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Immigrant Arrest Sparks City Outrage Anabel’s Open For Business This Weekend

Feds detain Mexican national José Guzman

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Resistance | More than 300 rally against the arrest of a Mexican immigrant who an ICE spokesman said was ‘unlawfully present.’

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

“Two guys stepped out and asked, ‘Is your name José?’ to which he replied ‘Yes,’ and ICE agents in vests nabbed him,” the witness, a Cornell student and Ithaca resident, told The Sun. Ithaca officials spoke directly with U.S. Immigration and Customs The arrest mobilized Ithacans on Wednesday, more than 300 of Enforcement authorities on Wednesday to express their frustration whom gathered at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in downtown Ithaca to with the agency’s Tuesday arrest of a 32-year-old Mexican citizen who signal their anger at the detention of an Ithacan who several friends lived in the city. said was always looking to help others.

Hundreds of residents, Cornell students and local representatives Fabina Colon, the director of Ithaca’s Multicultural Resource also converged on the Ithaca Center co-organized the rally with Commons on Wednesday for a hastilyCarolina Osorio Gil, director of “This is about exploiting those who are organized protest against the enforceCultura Ithaca, within hours of The ment agency’s arrest of José L. already afraid, but I’m not afraid ...

Sun reporting the arrest.

Guzman, who an ICE spokesman said Colon, speaking shortly before 5 because of what I see here.” was an “unlawfully present Mexican p.m., said Tuesday was not the first national.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 time in her 23 years living in Tompkins Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said Ari County that she has seen or heard of Lavine, the city attorney, spoke directly someone being deported. with an ICE field director and “made it clear that we were unhappy “It has been happening — it’s not just recently,” she said. “As much that [ICE was] operating inside of Ithaca and that they were operating as we want to call our community progressive and liberal, that’s not without coordinating with the local law enforcement.” what people of color or immigrants or people who have been systemLavine said the ICE field director “invoked the new executive atically oppressed have been experiencing here.” orders” signed by President Donald Trump that give more power to A man who identified himself as Pete said he has known Guzman immigration agencies to deport unauthorized immigrants. for years and said that he “has a light about him,” which has now been Three ICE officers pulled up in an unmarked vehicle next to taken from the city.

Guzman near the corner of Cascadilla and Fourth streets on Tuesday “Yesterday, three men in an unmarked car pulled up and picked up afternoon and asked him for his name before putting him under arrest my friend off the street and he is no longer in our community,” Pete and driving away, according to a witness who spoke to The Sun on the See ICE page 4 condition of anonymity.

Sun City Editor

Starting Sunday, the trek to the grocery store may no longer involve TCAT for Cornellians.

A project more than two and a half years in the making, Anabel’s Grocery will be opening its doors to students this Sunday, allowing students to complete their grocery shopping on campus in its newly renovated location on the first floor of Anabel Taylor Hall.

Anabel’s will be open to Cornell students exclusively: undergraduates, graduates and professional students.

From its conception more than two years ago, the opening of Anabel’s is an attempt to tackle the mounting issue of food insecurity on college campuses — a problem which Joshua Miller ’17, human resources director, said is often left unsolved.

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Going shopping | Students discuss the opening of Anabel’s Grocery.

Students Support Roofs, Families in Ithaca

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Writer

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Building truss | Student volunteers from Habitat for Humanity bulid trusses for disadvantaged families in the Ithaca community.

Students have been hammering away assembling wood into trusses, the support structure for a house’s roof, on Ho Plaza every day this week.

Organized by Cornell Habitat for Humanity, these trusses will be used to build affordable housing in Tompkins County for disadvantaged families who live in substandard housing.

“Two families will live in this house, one is a single mom with two girls. She’s my hero,” Chuck Newman, construction

manager for Habitat for Humanity in Tompkins and Cortland Counties, said.

“The other family is Moroccan and Muslim. Both families are working poor but they are amazing people working hard and doing amazing things.”

Newman has been overseeing the Truss Days project, an annual event in which Habitat for Humanity members build trusses over the course of a week.

“All of the Cornell Habitat members raised money to buy the materials,” Newman said. “This year, Ithaca College See HOUSING page 3

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Prof. David Gries Shares C.U. History of Programming, Reacts to Facebook Memes

By ANNE SNABES

Gries began teaching an introductory programming course. He said that his first research focused on “compiler writing,” which is creatProf. David Gries, computer science, programmed for ing a program that “translates high level lanthe first time in 1959 on a “fake computer.” The machine guage into machine language.” used a “fake language,” Gries said, as computer languages He wrote the first book on this topic in like Java had not been invented yet.

1971. He then developed an interest in proPointing to his Mac Desktop computer, Gries empha- gramming methodology. sized that when he had his first job out of college “all we “How do I write programs, so that they’re had was a terminal keyboard, and we punched our pro- correct, and how can we prove them correct?” grams on cards, on punch cards.” he said. “[Programming methodology] was a big focus, When Gries started teaching at Cornell in 1969, the starting in 1968, ’69, ’70. And we didn’t really know how University’s computer was located near the airport. to do it at that time.”

Students “[punched] their cards” in the basement of a Gries’ research in programming methodology involves building on campus, and then the cards were shipped to making computer science more accessible to beginners. the airport.

“A lot of my research in that area has been to take those “[Students] were much more careful ideas down into the undergrad coursthan they are today, because let’s supes, because you don’t just want to pose you left out a comma on a line in “I’m happy with [the teach professional programmers,” he a program, a little syntax error, like attention]. ... There’s also explained. “Everybody should learn missing a period at the end of a senhow to program right, right from the a t-shirt now on the tence,” he said. “Well, these cards beginning.” would be trucked out to the computer, Gries has worked with Prof. Tony Slope Day.” would be loaded in and run, and five Hoare, University of Oxford, comProf. David Gries hours later, you would get the output puter science, and Prof. Edsgar W. back. If you left out a semicolon or a Dijkstra, University of Texas, Austin, period, that was it. You wasted five computer science, on this research. hours.”

“These guys did a lot of groundbreaking work in this Since the 1970s, teaching in the computer science stuff, and I just followed along,” Gries said. “I became department has changed significantly. good friends with both of them.”

“It used to be so much easier teaching,” he said. “I He said that Dijkstra wrote a book on “how to develop taught this course in 1973. How did I do it? Five minutes programs formally.” before the lecture, I would look at my notes, grab my piece “It was a difficult book to read — it was a research of chalk, and head for the board. That was it.” monograph,” he described. “I just turned things around a “I didn’t have to answer email questions, I didn’t have bit and put it in a different style and made a textbook that to look at Piazza, because there wasn’t any,” he continued. undergraduates could read. This was 1981. And I called it “Now we have to have a website that has all of the ‘Dijkstra for the masses.’”

PowerPoint slides on it, we got to set up this Piazza thing.

After college, Gries originally decided he wanted to be It’s just a lot more work, but it’s better.” a mathematician, but he said he “had to figure out what As a senior at Queens College, Gries used “machine mathematicians did first.” So he started working as a language” to program. Gries and his classmates were not mathematician-programmer at U.S. Naval Weapons even able to check the programs that they wrote, because Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. compilers were not around yet.

“There they taught us the new programming language A few years after joining the Cornell faculty, in 1973, Fortran in a week, and then we were professional programSun Staff Writer

CORINNE KENWOOD / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

mers,” he said.

Since then, Gries has been a dedicated member of the Cornell faculty. Gries enjoys teaching for numerous reasons, one of which is the long summer break. Gries said he was associate dean for eight years, and, in that position, he was the speaker for the teaching award ceremony.

“I would ask everybody, ‘What’s the three most important reasons for teaching?’” he said. “They wouldn’t know, expecting me to have a serious answer. I would then tell them, ‘June, July, and August.’ One nice thing about teaching, not about the teaching itself, is how we get breaks, and how we renew ourselves.”

He also likes the academic freedom that comes with being a professor.

“We have a lot more flexibility in what we do compared to most people,” Gries said. “We can do what we want. We have to go out and get research funds for it, of course, but it’s our choice what we work on.”

Of course, he likes to teach too.

“The teaching has been satisfying as well,” he said. “It’s nice to see students succeed.”

Recently, Gries has attracted much attention on the Internet because of his comments on Piazza. He is the subject of many memes on the Make Cornell Meme Again Facebook page.

“I probably said something at one point that caught their interest,” he said. “Some of my answers on the Piazza to questions may be a little bit short. I’m just trying to answer the question. It’s not conversational enough.”

“I’m happy with [the attention],” he continued. “I have nothing against that. There’s also a t-shirt now on the Slope Day.” Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

E.A.Debates Cornell Snow Day Policy Students Build Trusses For Ithaca

By DAVID BROTZ

Sun Staff Writer

In light of Winter Storm Stella and the following university shut down, the Employee Assembly addressed possible alterations to Cornell’s current inclement weather policy on Wednesday.

In addition, the Assembly revisited the results of the 2016 Employee Survey and the proposed academic calendars, which they discussed in the last meeting.

Prof. Charles Van Loan, dean of faculty, advocated for updating the policy, pointing out that the policy had not been updated since 2007, the last time Cornell closed due to extreme weather.

“One of the issues is this macho, ‘you better come in to work’ thing that seems to be out there, and that has to be addressed,” Van Loan said, referencing Cornell’s historical reluctance to cancel classes.

Noting the confusion the snow days caused from cancelled prelims, Van Loan suggested having a backup plan to deal with these situations.

“The trouble is there was no backup plan.

If we’re going to have a prelim night that’s wiped out, two or three days in advance, you

should have a complete backup of where the makeups will be,” he said. “That would have taken the heat out of the situation.”

One week after Winter Storm Stella, Van Loan created an email address for Cornell faculty and staff to suggest ways to improve the shutdown process. He received 330 replies.

A major theme in the survey responses was the difficult commute to Cornell.

“I don’t think there is appreciation for how far people live from the University,” Van Loan said.

