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By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor

Four graduate and professional students are vying to become the next student trustee on Cornell’s board in this year’s election.

Although a graduate or professional student will be elected this year, all students can vote in the election, according to a University press release.

Voting will begin at 8 a.m. on Monday and end at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Brown said she hopes to encourage a more inclusive campus culture by addressing unconscious biases and improve campus safety by increasing support of existing programming.

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Lights out | Milstein Hall and Goldwin Smith Hall were affected by a power outage across campus Monday. Only lights powered by generators remained on.

Outage Cuts Power to C.U.,Ithaca Officials: damaged transmission line caused blackout

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

A damaged crossarm on a 115 transmission line close to Maple Avenue caused a power outage on Cornell’s campus and parts of the surrounding Ithaca area Monday, according to a statement from Cornell facilities.

The damaged transmission line, which was located outside of the Cornell substation, interrupted electric service to Etna, east Ithaca, and Cornell — an area that includes 6,483 people — according to Bob Pass, a representative from

New York State Electric and Gas. NYSEG and Cornell utilities personnel responded to reports of the outage, according to a University statement. Power was restored to all parts of campus by 12:48 p.m., about an hour after the initial loss of power.

Personnel sectioned off the area and are currently making repairs to the line, according to Pass.

Several laboratories on campus experienced difficulties with equipment during the power See OUTAGE page 4

The Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Board of Directors voted unanimously to reduce the transit agency’s summer service in a special meeting Monday, according to a TCAT press release.

The reductions include changes to the service schedule of 21 bus lines, which already run with decreased frequency in the summer.

In a series of meetings with the Cornell and Ithaca community last week, the agency explained that the changes are a result of chronic bus operator shortages. TCAT is 10 drivers short of the optimal number it needs to meet demand for its summer routes and has been filling this gap by hiring contract drivers — which cost an additional $33,000 a week — according to the release.

Although federal laws did not oblige TCAT to hold public hearings because the cuts are emergency or temporary changes, the company held four public sessions and accepted feedback via email and a special phone line, the release said.

“We felt transparency was extremely important,” said Alice Eccleston, TCAT Acting General Manager.

Based on public feedback, TCAT will attempt to reduce inconvenience to riders — such as by maintaining transfers between popular roots — as it makes the service changes, according to the release.

The release added that the organization will continue to prioritize filling bus operator positions.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

Students Aid in Fighting Collegetown Fire The Ithaca Fire Department, Ithaca police and Bangs Ambulance responded to a fire at 111 Osmun in Collegetown just after 2 p.m. Monday, according to The Ithaca Voice.

Sarah Le Cam ’16, one of the building’s residents, told The Voice that another resident noticed smoke coming from a secondfloor porch.

Le Cam added that she and the resident called 911 before putting out the fire using a fire extinguisher and pots of water.

None of the five residents were home when the fire started, according to Le Cam. Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the incident, The Voice reported.

— Compiled by Josh Girsky

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Cornellian Named All-American Swimmer

University Cornell, Partners Seek To Revolutionize Textile Industry Cornell faculty members are working with The Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Institute — a nonprofit led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — in an effort to increase research and development of “smart” fabrics for use in apparel, transportation, electronics, consumer products and first-responder clothing. Cornell is one of 32 universities to team up with the non-profit and contribute to the $317 million public-private partnership, according to the University.

Cornell professors in the fields of fiber science, engineering and computer and information science are actively contributing to the project, the University reported.

Evdokimov ’18 becomes first C.U. student to earn distinction in 10 years

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

After ranking eighth nationally in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Swimming Championship last month at Georgia Tech, Alex Evdokimov ’18 became the first AllAmerican swimmer to attend Cornell since 2006.

While he did not beat his own personal record at the NCAA Championship, Evdokimov finished 15th in the 200 breaststroke and 17th in the 100 breaststroke, according to The Ithaca Voice.

Evdokimov swam from age of seven to 11 but stopped until he joined his high school team in Florida, The Voice reported.

He only reached a collegiate swimming level a year later, when he joined a club swim team, according to Wes Newman, head coach of Cornell’s men’s swimming.

“He really came off a big high after all the improvements he had senior year of high school,” Newman said. “When he came in as a freshman, we were really excited to see if he could continue on that momentum.”

Newman added that Evdokimov’s drive and focus enabled him to excel as a swimmer.

“I think all the best swimmers, and probably true of all athletes, have a certain level of focus,” Newman said. “When they put their mind to a certain goal, they are able to accomplish it.”

Ian Russiello ’19, a swimmer on Cornell’s team, agreed, telling The Voice that Evdokimov is extremely focused before important meets.

“He does his own thing, and then when it comes to the big meets like before NCAAs and the Ivys, he would just turn it on and have this super, intense focus,” Russiello said.

After earning his title, Evdokimov will begin training for the Olympic trials at the end of June, The Voice reported.

“I’m already excited for next year to train and to get to this meet again and hopefully do better,” Evdokimov said.

So Hyung Kim can be reached at sohyungkim@cornellsun.com.

Local Therm Inc. Plans Addition, New Jobs At Ithaca Plant Despite years of economic decline in upstate New York, Therm Incorporated will dramatically increase the size of its manufacturing plant in Ithaca.

The plant expansion will cost about $2.5M and allow the company to increase its machining capacity, according to The Ithaca Voice.

The company, which specializes in aerospace and industrial turbine custom machining, has remained in Ithaca since its founding in 1935. It currently employs 158 workers, and plans to increase that number with the plant expansion, The Voice reported.

National Federal Prosecutors Cast Wider Net in New York City Hall Inquiry For the first time since his inauguration, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-N.Y.) is under scrutiny for possible corruption in campaign fund-raising.

