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The downtown Apple Harvest Festival attracted over 35,000 attendees and 100 vendors. | Page 3

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Cornell football upended No. 25 Colgate to continue its undefeated season start. | Page 16

Cornell’s $6.1 Billion Endowment Anabel’s Grocery Posts Loss; Lowest Return of 5 Ivies Plans Spring Opening

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Cornell announced Thursday that its $6.1 billion dollar endowment has posted a return of negative 3.3 percent in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. The University’s endowment performance is the worst of the five Ivy League schools that have reported returns so far.

Only Yale has posted a gain for the year, climbing 3.4 percent, while Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth have posted losses of 2 percent, 1.4 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.

“We recognize the importance of the endowment for the University’s finanEndowment Returns for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 cial interests and its research, faculty and students,” said Donald Opatrny ’74, the Falling behind | The University performed poorly among the Ivy League institutions chair of the Investment Committee in a in endowment returns, according to the 2015-2016 fiscal report released Thursday. statement. “Moving forward we are proactively examining, given this low- according to Joann DeStefano, Cor- world capital markets.”

Kenneth Miranda, the University’s return environment, how to optimize nell’s chief financial officer.

“The Investment Committee fourth chief investment officer since the endowment.”

One of the proactive moves the Uni- believes over the long term the reloca- 2010, added that the move is in the long-term interest of versity will make is to Cornell even if the move the Office of “We recognize the importance of the endowment for “full merits will take University Investments to time to achieve.”

New York City from its the University’s financial interests and its research.”

Although office current location in Ithaca.

Donald Opatrny ’74 space and salaries in The move was anNew York City nounced on Friday after being recommended at the Investment tion to New York City gives us even would be more expensive, DeStefano Committee’s Sept. 7 meeting and receiv- better access to potential staff who added that a 10-basis point increase in ing the stamp of approval from Interim might not be willing to move to endowment returns would more than President Hunter Rawlings a week later. Ithaca,” she said in a statement. “We’ve cover the difference in cost.

The move represents an effort to had great staff hires, but this move will attract more potential employees who expand the population of potential can- Josh Girsky can be reached at may not be willing to move to Ithaca, didates. And it puts us closer to the jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

Students Voice Safety Concerns After Stabbing

By ANNA KOOK Sun Contributor

While Interim President Hunter Rawlings announced the implementation of increased campus safety measures after last week’s stabbing, some Cornellians expressed concern that precautions do not extend far enough.

After Wednesday night’s violent altercation and last month’s fatal stabbing of Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire, both Rawlings and Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner sought to assure students that they are safe at Cornell.

“Safety is our top priority

as violence has no place on or near our campus,” Rawlings said in an email. He added that, although there is no ongoing threat to Cornell, security provisions have been bolstered, mentioning that there will be an increased number of police patrols and Blue Light escort teams.

Despite these measures, some students and parents say their safety concerns persist, explaining that, although no Cornellians were harmed in Wednesday night’s incident, the presence of violence on or near campus this semester has been startling.

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After Multiple Delays

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Anabel’s Grocery, a Student Assembly-funded venture that aims to relieve food insecurity on campus, is slated to open next semester according to a statement from its co-presidents, Lizzi Gorman ’17 and Adam Shelepak ’17.

Despite receiving S.A. funding last fall for a projected opening this semester, Gorman said the project faced several obstacles that have forced the team to keep postponing the opening date.

After an original projected opening of February 2016, bureaucratic hurdles in the construction process pushed the date back to the beginning of the academic year and then again to next semester.

For one thing, the team struggled to renovate the basement of Anabel Taylor Hall to become the grocery’s storefront, according to Gorman and Shelepak.

“Delays in the construction process that are external to the student involvement in the project have pushed our timeline to opening in the middle of next semester,” Gorman said. “These delays were driven by unexpectedly high bids from contractors and subcontractors.”

In addition to a sluggish construction process, Gorman also said the grocery encountered funding issues, with unforeseen costs making the project’s organization more expensive than originally projected.

“While the funding asked [from the S.A.] was in line with cost projections at the time for the renovation, unknown-unknowns of the space See ANABEL’S page 4

Stunner in Hamilton

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Cornell football mounted an improbable comeback to stun No. 25 Colgate. The Red trailed 21-0 early before shocking the Raiders in the second half. After back-to-back one-win seasons, Cornell is 3-0 this year.

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Apple Festival Kicks Off Fall Season Simeon’s Reopens Event draws 35,000 to 100 stands covering Commons

By TREY AGUIRRE Sun Contributor

For festival-goers like Catherine Curran ’20 and Rhett Curran ’20, Ithaca’s Annual Apple Harvest Festival is the “perfect embodiment of fall,” as well as an opportunity to sample the products of Ithaca’s local restaurants, vendors and artisans.

The festival — which lasted from Friday afternoon through Sunday — sprawled from the Ithaca Commons to Cayuga Street, housing over 100 farm stands, artisans, food trucks and other vendors.

According to Tatiana Sy, this

year’s events director, the process of has a “major presence” at the event planning for the festival began in each year in volunteer turnout. late June and focused on “keeping New additions to this year’s the foundation and the tradition event included the Silo Food Truck [of the festival] and trying to adapt — a New York State Fair food and keep up with truck finalist, spenew ideas and “For a lot of folks from cializing in fried new challenges.” chicken dishes — here there’s a lot of Let’s Roll, a food The festival draws approxi- regular vendors that have truck serving up gourmet egg rolls, mately 35,000 been coming here for and a free activity people to the years” area inside Center Commons each Ithaca for families year, according to Tatiana Sy with small chilSy. She added dren. that demographHowever, Sy stressed that for ics of the attendees were fairly evenly split between college students most attendees, “the farmers are and Ithacans, adding that Cornell what people are coming to see.”

“For a lot of folks from here there’s a lot of regular vendors that have been coming here for years,” she said. “They know [what] they’re looking for when they come.”

Moreover, the annual event brings together college students, staff, alumni and local families, Sy said. “[We want to give Ithacans and Cornellians] a chance to come downtown and discover what Ithaca has to offer,” she said. “The festival is a tradition, so it’s kind of a window for students and Ithacans to see who’s in Ithaca and what they enjoy there, and to get to know Ithaca on a personal level.”

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Taste of fall | An Indian Creek Farm employee hands out apple cider at the annual Apple Harvest Festival Sunday.

Trey Aguirre can be reached at tea42@cornell.edu.

CoursePad to Become Open Source

By CELINE CHOO Sun Contributor

hobby — a one-man project inspired by Chequerd and Schedulr, the popular course scheduling websites in that year.

“I was a pretty big fan of Chequerd, but there were minor details that could have been better,” he said.

In 2014, Zhu said he took a gap year to intern at various companies, including Google and Facebook. During the year, he said his interest in web development increased as he learned about its extensive capabilities in the modern age.

“I learned that the web was entirely different place, and there was so many complex things you could [do],” he said. “I wanted to see how I could approach this boundary.”

In approaching the CoursePad project, Zhu said he had two goals in mind: reliability — “I did-

applications have a high maintenance costs due to the amount of calculations and data that the web host requires.

“CoursePad doesn’t have a server size component,” he said. “The price for running rate is practically zero. It is just like a webpage, not like a com-

publish the beta version publicly.

The day CoursePad beta went live, the website instantly became a sensation among Cornell students, Zhu said. He said he was surprised to see its quick rise to popularity.

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Zhu said. “The thing

Cornell’s most popular course scheduling website, CoursePad.me, became open source on Github last Thursday after enjoying two years of popularity among students, according to Jingsi Zhu ’16, the website’s sole developer.

Zhu explained that he “The thing with such course scheduling apps chose to open source his is that they are more or less the same. You website — or make its don’t really have a strong incentive to switch.” code freely available for modification and redistriJingsi Zhu ’16 bution — after he graduated last semester and realized that he would need to plex web application such with such course scheduldevote more time to his as Gmail. Therefore it has ing apps is that they are work than to CoursePad. a very low cost.” more or less the same. You However, changing the These two, occasionally don’t really have a strong website to an open source contradictory, goals made incentive to switch unless was not an easy decision developing the project a there is a big problem.” for Zhu. He said that durchallenge, according to Zhu speculated that ing the years that he manZhu. this growth could be aged CoursePad alone, he “In order for some- attributed in part to the was frequently approached thing to be reliable, it recent loss of Chequerd with requests for partnerneeds to have redundan- and Schedulr, other popuships or information that cy,” he said. “If it has lar scheduling websites he did not feel he could redundancy, it costs that went offline that comply with.

“I was a pretty big fan of more money. It was one semester and summer, “I see myself as kind of the biggest chal- respectively. of like a guardian,” he Chequerd, but there were lenges: how to balance With last semester’s said. “To make sure this minor details that could these two contradictory release of Scheduler, still goes towards a genacts.”

