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C.U. Republicans to Host Forbes Mental Health Awareness Editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine to examine economy under Trump

By MEREDITH LIU AND ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer and Sun News Editor

Since November, numerous political groups have invited speakers from across the political spectrum to detail the future of the country under President Donald Trump.

Editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, Steve Forbes will weigh in on this debate next week.

A businessman and a politician, Forbes will detail his predictions for the American economy under the Trump administration on Oct. 25 — an event hosted by Cornell Republicans with Young America’s Foundation.

Forbes’s experience in business, media and politics bear similarities to Trump’s own background, offering him a “unique position” on Trump, said Cornell Republicans president Austin McLaughlin ’18.

“He’s somebody that has supported and criticized Trump at various points on his economic agenda and how it’s shifted in a variety of directions in the past year and a half,” he said.

With tax reform as the next item on Trump’s agenda, Cornell Republicans planned Forbes’s lecture to detail this issue and the “state of free enterprise in the country as a whole,” McLaughlin said.

Notably, Forbes proposed a flat tax reform in both 1996 and 2000, when he entered the Presidential

primaries as a candidate of the Republican party, according to the Washington Post.

Under Forbes’s idea for a flat tax system, everyone would pay a 17 percent tax regardless of their income, instead of a current progressive tax system where tax increases as income increases, The Washington Post reported.

Having invited mainly political speakers in the past, McLaughlin said he hopes the event will “establish a relationship with the business community” and “connect with people that might not normally be interested in politics.”

As someone who has dabbled in both fields, McLaughlin said that Forbes’s background is “very translatable for undergraduate students.” Forbes’s lecture about both Trump and the economy could then “unite school interests,” See FORBES page 4

Forbes forecast | With a background in business and in politics, Steve Forbes will detail his predications for changes to the economy under Trump.

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BSU Responds to Controversy

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Assistant News Editor

Black Students United issued a statement on Thursday “apologizing for the delay in response” after one of the 12 demands delivered to President Martha Pollack last month was met with increased controversy, both on and off campus.

“We understand ... the frustration and anger that was felt by our community as a consequence.”

BSU Statement The BSU demand, which was not retracted or changed in the statement, called on the Cornell

admissions office to increase the presence of “underrepresented Black students,” which it defined as African Americans who have been in the country for more than two generations.

BSU argued in the demands that although international or first generation Caribbean and African students have “a right to flourish” at the University, “Cornell must work to actively support students whose families have been impacted for generations by white supremacy and American fascism.”

“There is a lack of investment in Black students whose families were affected directly by the African Holocaust in America,” the original demand said.

This was considered contraSee BSU page 4

WeekAims to‘Stomp Out Stigma,’ Change Culture

By CHANCE MASLOFF Sun Staff Writer

Besides the prospect of free popcorn, Cornellians could drop into Willard Straight Hall to destress and get a free professional massage on Saturday night.

This second edition of Spa Night, which boasted over 500 in attendance last year, is kicking off this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, said Matt Jirsa ’19, Cornell Minds Matter’s vice president of events.

Spa Night is the first of many events this week meant to increase conversation and “stomp out stigma” about mental health on campus, Jirsa said.

Cornell Minds Matter — a group that Jirsa says is dedicated to bringing about “tangible culture change towards a more positive campus mental health culture” — is hosting these events in its third annual Mental Health Awareness Week.

“The main goal of the week is to show that mental health plays a role in all of our lives and if we increase conversation surrounding it we are actively improv[ing] campus climate and striv[ing] towards impactful change,” Jirsa said.

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Awareness week is important, Jirsa believes that the discussion around mental health should not begin and end with the week.

Outside of the events of the week, Jirsa said that he “encourage[s] all students to think critically about how mental health affects their own lives and just talk to friends and family about it.”

“The main goal of the week is to show that mental health plays a role in all of our lives.”

Matt Jirsa ’19 “Our biggest and most readily available assets at Cornell are our communities that serve as support groups for our individual mental health,” he added.

While the Spa Night is an important event hosted during the week, another popular event Lift Your Spirits Day. Other events during the week will include Pumpkin Decorating, EARS Training, Zumba, and Yoga.

Lift Your Spirits Day will include activities such as “photo campaigns, See AWARENESS page 4

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Cornell Prominent Historian to Discuss Race, Democracy and Inequality at C.U.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad will be speaking as this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Munday Casselberry Distinguished Lecture speaker.

The lecture will take place at the Africana Studies and Research Center on Oct. 19 at 4:30 p.m. Muhammad is the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America,” and has work featured on many national publications such as The New York Times. He was also featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “13th.” The lecture series was started in 2014 by Reuben Munday ’69, MPS ’74, and Cheryl Casselberry Munday ’72 .

