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GPSA Vote C.U.Recognizes Original Africana Center Allocates Physical site commemoration was demanded by BSU last year To Anabel’s Grocery Store

By JOHN YOON

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By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

Members of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly approved a budget which will allocate $20,000 to Anabel’s Grocery Store — a student-run organization that aims to address Cornell’s food insecurity — at its Monday meeting.

The budget for the 2016-2017 term passed unanimously.

“The GPSA funding for the grocery will be returned to the GPSA if the Grocery itself discontinues or if

A commemoration ceremony will dedicate the original Africana Center’s site this homecoming weekend — marking the completion of one of the demands Cornell’s Black Students United delivered to University administrators last year.

The site — located at on 320 Wait Ave. — will include a bench, landscaping and a

plaque describing the space that once existed. The ceremony will also feature performances by student groups, remarks by students, faculty, alumni and community speakers.

The original site of the Africana Center was established after a 36-hour occupation of Willard Straight Hall in 1969; the structure was destroyed by a fire ignited by an arsonist in April of 1970.

Originally requested by BSU in a letter

to President Elizabeth Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi last November, the new commemoration is the product of collaboration among many organizations on campus — including BSU, the Office of the President and the Africana Studies and Research Center.

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In memory | A ceremony will commemorate the original Africana Center, which was burned down by an arsonist in 1970. Shown below is the center’s current home.

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“The results of that survey was that yes, there are a sizeable number of graduate students who are food insecure.”

Teja Pratap Bollu grad the GPSA’s support for the Grocery discontinues,” said Mariko Alexander grad, Appropriations Chair.

Anabel’s Grocery Store was approved to open by the Student Assembly in order to address food insecurity on campus, The Sun previ-

ously reported. President Elizabeth Garrett signed off on the store in November of last year.

Although the store was set to open in February, its start date was delayed until the beginning of this academic year due to unexpected bureaucratic barriers.

“I don’t work for the people that are building this thing, but it’s sup-

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On Sunday, Cornell Democrats and Republicans placed American flags on the Arts Quad in memory of the 9/11 attacks.

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posed to be, after construction, a selfsustaining, ongoing grocery store,” said Todd Snider grad, Social Sciences Representative. “The idea is that this is only an upfront cost — the GPSA is not going to be putting in money over and over again. In theory, this is just supposed to make a new solution for students who can’t get to Wegmans or even if they can get to Wegmans, it wouldn’t be affordable enough for them.”

The majority of the store’s start-up costs will be covered by a $320,000 allocation from the Students Helping Students Fund — a grant through the Student Assembly — The Sun reported.

“In late fall [of ] 2015, the GPSA passed a resolution to set the graduate student activity fee for 2016-2018, as we do every year,” Alexander said.

“Part of this resolution set aside $20,000 dollars annually, which would come from the activity fee.”

The GPSA’s allocated activity fee for graduate students increased from $1.95 to $4.50 this academic year.

The primary purpose of this increase was to fund Anabel’s Grocery Store at $2.50 per graduate and professional student, according to Alexander.

Graduate students became involved in the planning of the grocery store following the release of a survey by the GPSA designed to poll food insecurity among graduate students.

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IPD Renews Call for Video Evidence in Homocide Case Ithaca Police Department Deputy Chief Vince Monticello confirmed in an email Monday that police are still accepting videos that could illuminate the details of the fatal stabbing of Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire on Cornell’s campus on Aug. 28.

“Crucial video evidence has been submitted to IPD already, and investigators are confident that more videos exist but have not been submitted as of yet,” Monticello said in an IPD statement.

However, despite the IPD’s acknowledgement that they have received “crucial evidence,” the department has yet to name a suspect or release any new information about the incident to the public.

Monticello added that all types of videos — including Snapchat and iPhone videos — could help close the investigation and stressed that any individual who submits evidence about the crime may remain anonymous.

Police Chief John Barber also called on people to contact IPD if they were in the area on the night of the stabbing, even if they do not believe they were in any way related to the incident.

“Perhaps you saw something trivial or inconsequential, but to our investigators it might just be that one piece of key evidence that helps to sort out just exactly what happened,” Barber said in the release.

Many Cornellians and parents have expressed frustration with the investigation’s lack of public progress in recent weeks.

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Students’ Stories Presberg’18 Earns World Titles in ‘Art Form’of Juggling

By JEANETTE SI

Presberg said he juggles for at least two hours a day, every day, and usually tries to get in at least a few rounds with three or four props every day.

“I always, always think that I should be making more progress than I do,” he said. “I can be stuck on one thing for years.”

Presberg added that one of his goals is to spread enhance the reputation of juggling as a competitive sport.

“People don’t really know what juggling is,” he said.

“When people think of juggling they either think of a clown or just someone juggling three balls. But to me, it’s so much more than that. It’s an art form, and it’s a sport.”

Many jugglers are athletes, pursuing an array of different tricks, with different props and always trying to push their limits, Presberg said. He stressed that this competitive mentality unites the juggling community.

“The way I approach juggling is to [think about] what the next thing is, what’s more difficult,” he said. “What can I do to improve what I’m doing, how can I … do more technically difficult and visually appealing things.

Whatever I can do now, I know I can take to the next level. It’s what motivates me, and I think it’s a mentality that a lot of jugglers share.”

By performing at many events both on and off campus, Presberg said he hopes illustrate the complexity of juggling to students at Cornell.

As juggling club president, he said he also teaches beginners how to juggle and encourages their progress at club meetings.

Presberg’s current self-imposed juggling challenge is to reach 100 catches while juggling nine balls. He said his best — as of right now — is 72.

“Practicing gets really frustrating sometimes,” he said. “But it’ll happen eventually.”

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At Cornell, Matan Presberg ’18 juggles more than just his schoolwork. He has broken several world records, won international awards for juggling and serves as the president of the Cornell Juggling Club.

The Rochester native said he has been juggling since the age of six, when he first saw the Rochester Juggling Club at a local festival and learned how to juggle with three balls.

“My dad took me every week to juggling club,” he said. “Before I turned seven, I [could] juggle my age [with] six balls.”

From there, Presberg proceeded to set several world records in juggling — including “most catches in a minute with five balls and seven balls” and the longest time performing various juggling patterns like the “933” and the “nine ball halfshower,” — which is when the juggler executes bigger throws with one hand and smaller ones with the other.

He also won first place at the International Juggling Association’s Numbers Competition in 2015 and 2016, reaching 25 catches with nine balls and 28 catches with nine balls, respectively.

“It’s really interesting how fundamental [juggling] is to who I am,” Presberg said. “[With juggling,] you can impose any limitation and still have infinite possibilities.”

Presberg said one of the most difficult components of juggling is the time commitment required to master each trick. He explained that some of his favorite moves took him many years to perfect.

“There’s a trick I do a lot — five balls, where I throw them behind my back,” he said. “I’ve been working on that trick since I was fourteen, and it’s finally becoming comfortable.”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

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Balls in the air | Matan Presberg ’18 performs juggling tricks on the Arts Quad.

Nobel-Prize-Winning Author Recounts History of Russian People Says study focuses on ‘human voice’ world,” Rawlings said.

Alexievich began her lecture by introducing the focus of her Drawing upon the stories of study — human narrative.

“I chose the genre of the generations of Russian people, Nobel-prize-winning author human voice,” Alexievich said.

Svetlana Alexievich weaves a “The story of one person is fate, complex picture of Russian his- the story of hundreds of people is history.”

Alexievich “In love, and in contact with death, spoke about backpeople always speak beautifully ... I the ground of sevlook out for life.” eral of her b o o k s , Svetlana Alexievich addressing i s s u e s throughout 20th and 21st centory.

Interim President Hunter tury Russia. She defined her Rawlings introduced Alexievich books as “novels of voices”, in at Statler Hall, Monday which she chronicles a docuevening, calling it a privilege to mentarian narrative based on hundreds of interviews. hear her speak.

