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Possible Hate Crime Tests New President Black students’12 demands put pressure on Pollack,six months in

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Martha E. Pollack, nearing the six-month mark of her presidency, is facing her first major test at Cornell after hundreds of black students, responding to the arrest of a student who may be charged with a hate crime, marched into her office last week and hand-delivered a series of demands.

Pollack, who assumed the presidency in April, is now in charge of a campus so on-edge that a rope keeping electrical wires away from a construction site in Collegetown was mistaken for a noose on Sunday night by students who called police to report it.

In her less-tumultuous first few months at Cornell, Pollack made a series of moves that were widely-lauded by students: She cut ties with Nike in July, citing labor standards; decried white supremacistsafter a protester was killed in Charlottesville; reinstated a work-study program

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Mail drop | Black students deliver demands to Martha Pollack on Sept. 20. for international students in August; and, this month, pledged to stand with students affected by President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Now, following two separate incidents that have garnered national attention and may lead to hate crime

charges against a Cornell sophomore, black students are urging Pollack to respond to their demands faster than the previous administration. A “nice email” from Pollack is not enough, one Black Students United co-chair said in the days following the assault of a black student.

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New Development Could Bring Closing Time to Nines

By JULIETTE OVADIA Sun Staff Writer

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Fists up | Professors raise their fists during a moment of silence on Wednesday.

Profs Support Fight Against Racism

By EMMA NEWBURGER and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Asst. News Editor and City Editor

Hundreds of professors, staff, students and locals took to the Arts Quad on Wednesday to kneel in solidarity with professional athletes and Cornell students who have been protesting brutality against black Americans around the country and in Ithaca.

The protest, organized by the Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy, was in part a response to the recent assault of a

black student in Collegetown, who said he was called the Nword multiple times and punched in the face by a group of four or five white men. Ithaca Police arrested a white student, John Greenwood ’20, whose lawyer denies he engaged in any physical altercation, and a grand jury may charge him with a hate crime in the next two weeks.

The rally, attended by more than 300, was also meant to support professional athletes like former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick who have kneeled

during the national anthem to bring attention to police brutality against black people. President Donald Trump this weekend entered into the debate regarding the protest, saying that the NFL should fire or suspend players who refuse to stand for the anthem.

Prof. Russell Rickford, history, one of the original members of the coalition, said at the protest that symbols, such as kneeling during the national anthem, “can See KNEE page 4

For Cornellians, crossing another item off the 161 Things to Do at Cornell list may prove more difficult.

A Collegetown developer has proposed the demolition of the existing building at 311 College Ave. — more fondly known to Ithacans and Cornellians as The Nines.

Collegetown developer Todd Fox presented his proposal for review at the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board meeting Tuesday night.

Fox’s proposal includes a total demolition of the building and the construction of a 45unit, six-story brick commercial rental property in its place, pending a potential

sale of the building.

This proposed demolition of the historically significant location does not come without contention from the community, as displayed at Tuesday’s meeting.

Indeed, the debate over the future of the building

reveals the difficult balance between the need for economic development in Ithaca and the desire to maintain the historical character of the city.

Against the backdrop of an Ithaca housing shortage See NINES page 4

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7-8-Nines | A proposed Collegetown development depends on the demolition of Ithaca hotspot The Nines.

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Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Dies at 78 In leading the University through the financial crises of the Recession, Meinig provided details to the Board’s strategic planning process to Sun reporters in a March Cornell announced on Wednesday that Peter Meinig 2010 interview.

“Cornell, just as every other research university in the ’61, chairman emeritus of the Board of Trustees, died Sept. country, is operating in a constrained financial environ25 at the age of 78 in Colorado.

Meinig served as chairman from 2002 to 2011, oversee- ment,” Meinig told The Sun. “We are the only institution ing decisions throughout his term such as the creation of that I’m aware of — of our caliber — that at the same time we’re addressing the financial pressures … we the West Campus housing community, increasare also involved in a serious strategic planning ing financial aid and various leadership transieffort.” tions in addition to leading the University The Meinig family has been notable for through the Great Recession. their donations to Cornell. Meinig’s wife “Pete was a great friend and an incredible Nancy Meinig ’62 served as presidential counmentor,” Robert Harrison ’76, current chair of cillors and co-chaired Cornell’s sesquicentennithe Board of Trustees told the Cornell al celebration in 2015. The Meinigs are recogChronicle. “He patiently involved me in decinized as foremost benefactors of Cornell. sion-making during his last year in office and In 2015, Peter and Nancy Meinig were taught me what it really meant to act only and MEINIG ’61 awarded Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary always in the best interest of the university. He led by example, placing his own family and his Cornell Alumni Service Awards, given to alumni for extraordinary service to Cornell. family at the forefront of his thoughts and actions.”

The family provided program support to the Cornell Meinig’s term as chairman spanned the terms of three Cornell presidents: Hunter Rawlings III, Jeffrey Lehman National Scholars Program in 1998. This program was ’77 and David Skorton. Harrison succeeded Meinig in later renamed the Meinig Family National Scholars Program, currently with roughly 240 undergraduates in 2012. “[Meinig] is a capable and experienced board member the program.

In 2007, Peter and Nancy Meinig donated $25 million with a great love for Cornell and an ability to get things done,” said President Hunter R. Rawlings III in a for recognizing faculty life sciences research, establishing University press release after Meinig was announced as the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigatorships in the Life Sciences. chair in 2002, The Sun reported.

“As many of you know, Pete and I were college sweetMeinig received his BME from Cornell in 1962 and an hearts. ... Romanticism is what brings a couple together but MBA from Harvard University in 1964.

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Diversity Initiatives Expand After Assault

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Assistant News Editor

While recent events involving incidents of bias and discrimination have propelled the University to release plans for “diversity initiatives,” many students are looking for clarification of how diversity training would take shape.

Renee Alexander ’74, recently promoted to senior advisor to the dean, provided a clearer vision to The Sun of the University’s plans.

Alexander said the University’s diversity initiative, “Towards New Destinations,” looks at four critical areas: composition, engagement, inclusion and achievement. An in-depth look into these areas distinguishes Cornell’s plan from most diversity initiatives.

“Most diversity initiatives start with composition: the structure of the demographic,” she said, “That’s very easy to assess: it’s called enrollment figures. How many of whom do we have sitting in our classrooms?”

In her new role, Alexander hopes to push these diversity initiatives toward inclusion and engagement. In fact, she identifies the main hurdle that students of color face on campus as a lack of feeling included.

“Historically, when you take a look at satisfaction with the student experience, students of color do not have the same intensity of warmth,” she said. “So, what’s going on in the environment that we need to be working on? It’s that sense of inclusion.”

She hopes to combat this perceived isolation through “authentic forms of engagement,” addressing the issue primarily through new channels of dialogue because “the way to break down barriers is to get people talking to each other,” she said.

New-hire Marla Love, set to begin in midOctober as senior associate dean for diversity and equity, echoed Alexander’s sentiment with her plans for increased engagement.

“I and others on my team will work closely with students to promote and create third spaces where students, who are not always in the same spaces, can engage honestly to encourage community transformation,” she said.

Alexander also pointed to the social divisions between races on campus, identifying this lack of casual communication as a contributor to the problem.

“If you look around, you see, what I call the default setting … social groups and

friend groups can be by race,” she said.

“That’s just one thing that contributes to the racial and social structure of our campus.”

She also highlighted biases and prejudices as obstacles that needed to be addressed.

“A real component of the work that we need to be doing is finding ways for people to challenge their own preconceived notions,” she said.

One such method that can encourage communication and engagement is integration of workshops. Cornell Woodson, ILR’s associate director for diversity and inclusion, facilitates and leads many of these workshops.

The main goal of the exercises in his workshops, Woodson explained, is to engage people in the conversation.

“I am really big on people seeing themselves in diversity,” he said. “Most of the time, people don’t want to do training because they don’t see themselves in that conversation.”

So far, the response to his trainings has been overwhelmingly positive.

“You have the stereotypical person.

They’re required to be here. They really don’t want to be here, and you can read it all over their body language,” he said. “By the time I’m done with my workshop, that same person is laughing and engaging.”

In addition to these workshops, Alexander thinks there needs to be a “strong educational component,” suggesting a mandatory firstyear program in the resident halls.

Commitment to coalition-building serves an equally important role to diversity initiatives, Alexander said. This requires making the silent majority speak up.

“The silent majority [on campus] are white students who are appalled by these behaviors. I don’t think these behaviors typify the average white student on our campus,” she said. “So, [the question is]: is there a role for you in helping us?”

Alexander believes that this emphasized focus on inclusion and engagement will eventually “lead to achievement.”

“We are going to find a way to leverage the wonderful, beautiful, extraordinary diversity of Cornell University,” she said. “I hear it all the time, ‘I came to Cornell because of the diversity.’ I want us to live up to those aspirations and expectations.”