Local Delta Airlines Resumes Ithaca-Detroit Flights

The temporary cancellation of Delta’s evening and morning flights between Ithaca and Detroit will officially end on Nov. 5. The airline has made their reservations and full schedule available again for these flights. By cancelling their evening flight from Detroit to Ithaca and their morning flight from Ithaca to Detroit, Delta was able to keep its airplanes in Detroit for fleet maintenance.

Delta apologized for the inconvenience it caused customers. Detroit is Ithaca’s thirdlargest domestic market, and one of only three destinations of flights leaving from the Ithaca airport.

National Jeff Sessions Sends Federal Lawyers to Help Convict Iowan Student’s Alleged Murderer

Attorney General Jeff Sessions personally initiated a move for the Justice Department to send experienced federal hate crime lawyers to Iowa in order to help the prosecution convict a man who was charged with murdering a transgender high school student last year.

Sixteen-year-old Kedarie Johnson, was shot to death in March 2016. He identified as both male and female and was gay. Because the Justice Department only assigns lawyers to cases in which they can provide expertise or the federal government feels is significant, many have interpreted Sessions’ decision as him making a priority of fighting violence against transgender people, a contrast to his strong conservative stance on most issues.

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Running for a cause | Participants race in a loop in the Cornell Botanic Gardens at the annual SToPP 5k Saturday.

Marathon Aims to Raise Sexual-Assault Awareness 5k in Botanic Gardens highlights the important role of active bystanders

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

Statistics say that one in five women and one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted while in college. Last Saturday’s 5k in Ithaca aims to make that statistic zero, said Sophia Tulp, an Ithaca College junior of the The New Agenda Foundation.

Cornell and IC students, as well as faculty and community members, raced “When I see through the Cornell Botanic Gardens someone at a Saturday afternoon bar in a at the annual SToPP 5K, a fundraising situation of event to raise sexual possible nonassault awareness on consent, I would college campuses.

SToPP stands for intervene.”

Stop, Think and Protect your Peers Sophia Tulp — “an acronym for active bystander intervention,” Tulp said.

Explaining the role of active bystanders, Tulp added “we have a human responsibility to look out for one another. When I see someone at a bar in a situation of possible non-consent, I would intervene.”

With this event, Cornell, IC and The New Agenda Foundation teamed up to shine a light on the often unrecognized culture of non-consent in student relationships.

As a small community comprised of two large campuses, Ithaca is a “unique environment” for these events, said Olivia Forker, an IC sophomore managing the event.

Saturday’s event marked the third edition of the annual run. The first year attracted just 20 participants, the second year, 50, and this year earned 70 enrollments as of Friday afternoon. Tulp expected a final turnout of around 100 students.

“We hoped to increase involvement each year but the turnout is definitely exceeding our expectations,” Tulp told the Sun. In addition to the $10 donation fee per participant, independent fundraising teams already raised over $350 through online coordination efforts.

All donations go toward creating curriculum and programming materials for Title IX offices nationwide. Last year’s proceeds helped fund an educational video called Grey Matters.

The event attracted a range of runners and walkers, students and faculty. Community

liaison Lara Hamburger of Ithaca’s Advocacy Cornellians were able to both enjoy the garCenter, also attended to share insight into dens and to raise awareness for the SToPP cause.

Ithaca’s local resources.

Though sexual assault Members from the “We all have a human advocacy is an ongoing Cornell community joined process, Saturday’s 5k reptheir Ithaca peers at this responsibility to care resents many more steps in event. Specifically, AKPsi, a the right direction.

Cornell pre-professional about the people around “We all have a human fraternity, members attendus.” responsibility to care about ed as a group.

Sophia Tulp the people around us,” Member Kelly Chan ’19 Tulp said. “Too often we said that her group’s preonly care about ourselves. professional focus prompted them to spread awareness particularly as It’s really important to get the message out.” they enter the workforce and begin to lead their own businesses, she said.

Julia Curley can be reached at Through the run, Ithacans and jcurley@cornellsun.com.

Building Bridges: Cornell Engineers Aid Bolivian Village

By MARIA CHRISTINA Sun Contributor

Since water sanitation was the team’s very first objective then quickly shifted to bridge-building, another unexpected result of the project was local leadership empowerment.

“We managed to cultivate a sense of belonging and ownership for the locals; they felt they had a stake in the project, understood the value of building the bridge to increase sustainability and we offered them the technical knowledge to maintain it,” he said.

However, beyond the daunting task of bridge-building, this project did not come without due pressure.