“For over 30 years I chroni“It’s an opportunity for the Cornell community, to hear cled the ‘Red Empire’,” from someone who’s making an Alexievich said. “This chronicle enormous difference in the comprises five books, but they are really one book about the history of the Russian-Soviet “The story of one person soul. They cover a period of almost 100 years and nearly 12 is fate, the story of generations.”

Her subjects include Soviet hundreds of people is women who took active combat history.” roles in WWII, Soviet veterans that fought in Afghanistan, the Svetlana Alexievich former inhabitants of

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Chernobyl, and people living in a post-Soviet Russia.

“In my books, ordinary people talk about themselves,” Alexievich said. “The protagonists of my more recent books are different … they talked about fighting in Afghanistan, but didn’t understand what cause they were supposed to be dying for — they talked about shoveling melted graphite off

Voice of post-war Russia | Author Svetlana Alexievich speaks on her writings about the history of the Russian people at Statler Auditorium Monday evening.

the roof of the Chernobyl reactor… about the collapse of the mighty ‘Red Empire,’ and how they were left behind, disoriented in this new world.”

Addressing each group of subjects, Alexievich delivered emotional remembrances of their stories and experiences.

“Sometimes I am reproached because the people in my books are said to speak too beautiful-

ly,” Alexievich said. “In love, and in contact with death, people always speak beautifully … I look out for life, for people who have been shaken to the core by life.”

Alexievich said she has experienced significant hardship as a writer, as she has received resistance in the past for her critiSee RUSSIAN page 5 CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

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Africana Center Commemoration Honors BSU Demand AFRICANA CENTER Continued from page 1

The W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Africana Studies and History and event organizer Kevin Gaines said next Saturday’s ceremony will allow alumni, students and faculty to both acknowledge the past and heal as a community.

“It’s very important for the University community to have the benefit of that full reckoning and telling of the history to reflect on what the building stood for and how important the loss was to the community then,” Gaines said.

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean and director of intercultural programs and advisor to Black Students United, called the ceremony a “very positive step toward inclusion” and a “strategic opportunity to begin a broader conversation about where we are now on race, difference, and student and university relations.”

Alexander said the event symbolizes the importance of recognizing student voice, stressing that the Willard Straight Hall takeover in 1969 led to seismic changes in policy — including the inclusion

“What needs to continue to happen is more than just students meeting to learn more about each other.”

Renee Alexander ’74 of student representatives in the Board of Trustees, the reestablishment of the Student Assembly and the implementation of a definitive campus-wide code of conduct.

“What needs to continue to happen is more than just students meeting to learn more about each other,” Alexander said.

“Universities need to provide some leadership and some structure.”

With the opening of the new center, Cornell joins a national movement of student protests that have led to the formation of ethnic studies programs on college campuses, according to Eric Kofi Acree, director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.

Acree said protests at San Francisco State College in 1968 — which will be featured in a screening of Agent of Change on Sept.

23 at the Willard Straight Theater — resulted in the formation of the first black studies program and served as a backdrop for the events at Cornell in 1969.

“The screening and ceremony set the stage for the rest of the work that we will continue to do on this campus — around building bridges across the community,” Alexander said. “At that time, it would have been impossible to do that, but now we can come together as a community and do that together.”

The weekend will also allow current students to participate in intergenerational dialogue with alumni who experienced protests at Cornell, enabling them to better understand today’s struggle to make society more inclusive, Gaines said. “[This conversation] is an important and positive part of history, because it reminds us if things like that don’t happen, I might not be here,” Acree said.

John Yoon can be reached at jy567@cornell.edu.

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-cisms of political ideologies. Her first book, War’s Unwomanly Face, was not published for three years.

She was accused of reflecting “naturalism,” and “pacifism” in her perspectives on history.

“I study missing history, the things that history usually overlooks,” Alexievich said. “History is often arrogant, and dismissive of what is small and human.”

Many censors felt that many of the stories she wrote were not properly representative of history.

“I see the witness as the main protagonist in literature. People say to me: well, you know, memories, recollections — that’s not history and not literature either. It’s just life, rubbish that the artist hasn’t polished,” Alexievich recounted.

“Shouts and sobs can’t be polished, or the main thing will be neither the tears nor shouts, but the polish.”

Alexievich described her own struggles as a writer and a citizen of Soviet Russia, especially remembering the time she spent in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion.

“I have been in war only once — in Afghanistan,” Alexievich said. “I saw people killed, and to me, it is total madness.”

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She also discussed how her perspective changed following her visit to Afghanistan.

“Before Afghanistan, I believed that we were building socialism with a human face. That is what my father taught me,” Alexievich said. “I returned from Afghanistan free of all illusions.”

Alexievich said she views her works as a reflection of life.

“I don’t like to call what I do interviews — it’s conversation about life,” Alexievich said. “We just talk. About good and evil, about socialism and capitalism, about freedom … I’ve heard hundreds of answers to my questions. All of them represent us as we are at this moment.”

Alexievich voiced her passion for the Russian story, indicating that she is still eager to hear about people’s lives and to continue talking about the unwritten history of the Russian people.

“I am not a politician, nor an economist, I am an artist,” Alexievich said. “I follow the times, and the human being.”

The Bartels World Affairs Fellowship hosted the renowned Russian writer’s guest lecture.

Justin Park can be reached at jpark@cornellsun.com.

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Starting it up | The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly discusses budget plans for the year, including allocations for the startup of Anabel’s Grocery Store, in Malott Hall Monday evening.

GPSA Funding Supports Anabel’s Grocery Group says new Greenstar Coop will complement store GPSA

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“The results of that survey was that yes, there are a sizeable number of graduate students who are food insecure,” said Teja Pratap Bollu grad, Biological Sciences Representative. “Based on our conversations with the grocery store, the agreement was that the graduate students would

provide a certain amount of buy-in in order to have access to the store.”

Members raised concerns about the startup of Anabel’s Grocery coinciding with the recent opening of Greenstar Coop in Collegetown. However Nathaniel Rogers, president of the GPSA, explained that Greenstar will contribute to, rather than compete with

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“The supplier for Anabel’s Grocery Store is the same supplier that Greenstar is using,” Rogers said. “The Greenstar folks are helping them get this going. So there are grocery store professionals that are helping organize this.”

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e’re all sinners to an extent.* Some of us are aware of our cosmic wrongdoings, and some of us have yet to learn, but all of us have to cope with who we are. One day, perhaps we’ll even love who we are (but I don’t want to ask too much). In the meantime, it seems like we’re expected to engage in a process of continuous growth — as does the model-millennial, who improves himself to improve the world he inhabits.

Albeit in a leisurely way, I, too, advocate for self-improvement, but not by scorning my flaws. Sometimes, adopting a new perspective serves better than donning a new personality. Without further ado, here are a few of my favorite vices and how they double as virtues.

1. DISLOYALTY: Undoubtedly, we’re all fans of the faithful puppy trailing our foot-

comfort, I haven’t titled this piece anything that would incite a double-take. If you’re a welcoming host, paranoia will seep its way into the most mundane happenings. What would I ever do if someone copied this article, word-for-word and published it before I did? Tragedy would ensue. As the saying goes, only the paranoid survive.

6. P ESSIMISM: Hypothetically, let’s say you’re an optimist. You’re created with your very own ozone layer that absorbs all the pain and suffering you witness, in your immediate vicinity and in the world at large. Your physical person is left unscathed by daily disappointments, but at what cost? Oblivion? I, for one, am relieved to know my course grade on the first day of class and jump-start my petition to retake.

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Letter to the Editor

How to befriend Ezra To the Editor: Although I may have limited sway over Cornell’s future during my last year on campus, and the next administration will certainly set new goals, I would like to both express my thoughts on how all of us can give this university a vigorous identity, and share some insight into areas worthy of improvement.

