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Pollack Announces Task Force Leaders,Goals Task force approved after string of racially-charged incidents

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Cornell President Martha Pollack on Wednesday announced the leaders, goals and timeframe of the presidential task force she formed last month after a series of incidents in which students felt attacked because of their race or nationality that led to a rocky campus climate.

“[I am] repulsed by the behavior that’s been going on on campus [and] ... deeply disturbed.”

President Martha Pollack The Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, whose members have not yet been determined, will include three committees, and, broadly, will be charged with promoting an inclusive campus experience, exploring and analyzing the University’s current position on instances of harmful speech and expression and proposing ways for the campus to respond to future instances of bias.

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School of Industrial and Labor Relations will propose a composition of the task force that ensures that the “voices and perspectives of our diverse campus constituencies are represented,” Pollack said. In an interview with The Sun last week, she said the question of who is chosen for the task force is “nuanced and tricky and we want to make sure we get it right.”

After the institute’s recommendation, Pollack will appoint individual members and the task force is expected to release an intermediate report around spring break, which begins on March 31. A final report is expected by May 1, Pollack said, and recommendations from the task force will be sorted into three categories of immediate proposals, ideas that will take 6 to 12 months to implement and “aspirational recommendations.”

Pollack announced the task force in September, among other initiatives, after a cluster of incidents that brought national attention to Cornell’s climate and led Black Students United to briefly occupy a campus building. In 28

President Pollack outlined task force goals and subcommittees in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

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CGSU to Vote on Next Steps More than 6 months later, members to vote on referendum

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

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Cutting ties | Seth Klarman ’79, pictured above, reportedly manages nearly one billion in Puerto Rican debt through a shell company, Decagon Holdings LLC.

Klarman’79 Managing $900M in Puerto Rican Debt

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and ALISHA GUPTA Sun City Editor and Sun Assistant News Editor

Seth Klarman ’79, the billionaire investor for whom Cornell’s Klarman Hall is named, reportedly manages a hedge fund that owns nearly $1 billion in Puerto Rican debt, drawing ire from some students and calls to boycott or modify the building.

Klarman manages The Baupost Group, a hedge fund in Boston, which owns $911.6 million in bonds issued

by Puerto Rico. The group owns the debt via a shell company, Decagon

Holdings LLC, according to a court filing and a statement The Baupost Group’s spokeswoman issued to The Intercept and CNBC. The spokeswoman, Diana DeSocio, noted to The Intercept that Klarman does not personally hold any Puerto Rican debt.

The Decagon entities, which all use an address in Boston, manage about $469 million in COFINA senior bonds and about $442 million in COFINA subordinate bonds, Reuters reported. They were incorporated in Delaware in 2015, according to the See KLARMAN page 5

For more than six months since the union recognition election in March, Cornell Graduate Students United and the University have been negotiating terms for a new agreement that would ultimately establish conduct for another union recognition election. With negotiations at a “standstill,” CGSU is bringing the possibility for a reelection to its membership with a referendum vote.

According to Michaela Brangan, grad, former member of the Union Management

Committee, the referendum will allow CGSU members to vote on three options: to file objections with the arbitrator, to accept the settlement that has been reached in negotiations or to accept the results of the election.

As it stands, the election has not been certified by the American Arbitration Association as the two parties have been in negotiation.

When the ballots were counted in March, 856 voted in favor of establishing a graduate student union and 919 voted against it.

If members were to vote to accept the results of the election, the remaining 81 contest-

ed ballots would be determined and the results would be then be announced and certified.

These challenge ballots have been put aside during negotiations, according to Brangan.

Negotiating began following the recognition election after arbitrators gave CGSU an indefinite amount of time to decide whether to file objections with the University. This process also came following an announcement by the American Federation of Teachers — the union with which CGSU is affiliated — saying they were See CGSU page 4

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Take 3 | CGSU will hold a referendum vote to determine paths forward to union recognition.

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Sweet sukkah | Cornell Hillel teamed with architecture students to build a sukkah in the middle of the Arts Quad for the celebration of Sukkot.

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By DAN DRAYTSEL Sun Staff Writer

Amid the prelim madness that the middle of the semester brings, a new spot for students to take a study break has recently appeared on campus, right in the middle of the Arts Quad.

This novel structure, built by Cornell architecture students in partnership with Cornell Hillel, was constructed to unite the Cornell community in celebrating the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

“I thought it was interesting that students could get involved in actually building the sukkah,” said Allison Herstic ’20, a member of Cornell Hillel.

“This past summer, Hillel proposed a challenge to Cornell architecture students: work together to design an innovative Sukkah that meets all the restrictions laid forth by Judaic traditions,” Hillel’s website stated.

According to Cornell Hillel’s website, the project was presented as a challenge to Cornell architecture students — “to design an innovative Sukkah that meets all the restrictions laid forth by Judaic traditions,” Sukkot comes five days after Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Sukkot celebrates the harvest that is gathered around this time of year and praises the working of God to guide the children of Israel out of Egypt.

In accordance with the tradition of abstaining

from work and relaxing in the sukkah, Jewish students of Cornell held a “Study Break in the Sukkah,” fostering unity and bonding between the Jewish students. This tradition has taken a somewhat different shape for celebration at Cornell.

Facebook events have advertised study breaks, ice cream socials and Sweet Sukkah Making.

Members strive to spend as much time as possible inside the sukkah, at minimum trying to eat all meals inside the sukkah. It is situated under the open sky, with at least three walls and a roof made from natural vegetation — bamboo, pine boughs or palm branches.

“I had a really great meal there,” Herstic said.

“The lights weren’t working and it was night-time but it was still nice to be sitting and eating with those people.”

The weeklong holiday is split in 3 sections. The first two days are dedicated to resting and candling lighting, as well as festive meals. The intermediate days are dedicated to spending time in the sukkah.

On the last two days members rest in the sukkah but abstain from blessing. A prayer for the dead is also recited and the annual reading of the Torah is finished.

Herstic spoke to the sense of belonging the sukkah brought, saying that it was nice to have a place where she could “be in [her] own traditional environment while still at Cornell.”

Dan Draytsel can be reached at dd563@cornell.edu.