Five years ago, a team of students from Cornell Engineers Without Borders decided to build a bridge in Bolivia.

What had started as a trip to assess the water sanitation quality in a local village turned into a recognition of the immediate need for access to farmland and transportation facilities, according to Jay Bender ’20 and Cynthia Horna ’19.

The villagers were earlier unable to access their farmland during the rainy season because of a “We managed to cultivate a sense of dangerous river, but after belonging and ownership for the locals; they the project was completed in the summer of 2016, the felt that they had a stake in the project.” villagers had year-long access, according to Spencer Hong ’20 Engineers Without Borders website.

A total of eight Cornell students It was imperative that their project worked on this project along with the was successful because in the past the Bolivian NGO National Chapter. villagers had either received “no foreign Together they created a design for help”, or there had been a “misallocathe bridge, assigned a local committee tion of resources and miscommunicafor administration and designated peo- tion,” Hong said. ple to excavate in a way that “every Horna said she visited the village in square kilometer people would be Bolivia in 2016 to assess the final working and doing excavations,” check of the project for the construcBender said. tion of the bridge “in order to ensure In this way, Spencer Hong ’20 said that they had not missed any materithat the project played an important als.” Since she was the only one who role for encouraging local leadership and ownership.

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Republicans Assign ‘Low Level’ Threat to Forbes Lecture FORBES

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McLaughlin said.

Cornell Republicans plans to have security at the event next week, though admittedly not “as extensive as it would have been for Gingrich or Santorum,” McLaughlin said.

Cornell Republicans assessed high-level security threats for past lectures given by Newt Gingrich in March 2017 and Rick Santorum in November 2016.

Students protested both within and outside Santorum’s talk and McLaughlin said the organization received death threats prior to the event.

The organization decided that Forbes’s lecture would be considered “low-level,” McLaughlin said. Cornell Republicans met with Cornell University Police

Department to make this assessment.

CUPD considers historical trends for this assessment, looking at past backlash when the speaker spoke at other college campuses. It also assesses the commentary, especially on the Facebook announcement for the event, from the Cornell community, McLaughlin said.

For this reason, Cornell Republicans is not expecting any protests or backlash, McLaughlin said. At this point, the organization has not received any threats.

However, given uncertainty, McLaughlin said security will still be at the event, per “CUPD’s request.”

However, as a shift from Gingrich’s lecture, Cornell Republicans will be paying their own security expenses.

McLaughlin said he did not know if in the near future, the University will offer to foot the cost, saying that he could see this offer going “either way.”

Cornell Republicans plans to meet with members of the administration, including Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, following the event. Because the University paid security fees for Gingrich’s event, McLaughlin said Cornell Republicans and the administration have been “discussing codifying that relationship” of paying security fees.

The lecture will take place in the Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. Tickets will be distributed at Willard Straight Hall and by e-board members of Cornell Republicans starting Monday, Oct. 16.

The Cornell Republicans will also be raising money for Puerto Rico relief outside the auditorium before and after the lecture.

Meredith Liu can be reached at sl769@cornell.edu. Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

BSU Responds to Controversy Team Builds Bridges in Bolivia Surrounding One of 12 Demands ENGINEERS

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dictory by many people both on and off campus.

“Black Student Group Complains Ivy League School Is Letting In Too Many African Students” read a headline from The Daily Caller.

“Upon further reflection and contemplation, we understand both the complexity and contenious nature of our statement.”

BSU Statement Similar articles critical of the demand also ran in the Atlanta Black Star and Townhall.

“The purpose of the demand was specifically to address the need for an increased presence of underrepresented Black American students at Cornell,” the statement, issued on BSU’s Facebook page, said. “However, upon further reflection and contemplation, we understand both the complexity and contentious nature of our statement, as well as the frustration and anger that was felt by our com-

munity as a consequence of our demand.”

The Thursday statement added that BSU aims to support “all members of the African diaspora” and said that it was encouraging dialogue with campus groups to resolve the issue.

“We are a board comprised of Africans, Caribbeans, and Black Americans. We have and continue to reach out to African and Caribbean groups on campus in the spirit of dialogue and discussion surrounding this topic,” the statement said.

The statement also highlighted BSU’s hopes to launch a community discussion during Homecoming weekend when their alumni return to campus.

BSU delivered the demands to Pollack following a racially charged incident in which a black junior said he was punched in the face and called the N-word by a group of white men.

Pollack has taken steps to fulfill some of the demands, announcing the leaders, goals and timeframe of a presidential task force as well as by commissioning four new clinical staff members for the Counseling And Psychological Service.

Members of BSU did not respond to a request for comment.

Girisha Arora can be reached at garora@cornellsun.com.

made it back to the actual site, she also reported back to the rest of the team in Ithaca.