Another issue that frequently came up was the apparent lack of forethought in cancelling classes.

“The main gripe is ‘I came in, and I was sent home, and now I’m doing the exact thing you were trying to avoid. You’re making me drive in terrible weather,’” Van Loan said.

“You should not have these half days; that’s kind of crazy. You should make a decision.”

Updating the policy, he argued, would solve many of these problems.

“There are things that we can definitely do that are better,” Van Loan said.

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com.

HOUSING

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also wanted to get involved, so Cornell will build 11 trusses and I.C. will build an additional 11 trusses.”

This annual event is “an opportunity for the Cornell community to, quite literally, help put a roof over an Ithaca family’s head,” said Elbert Mets ’17, chapter president.

In addition to Truss Days, the Cornell chapter supports Tompkins County Habitat for Humanity throughout the academic year. Every weekend, student volunteers are connected with local building opportunities and improvement projects in the region.

“Through weekly work trips and winter

and spring break trips, we help build and rehabilitate houses, working on anything from the initial cutting of lumber to the installation of drywall to the final planting of trees and shrubs,” member Ankit Rana ’19 said.

Cornell Habitat for Humanity members also seek to educate their community of the importance of accessible housing.

“Beyond the worksite, we aim to increase awareness and advocate for families in need by hosting events on campus to teach elementary through college students about the importance of affordable and safe housing,” Rana said.

Mets said she first decided to join the Cornell Habitat chapter

after learning about the impacts of good housing.

“I was inspired to work with Habitat when I learned that homeownership positively correlates with a number of outcomes, including children’s educational achievement,” Mets said.

However, the Habitat members agreed that the best part of a project is helping the families in need.

“The most rewarding part of the build comes after the completion of our major projects,” Rana said. “Seeing the smiles, appreciation, and excitement from the families makes all the hard work worth it.”

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com.

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Hundreds Protest ICE Arrest of Mexican Immigrant Living in Ithaca ICE

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said. “That is not okay.”

“This man, this friend, worked hard,” he said, recalling that the two often rescheduled martial arts practice because Guzman was working long hours.

Myrick said he was particularly disturbed that the ICE officers had reportedly used an unmarked car and did not inform the Ithaca Police Department before the operation took place, which he said could have led local officers to believe someone was being kidnapped.

“If you’re local law enforcement like IPD and you saw that happening ... you could get into a very dangerous and unnecessary confrontation between local law enforcement and federal law enforcement simply because ICE didn’t let us know that they had a pending arrest happening,” Myrick said.

Lavine, the city attorney, said he told the ICE field director Ithaca is “thoroughly displeased by the actions that occurred here yesterday.” He said the official seemed receptive to the idea of giving the city advance notice in the future, but did not make any commitment to do so.

“This is not about safety, this is about fear,” the mayor said in remarks during the rally. “This is about exploiting those who are already afraid, but I’m not afraid. I’m not afraid because of what I see here.”

Guzman is currently being held at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia. Both Guzman’s boss at Saigon Kitchen and an attorney who represented him in 2013 said they had not heard from him.

“I have not been able to speak to him despite multiple attempts,” the attorney, Jeffrey D. Walker, said in an email.

“I will not yet speculate on the reasons for this.”

Walker confirmed that he represented Guzman in November of 2013, when IPD arrested Guzman and accused him of stabbing a man in the stomach, an injury that sent the man to a trauma center.

Guzman was never indicted on those charges, which are still pending. Prof. Lance Salisbury, law, said it is unlikely that prosecutors would choose to not indict on a violent felony charge and the pending case could signal a lack of evidence.

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, who assumed

Colon said this will not be the last time ICE comes to office in December, confirmed that Guzman had not been indicted on those charges and said his office had not been Ithaca and that residents, who she said have been invigorated since Election Day, need to continue to take tangible in contact with ICE before or after Tuesday’s arrest.

“We didn’t hear anything from ICE,” he said. “We had action.

“Several more people are going to be detained in the no interaction with them whatsoever.”

Jamie Williamson, public information officer for IPD, future and we have to do something together as a commusaid there was “zero percent involvement” from Ithaca nity not just so that it’s lessened, but so that it stops,” she added. “This is an opportunity to take things to a bigger Police in the ICE arrest.

SUNY Cortland Prof. Ute Ritz-Deutch, history, an scale and look at things at a systemic level.” immigration expert, said Guzman should have access to a Osorio Gil, the co-organizer, said Guzman’s friends are lawyer and that the size of the protests in Ithaca would put worried about him and that people should remember he “is a human with human rights,” more pressure on the detention and that “humans are not illecenter to make sure he was able “This abduction, this kidnapping, is gal.” to contact an attorney.

Prof. Ella Maria Diaz, Ritz-Deutch said the aversimply an expression of how English and Latina/o studies, age stay in detention facilities is about 30 days, but added that obscene our society has become.” responded to people who she said immediately justify a many people are deported as Prof. Russell Rickford deportation by pointing to a quickly as three days after their crime the person has allegedly arrest, while many remain in committed. detention facilities for years “We can’t get stuck in these binaries of good or bad,” she appealing their deportation.

“If this person was accused of being involved in a violent said. “We cannot define people by one moment in time.”

Prof. Russell Rickford, history, likened the ICE officers crime, from the perspective of Trump, it does not matter if that person has been convicted,” she told The Sun, refer- to “slave-catchers” and said he was shaken by Guzman’s arrest. encing the president’s executive order.

“They’ve gotten my brother, brother José,” he said. “A “Anybody is a target,” and enforcement agencies are “going after people who in the past they didn’t bother going so-so soccer player, but a good brother, with a beautiful smile.” after,” she said.

“This abduction, this kidnapping, is simply an expresBoth the Ithaca Common Council and the Tompkins County Legislature passed sanctuary legislation restricting sion of how obscene our society has become,” he continwhen local officials or law enforcement agencies can coop- ued. “Snatching people off our streets does not make us erate with ICE and prohibiting them from asking about a safe. Shattering families does not make us safe. Destroying person’s immigration status except in situations deemed lives does not make us safe. What it does is create a climate of fear.” necessary.

Ritz-Deutch, referencing the 1960s civil rights moveMyrick and Anna Kelles, who represents the City of Ithaca on the Tompkins County Legislature, said sanctuary ment, said that even though ICE has the authority to arrest, legislation is an important part of resisting deportation of detain and deport people in Ithaca, that alone does not Ithaca residents, even while both acknowledged that locali- mean residents should not protest the actions.

“Unjust laws should be resisted,” she said. “It’s necessary ties cannot keep ICE from carrying out raids or arresting to have a community response.” people in the county.

Agencies like ICE, Ritz-Deutch said, “are grabbing as many people as they can as fast as they can” since Trump Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogelburroughs@cornellsun.com. took office.

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Anabel’s to Strive for Affordable Food Products A&S STUDENTS!!

ANABELS

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“A huge underserved population is students on college campuses who are food insecure,” Miller said.

“There’s a lot of literature saying that it exists, but there’s few solutions being developed and [Anabel’s] is kind of novel.”

Following its opening on Sunday, Anabel’s will be asking students to fill out a survey, created by the USDA, to determine eligibility for a 10 percent discount provided to students who are food-insecure.

This discount will begin to be applied after students complete the survey.

The price-point set for products, Miller said, is similar to the prices offered at Aldi, Anabel’s “model and benchmark of what a relatively cheap grocery store,” Miller said.

Because Anabel’s is not a Cornell Dining location, students will not be able to use BRB’s to make purchases. However, Anabel’s will accept Cornell card.

Upon opening, Anabel’s plans to sell a combination of fresh produce food, packaged and canned goods, and staple items for cooking and baking, according to Kerry Mullins ’18, co-director. Anabel’s will additionally offer free recipes to students in the store to encourage students to cook their own meals.

The goal of their products is to offer “accessible food that you’re going to walk into a store and understand the ingredients there and be comfortable buying and also preparing for yourself,” said Adam Shelepak ’17, co-director.

While Anabel’s aspires to fill a niche category of affordable and nutritious food on campus, Mullins and Shelepak stressed that cost remains their primary concern.

“We’re not always going to be selling organic options, we’re not always going to be selling local, we’re not always going to be seplling fair-trade,” Mullins said. “Not because we don’t think those things are important but just because Anabel’s mission is really focused around accessibility and making sure that everyone is able to buy things out of the store.”

Shelepak noted that despite certain perceptions of

Anabel’s, accessibility is their main goal.

“That’s an interesting misbranding Anabel’s has received before. … People assume that we would be local, organic, sustainable — [that’s] not necessarily true,” Shelepak said. “Cost is our primary factor that we’re going for. We’re looking to provide accessibility that is not always easy on campus.”

The store was first supposed to open in the fall of 2015, but was delayed several times largely due to budgetary concerns and construction issues associated with renovating Anabel Taylor Hall, according to Alexandra Donovan ’18, project coordinator.

With the setbacks in renovations and delays in store opening, initiatives such as the pop-up store in November have been put on by Anabel’s as a temporary preview in anticipation of the store, Miller said.

“Any frustrations and setbacks are also shared among our team and our members because we understand the need for a grocery store on campus,” Miller said. “We’re trying to be accommodating, that’s why we’ve done things like the pop-up store and to try to get people a sense of what’s going to be available at this store.”

Mullins noted that the delays are not unfamiliar to Cornell or to construction projects in general.

“In terms of renovation timelines for Cornell, this is very much so within the norm, even moving quicker than normal,” Mullins said.” While it might seem like it’s been delayed over and over and [like it’s] not going to happen, compared to a lot of other renovations of this scale, here this is moving at breakneck speed.”

“In the grand scheme of things in the development world, two years is a very short time from conception to opening day,” Mullins added. “From the idea of a store to opening a store — it’s been about three years now — that’s really, really fast.”

The opening day for Anabel’s will be held from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. However, regular store hours will be 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.