The start of each school year brings new opportunities. We are all welcoming and kindhearted in the beginning, but in order to make the most of our time here, we need to keep it up! This university is large and sometimes daunting, and making it seem smaller takes work. Our environment is shaped by our actions, and from observing successful students, I notice they make sure to stay involved. Whether through participating in a debate, attending a religious event, or even going to a professor’s office hours, now is the time to interact and especially to feel out of place. I can promise that no one here went to a high school as large as Cornell, so anyone acting as if they have experienced it all, is only cheapening their time.

Second, Cornell’s sheer size makes it impossible to know everyone. Don’t fret about remembering the details of someone from your first-year writing seminar, because you won’t. Instead take the time to learn Cornell’s identity, and you will feel an almost instant connection. As a history major I have had the opportunity to read the stories of Ezra Cornell, Andrew White and Goldwin Smith, among others. These founders are treasure troves of wisdom and foresight. By understanding what makes our university unique, we can embody the traditions and values that tie us together, and hopefully better recognize ourselves.

Finally, I would like to remark that — along with refurbishing Barton Hall — we need to work on refurbishing dialogue between students and administrators. Both groups are guilty of making decisions (not pointing to any single one, but there have been many), which have fostered backlash and disheartened our campus. If you have opinions or want action, reach out to administrators, members of the Student Assembly, or even our Student Trustee. These people are here to serve as mediators, and to help express opinions. I realize this advice will never solve every issue, but creating discussion is imperative. The last thing our university needs is a stagnant, reactionary community.

Cornell really is unlike any other school. Away from the fast-paced city life, the natural beauty and strong academics produce a unique harmony here. In the end, I hope each Cornellian will take it upon themselves to reap the benefits of such a unique and limitless place. As many of us look forward to our final year, it may seem cumbersome to increase our awareness and work together, but in doing so we will promote in everyone our greatest strengths. Not only will a new mindset help grant each of us the chance to express ourselves at our best, but it will help weave into our legacy a sense of togetherness right in time for a new Cornell President.

Peter Biedenweg ’17, clerk of the Student Assembly

So, even if the source of your troubles is internal, or if you only feel at peace when you war with yourself, you’re not doomed. Allow me to segue into some unsolicited advice: embrace the chaos. steps, and we respect the customer who keeps going back to the H&M that’s 45 miles away from home. Still, it’s plain to see the monotony that this might generate. Oblivious to the opportunities enjoyed by the Independent and Unaffiliated, the Loyal goes on existing in a space devoid of excitement. How would you expand horizons that are defined so strictly?

2. EGOTISM: So what if you never text first? A sense of pride and some selfimportance are precursors to great accomplishments. Just ask Kanye West. That is, if you can get him to notice you (unlikely, but he would say that life is good when you pamper yourself ).

3. G REED : In essence, greed is longing. Sometimes, longing of an insatiable nature, but it can still result in a lot of positives. To consider a quick example of greed’s merits, take the entirety of human history. The luxurious world as we know it, complete with lavish cars and million-dollar mansions, is a direct product of greed. Mankind, ever discontent, has designed our current world of surplus.

4. JEALOUSY: Jealousy is often misconstrued as malice for others or their possessions. By my definition, it is simply a sort of survival instinct. How could you ever improve yourself, or your situation if you didn’t actively recognize that someone else is better off?

5. PARANOIA: I hope nobody’s looking at my screen as I write this. Maybe we are alike, and you hope nobody’s looking at what you’re reading either. For our mutual

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7. RECKLESSNESS: You may be someone who causes a lot of collateral damage.

The damage can manifest in many ways, be they academic shortcomings, social crises or financial pickles. Yet, whenever you indulge yourself, you’re a pioneer. You obliterate old boundaries. I proclaim you modern-day Meriwether Lewis (or William Clark).

8. SELF-PITY: The most charming of the vices, self-pity is a vital ingredient of any kind-hearted persona. Really, it’s rooted in a gracious urge to scale everything to proportion. It’s an attempt to be in touch with your surroundings, and relate various circumstances to your own. Often, those who actively cast themselves in seeminglynegative lights are the ones most conscious of the moods and thoughts of those around them.

Chaos is the natural order of the universe. So, even if the source of your troubles is internal, or if you only feel at peace when you war with yourself, you’re not doomed. Allow me to segue into some unsolicited advice: embrace the chaos.

Trust your virtues to battle your vices and emerge victorious (occasionally), and even when they don’t, you, my friend, are one with the universe. You can forgive yourself — vices, virtues and all. * If you resist this idea, see Vice 2.

Disclaimer: I withhold my sympathy from actual criminals.

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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Yamini Bhandari & Samari Gilbert | Trustee Viewpoint

On Conscientious Social Media Use A

recent report says that the average smartphone user checks Facebook 13.8 times a day. For college students, that number might be even higher. Our constant access has made social media our generation’s primary means of receiving and processing information.

It is not unusual to find out where your friends are, learn about a new restaurant or hear about a heartbreaking tragedy for the first time on social media.

The last few months have been particularly difficult, with newsfeeds serving as a constant reminder of the inequities in our society. Most recently, social media has framed the narrative surrounding recent deaths on our own campus.

With all of this in mind, perhaps now is the appropriate time for our generation to redefine the role of social media. A tool that started off as a way to connect with old friends has evolved into a way to keep up with current events and we have the responsibility of regulating it. We seem to forget that what we may find interesting and important, others can find triggering.

With all of this in mind, perhaps now is the appropriate time for our generation to redefine the role of social media. A tool that started off as a way to connect with old friends has evolved into a way to keep up with current events and we have the responsibility of regulating it.

It was impossible to scroll through a newsfeed this summer without seeing videos of racially charged violence at home and horrific acts of terror abroad. It was as if the only way to process the news around us was to take a break from social media altogether.

Awareness is at the center of many recent policy developments, but we cannot forget the impact it has on our peers. We cannot allow awareness to supersede the needs of our friend or overshadow their experiences. We should all be considerate of the emotional exhaustion caused by scrolling through newsfeeds where everyone feels like they are required to make a statement on events that happen every day.

While dialogue may be the key to understanding, our friends on social media should not be caught in the crossfire.

In the world of Twitter fingers and Facebook fights, there needs to be a sense of order for those who want to be able to share a positive life experience with their friends.

Social media platforms continue to evolve and being aware of our impact on others must be a part of it. We cannot control our peers and how they behave but we can all take steps to ensure that our social media footprint is positive.

Yamini Bhandari is the undergraduate student-elected trustee.

Samari Gilbert is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the former president of Black Students United. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Katy Habr | On the Margin

Who Is the Successful Arab Woman?

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crolling through my various social media accounts, I see countless posts illuminating and celebrating the work of successful Arab women. These women are praised not only for achieving success, but also for refuting lazy stereotypes that paint Arab women as helpless and oppressed. Breaking through institutional barriers that women around the world face is certainly something to admire and aspire to. However, the few women whose stories are shared do not represent the majority of Arab women, and it’s important to think about why certain women are highlighted while others are not.

“Success” for Arab women seems increasingly to be defined as gaining status as a businesswoman, an entrepreneur, occasionally a designer. However, many of the women who achieve these successes are already well off to begin with. Much like many entrepreneurs around the world, the ones that rise to success are often those that have the resources to do so and come from places of wealth and privilege. These women come from upper class families, often from rich countries in the Gulf and a blanket statement celebrating their successes ignores the very important intersection of class and gender and the ways in which they limit each other.

Uncritical praise shows a lack of class blindness that excludes many women from the typical definition of success.

Many of the women who become entrepreneurs rely on the labor of other women who are rarely recognized. Racism and classism are rampant in the Middle East, as in other places, and play a huge role in defining who becomes successful and who does not. Many migrant women work tirelessly for richer, more successful women, and are never

recognized for the labor they provide. Many women opening and operating small businesses in the Gulf use their underpaid domestic workers as a source of cheap labor, while they reap the entrepreneurial benefit of creating the idea. It is not hard to become successful with a cushion of wealth and cheap labor at hand, and the success of women should not be praised when it comes at the expense of others. If it does, how can it be called success?