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

realism is what sees them through,” Mrs. Meinig said at a trustees dinner in May 2007, after announcing the gift.

“Our gift is the product of our romantic attachment to our alma mater as well as a realistic assessment of how much we could stretch to help Cornell remain at the forefront of research and teaching,” she added.

In 2015, the Meinigs donated a $50 million endowment gift, creating the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering — the largest single philanthropic commitment by individual donors to one of the university’s colleges in Ithaca, according to the University. This donation was also made with daughters trustee Anne Meinig Smalling ’87, Kathryn Meinig Geib MBA ’93 and Sally Meinig Snipes.

“This gift is an incredible continuation of the Meinig family’s generosity to Cornell and will strengthen the university in countless ways, not the least of which is by enhancing research synergies between Ithaca and Weill Cornell,” Skorton told The Chronicle in 2015. “There is no more important investment the Meinigs could make.”

Donations from the Meinig family also established he Meinig Family Professorship of Engineering and the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Professorship of Maternal and Child Nutrition. “[Meinig’s] intimate knowledge of Cornell, from an association that spanned more than a half century, was invaluable during my first months in office. I join with his family and many Cornell friends in mourning his loss,” Cornell University President Martha Pollack told The Chronicle.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell AppDev Develops Student-Led Design Course

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

Seeking to fulfill a perceived void in Cornell’s product design curriculum, Cornell App Development has introduced student-developed and studenttaught courses.

“While Cornell excels at aspects of design, there was definitely a void with digital product design,” said Sahil Khoja ’19, one of teachers for the course. “This course serves as a foundation for product design.”

The course, Introduction to Digital Product Design, aims to impart applicable skills and hands-on experience in digital product design. The course was first developed by Nicole Calace ’16 and Andrew Aquino ’17, now product designers at Facebook.

CU AppDev — the team providing the instructors — allows students “to work in a startup environment and gain practical experience in software development, design, and product management,” according to their website.

To that goal, the course incorporates lectures, assignments and feedback, all developed and taught by students on CU AppDev’s design team.

“In the beginning, it’s tough to see people drop the class because of how time-consuming it is, but the class isn’t meant to be an informative design class,” Khoja explained. “It’s extremely hands-on, applicable and interactive.”

In the future, Khoja would like to shift focus towards “more contemporary design topics such as virtual or augmented reality design.”

“I want to prepare students for the future while allowing them to build their digital product design foundations through the class,” he said.

With project-work and prototype development assignments from the class, students are able to develop their portfolio to use on their resumes.

“Students walk out with the first case study which they can tack onto their portfolio and use for job interviews right after taking the class,” Khoja said.

When Tae Kyung Kong ’20 took the class last year, he both developed an Instagram case study and found a passion for information science.

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become genuine resistance.”

“A band of thugs, you know those thugs, battered a black student in Collegetown while hurling racial epithets,” he said. “Later, they described another person as a ‘sand-nigger.’

How well we have learned the lessons of empire. The truth is, Cornell is a bastion of white supremacy.”

“Our society is steeped in white supremacy,” he said. “Why should we expect Cornell, an enterprise built on stolen land, to be any different?”

Prof. Tracy McNulty, French and comparative literature, is a member of CCID and organized the rally.

She said that it was time for faculty members to “participate in this fight” and actively push for Cornell to enact Black Students United’s 12 demands.

“We have to be willing to learn and take a responsibility for the role we play in a campus environment where students of color do not feel valued or even welcome,” she said of faculty. “BSU has thrown down a gauntlet, and we need to pick it up.”

“For Trump, the protesting of racism is more offensive, more worthy of condemnation and punishment, than racism itself,” she added.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff attended the rally, although he appeared to leave before rally-goers took a knee around 1 p.m., and a University photographer snapped pictures of the scene.

“The rhetoric of equity and inclusion will not redeem us and kneeling certainly will not redeem us,” Rickford said. “Those boys in Collegetown did not bash that kid because they failed to understand his culture. They did so because they believed they could get away with it.”

Rickford led the crowd in chants of “I believe that we will win” and “Free Palestine.”

The event was a moment, professors said, where they could show that they support students who for years have been on the forefront of efforts to make Cornell a so-called sanctuary campus, to implement the demands of black students and more. The CCID formed in the week after the election of

Trump in November.

Prof. Ella Maria Diaz, English and Latina/o studies, an original member of CCID, said it was “fantastic” to see “such a broad crowd” at Wednesday’s rally, adding that she hoped the professors who attended the “Take a Knee” event continue to support and advocate with student groups.

“I think the question is, will I see all these folks at the next student rally for undocumented students’ rights or support?” Diaz said in an interview following the rally. “Will I see them at the next occupation?”

“People have been sounding the alarms for quite some time and it’s up to others now [to decide] if they’re going to hear them,” she said.

Prof. Linda Nicholson, molecular biology and genetics, said her students are being “hurt” under the University’s current campus climate, and read part of BSU’s statement following the Collegetown assault.

“We attend a university where our professors, who are by all accounts scholars in their various fields, undervalue our intellectual contributions to our coursework; where they teach that communities of color have little or nothing to offer than a brief honorable mention on their syllabus,” she read from the statement.

“What is considered normal on this campus is not okay,” Nicholson added, calling the BSU statement a “radical act of love” that will help move the University towards justice.

Hundreds of rally-goers took a knee during a moment of silence, while others remained standing with their fists raised in the air.

Prof. Aziz Rana, law, toward the end of the protest, said taking a knee is “meaningless, unless it comes with a commitment that everyone here now is accountable for what it means to impose justice on our community.”

“If we don’t start with an institution like Cornell, what will happen?” he asked.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com. Nicholas BogelBurroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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and a demonstrated need for affordable and quality student housing, Fox’s Visum Development has received approval for multiple new developments including 118, 126 and 201 College Ave., 210 Linden Avenue and 232 Dryden Ave., The Sun previously reported.

However, 311 College Ave. stands apart from these other Collegetown addresses.

Despite lacking an official designation as a historic landmark, The Nines location includes, at its rear, the original 19th-century Number 9 Ithaca Fire Station, and, at its front, a 1907 addition to that original station. “[The Number 9 Fire Station] really represents the coming-of-age of the upper East Hill community, now Collegetown, as part of the city,” Mary Tomlan M.A. ’71, Ithaca city historian, said.

Today, The Nines location is one of only four historic buildings that remain in the heart of Collegetown, according to Tomlan. Another is the Larkin Building that once housed Ithaca restaurant and Cornellian hub Stella’s, but whose first floor is now vacant.

Board members, including Mackenzie Jones-Rounds, expressed reservations about what she called an “uninspiring” design that many said showed little recognition of the site’s value to Ithaca history or to the community. “[The proposed building would] replace [The Nines] with something that really has no ties to the long history of that site and to the community,” said Prof. Garrick Blalock, applied economics and management, planning and development board member. “[The proposal] does not really pay homage to the important legacy of the site.”

Graham Kerslick, executive director of Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Collegetown representative on the Ithaca City Council, echoed Blalock’s concerns.

“The Board’s intent is to encourage exceptional, bold design … that recognizes the importance of this site for the community,” Kerslick said. “The proposal falls

well short of those expectations.”

One source of contention reiterated throughout the public hearing was the loss of the exterior courtyard in Fox’s new building proposal.

This open space — a seating area at The Nines — is “one of the few areas [in which] the entire community can gather and spend time together,” Kerslick said.

Board member John Schroeder ’74, alumni advisor for the Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association, also took issue with the proposal’s omission of a plan to either move the existing historic structure to another site in Collegetown or to incorporate the existing building into the new development.

He warned that a Collegetown without any reminders of its history would be a “cold, impersonal place.”

“I totally support the transformation of Collegetown,” he said.

“But we need to preserve some remnants of historic Collegetown, or we’re losing … its history, we’re making it less attractive to tourists, [and] we’re removing the context that can inform new design.”

According to Tomlan, a move for The Nines building is possible, and with historical precedent. In fact, the wood-frame Number 9 firehouse, originally built on the south side of Dryden Road, was moved to its present Collegetown location in 1905.

However, the developer Fox said that a move or incorporation of the old building was simply “not feasible” due to a “landlocked” site in the dense and urban Collegetown.

Ultimately, the board asked Fox to consider moving the historic fire station to another site, incorporating the existing building into a new structure, or designing his proposed new building to better reflect the site’s legacy.

“I [am not] opposed under any circumstances to the development of this site … [but] I cannot see myself voting to destroy that original 1894 fire station,” Schroeder said.

The current owners of The Nines could not be reached for comment and were not in attendance for this portion of the meeting Thursday.

Juliette Ovadia can be reached at jovadia@cornellsun.com.

