Euna Hur ’20.

“It showed me a lot of ins and outs of the hotel and how much work it actually takes to pull of one of these huge events,” Hur said.

Having been involved with HEC since his freshman year, Franklin Yang ’17, rooms director, also added that this experience even helped him secure his post-graduate plans.

“This experience is what really helped me land my next job after See HEC page 4

Before he turned 18, Austin Hyeon had been in five prisons in four different countries — not because he had committed a crime, but because of his identity and his country of origin: North Korea.

On Friday afternoon, Hyeon visited as a speaker for Cornell’s debuNK — an organization that strives to raise awareness for human rights issues in North Korea — and provided a glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens in one of the most oppressive countries in the world.

In 1994, a series of natural disasters, compounded by the loss of economic support from the Soviet Union and sanctions by the United States and the United Nations, catalyzed the most severe shortage of food in North Korean history, Hyeon said.

While Hyeon often went hungry, he was still luckier than many others.

“Some friends of mine died of starvation,” he said. “I still remember watching people carry dead bodies to the mountainside to bury them.”

For many North Koreans — including Hyeon and his family — the famine served as the impetus for the escape from North Korea to China.

Hyeon’s mother sought out a broker who, for the right price, smuggled them across the border.

The family then took refuge with Chinese Christian missionaries, who provided them with food and shelter.

“The first evening … in China, I was so shocked, because I’d never seen people eating so [much] food for just one meal,” Hyeon said. “To me, China was heaven — people just ate as much as they [could], and they accumulated rice and other stuff in their house.”

From the first house that he stayed at when he arrived in China, Hyeon could still see the silhouette of North Korea.

JEEAH EOM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

No normal undergrad | Columbia undergrad Austin Hyeon describes his expererience escaping from North Korea and subsequent imprisonments.

“From North Korea to here, it took only ten minutes — but this [was] a totally different world.

What kind of country had I been living in?” he said.

As he quickly learned more about the extent of the human rights issues in North Korea, Hyeon described how he was stunned as he discovered that every basic notion of his world and his life was challenged and upturned.

“I learned that I was brainwashed to believe in [the] North Korean regime and the Great

“I learned that I was brainwashed to believe in [the] North Korean regime and the Great Leader.”

Austin Hyeon Leader,” Hyeon said. “I was so upset … because I was deceived.”

Along with this enlightenment, however, came the harsh realization that Hyeon’s security still remained unstable. As a North Korean refugee, he was an unwanted person in the eyes of the Chinese government, facing the constant risk of imprisonment or repatriation back to North Korea.

This fear proved a reality — after two years, the Chinese police eventually caught Hyeon and his parents, imprisoning them for a week, and then sending them back to North Korea.

At 14, Hyeon was separated from his parents and forced into the horrific conditions of a North Korean youth prison center on his own.

“When I first get into my cell, there were three kids who were about same age like me. Two boys and one girl,” Hyeon said. “But when I first saw the girl in the prison cell, I was stunned, because her ankles were cut off.

So she was moving with her two hands. She couldn’t stand, and she had to use her two hands to move ... soon, I [realized that] if I stayed any longer, I could be like her, or die.”

Hyeon expressed how words failed to capture his utter despair.

See NORTH KOREA page 12

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2 Arrested for Reported Backpack Thefts People’s School No.2

Nearly $12,000 worth of valuables reported stolen in one day ARREST

people took advantage of how people are super trusting in this special place of learning.”

The area where students left their backpacks and coats cash, debit cards, driver’s licenses, purses, an iPad and at looked like a safe place, Raskolnikov said, because a seculeast one iPhone, according to the campus crime log. rity camera is trained on the location and two librarians Items from nine of the 11 backpacks reported stolen work close by. have an estimated value of $11,777, the crime log shows.

Raskolnikov said she was especially frustrated because Police released grainy security camera images on Friday of the students had followed her and others’ requests to leave a man and woman each holding a backpack. their bags outside of the lecture room and then returned Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner to find some of their backpacks and previously told The Sun it was not yet valuables missing.

“These people took known whether the two suspects are Louisa Heywood ’20 said her backthought to be responsible for all of the advantage of how people pack full of workout clothes, running items reported stolen on Thursday. are super trusting in this shoes and swim gear was taken from Zoner said the duo is suspected of comfirst floor women’s locker room of special place of learning.” the mitting at least several of the thefts.

Helen Newman Hall on Thursday.

Prof. Masha Raskolnikov, English, Heywood, who writes for The Sun’s Prof. Masha Raskolnikov told The Sun that three of her students dining section, said she gave a written had their backpacks stolen while they report to Cornell Police and an officer were in The Carl A. Kroch Library for a research presen- told her police had found the suspects when they attempttation. ed to use a stolen credit card.

The students were handling rare, old books, so they Cornell Police also told Heywood she may not get her were required to leave their coats and backpacks outside of possessions back for several months because they will likethe lecture room in a designated area, Raskolnikov said. ly be used as evidence, Heywood said.

When the students returned from the lecture, three of Another student, Meaghan Gee ’19, said her bag — their backpacks — all holding computers — were gone, as full of school notes and handouts, a laptop, Beats headwell as a fourth student’s wallet and a fifth student’s ciga- phones, a passport and lots of other items — was taken rettes, the professor said. A student’s hat was taken as well, while she was working out in the Noyes Fitness Center on she said.

Thursday afternoon. It had been sitting right near the fit“All the students were writing papers for me on those ness monitors’ desk. laptops, and those students were having a genuine Cornell-only learning experience at the archives, which is Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at a really special part of Cornell,” Raskolnikov said. “These nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Promotes Education for ‘Collective Emancipation’ PEOPLE’S SCHOOL Continued from page 1

anti-blackness, which are often used by white people and other people of color.”

A major distractory tactic Fears said she has seen recently used at Cornell is the debate over whether or not Cornell would achieve greater “diversity of thought” with an increased number of politically conservative faculty members. This debate has even come in a form of a Student Assembly resolution — which failed to pass by one vote.

“The major hot button topic at Cornell is the Cornell diversity of thought. I really feel like Cornell diversity of thought is a distractory tactic from achieving actual diversity on campus,” Fears said.

“We need more diverse faculty, but focusing on how Cornell donates money and using that to say we are more liberal-leaning isn’t going to be useful,” she added. “People go through their entire careers at Cornell without having a black professor and that’s an issue. That’s a bigger issue than worrying about conservative faculty.”

Cait McDonald, grad, attended Fears’ discussion and said she appreciated the ways it explored “clapbacks” to use when someone uses a distractory tactic.

To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun.com.

Alana Sullivan can be reached at asullivan@cornellsun.com.

Wings Over Ithaca to Open Any Day WINGS

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Now, he is ready to start doing what he loves again in Collegetown at the new restaurant.

“I’m so excited,” he said. “I can’t wait to just get back in there and do what we do. It’s what we know and we’re passionate about.”

Leyva and the other owners hired several managers from the previous Wings Over Ithaca location, forming about half of their management team.

Gardner said his wife works at Cornell and has been peppered with questions from colleagues about when the restaurant is going to open, raising the stakes for him.

“My wife said, ‘you better do a good job,’” he said, laughing.

The wings stop will open at 11 a.m.

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French citizens wave flags in support of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen at a party rally on March 15 in Saint Raphael, France.

Cornell Law Profs and Deans Clarify University Policy for DACA Students DACA

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working with the local police departments to train staff about their rights and when they may decline to share information with authorities.

Throughout the meeting, there was some confusion about CUPD’s stance on this issue, but it was clarified when an audience member read from the March 10 Blue Light Safety message, which states that Cornell police officers will not honor ICE. According to the mes-

sage, CUPD will also not seek immigration status, unless necessary to investigate criminal activity or required by law.

In response to the growing demand for greater student resources, Pendakur said that he has received a request from DACA students and from other minority groups on campus for designated space and resources.

