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Hundreds Celebrate Revitalized Commons at Ceremony Following 871 construction days,officials praise rejuvenation of ‘best downtown in America’

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

About 200 people gathered in downtown Ithaca Friday afternoon for the dedication of the newly reopened Ithaca Commons, which completed construction over the summer.

Local and state officials praised the rejuvenation of the downtown area despite the lengthy time of the renovation, which obstructed business, festivals and pedestrian walkways on the mall for almost two and a half years — exactly 871 days — and cost the city $15 million, according to a Downtown Ithaca Alliance press release.

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A new start | Gary Ferguson of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance says the new Commons is a ‘wonderful reflection’ of Ithaca.

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For the common good | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 (left) cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the newly reopened Ithaca Commons Friday afternoon.

Gary Ferguson, executive director of the DIA, opened the ceremony, calling the downtown redevelopment a “new center of vitality.”

“I believe that the “I believe that the things things we build are a reflection of who we we build are a reflection are and who we of who we are and who aspire to be,” Ferguson said. “That we aspire to be.” being the case, I ask you to look around Gary Ferguson at this beautiful, walkable, inviting Commons and pat yourself on the back. This is a wonderful reflection of our community.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, who also attended the event, See COMMONS page 4

Creators of Broad City Mexican Food Truck Opens in Collegetown To Take Bailey Stage

By DAVID TICZON

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By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor

Cornell will welcome Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson — cocreators and stars behind Comedy

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Central’s hit sitcom Broad City — to Bailey Hall on Sept. 26, the Cornell University Programming Board announced Monday.

Broad City premiered on Comedy Central in 2014 after Glazer and Jacobson’s webseries of

the same name won attention and acclaim from fans across the country. Now, these two women are gearing up for their third season on the airwaves.

Over the past two years, Broad City has garnered a devout following of mostly-millennial comedy enthusiasts. Known for its sheer absurdity, the show depicts the leading ladies navigating life in New York City.

Attendees can expect a live variation of Broad City, according to a CUPB press release. Michael Luzmore ’17, executive chair of CUPB, added that this will mean plenty of the “hilarious banter” to which the show’s fans have grown accustomed.

Luzmore said CUPB was intent on bringing Glazer and See BROAD CITY page 5

Approximately 50 members of the local community, including Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, waited in line at the corner of Eddy and Williams Street Thursday night to celebrate the grand opening of Dos Amigos, a new Mexican food truck.

After months of preparation by co-founders David Farahi ’16 and Jorge Bouras ’17, the festivities began with the breaking open of a piñata, hung from Eddy Gate.

Those among the first in line were rewarded with complimentary chips and guacamole, bandanas, stickers and churros.

The creation of the truck began when Farahi — who is from Reno, Nevada — and Bouras — who is from San Diego — wrote a business plan for the food truck for an entrepreneurial class last fall.

the food.”

The cuisine was made possible due to the efforts of Chef Sam Epps from local Italian restaurant Gola Osteria, according to Farahi and Bouras. Farahi said he recruited Epps after hearing about Epps’ love of Mexican

According to Farahi, both he and Bouras missed the authentic Mexican food that was available back home on the West Coast.

“We just really missed this food when we came to Ithaca,” Farahi said. “The dream is coming true that we will be able to expose some people to this type of cuisine and we hope they love

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Nacho average food truck | Dos Amigos, a new Mexican food truck, opens on Eddy Street Thursday night.

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Mayor de Blasio Authorizes Emergency Measure for Homeless Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has approved of an emergency measure that will aid those who are homeless, The New York Times reported Sunday. The initiative, which will cost $10 million, is expected to provide assistance to up to 1,000 people.

Though the number of homeless in New York City has declined since last winter, officials say that “more needed to be done to assist adults without children,” according to The Times.

National Boat of Fisherman Found in Sandy Hook Peninsula Tom Andersen, a 59-yearold retired construction worker who ran a fishing business, died last week after his 40-foot boat sank in the Sandy Hook peninsula, The New York Times reported.

His body, found inside the boat’s engine room, was recovered on Friday. Divers from the state police experienced difficulty in reaching his boat due to “dangerous currents” and nets surrounding the vessel, according to The Times.

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A new Johnson Museum collection featuring the artwork of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ’44 opened to the public earlier this month.

The collection, titled “So it Goes,” contains 30 of Vonnegut’s personal drawings distributed throughout the Moak, Class of 1953 and Schaenen galleries.

Nancy Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier curator of European and American Art at the Johnson, was one of the two curators responsible for the compilation of this exhibit. Green said she believes that Vonnegut’s drawings offer new insight into the author’s personality.

“About five years ago, Michele Wick ’82 MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR approached me about doing a show of these works,” Green said. “Once I saw the drawings, On display | A new Johnson Museum exhibit, “So It Goes,” showcases the artwork of Kurt Vonnegut owned by Vonnegut’s daughter, Nanette, I Jr. ’44. thought they would make a nice exhibition, “The faces he depicts are like caricatures, the author’s life, the exhibit also incorporates showing a completely different side to what even his self-portrait, which is one of my Vonnegut’s documents from the Cornell Rare we think we know about the writer.”

According to Green, despite only using the favorites,” she said. “I think you can tell he Book and Manuscript Collections and family photos donated by his daughter. felt-tip pen as a medium, Vonnegut’s art style enjoyed making them.”

“I hope visitors will enjoy discovering Green said the same unconventional wit is highly varied, expressive and reflective of the that characterizes much of Vonnegut’s novels, another aspect of this iconic writer. Vonnegut societal conditions during his time.

“He uses a felt tip pen and of course the which include Slaughterhouse-Five and encouraged everyone to be creative, in writing, colors are mostly bright and bold,” Green said. Breakfast of Champions, can be seen in his art. music and art, and made the valid point that “I think you can see his it wasn’t the quality of the work produced but “I think [his artworks] are humor in both [his art and the creativity tapped in each of us by just trywhimsical, playful, sometimes acerbic, sometimes “The faces he depicts are writing] very clearly,” ing,” Green said. “I hope the various aspects of Green said. “In each he the exhibition, taken together, will allow our joyous, a reflection of what we know about Vonnegut like caricatures, even his takes us on a ride and he audiences to come to know Vonnegut better.” self-portrait.”

An opening reception for the exhibit will wants us to enjoy ourselves himself. They were all done while not missing the seri- take place on Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. at the Johnson in the 1980s and I think Nancy Green Museum, followed by a panel discussion with ous parts.” they are in some ways a Green said she hopes the documentarian Bob Weide, author Ginger response to the negative exhibit, coupled with the Strand and Prof. George Hutchinson, english, aspects of that decade.”

Many of Vonnegut’s works show clear styl- freshman summer reading selection of about Vonnegut and his work. istic connections to other famous artists of the Slaughterhouse-Five, would lead viewers to time, according to Green. Some of these artists gain a deeper understanding of Vonnegut’s include Saul Steinberg, Vonnegut’s personal beliefs and personality.

Jeanette Si can be reached In an effort to present a holistic display of at jsi@cornellsun.com. friend, and Paul Klee, a Swiss painter.

Cornell Students, Alumni Create Drinkable Meal

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Mt. McKinley to be Renamed Denali President Barack Obama announced Sunday that Alaska’s Mount McKinley will be renamed Denali, according to The New York Times. The tallest mountain in North America will once again have an Alaskan Native name with “deep cultural significance,” The Times reported.

A group of Cornell students and alumni have raised more than

$15,000 on Kickstarter for their new product, Macrofuel — a nutritiously complete meal alternative in a drinkable form.

Augustine Reitsema ’16, chief

To dye for

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executive officer of MacroFuel, said the product is a mix of wholesome, real-food ingredients in a powdered form that can be easily mixed with water to provide a full, nutritious meal.

Reitsema said the idea for MacroFuel came about when he realized he did not have time for a healthy lifestyle while working on a job that required him to be “in the office 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week.”