Cornell’s official schedulhave been better.” erally good direction — Zhu first sent a pre- ing web application, in the direction that I liminary version of the CoursePad has likely fallJingsi Zhu ’16 think is correct.”

CoursePad website to a en to the back as well, CoursePad first went few friends, and their Zhu said. He added that online in late October n’t want it to go down positive feedback led to its after Scheduler became 2014, after a month of during pre-enroll,” he said spread across campus, available, CoursePad’s user development. Zhu said it — and low maintenance according to Zhu. It was he started the website as a cost. He said many web then that he decided to See COURSEPAD page 4

Two Years After Fatal Accident

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Contributior

After a shocking car crash forced the restaurant to close for two years, Simeon’s on the Commons officially reopened with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance Executive Director Gary Ferguson Thursday morning.

Simeon’s was forced to shut its doors after an incident in June 2014 when a tractor-trailer collided with the front façade, reducing it to rubble and killing employee Amanda Bush.

Co-owners Dean Zervos and Rich Avery said they rebuilt the restaurant in Bush’s honor, placing a plaque on the wall to commemorate her memory and naming

“The next 10 years are going to be epic in this city, a complete change and re-growth.”

Dean Zervos the build-out after her.

Although the restaurant has opened for limited business since Aug. 26, working with a few former employees, it launched into full operation Thursday after several delays slowed the construction process.

The restaurant — which was named after Ithaca’s founder and the first Surveyor General of New York Simeon De Witt — has been one of Ithaca’s premier gathering places for nearly a quarter of a century, according to Simeon’s website.

The restaurant has undergone major reconstruction since the 2014 accident. The rebuilt front facade replicates, in all but a few details, the facade that was destroyed. The interior of the restaurant dining space has also been enhanced, with the additions of the Oyster Room, Tavern Room, and a balcony space overlooking the main floor.

Zervos said that he has been grateful for the community’s support throughout the rebuilding process.

“The Ithaca Community has been supportive of us throughout and we look forward to welcoming back our old customers and even a lot more new ones,” he said.

“The next 10 years are going to be epic in this city, a complete change and re-growth.”

Girisha Arora can be reached at ga276@cornell.edu.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Back by popular demand | Simeon’s has reopened, two years after a tractor-trailer crashed into its storefront.

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After Stabbings, Increased Safety Measures Fail to Arrest Concerns

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In memory

STABBING

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Andrew Cho ’17 questioned the effectiveness of the University’s Blue Light system, saying he feels that Cornell should do more to keep perpetrators off of campus.

“I don’t know a single person who uses Blue Light Escort teams,” he said. “The school should make greater effort on campus safety by only allowing Cornell-affiliated “I now consider people on campus after a certain time.” carrying a gun on However, Jung me in Ithaca in the Won Kim ’18 said that, as the stabbing places where I am victim and suspects involved had no conlegally allowed to nections to Cornell, do so.” the incidents that occurred Wednesday Steven Salenik ’17 night have not affected his sense of security on campus.

“It’s just unlucky that it always seems as though non-Cornellians, for some reason, like to come to Cornell to commit crimes,” Kim said.

Steven Salenik ’17 said he has felt less safe after the incident and plans to rely on personal measures to ensure his continued well-being.

“This just reminded me that Ithaca is not really any safer than any other American town,” Salenik said. “I now consider carrying a gun on me in Ithaca in the places where I am legally allowed to do so.”

Many have also expressed disappointment in the performance of the Ithaca and Cornell police teams, who have not publicly identified the perpetrators in either of the stabbing incidents this semester.

Anna Kook can be reached at hk678@cornell.edu.

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President Barack Obama speaks Friday at the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

CoursePad Transitions to Open Source Code After Project ‘Accomplished Its Mission’ Founder hopes programmers will continue to improve his code it available to any university.

“I will hope that some people will make it more of a serious project,” Zhu said. “The code is somewhat count decreased by 15 percent. messy, because it was hobbyist pro“Now that Cornell has its own ject.” [scheduler], I feel like Zhu announced his CoursePad has accom“Now that Cornell has its own [scheduler], decision in a Medium plished its mission in post.

I feel like CoursePad has accomplished history,” he said. “Now “From now on, I want this to be as its mission in history.”

CoursePad.me is no longer useful to everyone as just mine. It’s yours. It possible.”

Jingsi Zhu ’16 belongs to the world,” he The website’s source wrote in the post. code is currently visible to all users on Zhu’s Github developers will use his code to conrepository and is protected under tinue work on CoursePad both off Celine Choo can be reached at the Apache 2.1 license. According to and on campus, potentially making cc972@cornell.edu.

COURSEPAD

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Zhu, the license is “extremely permissive” and allows his code to be used for any means as long as his work is credited.

Zhu also expressed his hope that

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have surfaced in the past few months and driven costs up,” Shelpak said.

Both issues have now been successfully resolved, and Gorman said both Anabel’s student teams and University stakeholders “are [now] working tirelessly towards a successful opening” projected for the middle of next semester.

“As a student without a meal plan or a car, I was looking forward to being able to buy affordable groceries.”

Erick Vargas ’18

out having to travel far.”

Last week, the Anabel’s Grocery Gorman stressed that work on team gave a presentation at a S.A. “In the meantime, please Anabel’s Grocery is now proceeding meeting detailing their delays and utilize our upcoming in “a speedy, efficient manner” and progress. encouraged students who are food Erick Vargas ’18, S.A. College of programming ... for food Agriculture and Life Sciences repreinsecure to make use of the workassistance” shops and other resources that sentative, said that, athough he Anabel’s currently provides. understands the challenges that the Lizzi Gorman ’17 “In the meantime, please utilize project has faced, the multiple our upcoming programming — delays have inconvenienced sturound tables, a fall break meal kit build, and more dents in need of easy access to on-campus — and on-campus resources at 626 groceries.

Thurston for food assistance,” she said.

“Personally, [the delays have been] a big bummer,” Vargas Jeannette Si can be reached at jsi@corsaid. “As a student without a nellsun.com. meal plan or a car, I was looking forward to being able to Go to grocery | After delays, the buy affordable groceries withstudent leadership of Anabel’s Grocery aims to open up the store in Anabel Taylor Hall next semester.

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here comes a time when you’re forced to keep your cool, and try not to lose it. It’s called a breaking point; my pastor preaches it as a ‘defining moment.’ In that instance, people find out who you really are. For college students, this moment seems to come every other day. There are assignments to be done, prelims to cram for, labs to attend and interviews to be bombed — all stacked on each other like an ambitious game of Jenga. It’s stressful, I tell you.

Especially for a freshman, the change has been jarring. Jumping from high school is like jumping from Double A to the Major Leagues — you hardly ever feel ready, and when you do, something else blindsides you and leaves you with whiplash. It might show up when you least expect it. My business management class, easily my favorite class so far, unveiled an ugly surprise last Monday: after a weekend of studying three assigned chapters crammed with marketing jargon, I was expecting at the very least a test on the terms.

Nope.

At the end of the class, my professor very nonchalantly walked to the front of the room, and pulled up a video of an advertisement that he found on Youtube. We watched it, and then he told us to use what we had seen and apply it to a topic that had filled up about a page of our textbook. We had read about 80 pages.

People were pissed. We were mutinous. But we all learned something important: college is where expectations go to their graves. Expect the unexpected; and if you expect the unexpected, then you just might actually get the expected.

I think our expectations, as hopeful freshmen, were so distorted it left the room open for disillusionment. We expected things to go smoother than they really have. There have been fights, blowups, and tears. We certainly didn’t expect to get that grade on an exam. We all had certain dreams, to be a part of this and that club, to do this and that thing that would make us happy and satisfied and when that didn’t happened, some spiraled. I didn’t get into my preferred choice of club, and when that happened, I became so discouraged I didn’t apply to any other clubs. When I missed my business quiz, I felt like my GPA had just took cyanide. When someone removed my clothes from the dryer and placed it on a dirty counter, being the germophobe I was, I freaked and placed everything back in the cleaner. And then I remembered: I had a laundry list of things still to do. I had to prepare for a quiz the next day, meet with my advisor, talk to this person and that, study this book and the other and finish a CS Assignment. I had to be well learned, active, career oriented, social and happy. But I didn’t feel any of that. I just felt overwhelmed.

This relates to a conversations I had with my best friend just the other day. To be honest, she intimidates me a little. Her dad is a Yale professor, she went to an elite private school and she double majors in Biology and English. She’s off the charts smart and off kilter. She’s also determined.