Attributing the desire for a safe space to the “volatile political climate,” he said he empathizes with the students who are asking for these spaces and is currently

working on how to divide the diversity resources he controls across the groups.

“We’re in a moment of time that our vulnerable student communities are very reasonably saying ‘Hey, I need something that grounds me on this campus,’” Pendakur said. “We’re in an extremely volatile political climate and feelings of deep fragility are understandable in that climate.”

Anu Subramaniam can be reached at asubramaniam@cornellsun.com.

every day and stay open until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, 2 a.m. on Thursday nights, midnight on Sundays, and 1 a.m. Monday through Wednesday.

The sizable wings generally cost about $1 each, but party deals offer lower prices for large orders.

Hamburgers and other sandwiches and wraps will cost about $7.

Students can order online, eat at the restaurant, pick up take-out orders or stay at home and order delivery, Leyva said.

“We knew that this was a staple for the community but we didn’t realize how much of a staple it was until it went away,” Leyva said. “We’ve been trying to get this open as quickly as possible.”

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

Hotelies Assume Statler Operations During 92nd HEC Conference HEC

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graduation,” Yang said.

“If I didn’t have the experience that I have now, I would not have gotten the offer that I had.”

Yang added that the variety of guests and speakers exposed him to different aspects of the hospitality business as well.

“Just about every single industry is completely covered,” Yang said. “They all come and converge, and it’s essentially a big meeting of the minds, so it’s a very valuable experience, and there’s a lot of

reasons why people come.”

Many alumni enjoyed returning to Cornell to meet with old classmates and professors, according to Diana Delli ’11, assistant general manager at Untitled at the Whitney Union Square Hospitality Group.

“I was definitely looking forward to coming back and just catching up with faculty and classmates,” Delli said. “After graduating and working in hospitality and then coming back … all the experiences [can be] applied in different scenarios.

It’s fun being back on

the other side.”

While the planning for next year’s event has not begun, Yang anticipates it to be even better than this year.

“Each conference is going to be great and each conference we expect is going to be better than the next one, which is the neverending phrase: this year is going to be the best ever,” Yang said.

“Everyone learns from mistake they’ve made to make a stronger department as a whole.”

Dylan Majsiak can be reached at dwm254@cornell.edu.

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A Bit More Beard,or a Somewhat Fearful Ideology T

he west side of my face is an August backyard. Across my jaw stretches the outline of an old slip n’ slide where nothing much grows in the way it’s supposed to. On several occasions I have interrogated my father about the timing of his beard, hoping to find some precedent for my adulthood stuck on buffer. Alas.

And there’s a despair, deep and sinking, that comes with the thought of the profile picture that 15 percent more beard might afford me. I could be week-old stubble, sitting calmly in a well-staged coffee shop where a good friend would snap 35 candids on their

there is a lot of value to be found in having the proper ideology. Due in part to circumstance and accumulated social choices, my community of peers is remarkably ideologically homogenous. Maybe it’s unremarkable.

Regardless, this context of general agreement creates an incentive to present my politics in a certain way. It isn’t a trivial preoccupation with likes or retweets, but the need to find affirmation that I am, in fact, good.

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To be clear, the sort of aesthetic politics to which I have been drawn does not only manifest itself on social media, although that is where it is most often on display. The use of buzzwords is the linguistic equivalent of a filter on a profile picture.

Letter to the Editor

In support of CGSU To the Editor: I’m writing to support the CGSU, even though I am not a graduate student.

I am a final-year veterinary student studying dairy production systems. Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of spending a lot of time thinking about how to construct and maintain systems that bring out the best in everyone involved, and that find a way to protect and cater to the needs of every individual while still prioritizing the well-being of the whole organization. I have also had the privilege of getting to know quite a few graduate students. I wouldn’t be part of the proposed bargaining unit, but I’m choosing to spend time helping out with CGSU outreach because of the stories I’ve heard about instances where grad students are expected to do their work, which is challenging enough already, in a system that fails to consistently provide them with reasonable protections that I think they should have.

I heard about a person who was aggressively stalked and sexually harrassed, but the crime was never addressed becase the victim was pre-A exam and the perpetrator was post-A exam. The victim was counseled by her program to simply avoid him until he graduated, because there was nothing that could be done. That is barbaric any way you look at it, and I want to do whatever can to prevent that from happening again.

I think CGSU could do that, through bargaining for an improved grievance policy which might even end up helping vet and other professional students.

I heard about a Master’s student who was driven out of his Master’s program because his mentor broke promises and expected outrageous working hours, when he had other things in his life that also required his time. I know first-hand that many, if not most, of the Professors at Cornell are wonderful people who would never do this because they care deeply about the well-being of their students; I see this as *more* of a reason for both students and faculty to establish uniform baseline protections against unrealistic and unsustainable expectations by the small minority of faculty members who are willing to participate in this cycle of abuse in science. CGSU could, with your input, negotiate these protections. When I graduate, I’ll get get a job and sign a contract that outlines what is and is not expected of me and my employer; I think that good fences make good neighbors, and I don’t see why academia should expect less.

We all are here because we care about science, want to do good work, and want to improve life around us. But every time an incident like the two I mentioned above happens, it has the potential to drive another promising, hard-working, potentially groundbreaking young thinker out of science. That’s bad for all of us. Grad students deserve a management system that prioritizes them, and right now that is not what we have.

You may be in a good situation with a good mentor, and if that is the case then I applaud and congratulate you and hope that nothing will change your relationship with your mentor. But, you have before you an opportunity to improve your management system. The vote is anonymous; unionization is a group action and not an individual one; and when the time comes to place your ballot, I hope you will make whichever choice you feel is best for all Cornell grad students.

My best wishes to you all, and a heartfelt thank-you for the good data you generate that makes our lives as veterinarians that much easier!

Emma Ehrlich, DVM ’17

Cannon DSLR. On my laptop, which would surely rest on the small table in front of me, would be a handful of topical stickers, casually signaling my liberal credentials. Yet for psychological rather genetic reasons, this too is a fantasy. An unhealthy fear of commitment makes any kind of permanent sticker simply untenable.

I often feel a peculiar impulse, which is best captured by the profile picture I do not have, to do 20-something liberal in a much more stylish way. In its most obvious form, it is mostly an affinity for a certain social media persona. A Twitter, perhaps, that hashtags its advocacy, or fires off some well-timed support for So-And-So or condemnation of The Other One. You will know, I’m sure, whether that Snapstory was at a rally this afternoon.

It might have a more manicured Facebook profile, the kind with the deliberate look of somebody trying to sell you something. At its core, though, it is a character that projects its cool through the glazed LED image of its politics.

To be clear, the sort of aesthetic politics to which I have been drawn does not only manifest itself on social media, although that is where it is most often on display. The use of buzzwords is the linguistic equivalent of a filter on a profile picture. It demonstrates neither an understanding of, nor a commitment to, the issues that the words originally describe. Instead, things become problematic, and systems become neoliberal, not so much because they are, but because observing that that they might be says something about the speaker; that is, that they are on the right team. There is, of course, value in solidarity and common language; however, reflecting with the right amount of honesty, I find that my motivation can be a bit more self-interested than I am often willing to admit.

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and impulse that occasionally coalesces into the doing of things. Surely, though, it is guided by some set of internal incentives, of reward and punishment that is not reflected in material conditions, but in our personal valuation of our self. We do things because it makes us the sort of person who would do those things. Crucially, these incentives are almost always up for popular input. We grant our peers the power to guide the way in which we value ourselves, and the things we do to attain that value.

Thus there is a genuine terror, which I believe to be absolutely common, that my community might not think that I am the way I ought to be.

This fear, I think, is at the heart of the aesthetic preoccupation that often drives our campus politics.

Rather than being driven by a deep desire to better the world around us, or to affect meaningful change, we mostly just play Double Dutch in chalk outlines of the better people we would like to be.