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IPD officers responded to a complaint on the 600 block of West Clinton Street. The complainant stated that, as she was walking on the sidewalk, the man had tried to take her backpack off her back, according to a press release.

She explained she fought the attacker, and after a brief altercation, in which she bit the attacker on the arm, the man fled the area on foot, the release said. The victim provided IPD officers with a description, and, shortly after, an IPD officer spotted a subject matching the description.

After a positive identification by the victim, the attacker was identified as Christopher Hartman, a 41-year-old man. He was secured in police custody and transported to IPD headquarters for booking, where he was charged with Attempted Robber in the Third Degree, the release said.

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Students Share Stories of Coming Out Across Cultures person’s ability to come out, such as race, religion or political climate. Students then addressed Against the backdrop of a cam- what could be done to make peopus where a safe space may be ple who might not be able to increasingly under question, near- come out feel more supported and ly a hundred Cornell students met included.

Many students spoke from in open dialogue about sexuality personal experience, and most on National Coming Out Day. The event, called Coming out agreed that dialogue was one of Across Cultures, was organized by the most helpful ways to breed Black Students United and inclusivity. Some stated that perHaven, Cornell’s LGBTQ sonal connections with other Student Union. The groups came members of the LGBTQ commutogether to organize the event to nity allowed them to fully recogcreate a space where students from nize and accept their own sexual an array of diverse backgrounds identities.

Xenia Ludtseva ’18 explained could speak in a neutral environment about sexuality and coming that she came to the event to share her experience out. of growing up During the “Given everything that and eventually event, students coming out as broke out into has been happening ... m u l t i p l e this campus is not as safe gay in Russia.

“Coming groups and discussed their a space as it should be.” out is not a singular thing,” own personal Lavanya Aprameya ’19 Ludtseva said. stories in small “There are a lot seminar circles. of complicaFor Lavanya Aprameya ’19, this event was tions that come with gender especially important in the con- expression, family background, text of the racially charged issues ethnicity and class that need to be that have occurred on the Cornell taken into consideration.”

Highlighting intersectionality campus in past weeks.

“Given everything that has again, many students, including been happening recently, we can Ludtseva, mentioned that sexual tell that this campus is not as safe identity should not be viewed as a space as it should be for every- the only way to identify individuone,” Aprameya said. “Especially als because there are so many for people that hold multiple dif- other factors that make us human.

Ludtseva said that she enjoyed ferent identities that have been the event because the personal dischallenged recently.”

While students brainstormed course allowed her to listen to some tangible ways that people other individuals’ unique experican be more helpful and support- ences, such as one student who ive to friends who might be bal- spoke about being the only queer ancing their queer identities with individual in an all-Catholic other identities, the themes of school. From the event, she said intersectionality and inclusivity she came to realize that every culture has its own vocabulary for were frequently referenced.

“Part of the motivation for this how to articulate queerness.

“This was really valuable event was to realize that intersectionality is something that we because you learn that there is no need to be talking about and we single narrative, and having more need to be thinking about all of than one narrative is always a very this in an intersectional sense,” good thing,” Ludtseva said.

Aprameya said. “There are organi- “There is no one set of rules for zations that are working together how to be gay, therefore you just and are there to support them feel like a freer person.”

[LGBTQ students].”

The groups discussed the vari- Stacey Blansky can be reached at ous factors that can influence a sb2337@cornell.edu.

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considering filing objections.

During negotiations with the University, the two parties — through communication primarily between their lawyers — have attempted to settle terms of a new agreement that would establish guidelines for another union recognition election.

Negotiations has “reached an impasse” at this point with neither side “willing to compromise any more,” said Hao Shi, grad, UMC member. For this reason, CGSU has decided to move from negotiations to voting on the referendum, allowing for input from the entire body of members to decide the best path to move forward.

The main goal of negotiations was to establish, within the agreement, protections for CGSU if the National Labor Relations Board, under the Trump administration, were to overturn an August 2016 ruling.

This ruling established that graduate students could be con-

sidered workers under the NLRB, with the right to campaign and organize.

However, the agreement, which although not yet finalized as each party waits on lawyers to add final details, would not guarantee this protection.

For Ethan Susca, grad, administrative liaison for CGSU and UMC member, not guaranteeing this protection despite months of back and forth between the two parties made the process feel like a “waste of time,” he said.

“We thought we were going to get more out of [negotiations],” he said. “We thought we were going to get some type of protections against the Columbia ruling. It seems like after all of it is over with, we don’t have those.”

He added that “it’s easy for those of us who have been involved to feel very pessimistic right now. … We tried and it doesn’t feel like we accomplished a whole lot.”

Filing objections to the union recognition election

based on unfair labor practices would be based on behavior by the University prior to and during the election. These behaviors mainly include offering students health insurance benefits on the day of the election,

“It’s easy for those of us who have been involved to feel very pessimistic right now.”

Ethan Susca, grad accusing CGSU of voter intimidation during the election and claims made in the Ask A Dean forum, Susca said.

Earlier in September, Joel Malina, vice president for University Relations, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that if CGSU were to file objections, the University would consider filing objections against CGSU. This consideration has not been raised in negotiations nor in any communications

with CGSU, Brangan and James said.

Brangan, summing the conduct of the University as “deplorable,” added that such accusations are “baseless.”

“The way that Cornell has acted is a piece of a larger story about the ways that the University really just wants to keep its most malleable and lowpaid workers quiet,” Brangan said, speaking in reference to recent union recognition elections at universities across the country.

The University did not respond to a request for comment.

After filing objections, it would then be to the discretion of the arbitrator to decide if such behaviors were “influential” to the outcome of the election, said Jaron Kent-Dobias, grad, UMC member.

“Given that our election was extremely close, and was extremely close alongside an extremely low turnout for this type of election, if any objectionable behavior is found on

behalf of the University, I cannot imagine that the arbitrator would see that as being noninfluential,” Kent-Dobias said.

However, filing objections does not come without its caveat for CGSU. “We’re relinquishing a huge amount of power if the objections are filed because then all the decisions, every last one of them, regarding the nature of our next campaign, will be made by the arbitrator,” Susca said.

Depending on the result of filing the objections, KentDobias said, the arbitrator may give leverage to the union in the process.

