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‘LET US NOT FORGET ANTHONY’

Nazaire Recalled as Details of Death Emerge Students,faculty praise victim’s sense of humor, ambition at vigil

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

Over 100 community members gathered in Muller Chapel at Ithaca College Monday afternoon to honor Anthony Nazaire, 19, an Ithaca College student who was fatally stabbed on Cornell’s campus early Sunday morning.

Friends, family, faculty and fellow IC students attended the vigil, which was organized by Ithaca College and led by Father Carsten P. Martensen, the director of camBRITTNEY CHEW / pus ministry.

SUN ASSISTANT “It’s great that we are all here, PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR “To experitogether, as a community, to ence this remember, to celebrate and to In memory | Students gather at Muller Chapel at Ithaca College on Monday to remember student Anthony Nazaire, who thank God and one another, for was killed on Cornell’s campus early Sunday morning. kind of act one [Anthony Nazaire] who came creates a into our midst,” Martensen said. active,” Tastle said. “I saw him more while he was here “Each one of our lives are different than I saw some of my advisees I had for four years. I’ll significant because of Anthony. Whether we always remember his desire to do more.” amount of People also shared personal stories of Nazaire, many knew him or not, he’s had such an energy ... I enormous impact and we must be of which were highly emotional and left the audience in tears. One student described him as a “ray of sunshine”

By JOSEPHINE CHU want ... you grateful for that.”

Sun News Editor Faculty members shared their while another said that it was impossible to be around to do some- various memories of Nazaire for more than five minutes without A video released by the New York Daily News laughing.

Nazaire. Sean Reid, dean thing about Amidst the tearful reminiscing, several of the school of business, shows Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire, 19, that energy speakers also encouraged others to support one remembered Nazaire as dancing at the Cornell fraternity Omega Psi Phi orito honor another during the tragic time to build a better an ambitious student entation week party on Saturday night, shortly community. who was “driven to be before the stabbing incident that ended his life.

Anthony.”

“To experience this kind of act creates a sigexcellent.”

The video — provided by Glenni Rodriguez, an nificant amount of energy, a disproportionate “One of the things he Sean Eversley Ithaca College sophomore — features Nazaire near NAZAIRE negative energy,” said Sean Eversley Bradwell, said to me was, ‘I need to Bradwell the center of a circle of partygoers dancing to a mixbe successful,’ and he had a plan for director of programs and outreach. “I want to try to tape track by Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da how to be successful,” Reid said. encourage you to do something about that energy to Hoodie.

“Every faculty member from every discipline I talked to honor Anthony, to turn that energy into something posAfter the party concluded, Nazaire’s friend said he was really fired up. [The] most common thing itive and to commit to it.”

Rahiem Williams accidentally knocked into another “Let us not forget Anthony,” Martensen said. “Let us people said was that he was a joy to have in class.” partygoer, causing the confrontations that appeared Nazaire’s advisor, Prof. William J. Tastle, manage- make sure he lives in all of us.” in the police report, according to Nazaire’s older sisment, echoed Reid’s sentiment and praised Nazaire’s ter Kiara Nazaire, 24. sense of purpose.

So Hyung Kim can be reached at “[Nazaire] knew what he wanted to do and he was sohyungkim@cornellsun.com.

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Dean of Students Candidate Touts Campus Involvement

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

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of Students candidate relays how she was involved on campus and highlights her “demonstrated leadership.”

In an open forum Monday, the second of three candidates for the position of the dean of students said that as dean, she would emphasize the importance of communication with and among students of various cultural identities.

Brandi P. Jones, who currently serves as associate dean of graduate affairs in the

school of engineering and applied science at Princeton University, said she began her career in student advocacy as a student activist during her undergraduate years at California State University at Long Beach.

“I came to this profession having been a student leader and a very vocal student activist, on and off campus,” Jones said. An active member of a sorority, the Black Student Union, and a cheerleading team as an undergrad, she said, “I appreciate and value student voice.”

Jones told an audience of approximately 40 students, faculty, and staff that she saw three main reasons why she would be an ideal fit for Cornell: her “demonstrated leadership,” experience in practicing student advocacy, and scholarship in higher education and student development.

Noting that she has worked at institutions of varying size and style, including small liberal arts colleges and large public universities, Jones See CANDIDATE page 4

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Grad student campaigns for NYC Council

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

Charles Cooper Jr. grad is quite busy these days.

He is pursuing his M.B.A. at Cornell, running the infrastructure development firm AirRail, all while trying to find time to hike and kayak on the side.

Oh, and Cooper is also running for New York City Council.

Cooper is running to be the councilman for district nine — which includes Manhattan neighborhoods West Harlem, Morningside H e i g h t s , Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights — to “make a substantial change” in the lives of New Yorkers.

“When the opportunities come along, we have to take it,” he said.

“Because in this life, what we do is bigger than just us. I see the city council race as just that. It is bigger than me — it is for the community and it is about creating substantial change.”

Cooper emigrated from Liberia to New York City at age twelve, fleeing a civil war with his mother, two siblings and virtually nothing else.

“It was only by the grace of God that we were lucky enough to have friends and extended family to help us out,” Cooper said. “Because of that I’m here today, so when it comes to community, I’ve always been someone to see the need to give back because someone gave back to me.”

Cooper is a leader in the Harlem community, serving as the vice chair of the Manhattan Community Board 9, where he worked on Columbia University’s $7 billion campus expansion, and focused on ensuring local business inclusion. He also helped to reform the West Harlem Local Development Corporation, a nonprofit tasked with dispensing millions of dollars to the Harlem Community, according to his campaign website.

While working with the African-American clergy and Hispanic business leadership, Cooper continuously leads a push for full minority business participation in New York City. He was directly involved in setting the goal of 30 percent “Minority and Women Owned Enterprises” on all state projects.

On the council, he hopes to continue to help make business diversity in New York City a reality.

“I think this [position would] allow me to … hold city agencies accountable to making sure that minority and women owned business and local businesses benefit from this economic engine of New York City,” he said.

Cooper not only makes a point to give back to the New York City community, but he also spent a year and a half working with the Liberian government on infrastructure development projects four years ago.

“I was happy to see the country that I left as a child and to PHOTO COURTESY OF DONNETTE DUNBAR

Running for office | Charles Cooper Jr. grad is running for New York City Council to make a “substantial change” in the lives of his constituents.

know that I have the opportunity to create change in the U.S. but to also go back and help folks back home,” he said.

After Cooper and his family moved to the United States, his mother worked two to three jobs to provide for her family. But finding a job was a challenge for her, as it is for many new immigrants, according to Cooper. Cooper said he hopes to open more opportunities for advancement to the immigrant community.

“Whether you’re an immigrant, whether you’re black, white, green or yellow, one of the things that impacts all of our boundaries

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is jobs and whether we can provide for our families,” Cooper said. “I’m passionate about moving the community forward and to create jobs and opportunities for local businesses.”

Harlem has one of the highest unemployment rates in New York City, and represents an untapped retail market, according to Cooper.

“My goal is to work directly with the local small businesses in a coordinated effort and strategy to market that area — not only city wide but internationally,” he said.

“Everyone knows Harlem for its arts, business and entertainment, but it is not being marketed properly.”

As a former New York City middle school teacher who worked for the Department of Education for six years, Cooper is also passionate about education. He sees the formable years of zero to three as fundamentally important to children’s learning, and he said he wants to expand the New York State pre-kindergarten program to include children ages zero to three. He pointed out that studies show that children who lack the proper resources during that stage of development demonstrate a greater chance of needing assistance services in the future.

“If you look at it from an economic standpoint, it makes sense to invest in our children at a very early age than to invest in them at a later age because it will be far more expensive and is will not be as productive as it could be,” he said.

To fellow Cornellians who are considering entering the political realm, Cooper offers words of encouragement, adding, “If you need help, I’m here.”

“The Cornellians I’ve met have been very genuine and passionate, not only for their profession or for their study, but for giving back to the community,” Cooper said. “I can’t see any better reason for getting into politics than that you care about the community and you want to take what you’ve learned and the gifts that you’ve been given and serve your community.”

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at aeskenazi@cornell.edu.

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Land of opportunity | Charles Cooper Jr. grad fled a civil war in Liberia with his mother and two daughters, arriving in New York with nothing but his family.

Cornell Sets Fundraising Record for 2016 Fiscal Year

By RUBY YU

the $6.3 billion Cornell Now campaign — the University’s multi-billion dollar capital campaign.