And it’s just so hard to work that way. There is an immense amount of time and energy spent on inch-deep displays of affection. Yet the folks doing hard work in this and other communities rarely get the support that our collective volume would indicate they probably should. There truly are dedicated students who apply themselves to bettering the conditions around them, to pursuing the better world they believe to be important.

But if they are to be successful, if our ideology is to hold any merit, we cannot content ourselves with the social reward of looking like the right kind of person.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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OPINION

Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

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Phony in Farsi

ouye eidi, bouye toup, bouye kaghaz rangi.

Bouye tonde mahi doodi, vasate soffre-ye now.

Bouye yas-e ja namaz-e, termeye madar bozorg.

The smell of eid, the smell of toy soccer balls, the smell of colored paper, The sharp smell of smoked fish in the middle of the table The smell of jasmine on grandma’s cashmere prayer rug.

When I smell lime-baked pistachios and tokhmeh, I think of maman’s haft seen sparkling in the afternoon sun that peeked through our windows. When I smell spring air and grass I think of running back home from the school bus in my brand-new Eid clothes and sniffing the nectar from the hyacinths my mom had planted in our front garden. I remember coming inside, throwing my backpack off and cracking salty tokhmeh between my teeth while I watched over our annual Nowruz goldfish, the tart odor of fish food still surrounding its much-too-small bowl. Maman would see my backpack and lunchbox sprawled over the floor and scold me for being such a mess. Then, remembering it was Eid (How could she forget?), she would hug me and I would inhale the perfume of dryer sheets and honey off of her.

Little by little, in what is likely Steve Bannon’s worst nightmare, my unabashedly Iranian family has come to the United States. It started with my parents, then my brother and I, then my aunts and uncles and cousins. We came one by one, and slowly but surely crafted our own Irans in awkward places; a young Iran in a one-story house on the corner of a cul-de-sac in Boise, an adolescent Iran in a single neighborhood in semi-rural Virginia, a new Iran in downtown Richmond, Albuquerque and so on. We tucked our Irans into American crevices wherever we went like a trail of breadcrumbs. Our Irans were small, but never vacant. Our Irans were elaborate Persian rugs cautiously shipped from Shiraz and intricate brass dishes that were to be seen and never used. They held the sharp aromas and stinky flavors of ghormeh sabzi, the soft geometries of Iranian handiwork and the deep syncopations of pre-revolutionary Iran’s mononyms: Googoosh, Ebi, Mahasti, Viguen.

I had heard of Third Space Theories before. I had heard of Homi Bhabha and I had read Negin Farsad’s funny and smart TED essay on being an Iranian-American Muslim: not wholly Iranian, not wholly American, but instead a “Third Thing,” a hybrid caught in the midst of a push-andpull of cultures where you take a Lunchable to school on one day and khoresht karafs the next. I had understood being a Third Thing, identified with it even, but my response to it was oddly clinical. I knew I was trapped in the ugly eye-

shaped middle section of a venn diagram, but I also thought that maybe, just maybe by stretching as much as I could, by wholly engaging with our little Irans, I’d be able to have a foot in both circles. I’d be able to be Iranian and American, no hyphen necessary.

Over winter break, for the first time in years, all our little Irans came together in our Virginian Iran. This meant several things: that our house was bursting with people and that there were never enough chairs at the breakfast table, but also that we passed around laughter and dribbled stories back and forth like footballista. It meant that our Iran never stopped smelling like chai and zaferoon and golab. It meant our Iran was full and hearty, but also that it was different.

This Iran was more contemporary, more Shiraz- or TehranIran than the Idaho-Iran or Virginia-Iran that had been mine. My Iran had always been peppered with Americanisms: books on the presidents, Fargilisi (grossly synthesized Farsi and English) and clandestinely watching the Disney Channel while my parents had their backs turned.

Esgh-e yek setare sakhtan ba dolak Tars-e na tamoom gozashtan-e jareemeha-ye eid-e madreseh Zora Neale Hurston writes, “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” I feel most Iranian when I am eating sabzi polo at a majority-white middle school named after a civil-war battle. I feel most American when I mess up the words for maestro (ostad) and engineer (mohandes) when talking about the legendary classical musician Mohammad-Reza Shajarian.

I only recently turned around and noticed the contrast between myself and the Iran I was thrown against.

Somehow, when I was younger my legs were longer, or the middle space between the two circles of the venn diagram was smaller, and I managed to barely stretch across the pervasive gap. Now, I struggle to engage intellectually and socially with Iran — the actual one, not my own construction — because I’m left grasping at language and culture from which I’ve fallen behind.

I never quite realized how markedly different my Iran was from that of my cousins, and it hurts to realize it now. I’m so behind. I’m so behind. Growing up, my brother and I always received compliments on our flawless Farsi, but now I struggle to string together a sentence in adult conversation.

I know little to no slang and barely any abstract language necessary for argumentation. I still listen to 2000s Googoosh and Ebi in an era where there are too many independent Iranian artists to name in nearly every genre of

music. I haven’t watched a Persian TV series since, like, 2010. I’ve tried making khoresht in my Collegetown apartment to tragic ends, sadly defaulting to Dino Nuggets instead.

I don’t have the same ascetic Iranian background as my Iranian-born cousins. I’ve never done the ghashogh zadan that Farhad sings of in his classic Nowruz anthem “Koodakaneh,” but I used to go trick-or-treating every year.

I’ve never played the games Farhad bellows of nostalgically.

I’ve never gone to an Iranian school, never been through the shaytooni of universally mischievous Iranian schoolchildren.

Some of “Koodakaneh” is so familiar to me, yet so much of it is blatantly foreign. What a bizarre notion, for Iran to be foreign.

I feel pathetic writing this. My Iran was a phony, a fake Iran I created in my head and in my heart to reconcile the dissonance I had been born into. It’s not that I didn’t know I was a Third Thing; I did, and always have, in theory. Now, I am forced to acknowledge its reality in practice. I feel scared and I feel sad and I feel helpless, despite knowing there’s an escape. Practice Farsi instead of screwing around on Facebook or shadow maman as she swiftly skitters across our kitchen, sprinkling turmeric here, adding dill there.

Paradoxically, part of me doesn’t find it urgent.

Authenticating my Iran isn’t a priority.

Ba yna, zemestoon-o sar mikonam Ba yna, khastegim-o dar mikonam.

With these, I end winter With these, I end my fatigue.

“Koodakaneh” is Farsi for childish. Farhad sings through a heavy musk of nostalgia, recounting his childhood Nowruz only in terms of sensory memory. The smell of yas, the feeling of counting and recounting your Eid money until it’s worn. The frenzy of family. The warmth of family. I find it better when I don’t take the lyrics literally, and instead let his rich, tough voice guide me back to my Irans across America, guide me back to memories of listening to the song itself while Maman made ash-e reshteh and let me lick the spoon. These memories get me through the admittedly gloomier spring equinox in Ithaca, wake me up for the 6:28 a.m. saal-tahvil, remind me to drink the tea Baba bought me and ensure me that my Irans were real. They were different, yeah. But they were real.

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Letter to the Editor

Administrative interference and the union To the Editor: We are Cornell graduate students concerned with the way some Cornell administrators have conducted themselves during the grad unionization campaign. In our view, administrators have undercut the election agreement between CGSU and Cornell, and have even subverted their own policies to boost explicitly anti-union messages.

We are also disturbed that the “Ask a Dean” forum seems little more than a way to disseminate anti-union propaganda and pit graduate students against one another.

The university and CGSU agreed in May that there would be one formal statement “setting forth the University’s official position” from Cornell; that lengthy statement, from President Rawlings, was issued in the fall. The agreement also permits certain administrators to “communicate the University’s official position (collectively ‘the issues’),” while refraining from using such communications to coerce grads. Accordingly, our expectations were that university officials would leave the choice

on whether to unionize up to us, honoring the guidelines set out and agreed to last spring.

