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Cornell Endowment Returns‘Solid’ in 2017

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Managing Editor

After several years of disappointing endowment returns, the University announced Friday that Cornell’s endowment posted a positive 12.5 percent return in fiscal year 2017, bringing the total value to its highest ever at $6.8 billion.

This is welcome news for an endowment office that went through a “transitional year” according to Chief Investment Officer Kenneth Miranda.

Miranda took over at the beginning of the fiscal year, which went from July 2016 to June 2017, and the office moved from Ithaca to New York City in an effort to attract more qualified candidates.

Cornell’s endowment has struggled in recent years, posting a negative 3.3 percent return in fiscal year 2016 and positive 3.4 percent the year before. Those were the lowest in the Ivy League those two years.

The University is the fourth Ivy League to announce its returns this year, after Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn. Dartmouth and Penn posted returns of 14.6 and 14.3 percent, respectively, while Harvard posted a mea-

or investment performance,” ger 8.1 percent.

ENDOWMENT RETURNS said Cornell trustee and Harvard’s endowchair of the board’s ment office has gone The endowment returns for 2017 brought the total value of the Investment Committee through many changes fund to $6.8 billion, its highest ever.

Donald Opatrny ’74 in the recently, and their new announcement. manager N.P. “Narv” That positioning follows Narvekar said in a five “comprehensive reviews of page letter published each asset class” by the several weeks ago that of University Office its meager returns are Investments, which also “a symptom of deep reviewed “its overall structural problems” approach to managing the that will take years to endowment.”

The turn around. announcement said that the While Cornell manefforts are meant to boost agers are pleased that performance over time, its returns are not as poor as last year, the DATA COURTESY CORNELL; DESIGN BY MEGAN ROCHE / SUN ASSISTANT DESIGN EDITOR increase endowment flexibilannouncement Friday points to many changes taking ity, reduce fees and increase responsiveness to changing investment trends. place as well.

Yet those efforts may still have a ways to go.

“We are pleased that the endowment generated solid investment performance this year, and we will continue See ENDOWMENT page 4 the work of positioning the endowment to drive superi-

Slur at House Dinner Stuns Residence Hall

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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Apple-y ever after | The 35th annual Apple Harvest Festival brought thousands to the Commons to enjoy the festive atmosphere, carnival games and delectable apple-flavored food.

Apple Fest Draws Thousands to Commons

By SARAH SKINNER Sun Staff Writer

For Apple Fest veterans, this weekend brought the familiar tastes of doughnuts, caramelized apples and cider back to downtown Ithaca. For students who just arrived on East Hill, the 35th annual Apple Harvest Festival served as an introduction to the delicacies that could bring them back to the Ithaca Commons every fall.

Thousands of people converged on the Commons this weekend for live music, carnival games and every sort of apple-related food imaginable.

Colorful pop-up stands and food trucks filled the Commons and extended onto side streets, creating an atmosphere packed with noise, laughter and delicious aromas from savory to sweet.

“It’s such a great festival, and everybody’s having fun and in such a great mood,” said Reenie Baker-Sandsted of

Baker’s Acres.

Baker’s Acres sells a variety of apples and cider and has been a part of the annual festival for more than 25 years.

Every year, the festival attracts over 35,000 people, Downtown Ithaca Alliance said on its website. Many people come from around the state, but a large proportion of attendees are students at Cornell and Ithaca College.

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Following two high-profile incidents in which Cornell students reported being targeted physically or verbally because of their race, a West Campus house community is “shattered” following the use of a slur last week in response to an electronic poll.

Students at the Carl Becker House’s “There was weekly house dinner dead silence on Wednesday night were answering for five questions by anonyminutes. mously texting resPeople were ponses to questions like “What is your stunned. There favorite place on were some campus?” Their answers appeared in students at my bubbles on a projectable who tor, and soon people were literally began submitting silly and somewhat in tears.” inappropriate answers.

Prof. Thomas Fox Then, in response to one prompt — “Name your key strength” — someone responded by submitting the Nword, which appeared prominently at the front of the room, projected onto a screen.

“The room went completely silent,” Prof. Neema Kudva, the house professor and dean, said in an email to residents of the house the next day, adding that “a sense See BECKER page 4

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Students Flock to Midnight Dim Sum

University Cornell to Receive $9.4M in NIH Grant

Cornell will be one of three institutions in the world to receive a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In a span of five years, the Cornell Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Collaborative Research Center will receive approximately $9.4 million. This center will run three main research projects with the funding.

Local ‘Suspicious Activity’ on Ithaca’s East Hill

After multiple reports of “suspicious activity” from the East Hill neighborhood, both the Ithaca and Cornell University Police Departments are investigating. The different incidences include “males peering into windows of apartments, entering apartments, and lingering in and around the locked entryway of apartment buildings.” Besides the suspect being described as male in each case, there are no other similarities, and police are unsure if the incidences are related.

National Supreme Court Begins New Term Today

The Supreme Court will begin hearing a new docket of cases beginning today after its return to the bench. During this session, the Supreme Court is hearing cases that cover political gerrymandering, discrimination, workers’ rights and privacy. These cases could affect how districts are drawn, if businesses can turn away individuals as an expression of religious freedom, if employers can prevent workers from suing them and privacy concerns regarding cell phone tracking.

Annual meal, hosted by Chinese Students Association, brings students together

By PARIS GHAZI Sun Contributor

Cornellians lined up in Duffield Hall on Friday night to celebrate Asian culture and enjoy traditional food at the Chinese Students Association’s annual midnight dim sum event.

The night marked the start of a school-year filled with cultural gatherings for the organization, which began planning for the event following the release of funding from CUTonight Commission in April.

“For events that are in the very beginning of the year, we need to do the funding application in the spring,” said Michelle Zhang ’19, president of the Chinese Students Association. “So we budgeted and we made our food orders way back at the end of the last semester.”

Starting at 9 p.m., crowds of students and faculty were eagerly waiting to try the assortment of dim sum food items, including dumplings, egg and spring rolls and other food catered from local restaurants Apollo and Hai Hong.

“We like to give free food out to the Cornell community, and dim sum is one of those pastimes that we Chinese-American kids really love,” Zhang said. “It’s when our families come together on Sundays after a long week of school or work, and you just relax and have dim sum.”

With food and music, CSA tried to target students of all cultures at Cornell, as well as the general public.

“A lot of us can’t convene during the day, so we decided to make it midnight dim sum, but normally it’s eaten at noon,” Zhang said.

Student dance groups like Shimtah, Cornell Lion Dance, Amber Dance Troupe and E-Motion also performed at the meal.

Throughout the night, attendees could settle down in a performance area and enjoy their food while observing the various shows.

“We’re always very excited to get ourselves more well-known

with the Cornell community outside of K-Pop lovers,” said Tiffany Chan ’19, a member of the E-Motion K-Pop dance group.

“We’re really proud of what we do.”

When asked what her favorite part of the event was, Joyee Mok ’20 said, “It has to be all the new friends I made. I think CSA is going to have a very loyal member.”

“It’s really just a way to bring people together and teach about culture, and it’s a really interactive way to do so.”

Sharon Wu ’20 Because the event was open to everyone, many individuals who are not CSA members were also able to enjoy the food and atmosphere.

Victor Zhang, a student from Australia at Cornell for the fall semester, said he is considering spending a semester in China and enjoyed the event.

“I’m thinking about maybe working in China in the future,” he said. “I love Chinese culture, and the food especially.”

The CSA will continue to host events that aim to unite the student body through culture throughout the year, its members said.

“Our mid-autumn festival is going to be soon,” Sharon Wu ’20, transfer liaison for the organization, said. “It’s going to be one of the biggest cultural events on campus, and it’s definitely a great way for students to meet so we’ll definitely be doing things like this more in the future.”

“I think it’s really just a way to bring people together and teach about culture, and it’s a really interactive way to do so with all the performances and food as well,” Wu said, “and we really just try to make it a good learning experience without it being a classroom.”

Paris Ghazi can be reached at pg435@cornell.edu.

First Peoples’ Festival Transforms Dewitt Park

By MARIN LANGLIEB Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca’s Dewitt Park, normally a placid area, was transformed on Sunday for the First Peoples’ Festival. Bustling people toured tents of intricate artwork, listened to demonstrations of flute music and enjoyed the scent of herbs.

The festival, which has been occurring annually for the past nine years, serves to “build awareness about the indigenous community members,” said Phouphet Souvorachak, the administrative coordinator of the Multicultural Resource Center which helped organize the festival.

In addition to raising awareness, the festival is also a place where different indigenous vendors can showcase their work.

Ann Printup, a member of the Tuscarora Beaver Clan, located around Niagara Falls, has been attending the event for about five years. Not only does she “love Ithaca,” but she said it also gives her a space to sell some her beadwork.

The origins of beadworking is important for the Tuscarora Beaver Clan, she said, as it was, and still is, a source of income for some people.

“I equate it to a farmer growing his produce and cultivating it and taking it to a market and selling it,” said Printup, who has been beading since she was 10.