Cornell has raised a total of $601.8 Of the over $600 million collected, million in cash gifts in the 2016 fiscal $540.9 million came from new gifts year, surpassing a 10 year $5.75 billion and pledges, of which $18 million came goal ending in 2015, according to the from non-alumni parents, according to University.

Sickle. He added that corporations and Donations break down to $353.6 foundations contributed $125 million. million given to the Ithaca campus, The Cornell Annual Fund received $139.7 million for Weill Cornell $38.5 million from 33,500 donors, Medicine and $108.3 million for according to the University.

Cornell Tech, Van Sickle according to said robust “Our donors support all aspects of t h e participation University.

University life from financial aid to high in the camFred Van p a i g n level research.”

Sickle, vice stemmed from president of s e v e r a l Fred Van Sickle alumni affairs resources such and developas crowdfundment, said the generous cash gifts this ing student projects, reunion class camfiscal year were a natural outgrowth of paigns and Cornell’s annual Giving Sun Staff Writer

Day, which raised $6,105,484 — of Tech, and Israel and Caryl Englander which 10,000 individual donations donated to the Institute for Precision came from all 50 states and over 40 Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, countries. according to the University.

C o r n e l l ’s “ O u r strong philandonors sup“We are always grateful for the deep thropic support all aspects port also levels of volunteer support and giving by of University impacted life from loyal Cornellians.”

Ithaca’s physifinancial aid Fred Van Sickle cal campus. to high level The Atlantic research,” Van Sickle said.

Philanthropies contributed to the The gifts will be geared toward difCenter for the Study of Inequality, the ferent aspects of Cornell, from scholarInternational Center on Capital ships to research and program enhancePunishment and the Cornell welcome ments, according to Van Sickle. center, The Sun previously reported.

“We are always grateful for the deep The campaign’s effects were visible at levels of volunteer support and giving Cornell’s New York City locations as by loyal Cornellians,” Van Sickle said. well. Andrew Tisch ’71 and Ann Tisch supported the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Ruby Yu can be reached at Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell ryu@cornellsun.com.

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much align with shared governance,” Jones said, adding that she considered it important to said her “special relationship” ask “who’s sitting at the table” with students has been “the when budget decisions are highlight of [her] career.” made.

“I’ve always been visible and As dean of students, Jones very much engaged with the stusaid her first action would be dent experience,” Jones said. “I assessment of campus climate. find ways to get involved across “I’m not talking about surcampus.” veys,” she said. “I’m talking If selected the new dean of about creating intentional students, Jones said she opportunities to hear would make an effort experiences and the “I think we need to pay attention to to create opportunities voices of students who for students from dif- students’ perceptions and attitudes that are fall outside of the marferent cultural back- shaped by institutional history and culture.” gins.” ground, and especially After assessing camBrandi P. Jones underrepresented stupus climate, Jones said dents, to engage in conshe would embark on a versation with Cornell more challenging proadministrators.

Jones also mentioned campus ject: creating accountability at “There can’t be one Cornell conditions that are specific to all levels of the University. experience,” Jones said. “We Cornell as a well-established Julia Montejo ’17, vice presiprobably would like for there to university. dent for diversity and inclusion be, but the truth is, everyone “On campuses like Cornell, for the Student Assembly, asked does not experience this institu- we have things that have existed Jones how she would create tion in the same way. I think we for a long time, and sometimes more accountability for tenured need to pay attention to stu- they still exist just because faculty. Citing student experidents’ perceptions and attitudes they’ve existed for a long time,” ence of biased treatment from that are shaped by institutional Jones said. With a changing stu- professors, Montejo said stuhistory and culture.” dent population and shifting dents “oftentimes face the barriJones emphasized the impor- demographics, she suggested er that we’re told that it’s really tance of creating intentional that the office of the dean of stu- hard to hold tenured faculty venues for students to engage in dents “take a close look” to accountable.” dialogue about cultural differ- determine whether existing pracJones said she would work to ence and progress on campus, tices “still reflect the student create “ways that we can hold warning that while a diverse stu- population.” departments and particular facdent body is “great,” college Jones also emphasized her ulty accountable.” campuses “must move beyond strong belief in shared gover“The reality is, are they going numbers of students as end nance, a concept that has stirred to get fired? Probably not,” she goals.” debate in the Student Assembly said. “The way you begin to “If you don’t create intention- and across campus. hold [tenured faculty members] al opportunities for [students] to “My personal values very accountable is, you work up Continued from page 1

engage, I won’t say it’s a loss,” she added, “but I’ll say we’ve lost an opportunity.” Jones described programs she has initiated at Occidental College and California Institute of Technology to create safe spaces for conversation around mental health and LGBT issues for graduate students who may not have felt comfortable discussing these subjects outright.

their chain.”

Ashton Cooper ’18, president of Haven, asked how Jones would work on behalf of a variety of LGBT student identities as their representative. Jones responded that as dean of students, she “[does] not have to be the one speaking.”

“There are times when it’s

necessary for the dean of students to be the voice, but I would not miss the opportunity to have student leadership standing alongside me,” Jones said. “It would be my role just to be an advocate for all students.”

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

Out of Africa

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Nazaire Stabbed After Attending Omega Psi Phi Event VIDEO

Sodeke said the two Ithaca College students were at the party but he did not know them personally. His account differed slightly from the police report, insisting “[Nazaire] was with his friend, his friend bumped a that there was only one physical altercation outside, not girl by accident and he apologized,” Kiara Nazaire told several. the Daily News. “Both of them apologized, even my Sodeke added that the event was a “successful” one brother apologized, and he didn't bump the girl.” and everyone was “happy.” He stressed that the incident Hundreds of students attended the party at Willard occurred after the event was completely over.

Straight Hall, according to the Ithaca Police Department.

Nazaire was transported to Cayuga Medical Center Cornell Presidents Hunter R. and later pronounced dead.

Rawlings III said in a The other student was flown University statement today “I’m going to a party for the first and last to Upstate Medical Center that the Omega Psi Phi frater- time for the year. You know I’m coming with non-life-threatening nity — a fraternity that ideninjuries and has since been in early. I don’t stay out.” tifies as predominantly released.

African-American — has been Kiara Nazaire said Anthony Nazaire hosting such an event in Williams was also stabbed in Willard Straight Hall during the brawl but survived. She the first week of classes for several years. added that Williams later called her, saying he felt Several physical altercations took place after the event responsible and wanted to apologize. ended, according to the IPD. Cornell Police found the “It's not his fault,” Kiara Nazaire told the Daily News. two men stabbed in front of Olin Hall, after responding “They didn't ask for it. I know my brother — my brothto a report of a large fight at approximately 1:57 a.m. on er's not gonna argue with any girls.”

Sunday, The Sun previously reported.

Nazaire’s mother, Katia Toussaint, said her son called Omega Psi Phi President Adebowale Sordiq Sodeke her moments before leaving for the party that night, vowsaid the event was scheduled to end at 2 a.m. but all ing that it would be his one night out before “buckling attendees were out of Willard Straight Hall by 1:45 a.m. down and focusing on his studies,” the Daily News Continued from page 1

CUEMS Celebrates 40 Years Of Community Service

reported.

“I'm going to a party for the first and last time for the year,” Nazaire told his mom, according to Toussaint.

“You know I'm coming in early. I don’t stay out.”

Kiara Nazaire told the police the family has one suspect in the “senseless slaying” and urged anyone with knowledge of the incident to come forward.

“If you have anything — don't be a coward, don't feel like it's snitching,” Kiara Nazaire said. “Anthony didn't deserve this. He wasn't a troubled kid.”

“We offer our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased student, 19-year-old Anthony Nazaire of Brooklyn, NY,” Rawlings said in a statement today. “Our thoughts are also with the injured student, who has been released from the hospital.”

New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton also encouraged the community to “honor Anthony Nazaire’s life and memory” in a press release today.

“The cruelty of senseless violence knows no boundaries as to geography, background or age — it strikes with a suddenness and a starkness that can end in a desolation, in a despair at the injustice of a promising young soul taken far too soon,” Hamilton said. “We cannot surrender to those feelings of despair.”

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

Dean’s welcome

Plans to increase presence, public health efforts

By ZACH SILVER

“We hope that this celebration will increase awareness and allow more people to learn about what we do, and better With 40 years of experience under its understand the resources on campus,” she belt, Cornell University Emergency said.