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Delmar Fears ’19, the co-chair, hand-delivered six, stapled pages with 12 demands to Pollack on the third floor of Day Hall last week with hundreds of students at her side. BSU provided a copy of those demands to The Sun, and they are being published here for the first time.

Some of the demands — which include calls for mandatory coursework regarding systems of power, training for all employees and members of Greek life, a minority position on the University Assembly, an alternative dispute resolution process, the creation of an anti-racism institute, a permanent presidential task force, a plan to increase the presence of black Americans on campus and more — will be easier for Pollack to fulfill than others.

While Pollack has not led a university before, she served as the University of Michigan’s No. 2 official when, in 2016, students received threats, found racist posters and, in one case, discovered a swastika on the Ann Arbor campus. Pollack, while provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, formed a diversity committee and hosted a rally in support of black students that drew hundreds of faculty members.

But the Collegetown assault, in which a black junior said he was punched in the face and called the N-word by a group of white men, has brought national media coverage in a way that the Michigan incidents never did. The student was also assaulted in the same month that a resident of the Latino Living Center reported hearing a nearby fraternity member talking about building a wall around the residential center and chanting “build a wall.”

Ithaca Police arrested John Greenwood ’20 and charged him with assault and aggravated harassment, both misdemeanors, in the Collegetown incident. A grand jury will decide in the next few weeks whether Greenwood, who is 19, will face hate crime charges.

Greenwood has apologized for using “unacceptable” language, and his attorney, Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, said Greenwood did not engage in any physical altercation or commit any crime.

Pollack pledged to create a presidential task force to address persistent “bigotry and intolerance” at Cornell and charged the dean of students with creating an alternative dispute process. Officials, this week, also announced a host of diversity initiatives, including the hiring of four new clinical staff members in Counseling And Psychological Services, three of whom the officials said “will bring added diversity.”

Pollack also took decisive action regarding Psi Upsilon, a suspended fraternity of which the arrested student may have been an underground member, although officials have declined to release information regarding Greenwood’s status in the unaffiliated fraternity.

The president said that, “based on what we know, and pending final investigation, Cornell will not consider Psi Upsilon’s reinstatement as an affiliated fraternity.”

Officials have declined to elaborate on what it is Cornell knows. The executive director of the fraternity

said the Cornell chapter, which had been suspended since the spring of 2016, was secretly recruiting new members.

Many Cornell students’ parents have kept close tabs on the news in recent weeks, some expressing frustrations in University officials’ inboxes and urging their children to be extra careful at night in Ithaca.

On Sunday evening, a student called police to report what he thought was a noose hanging from electrical wires on College Avenue.

The rope was actually being used to keep the wires together during construction on a nearby corner, Officer Jamie Williamson of IPD told The Sun. Authorities cut the rope down later that night.

Safety concerns have spurred calls from some students for a ban, or restriction, on “hate speech.”

About 250 students packed a University Assembly meeting, led

by Fears and Traciann Celestin ’19, the BSU co-chairs, and persuaded the U.A. to task its Codes and Judicial Committee with considering a “hate speech” clause to the Campus Code of Conduct. If any clause restricting “hate speech,” however it is defined, is passed by the U.A., it would need the approval of President Pollack to go into effect, which seems unlikely.

When white supremacist fliers were posted around the Michigan campus about a year ago, Pollack was adamant that the posters were protected by the First Amendment.

“They are protected by free speech, as they should be,” The Michigan Daily quoted her as saying in September of 2016.

“Not only do we have a constitutional obligation to allow all speech, no matter how heinous, but if you’re going to stand by the First Amendment, you’re going to stand by the First Amendment,” she said. “But what you have to do then is loudly make known your abhorrence of this.”

Michigan is a public university and therefore legally bound to protect students’ freedom of expression on campus, but in May, just two weeks into her presidency at Cornell, which largely functions as a private university, Pollack made it clear that she planned to bring the same reverence for the First Amendment to Ithaca’s East Hill.

“As soon as you start suppressing speech, you open the question of who gets to decide,” she said in May, adding that, “historically, that never goes well.”

In her inaugural address on Aug. 25, Pollack said there are some limits to freedom of expression, such as words that incite imminent violence, persistent harassment or actions that disrupt University activities.

“The lines are messy, and debate about them is an appropriate and healthy activity for our universities,” she said.

While some BSU members were initially frustrated that they were only able to meet, in the 48 hours following the incident, with the dean of students, Fears later said that Pollack appears to be genuinely receptive to the group’s demands.

Among the demands that would likely take years of sustained efforts to meet are increasing the number of “underrepresented Black students” at Cornell — defined by BSU as black Americans whose great-grandparents live or lived in the U.S. — and creating an anti-racism institute to centralize Cornell’s efforts

to educate students “about the horrors of white supremacy.”

Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, declined last week to make Pollack available for comment for this article.

Black Students United also

demanded that the Psi Upsilon fraternity be permanently banned from campus, that all students found to be involved in the crime be expelled and that the Psi Upsilon fraternity house be converted into a cultural center for

people of the African diaspora.

Drew Musto ’19 contributed to this story.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Jason Jeong | Jeongism

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In Memoriam: Youth & Idealism

y favorite book in elementary school was The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, a chapter book about a ragtag group of orphans merrily pickpocketing their way through Venice á la Oliver Twist. Upon finishing the book, I knew there were two certainties in life: first, that I, too, would one day run away from home to join a scheming, yet kind band of thieves, and that Venice was undoubtedly the most beautiful city in the world. Although I had never so much as seen a picture of it, I became smitten with the city. For class art projects, I would sketch a colorful metropolis completely submerged in water and stick figures rowing their way door-to-door on long gondolas. What is important wasn’t so much that I was showing symptoms of earlyonset kleptomania (I also enjoyed Ocean’s Eleven a little too much as a kid), but that I was exhibiting a precursor to the romanticism that came to define my adolescence — where ideas and feelings held more gravitas than reason and rationality.

I’m writing this piece to commemorate the ever-waning existence of idealistic Jason. As I finish my first month of junior year, I find myself reminiscing about a time in which I found meaning and emotion from everything around me. I told people I was going to be a subway busker when I was older, geeked out with my friends over how deep the lyrics to “Wish You Were Here” were, and pretended to understand Thoreau in English class. But now that I’m in college, all that I have to show for is two professional fraternities and 20 credits of economics classes that has never once come close to addressing the “Emersonian spirit” that was once so important to me.

I can blame this disillusionment on a number of factors — accepting structural Marxism, being tired from walking up the slope everyday, slowly acquiescing to nihilism — but I find myself a bit melancholy thinking back to a time when I had the luxury of living in a daydream.

Attached is a segment found in my personal statement applying to college: “On my first morning in Salzburg, I woke up two hours before breakfast, and

wandered through the cobblestone streets with an empty stomach and a starving curiosity for the novel world around me.

The sun was just peeking over the hills, and its ascension colored the landscape with a palette of crimson and orange. The town square, which had been teeming with tourists the previous afternoon, was abandoned. Without a map and unencumbered by an agenda, every sense and detail was magnified - the warm fragrance of the nearby cafés setting up shop, the beautiful Austrian sunrise and the unadulterated exhilaration of spontaneity.”

When I first wrote this, I remember verbally congratulating myself on how incredible and “artsy” it sounded. Fast forward three years, I find myself cringing at the 17-year-old kid who read Gatsby for Honors English 3 and thought he was F. Scott Fitzgerald. But more than that, I find myself fundamentally unable to connect to the awe-inspiring passion that high school Jason was able to attach to — what did I call it? — “spontaneity and the blissful promise of adventure” (what does that even mean?). Instead, I just look back at a summer in which I spent in Europe without parental supervision, hurling all over the streets of Salzburg because I didn’t know how strong a Vodka Red Bull was.

The meetings, exams and various commitments of daily college life have diminished the beauty of my youth to the humdrum minutiae of daily life.

It’s funny because although I find myself rolling my eyes at the unbearable naivete of my younger self, post-grad Jason will one day read this and mourn the “glory days” of college. It’s possible that my childish idealism is the price I have to pay for acceptance into adulthood. Or maybe it’s something that will come in waves directly correlated to the number of events on my Google Calendar. Or maybe, in the infinite wisdom of idealistic Jason: “things will be okay, dude.”

Jason Jeong is a junior in the college of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at jjeong@cornellsun.com. Jeongism appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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f you’re the type of person who needs a break from the world and also thinks he can do anything, you may find yourself in a lean-to in the Adirondacks on a Friday night without a sleeping bag. And if you find yourself in such a situation, you’ll probably spend your entire night shivering, staring out at the tree-line and the backs of your eyelids in half-hour intervals from dusk to dawn.