The case is against both Jona Rechnitz, who raised money for the campaign and the nonprofit that supported the major, and Jeremy Reichberg, who funded the non-profit, according to The New York Times.

According to reports, the two donors benefitted from their donations in exchange for possible municipal action, or a promise of action.

As of now, no conclusions could be made with regard to whether or not Mr. de Blasio was aware of any transaction, or to whether or not there is enough evidence to proceed with the case to prosecute under corruption charges, The Times reported.

— Compiled by Sammi Acriche

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Just keep swimming | After placing eighth nationally at the NCAA Swimming Championship at Georgia Tech, Alex Evdokimov ’18 was named the first Cornellian All-American swimmer since 2006.

Speakers Call for Integrated Approach to Medicine

By NATHANIEL LACELLE-PETERSON

think that the ability to farm back and teach students.”

Brumberger added that he would have such an impact on hopes students will use the lechealth.”

Issues in global health require Brumberger and Kaur both ture series to learn about the difintegrated solutions that employ cited their undergraduate experi- ferent ways they can work in both medical and social perspecences as crucial to their inspira- global health. tives, Gunisha Kaur “[Students are] all pretty tion in beginning the lec’06 M.D. ’10 and ture series — which is a pluripotent at this point,” Prof. Eric Brum- “It’s really interesting to be able to teach collaboration between Brumberger said. “We want berger ’01, anesthesi- people ... where they’re just starting to Weill Cornell faculty and them to realize that it’s all out ology, said in a lecthere for them, and there are Cornell undergraduates. think about medicine.” ture Friday.

“It’s really interesting limitless possibilities.”

Brumberger and The talk was the second in a to be able to teach people Gunisha Kaur ’06 M.D. ’10 Kaur discussed what at the beginning of their new course — “Global Health they called a “biosocareer, where theyre just Case Studies from Weill Cornell cial” approach, which they said health and improve health out- starting to think about medi- Medical College” — that focuses combines the fields of medicine comes can actually be really cine,” Kaur said. “We together on integrated approaches to and the humanities. detrimental to society if you came up with the idea about a global health.

The biosocial approach is don’t know the cultural con- year ago, partially because we necessary for understanding the text,” she said. “Just looking at it both graduated from Cornell, Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson can be consequences of international on the surface, you wouldn’t that it would be great to come reached at nl368@cornell.edu. health care programs — such as the introduction of ultrasound devices in areas of India where women “are incredibly undervalued” — according to Brumberger.

“Women at all stages of pregnancy will find these illegal ultrasound clinics, get sex determination done and then commit female feticide,” Brumberger said. “It’s incredibly difficult to bring legitimate reasons for ultrasound use into this healthcare system in an easy way.”

Kaur explained the problems involved in introducing ultrasound to India using economics.

“These things come down to economic factors — the economic productivity or ability of women to contribute economically to the family unit,” Kaur said. “That becomes a problem in a society where women canKEVIN GAO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER not contribute because it’s an agricultural society.”

Come together | Two speakers from Weill Cornell Medical College advocate for a biosocial approach to The effects of introducing medicine that combines medicine and the humanities at a lecture Friday in HEC Auditorium.

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outage, with students voicing complaints that they lost work or damaged important materials.

Although certain crucial equipment, such as ultra-cold freezers, was able to be run on backup generators, many other machines turned off completely, according to Prof. Gerald Feigenson, biochemistry.

“[It was] just a half hour with dim light, but no one was using sensitive equipment at that time,” Feigenson said, describing his own lab.

Some research instruments are connected to an uninterruptible power supply unit, which allows for a safe shutdown in the event of power loss, according to Prof. Linda Nicholson, biochemistry.

Prof. Melissa Hines, chem-

istry, added that she was unaware of any serious damage the power outage inflicted on laboratory equipment in either chemistry labs or the Cornell Center for Materials Research’s shared facilities.

“In the CCMR facilities, most of our critical equipment, such as our multimillion dollar electron microscopes, have uninterruptable power supplies which give us time to shut down the instruments in an safe fashion,” Hines said. “Having said that, many labs cannot immediately bounce back from a power outage, as sensitive equipment may need a day or few days of conditioning before it is ready to use.”

Hines added that the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility has already informed its users that the space will be closed until tomorrow at the earliest.

The outage also forced some professors to cancel classes. Erika Axe ’18 said power returned to her Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry class — which took place in Baker Hall — approximately 10 minutes after the class began.

“After nearly 15 additional minutes of technical difficulties [after power returned], students were calling out to cancel the class and almost all of them voted to be let out,” Axe said.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Candidates Vie for Student Trustee Seat STUDENT TRUSTEE Continued from page 1

Brown added that she will work to preserve the unique identities of the individual schools combined in the new College of Business.

As an undergraduate at Cornell, Brown said she was the College of Arts and Sciences Representative and Women’s Issues Committee chair on the Student Assembly. Brown said her experience on the S.A. has increased her awareness of sexual assault and discrimination on campus.

“As an undergrad, in terms of campus safety, my focus was geared towards bystander prevention. Recent meetings with the Cornell University Police have lead me to believe that increased advocacy of the SHARE program and funding for late night transportation services may be equally

pus living for years,” he said.

He added that he hopes to develop an opt-in student legal service that will reduce bad leases and questionable practices by landlords.

Rogers said he believes his record of “working hard and getting things done” will be useful to him as a student-elected trustee.

“I’m not intimidated by the administration or the trustees, and won’t hesitate to cast a vote 63-1 if that’s what I truly think is the right thing to do,” he said.