Medical Services held a ceremony Friday In addition to Friday’s festival, to commemorate its milestone anniver- CUEMS also hosted several events last week to raise awareness about important health issues that impact Cornell stu“We are hoping to increase dents. the presence of CUEMS by The group promoted a “Mine Not Yours” campaign to prevent the spread of increasing our community infectious disease by sharing drinking education efforts.” cups, taught individuals at RPCC how to take blood pressure and hosted a handsPrawallika Gangidi ’17 only CPR event on Ho Plaza, according to Gangidi. sary on Cornell’s campus on the Arts “We are hoping to increase the presQuad. ence of CUEMS by increasing our comThe event — which came at the tail munity education efforts,” she said. “We end of a week-long celebration — includ- have been doing well with new initiatives ed various amenities, including an inflat- over the past couple of years but we hope able obstacle course, therapy dogs and a to be an even more integral part of the free ice cream truck, according to community. We will be working with Prawallika Gangidi ’17, director of Gannett and the Skorton Center for CUEMS. Health Initiatives to increase our collabo“By hosting ration and our this celebration public health we wanted to “We are here for the community and we efforts.” not only showGoing forcase some of want students to feel comfortable calling w a r d , the things that for medical attention.”

C U E M S CUEMS does hopes to Prawallika Gangidi ’17 but we wanted increase its to give back to presence on the community campus, but in some way,” she said. the group does not plan to accomplishing While Gangidi hoped that students this goal by dramatically increasing memenjoyed last week’s festivities, she also said bership. she is optimistic that events will help “CUEMS usually consists of around Cornellians gain useful knowledge about 60 to 70 members,” said Viraj Khetani, CUEMS and its presence on campus. membership officer of CUEMS. “Our Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Dean of the Cornell College of Business Soumitra Dutta welcomes Dyson students at Kennedy Hall on Monday.

general membership stays pretty consistent. We have two membership drives every year … We generally accept about 8-15 members each drive.”

Above all else, the group hopes last week will enable CUEMS to recommit to its mission and better aid students in the future. As a student-run group, Gangidi hopes that the team is able to break down the reluctance students feel about calling for medical help.

“We hold ourselves to the highest clinical standards and all our members undergo a rigorous training program,” she said.

“With that said, we are your fellow peers.

We are here for the community and we want students to feel comfortable calling for medical attention and that there are no stigmas associated with doing so.

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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t’s not a great time to be a voter in America. The ongoing presidential election is crazier than ever: loyalties are tested, compromises are made and doubts are had by all. Wading in a frighteningly shallow pool of candidates, we’re forced to question how our nation has fallen victim to such an impossible dilemma. What credentials do Americans really value? Who do we reward with our support? Surely, even the Leader of the Free World is only human. Do we favor a real estate mogul (real estate: courtesy of Dad)? A passionate warrior who tirelessly battles wealth inequality? A nice, trusty pair of XX chromosomes? If only there existed a hybrid… a beautiful medley of all of these impressive qualities…

Onika Tanya Maraj came to win, to

Berry lip gloss if she’s aiming to please.

Nicki’s minimalist approach to the highly televised political industry would shift the spotlight from her person to her insightful ideas. Memorably, her 2011 MTV Video Music Awards apparel earned a surge of approval.

Refusing to engage in petty political banter, as most candidates do, she quite literally taped her mouth shut, rendering both herself and her audience speechless.

Are you drawn to Bernie Sanders’ corrective vision for the economy?

Nicki, too, is dedicated to improving American finances. Yes, she “might cop a million Jimmy Choos just for fun,” but that doesn’t mean that she’s unaware of our growing national debt.

Hoping to jolt this country out of its

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Letter to the Editor

On Zen and poetry To the Editor: Sometimes, I feel a surge of pride in Cornell students as a collective mass. While this generalized feeling goes against my cognitive grain, it happens often enough for me to conclude that overall, we have a good selection process. One such surge happened last Wednesday when the elderly poet Gary Snyder, a cultural hero for many of us from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, came to campus to speak. The lecture room in Kennedy Hall was packed. Many of my students arrived over an hour early to get seats. As the room filled to capacity and people started sitting on the floor, individual seats here and there were offered to a handful of people. I watched as students who had been there earlier offered seats to grey haired folks arriving just in time. I heard one student say, “No way am I keeping my chair when I can easily just sit on the floor and an elderly person can’t.” This particular student had been there for well over an hour. This played out in what I saw to be about a dozen or more cases all over the auditorium: students standing and offering their seats to older people.

(In another case, I later learned an older person insisted on a seat a student had saved for her friend, and then slept through the entire lecture.)

The woman in charge of getting people seated and enforcing the code then said, flatly, “Anyone who is sitting on the floor and who does not have a seat must now leave.” What disturbed me was that not a single person who had been offered a chair out of kindness by a young person stood up and offered their seat back to the student sitting on the floor, who now, because of their act of kindness, had to leave.

A grey haired couple in front of me who had arrived at 5:25 and were given seats by students, now simply sat stone still while those same students were literally right next to them, sadly packing their things to go. I offered my seat to the retreating students leaving, was repeatedly refused, and finally another young woman came and sat on the edge of my chair.

In the end, the lecture wasn’t that great. I was thrilled to hear one of my favorite poems, “Hay for the Horses” read by the man who wrote it. But as I sat there, a bit bored by Snyder’s ramblings, waiting for him to read his poetry, I reflected long and hard about the little generational drama that had played out in front of me. We have a lot to learn from our students about civility, generosity and kindness. Maybe they can teach us a thing about Zen and poetry too.

Prof. Jane-Marie Law, Asian studies CORRECTIONS A previous version of an Aug. 23 News article, “‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedian Pete Davidson to Perform at Cornell,” incorrectly stated that tickets for the event would go on sale this week. In fact, both general and student tickets will be sold next week.

A previous version of an Aug. 21 News article, “Summer Officials Prepare for Consequences of Summer Drought” incorrectly quoted source Dan Cogan as stating that Ithaca receives its water from Six Mile Creek, when instead he had said that Cornell University’s water flows from Fall Creek.

A previous version of an Aug. 29 Sports article, “,” incorrectly stated that the captains of the women’s cross country team were Taylor Spillane, Jackie Katzman and Delphi Cleveland. In fact, the captains are Taylor Spillane, Shannon Hugard and Delphi Cleveland.

If a businessman and a lawyer are serious contenders for the presidency, then why not a musician with a flair for politics? fight, to conquer, to thrive. She came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise.

Onika, better known by her stage name, Nicki Minaj, came to fly. She’s a blessing in a neon pink wig — the perfect solution for America in these trying times. Her commitment to inclusion, powerful commentary on relevant issues like sexism and promise to boost the American standard of living would form only the basis of a radical presidential campaign.

Do you feel uneasy with Donald Trump’s harsh policies on border patrol? Well, allow Minaj, through her foreign birth and dynamic domestic life, to guide you. Captured in her lyrics, “Young Money raised me, grew up out in Baisley /South Side Jamaica, Queens and it’s crazy /’Cause I’m still hood, Hollywood couldn’t change me,” is an underlying belief in equal opportunity regardless of geographic origin.

Further facilitating the image of America as a truly empathetic and nondiscriminatory nation, Minaj extends her concern to the hungry and the sleepless. In “Right By My Side,” she stammers, “I can’t eat I-I-I-I /I can’t sleep I-I-I-I,” expressing an interest in validating human beings of all mental states.

Does Hillary Clinton’s feminist platform appeal to you? Nicki Minaj revolutionizes the concept of gender equality as well as the portrayal of females in the media. Consistently denying (poor) suitors through her music, Nicki is a champion of female independence. In her public debuts, she is professional and polished, sporting signature two inch lashes and maybe a dab of glow-in-the-dark Very

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recession, Nicki released her chart-topper, “Beez In The Trap.” Its true victory lies not in its rhythm or its tune, but in its message to middle class Americans, for whom financial worries are never far. What does “Beez In The Trap” actually mean? Nicki reveals all on The Graham Norton Show: “[Beez] just means … I am always, you know … we be like, I beez doing such and such and such. Really, it’s like, I am always in the trap. Now, the trap, ladies and gentlemen, relates to anywhere that you get your money.” Nicki Minaj, our eloquent but humble billionaire, understands the pressures of a nine-to-five workday. Her contempt for the economic burden of the majority would resonate strongly with citizens across the nation.