Last weekend, when this was my story, I spent half the night begging myself to go to sleep and the other half wondering if I couldn’t, and whether the cold had anything to do with it. My hiking trip fell at the end of a stressful week with a handful of late nights and a few all-nighters, so my pervading fear in the lean-to was that, sleeping bag or no sleeping bag, I’d worked myself into lasting sleeplessness.

As I rolled and flopped in incessant attempts to find a comfortable position, I remembered my friend from high school, a certified insomniac, who would come to school each day with the same bags under her eyes and the same disappointments on her face because the phrase “tomorrow is a new day” loses its potency when each “day” isn’t separated by a good night’s rest. She didn’t expect herself to get only a few hours of shuteye a week for months at a time and she certainly didn’t plan for it, but at some point she realized that regardless of what she wanted, this would be the new normal for a little while. I was, maybe unfoundedly, petrified that this was my “some point.”

And it got me thinking. About how I’m not in control. About how sometimes I can’t just tell myself to go to sleep because I want to. It’s easy to think of your body and your mind as sets of tools that always work and always work the same way, but they aren’t. We could lose even the parts of ourselves we overlook.

We’re that fickle.

But we ourselves change too, and we’ve gotta be ready for our own bodies and minds to disappoint us.

A few years ago, my sister got sick and suffered some minor brain damage. It was terrifying for her, partially because she’d based her career on her ability to think and communicate in creative ways, and partially because even the smallest bit of brain damage can change one’s life.

In these cases, your brain doesn’t send you a memo outlining all you’ve forgotten; you’ve just gotta figure it out, like searching for foundation cracks by jumping around and waiting to fall.

A normal day meant forgetting a few

life moments or driving to a stoplight and forgetting what each color meant.

She lost decades of built-up confidence and had to relearn a few early-life lessons to gain that confidence back. When you can’t trust your brain to do what it’s always done, your very identity is put on hold and you wonder if you will continue to be who you tell yourself you are.

My sister’s now back to where she was

A normal day meant forgetting a few life moments or driving to a stoplight and forgetting what each color meant. before, but she’s learned a bit about the way things work in the world. I like to think I have too, from watching on the outside. When it gets down to it, when most of us hear the word ‘change,’ we think of something external, something we adapt to. But we ourselves change too, and we’ve gotta be ready for our own bodies and minds to disappoint us.

The morning after my lean-to shivers, I hiked back to a store at the start of the trail a few miles away. On the way, I passed a young couple, an old couple and a few handfuls of middle aged French Canadians. One of them smiled at me when I passed. “Did you see the sunrise?”

Actually, I did.

I didn’t tell him that when I saw it I let out a sigh of relief because it marked the end of eight hours of frustration. I didn’t tell him that I didn’t think much of its actual beauty because I was too busy worrying about the fact that I wasn’t tired yet. Regretfully, I didn’t really tell him anything because I was entrenched in my march to a place to buy a sweatshirt and an emergency bivy to use the next night.

When that next night came around, I slept pretty well. I didn’t have any kind of stress-induced form of insomnia. I had just been cold.

I guess my next goal in life is to get to the point where I know things are going to change — I know I’m going to change — but I don’t worry about it. I want to be able to stay up all night and leave with an appreciation of the sunrise.

On my way back from the store at the trailhead, I eavesdropped on a conversation between an older woman and a young couple. “I try to come out here every week,” the older woman said. “It isn’t as easy as it used to be,” she said.

But hey, maybe that’s half the fun.

Paul Russell is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at prussell@cornellsun.com. Russelling Feathers appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

CORRECTION A dropdeck for a Thursday article, "Ithaca Declares Day for Indigenous People," incorrectly stated that the vote was 8-1. In fact, the vote on the full resolution was passed unanimously 9-0. The 8-1 vote was on the amendments that were discussed.

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Sarah Lieberman | Blueberries for Sal

Time to Take a Knee

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’m not going to pretend that I know how to talk about football, but I won’t play clueless either. I had the middle-of-America, Friday Night Lights high school experience. I stood in bleachers, and I watched.

Slowly, throughout our lives, we develop a de facto rulebook for what our athletes — American heroes of sorts

committed acts of gendered violence, and to varying degrees got away with it. Almost all of these players faced, or are currently facing, issues in their career, but for many of them the door is still open. This is not law, and domestic violence has rightfully ruined some player’s careers (Ray Rice seemingly among them), but these cases continue to slip through the cracks.

It’s important to note the NFL’s official policy on domestic abuse: first-time offenders are suspended for six games and any following offenses result in a lifetime ban. It seems as if the NFL is laying out a twisted law: it’s okay to beat your partner once, but just don’t do it again or, even worse, don’t get caught again.

So, football players may persist as abusers while still maintaining success in their life on the field, or at least hope for future success, according to the status quo.

This is treated as “acceptable behavior.” Now, let’s look at Colin Kaepernick, a man who took a knee during the national anthem as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, opposing police brutality. This quarterback quickly became unemployed, with NFL executives calling him “an embarrassment to football” and declaring his career “over.” Kneeling, a form of peaceful protest against violence towards black and brown bodies, ended this man’s pursuit of football.

Of course, President Donald Trump chimed in with a round of hateful tweets, calling players who protest disrespectful and worthy of firing. Activism is equated to a “career ruiner” but domestic violence often holds no such consequence. This past Sunday, more than 200 professional football players participated in a form of protest during the national anthem, kneeling or raising

I want to see a world where fan bases and politicians are as enraged by racialized and gendered violence as they are with kneeling during the national anthem.

— are allowed to do. This distinction between right and wrong hit its most dissonant chord in this weekend’s news. Of all the things we’ve decided it’s perfectly acceptable for professional players to do, apparently “kneeling” is not among them.

In 2015, Vice published an article, listing all 44 current NFL players accused of physical or sexual assault.

Much of this violence is domestic, and if you delve into the statistics of crimes committed by professional football players, you’ll find a haunting pattern of assault or murder of women pregnant with a player’s child. Sure, we can’t claim the league is doing nothing, but, in general, these men appear to escape scot-free from charges of violence against women, and they continue their highly publicized careers, adored and idolized by their loyal fan bases.

Johnny Manziel. O.J. Simpson. Greg Hardy. Ray Rice. Ben Roethlisberger. Jameis Winston. Brandon Marshall. Dede Westbrook. Joe Mixon. These are the names of professional football players that allegedly

their fists, an act of incredible bravery. The response was mixed, many fans booed while others offered their support — from veterans to celebrities, everyone seems to have a strong opinion.

Reality has become warped for professional athletes.

I don’t believe celebrities should be in any way invincible. They deserve fair and equal punishment for crimes committed (however, it’s critical to acknowledge that fair and equal criminal punishment isn’t something that exists in today’s prison industrial complex, which detains black and brown bodies at horrifically unjust rates), but peaceful protest is not a crime. Check the beloved constitution. We, as humans, should have accountability. These players are using their spotlight to make a powerful political statement. I could not be more impressed. The Black Lives Matter movement has permeated sports for years now; in 2014, NBA players wore “I can’t breathe” shirts in solidarity with Eric Garner, who was murdered by a police officer. Today, these protests have become decidedly anti-Trump, which seems reasonable to me, considering President Trump is anti-protest — or, at least, anti-Black-peopleprotesting. He called the white supremacists in Charlottesville “very fine people,” but he wants to fire these peaceful professional athletes? I’m getting dizzy trying to rationalize his irrationality.

I want to see a world where fan bases and politicians are as enraged by racialized and gendered violence as they are with kneeling during the national anthem. I see no disrespect towards America in these protests. Instead, I see an undying respect for this country and a desire to hold it to an impeccable standard. Writer James Baldwin once said, “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” So, let’s keep critiquing her. Let’s take a knee, raise a fist and say that Black Lives Matter. It shouldn’t take a football career to be an activist, and being an activist shouldn’t take away a football career.

Sarah Lieberman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at slieberman@cornellsun.com. Blueberries for Sal appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Gaby Leung | Serendipitous Musings

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t 1:44 p.m. last Wednesday, I made an executive decision. For the next three hours, I sat with other students, feeding off the energy of the room and, occasionally, the free popcorn I realized I hadn’t been taking more advantage of. I sent an email to my professor on why I couldn’t make it to class and regretted not feeling sorry.

The decision wasn’t difficult, but I owe it to my sophomore year English professor. No matter what we discussed in her class, we were grounded by our feelings; we were students studying texts, but we were not purely analytical beings who were detached from emotional connections. Our past experiences affected every reading we did and made us react in different ways. She brought local and national issues into our discussions and made us feel like the knowledge we gained wasn’t circumstantial and wouldn’t be easily forgotten after a paper was submitted. Classes here can make us feel mechanical when we mindlessly take notes and attend lectures: in this class, we learned to care.

When I found out there would be a sit-in at Willard Straight Hall held by Black Students United, I knew that it was something I wanted to participate in.