Other tents focused on the awareness aspect of the event. Native American Students at Cornell highlighted the significance of Cornell recently changing what was previously known as Columbus Day to

Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Indigenous Peoples’ day is changing that narrative where they can celebrate the resiliency of their people,” Ana Bordallo ’18 said. “A day, depending on what the name is, [causes] people to have different reactions.”

Souvorachak agrees that the festival can help bring attention to a “a culture that isn’t very much brought to the forefront of our schools and even festivals like the Ithaca Festival.”

“The indigenous people of this land are not just part of history, but are a history in the making still,” Souvorachak said. “This is an opportunity to bring together folks to learn together.”

Marin Langlieb can be reached at mlanglieb@cornellsun.com.

Devastated lives

Racial Justice Marches Converge in D.C.

On Sept. 30, the March for Racial Justice and the March for Black Women converged in Washington, D.C. The two rallies were marching in front of the Justice Department to denounce institutionalized racism. According to its website, the March for Racial Justice was organized after the police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile was acquitted. The March for Black Women was a distinct march from the Women’s March in January, which was criticized by some for focusing on white women.

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Pascual Cruz clears what is left of his brother’s house in Vieques, Puerto Rico on Sept. 30.

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of shock at the intent to violate and intimidate slammed into us.”

Prof. Thomas Fox, biology, said he has been a member of the house since 2005 and had never heard a house dinner get that quiet.

“I have never, ever heard it that silent there,” he said. “There was dead silence for five minutes. People were stunned. There were some students at my table who were literally in tears.”

In an email to members of all five houses in the west campus house system, the house professors and assistant deans said a bias incident report had been submitted.

At the house dinner, “during a light-hearted community activity involving online polling, a racist epithet was submitted and sent a shockwave of sadness and outrage through the community,” the professors and assistant deans said. “A bias incident report has been made and Becker House leadership is working with campus partners.”

Following the incident, many students and at least one professor began to cry, a resident who witnessed the incident said. The resident said that more than 100 people were there when the N-word appeared on the screen, and that Kudva had urged the person who sent the message, whom she called a “coward,” to come forward.

The resident spoke on the condition of anonymity because the incident is being handled internally. John McKain, associate vice president for university relations, said, “it’s been an active conversation within the Becker House,” and University officials did not respond to requests for additional comment.

Fox said he thought the response from attendees of the dinner “was

about as good as you could expect.”

“In other words, there was no horsing around at that time,” he said.

Kudva, he said, “was obviously stunned, but her response I thought was very appropriate and effective.”

Kudva, in an email on Friday, said it had been “a long couple of days” and declined to elaborate on the incident, saying she had been working with various support systems within the University.

In the email Kudva sent to residents of the house last week, she said she spoke immediately after the incident “from a place of sadness, and of furious anger at what had happened, in defense of everyone whom the text targeted, against the cowardice and cyber-bullying that was on display.”

The use of the slur comes in the same month that a black student said he was assaulted and called the Nword by a group of white men in Collegetown. Also in September, a resident of the Latino Living Center reporting hearing a member of a nextdoor frat proposing that people “build a wall” around the residence.

Police arrested a student, John Greenwood ’20, in the Collegetown incident and charged him with two misdemeanors, assault and aggravated harassment. A grand jury will decide this week or next whether Greenwood will face hate crime charges.

In the email from house professors and assistant deans, they said, “Racist and intimidating acts have no place here.”

“In light of the recent racist incidents on our campus, it is especially disappointing and hurtful to see that this has happened right here, where we get together to live as an inclusive and supportive community,” the professors and assistant deans said.

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

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Thousands descended on Ithaca this weekend for Ithaca's 35th annual Apple Festival, or Apple Fest as it is commonly known.

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Marley Short ’19 said she was a tour guide and always talked about the festivals in Ithaca while on the job.

“It’s part of being a student here,” she said.

Apple Fest, as it is commonly known, provides thousands of customers for vendors, and students like Carter Fontaine ’19 said they look forward to it each year.

“It’s always super fun,” Fontaine said.

This year, the festival kicked off only days after a significant drop in temperature, a factor that Baker believed might have actually boosted attendance.

“We love it when it's cooler because it really feels like fall, and everybody's really in the mood,” she said. “It feels very busy today.”

Rob Parcell, of the Maple River Syrup Company, agreed.

“This has been the best event that we go to throughout any event in the state in terms of sales and number of people we come in contact with,” Parcell said.

“It’s probably our best event of the year.”

Parcell said events like Apple Fest are important for small vendors to get exposure to people they would not normally reach, a side of the fair that event-goers enjoy as well.

Jessie Yee ’20 said Apple Fest allows people “to see that Ithaca actually has a

variety of people.”

“I don’t normally think too much about the local farms but I get to see them all here,” Yee said.

“It’s a very diverse crowd and it’s almost like a very international crowd,” Parcell said. “You actually meet people from not only all over the country, but from different countries as well.”

People swarm the downtown streets for a wide variety of food, including the festival’s signature apple cider doughnut, even though the line for the cider doughnuts stretched hundreds of people long at some points.

Though much of the festival food is to be enjoyed immediately, there were also plenty of opportunities for attendees to take home produce, baked goods, cider, syrup and more for the fall season.

Josh Quan ’20 said he was especially excited to buy food and store it at home.

“This year we can buy pies and stuff,” said Quan, who moved off-campus this year. “It’s kind of inconvenient to store pies in the freshman dorm.”

David Flores ’19 summed up what he enjoyed most about the sights, smells and winding stalls of Apple Fest.

“I love coming down to Apple Fest because I get to hang out with my friends, eat some good food and share the awesome Commons with students and the community,” Flores said.

Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.

Endowment Hits Highest Ever Value Performance follows ‘transition year’ with move to NYC being completely in the right asset classes, and then within each asset class, not necessarily having the best managers who According to Wilshire Trust Universe are managing the money,” he said.

Ehrenberg added that the endowment Comparison Service, college funds with office’s move to New more than $500 million York City was an effort in value had a median “It’ll be interesting to to give the fund access to investment gain of 13.3 potentially better manpercent, meaning that see what happens agers, but that one year’s despite Cornell’s efforts, going forward. ” performance is not it still lags over 50 perenough to form any concent of its peers.

Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg clusions.

Prof.

Ronald “It’ll be interesting to Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, told The Sun that see what happens going forward.” the endowment’s troubles over the past several years were not due to any one factor.

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Dylan McDevitt | Guest Room

The Attacks on Greek Life Have Gone too Far

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y way of disclaimer, if you think Greek life no longer has a place on this campus, you and I are not going to agree on much. What happened two weeks ago is nothing short of tragic and abhorrent, so we can start with that, at least.

I am a proud member of the Greek community, and I have many friends who would say the same, both in my chapter and in others. I am not a white supremacist. I do not know a single white supremacist. I do not know anyone who engages in or would associate with anyone who engages white supremacist behavior. What does this tell me? That while most of us are normal, productive members of the Cornell community, we are left answering for the behavior of a very small number of people who choose to engage in unacceptable behavior. And that is okay. I recognize

well-involved on campus. We contribute to classes, clubs and pre-professional organizations alike. Some of the dialogues that members of the Greek community generate truly do make this campus a much better place. The same is true of countless other communities at Cornell — athletic teams, service organizations, faith groups and mentorship programs are just a few examples of other types of organizations that add so much to this campus.

Members of the Greek community belong to these organizations, and their contributions are plenty.

To repeat myself, this is not to say that Greek life doesn’t cause any problems. Of course, sexual violence and coercive hazing are issues that are prevalent and rooted in systematic disrepair, and for many of us they are issues that we take personally. But we are working to fix those things; we have

But let’s make sure we are clear about what happened here: a member of the Greek community was viciously attacked by a person who was unaffiliated. that Greek life and fraternities in particular have a long way to go before we are devoid of serious problems. Most people in the community would likely agree.

But let’s make sure we are clear about what happened here: a member of the Greek community was viciously attacked by a person who was unaffiliated. Psi Upsilon is not a recognized fraternity, and they are not a recognized fraternity for a reason. The Interfraternity Council is a self-governing body, and the decision to revoke that chapter’s recognition was not made without input from the leaders of our community. Effectively, their previous conduct caused them to be deemed unworthy of inclusion in our community.

To say that Greek life should not exist is not only incredibly unhelpful as far as meaningful conversations about reform are concerned, but it is a direct insult to the way of life of one-third of this student body. I have found something special in my fraternity; my participation in it has done wonders to make me a better person.

You will hear quite literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of statements like that from other people. Either all these people are lying in a malicious attempt to preserve the existence of their exclusive societies, or these are organizations that make a positive impact on a lot of students.

We are a group of individuals largely

been for years. To expect that such profound structural changes could take place overnight would be to doom these well planned efforts to failure.

The leaders of our community have been clear. We are open about making changes, and input from the entire campus is welcome. But this is not an invitation to attack our way of life. How we choose to participate in our college experience should not be open to unmitigated attack.