“Typically if an arbitrator in this sort of case does find fault in one of the party’s behavior, they will take a lot of the input of the other party into how to decide things to happen,” he said. “If we end up winning objections and we tell the arbitrator as part of that filing, this is how we’d like it to be resolved, the arbitrator is likely to take that into account.”

As it is up to the arbitrator’s discretion, it is possible that the arbitrator may decide that the objections do not warrant a reelection. For this reason, CGSU members may find the agreement — which would guarantee another election in the future — as more beneficial for the union, Kent-Dobias said.

“The University really just wants to keep its most malleable and low-paid workers quiet.”

Michaela Brangan, grad “Right now the only advantage that most people see in the settlement procedure is that it guarantees another chance whereas we do have a chance of losing objections,” he said.

For Susca, the length of the negotiating process and the settlement that has come out of it has given him “hindsight” for how the entire process could have been avoided from the very start. “[Negotiating] took a bunch of time and ultimately if we turned around right after the election and immediately filed objections based on unfair labor practices, it would have been a much stronger stance to have than waiting all these months only to probably make the same decision,” he said.

“But hindsight is 20:20 like that and we’re going to move forward with hopefully the route that will work best for CGSU,” he added.

Voting for the referendum will begin on Oct. 16, according to Aubrie James, grad, standing chair of the legal affairs committee. A quorum of a third of CGSU members must vote. Once this quorum has voted, voting will continue for an additional two days with a minimum of a week to allow for voting, James said.

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

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days, there have been at least four incidents perceived by students as racist, xenophobic or anti-semitic.

“I don’t recall a time in my life when there’s been so much divisiveness in our nation.”

President Martha Pollack A student posted an anti-semitic joke on a shared document during class on Oct. 3, leading a professor to end her lecture.

Someonesubmitted the N-word in response to an electronic poll at a residence hall dinner on Sept. 27.

A fraternity member was overheard proposing that a wall be built around the Latino Living Center on Sept. 6. And, in the highest-profile incident, a black

student said he was punched in the face and called racist slurs by a group of white men on Sept. 15, leading to the arrest of one student who might be charged with a hate crime.

Leading the task force’s three committees will be the University’s top lawyer, Madelyn Wessel; Prof.

Lisa Nishii, human resources studies, who is chair of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ international programs; and Prof.

David Wooten, marketing, who is associate dean and chief diversity officer of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

Pollack announced the task force heads at 5 p.m., and none of the three co-chairs responded to emails sent shortly thereafter requesting comment on Wednesday evening. Harry Katz, director of the Scheinman Institute, did not respond to a request for comment. University spokesmen John McKain and John Carberry did not respond to emailed questions.

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Delaware Department of State entity search.

John McKain, associate vice president of university relations, said Cornell did not have any comment on the revelation.

Chris Arce ’19, co-president of the Puerto Rican Student Association, said the fact that Klarman holds so much of the U.S. territory’s debt is “saddening for several reasons.”

“To hear that one of the main buildings on campus has a connection to that debt crisis, it’s frustrating,” Arce told The Sun. Matthew Indimine ’18, a member of the Student Assembly, called for students to boycott the building in a public Facebook post. He said in the post that a resolution is “soon to be in the works.”

Klarman is a major political donor, giving the maximum

amount allowed to both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio in 2016, and is a cofounder of The Times of Israel website, according to Haaretz, a newspaper in Israel.

Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.5 billion this year.

Klarman Hall, which the University said cost $61 million to build, opened in January of 2016 and currently houses the Temple of Zeus cafe. At a ceremony in May of 2016, Klarman said students “must bring speakers to campus, to Klarman Hall, with diverse ideas, speakers who will challenge people’s beliefs and moral perceptions, raise ideas and even say outrageous things.”

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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogelburroughs@cornellsun.com. Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

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At a forum hosted by BSU and Alpha Phi Alpha last week, Pollack said she and others were “repulsed by the behavior that’s been going on on campus” and “deeply disappointed by members of our community.”

“I don’t recall a time in my life when there’s been so much divisiveness in our nation,” she said at the forum on Thursday.

Pollack said Cornell has increased the number of staff members at Counseling and

Psychological Services by five people, four of whom she said are people of color.

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

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New Views On North Korea S tress dreams run in my family. My mom gets them about travel, my dad gets them about work and my brother gets them about sports. Lately, mine have been about impending nuclear warfare. The other night I had the most unbelievable one. It etched itself vividly in the back of my brain.

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right hand men, Ri Pyong Chol, a former general; Kim Jong Sik, a rocket scientist; and Jang Chang Ha, the leader of a weapons center. They are quiet, solemn, focused — a sharp juxtaposition from the famous photos of their smiling faces following a successful missile launch. One of the men delivers a small, sealed box, and I wonder, what does it hold? My subconscious anxiety might lead to me down several rabbit holes, to the secrets of nuclear fission or something like that.

But the lid of the box is lifted with the focused, gentle care only a reckless dictator could bequeath. It’s not a small explosive, like my dream-self feared. It’s five frames from Warby Parker — a home try-on kit. I’m relieved as I watch him place the first pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. His associates applaud the clear plastic frames and the thin, round wire ones. It’s some sort of kiss-the-ring ceremony but with ontrend accessories. He had a pair of tortoise shells on his face when I awoke with the same sweaty shock and guilt I get after hours of online shopping.

And, so, I wonder: What could this mean?

With fears of World War III on the horizon, it’s no surprise that North Korea creeps into my subconscious.

There’s a tight, anxious knot in my stomach when it comes to nuclear warfare, and this might be a gross underreaction. Part of me pushes this fear to the back burner, it seems so incredulously melodramatic — something that will happen someday, but certainly not to us, certainly could not be happening now, right?

However, an American president colluding with Russia seemed radically unrealistic when it first hit the headlines, but nearly a year later the evidence has turned my disbelief to disgust. We are in an age of political drama usually reserved for House of Cards. So maybe we should be worried?

The president doesn’t seem deeply concerned. After seeing a tweet branding one of the most dangerous dictators in the world, “rocket man,” I couldn’t hold myself back anymore. I imagine a world in which Elton John reconciles decades of unrest in Eastern Asia. For the first time in almost a year, I feel at

peace.