In the fall, grads began to receive unsolicited emails from the anti-union group At What Cost? using a “cornell.edu” listserv. According to the university’s I.T. policy, e-lists should only be used in support of “instruction, research, outreach, administration or other recognized university activities.” We do not believe that this group fits these criteria, and according to email inquiries from grads, AWC thought the same. Given its focus, AWC did not expect a cornell.edu listserv, but nonetheless received one from administrators, seemingly by surprise.

To be clear, this is not an attack on At What Cost. Any group has the right to find legitimate, effective ways to reach out with their message. But the university should not support unsolicited anti-union messaging on its official channels. We, and several other colleagues, independently filed complaints about this. To ameliorate the violation, we later proposed that Cornell could simply ask AWC to send a message with its next email,

requiring people to reply “STAY” to continue receiving their communications. In its refusal of our request, Cornell framed cornell.edu spam as “bad manners” and told us that we could just unsubscribe.

We find this recommendation unsatisfactory. (At this time, AWC’s emails no longer have a link to “unsubscribe.”) The university is here, as in so many instances, the sole arbiter of its own policies, leaving little recourse for those affected by the breaching of them. Such unilateral, self-serving judgments are precisely why a union is essential for grads to advocate for themselves against institutional power.

Further, allowing unsolicited emails from a cornell.edu listserv transmits tacit approval of those emails’ contents. We don’t expect anyone to refuse gifts, and AWC are not restricted from seeking them (though on their honor, they claim they “do not have any affiliation with Cornell University”). To our dismay, we have reason to think Cornell is providing more than tacit approval. AWC’s uncannilytimed emails to the grad body, containing previously unreleased

information about the election, suggest that they are being contacted with information, which they then disseminate to supplement university communications. In its best light, such actions by Cornell would be extremely unseemly.

Finally, with the use of the “Ask a Dean” forum, Cornell is blatantly skirting the “official position” stipulation. At first glance, “Ask a Dean” appears to be a step towards transparency.

But by directly responding to individual graduate student questions, then forwarded to the entire graduate student community, Cornell promotes a range of anti-union views that diverge wildly from Rawlings’s “official position.” One particularly vitriolic question accuses CGSU of perpetuating “lies” to attract new members, and “Ask A Dean” has even provided links to the AWC website in response to such questions. Even if we grant that the questions are genuine, it still appears that deans, with their unfettered access to Cornell grads’ inboxes, are consciously using this forum to subvert the agreement and disseminate antiunion propaganda.

The administration espouses the view that the unionization debate should be a free and open exchange of ideas, but uses its powerful platform to undercut the debate, and grads’ expectations that they can make their decisions free of institutional interference. This is highly disappointing, but it points to why we want a union: to even the playing field between grad workers and the institution. We thus call on all grads to support unionization and vote yes, so we can have a real voice in the policies that affect us in many areas of our lives, and have real recourse when the university falls short.

Vera Khovanskaya grad, information science Edward Tremel grad, computer science Tom Davidson grad, sociology Ethan Ritz grad, mechanical and aerospace engineering Robert Escriva grad, computer science

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Eric Schulman | Schulman’s Schtick

Prioritize Privacy Over Partisanship

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lthough politics make me want to vomit, every semester there’s a political issue I weigh in on. This semester, it’s Wikileaks’ high profile leak of CIA hacking materials: Vault 7. Last week, my Reddit exploded with coverage and I’m bothered by the lack of mainstream outlets’ explanation of the leaks.

This is another missed opportunity to start a national conversation about digital privacy. There are an uncomfortable amount of gray areas involving digital privacy — specifically, monitoring people’s digital habits without their explicit permission. Your computer says a lot about you — you can learn a lot about someone by looking at their Netflix. All kidding aside, passive aggressively letting technological capability decide what is acceptable until it becomes a problem is not the proper course of action.

Even worse, media outlets dismissed the leaks as a “distraction” from inquiries into U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Attacking Wikileaks’ sources is unapologetically ad hominem. It avoids discussing the ethics of the CIA's extensive program to moni-

Giving the CIA a pass for hacking foreign governments but throwing a fit when Russia hacks us is incredibly hypocritical. tor civilians via the exploitation of consumer technology.

Discussing the CIA’s hacking exploits is really important.

You should not think that you are safe just because you have nothing to hide. People don’t act the same when they’re monitored, and spying on civilians feels uncomfortably like the practices of a police state out of a novel like 1984.

It is also comically partisan to prioritize Russian influence over CIA overreach. This is the first time Democrats view the CIA more keenly than Republicans. This change in sentiment isn’t ideological — at least I hope not. Giving the CIA a pass for hacking foreign governments but throwing a fit when Russia hacks us is incredibly hypocritical. Most likely, this change happened because in politics the enemy of the my enemy is my friend. Democrats are also salty about Wikileaks for publishing John Podesta’s emails this fall.

However, this isn’t a partisan issue; Wikileaks isn’t partisan.

Obviously, Wikileaks knew the implications of Podesta’s emails on this fall election, but they weren’t so calculated.

Wikileaks wouldn’t have hesitated to publish RNC emails if they could get them. But, hacking is hard, and in some cases impossible. Getting John Podesta’s emails involved an insanely unlucky typo. He gave away his email credentials because his tech staff accidentally implied a phishing email was legitimate.

And of course, I’ll admit Wikileaks’ relationship with Russia raises eyebrows. The leaks this fall likely originated with hackers sponsored by the Russian government. And, the Russian government (like every other government) was interested the race’s outcome. But, Wikileaks is anything but a Russian puppet. They’ve thrown Russia’s government under the same bus as the CIA, John Podesta and many others.

During the height of the Syrian civil war, they didn’t hesitate publishing diplomatic cables between Putin and Assad —these cables had serious implications.

So if it wasn’t clear, dismissing the Wikileaks’s Vault 7 documents as Russian propaganda is ad hominem, hypocritical and comically partisan. These documents should kickstart the national discussion on digital privacy. That’s my schtick and I’m sticking to it. Let’s finally start the discussion about digital privacy. Tune in next time for more.

Eric Schulman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate mondays this semester.

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Jaqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

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n any given day at Cornell, you are bound to see at least one person walking around in a suit. They could be rushing a pre-professional fraternity or headed to one of the millions of daily Handshake events, but it’s usually safe to assume that they’re not just headed to class. Last semester, The Sun published an article on why students held disdain for “careerism” on campus. But in my time at Cornell, while I’ve admittedly seen pockets of what could be described as careerism, the vast majority of what I’ve seen has mostly just been pragmatism.

Careerism is defined as “the policy or practice of advancing one's career often at the cost of one's integrity,” so it makes sense that many Cornellians aren’t huge fans of its supposed presence on campus.

I’m not a fan myself, but I think there’s an important distinction to be made between careerism and general pre-professionalism.

Careerism, by its definition, is obviously bad. Preprofessionalism, on the other hand, is fine. You might think someone is being annoyingly extra on LinkedIn, but in the grand scheme of things, this kind of pre-professionalism is ultimately harmless.

The reality of college is that someday it ends. Having a plan for after graduation could be considered preprofessional, but it’s also necessary unless you have the financial means to live without an income — which most people don’t.

At a school with a yearly tuition of $52,000, it’s not safe to assume that everyone who is concerned about their future salary is simply a greedy person.

The kid you see as “careerist” might just be graduating with a ton of student loans, or have a family back home in need of financial support. Or maybe they’re just interested in making a lot of money, but you never really know, nor do you need to.

Part of the beauty of college is that, in some cases, we get to learn for the sake of learning. Not every

class includes conventionally marketable skills, but marketable skills also aren’t deemed the only valuable currency in academia. That being said, I think there is a notion that someone can’t be an intellectual while being pre-professional, that worrying about jobs and salaries in addition to worrying about academics is somehow an example of selling out, or being smallminded. I think this is a flawed way of looking at the link between academics and the applicability of our lessons in real life.

