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Sen. Gillibrand Urges End to Workplace Harassment Lawmaker, Pollack advocate for work gender equality

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tice is actually possible. My job is to lift up their voices,” Gillibrand said.

The senator seeks bipartisan support to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined outlaw taxpayer-funded settlements on panelists for a conversation on workplace issues of harassment, to allow survivors to sexual harassment and encouraged the audi- decide whether or not to publicly disclose ence to embrace policies benefiting women allegations and to end forced arbitration in a talk hosted by Cornell’s School of clauses in workplace agreements.

Industrial and Labor Relations on Monday.

Under forced arbitration, employees “I believe fundamentally that we should care must disclose company grievances at an inabout one another. Sexual office hearing under rules assault and harassment of nondisclosure and “This stops when we come from a place where often waive their right to that principle simply does value all people. When a constitutional trial. not exist,” Gillibrand said.

“It’s wrong that just by we value women or men signing Calling a culture an employee who are harassed.” where power and fear agreement you sign away keep sexual harassment your right to a jury trial,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the shadows “fundaGillibrand said, while in mentally toxic to an conversation with organization,” Gillibrand emphasized the President Martha E. Pollack, following her need for wage equality, paid leave and an speech. end to sexual harassment.

Pollack, alongside a diverse group of These changes, according to Gillibrand, Cornell professors and professionals, joined should begin in Congress. the discussion as panelists after Gillibrand’s “This stops when we value all people. opening remarks. The panelists — Mark E. When we value women or men who are Brossman, Alexander Colvin, Prof. Lisa harassed. When we listen. When we believe Nishii, human resource studies, and them. When we create a system where jus- Christine Pambianchi ’90 — took up

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Powerful women | Sen. Gillibrand, left, emphasizes the need for wage equality, paid leave and a more just environment for working women at a panel on Monday.

Gillibrand’s cause against forced arbitration.

According to Colvin, Cornell’s associate dean for academic affairs, forced arbitration is a common clause in the paperwork most employees sign on their first day of work.

“These agreements between an entity and an employee create a power imbalance at the hearing,” said Pambianchi, senior vice president of human resources of the technology company Corning Incorporated.

Beyond the legality of sexual harassment policies and best practices provided by Brossman, a partner at the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel, the panelists also shared personal anecdotes.

“I graduated here in 1990 and embarrassingly, having spent four years in the ILR school, I didn’t take a single class on women See PANEL page 13

Upcoming Dick Cheney Speech Sparks Protest Plans

By SHAFAY MUNIR

Asociacion Latina. The groups plan to demonstrate “considerately beside the venue to allow parFormer Vice President Dick ticipants free right of entry and Cheney’s planned appearance on exit.”

Wednesday has sparked planned “The fact is that Cheney has protests and varying student reac- never publicly apologized for any tions as the campus anticipates political, ethical or moral decision the lessons he brings from his he’s made,” Din told The Sun. term in the White House and his “He’s coming to give the photopredictions for copied speech he always America’s political gives unapologetically, future. perpetuating falsehoods Omar Din ’19, to no challenge. We just the College of want to present the other Human Ecology side to create a dialectic.” representative for Cornell Republicans the Student president Austin Assembly, is workMcLaughlin ’18 has ing with an umbrelheard the talk of demonCHENEY la of activist student strations across campus organizations to stage a “peaceful, and defended the decision to ethically fair and inclusive invite Cheney “to learn and listen” demonstration” outside of Bailey from a definitive figure of Hall during Cheney’s speech to American history. represent other political perspecMcLaughlin said he “encourtives. ages opposing opinions” but The conglomeration of groups asked audience members inside protesting Cheney’s appearance Bailey Hall to refrain from include Amnesty International, protest.

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Coming together | Speakers at Sunday’s summit, including Vice President Ryan Lombardi, pictured above, emphasized the University’s work toward inclusive housing and the need for strategies that promote activist causes.

S.A. Diversity and Inclusion Summit Promotes Campus Activism, Self Care

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

In the Student Assembly’s first-ever diversity and inclusion summit on Sunday, student leaders representing groups from across campus came together to address ways to improve diversity within

their respective organizations.

Keynote addresses by Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, and Vijay Pendakur, dean of students, highlighted campus housing initiatives and campus activism and how these areas are a priority for the University.

Lombardi emphasized the importance of looking at longterm goals as well as short-term issues. In the future, he hopes to see the University’s efforts extend beyond “taking care of the here and now,” he said. “I want to know that for whomever See DIVERSITY page 4

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South Asian Council Awarded $5,000 to Promote Intersectionality

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

The South Asian Council received the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, chosen from among 16 groups for their work in building a platform for the South Asian community.

The prize, established and endowed by Thomas W. Jones ’69, is given annually “to the program or organization making the most significant contribution to furthering the ideal of university community while respecting the values of diversity,” according to a description of the reception, held in Willard Straight Hall on Monday.

“It’s important to celebrate students and provide support for an institution like Cornell in terms of being an example to America about how to take our diversity and really make it a wonderful strength,” Jones said in his speech.

“The Perkins Prize epitomizes the value that Cornell University should not only invite individuals from a variety of backgrounds, but it should also love them,” said Vijay Pendakur, dean of students. “We must create a sense of belonging.”

SAC was honored for their work in creating the “Chai and Chat” dialogue series, receiving $5,000 toward more projects.

Chai and Chat “engages South Asian students, who are themselves diverse in language, religion and culture, as well as other identity groups across campus,” President Martha E. Pollack said.

The series began “as a small and informal way to get the South Asian community together,” said Aliza Adhami ’19, advocacy chair for SAC “But we’ve been very deliberate about creating more intersectional topics and programs to

broaden our reach and work with other communities within both the minority umbrella and campus at large.”

“We aim to spark dialogue about identity, what it means to be South Asian, whether you are Hindu, Muslim, Indian, Pakistani or one of the myriad of identities included under that term,” Adhami said.

Adhami recounted that as a Pakistani Muslim, the SAC has offered a platform “to come together across religious, national, and ethnic divides.”

“South Asians have done so much for this country but we do not have a unified voice, and we hope to change that,” Adhami said.

In the past, the SAC has addressed Islamophobia and anti-black sentiment within the South Asian community, queer identities, working-class South Asians, among other topics, all recognized by Pollack and Adhami during the reception.

Chai and Chats aims to further the “inclusivity of intersectional social identities,” according to Shivani Parikh ’19, president of SAC. “We want to do more Chai and Chats so we can have a larger diversity of topics and of people,” Parikh said.

Pendakur praised SAC’s events as representative of “how students can organize events that not only are fun but that bring different kinds of communities together to have really important dialogues about culture, history, power and identity in our communities.”

Pendakur also said that he was looking forward to the continued efforts of SAC to create coalitions, which are “about building bridges across differences in order to get something changed or done and caucuses are about building only within your own group.”

“I think the road that SAC is already traveling is focusing

S.A. Candidates Prioritize Safety Campus climate contributes to students of color feeling unsafe, says candidate

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI and KIKI VENTURA Sun News Editor and Sun Contributor

Student Assembly candidates laid out their legislative agendas to address a wide range of issues from campus safety to professionalism within the assembly at a forum hosted by the ALANA Intercultural Board on Friday.

Candidates agreed that campus safety is a priority issue for many students. Abigail Hailu ’20, minority students liaison at-large candidate, said she thinks an “element of feeling unsafe as a person of color on this campus actually comes from the campus [climate] itself.”

“I think that there’s some parts of campus that you know are unsafe because of the social environments and climates,” Hailu said. “I think a big part of [combatting] that is targeted diversity initiatives that are comprehensive and long term and institutionalized.”

Shraddha Harshvardhan ’20, undesignated representative at-large candidate, argued that to enhance campus safety, Cornell should be “ensuring that there are more lights” on campus and improving its late night transportation methods.

“I really hope to make people feel safer in more isolated areas on campus,” Harshvardhan said. “[The Big Red Shuttle is] a really great way to go from 12 to 3 around campus in a safe mode of transportation … I really want to help increase awareness of that and increase [its] frequency.”

Varun Devatha ’19, S.A. executive vice president and candidate for president, described the recent arrest of a former Cornellian possessing weapons and bombs as “really scary” but cautioned against taking excessive measures to address campus safety.

“The obvious solutions come back to the Blue Lights and the lighting on the Arts Quad and all these other things, where you feel unsafe at night,” Devatha said. “But on top of that you don't want to militarize this campus.”

Dale Barbaria ’19, S.A. vice president of internal operations and candidate for president, said the handling of the process surrounding the defunding of the Cornell Cinema “upset” him. He suggested that the Cornell Cinema controversy highlights larger issues with transparency and interactions with other organizations. “[It is] important that the S.A., its appropriations committee and everyone else involved works with these organizations and treats them with a certain level of human decency,” Barbaria said.