Tiffany St. Bernard grad St. Bernard said she hopes to improve campus climate through strong diversity and inclusion initiatives, increase safe and affordable housing and foster campuswide engagement through transparent dialogues among students, faculty and administration.

As chair of the GPSA Diversity and International Committee, St.

“I’m not intimidated by the administration or the trustees, and won’t hesitate to cast a vote 63-1 if that’s what I truly think is the right thing to do.”

Nathaniel Rogers grad effective avenues for increasing campus safety,” she said.

Amy Molitoris grad Molitoris said her top three priorities as student trustee will be to work with the University to find solutions to the ever-increasing student loan debt, remain committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2035 and ensure the University becomes a fair chance employer.

The board should advocate for Cornell to join the ‘ban the box’ initiative — removing a question concerning criminal convictions from its job applications in order to remove bias against applicants with a criminal history — according to Molitoris.

Molitoris added that she hopes to improve the board’s communication with Cornell’s constituent assemblies and ensure that its decisions are democratic.

“Although several specific issues should and need to be addressed by the board, my crowning achievements as a trustee would be ensuring that undergraduate, graduate and professional students voices are heard and advocating for issues my constituencies deem important,” she said.

Molitoris also represented the College of Veterinary Medicine on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly this year, according to the University.

Nathaniel Rogers grad Rogers — who has served as Vice President for Operations of the GPSA as well as GPSA Liaison to the Faculty Senate — said he will push the board to address the lack of affordable housing in Collegetown and surrounding neighborhoods. “[The] Cornell enrollment really determines the demand for Collegetown housing, and we’ve been underfunding and understaffing our support for off-cam-

Bernard said she hosted a dinner last semester enabling members of the Cornell community to discuss issues on campus.

“This dinner did not only bring to light diversity and inclusion related issues, it also provided an environment that facilitated engagement and communication across the University,” she said.

“If elected as your Student Trustee, I hope to continue these efforts, among many others.”

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

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hough it might seem far-fetched right now, in just a few short months both the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries will be over and the general election will have begun. Barring some unforeseen calamity, the Republicans will nominate either Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) and the Democrats will nominate either Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT). At the moment, both races are in a state of flux, and as prognostication is a field fraught with difficulty, I’m not going to make any bold predictions as to the identities of the eventual nominees. To a certain extent, it doesn’t even matter who the nominees are. No matter who emerges victorious, America will be faced with a stark choice in November, and the correct decision could not be more obvious.

The Republican Party, categorically, offers a reactionary set of policies that would strip millions of Americans of the protections and rights, both economic and social, that they have accrued over the past century. There is no such thing as a moderate Republican running for president.

Trump is political demagogue whose neopopulist/authoritarian ideology appears to be made up on the fly. Ted Cruz is so repulsive and uniformly hated by even his own party and coworkers that Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-NC) once mused that you could kill him on the Senate floor and no senators would testify against you. And John Kasich, who has cultivated an image of relative moderation, has a record of conservative policies on everything from reproductive rights to union-busting to supply-side economics stretching from his tenure as governor of Ohio all the way back to his time as the hatchet-wielding chairman of the House Budget Committee. All three would be disastrous for the nation if elected to the presidency.

So why, then, do upwards of 30 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters say that if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, they will refuse to vote for her? Such a stance is foolish, misguided and incredibly harmful. If Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee (and according to math, that is a likelihood) then every member of the Democratic Party, from the cardcarrying socialists to the San Francisco tech entrepreneurs to the Montana farmers and everyone in between should vote for her.

Likewise, if Bernie Sanders gets the nod, the party should similarly coalesce behind him. The stakes are too high to act otherwise.

When a Sanders supporter declares that Hillary is too repulsive to vote for, they leave themselves with three options. The first and easiest is to stay home. When you refuse to vote, you aren’t taking a bold or courageous stand against the system. You are willfully abdicating your responsibility as an American citizen, and you renounce any right to complain about government for the next four years. You also do a great disservice by depriving down ballot candidates of the votes they so desperately need.

You want to see real change? Cast a vote for John Plumb instead of letting Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) run away with another term.

You want to start a revolution? Start by electing a new state representative and state senator, such as Leslie Danks Burke, who will fight for an increased minimum wage and collective bargaining rights. Real change happens from the bottom upwards; by staying home because of an unpalatable name at the top of the ticket, you forfeit the opportunity to effect changes in other areas.

The second option is to vote for a thirdparty candidate, a so-called “protest vote.”

There are some benefits to a protest vote.

You still feel like you are fulfilling your responsibility to vote, but you get a rush from subverting the system. While I am sure that Jill Stein or Gary Johnson is grateful for your support, protest votes are incredibly destructive. Many Sanders supporters are too young to have participated in the 2000 presidential election (as am I), but its outcome alone should be more than enough to dissuade anyone from ever casting a protest vote. Had a mere 538 Floridians voted for Al Gore instead of Ralph Nader, George W. Bush (quite possibly the worst president since Herbert “Great Depression” Hoover) would never have taken office. A group of voters half the size of Intro to Oceanography could have prevented the Iraq War, further deregulation of the financial industry, an EPA that for eight years cared more about industry jobs than protecting the environment and the appointments of two incredibly conservative justices to the Supreme Court. But apparently, to enough voters, bucking the system and voting for Nader was more important to than the future of the nation. Protest votes do not work. In the case of Sanders supporters, they will only serve to help the Republican nominee.

And that brings us to the third option: simply voting for the Republican. It’s a troubling refrain that is increasingly heard across the airwaves and the Twittersphere.