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know enough about myself, and what I tend to write, that this final, end-ofthe-semester piece will be reminiscent of this school year. I’m no longer the freshman who can write about the conflicting feelings of dorm life and the realization that everyone struggles, but never wants to leave Cornell. And I’m not a senior, who can look back on their entire college experience and find something insightful to say about those four years that — although everyone tells you shouldn’t be the best four years of your life— have to be pretty darn close. I write as a sophomore, who is in a tricky situation of finding myself halfway through my college experience. I don’t have the excuse of entirely not knowing

know. There is so much I haven’t experienced yet. But I think that’s true about every stage of life I’ll find myself in. It’s comforting, for me, to think that there will never be a time in my life when I feel as if I have known everything , experienced all there is to experience and felt everything that can be felt. I like to think that we build our life for ourselves, and we can sit in a train in perpetuity, watching the scenery pass by in a panorama, aware of colors and textures, but never truly experiencing it. Or we can get out and walk, feeling the grass between our toes, feeling the warmth of sunshine hit every inch of our skin, hearing the river as it makes its way across the rocks.

There is never a shortage of sensations,

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Cayuga’s Waiters Alumni respond to hazing allegations against on-campus group To the Editor: On April 25, Cornell released its findings on allegations of hazing by members of Cayuga’s Waiters, Cornell’s oldest all-male a cappella group. The 321-member Waiter alumni community are appalled by the incidents described in the findings. Until these allegations were leveled, hazing was never part of Cayuga’s Waiters culture. Waiter alumni stand with Cornell in condemning hazing unequivocally.

Neither the on-campus group nor alumni dispute the finding that former members introduced hazing to Cayuga’s Waiters. In fact, any alumni member implicated in hazing has been expelled from the group and any alumni activities permanently.

The findings, however, tell only part of the story. Over a number of years, group members reached out to Cornell leaders directly through its official hazing reporting channels for help in changing group culture. Those requests went unanswered. Also, it’s important to remember that Waiters who were referred to the Office of the Judicial Administrator for discipline had themselves been the victims of hazing. Nonetheless, they were working in good faith with Waiters alumni and Cornell to turn around the group’s culture per the University Hearing Board’s initial sanction. Alumni were also petitioning Judicial Administrator Michelle Horvath, Interim President Hunter Rawlings III, and other administration leaders to work with Waiter alumni on a plan that would have allowed Cayuga’s Waiters to continue as an institution, with the active involvement and supervision of alumni under new governance documents and structures, and after a multi-year suspension. The proposed sanction is more severe than the one recommended by the UHB, but more forward-looking than the dismissal ordered by the University Review Board and endorsed by Interim President Rawlings.

Nonetheless, Waiter alumni stand by our hope to work with Cornell to raise awareness of the damage hazing can do to students and the Cornell community. We also hope to continue performing at Cornell Reunions, for alumni groups, and the general public. A short documentary titled “Old Men Singing” about alumni Waiters from the 1950s who perform every year at Reunions was released recently. It is an intimate look at the varied, deeply personal experiences that have been the true hallmark of the Cayuga’s Waiters experience at Cornell and thereafter.

Each Cayuga’s Waiters alumnus wants to thank the countless fans from across the decades for their encouragement and support during this difficult time. The main reason Cayuga’s Waiters exists is to celebrate the Cornell experience in song, and to make people happy along the way. While we hold out hope this is not how the song ends for Cayuga’s Waiters, we would like music, fun, and pride in the shared Cornell experience to be our lasting legacy.

Nat Comisar ’81, on behalf of Cayuga’s Waiters Alumni Advisory Board

“Freshman year, you don’t know but you think you know. Sophomore year, you don’t know and you know you don’t know. Junior year, you know, but you don’t know you know. Senior year, you know and you know you know.”

what I’m doing, but I’m free from the intense pressure of becoming a real person in the real world. It’s a strange place to find myself. Looking ahead, I see one semester in Ithaca, another abroad, and two more as a senior. And the end looks a lot closer now.

I still remember what my microeconomics professor said in class on the first day: “Freshman year, you don’t know but you think you know. Sophomore year, you don’t know and you know you don’t know. Junior year, you know, but you don’t know you know. Senior year, you know and you know you know.” As convoluted as that sounds, I see a certain truth in it. But what does it even mean to “know?” Is it the knowledge you gain from classes, from narrowing in on a specific subject and becoming an expert in that field? I think it extends beyond just material knowledge. I think “knowing” comes from all the experiences we have as college students, and although one can argue that we’re still young and there are real life, adult experiences we have to encounter before really truly “knowing,” I’d say they’re right. I’d also say that we learn a lot more during these four years at college then we will during any other four years we have ahead of us.

We learn how to balance everything — and I mean everything. From when to eat, to what courses to choose, to whether or not to go out at night, we make decisions on our own, weighing the internal and external factors, deciding what is a priority or not. We navigate relationships and figure out what we want for ourselves and others. We suddenly realize the realest parts of who we are.

I think “knowing” only comes from being here for four years, of having the entire experience. Of having those moments when you don’t think you can make it out in one piece but still struggle through anyway. Of feeling that your heart could burst by the sheer purity and happiness of a moment. Of wanting to cry because things are too overwhelming and never seem to end. Of being so content with who you are and what you’re doing that you wouldn’t change a thing.

And as a sophomore, I know I don’t

things of which we aren’t yet aware.

But college is such a confined place where so much happens every day, whether that’s because of the proximity of so many students or the exposure to so many new things at once. Our selfgrowth is sped up in this four-year experience; it can be difficult, but it’s something I’m already grateful for.

It happens a lot these days. On cold days in Ithaca, bundled up in bed. Or now that it’s warmer, lounging on the deck outside my house. And we speculate. In wonder of how up until this point, we have always had a conventional path — which not everyone follows, but the majority of us take — that led us from elementary to middle to high school. That led us to take the SATs or ACTs and apply to college. We’ve always had a designated path laid out for us; things we felt we “had” to do in order to achieve success. The ultimate goal? A good job. But then what? For the longest time, we’ve known what we had to do; we knew the next step. But after the vague notion of getting a job after college, we have endless, undesignated years. Time that seems to stretch on without dictation. Nothing is very clear and laid out for us. There are no boundaries anymore that confine us in a single direction.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that these four years are times of immense self-growth, the final years of something so constructed and laid out for us. And I want to use this to my advantage, using these four years to feel safe about not knowing. But I also want to appreciate and experience as much as I can, whether that’s going to Applefest in the fall and buying as many apple loaves as I can, going to the Ithaca Farmers Market on the weekend, sledding down the slope in the winter and laying on the arts quad in the spring. Because although there is so much I don’t know yet, I can be sure about one thing: there’s nothing like RPCC brunch on a Sunday.

Gaby Leung is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Reflections of a Cornell Democrat

oon, I will leave Ithaca. Accordingly, this column is the end of my time at The Sun. So I ask you to forgive me as this graduating Democrat takes a moment to reflect upon his values and his four years on Cornell’s campus.

When I started my freshman year, I was already a progressive who kept a close eye on politics. I didn’t quite need the stereotypical college experience of “awakening” to the world around me. But my deep interest in our political system did not correspond to any significant involvement in its actual processes. I was observing from a distance.

That’s not how it should work. The United States of America is a democratic republic, and we are governed by institutions that arise from the participation of the people. And I firmly believe, now more than ever, that all of us are obliged to engage with that system.

Problems run deep, yes. But they will never be solved by withdrawal. For Democrats to win, and for progressive values to triumph, we must put ourselves out there every single day. We need to vote, to organize, to protest, to push back against the things we oppose and speak up for everything we support.

The work of maintaining a democracy, after all, is not easy. I’ve called this column Democratic Dialogue for a reason — because our system demands debate and conversation in order to function. We need to be willing to take a moment simply to listen. Whether it’s here at Cornell, at home, or elsewhere, it is crucial to hear life experiences that are different from your own. Try your best to understand why other people

hold the views that they do.

And we should be introspective as well.

To defend your beliefs properly, you must realize why you hold them in the first place.

Furthermore, remember the distinction between the issues that are negotiable and those are not. Spirited discussions on policy should be welcomed,ut the importance of discussion does not obligate you to debate someone who refuses to acknowledge your humanity.

So yes, listen. Explain your own perspective. And when needed, draw your line in

rupt, that a minimum wage worker can afford to feed his children and that we leave a habitable planet to future generations.

Politics is important because it’s how we work to improve the world and the lives of our fellow citizens.

That’s the reason we need to be involved.

That’s why, since the early days of my freshman year, I’ve considered myself a Cornell Democrat. I will never shy away from the fact that I believe the Democratic Party is the best vehicle we have for enacting progressive change. And I am a strong advocate for maintaining that presence on campuses like Cornell.

I dispute the myth that our generation is simply apathetic.

That’s not what I’ve seen.

However, I’ve learned how important it is to make sure you actually Democratic Dialogue put in the work. It’s too pessimistic to assume no one cares enough to do it. And it’s far easy to assume someone else is doing it.

If you see a problem that needs the sand. Which brings me to my next to be fixed, or an opportunity for change, point: politics is not just a game. The goal of take the initiative. Put in the effort and tell political engagement is not to get selfies with people why it’s important. When you do, elected officials or land the perfect snarky jab they’ll often meet you halfway. The passion at the opposition. I get the impulse. It’s for activism and democracy is contagious. framed this way by pundits, cable news, and Before you know it, you’ll have a team of especially during the past election, by our dedicated volunteers going. You’ll have politicians. However, the reason to become Cornellians going into the Ithaca communiinvolved in politics should neither be ego, ty to learn the issues they care about. You’ll nor spite nor a desire to score points against have them registering their fellow students and driving them to distant polling places. the other team.

This matters because elections choose the You’ll have a campus where civic participapeople who run our government. It’s tion thrives. And that’s why I’m so proud because our engagement has a direct result and honored to have been a part of the on the policy that will affect our friends, our Cornell Democrats.