“Every decision, every word that is made, that

needs to be written down, that needs to be posted somewhere … committee reports should be public,” Barbaria added.

Franco Uribe-Rheinbolt ’20, undesignated representative at-large candidate, who worked at Cornell Cinema when the defunding decision was being made, said “it was just very unprofessional.”

Joseph Anderson ’20, S.A. undergraduate representative to the University Assembly and candidate for executive vice president, also raised concerns about the professionalism of the Assembly, mentioning the lack of communication between representatives and their constituents.

“Every person right here says we’re gonna reach out we’re gonna do this … for the majority of representatives that doesn't happen,” Anderson said.

“That's the fundamental problem. They're not held accountable by the own assembly so you got to make sure that their campaign promises are actually getting accomplished.”

To address these professionalism and communication problems, Jaewon Sim ’21, arts and sciences representative candidate, promised to improve the S.A.’s transparency by reforming its website.

“One of the things I’m working on is building the new S.A. website, which is at cornellsa.com, and that is where we are going to post all the information about everything we’re doing,” Sim said. “We also want to include a directory to student resources that people can go without hassle to find out who they should go to for help.”

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com. Kiki Ventura can be reached at kv92@cornell.edu.

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Safety first | Student Assembly candidate Savanna Lim ’21 speaks at the forum on Friday, addressing topics like campus safety.

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Students recognized | Members of the South Asian Council were recognized at a reception in Willard Straight Hall on Monday.

on coalitions and I’d like to see them continue to invest in that,” he said.

The organization hopes to channel the prize on a focus of “increasing intersectional programming,” according to Adhami.

Parikh also said the money would help give support to SAC’s member organizations that are often turned away due to the previously small allocation given to SAC. “With the $5,000, we’re excited to be able to give more money to our dance teams and include intra-community awards at Mock Shaadi to celebrate the members of our community who have been doing really great work,” Parikh said.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun.com.

Chinese Protest Flyers Circulate body,” the pamphlet wrote. “It is time to let him know that WE DISAGREE.” Sun News Editor and Assistant News Editor The organizers explained that Anonymous organizers plant- student organizations on camed leaflets stating “Not My puses do not reach out to them President” in red ink over a black prior to publicizing the cause; and white portrait of China’s instead, they “act spontaneouspresident Xi Jinping on the tables ly.”

“As organizers, we are not an of Klarman Hall’s atrium as part of an international student organization — we are just a group of Chinese citizens who mobilization on Thursday.

The anonymous dissent at work/study overseas and decided Cornell appears to be part of an to speak up for our people at international protest by Chinese home,” the organizers told The students studying overseas who Sun in an email.

The organizers, who claimed have distributed similar pamthat their movephlets in at ment has spread least 12 differto over 30 ent universities schools located around the in nine counworld, accordtries, aim to ing to Foreign raise awareness Policy. about the politiThe anonycal situation in mous organizChina and to ers running the encourage Tw i t t e r Chinese nationaccount “Xi’s als to speak their Not My mind.

President, “There is a ”which publiCOURTESY OF YUICHIRO KAKUTANI large number of cizes the Chinese stuprotest from Not my president | Leaflets across the were anonymously distributed on dents studying world, claimed tables in the Klarman Hall atrium. overseas, and we think they have when reached out to by The Sun that the cam- remained silent for too long — paign at Cornell was, judging by after all, western educated stuthe style and content of the pam- dents shall have the responsibility phlets, “related to [their] cam- of serving as the main driven paign.” The organizers requested force of the modernization of anonymity to avoid potential ret- China in future,” the organizers wrote. ribution.

Chinese students and stuXi ascended to his second term in office last Saturday, dents of the Chinese diaspora at according to The New York Cornell reacted in different ways Times. A different variant of the to the news of the protest, with leaflet distributed in Klarman some offering cautious support said “I disagree about the presi- and others dismissing its causes.

Weifeng Yang ’20 said he saw dent” in Chinese.

The distribution of the pam- the protest pamphlets as a “posiphlets comes in the wake of Xi’s tive thing” but was skeptical move to abolish term limits for about whether it will lead tangible change. the office he occupies.

“I don’t see this having much “Xi Jinping is abolishing term limits of his presidency through See PROTEST page 4 Chinese rubber stamp legislative

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said. “We have faced directly the onslaught of oppression and marginality. That motivates us to want to be engaged in the long fight for social justice. But the other part of else walks into what I walk into, they are not going to face facing oppression and marginality is it’s traumatizing.” this stuff again.”

He drew on his own personal professional experiences As part of trying to put diversity and inclusion at the in his early twenties to emphasize the importance of dealcenter of his work, Lombardi highlighted the housing sys- ing with personal trauma. tem as a key equity issue at Cornell.

“Your sense of anger slips into a sense of rage. Anger “There is an inequity of housing in who controls and can be a useful tool for sustaining your work, [however] dominates the housing space on this campus,” he said. “If rage is a very difficult place to sustain social justice work,” you look across the spectrum of where the power lies with- Pendakur said. “I found myself burning so hot, that I was in the housing structure and the housing system you see burning the people around me.” that it’s inequitable.”

The ability to deal with trauma is important for The plans to create new dorms — opening as early as resiliency for those interested in diversity and inclusion 2021 — are a way to “create equity for all our students work, according to Pendakur. He noted that it also helps and try to minimize the power differentials that you see in cope with two important emotions — anger and forgivevarious housing aspects on and around campus,” accord- ness. ing to Lombardi.

“Forgiveness is imperative Pendakur shifted the conif you are going to build versation to activism and “It’s not enough to be ‘woke.’ You have coalitions,” he said working on solutions.

“Coalitions are built across Referring to his own experi- to have the willingness and skill sets to differences.” move your organization forward.” ence as an undergraduate stuThe summit, heralded by dent at the University of Mayra Valadez ’18, S.A. vice Vijay Pendakur Wisconsin, Madison, he realpresident of diversity and ized the importance of havinclusion, was a “goal of ing committed and strucmany of [her] predecessors.” tured leaders.

Representatives from organizations including the “It’s not enough to be ‘woke.’ You have to have the Cornell Lending Library, First Generation and Student willingness and skill sets to move your organization for- Union, Peer Educators of Gender and Sexuality and ward,” he said. “Having some sense of strategy of about Cornell University Sustainable Design led workshops how we can carry ourselves in this work as equally impor- throughout the summit. tant as our knowledge of the issues.”

During the workshops, representatives from different Pendakur also focused on the importance self care in groups questioned how to incorporate diversity and incluterms of trauma that people have experienced. According sion into their organizations and explored themes such as to Pendakur, in the 20 years that he has engaged in social “making your organization more equitable” and inclusion justice work, he has noticed that many people have expe- of the LGBT community. rienced trauma themselves.

“Many of us who are most attracted to this work are Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at also carrying an immense amount of trauma,” Pendakur akilpatrick@cornellsun.com.

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of an effect back home,” Yang told The Sun. “The fact that the protest sheet is in English and with a hashtag styled after Anti-Trump movement says a lot about how Chinese students in the U.S. had been Americanized; if the students indeed want impact back home, perhaps more Chinese-focused stuff.”

“But if they just want to remind many of the Chinese students abroad who disagree with their own government that they are not alone out there (because in many ways having a dissenting voice, even in the US, can feel very lonely), they did a wonderful job, and I really appreciate that,” he added.

Rong Tan ’20, on the other hand, dismissed Xi’s political ascendancy driving the protests as irrelevant to the wellbeing of the average Chinese citizen.

“At least Xi is managing the country well for six years,” Tan said. “It does not affect my personal life, economic condition, or other problems like visa or Chinese citizenship. … Sometimes it may be better not to waste time on arguing which president to choose and all the other fake news, rumor, scandal stuff during election.”

Aaron Li ’20 said that he will refrain from joining in the protest given the opaque Chinese political situation in the wake of Xi’s ascendency.

“At least for me I will not join the protest. It’s too complicated and there’s so much information that I don’t know,” Li said. “For example, I don’t know what’s going on in the Political Bureau of the [Communist Party of China] that made Xi announce it now.”

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com. Meredith Liu can be reached at meredithliu@cornellsun.com.

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“[Cornell Republicans] respect people’s rights to protest,” he said. “At the end of the day, we advocate for those in the auditorium to be respectful of the room itself, to allow others to exercise their right to listen.”

Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18, a member of Islamic Alliance for Justice and Students for Justice in Palestine, said she has heard rumors that “some students” connected to Climate Justice Cornell may have acquired tickets en masse at Willard Straight Hall with no plans of attending. The CJC president, however, denied these claims.