This isn’t something that feels comfortable to joke about. It is the quiet, stifled giggle in a hospital, absorbing the absurdity of a dire situation, laughing so I don’t cry. Are we all going to die?

I begin to wonder if the political food-fighting between North Korea and America isn’t all about image.

Maybe this is some type of self-defense mechanism, a Hail Mary to keep me from completely losing my mind. But, to be fair, sometimes our leaders don’t deliver the clearest view of reality, but instead what matches their presidential aesthetic — or preferred image of themselves. So, in an attempt to detangle my psych, I come to the conclusion that these conflicts aren’t so different, in concept, from a Warby Parker home try-on kit. Bear with me here. Maybe these two powerful men are trying to see how big they can really go, what they can get away with, what’s a good look for them.

During his recent performance at Cornell, Trevor Noah, the host of The Daily Show, described the AmericanNorth Korean conflict as a hot potato, passed off from president to president.

But in the present day, the president is grasping this conflict in his plum-sized fist. The embers of history produce an irreconcilable conflagration of flustered, frustrated tweets — tweets that literally might begin the end of the

@RealDonaldTrump literally wields the power to declare war in 140 characters or less. world. Does anyone else feel like they’re in an episode of Black Mirror?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been catching a lot of heat for the ways in which his brainchild might have interfered with our democracy, but where are the creators of Twitter? @RealDonaldTrump literally wields the power to declare war in 140 characters or less. This isn’t something I have a sense of control over. I can’t censor the commander-in-chief.

So, for peace of mind’s sake (because self care is important in this political climate, right?) I think it’s easiest to believe that these threats are about image, not about reality. The United States, Russia and North Korea are flexing until their t-shirts burst. Sure, I’m terrified. But just like the many presidents that came before DJT, I have no idea how to solve the North Korean conflict, and it’s easier to picture Kim Jong-Un with a home-try-on-kit with anything much more lethal. Since this issue feels deeply out of my control, I’m choosing to focus my waking energy and time on the social justice issues posed by this administration.

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

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Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

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You Can’t Do Politics Scared

he most useless columns I write treat politics like a profile picture. They are snapshots of whatever kind of political aesthetic I would like to have attached to my name. Sometimes, this is a regurgitation of the campus consensus, while at other times it is contrarian purely for its own sake. They are honest, but only in the most superficial sense. That is, they are honestly the beliefs I would like you to think I hold. This is not to say that they are

Because we are so prone to Instagram advocacy, we often mobilize for only the most cinematic kinds of public solidarity. We will show up for the big rally and the candlelight vigil, but it when it comes time to vote, canvass for candidates or do the myriad other forms of daily work that progress in government demands, we are often absent. I do not mean to fetishize formal politics, but surely we have reached a consensus that the quality of our political leaders matters.

The world is full of wornWe will show up for the big rally and the out, quasi-scientific cultural analyses about millennials. candlelight vigil, but it when it comes Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) wrote a truly dull book calling for time to vote, canvass for candidates or do parents to give their kids more chores in order the myriad other forms of daily work to recreate “The that progress in government Vanishing American Adult.” demands, we are often absent.

Joe Scarborough and Joe Simonson fraudulent — I have never written something that I do not both declared millennials to be generational moral failures, believe. However at times the writing is too preoccupied respectively citing smartphones and Harry Potter. TV-host with making me look and feel a certain way to do anything and-non-veteran Scarborough pined for the days when worthwhile. The arguments do not prompt thought or young men went to war, while Simonson just wants everychallenge existing orthodoxy, and whatever self I express one to listen to more Bad Religion. To be honest, I’m not sure which is worse. The truth is, most arguments that lacks the depth to be truly relatable.

I say all of this partially to apologize for bad writing, but approach youth politics at the generational level are too mostly because I think this kind of deficiency highlights a general to be accurate and too condescending to be taken contradiction in the way people my age approach the seriously.

To avoid a similar mistake, I have one narrow and limworld around us. Our attitude toward the prospect of tangible social change shows a tremendous amount of care. ited claim. Millennial politics, in certain ways, is gripped Millennials volunteer at unprecedented rates, doubling the by an aesthetic preoccupation that gets in the way of our highest rate of any 18-24 year-old age cohort between ability to affect the change we truly care about. I do not 1989 and 2005. A 2014 poll also showed that a majority believe the tired narrative that this is evidence of apathy or of millennials believe in the value of community engage- laziness. Rather, I believe this is the partial product of a ment and volunteerism more than any other group. common, highly specific anxiety: The possibility that the change we wish to affect will Moreover, even the profile picture approach to politics exudes an investment in a just and good world. With every never come.

Statistically, millennials distrust formal institutions hashtag and thoughtful Facebook post, we vocalize a fundamental interest in the wellbeing of the community more than any other generation. This applies not only to government, but also to mass media and other traditional around us. Put simply, we demonstrably give a shit.

However our approach to formal politics often tends social institutions. In 2014, researchers found that millentoward ineffective and temporary forms of engagement. nials select organizations for which to volunteer, not by

institutional trust, but by whether they will see the tangible effects of their work. The natural result of this shared unease is a very real, if unspoken, concern that as long as politics depends on institutional action it will always be mostly hopeless.

The anxiety runs much deeper, though. We are subject to rapid and intense flows of information, and as a result are often viscerally aware of the scope of global suffering.

Even when positive news acts as a counterweight, our proclivity is always to fixate on pain and use a broad brush to paint the world gloomy. Certain events can throw this background anxiety into acute focus, whether it is the gruesome competition for the Nation’s Biggest Mass Shooting, or the unrelenting suffering of the Rohingya.

The sheer scope and scale of senseless pain to which humanity subjects itself is simply unfathomable. That knowledge is absolutely frightening.

We are left, then, with a generation that is saturated with grim data and deeply suspicious of the only institutions powerful enough to respond. As a result, we tend to pivot to the politics that will gratify. At its most valuable, this takes the form of community volunteering for organizations doing demonstrable good. Its most corrosive, though, is a tendency towards politics for social credit and personal satisfaction. When we demand tangible and immediate fulfillment from the outcomes of our advocacy, we are more inclined to seek out public displays of ideology too concerned with making us feel a certain way. My worthless columns begin with the belief that they have no prospect of affecting their subject. Thus the only logical thing to do is to write for a sense of personal gratification, and hope people like the look of my beliefs. All of this because in the background there is a buzzing fear that ultimately nothing will be effective.