One thing I will concede about careerism, pre-professionalism or any kind of culture that revolves around jobs and future plans, is that they can add to the stress levels on campus and beyond. But I don’t think that these are Cornell-specific (or even fieldspecific) phenomena. Whether you’re an English major or someone studying AEM, you have to figure out where you’re going to go and what you’re going to do when you eventually leave Ithaca. This is a reality for all students, not just students at Cornell. The previous Sun article on careerism pointed out an obsession with prestige and marketability, and I can definitely see this on campus. But I think the subset of students who are driven exclusively by the goals of impressing others and making a lot of money are in the minority.

Figuring out your plans, as long as you do so in a way that doesn’t view school itself as peripheral, doesn’t seem to me like it poses any great threat to learning and growing on campus. In the end, pre-professionalism isn’t a simple binary of good and bad; it’s something that feels necessary at times but also has negative facets that potentially detract from academia.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Guest Room | Michael Kotlikoff

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Housing and Enrollment

ast fall, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi and I met with faculty, staff and students to outline a plan for addressing student housing on our Ithaca campus. This plan arose from a comprehensive review of student housing, including surveys and meetings with students, faculty and staff, and was the result of a decision by Cornell’s leadership to focus on improving the student experience — one of our three major strategic goals.

The university guarantees on-campus housing for all freshmen and sophomores, but despite the fact that our residence halls operate at nearly 100 percent occupancy, we do not have sufficient university housing to meet the demand for on-campus housing of almost half of our sophomores. Cornell’s insufficient housing capacity results in a stressful situation for many first-year students, who are faced with the challenge of finding off-campus housing for their sophomore year within their first weeks on our campus. Operating at full capacity also prevents us from taking beds offline to address deferred maintenance, resulting in a significant backlog of deferred maintenance in our campus residences. The Housing Master Plan presented last fall addresses both capacity and maintenance in a way that will ensure housing for freshmen and sophomores and create appropriate residential environments for each class year.

Achieving this goal will require the addition of new housing and dining facilities on North Campus, as well as the ongoing renovation of existing residential buildings. An additional component of the plan involves working with city officials to identify ways to improve off-campus housing for students living in

Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences to address recent shifts in majors. We anticipate admitting 275 more freshmen beginning in 2020. This increase in enrollment will not only make a Cornell education available to more students, but will also create opportunities for greater academic investment, helping to further advance Cornell’s academic stature and our research and outreach missions.

Increased enrollment will necessitate careful evaluation of our existing majors, student support services and undergraduate curricula.

We have begun a comprehensive study of our Gateway Courses, and the College of Arts and Sciences, under the leadership of Dean Gretchen Ritter, is undertaking a comprehensive curriculum review.

Moreover, we are planning significant investments in faculty and staff, as well as in upgrading our major academic buildings and classrooms.

Together with the university’s investments in academic programming and faculty hiring, the benefits of improved housing and infrastructure investments will improve the student experience and advance Cornell’s reputation as a premier teaching and research institution.

The Housing Master Plan presented last fall addresses both capacity and maintenance in a way that will ensure housing for freshmen and sophomores.

Collegetown. By making this investment, we hope to create better student housing options, decrease firstyear stress, and enhance the livinglearning experience.

While addressing housing needs for our current and future students, the plan also provides the university with added flexibility to accommodate an increase in undergraduate enrollment. Pressure to modestly increase our undergraduate student population arises from several new academic programs and shifts in existing majors. We have launched programs such as Biomedical Engineering and have hired new faculty without an attendant increase in student enrollment. Similarly, applications to the Dyson School have more than doubled since creation of the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business without any added enrollment. More students are also needed in the College of Agriculture and

Michael Kotlikoff is the provost of Cornell University. Guest Room runs periodically thoughout the semester. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsu.com.

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The majority of Drake’s music over the past year (including More Life) has been deceptively unoriginal in its proximity to other chart-topping rappers.

How different are Drake’s and 2 Chainz’s verses on “Sacrifices?” With 2 Chainz long being considered an example of the dumbing down and degeneration of hip hop, Drake seems to be oddly similar in his choice of beat, delivery and, frankly, his uninspired punchlines.

One should also notice the rappers that are featured on More Life. Between two Young Thug features, 2 Chainz and Quavo, it would be hard not to place him in their category if this was your first encounter with Drake. And we will gloss over the forgettably disappointing PARTYNEXTDOOR feature on “Since Way Back.”

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And More Life shows a response to those two mega hits. Sitting still during “Blem” seems almost as inescapable as the romance in “Passionfruit.”

Features from Giggs and Skepta show Drake also tapping into the exploding London hip-hop scene, which is an exciting prospect.

Where does that leave his old fans? The abundant singing in More Life is an unquestionable blessing; “Nothings Into Somethings” and “Teenage Fever” make us feel like choruses from Take Care or Nothing Was the Same.

Nostalgic fans do not only miss the choruses, they also miss the bars. On “Lose You,” Drake finally addresses the alienation his fan have felt from his latest lyrics. Over interspersed chords on a grand piano,

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Sadly, on a 22 track album, there does not seem to be enough verses that really have something to say.

“Do Not Disturb” (and the pre-released “Two Birds One Stone”) shows us that Drake is still conscious and has the ability to write those lyrics that stole our hearts in the first place. We just are not hearing enough of them.

But that does not mean Drake has lost us. As with life, certain moments, phases and feelings are irretrievably in the past. Drake will continually to evolve and develop a new identity, and expecting to hear sequels to So Far Gone and Take Care will seemingly only end in disappointment.

But perhaps we can grant Drake his wish and let More Life be a new playlist — a different playlist — for our new life adventures, whether or not it is anything like the Drake we used to know.

Nick Mileti is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ncm45@cornell.edu.

Mohsin Hamdi’s Novel Exit West Opens Doors To the Migrant Experience

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Contributor

Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel Exit West tells the compelling story of migrants Saeed and Nadia as they face the challenges of a nameless country in the midst of civil war. In fleeing their country, the couple passes through Greece, England and the United States, and face literal and psychological obstacles on their way.

Hamid successfully executes a novel regarding a pertinent topic with an anonymity that appeals to human experiences of abandonment and cultural detachment that explicate the migrant experience to his readers. Through simple but poignant prose, Hamid spins a tale of anxiety and hope that is equally engaging and humbling.

Mohsin Hamid is an internationally bestselling author and essayist who is known for tackling topics that shake global social and political spheres. Exit West presents these themes that have won Hamid a myriad of awards, including the Man Booker Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. These accolades are not without warrant; Hamid’s dynamic style and honest tone allow his fiction to straddle postmodernity and the moment.

Whether through the sprinkling of smaller, more contained glimpses of unaffiliated characters within the larger narrative or through the blending of the real and the surreal, Hamid uses pastiche and intertextuality to propel the reader into a post-

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modern world that has striking reverberations throughout globalized experience.

With an emphasis on the psychological impact of migration, passage occurs through magical realist “doors,” that take refugees, like the novel’s protagonists, to other parts of the world in the span of a sentence.

When Saeed first falls for independent, motorcycle-riding Nadia, their relationship is tried merely by natural tensions in their different personalities. But, as their romance develops and their city becomes increasingly dangerous, their relationship fosters a sense of comfort for each of them as violent militants besiege their city. The war complicates, even inhibits, aspects of everyday life in the urban setting that resembles cities like Aleppo and Mosul.