We would never dream of doing the same to you.

We are not so different than the rest of you. We have prelims and campus commitments that keep us busy; we have issues at home that affect our well-being; we worry about our careers and about our futures. We are not some secluded group of people that plot oppression and lude behavior behind the closed doors of our off-campus mansions. And it might surprise you, but yes, we are just as appalled as you are that something so terrible and hateful could happen here. We love Cornell and the people who make it special, and we desperately want Cornell to love us back.

Dylan McDevitt is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is a columnist for The Sun’s sports department and can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Power,Complicity And Us

ate is a brute expression of power.

At its most transparent, a cross burns on the lawn of a black family and a sign is posted in a storefront signaling who need not apply. Then, hate is motivated by a desire for power, a gruesome declaration of exactly who ought to belong. White Americans are trained to spot this kind of power grab, shown black-and-white diagrams in textbooks outlining racism like it’s some strain of poison oak that we can sketch, memorize and hop over on our way to get where we’re going. Yet when confronting bigotry that requires us to break stride, when an act of hate expresses a kind of social power from which we benefit, our response is often insufficient.

Cornell’s most recent act of self-mutilation did not occur in isolation. It was a statement of power, made by a group of wealthy white men, declaring that they owned the space and bodies around them. In many ways, this is a power that our community has tacitly granted them. Thus if our response to is to have any teeth, we have to be willing to accept real, personal responsibility. More crucially, we are going to have to be willing to sacrifice.

At Cornell, the first form that power takes is ownership. By way of legacy admissions, certain students step on campus with a sense of generational propriety. Those whose parents donate to the University experience this ownership even more fully.

Even students who pay full tuition can experience a subtle ownership over their college experience because it something they purchased. Whether or not any of this is conscious, some students are simply more likely to approach campus life with a sense of entitlement than others.

Ownership runs much deeper, though.

From the complexion of our predecessors, to the demographics of our faculty and administration, institutional ownership of the University carries a distinct lack of melanin.

While Cornell has undoubtedly made strides to diversify its leadership, it is an uphill battle that is certainly not finished.

Moreover, our sense of cultural history is dominated by a wealthy white male memory. From paintings to class photos to the names on buildings, our campus carries the legacy of a time when only one type of person attended. This, again, breeds the real, if subconscious, sense that some own the University more than others.

Cornell’s second form of power is exclusion. Greek life is by no means the sole perpetrator, but it has made the process quite efficient. We ask 18-year-olds to, in a week, self-select into the group of people that they want to spend all their time with. Those groups then pick their new friends based on snap judgements about who would fit the house best. The final step is to label those groups, structure members’ social lives around their letters, and rank each house from best to worst. Even under the best of circumstances, that process would be almost certain to result in groups that are largely homogenous along race and class lines. This does not make fraternities racist, but people, and especially 18-year-olds, looking for similarity and friendship tend to seek out people who look and sound like them.

Importantly, even if these problems are universal, Greek life has formalized the process of self-segregation and lends tremendous social power to its members on the basis of that exclusive process. They stand as literal gatekeepers to the first parties that freshmen attend, and play a major role in structuring the social lives of nearly every student. This kind of power-through-exclusion is exactly what makes certain people feel like they can act with total impunity,

whether it’s calling my friend a gay slur or throwing plastic cups at strangers walking by.

The third way that Cornell encodes power is prestige. This is where nearly all of us are culpable. Many of Cornell’s largest and most popular student groups are closed to the public. From professional and preprofessional fraternities, to consulting and finance clubs, so much of our premier student organizations guard their membership with a rigorously selective process. Despite some commendable diversity, entrance to these groups is significantly skewed towards those with more cultural capital. Even the first step of knowing what these groups are and why one would join is only intuitive if you come from a background where that knowledge is available. Then you need formal attire, a well-written resume and the networking skills to excel in interviews. To be clear, this is not just a problem for groups with formal applications. Often subconsciously, groups’ senior members seek out and more actively retain new members who they perceive to fit their type. As a result, some of Cornell’s best funded organizations reproduce sameness across generations. All of this gives a strong advantage to students from affluent, well-connected backgrounds, where these tools are provided.

We set up all of these barriers because exclusivity breeds prestige in a way we like.

Most of us have been taught to value stature and reputation, and we also are often inclined to believe that a low acceptance rate is the best way to achieve it. While these groups provide tremendous value, it is often disproportionately distributed to folks who simply need less help, and the friendships and connections formed between members lends greater social influence to those make the cut. This is by no means the primary cause of imbalanced social power at Cornell, but rather an example of how even the best intentions can also cause us to formalize existing power structures, as we cordon ourselves off into smaller and smaller social groups.

The sum of all these processes is that certain, very predictable groups of students are granted social power and privilege on campus.

We at Cornell have a tendency to codify and structure existing power dynamics in a way that makes them much more than simply the latent effects of broader social inequality. The result is that certain students feel they own the University, and the community within it, much more than others. These are the preconditions in which hate can flourish.

The pressing conclusion, particularly for white students on campus, is that the things we need to do will require actual sacrifice.

Regardless of your thoughts on a campus hate-speech ban, it asks very little of the white students advocating for it. The real test is whether we are willing to actually have less power ourselves. Perhaps it means more accessible student and social clubs, even at the cost of perceived prestige and tradition.

Certainly it means policies that more actively seek out and admit a student body, and University leadership that look much less like me. Read and re-read BSU’s demands for a real blueprint for how this can happen.

Fundamentally, it means we have to stop compartmentalizing racism as if it stands separate and apart from our daily lives. This stuff feels small, and it’s easy to recoil in defensive outrage, but as beneficiaries of privilege we must lean into discomfort.

Really, tangibly, we all contribute, and if we profess to care then our actions need to reflect that fact. Anything less is simply not enough.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Arielle Hazi | Guest Room

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n Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of students and staff gathered on the Arts Quad to take a knee in protest of racism and white supremacy on Cornell’s campus and throughout the United States. The event, organized by the Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy, was a great display of solidarity and resistance, but there was a brief moment that made me rather uncomfortable.

During his speech, Prof. Russell Rickford, history, passionately denounced the recent events on campus, and

lege three years ago. That being said, I also grew up hearing stories of the horrible racism my father experienced as a kid from his teachers and classmates for being Yemenite; from harassment and slurs to flat-out being told he wouldn’t succeed because of his skin color. All this to say that while I do have rather strong implicit biases from my upbringing, I am actively trying to acknowledge and respond to them. I also realize that because of this upbringing, I approached the protest, and this issue, with a perspective that is different from most.

But isn’t that the whole point of intersectionality?

Identifying the varying and complex identities that people in a group have and knowing that because a group shares one identity doesn’t make them a monolithic entity.

This, I believe, is the crux of why I felt so alienated during the chant. Prof.

Rickford assumed that because we were here to protest racism on Cornell’s campus, we all shared an opinion and belief on a separate issue. And because the chanting immediately preceded the kneeling, it felt like a litmus test to the protest as a whole. Was I allowed to kneel to protest, even if I didn’t fully agree with what had just happened? Did that make me a bad ally to students of color on the Cornell campus? Was I even welcome in these spaces?

Throughout all the speeches at the protest, there were no mentions of foreign issues aside from those by Prof.

Rickford, and the mentioning of issues of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict lasted a total of less than two minutes and consisted almost entirely of a two-word chant. What frustrates me is that we afford a substantial amount of nuance and discussion time for articulating the history of racism and white supremacy in this country, but we don’t

But isn’t that the whole point of intersectionality?

Identifying the varying and complex identities that people in a group have and knowing that because a group shares one identity doesn’t make them a monolithic entity. ended his time by leading the group in chanting “Free Palestine.” I understand how hypocritical it would be for me to tell Prof. Rickford that he can’t use his time to say whatever he would like. After all, that would make me more similar to the people attempting to silence protestors around the country than to those protesting in the first place. That being said, I was nonetheless frustrated with his decision to initiate a chant of “Free Palestine.”

A quick note in the interest of full disclosure: my father is Israeli, his parents moved to Israel shortly after its independence while fleeing persecution in Yemen. I grew up very sheltered in terms of discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for Palestinian statehood. My childhood summer trips to Israel to visit family rarely, if ever, brought me into contact with Palestinian people or neighborhoods, and I didn’t start truly questioning what I was taught until coming to col-

do the same for conflicts overseas. By ignoring the (very messy) history of the region, and calling on the struggle for Palestinian statehood in the way he did, we run the risk of drawing a false equivalency between two issues that deserve more than that.

One could argue that on the surface, these issues appear to be very similar: discrimination, militarization, and displacement of people from their homes. However, there are also many differences, most notably that the conflict overseas involves historically oppressed groups on both sides of the aisle. As Cornellians, we’re taught not to rely on surface arguments. It makes for shallow theses and flimsy defenses, and the whole point of being intellectuals is to delve into the deep, nitty-gritty of an issue.