“As someone focused on fitness and nutrition, I found that it was extremely difficult to fuel my body with a diet that was conducive to the lifestyle I wanted to maintain,” Reitsema said. “This is where the idea for a maximally nutritious drinkable meal came about.”

Alex Meyers ’15, chief information officer of MacroFuel, said the product is “designed for the busy young adult with an active lifestyle.”

“Since I have started drinking MacroFuel in place of ... unhealthy alternatives, I have been able to keep a balanced diet more easily,” Meyers said.

Reitsema said although the team was “incredibly thankful” for the support, they were “hardly surprised” by the amount of interest in their Kickstarter campaign.

“In today's fast paced world, healthy diets frequently take a back seat to work, school, or just life in general, but that doesn’t mean that people don’t want to fuel their body with proper nutrition,” he said. “MacroFuel allows people to maintain the active lifestyle they are accustomed to without giving up on a healthy diet — and I think

that is why you are seeing such an interest in this campaign.”

Reitsema said he is confident that the customer’s experience with the product will be as professional as possible.

“We've reached agreements with all of our suppliers, as well as an FDA-approved co-packing facility,” he said. “… Our number one focus is still the Kickstarter campaign; we have 24 days to go and we want to get our campaign out to as many people as possible.

After that, we will fulfill these orders and begin transitioning to regular online sales.”

Reitsema also emphasized that the support the team has received from the Cornell community has been valuable.

“Prof. David BenDaniel, [physics and engineering], Prof.

Tom Schryver, [management] and Prof. Brad Treat, [management] were essential in encouraging us to launch this company,” he said.

“I'm not sure if there is any other college that provides as much entrepreneurial support as Cornell.”

MacroFuel contains ingredients such as rice, barley, soybean, honey and oat fiber, according to Reitsema. The product comes in a professionally packaged re-sealable bag containing four servings.

The product can be ordered directly on the MacroFuel Kickstarter page — which is expected to run until Sept. 23 — and is expected to ship by early November.

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

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said that though the costs of the project were high, the positive effects of the revitalization are already evident.

According to Myrick, while nine percent of storefronts on the Commons were unoccupied before construction began, only three percent remain empty today.

Myrick added that he believed the new Commons had transformed Ithaca into “the best downtown in the United States of America.”

“I wouldn’t say we were the best if we weren’t,” Myrick said. “I wouldn’t say we were the best if I didn’t believe it.

And to be honest, three years ago, I didn’t believe it.”

In addition to the visible changes above ground on the Commons, Myrick also described the structural problems that had plagued the city before the project. He spoke of a century-old water main and sewer lines that seemed to be leaking beneath cracks in the pavement. Residents, he said, were “afraid of both the seen and the unseen issues on the Commons.”

However, the new underground utility network beneath blocks of new pavement “is prepared to last … for decades,” Myrick said.

State officials in attendance also praised the efforts of local small business owners and encouraged those in attendance to patronize downtown businesses. New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125th) even urged spectators, “Please go shopping.”

New York State Senator Thomas O’Mara (R-58th) called the new Commons “a remarkable downtown achievement.”

“This is truly going to draw people in,” O’Mara said.

“It’s a transformative project here in Ithaca and one I’ve truly been proud to play a small part in with Barbara Lifton and the Assembly.”

Myrick also thanked Senator Charles Schumer (DN.Y.), who he said assisted with the project “in his trademark idiosyncratic way.” In July 2012, Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) helped secure $4.5 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to rebuild the Commons, according to

Senator Gillibrand’s website.

“Without his support for the application that got us $4.5 million in federal funds, we would not be here,” Myrick said. He read aloud from a letter from Schumer, who congratulated the Mayor on the project’s completion.

“With a playground, ample seating and performance spaces and tree-lined pedestrian thoroughfares, this is truly a space for all to enjoy. The wait was well worth it, and the heart of the city is bustling once again,” Schumer wrote. “This project was a collaboration between many parties, government representatives, local businesses and private citizens, and I am proud to have secured funding

“The new Ithaca Commons serves as a far-reaching model of downtown renewal.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the project through the Federal State of Good Repair Grant program.”

“Thanks to your efforts Ithacans for generations to come will have a public forum to be proud of and enjoy,” Schumer also wrote.

Schumer joined O’Mara, Myrick and others in noting that the project was a joint effort between many individuals and groups, under the leadership of Myrick and Ferguson.

“When we received the federal funding, both Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand were incredibly influential,” Myrick said. “It pays to have two of the most dynamic and influential [senators] in the entire country representing you in Washington, D.C.” Though Gillibrand was also unable to attend the ceremony, a representative from her office read a statement saying Gillibrand “loved seeing the progress” on the Commons when she visited Ithaca in recent weeks.

“This new fresh face for the Ithaca Commons will help attract more businesses, create job growth and continue to keep Ithaca’s economy on the move,” Gillibrand wrote.

“Improving this key downtown hub is an important transformation that is good for the people who live and work in the Ithaca community.”

Besides the support of Schumer and Gillibrand, Myrick also said that Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) had been “very passionate about” the Commons. Myrick referred to the city’s 2012 award of $1.8 million from the New York State Regional Economic Development Council, thanking Cuomo for his role in bringing about the donation, without which he said the project “never would have gotten off the ground.”

In a letter read aloud by a regional representative, Cuomo said the completed Commons is “a terrific development for the local community and upstate New York.”

“The new Ithaca Commons serves as a far-reaching model of downtown renewal and of the importance of partnership in rebuilding and revitalizing our communities,” Cuomo wrote. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I applaud everyone for their hard work and commitment.”

A ribbon-cutting ceremony — featuring a threeblock stretch of red ribbon down the Commons, followed — followed the dedication. Ferguson and Myrick, along with dozens of citizens who had brought their own scissors, joined together to cut the ceremonial ribbon.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony, though not the largest ceremony of its kind on record, was the largest ribboncutting ceremony that Ithaca has ever seen, Ferguson said.

While he noted the many aesthetic improvements to the Commons, Myrick also took care to mention what was not present at the dedication — “the critics and the cynics.”

“Absent are the critics and the cynics who said Ithaca can’t stay alive in a time when throughways and highways and malls were replacing downtown, the critics who said five years ago that we should abandon this idea of a walkable urban center,” Myrick said.

“What you see today is the best downtown in America,” he added. “What you can’t see, but surely you can feel, is that this will remain the best downtown in America for decades to come.”

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

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food while eating dinner at the restaurant one night.

“We went over to his restaurant and I sat down for dinner and asked if I could talk to the chef,” Farahi said. “We spoke about the concept and he loved it, and we have been working together ever since.”

The process of making the menu was a long one, according to Bouras.

“The first night was frantic, but we planned for it and were well prepared for the task,” Bouras said. “The menu was a long process. I brought flavors from back home in San Diego and from Mexico, which is very much like my second home. The task then was to try and find the right ingredients here in try to bring the two upstate “I like the freshness of it cultures and together.” and it is definitely a Jeremy Pustilnik ’18, who was one of the first students to try the pretty solid choice. I food from Dos Amigos, praised would eat it again.” the taste of his ‘chief beef taco.’

“It’s a savory steak along with a Jeremy Pustilnik ’18 lime tang to it and the parsley adds a nice twist,” Pustilnik said.

“I like the freshness of it and it is definitely a pretty solid choice. I would eat it again.”

The exterior of the truck — which features a brightly-colored surfer — was designed and painted by student artist Pablo Wolf Maggi ’16, who said he was inspired by the colors and themes of the West Coast.

“We were actually planning to use a palette with a lot less colors,” Maggi said. “We thought that would be the best and most practical way to go, considering that the truck was going to be open primarily at night, and budgeting for less colors might be cheaper.”

Once he saw the truck, however, Maggi said he knew he had to drop that plan.