A few of my friends and I headed over, but what disappointed me the most was seeing the fear in their eyes as soon as they entered the room. They found themselves in a crowded space, felt the heat from the collection of bodies, heard the shouts of passionate students and instantly froze. They stammered out a few excuses like, “I have readings to do,”

Not Just Your Resume and “I think I need to finish my notes.”

What did they think the other students in WSH were doing? We’re human beings first, but students second. People were studying and doing work as they participated in the sit-in. But the energy that filled the room was so tangible because of the sheer number of people who showed up.

I realized that many of us get lulled into what we assume to be the safety net of academia.

For some reason, readings and prelims are valid excuses for not being an engaged citizen. There are, of course, people who choose not to attend these events because they simply don’t care, and any attempt to sway their opinion or convince them otherwise would be pointless. But there are people who put on the illusion of political and cultural awareness and are always sharing their opinions about important issues.

They’re the type of person you would expect to see at a sit-in. When it comes time to actually show up, however, they’re absent.

Especially in this political climate, I’ve questioned how much I can really do without my actions remaining meaning-

less and insignificant. And I realized the first thing I can do is show up. Showing up is an action that begins with intention and ends with passion. Only passion to dedicate yourself to a cause will allow you to prioritize what matters the most in your life and follow through with it.

together to fight for women’s rights or protesting a racist assault of a fellow student?

I’m not the perfect example of this.

I’m a student like everyone else. People have been talking about interviews already, thinking ahead and planning for

I realized that many of us get lulled into what we assume to be the safety net of academia. For some reason, readings and prelims are valid excuses for not being an engaged citizen.

Even now, I’m struggling with being a student at a competitive school while also standing up (or sitting in) for issues I care about. At universities like this, people find it unnecessary to skip a lecture to participate in an event that won’t affect their GPA or be added to their resume. When I asked my friend last year to attend a women’s march at Ithaca City Hall that took place during both of our classes, she told me she didn’t want others to get ahead in class; she needed to show up. But if you can so easily skip a class because of a hangover or as a simple act of laziness, why can’t you make that decision when it comes to coming

their futures. We have clubs and extracurriculars and social events on top of everything else. You can’t add, “I am a human being who cares about other human beings regardless of any socially constructed or systemically born category” to a resume. But you’re also not going to be a student forever, and part of being a real person in the real world is having compassion for others and a genuine drive and dedication for whatever it is that you believe in.

Gaby Leung is a junior in the College of Arts and Sceinces.

She can be reached at gleung@cornellsun.com. Serendipitous Musings appears every other Thursday this semester.

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She isn’t eating; she’s arting.

Oatmeal is artist Sarah Rosado’s latest project. In May of 2016, she began recreating famous paintings out of it. Her collection features 10 portraits altogether, from the “Mona Lisa” to Van Gogh’s 1889 selfportrait to “The Girl with an Oat— erm, Pearl — Earring.”

In another portrait, swirling specks of oatmeal convey The Scream of a granulated figure and the hype around a relatively new artistic movement.

The origins of the movement date back to the 1960s with the work of such artists as Daniel Spoerri, who made art out of post-meal table spreads.

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making art, and as artwork itself, has expanded conceptions of the artistic process and what constitutes art.

To give a taste for more modern food artists, Jason Baalman makes presidential portraits using Cheetos. Stephen Brusche sculpts bananas. Christel Assante makes designs out of eggshells, and Tisha Cherry works with Oreo frosting on built-in cookie canvases.

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Food art entails unique considerations. Cereal moves readily, making it easy to work with; oatmeal’s lightness requires a consciousness of breath to avoid scattering the flakes. Craving a challenge, Rosado speculates about someday working with liquids.

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Food isn’t just a means of filling an empty stomach; it can be beautiful, funny, or touching in and of itself. Rosado’s art inspired me to view a banal object like a cornflake under a new lens. It forced me to rethink food and hunger, suggesting that artistic hunger and actual hunger can be treated by the same medium.

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For Rosado, the most challenging and rewarding parts of food art are one and the same. tures, as she destroys each design once she’s photographed it.

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Rosado encourages aspiring food artists to “be fearless, take challenges, fly without boundaries and go where your ideas take you, because in the end there will be many surprises.” In other words, stay hungry.

Emily Jones is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at ej68@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Special Evening With Dawes

BY NOAH HARRELSON Sun Contributor

When I was younger, I didn’t really like going to concerts. I wanted my favorite bands to come in, play all of my favorite songs and get out. I wanted their songs to sound just like on the record, and I hated when they jammed. Performances, like the one Dawes gave Tuesday night, are the reason I outgrew that opinion.

The band, known for its folky, sentimental take on americana, hails from Los Angeles (lead singer Taylor Goldsmith is married to Mandy Moore, for you This Is Us fans). I had listened to some of their music before, on the recommendation of a friend, but I was not prepared for how much fun the concert would be.

Being cheap, I had gotten a seat back in the balcony. It was not ideal, but it gave me a good view of the band and the crowd. State Theater is beautiful, with ornate walls and comfortable, red leather seats, but it seemed more suited for The Nutcracker rather than a rock and roll band. Fortunately, Dawes are far from rookies and they quickly filled the place with energy. They opened their first set with “Quitter,” an upbeat, funky song from their new album We’re All Gonna Die. Though the song (and the album as a whole) diverges a great deal from the band’s nostal-

gic folk rock past, its lyrics echo the poeticism and honesty from their four previous albums. Despite this new sound, they played a good deal of their earlier music, including the cheeky “If I Wanted Someone” and the crowd-pleasing “Right On Time.” To be fair, I was not as familiar with their new album as their old ones, but some of my favorite moments from the night were during their new songs, including “Roll With The Punches,” a spirited, enthusiastic song and my favorite off of the new album.

The emotional climax, at least for me, came at the close of the first set, when they played my two favorite songs in succession.

The first, “A Little Bit Of Everything,” is an emotional powerhouse from Nothing Is Wrong. If I have one critique of Dawes, it is that their lyrics sometimes stray towards limp truisms (“things happen, it’s all they ever do”). With this song, however, they really nailed it. The crowd felt the same way, and many started to leave their seats and congregate at the front. As they played the last song, “When My Time Comes,” the crowd was more excitement than it had been the whole show. The band and the crowd fed off each other’s energy until the last chorus, when Goldsmith swung the mic around towards the crowd and let us sing, which we were more than happy to do.

I really have to praise Dawes for their set list. After a high-energy end to the first set,

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Viri Garcia I’d be lying if I said The Killers didn’t have a massive influence on the music I listen to today. I still remember the first time I listened to The Killers, back in the third grade when Guitar Hero III was all the rage and “When You Were Young” by The Killers was in the game. Essentially, if it weren’t for The Killers and their 2006 album Sam’s Town, y music taste would not be what it is and I know that they have also influenced many other people, especially after “Mr. Brightside” became an anthem for sober and drunk karaoke, late night drives and most of all, middle school through high school days. However, they had not released an album since Battle Born in 2012, which was not up to par with 2008’s Day and Age. Contrastingly, Wonderful Wonderful seems to hold promise.

Prior to the full album’s release, The Killers had released “The Man,” “Run for Cover,” “Wonderful Wonderful” and “Some Kind of Love” as singles, all which saw success. Overall, Wonderful Wonderful marks either the ending of a book or the beginning of a new chapter for The Killers. It’s almost as if they have grown with their fans and are now a band of retired successful, dads that make amazing

music. We can still hear their familiar guitar sounds and expressive lyrics. However, the more spiritual, “grown-up” messages that the lyrics in Wonderful Wonderful convey are what set it apart from Day and Age, Hot Fuss and Sam’s Town. Most of Wonderful Wonderful is about front man Brandon Flowers’s wife — Tana Flowers — and her experiences with complex PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to a difficult childhood after her mother abandoned her, a theme that strays from previous albums’ youthful, carefree ones.

Without a doubt, the first track “Wonderful Wonderful” is about Tana Flowers’s mental health issues with lyrics such as “Motherless child does, thou believe/ That thine afflictions have caused us to grieve?

Motherless Child angels have closed/ Their eyes, thou was thrown away and/ exposed.”

However, aside from the fact that the album’s lyrics explore serious themes and conflict, the music is catchy, seamlessly put together and powerful, something that was absent in Battle Born.

However, “Wonderful Wonderful” is merely the beginning of Brandon Flower’s heart-

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they took full advantage of the crowd’s attention. With everyone congregated in front of the stage, Goldsmith walked out with just a guitar. He played a new song, “Crack the Case,” inspired by the political turmoil of the past year. It was the first time during the concert that I saw him really slow down; the whole night he had been working the stage, never letting up his momentum. In this song, Goldsmith called for a dialogue full of understanding, singing, “I wanna sit with my enemies and say, ‘we should have done this sooner.'” With the lighting down and the audience close together, it was a touching moment, and it displayed the full range of

emotion that the band could reach. After another stripped-down song, I thought they were going to continue that way for the rest of the night, but they soon returned to jamming and kept it up for the rest of the night.