It goes something like, “I’d vote for Trump/Cruz/Kasich over that sack of lies Hillary,” and sometimes it sounds like a five-year-old threatening to hold their breath till they pass out unless you do what they want. It takes an incredible lack of awareness to hold this position. A Trump/Cruz/Kasich presidency would be tangibly harmful to large swathes of the American population. For those of us fortunate enough not to have been targeted (as of yet) by the Republicans, it is may be easier to stomach a Trump/Cruz/Kasich presidency. I don’t have to fear ßthe Republicans aggressively policing my neighborhood. I don’t have a uterus to defend from government intrusion. My skin isn’t dark enough to get punched at a Trump rally and my economic situation is not such that Trump’s chaotic trade policies would wreck my livelihood. It is a privilege I have to view a Republican presidency as anything less than an imminent danger, a privilege not everyone has. So to vote for a Republican who is so markedly worse for the country than either Democrat, to refuse to vote for a Democrat not based on policy or vision but on some personal vendetta you feel against him or her, is an exercise in privilege that will only harm the nation.

The primary could still go either way.

Sanders could gain steam and sweep the rest of the calendar and walk triumphantly into Philadelphia with the requisite delegates for the nomination. If that is the case, we must do everything to make sure that six months later he is delivering his first inaugural address. If Clinton continues to lead the race, then come July, the party must come together behind her. For all of his faults, Sen. Marco “Roboto” Rubio (RFL) was right when he said that this election was especially significant. In no situation would a President Trump or Kasich or Cruz be better than a President Clinton or Sanders, and to think otherwise is dangerous. America, don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. There is too much at stake to treat this vote like a five-year-old treats his oxygen intake.

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. The Jacobin appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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itting in Libe earlier today, I was in convenient earshot of some interesting conversations going on around me. Most conversations in Libe, as every undergrad at Cornell knows, center around one of four topics: how much studying you haven’t done yet, what happened last night, whether or not you should get coffee or something completely random I couldn’t even begin to guess at in a single column.

Today, the most interesting conversation in my vicinity was one I was genuinely impressed at Libe Cafe for hosting. It included two students (grad students in the Johnson School, I’m guessing), two aggressively large cups of espresso and a heated debate about the recent emergence of the Panama Papers into the public eye.

The Panama Papers, as they are unfairly labelled according to President Varela and his high-profile New York Times column published today, are a “particular trove of documents [that] came from a single law firm

[The Panama Papers] have revealed something Assange and Snowden could not — the wealthy are wealthier than we originally had thought, and tax evasion is not something we can simply continue to avoid. based in Panama” highlighting the existence of previously undisclosed shell companies. The scope of the illegally obtained and subsequently released information in itself is unparalleled. As Johnson grad student #1 so eloquently described it, they’re “basically the Wikileaks of rich people and their bank accounts.”

While not an unfair description in itself, the Panama Papers do more than just shed light on alleged government and corporate misconduct worldwide. They are specific, very specific about the people involved, about their money, about how much money, about where and about how. The papers have referenced “12 current or former world leaders, as well as 128 other politicians and public officials, including associates of Vladimir Putin — the Russian leader isn’t himself mentioned by name in any of the documents — FIFA executives, the prime minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, his wife and Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri.” They are also the largest data breach we have seen yet.

So what do the Panama Papers imply that Wikileaks or Edward Snowden’s controversial exposé of the NSA’s doing haven’t already brought to the public’s attention?

Well, as our aforementioned Johnson grad students chose to highlight over gulps of coffee and a quartercard covered table, quite literally nothing. The the Panama Papers, at their core, don’t tell us anything we don’t already know. Rich people have money. Rich people want to keep their money safe. Tax evasion is a global problem that exists, has existed and will continue to exist. The Panama Papers bring to light the doings of some unlucky people that got caught — but they don’t really do much else.

There is a slightly more to be said about this (jaded) argument. You could argue that the Panama Papers have taken the away the secrecy that so many believed would keep them from ever being caught. They have revealed something Assange and Snowden could not — the wealthy are wealthier than we originally had thought, and tax evasion is not something we can simply continue to avoid. The point at which the argument remains inconclusive, however, is whether the Panama Papers bring to light an issue we will actually choose to do something about. The question that remains: do we move forward learning from our mistakes or if we will allow for smarter ways to get around our half-hearted attempts at fixing the system exist?

Hebani Duggal is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The contortions being pulled by something excruciatingly most high sages of Law deliver their underwhelming in accept- verdict: 4-4. You get to languish on Republican Senators are surely not ing the defeat of competition inher- death row, surveilled by the prison healthy for a man of Senator ent in a draw. One would almost guards of public opinion, until Grassley’s age. Republicans praised rather the opponent won, if only someone you’ve never met is per- Garland, a universally liked and for a sense of closure. But no, the mitted through a very elaborate respected jurist, only to arrive in competitors slink away, licking their hazing ritual known as “Senate con- 2016 with a vocal segment of the party base suffering from a neurotic wounds and polishing their firmation.”

As facetious as such a scenario is fear of judicial change (people who weapons, plotting their next encounter. The American spirit it illustrates the need for definitive as children, it seems, never quite does not easily suffer such lack of judgments. Using basic mathemat- grasped the concept of sharing).

The Founding Fathers intended ics and a rudimentary knowledge of resolution.

Neither does the legal system, the government, one can see how a the judiciary be free of political ultimate realm of decision. In its Supreme Court comprising eight taint. The Court’s changes in recent absolute form justice is uncompro- justices hinders the ultimate goal of history, punctuated by this latest mising and unremitting. Yet justice legal interpretation; 4-4 decisions standoff, prove that the ideal is no is a stranger in life, like equality and result in the lower court’s decision more. Moreover, the Senate was creliberty. Law, the interpretation of justice by those deigned qualified, is far more familiar. Law is derived from The Founding Fathers intended the justice but it is not justice — it is right and wrong as our judiciary be free of political taint. The flawed minds and flawed Court’s changes in recent history, societies see such familiar, concrete abstractions. We punctuated by this latest standoff, prove can change the law but justice will not change; we can that the ideal is no more. bend and break the law but justice will accept neither.