Additionally, I (and I assume many others) originally attended this protest under the presumption that it would be focusing on issues in the United States. The inclusion of this brief chant threw me off and made me question the core purpose of the protest. I ended up rereading the event description on Facebook afterwards to see if there was a mention of this, but the event specifically talked about our own community, which makes me wonder why Prof. Rickford chose to include the chant.

Now, is my frustration and discomfort due in part to the fact that my opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict don’t align with that of the leftist spaces I tend to occupy? Yes. Am I dealing with some cognitive dissonance between what I’ve grown up learning and what I am exposed to now? Probably. But I also am passionate about this issue, and I’m willing to bet that my end goals and core beliefs are more similar to Prof. Rickford’s than they are different. I hope in the future we can afford issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the same nuance and time as we do for issues at home.

And if you happen to be reading this, Prof. Rickford, I would love to grab some coffee and chat about it.

Arielle Hazi is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.

Lorenzo Benitez | Not a Cop

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his summer, I attempted to “re-program” some aspects of my thinking.

In accordance with psychological literature promoting gratitude journaling, mindfulness and the like, I resolved to following proactive steps that would hopefully offer a sense of emotional groundedness.

In periodically following these steps whenever I’ve remembered them over the past few months, I have begun to see how some of the abstract theories I’ve been exposed to at Cornell may actually have an applied purpose.

The other day, on the commute home, I found myself ruminating on a view called “event-causal determinism.” To summarize, under this view, it’s inaccurate to claim that other people — agents — cause phenomena. For instance, in the event that a car speeds over a puddle, splashing muddy water all over your beautiful outfit, how would you answer the question: “What caused your outfit to become dirty?” While most of us would instinctively claim it was the driver, under eventcausal determinisim, blame for ruining your outfit isn’t specific to the driver.

Instead, in accordance with contemporary scientific accounts of physical phenomena, it was an event, rather than an agent, that caused your misfortune. In that instant, you just so happened to be standing at a specific spot at a certain time, next to a puddle, over which a car happened to spatially coincide. Hence, it is more accurate to say it was multiple intersecting circumstances that together caused your misfortune: an event, of which an agent, the driver, was a mere part.

Applying these more accurate semantics to our everyday lives, it’s inevitable that each of us has felt wronged in the past and will again feel wronged in our lives. What’s even worse is that we’ll likely believe we have been wronged more times than we’ve actually been wronged. Consequently, a lot of us shuffle through life carrying the emotional baggage of what we perceive as past violations against us, whether we intend to or not.

However, adopting this philosophical insight of event-causal determinism, regardless of whether you accept it as metaphysically true, can helpfully pivot our mindset toward a more forgiving, empathetic one. Instead of saying that Bob directly caused you to spill coffee, why not re-orient your thinking so that it becomes second-nature to describe the antecedent physical forces, of which Bob as an agent is just one of many, combined into an event that caused your unfortunate spillage. This isn’t just more accurate, at least to someone who accepts event-causal determinism, but also leads to a healthier mindset. I find it easier to forgive Bob, because I remind myself it was an event, rather than Bob, that caused me to spill my coffee. On a broader scale, I am also able better recognize how a lot of those who “wrong” don’t even mean to in the first place.

It wasn’t until recently that I recognized the extent to which adopting this practice has calmed my mind. I no longer seethe at the Bobs of my life, but rather recognize his past “violations” against me as, fundamentally, events, over which Bob himself didn’t have total control. Bob, like me, is

an agent, with his own never-ending series of events, some of which coincide to create unfortunate outcomes for him too.

Similarly, instead of simply saying “I dislike Bob,” this semantic particularity can helpfully extend to other descriptions.

When describing other people I dislike, we should do away with such anachronistic, generalized statements and instead pinpoint that which bothers us about the person. Rather, I might dislike being around

By describing our attitudes with less emotionally-charged language, we can better evaluate whether such emotions have any rational justification. And, more often than not, our justifications are less rational than we once supposed. After all, while agents persist through time, events are temporally-defined. Bob may be standing in front of me right now, but the particular event of knocking my coffee is firmly in the past, likely instigated by multiple fac-

To summarize, under this view, it’s inaccurate to claim that other people — agents — cause phenomena.

Bob because his mannerisms are discomforting, or because he holds certain political views I find disagreeable. By distancing ourselves from a mindset that considers others to be intrinsically dislikeable, disagreeable or wholly despicable, not only can we better identify the source of our discomfort or dislike, thereby making us overall better evaluators of character, but also appreciate their separate, redeeming qualities. Indeed, I’ve been surprised by the number of arbitrary characteristics that have defined my dislike for the Bobs of my life, and now realize that there are many more people I simply dislike being around who I still believe are intrinsically decent.

tors beyond just the negligence or intent of a single agent. Therefore, any time you feel your chest tighten with anger at another person, ask what specifically about that person bothers you. Based on my own experience, this will aid in that grand project of unshackling ourselves from the past, improving our substantive sense of freedom or, at the very least, will make us less reliant on periodic commencement addresses or TED Talks to remind us our innate capacity for empathy.

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com.

Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

In Response To Your Inquiry On How I’m Doing

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ell, I just stress ate a good third of my friend’s leftover birthday cake. I haven’t gone on my daily run in several days, and my period is a good four days early. I’m not pregnant, but what if I wanted to be? Gah! I haven’t finished updating my resume from this summer. For the past week I’ve woken up with intense back pain every morning. I messaged my former crush from high school and still no response. My housemate broke her wrist at our intramural soccer game, which isn’t really anything that affects me especially because I have done very little to help her out, even though I should… damn. I think I’m allergic to something in my house because my left eye gets red and swollen every night. I forgot to take my prescribed vitamin D this week. I ate a BLTease for lunch/dinner three times last week, despite only truly having enough money for a “cheese sandwich.” I can’t control the thermostat in my apartment so as a heat source I’ve been boiling water, putting it in a jar or mug and just holding it. I made a fake list of complaints (e.g. “Anum smells,” “Pegah is too perfect”) on our refrigerator whiteboard and no one mentioned anything about it so now it just looks kind of stupid. On top of it all, I’m behind on my pods!

On the other hand, I just did a somersault for the first time in a while. I mean, if you compare the frequency of our somersaulting from back when we were, like, below the age of 10 to now, it’s actually kind of striking. I also played hide and seek with my housemate with the broken wrist, and she couldn’t find me, even though our apartment is pretty small, so that was pretty funny, but also a little concerning. Does the wrist connect to

Sorry for rambling.

Wait, no! I didn’t mean to apologize. You know how women are socialized to be overly apologetic and stuff. the brain somehow? Nevermind. I mentioned the whiteboard to her to see if she noticed and she was like, “yeah,” with no other commentary, so I guess she didn’t think it was funny. OK. I mean, that’s fine.

Sorry for rambling. Wait, no! I didn’t mean to apologize. You know how women are socialized to be overly apologetic and stuff. Anyways, I’m rambling. It’s just that I haven’t really talked to anyone in a while, except for my roommate with the broken wrist. She’s been watching a lot of Glee and I’m trying to decide whether I liked Glee ironically or genuinely. Speaking of, there’s no way Rachel can commute from Jersey to the city for class every day. I feel like the writers just wanted her to have a really big apartment and the only way they could justify it alongside rising rents was to put her in New Jersey. I think my rural hometown is also being gentrified, actually. They opened a mediterranean fast-casual D.C.-based chain nearby recently.

I don’t know if you can tell, but my acne medication is making my face crumble. You probably can’t I guess because I moisturized a lot, but it’s still itchy, you know? I’m trying to figure out how I can stop it but I can’t call my dermatologist because they have weird hours. I mean not truly weird hours, more like they have normal hours and I’m too scared to have to talk to them on the phone, so in the meantime I’ve just been using my mini-humidifier to see if that does anything. My friend and I jokingly made a SMART goal to find me a husband or something by the end of this semester, but I guess that’s not gonna work out with this crumbling-face situation. I think it’s because it’s much dryer here than it is back home, but apparently my hair didn’t get the memo! I need a haircut, honestly, especially because I tried cutting bangs for myself a while ago and I messed up my hair even more so now I can’t put it back without looking slightly like a cockatiel. I’m sure you’ve seen the recent Monkey Haircut content? I can’t wait until we Milkshake Duck the Monkey Haircut. Actually, I definitely saw something about how the monkey in the video is probably not being cared for properly. A Vice article, maybe? There’s some really interesting research being done on internet virality and animal welfare.

So that’s how I’m doing, more or less. Thanks for asking.

You? Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Jaqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

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n the fall of my freshman year, I thought it would be a sane idea to write about gun control for The Sun. As an 18-yearold barely moved into my firstyear dorm, I looked at a topic that has caused intense political conflict for decades and thought, yup, time to take a stab at that.

Needless to say I got absolutely flamed in the comments section.

At the time, each one felt so personal. Reading through the comments now, some have a bit more meat to them than I had originally thought.