According to Prof. Richard Bensel, government, most students immediately identify Cheney’s significance with his two main contributions to the George W. Bush administration: “he provided advice to a president who was not particularly well-trained for the presidency, stabilizing the administration. Also, he was a major advocate of the war in Iraq.”

In the midst of these two points, while some students are repulsed by what they perceive to be Cheney’s negative role in the Iraq War, others are attracted to the level of authority he commanded as vice president.

“The manner in which he painted everyone who opposed his administration’s actions as traitors ... speaks for itself.”

Ethan Rosenbaum ’19 “[Cheney] cast a shadow on every aspect of political life for eight years of our childhood, which can still be felt to

A “laundry list” of grievances may this day,” said Cornell Democrats social explain why students decry the Bush chair Ethan Rosenbaum ’19.

Speaking for the Cornell Democrats’ administration, according to Prof. Joseph reaction to potential protests, Margulies ’82, law and government.

Margulies, who acted as lead counsel Rosenbaum stated that his organization will not join the protest because Cheney in a landmark Supreme Court case is not provocative enough to warrant against the Bush administration which granted Guantanamo Bay detainees the action.

“While we oppose everything he right to habeas corpus, believes that stands for, I understand why he appeals Cheney’s legacy for American students is to Cornell Republicans. We do not find “pushing for unilateral executive power, him controversial to the point to where and being a principal architect of the torture scandal” in the we feel like we should immediate post-9/11 take serious action,” Rosenbaum said. “The “It’s hard to fault him for milieu.

To Margulies, the manner in which he his handling of America’s impact of Cheney’s role painted everyone who safety in the immediate in the Bush administraopposed his administration was “having a legal tion’s actions as traitors aftermath of 9/11.” conversation about to control opposition Thomas Hartman ’19 whether hanging a man speaks for itself.” from a ceiling for 11 Cornell Republicans days and waterboardmember Thomas Hartman ’19, who grew up in a conserv- ing him 83 times in one month constiative household, aligns with a positive tutes torture, or merely an enhanced interpretation of Cheney’s legacy and interrogation.”

Ultimately, Margulies can empathize longs for recovery of a political atmoswith some student sentiments that see phere he believes vanished long ago.

“His politics are not what we would Cheney as a “stain on American pride” call Republican today,” Hartman said. for his role in “enhanced interrogation.”

“It’s hard to fault him for his handling “So his opinion can elucidate the benefits and calamities of having a traditional of America’s safety in the immediate conservative administration during a aftermath of 9/11,” Hartman said. “It time before the modern faux conservative was a tragedy unexperienced in the nation’s history, and the defining movement overtook the right.”

Members of organizations like Islamic moment of the Bush administration.”

McLaughlin stated that for Cornell Alliance for Justice and Students for Justice in Palestine disagree categorically Republicans, the goal of the speech is “with the sentiment that much could be holistic.

“I do hope this leads to more convergained by Cheney’s insight,” according to sations on significant issues of the past Chowdhury.

“His administration’s policies were a that we still have to address on both manifestation of American masculine sides,” McLaughlin said, explaining that power, and it’s much more critical that Cheney’s appearance is “about the imporwe hear from someone who was actually tance of hearing from someone who’s affected by his decisions,” Chowdhury made hard decisions.”

Anthony Notaroberta ’19, vice presisaid.

dent of Cornell Libertarians, believes that the value in Cheney’s speech is in the noticeable distinctions which have cast him as “part of the old establishment now revered with dismay in the age of Trump.”

“He may not be very relevant and is perhaps controversial in a nefarious manner, but he epitomizes both the establishment and the ability of a few in power to distort truth, which the Trump campaign and the age of new media are very much a response to,” Notaroberta told The Sun. The speech will take place on Wednesday from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., with expectations from the C.U. Republicans that all 1,600 seats of Bailey Hall may come into use.

Shafay Munir can be reached at smunir@cornellsun.com.

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In response to Cornell Republicans’ decision to bring Dick Cheney to campus To the Editor: Dick Cheney should be in jail, because he is a war criminal. He certainly should not be paid to speak with student tuition dollars. He was a major player in instigating the Iraq War; he knew Iraq had no “weapons of mass destruction” and he lied about it. Cheney’s largest claim to fame, of course, is advocating torture. Torture which we know does not even work.

He was also the CEO of Halliburton, and is a big advocate for anthropogenic climate change which will kill us all if war doesn’t get there first.

You are too young to remember this, but all well informed people thought the Iraq War was a terrible idea, even if they weren’t privy to the details working within the Bush administration. My grandfather was a lawyer for the World Bank. He spent part of his career in Iran. He was a Republican. Leading up to the war, he likened an Iraq invasion to “opening up a can of worms” and “Pandora’s Box”. There is no doubt the war contributed to the rise of ISIS, so it appears he was right.

Does it bother me that Dick Cheney is coming to Cornell to speak? Yes and no. He is a horrifying person. And I have some pride as an alum. This is not “my” Cornell, I remember protesting the war with other alums at a huge rally in New York City. Still, trotting out the worst possible people who are actively trying to burn the planet to the ground does more to harm your own party than anyone on the left ever could. And for that I should be grateful.

If money in your pockets is the only thing you value as Republicans, it should bother you that we will all be paying for the Iraq War for a long, long time. If the Cornell Republicans have any values at all, if you are not total nihilists, you all should make your case.

Caroline Byrne ’98

No to natural gas trucking in Tompkins County To the Editor: I was horrified to read the news in the Cornell Daily Sun that Ithaca police had stopped a potential lone wolf bomber: Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19. I was unnerved to learn about what could have been a local massacre had it not been for a smart Walmart employee's tip.

Horrific as such an event as that would have been, I think it is important to alert people about a proposal put forward by NYSEG that poses an even greater, long term danger to the people in our community — namely trucking (in what is known as “bomb trucks” ) Compressed Natural Gas or Liquefied Natural Gas through Dryden and Lansing along the route where the West Dryden pipeline would have been constructed.

This alternative to the West Dryden pipeline is far more menacing. Trucks being unloaded and loaded with these forms of natural gas puts us all in danger of the results of human error. Car accidents are inevitable and could lead to explosions on public roads, the same roads that our school busses and neighbors travel on.

This proposed "solution" is not a solution at all. It poses great danger to public safety and does nothing to solve the main issue of our need to end local dependence on fossil fuels.

Where is Cornell's voice in this issue? I thought Cornell was working to reduce emissions, while this idea of trucking natural gas would increase the county’s GHG emissions.

Students — you are smart, and this town needs to hear your voices. As we have seen from Parkland, it is the voice of the youth that can have real power. Please hear me and use the skills that got you to Cornell to make a difference now in this town of which you are a part.

Gina Cacioppo

Cornell Welcomes Another Torturer

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n May 10, 2017 the Cornell Club of New York invited former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to promote her new book on “the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.” It was an unfortunate choice, as Rice was one of the first officials of the George W. Bush administration to have broken international and domestic law by approving torture of prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay prison and so-called “black sites” run by the Central Intelligence Agency. It is not clear whose idea it was to invite Secretary Rice to speak on, of all things, democracy and human freedom, but it was apparently a popular one, since the event sold out. As a Cornell alumnus I was troubled to learn that our fellow graduates found it acceptable to honor former government officials responsible for some of the most heinous crimes and violations of human rights.

Now some of our students are doing it again, as the Cornell Republicans host exVice President Richard Cheney. The concern about honoring a torturer is not a matter of partisan politics, but of public record.

The decisions of Rice and Cheney, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the National Security Council’s “Principals Committee” in the Bush White House to approve torture in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been known since at least 2008 and have led to criminal investigations in Spain and Germany. A 2012 report prepared for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee describes the decision process in detail, and an executive summary was declassified and made public in 2014.

Conspiracy to commit torture is illegal under US law and under the international convention against torture, to which the United States is a party.

Many of our students are aware that as a matter of law the crime of torture falls under the category of jus cogens, along with such practices as genocide and slavery; it would be recognized as a crime even if it were not subject to treaty or domestic law, and weakening the ban on torture (“derogation”) is not permitted under any circumstances — including national emergency or war.

Those are the terms of the treaty the United States signed, and of the domestic law adopted under our Constitution.