Though justice brooks no half- standing but not being upheld ated as a bulwark against populism measures its offspring, law, is much nationally. A woman in New York — it has the capacity to act as a more accommodating. The writing, might easily access her constitution- buffer between the masses, easily reading and altering of law allows al right to abortion while another in lead, and Justice. But again, the for human disagreement. Indeed, Louisiana is required to spend time Senate, its members elected by the law is the basis for the how the in a gulag before being allowed populace and happily paying the democratic state functions — upon access to even the phone numbers absurd cost of doing politics for such exclusive office, has been the foundation of law and through of her state’s abortion clinics.

Despite this judicial deadlock, infected and pervaded by the “elecits power over the law.

That said, when government the GOP (affectionately known as toral-industrial complex.” The state must read its own writings, justice “the party of Lincoln”; less affec- and law become little more than an should be its guide — when inter- tionately known as “the party of amorphous mass to be prodded and preting law, those responsible, as an Dubya”) is set on preventing any enticed into assuming the shape institution, must seek to clarify not resolution until “the people have that one desires it to take.

Ideas aside, Republicans know to obfuscate. The law as understood spoken.” But the people have spoby the people, their institutions and ken – 53 percent of Americans that the Democrats are highly likely the state should be the same. believe that the Senate should hold to retain the presidency and could Though there must always be room hearings for Merrick Garland and flip the Senate blue in November.

16 percent believe Even without a Democratic Senate, for argument, a common under- only standing of what is legal and what is Republicans’ justification that they Hillary Clinton, having survived illegal is of utmost importance. are stonewalling Garland to ensure The Berning and with four years When the people can twist the law, consideration of public opinion. Yet ahead, would force Republicans to the result is scandal or revolution. how would Sen. Mitch McConnell grind out an acceptable nominee. If When an institution can twist the (R-KY) and Sen. Chuck Grassley she were to continue Garland’s law, the result is anger or oppres- (R-IA) know? The pair was recently nomination the Republicans would sion. When the state can twist the seen stuffing each others’ ears with look very, very stupid for not conlaw, the result is terror, totalitarian. $100 bills and letters from con- firming him earlier. If she were to Bringing you back from such stituents, on which were scrawled nominate a judge further to the left, serious abstraction, let us return to expletive-laden demands that conservatives will rue losing out on the real world, where our subject is Republicans “stop that damn Garland. Republican Senators are most assuredly law. Imagine this: Muslim from keepin’ on near-darn merely delaying the inevitable and your appeal against a death sentence ruinin’” the Right’s “all encompass- will lament the day they didn’t settle (for a murder you didn’t commit, ing control of the judicial system” for a draw. let’s add. Though I doubt that which will “soon tighten over every would matter much to Old facet of American society and stifle Alex Davies is a junior in the College of Arts and Antonin) sits before the Supreme the propaganda peddled by agent Sciences. He can be reached at Court. A few arguments and six provocateurs and enemies of the ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News For hundred ineffectual placards later, people.” Their words (paraphrased, You? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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his article was originally going to be about sexism in the comics industry. It’s no secret that the comics scene has done a notoriously poor job recognizing women creators and readers, particularly in America’s superherochoked testosterone-fest. This was no clearer than at this year’s Angouleme Grand Prix, a sort of Cannes Palme d’Or for the comics world, when none of a whopping 20 creators nominated were women. This resulted in a major fracas among smarter members of the community, resulting in boycotts from attendees and nominees alike and the hashtag #womendoBD (short for bandes desinees, the French word for comics), predating #OscarsSoWhite’s highlighting of award show prejudice by over a month. However, when I described the premise of my article exploring this heady topic to my peers, I generally got the same response: Are there even that many major cartoonists who are women? Isn’t it a boy’s club, after all?

This extraordinarily common assumption is also an incorrect one. While American publishers have often failed to highlight the accomplishments of women cartoonists, there have always been — especially outside of the superhero assembly line — numerous influential, impressive women who have pushed comics as a medium to its greatest potential. Indeed, in the age of bestselling memoirs such as Allison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and the waves of massively popular shojo manga by and for girls flooding bookshelves throughout the ’00s (not to mention the recent success of film adaptations of Julie Maroh’s Blue is the Warmest Color and Phoebe Gloeckner’s Diary of a Teenage Girl), it is impossible to say that women are not creating major, universally beloved comics. And yet this perceived absence of women remains.

In an attempt to put this wrongheaded notion to rest, I’ve put together a list of a few of my favorite women working in comics today. It’s not by any standard a complete list, but it is one that highlights artists who make and have made truly great and lasting contributions to the form. These are not only some of the best women in comics, but some of the best cartoonists out there, period.

JULIE DOUCET (My New York Diary, My Most Secret Desire)

One of the leading figures of the ’90s autobiographical comics boom, Julie Doucet’s stories are searing, hilarious and confrontational all at once. Serializing her work in the brilliantly titled solo anthology Dirty Plotte ( plotte being a French slang term for female genitalia), Doucet was one of the first artists to really put everything on the line, depicting herself and all manner of bodily discomforts in memoir vignettes and dream journals that celebrate all the dirty little things we try to forget about daily life, shifting from English to French as seamlessly as her shifts from humor to discomfort. The degree of honesty in her work is as refreshing as it is startling — in one memorable string of dream stories, Doucet imagines what her life would be like if she had a penis, in illustrations that are playful yet aggressive, brash yet vulnerable. Her memoir My New York Diary, depicting her tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend and substance abuse, is an all time classic, taking the reader on a tour-de-force travelogue of experiences both mundane and harrowing, reading like a Mad magazine parody of real life. Her art is gloriously grungy, splotches of black accenting harsh lines, packed with information and impact.