I will admit that I have not been to many concerts (Mobile, Alabama is not exactly a music hotspot), but Dawes did the best job of any band I have seen in really connecting with the crowd — and it made for a really special night.

Noah Harrelson is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nmh65@cornell.edu.

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felt, supportive message to his wife.

There are so many emotions present in the album that it’s difficult to pinpoint which track is the densest with feeling.

However, “Rut” is certainly heavy with raw emotion, history and passion. The song opens with Tana’s autotuned voice singing “Don’t give up on me/ ‘Cause I’m just in a rut/ I’m climbing but the walls/ keep stacking up.” Back in 2005, Brandon Flowers canceled shows he was playing as a solo artist and recently revealed that the reason behind this was because Tana was having suicidal thoughts and he wanted to help and care for her. Mental illness is never simple to put into words, accept or deal with, and when it comes to a spouse or significant other, a looming question of how much they’re willing to “put up with” comes into play, which is what “Rut” delves into. The song is gentle and reassuring, a perfect, beautiful reminder of unconditional support.

Contrastingly, “Run for Cover” is all about politics and Brandon Flowers’s message for the country. Flowers originally wrote the song for Day and Age, but did not put it in the album.

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Wonderful Wonderful, so it therefore refers to both current political issues and those from around 2008. The catchy, distrustful song also has a music video which follows a couple’s dysfunctional, abusive relationship. The woman runs away from the abuse as the man chases after her.

Eventually, when she appears to be defeated, she throws a Molotov cocktail at his car and watches it burn, which appears to have a deeper meaning given the lyrics and political undertones of the song.

Once more straying from Tana and the heavy emotional theme, “The Calling” explores yet another heavy theme: spirituality and The Bible. The opening lines of the song are a narration from Matthew 9:10-12 and there are biblical references throughout the song, such as “I walked into town with a message for my old man/ I got the last to chapters of Matthew in my hand” and “His feet still quick when they say they want their money back/ But daddy did you think you could outrun the Holy Ghost? Lie, cheat, steal, hope they fix it all up in post.” The whole song is a reference to the Biblical passage in the beginning in which Jesus says that “’It is not the healthy who

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need a doctor, but the sick’.” The Killers have never shies away from Biblical references. For instance, in “This River is Wild,” is full of similar references, but is more focused on the way that spirituality impact one’s life, whereas “The Calling” deals with morality.

The last track on Wonderful Wonderful, “Have All the Songs Been Written?” features sounds similar to those in “Why Do I Keep Counting,” the penultimate track in Sam’s Town. Just as with “Why Do I Keep Counting,” I foresee “Have All the Songs Been Written?” becoming the song on the album that I only listen to past midnight as I stare at the ceiling and drift off to sleep, listening to the exposed vocals and meaningful lyrics.

The Killers have perfected their own method to albummaking over the years, but whereas bands tend to rust and let their music lose quality, The Killers only appeared to have fallen into this cycle with Battle Born, only to bounce back with Wonderful Wonderful.

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun.com

Thursday, September 28, 2017 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 11 A&E Absurd, Radical, Fancy: Avant-Gnar and The Way to Move

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ore than three years after the Vice article which put This term "Avant-Gnar" — coined by "CEO" Nick them on the map (and almost two years after the Murray to describe the loosely coagulated handful of crews next Vice article which let everyone know that, (Fancy Lad, Beez, Golden Egg) which were releasing leftyea, they're still hanging around somewhere on that map), field edits around the turn of this past decade — is as much skateboarding's least reverent crew, Fancy Lad, released their a joke as it is a fitting descriptor. It's a joke, obviously, because none of these guys take themselves seriously enough fourth full-length movie one week ago to much... acclaim?

The Fancy Lads are are an amorphous collection of gid- to be on the progressive end of anything, let alone a $5 bildily impoverished and moderately talented skate-rats from lion industry with close to 12 million worldwide conBoston, whose main schticks include (but God knows are stituents; but it fits because — as utterly strange as it seems not limited to) inventing vaguely skateboard-related four- — they are on its vanguard.

It's no coincidence that the Lads first made it big with a wheeled contraptions, not landing their tricks, splicing forgotten VHS clips into their edits, shaky camera-hands and segment on Adult Swim, or that they've drawn comparisons yelling. FL4: The Final Chapter, this most recent opus of to the likes of such anti-humorists as Neil Hamburger; with theirs, brings all of these "techniques" (and so many more) their awkward jump cuts, found-footage ethos, imperfect overdubs and, um, singular deployment of a green screen, to a sort of inglorious and completely captivating fixation.

The movie's "frame story" revolves around a bunch of they're cut pretty obviously from the same cloth. But as with (literal) Craigslist actors at an audition for FL4 itself, where their late-night cartoon(ish) counterparts, the Lads' art doesthe lines they (poorly) recite are just variations on the Lads' n't exist in a vacuum — it suffers from a complex and selad-libs throughout the actual video. There's a recurring dom-acknowledged anxiety of influence, whether anyone duo of talking puppets in the shapes of an "F" and an "L," would like to admit it or not. The humor in the comedy of, who tell grumpy grandpa jokes about the athletes. There's say, Tim and Eric (perhaps the closest of the Lads' creative a full segment where "Gnardo," a new crew-member, lands relatives) is the result of a classically unholy coupling of smart his tricks on his ass more often than on his feet. At one and dumb, high(brow) and low(brow), praised and forgotten — it's conceptual art built point in the movie's first up from the mass-mediahalf, there's an interlude in turned-rubble of 80s and which a sentient beer90s sitcoms and music machine walk-rolls to its videos, the form and funcdeath at the hands of one of tion of an infomercial or the Lads, who shotguns a crummy home movie with puncture-wound into its Troy to the World the mentality and methods chest and leaves it screamof a postmodernist. Like ing on the ground while practitioners of early video some grimy vaporwave beat slowly crescendos. (The crew — for at least a little bit of art, today's best comedians of the absurd — among whom explanation — lists Narragansett Beer as one of its spon- you'd better believe I'm placing the Lads — make meaning and unmeaning weave in and out of each other by nurturing sors.)

This is all to say, I guess, that in the Fancy Lad universe, bizarre associations, visual and otherwise, that are willfully skateboarding is more the medium (or maybe better yet, the paradoxical and obscure.

Where an Adult Swim creation breaks off — or rather excuse) than it is the point. The Lads are weirdos first, skateboarders second, filmmakers third and skate-filmmakers, goes beyond — is in the incongruous imposition of narrative like, twentieth. It's why Adult Swim — network television's onto stuff that will just never make any sense; the humor of mecca for absurdist humor and stoner comedy — wanted to Tim and Eric, for example, derives from an always-already give the crew an opportunity to release a Fancy Lad edit fruitless anti-attempt to make the unreadable readable, to under its auspices, which culminated in 2015's momentous inject sense into the willfully nonsensical. The only differ(?) Video History, a seven-minute montage of mind-numb- ence with the Lads, then, is that instead of using 80s televiing post-comedic "action" "sports" which still stands as the sion as their raw material, they use the sport of skateboarding itself: Give Paul McCarthy's Painter a pair of Etnies and put crown jewel of the Avant-Gnar micromovement

Troy Sherman

Pegah Moradi To be a Macklemore fan nowadays is to beget ruthless harassment.

Ruthless, but honestly much deserved.

With his gauche dad-like demeanor, often bluntly unaware lyrics and ostensibly suprawoke politics, Macklemore is undoubtedly the most uncool artist to have ever graced the Billboard Top 100.

Maybe it’s because of my proclivity for irony turning into genuine interest, or maybe it’s because of Macklemore’s charming awkwardness, but I’ve stayed a fan since that fateful day that someone sent me the YouTube link to “Thrift Shop.”

Yeah, I said it. I like Macklemore. Sue me.

His white guilt is cumbersome and his lyrics are often outrageously basic, but his rich register and storytelling ability more than make up for his inelegant mishaps here and there.

Macklemore is just, uh, misunderstood.

Once you really listen to him, you get to know him. Once you get to know him, you’ll appreciate him.

I thought I had gotten to know Macklemore more than most, but the rapper’s latest album, Gemini, is making me reconsider. Gemini — Macklemore’s first album since his hiatus with long-time partner and producer, Ryan Lewis — is a bit of a bizarre mess.

Inasmuch as The Heist guided me through my own unfortunate adolescence, Gemini is doing the same for Macklemore.

The album is reminiscent of that episode plot from almost every Disney Channel sit-

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com where a main character’s friend leaves and said character spends the entire episode trying to find out who they really are by donning various outfits and trying out a few wild hairstyles.