It is also a matter of public record what the Bush administration’s torture regime entailed — among many other crimes, the extensive physical and psychological abuse of Abu Zubaydah. Mistaken for a top al Qaeda leader (he was not even a member of the organization) — Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, kept in a coffinsized box for 180 hours, thrown against walls, deprived of sleep to the point of psychosis, and subject to other unspeakable horrors. As the Senate report confirms, Condoleezza Rice gave explicit permission on behalf of the White House for the CIA to carry out those crimes. When challenged by students at Stanford, where she taught for many years and served as Provost, she shifted the blame to President Bush, claiming, “by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.” Rice’s statement reminded many of President Richard Nixon’s similar attempt to excuse his numerous crimes: "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

Unlike Rice, ex-Vice President Cheney has not tried to excuse his approval of torture. He rejects the term in favor of the

euphemism, “enhanced interrogation,” but he has called the practices "absolutely, totally justified," and said, “if I had to do it over again, I would do it." In a 2014 interview on Meet the Press, Cheney was reminded of the scores of innocent people caught up in the “Global War on Terror,” many of them tortured and some beaten to death in prisons at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram air base in Afghanistan, subjected to sexual abuse in the form of forced nudity, “rectal feeding,” and “rectal hydration.” Chuck Todd nearly begged Cheney to express remorse for at least the innocent victims, which he estimated to be about a quarter of the captives, but to no avail: “I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that, in fact, were innocent,” insisted Cheney. “I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective.”

As critics had anticipated, President Barack Obama’s decision not to prosecute the officials responsible for torture, even as he denounced the practice himself, left the door open for torture’s return. President Donald Trump, an open advocate of waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse” other torture methods, has just appointed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, who had been serving as deputy director. The New York Times has reported that as a clandestine agent in 2002, Haspel was dispatched “to oversee a secret prison in Thailand” where CIA contractors waterboarded an al Qaeda suspect and subjected him to other “brutal interrogation techniques.” The practices were so horrendous that some of the CIA employees “broke down emotionally” when obliged to observe them. Trump’s appointment of Haspel raises doubts about U.S. commitment to international and domestic law for-

The concern about honoring a torturer is not a matter of partisan politics, but of public record. bidding torture.

U.S. soldiers, if instructed to carry out the policies Trump favors, would violate their obligations under the Geneva Conventions as well as domestic military law. That is one reason why so many military veterans, including more than forty retired generals, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, came out strongly against the normalization of torture during the last presidential campaign.

Trump’s own Secretary of Defense James Mattis has thrown cold water on the President’s enthusiasm for torture and has vowed to uphold US and international law. Senator John McCain — a torture victim himself during the Vietnam War — has been a particularly outspoken opponent of the practice.

The Cornell Republicans could have chosen any number of Republican political figures to honor with an invitation to our campus. One can only hope that their decision to invite Cheney was a function of ignorance of his criminal record as a supporter of torture rather than an endorsement of the illegal and immoral practices of the current administration and its predecessors.

Matthew Evangelista is the President White Professor of History and Political Science. Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs periodically.

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OPINION

Dustin Liu | Trustee Viewpoint

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woke up this morning in cold sweat from a dream that I slept through a prelim. Before I had a chance to reassure myself that it was a Monday and it was too early in the day to be sweating, I glanced at the 12 messages that needed responses on my

I’m Tired

quake that struck my family in Taiwan, it was a question I asked myself after hearing about the recent violent national tragedies. It was a question I asked myself when my professor failed to accommodate my needs in an appropriate way, it was a question I asked myself when I ran from the library to class several times last week.

How do I have time to think when I’m trying to avoid the person that I hooked up with Saturday night, only to find them next to me on line at Zeus, or when I’m hyper-aware of the pimple that decided to prominently emerge under my nose? How would you have time to think when you have a problem set due at midnight, when you can’t miss another class to sleep in because you already used up all your excused absences, when you’re still trying to figure out what you want to do in life while everyone else is talking about their glorious 40 year plans?

There is an epic sense of loneliness that I have associated with the notion that I am the only one isolated and paralyzed by the events around me.

It’s interesting to think about how

Do I even have time to think? phone, thought of the reading that I had to complete for my 10:10 class, and then felt the pile of laundry that has been sitting at the foot of my bed for the past week.

I glanced at the date, only to realize that I had to begin racking my brain for an idea to write about for this column, and then noted the time only to realize that I had a meeting on campus in 15 minutes. As I rushed to try to pop a pimple under my nose and brush my teeth before I headed out the door, it dawned on me: Do I even have time to think?

It was a question I asked myself several times last week each time I received a message from the University. It was a question I asked myself after hearing about an earth-

loneliness can still fester even when you there are so many people physically around you. A sense of community goes beyond the physical presence of others, but it is the affirmation and validation that others are going through the same things.

And the plot twist is that I’m very well aware that I’m not the only one that feels this way. I’m not the only one who felt like every assignment was strategically planned to be due one after another.

But it’s difficult to have to share these feelings when everyone else seems to have Instagram perfect lives — so here’s to being more open and honest about how we feel. It’s okay to be tired. And it’s so much easier to know that you aren’t the only one.

As a community, the ability to acknowledge how we are impacted by the events in our lives is imperative.

Cornell should not be a sprint. I call upon faculty members and staff to listen to their students, to check in with their students and think about how

we as a community can support one another. I call upon my peers to speak up for ourselves and each other to advocate for the space and time to think. I call upon each of us to give ourselves the agency and time to think. We owe ourselves at least that much.

I’m tired. But at least I’m tired and supported with the caring community around me. And that’s a lot more manageable than being tired all alone.

It’s okay to be tired. And it’s so much easier to know that you aren’t the only one.

Sharing the time with one another gives us time to think, to recollect and to move through Cornell together.

Dustin Liu is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He currently serves as the undergraduate student-elected trustee on the Cornell Board of Trustees. He may be reached at dliu@cornellsun.com.

Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Jack Carlos Mindich | Guest Room

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hen Nikolas Cruz opened fire in Parkland on Valentine’s Day, the shooting left in its wake not only the usual and maligned ‘thoughts and prayers,’ but an avalanche of gun control advocacy. However, the response to the Parkland shooting could, ironically, end up being detrimental to meaningful solutions to gun violence. Many on the left correctly criticize the right for being sensationalist and for seeking overly simplistic solutions to deep and complex issues. Yet, many gun control advocates seem to fall into the same trap.

The elevation of the Parkland students to the forefront of the national conversation on gun control is, quite frankly, manifestly inconsistent.

There is perhaps nothing that tanks an objective analysis of policy more quickly than allowing pathos to block logical assessment. And the left understands this. When Donald Trump referenced so called “Angel Moms” whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants, Michelle Goldberg wrote in Slate that “We rightly accord a measure of gravitas and moral authority to people who have suffered family tragedies, but that doesn’t mean we have to agree with them about the meaning of their loss.”

Goldberg is right. Imbuing victims — perhaps the most likely people to be skeptical of factual analysis given their experience — with a reverential position is not the way to legislate. Yet the left is eagerly thrusting the responsibility for gun control to high schoolers without recognizing the nuances

If we truly want to reduce violence, we can look to cities like New York. and underlying factors of gun violence.

These are complicated issues that must be grappled with comprehensively. Gun control is not remotely close to a catch-all. Even the vaunted Australian example, which is not necessarily applicable to America in the first place, suggests that, while gun control has a major effect on firearm related crime and reduces mass shootings,

Guns and Poses total homicide rate is hardly affected, if at all.

Australia illustrates the limitations of focusing on mass shootings. Do we really prioritize reducing the relatively small number of incidents involving highly concentrated violence than reducing the total number of killings? This notion was picked up by the progressive Century Foundation in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting with the conclusion that: “While mass shootings compose less than 0.01 percent of gun-related violence...the media’s response to these tragic incidents tends to be wall-to-wall, non-stop coverage.

Comparatively little coverage is dedicated to much more common forms of gun violence...the term “Orlando shooting” yielded 14,747 news articles while “shootings in Chicago” yielded just 262 news articles. The Orlando mass shooting received sixty-five times more coverage than the Chicago shootings that have left thousands wounded and hundreds dead.”

If we truly want to reduce violence, we can look to cities like New York where local programs based on ideas like innovations in policing and courts have helped lead to historic drops in violent crime — down 66% since 1985. New York is far from perfect but its comprehensive approach to crime reduction is a blueprint for the nation. It is easier and simpler, however, to look at the attention grabbing mass tragedies and shake our fists than to really study the data. Let’s be clear: even if we passed a ban on assault weapons, or something like it, it would be an insufficient solution to violence on the whole and any hope of addressing the roots of violent crime would again vanish from the national consciousness.

Thus, it is deeply ironic to me that the left is so focused on guns. For all of the accusations of the right being obsessed with firearms, it seems that the left is similarly enthralled by devastating sensationalism. Could it be that the left is susceptible to the same variant of fear mongering it has vehemently decried when used by conservatives? The issues are, of course, different. But the main point — that making emotional appeals without the benefit of carefully analyzed data is a terrible way to decide policy — is present whether it be Republican fire-

brands on immigration or liberal firebrands on guns.