Later autobio cartoonists such as Chester Brown cite Doucet as a major influence, yet to my mind the energy of her work still towers above the rest.

MOTO HAGIO (A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, Heart of Thomas)

undoubtedly Moto Hagio, who to this day crafts beautiful, of fear and superstition. Carroll’s stories tend to be less about intelligent and emotionally honest tales of difficult feelings and individual moments of shock, and more about evoking the senpeople who dare to transcend traditional gender roles. In sci- sation of creeping dread and superstition. The mood of her ence fiction stories such as A, A1 and A Drunken Dream, Hagio work is intensified by her formal playfulness — many of her spans generations crafting stories of memory and gender in a comics are presented in a downward scrolling progression, givpost-human identity — the space-exploration queer romance ing the reader a sense that they are traveling deeper into a secret short X + Y features truth, or a nightperhaps the first nonmare. Carroll is far binary character in a from the first webshojo manga. In the cartoonist to use this gay boarding school scrolling format, but melodrama Heart of she is perhaps the Thomas, Hagio first to really accomdepicts the kind of plish something intense, tender emoevocative with it, tions and experiences particularly in the usually associated modern classic His with women in a narFace All Red and the rative centered on quiet, desperate men, revealing these parable Out of Skin. feelings to be univerHowever, some of sal. All of these stories Carroll’s best comics are told in gorgeous, have appeared on the full-page composiprinted page, as in A DETAIL FROM MICKEY ZACCHILI’S RAV tions that overwhelm Through the Woods, a the reader in the work’s beauty and passion. But what’s really collection of stories new and old illustrated in ambitious, colorspecial about Hagio is that her comics are popular, appealing drenched pages — an homage to Goodnight Moon late in the melodramas — this is a cartoonist crafting the kind of intimate, book is particularly unforgettable. Carrol’s comics are the kind literary stories that we tend to label “alternative” for a mass, of stuff that make me want to read more comics, and her work young readership, entertaining and engaging the reader at is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a little scare. whatever level they are ready for. In a way, this is comics at its most perfect, stories that will deeply affect just about anyone.

MICKEY ZACCHILI (Venom Comic, RAV)

Nathan Chazan Guest Room KYOKO OKAZAKI (Helter Skelter, Pink) The ’80s was a decade in which comics specifically for an adult readership began receiving widespread exposure, and the Japanese comics scene was no exception. In this climate of older, more sophisticated readership, the new genre/demographic of Josei manga rose out of shojo, stories and artists addressing an audience of adult women with adult concerns.

Many of these comics can be dismissed as little better than Harlequin-style paperback romances, but a number of truly impressive artists emerged from this scene, none better than the great Kyoko Okazaki. Okazaki tells stories about women at the outskirts of the fashion world, negotiating relationships, self-image and commerce. The alternately fluffy and brutal rom-com Pink charts frenzied bubble-economy consumerism through the misadventures of unlikely protagonist Yumi, a sex worker with a pet alligator. Her masterpiece, Helter Skelter, is a bonafide body-horror fashion freak-out, a fractured narrative of an impossibly beautiful fashion model Ririko’s grotesque evolution through plastic surgery and her splintering sense of self. Okazaki is a consummate artist, elegant, minimal lines accented through bold, downright impressionistic screentone patterns.

Okazaki’s comics grip the reader from start to finish and demand to be read over and over again.

The ’70s saw the first wave of major female carEMILY CARROLL toonists working in Japan, (Through the Woods, often referred to as the “Year Out of Skin) 24 Group,” creating popular, daring works for a (mostly) The last decade has seen female readership that soon the rise of webcomics as a became popular nationwide powerful subsection of the A DETAIL FROM EMILY CARROLL’S THROUGH THE WOODS — series such as Ryoko comics world, and I cannot Ideka’s Rose of Versailles and Keiko Takemiya’s To Terra are still think of a better webcartoonist than Emily Carroll. Posting widely read. These were cartoonists creating lush, engaging, impressive short stories to her personal website innovative work for a general readership, a key moment in (emcarroll.com), Carroll tells moody, dark fairy tale horror stocomics history. The best storyteller of the Year 24 Group is ries in the mode of the Brothers Grimm, lushly illustrated tales

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Perhaps the best artist of self-published zines active today, Mickey Zacchili’s comics are dense, scribbly things that at first glance might seem unreadable but are in fact extraordinarily communicative. Springy, animated forms dance across Zacchili’s page, the furious motion of the lines guiding the reader’s eye naturally through the action and antics. Zacchili’s stories are a dense soup of ’90s anime, Fort Thunder art comics, Image comics and all the things we thought were cool when we were twelve. Her jam comics with Michael Deforge and Patrick Kyle are particularly well regarded, picking a single topic and just running with it — titles have included Jumping Comic, Smartphone Comic and Pixar’s Cars Comic. Zacchili worked in a similar vein alone in the recent Venom Comic, a furiously drawn bootleg love letter to the Spider-Man villain that reads like a frantic celebration of what comics can be.

However, Zacchili’s masterpiece is the ongoing series RAV, a surreal biker romance epic that combines tough-guy posturing with millennial anxiety, bluntly hilarious dialogue and powerful imagery. Zacchili’s comics are self-published in beautiful risographed pamphlets, the sort of thing you can’t find in stores often unless you find a really cool store. However, most of her work is available for purchase on her website, mickeyz.org, where she also sells patches and clothing displaying the same impressive wit found in her cartooning. Her packages usually come with a half dozen of her trademark “cool dog” stickers, and a whole lot of joy for new readers.