One commenter by the name of “jim smith” responded with more than 1,000 words over the course of five comments. Which was a lot. And, as you can probably guess, he wasn’t totally convinced by my argument. “jim smith’s” manifesto included, there were 16 comments on that one column. It was more than usual, but I’ve seen other columnists get upwards of 60 when tackling issues of social justice or racial politics. Some comments on my column were condescending, others were harsh. But after weeding through the strands of typos and monologues from my anonymous counterparts, it would be unfair to say that none of the comments were productive or compelling.

A few people pushed back on data that I referenced. Others challenged me to go further with my points. “What would a policy solution actually look like?” Good question, and definitely one that should have been answered in my column.

But of course, for every good question, you have three people just using the forum as an opportunity to incite hate. The notion that the comments section isn’t the gold-standard for commentary is by no means a “hot take.”

Many forums, including but not limited to The Sun, have been coopted by trolls. When writers have to attach their full names to their opinions, and commenters do not, I think it’s valid to question if that conversation — between article and comment, writer and reader — should even exist.

In 2016, NPR opted to get rid of their comments sections entirely, joining other sites such as Reuters and Popular Science. On the other hand, you have publications like The New York Times,

In Defense of Commentary

which goes so far as to feature their best online comments in the paper and on social media. We’re in an era where the comments section, as a “medium of discourse,” is both on the verge of eradication in some spaces and in its height in others.

Last year, one columnist for The Sun wrote a piece about racial identity and was met with a slew of particularly heinous comments. One anon referred to Asian males as “whiny highpitched … yellow men.” If you think this kind of comment is an example of constructive “discourse,” we can agree to disagree.

I understand that the value of speech doesn’t necessarily depend on whether or not it’s productive, accurate, or even decent. That being said, the fact that someone

names on what they write. But websites don’t currently operate this way, and even if there was an attempt to change, vetting commenters wouldn’t necessarily be as simple as “linking to their Facebook profile.” So the named writer-anonymous commenter dynamic will continue.

The thing is, I don’t think anybody is entitled to be an anonymous jerk online. The First Amendment guarantees you freedom of expression, but it doesn’t guarantee you the right to masquerade as “Big Guy Class of ’81” in the comments section of your alma mater’s college daily. It doesn’t give you the right to use this particular website to make sexist comments towards young female writers, or to say racist things with a comfortable veil of

The First Amendment guarantees you freedom of expression, but it doesn’t guarantee you the right to masquerade as “Big Guy Class of ’81” in the comments section of your alma mater’s college daily. was able to use The Sun as a platform to anonymously post such blatantly derogatory crap online gave me pause.

Interestingly, the columnist who received these comments chose to leave them up in lieu of having them removed, because he said he doesn’t believe in censorship, but also because he said they only helped to emphasize the point he was trying to make. And that’s valid. The commentary on that column did corroborate the assertion that such racist sentiment exists.

But I think for every author who is able to wade through the waters of gross, prejudiced and even sometimes threatening comments, there are authors who are deterred from writing about hard, personal, important topics because they don’t want to be called an [insert racist or misogynistic slur] underneath a column with their name on it.

In a perfect world, I’d prefer a platform in which commenters have to put as much skin in the game as we do, and include their

anonymity. The Sun could do away with the comments section at any moment and I think it would be completely justified — maybe even for the better. But I also think it would also be a bit a of a mistake.

For every decent reader looking to give their 2 cents on a piece, there seems to be three trolls, looking to co-opt a forum and attach their ugly comments like barnacles to the original column. As conversations continue to shift onto the internet, we’re constantly creating new spheres in which they can occur, and extending the invitation to participate. I don’t think we should try to act as censors, claiming authority in deciding what is and what is not “valid discourse” — whatever that means. But if three negative and insubstantial comments are coupled with one thoughtful one, I guess I’ll take them all.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com.

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BY OPHELIA RODRIGUEZ MAZZA Sun Contributor

I’d like to invite you to take a moment and really reflect on what you think of when you first hear the words “Miley Cyrus.”

I’ll tell you what comes to my mind — of course Hannah Montana is up there, along with twerking, smoking pot, Liam Hemsworth and a collection of iconic hits. And really everyone knows what songs I’m talking about. They range as far back to her Disney days, all the way up to the more recent “Wrecking Ball.”

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Miley Cyrus doesn’t have a sound.

She’s no riffing goddess like Ariana Grande, and she’s not the queen of candypop like Katy Perry; Cyrus just lacks musical identity, which is an amazing feat considering that throughout her career she has never NOT been associated with music. She has managed to skyrocket to fame and remain in the public eye without presenting any unifying factor in her music, post-Disney.

After Hannah Montana, we were introduced to the Bangerz “Bad Girl” and then to the Dead Petz “Stoner Wild-Child.”

Her brand has been inconsistent, and at times riddled with allegations of cultural appropriation and other offenses. After listening to Younger Now, I am of the opinion that this issue was a major consideration for Cyrus and all involved with her new album. Here we see Cyrus trying to undo some of her previous personas in a similar manner to Lady Gaga’s attempt earlier this year.

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over it! She’s over all of the drugs, unicorn dicks, and twerking! I can hear soccer moms praising the Good Lord Jesus for having their prayers answered — finally they can bring their girls to Cyrus concert without having to cover their eyes as the singer gyrates on a giant inflatable hotdog.

But on a more serious note, Younger Now is actually one of two things. It’s either a young pop star’s return to her country roots. Or, this is all really just a white backtrack — a return to heartland Americana audiences after unsuccessfully and, most importantly, unapologetically trying to use black culture to advance her career. And honestly, I think the latter of the two options is more on the mark.

The album makes no attempt to hide its intentions to rebrand. Younger Now opens with a mellow guitar riff underlining her sentimental lyrics: “Feels like I just woke up / like all this time, I’ve been asleep.” She continues the very HannahMontana-like trend of singing about not really being the person everyone thinks she is, and frankly it got old really fast.

The album has a few hits, most notably

the single “Malibu” that was released earlier in the year. While the song features generic fail-proof pop tricks and a catchy beat, it’s difficult to get past the song’s bland and unexciting tone. Following that is the singer’s collaboration with her godmother, Dolly Parton, on the twang-y “Rainbowland.” The song itself is messily put together, with Parton’s riffs playing around insignificantly in the background.

Honestly the most enjoyable part of the song is Parton’s dulcet voice speaking both at the beginning and the end of the song — the personal touch almost makes the rest of the song forgivable.

Following these first few songs is a long period of non-memorable songs. “Miss You So Much” does explore Miley’s talent for passionate performances, as does “I Would Die for You.” However, the songs fail to showcase Cyrus’s range and their lackluster melodies made me want to simply move on to the next thing. “Thinkin” is a throwback to her time experimenting with R&B and is a nice change from the swinging country sound that backs almost every other song on the album.

Miley’s choice to infuse the album with a country styling was very offsetting — it reminded me of a reverse Taylor Swift and I wasn’t really sure how effective it was.

Perhaps with more music in the upcoming years this question of “is she pop or country?” will be resolved and then people will be able to put more attention to her actual music — hopefully when that happens, she’ll have the chance to organize her music more and figure out what her strengths are.

Ophelia Rodriguez Mazza is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ocr4@cornell.edu.

Opera Ithaca Puts on Bold Performance of Pagliacci

BY LELA ROBINSON Sun Contributor

Opera Ithaca flaunted a raw and striking sold out performance of Pagliacci Saturday night. The site-specific production housed in Ithaca’s very own Circus School remained authentic to the Ithacan aesthetic — small and impactful. The show, directed by Zachary James, tells the story of an ensemble of circus performers trapped in a dramatic love triangle. The company, already embraced and well loved by the Ithaca community, is entering its fourth season. Though Ithaca Opera has finished its final performance of Pagliacci, the company has five remaining shows lined up for their 2017/18 season including The Mystery of the Magic Flute, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, and Carmen.

Part of the production was watching two staff members rearranging seating as if adjusting choreography in rehearsal as they tried to make room for hopeful audience members who would inevitably be turned away.

The company ingratiated its audience, attracting people of all ages. The atmosphere created an accessible space, inviting an interpretation of formality as some came dressed up and others sat on the floor in sneakers. The concept of the invisible wall was casually tossed aside, as two performing artists one standing upon the shoulders of the other paced in front of the makeshift curtain with indifference as people filed in.

The informality and intimate charm of the atmosphere was all the more admired as juxtaposed to a magnificent operatic performance. The production made creative use of every corner in their modest and untraditional stage, yet the vocal aptitude and expertise found within the first Italian phrases created an astonishing element of surprise. The power and grace enveloped in the performers voices reverberated within the small space, a sound worthy and easily able to fill a grand opera house. Their voices ran up and down along with

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the arpeggios of the piano with powerful grace as acrobatic performances and balancing acts temporarily stole the air from the room. Though the entirety of the ensemble exhibited refined expertise, Tonio, the fool, was in a league all of his own consistently and exquisitely hitting each note with precision. A full range of emotion colored the performance with hammering phrases of intensity transitioning to the light hearted scenes peppering the stage with staccatos.