But effective politics requires us to give our gloomy world a central place inside of us, and trust that it is worth trying to change. The answer, albeit intangible, is to confront more fully the submerged anxiety and distrust that leads us away from more effective engagement. Cornell students have the privilege and capital to make a difference, so politics in Valencia won’t cut it.

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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hat would Hugh Hefner have made of the modern university?

His views have certainly influenced the id and ideology of campus life. An unrepentant champion of the “American Dream,” Hefner published a series of editorials in Playboy between 1962 and 1963 outlining the magazine’s doctrine. “Personal freedom, political freedom, economic freedom,” he later enumerated. “That was the political philosophy I grew up with.”

And despite a few Gramscian grumblings to the contrary, students at elite colleges have largely accepted this credenda. They embrace sexual liberty in their bedrooms and economic liberty in their Goldman interviews. They decry bigotry in all its forms and oppose dictatorship and demagoguery — at least north of the Florida Straight. Hefner once claimed that “self-sacrifice and self-denial” were intrinsically wrong unless motivated by “some greater individual good.” In so many areas of life, from finance to fornication, today’s coeds imbibe individualism and vomit up narcissism — sanitized, of course, by a rousing chorus of “You Do You.” But there is another side to Hefner’s legacy that has proven less popular with the Ivory Tower: his fierce and at times fetid devotion to free speech.

Playboy’s ascent into mainstream American culture both reinforced and depended on a permissive reading of the first amendment, one rooted in skeptical worries about society’s ability to define and disallow obscenity. Those misgivings snowballed during the 1960s when students at the University of California, Berkley rioted in

Solving Solipsism support of free speech and academic freedom. That Hefner encouraged such uprisings is unsurprising given his métier — the more modes of expression were considered legitimate, the easier it would be for him to portray smut as sensibility.

Today’s students, by contrast, take their first-amendment cues from Catherine MacKinnon, the radical anti-porn feminist who spent her entire life working to undo Hefner’s legacy. For MacKinnon, the mere existence of pornography subordinated women to an oppressive patriarchy, such that any woman exposed to sexually explicit material should have the right to sue for damages. She did not merely claim that pornography causes violence; in her view, pornography was violence, and thus an appropriate object of censorship.

Though MacKinnon’s arguments never gained much legal ground, the suggestion that some speech acts are intrinsically violent has proven enormously influential.

Controversial speakers are now accused of “harming” students, a charge that has been used to justify all manner of misbehavior on the part of frenzied activists. Following MacKinnon, these radicals go beyond claiming that offensive speech conditions oppression; they argue that offense, be it premeditated or accidental, does actual violence to the offended.

Pundits have understandably dismissed such rhetoric as opportunistic make-believe, a ploy to start a fuss or cancel midterms. Yet they’ve also overlooked an important point: To say speech is violence implies that hearing views you dislike lowers your welfare — that it harms you — which in turn implies

that faring well requires something other take so much as a promiscuous individualthan money, food or sex, something funda- ism, one that locates eudemonia in private mentally non-material. fantasy, injury in social reality.

And whether they admit it or not, Were this in fact the case — were it true speech-fearing Jacobins have inherited a the- that safety and security were inextricable ory of well-being that is not so far removed from subjectivity — “violent speech” would from Hefner’s. be a platitude, a coherent and thoroughly It’s a philosophy that equates flourishing unremarkable notion. That it’s not speaks with choice and freedom Playboy’s ascent into mainstream American with metaphysical fiat, “the culture both reinforced and depended on a right to define one’s own conpermissive reading of the first amendment, cept of existence, of meanone rooted in skeptical worries about ing, of the unisociety’s ability to define and disallow verse and of the mystery of obscenity. human life.” It conceives of goodness as “whatever floats your boat” and volumes about the Playboy philosophy and society as a social safety net — a safe space, the absurdity of its devotees. if you will — for individuals to pursue selfThe genealogy I have been sketching is discovery and self-creation. Like Hefner, the no doubt vague and highly speculative, and modern radical thinks he is entitled to I’m sure MacKinnon’s disciples will reject it decide not just how to live but also what liv- as an exercise in ideological projection. In ing means, protected in a deep and perma- any event, I suspect Hefner would have nent way from the troubling sorties of reali- regarded the contemporary campus with a ty. mix of admiration and horror. Admiration If that is your operative notion of well- because we live and breathe the Playboy being, the belief that speech can constitute ethic. Horror because that ethic is systematviolence makes a perverse sort of sense. ically levelling the cultural protections which Words, after all, are a powerful solvent for made Playboy possible. solipsism. They remind us that our truths are not The Truth, that there exists a world Aaron Sibarium is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. outside one’s head which cannot be wished at Yale University. His column runs on alternate away into non-being. The speech-violence Tuesdays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu. equation does not rest on a definitional mis- IvyWire appears periodically throughout the semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Blade Runner 2049 May Just Be a Masterpiece

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It’s not often that a recently released movie can possibly be considered a “masterpiece.” The term carries a lot of weight.

Yet, many have already declared Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner, a masterpiece. 2049 extends Scott’s visionary world, in which near-human robots called “replicants”

are second-class citizens, and those who stray from their slave status are hunted down by cops called blade runners (don’t ask why they’re called “blade runners”... it sounds cool). The original film followed a blade runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), and this installment continues Deckard’s story but focuses on another blade runner, Officer K (Ryan Gosling), whose job is to kill outdated, less obedient models of replicants, as he uncovers a puzzle that could alter the division between humans and replicants.

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I don’t know if 2049 is a masterpiece, but I do know that its director, Denis Villeneuve, is a master. He combines two genres that he has nailed down in the past, science fiction with Arrival and slow-burn mystery with Prisoners. As with most great sci-fi films, there is a palpable sense of wonder and awe, and, as with most great mysteries, there is persistent unease. Villeneuve’s ability to eek tension out of long scenes remains unparalleled — not a minute of this 2 hour, 43 minute spectacle is boring.