ELEANOR DAVIS (How to be Happy, Flop on Top) One of the most diverse and exciting talents of our time, Eleanor Davis is a true cartoonist, a dynamic artist and an earnest storyteller. Working professionally as a freelance illustrator (you may have seen her work on a number of Google’s day-long themed logos), Davis’ art has a lighter-than-air, perfect sort of quality, expressive lines and colors creating bulbous figures that exude a sense of humanity, physicality and warmth. Her stories run a whole gamut of subject matter, from the quixotic modern biblical fable In Our Eden to the charming children’s book Flop on Top to the porn-industry romance of her recent Frontier story BDSM, but throughout her varied work Davis always manages to bring her stories to a moment where people are find real human connection with each other, this sublime sense of really knowing someone else.

Much of Davis’ work has been collected in a book titled How to be Happy, a phrase that seems to encapsulate the whole of her varied oeuvre — these are comics about that struggle to be happy, the droll impossibility of an easy path to happiness, and the extraordinary beauty of those brief wonderful moments when we really are fulfilled.

Nathan Chazan is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at ndc39@cornell.edu. Guest Room runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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those close-seconds behind Spieth’s “most shocking collapse in golf history.” Van de Velde and McIlroy are just two of many other golf “collapses,” in addition to Adam Scott, Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson, etc.

But it isn’t just O’Connor’s “most shocking” claim that is bothersome.

He just briefly mentions Willett’s tremendous final round where he shot a 67, the second lowest score of the tournament. Spieth peaked at -7.

Willett finished at -5. So even without Spieth’s blemish on the 12th, Willett played himself into contention to win. Spieth didn’t lose the Masters. Willett won.

Also, Spieth’s “collapse” occurred on Amen Corner — the nickname, by no coincidence, given to the 11th, 12th and 13th at Augusta because of their difficulty. These are some of the most challenging golf holes in the world. High scores are common at Amen Corner and much of the field struggled on these holes throughout the weekend.

It is a Masters’ tradition that the defending champion dresses the new winner in his green jacket. O’Connor insists “you have never seen someone look so unhappy wearing a green jacket on Masters Sunday” as Spieth was when he crowned Willett. I watched the ceremony, and had I not seen the entire tournament, I wouldn’t have known that Spieth had lost the lead earlier in the day. He smiled as he gave Willett his jacket and patted down the collar, showing his maturity and professionalism — the likes of which are admirable at just 22-years-old. Of course he was hurting inside. Who wouldn’t be? But he certainly didn’t show it like O’Connor claims.

It seems that O’Connor sees Spieth as infallible. O’Connor notes that at last year’s Masters, as Spieth entered Sunday with a four-shot lead, he felt that Spieth “wouldn’t melt down because there was no evidence suggesting he would.” But sports aren’t fueled by evidence. Sports breed the unexpected. Predictions and probability become moot when Spieth makes a quadruple-bogey or when a team like Middle Tennessee beats Michigan State. The thrill of sport lies in its unpredictability.

At just 22-years-old, Spieth has already won two majors. In three appearances at the Masters, he has finished second, first and second, respectively. Phil Mickelson didn’t win his first of five majors until his mid-30s. After McIlroy’s “collapse” in the 2011 Masters, people wondered whether he could recover. He won the next major — the 2011 U.S. Open — by eight shots. So let’s not overhype a few bad swings by Spieth who, by the way, is listed as the favorite to win the U.S. Open in June. Losing hurts. It always does. But Jordan Spieth loses far less often than most people.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Unmasterful Tennis TakesTwo on the Road Performances I

By SAM HUMMEL

“I felt like the guys kept it strictly to tennis in those critical moments,” Tanasoui said. “They were focused on The men’s tennis team (10-10, 3-2 things they were able to accomplish, Ivy) returns to Ithaca this week after a without trying to think about winning or successful weekend on the road against losing. They kept focusing on tennis — Brown (8-16, 0-4) and Yale (12-10, 0-4), we were very intentional in the moments taking both matchups 4-1 and 5-2, that mattered in that match.” respectively.

Capitalization in those critical Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu was moments was essential in helping them incredibly pleased with his team’s overall scrape by with a win against the performance throughout the weekend.

Bulldogs.

“I didn’t think we played our best ten“It was an absolute battle from the nis, and that was very encouraging from first point to the very last one,” Tanasoui my standpoint because we were able to said. “Every single match was highly confind our way to a win in all those match- tested by both teams. I felt like it was a es,” he said. “I felt like everyone con- great college match. They were fighting tributed, either in doubles or singles. We their hearts out and so did we — fortuhandled the weekend very well as a team.” nately we came out on top at the end.”

Tanasoui mentioned the team had Perhaps the most impressive composome challenges with the courts at nent of the team’s success thus far is that Brown’s new facilities. junior Colin Sinclair and freshman “It’s always a tough environment play- David Volfson have yet to drop a set ing away — especially in their new facil- against Ivy foes after being promoted to ity,” he said. “There were four courts the No. 1 doubles position. Tanasoui with surfaces faster than we’re used to.” attributes their success to solid fundaHowever, a major key in their success mentals and a shared competitive drive. against the Bears was their strict mindset “They stick to the fundamentals,” and focus on playing good, fundamental Tanasoiu said. “They focus on very simtennis, which was rooted in practices ple things and they’re very good at exeleading up to the matches. cuting. They’ve been very consistent in “We didn’t let down our mindset,” that way. I think they’re both extremely Tanasoui said. “We stuck to our training ambitious with very driven personalities. and we were ready to They match very well face Brown. I thought with what they’re trywe played very funda- “They were fighting their ing to accomplish on mental doubles to hearts out and so did we the court.” start off, and that carSinclair also attrib— fortunately we came uted his and Volfon’s ried through to the singles. We were very success to their strict out on top in the end.” composed in critical mental focus and Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu components.” chemistry playing Before this weekwith one another. end, Tanasoui noted “We just try to go how “critical components,” or capitaliz- out there and do the right things,” said ing on crucial points, were the main Sinclair. “It helps that we’ve played focus for the Red. Following a tight loss together for the whole year and so we to Dartmouth at home, he stressed his know each other’s games well and can team’s need to better capitalize in key sce- predict what shot the other will play.” narios.