This is a central problem: the surreptitious duplicity of the media and of politicians distract us from rational assessment and focus on generating brief spikes in public interest — or even sustained pushes for inadequate solutions — at the price of legitimate reform. The media get views, politicians get a soapbox and job security but little of substance changes.

This is not to say that gun control should not be pursued. I support gun control, I would be perfectly happy if we woke up tomorrow and no civilians in the country had access to firearms. However, though I agree in principle with bans on assault weapons and I firmly support background checks, I believe that the underlying violence that gun control is trying to solve is most effectively prevented through local initiatives and that such efforts must be driven by accurate methodology which is now in short supply.

We ignore the underlying factors at our own risk.

Progressives have been willing to make broad emo-

Progressives have been willing to make broad emotional arguments that have little basis in practicality. tional arguments that have little basis in practicality — even when such courses are devastating to actual attempts to ameliorate the problems of crime and violence. Skeptics are more than happy to tune out the left--we need not make it any easier. The backbone of ethics is consistency and to have credibility on the national stage we on the left must reckon with our sensationalist impulses. To actually accomplish what we all seek — a safer America — we have to avoid the melodramatic posturing that plague our national debate.

Jack Carlos Mindich is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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OPINION

Priya Kankanhall | Matters of Fact

The Thing About Spring

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doubt any other phase of life will be characterized by the degree of propinquity that is so typical of college. It seems unlikely that the same closeness is replicated among colleagues or neighbors or any other crowd of situational acquaintances. In college, though, my friends are my roommates; my roommates are my classmates; my classmates are my coworkers. Nearly all relationships overlap.

This sort of unavoidable intersection depletes the reserves of privacy and moderated seclusion that are arguably crucial to any individual’s development and, well, sanity. In losing the ability to comdifferent partmentalize realms of routine, emotions bleed into each other and discolor otherwise healthy relationships. It becomes difficult to operate without factoring in the response of the ecosystem. It’s oddly challenging to conceptualize who we are when we’re alone.

Every Spring, my friends and I fall prey to the beast of overexposure.

We’ve dealt with – I mean, enjoyed – each other’s company for six long months, come February or March,

and it’s been subtly stated that we resemble a misshapen conglomerate more than we do distinct individuals.

We are each other’s therapists, advisors, and consciences.

At first inspection, this seems like an arrangement worth preserving, and for the first six months, it is preserved

This is not to deny the surge of joy that accompanies all the smallest sources of solidarity — it feels great to relate, and it feels even better to relate to the same people over and over again and swap mannerisms. Oh, and it’s just divine if the same people know your thoughts, habits, and tendencies.

The underbelly, though, is that this makes for a slippery slope, with no winter maintenance.

Soon, you’re expecting your friends to read your mind, to anticipate your reactions. Soon, you’re so hooked on the connection that any deviation from the norm feels offensive. Identity becomes rigid and relative.

It’s a war between fluidity and consistency. We crave the companionship of people who know us and understand us deeply, but we also feel rightly entitled to denounce our reputations at times. Personally, it’s impossible to pledge myself to one of the two with certainty or permanence, but the universe certainly seems to prefer

Every Spring, right on cue, my friends and I clash, but we also recover.

— protected, even. We are keen to get along, to cooperate, to flourish, to make grand memories now and grand plans for the future. Still, year after year, the enthusiasm gives way to annoyance.

So, we fight.

Unconsciously, it’s as if we want to splinter the friendship, albeit temporarily. Somewhere during the process, we start aching for a new sentiment: we want to be separate and unequal and opposite.

inconsistency. Those characters I’m convinced will remain, given the strength of our bonds at certain intervals, exit the scene; those that I’m sure are extras sometimes steal leading roles.

Every Spring, right on cue, my friends and I clash, but we also recover. The lapses in contact and empathy strengthen our relationships. The disagreements revitalize our commitment and prove especially formative. We are slightly changed as we reenter the contracts of friendship, and we are slightly more accommodating of incongruity.

It’s reassuring to realize that relationships can withstand conflict and departure from expectations, but I wonder which of my collegiate relationships will withstand the weakening effects of time and distance.

Longevity, in my experience, is more often a function of quality rather than frequency of interaction, although the thought of goodbyes never quite sheds its sting.

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There and Everywhere

The Ideal Woman

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he #MeToo movement and Women’s History Month have prompted me to reflect a lot upon what it means to be a woman. Hearing stories about how many people of my gender had been discriminated against, harassed, assaulted for being born with two X chromosomes sparked anger from deep within my heart. I wasn’t necessarily shocked. I mean, a lot of these accounts are what women actually face on a daily basis.

car, as well as how shaken I was as I told him to move over. I remember when my peers labeled me as bossy for being assertive in elementary school, while boys who acted in a similar manner never were. I also look back on that feeling of striking fear, upset and astonishment of being catcalled while walking home at 10 p.m. Me too, because I would not have undergone any of these experiences had I been a man.

By the mainstream and social media’s portrayal of feminists, I don’t think I necessarily fit into that category.

I can still recall the exact moment in ninth grade when a man pushed his front up against my butt in a subway

By definition, I think that I am a feminist, as I avidly support women’s rights on the basis of equality of the sexes.

Yet by the mainstream and social media’s portrayal of feminists, I don’t think I necessarily fit into that category. While I strongly believe that all women and men should be treated equally and provided with the same opportunities, I also don’t think a label is necessary to be an advocate for gender equality.

I greatly appreciate the work of many feminists throughout history who have fought for women’s suffrage and against injustices in the workplace, home and anywhere in our society.

However, I also think that modern feminism has a long way to go. For one thing, I d o n ’ t believe it is right for many feminists to shun those who disagree with their beliefs.

I came upon an article from The Odyssey titled, “I Am Not A Feminist, And That

Is Okay”. The author describes her beliefs that it is O.K. for a man to be the head of the household and for a woman to

I think that modern feminism has a long way to go. stay at home and be considered the more nurturing one of the two sexes. Although I personally disagree and would not like to stay home nor be a subordinate of my husband, I can see where she is coming from and respect her opinion. While I would like to see more done in terms of opportunities and fairness for women in society, I don’t think personal choices that are different from mine should be shunned just because they go against my beliefs.

I am deeply concerned by the double standard that has

often been imposed upon women who choose to be nurturing and domestic.

Nowadays, women are told to fit into this paradigm of being strong and independent. But women shouldn’t be told to act or follow in a certain path. They can be whatever they want to be — CEO or housewife — as long as it is their choice. And nothing should hinder them from pursuing what they believe is right for them.

I hope the #MeToo movement will continue to stay true to its roots, unlike many others that have tumbled down to the point of denouncing other women who don’t follow their ideal of the modern woman. In this time of ever-increasing need for gender equality, let us not forget that imposing the same standards upon every woman is exactly what we are trying to fight against.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays.

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Spotlight on Sophomore Sawako Suzuki: Running Across the Country for Cancer 4,000 mile run will promote cancer support services aimed towards adolescents and their families

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Passionate Leader l Suzuki enjoying herself at Yellowstone National Park in summer 2017. In addition to running, Suzuki is an active climber and nature enthusiast

BY CHENAB KHAKH Assistant Science Editor

Meet Sawako Suzuki ’20, a student passionate about solving scientific problems outside the classroom. For some people running is a sport or a rigorous workout. For Suzuki, running is a medium for community engagement, research, philanthropy and healthcare.

This summer, she will be running across the country as a fundraiser for youth cancer patients. The run is from San Francisco to Boston. It is 4,000 miles, and will involve 25 other college students. Along the way, participants will be delivering chemotherapy care bags and scholarships to teens.

Suzuki is from Vestal, a small town in upstate New York, and is studying international agriculture and rural development in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with a minor in nutrition and health.

4K for Cancer is organized by the for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, a non-profit organization whose mission is to change lives by creating a community of support for young adults and their loved ones impacted by cancer. This organization raises funds that go directly towards young adult cancer patients’ recovery and support services, with a focus on direct patient services. Highlights of the trip will include the Loneliest

Highway, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Big Sky Country, Chicago, the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Placid.

Suzuki is motivated by her family’s struggle with cancer. When she was 11

my stress-reliever. It is my alone time. It is my time with friends.” Suzuki said.

Before embarking on the trip, Suzuki has a goal to raise $4,500 and she is currently 33 percent of the way there. In order to reach this goal, she is holding a variety of events both on and off campus and is reaching out through many social media platforms.

Suzuki held a baked potato dinner and a brunch fundraiser in early March with a movie screening at the Forest Home Chapel. She also partnered with Chipotle on March 11 to raise money by having 50 percent of all burritos purchased go to the Ulman Cancer fund.