Usually, politicians are snakes — dangerous, unreliable. Not Nicki Minaj, though. Culminating in her hit-single “Anaconda,” Minaj’s political campaign certainly earns my allegiance. Minaj is the symbol for all things right: be it a gracious immigration system, social equality or a fair distribution of income. If a businessman and a lawyer are serious contenders for the presidency, then why not a musician with a flair for politics?

So, fellow voters, let us assemble. Let us renounce the other waffle-house (“a clearly misguided old wrinkle,” as defined by The Nictionary) candidates.

Let us free ourselves from the trap and vote Nicki Minaj for President.

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

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hough I am in a different hemisphere altogether, I can still sense the frenzy of Orientation week that Ithaca bursts with every August. As a faithful columnist, an ardent alumna and a fervid fan of Cornell, I could not resist writing another column. It is kind of a plot twist after the tearful final column I wrote in May, but the Associate Editor pardoned my inconsistency. For those beginning their gamble on the Hill and for those worried about how fast their prescribed four years are flying, this may be important.

After graduation, I took up a job as Research Associate in public policy in the developing world. I had it somewhat easy because the developing country I am working in is one that I love and grew up in. That being said, it is nothing like anything I have experienced in my sheltered life in a boarding school followed by an Ivy League. This past month, I have been chasing public schools in central India across mountains, forests and rivers (not a literary exaggeration) as opposed to Pokemon in New York City. I have missed my friends, the hedonism America offers young professionals and Cornell immensely. I had a window of three days before moving to my new life. The professors who founded the organization I work with describe the induction process of new RAs as “baptism by fire.” I am not sure I would have survived this baptism if not for my four years at grueling but rewarding Cornell.

My job makes me push my own expectations of my abilities. I am still in the middle of nowhere. I am expected to lead my field teams and keep up their spirits through erratic monsoons during field work.

Weather is only another geographical element after Ithaca and this is important, because you become less likely to quit. At Cornell, I was surrounded by genius.

In my new job, the acumen of the team of professors, principal investigators and researchers I am working with is intimidating on an entirely new level. At Cornell, I used to question myself — how did I get here? I have done the same at my new job, but I have moved past that and embraced the J-shaped learning curve just like Ithaca taught me.

Cornell taught me how to deal with failure time and again, an invaluable skill across all professions. Cornell also improved my ability to make the best of every situation. I could have been singularly miserable given the transition of lifestyle my job demands, but somehow I find myself unequivocally happy so often. I suspect a lot of how I am maneuvering new fields (quite literally) comes from what Cornell sneakily taught me while I was freaking out about good grades. Finally, the relationships I formed at Cornell taught me the best part about life is our interactions with people. It still amazes me when I try to visualize the network of people my life is intertwined with spatially, and I am only 22.

Moreover, my network could not be more diverse. My current job requires me to form high-functioning teams with people across a vast socio-economic and cultural bandwidth. I exposed myself to diversity at Cornell. I am certain that helped. (Freshmen, do explore the Intergroup Dialogue Project in this vein, you will start appreciating the world more). Finally, my job requires me to be able to keep up academically. One cannot escape academic rigor at Cornell, and we call it hell as students. As someone in a field driven by rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis, I am thankful for 2 a.m. nights in Olin.

Finally, Cornell was simply beautiful. I have now moved onto landscapes which are gorgeous in entirely different ways. But I will never forget the beauty of my home for four years which taught me to identify and appreciate sunsets in every wilderness and over every skyline. Cornell has been good to me and two months into a very real world that a lot of us don’t even know exists, I had to share my reflection and gratitude. For those of you in Ithaca this week, remember that you share the fervor of a new beginning at Cornell with thousands of alumni across the world who only hope you get as much out of your experience as they did.

Good luck!

Aditi Bhowmick graduated in 2016. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

“Cornell is and always will be a major part of my life; my father and uncle and myself attended Cornell. My dad was there during the Straight Takeover. But he never felt endangered either. What is happening to Cornell? How can we fix this? All current students deserve to feel the safety I felt.”

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few weeks ago, a friend and I were approached on a street in D.C. by a young man whose opening line was “Excuse me, did you know that women are forced to have sex for water?”

I presume he got what he was looking for because I stopped, shocked. “What?” I asked, not sure I had heard correctly. He started to talk to me about exploited women in camps somewhere who were starved and abused, until he finally made it clear that he was discussing the Syrian refugee crisis and was about to ask me for money.

He was from an organization that “did work on the ground in Syria,” although the type of work and its effectiveness were both unclear. He told us more tragic tales of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean and dying as they tried to escape war. When I informed him that I was half Syrian and was familiar with the situation, he told me that was all the more reason for me to give money.

Putting the question of the legitimacy and helpfulness of charity organizations aside, I was left still confused about the way in which he relayed a narrative that was not his own, and especially about his choice of opening line.

Increasingly, it often feels like shock value is the only way to make a story heard. Viewers are so frequently bombarded with tragic images and news of disasters that they become overwhelmed and numb. Shock value can be useful.

However, its use can easily be counter-productive to original intentions, which often come from a good place and recognize the need to spread awareness and create change. Lines such as the one used by this canvasser can quickly betray their positive intent and become extremely dehumanizing.

When he pulled me in with his

shocking statement, he did not tell me who these women were, where they were or about the situations in which they lived. He was not trying to tell me a story nor teach me about the situation, but merely trying to illicit a response of disgust and empathy that would last long enough for me to give him some money. The line reduced a horrific situation and example of suffering to a shock value tactic designed to attract strangers on the street. However, the women he was speaking about are not abstract pawns in a quest to raise funds. They are real people with lives and stories and struggles, in a situation that he could not fully explain or understand.

involved and reduce them to abstract figures worthy of pity.

Representations of tragedy often remove the agency of people who make difficult choices to get through trying times. More often than not, those people are women.

Women are often plastered as the face of humanitarian disasters to get pity because they are seen as helpless, and their strength is rarely recognized. Women are not given the respect and dignity they deserve as human beings, let alone for the sacrifices they make to help their families and communities.

A better story and opening line would have focused on what refugees and women are doing: the initiatives they have started,

People should not be dehumanized and used as plot devices in a sad story. Stories of hopelessness and despair often discount the agency of those involved and reduce them to abstract figures worthy of pity.

Apart from being dehumanizing, it is questionable whether the idea of generating empathy through shock is even that effective. When the image of drowned Syrian child Aylan Kurdi appeared on the Internet a year ago, it generated a huge worldwide frenzy about the refugee crisis. Yet, a year on, the refugee crisis is worse than ever and many more are still drowning the same way, still with nowhere to go. A moment of horror and empathy, even if coupled with a donation, is unlikely to sustain change.

It is important to treat the lives and stories of those experiencing tragedy with respect. People should not be dehumanized and used as plot devices in a sad story.

Stories of hopelessness and despair often discount the agency of those

the work they are doing for their own families and communities and the need to bolster and support them. A better narrative would not lump all refugee women together as an abstract class soliciting pity and in need of saving. It would use their names, show their faces and tell their stories. It would talk about survivors, whether they are women like Yusra Mardini, the Syrian refugee who competed in the Olympics after pushing a sinking boat to safety, or women making every day sacrifices to feed their families and finding the hope to get through another day.

Katy Habr is a junior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at khabr@cornell.edu On the Margin appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Cornell Offers Online Course on Genetically Modified Organisms

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Science Editor

Genetically Modified Organisms have been a topic of much controversy, even though they have been transforming the way we produce and consume food.

Cornell is now offering a Massive Online Open Course on EdX, called ‘The Science and Politics of GMO’, to help students understand why “the GMO is politically contentious.”

Starting September 13, 2016 this five week interdisciplinary course will provide an introduction to genetic engineering and biotechnology in the context of GMOs and help study the politics of GMO at both an individual and a societal level, according to the course website.

The course is taught by professors across disciplines,and that is what makes it unique. Prof. Sarah Evanega, plant breeding and genetics, Prof. Ronald Herring, government, Prof. David Just, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Jaron Porciello, Associate Director, Research Data Engagement and Training in International Programs and Rebecca Harrison, grad come together to comment on and explain this issue in a multifaceted manner.

Just rightly describes the course as a “marriage of science and social science.”

“The GMO issue consists of a new technology with great promise, and the social movements and consumer reactions to that new technology,“ he said.