“The truck was such a bright and shiny creature [that] I had to give it color, I had to give it flare,” Maggi said. “The imagery came about along the process in accordance with some of the themes Jorge and David wanted to work with, notably California, the West Coast, beachy, ocean flare and of course, Mexican food.”

Maggi said he painted the truck everyday since Aug. 7, and that reaching the deadline of opening day was “tough.”

“This has been probably about a 400 square foot project and I did it all in two weeks by myself,” Maggi said.

Susan Farahi, David Farahi’s mother, said she flew in with her husband to see the opening of the truck, adding that she was proud of her son and that he had always loved food trucks.

“I am very proud because everything was done,” Mrs. Farahi said.

“There was a lot of careful thought and planning done step by step. He learned a lot.”

Jacobson to campus because their characters are “so easy to root for.”

“One of the reasons we believe Broad City is being so well received critically is that its depiction of female friendship strikes a great contrast against many other female television friendships that can often be spiteful or based in jealousy,” he said. “ I think Cornell students can relate to Abbi and Ilana’s friendship in a way that many other television shows fail to emulate.”

Luzmore said CUPB is confident that Glazer and Jacobson’s unique dynamic will make for an engaging show.

“I hope that students will get a chance to take a break from their busy schedules to laugh and hang out with two of the funniest women in comedy right now,” he said.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A 10-year-old girl was charged Thursday with manslaughter in the death of an infant whose mother said had ingested medication and been suffocated.

The girl, who is not being identified, is the youngest person to be charged with manslaughter in Maine in at least 25 years. The infant, Brooklyn FossGreenaway, of Clinton in central Maine, had been left overnight with an adult baby sitter in nearby Fairfield.

The sitter called police early July 8 to report that the infant was not breathing, authorities said. Emergency workers who arrived minutes later reported

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that child was unresponsive.

The death of any child under age 3 triggers an automatic investigation in Maine, and detectives uncovered some “troubling signs” before the state medical examiner declared the death a homicide, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

The death was declared a homicide Wednesday, but investigators withheld further details on the cause of death.

Brooklyn’s mother, Nicole “Nicki” Greenaway, of Clinton, said the 10-year-old was the sitter’s daughter. Authorities told her the baby had ingested medication to treat attention-deficit

disorder and been suffocated, she said, adding that she also saw bruises on her daughter’s body.

“I feel a little bit of relief that they’re charging her daughter at this point, but the mom really needs to be responsible. She’s the one I left my daughter with,” Greenaway said.

The 10-year-old girl was already in the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services when a summons was delivered to her attorney on Thursday, McCausland said.

Police declined to identify the girl, who is due in juvenile court in October. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

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AppalachianTrail Partying Raises Ire Among Visitors At Maine’s Baxter State Park, home to the trail’s final summit on Mount Katahdin, officials say thru-hikers are flouting park rules by openly using drugs and drinking alcohol, camping where they aren’t supposed to, and trying to pass their pets off as service dogs.

Hundreds of miles away, misbehaving hikers contributed to a small Pennsylvania community’s recent decision to shutter the sleeping quarters it had offered for decades in the basement of its municipal building.

With last year’s release of the movie “Wild,” about a woman's journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, and what experts call a growing interest in outdoor activities, the number of people on the Appalachian Trail has exploded.

And the numbers are only expected to climb further after “A Walk in the Woods” — a movie based on the 1998 Bill Bryson book about the Appalachian Trail— hits theaters this week.

“I think Cornell students can relate to Abbi and Ilana’s friendship in a way that many other television shows fail to emulate.”

10-Year-Old Charged With Manslaughter

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BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) — When Jackson Spencer set out to tackle the Appalachian Trail, he anticipated the solitude that only wilderness can bring — not a rolling, monthslong frat party.

Shelters where he thought he could catch a good night’s sleep while listening to the sounds of nature were instead filled with trash, graffiti and people who seemed more interested in partying all night, said Spencer, who finished the entire trail last month in just 99 days.

“I wanted the solitude. I wanted to experience nature,” he said.

“I like to drink and to have a good time, but I didn’t want that to follow me there.”

Spencer, or “Mission” as he is known to fellow thru-hikers, confronted what officials say is an ugly side effect of the increasing traffic on the Georgia-to-Maine footpath every year: More people than ever causing problems.

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By Ruben Bolling

Cup,Confetti And Double Standards

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scintillating deluge of golden con- Hispanic-American women enroll at fetti plummeted from the sky, even lower rates. Nonetheless, analyses of alighting merrily on the hoards of the social, political and economic condiscreaming devotees and bedecked cham- tions responsible for discrepancies in pions cheering below. The first ticker opportunities and participation for tape parade for a U.S. female sports team women of color were largely absent from attracted thousands to lower Manhattan July’s media coverage. Further reiterating to celebrate the victory over Japan in the the exclusivity of athletic culture, some finals of the 2015 Women’s World Cup. fans cheered on the USWNT via racist The explosion of support for women’s stereotypes. The popularity of racist soccer resounded, unprecedentedly, hashtags, with more than 18,000 Pearl across many forms of media. Fox broad- Harbor-themed tweets trending during casted games during primetime hours, the finals, prompts the notion that only reaching record numbers of viewers. certain women — of a particular race #USWNT elicited more than 3 million and/or class — are entitled to gender tweets during the tournament, and news equitable athletics.

Fans and journalists similarly evaded outlets dispatched a mass of think pieces and commentaries. The USWNT won tricky conversations through the erasure not only the Cup, but also rare heights of of U.S. goalie Hope Solo’s domestic viosupport, interest and honor that female lence allegations. Discussion of Solo’s athletes are frequently denied. The gush brutal attack on half-sister Teresa Obert of fandom and media coverage denotes a and her son remained conspicuously out remarkable moment for women in of the spotlight during the revelries of “female empowersports. ment.” Solo, one of While rejoicing at the top-paid female the record number of If we continue to soccer players in the fans, the triumph of question our politics world, has retained our home team and endorsement deals, Amy Wambach’s iconand include more appeared on magazine ic post-win kiss with covers, produced a her wife, the media narratives and autobiograalso decried the perspectives, we can best-seller phy, and maintained unremitting discrimiher playing time and nation underlying the work towards team support despite tournament. displacing the the domestic violence Frequent foci of conclaims against her. tention included exclusionary stereo- The scarcity of news unequal pay for attention on her histowomen athletes, the types in sports. ry of violence indicates lack of female FIFA a prioritization of her executives and the use of dangerous and game-altering turf commercial value for the team over the fields — while male counterparts com- gravity of domestic abuse.

Finally — amidst the gleaming, pete on grass. Journalists and feminists denounced chauvinistic news coverage sweaty faces of victors whose brawn and focusing on the athlete’s bodies, inferior- tenacity purportedly signaled a new ity and apparent need for “tighter shorts” dawn for women in sports — a line of slinky models strutted precariously in to attract spectators.

News outlets ranging from the New LBDs and stilettos across the (infamous) York Times to Cosmopolitan penned tor- turf to serve as trophy-holders during the rents of think pieces critically examining final ceremony. Lined up behind the gender politics in the power hierarchies powerful FIFA executives, dressed conof FIFA and professional sports. Many trarily in power suits and somber expresauthors condemned the grating discrep- sions, the silent, beaming models perfectancies for athletes of different genders ly embodied the sexual objectification, and created a well-defined matrix of vary- shushing of female opinions and generaling lenses through which the public can ized lack of authority afforded to women interpret the challenges in women’s throughout the 2015 World Cup. I sports. This exceptional moment of watched, incredulous (at both their abilidebate inspires hope for sustained inter- ty to walk in high heels on AstroTurf est in female athletics and continued crit- and) at the absurdity of commodifying icism of sexism within athletic institu- women into sexy trophy-holders at a women’s sporting event. Yet among the tions.

Nonetheless, several themes remained many calls to end sexism against players, notably missing from the fan and media journalists barely mentioned FIFA’s use hype following the U.S. women’s victory. of mute, grinning, sexualized models.