Additionally, she is hosting rockclimbing events at the Lindseth climbing wall on campus to fundraise on March 26 and on April 19. Her band, “Blonde Roast” will also have a benefit concert at the Ten Forward Cafe on April 13.

“Even the smallest donation can make a huge difference” Suzuki said. “It means so much to me.”

Suzuki’s involvements on campus

“[Running] is my meditation. It is my stressreliever. It is my alone time.

It is my time with friends.” years old, her father was diagnosed with lymphoma. At the time, she and her family found there were not many support or recovery services to help them cope and heal.

“This run involves a lot of different passions of mine, including running, education, service, and specifically giving back to the cancer-affected portion of the population,” Suzuki said. “Also, I am always up for a crazy challenge like this!”

She found out about the 4K and the Ulman Cancer fund from different social media platforms. “[Running] is my meditation. It is

reflects her passion for service and science. She is involved with Camp Kesem, a national organization that provides support resources to children who are affected by a parent’s cancer. As the outreach coordinator, Suzuki is not only responsible for raising funds to host a week long summer camp but also for campus recruitment and communications of the Cornell chapter of Kesem.

In addition to Kesem, Suzuki is cofounder and deli manager for Cornell’s chapter of FeelGood, a national organization dedicated to ending food security through education of sustainable development. The club runs a gourmet grilled cheese deli from food donations and student volunteers. They donate the raised money to Water for Water for People, Choice Humanitarian, the Pachamama Alliance, and the Hunger Project.

Suzuki also conducts research on campus in the Benzer Kerr developmental sociology lab, where she pursues her interest in food insecurity. As a research assistant, she codes qualitative data from recent fieldwork in Malawi.

After graduating from Cornell, Suzuki hopes to work for a non-profit that targets food insecurity in developing countries.

Chenab Khakh can be reached at ckhakh@cornellsun.com

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Big Name Leaves Pixar

wo weeks ago, I wrote about Coco’s win at the Oscars, and reflected on the film and what it meant. A couple days after though, a story broke in the Hollywood Reporter. Darla Anderson, the producer behind Coco and a long time Pixar veteran, announced on March 8 that she would be departing the studio. She released a statement saying, “I’ve had a magical and privileged experience working at Pixar for over two decades. The creativity, imagination, and innovation at Pixar is second to none. I’m truly grateful to have been a part of this historic journey, and hold excitement for my next chapter.”

Anderson walks out of the studio as a cinematic giant. Her credits include not only Coco, but also Toy Story 3, Cars, Monsters Inc., and A Bug’s Life. She’s one of the most successful producers in Hollywood these days. In fact, in 2008 Guinness listed her as having the highest average gross income for her produced movies: $221 million. She’s mentored many female produc-

ers within the studio, and has been an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights and women’s empowerment. She certainly has a strong career ahead of her.

One of the biggest questions is, though, why did she leave? No statements offer any clues: Disney’s CEO Bob Iger, Pixar chief Jim Morris, and Ed Catmull (president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation) all released statements thanking Anderson for her work with the company and wishing her well. It may simply be that she wishes to move on to something new.

It might be an issue that we, the public, are simply not Animation yet aware Analysis of.

However, her departure is not the only one from Disney Pixar recently. John Lasseter has continued to be officially on “temporary” leave. It’s still unlikely he’ll actually return. After all, with Disney’s brand, there’s little room for a man accused of sexual harassment.

However, with every day without an announcement otherwise, his return seems

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more of a possibility. The studio has kept the situation cloe to chest, which means we can only speculate over the situation inside.

At the Golden Globes, Anderson deflected a backstage question about Lasseter and Pixar’s efforts to improve the workplace. The studio has kept the situation close to the chest, which means we can only speculate.

We can also speculate over her timing.

Her departure right after accepting the Oscar for Coco makes one wonder, did she make this decision a while ago and simply put off the announcement until after the Academy Awards? If so, when did she decide? That crucial “when” is an important part to figuring out the reason, but it’s missing for now.

And finally, the other big question: what does this mean for Pixar? Anderson had joined all the way back 1993, and helped guide the studio through its rapid ascent to fame. Her absence will be felt in the coming years. It also sparks concern in my head: the studio’s founder has departed in disgrace, and now, a key producer has also left. I can’t help but wonder for the future of the studio.

To be sure, there are still plenty of wonderfully talented artists at Pixar. I just question if they will remain there.

I truly hope that Darla Anderson continues producing more movies. She’s overseen

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some fantastic work, and if she continues, I have no doubt we’ll see even more amazing films with her name on them. In the week since her departure, no more has been heard from Pixar. I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again here, I want nothing but success for this studio and the people working there. So I’m keeping a close eye on this story’s progression. I’ll also be keeping an eye out for Darla Anderson though, and I look forward to her future successes.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the College of Labor and Industrial Relations. He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun.com Animation Analysis runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Tomb Raider Radiates Authenticity and Female Empowerment

BY ASHLEY DAVILA Sun Staff Writer

I had low expectations for Tomb Raider given past video game adaptations, including 2016’s Assassin’s Creed which I barely got through. I had played the origin story video game Tomb Raider and loved it for the more realistic approach to Lara Croft as opposed to the previous midriff baring Angelina Jolie incarnation. This film stars Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, a surprising choice that works. Focused on Croft’s story, Vikander imbued each scene with believability and emotional depth while still showing she really could leap off cliffs and fight with the best of them.

From the start of the film, Croft is portrayed believably: she is a strong member of a boxing club, a characterization that makes some of the later fight scenes more believable. She moonlights as a bike courier to make money, since she stubbornly refuses to sign her father’s death certificate which would enable her to receive her inheritance.

Besides lending credibility to her inability to back down from a fight, her ability to race at high speeds shows her physical evasiveness.

The biking scene was a standout, beautifully shot and set to a heart-pounding score by Junkie XL. As part of her w e a l t h y upbringing, she was also trained in archery, which sets up skills she utilizes later in the movie. The depth of her origin story gives context before the viewer is plunged into an island full of gunfire and mystery.

Lara’s world shifts when she learns that her father’s disappearance was tied to hidden journals in a secret room in their family mausoleum. Lara’s father was searching for the Yamatai island where a murderous Japanese Queen Himiko was supposedly buried. Her father disappeared after chartering a boat to the island and she follows in his path with his journals; going against his posthumous wish for her to destroy his research so it doesn’t fall into the hand of an evil militant group called Trinity.

In Hong Kong Lara teams up with Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), the son of the man that chartered her fathers doomed boat to the island.

This connection solidifies the stakes for both characters, as most people would not want to sail into certain death regardless of the price.

As soon as they reach the island, the boat crashes and Lu and Larare separated.

Villain Matias Vogel (Walton Goggins) who says he killed Lara’s father, shows absolute ruthlessness, such as when he kills a slave worker for resting. I never doubted that he would kill Lara as his motivations were believable: needing to return to his wife and two daughters. Vogel had been on the island for seven years but “they” will not let him

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leave unless the job is done. His motives and stakes make him dangerous because he is willing to sacrifice anything for his family.

Goggins elevates the role by portraying Vogel with crazed eyes and a calm demeanor, ready to snap at any point.

One moment on the island that showed Lara’s physicality is when Lara falls into a fast moving river ending in a waterfall.

Croft manages to get onto a rusty airplane that starts to break apart. She exclaims “really” before getting out of it again with a flimsy, rotting parachute. When she lands, Lara is covered in dirt and blood, breaking the mold for females often in action movies that seemingly come out scott free without much effort. She was able to be in pain without being oversexualized or demeaned.

Badly injured, Lara sees a figure that resembles her father. After scaling up the side of a cliff, she sees it is him on the verge of insanity. Reunited, they decide to stop Vogel from opening the tomb. As Lara attempts to free Ren and the other forced laborers one of the movie's largest flaws shows: Lara wanders around the camp, many shots showing her hiding in plain sight and yet seemingly no one can see her. Not even standing under a grate that is heavily trafficked. This continues in a comical way until only Ren sees her and starts a coup of the workers.

They escape and leave the island.

One of the best parts of the movie was the melding of science and magic that appeared once Lara and Vogel’s team reach the inside of the tomb after solving puzzles and booby traps a la Indiana Jones. Instead COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES of a mythical CGI corpse that comes to life that I expected, Tomb Raider made a much smarter choice as Lara figures out that the queen was a carrier for an unnamed disease: anyone that touched her dies from a flesh eating bacteria. As they open the tomb and a henchmen touches the body, he starts to seize and dies violently.

Lara stops Vogel who took a finger of the queen in hopes of transporting it back to his bosses.

Once she returns to London, she uncovers another secret related to her guardian, Ane, and the Trinity militant group which perfectly teases the next installment of the movie.