I would have never imagined that my family and neighbors. It’s about making sure that getting sick won’t make you go bank- journey would have ultimately resulted in

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me taking the helm of this organization, let alone New York’s statewide federation of College Dems chapters. But I know now that there’s a lot that I’ll never forget. I still remember Clubfest in a overcrowded and overwhelming Barton Hall. I remember long days knocking doors in Ithaca, and evenings spent on campaign call streets.

Wednesday meetings in McGraw Hall.

Rainy canvassing in Pennsylvania, and sunny voter registration mornings on Ho Plaza. I remember smiles from first-time voters, and of course, I remember a difficult night in November.

Progress, as we’ve all learned, is not inevitable. But it is possible, and through it all, I remain deeply optimistic for the future of activism both here at Cornell and across our country. We may have been knocked down, but we’re stronger than ever. For me, I’ve been thankful to find a group of people who not only share my values, but who lift each other up when times get tough. That’s the resiliency we will all need. That’s the support, and the compassion, that underlies Democratic values.

I am eternally grateful for the remarkable academic experience I’ve had at Cornell, but it’s only a part of what I’ve learned. The most important lessons I’ve had have come from my involvement in the Cornell Democrats and activism on this campus. I am forever inspired and humbled by the hard work and dedication I’ve seen from my fellow students. I will miss the hell out of it here. To those who will continue the work at Cornell, thank you. Let’s always make sure Big Red stays Blue.

Kevin Kowalewski is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at krk78@cornell.edu.

Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

THROWDOWN THURSDAYS I

Europe’s Elections: Macron and May

n the next couple of weeks, the peoples of France and the United Kingdom will make important decisions regarding the future of their respective nations and of Europe as a whole. In France, the people face a presidential choice between a centrist, relatively inexperienced moderate and a highly controversial, far-right nationalist. In Britain, the people must choose between the pragmatic, centrist incumbent Prime Minister and a far-left socialist. The choices these two countries make over the coming weeks will help decide the fate of the European experiment.

Marine Le Pen has become a household name across the globe for her verbose language and radical ideas. The leader of the far-right National Front party, Le Pen has energized many young and working-class voters who feel that the European Union’s policies of open borders and free trade has stripped France of its industrial base and middle class jobs.

She has, in effect, become a Trump-like figure in France. Her rhetoric is highly populist, her ideals and policies are quite controversial and she has gained the support of disenchanted white working-class voters. Le Pen –– who is currently a highly influential member of the European Parliament –– has spent the greater part of her professional life campaigning for a jingoistic, nativist platform originally spearheaded by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. If elected President, Le Pen will change the face of Europe for the foreseeable future. Her desire to remove France from the European Union will all but ensure the destruction of the European experiment, as most economic and political commentators believe that the European Union cannot survive a “Frexit.” Emmanuel Macron, Le Pen’s challenger, stands in stark contrast to the right-winger. Unlike Le Pen, who was first elected to political office in the 1990s, Macron is a political novice. He has never held elected office, and the only government position he has held was a two-year stint as Finance Minister. Furthermore, his ideas and policies are highly centrist: he supports the European Union, free trade and open immigration.

In the race between these two radically different candidates, I encourage the people of France to stand behind Macron. Le Pen’s policies are, quite frankly, absurd. Her protectionist economic policy would decimate the French economy, and her anti-E.U. stance would destroy the world’s most important post-war institution. Though flawed, the European Union is the best vehicle to ensure that the European continent does not break out into yet another catastrophic war. Furthermore, Le Pen has made a series of incredibly anti-Semitic comments that should disqualify her from the presidency.

Just across the English Channel, the people of Britain face an important electoral decision as well. Last month, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the United Kingdom would hold early parlia- Cornell Shrugged mentary elections to help ensure stability as the nation leaves the E.U. Like France, this election will have exceptionally important consequences for the future of Britain and Europe.

Theresa May is at the center of this election. The tough, pragmatic leader has a long political resume: she was first elected to Parliament in 1997, held two major cabinet posts (including Home Secretary, one of the most important offices in the cabinet), and served in a long list of positions in the Shadow Cabinet. Described by many as the new “Iron Lady,” May has gained the reputation of being a formidable leader and an adept politician. It is her goal to help Britain leave the E.U. as smoothly as possible by preserving many of the trade deals between the U.K. and Europe.

Leading the charge against May is a man disliked by

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many: Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party.

Though he was first elected to Parliament in 1983, Corbyn was a relative back bencher until 2015. He held no cabinet posts during Labour’s 13 years in government between 1997 and 2010, and was considered by many to hold little to no influence over national politics. In 2015, after Labour’s disastrous performance in the parliamentary elections, the party’s far-left factions united to bring Corbyn out of the back benches,electing him Leader of the Opposition. In his time as opposition leader, Corbyn’s socialist populism has worked to alienate large segments of Labour’s electoral base – – especially in working-class Northern England. In addition, his radical redistribution plans and poor management led two-thirds of the Labour Shadow Cabinet to resign in protest.

If Britain is to leave the E.U. smoothly, then the only rational choice for the people of the United Kingdom is Theresa May and the Conservative Party.

May has consistently proven that she possesses the competence and steady hand to lead the U.K. through times of great uncertainty. At the same time, Corbyn’s tenure as opposition leader has been characterized by incompetence and a radical, far-left agenda that threatens to derail Britain’s economic recovery.

The choice for France and the U.K. is clear: avoid the radicals at all costs. May and Macron are two forward-thinking leaders who will refuse to allow the failed policies of socialism, protectionism, anti-Semitism and pure hatred divide their respective nations.

Michael Glanzel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mg786@cornell.edu. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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DINING GUIDE

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Establishment: An Inside Look

By CATHERINE ELSAESSER

Whether or not the students have much food and beverage experience besides HADM remember when I first 2360 — the introductory culilearned about Estab - nary class — under their belt, lishment. My freshman they must find or create their year, I was so excited to be on recipes, translating them into a campus and immerse myself in standard format that all stuthe Hotelie culture. At that dents will be able to follow point, Establishment was still and recreate in the kitchen held in Terrace — once the during service. salad line had died down for Two of my close Hotelie the day and the students could friends and I planned and move into the cramped kitchen managed the first student-run to execute their specialty night of that spring semester, menus — and I went with one creating a menu that was of my best friends to dine, focused on chocolate, even in hoping to learn what the class savory applications. Our feat u r e s included a “Even if the students are going into butternut s q u a s h finance, real estate or consulting, I soup with hope they take away positive chipotle chocolate memories of Establishment.” drizzle and c o c o a Catherine Elsaesser ’17 crusted croutons; was all about. From then on, I an entree of a pork chop with looked forward to the opportu- roasted carrots, mashed rednity to have my own manage- skin potatoes, and chocolate ment night and be able to let red wine sauce and a tableside my passion for food and bever- hot chocolate service to engage age shine. our guests. Even though we Fast forward to the spring did have to comp a few dishes of my junior year, and due to kitchen errors and conEstablishment had relocated to soled our student in charge of its current home on the second the tableside hot chocolate floor of Statler Hall, with a after he made 42 quenelles of beautiful 16 table dining room whipped cream, the night was overlooking campus with a success. I was so proud of floor-to-ceiling windows. The my management night and students in this class work in knew I wanted to T.A. the class groups of three to complete during my senior year at the their management night, with Hotel School. two of the managers in the One year later, I have made back of the house focusing on that hope a reality, finally the food and one in the front becoming a teaching assistant of the house interacting with for the class during my last guests in the dining room. semester on the hill. Being on Students are given the freedom the T.A. side of the class is very to pick any theme they like, different from what I experiwith the only limitations being enced as a student; still, I keeping the food cost low enjoy not only the challenges enough for the specials to and opportunities to learn in align with the standard menu the kitchen, but also the abiliprices and acquiring specialty ty to practice my leadership ingredients.

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making each night the best it can be. I have grown close to many of the chefs through my work as a T.A. for the introductory culinary class at the hotel school, and working with them in Establishment brightens my week.

As the Hot Foods 1 T.A., I’m in charge of the students who work in the fry, grill and saute stations. This is arguably the hottest station in the kitchen, and it is usually busy with entree orders or preparations of management specials.

The Hot Foods 2 T.A. manages the pasta entrees, hot appetizers and many specials in the station directly across from the Hot Foods 1 line.

There’s the pizza station, pantry station for salads, and dessert station that are managed by the chefs and other staff, completing the kitchen.

Our kitchen is configured much differently from a real restaurant kitchen, and we are capped at around 110 covers maximum each night, but students are able to get a feeling for a restaurant kitchen.

The kitchen becomes silent as service begins, with the students, T.A.s and chefs calling back the ticket orders as the expo receives them. I love watching it all come together, and I encourage the managers for the night to take ownership of their dishes and to make the food the best it can be. Even if the students are going into finance, real estate or consulting, I hope they take away positive memories of Estab lishment, the camaraderie of the kitchen and the class and a deeper understanding and appreciation of the work people in the food and beverage industry do every day. Because for me, food is love, and I hope I am able to share this love with the students that pass through the Establish ment kitchen.

Catherine Elsaesser is a senior in the School of Hotel Administration.

She can be reached at celsaesser@cornellsun.com.

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Stress, Eating and Stress-Eating

By MIKAYLA KUYKENDALL Sun Staff Writer

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f you type “most stressed colleges” into Google, you’ll find Cornell at the top of pretty much every list. Trying to juggle prelims, papers, projects and extracurriculars does not make for a very zen environment, even though Ithaca is somewhat isolated and has pretty waterfalls.

The buffet-style dining halls and the endless availability of snacks on campus don’t make it too easy to avoid food as an effective stress relief strategy. Trust me, my go-to snack last week consisted of alternating between salt ‘n’ vinegar chips and M&Ms for every sentence I typed. It was a 12-page paper. They were family size bags.