Opera Ithaca gave a performance in perfect balance.

Unencumbered by ostentation the show was not only refreshing but an impressive display of uncompromised talent, inviting to anyone with an appreciation for performance.

Lela Robinson is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at lgr47@cornell.edu.

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Fifty years ago, people from across the country gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to celebrate music. The Summer of Love hosted music from many different genres, both mainstream and underground, but the highlight of the festival was the new genre, born in California’s Bay Area and brought to life by bands such as Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead.

1967 was the year of psychedelic rock. Despite its immense influence on the 1960s and 1970s countercultural movement, psychedelic rock has largely disappeared from the limelight. Those, like myself, who still crave the unorthodox guitar riffs and new chord progressions, must plop down an ancient record onto a turntable for a chance to listen to the wild sounds of the genre. But the wait for a modern-day psychedelic rock group has come to an end with the establishment of the new band, Coast Modern.

Coast Modern is a Los Angeles-based band, formed by Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp. They started the band back in 2015 with the release of their first single, “Hollow Life.” In this song, Coast Modern replicates some of the sounds that were first engineered back in the 1960s. Their use of electric guitars and whammy pedals allows them to produce pitch shifting effects, similar to those of Phish and Hendrix.

Coast Modern has been delivering imaginative singles since they first formed, but over the summer, they took it one step further. They released their self-

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After nearly 30 years of working alongside the likes of Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder, Matt Cameron has decided to venture out as a solo artist.

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Songs like “Guru” and “Comb My Hair” epitomize the band’s funky sound. With electronic and groovy melodies, these songs make you want to kick your feet up on the couch and take a load off. With their unconventional style, the band encourages a sense of euphoria with their music. The lyrics of “Guru,” and all their songs, are simple and relatable, complementing the beats nicely, “Got some scruff growin’, gotta shave it, get my diet up, no more eatin’ bacon.”

The rock duo shows that they can also get away from their far-out vibes with “Frost.” In this song they ditch the synthesizers for an acoustic guitar and soft vocals, demonstrating their ability to produce a number of different styles of music.

The songs in the album are scattered with interludes, in which Trapp and Atlas freestyle with synthesizers. There are no lyrics for these interludes, only mellow harmonies. Coast Modern covers a range of themes in their songs throughout the album. From heartbreak to teenage angst, Coast Modern touches on it all. Starting with “Going Down,” a surf opera about staying alive, and ending with nostalgia and the ever-changing times in “Frost.”

While their lyrics are meaningful, Coast Modern really focuses on their beats, just as their 1960s predecessors did. They try to imitate the rush of a crashing wave, or the onset of a fairytale-esque dream.

They successfully place the listener in the mood they want to, all while keeping the beats catchy and encouraging of some unconscious head-bobbing and finger-snapping.

The original aim of psychedelic rock was to replicate the experience of hallucinogenic drugs with music. They used an assortment of sounds to make this happen, and to create a bohemian vibe people could rock back and forth to. Coast Modern also experiments with these old ways of producing psychedelic melodies to attain the same effect, but they also incorporate their own touch, to differentiate themselves from the past. In their song “The Way It Was,” the band admits to trying to capture the constant uncertainty of life that comes from tripping on ayahuasca. They use modern technology, such as synthesizers, to craft a new sound, one with surfy, southern California vibes. Perhaps Coast Modern will inspire a modernized, second wave of psychedelic rock, but we can only hope.

AJ Stella is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ajs548@cornell.edu.

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the lead drummer for both Soundgarden and the grunge supergroup Temple of Dog. He continued on with Soundgarden through their 1996 release of Down on The Upside and the group’s dissolution soon after. He was picked up by Pearl Jam to sign on as their new drummer, a gig he holds to this day.

Throughout the years, Cameron always focused heavily on songwriting, despite being overshadowed by two of the greatest singers of all time — Cornell and Vedder. He contributed lyrics and music to Soundgarden’s ground breaking Superunknown and suave vocals to Pearl Jam’s “Sirens” from their 2013 album Lightning Bolt.

Recently, Cameron has been a touring force with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog. These groups’ tours have brought the angst of grunge to the modern day; their music is speaking to a new generation that is just as pissed off at the establishment as the motley crew of fans that raged with them in the early 90s.

Citizen Jane at Cornell Cinema

BY LELA ROBINSON Sun Contributor

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City relayed a narrative of civil disobedience, the destructive uprooting and displacement of black communities and a constant fight to bring the city back to its people. The 2016 documentary, directed by Matt Tyrnauer and featuring Cornell Professor Thomas Campanella, premiered in Ithaca at Willard Straight Theater this past Wednesday.

The documentary delves into the life of Jane Jacobs’, recounting her fervent campaign to save New York City from attempts to pave over its existing social fabric.

Author of the influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, grassroots activist Jacobs advocated for “eyes on the street” as a force for safety, providing for vital and prosperous city streets. In an hour and a half the film provided a critique of urban renewal and the ideals of modernism driving New York City’s planning commissioner Robert Moses to clear out the suffering cities through demolition and the complete remodeling of its infrastructure. The compilation of dramatic newspaper headlines, grainy footage and city plans aided in a pervasive retelling of the contest between these two public leaders.

Quotes from Jacobs’ books seemed to burn atop Moses’ documents and plans to restructure the city. The two opposing views questioned the function of the city, one image as an organized plan, the other living and breathing interconnected neighborhoods. For Washington Square Park or the lower Manhattan expressway, eyes on the street crusaded against towers in the park.

On a related tangent the film touched on the consequences of urban renewal which cast its shadows beyond New York City. Exposing St. Louis’ infamous public housing project Pruitt-Igoe, the documentary depicted despondent images of abandoned buildings and neglected communities, as well as stark instances of poverty.

In its final minutes the documentary analyzed current urban trends recontextualizing the Jacobs’ battle for the city. The message seemed to relay an ominous reminder of our urban environments, citing future slums and perpetuated inequality and social stratification. The film undoubtedly advocated for a continued commitment to cities, highlighting the polarity in which they are perceived in addition to questioning how these contrasting views will affect their future.

Lela Robinson is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at lgr47@cornell.edu.

Cameron’s world changed earlier this year when his long-time friend Chris Cornell tragically took his own life after a Soundgarden concert in Detroit.

Cameron somberly expressed his gratitude that he was able to share his body of work with Cornell before his passing: “I played some of it for him last March. ...He really liked it. He was always very supportive of me writing music for the band and kind of going for it. That was great.”

Cavedweller, which features artists like Mark Guiliana and Tim Lefebvre (who both worked with David Bowie on Blackstar) is the perfect release to spark a solo career. It strikes an incredible balance between songs that we typically associate with Cameron (“Fresh Tendrils” and “Black Hole Sun”) and experimental material.

The album opens with a heavy stomper, “Time Can’t Wait,” which is infused with a psychedelic twist that calls to mind the Syd Barrett days of Pink Floyd — this isn’t surprising considering Cameron frequently relates just how important Syd Barrett’s music is to his creative process.

Another standout moment is “Through the Ceiling,” a California surf rock track that brings to mind the music of Sheryl Crow; it’s interesting and fresh to hear something like this from

Cameron, especially given his musical background.

While Cameron’s vocals may seemed drowned out and washed at times, it seems appropriate, as if he is paying homage to one of the most beautiful voices in rock, Chris Cornell.

One of the only blunders on this album comes with tracks 7 and 8. How do I put this lightly? The series of songs “Into the Fire” followed by “Real and Imagined” sounds like something you would hear play over the speakers in the mall dressing room as you were trying to get unstuck from a pair of designer jeans that are too tight. Other than that, there really is nothing to complain about.

Cavedweller is a collection of messy rock and roll that suits Matt Cameron’s persona in every way imaginable.

Listening to this album brought back memories of the golden era of Soundgarden, when their music commanded the youth and helped so many people deal with problems of the day.

The only thing that comes to mind when I think about this work as a whole is how proud Chris Cornell must be, whereever he is.

Peter Buonanno is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pfb48@cornell.edu.

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Sundoku 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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New leadership | From left: senior Jake Pulver, junior Clarke Petterson, senior Jordan Dowiak and senior Christian Knight.

MEN’S LACROSEE

Cornell Announces Quartet of Captains For Upcoming Season

By TIM MORALES Sun Contributor

Already deep into preparation for a bounceback 2018 season, Cornell men’s lacrosse has selected seniors Jake Pulver, Jordan Dowiak, Christian Knight and junior Clarke Petterson to serve as captains for the upcoming year.

Led by returning captains Pulver and Petterson, along with a new coach in Peter Milliman, these four will attempt to lead the team back to the NCAA tournament and to reclaim the Ivy League Championship for the first time since 2015.

A back-to-back All-Ivy second-team defensemen, Jake Pulver gets a chance to serve as captain for the second straight year. Playing a significant role since his freshman year, Pulver will continue to be one of the Ivy League’s best defenders, assigned with the task of locking down the opponent’s top scorer night in and night out.