She lists her goals in the form of a hunting list: “First, I’m going to join this fraternity, next I’m going to get this on my MCAT, then I’ll receive my M.D. Ph.D. from Harvard, and then I’ll complete my resi-

dency and finally I’ll do this, this, this, this and, oh yes, that.” But when she said it, she seemed so worried, instead of excited. She had too much on her mind, like me, where we both obsessed over maintaining this nirvana of being social and learned, happy and unburdened, with a healthy GPA and conscience. We wanted it all.

I remember watching a documentary a couple years ago about a baseball phenom who came over from Cuba. His story was unbelievable: He had failed three times to defect from Cuba, but at the age of 15, he finally succeeded; even more, on that last try, his mother fell overboard from the boat, and he jump into the waters to rescue her. He quickly became a star: He pitched himself into the stratosphere of the Major Leagues, winning accolades and adoration from fans.

He played the game with an ebullient radiance, passionate, infecting the game with his joy. When he was reunited with his grandmother, whom he left behind in Cuba, their tearful reunion reminded us how beautiful the American Dream could really be.

His name was Jose Fernandez.

Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident last weekend at the age of 24. When I heard the news, I was sick, and disgusted. It was unfathomable. Here was someone who fought his way here from Cuba to bring his family here, and showed immense pride and joy every day in what he was doing. He shouldn’t have been taken away; it wasn’t right. He had his whole life ahead of him.

He left behind his pregnant girlfriend. He left behind a devastated family. He left us shaken in our views of the world.

He certainly impacted me. I know he’s just one person, that there are bigger issues in this world, but still he resonated. It shouldn’t matter that much — but it has.

The news of his passing put a few things in perspective for me. That, as much as the problems I face daily as a student, they seem almost trivial with what his family is dealing with right now. We’re all looking out for our success, but some things demand our attention more than just grades and activities. But another thing took to me too: embrace the little moments. You might never know when it’ll be your last. Now, whenever I get caught up with my hectic schedule, I just take a moment and relax and let up. I try to remember why I should be happy, instead of being upset about a quiz or a prelim to run through. I’m more appreciative now: I’m going to a great school, and I have friends to talk to. I have loving parents, and I’m writing for The Sun, doing what I love the most. Is this emotional overplay? Probably. But I do know this: Just two weeks ago, I would have given anything to be Jose Fernandez. Today, I’m a better person because of him. College is stressful and frustrating. It’s thought provoking, and fit inducing. It’s a love hate relationship. But it’s a journey to be enjoyed and grow from. I can’t say it’ll be smooth, but I know that I’ll be here for four more years. I might as well enjoy every moment of it.

I think our expectations, as hopeful freshmen, were so distorted it left the room open for disillusionment. We expected things to go smoother than they really have.

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

The Elusive Quicksilver of Adaptation I

’ve been telling people for a while now that I fear I may be outgrowing my column, and that fear was almost confirmed in the early stages of writing this one.

As I rummaged through the dozens of pages in my “Sun Columns” document, I found that many of the ideas/thoughts there failed to strike me with any kind of zest or zeal for transmitting them to print. It’s as if the would-be incisive ingredients of my metaphorical ink had been reduced to a sparse collection of watered down pencil shavings and stale, rehashed themes.

I realized that — in spite of all the demons I’ve exorcised using the style on which I have relied for over two years — the time had come for me to slough off some of my inhibitions and mold the medium into what I needed it to be… or else I would soon become unfulfilled.

And so, Editor willing, I will commence with doing just that.

As I’ve said before, I am always fascinated by the unasked questions that white people, especially my friends, often seem to have for me.

Before I unlocked my own freedom, to see my reflection in their eyes was to see my reflection in the eyes of the world. But the solace I’ve gained from replacing that image with my own is, unfortunately, tarnished by the trauma of knowing that many of these same friends remain entrapped within their own destructive understanding of themselves, or lack thereof.

The neurotic denial of one’s identity is a terrifying prospect, but

it becomes even more terrifying when compounded with modern society’s glorification of this denial.

In other words, the nicer and more reasonable a group carrying privilege becomes over time — whether that be white people, men, heterosexual people, the able-bodied or what have you — the easier it becomes for them to claim an invisibility they do not deserve. And, even more disturbing, they must know, somewhere in their heart of hearts, that they are in fact a significant difference-maker in the world.

After all, I was writing to the Class of 2020 about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in July, and I am now writing to you bearing the names Keith Lamont Scott and Terrence Crutcher from September.

This endless cycle of dead black people cannot possibly have escaped the notice of my white friends, although most of them have yet to mention it to me, which just seems inconceivable. Such a delusion lends itself to striking vulnerability and allows one to risk spiraling into intense personal depravity.

In love and truth, the oppressed of any group are far more prepared for the impending disaster that would result from such self-evisceration, while the privileged of any group may find that all moral, ethical, intellectual and spiritual stability has been suddenly and violently ripped out of their fragile ethos.

They’re late to the party, even though they sent out all of the invitations and set up all the decora-

tions, and the concussive impact of this epiphany on the world has been forewarned a mind-numbing amount of times by people far more intelligent and talented than myself.

All people live in a constant world of truth aversion, and this aversion is ratcheted up by several orders of magnitude whenever those from opposite sides of a spectrum interact with one another. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been subjected to bewildering and gratuitous displays of kindness from both strangers and friends — and no, I do not mean the genuine, organic kind of kindness exhibited by those who are truly aware of themselves and willing to engage with the conflicts enveloping our society. Rather, I am referring to the kind of nauseating niceness, cloaked in superficiality and naiveté, of unnecessarily bright smiles and comically wide eyes.

This form of kindness is a stratagem, tactfully employed in the hope that it might somehow allow us to circumvent the tremendous, indelible role that those with power — white people, in this context — have played in society. This contrived niceness is, in a sense, a way to foist all of their dreams of reconciliation, peace, perceived progress and forgiveness upon my tired soul.

But I refuse. I am the lingering shadow of eternally ignored nightmares, nightmares which have been self-imposed and reified through unspeakable acts of willful evil or, in the case of my ever-silent friends, passive negligence. These night-

mares — born out of truth and reality — have been distorted with time and lies, so as to absolve the privileged parties and their posterity of responsibility.

I for one find it frightening how an entire culture can gorge itself on lies and then, once the stomach ache inevitably takes hold, dare to whisper that dreaded question silently into the night: “Why?” This question of “why” is the question we sometimes ask ourselves. But we can find no satisfactory answer within ourselves, and we do not want the true answer, which we can only find elsewhere.

So we instead choose to grin and nod in the hopes that those who are suffering will forget that the questions remain unasked.

In this realm of nightmares and dreams, of unasked questions and unsought answers, benevolent intent becomes largely irrelevant in the absence of some awareness that this interaction — that of the smiling privileged person, to whom the oppressed person should demonstrate immeasurable gratitude and love for their genteel approach — does not operate in a vacuum. And, because of this, intent cannot hide behind consequences, or attempt to obscure the weight of those consequences.

Of course, this column is just a piece of art, so nothing I say here can be of much use unless you recognize that these are the words of a living, breathing human being.

And although my humanity has been stolen from me time and time

again, I love each and every one of you reading these words and trust you to not replicate that heinous act by taking my words to mean more than what I’ve said.

You see, art provides us with assurance and solidarity, enfolding us within the warmth of shared experience or exposing us to the universality of being alive. But art cannot and should not serve as a surrogate for real people, because the truth is that you don’t really know shit about anyone. You cannot and will not truly know me, or any artist, or any human being, unless you reciprocate with a piece of yourself. This fact is not only non-negotiable, it is the unifying fulcrum on which all social dynamics should rely.

Point. Blank. Period.

Does this mean you have not grown if you have not yet given? Of course not. The growth that comes from seeking to know the artists, seeking to find yourself within their work, is wedded with the nature of existence. And indeed we are all artists. We are born as artists and we cannot help but to die as artists too, though the extent to which we sketch out that identity varies widely.

Okay, I’m just rambling now.

That’s enough for today. Hope I didn’t scare you away.

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

Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Max van Zile | Guest Room

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President Mark Cuban,2020

t’s a balmy June morning in 2018, and President Hillary Clinton fires up her tablet to find that a mysterious new candidate is running against her in the 2020 Democratic primary. Faced with domestic terror attacks and a government shutdown forced by congressional Republicans, Hillary has grown unpopular. Young voters want something fresh.

At noon, eccentric Texas billionaire and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban livestreams a press conference on YouTube and Snapchat. Wearing jeans and unpretentious Silicon Valley sneakers, Cuban lays out a platform for the 21st century — heavy investment in self-driving cars, private space travel and biotechnological human enhancement, the complete divestment of U.S. energy from foreign oil, and legalization of all drugs. After his speech, Cuban celebrates with his reality TV costar Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and the Dallas Mavericks cheerleaders.