The media perhaps cannot be held Only a few brief articles focalized the issue of race at this year’s World Cup. accountable for missing the profusion of The U.S. women claimed their victory possible angles; the breadth of misogyny through the effort of an almost entirely and racism in sports presents a wide hurwhite cast of players and a completely dle to scale. So while we enjoy the white coaching staff. Online news source momentary attention afforded to female Colorlines alleges that head coach Jill athletics, persistent investigation, critiEllis refused a spot to award-winning cism and advocacy remain necessary to Mexican-American player Teresa Noyola, ensure that the spotlighting of gender claiming that although she was raised in politics is not fleeting or superficial. The the U.S., she should play for the Mexican foundation laid by journalists, feminists, activists and fans towards redirecting team.

This lack of diversity marks a damn- conversations about athletics offers hope ing defeat to a so-called “feminist” that we can jump from here. If we conmoment. In fact, the whiteness of the tinue to question our politics and include USWNT reflects a national trend. more narratives and perspectives, we can According to a 2007 study released by work towards displacing the exclusionary the Department of Education, women of stereotypes in sports. color do not participate in school sports at the same rate as white women. Black women’s enrollment trails by nearly 11 Kate Poor is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at ksp57@cornell.edu Triple Jump percent and Asian-American and appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Aditi Bhowmick | Abtruse Musings

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here is one reassuring constant in the world we live in — change.

There has been increased dialogue surrounding an issue which was almost invisible a few years ago — America’s mass incarceration issue. As an international student, I was only aware of the racial dilemma widespread in incarceration in the Unites States. However, last semester, I took one of those life-changing courses offered by Cornell’s government department which really makes you think long after the term papers have been submitted and the grades have been assigned. This was a seminar on The Politics of Punishment taught by Professor Mary Katzenstein. The incredible literature I read, journals I followed like The Marshall Project, films I watched and conversations we had with correctional officers, prisoners and public defendants had a profound impact on how I think.

Marie Gottschalk writes at the beginning of her compelling book, Caught: “The reach of the carceral state today is truly breathtaking. It extends well beyond the 2.2 million people sitting in jail or prison today in the United States. It encompasses the more than eight million people — or in one in twenty-three adults — who are under some form of state control.”

These poignant statistics are only an outline of how dismal the situation is. The more one reads and explores, the structural injustice becomes more apparent. It is very disillusioning for a college student to be presented with the fact that some people just don’t stand a chance to begin with. One could write several dissertations about the root causes of the American carceral state, describe it in terms of a culture of control, vested political and economic interests or the very nature of retribution.

However, it is perhaps time to shift focus from the harrowing statistics and their causes to the gradual but promising traces of change. The first categorical wave of change was the focus on the growing pre-eminence of mass incarceration as a warranted concern in academic circles. Pertinent questions were asked, which led to preliminary answers — significant and thought-provoking data, statistics and reports.

The Pew Research Center, American Civil Liberties Union and The Marshall Project are only a few of the formidable harbingers which high-

Last semester, I took one of those life-changing courses offered by Cornell’s government department. lighted the corporeal flaws in the American Criminal Justice system. The phrase “mass incarceration” made its way into public opinion and dialogue. Thought leaders, public policy reformers, political observers and civil society began thinking in terms of reform and solutions. There is no quick-fix solution to America’s incarceration issue, however, there is incredible opportunity for progress.

Prison reform itself has a vast and fascinating timeline. Advocates of prison reform set out by thinking about reform, reinvestment and recidivism. While it is true, that the damage continued — draconian laws, drug laws and statutes further expanding the carceral state were passed. The demographics of prison populations changed, immigration detention only increased the number of people incarcerated. Private prisons emerged and made considerable profits; prisons became an industry. However, the newfound political interest meant that there were two sides to the story. Since there were entities upholding mass incarceration, small tides emerged to resist it as well. Several universities, including Cornell, established brilliant education programs with prisons — all in an effort to restore the ethic of equal opportunity which our structural system of mass incarceration essentially ignores.

After the Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray protests turned into a political debate across the country, the mass incarceration dialogue only became more relevant and time sensitive. Political figures with immense influence on public opinion like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton consider incarceration to be a pressing concern in their respective political agendas. Hillary Clinton’s speech on criminal justice reform at Columbia University in April was a manifestation of the gradual but promising signs of change in the incarceration dialogue. Marie Gottschalk indicated in her book, Caught, that private prisons and supporters of the carceral state are, today, “too big to fail” like the financial behemoths of America. This was a disturbing idea to me simply because I am well versed with how far reaching the influence of “too big to fail” entities are in the financial world.

However, working in the financial district of New York this summer has only strengthened the optimism I have about of mass incarceration.

Firms like Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Bank of America Merrill Lynch among others have been investing earnestly to redress recidivism and make criminal justice reform a priority in the private realm. Apart from being socially valuable, these initiatives are incredibly innovative — they range from social impact bonds, job training programs for indigents, partnerships with departments of justice and partnerships with universities to co-author white papers. It is heartening to witness that in the effort of these large revenue-generating institutions to be more socially engaged and influence public policy. Entrepreneurial initiatives have led to the establishment of truly inspiring institutions like the Delancey Street Foundation which has redefined how society addresses rehabilitation. The Delancey Street Foundation has focused on providing entrepreneurial opportunities to former prisoners — giving them a sense of ownership in the life they create after prison. Last semester, I realized through all the conversations I had about criminal justice reform that we are not defined by the worst things we do — rather, we are defined by the steps we take to fix our mistakes. For me, it is extremely reassuring to realize that our collective consciousness as a society is coming closer to this realization as well.

Aditi Bhowmick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at ab738@cornell.edu.

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Comment of the day “Trump won’t win. He’s just getting attention for being a jackass. The only way he’d have even the slightest chance is if the Democrats nominated Sanders, because to anyone not on the far left he’s intolerable.”

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elcome back every- online social networks and what your profession … anyone! Hopefully, you crowdsourcing wouldn’t be thing that can be digitized can enjoyed your sum- possible without freely dis- be outsourced.” This is true mer — and if you didn’t, tributed information over now more than ever. We need hopefully your semester will the web. And — just like leg- to rethink our place in the be a little better. This summer islation designed to slow world.

I thought a lot about being westward settlement — legisLike the original cowboys, part of the real world after I lation that interferes with our politics need to catch up graduate. It’s something you free information gets tabled with the times. Gilded Age need to think about sooner or before you can say “net neu- politics were just as partisan and corrupt as they are now. later — sooner if you’re trality.”

The allure of the Wild Gilded Age politics set the premed, later if you’re taking a gap year to find yourself West inspired mass migration stage for a minimum wage, while backpacking in Europe.

I also thought about life plans on a larger scale.

Everyone wants to know The net won’t just change our our generation’s life plans. domestic landscape. Just like a secAs of this summer, the millennial generation ond coast, the net will redefine our became a bigger propor- relationship with the world. tion of the population than the baby boom generation. Describing our generation’s collective ambi- with ugly consequences, collective bargaining and tions is difficult. The most including the displacement antitrust laws. As a result, elegant explanation involves and slaughter of the land’s I’m optimistic about our the technology that’s come to native peoples. Cheap land in generation of cowboys. define us. We’re a generation the west also contributed to Politicians will never be honof cowboys exploring a new income inequality — an issue est, but the digital spotlight that has resurfaced today. of social media and fact frontier — the internet.

The baby boomers Increased farming led to checking can only help explored the final frontier — decreased crop prices and things. Hopefully, the media space — and now we are small scale subsistence farm- is already covering the 2016 exploring a new digital fron- ers couldn’t earn enough sell- election because it will be a tier. We didn’t invent the ing their crops. The web poses watershed moment in poliinternet, just like cowboys a similar threat to workers tics — although elections didn’t discover the Western without skills or money. The coverage is like Christmas, frontier. Like the Wild West, net increases competition beginning earlier and earlier the personalities associated between them and makes every year.