Similarities arise with the U.S.centric phenomena of white feminism, a feminism that prides successful women without taking race into consideration. Here, upper class women are celebrated without acknowledging the work-

passionate and talented, sure, but they are neither radical nor threatening. They embrace capitalism, divisive as it is, and work to get themselves ahead. On the other hand, women on the grassroots level are rarely recognized to the same degree. While it is important to showcase the success of Arab women to shatter baseless stereotypes, more diverse representations of success have to be appreciated.

Success should include working class women and activists and the work that they do. It should recognize the barriers different women face and the obstacles they have had to move past to come where they have. It should include women working tirelessly

While it is important to showcase the success of Arab women to shatter baseless stereotypes, more diverse representations of success have to be appreciated. ing women on who helped them up, for better or for worse.

There are many reasons that the stories widely shared are so unrepresentative. The first is the obvious. The women who have access to online publishing and who have the resources to spread their stories to English publications are often more educated and well-off. These are barriers facing many lower class women that prevent their voices from being heard. The stories of success are also glamorous. Becoming an entrepreneur is surely more exciting and luxurious than working in a local community organization.

These stories have the popular appeal to sell. Another reason is that these women move up in ways that adhere to the status quo. They may be hardworking,

to feed their families and maintain community strength. These women are also successful under a broader definition of success.

Many women are prominent leaders, from the women that helped lead Arab Spring movements, to the women leading unions that empower workers and help inform them of their rights. These women may not be as glamorous as businesswomen or entrepreneurs, but work hard to make the world a better place in their own small ways. These are the Arab women we should aspire to be. They are what success looks like.

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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OPINION

Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

Reason #972 for Writing I

f someone were to misread one of my pieces, they might mistakenly assume that I am an angry or unhappy person. Yet anyone who knows me must know, I hope, that this couldn't be further from the truth.

While I certainly have every right to be or feel angry (and let’s not get that twisted), I am actually just an unflinchingly honest person — or, at least, I try to be. I harbor no bitterness in my heart, only an irrepressible impulse towards love and truth — love and truth, I reiterate, because the former is incomplete without the latter.

Please, let me explain.

I can still vividly remember the beginning of freshman year, a time when I held on to the idea of love being enough on its own. I recall how, after Tapestry, I felt compelled to grab a mic, stand up and proclaim my love for all people. Reflecting on that moment, which was met by my classmates with thunderous applause, I now recognize that I sorely needed truth to supplement my overzealous remarks.

Having recently attended Tapestry again as a senior, I know from both personal experience and intimate anecdotes that every struggle represented on that stage in Schwartz has had real-life consequences for thousands of people on this campus. And the ways in which my peers have often responded to such a frightening truth

speaks volumes about the nature of human beings.

As far as I can see, the means of entrance into the human condition is wide and free; there should be absolutely no parameters or filters, no sifting through the masses. So we should all feel great sadness when a group feels inclined to remind of us of its constituents’ humanity, because this quality is dictated by no one — your humanity is written into your genetic code from birth, unequivocally and universally. The only egress out of this purportedly noble existence is by denying the humanity of another, an act that happens with far more frequency and intensity than anyone would like to admit. Losing your humanity, then, has everything to do with fear, which is the sturdy foundation on which many people erect all manner of elaborate, labyrinthine cognitive barriers, usually as a means to separate themselves from the truth.

Fear has never been an excuse for one to deny a people’s truth, which is in fact a denial of their humanity and a forfeiture of the denier’s own. For example, the truth about race is that we live in a nation born of, founded in and supported by racism (if you don’t believe me, just read The Half Has Never Been Told by Cornell professor Ed Baptist).

Our money bears the faces of racists, our national anthem was

written by a racist and is based off a poem with racist overtures, and our institutions are adorned with the names of racists. There is no enigma in the matter: Anyone who wants to see the fear of truth — or, just as important, the truth of fear — can do so with relative ease. We must readily confront this ubiquitous reality — without trepidation, on every day, at every turn, from every vantage point, in every location and with every single human being who calls this magnificent, breathtaking, unprecedented and profoundly racist ass nation home.

Personally, I did not realize the extent to which racism, along with all its myths about my blackness and odes to others’ whiteness, had been inculcated in me from such a tender age until it was far too late. In truth and love, you cannot conceive of the pain that came with this discovery as I read, listened, and learned about my society’s deceit. To absorb the truly devastating weight of an eternity — and all its horrendous, demoralizing secrets about the nature of my existence —left me dazed and scrambling as a freshman for some smooth-hewn enclave where I could seek refuge from the truth.

Unfortunately, there is no refuge or sanctum. People who call themselves my friends like to shove the truth down my face in the form of unfunny jokes

and tactless comments.

Strangers do the same in the form of poorly concealed expressions conveying aversion and discomfort. The world smatters the truth about my news feed in the form of words, images, stories, misery and heartbreak. I am in a state of constant fleeing, while simultaneously being tasked, unfairly, with justifying what I’m fleeing from. So when I see students responding to events, initiatives, coursework, or discourse around my and others’ truths in a way that is not thoughtful, respectful, empathetic, or measured, I become deeply disturbed.

In the case of the truth about race, I have met and loved a few white people whom I would consider to be champions of the truth. That being said, I have met many more white people who remain exasperatingly terrified of the truth. And while I love them too, this love will always be tinged with a fatigued sense of sadness. Because I can certainly mosey about with those people, smiling and laughing and having a wonderful time.

But at the end of the day, I will still go home knowing that we were all adhering to an unspoken agreement to avoid bringing up the truth at all costs.

I fear the day when all the soothing language and faux harmony has eroded away, leaving behind the stench of piling corpses and the social debris of

human lives that have been smashed to pieces. I fear the day when my peers and I will all have to look in the mirror and wonder what we weren’t doing or saying or thinking that we should and could have been all along; why we deliberately invited the shadow of oppression into our conscience or passively allowed it to hover ineluctably over the world; why we waited, silently, as its immense bleakness began to slowly dim and corrode those joyful beams of delusion that had been glaring unashamed through our perpetually closed eyes.

I must write, then, because even though this laborious and tedious task of truth-sharing should not be my responsibility alone, I would rather take it up now than have people whom I love come to me later with claims that no one had ever offered them answers to the questions I’ve been begging them to ask. I must write, you see, because I do not want these same people, upon being faced with the truth at last, and in the most irreconcilable of forms, to be unsettled or startled by what they see.

This column originally ap peared online September 9, 2016.

Amiri Banks is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com.

Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Ruth Weissmann | A Word to the Weiss

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You Won’t Read This Either

r rather, I bet you won’t read this Office. It feels as though we are pen- phrase “if a tree falls in the forest and in its entirety. People don’t really ning novels, but the people instead nobody is around to hear it, does it read anymore — we hardly have want picture books. make a sound?” Well, if something hapthe patience for it. It’s a clickbait culture, And print media is dying a slow pens in the world and we fail to capture and we only have time for the headline. death, going down still swinging and it, to record it and retell it, did it hapI’m not talking about purely literary waxing poetic about the golden days of pen at all? I would argue no, that the reading, which is at a three-decade low journalism. Today newspapers can’t only stories that get passed on are the according to the Washington Post, but afford to keep themselves in print with- ones we collectively choose to tell. also journalist efforts — news articles, out outside funding or donations, What we know of 1916 is limited to op-eds, blogs. Recently, a friend sent me which can compromise the efforts of a what records we have of that time in a somewhat comical article that connect- paper now beholden to corporate inter- history, and what people will know ed psychopathic personality traits to the ests. If you’re particularly interested in about 2016 is limited to what stories drinking of a common beverage, one she the decline of print media, I suggest you we’ve committed to writing, photo or knew I enjoyed. I asked if she thought I, check out John Oliver’s piece on jour- video. This is why journalistic efforts too, exhibited psychopathic tendencies. nalism, where he contrasts newspapers’ are vital — it’s still relevant, critical “Oh,” she said, laughing.