The only difference, though, is that 20 minutes into the Disney Channel show, the character learns that who they are is something they’ve known deep down all along; in Gemini, Macklemore doesn’t get the same idealistic resolution.

Gemini features Macklemore testing out a different sounds like one would hats at a department store. In “Firebreather” he raps over a numbing, ceaseless rock-and-roll beat, while in “How to Play the Flute” the trap beats and riffs are almost indistinguishable from those of a Future track (While we’re at it, “diamond, diamond, diamond” sounds way too much like “Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman”). The “Corner Store” trumpets are too close to Chance the Rapper and The Social Experiment for comfort. In “Marmalade,” Macklemore seemingly gives up; it’s Lil Yachty’s track now.

Macklemore’s sound-hopping is more than just a series of nods and allusions to other artists: It often feels like sheer confusion as a result of creative bankruptcy.

“Intentions,” which resembles “old Macklemore” more than most tracks on the album, gives off an aura of helplessness in the midst of uncertainty. As Dan Caplen croons in the chorus, “All my little problems keep on buildin’ up, and buildin’ up / All my good

Troy Sherman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com

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him on food stamps, and you've got yourself a Fancy Lad. To this tune, the Lads' supreme innovation lies in deconstructing what it means to do or play a sport, and presenting us at least with a rubric for something new. As it stands in the athletics of today, it seems as though one can either play to win or else work towards making oneself the best you that you can be. Neither the former — with its glaringly masculinist overtones and "FOOTBALL!"-ish imbrication within broader and not-so-innocuous economies of winners and losers — nor the latter — wherein going on a run almost physically feels like some Michelle Obama-type figure urging the homines economici in all of us to get up and Move™ — leaves much if any room for creative expression outside of an appeal to buy more of your team's merchandise and watch them win on your hi-def TV this Sunday.

This isn't to say, though, that the sport of skateboarding — were it even to drop all associations with the hypercommercialized competitions about which so many polemicists have cried wolf — isn't itself caught up more than most of its practitioners would like to admit in a mentality closely not all that unrelated to some other more "mainstream sports." Skaters don't have much grounds for critiquing the shallowness of a baseball game when 99 percent of the sports media we consume is officially sanctioned by this or that company, and it's hard to make fun of those joggers over there in their short-shorts when, in hour eleven of practicing your switch tre, you look down at your G-Shock Watch to realize that you only have five minutes before you have to leave if you want to pick up a Soylent on the way home in time to pre-order the limited edition signed Chris Joslin promodel deck off of The Berrics' website, or whatever.

So the genius of Fancy Lad isn't in their creation of new tricks, nor does it necessarily have to do with their irreverence towards skate-culture conventions. That's part of it, for sure, but I think their critique of the game gives us more than a wacko alternative to Street League. When the Lads miss more tricks than they land, they give us some third option, a way to interact with the concrete world(s) around us in ways that don't entirely depend on getting better, scoring sponsors or even making the trick. The point, if we listen to what Fancy Lad is saying, is more about making those unwitting associations with the sidewalks and stair-sets we walk down every day, regardless of whether they're the same ones seen by everyone else.

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Macklemore has good reason to be as confused as he is for a good portion of this album. Since gaining international fame, the rapper has been mostly known for two things: Starting out without a label and brashly supporting aggressively mainstream liberal politics. But as Macklemore has stated himself, he wanted to divorce himself from politics and the genre’s expectations for him to just create the stuff he wants.

This admission is notably disingenuous, as Macklemore tries to fit to mainstream rap and trap so much in Gemini that he loses himself in the process. Gemini isn’t an attempt at dismantling external expectations, but rather a live confrontation between Macklemore and a life that looks a lot different than it did in 2005, when he dropped the silly and headstrong debut, The Language of my World.

Now, Macklemore is a father. He’s achieved success that’s a big jump from where he was ten years ago, as celebrated in “Victory Lap” and “Can’t Hold Us,” but not much different from where he was last year when he and Lewis released the impassioned This Unruly Mess I’ve Made. His transition from rugged, earthy youth to goofball to heavy-handed advocate and finally to all-ofthe-above-plus-wholesome-father has been clumsy, to say the least.

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background music, or something you feel like you should like but don’t quite. Despite being largely unsatisfactory, Gemini beats the odds here and there.

Macklemore thrives most when he dives deeply and carefully into a single subject, whether it’s a 1995 Mariners game, trying to use a fake ID or a fictionalized attempt to defame Jimmy Iovine by breaking into his office and stealing a contract. Macklemore’s expertise is specific, clear storytelling, which comes out in tracks like “Zara” and “Corner Store.”

Where the stories are weaker, the features just barely offer much-needed balance.

Ke$ha and Dan Caplen both offer an everso-rough silkiness that sounds like it tastes like crunchy peanut butter. Eric Nelly’s voice is pushed to its limits in the album’s beefy opener, “Ain’t Gonna Die Tonight.” Dave B and Travis Thompson take “Corner Store” from a fun track to a total bop.

While Macklemore’s team is marketing Gemini as pure, electric impulse, it comes out more like creative cardboard. The listener can’t help but compare the album’s dull pop imitations to the Macklemore-Lewis duo’s previous deliciously crude pop-underground hybrids. That said, we all go through puberty, I guess, whether physical or artistic. I can only hope, then, that Gemini is the means to a fiercer and more rousing end.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Puzzle #101

Bunting

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Despite Another Victory, Soccer Still Expects More SOCCER

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Twice the Binghamton offense, which Smith described as a “handful,” was able to break through in the form of Haris Brkovic, who tallied a pair of secondhalf goals — the first of which tied the game at one and the second to threaten late when Cornell carried a 3-1 lead.

Both Smith and Bagley spoke about the team’s recent resilience, starting with their ability to create chances after being down a goal to St. Francis last Friday, a game

“We got rattled a little bit, but we maintained our composure as a whole, and we put the game away.”

Freshman Tyler Begley which Cornell won, 2-1.

“Anytime where you don’t feel like you played well and yet you win, you are obviously doing something right” Smith said.

The Red’s ability to create chances throughout the

match was what they “did right” on Tuesday against a strong Binghamton team.

“We got rattled a little bit,” said Bagley, referring to the adaptations the Red had to make to Binghamton’s strength. “But we maintained our composure as a whole, and we put the game away.”

Bagley did his part to help “put the game away” as he ended Tuesday night with the first goal of his career, started by what he called a “gorgeous ball” from classmate Caleb McAuslan.

Bagley’s first career goal could not have come at a better time, as it proved to be the game winner after two own goals by the Bearcats. With that in mind, Bagley acknowledged his team cannot let its foot of the gas at any minute.

“We have to keep up our physicality [and] keep tackling strongly,” Bagley said as the team heads into its upcoming Ivy opener against Penn on Sept.

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This physicality was certainly seen against Binghamton, as the Red recorded a whopping 21 fouls compared to the Bearcats’ 11. But according to Bagley, “a couple of yellow cards here were a little soft,” and he praised the team for its aggressiveness to combat the potent Binghamton offense.

Next, the Red will march into Philadelphia looking for its fourth win in a row versus a Penn team that has

a less than impressive record of 1-6. This will be both Cornell and Penn’s first Ivy League action, and the two will aim to make an initial statement to the rest of the

“Anytime where you don’t feel like you played well and yet you win, you are obviously doing something right.”

Head Coach John Smith league on Saturday.

The Red will look to transfer its idea of feeling “fortunate” to have beaten Binghamton into motivation to leave Philadelphia with a win, especially going into a seven-day break afterwards before home games against Harvard and Colgate.

To the team, it is clear that the culture is developing at Berman Field, and the Red seems to have a likeminded view of what it can do to collectively improve.

From their post-game sprints to their post-game facial expressions, the group feels more ready than ever to avenge last year’s overtime loss to Penn.

Jack Bronsky can be reached at jeb536@cornell.edu

After 2 Blowout Losses, Cornell Readies for Colgate FOOTBALL

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Pat Afriyie, senior defensive lineman who was selected as the Patriot League Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.

Afriyie posted 10 sacks and 21 tackles-for-loss last year, ranking fourth nationally in both categories, but his status for

Saturday is uncertain.

Colgate opened the season on the West coast, traveling to thenNo. 23 Cal Poly. After coming into the fourth quarter with a commanding lead, Colgate held on for a 20-14 upset victory.

But since then, Colgate has been on a skid, dropping its next three games and giving up an average of just under 33 points a

game, including 45 to Furman last week.

In both of the Cornell’s losses, it has been a tale of two halves — an abysmal opening but a strong finish against Delaware, and a crisp start but crippling second half against Yale.

Combining the second half of Delaware and the first half Yale,

the team was only slightly outperformed, being outscored 2824. Combining the other two halves, however, puts the Red at a minus-48 point differential, being outscored 62-14.