For all these reasons, I with the internet are larger automating and outsourcing think we are a generation of than life, and the internet is jobs easier.

The net won’t just change cowboys. We aren’t headed largely unregulated; data theft and privacy issues make head- our domestic landscape. Just west to the Gallatin Valley in lines again and again. We like a second coast, the net Montana. We are going to the need to do something to tame will redefine our relationship Silicon Valley in California the net because everyone with the world. Because of the and the Silicon Alley in New makes some kind of digital web, you can send informa- York. Obviously the metaphor footprint — even if you avoid tion across borders within sec- isn’t perfect. But, that’s my onds at no cost. Historical schtick and I’m sticking to it. the web.

Like the Wild West, we and geographical divisions are Have an awesome semester, have a new frontier to increasingly irrelevant. With and stay tuned alternating explore. Like cowboys, digi- BitCoin, you can send money Mondays for more! tal pioneers are exploring the anywhere regardless of borweb spreading free informa- ders and currency differences. tion. Companies that lever- As The New York Times Eric Schulman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at age shared information see columnist Thomas Friedman eschulman@cornellsun.com. Schulman’s million dollar valuations put it in the title of his book, Schtick appears alternate Mondays this over night. Programs like The World Is Flat, “no matter semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Action and More Action: Rogue Nation

BY JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writer

I should begin this review with an important disclosure: I love Tom Cruise. And not in the way of simply getting a kick out of him and his Scientology private-life antics. I genuinely believe he is perhaps the greatest action star of all time. His gift for physical comedy is deeply underappreciated: Last year’s criminally underseen Edge of Tomorrow was a good example of this. Of course he’s probably a mediocre serious actor, but he’s awesome — so color me biased.

Anyway, the new fifth Mission: Impossible film, the oddly titled Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (perhaps in an effort to convince you that it isn’t a sequel), while flawed, in my opinion, reconfirms my high opinion of Mr. Cruise.

Although Cruise has not written or directed any of the Mission: Impossible films, he handpicks the director of each one (with only one choice, John Woo, who directed Mission: Impossible II, having failed creatively), and helps write the script as well. In addition, he insists on doing many of his own stunts for each film, many of which are genuinely dangerous. In what was marketed as the defining scene of the film, Ethan Hunt (the unstoppable series protagonist played

by Cruise), hangs off the side of an airplane as it lifts off, which Cruise apparently did equipped with a light harness such that if a bird hit him his life would be over.

In my favorite sequence from the film, Hunt has to dive underwater and insert a disc into a box (I won’t bog you down with the details) while a giant bar swings across the underwater vault, ready to sweep him away if he makes a single wrong move. Cruise apparently did this stunt himself as well, having to actually breathe underwater for three minutes.

I may sound like a cranky naive old man for saying this, but it is oddly refreshing in the era of reliance on computergenerated stunts that Mission: Impossible films provide action in the old-fashioned sense. With so many actors clearly signing up for the latest superhero franchise for the fat paycheck, it is nice to see that one star sincerely loves the films he is

making, such that he takes a creative hand in them and does his own stunts so the film feels more realistic to the audience.

While the plot of the film is irrelevant, as it mostly just works to provide some context and stakes for the film’s action set pieces, it is as follows: The IMF (Hunt’s elite mission team) has been disbanded in light of the chaos it has caused throughout the previous four films (the film tries somewhat to incorporate contemporary politics by giving the idea that the IMF’s lack of accountability and transparency is actually considered to be dangerous, but the writers, knowing this is a Mission: Impossible movie, aptly chooses not to push too hard on this). A ruthless group called the Syndicate, which is an antiIMF group, is unleashing terrorist attacks across the globe.

But the CIA, whose head is well-played by Alec Baldwin, refuses to believe in the existence of the Syndicate out of exasperation with the IMF’s insane antics. So, because the IMF is defunded and the CIA is on the hunt for Hunt, Hunt has to go rogue to find the Syndicate while avoiding CIA agents ready to shoot him on sight. Hunt is aided by Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), the former two actors having appeared in the series before.

The head of the Syndicate, played by English actor Sean Harris, is pretty lame. The film tries to tell you he’s evil and scary without actually giving you a good reason why. While Rogue Nation is overall a better film than Mission: Impossible III, the villain played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman is the only villain in the series whose personality — instead of merely his actions — inspired fear.

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unclear if that is part of the appeal. After all, at one point, Baldwin’s character earnestly calls Hunt “the living manifestation of destiny.” This suggests to me that the writer-director of this film, Christopher McQuarrie, is having a good time doing his work. And the funny part is, that line is correct.

Mission: Impossible films are hard to review. You know going in what you are going to get, and there isn’t much to say. They are also cheating in a sense: If all they do is deliver great action set pieces, then they are a success. But the fact that so many other films have tried this approach and failed goes to show that these movies are clearly doing something very, very right. And as I sat in the theatre during Rogue Nation, there was no other movie I wish I had been seeing instead. I have read some pieces in the wake of this film’s release that call for Cruise to abandon action and return to “serious” movies, but I want no such thing. I hope he keeps making the Mission: Impossible movies until the end of time, or at least until his body won’t allow him to climb up a pole while handcuffed.

Jesse Weissman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jweissman@cornell.edu.

Scientific Torture: The Stanford Prison Experiment

BY TAMAR LAW Sun Staff Writer

We’d all like to believe that we are good people. Sure, we may cut someone off while driving, tell the occasional white lie or sneak an extra refill of coffee, but we aren’t bad. We’d all like to believe that, when faced with trying circumstances we would never behave in such an egregious manner as those who are actually confronted with the situation. We’d all like to believe that when placed into a position of power we wouldn’t exploit it. But would we?

With the widespread news coverage of various abominations committed by guards in prisons, such as to the detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the question of circumstance versus inherent characteristics is being discussed. This question is central to Kyle Alvarez’s latest film, The Stanford Prison Experiment. The film is a chilling reenactment of the infamous psychological study conducted by researchers led by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. In brief, the study evaluated the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a guard. 24 male students were arbitrarily divided into two groups by a coin toss, 12 guards and 12 prisoners. Guards were given a set of tasks to have the prisoners perform but received no formal training; prisoners were given a number and a cell. The study was stopped prematurely after six days and did not reach the planned two weeks.

This study is fundamental to intro psychology classes and the U.S. military alike. A dark insight into the capacities of human behavior, the study informs us of the uncomfortable potential of human behavior. Perhaps we are all capable of evil, it just depends on when.

Familiar with the experiment, I knew I needed to see a visual representation to fully appreciate the extreme conclusions that had been drawn. As a self-identified optimist and dogooder I had been skeptical of the study — I couldn’t see myself ever becoming as sinister or malicious as the guards in the study. After viewing the film and attending the lecture, I am beginning to rethink my own potential.

The Stanford Prison Experiment has received criticism and praise for its extreme proceedings. As the film transpires, the viewer sees how the roles assigned to the male students cease to be just roles and become a new form of reality. In a painfully

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raw unfolding, the guards begin to abuse their power with more creative forms of punishment and the prisoners become meeker and more uniform. In the beginning, while the study still seemed like a study, there were a few tries of insurrection among the prisoners, mainly led by prisoner 8612. These revolts provoked the birth of a super guard, a guard who quickly took the position of power. This was the guard who, during his interview, slouched back in his chair, had described himself as easy going and non-authoritative. In his final interview, after his role had been taken away, my own guttural reaction to him had changed. He remained to me the super guard, the sneer of his face permanently branded to my memory of him.

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The most striking part of the film was the development of Dr. Philip Zimbardo. In the beginning he is shown with his significant other, Christina Maslach, another researcher. Their interaction is loving and gentle. Zimbardo seems to encompass the role of any intellectual — thoughtful and quiet, his only offense being that he was too consumed by his work. This shell of a persona is broken as he becomes increasingly absorbed by the study. His character evolves into a sly, controlling, authoritative figure prone to angry explosions. Note that Zimbardo was not supposed to be part of the study; he was the main researcher. But even still, the study was able to permeate the supposed impenetrable bounds between researcher and sub-

ject, revealing the unyielding power of the experiment.