However, stress is, on its own, detrimental to a person’s health, and eating to combat stress just makes it worse.

Stress causes a hormonal response, specifically one involving cortisol. Cortisol has been dubbed the “stress hormone” because it is involved in the “fight or flight” response when a person experiences a stressor. Cortisol in small amounts is normal, and its levels return to normal when the stressor has been removed. It’s when the stress lingers that the issues start to arise.

Cortisol causes metabolic dysfunction by inhibiting glucose uptake so that it the glucose can be readily used by the body. This causes cells to feel starved, triggering hunger signals to the brain.

Because of this, you stay up until 4 a.m., and you distract yourself from the feeling of being overwhelmed by eating a handful of Goldfish or a peanut butter sandwich or a Bomber pizza from Sammy’s (which I highly recommend, but not at 4 a.m.) while simultaneously drinking some caffeinated beverage that has more grams of sugar than any liquid should contain.

When stress-eating occurs regularly, it makes it a lot easier to consume an excessive amount of calories. Most late-night snacks don’t consist of foods that nutrition majors would approve of, like lowfat yogurt with granola, carrots and hummus or apple slices dipped in no more than a serving size of peanut butter (oh yeah, it actually is possible not to eat the whole jar at once). They tend to consist of carb-rich, sugary and/or super salty things that sit on the shelf in Jansen’s for the whole semester. I’m sorry, but Little Debbie isn’t going to help you write your annotated bibliography with at least 15 refer-

ences. With this extra calorie intake comes all of the illnesses related to unhealthy weight gain and chronically elevated cortisol levels. These include diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, cardiovascular disease and immune system suppression.

Stress eating at odd hours is going to happen, especially in a place that’s consistently listed among America’s most stressful colleges. However, it is important to do so responsibly. First and foremost, find an effective way to manage your stress that doesn’t involve food. Listen to music, watch an episode of The Office, go for a walk and look at the pretty waterfalls, work out at Teagle (my favorite place), do yoga or hang out with your best friend. If you’ve tried something else and the stress still drives you to food, try to be a little more mindful. While I am very much aware that reaching for a bag of snap peas or eating the nutrition major-approved snacks listed above may not be so realistic when you have 200 more pages to read, it is definitely possible to monitor how many fun-sized Snickers bars you’ve had. Instead of blindly reaching into a bag of chips, pour some out so you can see how many you’re actually eating. Then try to eat them over an extended period of time or after you’ve read so many pages instead of inhaling them all at once and reaching for more.

If you’re still needing a snack to keep you going during odd hours or even during regular business hours, Jansen’s Market in Noyes has string cheese, yogurt, handy dandy cups of hummus with pretzels or carrot, and the ingredients for a peanut butter sandwich. Libe Cafe in Olin Library has yogurt and bowls of soup that you can heat up in the microwave. These places are both open pretty late, but if you need something after 1 a.m., the 7-11 in Collegetown is open 24 hours and has snack packs with nuts and cheese, fresh fruit and little cups of guacamole that are just perfectly portioned.

Using these resources can help relieve some of the stress that accumulates during the semester and reduce health risks associated with chronically elevated cortisol levels.

These risks also include the temptation to overeat, causing an unhealthy weight gain and increasing probability of obesity-related illnesses.

Mikayla Kuykendall is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at mpk77@cornell.edu.

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Baltimore: Questions Idea of Race

ace has long been a salient topic in the United States, but the production of Baltimore by the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Ithaca Civic Ensemble demonstrates why it is so important to talk about right now. The play touches on crucial concepts such as police brutality, the black-white binary, intersectionality and jokes that go too far, all on a college campus.

An African-American student and R.A. named Shelby (Edem Dzodzomenyo ’20) goes to interview her university’s new dean, Dean Hernandez (Irving Torres ’18) for the newspaper, and they argue about his convocation speech and the issue of race on campus, which Shelby prefers to ignore. She leaves frustrated about his views on race and goes to vent about the encounter with her best friend, Grace (Sabrina Liu ’20). During their conversation, Grace receives a message and informs Shelby that someone has drawn a caricature of a black woman on the door of Shelby’s resident, Alyssa, who is black. Shelby subsequently receives constant calls from her residents, which she refuses

to answer.

Back in the dorm, Shelby’s residents are all dealing with the incident, and Alyssa is nowhere to be found. Fiona (Siobhan Brandman ’17), a white girl who drew the caricature, is defending her actions to Bryant (Marquan Jones ’20), whom she asks to speak about it with Alyssa because he is also black. She insists that it was just a joke and that it was funny, and that if she didn’t intend for it to be hurtful then Alyssa shouldn’t be hurt. Afterwards, Leigh (Delmar Fears ’19), Rachel (Alejandra C. W. Rodriguez), and Carson (Scott Blankenbaker grad) talk about the incident. Leigh discusses life as an African-American woman, Rachel explains her troubles with the black-white binary as a Latina woman, and Carson, who is white, insists that he doesn’t see race.

Shelby is aware that race has consequences but constantly insists that she doesn’t see race and that we live in a post racial society because she has never been given the tools to talk about race and doesn’t want things to get messy. She expresses envy of her friend Grace who had

Chinese school once a week as a way to help her explore her cultural identity, even though Grace has struggled with being seen for who she is instead of as just an Asian girl.

The play does a good job of acknowledging the ways that members of different racial groups are treated beyond the black-white binary. Shelby discusses the deaths of black men at the hands of police while Rachel expresses support for the Black Lives Matter movement but asks, “Where are the Latinos supposed to fit in all that? Or Native lives? They’re dying too!”

Leigh’s character also brings up the issue of the intersection between race and gender in discussing life as a black woman, and sexual orientation is touched on when Rachel mentions her girlfriend and Carson says that he is “not sure about the whole hetero thing.” The final conversation between the residents seems to suggest that conversing with those unwilling to listen like Fiona can be productive, which may not be true. However, it is clear that the play intends to start a dialogue about race and to remind the audience that this is necessary, and it certainly

accomplishes this.

The cast was excellent, and all of their struggles with their own identities and with talking about race felt very real, especially since racism on college campuses is a topic that the cast and much of the audience has to confront every day.

Sabrina Liu’s performance as Grace stood out, as she portrayed convincingly Grace’s struggles with her own identity as well as the delicate situation of wanting to help Shelby’s residents without confronting her best friend.

Baltimore is an extremely timely and relevant play and clearly demonstrates why talking about race is necessary. The cast deals very well with such sensitive issues and makes them feel personal to the audience, helping to open up a dialogue about race in a time when doing so is crucial.

Baltimore will be performed in the Schwartz Center’s Kiplinger Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on May 5 and at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on May 6.

Emily Fournier is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at efournier@cornellsun.com.

Everyone’s a Prophet When They Don’t Know What to Say

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started writing this column two years ago, and then again a year ago. No, really it’s in my iPhone notes. I’m an irritatingly nostalgic sort of person, it’s not cute. At those times, my own personal zeitgeist must have seemed clear to me. Self-satisfied and obnoxious as these shrivelled up column introductions read to me now — written bathed in the smug, warm glow of a coherent sense of self — their existence indicates to me that I knew these moments wouldn’t last. It’s telling that I was seized with urgency to cash in on them, and squeeze out a piece of writing while it lasted. I must have been trying to look out for my future self — to try to save myself from the anxiety of having to look over, under deadlines, and try to shake a zeitgeist of my very thesisspent body.

This is the last column I will write ever for The Cornell Daily Sun, an organization I joined in desperate search of a sense of self. I am zeitgeist-less.

I became viscerally aware of this fact about two weeks ago when I found myself sitting on the floor of an Olin Library bathroom, at around midnight, sobbing without pants on. I was in the library because I was working on my honors thesis and I was crying because I was seriously considering the possibility that my honors thesis was trash; that all my teachers, loved ones, (in the case of my thesis) favorite bands would very soon discover me as a fraud. That all my ugliest and most unlivable fears about myself were very, very true. I didn’t have pants on because my jeans felt too tight and it was distracting, so I took them off in order to give my full attention to crying.

I have become fairly certain that happiness is just finding people and activities that distract you from these ugly feelings so that you can live. If there’s a video game “expert” level of existing beyond that, I’ve never made it that far. But, despite best efforts of Daniel Toretsky ‘16, on the floor of that bathroom, I was resolutely concentrated on how shitty and useless of a person I was.

What I felt on the floor of that bathroom in Olin brings me to The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment section. It’s a truly remarkable thing that I spent so much of the last few years writing for the Arts section, because writing is an activity that distinctly doesn’t distract me from all these bad, ugly feelings about myself, but rather puts me intimately, erogenously, inescapably in touch with them.

Every two weeks for most of the past two years, I’ve opened my laptop to a big white Word document of crippling anxiety, dread and self-loathing. It’s a masochistic ritual, really. I comb my consciousness and experiences for a potentially interesting thought I’ve had about popular culture over the past 2 week, write a sentence, read it over 10 times to check that it doesn’t sound corny or boring or unoriginal or sentimental or over-referential or under-referential or naive or pompous or terrible or too snarky/bloggy or too sincere or too like I’m “trying too hard.”

Rinse and repeat about 28 times, until 700-1000 words. By the end of the column, I’m usually so anxious, frantic and desperate to escape the pulsing, tell-tale heart of that Word document that I bleed out the last sentence, send it off and slam my laptop shut without proofreading. If I spend another second looking at it, I

might start tearing up the floorboards.

This might sound strange considering I tend to write columns about things like the Chainsmokers, The Walking Dead, Magic Mike XXL and mosh pits, but bear with me. Maybe I take myself too seriously, or maybe that’s the beauty of the arts column: getting to take oneself and mass culture extremely seriously (sorry, I’m doing it right now).

So, everytime I write a column, I get naked with every ugly, dizzyingly and terrifying thought I am prone to: that I am unintelligent, boring, superficial, incapable of non-derivative ideas, lazy, inarticulate, inadequate and generally shallow, uncreative and deluded in thinking that I might be an ok person. When I eventually ran for and became an editor of the Arts and Entertainment section, I also faced these feelings daily. That’s my dirty secret. Writing undoes me. It’s why I’ll never be a writer, but it’s why I write.