“A full perspective can only be gained by understanding both the hard science that informs us about technology and the social science that informs us about the controversy.”

Since there are “unprecedented challenges” facing the world today, Evanega said, it is important to understand if GMOs have a role to play in these challenges.

“We need to understand both the risks and the possible rewards of GMOs,” she said.

She also emphasised the practical skills taught in the course, and said that students will learn to

worth studying.

“This unfamiliarity creates the opportunity for biases in the way people assess food safety and environmental risks,” said Just. “More importantly, often the direction of the bias depends heavily on who benefits the most from the GMO — often leading to widely conflicting views on safety.”

Harrison explained why, due to its history, Cornell has a voice on the issue.

“Cornell has a long and controversial history in its role in the development of GMOs, which makes it a bit of a lightening rod on this topic,” she said. “However, from my perspective as a graduate student studying these issues, it also means we are in the perfect place to really pull the issue apart.”

Because GMOs are a controversial topic, Evanega said that the course focused on equipping students with tools to critically analyze this and other issues.

“This course is important not only in helping people navigate the confusion around GMOs but [also] offers course participants information literacy tools that they can apply to better understand other controversial areas in science.”

“Through an exploration of “the GMO,” students will gain a deeper understanding of how science works... how to connect their values on positions based on evidence.”

Prof. Sarah Evanega understand how their choices as individuals affect society.

“Through an exploration of “The GMO,” students will gain a deeper understanding of how science works, how to evaluate the quality of data; principles of social psychology as applied to politicized scientific controversies; and how to connect their values to positions based on evidence,” she said.

Just finds consumer behavior regarding GMOs fascinating. Consumers are presented with familiar foods that have been changed in some way by an unfamiliar process, and consumer reaction to this unfamiliarity is

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Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Olin Library Hosts Exhibition on 50 Years of Electronic Art

By ARNAV GHOSH Sun Staff Writer

Before the advent of the Internet television and radios were all the rage. But just like memes, videos, blogs and articles are used to question the role of mass media in today’s society, individuals have been using television and radio broadcasts to do the same for over 50 years. Rose John Goldsen was one such critic. Once a Professor of Sociology at Cornell, she used her radio show, ‘The Show and Tell Machine: How Television Works and Works You Over’ to critique the culture of mass media.

Named in her honour and featuring artwork that explores such critiques, ‘The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art’ was founded by Prof. Timothy Murray, comparative literature and english, in 2002. Over 60 of these pieces are now on showcase at an exhibition, ‘From Signal to Code’ at the Hirshland Gallery in Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University.

“This archive is one of the world's most substantial research archives in video art, electronic art, and digital art,”Murray said. “The exhibition explores how these different traditions intersect and influence each other over fifty years of development.”

Murray disscussed the attractions of the exhibition, and invited reflection.

“David Jones’ interactive video display provides viewers with the opportunity to alter their image with analogue video signals as they are captured on screen by a surveillance camera,” Murray said. “Indicative of interactive art, the piece invites users to ‘make it work’ while prompting them to reflect on their personal relation to the culture of video.”

Just like David Jones’ video, other works are also designed to force some form of reflection. One such piece is the graphic novel, ‘Book from the Ground’ by Goldsen Archive’s A.D White Professor-at-large and renowned artist, Xu Bing. It is an account of a typical day of the urban white-collar worker. What makes it unique is that it does not contain a single word and instead relates the story using universal pictograms. Bing’s inspiration is said to have come from a pack of chewing gum, which used symbols to demonstrate how to wrap a piece of gum in paper and throw it in a trash can. The aim was to write a book that transcended language barriers and demonstrated how we’ve been geared to read visual symbols as a result of the marketing images we are exposed to.

“Xu Bing became fascinated by the graphic symbols of computing and digital culture, such as how young generations sometimes communicate solely via embodies and keystrokes,” Murray said. “So he developed a novel whose language is strictly figural and symbolic.”

The exhibition also provides a glimpse into the difficulties artists faced procuring and using digital tools to create their works. A letter written by Joan Jonas to Ralph Hocking in 1972, details the high rental fees of digital equipment and the resulting creative vacuum that this created.

“We hope that Signal to Code will provide visitors with an appreciation of the complex artistic history of electronic and digital art. Particularly, we hope everyone will notice the artists’ emphasis on the complex relation between technology and human existence, whether as a framer or empowerer of gender, race, and sexual difference or as social tool of surveillance,” Murray said.

The exhibition is open to the public until October 14th.

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at aghosh@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Kanye West’s Buffalo Dystopia

BY SHAY COLLINS Arts & Entertainment Editor

8:12 p.m.: We arrive in Buffalo. Jack bought a pass online that lets us park in a clearing under a bridge. A sign bolted to a cement support lists the rates — $75 daily maximum. It’s dark and we’re in a half-awake state from driving on Western New York backroads into fading light.

8:19 p.m.: We walk to the First Niagara Center.

Downtown Buffalo looks scrubbed clean. Concrete plazas and tall, pretty corporate buildings flank the wide streets. We get on a line that stretches around the corner of the arena. Actually, we first try to get in through side doors before a security guard yells at us and closes them.

that I dread at punk shows is gone. Anyone can be a Kanye fan.

9:41 p.m.: A “Seven Nation Army” chant spreads through the crowd. Every smoke machine check gets a cheer. People must have heard about the suspended stage that Kanye debuted in Indianapolis, because concert-goers in the general admission section lie on the floor, staring up at the matte black rigs. From above we try to guess which are lights and which make up the stage.

8:22 p.m.: The Kanye cult-of-personality is already buzzing. “No one but Kanye would have a line this long,” friends tell each other. Except many concerts do, and some have longer, like European EDM concerts and Middle America metal festivals. It becomes a theme during the night: No one but Kanye could do this or that. Kanye as catalyst, Kanye as ultimate creator.

8:45 p.m.: At 8:35 I told Jack I would start keeping track of how long we waited on line. Ten minutes later, some black-suited security manager makes a decision to re-open the gates and the crowd surges forward. One neon-vested guard with a Yeezy Taught Me| Kanye West performing in Indianapolis on August 25. crew cut stands inside the first glass doors to collect bottles. People happily give them 9:51 p.m.: The lights shut off. Three tiers up, everyone up after getting drunk during the wait. A K9 officer lets stands. Before we see Kanye we hear Pastor T.L. Barrett and concert-goers pet his German Shepherd — a drug sniffer- his choir. The “ooooohs” that mark the threshold between cum-therapy dog, I guess. Crowds stress me out, the introduction and the rest of “Father Stretch My Hands and combined with the gin I mixed into Cherry Pt. 1” sound superhuman.

Pepsi earlier, I feel like I’m either going to evaporate out of my body or lose my mind.

9:52 p.m.: I know to expect it, but seeing Kanye on his suspended stage still kicks an 8:59 p.m.: Kanye West’s universe is a sci-fi adrenaline rush. I earlier asked Jack what dystopia. The First Niagara Center is an underKanye looked live, and he said shorter. ground arena where the masses watch battle On the stage he looks powerful, but royales and techno-chariot races. Dim, metallic not physically so. He stands above orange lighting and bass-boosted ambient music the fray as the crowd moshes to make the whole room feel like hell.

Desiigner’s “Panda,” sampled Kanye isn’t late exactly. The tickets say 8 pm, in “Pt. 2.” A cable extends but don’t specify if that means doors or start from beneath Kanye’s time. The waiting feels like part of the show. I jacket, securing him to stare at the thousands filing in and feel very small a hook in the stage’s and safe, like a cog snugged tight in a gleaming center. He never slips, machine. Sitting in the nosebleeds and staring into but the cable is a reminder: a dark arena while a smoke machine occasionally ups He’s in danger of plummetthe haziness, I am feeling hyper-aware. We’re one row ing. from the top and the people behind us will soon to Throughout the show, prove to love screaming “FUCKIN’ KANYE” throughout the stage emphasizes the show.