Villeneuve also proves, once again, that he can immerse his audience in a fictional setting. In this sense, he is the perfect choice to follow in Scott’s footsteps. 2049 has such a rich sense of location, from the towering monoliths of a

I don’t know if 2049 is a masterpiece, but I do know that its director, Denis Villeneuve, is a master.

Lev Akabas ’19 brooding and rainy Los Angeles to the giant, erotic statues of a hazy and deserted Las Vegas. Even the interiors of buildings each have a unique look and atmosphere. The world of this film is so vividly realized, and everything from the sound design to the lighting makes us feel like we’re there.

The world is also brought to life by cinematographer Roger Deakins, who should finally win his first Oscar this See BLADE RUNNER page 10

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year, after 13 nominations. Blade Runner 2049 is so resplendent that I would pay $15 to see it in theaters with the sound muted. Deakins uses every color in the palette to give each set-piece it's own texture. He uses light and darkness to evoke specific moods. The cinematography doesn’t just improve the movie — the cinematography is the movie. If there was an Academy Award for MVP, Deakins would win it, hands down.

Much like Deakins’ cinematography, the music is an essential component of the film’s environment.

Composers Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch do their best to take Vangelis’ groundbreaking Blade Runner soundtrack and make it their own. There are a few scenes where Ryan Gosling is just flying his ship or slowly walking around, but the score alone gives those sequences character and intrigue. I was also gripping the edge of my seat during an exhilarating, beautifullyshot climax with an eardrum-bursting crescendo of electronic sounds. If you haven’t caught my drift during the last four paragraphs, the filmmaking “Dream Team” of Villeneuve-Deakins-Zimmer is f***ing awesome.

I should probably say here that I like the original Blade Runner, but I think it has many flaws.

Something like six different versions of the film have been released, and Scott and Ford can’t even agree on what the script meant, so I’m not crazy to think that there were issues. After several viewings, I still have trouble getting invested in its main character or its central love story, and I think it has problems with story structure that cause large portions of it to be, well, somewhat boring.

That said, it’s iconic and at times transcendent, so many of 2049’s sequences that mimic the original naturally fall short. No opening can surpass the effect of Vangelis’ heavenly synthesizer melody playing over our haunting first look at future Los Angeles and, of course, no climax can match the “Tears in Rain” monologue, which has its own Wikipedia page, for goodness sake.

Blade Runner’s influence and originality cannot be over-

stated, but 2049 still improves on its predecessor’s imperfections.

For one, K is an immensely compelling main character. Whereas in the original Blade Runner, the replicants Deckard was hunting were far more interesting than Deckard himself (and maybe that was the point), 2049 digs deep into K’s personal struggle. Some fans of the original might not like that this modern blockbuster sequel gives us a more standard hero’s journey, but I appreciated that, as opposed to just presenting a bunch of questions and ideas, 2049 gives us a real story that develops with momentum and drives every scene.

Gosling is also fantastic. I can’t reveal anything about his character’s intriguing identity, but it’s a difficult part and Gosling plays it perfectly.

Blade Runner 2049 is nearly three hours long with weighty themes and a plot that forces us to pay attention. It’s certainly a lot to take in, and you’ll probably leave the theater, as I did, wondering if you understood

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Rostam Half-Light

Don’t act like you weren’t even just a little bit sad when Rostam Batmanglij announced over twitter in 2016 that he was leaving Vampire Weekend. The New York based indie band who had brought hits like “APunk” and “Holiday,” as well as released one of the most compelling coming of age albums of the 21st century, Modern Vampires of the City, had lost their production mastermind, and to us fans who knew how critical his talents were on tracks like “Diane Young,” perhaps they had lost their essence, too. I was devastated, to say the least.

Lucky for us though, not only has the frontman Ezra Koenig been gracing us with consistent social media updates for a new Vampire Weekend LP — working title Mitsubishi Macchiato — but Rostam Batmanglij is also confirmed to be collaborating with Koenig on parts of the new album. What’s more, Rostam has found enough free time to release an effort of his own: HalfLight, his first solo record.

Batmanglij has been dipping into many different pots over the past few years, lending his skills to the likes of anyone from Diplo to Declan McKenna, and considering so much of what he’s gotten his hands on recently has turned to gold (think Frank Ocean’s “Ivy”), it’s no wonder there’s been considerable anticipation for this album. While Batmanglij certainly demonstrates on this record that he can hold his own as a solo artist, Half-Light ultimately comes off as just a bit too dis-

it all. Nearly a week later, I’m still not sure I understood it all. I’m not sure that I understood what Jared Leto’s character was trying to accomplish. I’m not sure if I liked Jared Leto’s overwrought performance. I’m not really sure why he was cast in the first place. There are some abrupt narrative reveals and a nearly ten-minute sex scene. There’s also an artificial intelligence character, Joi (Ana de Armas), who either is the most interesting part of the movie or doesn’t work at all. I haven’t decided yet.

In short, I don’t know if Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece, but the fact that I can have the discussion says enough. Only a handful of movies come to theaters each year where “masterpiece” is even in the conversation, and this is one of them.

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I definitely enjoyed listening to Half-Light — it is a sonically glittering record that corroborates Rostam’s reputation as an eclectic producer. However, this is a compliment that can easily become a complaint: HalfLight is a pretty album that all too often feels spread too thin, and sometimes a little bit too diverse.

Throughout the record, Batmanglij draws on a myriad of influences while remaining true to his 21st century pop sensibilities, which would be impressive had he the vocal gumption to tie it all together. However, HalfLight is scattered with loose melodies and lyrics that do not do enough to give the record a clear direction. For example, the rambling verse and unambiguously catchy chorus of single “Bike Dream” each have a standalone appeal, but as a whole are too disparate to not make the song feel forced. Moreover, the whimsical chamberlain strings that appear on Half-Light and became Batmangelij’s hallmark during his time with Vampire Weekend simply do not stay on the ground without the lyrical savvy of singer Ezra Koenig. As a result, the chamber-pop orchestral arrangements present in songs like “Thatch Snow” and “Gwan” certainly float gracefully, but the songs themselves feel inconclusive.