“I didn’t actually read the article.”

When people ask me I would argue no, that the only stories that get passed on are the if I am aiming for a ones we collectively choose to tell. What we know of 1916 is career in journalism, I limited to what records we have of that time in history, and dodge. “Journalist? No, I don’t want to be a what people will know about 2016 is limited to what stories journalist, I just want to we’ve committed to writing, photo or video. do something in writing.” Journalism feels like shouting words into the void, your thoughts disappearing begotten stubbornness to hold on to even, to chronicle history. after a few days into the infinite annals traditional patterns with the fact that But how do you do something this of the Internet. Today we are much they are still the sources that other important for free? It’s a double bind; more captivated by memes, GIFs and forms of media rely on to make them- newspapers and other media outlets videos; journalism has to employ a selves credible. “Whenever this show is must both function as a business and comedic aspect to grab our attention. mistakenly called journalism, it is a slap also maintain informational integrity, Things not only have to inform but in the face to the actual journalist and they can barely do one with violatentertain, and thus the Internet has whose work we rely on,” he says about ing the goals of the other. The advent of devolved into things like An Open his comedic broadcasts. the Internet swiftly destroyed the need Letter to My Best Friend’s Mom and And yet, journalism is something I to pay for one’s information, let alone Your Finals Weeks, As Told By The believe in profoundly. You’ve heard the pay for your information to come from

the most accurate source. Today everyone can chronicle history. You could pick up your phone this very minute and author a tweet, snap a picture, take a video and share them all with our interconnected society. This is why to be a journalist no longer seems like a prestigious role — if everyone is a journalist, no one is.

And so we adapt. Print newspapers shift directions to focus on their online readership, freeing themselves from the constraints of a daily publication (incidentally, The Sun prints three of five weekdays this semester, did you notice?). Magazines like The New Yorker publish satire and intelligent cartoons to educate through humor. Data journalism and interactive articles are on the rise. Podcasts have utterly taken over. We take the citizen journalism and organize it into cultural observations and reflections of our society.

And maybe, just maybe, people continue to read to the end of an article.

This column originally appeared online September 9, 2016.

Ruth Weissmann is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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VanWees: Bacteria,Light And Milk Processing Samantha VanWees is first prize winner of IFT’s undergrad research competition

By ISABELLE PHILLIPPE Sun Contributor

Imagine winning an internationally renowned competition just six weeks after graduation — the excitement and the happiness.

For 22-year-old Chicago native Samantha VanWees’16, this was what happened.

VanWees’s research, entitled, “Inactivation of Bacillus Licheniformis Vegetative Cells and Spores in Milk Using Pulsed Light Treatment,” considered how pulsed light — a technique used for food decontamination using short, intense pulses of a broad spectrum of light — is able to reduce bacteria during milk processing. Her achievement won her top honors for her poster and presentation at the Institute of Food Technologists’ undergraduate research competition in Chicago.

During her time as an undergraduate student at Cornell University, VanWees majored in food science, saying it was her love of cooking and her mother’s influence that sparked her interest in food not only nutritionally but also chemically.

“What originally got me interested was all those little ticks and tricks and America’s Top Kitchen that got me into the idea that food was more than just something that people ate and enjoyed,” she said. “There’s a lot of chemistry involved and engineering applications.”

The up-and-coming researcher began working with Prof.

Carmen Moraru, food science, in her Food Processing and Engineering Laboratory as a dishwater for the second half of her sophomore year. VanWees started off performing basic tasks but soon gained enough familiarity and knowledge about food science within the lab to partake in hands-on research.

“I started to like research a lot and during my senior year, I had more time on my hands and was able to do an independent project which was really great,” she said.

“I designed the whole experiment and modeled it on other research and did all the results and recording.”

Putting together a winning research presentation was no easy task, but as a member of the food science club, and president of the recreational fencing club, VanWees knew how to handle the challenge. She recalls the significant amount of work and dedication required to assemble her great achievement.

“It was a lot of work in the summertime which I was expecting, but that was the hardest part as I was out of school for six weeks and then had to go back to it again,” she said. “It was nice that it had been my own work. It was really easy to present something I had thrown my whole life into for a semester and a half and make it make sense and present it to people who had the kind of positions I wanted to go into.”

However, this dedication did not go unrewarded. From her time in the lab, one of the most important aspects VanWees gained was an appreciation for research. She describes her time in the lab as truly solidifying the fact that it was something enjoyable.

“I met a lot of graduate students and upperclassmen throwout my time and really spending time in the lab learning things hands on and making sense of how to do a research project where you have to do all the research, do all the grunt work and collecting, and taking the time to write it down and report it correctly,” she said, “I think I just gained an appreciation for research and was able to do a lot of really cool things.”

Aside from food science,

Show and tell | Samantha VanVees presenting at the IFT’s undergraduate research competition.

VanWees also received a minor in the line. For her own personal art history. The 22-year-old trav- contribution to the world of scieled to Florence during her time ence, Samantha hopes to develop at Cornell as a result of this pasShe sion. described it as “doing something different outside the laboratory and classroom.”

But food science couldn’t be forgotten in this venture. “ [ Tr a v e l ] opened my eyes a little bit more to how food is different in different Samantha VanWees ’16 cultures,” she said.

VanWees is currently pursuing a doctorate at new food science technologies the University of Wisconsin- and help others to understand Madison and hopes to engage in what happens in food, whether long term research further down that takes the form of research or

“Trying to bridge the gap between laboratory, the media and people in general — that’s whats really important.”

general food education.

“I think people should be taught what labels mean, what’s really in food and why it’s more than just something that we pick up on the way,” she said. “It’s something that has a lot of layers and should be explored.”

From her present feats to the bright future that lies ahead of her, Samantha has many plans for the field of food science .

“You can publish a paper and do research based work that’s heavily scientific but at the same time that doesn’t matter to the person that’s in the grocery story right now,” she said. “Trying to bridge the gap between the laboratory, the media, and people in general and really trying to bring food science home – that’s what’s really important.”

Isabelle Phillippe can be reached at ip93@cornell.edu.

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Sullivan earns second prize

By DARREN CHOW Sun Contributor

Genevieve Sullivan grad never thought that a case of food poisoning in would spark her interest in public health. During a study abroad program in Myanmar, the food science student thought she was “invincible” until she ate a dish that had unpasteurised milk in it, ironically prompting her to reflect on how lucky she was.

“We’re so used to food safety, but in some developing nations they don’t necessarily have that — the expectation of safe food. This got me interested in public health,” Sullivan said.

Last summer, Genevieve Sullivan, placed second in the Institute of Food Technologists’ undergraduate research competition, where she presented her paper ‘Physicochemical Factors Affect Bacterial Attachment on Food Packaging Surfaces: A Theoretical And Experimental Study.’ The IFT research competition not only judges students based on their research results, but also on their ability to communicate their research.

Sullivan focused on whether physicochemical factors of food packaging surfaces — such as hydrophobicity and surface energy — affect bacterial attachment of Escherichia coli and Listeria innocua.

Hydrophobicity is the physical property that repels a molecule from water, while surface energy is the attraction or repulsion a surface exerts on another surface. Both bacteria are surrogates of pathogenic E. coli and pathogenic L. monocytosis respectively, making them particularly relevant to food safety as they may cause gastrointestinal infection and the disease listeriosis.

“The research itself was pretty exploratory and generated more questions than it answered,” Sullivan said.

“However, some, even if not systematic correlations, were observed between physicochemical properties [surface electric charge and surface energy] and attachment. Our future research focuses on making a predictive model that combines these two factors and preliminary studies have shown that this might be a strong predictor for bacterial attachment.”