Kanye’s roles. He’s an energetic mogul, leap9:35 p.m.: The sci-fi paranoia is hitting other people, ing and bouncing durtoo. I talk for a while with Julia about dystopias and all of ing bangers like the strange feelings welling up as we wait. She thinks of “Mercy,” “All of the Black Mirror, the British TV series that exaggerates parts of Lights” and “Don’t society (celebrity culture, mass media, etc.) to imagine horLike.1.” He’s a rifying futures. I think of The Island, a movie that does the regretful truth same thing with the medical industry, starring soft-spoken teller, slowly pacing the Ewan McGregor. Maybe it’s the death arena atmosphere, or stage during “Real Friends.” He lowers the the nosebleeds, or the overwhelming hugeness of the event, stage and lies on his belly, extending his hand and forearm but I feel none of the self-consciousness that usually sets in to a mob of fans who clamor for his touch. before shows. The fear of being secretly marked as a poser Bold gestures become Kanye’s preferred way of interact-

ing with the crowd. He rarely banters, except when he tells the crowd, “It’s a great year to be a Kanye fan” as the intro to “Wolves” plays.

The concert lacks a clear progression. Kanye plays strands of The Life of Pablo songs in a row, but cuts tracks short and restarts songs without explanation. Older hits like “Jesus Walks” and “Flashing Lights” jut out against an emotional core of “Only One” and “Runaway.”

I lose my sense of time for hours at a time. Kanye reportedly split his Indianapolis show between the suspended stage and a second platform. He remains on the stage for the whole night in Buffalo, occasionally shouting out to D.J.s who work in almost complete darkness and rarely THE NEW YORK TIMES break between songs.

11:50 p.m.: Kanye ends with the beginning of The Life of Pablo. A white spotlight shines down on to the floor. One fan stands in the light. A few others join him.

Then, as a young girl prays in the introduction to “Ultralight Beam,” more fans cram into the circle. In the end, however, the light is meant for Kanye. He kneels with his arms at his sides as the stage slowly drifts towards the light at the other end of the arena. He finally enters the light as the gospel outro reverberates through the hall, filling it with massive harmonies before letting the silence grow. Kanye sways in and out of the light, redeemed, but not completely.

11:58 p.m.: There’s no catharsis. Kanye’s stage descends to the ground. The crowd’s cheers grow; hopefully he’ll play a few songs from the ground. Maybe he’ll break the barrier and walk into the mass. But an assistant unhooks Kanye’s cable and he walks out of the arena through a side tunnel. The lights turn on.

No one cheers for an encore because no one expects one.

The crowd dissipates and sadness sets in. While I ride down the escalators, I try to suppress the thought that it was, after all, just a concert. A concert by a person whom I’ve never met, but whom my friends and I think a lot about. A concert of songs I love watched with close friends in an otherworldly environment. But still just a concert. In the end, the temporariness of it all really gets to me.

12:05 a.m.: My phone battery’s plummeting but I post a picture on Instagram before I fall asleep in the car.

I choose one of Kanye sitting cross-legged on the stage while he sings “Only One.” One of his hands rests on his ankles and he holds the mic up to his mouth with the other. The photo isn’t of Kanye himself, but of the massive screen on one end of the floor that played live footage during the show. Sometimes on stage he paused to stare at the screen, quietly gazing at himself in the midst of thousands.

12:17 a.m.: Raymond puts on a C.D. his parents played when he was growing up. All of the text on the C.D. is in Chinese so no one knows anything about the music or who made it. The music’s devoid of distinguishing features.

Flute, trumpet, guitar, bass, piano, drums — all possibly played on a keyboard — play simple songs. It’s the opposite of Kanye’s complex web of references and sample, but it’s fascinating and makes us all happy. No one really talks about the show. We talk about whose phone to use for directions and debate stopping for McDonald’s. I fall asleep for two hours.

Shay Collins is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Nick Swan I have a difficult time describing Frank Ocean’s music. Perhaps it’s a surreal introspection of the most morose and neurotic reactions to something tragic, like the loss of love and the painful journey that follows it.

Maybe it’s a conceptual project of youthful hope and fervor in a world that is far less than ideal. Maybe it’s just sad.

Regardless, Ocean’s new album Blonde is brilliant.

Blonde is Frank Ocean’s follow-up, more than four years later, to 2012’s Channel Orange. Its release has concluded a lengthy period of anticipation for fresh material. Blonde draws on a number of guests and sources of inspiration, including Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, André 3000 and Pharrell Williams.

Before discussing Blonde, it would be apt to mention a few points about Channel Orange and why it was an exceptional glimpse of Ocean’s originality. A large portion of Orange’s allure lies in its unwillingness to indulge the melodic demands of most popular music.

It consistently maintains a gritty and dissonant flow, like a fine grunge album. Periodically, Ocean decides to lead the vision into an epic number, like “Super Rich Kids” or “Pyramids.” On these tracks, layers and layers of warm production synthesize to produce truly captivating harmonic tones and colors. On his first studio album, Ocean exhibited a mastery of nuance that most artists yearn to attain.

Blonde offers a dazzling return of all of Orange’s memorable traits. At the forefront, it is abounding, vivid poetry that ignites with “Nikes,” the first track of and only single from the album. This number begins with a slow-motion jam that creates a type of irony with the extreme hype that surrounded the album’s release. Rather than burst forth with ardor, Ocean merely strolls through the front gates. He begins the first verse with his voice pitched up several octaves, again delaying the album’s grand revelation. Around the last quarter of the song, the pitch effect breaks and

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ostalgia — that seemingly endless pool of artistic inspiration — motivates at least half (by my less-thanscientific calculation) of this year’s major pop culture moments, from Netflix’s Stranger Things all the way to Frank Ocean’s Blond(e). As source material, it’s a tricky beast, at its best capable of drawing on shared memories to remind us what made something great in the first place. At its worst, though, nostalgia invites a kitschy reimagining of the past that too often morphs into revisionist history. Perhaps nowhere is this division more hotly debated than in the realm of hip-hop, a former subculture whose influence now runs far beyond its original parameters, sparking important questions as to how it should continue to evolve while remaining true to its roots.

“No one alive can name me one rapper that was bigger than the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC or Spice Girls was in the ’90s and mean it,” asserted rapper Vince Staples in a recent interview with Noisey. “And no one can name an artist bigger than the rappers now, bigger than Kanye West specifically, without it being kind of subjective… He’s the rock star. He’s the biggest artist, to me, in the world.” Fact checks aside, the 23 year-old Long Beach native delineates an obvious trend: that hip-hop, in the last decade, has reached new peaks of pop culture dominance unknown to the genre’s

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“Ivy’s” echoey, trembling guitar loop makes it feel like a mellow, unconcerned trance. “Pink + White” follows, employing a harmonic progression that yields a feeling of extreme motion, almost like flying, despite possessing a relatively slow tempo. This track also features backing vocals by Beyoncé that greatly contribute to the surreal portrait painted thus far. “Solo,” two tracks later, marks a color change early on in the album, bringing the tone to a more gradual pensiveness that reaches a climactic pinnacle with “Nights.”

This track explores two supporting guitar samples that are thrown back and forth, creating an energetic commotion. Yet, this culminates in an abstract rock-driven transition that entirely shifts Blonde’s atmosphere, all within one track. The music grounds itself again, this time taking on a bitter nature. This portion of the album resembles less of a dream but rather a discordant nightmare. “Solo (Reprise)” offers a glimpse of André 3000’s talent, as he raps several verses at lightning speed over minor triads and ominous bass drops. The next several tracks play like a string of bad memories, forming a manic trip that finally resolves with “Futura Free.” This last song resembles the calm after a storm — Ocean’s resigned — but not necessarily negative, reflection on life and music. The overall tonal arch of the album offers an interesting contrast that is implicitly suggestive of a dream that turns into a nightmare, or a relationship that doesn’t last.

Ocean explores a number of topics on Blonde, yet all seem to support thematic variations of self-identity.

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He also raps “So low that I can admit/When I hear that another kid is shot by the popo/It ain’t an event no more.” The latter line is a direct reference to the recent string of high-profile police assaults on young Black Americans and their debilitating effects on one’s sensitivity.

The former line mentions the diminishing ability of alcohol and drugs to help alleviate stress. Drug-use is mentioned throughout Blonde, often as a way of briefly leaving one identity and assuming an entirely different one. Finally, Blonde’s foremost comment on identity deals with love and relationship. The chorus of “Ivy” reads “It started from nothing/I could hate you now/It’s quite alright to hate me now/When we both know that deep down/The feeling still deep down is good.” Regardless of how poorly a romantic relationship may leave off, does it fundamentally change the identities of those involved? If there is still a good feeling “deep down,” perhaps love does not possess that altering power.

Nick Swan is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com.