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result, Half-Light ultimately listens more like a compilation of all of the art-pop avenues Batmanglij has explored over the years than it does a cohesive album.

This is in part due to Batmanglij’s choice to include on this album songs that were previously released as standalone singles, including “EOS” and “Wood.” While the eastern-influenced latter song is a particularly enjoyable listen, it’s difficult to love Half-Light when the freshest track on the album was first heard in 2011.

Rostam shuffles from folk, to R&B, to world music, and back to R&B on Half-Light without any true direction, ruminating and reminiscing pleasantly but not with any resolve. It’s not to say this album is bad by any stretch — there’s just not too much to hold on to. It’s easy to get behind the Ratatat-esq guitars on the eponymous track or the lightsaber-y synths on “Warning Intruders,” and at face value Rostam has created some very pleasing sounds. But refrains like “all my life, I only wanted to hold you” do little to add depth to otherwise hazy love songs.

By the end of this record, the musings you’ve journeyed through have probably left you either calmed by their airiness or frustrated by their lack of palpability. If you’re feeling the latter, let’s hope Rostam’s final plea on the record, “don’t let it get to you,” doesn’t go in vain.

Jesse Martens is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jtm238@cornell.edu.

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be healthy, happy and reach their full potential,” said Mr. Bayne, who makes the nostalgic trip back to East Hill for his sons’ games.

“We are thrilled they are attending an Ivy League college and, of course, [it is] even more meaningful since it is Cornell.”

The eldest of four brothers, Ryan and Connor are no strangers to competition. At times, the two would even get their younger siblings into the mix. One afternoon, Connor convinced his younger brother, Kevin, to goaltend for him. Only things did not turn out so well for the younger Bayne.

“Connor took some wicked hard shots,” Mrs. Bayne said.

“Shortly after, Kevin’s hand [was] bothering him and, sure enough, he sustained a hairline fracture thanks to Connor’s wicked shots.”

Luckily, maturity — and playing different positions on the field — has helped the duo grow closer together.

“Being in two different positions on the field, we don’t really compete for playing time against each other,” Ryan said. “But in things other than soccer we can be pretty competitive.”

With Connor playing a more offensive-minded position and Ryan taking on a solely defensive role, the pair work well in tandem.

“This summer, my favorite part was that I always had a training partner, instead of finding a wall to go bang a ball against,” Ryan said. “[On] the days when you’ve done a full day’s work and you’re just tired … it makes it easier when you have somebody to continue to push you.”

Despite their innate competitive drive, the brothers are able to work together to help each other navigate the challenges that come with being an athlete at an Ivy League university.

Connor said that Ryan has helped ease his transition to Cornell by imparting useful advice about classes, in addition to assist-

ing him on the field.

“He helped me by telling me to join a study group and telling me good places to study for prelims,” Connor said. “Soccer-wise, he helped train me over the summer and told me what to work on. He was kind of like a coach before I came in here and met [head coach] John Smith.”

Although both brothers are pursuing their degrees in mechanical engineering, their paths to get there were quite different.

According to his father, Ryan was “always learning new things” like juggling, playing guitar, cooking and even starting a ski tuning business out of his basement.

On the other hand, Mr. Bayne described Connor as being “very mechanical” and as “always spending time with his grandfather, learning about snowmobiles and Jeep engines.”

With their unique personalities, Ryan and Connor are each able to bring their own brand of tenacity and athletic prowess to Cornell soccer with the hopes of helping the Red achieve its lofty goals in what has been a resurgent 6-3-2 season so far.

Ryan, a junior captain, has been a key member of the Red’s defense this season, holding offensive powerhouses to low-scoring games.

Although Connor has not seen much action at the collegiate level quite yet, he shows much promise as an integral part of a state championship-winning team and multiple time conference MVP in high school.

“I think a lot of people can look you over when we have a younger team like we have,” Ryan said.

“But we don’t think there’s any reason we can’t compete for the championship this year. [The underclassmen] have done really well in getting up to speed. It’s a competitive environment everyday in practice. Guys are really starting to see that we can go somewhere.”

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

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ach year around October, the arrival of freshly ripened apples awakens us to the coming of fall. As busy students, we often forget about how blessed we are to be surrounded by a region of readily available, locally sourced produce every season, and most abundant of all: apples. This year, on top of my annual visit to Applefest, I decided to explore beyond the apple cider donut lines and signed up for Monks and Makers: A Cider & Food Pairing Salon, a free cider and food pairing event hosted by The Downtown Ithaca Alliance and New York Cider Association as part of the Finger Lakes Cider Week.

According to the Finger Lakes Cider Week’s website, New York is a state with one of the richest cider histories, from abandoned orchards to seedling offspring built into the unique landscape surrounding us in the Finger Lakes region. By introducing local cider makers to the public, this event offered a one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn about the production methods of cidermaking and what makes New York ciders unique.

I signed up for the first session, located at Monks in the Commons (right inside the newly opened Downtown Marriott hotel), and rushed in to see the venue. The conference room was set up in a circle-like setting, with plenty of walking space for tasters to choose their cidery of preference. Nine cider makers brought in their customer

favorites and we had small group tasting sessions as we wandered from one table to the next. Since each session’s time was limited to 40 minutes, I felt slightly rushed and did not have the opportunity to taste all four delicious food pairings or all the ciders, but I was happy with the event overall since it opened my eyes to the variety of ciders in the Finger Lakes region and the passion each cider-maker puts into their products.

Before this event, my knowledge of hard cider was pretty limited — after all, they’re just apples, right? Through this experience, my taste buds and my mind got enlightened by the complexity in hard cider’s flavors, from dryness, sweetness and acid levels (tannin), to aroma due to

the differing production methods and apple varieties. For example, the Soundpost cider from South Hill Cider tasted more smooth and full-bodied due to the English Bittersweet cider apple varieties used with bourbon barrel aging, while the

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The apple-themed food pairings I sampled, such as the shucked oyster with apple mignonette and apple smoked bacon and camembert on endive, were great combos with the ciders. The fat and salt content in the food samples balanced well with the fruitiness and lightness of the ciders, and the incorporation of apples in each dish helped highlight the cider flavors themselves.