While language barriers were an added difficulty to the project, the team was lucky enough to not face legislative and bureaucratic barriers, Bender said.

Besides the fact that most of the team could communicate in Spanish, Bender said the team also quickly established a relationship with the town’s mayor.

At the end of the project, this mayor specifically reached out to the group, sending a personalized thank you note. “[The mayor] thanked every member of the team

for their contribution to supporting the local economy, promoting sustainability and for providing technical expertise for the locals to know how to maintain it in the future,” Bender said.

Girisha Arora ’20 contributed to this story.

Maria Christina can be reached at mk2472@cornell.edu.

3rd Annual Mental Health Awareness Week to Show Students ‘They Are Not Alone’ AWARENESS

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[and] de-stress activities,” Jirsa said.

The event will be going from 1 to 4 p.m. on the Arts Quad Wednesday.

Cornell Mental Health Awareness week was founded three years ago by Cornell Minds Matter member Matt Indimine ’18, who is still involved in its planning.

Additionally, Cornell Minds Matter member Mayra Valadez ’18 has also been involved in the execution of the week.

Indimine said he started this event three years ago after hosting an event for mental health awareness that was attended by a single student.

Later he found out that this was because another event for mental health awareness was occurring concurrently.

This week, he said, is meant to create “a centralized platform and resource to foster collaboration amongst them, and to show the student body the cliche but true Caring Community that exists.”

Three years later, this event has grown and engaged even more communities — certainly surpassing the attendance of one person at Indimine’s past event.

True to its origins, however, Indimine said he hopes that out of this week, students recognize that “they are not alone in their struggles.

Anna Delwiche ’19 contributed to this story.

Chance Masloff can be reached at cmasloff@cornellsun.com.

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One Fish, Two Fish, White-ish, Brown-ish

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here’s an old Middle EasternAmerican proverb that — roughly translated — goes something like, “I’m actually technically white according to the Census.”

This proverb, with its awkward adverbs and desperate lust for ethos, has dribbled out of my mouth more times than I am proud to admit. I am, after all, the product of two white American frontiers: the sweetly benevolent whiteness of Treasure Valley and the abstruse, nebulous whiteness of the Virginia piedmont. As would most little girls with black frizzy hair and a funny name in towns 92 percent white, I fell to official racial classifications when I had nothing else that could back up my claim to sameness.

bullying throughout childhood were directly tied to my ethnicity in ways I hadn’t previously realized. As obvious as it now sounds, it had never occurred to me before that… these experiences were not merely unpleasant but were in fact definitively racist.” Not being able to pinpoint or vocalize the racism you’ve experienced makes speaking against it and about it challenging.

When a coffee-shop owner back home is noticeably hostile to me but not to the white man in front of me in line, I cannot clearly demonstrate that it was because I was the darkest person in the store the same way my dad could when he used to be explicitly denied service for being Iranian in the 1980s. As a result, I ignore it. The protocol

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Sociologists might call it “white passing.” I’ve flirted with calling it “being ‘ish.’” You know, brown-ish, maybe a little white-ish, but mostly just ish.

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I’m not white. Sorry, U.S. Census, CommonApp and my loyal following over at the neo-eugenicist website (that once republished one of my columns) Prometheism.net! There is little whiteness in my black frizzy hair and my funny name and the fact that I am made to feel ashamed of both whenever I go to an airport. In fact, legal Middle Eastern whiteness in the U.S. likely dates back to mid-20th century judicial decisions, when whiteness was required for citizenship and Christian Arabs leveraged their religious affiliations to obtain it.

For Arabs, Persians, Armenians, Turks, etc. whiteness is a legal designation that accompanies few if any of the social privileges. In other words, racial dichotomies are arbitrary and based in colonialism and eugenics, water is wet and Collegetown housing is overpriced.

Race is arbitrary, but it is still undoubtedly salient. Then what language do Middle Easterners get to use to address their nonwhiteness? I briefly tested “brown,” but using it felt like the first time I tried wearing a bold red lip color (With my olive undertones and big-ass eyeballs? Absolutely not.).

Asking around for a definition of brownness understandably yielded myriad results from, “South Asian only” to “Latinx, Pacific Islander, MENA and South Asian,” to just “not looking white.” Some of my white friends called me brown with certainty, while many of my South-Asian friends said I definitely wasn’t.

The language of race noticeably ignores heterogeneity, so I, along with many other (but most certainly not all) Persians, Arabs, Armenians, Turks, etc. seem to occupy an area between whiteness and brownness, one that is dark enough to be profiled but light enough for certain things to slide.