Cuban is the number-one most Googled search term that evening; one week later, he leads Hillary among Democratic voters.

Sound crazy, liberals? If so, think again. What Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party could happen to the left, too, since Trump has demonstrated that the system that keeps unserious candidates away from American voters no longer works. Many of the same trends that helped Trump beat richer, more experienced rivals in the Republican primary have also powered upstart candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Barack Obama, who defeated a heavily favored Hillary Clinton in 2008 in

part because he killed her in free media esting opponents. A figure like Cuban, coverage and grassroots organization on who also built a brand as a savvy, charismatic businessman, could do the same. social media.

The Trump campaign came wrapped Trump has been able to sell impossible fantasies to millions of Americans. The in patriotism, the conservative civil reliright popular liberal — Cuban, Stephen gion. A liberal equivalent would play to Colbert, Kanye West — could sell aspira- the leftist religion: technological progress. tional leftist dreams to millions, too. To Americans sick of the government, the Anti-war activists sick of Hillary’s hard- scientific genius and business acumen of nosed foreign policy might prop up a can- an Elon Musk could qualify him for the didate who, like Trump, refuses to honor Presidency, especially if such a figure were America’s commitment to defend NATO willing to make Trump-sized promises allies. A billionaire like Cuban could about Mars settlements and virtual reality.

(The exploit the S o u t h current Africa-born obsession What Donald J. Trump has done to the Musk himwith tech. self is ineliOr a socialRepublican Party could happen to the gible.) ist like left, too, since Trump has demonstrated Technology, B e r n i e to some on Sanders that the system that keeps unserious the left, is could run like the term on free pubcandidates away from American voters America is lic tuition to those on and singleno longer works. the right — payer health they’ll trust care — remember, the Sanders plan would have a figure who successfully associates himadded $21 trillion to the national debt in self with it, and they’ll assume that only a 10 years — and find them impossible to subversive wouldn’t support it. The mainstream media may be no more able to implement.

The reasons Trump won aren’t specific stop such a candidate than they were able to conservative politics. No one has been to stop Trump.

The problems with Hillary Clinton’s able to hold Trump accountable for his errors and lies because his supporters read persona that have been masked by news sources that support their views. Trump’s near-complete failure to run a The same is true for the liberal echo professional campaign will still be there if chamber: Slate, Buzzfeed and John she becomes President. First-term Oliver. Trump has used his name recogni- Presidents tend to get less and less popution and sensational headlines to draw lar as the honeymoon period ends and the attention from more-qualified, less inter- years go by. Remember, Obama swept

into office with majorities in both houses of Congress and his approval rating was still in the upper thirties by his reelection campaign. He was a more charismatic, likable and talented politician than Hillary, too, and he made bigger promises: wouldn’t an unpopular Hillary Clinton be uniquely suited to a primary challenge from a dynamic opponent?

Won’t disillusioned liberals want someone to tell them what they want to hear, too?

I like Mark Cuban, and I don’t think new ideas and fresh faces are always bad.

But taking candidates with little to no actual experience seriously is a terrible idea. The least qualified Presidents of the past typically had stronger resumés than you might think; Reagan, for instance, was a two-term governor. Don’t let a Trump loss give you the idea that your 2020 candidates will all be reasonable and qualified. Trump has shown ambitious egomaniacs and minor celebrities all over the country that the right media frenzy could propel nearly anyone towards the White House.

Liberals congratulating each other on the collapse of the Republican party are missing the big picture. In fact, progressives could fall for a charismatic celebrity candidate with big dreams, online support and a talent for making headlines, too. As we move (hopefully) into a post-Trump era, be careful who you support. The new media age isn’t ending soon. Don’t let the next Donald Trump be a Democrat.

Max van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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A.J. Rodríguez | Sun Story Sundays

The Easy Rider Cab Sundays are work days at Cornell. You arise from the chaos of Saturday night and prepare to do battle with the demons of prelims and term papers, striding into Olin or Uris or Mann tenacious grin and Latte in hand.

But lets be real. You sit down, crack open your laptop and sip to the tune of the Netflix opening jingle. Procrastination is as apart of your Sunday workday routine as anything else.

So how about this? Instead of burning those hours away watching reruns, stalking exes and numbing your brain in the dark corners of Youtube, why not read a story? And not just any story; a piece of fiction written by a friend of yours.

One written by an ex-friend of yours, maybe. One written by your old roommate from freshman year who you swear transferred. Well, he didn’t. And guess what?

He wrote a story about that night.

The stories published here on Sun Story Sundays all burst from the pens of Cornell undergraduates hoping to follow in the footsteps of the literary giants who once stalked the Arts Quad. They will appear every two weeks under a monthly theme. They will be sad and happy, spiteful and gleeful, menacing and pleasing.

They will run the emotional, thematic and geographic gamut. But most importantly, they will come from you.

Open your skull; reverse lobotomies are on the house.

HAVE A STORY? SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANDRES VAAMONDE, alv49@cornell.edu. icky’s hand was bleeding when he got in the car. He didn’t say anything off the bat. He opened the door and had a real no nonsense grip when he smashed it shut as he sat down. He’d called me saying I had to come quick and check out the scene. When I rolled up there wasn’t anything but him in the middle of the street looking up at the sky. The moon was hanging low and its light made Ricky a shadow.

I was riding high on a bender fueled by a blood flow of coffee and powder with minutes of shuteye being few and far between. Times like these just happened — they lit up like a match and burnt out randomly. Sometimes a wind blows the flame away; other times it burns down the stem, turning the wood to ash — makes everything crumble. That night was one long burning flame. I didn’t know what day it was, and everything felt like one dreamless moment. On these nights, the only thing keeping me from slaughtering myself was driving. I’d drive with nowhere in mind and let my subconscious take the wheel. If someone called me they’d know I’d go and get them. I’d gained a reputation by that point of being the kid with the ride for the down low. People knew all I asked of them was enough gas money for the car or substances to keep me driving. They called it the easy rider cab.

It was a no hustle, no bullshit, no questions kind of operation that I didn’t even consider an operation in the first place. All this was a way to help dull the static in my head until there was nothing left to do but press the reset button.

When I saw Ricky’s hand I hoped it wasn’t blood and hoped even harder that we wouldn’t have to talk about it. It looked like it was covered in ink smeared from a pen that could’ve exploded on his knuckle. I didn’t ask any questions, but Ricky broke the silence.

“Bet you’re wondering what happened here,” he said holding up his palm. I told him I hadn’t noticed.

“Take a look at it,” he placed it on the dashboard.

“I’m driving. I can’t.”

“Sure as shit you can’t.”

I looked over at him. He was smiling like a monkey and his eyes were wide. There was something on fire behind them.

“Stop the car man you gotta take a look at this,” He repeated.

I hit the brakes. The wheels screeched and sent a shockwave through my head that stayed there as Ricky snapped his fingers in applause.

“What do you think?”

He was showing off the back of his hand like a jewelry model. The blood was painting streaks down his forearm. I saw shining specks of light poking out against the deep red coming from a gash around his knuckle. All I said to him was that it looked pretty bad.

“Damn right it’s bad. I got little shards of glass stuck all around my fist.

Look!”

He held it up to the moonlight that was streaming through the car. It danced around those little gems in the flesh of his fingers.

“Does it hurt?”

“Yeah but who cares? I don’t have time for that. I’ve got places to be my man.”

“Where are you going?”

“You know any girls working tonight?”

“I don’t do that kind of stuff.”

“Yeah, but do you know any girls working tonight?”

“Last time I saw you, you had a girlfriend.”

Ricky showed me his hand, “Not anymore.”

I could feel my heart pushing up against the inside of my shirt.

“So are you gonna take me?”

“What?”

“Are you gonna take me somewhere?”

“I don’t really know any places I could—” “Jesus what did I call you for?” Ricky shifted himself and looked up at the moon. He sat there staring while the engine hummed and my head screamed. He turned back towards me and said, “You know on average more murders happen on full moons?”

“That’s something.”

“It’s a wild fact of life man.” He looked back down at his hand. “I think I’m gonna keep this. Too damn pretty to wash it all away.”

He looked at me, “There’s a spot you’re gonna take me. I’ll give you the directions one by one. Sound good, Easy Rider?” I nodded. He slapped the dashboard and turned on the radio.

I didn’t say anything while driving, and Ricky didn’t seem to care — he just howled along to the radio and slapped his hand against the window. I followed his directions and when he finally said stop we were at the entrance to some storage unit. Ricky hopped out the car and told me to get out. I told him this was the end of line.

“I’m gonna need your help on this one kid” “I don’t do that.”

“C’mon I’m asking as a friend.”

I shook my head. He took out a knife.

“You wanna get paid Easy Rider?”