These trials throw a wrench into Saeed and Nadia’s respective lives and drive Nadia to seek refuge westward. After the passing of his mother due to a “stray heavy-caliber round,” it becomes more evident to Saeed that he must leave his home, and the two begin to make plans with agents to escape the atmosphere of gunfire, soldiers and drone surveillance that overwhelms the city. The decision to leave, though it appears to be one of agency, is really one of exile. Saeed is forced to abandon his life at home, including his father who refuses to leave the remnants of the life he and his wife erected there. This departure sends fractures throughout Saeed’s and Nadia’s lives, as “the scattering of his extended family and his circle of friends and acquaintances,

forever, struck him as deeply sad, amounting to the loss of a home, no less, of his home.” Nadia and Saeed are taken by the undertow of compulsory migration and are dragged, both willingly and unwillingly, into the throes of global migration.

“In those days,” Hamid writes, “the passage was both like dying and like being born.” Surely, profound abandonment pervades the migrant experience in that “when we migrate, we murder from our lives those leave behind.” But at the same time, Nadia and Saeed are tossed into new worlds as they travel through Mykonos, London and the San Francisco Bay area in search of their new life. Still, strife undercuts this sentiment as both Saeed’s physical boyishness — his metaphorical innocence — begins to fade, and the couple’s late night conversations about starry nights and futures dissipate into companionable silence, then aphonic detachment. The way that movement consequently changes one’s person interrupts the momentum of Nadia and Saeed’s relationship, but the tone is not resentful.

Instead, it is one of acceptance.

Instead of dwelling on the unimaginable trials of migration, Hamid evokes a

powerful sense of understanding that allows the novel to look forward with a complacency at what could become a reality in which we are all migrants of sorts.

Though, at the conception of his novel, Hamid could not have predicted the political atmosphere into which Exit West would be launched, his words resound, with almost psychic senses, throughout contemporary global crises.

Nonetheless, the resonances do not only appeal to the foreign policy of the Trump administration, but also to emotional sentiments of migration that are not so literal. He alludes to a universal migration, one that connects to humanity itself, that unites and calls for solidarity.

For “every man and woman and boy and girl … will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow.” He continues, “it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity’s potential for building a better world.”

Victoria Horrocks is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vrh23@cornell.edu.

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Located in the Gold and Picket Family Video Galleries, Empathy Academy succeeds in synthesizing art and the human experience via an organic transmission of the unspoken immensity of the exhibition to the viewer. While the works embody the material forms conventionally tied to them (sculpture, film, etc.) the medium takes a platform that is undeniably human in nature.

In “Colors, Cultures, Knots, and Time,” Ernesto Neto invites the viewer into a space of wordless dialogue.

Neto’s installation consists of plastic rings serving as loci from which vividly colored cotton strings connect. The threads are not, however, limited to single hoop; many are seen taking a journey across rings and sharing their own space with that of others.

Immediately, a profound sense of ambiguity is evoked as it is unclear whether the threads are emanating from or converging upon the ring. This uncertainty confronts the idea that space must have an orientation and brings to the artistic stage the idea that objects exist through their relationship with their users and with each other. The direction, and the implicit question of spatial existence, is thus placed upon the viewer. Adding to the layers of nuance is the underlying notion that the rings may in fact embody spaces of connection, points of transition along a string’s journey, rather than dichotomizing the space between origin and destination. The six principal hoops join together in what can be interpreted as an interconnected reconception of the six inhabited continents; by excluding the geographical separations of the oceans, Neto’s installation draws a parallel to the idea of a world linked across oceans and time.

The perimeter of the Gold Gallery is flanked on three sides by “Untitled 2008–11 (the map of the land of feeling) I–III.” Renowned for his critical role in the genre of relational art — a practice which places emphasis on social relations and their contexts — this piece is one of few that the Argentine-born Thai artist Rirkit Tiravanija has created. The 84-foot long work is an expression that spans a multitude of media and appears to document the artist’s life story. There is one wall in particular which captures my fascination and along its center lies a succession of adjacent scans of Tiravanija’s passport. Fusing place and

time, the imagery superimposed on the procession of passport scans overflows with allusions to his travels while city maps, letters and countless other artefacts of his past traverse the space of the palimpsestic installation. Along this panel there are currents of arrows which meander along the canvas in what initially evokes a parallel to the experiences of the artist. Yet there also are arrows that contradict the general flow of what at a cursory glance assumes the narrative of a mass migration. The arrows mirror not only the countless decisions of a journey but

also the innumerable (and often contradictory) narratives which simultaneously inhabit and construct their space.

Thus, while Tiravanija’s life may have been the original inspiration for the work, it is certainly not the only one.

He has elegantly created a breathtaking space that may be by him but certainly not of him, a space of staggering proportions and humbling reach that initiates a conversation of global inclusion.

The murmur of a recorded voice eventually draws me away from the mesmerizing intricacies of Tiravanija’s work. Emanating from the Picket Family Video Gallery, the enigmatic and almost mechanical narration comes from the 1975 video work “Semiotics of the Kitchen” by Martha Rosler. The black-and-white film exploration assumes the format of an alphabetic progression, with common kitchen implements being utilized as representatives of their respective letter. Beginning with over half a minute of the unflinching gaze of the artist holding a sign of the work’s title, an undeniable sense of discomfort is produced from the start; none of the kitchen objects of the study are used in conjunction with their typical substrate: food. Rather, the implements

are often utilized, oftentimes against each other, in ways that range from laughably contradictory (the act of utilizing “Grater” on “Fork”) to visibly violent (exemplified in one instance by the stabbing movements of “Knife” forming a stark contradiction to its conventionally associated movements of chopping and dicing). After T, the remaining letters are drawn by Rosler’s own movements while she holds a knife and spoon. Relinquishing the spoon before the last letter of the alphabet, she concludes her work by motioning Z with her knife incising

Therapy,” Matthew “Levee” Chavez establishes an amalgamation of human thoughts and emotions. A central problem to inclusive practice in art is the assimilation of the diverse narratives into a single piece without disrupting or otherwise altering the original distinctiveness that each story tells.

The employment of sticky notes, pens, pencils and markers as a choice of media surmounts this problem in a way that enshrines the sublimity in simplicity. The undemanding nature of the medium invites a visual dialogue that transcends age, artistic ability or any other barrier that conventionally determines the loudest voice in a conversation. A given sticky note is endowed precisely with the meaning it was written with and, while perhaps intersecting and being superimposed by others, is thus untouched in nature from the point of its artistic departure.

My personal conception of a museum is that of an exposed shelf. I unquestionably reject the contrasting image of a jealously guarded cabinet that so many elitist institutions try to ensoul; while still protected, the former allows the gaze of the entire world and permits itself to be eternalized in VAS MATHUR / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the hearts of the air with rapid and jagged move- millions. When art is democratized in ments. These underlying emotions of this manner, the viewer is brought rage and frustration are accentuated by forth from the role of a passive spectaboth the persisting emotionlessness of tor to that of an active and engaged the artist’s expression as well as the participant in the artistic processes. In rhythmic oral iterations of her mecha- doing so, the works of Empathy nistic narration, creating a juxtaposi- Academy embody at the same time tion that constructs a powerful critique both a reduction and a magnification against the relegation of women to the of the human condition in that in a role of the happy housewife. single exhibit is to be found echoes of Throughout the performance, the stories innumerable. It is this undenidivestment of domestic objects from able feeling which constitutes the their intended purpose makes increas- underlying theme of the exhibit. The ingly obvious how little Semiotics of sublime beauty of the exhibition, the Kitchen has to do with the actual therefore, does not originate from the kitchen. The result is a dissolution of aesthetic techniques manifested by its the docility conventionally associated works, though undoubtedly impressive with the domestic space and as the in their own right. It resides in the implements are stripped of their typi- notion that this exhibition does not for cal substrate, these tools become the an instant adopt the model of the helpless objects of the artist’s con- exclusive preserve but rather radiates a tained, yet at the same time undimin- universal metaphor for the prismatic ished, rage. In the implements’ trans- entirety of the human experience. formation from tools of oppression to Empathy Academy: Social Practice tools of insurrection, they not only and the Problem of Objects is on display realize the transition from domesticity in the Cornell Johnson Museum of Art. to violence but also transform domes- The exhibit will remain on display until tic space into a space of revolution and August 6, 2017. resistance.