Going forward, the Red will face off Tanasoui liked how his team with Penn (7-13, 2-2) at home for senior improved immensely in capitalizing, day this Friday. Sinclair mentioned that especially in the match against Yale, the Red cannot wait to continue their where five out of six singles matches went momentum from the past weekend and into third sets. give graduating senior Stefan Vinti a win

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n an article published prior to yesterday’s final round at the Masters, ESPN senior writer Ian O’Connor wrote that, “Jordan Spieth is almost certainly going to win his second Masters title on Sunday.” He went on to assert that “there’s convincing evidence that Jordan Spieth won’t lose it.” He cited the strengths of Spieth’s game: tremendous putting, exceptional scoring at Augusta and so forth. These are the reasons that Spieth has become the face of golf, and along with his character, it is why I root for him. He finished tied for second on Sunday, three shots behind first-time Professional Golfers Association Tour winner Danny Willett.

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz The feature story on ESPN.com this morning, after Spieth disastrious quadruple bogey, was O’Connor’s latest, titled: “Jordan Spieth’s collapse at the Masters the most shocking in golf history.” The title made me wonder if perhaps this was an incredulous reaction to an overconfident prediction, as I recalled O’Connor’s piece from the previous day.

Spieth, attempting to repeat as Master’s champion, began Sunday’s final round with a one shot lead. The top of the leaderboard was crowded with the game’s top players, including the number one player in the world, Jason Day. Strong winds this year made for difficult scoring conditions when compared to last year. For example, Spieth won the 2015 Masters’ at -18, while Willett won Sunday only at -5.

Spieth birdied the final four holes of the front nine to take a commanding, five-stroke lead heading into the final nine. The 22-yearold then bogeyed holes 10 and 11, and after hitting consecutive shots into the water, carded his infamous quadruple-bogey on the par-three 12th. He dropped several spots on the leaderboard, and although he bounced back with birdies on two of the next three holes, he finished three strokes behind Willett.

To label Spieth’s play “the most shocking collapse in golf history” is gratuitous and unfair. I cannot help but wonder if such a title was written to attract clicks and views for ESPN. Judge for yourself whether Spieth’s “collapse” was the most shocking in golf history. At the 1999 British Open, Frenchman Jean van de Velde needed a double-bogey on the parfour 18th to win the tournament. He made seven in what was a hole of poor decisions and worse execution.

In his “most shocking” piece, O’Connor brushes-off Van de Velde’s as “more comedy than tragedy.” Is heartbreaking defeat comedy?

In regards to Spieth, O’Connor notes that “there was nothing remotely funny about this one.” In the 2011 Masters, Rory McIlroy took a four-shot lead into Sunday, a one-shot lead into the final nine and then went triple-bogey, bogey and double-bogey on holes 10, 11 and 12. Was that funny, too? McIlroy finished in 15th place, ten shots behind the winner.

This year, Spieth came in second place, good for $880,000; a decent consolation.

O’Connor did not mention McIlroy among those close-seconds behind Spieth’s “most See SHATZMAN page 11

Picture perfect | After losing to Dartmout, men’s tennis found its footing, beating Brown and Yale.

for his last match at home. “[I am] very excited for senior day this weekend,” Sinclair said. “We only have one senior graduating so hopefully we can get him a win in his last home match.”

Vinti, like Sinclair and Volfson, has yet to drop a singles match against Ivy rivals so far this season and is currently on a six match winning streak. His performance is a result of his experience and drive to make the most out of his last year, Tanasoui mentioned.

“I think he has a sense of urgency,” Tanasoui said. “He truly wants to be at his best for the team. I think he’s changed over the years, and he can see that his heart and soul is invested in doing his best for the team.

Following senior day’s battle with the Quakers, the Red will hit the road for Princeton (14-8, 2-2) to face off with the Tigers on Sunday.

Sam Hummel can be reached at shh84@cornell.edu.

BASEBALL

Baseball Falls to Bears, Bulldogs in two runs.

The Red (8-13, 2-4 Ivy) had just come off a sweep against Ivy League opponent Harvard (9-17, 2-6), but now sits at the bottom of the Lou

Gehrig division with two wins in the conference after a long and hard fought weekend.

“Yeah it was tough,” said head coach Dan Pepicelli.

“We got walked off pretty much three times. We are just trying to figure out the back of the bullpen a bit.”

The first and shortest game of the weekend was came against Brown (9-15, 35 Ivy), where Cornell almost executed an impressive comeback in the final inning, but fell short 4-2. Brown’s starting pitcher Christian Taugner pitched a full seven innings, picking up the win with 10 strikeouts and only one earned run.

Close but no cigar | Men’s baseball lost each game this past weekend by at most two runs, with

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By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The hometown team returned empty handed this weekend as Cornell baseball

dropped all four games in its doubleheaders against Brown and Yale. The games did not come without excitement, however, as the team managed to keep each game with-

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two games going to extras.