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Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

They Are the World: What Pronouns Can Teach Us About Political Correctness

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to pronoun usage. You’re being handed on a silver platter the opportunity to make another person feel good, even to con“You mean they’re a computer nect with them, simply by science major.” using a few words. It’s an “Whatever.” opportunity that comes along The above conversation precious little in this dismal took place between my roomworld of ours. It’s an opportunimate and I a few weeks ago. To ty that, as an clarify, I used aspiring writer, the pronoun I’ve devoted she to refer to Many people in this country have a my entire life a mutual to pursuing. I acquaintance problem with political correctness in suggest you of ours, and my roomsociety, and it’s them I’m trying to reach take it.

G o o d mate Troy by way of this anecdote. deeds aren’t corrected me, just moral, pointing out they’re utilitarthat the person I had mentioned uses they usage a completely logical ian. Let’s consider Harry Potter pronouns. One thing about undertaking in light of recent (possibly my favorite sentence Troy; he’s a very reasonable per- advances in our understanding I’ve ever written). Before J.K. son. (Troy if you’re reading this, of gender? Again, the answer is Rowling became a famous don’t get a big head. Also please an obvious yes. The purpose of author, she was a single mother take out our garbage.) After I this article is not to debate those on benefits, the British equivasaid “whatever,” he proceeded points. Many people in this lent of welfare. In fact, she has to admonish me in a very fair country have a problem with said that without government and thoughtful way, which was political correctness in society, benefits, she would never have more than I deserved consider- and it’s them I’m trying to reach been able to begin writing the ing how dismissive I was of by way of this anecdote. I get it. Harry Potter series. That’s why Nobody likes being told what to I donate money and do volunhim.

“I think, um, it’s an issue of do, especially in the freedom- teer work; it’s not because of respect,” he said earnestly, “but centric American zeitgeist. And I some abstract conception of I get that it’s tough. I mean, don’t think I’ll get through to morality. I want the next Harry everyone grows up saying he you using terms like privilege or Potter. To be clear, I’m not micro-aggression, even though I comparing correct pronoun and she.”

Having my liberal creden- absolutely believe that both of usage to charity work. I’m tials questioned made me very those things exist. Charged merely trying to establish that uneasy. Luckily, I was able to words rarely lead to changed being nice to others often comes around in a very tangible play off the situation with minds.

It was a few days after my way. humor. At that very moment, a In a dog-eat-dog world, loud frat-boy-type person drove conversation with my roomby our house yelling obsceni- mate that I came to a realiza- sometimes it’s hard to be empation. Using they is not an oblig- thetic while trying to look out ties.

“Like he’s an asshole,” I said, ation: It’s an opportunity. for yourself. Next time you Certainly theys have varying life might be tempted to, say, use an pointing out the window.

We both laughed, and the experiences just as hes and shes inaccurate pronoun or mispromatter was dropped. But the do. However, it’s safe to assume nounce a foreign name: be selfsubject stayed with me long that many individuals who use ish. Consider what you might thereafter. I proceeded to third-person pronouns have be able to get out of doing the indulge in a mental narrative I endured some amount of anxi- right thing. I guarantee you it’s half-knew to be flawed and irre- ety about their identity. Perhaps more than you think. sponsible. I never stooped so they’ve even taken some heat low as to denounce gender flu- for who they are or how they Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of idity or transgenderism or any- look. You, whenever you Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at thing of that sort. What both- address such a person, have a ahagopian@cornell.edu. Whiny Liberal ered me was the perceived choice to make when it comes appears alternate Fridays this semester. think she’s a computer science major.”

obligation. Using they to refer to a single person can be counter-intuitive and confusing. Who were they to demand an alteration of the English language? It seemed at the time to be a dreadful imposition.

Was I being immature? Of course. Is modern pronoun

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Garden of the Flesh

A master cartoonist crafts a blasphemous delight

BY NATHAN CHAZAN Sun Staff Writer

Gilbert Hernandez is an unparalleled figure in American comics. Working tirelessly since 1979, “Beto” is one of the key artists in the first wave of alternative comics, creating with his brother Jaime, a significant cartoonist in his own right, the legendary magazine Love and Rockets, a pioneering work of comics-as-literature. Gilbert’s stories in Love and Rockets, the Palomar cycle, form perhaps the greatest work of magical realism in the comics form; challenging, moving storytelling. However, the reaches of Gilbert Hernandez do not end here. The man’s output is simply insane, ranging from quiet childhood memoirs to exploitation-style pulp, all executed to maddening perfection.

Recently, Beto has been experimenting with works of obscenity, taking the surrealist whispers that always lurked behind the edges of even his tamest work and amping up to eyegouging extremity. Blubber, which now seems to be the flagship book for this side of Gilbert, was published with little fanfare but, for those who read it then, dropped like an atom bomb. That book’s endless barrage of cartoon critters with swollen genitalia, buggering and killing each other in seemingly endless permutations, consistently upends the reader’s desire to categorize the work, while its artistic mastery and impressive mark making forces the reader to take it seriously.

Later issues further confounded by introducing human beings to the frenzy, behaving in more or less the same fashion as the creatures before. And now in Garden of the Flesh Beto puts the graphic in graphic novel by taking the iddrenched frolics of the Blubber kingdom to perhaps the most

popular book of all time: the Bible.

Garden of the Flesh comes to you as a shrinkwrapped little black book, equally reminiscent of Moleskine notebooks, pocket bibles and Tijuana bibles, the short pornographic cartoon tracts from the Great Depression to which this book is clearly indebted. The very act of tearing off the shrink wrap feels illicit, and turning the pages in this dark tome becomes a subversive act. This ingenious design (credited in the backmatter to one “J. Feeli Pecker”) plunges the reader straight into the debauched fever dream of the Old Testament that ensues. It goes a little something like this: The universe is born in an abstraction that would make Dr. Strange swoon. The first man, Adam, emerges boner-first from the ground, contemplating his idyllic surroundings and magnificent hard-on. Adam brings himself to orgasm, from which the first woman, a buxom blonde named Eve, is born, bearing a striking resemblance to the square-jawed pornstar Pupussi from the Blubber series. They have sex with each other, and then Eve meets the devil and has sex with him too. After eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve are cast out of earthly paradise and have some more sex, and make some kids, one of whom kills another and later has some sex. A while later, a man named Noah has a lot of sex with a large breasted, veiled woman referred to only as wife, then builds a boat to save his family and all the animals when divine wrath floods the world.

The family have sex on the boat until they find land, a new earthly paradise. Adam and Eve return to have more sex. That’s basically the book.

Putting aside the visceral pleasure and artistic glory of the work (and, in brilliantly confident full color, this book is among Gilbert’s most aesthetically pleasing), one might be wondering what value there is in making an X-Rated

Book of Genesis. It’s a cliche to make sexuallized art out of the Bible, and the vanilla heterofantasy sex in Garden of the Flesh is hardly the stuff of revolution. If even R. Crumb played his take on Book of Genesis straight, what’s the point of Gilbert’s libidinous variant?

And yet there is more to the core juxtaposition of Garden of the Flesh than shock value — by slamming together the biblical and the pornographic, Hernandez explores the power fantasies which fuel both. After all, porn and religion both offer their own promises of otherworldly pleasure unattainable in life, be it paradise after death or an impossibly good roll in the hay, and in these promises instruct behavioral and societal norms. Both are like the subconscious of society, invisible to those who do not participate yet pervasive in the background of our culture. Garden of the Flesh is then a naked depiction of that underground fantasy, the contradictory rewards of both merged by our collective unconscious and unleashed by Beto’s penline. It is not with judgement that Beto pulls back the curtain on our id, but with the humor and delight you might find reading your roommate’s search history aloud. It’s great comics and delectable entertainment; it would be a sin for me not to recommend it.

Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at ndc39@cornell.edu.

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Off the Chain: Sphinx Virtuosi at Bailey Hall

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

On Friday night, the Sphinx Virtuosi — in collaboration with (and under leadership of ) the Catalyst Quartet — presented their Latin Voyages: Viajes Latinos program.

The result was one of the finest concerts I’ve seen at Cornell.

Coming up on its 20th anniversary, the Sphinx Organization places young Black and Latino classical soloists on the world’s most prestigious stages — not least Carnegie Hall, where since 2006 they have held annual residency. But while there is an activist charge to the group’s ideological foundations, it all comes down to the quality of performance, style and selection. In those regards the virtuosi transcended racial and cultural barriers, owning a space that would pass even the stodgiest inspection.

If anything was clear from a blindfold test, it was the group’s age, as these prodigious artists brought a youthful verve to every piece they touched. The strains of Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla provided natural touchpoints in a journey that took the audience by turns to Mexico, Brazil, Spain and back to Argentina.