At the heart of the Gold Gallery is a Varun Biddanda is a sophomore in the College of mosaic of sticky notes and human Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at experience. An extension of “Subway vdb22@cornell.edu.

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“I knew that I couldn’t survive in the country. My parents were in prison, I had a sister in China — there was no reason to stay in the country,” he said. “I learned everything about this country when I was in China. I had nothing left in this country.”

Hyeon described how, recalling the message of the Chinese Christian missionaries, he desperately prayed to God for deliverance.

“I didn’t believe in God until that moment,” he said. “I just prayed, ‘If you are a real God, and if you are a living God, please rescue me from this prison.’”

The next day, by some miracle, a senior officer brought Hyeon out of his prison cell, and allowed him to roam freely on the prison yard without his supervision. Grabbing nothing but two stones — potential weapons — Hyeon took the opportunity to run away from the youth prison and successfully headed back to China.

Hyeon reunited with his mother in China, but their joy was short-lived as they soon discovered that Hyeon’s sister had been caught by the Chinese police and was being sent back to North Korea. Deciding that they could no longer live in the constant fear of having their identities discovered, Hyeon and his mother resolved to search for their freedom and safety in South Korea.

Under the guidance of a Korean American missionary that Hyeon affectionately called “Grandfather,” Hyeon, his mother and four other North Korean refugees trekked across Asia in a roundabout fashion to reach South Korea.

“I knew I couldn’t survive in the country. My parents were in prison ... there was no reason to stay in the country.”

Austin Hyeon They travelled from China to Myanmar, where they learned that the South Korean embassy could do little to help them if they were not physically present at the embassy.

Thus, Hyeon and the other North Koreans decided to cross the Mekong River and become refugees in Laos.

“We bought four ... tires. We distributed the tubes to the females, and I [held] my mom’s tube. Another North Korean person and Grandfather jumped into the water without ... any tubes,” Hyeon recounted. “But we were so stupid. ... We thought we could swim in the water, but because the current

was so strong, we were just wash[ed] away. And, soon, we found out that Grandfather was missing. ... He died.”

Hyeon and his mother had no opportunity to pay their respects to Grandfather. The next day, they were caught by the Laotian militia and were imprisoned for a month.

Knowing that they would be sent to China and presumably back to North Korea, they pretended to be South Korean tourists who had lost their passports.

The Laotian government, unable to figure out where Hyeon and his mother had

“I decided to go to school because I know [that] if I want to be the person who can help out North Koreans, I have to learn.”

Austin Hyeon come from, transported them to Myanmar, where they found themselves imprisoned yet again.

However, because Grandfather had been an American citizen, the U.S. government fortunately became involved in their case and Hyeon and his mother were finally sent to South Korea.

In South Korea, Hyeon entered the last year of middle school at 18.

“I decided to go to school because I know [that] if I want to be the person who can help out North Koreans, I have to learn,” he said.

After finishing South Korean high school in three years, Hyeon became the first North Korean-born person to attend a college in New Zealand. He decided to continue his education and is now a senior undergraduate student at Columbia University studying international relations.

Throughout much of his life, Hyeon concealed his identity and his place of birth, fearing for both his life and his freedom. However, he hides no longer, striving to increase the visibility of his extraordinary story to promote awareness of the human rights violations in North Korea, help other North Korean refugees and propel his dream of playing a role in the reunification of Korea.

“I’m so blessed because I’m standing here today,” Hyeon said. “I believe this is my duty [to] spread [awareness of ] the situation in North Korea, and encourage people to participate in [activist] activities and send information [to] North Koreans.”

Anne Kim can be reached at ak2463@cornell.edu.

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itself the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament. The Dutchmen found their footing and held Cornell in its own zone for the second half of the second, and a majority of the third.

The Dutchmen finally got on the board off a rebound put-

back by Cole Maier on the power play 7:23 into the third.

It was one of 18 shots Union threw at Gillam in a desperation period, but the only one that the Cornell senior was unable to corral.

Union faced a 14-shot deficit at the first intermission, but finished on top 34-33 in the same category. Freschi was not too

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NCAAs and try and win a national championship. We got here, and unfortunately we didn’t get the result we wanted, but proud of the guys in the room …. Wouldn’t trade the guys in the room for a different result.”

Cornell came out with a mission in the semifinals against Union, and accomplished its goal with a 4-1 win. The start of the finals matchup showcased a team much like the one that beat Union — fast, buzzing and sending everything towards the opposing netminder.

Then, disaster struck.

Harvard entered the game with the No. 4 power play in the country, and though Cornell evaded the first crack of the Harvard man-advantage opportunity, the lethal special teams unit struck when Donato wristed a shot that just squeaked by Gillam to open the scoring 14:41 into the first.

Over 20 minutes passed before the next goal came, but it was not for a lack of effort.

Senior forward Jeff Kubiak forced a turnover in the Harvard zone and utilized a curl and drag to create space. But, much like the story was the entirety of Saturday night, Madsen was there to make the stop.

Esposito tucked a backhanded effort by Gillam 16:08 into the second, and the Floodstrand breakdown came about 3:01 into the third. Donato’s second of the night — a laser from the middle of the zone on the power play — left Cornell in a 4-0 hole with just nine minutes remaining.

Freshman forward Jeff Malott was the lone Cornellian to catch Madsen off guard, but his tally came with 1:17 left in the game — far too late for a comeback.

Now, without a Whitelaw Cup to show, Cornell will head into a week of practice in anticipation of NCAAs without beating its archrival in Harvard in three tries so far during the 2016-17 season.

Cornell potentially could have helped its NCAA seeding with a win on Saturday, but the NCAA selection committee awarded Cornell a No. 3 seed.

The Red will take on UMassLowell in the Northeast region in Manchester, N.H. Should Cornell win, the team will take on the winner of Notre DameMinnesota in the second round.

No matter the seeding, the team will have to shake off this

loss before the quest for the ultimate prize of a NCAA championship begins. “[We have to] get back to the hotel tonight and try to leave it at the rink,” Weidner said. “[We’ll] turn the page and try and focus on next week.”

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concerned with the shot total, as he said his defense kept shots to the outside and in open lanes where Gillam had a clear look.

“If he sees the puck I’m confident he can stop them,”

Freschi said of his goalie.

Freschi added a tally with 3:12 to play in the third for some breathing room, and sophomore forward Beau Starrett added the final blow 62

seconds later to clinch the ECAC finals berth.

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I had two older brothers and they both played before me, so around the second grade I started to play.

2. Can you tell me about your time in

Conestoga High School?

Conestoga is in the suburbs of Philadelphia. All my best friends played lacrosse with me there. My coach played at UNC — she was really awesome — and kind of let us run the team as seniors. That had its ups and downs, but overall I had a really great experience there. In fact, I actually got into Cornell because of a game in high school. The coach came to one of my games in high school, saw me, and that's actually pretty much how got into Cornell.

3. How did you decide upon playing at Cornell?

Actually when I was a junior in high school, I almost decided I didn’t want to play lacrosse in college anymore because I got missed in the first round of recruiting. I ended up focusing all my time on my highschool team. Then in a random game, I scored one of the last goals — I think it may have won the game — and one of the coaches saw me and emailed me. I came up to campus, loved it, and then automatically chose it.

Can you talk a little bit more about that game?

I don’t really remember too well, but I want to say it was a playoff game before the championships. I had an eight meter shot right after the other team committed a foul on me in front of the goal, and I had a couple seconds left so I just ran it in and made it.

4. What is your greatest accomplishment as a Cornell athlete?

I would say winning the Ivy League championship last year. We definitely came in as the underdogs in the tournament, ranked third overall. To come back and beat two teams we had previously lost to in the regular season, Princeton and Penn, was just an awesome feeling. It was also the first time Cornell women’s lacrosse had won an Ivy tournament so it was just awesome.