Vikander crafts her Lara Croft with a sense of humor, loyalty and strength. While some minor points in the movie did feel almost too like the video game, as a whole, it was a fun time. Lara Croft was given a great origin story, setting Vikander up to further explore this iconic character.

Ashley Davila is a Junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at amd395@cornell.edu.

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EMOTION | Max Buettner ’21 peforms the role of Telegonos in a performance of Odysseus Wounded in Risley Theatre.

Odysseus Wounded: Modern Take On Greek Classic

BY TOM HO Sun Contributor

At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus finally journeys back from the fallen city of Troy to Ithaca, where he once reigned as king. Disguised, Odysseus finds his kingdom infested with once-loyal suitors competing for Odysseus’ wife’s, Penelope, hand in marriage.

After skillfully shooting an arrow through twelve axes to prove his identity in a now iconic scene, Odysseus, along with his son Telemachus, in rage, proceeds to slay every single one of the suitors in barbarous fashion.

The epic poem, attributed to Homer, was composed in oral tradition by a rhapsode, a classical Greek performer of epic poetry.

Appropriately, the play Odysseus Wounded, by Nathan Chazan ’19, former Sun arts columnist, and Alexander Lugo ’19 was performed as a live reading. The play follows the events of The Odyssey, as Telegonos, the bastard son of Odysseus and Circe, seeks the throne of his father.

The 1 hour and 30 minute play contained all of the stylistic elements of The Odyssey, full of grandiose literary and poetic devices, digressions and gory detail.

Yet, at once I noticed a divergence in the mood and spirit of the play compared to the Greek epic. The Odyssey glorifies violence: the sheer number of lives taken defines a character’s greatness and courage, and it is seen as a natural reflex and response for an unjust act such as courting with a married woman.

Viewing the bloodsoaked bodies of the suitors now scattered across the kingdom following the slaughter, Eurykleia, Odysseus’ nurse, exclaims in triumph. No such glory in Odysseus Wounded. Odysseus is haunted and confronted by the ghosts of the suitors, performed by the playwrights themselves.

The play is based on the lost poem Telegony, an intended sequel

of The Odyssey not written by Homer, but the tragedian Sophocles. Perhaps this is why it contains elements of incest, sexual and domestic violence, and infanticide, signature to Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus Rex. The bastard son Telegonos, after hearing from Athena the name of his father, aimed not only to overthrow Odysseus, but also to marry Penelope, his own mother. With his supernatural spear, Telegonos kills the tortured Odysseus, only to lament it afterward. Penelope, portrayed as a loyal wife of Odysseus eagerly awaiting her husband’s return in The Odyssey, appears tormented and agonized in her existence, lamenting her inability to find love in this world. The gloomy and murky tone persists throughout the play, and it was eerily fascinating to see such a dark spin on the familiar Greek poem.

I saw Odysseus Wounded in Risley Theater on a Friday evening. The small, dark room was the optimal location for an immersive experience. The yells and shouts from a passionate and talented cast reverberated throughout the theater as an entranced audience looked on.

At one point, a cast member walked on the steps to where people were seated, talking directly to the audience. While the play does demand a certain level of knowledge of The Odyssey, often throwing esoteric references without much explanation, it was captivating just to watch the cast emote the feelings of characters, even when I was not completely certain of their intentions.

The playwrights mentioned that Odysseus Wounded was still a work in progress. I hope once they have refined the play to their satisfaction, that they would re-open the show for a greater body of audience, if it could handle the mature themes presented in the play.

Tom Ho is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at th456@cornell.edu

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Panelists Advocate End to Workplace Harassment PANEL

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in the workplace,” Pambianchi said. “I thought that was all fixed in the sixties … when I went to work at 21 years old, I realized that wasn’t the case. There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

Nishii, an associate professor in the ILR school, gave an academic reading on the state of affairs by citing the effects of ingrained power imbalances and the significance of gender harassment in addition to sexual mistreatment.

With increasing workforce diversity, along with social media activism and legal action, the panelists hope and believe that future employees will witness change.

“We now have a generation of leaders in very senior levels of companies who have daughters entering the workforce. We didn’t have this before,” said Pambianchi. “There’s this sudden awareness in which very senior male executives have well-educated daughters with firsthand experience of workplace harassment.

There’s much greater engagement on the issues.”

When the lecture hall opened up for audience questions, one attendee took to the microphone.

Pastor Michael-Vincent Crea ’78, who had stood and wore a “Me too both of you never responded to ‘F’” sign while Pollack and Gillibrand spoke, voiced his grievances on a sexual harassment experience of his own.

“What good are our laws if we do not create a system of justice that puts people instead of property, privilege and corporations first?” he asked.

After the event, Crea got into a heated argument with representatives from the Cornell University Police Department outside the auditorium. CUPD investigator Stanley Slovik issued him a persona non grata, prohibiting him from returning to the Cornell campus.

“People are free to express

their opinions, it’s part of a topic that is this heated and controversial. I wish it wasn’t as disruptive to the event, but I certainly respect their opinion,” Tom Addonizio, assistant dean of communications and marketing for the ILR school, told The Sun after the event.

Following the talk, the ILR school held a panel featuring Brossman, lawyer Diane Rosen and Cornell vice president and chief human resources officer Mary Opperman, who offered advice and insight to students looking for employment.

“I think it’s a really important moment in time,” Rosen told The Sun. “There’s a lot of focus and attention on the issue of harassment in the workplace, and it’s an opportunity to share with students what it means to be out in the workplace and to help you have the tools to navigate your own jobs.”

“Most females are harassed at work at some point in their career,” Brossman said. As a soonto-be college graduate who will enter the workforce, ILR student Dania Alvarez ’18 found Brossman’s statistics on sexual harassment in the workforce “very impactful.”

Alvarez also expressed her interest in the panel for its “useful advice, especially now that it’s not to say that harassment hasn’t happened in the past, but that it’s more in the spotlight.”

“Part of what I would encourage as you go into your workplace is learn as much as you can before you need any of these resources, to know what your resources are,” Opperman said, “so that if you need them early, you know where to go to find them and have those conversations so that you remain empowered.”

Shurti Juneja ’20 contributed reporting to this article.

Julia Curley can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

Louise Xie can be reached at lxie@cornellsun.com.

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Laxer’s ACL Recoveries Inspire Team, Coaches FARINHOLT

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team despite not being able to be out playing alongside them,” Tadie said. “When I'm having a rough week with pain or progression, seeing her doing so well gives me a lot of hope and reminds me that coming back is doable with hard work and effort.”

Whether it’s on the field, on the sidelines or in the weight room, one thing is certain — Farinholt’s

Hanna Tadie, had a second ACL tear almost identical to Farinholt’s prior to coming to Cornell and credits Farinholt with helping her through her recovery process.

“Seeing [Farinholt] out on the field and playing really helps to keep me motivated during some of the “Seeing her doing so well gives me a lot low points in of hope and reminds me that coming my recovery back is doable with hard work.” process,” Tadie said. “It has Freshman Hanna Tadie also been so helpful hearing she went through similar experi- resilience and perseverance serve as ences as me and faced the same the glue for an already determined fears as she was trying to get back team. to playing.”

“Ida is a genuinely caring indiFarinholt helps her teammates vidual and her teammates know with the mental game at least as that she will always be there,” much as with the physical aspects Graap said. “Her priorities are in of lacrosse. order and she sets a strong example “Coming in injured as a fresh- with her generosity of spirit and man was difficult mentally, so hav- selfless attitude.” ing Ida helping me out definitely helped me to feel much more Smita Nalluri can be reached at comfortable and acclimate to the snalluri@cornellsun.com.

Red Places 4th at Towson Cornell scores 193.500 to beat William and Mary, but loses to three opponents GYMNASTICS

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an impressive 9.85 on the floor.

Cornell’s performance at Towson marked a noticeable improvement over the team’s previous showings.

Last weekend, when the gymnasts competed at Maryland, the Red posted a score

of 193.225. The weekend before, the squad earned 192.950 points.

“Recently we’ve been trying to focus on confidence and I think that’s really been paying off,” Smith said. “If we keep competing as well as we can I think we will continue the upward trend.”

Action starts again for the gymnasts next weekend, when they will travel to Philadelphia to compete in the E C A C Championships, followed by the NCAA Regionals.

Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@ cornellsun.com.

Next stop nationals

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Cornell men’s polo earned a 21-9 win over the Central New York Polo Club last week, while the women took an 11-10 loss.

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out the win.