The screening I attended of the film was held at Cinemapolis with a special discussion led by Professor Emeritus Dr. Daryl Bem. Bem had been on faculty at Stanford during the experiment and had been a colleague of Dr. Philip Zimbardo. The most intriguing part of the brief introduction that Bem gave was his own experience with Zimbardo. He described the researcher as one of the sweetest, most wellintentioned individuals he knew. He then added, after a pause, that he only knew the post-experiment Zimbardo.

A question of my own that was echoed in the discussion was gender and sexuality in relation to the study. The experiment was made up of 24 men. The prisoners were purposefully emasculated to promote feelings of humiliation and vulnerability by being made to wear a dress-like smock with no undergarments. In the film, Zimbardo finally intercepts the guards and ends the experiment during a punishment of a sexual nature that insinuated male-on-male relations. The fact that it was a sexual act that caused the end of the study has large ramifications for what we deem as acceptable — Zimbardo didn’t stop the experiment when a prisoner was in solitary confinement for longer than the study allowed.

With today’s rise in popularity of Orange is the New Black, it was impossible to ignore the question of how the study might have ended up if it had been 24 women instead of 24 men. Would there have been a different outcome?

While the overall film was unnerving and eye opening, it did leave questions of ethics and methodologies of the study. A scene that was particularly troubling to me was when a colleague of Zimbardo asked him what his independent variable was. Zimbardo was unable to answer. Any seventh grade science student can tell you that an experiment requires a control and an independent and dependent variable.

This left the viewer with the question of whether or not this really was an experiment. After my own viewing experience, I am left with the uncomfortable feeling that no, the Stanford prison experiment was anything but an experiment. Yes, it was an exploration and confirmation of the capacity of human behavior, but for all involved it had become a reality — a reality with significant repercussions.

Tamar Law is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tlaw@cornellsun.com.

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The lyrics don’t exactly express any optimism, ending with the line “Never getting home tonight.” Although that emphasizes a complete loss of hope in fulfillment of aspiration, the listener still leaves the song with ironic appreciation. There was a point in your life when you could identify with the lyrics, and whether you are a student at Cornell with dwindling hope, or the lead singer of an alternative-rock band, or somewhere in between, maybe you are not alone in feeling this way.

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Duke Freshmen and Fun Home

lison Bechdel’s memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has been on my radar a lot lately. I first learned of it after watching the Tonys over the summer, and it was subsequently on my list of Broadway plays to see (and books to read). So when I arrived at school this fall, I was excited to see that Fun Home is actually on the booklist of one of the English classes I am taking this semester. The 2006 book is a graphic novel about Bechdel’s childhood with her controlling father, and her gradual realization that she is gay — and so is he.

But Fun Home has been in the headlines this past week not because the publicity around the Broadway rendition is making people like me discover the brilliant memoir, but because some Duke freshmen are boycotting reading Fun Home for the school’s freshman summer reading project (and, I’m assuming, passing up the opportunity to see the author speak about the book at their school) on the grounds that it violates their morality.

Knowing that the book was written by the iconic cartoonist Alison Bechdel (also known for originating the Bechdel Test), was chosen as best book of the year by a multitude of publications in 2006, and has been hailed as “one of the very best graphic novels ever,” was enough to make the Duke freshmen’s self-righteous moral outrage to reading Fun Home eyeroll inducing.

But I wanted even more solid ground for my annoyance, so I read the book yesterday. And guess what, Duke freshmen? You’re missing out.

Fun Home is a beautiful memoir and story. Bechdel offers you a peek into her upbringing, and how it led to who she is today, through her eyes. She begins the book by depicting her father’s obsessive perfection, emotional distance and controlling nature during her childhood. She shows her desire to resent him and her inability to do so completely. Throughout the novel, she interweaves descriptions of her father with her own journey of selfdiscovery. A particularly touching moment was when Bechdel realized she and her father were, in some ways, living vicariously through the other — he was

always trying to impose feminine clothing and ideals on her, and she took pleasure in helping him pick out suits and the clothing she really wanted to wear.

She eventually came to understand that her father was suffering greatly as a closeted gay man, and reacted by living her life as openly as a lesbian woman as possible, throwing herself first into books about being gay and then the gay community. She then made a career of writing stories about lesbian women in the comic strip “Dykes To Watch Out For” — a “professional lesbian,” she called herself.

Her story is one of triumph and the way she juxtaposes this with her father’s pain and eventual death — a suicide, she suspects — is extremely moving. It shows the complexity of family ties and how you can live in the same house as someone and never truly know them.

The book is also full of unexpected humor and literary allusions, and her drawings share an equal role in telling the story as her words. Once I started reading it I was totally absorbed, finishing it in just a couple hours.

So, back to the Duke freshmen: One of them, Brian Grasso, Midnight Radio has been the most outspoken — it was his post about boycotting the reading project in the Duke class of 2019 Facebook group that brought the issue to national attention. Last week, he wrote an article in the Washington Post explaining his reasoning for opting out of the assignment. Grasso stands firm that he is not refusing to read the book because he is uncomfortable with the subject matter — namely LGBTQ issues and suicide — but because its “pornographic” content is contrary to his Christian values.

The “pornographic” content of which he speaks involves panels depicting mas-

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turbation and oral sex. On two pages.

Out of 232. (I’m not sure how he knew this without looking at them). Yet instead of simply choosing to quietly skip over the pages with the panels he did not want to see, he decided to publicly boycott the entire book, and he also felt the need to thoroughly research its content in the first place, which is why I have trouble buying the “it’s just because of those two images” argument. He claims that if the book were entirely text-based, he would have no problem reading it, and that he has the same moral opposition to images of sex in pop culture and … Renaissance art.

But to call the novel “pornographic” is maddeningly reductive. Slate’s Jacob Brogan articulated perfectly why it’s flatout wrong to refer to anything in Fun Home as porn. He explains that the difference between sex and pornography is that pornography is entirely detached from its “living, breathing context.”

Brogan argues, “In effect, Grasso reduces homosexuality to a few sex acts, and then declares that showing those sex acts is unacceptable.” Bechdel’s sexual experiences in the novel are moments of lifeaffirmation and self discovery, yet Grasso sees them as nothing more than “titillating content.”

Central to Fun Home is Bechdel’s discussion of her father’s repression of his identity and sexuality as a closeted gay man who married a woman, and the devastating effect this had on his life. So as much as Grasso may say he’d be equally offended by images of heterosexual sex, condemning Fun Home’s frank depiction of sex has a certain irony when

juxtaposed with the history of censoring and denying the experiences of women and LGBTQ people. In the novel, Bechdel explains she believes that her father took his own life because he could no longer stand living in the shadows.

Grasso begins his article by professing how challenging it is to be a Christian student at an “progressive university.”

But if he read Fun Home, maybe he’d gain some perspective on how it is more difficult to be an LGBTQ person. He goes on to argue: “Cultural pluralism will lose its value if students aren’t allowed to follow their beliefs, even if they are conservative. Without genuine diversity, intellectual dialogue and growth are stifled.” He seems to think the type of “genuine diversity” that needs protecting is his viewpoint as a white, straight, Christian cis-male — you know, the demographic with the vast majority of social and political power in the country.

In order to foster “genuine diversity,” we need more female and more LGBTQ voices in art and media (and everywhere else), and by refusing to read an acclaimed work by a prominent lesbian woman about her experiences, Grasso and the other Duke freshmen boycotting the project are skipping out on the opportunity to read a rich, perspectiveexpanding literary work and closing themselves off to diverse viewpoints before they even get to college.

Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kobrien@cornellsun.com. Midnight Radio runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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WOMEN’S ROWING

Rowers Look to Strong Season After Busy Summer

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Contributor

After as solid fifth place showing at last semester’s Ivy League Rowing Championship, the Red rowing team is looking to make major waves this season. After an offseason of practice and perseverance, the team has high hopes.

“The team looks to have gained a lot of speed both from our freshmen class and from the work the upperclassmen have put in over the summer,” said co-captain captain Lydia Perkins. “This season, I think we are all really looking forward seeing how far we can push ourselves, and how fast we can get.”

The same sentiment was expressed by head coach Lizzie Dennison, who said she is hoping to see her team progress. “[I am looking forward] to building a solid foundation as a team both from a fitness and technique perspective. I am looking forward to seeing consistent progress from the whole team, and focusing on the process of getting faster each day.”

When asked what makes this season different from sea-

sons past, Coach Dennison seemed excited about the rience. The improvements made during Henley training will certainly be an asset to our team going into this next changes the team has made during the offseason.

“The coaching staff has changed up our practice sched- season.”

It is through these efforts that the women’s rowing team ule and [is] looking forward to trying some new things on hopes to gain a much needed and off the water,” she said. “I competitive edge this season in think the team is excited about mixing it up, and we hope it “During training, we were able to have a strong Ivy League will produce some good results more time on the water and the regata Conference that is considered one of the best rowing conferin our training. There is defiitself was a great opportunity.” ences in the NCAA. nitely a sense of excitement at “The Ivy League is probathe boathouse right now and Lydia Perkins bly the most competitive in the plan is to keep that going NCAA Rowing in terms of fast all year.”

Perkins also said she noticed these differences, accredit- teams, so our regular season racing is always very exciting ing the team’s progress this season to a trip to the Henley for us,” Perkins said. “I think we all have our own rivalries that we are excited to get after, and we are looking forward Women's Regatta.

“Following the regular season last year, about half the to going into every race with a lot of fight and will to win.”

Coach Dennison said she feels the same way about the team stayed here in Ithaca to train for the Henley Women's Regatta in England,” she said. “During training, team’s Ivy League peers.

“We always look forward to testing ourselves against we were able to have more time on the water and the regatta itself was a great opportunity for some extra racing expe- our fellow Ivy League opponents, as it always provides for tough, exciting racing.”

Dennison is also confident that the new freshmen and transfer students will help improve on last season’s 2-5 record.

“We have a strong and deep group of freshmen and transfer student-athletes that joined our team this year,” she said. “I am already pumped about what they have done this first week of practice and am confident they will make a huge impact on our team right away, as well as over the course of their four years here at Cornell.”

With a strong offseason and fresh talent, the women’s rowing team has hopes of a very productive season.

“On paper, we are faster as a team than we have ever been before. I think we are all just really excited to see how we can translate [that] into races on the water,” Perkins said.

MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Ivy strong | Performing in the Ivy League is a constant challenge for the Cornell women’s rowing team, as that league is one of the most competitive in NCAA rowing.

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bb572@cornell.edu.

Sprint Football Roster What Katrina Left in Her Wake: In Need of Three Cuts Turning to the Saints and Pelicans Before Start of Season DENSON

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players is to have them improve one aspect of the game each day at practice,” he said. “If they do that … the team will improve and hopefully [we’ll] be able to achieve our goal of winning the league championship.”

The Red won its last league championship in 2006 under Coach Cullen. That was the first time since 1986 the squad finished atop the CSFL. “Our goals as a team are to play smart and fast, with close attention to detail,” Marrero said. “We want to improve upon

new players learn our systems and acclimate … to the team's culture,” Marrero said. “It is important to set a positive example and demonstrate a strong work ethic both on and off the field, especially for the younger guys.”

With 68 players currently on the roster, the team will have to cut down to 65 before the start of the season to meet the league’s requirement. Coach Guccia, who is overseeing the offense this year and heading the offensive line, will make a lot of the team’s major decisions. He has been co-head coach with Terry Cullen since 2008 and has been

“Our goals as a team are to play smart and fast with close attention to detail.”

Trevor Marrero last year’s season and minimize mistakes on all sides of the ball.”

A number of the team’s starters from last year are returning this season, with some holes to fill on the offensive side at wide receiver and tackle.

“The makeup is pretty similar and I like that,” Meichner said. “We’d like to win a little more, but it’s nice being around the same guys.”

That being said, there are a number of new faces as well.

“As a captain, I want to help

with the Red for eleven years.

Coach Cullen, who began coaching for the program in 1964 while working on an MBA at Cornell, will oversee the program’s operations off the field.

The Red has a talented mix of returners and rookies and an experienced group of coaches.

“As a team, we’d like to go undefeated,” Meichner said.

“That’s our goal every year.”

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

Sooner state could support its own NBA franchise.

The Oklahoma City Thunder has had one conference title, and four division titles since 2008.

Ten years later and now is not the time for blame, but rather forgiveness and elation. So much progress has come of despair. So much sheer happiness has come from anguish. And as I walked down the sunburnt paths of Audubon Park, passing by James Carville (tallest Alien on earth), Drew Brees with his three toddlers and Owen Wilson going for a run, I couldn’t help but smile and appreciate the sheer unadulterated happiness and spirit of the city.

However, even with all of the parades, po-boys and a general “Laissez les bon temps roulez” atti-

tude, there is still much work to be done — neighborhoods to rebuild, racial tension to address and a displaced population of over 100,000 native New Orleanians who will most likely never come back.

With a devastated city that is predicted to be completely underwater by 2150 (due to rising sea levels), what else is there to say? Who do we turn to? What happens next? The last ten years have proven that the City will survive and thrive in its own unique way. The water may be contaminated once a month and the potholes never filled but New Orleans has the Saints and the Pelicans, both beautiful representatives of recovery and progress.

Ben Denson is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be contacted at bdenson@cornellsun.com. The B.D. Report appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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memorial bench,” Gallagher said with a laugh.

Throughout his career, Gallagher has stayed true to the philosophy of ‘we collaborate and you swim.’

“I believe swimming at this level is a partnership,” he said.

“That doesn’t mean everything necessarily is a dialogue or a meeting, but I think our athletes’ success is going to be built on their ownership of it. ... My job is to help create an environment that allows them to do that,” Since 2008, the men’s and

women’s programs were structured together, but with Lucia stepping down, the programs will be split, a decision that Gallagher said is a very beneficial move for the team.

“I know we can be better. I got high expectations for this team.”

Patrick Gallagher “It all starts with focusing on [the athletes] individually, and it’s [a] hard thing to do in a team sport,” Gallagher said. “I think the splitting of the program is a

good first step, because now you have two head coaches that can tailor their planning or their training to the needs of each team.”

The school is bigger, the history is richer and the stakes are higher, but Gallagher seems ready to take on all the responsibilities that come with being head coach of Cornell’s women’s program.

“I think we can be better,” Gallagher pauses and then corrects himself. “I know we can be better. ... I got high expectations for this team.”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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Harvard Hockey Player Earns First Draft Selection Sarah Edney, a Harvard hockey player in the class of 2015, was most recently the first draft pick in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Edney will be joining the Brampton Thunder, whose season starts on Oct. 17.

During her senior season, Edney was named the ECAC’s Best Defenseman and earned All-ECAC honors for three of her four years.

Additionally, she secured All-Ivy selections for all four of her years with the Crimson.

The Crimson had an impressive 2015 season, advancing to the National Championships but falling to Minnesota in the finals. Edney played a big part in the team’s success.

—Compiled by Anna Fasman

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN FILE PHOTO

No. 1 Edney | Sarah Edney was the first draft pick in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. She will be playing with the Brampton Thunder.

Columbia Upgrades Stadium and Surrounding Track With the help of Columbia University, the Lions will have a completely new field and surrounding track on which to play this coming season. The field had not been replaced for almost 10 years and the track for

almost 20.