Piazzolla’s Libertango, as arranged by Thomas Kalb, introduced the Sphinx Virtuosi as a force to be reckoned with. Not only did they imbue this familiar melody with

premiere freshness, but also embodied it with the range of their abilities, combining a soaring overlay with a jagged underlay as if one depended on the other. This yin-and-yang approach served the musicians as they leapt into the Primera Suite Argentina of Alberto Williams, a four-movement suite based on folk motifs that vacillated between concert hall and open fields, and the urban sprawl of Javier Álvarez’s Metro Chabacano. The latter piece, named for a Mexico City transportation hub, was a highlight for its modern realism and logical resolutions of half-tone dissonances.

Violinist Hannah White, Sphinx Competition 2015 Junior Division 1st Place Laureate, rent the cloth of expectation with her incisive rendition of the Prélude Ibérique by lesser-known Spanish composer César Espejo, whose maze of sudden key changes and knucklebusting double stops resolved into a linear path at White’s fingertips. The music itself — indebted to Paganini and, by extension, Bach — was a treat to hear live and proved a studied choice on the part of its performer. The Aria from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s popular Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 was the first of two loving arrangements by the Catalyst Quartet. This was the prettier of them, and gave each of the higher strings a spotlight as the theme grew viral. The fullness of its mosaic effect was heightened as the quartet blended into its take on Piazzolla’s La muerte del Ángel, which showcased an imaginative array of stomps, taps and even a shrill whis-

tle hung from cellist Karlos Rodriguez’s neck that made this rhythmic puzzle all the more enjoyable to put together.

After winning our trust with such solid crowdpleasers, the Sphinxes got down to business, closing out the concert with two formidable giants. Last Round, composed for two string quartets and double bass, was composer Osvaldo Golijov’s reconceptualization of the bandoneon, a concertina that was Piazzolla’s primary instrument, and was a dueling tango meant to redress its dedicatee in postmodern clothing. Following this was the Concerto per corde, op. 33 of Piazzolla’s first composition teacher, Alberto Ginastera. Ginastera’s folk idioms exuded from a central violin, drawing out from the surrounding strings a forested language that was equal parts fairytale and autobiography. Unforgettable was double bassist Xavier Foley’s wrenching solo, which barreled with cadenza-like vitality into a ferocious finish.

Lest these closing pieces deter those who’d come to dance, a more percussive reprisal of Libertango as encore brought it all full circle. The end effect was downright cinematic, placing us in a lush environment that was every bit as vivid as watching a film in 3D. So did we live for two hours in this music, so that it might live in us for countless more.

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

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Dive on In

Lake Street Dive at the State Theatre

BY ANITA ALUR Sun Staff Writer

Throw a bunch of New England Conservatory grads on a stage, and you can’t help but expect excellence. I knew going into the Lake Street Dive show this past Friday that I would see a tight, bluesy band fill up the State Theatre with sound. I was far from disappointed — Lake Street Dive brought even more presence and expertise than even I expected.

The show opened with PWR BTTM, an energetic duo I’ve hoped to see for months. They emerged on stage, fully prepared to fill the mixed crowd of Ithaca natives and college students with their gritty, glittery garage-punk. They maintain a fun, frivolous energy, interspersed with dialogue on gender identity and sexuality. While they differ tremendously from Lake Street Dive in style, the two bands share the same high level of energy, making the duo a perfect opener. They played tracks from their 2015 record, Ugly Cherries, as well as songs from an upcoming release. And PWR BTTM’s guitarist/singer remained in the left wing PHOTO BY of the stage for Lake Street Dive’s perfor- CAMERON POLLACK mance, dancing and singing along OR WXPN throughout their entire set.

Lake Street Dive appeared on stage, unified and spunky, performing “I Don’t Care About You” from their newest album Side Pony.

They’re a band made up of only four musicians, yet their sound is resemblant of a full-force blues-jazz band. Their gui-

tarist, Mike Olson, routinely switched to trumpet, and I was amazed at how every person in the band harmonized with lead singer Rachael Price. Price truly stole the show for me.

She had tremendous control over her voice, testing out tricks and trills, and belting notes with her jazzy tone as the show progressed. Her stage presence was also commendable, as she ably danced and moved to every song.

While the seated State Theatre felt somewhat restrictive at times, by the middle of their set, everyone was up and dancing.

People began filling the walkways on the sides of the orchestra, singing along to every song they knew. And Price was leading the way, teaching us all how to move to the band’s music.

Lake Street Dive blends jazz, blues, country and pop elegantly and effortlessly. They have hits that lean one way or the other, but their overarching sound is full and refreshing. I was amazed at how much fun they appeared to have on stage.

This is a band that has been together for 12 years, yet from watching them, I got no sense of any emotional fatigue. Instead, they appeared more uni-

fied than ever, eager to perform for a crowd of Ithacans.

During the song “Side Pony,” the band brought out a giant, inflatable pony and bounced it about on stage. Like PWR BTTM, they’re unafraid of being frivolous, feeling confident that their musicality will shine through regardless of what fun tricks they play on stage. I’m always appreciative of a band like this — one that cares just as much about their stage presence as the music they create.

While they maintained the purity and precision of their recorded tracks, Lake Street Dive also made the concert feel like a skilful jam session. I watched as Bridget Kearney, the upright bassist, took a solo, slamming on her instrument with power and sophistication. There were drum, guitar and trumpet solos as well, making the show feel more about the band than any one single musician. There was a sense of mutual appreciation on stage, as the quartet shared the mic for the song “What I’m Doing Here.” They crowded around Rachael Price, harmonizing soulfully to the words “Leave me, leave me, leave me.” And for the remainder of the song, while they pulled out other instruments and resumed playing, they resided by Price, joining together in harmony.

The band’s encore was one of the most memorable songs in their set. They offered a rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” an iconic, dynamic and highly musically challenging track. Lake Street Dive’s cover was impressive and intricate. They managed to make the song feel as full as the original, and the cross-generational crowd screamed the words as the band performed the whole song. This was a show I’ll remember for years to come, one filled with skill and sass, music and movement. Lake Street Dive doesn’t take itself too seriously, making the group a pleasure to see, hear and experience.

Anita Alur is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aalur@cornellsun.com.

Easy on the Eyes ‘BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Staff Writer

There’s so much sex on TV. Like, so much. Think: Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, Orange is the New Black, Masters of Sex, Skins. The list goes on. Sex is so ubiquitous on TV that you’d think the new Netflix series, Easy, is just another title to add to the list of sex-themed programs, with nothing quite fresh or new to add besides the shock value of obscenity.

Somehow, however, Easy manages to move past sheer sexuality and offer something a little more novel to the sexualization of TV. Easy observes sex and love through eight tangentially related stories that take place in Chicago’s northside. It’s an anthology; each story can satiate the viewer separately, but the unity of the collection just adds a tasty garnish on top. Easy deviates from most Netflix originals, and features several big names in Hollywood and the comedy circuit: Orlando Bloom, Dave Franco, Malin Akerman, Hannibal Buress and Marc Maron, to name a few.

Despite the title, the leggy poster and

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the sexy marketing, Easy isn’t really raunchy. Don’t get me wrong, Easy doesn’t flake on complicated or crude sex. In one episode a self-proclaimed “sexy couple” (the beautiful Orlando Bloom and Malin Akerman) seeks a third woman (Kate Micucci) for a passionate three-way. In another episode, done almost entirely in Spanish, a married woman has a turbulent affair of questionable consensuality with an ex-boyfriend. More accurately, the sex in Easy is neat. It’s plain and quiet. Director Joe Swanberg creates this effect by softening the sounds and colors, making scenes less sensually stimulating. This technique seems counterintuitive; why make a show about sex where all the sex is muted?

Well, Easy isn’t really about sex, but moreso how sex connects people with each other. Take the episode starring Marc Maron, in which Maron plays an aging graphic novelist named Jacob Malco, whose popularity has declined since the publication of his last autobiographical novel. At a university event for his new book, he meets a graduate student who makes “selfie art” and the two have a zesty affair. The couple is intimate on-screen for barely 30 seconds

out of the entire 30-minute episode, and Jacob’s difficulties with his professional success, his age and his privacy take up the rest of it. In another episode, where a man (Evan Jonigkeit) keeps an illegal brewery a secret from his pregnant wife (Aya Cash), there is no sex shown on screen.

Easy is fresh because of its purported authenticity in its depiction of human relationships.

Swanberg is a major figure in the mumblecore movement, and much of the dialogue and interactions in Easy are improvised. The improvisation makes the viewer feel more intimately tied to the action, more deeply connected to the free-flowing conversation and fluid movements. The form of the show mimics its content; just as people are interconnected, so are the episodes. When the characters get intimate, so does the viewer. The word of the day for Easy is mimesis. More specifically, mimesis that attempts authenticity.