“That’s definitely been a big emphasis this week [on] being able to put together a full game,” said senior captain and linebacker Kurt Frimel. “The coaches are emphasizing finishing everything we do, finishing all the way through.”

And for Cornell, both sides of the ball share a portion of the blame. On offense, troubles have stemmed from a young offensive line that has not been able to protect the offense as well as the team would have hoped.

Reigning first-team All-Ivy running back Chris Walker has only rushed for 49 yards in the two games combined, averaging just 2.6 yards a carry. And while

again comes back to finishing.

“I don’t think the struggles are about experience. I have a ton of faith in these guys on the line and I think everyone has stepped up to the plate,” he said.

“I think putting it together and finishing through is the next step — we have the talent to win games, just need to see it come together.”

On the defensive side, the story is even simpler — a glaring inability to stop the run. Cornell has given up a whopping 283.5 yards of rushing per game, including a 300 yard second half against Yale. And things will not get much easier with Colgate coming into town, a run-first offense that averages less than 120 through the air but nearly 150 yards on the ground on the backs of two strong tailbacks — Alex Matthews and James Holland.

“We have the talent to win games, [we] just need to see it come together.”

Head Coach David Archer ’05

freshman Harold Coles has 112 yards under his name, 90 of those came on one play against Yale that went for a touchdown.

In addition, opposing defenses have found junior quarterback Dalton Banks repeatedly, as he has been sacked nine times in the past two games, for a total loss of 62 yards. Banks was banged up enough in the Yale game that he had to leave early.

Archer is confident he will be in the lineup come Saturday, though.

“He’s out here running around today, he was out here running around yesterday, so [he’s good to go] for all indications,” Archer said.

While junior offensive lineman Henry Stillwell, the lone returning starter on the line from last season acknowledged that the offensive line has not played to its potential, he is not worried about the group’s overall youth. Rather, the message once

“That’s our number one focus this week, we’ve got to stop the run. That’s all they do,” Frimel said. “They run the ball, then they try to beat you deep on the play-action-pass, so that’s the big focus this week, stop the run with our front seven.”

It could be easy for a team to get overwhelmed by such earlyseason struggles, but for Archer, the message to his team is clear: take a step back and simplify things.

“Sometimes, when you have an older group, you have a tendency to put more in,” Archer said, adding the message to his coordinators is that “If [we] need to pull back [some plays], if there’s too much in, pull back.”

Kickoff is set for 1:30 on Saturday in the first of Cornell’s rare four consecutive home games.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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CORNELL

CORNELL

COLGATE

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

COLGATE

CORNELL

CORNELL

COLGATE

DARTMOUTH V. PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

DARTMOUTH

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

COLUMBIA V. PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

HARVARD V. GEORGETOWN

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

YALE V. FORDHAM

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

FORDHAM

YALE

FORDHAM

RHODE ISLAND V. BROWN

BROWN

RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

MISSISSIPPI STATE V. AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

MISS. STATE

AUBURN

AUBURN

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON

CLEMSON V. VIRGINIA TECH VIRGINIA TECH

RHODE ISLAND RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

STEELERS V. RAVENS

STEELERS

RAVENS

STEELERS

RAVENS

RAVENS

STEELERS

STEELERS

STEELERS

STEELERS

STEELERS

STEELERS

RAIDERS V. BRONCOS

RAIDERS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

RAIDERS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

LAST WEEK

6-4

6-4

7-3

5-5

4-6

5-5

6-4

6-4

4-6

6-4

6-4

TOTAL

13-7

14-6

13-7

12-8

11-9

9-11

12-8

13-7

9-11

11-9

10-10

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Sports

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

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Trump, Leave Strikers Extend Win Streak to 3 Football Alone P MEN’S SOCCER

By JACK BRONSKY

Sun Contributor

Even after securing its fourth win of the season Tuesday over neighbor Binghamton, quadrupling its win total from just a year ago, Cornell men’s soccer seemed rigid and unsatisfied with its level of play.

“I thought we were on our back foot tonight,” head coach John Smith said after his squad’s 3-2 win over the Bearcats. “We did well scoring three goals and creating a number of chances, but to be quite honest, [Binghamton’s] coach is probably walking off wondering how he didn’t come away from this game with at least a tie. … I think we

were fortunate walking off of the field.”

The mild frustration that Smith expressed was evident in the intensity of the 20-plus minute post-game sprints he had his team (4-3-1) partake in even after coming out triumphant over a strong opponent.

Part of Smith’s frustration came from the pressure of Binghamton’s front six and their ability to create chances from nothing.

Despite the loss, Binghamton (3-5-1) outshot Cornell, 18-11. Freshman midfielder Tyler Bagley described the Bearcat attack as “one of the best that we’ve played so far.”

See SOCCER page 14

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Streaking | Head coach John Smith is beginning to catch fire in his second season at the helm.

resident Donald Trump laced the NFL with discord this weekend after statements he made to an Alabama crowd Friday night regarding the decision by some players to kneel during the national anthem before games.

To be quite honest, it pains me to even have to write this column. The fact that the words “President Trump” and “football” could even be in the same sentence is evidence of an issue in itself. I could sit here and write cheeky attacks such as, “the president should stick to his busy schedule of grabbing pussies and insulting war heroes,” but I will do my best to hold back on that front.

Instead, let us take a measured look at the president’s comments and the implications of this weekend’s events for the NFL and the country.

Taken at face value, what the president said on Friday raises a lot of questions. Are people exercising their constitutional rights by kneeling? Is their message of racial

Dylan McDevitt One Point Play

FOOTBALL

Red Seeking 1st Win Against Colgate Saturday marks first of four consecutive home games for Cornell

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

While the Cornell football team has suffered two losses to open the season, the team has had two distinct reactions following them.

After playing a strong Delaware team, the message surrounding Cornell (0-2, 0-1 Ivy) was relatively positive — other than cleaning up a few miscues, primarily turnovers, the takeaway was to stick to business as usual and things would get off the ground.

But the following Yale game was eye-opening for the Red. To start Ivy play the way the team did — a game that was riddled with missed tackles, unfinished drives and turnovers — and to start the season 0-2 after last year’s 3-0 start, was a sobering moment that the team might not be where it needs to be.

“We’ve got to get better at execution. We have the leadership, we have the talent, we’ve got to go out there and execute in all phases,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

“We expected to beat Yale by a couple of scores, and it was much more disappointing when that did-

n’t happen.”

Still in search for its first victory, the Red welcomes Colgate (1-3, 0-0 Patriot) to Schoellkopf Saturday for the team’s home opener. The game comes one year after Cornell’s dramatic 39-38 road victory over the Raiders despite a 25-point halftime deficit.

This year, however, Colgate loses its dynamic quarterback-

receiver duo of gunslinger Jake Melville, who completed 62 percent of his passes for 399 yards and three touchdowns against Cornell last year, and wide receiver John Maddaluna, who went for a career high 261 yards and three touchdowns.

Colgate may also be without See FOOTBALL page 14

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Establish the run | Junior running back Chris Walker (pictured) has struggled in 2017 but should see significant touches Saturday.

injustice an important one to send? These questions are very significant, and their answers have heavy implications. But they are conversations for another time, and are better answered by a writer in The Sun’s opinion section.

What is important to me here is the use of football, a sport that is near and dear to my heart, as a political tool.

The president has a brand of divisiveness; he has a well documented history as a polarizing figure that need not be detailed in this column. But in weaponizing football for political gain, Trump has caused the NFL community to unite in opposition. Even the president’s own friend Bob Kraft, the New England Patriots owner who gave the president a Super Bowl ring at the White House last month, condemned his comments as unnecessarily divisive.

The statements from Kraft and other owners, both in press releases and on the field this weekend, essentially all amount to the same thing: mind your own business.

Football is a force for good in communities around the country, and nothing the president can say will ever change that. So with a pretty universal response from the league in opposition, it begs the question, why did the president say what he said?

It seems that Trump’s goal here is two-fold. First, to galvanize his base around an issue with which they largely agree: People should stand for the national anthem. At its core, this is a statement that does not sound so crazy.

If he had said it that way, I might have even agreed. Yes, people probably should stand for the national anthem in general.

Trump’s second goal is easier: bait the media into sensationalizing what he says. And, like the other two or three dozen times this has happened, it worked like a charm. CNN and others like them went to town on Trump for saying something crazy. What the media heard was “get that son of a bitch off the field!” What his base heard was “people should stand for the national anthem.” It does not matter to them that he said a whole lot more than that. And therein lies the problem that the president has created.

The owners are right. Football is a great thing for this country. And the fact that the president would make such vicious statements about the NFL is evidence that the contentious discourse in this country has gone too far. Even here, on this campus, it seems that the divisiveness has trickled down to every facet of the community. Perhaps we can all use football and sports in general as an example in uniting against that very idea.

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

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