Kraft field, named after Patriot’s owner and Columbia almunus Robert K. Kraft, and the surrounding track are both part of the Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. The stadium is located

in the Inwood neighborhood on the northern tip of Manhattan.

Renovations to the stadium include Columbia blue end zones, a “C” at the 50-yard line, a new pole vaulting area, and upgraded steeplechase and long

and triple jump pits. The upgrades to the stadium will affect the Lions’ football, women’s lacrosse, and track and field teams.

— Compiled by Anna Fasman

CHANG W. LEE / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Arts and Krafts | The Robert K. Kraft field, pictured right, has seen a major makeover this summer.

Tigers Coach Elected to WBCA Board The Princeton University women’s basketball head coach, Courtney Banghart, was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association board for directors for 2015-16 this past June. Banghart had quite a season last school year, leading a 30-1 championship team and earning a slew of awards in the process. Under her direction, the Tigers earned a first round NCAA win, only the second Ivy program to do so.

BEVERLY SCHAEFER / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES Banghart has seen a long and seasoned basketball career herself, starting for the Coach on board | Princeton Dartmouth Green for three years and earning a spot on the first-team All-Ivy basketball coach Courtney twice. Despite earning a neurosciene degree at Dartmouth, Banghart has pretty much been coaching since graduation from college.

Banghart was named one of Foture Magazine’s 50 Greatest Leaders.

— Compiled by Anna Fasman

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WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Turning to Gallagher Takes Over as Head Coach Sports After Looks to continue strong tradition Lucia left behind in retirement Tragedy

By ADAM BRONFIN

After winning a pair of Coach of the Year titles with Saint Francis, Gallagher came back to the Red in 2014, this time with a wife and a child on the way.

Patrick Gallagher eagerly flipped through a pile of For years Cornell swimming and diving was synonyawards in a room that had not been organized in dozens of mous with Joe Lucia, who coached the men’s program for years. Among countless other items, there stood a picture 28 years and the women’s for 15 years. Last April, Lucia of Cornell’s first ever swim team and a plaque honoring the stepped down. Most recently, Wes Newman ’09 took over lone time Cornell hosted the NCAA Swimming and as the men’s coach and Gallagher as the women’s coach.

Diving Championship in 1959. The room represents the “It’s exciting because of the unique setup,” Gallagher 100 plus years of history that said. “Normally, as a new coach, Gallagher, as the new women’s you’re in a program where “It all starts with focusing on swimming and diving coach, there’s turnover, there’s some has to take on. disruption. And both Wes and I [the athletes] individually, He cannot help but comreally grasp the fact that we’ve and it’s a hard thing to do in pare the rich history of got something special, that this Cornell’s swimming and divtransition is an opportunity to a team sport. ” ing program with that of Saint build on what Lucia has created Francis, where he previously over the years, hopefully with Patrick Gallagher coached. When Gallagher minimal disruption.” joined the Red Flash in 2003, Between his two stints at he was joining a program that was less than a decade old. Cornell, Gallagher has spent a total of four years under By the time he left, 10 years and four conference titles Lucia and he says Lucia’s help has been — and will continlater, he was the program’s all-time winningest coach. ue to be — invaluable.

Gallagher started swimming as a kid, and it has been a “I’ve learned a ton from Lucia over the years,” he said. part of his life ever since. He moved from near “The number one consistency in his approach to this sport Philadelphia to upstate New York in high school and he is [that] we are educators, first and foremost, and you have said that was when swimming became a much more serious to love what you’re doing.” part of his life. Eventually, he attended La Salle University Lucia will remain in a smaller role with Cornell, helping majoring in education and swimming for the varsity pro- the new head coaches with the more nuanced aspects of gram. leading an entire team.

He graduated and tried his hand at teaching for a cou“Wes and I keep joking [that] we want to put a memople of years before ending up at Cornell as an assistant rial bench outside the swim offices. Lucia is around all the coach for the women’s team in 2001. He remained in time, so I’m not sure if you’re supposed to sit in your own Ithaca for two years before a head coaching position at Saint Francis, a small school in Pennsylvania, opened up.

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t’s been 10 years. 10 years and the great city of New Orleans still has not recovered and gone back to its pre-Hurricane Katrina conditions. What do you say to an embattled people of a city nearly destroyed by a catastrophe, a disaster that killed nearly 1500 souls, caused about $2 billion in damages and displaced 400,000 people from the most unique city on Earth?

“New Orleans Doomed to Fail Yet Again” read a headline from the Chicago Tribune on the return of the New Orleans Hornets (appropriately renamed the Pelicans) after a two year stint playing in Oklahoma. No one thought this small-market, relocated franchise could stay in the NBA. Then-commissioner

Ben Denson The B.D. Report David Stern understood that the city needs a saving grace, and if nothing else, something to believe in.

With one of the highest poverty rates in the United States, second behind Baghdad in most dangerous worldwide cities to live in, subject to severe racial inequality and host of the most devastating natural disaster of the Northern Hemisphere, what do the people of NOLA believe in? When God has let you down, whom do you turn to? You turn to the community, to friends, lovers and all those who share your pain and misfortune. The people in New Orleans had the Hornets and the Saints.

It’s no coincidence that the Saints aggressively and successfully pursued Drew Brees the season after Hurricane Katrina. Owner Tom Benson was even rumored to be working behind the scenes to move the Saints to San Antonio — and in his defense, his team had a flooded Superdome, a market base that lost half its population and a city that was once

When God has let you down, who do you turn to? You turn to the community, to friends, lovers and all those who share your pain. thought could never recover. In a city that doesn’t even have the means to properly dispose all its dead bodies throughout the flooded streets, how can it support an NFL franchise?

However, a Saints 2009 Super Bowl win, along with a Hornets/Pelicans team oozing with young-blood potential, have been New Orleans’ so-called “saving graces.” Against so many obstacles, obtrusions and ordeals, the city is well on its way to recovering through sports.

Additionally, the Oklahoma City Thunder would have never existed had it not been for Katrina. The two-year success of the Hornets playing in Oklahoma City proved that the See DENSON page 14

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Red Looks to Start Season With a Win

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s sprint football team ended last season on a positive note, defeating Mansfield University, 3821. The Red — beginning practices today in alignment with the collegiate sprint football league’s requirement of a maximum of 16 preseason practice days — hopes to carry this positive momentum into its first game of the season on Sept. 19, also against Mansfield.

With only eight collegiate sprint football teams in the country, the Red plays nearly all of the same opponents each year.

“Playing familiar opponents each year helps our weekly preparation,” said senior offensive captain Trevor Marrero. “We know what personnel we are up against and what schemes they have used in past years.”

Senior defensive captain Jared Meichner explained that since Cornell faces the same group of teams each year, the squad tends to see similar plays and schemes as well.

“There is not a lot of coaching turnover so it’s lot of the same schemes we go against,” he said.

“The teams know each other pretty well.”

The Red hopes to improve upon its 3-4 finish last season.

“Our key is to just keep improving,” said co-head coach Bart Guccia. “We have to be able to finish some games.”

The Red only scored seven points

55-0 beat-down of total in all third quarters last season “Our key is just to keep Princeton and 28-7 victory over and although the team outscored its improving. We have to be Franklin Pierce. In a seven-game season, opponents in fourth able to finish some losses are very costly quarters overall last games.” and wins are very season (70-42), the important. team lost a number Bart Guccia Coach Guccia’s of its games in the goal each year is to fourth quarter.

“We were ahead in two or three of win a league championship and he the games that we lost going into the knows that setting short-term goals is fourth quarter,” Guccia said. “Our just as important as looking at the seaone big goal is to be able to finish son as a whole.

“One goal I’ve set for each of our when we’re ahead.”

However, there still were a number of highlights last season, including a See FOOTBALL page 14

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Constantly improving | While the sprint football squad finished at 3-4 last season, the team and co-head coach Bart Guccia hope to see a stronger finish this year.