On Hip-Hop and Nostalgia founders. Driven by a concern of drifting too far from its origins, hip-hop’s older guard often asserts the late-’80s and early ’90s as the genre’s Golden Age — rap in its purest form. Staples, a guy whose music suggests little patience for nostalgia, refutes that claim on the simple basis of hip-hop’s increased popularity.

At the same time, the genre’s scope has grown more nebulous, and elements of it pervade most popular music today. The

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technique of sampling, for example — as innovated and subsequently popularized by hip-hop D.J.s and producers — is among the most useful tools in the modern music producer’s arsenal. Have the bearded woodsmen of Bon Iver become hip-hop artists by building their recent music around samples and guesting on Kanye albums? Is Anthony Kiedis (of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame), in fact, just a really bad rapper who wound up in a rock band?

These questions stem partially from an unnecessary need to categorize anything and everything, but they also emphasize the

absurd challenge that is trying to keep track of hip-hop’s influence on music and culture throughout the last 40 years. How then, can the particularities of the genre’s origin story — birthed in part out of racial struggles and systemic injustices glossed over in history books — be guaranteed a place in the collective conscience?

With these lofty goals in mind, and armed with well-intentioned nostalgia, Netflix’s new series The Getdown cuts through all the noise around hip-hop’s evolution to deliver a representation of its founding, as rooted in a distinct time and place. That place is a vividly realized Bronx circa 1977, brought to you by Baz Luhrmann, the notoriously excessive Australian director responsible for your high school English teacher’s least favorite adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Thankfully, he enlists a team of individuals far more qualified to bring this particular story to computer screens everywhere, including playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, music journalist Nelson George and a slew of game-changing hip-hop artists including Kool Herc, Afrikaa Bambaataa and Nas. As both art and entertainment, I should mention that The Getdown is far from perfect. Its first episode, especially, is jarringly paced and a slog to get through, clocking in at over 90 minutes and still somehow failing to properly introduce the main cast of characters. The rest of the show continues as a disjointed mess, bogging down moments of brilliance with unnecessary

melodrama and extended conversations that do little to provide depth or advance the narrative. The dialogue itself is stilted but honest, a case of uneven writing resurrected by a great cast, including breakout star Justice Smith, Hamilton the Musical’s Daveed Diggs, Dope’s Shameik Moore and Jaden Smith — a man who needs no introduction (but deserves your follow on Twitter).

As all Luhrmann projects, The Getdown is defined by its sleek surface. The overblown aesthetics (and gorgeous color palette) are part of the point here, incorporating the elements of Blaxploitation, camp and kung-fu films that inspired early hiphop artists. In creating and mythologizing the world of the late 1970s Bronx, Luhrmann and his team powerfully root this story in its specifics. The level of historical accuracy, as fortified by anecdotes from the veritable hip-hop historians working behind the scenes, is vital to the show’s entertainment value as well as its political intent.

Amidst increasingly loud and often problematic discourse on issues of cultural appropriation and where hip-hop is heading, a visual representation that establishes where it comes from feels timely, even when it’s not enough.

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Really Terrible! And Such Small Portions appears alternate Tuesdays this semester. He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

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recover from as Sacred Heart’s defense stymied Cornell. The Red showed some life in the second quarter and, for a brief moment, seemed poised to take the lead, but a fumble from junior running back Josh Sweet at the goal line caused a huge momentum shift and Sacred Heart took a 176 lead. The Pioneers would never look back.

44-24 Loss to Brown

Against Brown, the Red once again fell in a deep hole, trailing 21-3 by the end of the first quarter. Cornell began to fight back with a field goal and a touchdown in the second quarter, but the Bears answered each score with a strike of their own and held a commanding 34-10 lead at the half.

47-21 Loss to Princeton

With Hagy back in the starting lineup, Cornell took on Princeton, still hungry for its first win. The Red held the Tigers scoreless in the first quarter, but then the levee broke and Princeton scored two touchdowns in each of the next three quarters. The Red ended with 444 yards of offense, but struggled to make plays when it mattered most. A Princeton 100-yard kickoff return early in the fourth quarter effectively put the game away.

21-3 Loss to Dartmouth

Like the Harvard game, Cornell jumped on nationally-ranked Dartmouth early, scoring the first points of the game, a field goal with 1:50 left in the first quarter. But from there on out it was all Dartmouth.

The Ivy champion Green scored twice in the second quarter and once more in the third quarter, all the while playing controlled, dominant defense on the Red’s struggling offense. Dartmouth’s vaunted defense ended up limiting Cornell to just 13 first downs and 194 yards of total offense.

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Ohio State.

This was widely considered an excellent draft choice that would contribute to the team immediately and vastly improve the Chargers defense. Bosa marks the first time that the Chargers have had a pick in the top 10 since 2004 and the team’s highest pick since 1998.

With a highly-touted rookie in their grasp, the Chargers are expected to be a much better team this season. However, contract negotiations with Bosa have made this offseason, yet again, very rocky.

The Chargers ownership and front office have made many significant blunders over the years (letting go of Drew Brees, not firing Norv Turner, drafting Ryan Leaf, firing Marty Schottenheimer, etc), but after a miserable season in San Diego, and ugly battles with city government, the Chargers mishandling of Bosa comes with poor timing.

The Chargers and Bosa were in a fight almost as ugly and public as their stadium battle. Bosa’s mother publically called out Chargers management, claiming that Bosa should have “pulled an Eli Manning,” which angered San Diego fans. This, of course, references the 2004 draft, when the Chargers selected Manning even though he made it public he would not play for them if drafted.

They did anyway, and he was later traded to the Giants.

Bosa was, by far, the longest contract holdout since 2011, when a new labor deal was renegotiated making holdouts less common. Bosa’s displeasure came when the Chargers wanted to defer some of his signing bonus to

2017, but Bosa wanted to receive all his money this season.

The Chargers had until the start of the regular season to sign Bosa and used nearly that full amount of time. Both sides would have lost had Bosa not signed, with the Chargers losing out on a potential franchise player, and Bosa having to wait until the next draft to play in the NFL. Thankfully (if you are a Chargers fan), the team signed Bosa to a four-year contract today.

The Chargers sent out a press release expressing that Bosa had not accepted their best offer, which featured an 85 percent payout upfront of Bosa’s signing bonus — $17 million dollars — with a 15 percent deferment to March of next year.

The Chargers and Bosa saga with a happy ending, at least compared to the nastiness of their public contract dispute. Bosa still must come into a Chargers’ training camp having missed the first half and losing an opportunity to mesh with a team that has been training for months without him. The Chargers lost even more faith from their fan base and potentially hurt their bid for a new stadium by another public skirmish over money.

The situation should have been dealt with much earlier and behind closed doors for both the sake of Bosa and the Chargers’ ownership, but at least both sides came to a consensus. This salvages a good amount of value from the situation, but both sides hurt themselves in their contract stalemate.

Noah Elden is a second year columnist. He can be contacted at nelden@cornellsun.com.

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By CHARLES COTTON

Sun Staff Writer

It was a windy late October day when the men’s cross country team delivered a valiant performance in New York’s Van Cortlandt Park, falling just 10 points shy of an Ivy League title.

One of the closest run Heps of alltime, the result was only good enough for a fourth place finish, but the runners still put together an excellent showing.

Two weeks later, the Red took third place in NCAA regionals, falling just one spot shy of an NCAA Championship bid. Two runners did make the trip to Louisville, Kentucky for the event, the first time in over 20 years for Cornell’s program.

Both of them — Ben Rainero and Brian Eimstad — graduated in the spring, leaving a deep void to fill. Despite this loss, men’s cross country head coach Zeb Lang feels his new freshmen class will help out.

“We graduated our two NCAA qualifiers from last season, but we have a solid crew of seven incoming freshmen here now to help us continue our success,” he said.

Nearly all of the men’s cross country team also competes in distance events as part of the track and field team, and numerous members of the team ran very well.

“Our senior trio of James Gowans, David Taylor, and Mark Tedder are all coming off of

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incredible track seasons,” Lang said. “All three qualified for the NCAA East Regional meet in May, and Gowans established himself as one of the best milers in the country at the NCAA Championships indoors and outdoors.” He ran an extremely impressive 3:58 mile back in February, just the 459th sub four minute mile ever run.

This offseason has been a very productive one and he hopes the team’s motivation and work ethic manifest themselves in results, according to Lang.

“The training has been going extremely well,” he said. “The guys are hungry, happy, and healthy coming into the new year.”