But is Easy really as authentic as it claims to be? Jake Malooley wrote extensively for The Chicago Reader on Swanberg’s ode to Chicago being north-side centric and only following the lives of those in Chicago’s bougier areas. In one episode, a woman (Kiersey Clemons) comes to terms with her girlfriend (Jacqueline Toboni) being a vegan. As Malooley notes, “It's a world...predominantly populated by uppermiddle-class whites, stroller pushers and scores of young, vaguely creative types.

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Their lives intersect in high-end restaurants, cafes, brewpubs, clubs, bakeries, stores and arts centers, where they gab about such topics as veganism and Tinder.”

It’s the same world parodied in Portlandia and legitimized in every other show revolving around urban 20- and 30-somethings.

Joe Swanberg’s supposedly candid panorama of human relationships and sexuality is more like a snapshot of a select minority: The well-off upper middle class of Chicago.

This selective portrayal of sexuality (and, well, humanity) isn’t necessarily bad in a normative sense. After all, the Chicago portrayed in Easy is the real Chicago Swanberg and many others experience every day. What makes Easy questionable is its deceptive authenticity. Despite mumblecore and improvisation making the show feel as though it is pure, candid, and representative of universal human themes, Easy leaves out narratives that don’t take place on Chicago’s northside.

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com.

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Frimel’s Safety Ignites Epic Banks Throws for Eighth-Most Yards in Comeback Against Colgate Down 21, defense accounts for Red’s first points DEFENSE

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start cannot be attributed solely to the defense.

“To be fair, everyone kind of came out slow,” he said. “Colgate is really good and if you miss a gap, they're gone. That's what's happening. The whole program was a little bit slow and we kept at it and kept chipping and made enough plays to win.”

The team knew that Raiders quarterback Jake Melville was going to be a threat and in the first half alone, the senior threw for 295 yards three touchdowns, all of which were 40plus-yard strikes. In the second half, however, the Red’s defense held Melville to just 104 passing yards.

What got the team going in the second half did not boil down to either tangible adjustments nor a shift in the lineup. A passionate halftime speech from senior lineman Jake

“We just knew we had to stop them and give the ball back to our offense and give ourselves a chance to win.”

Kurt Frimel Waltman seems to have gotten the team going, and as Frimel said, the energy going into the second half was much more potent.

“We all just got fired up and we knew that it started with us,” Frimel said. “Our offense was doing a great job all day and we just knew we had to stop them and give the ball back to our offense and give ourselves a chance to win.”

As the game began to wind down, Colgate faced two separate occasions when the team had to risk it all on fourth down. On both occasions, Cornell’s defense corralled the ballcarrier to give the ball back to the offense.

These defensive stands gave Banks and his

offense the opportunity to win the game.

But it was in opening minutes of the second quarter that represented the defense’s defining moment. After senior punter Chris Fraser pinned Melville’s offense to start on its own four-yard line, Frimel broke through the line on third down to record the team’s first points of the game — and first safety of the season. “[Kurt] is a dog,” sophomore linebacker Reis Seggebruch said. “We won the game by one and those are two points there, so that’s very important.”

The biggest difference for the defense this season has been its ability to rely on a more consistently and solid offense as backup.

Through three games last season, the team had 61 points. This year, that number has risen to 90.

“It is the best feeling in the world knowing that we can go out there and do our job and they’re going to go do theirs,” Frimel said.

The defense, too, has stepped its game up this year, and this has never been more present than with a clutch performance down the line against a high-powered, nationally-ranked offense.

“I love our defense,” said junior receiver James Hubbard, who had 105 yards on the day. “I have all the faith in the world in them.

You know that they’re going to get it done.

We’ve worked way too hard for this. It’s awesome that all of our work is finally paying off.”

A team already entrenched with confidence, Seggebruch added that a win over a nationally-ranked team is going to make next week’s battle with Harvard all the more exciting to look forward to.

“Coming over here beating a top-25 team definitely gives us some confidence,” he said.

“Like I said, we expected to win, we had the confidence, but we have to focus on Harvard next week.”

“That was the best win I’ve ever been a part of,” Frimel added.

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

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could beat whatever coverage they were running,” Banks said.

“We had plays that can always win.”

The first pass of the drive fell incomplete, intended for senior wideout Marshall Deutz. But Banks immediately recovered, hitting Deutz just seconds later for a nine-yard completion, followed by another 13-yard toss to Deutz that brought Cornell to the Colgate side of the field.

Banks scrambled for seven yards on the next play, exhibiting a shiftiness that has brought a new element to the Cornell offense absent in recent seasons. And after a nine-yard pass to junior wide receiver James Hubbard put the Red 28 yards away from the end zone, and the lead, the team needed to make a decision.

“I’m having to yell at them and tell the line their assignments. The receivers are catching and we have to stay calm, but also you're going fast too,” Banks said. “You’re going back and forth. We were just like, ‘Hey guys, let's do this.

Let's keep going.’ Everyone knows they have to execute their jobs.”

That was the moment when head coach David Archer ‘05 decided to take a shot. He called for his wideouts to run verticals and let Banks make the decision.

After the ball was snapped, Banks recognized Colgate’s blitz and rolled over, where he saw Shaw had gotten the release off the line of scrimmage and beaten his man.

“Let’s give him a chance,” Banks thought. “I’m going to throw it out there.”

As Shaw turned, he saw the ball up in the air and dove towards the back of the end zone.

“I blacked out,” Shaw said.

With the ball cradled in his arms, Shaw looked up at the referee.

“I think I saw a foot in,” Shaw heard the referee say. A few sec-

“We told him he’s our guy and we’re going to rally behind him no matter what.”

James Hubbard onds later after the refs conferred, both arms went up, indicating the Red had taken the lead and put the team in position for its first victory over a ranked opponent since 2006 against Princeton.

“I just wigged out,” Shaw said.

The celebration marked the completion of what once seemed improbable, but is now becoming the inevitable with this Cornell football team, the upstart upsetters. After two years of instability at the quarterback position, following the graduation of Jeff Mathews ’13, the Red appears to have found its next star under center, a 6-foot-3 sophomore from San Antonio.

“He’s definitely lived up to the hype and exceeded expectations,” Shaw said. “[The victory] speaks volumes to what kind of player he is and what kind of player he is going to be for this program.”

Banks finished the day with 454 passing yards, the eighthmost in Cornell history and the highest mark since Mathews’ last game as a member of the Red in 2013. It wasn’t his sharpest day out on the field, but Banks’ ability to bury his previous mistakes and lead the team on a gamewinning drive has separated him from the pack. Having someone like Banks under center only helps confidence permeate up and down the roster.

“He’s a stud,” Hubbard said.

“We told him he’s our guy and we’re going to rally behind him no matter what.”

Banks needed to be perfect, with less than two minutes left in the game and his team down by less than a touchdown. It’s a situation the sophomore quarterback will not only continue to face this season, but throughout the remainder of his time on the slope. But given how Banks handled the high-pressure situation against Colgate, it seems as if this team will be in good hands moving forward.

“It's one of those things where you take a deep breath and have to stay calm and confident,” Banks said. “You have to have confidence in your guys. I couldn't let the nerves get to me and everyone out there, we knew that we couldn't let the hype get to us.

We had to play smart and execute and play with confidence.”

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Defense holds Raiders scoreless on final six drives, paves way for offense to stun home crowd Following the Raiders’ kickoff, Cornell put together its best offensive possession of the day, but a penalty in the endzone derailed the drive and the Red settled for a field goal.

“We were doing well between the red zones and moving the ball well,” Banks said.

“We just couldn't finish and execute. We would stall out here and there.”

Colgate answered the Red’s pair of scores with yet another throw and catch from Melville to Maddaluna. The wide receiver finished with 261 yards receiving, the most receiving yards by an opponent in the history of Cornell’s program.

The Red continued to hang around in the second quarter when Banks fired downfield to Shaw. The wide receiver got a step on his defender, snagged a well-thrown pass from Banks, then outran Colgate’s defense to score the Red’s first touchdown of the game.

It was one of four passing touchdowns on the day for the quarterback who, in just his third ever start, passed for 454, the eighthmost passing yards in school history and the most since the days of Jeff Mathews ’13.

At the end of the half, Cornell made a CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR great goal line stand to keep the Raiders out Homecoming crashers | Cornell players celebrate after their victory deflated a raucous Colgate Homecoming crowd. The Raiders built a 23of the end zone. Colgate connected on a point lead before the Red stormed back to take the victory. field goal to go in the locker room up 19.

The impressive stop would be a harbinmuscled down the field and scored again, for our team, such a big win for us.”