5. What would you say is the greatest strength of the team this year?

I think the greatest strength is how much everyone supports each other on and off the field. We’re all really close knit friends, so whether someone’s having a bad day, dropped a ball on the field, or missed a goal, we’re all backing each other up 100 percent of the time. That fosters a lot of trust in games and in difficult situations.

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Tight team | The Red’s greatest strength is its cohesiveness both on and off the field.

6. If you didn’t have to worry about money or a job, where would you live in

the world?

Probably Hawaii. I went there for [for the first time] this Christmas break and it was awesome and beautiful and hot, unlike Ithaca. It also had really great food.

7. What do you think about the Slope Day artists?

To be honest, I haven’t really thought about it because we don’t go to Slope Day if we make the NCAA tournament. I do like MisterWives’s “Reflections” and “Our Own House,” but I haven’t heard of any of the other artists. Sorry!

8. What is the most memorable class you’ve taken at Cornell?

Definitely Critical Reading and Thinking. It’s HE 1115 with Professor Helene Selco and she pretty much helps you manage your life, like writing calendars and stuff. It wasn’t a taxing class, but it was more useful than I thought it would be.

9. Who is one of the biggest inspirations in your life?

I would say my mom. She’s always doing things for other people and putting everyone else first. She’s pretty much taken care of everyone around her and is so humble. My dad, too; he’s very humble and has just taught me so many good values in my life.

10. What is something about you that not many people know?

Everyone knows that my two favorite foods are chocolate and strawberries, but I hate chocolate covered strawberries.

Bonus: You only get three words to describe yourself; what are they?

Weird, happy, hungry.

Josh Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Sports

MONDAY MARCH 20, 2017

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Red Falls in ECAC Finals,Earns NCAA No.3 Seed

Cornell downs Union for first ECAC Finals since 2011

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

“We got here, and unfortunately we didn’t get the result we wanted, but proud of the guys in the locker room.”

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — In three games against Clarkson in the ECAC quarterfinals, Cornell men’s hockey failed to put up more Senior Forward Jake Weidner than 18 shots in any of the three contests, forced to capitalize on a mere few scoring chances to take the three-game series.

Just one week later, in the ECAC semifinals against a superior team in Union, Cornell put up more shots in a 20 minute frame than in any Clarkson contest, en route to a 4-1 victory and a spot in the championship match against Harvard.

“That was the turning point in our season,” senior forward Eric Freschi said of games two and three against Clarkson. “Our season was on the line after we lost game one, CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR then we fought back and won two games.

That really showed the character of our Back in a flash | The Red has little time to reflect on its loss, as it prepares for its first round NCAA matchup against UMass-Lowell. team.”

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Friday night’s opening period was tied for the most shots in a single period for the 2016- [Vecchione] should win the Hobey Baker 17 Cornell team, with the other 21-shot Award,” Schafer said. “[Weidner] has gone frame coming in the second period of a 5-2 head to head against Vecchione in threewin over Northern Michigan at the Florida straight games, and he hasn’t given up a fiveBounces like that, along with the

By ZACH SILVER College Classic. The team that struggled to on-five goal against him. He leads by example Sun Sports Editor tournament’s most outstanding player and our guys follow him.” get out of its own end at in Madsen making 25 of 26 saves in Rather than just limittimes against Clarkson his team’s win, was the Red’s downfall.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — It was C ORNELL @ U NION ing Vecchione and Foo, flipped the script to open that kind of night for Cornell men’s Cornell consistently threw a flurry of the team put forth its own the game, and held one of shots at Madsen, but the finalist for hockey. onslaught on Union’s Alex the country’s most potent Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL the ECAC’s top goalie award kept his Not Friday night, when the team Sakellaropoulos, and the offenses to a seven-shot Cornell 0 2 2 4 team on top all night long. used a 21-shot first period and four Union netminder did all first period.

Union 0 0 1 1 “The kid made a couple great saves goals to cruise by Union. Nor was it a he could to keep his team “A word was thrown night like Clarkson game one, where and they come down and fire one in,” afloat by denying everyaround that we underestithe Red was blown out 6-2, and it Schafer said of Harvard’s ability to mated this team,” said Union head coach thing Cornell threw at him in the first. looked like a NCAA bid might be in capitalize when necessary.

But 3:23 into the second period, Cornell Rick Bennett. “I have no idea why we would To go along with Madsen, limbo. ever think that going into this game, but that’s freshman forward Noah Bauld became the Harvard swept every position on the It was not one of those nights. first to solve the Red’s opponent in net. the mindset sometimes of a college guy.” all-tournament team but one. Cornell Cornell’s 4-1 loss to Harvard in the The focus for Cornell going into the semi- Linemate Dwyer Tschantz’s shot hit post, senior defenseman Patrick McCarron ECAC championship match was one then bounced right to Bauld’s waiting stick, final matchup — like any team’s gameplan was given all-tournament honors at of those nights that simply make you and the freshman sent the no-doubter into against Union would be — was trying to figscratch your head and wonder what defense. ure out how to limit the country’s finest in the back of the net to put the Red on the But no honors could have made the team from Ithaca did to upset the Mike Vecchione and Spencer Foo, both of board first.

Saturday’s loss more sweet. Harvard supernatural powers that govern the Weidner made it a two-goal hole for the whom are finalists for the Hobey Baker sophomore Ryan Donato netted two sport of hockey.

Dutchmen on a power play one-timer from Award. In two regular season games, the comEvery sequence, bad bounce after goals, and Luke Esposito added one bination of Vecchione and Foo amassed a the top of the left circle. The play required more in addition bad bounce review, but upon confirmation, the captain total of six points on the Red. to Floodstrand. seemed to plague C ORNELL @ H ARVARD followed up the freshman for what would On Friday, the duo had only one — a Foo The bounces went the Red, certainly turn into the eventual game-winner. assist on his team’s only goal. For Cornell Harvard’s way, and not helped by the But after Weidner’s tally and around the head coach Mike Schafer ’86, senior forward Game: 1 ST 2 ND 3 RD F INAL the Crimson have stellar play of and captain Jake Weidner — selected as the halfway point of the second period, Union Cornell 0 0 1 1 taken all three Crimson goalECAC’s best defensive forward — was the key finally began to play like a team that earned Harvard 1 1 2 4 matchups against tender Merrick to that accomplishment the third time the Red so far this Madsen. around.

See SEMIFINALS page 13 “The game can be cruel like that season, scoring four goals in each consometimes,” said head coach Mike test.

“We didn’t capitalize on our scorSchafer ’86. “But bottom line they capitalized on their scoring chances ing chances and they capitalized on theirs,” Schafer said. “That’s the way and we didn’t.

With three minutes played in the hockey is sometimes.”

Regardless of missing out on the third, and Cornell already facing a 20 deficit, Harvard defenseman Wiley program’s 13th Whitelaw Cup, it has Sherman sent an innocuous dump not been a disappointment by any into the Red’s end, and Cornell senior stretch of the word. Cornell was goalie Mitch Gillam went through picked to finish in the middle of the the routine motions to collect it pack in the preseason polls, but fought off arduous road trips and key behind his net. injuries to finish a respectable third in But a bizarre bounce on the glass the ECAC come the regular season’s resulted in the puck creeping out in front of the net, only to find the stick end.

“This is our expectation every of Crimson forward Michael year,” said senior captain and forward Floodstrand. With Gillam out of Jake Weidner.

“Every single year we position, Floodstrand — goalless to start doing what we need to do to get this point all season — sent the noCAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR to the ECACs and move on to the doubter over a sliding Holden Lynah North | Strong contingencies of Cornell fans made the trek to Lake Placid for both weekend Anderson to stifle solid Cornell presgames. Supporters started chants of “Grade Inflation” during the championship game against Harvard. sure and get his team up three.

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