Why did I do it? No one paid me, no one asked me to and no one really cares that I Objectivity did. Of course, I did it because Bites I think pop culture and music is important and meaningful, and I find something uniquely and profoundly gratifying in challenging myself to think critically about art and entertainment, yadda yadda, etc, etc, and other things which are all true, which I’ve said before, and which are not the topic of this column. This column is not about those things because, if I’m being honest, I don’t think a love of criticizing art and music alone would be enough to keep me coming back to the word document.

I think I did it. And, I keep doing it because I get to author a coherent “me” into every column. Once every two weeks, I find a stable “self” for 900 words. No every column I’ve written has achieved what I’m talking about. But, sometimes, when I read a column in which I found what writers call “voice,” I’m able to look at it from the outside and imagine the coherent, fathomable person who wrote it, who had a set of perceptions and ideas and values and opinions that came from a place of trueness and identity. And I realize that person is me, and that voice was mine.

It’s not really about finding truth. I’ve written many foolish, erratic, obsolete selves into columns. I’ve found a momentary self in opinions I no longer think are true (like that irony isn’t killing us; that Phantogram’s Voices was pretty good), and in ideas that are truly tedious (social media is legitimate and political, the trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is sexist, wow!). I’ve found myself in wanting to hate-fuck the Chainsmokers; in having failed to read Infinite Jest, in believing with all my heart that Mitski will save us; in disliking moshing; in understanding Instagram as good place where things like feminist art happens; and in insisting that maybe there are complex reasons why Taylor beat out Kendrick for the grammy!

These ideas and opinions I undid myself to get at are not my identity, although some have pointed me in the right direction.

But they are at least evidence of a consciousness and a subjectivity that is, undeniably, irrevocably mine.

As the good indie rock band, Girlpool, sings, “I’m still looking for sureness in the way I say my name.” If you are like me, you say your name with a question mark and fall apart in library

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bathrooms and despite what feminist theorists say about millennial feminists having been “raised on post-structuralism” — you’re a boring, normative, essential-locus-seeking cliché and all you want in this big creepy world is to find livable sense of self.

Being a part of the Arts and Entertainment section has helped me say my name with a little more sureness, and learning about this fickle thing called myself right here in the column section has been a strange and wonderful pleasure.

The kind of Arts section where this can happen, however, involves a small critical mass of people who give a shit. It is is my experience and my hope that there will always be a few people who give a shit about the Arts section; who stumble on it in search of something, realize something cool is going on here and decide to stay.

I’m really only here because I noticed folks like Zach Zahos ‘14, James Rainis ‘14, Alice Wang ‘13, Julia Moser ‘14, Arielle Cruz ‘14 and Sean Doolittle ‘14 giving a shit, and writing words which made me want to write, too.

I’m really only here because of Kaitlyn Tiffany ‘14, without whose encouragement to become a columnist and eventually Arts editor, my ugly feelings would likely have gotten the best of me; whose writing I savor each week like… well, like a girl with another girl’s newsletter, and who almost certainly has no idea how much she and her writing mean to me.

Thank you to my angelic and patient editors, Andrei Kozyrev ‘20 and Katie Sims ‘20 who have tolerated me in a semester when my columning was either not-at-all or a garbled stream of consciousness, and who are making cool things happen in this section.

Thank you to my former co-editor, Mike Sosnick ‘16, who, although we had a challenging co-editorship, I’m happy to say now messages me when he goes on Tinder dates with Instagram artists I like :) Thank you to the arts section boys, who unexpectedly became many of my dearest friends in college. I was wholly prepared to be a loner, and gratifyingly resent all you dumb music boys who loved Radiohead — you have collectively proved to me that this is not always an effective criteria to weed out assholes. It was the project of a lifetime not to feel like a cool girl around you and I often failed.

Such boys include my former editors, Shay Collins ‘18, whose obsessiveness with whatever’s on his mind never fails to charm me, and Troy Sherman ‘18, whose brilliance and ability to articulate and defend his opinions is so capacious, as to have been the subject of some one-woman plays I have performed. Don’t worry.

I’m just jealous. To Sam Bromer ‘16, in whom I found someone who felt many of the same anxieties I did about writing and life in general, and thus, is one of the best humans in the world to kvetch to. To Chris Stanton ‘17—who I am so deeply glad I coerced into writing for this section. Thank you for the hip-hop education, I’m waiting for your Wall Street crime thriller, please put some women characters in it. And finally, to Jack Jones, ‘18, who is my best friend and someone I could not live without.

Maybe that’s dramatic. Whatever.

Alright. I’m out.

Jael Goldfine is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Objectivity Bites appears alternate Thursdays this semester. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

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Adieu to the Arts Section

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his is my last column. It’s the last time I’ll spill out a series of opinions about musicians that I’m unjustifiably obsessed with, the last time I’ll claim any sort of authority on the arts. When I stumbled into the Arts and Entertainment section, I was a struggling sophomore, trying to find a space to write outside of my courses. My dad was eager for me to join The Cornell Daily Sun, having heard of the many successful alumni that started their writing careers at The Sun. I took his word for it, and started writing test spins and single reviews, enjoying my newfound freedom to spell out my opinions on quarter-page sections of the paper.

In the past few years, this column has been my personal playground. I’ve used it to vent about the election and com-

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ment on my love of the Tiny Desk Concert Series. It’s been a place for me to rant about the latest albums, reflect on artists I’d seen in concert and analyze films and TV shows I’d found particularly thought provoking. I’ve enjoyed it not for the fame and fortune because, as Arts columnists know, few actually read our section. Rather, it has forced me to examine my tastes and expand upon them. During my time at this section, I’ve attended events I would have never considered. I went to plays at the Schwartz, concerts at the State Theatre and reviewed albums by artists I’d never heard of. I wrote about other things too: mainly Spotify, Billie Holiday and autotune. And while many articles were scraped together in the hours before my deadline and in the midst of prelim and

essay seasons, I enjoyed writing them.

I’m not going to lie and claim that I’m upset about leaving Cornell. My time here has been tumultuous at best, and I’m eager to move on. But leaving this section feels somehow more difficult. I’ll miss the hours spent thinking of new ways to describe intricate music by artists few know or care about. I’ll miss sifting through my seasonal playlists, in search of something new to write about, or exploring my Netflix queue as a way to procrastinate my assignments. Most of all, I’ll miss having a space for these strange thoughts of mine.

As my final parting words, I want to thank my friends and family for reading my silly opinions and allowing me to field my ideas before committing them to paper. Thank you to the many won-

derful editors who have given me the opportunity to share my thoughts in this section. And to the select audience of people who actually read this section, keep spreading your love of the arts.

We’re entering a time where the arts are truly at risk, and it’s all the more important for all of us to do our part, to remind people of the importance of creating and consuming art of all sorts.

Keep reading, writing, watching and listening. In times of flux, when things seemed particularly difficult or chaotic, I always turned to the arts. And I’ll continue to do so, even as I move away from the world of arts journalism.

Anita Alur is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aa567@cornell.edu.

White Tears: Transcending Time

ari Kunzru’s new novel White Tears takes the reader on a historical rollercoaster that weaves between the real and the surreal. A novel that comments on various dimensions of the race problem in America, White Tears transports both the novel’s protagonist, Seth, and its audience between contemporary New York City and Southern states under the oppression of Jim Crow. Kunzru skillfully navigates a complex novel with a plot that is not simply entertaining, but one that also carries an important message about the notions of culture and “post-racial America.”

The Wall Street Journal claims that “Kunzru can rival…any current novelist with the strength of his prose and imaginative blondness,” and indeed his latest novel proves this statement true. A Brooklyn native, Kunzru does an incredible job of painting the city in vivid shades of grit and romance. The first half of the novel, carried by the New York City setting, portrays a tangible realism that depicts the protagonists’ specious “struggling artist” identities. Seth and Carter are two young white men with drastically different personalities. While their unlikely friendship leads them to New York after college where they attempt to kickstart their careers as music

producers alongside their shared hobby of record collecting, Seth and Carter’s respective backgrounds land them as polar characters.

Seth is an understated, seemingly overseen guy who hides in the shadow of Carter, the wealthy and privileged “hipster Jesus” who is constantly in the spotlight. Seth, the brains and creativity of their joint operation, gets by on the popularity and money of Carter. They believe that their joint passion for early twentieth century jazz and blues music entitles them to an understanding of black culture. In college, Carter sports dreadlocks and denounces his privilege in attempt to claim the struggle of the black artist as his own. This tension and expression of cultural appropriation leads Carter to his downfall in New York City.

While trying to sign a popular rap artist, the old tune to a song dubbed “Graveyard Blues” is on repeat in Carter’s head. Carter, with the help of Seth, forged a record claiming the voice is that of Charlie Shaw, a name Carter apparently invented when he published the song to online forums. After the record received overwhelming praise on the internet, especially from one particular collector, Carter ventured into the Bronx in search of what Seth believed was a deal involving an elusive record and the fake one they created. After this excur-

sion, Carter mysteriously ends up hospitalized with severe injuries. Shocked, Seth and Carter’s sister, Leonie, seek out answers to Carter’s unfortunate demise. It is their quest for answers that transports Seth into different eras of race relations in America.

The second half of the novel drops the reader rather unexpectedly into a surrealist ghost story in which Seth and Leonie travel from North to South, from present to past.

Under the guidance of the suspicious online collector, Seth begins to understand that his déjà vu sentiments are not mind games.

Instead, Seth is repeating a journey he has made before. Seth and the online collector’s narratives alternate without warning, blurring their identities and emphasizing the devolvement of Seth’s sense of self. Throughout their life on the road, consisting of identical motels and eerie encounters with familiar figures, Seth and Leonie are ejected into a time without civil rights and one plagued by segregation. The search for the infamous Charlie Shaw throws Seth into a perilous journey that shakes his identity and history.