Farlow said strong defensive play was important in the win, Entering last weekend’s but that the Red needs to proDelaware Invitational riding a vide its pitchers more run suptwo-game winning streak, the port going forward. tables turned for the Red, send“Our pitchers threw very ing them home on a two-game well,” Farlow said. “They’ve losing streak, with a weekend found their rhythm and are record of 1-3. doing a nice job. Our outfield This weekend was the final made nice adjustments on day set of non-conference tourna- two after struggling in a big park ment games, with Cornell play- on day one. I’d like to see us start ing double-headers on Saturday scoring a bunch of runs and give and Sunday against Villanova our defense a bit of a cushion.” and Delaware. With four games The second day reinforced on the table to add to their the coach’s impression that the record before heading into Ivy women are strong defensively League conference play, the Red but need to step up their game at stumbled, losing both games the plate. against the Wildcats and splitOnce again playing ting with the Blue Hens.

Villanova, the Red took an early lead over the knock“I’m happy with how we competed, Wildcats, ing in two runs and holding the but losing all these close games Wildcats scoreless is frustrating.” until the fifth inning. Nelson Head coach Julie Farlow struck out seven and scattered eight “I’m happy with how we hits, but surrendered three runs competed, but losing all these in a loss, allowing Villanova to close games is frustrating,” said earn a sweep. head coach Julie Farlow. “We For the last game of the weekmade some errors defensively end, Cornell’s offense couldn’t and on the base paths that our manage to find a spark, leading opponents took advantage of.” to a 2-0 loss to Delaware.

The first day of the invita- Sophomore pitcher Katie Lew tional saw the women go 1-1. kept the Blue Hens to eight hits The morning started off and two runs, but the Red against the Wildcats and a 7-5 couldn’t put together solid atloss. Cornell was shut down bats against the Blue Hens’ Sarah completely until the fifth inning Piening, who allowed just three and faced a 6-0 deficit. The Red hits in a complete game shutout. managed to claw its way back in Heading into its first Ivy fifth, plating two runs on a League game this weekend, throwing error before senior Cornell holds a 5-8 overall Megan Murray drove in a run record as it looks to turn its loswith an RBI single. The Red tal- ing streak back into a string of lied two more runs in the sixth, wins. Farlow knows what the but it wasn’t enough to overcome team needs to do to make this the Wildcats’ early lead. happen.

The day continued with an “We’ll have to be very sharp afternoon match against the against Harvard. They’re a good Blue Hens, a low-scoring and team,” Farlow said. “We can’t tightly-matched game. The waste at-bats and we’ll need to teams remained scoreless until make quick adjustments to their the third, when the Blue Hens pitchers.” broke the tie. Sophomore Lisa The Red will start its conferNelson held Delaware at a single ence season against Harvard on run in seven innings, and didn’t Saturday and Sunday, both at allow a single baserunner in the 12:30 p.m. at the Niemandfinal two frames. Cornell added Robison softball field. two runs from Murray and junior Madeline Avery to the Caitlin Stanton can be reached at board in the sixth inning to pull cstanton@cornellsun.com.

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‘I wasn’t going to quit’ FARINHOLT’S PERSEVERANCE DRIVES WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Senior captain who suffered two ACL tears inspires teammates, leads hard-working Cornell squad the same knee less than a year after the original injury in her first scrimmage back as a sophomore, the optimism was soon replaced with fear. “[Tearing my ACL in my first game back] was the hardest thing for me,” Farinholt said. “I think that mentally screwed me up a little bit. I would’ve felt better about it if it was my other knee, but because it was the same one I was just thinking ‘Is my knee going to fail me again?’”

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

More than 30 percent of athletes who have sustained an ACL injury never return to the same level of play, so just stepping on the field to play Division I lacrosse again is an incredible feat for senior captain Ida Farinholt.

However, even after the misfortune and devastation of tearing her ACL a second time — an injury with only a 4.3 percent chance of recurrence — the midfielder The Road was able to do more than just return to To Recovery play — she tallied a whopping 31 Casting all fears points, 13 ground balls, seven aside and having caused turnovers and 34 draw just gone controls over her junior season through the to reestablish herself as a lethal tedious all-around force for the Red. rehab A talented field hockey, process, indoor track and lacrosse athlete in high school, Farinholt garnered regional, state and national lacrosse accolades.

She was able to successfully translate her athletic prowess to the collegiate Farinholt made level, making an immedithe tough decision ate impact as a freshman to dive back into by starting three of the the process a second five games she played time, which was gruand averaging over a eling both physically point per game. and mentally. “[Ida] came in as a “[Getting over the fear phenomenal freshman,” said of reinjury] was really strength and conditioning coach hard,” Farinholt said. “But Erika Rogan. “Movement-wise, my parents were so supportive her athleticism was outstanding.”

— they never told me to quit Even when a torn ACL cut her after tearing [my ACL] twice. freshman campaign short, They were supportive of whatever Farinholt remained optiI wanted to do.” mistic about her return to As someone who had played play. lacrosse her whole life, being side“I thought, ‘It’s my lined by injuries in back-to-back freshman year. It’s seasons only strengthened fine. I’ll bounce Farinholt’s resolve to return to the back from field. this,’” she said. “[Being injured] gave me a good “I didn’t think perspective of how important much of it. I just CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER every player is, even if they’re not really wanted to Comeback | Farinholt didn’t let a second playing,” she said. “I realized I play again.”

ACL tear keep her from playing some of her wasn’t going to quit even if I was However, when she best lacrosse in last year’s NCAA tournament. going to be injured all four years.” tore the same ligament in

Fortunately, Farinholt has not been injured all four years and her diligence to her rehab has paid off for her and her team in her junior and senior seasons.

“She did an awesome job [with the rehab process],” Rogan said. “Everything I told her to do she would at least try it and give me good feedback. She has pushed herself — she’s regained her speed, her strength, her power. Overall, her dedication to get back on the field has been tremendous.”

With the team’s back against the wall, Farinholt really stepped her game up in the 2017 NCAA tournament, recording two goals and an assist in the first round against Notre Dame and three goals and a school record-breaking six draw controls against Princeton in the second round.

“In the beginning, it wasn’t easy because it was hard for me mentally to get back into it,” Farinholt said. “I wasn’t as aggressive of a player, but I think once I had five games under my belt I was fine.”

The pressure of the tournament allowed Farinholt to think less about her devastating injuries.

“I truly found myself at the very end [of the season] during the NCAA tournament,” she said. “It was so much easier for me not to focus on my knee because we had to win every game to move forward.”

Inspiration Through Perspiration

Farinholt’s perseverance and commitment to herself and her team did not go unnoticed, as she was awarded the team’s “Brick” award in 2017, given for hard work and effort.

“The Brick award in our program is perhaps the highest honor a player in our program can achieve,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86. “An athlete who earns the Brick is truly committed, heart and soul, to Cornell women’s lacrosse.”

Farinholt was also selected as a captain for her senior year.

“She’s a lead-by-example kind of athlete,” Rogan said. “She’s always the first one in sprints and she’s always trying to push herself in the weight room — jump higher, squat more and do more pull-ups.

Farinholt’s success inspires her young teammates.

“The younger athletes are able to see her succeed despite the traumatic injuries she has had to overcome — [that] is the way she leads the team,” Rogan said.

“Ida’s work ethic and commitment to her rehab was inspiring to witness,” added Graap. “She remained diligent and optimistic after both surgeries.”

One of Farinholt’s young teammates, freshman See FARINHOLT page 15

GYMNASTICS

Gymnasts Finish 4th out of 5 Teams

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

In what was perhaps one of the toughest meets it has faced all season, the Red struggled to power through a talented field, placing fourth of five teams.

Last weekend, Cornell travelled to Towson to compete in a meet that also included North Carolina State, William and Mary, and West Virginia. The Red, which earned a score of 193.500, placed worse than all but William and Mary.

Despite the middling finish,

Cornell — which earned its third highest score of the season — considered the results a relative success, given the quality of the field.

“Towson, WVU and NC State were all ranked far above us making the competition tough,” said freshman Madison Smith. “But we were still able to pull through and pass up William and Mary, which was a success for us because we’re competing against them again at ECACs next weekend.”

The squad comfortably dispatched William and Mary in each of the meet’s four events, a positive signal as the gymnasts

prep for post-season competition. Cornell posted scores of 48.000, 48.025, 48.550, and 48.95 in vault, bars, beam, and floor, respectively.

The Red’s younger gymnasts played a decisive role in its sweep. Freshman Izzy Herczeg posted the team’s highest vault score of 9.75, while freshman Amy Shen accomplished the same in bars and beam with scores of 9.70 and 9.85.

Supporting the duo, freshman Madison Smith and sophomore Samantha Henry eached earned See GYMNASTICS page 15

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Make the leap | The Red earned a score of 193.500 last weekend, which wasn’t enough to top North Carolina State, West Virginia and Towson.