Sullivan uses the analogy of buying a new couch to explain her research.

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Genevieve Sullivan: Bacteria and Food Packaging

“You're afraid [the couch] will become covered in dog hair as soon as you bring it home. Ideally you would keep the dog off the couch altogether, but most pet owners know that will not completely solve the problem,” Sullivan said. “So you decide to purchase a couch made of leather, a material less likely to attract and hold the hair.”

As with almost all scientists and their projects, Sullivan admits that there were limitations to her study.

“We can only run so many surfaces and run so many factors. We only ran two microorganisms but there’s lots of microorganisms that can attach to these surfaces,” she said.

While reflecting back on her undergraduate experience at Cornell, Sullivan, who is now a first year Ph.D. student, points to the food science faculty as the peo-

especially from her desire to have a positive impact on people’s lives, even if it is only an indirect impact. She points to the Safety Modernization Act, which aims to shift the focus from responding to preventing foodborne illnesses, as a cause she would like to further.

“We can be a part of this shift by finding new ways to prevent the [bacterial] attachment from occurring,” Sullivan said. “We can save lives, reduce hospitalization, and save money from recalls [of food] by not getting someone sick in the first place.”

One of her many goals as a scientist is to make progress on our food supply and safety, and her current research certainly portrays that ambition. In addition to researching salmonella detection in dark chocolate and pet food, taking up responsibilities involved with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) center of excellence, Sullivan is also conducting genome sequencing in order to try to track back isolates to plants or food that make people sick. She also enjoys going to the journal club — which recently discussed the listeriosis outbreak in cantaloupe — to talk world issues relating to food safety with fellow scientists.

Sullivan also wishes to dispel some of the misconceptions regarding food science.

“We explore the physical, chemical and biological aspects of food, remaining involved in every aspect of the product from the farm to your fork,” she said. “For example, food scientists are the ones that reduce ice crystals in your ice cream and improve the shelf life of your juice. Many people do not realize the impact a food scientist has on their daily life. “ Sullivan, who participates sporadically on the food science sports team, is interested in working for the government by investigating foodborne outbreaks and working to prevent them in the future. She is especially interested in the Center of Disease Control and the Federal Food and Drug Administration, but is also considering becoming an epidemiologist due to her interest in public health and food security.

An avid pianist who tutors students, Sullivan loves to help others. As a teaching assistant in the Department of Food Science, Sullivan shares a few words of wisdom with budding food scientists.

“Find what you like because there’s a lot you can do in food science,” she said “If you find what you are interested in, you can go far.”

“We’re so used to food safety, but in some developing nations they don’t necessarily have that — the expectation of safe food. This got me interested in public health.”

Genevieve Sullivan grad ple who have influenced her the most.

“The food science faculty is very special because everyone is passionate about what they do and that really comes across when they’re teaching,” she said.

“Another thing is that they are very willing to help students even though they are constantly busy with travelling.”

One person in particular who was a source of inspiration was Prof. Carmen Moraru, food science, who was her academic and research advisor. Inspired by a Nature article written by the professor that looked at modifying plant surfaces to reduce bacterial attachment, Sullivan saw an opportunity to conduct her own study, but with food packaging.

Sullivan’s interest in science and food science stems

Darren Chow can be reached at dlc279@cornell.edu.

Saturn’s Moon,Titan, Might Be Able to Support Life

By VICTOR AGUILAR Sun Contributor

The presence of life on Earth is tied in multiple ways to the presence of one substance — water. Water is the biggest component in most living organisms and has the power to leave a long-lasting impact on the environment. It is no surprise, then, that astrobiologists have long focused on understanding how exoplanets could develop the right conditions for life.

What happens when dynamic cycles of activity are present without water? That is the question that first arose in the mind of one Cornell scientist. Prof.

Jonathan Lunine, astronomy, director for the Cornell center for astrophysics and planetary science, pondered the possibility of something unique happening on Saturn’s moon, Titan. Located 1.43 billion kilometers away from the Sun and with a surface temperature of 94 K (not far from that of liquid nitrogen), the second biggest moon in the solar system is surprisingly active.

Much like Earth, Titan is teeming with rivers and oceans which are constantly being replenished by rain.

However, these rivers and rain are not water, but dynamic cycles of methane and other hydrocarbons.

Lunine sought to understand if these cycles of methane could have a similar impact on Titan, in the way water has an impact on Earth.

This broad question would end up bringing together

Lunine, Prof. David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, Prof. David Usher, chemistry and chemical biology, and Martin Rahm, theoretical and computational chemistry.

A molecular and computational biologist by training, Shalloway was in the best position to provide insights into how chemically dynamic Titan was. The first indication that chemical reactivity was present on Titan was the lack of hydrogen cyanide on the surface in comparison to the atmosphere. According to the team, such an absence was thought to be the result of chemical reactivity leading to the formation of more complex molecules out of hydrogen cyanide. If hydrogen cyanide was reacting with itself, what kind of complex structures could develop?

This query lead Shalloway to ask more fundamental questions.

“Can you have life without water?” he pondered.

He observed that hydrogen cyanide, though poisonous on earth, behaves differently on Titan. Under the right conditions and assumptions, it was possible to imagine hydrogen cyanide molecules linking to one another — forming structures known as polyimines.

When further assembled, polyimines could theoretically create structured layers capable of absorbing sunlight.

Rahm, a postdoctoral research associate and a selfdescribed “quantum [chemist],” worked on understanding the theory behind this behaviour and did the bulk

of computational modeling.

“There is a tremendous lack of knowledge when it comes to this place [Titan]”, Rahm said Describing the moon as a “natural laboratory”, Rahm first became interested in Titan after attending a workshop at the California Institute of Technology.

After meeting with Lunine, he began working to come up with computational methods for studying chemistry on Titan. This past summer, his work resulted in a lead author publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Speaking about his fascination with chemistry he said it has the potential to uncover mysteries.

“Chemistry [can be] applied to study other worlds, [explore] the possibility of prebiotic chemistry and ultimately the origin of life,” Rahm said. “That might be one of the more important takeaways [of this research] in the inspirational use.”

This sentiment was echoed by Shalloway.

“Beautiful things are worth doing” he said.

While he certainly hopes that new explorations may uncover new findings on Titan and other worlds, Shalloway’s final observation perhaps most perfectly summarized the ultimate goal for his research. “[Research and discovery] help us to be more humble,” he said.

Victor Aguilar can be reached at va233@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Hopeful Hand to God at the Kitchen Theatre

BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer

The Kitchen Theatre’s production of Hand to God would seem to be a very pure, if a little preachy, production if one were to just look at the set. Stuffed animals and toys are placed in bins next to a bookcase full of picture books, the theatre’s walls are covered in posters with messages about Jesus and a colorful banner hangs above. But as soon as a skinny gray puppet pops up from behind a pulpit-like stage and starts cursing at the audience and ranting about the devil, it becomes clear that this is a very different kind of play.

After this introduction, the play opens on a church in Cypress, Texas where Margery (Erica Steinhagen), recently widowed, leads three teenagers in sewing puppets for a church puppet show. The teens, rebellious Timothy (Michael Patrick Trimm), snarky yet compassionate Jessica (Montana Lampert Hoover) and Margery’s bashful son Jason (Karl Gregory) constantly bicker. Timothy makes derisive comments about the club, but Jason appears to have a talent for puppet-making, which comes in handy when Pastor Greg (Aundre Seals) decides to move up the date of the puppet show. Jason names his puppet Tyrone, and uses the puppet to perform “Who’s on first” for Jessica, whom he has a crush on. However, the performance becomes twisted when Tyrone begins to speak on his own, insulting Jason in front of Jessica. Hurt and angry, Jason tears his puppet Tyrone in half and leaves him on the ground.

When Tyrone somehow comes back to life, appearing in Jason’s bed, he taunts Jason about his feelings for Jessica, his fights with Margery, and Jason’s late father’s unhappy life.