While the novel is an overt comment on race in America and the appropriation of black culture, it is also a comment on history and time. When Kunzru published his fourth

novel Gods Without Men, he wrote in a similar style that transcended one particular age and time. With its publication, The New York Times commented on a trend in contemporary literature and followed a similar pattern as Kunzru’s writing style, one that rested on a notion that is profoundly postmodern. The notion of this new trend of “Translit” is founded on the sense of being in an era without a dominating sense of time; it rests on the sense of feeling “post,” post-colonial, post-historical or post-racial, for example. While these terms are widely disputed in their own respects, the emerging Translit genre of contemporary literature presents readers with a narrative that warps time and space in order to gain a perspective that draws on history and culture of previous eras.

The comments on race that pervade the novel carry more weight in the theme of temporality that is ever present in Translit. Seth’s trips to a South under Jim Crow, juxtaposed with the injustices he experiences in the contemporary North, are examples of history repeating, of history being relived. Tormented by the spirit of Charlie Shaw, Seth relives the horrors of slavery and segregation as well as the privilege he experiences as a white man. Seth’s experience and the emotive power of music is not only haunting and profoundly resonant of historic and modern race relations. It is a statement proving that, though our clocks tick forward through minutes, hours, days, years, our minds and historic tendencies are capable of moving backwards.

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

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Weighing Costs,Benefits of Being aVarsity Athlete

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Varsity swimmer Jordan Berger gives his two cents on overall impact of a life in sports Each day you wake up as a varsity athlete is a new problem to solve, and all you have is the hope to wake up to a better problem the next day.

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receiving no-strings attached admittance to Cornell University and just quitting the day we step foot on campus? most importantly, lost a whopping 920 hours of sleep I stumbled upon the answer I’d been looking for because of swimming. For curiosity’s sake, I decided to for many years in a recently published book by Mark drag my analysis out to encompass my entire life as a Manson titled The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. swimmer. Since my swim career began 16 years ago at In the book, Manson discusses the conundrum of the tender age of five, I have attended roughly 3,717 life long happiness. According to Manson, the conpractices, have spent 7,049 hours submerged in chlori- ventional mentality that happiness comes from getnated water and have spent over 1,800 hours being dri- ting a promotion, buying a new car or getting into ven to and from swim practice by my mother. I have the best law school couldn’t be further from the given 790,140 minutes of my truth. In reality, happiness life to this sport. realized by charging head is In reality, happiness is realized by Benefits: Until about a on into the problems that month ago, every time I ran charging head on into the problems that life throws at you, solving through this analysis in my them and coming into new, head, I’d be stumped when I life throws at you, solving them and better problems. Thus, the arrived at this point. It is a pain and discomfort that coming into new, better problems. difficult thing to compreaccompany the problem hend, let alone measure. solving process are necesWhat really are the benefits? I sary and constant forces in did not get money to swim here, no special academic creating a happy life. The only way to be happy is to privileges, no cool exclusive facilities or amazing set yourself up with problems that you are happy clothes. There is no fame in swimming, hardly any cam- solving. pus recognition and we do not even get free parking.

Being a varsity athlete at Cornell is in its nature a What is it that prevented me, and each athlete on this problem. Most 18-year-old boys and girls are not precampus from going through the recruiting process, wired to handle one of the most grueling academic Continued from page 16

course loads in the world, sudden exposure to independent, unsupervised living all while suffering through 5:00 a.m. wake ups and two two-hour workouts a day.

Each day you wake up as a varsity athlete is a new problem to solve, and all you have is the hope to wake up to a better problem the next day. It is this endurance that, at the end of the tunnel of senior year, ends up being the greatest blessing of all.

Cornell student athletes, as well as college athletes across the country, carry pain and suffering in their right and left hands wherever they go — on campus and beyond. To go forth into life knowing that you can solve any and all problems that fate throws your way is the benefit that completes my analysis. Unfortunately for those looking for a more precise answer to the evaluation, you simply cannot assign a quantitative value to realizing genuine, sustainable happiness.

Jordan Berger can be reached at jfb279@cornell.edu.

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tournament by first defeating Princeton, then top seeded host Penn. Defeating the Quakers for the crown came a week after the a loss to them in the regular season finale.

This year, Cornell will have to prevent Harvard, the No. 4 seed, from obtaining the same revenge. The Red and Crimson will face off for the second time in under a week in the first round of the tournament Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field.

Despite its dominant win last Saturday, the Red knows better than to overlook the Crimson this time around. Harvard’s team will return to Ithaca with redemption on its mind and its entire season on the line.

“Every team brings their best to the postseason,” Graap said. “That’s what we’re trying to focus on with our preparation for this week — not being stuck in the past, not thinking that we’re going to face the exact same Crimson team, but being ready for the competition, and being ready to bring our best, tweaking and changing a few things, too, so that we are not exactly the same either.”

If the Red successfully defeats the Crimson on Friday night in semifinals, it will advance to the finals on Sunday and compete for a second consecutive

championship against either Penn or Princeton. The winner of the finals will earn both the title and the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Last year, the Red made it to the second round of the tournament, where it was defeated by UMass in a close 76 loss.

While this year’s team certainly has the potential to make it as far, or even further than last year, the Red is for now focused on overcoming the next obstacle in its path: Harvard. The Crimson come in as a highly physical opponent which promises to leave the Red a bit beat-up, regardless of the game’s outcome.

“I know we played Harvard last weekend, and we beat them last weekend, but just taking each game as its own and knowing that it’s going to be a team effort from everyone on the sideline, to all the starters,” said senior defender Christie Powell. “Regardless of your position, it’s focusing on the little things and staying positive, and just knowing that we still have to work so hard in order to achieve that goal.”

The path to that goal gets underway against Harvard 7:05 p.m. from Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca.

Penn and Princeton will clash earlier in the afternoon, at 4:05 p.m., and the championship game takes place Sunday at 11:05 a.m.

Mary Barger can be reached at mbarger@cornellsun.com.

Men’s Tennis Locks Up Second-Ever NCAA Tournament Bid Upon the NCAA field’s release on Tuesday at 5 p.m., Cornell men’s tennis learned it has earned a spot in the national tournament for the second time in program history. The team received an at-large bid for the upcoming championships, and will travel to Waco, T.x., to face Rice in the first round.

The Red’s first at large-bid to the national tournament comes fresh off its second-ever Ivy League title, which was secured last Saturday with a win in its season finale against Brown.

However, in a three-way tie with Harvard and Columbia for the Ivy title, Cornell lost the tiebreaker to secure the automatic Ivy qualifier spot for the tournament, which went to Columbia. Regardless, the team

is going dancing.

Cornell finished the season with a 21-3 overall record and a 6-1 mark within the Ivy League for a No. 26 ranking by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association in its most recent rankings before the selection process.

The format of the NCAA tournament will feature a 64team field, with each of the top 16 seeds hosting a four-team regional. Each first-round round match will be played on Friday, May 12, with winners advancing to play one another on Saturday, May 13. The winners on Saturday will then advance to the final four rounds hosted at the University of Georgia.

The Red’s region of the

bracket consists of top seed No. 7 Baylor, along with Lamar University and Rice. The remaining 12 teams in the Red’s quarter of the bracket include Tulane, Washington, Presbyterian College, No. 10 Texas, No. 15 Florida, Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia Tech, Minnesota, Columbia, Purdue, Monmouth and No. 2 Virginia.

Columbia is the only team in Cornell’s quarter of the bracket which it has faced, as well as the only other Ivy in the bracket. The Red lost twice to the Lions over the course of the season, once in the ECAC Indoor Championships Finals, 4-1, and by the same score outdoors on April 1.

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SPORTS

TRACK & FIELD

Men Plan to Defend Title;Women Aim to Improve

By CHLOE MIKLES Sun Staff Writer

If you walk into Adrian Durant’s office, one of the first things you might notice is the towering Heps trophy from last year’s record breaking victory. Engraved with the names of past champions, the trophy is given to the winning team each year. Durant, the head coach of men’s track and field, has no intentions of leaving that trophy in New Haven this coming weekend.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams finished up a busy weekend as they continue to prepare and finetune for the conference championships beginning May 6.

Members from both teams competed at several different meets this past week — the Ithaca College-hosted meet last Tuesday, the Penn Relays and the Big Red Invitational on Sunday.

Each meet had a different character and atmosphere.

The Penn Relays is the oldest meet in the country, and this year’s event marked the 123rd running. Participants included athletes from high schools, colleges, and club teams. This is usually a large event for Cornell, but since the meet fell just a week before Heps, only a few runners made the trip.

The Big Red Invitational drew a nice crowd on an overcast afternoon at the Kane Sports Complex this past Sunday. The team was in good spirits and competed quite well.

Senior co-captain and 2016 Rio Olympian Rudy Winkler broke his own facility record in the hammer throw with a toss of 237’2”.

Freshman sprinter Andy Snyder — the only runner under 49 seconds in the 400m — won the event with a time of 48.99. Durant was especially pleased with this performance, as Snyder will be competing at Heps in the 400m and the 4x400m relay. “[Snyder’s time] will move him up in the league rankings,” Durant said. “Right now, if you’re running 48 with the conditions of this outdoor season, you’re probably going to score at Heps.”

For the women, sophomore Briar Brumley led the field for the entirety of the 800m, crossing the finish line in 2:13.68. The race was dominated by the Cornell women, who swept places one through five.

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Path to the podium | The men took home first at Outdoor Heps last season, while the women finished third. Both aim for a top finish in New Haven this weekend.

While the entire team did not compete at all three of these meets, the teams accomplished what they needed to.

Those that did not qualify for IC4A/ECACs completed their outdoor season this weekend, and the 36 men and 36 women that have the opportunity to represent the Red at Heps are ready to go.