Sociologists might call it “white passing.”

One of my friends called it being the “brown people of whiteness.” I’ve flirted with calling it “being ‘ish.’” You know, brown-ish, maybe a little white-ish, but mostly just ish.

Being in the ish space is confusing and it is nuanced. Still othered from whiteness, being in this buffer means that the way I experience racism is often couched, implicit, or implied, so much so that I don’t spot it a lot of the time. As Alex Shams, a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Chicago writes, “the more I spoke with white folks about race, the more I began to understand that many of my experiences of

is to attribute it to something inane like maybe he just didn’t like that I used AmEx and then to move on.

But while I am brown-ish, I am still white-passing in this gray area, and am thus being utilized as an instrument of reinforcing current racial barriers. Prof. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, sociology, Duke, asserted in 2004 that as the U.S. becomes more ethnically diverse, we will treat race less as white vs. nonwhite and increasingly stratified in a “tri-racial” system. Bonilla-Silva argues Middle Easterners will fall into the middle tier of “honorary whites,” writing that “race conflict will be buffered by the intermediate group, much like class conflict is when the class structure includes a large middle class.”

It’s alarming how squarely light-skinned and white-passing Persians, Arabs and others fit into Bonilla-Silva’s theory today.

Persian-Americans especially tend to exhibit anti-blackness and hispanophobia, largely carried over from the Pahlavi regime’s nationalistic narratives of Persian racial superiority. Moreover, recent MiddleEastern immigrants and their children often fall under the “model minority” myth; even President Trump referred to Persians as “one of the most successful immigrant groups in our country’s contemporary history,” despite Persian immigrants historically developing wealth prior to coming to the U.S. I can’t say I don’t benefit from this transfer to “honorary whiteness,” because I indubitably do. Because of the conflation of Muslimness and brownness, it’s likely that, especially because I am not visibly Muslim, my non-Muslim brown friends have suffered more from explicit Islamophobia than I have. But I still desperately long for a place in the linguistic racial landscape so that I can put my finger on what exactly it is that ish people like me experience: What exactly is our shared oppression, and how can we recognize it without taking up space where we don’t belong? Perhaps creating space for the brown-ish racializes where racialization isn’t needed. Maybe it creates monolithic labels like “Middle Eastern” that mask heterogeneity. At the very least, though, it can serve as a starting point in understanding the realities and complexities of being in-between in America.

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

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Rejecting Libertarian Intuition A

t the end of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem, the story’s protagonist, escaping an oppressive society in which everything from technological progress to reproduction is centrallyplanned, retreats to distant mountains where he happens upon a series of texts from the early 20th Century.

In them, he re-encounters the word “I,” and hence reclaims his agency after having been brainwashed from

hood for the first time. It’s a belief that attracts because it appeals to the desire to “break free” of the paternalism that had guided all of our lives up until a certain point, and it isn’t something that can be easily refuted.

However, while this foundational belief might hold merit, those broader, political beliefs that are derived from it aren’t nearly as sound. A belief in the freest of markets as a perfectly effective arbitrator of just

I suspect, as someone who formerly held deep-rooted beliefs that leaned libertarian, that most would find this “micro” belief in ourselves as the best suited to direct our individual happiness appealing as we experience adulthood for the first time. birth to not use such first-person language.

Putting aside whether our ability to perceive of ourselves as distinct, first-person entities can be so fundamentally altered by a change in language, Anthem has stood out as an effective encapsulation of the intuitions fundamental to political libertarianism. Chief among them is advocacy of minimal governance from a belief that society is bettered by unleashed individualism.

Indeed, the political libertarian holds a series of admittedly-consistent notions pertaining to all levels of society: in the “micro” by holding steadfast to the tenet that no one can understand the ideal trajectory of your own happiness better than you; and in the “macro” by believing that the interactions between these self-aware individuals can most fairly and justly optimize the productivity and welfare of the population as a whole.

I suspect, as someone who formerly held deep-rooted beliefs that leaned libertarian, that most would find this “micro” belief in ourselves as the best suited to direct our individual happiness appealing as we experience adult-

desserts, perhaps the less empirically-supported of libertarian political views, requires one to accept that, say, the current distribution of wealth directly corresponds to what is fair. And most of us, hopefully, recognize from our varying interpersonal relations that this is not true. This probably most-clearly occurred to me from watching a 2012 Princeton commencement address given by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, among other books.

With light-hearted candor, he identified how much of his own professional success is simply ascribable to luck: the opportunity to write his first book, Liar’s Poker, depended on him being at a certain dinner party, otherwise known as “the right place at the right time.”