The calendar for this year

includes just five meets before Ivy Championships, but Lang has stressed the importance of the socalled regular season and working hard every day.

“We have 12 weeks to NCAAs,” he said. “That is plenty of time to lay a strong foundation of workouts. We don’t over-hype any one race, but when we race, we aren’t farming for cupcakes. We bring it. We have scheduled national-class competitions all fall, so there’s not a soft spot anywhere on our schedule.”

Still, the season comes down to the Red’s performance in November during championship season.

“We are training for November,” Lang added. “We

intend to give it our all to qualify as a team for the NCAA Championships and make another run at the Ivy Heps title in the process.”

Heps take place in late October and NCAA Championships follow a few weeks later in November, but the season gets underway in two weeks, and coach Lang is looking forward to his team’s chemistry coming together.

“I can’t wait to see how this team gels as a unit,” he said. “Each year the team chemistry is a bit different.”

Lang is also excited to see the further progression of his new senior class — all of whom he coached as freshmen in his first season at the helm.

“Since I started coaching the group, our first recruiting class has now reached senior year,” he said.

“Our first recruits now lead the team, and it’s been amazing to watch these guys develop. It’s a ton of fun to see this group of distance runners blossom.”

Time will tell if those seniors can use their experience to lead the Red to the promised land later on in the year.

Action gets underway September 10 at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational hosted by Penn State, where several nationally recognized teams are slated to compete.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

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ward, the Red still has six more games to get ready Ivy League play, which begins on September 23 at Columbia.

“At this point in the season we have a couple of tough non-conference games coming up, so I think we’re really going to try and use those to prepare for the Ivy games,” DeLoach added.

The team would like to use this stretch of games to prepare for Ivy foes, and in the end, hopes it prepares them for a long run in the postseason.

“We know that we can be competitive in every game, and I think that one of our overall team goals is to finish with a better record in our Ivy League season and to better our Ivy League ranking,” Pullano said.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

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Strikers Start Hot With 1-0 Win Over N.Y. Foes

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Kick-off | The women’s soccer team got off to a

For the second year in a row, the women’s positive start after scoring soccer team kicked their season off against in the first five minutes in-state opponent Siena College. While last and playing solid defense year’s opener ended in a draw, this year’s saw Cornell get the better of the Saint Bernards for the remaining 85 in a 1-0 win. minutes.

Junior forward Paige DeLoach had the team’s lone goal in the fifth minute which was all that was necessary to secure the win.

The Red’s defense, and especially senior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney, was able to hold off the Saints for the game’s last 85 minutes.

“Overall, I think the team played very CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN FILE PHOTO well through the heat and tough conditions,” DeLoach said.

The Red fired eight shots, three on goal, Despite the win, both DeLoach and season goes on and as we get more used to and Tierney made four saves of her own to Pullano stressed that maintaining a high playing with each other, we should be able help the Red start the seaenergy throughout the to keep our level of play up through the secson on a positive note. game is something the ond half.”

CORNELL @ SIENA COLLEGE team can improve “We came out with “We just need to keep working on our great competitive spirit competitiveness and toughness in front of upon.

1 0 and energy which is very “During the second the net so we are able to finish more of the 2ND FINAL 1ST influential in setting the Game: half our level of play chances we create,” Pullano added. “This 0 1 1 tone for the season,” said Cornell and possession dropped will definitely be a goal moving forward.”

Siena College 0 0 0 junior forward Tess Three of the Red’s 11 starters were fresha lot, which I think Pullano. “We moved the boiled down to us not men, and freshman midfielder Juliana ball around well and created some great having a lot of game fitness and experience Comer picked up her first collegiate assist in chances.” playing together,” DeLoach said. “As the the win. The three freshman starters are part

of the eight new additions to the roster announced at the beginning of the season.

“Our freshmen are really cool and seem to be adjusting well to the team and to school,” DeLoach said. “We did a lot of team bonding during preseason, and we spend time together everyday to strengthen the bonds we have to create a stronger team.”

Acclimating the freshmen to college soccer and college life in general isnot always up to them, according to the seasoned veterans.

“As a junior, I really try and talk to the freshmen as much as possible on and off the field, both about soccer and life in general because I know that when I was a freshman it meant a lot when the upperclassmen reached out to me,” Pullano said. “Knowing people on campus as a freshman always makes you feel so much more comfortable.”

Comer — who played in first collegiate game ever Sunday — looked and acted like she had been on the college field for years “I think we did a good job of keeping our shape on defense and staying compact in the middle,” she said. “We did a good job of supporting each other’s passes and moving around to get into space to get the ball.”

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or the San Diego Chargers, no offseason is too quiet. Even if they have a mundane season, the team still finds a way to stay relevant in the offseason, but usually not for the right reasons.

The Chargers finished last season with four wins, leaving them ahead of only the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns. The team’s franchise quarterback Philip Rivers is entering into his 13th season at the age of 34 and begins the first year of a four-year extension. Age has not impacted Rivers’s play too drastically, though, as he put together a stellar season in 201516 by racking up the second most yards and the 12th most touchdowns of any quarterback in the league.

Despite this, the team as a whole failed to reach

Noah Elden If I Were G.M. the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons and watched their rivals in Denver win the Superbowl.

This offseason, they also lost long-time free safety Eric Weddle to free agency after a series of contract disputes with the team. The mediocrity of the Chargers was further overshadowed by the dark cloud of a potential move to Los Angeles.

Ownership has had a public battle with the local San Diego government, pressuring the city — and their taxpayers — into building a new stadium by threatening a move to Los Angeles. A 4-12 season seemed like a disappointing end to a somewhat successful yet championship-less era for the Chargers in San Diego, but they agreed to remain located in San Diego for at least the 2016 season.

The one positive thing about a poor season is the high draft pick that comes with it. The best thing that came out of the 2015 season for the Chargers was being awarded the third overall pick, where they selected all-American defensive end Joey Bosa out of See ELDEN page 14

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Last year, the Cornell football team stumbled to a 1-9 record, and, in a fashion similar to the 2014 season, the team picked up its lone victory against Columbia in the second to last week of the season.

With the announcement of the team’s four captains and the 2016 campaign is fast approaching, it is a good time to look back on last year’s one-win season.

19-14 Loss to Bucknell

The Red opened the 2015 season with a clash against Bucknell on homecoming. Cornell sputtered out of the gate, making men-tal mistakes on both sides of the ball. In what would become a yearlong trend, the team missed field goals and failed to capitalize on opportunities. Yet despite the blunders, the team played well enough to open up a 14-10 lead with less than two minutes to go. But a “miraculous” throw from Bucknell quarterback R.J. Nitti on a fourthand-goal from the 10-yard line sent Cornell into the locker room with a stinging loss to start the season.

ting out a Cornell offense that had been so potent just minutes before.

The Bulldogs scored 20 points in the second half, dropping the Red to 0-2.

28-21 Loss to Colgate

Following the defeat at Yale, Cornell welcomed Colgate to Ithaca for the first Friday night game in program history. The Red came out of the gate stagnant, letting the Raiders’ dynamic playmaking quarterback Jake Melville have a field day. Melville ended the contest with 257 yards through the air to go with his 97 rushing yards. Colgate took a 28-7 lead into the fourth quarter. The Red attempted a massive comeback, scoring twice to put the team down by a touchdown with just over four minutes to play, but four incom-

plete passes from senior quarterback Robert Somborn from 10 yards away from the goal line ended the Red’s hope to knock off Colgate.

40-3 Loss to Harvard

Up next for the Red came defending champion and nationally ranked Harvard. The Crimson took a 17-3 lead into the half, but this time there was no late rally from the Red. Harvard’s dominant offense tacked on 23 more points in the second half, holding Cornell scoreless. The loss was the Red’s 10th straight deficit against the Crimson.

31-6 Loss to Sacred Heart

Next Cornell traveled to Sacred Heart to take on the Pioneers. An early injury to star running back Luke Hagy ’16 was a blow that the Red couldn’t See FOOTBALL page 14

33-26 Loss to Yale

In the second game of the season — an away match against Yale — the men found their footing early, taking a 26-7 lead with a few minutes to go in the first half. Then it all began to unravel. A long kickoff return toward the end of the half allowed the Bulldogs to score and begin to close the gap. After halftime, Yale clamped down on the Red, shut-

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Can’t win ’em all | After one win this past season, the Red hopes that it will finish with a more solid record in the 2016 season.