Freshman hurdler Brittany Stenekes is someone to watch this weekend. At Indoor Heps, she set a school record in the 60m hurdles, and she currently holds the freshman record in the 100m hurdles outdoors.

“I am looking forward to the energy and excitement that the team brings at Heps. My upper-class teammates have been so great at initiating this,” Stenekes said. “We have all faced other strong competitors on the track, on the field and in the throwing circle. Learning how to challenge ourselves to be competitive and be our best against our rivals has really prepared us for this weekend. I know our team has its sights set on winning the Ivy League championship.”

Senior co-captain for the men’s team Austin Jamerson will be competing at his last conference championship for Cornell and wants to go out on top.

“I don’t think it has really set in yet that this is the last

Heps I’ll be competing at,” Jamerson said. “I have amazing memories from the previous seven Heps teams that I’ve been a part of, and I am looking forward to competing one last time with the team, and my senior class.”

He won the heptathlon at Indoor Heps this season, and looks to win the decathlon this weekend. If you talk to any member of the men’s team, it is evident the goal is redemption from the loss to Princeton indoors.

“This is a good team … we certainly can win it, and I feel confident about it,” Durant said. “I feel much better going into this meet than I did going into the indoor meet.”

The weather in New Haven this weekend is not looking too promising, but the team is used to training and competing in poor conditions. From a competitive standpoint, it puts the athletes in a good position. However, if rain does come into play, it may jeopardize athlete’s chances at achieving NCAA regionals time standards.

As for the conference championship and bringing back the trophy, Durant put it best: “It’s going to come down to who wants it most.”

Chloe Mikles can be reached at cmikles@cornellsun.com.

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“The sun might have been out, but I didn’t recognize it as a bright day,” Moran writes. “My days were really dismal and dark.”

In an inspiring message, Moran discusses later in the chapter his recovery through seeking treatment for his mental illness, and encourages those in a similar place to do the same. “Seek help. Accept it. Realize it’s going to be a period of time in recovery,” Moran writes.

In typical Moran fashion, he goes the

extra mile and offers to be a resource for those in need, saying “whoever’s reading this, if you feel in anyway I can help, I’ll be available 24/7.”

This personal message that Moran sends to his readers is an illustrative example of the kind of positive, caring person that so many of those people describe in their testimonials. “Richie Moran is a very special person,” wrote one friend. “His blend of warmth, humor and compassion is rare.”

It is through humor that Moran often conveys that warmth and compassion.

Famous among those who know him for

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Trio of titles | Moran celebrates during an interview after Cornell’s 1971 national championship — the first of three during his tenure in Ithaca.

his witty pranks, Moran has long been an engineer of laughter. John Hanko ’86 recalled a story from his first away trip as a Cornell player. At a team dinner the night before a game at Dartmouth, Moran asked Hanko to ascertain via smell whether a pie had been spoiled.

Hanko obliged, and Moran proceeded to put the pie straight into his player’s face.

Moran’s former players have countless stories like this, including a favorite among players from the 1987 and 1988 national runner-up teams. As the bus was preparing to leave for a pivotal match against a conference opponent, Moran sensed the tension among his players, and he made a move to loosen them up.

After sending a young and unsuspecting John Wurzburger ’88 on a fool’s errand to retrieve a “bucket of steam,” hilarity ensued when he returned with a bucket full of boiling hot water draped with a towel to preserve the steam inside the bucket. Needless to say, the mood on the bus had been sufficiently lightened.

These anecdotes serve as perfect examples of Moran’s personality. And through this personality and his caring nature, Moran fostered tremendous relationships with his players, often describing his players like sons. Moran’s discusses in his book the kinds of emotional connections he had with so many of his former players. The most moving example of this is in Chapter nine, “Our Wild Irish Rose,” when Moran discusses his relationship with perhaps his best player, Eamon McEneany ’77, who was killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Moran discusses his delivery of McEneany’s eulogy. “It wasn’t a goodbye because I know we’re going to have an opportunity to get together again, but it

was a chance to convey my feelings on behalf of my players, Cornell University and all the people who knew and loved Eamon.”

In the foreword, Schaap writes, “I’ve seen sorrow and I’ve been to many funerals, but I’ve never seen anyone as grief stricken as Richie the day he eulogized McEneany.”

“Enjoy every day with family and friends, and continue to make this a better world.”

Richie Moran Moran’s connection with his players stems from his passion and capacity for caring about others. This, coupled with the profound and moving chapters of his book, provide an excellent glimpse into the mind of a man who will be a part of the Cornell family forever.

Moran’s love for Cornell and its students knows no bounds. He told The Sun he hopes that students will read his book and gain a deeper understanding of the kind of place that Cornell is and what a deep history it has.

Asked whether he had a message for the students of Cornell, Moran said, “Enjoy every day with family and friends, and continue to make this a better world.”

After listening to Moran and reading this book, one thought remains constant: it truly is great to be here.

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

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Are Varsity Athletics Worth It? Jordan Berger is a senior on the Cornell men’s swimming and diving team. The following is a speech he gave to his team at the end of season banquet.

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Protect the house | Cornell won the conference postseason title last year, and the team gets to try and defend it at home this time around.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red to Host Conference Tournament

By MARY BARGER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s lacrosse (11-4, 6-1 Ivy) earned the right to host the Ivy League postseason tournament for the first time in school history this past Saturday by taking down Harvard 13-6 to close out the regular season with a 6-1 Ivy League record.

The team with the best league record hosts the tournament, and although Penn and Princeton also finished with 6-1 records, the Red won hosting based on the goal differential tiebreaker.

“It’s a privilege to host this event for the first time here at Cornell,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86, who was just recently named Ivy League Coach of the Year. “It’s very special for the 2017 team, and particularly for our seven seniors. They’ve really done a great job this spring and they’re tremendous leaders. They’ve had the experience of competing in the Ivy tournament on the road

throughout their careers, so now, for them to be able to host it, I think is that much more special.”

This year’s senior class has led every area of team play throughout the season. From Renee Poullot in goal, to Catie Smith on defense and to Kristy Gilbert, Catherine Ellis and Amie Dickson on offense.

All of those women followed their head coach in All-Ivy honors, with Smith taking home Defender of the Year.

Heading into their final Ivy League tournament, the seniors have one outcome in mind.

“The main goal is to win the tournament,” Gilbert said. “Our strategy is to be disciplined and out-hustle our opponents.”

The Red enters the tournament hungry for another title, but it has a target on its back as reigning champions and the top seed. In 2016, Cornell grabbed the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA See W. LACROSSE page 14

MEN’S LACROSSE

A Glimpse Into Moran’s Fascinating Life

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

Legendary former head coach of men’s lacrosse Richie Moran is among the most dynamic and colorful members of the Cornell family. Moran’s legacy has been cemented by the fact that the team’s head coach bears the title, “The Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Lacrosse,” currently occupied by Matt Kerwick.

In his 29 years at the helm, Moran led the

Red to three national championships, compiling a 257-121 record. Moran is a member of several halls of fame including that of Cornell Athletics and U.S. Lacrosse.

In a recently-released autobiography, coauthored by Ithaca Times columnist Steve Lawrence, Moran discusses both his career at Cornell and the many ups and downs of his life before, during and after his tenure on East Hill. Entitled It’s Great to Be Here, the book’s chapters cover a spectrum of topics, many profound in their message.

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Legend status | Former men’s lacrosse head coach Richie Moran has been enshrined in both the Cornell Athletics and U.S. Lacrosse halls of fame. He spent nearly 30 years coaching in Ithaca.

The foreword is written by Jeremy Schaap ’91, an investigative sportswriter for ESPN who was Sports Editor of The Sun for part of Moran’s time as coach. Through their interactions, Moran left a palpable impact on the life of the then-aspiring sports journalist.

“When I think of the ultimate coach, I think not of [Bill] Belichick or [Scotty] Bowman or Phil Jackson — I think of Richie Moran,” Schaap writes.

In a personal touch, Schaap discusses his late father, Dick Schaap ’55, and his relationship with Moran. Schaap notes that spending time with Moran gave his father great comfort in the final years of his life, and that Moran’s greatness comes most of all from “his capacity for love, to love and be loved,” adding, “in my book, that’s the best kind of greatness.”

Schaap’s words echo a sentiment felt by nearly everyone who knows Moran. Chapter 18, entitled “Forever Connected,” features 25 testimonials from former players, colleagues and friends. Each story follows a similar structure to Schaap’s, and there are certainly others like them out there from people who have been personally touched by Moran’s warmth.

The book’s most powerful message comes in Chapter 17, “From the Shadows to the Light,” in which Moran discusses a period in his life during which he struggled with depression.

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Talking about being a Cornell University varsity swimmer is a great conversation topic. Whether people are gen-

Jordan Berger Guest Column uinely curious about it, or just pretend to be interested as a courtesy, the mention of being a Division I athlete usually garners a few questions.

There is one question in particular that has persisted throughout my college swimming career, and is even more so prevalent now that it has recently ended.

“I cannot imagine waking up so early and practicing so much and skipping so many parties, like I do not know if I would do that even if I could.”

“Do you think it was worth it?”

When I stop to think seriously about this question, it is actually rather difficult to answer. Let me first clarify that in no way shape or form do I regret spending the last four years competing for the Big Red. But when I approach the question using the tools I learned obtaining my Policy Analysis & Management degree, performing a thorough cost benefit analysis of the situation, things do not necessarily add up the way you would expect them to.

Costs: I hopped onto Excel to see if I could crunch a few numbers to learn something about the quantitative demands of my swimming career. What I found was… interesting.

Throughout my collegiate athletic career, I have attended roughly 1,045 practices. I have spent 2,090 hours either submerged underwater or jogging from one exercise to another in the weight room. I have spent over 1,800 hours chasing busses across campus or trudging up and down the slope all to get to and from practice. I have foregone attending 210 parties, and See BERGER page 14