And indeed, the fruits that we reap are often causallydetermined by factors beyond our control. Even the notion that one’s success is deserved because of their relative diligence or intelligence appears less equitable when in light of the extent to which these “virtues” are shaped by either social conditioning, whether it be the

way we were raised or the company that we keep, or biological factors determined by the fortune of birth.

The grand irony is that this libertarian metanarrative frequently contradicts the biographies of the world’s most prominent libertarians. The Koch Brothers, whose dogmatic faith in the free market appears to be what drives their unrelenting support of policies that further enrich the nation’s wealthy, literally need not look any further than their own privileged, inherited biographies for a startling contradiction to the meritocratic assumptions of political libertarianism.

The question that then arises in response to this problem is whether or not the existing distribution of wealth ought to at least be re-configured via governmental policies that, to the best of their ability, attempt to address the growing inequality in this nation. Setting aside the nobility of his charitable giving, it should bother us that we inhabit a world where Bill Gates is 621,678 times wealthier, and, according to the way we conceive of value under our economic system, 621,678 times more important, to society than the average American household. Such value judgements don’t appeal nearly as much to our innate humanism when expressed in such a way, and yet such recontextualization uncovers how interpersonal relationships have become transactionally-perverted by how productivity is now organized, both intra- and internationally.

It’s fascinating to now consider my previous attitudes that held the preservation of individual liberty as paramount. Anthems, which I admit was my first and last exposure to Rand’s writing, ends with Prometheus, the protagonist’s adopted name, free from the shackles of community, leaving us to assume that what awaits him is some libertarian, mountainside Eden. Because we’re a species with a unique capacity to grow our empathy through knowing the injustice and inequality experienced by others, I’m skeptical that the future awaiting Prometheus is necessarily a happier one.

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Not a Cop appears alternating Mondays this semester. Lorenzo can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com.

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t the end of the summer, we saw some of the worst of the South.

Hundreds of white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, armed with riot gear, torches and hatred.

They assembled that weekend to “Unite the Right,” but also to present a narrative, one that casts whiteness as synonymous with Southern identity and heritage.

White supremacists returned to Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville last weekend, chanting, “The South will rise again.”

In some ways, they accomplished what they had set out to do. The images flooding social media depicted scenes disturbingly reminiscent of the South’s most violent memories: Ku Klux Klan raids and rallies for racial violence held under the symbolic banner of the Confederacy.

The country and the world looked on in horror at hatred unmasked in the South.

Think pieces and analyses abounded deeming Jason Kessler, the white Charlottesville resident who organized the initial rally in Charlottesville, as representative of a violent, racist, regressive South.

It is true that Kessler and his cohorts gathered in a long tradition of Southern (and American) white rage. But to say that the entire story of the South belongs to them is to ignore that it was also Southerners who voted to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee that stood at the center of this controversy. It was Southerners in New Orleans who decided to remove their Confederate monuments.

It was Southerners who recently elected a young black radical, Chokwe Antar

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Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, and another young black progressive, Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.

As Southerners ourselves, we have been witness to this struggle over the narrative of the South, and these developments are a large part of the reason we want to move back. Each of us has had conversations with our peers at Yale who question why we would want to return to the South.

Because one of us is black and one of us is white, their assumptions about why we don’t “fit” in the South differ. A recurring theme is that people from outside of the region (and even some Southerners) do not recognize that it is both culturally rich and racially and politically diverse.

Two years ago, News columnist Tyler Blackmon ’16 highlighted the problems that plague the South — poverty, unemployment, disease, lack of education — and suggested that Yalies could supply potential solutions. He was right. But Yalies can also contribute to already existing solutions in the South without reinventing the wheel. As seniors, we want to suggest that as you consider career opportunities and begin to think about where your education might have the most impact, you consider going south.

Southern organizations are often underresourced and understaffed, but they carry out concrete visions to continue the long road of community-building in the region they call home. Often, community organizations don’t get philanthropic funding because they don’t have the resources to incorporate as a nonprofit or lack the staff to write grant applica-

tions. Until recently, national philanthropic organizations have routinely neglected the South in favor of funding opportunities in large cities like New York — the same places where most Yalies make their careers. But there are jobs in the South, there are opportunities and there is a need for people willing to sup-

into these efforts, if we can leave our elite coastal complexes behind.

We say this not to overlook the deeply rooted bigotry that exists in the South but to suggest that there is also deeply rooted, constructive resistance. We want to take the narrative of our region back and urge our classmates to consider a Southern

But there are jobs in the South, there are opportunities and there is a need for people willing to support the hard work of Southerners who have dedicated their lives to building and healing their communities. port the hard work of Southerners who have dedicated their lives to building and healing their communities.