It’s a bizarre and hilarious scene, one of many in which Karl Gregory manages to perform simultaneously as an innocent teenage boy and a demonic puppet in a credible way. Many scenes involve Jason and Tyrone arguing, which requires Gregory to alternate between two very different characters every other sentence, and he pulls this off seamlessly. Several times, Tyrone grabs and turns Jason’s face with his tiny hands, and it becomes easy to forget that the two characters are played by the same actor.

The play is undoubtedly comedic and somehow makes

the idea of a puppet possessed by the devil both terrifying Margery in particular develops more depth and a wider range and hysterical. When the second act begins, we see that of emotions as the play goes on. She first appears to be a someone, presumably Jason under Tyrone’s instruction, has stereotypical Southern churchgoer, but the emotions she crucified a stuffed giraffe Jesus on a plunger cross, and the wrestles with throughout the play in dealing with the loss of ripped off head of a stuffed Maltese sits on a stool. A later her husband and her lack of connection with her son make sex scene between two puppets, although obviously uncom- her a much more complex character. Steinhagen portrays fortable, is a source of raucous laughter from the audience. Margery’s hilarious but disastrous sexual relationship with Additionally, the cast of only five helps to rearrange the set Timothy, her destruction of church property and her rejecbetween scenes, and though the lights are dimmed, the tion of Pastor Greg’s advances very convincingly and demonaudience sees that they do so in character. When the actors strates that Margery is far from a one-dimensional character. playing Jessica and Timothy have to work together, they Even though Tyrone is, of course, very devilish, it’s satismaintain their mutual dislike, fying to see him tell wordlessly mocking each Timothy off time COURTESY OF DAVE BURBANK other. after time. It is never The play is deemed a dark officially established comedy, as it’s hilarious but whether Tyrone is also draws on serious issues. truly the devil or just a When Jason and Margery part of Jason, but a drive home, they have an emoscene where Tyrone tional fight in the car about screams that Margery Jason’s desire to quit the pupkilled his father sugpet program and the pain he’s gests that Jason subendured since his father’s consciously uses death. It becomes clear that Tyrone to say what he neither feels the other has procould never say. This vided sufficient support since suggests that Jason the loss, and both feel lonely. may be mentally ill, Jason blames his mother for and while the play being unable to help his father, itself does not deal so much so that Margery thoroughly enough begins to blame herself. Their with this possibility, complex relationship is Gregory portrays this explored throughout the play, very well.

On the Other Hand | Karl Gregory as Jason/Tyrone and while they later begin to While Hand to God make amends, this process is will make most audirealistically gradual. ence members both blush and laugh hysterically, it’s also very All of the characters seem to fit certain molds at the heartfelt. The Kitchen Theatre’s cast is very capable of tackbeginning, but grow throughout the course of the play. ling tough subjects while remaining humorous, and Pastor Greg seems a lot like Ned Flanders from The Gregory’s dual role is especially impressive. Full of both emoSimpsons, always smiling, using fake swear words, praising tions and innuendos, Hand to God is a truly unique play.

God, and innocently (though excessively) fawning over Margery. But when the situation calls for it, he displays Emily Fournier is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She strength and persistence in dealing with the demonic Tyrone. can be reached at ejf225@cornell.edu.

A.O. Scott and Cinema’s Last Line of Defense

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he donning of sackcloth and ashes for this once-mighty art form is an annual ritual,” wrote New York Times film critic A.O. Scott in a recent piece on the Telluride Film Festival, a yearly retreat for filmmakers and critics alike that also serves as a debut for many of the fall’s most anticipated films. He goes on to posit the festival as a “standing rebuke” to the “fatalism and gloom” of critics who would suggest cinema’s death, boldly going so far as to include hyperlinks to Huffington Post and GQ articles with which he took direct issue. (As spectators, all we can really hope for is that the opposing sides drop diss tracks about one another.) Scott, who serves alongside Manohla Dargis as the Times’ chief film critic, claims that Telluride standouts like Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann provide testimony to the medium’s ongoing vitality. Of the latter, he writes, “It’s something new under the sun, a thrilling and discomfiting document of the present and also, like every movie that matters, a bulletin from the future.”

Forward motion, then, and an eye toward progress seem Scott’s criteria for a worthy cinematic experience. Yet the critic speaks with a certain tone of nostalgia, waxing lyrical about the “old-time

cinephile religion” and “cathedrals of cinema,” invoking a religiosity around the filmgoing experience that grants a sense of urgency to the art form. Scott seems determined to fight a one-man war in support of his cinematic ideals, and to simultaneously convince us of criticism’s essential role in our relationship to art. It’s a refrain that is consistent across the subtext of his film reviews, and made explicit in his recent book Better Living Through Criticism (as well as a 2013 lecture given in our very own Goldwin Smith Hall). This dedication to a hallowed film “tradition” — once an unspoken prerequisite to becoming a critic — creates a bit of a contradiction: How can

Chris Stanton Really Terrible, And Such Small Portions filmmakers keep the art form alive and moving forward while tying it to a bygone era?

Scott, here, plays the role of experienced idealist, aware that the past is past while maintaining a romantic’s hope for

the future. He frames Damien Chazelle’s new film La La Land –— a musical romance set in retro Los Angeles, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone — as a direct address to this contradiction. It’s a film, Scott claims, that harkens back to the star-studded Technicolor musicals of yesteryear while modernizing the type of spectacle that necessitates a trip to the cinema.

Of course, a cynic could twist that logic to argue that such a film amounts to little more than the artful rehashing of existing conventions. What, then, do the harbingers of cinematic death suggest we do?

How do we — for lack of better phrasing — make Hollywood cinema great again?

It’s tempting to pretend that these naysayers are the same group of dad-types who miss the good ol’ days of rock n’ roll, when the rebellious kids actually stood for something, you know? These are the nostalgic individuals who happily proclaim entire genres and art forms as “dead” so as to ensure their generation sustains a monopoly on them. At their most lenient, they’ll recognize Tarantino as the second coming of Jean-Luc Godard or The Strokes as a worthy throwback act. Forget anything, though, that changes the parameters of a given medium or genre.

Unfortunately, the critics who claim “cinema is dead” operate on a sort of funhouse mirror version to Scott’s own logic.

They, too, deeply value moviegoing’s place

in the echelon of American pastimes, and possess an undying commitment to the value of feature-length films in the face of the oft-documented “Golden Age of Television.” They base their fatalist conclusions in Hollywood’s fearful decision-making and capitalist motives, factors that have undoubtedly created this seasonal Groundhog Day of superhero movies and unnecessary sequels in which we are currently living.

Yet the writing seems to be on the wall, and it favors progress rather than death.

Unlike Scott, I did not have the opportunity to embark upon the religious experience of Telluride Film Festival this year (I guess it wasn’t in the Sun’s budget). However, I think people often forget that the system is always the last to respond. This summer alone saw diminishing returns on almost every sequel in an existing franchise, and attempted reboots almost universally underperformed. The traditional film format has shown its resilience time and time again. With both critics and audiences alike demanding change within the studio system (and great movies consistently being made outside of it), it’s only a matter of time.

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cms459@cornell.edu.

Really Teribble, and Such Small Portions appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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SPORTS

Volleyball Plays to 1-2 Record In UMKC Kangaroo Klassic

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Competing in the Midwest proved a challenge for the Cornell volleyball team (3-3) as the Red went 1-2 in the Kangaroo Klassic, hosted by University of Missouri at Kansas City. Cornell fell to both the host school and Bradley before beating University of Nebraska at Omaha in the final match.

The weekend brought record-breaking performances from athletes like senior Alyssa Phelps — who was able to eclipse the 2,500 career assist mark in the match against Bradley — and junior Maddie Sroufe, who was added to the all tournament team after nailing a game-high 13 kills in the win over Nebraska-Omaha.