Petterson will also serve as a captain for the second straight season after becoming the first sophomore in the history of Cornell lacrosse to serve in the post. The midfielder raked up honorable mention All-Ivy last season after posting 32 points on 17 assists and 15 goals — all career highs.

Dowiak, a midfielder from New Jersey, was selected captain

after a breakout junior season.

Last year, he was third on the team in goals with 20 and fourth in points with 28 while appearing in all 13 games as an offensive midfielder. A consistent offensive threat, Dowiak had at least one point in all but two games last season, including a career-high five goals in a single game against Virginia.

Christian Knight will serve his first season as a captain after being granted a fifth-year of eligibility in August. The Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2014, Knight will get a chance for his fourth season in the net after an injury forced him to miss all of 2016. Eighth in Cornell history in saves with 441 and wins with 22, Knight provides experience and, should his numbers remain consistent in 2018, is on pace for a record breaking career. Honorable mention All-Ivy in 2014, 2015 and 2017, Knight was 12th in the nation in saves per game last season with 11.92.

After a disappointing 2017 season, which secured the program’s first consecutive losing seasons in nearly two decades, these four men will do their best to lead Cornell back to a record above .500 and reclaim its tradition of excellence.

Tim Morales can be reached at tim8@cornell.edu

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Cornell Records Draw In 1st Ivy Match of Year MEN’S SOCCER

Continued from page 14

thing we knew we were capable of doing.”

Bayne agreed that his team succeeded at keeping its head up.

“The upperclassmen did well to stay positive and urge our guys on and battle through the frustration of the first half,” he said. “The young guys did well too, continuing to push — the team as a whole never gave up. That’s why in the second half we started playing more like ourselves and grabbing a hold of the game.”

The Red’s persistence finally paid off in the 76th minute when freshman midfielder Caleb McAuslan found the back of the net to put Cornell on the scoreboard. Despite aggressive offensive efforts from the Red, which forced Penn’s goalkeeper to make six saves, both teams’ scoring attempts were thwarted and the match ended in a draw after two overtime periods.

“We were pushing all through the second half and overtime, playing much of the game in Penn’s half of the field,” Bayne said. “It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to put more of our chances away. We generated quite a few quality ones.”

The game proved to be a valuable lesson for the young team.

“Next time we are really going to try and start games better; we were slow in the first half and we paid for that,” Nuss said. “We need to play smarter and play with more intensity right from the opening whistle and continue that work rate throughout the entire game.”

The Red finds itself back in Ancient Eight action on Oct. 7 at 4:30 p.m. when it hosts Harvard (2-5-1, 1-0-0) at Berman Field.

“Many guys got their first taste of what it’s like to play in an Ivy game, where there’s an extra edge to the play,” Bayne said. “[It’s] good to get that out of the way. Also coming back from a goal down, on the road, to get at least a point in your Ivy opener it’s a good lesson for us.”

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell faculty and student body came together on the Arts Quad for a collective “kneel’’. Among students and faculty, members of the football team took part as well. Head coach David Archer ’05 was also present.

Kaepernick initially knelt during the national anthem to protest the racial injustice he felt was plaguing the nation. The controversial action has spread throughout the NFL, particularly this past Sunday, after President Donald Trump called for the firing of any player who knelt during the national anthem.

Butler and other bandmates still wanted to show their solidarity and promote the message of the ongoing demonstrations.

“It’s about the systemic racism in the country and police brutality against the black and brown community and how it’s handled in the justice system,” Butler said of the protests. “So we’re taking a knee to protest that and using the anthem as a vehicle to get the message out.”

“Obviously this is a really big thing that’s going on right now,” Won added, “and it’s important to take a stand.”

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

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Booters Claw Back to Extend Undefeated Streak to 4 Games remained resilient to keep the Quakers scoreless for the remainder of the game.

“We did not start the game well,” said junior The Cornell men’s soccer team is no stranger to captain defender Ryan Bayne. “We essentially maintaining its composure under duress. The Red invited Penn to get comfortable and play their kept cool once again, as the team was able to come game. As a result, we found ourselves down a goal from behind to equalize the score against Penn on at the half.”

Undeterred by the Saturday in its Ivy deficit, Cornell relied League opener. on poise from upperPlaying on a cool “I think we have a group of guys this classmen and underSaturday night at Rhodes Field, the Red year that is more confident in our ability classmen alike to persevere.

(4-3-2, 0-0-1 Ivy) to score goals.”

“I think we have a refused to relent to the Senior defender Eric Nuss group of guys this year host Quakers (1-6-1, that is more confident 0-0-1) ending the 90 in our ability to score minute play period goals and put pressure on opposing teams,” said and both overtime periods with a 1-1 final score.

The draw extends the Red’s undefeated streak senior captain defender Eric Nuss. “We have been to four games — the longest since the team’s four in situations this year where we have been down a goal and have had to come back so it was somegame winning streak in 2014.

Despite a rocky start, which Penn capitalized on See MEN’S SOCCER page 13 to score a goal in the 19th minute, Cornell

By SMITA NALLURI

Sun Staff Writer

MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Road resilience | Despite being on enemy turf, the Red did not let Penn get on the board despite an onslaught of shots from the Quakers.

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Kennedy Leads Red To Draw Against Penn Cornell claims 2nd consecutive shutout

By MARY BARGER Sun Staff Writer

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Down, but not out | Cornell conceded a goal to the Quakers in the 19th minute of action, before the squad fought back to equalize in the 76th minute.

Junior goalie Meghan Kennedy led Cornell women’s soccer to a 0-0 shutout against Penn on the road this weekend.

The Red recorded its second consecutive shutout, after a 0-0 draw against Fairleigh Dickinson University last Sunday. Kennedy posted a career-high 10 saves to keep the Quakers at bay — four of which were made during double overtime periods.

Friday’s game marked the second consecutive draw between the Red (2-4-2, 0-1-1 Ivy) and the Quakers (2-5-3, 10-1) on Penn’s home-turf at Rhodes Field. However, the most recent match between the two teams — almost a year to the day from Friday’s game — was a very different story.

Penn crushed the Red, 5-0, on the Red’s home turf at Berman Field when they faced off in 2016. Last year’s defeat was a major blow to the Red’s early-season record, and came as its second consecutive conference loss.

This season seems to be headed in a different direction, in part due to Cornell’s iron-clad defensive line. After dropping its league-opener against Columbia, 2-0, the Red held

Heading into Friday’s competition, the Quakers were riding a high from a big upset at Harvard, where they took down the reigning Ivy League Champions 1-0 on the Crimson’s home turf.

Although fully aware of the

“We all knew that we could definitely beat Penn, as long as we stayed tight on defense.”

Junior Meghan Kennedy

impressive upset, the Red was confident in its ability to match the Quakers, and its confidence was not misplaced.

“We all knew that we could definitely beat Penn, as long as we stayed tight on defense and battled in the middle,” Kennedy said. “We knew before the game that they play very compact and strong in the middle.”

The cohesion of the Red’s defensive line helped shut out the Quakers on the same field where the reigning Ivy champs had failed the week prior.

The defense came from Kennedy, who currently leads the Ivy League in saves-pergame. She earned All-Ivy honorable mention last season, after starting in goal as a “We were all happy about getting the sophomore nine shutout ... but we were disappointed not for games with a to get the win.” .852 save percentage.

Junior Meghan Kennedy But while Kennedy and tough against the Quakers’ the rest of the Red’s defensive aggressive offensive line, which line was nearly flawless on outshot the Red, 14-1, in the Friday, its offensive line will first half and 28-10 by the have to increase its output in game’s end. terms of shots-on-goal to get the “I think that our back line all points the team needs to win. performed so well and so cohe“We were all happy about sively that Penn had a hard time getting the shut out and having finding holes to play through,” a good performance on the Kennedy said. “We also had road, but we were disappointed Shelby Wray shutting down one not to get the win,” Kennedy of their best players as a defen- said. sive midfielder, which stopped a The Red will have homefield lot of their offense.” advantage next weekend when it Wray, a new face in the line- faces the Crimson at 1 p.m. on up, is a freshman midfielder Saturday, Oct. 7 at Berman already making an impact on the Field. team’s scoring potential. She was the force behind several of the Mary Barger can be reached at Red’s near-misses against Penn. mbarger@cornellsun.com.

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Around the Ivy League:Upsets Highlight Week 3

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Contributor

As Cornell fell to 0-3 after a disappointing 21-7 loss to Colgate, the Red’s Ivy League foes continued their non-conference dominance on a weekend that featured two exciting Ivy League upsets.

Dartmouth 16, Penn 13

In a nationally televised Friday night game, Dartmouth upset Penn on a last second touchdown in Philadelphia.

Down 13-10 late in the game, the Green’s offense orchestrated a 15-play, 80-yard drive to win the game and improve to 3-0. Trailing by three with seconds remaining, the Green went for the win on 4th and inches on the goal line.

Quarterback Jared Gerbino plunged into the endzone to give Dartmouth the surprise win over last year’s co-champion Quakers. The Green held Penn’s powerful offense — led by running back Karekin Brooks —to just 85 rushing yards.