Despite resource constraints, Southerners continue to fight: for queer liberation through organizations like Southerners on New Ground; for immigrant rights through coalitions in every Southern state; for racial justice and civil rights through countless avenues, some new and some that have existed since Reconstruction. There are media outlets dedicated to telling Southern stories, philanthropies that fund rural healthcare and development efforts and artistic communities that produce some of the most innovative works in the country. There are ample opportunities for Yalies to plug

story that contains multitudes, a Southern story that includes fighting to change its own institutionalized inequality. We further urge you to consider engaging with these fights through actions — internships, jobs, activism — as well as through conversations and scholarship.

We believe in setting the record straight partly out of love for where we come from but also because we recognize that when stories of the South erase people of color and advocates of radical social change, people like Jason Kessler win.

Dasia Moore and Olivia Paschal are seniors in Pierson College at Yale University. Contact them at dasia.moore@yale.edu and olivia.paschal@yale.edu.

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t’s no secret that activism is becoming trendy.

In today’s day and age, famous comedians are taking stances on the Affordable Care Act, supermodels are posting their opinions about gun control, and The New York Times just published an in-depth piece on how “wokeness” is the new cool.

As a partial consequence of this, many people’s personal and political identities have become inextricably linked. A lot of people today seem to be creating personal “brands” that reflect their penchant for social justice — whether they are celebrities or students. For the most part, I honestly think this is fine. In fact, it’s nice to see that people are at least paying attention to major issues.

However, the trendiness of activism raises questions of authenticity, making it hard to dis-

It’s nice to see that people are at least paying attention to major issues. tinguish between those who genuinely care about issues and those who pretend to do so in order to gain some kind of social capital. It’s impossible to tell whether a person is at rally on the Arts Quad because they genuinely care about the issue they’re protesting, or if they’re showing up to post it on their Snapchat story.

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, but I think people’s motivations are often a combination of both.

It’s easy to be critical when one’s mission-forchange exclusively operates within the context of social media. If someone’s main contribution to the progressive movement is an annual Instagram post on “International Women’s Day” it’s safe to say they’re probably not single-handedly solving any large-scale issues. That being said, small contributions can be beneficial and better than silence.

I thought a lot about the social appeal of activism last January during the Women’s March. I was moved by how many people showed up and how many people were fighting together. But I was also critical of how the entire day seemed to play out on social media. Those who marched were armed with signs, pink hats and good intentions, but something in the back of my mind questioned whether that momentum would materialize into substantive resistance. In the time since, I think it has. A recent survey found that most of the people calling their members of Congress to oppose Trumpcare were women, and the Women’s March network continues to highlight and combat issues ranging from the DAPL to DACA. In the end, I think the trendiness of activism is a step in the right direction, but also something we should be cautious of. I’m glad we’re moving away from a culture where apathy towards politics was the default, and shifting towards one in which participation is encouraged. That being said, that shift is more beneficial, for everyone, if we back it up with action.

I’m confident that we can.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester.

A: The popular Hotel School course is one of the common experiences shared by generations of Cornell students. More than 42,000 students have taken Wines since its inception in 1972. The course was originally created by Prof. Vance Christian ’61, M.S. ’65, hotel administration, who believed that “social competence is just as essential as academic and technical competence in today’s world.” One of the first black faculty members at Cornell, Christian was highly respected in the hospitality management industry worldwide and served as a mentor to countless Cornellians before his death in 1984.

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campus — fencing, entrepreneurhe ability to discover a cam- for by Professor Becker.

My Greek experience exposed me ship and the ILR School, alongside pus community is a unique thing for a freshman, a to many more areas of campus, my brothers.

No one made them do any of chance to try something new or many more ideas, many more peodevelop known passions. In either ple who shaped me, inspired me that. To borrow Professor Becker’s case, this sense of freedom, to draw and taught me. And I wouldn’t have phrasing again, they “had to decide on historian Carl Becker’s notable it any other way; especially as some- what was right and worthwhile…to address, The Cornell Tradition, is one who came to campus swearing do,” and they chose to support me.

And not just me, but dozens more an extension of “the attitude of he’d never rush a fraternity.

My fraternity was an integral brothers as well. This was a value Cornell,” something “easier to appreciate than to define.” It is this experience in my collegiate life, a judgment prompted by joining a sense of freedom, enabling discov- sentiment that I know many others fraternity. Collaborative spirit is a ery and synergy, that allows stu- share. When one club was hosting hallmark of fraternity. I trusted in dents to find their place amongst an event, I knew I could count on these men, and they trusted in me. I Cornell’s thousands of students and my brothers to attend. I remember know many of my peers had similar hundreds of thousands of alumni cool autumn nights at Schoellkopf experiences in Greek life, finding watching my brothers on the sprint their home away from home in their worldwide.