And this wasn’t the only opportunity to learn about New York ciders: Throughout the week, restaurants and cideries collaborated to celebrate another great year of apple harvest with specialty “cider-infused” menus.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Brothers Work to Bring Red Back To Winning Ways

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

From denting sheetrock while playing basement soccer to beating nationally ranked teams, Ryan and Connor Bayne have been making an impact — both literally and figuratively — everywhere they go.

Growing up in Horseheads, New York, just about 30 miles away from Ithaca, Ryan and Connor — a Cornell men’s soccer junior and freshman, respectively — spent much of their time together as kids outdoors, competing in a variety of sports from horseback riding to downhill skiing. But with a Cornell Athletics Hall-ofFame soccer player as a father in John Bayne ’88, a soccer ball was never far out of reach.

“When we travel, the boys are sure to deflate a very small soccer ball and bring a pump such that when we have a layover, they pump it up and play soccer in whatever quiet corner of the airport they can find,” said Gwynne Bayne, the boys’ mother. “This has been happening since they were toddlers.”

Although the pair only formally played together for a brief time on one team prior to coming to Cornell, the chemistry between the two the field is evident. It is common for the two brothers to head out for practice alone to sharpen their skills before the rest of the team arrives.

While any two brothers can be expected to be close, JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Six short | Despite Mike Graboye’s medal-worthy outing, the Red finished six strokes behind first.

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Dyanmic duo | Freshman Connor (left) and senior Ryan (right) Bayne have an on-field chemistry that is uncommon in the world of collegiate soccer.

Ryan and Connor credit their deeply-entrenched connection to growing up playing all kinds of sports with each other around the house ever since they could walk.

“We were both raised by my dad as a soccer player, and he taught us similar things because he taught us what he knew,” Connor said. “Even though [Ryan’s] a defender and I’m a midfielder, we still play similarly and have similar work rates.”

“We understand each other more than most players do just because we know what each other’s playing style is like,” he continued. “People say they see the connection all the time. Even when my dad steps on the field, they say they see the connection between all of us.”

Both brothers point to their father, John, who competed for both the soccer and track and field teams at Cornell and was a 1998 inductee into the Cornell Hall

of Fame, as their biggest mentor when it comes to their methodology on the pitch.

However, both brothers said that their decision to attend Cornell was unrelated to their father’s legacy.

“For me being the oldest, I was the first one to go through the college recruiting process,” Ryan said. “And [my father] was pretty open with me going anywhere, so I don’t think [his legacy] affected me too much.” “[My father] let me tour different schools and I didn’t always tour with him,” Connor said. “In the end, [Cornell] was just the one I felt most comfortable with.”

Mr. Bayne echoed his sons’ sentiments, saying that it was ultimately the boys’ decision to join the Red. “All parents want the same thing for their kids — to See MEN’S SOCCER page 14

GOLF

Graboyes Medals for Third Time in Career

Cornell closes out fall season with second place finish in Connecticut Cup the scoring,” Graboyes said.

Championship. The team will continue to After shooting one-under 71 in the prepare by conditioning over the winter, opening round, Graboyes struggled in the and placing a particular emphasis on getting Led by senior co-captain Mike second, shooting a season-high three-over out to more consistent starts in the spring Graboyes’s stellar performance over the hol- 75. However, he followed up with a spectac- season.

“We’ve done a good job of finishing iday weekend, the Cornell golf team ular third round performance, including strong and putting ourwrapped up its fall season on Tuesday with a four birdies in a five-hole selves in a position to second place finish at the Connecticut Cup. stretch, to record the lowA final score of 870 left the Red six est round in his collegiate “We would have loved to win, but we really need to get off to better strokes behind tournament champion career. Graboyes’s final win the tournament, but starts,” Troy said. “If Connecticut and seven strokes ahead of score put him one stroke second place is still we’re able to improve third place Rhode Island. Cornell has now ahead of Rhode Island’s our starts, we’ll be able to recorded a top-four finish in each of its four Dawson Jones, earning obviously great.” him medalist honors for rely less heavily on our tournaments during the fall season. later performances to “Overall, it was a very successful trip,” the third time in his Senior Chris Troy catch up.” said senior co-captain Chris Troy. “We career.

“I actually made a Additionally, while would have loved to win the tournament, but second place is still obviously great and mistake on the ninth hole in the second Cornell has had top finishes this season, it round, which made me lose my focus for a has yet to secure a definitive first place finshows some of what the future holds.”

For a team that hoped to end the fall sea- couple of holes,” Graboyes said. ish. However, Graboyes does not see this as “Thankfully, I was able to come a point of concern. back, [where I was] able to take “I don’t think we have an issue where we “The entire tournament, I was just advantage of … the first six holes just ‘aren’t there yet’ or where we’re losing by [in the third round] and come out two or five shots every game,” Graboyes hitting the ball really well and got a on fire.” said. “In the end, it almost comes down to couple of putts to drop in.”

The rest of the team also luck where we have to get a few putts to recorded respectable finishes in the drop and a few bounces here and there.”

Senior Mike Graboyes tournament’s 90 person field.

For the meantime, the Red will head into Junior Jack Cen and sophomore a lengthy winter recess before resuming play son on a high note, Graboyes’s showing was Mike May both recorded final scores of five- around mid-March to April.

“All we can work on is getting better ourcertainly the peak of the weekend. The over 221 to tie for 24th place, while Troy senior shot three-under par 213, including and freshman Charlie Dubiel both had final selves and beefing up our play,” Graboyes an impressive five-under 67 in the third scores of seven-over 223 to tie for 30th. said. “It’s just a matter of playing smart as we round, on his way to a first place finish in Sophomore Jack Casler competed individu- have been all year, and hopefully during ally, finishing tied for 73rd at 232.

Ivies, we get a few putts shots to drop.” the tournament.

With its top-four finishes in each of its “The entire tournament, I was just hitting the ball really well and got a couple of fall tournaments, the Red cements itself as Josh Zhu can be reached at putts to drop in which led to the success in one of the favorites to win the Ivy League jzhu@cornellsun.com.

By JOSH ZHU

Sun Assistant Sports Editor