FOOTBALL Continued from page 16 ger of things to come. Late in the game, the The game played out remarkably similar- placing the Red in a 21-point hole. “[The Raiders] are explosive,” Archer Red’s defense made a series of timely stands ly to last year’s home loss to the Raiders. In But again, Cornell’s defense played at its that game, Cornell trailed early but began to said. “Colgate is really good and if you miss against Colgate’s high-powered offense. Late best when it mattered most. On fourth and put together a comeback late in the game. a gap, they’re gone. That’s what was happen- in the third quarter, the Red held the Raiders scoreless on their final six drives, inches, the defense stuffed a rush attempt by However, it was too little too late, and the ing.” the Raiders.

Cornell got on the board in the most including two turnovers on downs.

Red lost, dropping to 0-3 on the season “Hats off to our defense in the second And that was when Banks went to work.

“Everything is different,” Hubbard said unlikely of ways. After senior punter Chris half and stoning them so hard,” With surgical precision, the sophomore when asked about the Shaw said. “They gave us all the orchestrated a hurry-up drive down the contrasts between this CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR momentum going in. They played field. year and last year. “Our Harvard awaits | The Red and the their asses off.”

“You know you have to execute,” Banks seniors talk about Crimson are now the only Ivy League teams With No. 19 Harvard — the said. “The clock is in the back of your head. resilience. I think that left undefeated. only other undefeated Ivy League We had no timeouts and we had to get out shows, we just know that team — waiting next week, the of bounds.” we’re going to win. We Red will enter the game with con“Coach Archer had a smile on his face. expect to win now. We fidence at an all time high.

He came over and he pointed to the two- just have the confidence “We definitely are going to be minute menu and said, ‘Here, we go. We to go out there and do way more confident.” Frimel said. have enough time,’” Shaw said of his coach’s what we do.”

“We are going to feel very good plan for the game’s final drive. “Strategically, Again like last year, about our game plan, knowing we we were able to get the ball back on our 40 Cornell started off slow, can execute against the best, which and thought, 'This is just like practice.'” giving up 21 points in we have shown. That’s just going to On first and 10 from the 19-yard line, the first quarter while improve our confidence here on Banks launched a pass into the back of the Colgate’s dominant out to do bigger and better things.” end zone and into the outstretched arms of defense locked down the Shaw.

Red. After an instant replay review confirmed Pinned at its own Adam Bronfin can be reached at the catch, Cornell players on the sideline one-yard line to start its sports-editor@cornellsun.com. exploded in celebration. first drive, the Raiders “It can’t get much better than this,” used a couple of runs to create some room to Fraser pinned the Raiders at their own fourHubbard said. “I think that was probably work with, then quarterback Jake Melville yard with a masterful 34-yard kick, junior Scream and shout | Demetrius Daltrius the best game I’ve played in. I’m so excited found John Maddaluna 10 yards down the linebacker Kurt Frimel tracked down celebrates in the locker room following field. Maddaluna burst past Melville and sacked the quarterback in the the win.

Cornell’s defenders and sprint- end zone for a safety. ed 93 yards for the score, Those two points, while seemingly putting Colgate in the lead just insignificant when under five minutes into the trailing by 21, game. would prove to Melville was dominant all be the differday, completing 23 of 37 passes ence maker while throwing for 399 yards in the oneand three scores. He also point victoshowed off his talents as runner, ry. rushing for 80 yards, good CAMERON POLLACK / SUN enough for second most on the PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR team.

On the ensuing drive, Banks was picked off and Colgate immediately took advantage.

Similarly to the previous drive, a hyper aggressive Cornell secondary gambled, lost and paid the price as Melville again connected on short pass to Maddaluna. Once again, Maddaluna took advantage of the Red’s sloppy defensive CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR play to run 51 yards Fired up | Kurt Frimel and the defense made two fourth- untouched into the end zone.

After the Raiders forced down stops in the fourth quarter to give the Red back the another Cornell punt, Colgate ball.

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MONDAY OCTOBER 3, 2016

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‘A day I’ll never forget’

CORNELL SHOCKS NO.25 COLGATE

Still undefeated on season, Red captures first away win over ranked opponent since 1950 Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks fired a pass to junior wide receiver James Hubbard. The underthrown ball was batted up in the air by a leaping Colgate Sitting in the locker room, trailing by defender, leading to one of the most 19 points against a nationally ranked exciting moments of the 2016 season. opponent, the men of Cornell football For a second the ball seemed to hang knew what they had to do: play the best there, suspended in space, then Hubbard football of their lives to stun No. 25 reached out and snagged it. Cutting Colgate at home. inside past two defenders, he raced off to The team, against all odds, accomthe end zone, trimming the Colgate lead plished the feat. The Red shocked the to five and quieting the home crowd that Raiders, 39-38, in front of Colgate’s had been so raucous only moments early.

Homecoming crowd. The team trailed “I was thinking, ‘It’s about time,'” Archer early, falling into a 28-5 hole, but remarksaid of Hubbard’s catch. “When you work able play from all sides hard, you get lucky and you get breaks.

FOOTBALL of the ball propelled CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR These kids in the program deserve that one.”

Cornell (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) Right when it seemed like the Red had to its first road win over a ranked team Upstart upsetters | Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks’ clutch performance at the regained the momentum following a huge since 1950. end of the game helped Cornell upend the Raiders.

Cornell stop on fourth down late in the “[At halftime] Jake Waltman brought Even when facing a daunting 23-point fourth quarter, Banks overthrew Shaw way us up and said, ‘This is the moment gave us so much momentum going into deficit, the players maintained a high- down field and the ball floated right into you’re going to be looking at 10 or 15 the second half.”

“We said, ‘Hey, no matter what hap- level of confidence. the hands of Colgate’s Adam Bridgeforth. years down the road and say we had the “We never lost the But an impressive stop biggest comeback we’ve ever had and pens, we’re going to win the game,’” said from the Red gave the we’re going to prove it today,’” said senior head coach David Archer ’05. “We stuck expectation that this CORNELL @ COLGATE ball back to the wide receiver Collin Shaw. “Everyone ral- to it and they just kept making plays and was our game,” said sophomore linebacker offense, a pattern that lied around that before the half and it it was just a day I’ll never forget.”

Reis Seggebruch. “Our Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL came to light as the coaches stayed on us Cornell 0 12 21 6 39 game progressed.

Colgate 38 21 10 7 0 and even at halftime Yet on fourth Thrice as nice | With the win over Colgate, no one lost the faith. down, Banks was Cornell moves to 3-0 on the season, a year Everyone kept fighting like we knew it picked off again, giving the ball back to after a 1-9 campaign. was our game to win.” the Raiders with four minutes left.

One of the defining moments of the See FOOTBALL page 15 game came late in the third quarter.

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

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After sluggish start,defense locks down Raiders through final minutes to complete comeback

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Banks orchestrates game-winning drive

By JOON LEE Sun Senior Editor

Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks could not afford to make a mistake. In a game where the gunslinger wasn’t at his sharpest, ending the first half completing just 11 of 24 passes, he could ill afford an error with the

Cornell football team down 38-33 to the No. 25 Colgate Raiders and just 90 seconds left on the clock.

This is Banks’ first year starting for the Red, but he exudes the confidence of an upperclassman. He’s poised and confident, but still makes mistakes, as is expected of a first-time starter. And while his gravitas on the field is certainly impressive, it was Banks’ ability to push out the mistakes, the two interceptions, an inconsistent first half, that shined at Andy Kerr Stadium on Saturday.

“We just knew our plays that we had

With no shortage of offensive excitement, it was the Red’s defense that gave Cornell its most impressive win of the season so far over No. 25 Colgate on its Homecoming weekend.

Undoubtedly, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks’ 454 passing yards and four touchdowns make for an attractive headline, but preventing Colgate from scoring on all of its last six drives — after the team scored on six of its

first eight — made all the difference.

“We all just got fired up and we knew that it started with us,” said junior linebacker Kurt Frimel. “Our offense was doing a great job all day and we just knew we had to stop them and give the ball back to our offense and give ourselves a chance to win.”

As the centerpiece of the offense, Banks understands how essential it was to have his defense get him the ball down the stretch.

“They allowed us to get the ball back at the end of

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late-game heroics were crucial to the Red’s upset victory.

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Daring Dalton | Banks’

the game,” Banks said.

“We knew if we got the ball back, we were going to go down and punch it in. Our guys made great plays and we were as happy as can be to finish out on top.”

Though touting an impressive performance at the game’s end, the defense came out especially sluggish in the first half.

Colgate got off to a quick three-touchdown lead in its first three drives, but head coach David Archer ’05 said he knows the slow

Running Walker | Chris Walker rushed for 110 yards against one of the best rush defenses in the FCS.