Columbia 28, Princeton 24

Penn’s co-champion, Princeton, was also victim to a visiting league opponent thought to be one of the weaker Ivy teams. Like Dartmouth, Columbia is a surprise 3-0 team after beating Princeton, 28-24, after a 63-yard touchdown pass from Anders Hill to Ronald Smith II with under two minutes remaining. Hill threw for 400 yards and two touchdowns and Smith picked up 236 receiving yards and scored two touchdowns, including the game winner.

Harvard 41, Georgetown 2

Though Cornell is 0-2 against nonconference opponents, Ivy League teams have found great success against teams outside their conference. Harvard beat up on Georgetown, 41-2, after taking a 7-0 lead on a first quarter punt return for a touchdown and never looking back.

Running back Charlie Booker III ran for two touchdowns and the Crimson defense took advantage of five Georgetown turnovers in the first half. Harvard travels to Ithaca next

week as the Red looks for its first win.

Yale 41, Fordham 10

Yale beat Fordham, 41-10. Deshawn Salter, one of two backs who ran all over Cornell’s defense two weeks ago, scored three touchdowns in the Bulldogs’ victory. A 21point first quarter powered Yale on the road as they improved to 3-0.

Rhode Island 21, Brown 24

Facing a 14-3 halftime deficit, Brown came back to beat Rhode Island, 24-21, powered by a 21-point third quarter, including two touchdowns from running back Darius Daies. Rhode Island quarterback Tyler Harris threw for 298 yards and two touchdowns in the loss.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rsg249@cornell.edu.

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Hard times | Senior Miles Norris could only watch in Cornell’s home opener, after being sidelined in his final season with an achillies injury.

that would not happen again.

After Cornell scored a touchdown, eyeing its second straight upset, Colgate maintained its grip on the game, burning down minutes on the clock; in the fourth quarter, the Raiders held the ball for over 10 minutes of game time.

“I think last year we made stops when we needed to,” said junior linebacker Reis Seggebruch. “We made a few stops in the second half this year but not the ones that counted. We needed to have a zero-point second half and we didn’t do it.”

This year’s 0-3 record differs

markedly from 2016’s undefeated start through three games. Because the team knows it has the capability to win this year, these losses have been especially frustrating, according to Archer. “[There’s] a lot of frustration because they know they’re good,” Archer said. “They know they can win, they know they can beat the teams we just played, all three of them. They know they can beat the teams were about to play, so it’s a matter of putting that together and making sure that that’s the mindset to be able to get the solutions we need.”

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

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Cornell Loses 3rd Straight in Home Opener

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

Up against Colgate’s up-tempo offense and penetrating defense, Cornell football limped to a 21-7 defeat at the hands of the Raiders, marking the Red’s third straight loss to begin the 2017 season.

Unlike last year’s shocking 23-point comeback victory over the then-No. 23 Raiders, the Red failed to escape out of its first half deficit. With a porous offensive line that gave up nine sacks and an aerial attack that struggled to find its rhythm all game, Cornell falls to 0-3 on the season, a far cry from its fiery 3-0 start last year.

Cornell stayed with Colgate in the first quarter, holding the Raiders scoreless in the first 15 minutes of action. But CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY the Red’s offense, gifted with five drives with short field EDITOR position in the first half, failed to really threaten Colgate; Cornell ventured into the red zone just once in the first two quarters, never advancing past the 19-yard line.

Thanks to two sloppy Raider punts and a Colgate turnover on downs, all of Cornell’s first three offensive drives started north of the Red’s 40-yard line.

But despite the short field position, Cornell squanCOLGATE @ CORNELL dered its opportunities, failing to come away with points in any of those first drives.

“It only takes one broken assignment to let the Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH play break down,” said senior running back and capColgate 0 14 0 7 Under pressure | Cornell was unable to stop the Raiders’ pass rush, allowing quartertain Jack Gellatly. “Frankly, all 11 across [on Cornell 0 0 7 0 back Dalton Banks to be sacked nine times and causing the junior to throw multiple interoffense], we need to do a better job. We need to help ceptions. our defense out and finish those drives and punch those points in.” with multiple picks — Gellatly stands by his quarterback. a Cornell opponent since the Red beat Bucknell in 2009.

Gellatly, who finished with 41 yards on 12 carries, “Dalton Banks is a fighter,” Gellatly said. “That guy “I thought [the defense] played good enough to win,” noted that, while the offense has orchestrated strong drives will take hits all day long. And he’ll stand up and he’ll put Archer said. “I thought they gave us a chance in the second early in the game, those drives tend to stall out and fail to his body on the line for the team. … He’s going to get into half by getting good stops. Really happy with the way they end up in points, putting pressure on the defense to keep the film and be critical and honest with himself and then responded after halftime, we made that a point of emphathe opponent scoreless through the rest of the game. he is going to help lead this offense keep going in the right sis after last week.”

“Certainly it was a focus and will continue to be a direction.”

In the third quarter, Cornell’s offense began to click. focus,” head coach David Archer ’05 said of the team’s On the defensive side of the ball, Colgate sped up the Gellatly started to get into rhythm, helping Cornell plow early offensive woes. “Because without it, it will be tough game in the second quarter and forced Cornell to make into the red zone. His downhill running style, opting to to win football games substitutions on the fly, a task that proved too difficult. run through Raiders as opposed to around them, was if you don’t finish in Cornell had no answer for Colgate’s uptempo attack, and instrumental on Cornell’s first scoring drive of the day.

“Dalton Banks is a the red zone, especial- the Raiders scored twice on back-to-back drives in the sec- That drive, a nine-play, 55-yard march down the field, culfighter ... he’ll put his ly when you get the ond quarter to turn a tie game into a 14-point lead in just minated with a one-yard touchdown run from Banks, set nine minutes of game time. body on the line for the short field.” up by Banks’ pass to senior tight-end Hayes Nolte.

Colgate’s defense “[The up-tempo offense] is something that they had Colgate responded immediately, however, capitalizing team.” was particularly dom- shown at times but weren’t majoring in it so I think it was on a pair of kickoff penalties that gave the Raiders the ball inant in putting pres- a good adjustment by them,” Archer said. “There was the at midfield to start the drive. Colgate drove down the field Senior Jack Gellatly sure on junior quar- element of surprise there, and it took us a little to settle and extended the lead back to 14 after quarterback Grant terback Dalton down, but ultimately we were able to stay in the game.”

Breneman’s seven-yard strike to Malik Twyman.

Banks. Aside from the nine sacks, the defense forced Banks After the pair of second quarter touchdowns, Cornell’s Last year, Cornell roared back from a 23-point deficit to to throw quickly and knocked him down on the plays in defense kept pace with the uptempo attack, holding the stun Colgate at home. This season, the Raiders made sure which he was able to get the ball off. Despite the big hits Raiders’ offense scoreless in the third quarter. Despite the loss, See FOOTBALL page 15 and Banks’ four interceptions — his third straight game Colgate’s 270 yards of offense was the fewest accumulated by

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Members of Big Red Marching Band Kneel During Anthem

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Members of the Big Red Marching Band became the latest group to join in on the national anthem protests Saturday afternoon before Cornell football’s home

opening 21-7 loss to Colgate.

While the band still played the anthem — as it does before each home game — approximately 30 members came together on the sideline to sit out and take a knee. Various other attendees of the game, including a group of fans

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No interruption | As per tradition, the band still played the national anthem before Saturday’s home game while select members opted out of the performance to take a knee.

and several cheerleaders, also elected not to stand for the anthem.

As per tradition for games at Schoellkopf Field, both teams remained in their locker rooms until after the anthem.

According to saxophone player Kevin Linsey ’18, who is a columnist for The Sun sports department, select members of the group took separate time away from practice to discuss the possibility of a demonstration.

In addition to Colin Kaepernick, the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback who first knelt last season to, as he said, protest racial injustice and police brutality, the group who took part in Saturday’s kneel was inspired by Kyra Butler ’20.

Butler took a knee during the anthem at last week’s game at Yale, drawing the attention of her bandmates who wanted to take part as well.

“Word got around and other people saw it as an option too,” Butler said.

“Since it got big enough, we talked about it at the band’s exec meeting.”

After making sure Cornell Athletics

was on board — which Butler said it was — the band welcomed anyone who wanted to take a knee on the sideline to do so.

“We just wanted to make sure individuals had a chance to express what they wanted to express,” Linsey said.

“We wanted to impress upon everyone that if you wanted to do it you could … and we were going to support everyone no matter what,” said the band’s head manager Kathleen Won ’19.

That being said, the band had a job to do in playing the anthem, and if everyone wanted to kneel, doing so would have been difficult.

“We’re kind of in a tough spot because that’s our job, and people expect us to do our job,” Linsey said.

But given the diverse set of opinions in the group, having enough people to play was not an issue, and the anthem was played seemingly without any musical complications.

Earlier this week, members of the See BAND page 13