The Red kicked off the tournament against UMKC. The team lost 3-0 in a game with major contributions from junior Kit McCarthy and senior Macey Wilson. However, despite these efforts, the team was not able to surpass the Kangaroos.

“This weekend taught us a lot about what Cornell volleyball is and how we have the ability to accomplish so much when we work together as a team,” Wilson said. “The preseason is really meant to allow us to figure out our team chemistry and how we can all work together and I think we were really able to work on that.”

McCarthy agreed that, despite the result, there were certainly positives to take away from the contest.

“We will learn from our losses this past weekend and it was awesome to finish it on a high note,” McCarthy said. “It was really nice to get the chance to play in front of Alyssa's and Emily [Wenhoff ]’s family and friends. Everyone is keeping our workhard team mentality in preparation for next weekend.”

Like the Kangaroos, Bradley also posed many

challenges to the team, sweeping the Red in three sets, 23-25, 19-25 and 16-25. Playing on Friday, the team came up short but, again, the women were able to take away important lessons from the program’s first match ever against Bradley.

“We were definitely made more aware of what our strengths and weaknesses,” Wilson said. She also noted that the team knows what it needs to focus on going forward.

“We played well against UMKC, they have a very potent offense … and we didn't adjust,” said head coach Trudy Vande Berg. “I don't think we came out with confidence against Bradley so we were a bit flat and tentative.”

On Saturday, the team played its final match, picking up its lone win of the tournament to beat Nebraska-Omaha, 2-1, in a strong team effort.

“This weekend was an important learning moment for our team,” said junior Maddy Sroufe.

“We learned that our success depends on playing our game and focusing on our side of the net, which we were able to do in our last match against UNO and will carry into our matches next weekend.”

Vande Berg said part of the reason for the team’s pair of losses last weekend was its mental mistakes.

“We have to learn how to mentally prepare ourselves for every match and come out with the same confidence and intensity against every opponent,” Vande Berg said. “We need to believe that we can win every match.”

The Red concludes its tournament schedule next weekend when the team travels to Bucknell to compete in the Bison Classic before tackling the Ivy League leg of the season.

“I am very excited to get to play again this weekend and prove to everyone and ourselves that we can be extremely successful this season,” Wilson said.

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

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the team cannot expect to routinely win by only scoring two goals, according to Hornibrook. However, the coach stressed that the team needs to play better up and down the line up. “[We are working on] going out tomorrow and trying to be more consistent in all phases,” Hornibrook said. “We’ve shown that we can score goals … we’ve shown that we can be really tough defensively … but we need to develop better connection between the units.”

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“We’ve shown that we can be really tough defensively ... but we need to develop better connection between the units.”

Donna Hornibrook minutes of play but also noted that it is still early in the season.

“Consistency is a mindset,” Hornibrook said. “But it is also [about] time together, and that’s something that all teams are going through right now, because it does take time to gel.”

Cornell does not have many easy matchups on its out-of-conference schedule. Exposure to talented teams from other areas will help the Red long term. Win or lose, the Red wants to execute its game plan and achieve a certain fluidity in its play, so that the team is firing on all cylinders when Ivy League play rolls around.

“That’s why these early season games are very important and why we want to play quality teams like Stanford,” Hornibrook said.

Cornell will face No. 14 Stanford at home on Sept. 13 in its next match up.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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Red Beats Ohio In Battle of Top Defensive Teams

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

In the 53rd minute of a scoreless match up, the Cornell field hockey team (3-1, 0-0 Ivy) was looking for a goal. Then Cornell’s playmaker, junior forward Krysten Mayers, stepped up for the Red and guided a pass towards junior forward Katie Carlson, who rifled a shot into the back of the net.

The Red struck again in the second half against Ohio University (2-5, 0-0 Mid-America), on a goal from junior midfielder Isabel Josephs. In a defensive battle, the two goals were enough for a 2-1 victory, allowing the Red to claim its third win of the season.

Neither team could break through in the first half, with both squads playing solid defense. After halftime, the Red put together a consistent offensive attack that allowed the Red to break the game open.

“The second half of the Ohio game we had a really solid stretch,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook.

However, in the second match-up of the weekend for the Red, goals from Carlson and junior back Sam McIlwrick were ultimately not enough in a 4-2 loss at Rutgers (4-2, 0-0 Big Ten).

Cornell trailed by three goals early on, but the Red fought back and cut the lead to one. The Red had a couple of chances to equalize, but a late penalty corner gave Rutgers a two-goal cushion, putting the game out of reach for Cornell.

Even while the Red failed to deliver a complete per-

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Red rising | Katie Carlson’s goal in the 53rd minute against Ohio University broke a scoreless tie. Cornell would go on to win the match. formance, Hornibrook said she was pleased with her team’s resiliency.

“We showed that we have the ability to battle back,” Hornibrook said.

Nonetheless, Cornell’s play was up and down over the weekend and the team will be looking to put together more complete performances before heading into Ivy League play.

“We had some moments where we played well in

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

C.U.Captures Second,Edging Past No.7 Georgetown

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

The first meet after a long offseason is often a tricky one. Athletes and coaches do not know what to expect, and there is usually quite a bit of rust to shake off. Yet, at Saturday’s Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational, the men’s cross country team bolted straight into full stride, taking second place in a highly competitive eight team field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Head coach Zeb Lang ’03 credits his veteran group for this success, and said he feels their overall experience was key in avoiding some opening-day jitters.

“Our top seven is full of juniors and seniors who are used to this routine, and this isn’t their first rodeo,” Lang said. "Our training isn’t [special], but it gets the job done and if our guys follow the plan, they get stronger and become more able to adjust to tough situations.”

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Opening strong | In Cornell’s first meet of the season, the men of the cross country team showed no rust, taking second in the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational.

of 67 points trailed only Syracuse — the mile course. Junior Dom DeLuca bested defending national champions and current his teammates, finishing in 26:49, good for No. 1 team in the nation. The Red edged 10th overall.

Senior Mark Tedder took 11th, less than out No. 7 Georgetown, host Penn State and Ivy League foe Princeton, among sever- five seconds behind DeLuca. DeLuca’s classmate, Josh Dryland finished in 13th, al others.

Lang also said he was pleased with senior James Gowans took 16th, and junior Saturday’s result, but the wide gap between Chase Silverman rounded out the Red’s top five in 17th place overall.

Cornell and Syracuse Lang said he was assured him that there is “When we get those proud of the individual plenty to work on. efforts “We thought we ran oppurtunities, we do ward. his men put fora solid race, but we clear“Dom DeLuca really ly have more work to our best to take showed that he is ready do,” he stated. “Syracuse advantage of them.” to lead this team into the gave us quite a wallop. future … I thought he They showed us why Zeb Lang ’03 ran a hard-nosed race out they are the defending there,” Lang said. “Mark NCAA champions, and it was certainly eye-opening to see what the Tedder was pretty sick and came back from No. 1 team in the country is capable of. It the depths of hell in the last mile to close well, and Josh Dyrland really put himself will keep us motivated going forward.”

Still, the Red did more than hold its out there and ran with the boldness we own over the weekend, and defeating a need right now.”

Now the team will wait three weeks team like Georgetown is nothing to be scoffed at. Lang said he appreciated the until its next meet in the beginning of opportunity to compete against top teams, October at Lehigh — one of particular importance. Saturday’s results leave the regardless of the result.

“We embrace the challenge to run with team confident but with plenty to address the nation's best,” he said. “We appreciate in the interim.

“We will train hard for three weeks the support we receive that allows us to travel to great meets, and when we get before that next meet on Oct. 1. We will those opportunities, we do our best to take see most of the Ivy League and a stronger Georgetown team,” Lang said. “It will give advantage of them.”

Saturday was no different. Each of us a real chance to test ourselves.”

Cornell’s five scoring runners finished in the event’s top 20, and all of them Charles Cotton can be reached at remained competitive throughout the 6.1 ccotton@cornellsun.com.