With countless extracurricular football field, and helping others in chapter house. Like our social interopportunities at Cornell, students our chapter with community service actions, our self-governance is the result of leaderare certain to find ship from within. groups they “click” deliberate with. Likely, it will be My Greek experience exposed me to many This association, the more than one such of our own organization. Outside more areas of campus, many more ideas, result aims, was aligned the classroom, students spend many of their many more people who shaped me, inspired by the values of our fraternity. I waking hours with the me and taught me. And I wouldn’t have it found the Men of friends they make in Principle around these settings. When I any other way. me to be comreflect on my college mitted not just to days (2011-15), I realeach other, but, ize that these were not most importantly, to our core values separate endeavors — in many ways projects, business ideas and more.

This is because my fraternity of mutual assistance, intellectual each commitment supported another, pushing me to do better or get brothers were, in many ways, the growth, trust, responsible conduct method through which I came to and integrity. more involved.

We found each other from a simRoughly 1 in 3 students will find know Cornell. These gentlemen, this fit in a fraternity or sorority. As leaders and scholars brought me ple choice, just as one chooses to I speak to brothers past and present, into their lives as I brought them join a club, play a sport or otherwise I’ve recognized the traditional way into mine. My brothers reflected affiliate. Our cohesion enhanced was not to regard one’s fraternity as diversity of every type, from their not only my Greek experience, but an extracurricular activity, but heritage to their economics to their my other extracurricular activities rather as the platform on which to academics. Our microcosm of the and my academics as well. Now, far build a Cornell life. With their University, in one house near North from Ithaca and busier than ever, Greek organization as a base, one Campus, proved to be a community the buffer of time and space leave could excel in academics and the defined by support, pride and me appreciative of that camaraderie extracurricular activities of their camaraderie. They came to my and all that comes with it, a bond I choice, whether participating on an activities, and I went to theirs — recognize will only be matched athletic team, an ROTC battalion, my first time setting foot in an rarely. Being a Cornell Greek has professional, social or cultural club. architecture studio, a biology lab, prepared me to craft and create that A Cornell day then, as is the an orchestra performance — all team ethos as I move forward, with Cornell day now, was divided care- were through my support for my consideration for the many perspecfully between these efforts, the lion’s brothers. When I was stuck in the tives and experiences of those share of time going to one’s studies. snow, they picked me up. When I around me. And I wouldn’t have it In all endeavors, the expectation was struggling in financial account- any other way. stood that the Cornell fraternity ing, they stayed up all night helping members should uplift themselves me study. In many cases, I found Adam Kirsch ’15, MBA ’16 is a graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Johnson Graduate as they uplift Cornell, in the ratio- the non-Greek communities in School of Management. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi nal and humane manner advocated which I became most embedded on Fraternity and has previously served as a chapter advisor.

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If you’re not a huge hip hop oldhead, it’s easy to overlook a lot of new releases from 90’s rap groups these days. Most think that their music usually sounds pretty dated, and that many once ferocious MC’s have understandably lost a little bit of steam on the mic.

However, people skeptical about the reemergence of 90s hip hop have really been proved wrong over the last year or so, after the impressive 2016 releases of A Tribe Called Quest’s Thank u 4 Your Service and De La Soul’s And the Anonymous Nobody. While Tribe and De La Soul (two New York rap groups who are members of the hip hop collective the Native Tongues) have shown that they can still bring it in 2017, many oldheads

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It seems like it was just yesterday when dvsn, the Toronto-based joint project between vocalist Daniel Daley and producer extraordinaire Nineteen85, debuted in 2015. In the brief time since their inception, dvsn has garnered 150 million

streams and, arguably, landed the largest gig that any aspiring artist could land. In 2016 dvsn opened up for the Drake and Future on the notorious Summer Sixteen Tour, and with this brought their smooth, 90s R&B to the masses.

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have been itching for a similar resurgence from another New York hip hop group, the Wu-Tang Clan.

Wu-Tang’s most recent album release, The Saga Continues, is once again a reminder that not only does Wu-Tang’s saga continue, but so does the vintage 90s hip hop sound that has been so overshadowed in recent years.

Many applauded Tribe’s Thank u 4 Your Service by praising its ability to combine vintage 90s sounds with a more modern spin. Wu-Tang’s The Saga Continues at times achieves a similar balance between old and new. It definitely sounds like a modernization of classic, grimy, boom-bap hip hop, though perhaps relying on Wu-Tang’s old roots more so than Tribe did.

That isn’t to say that Wu-Tang’s album sounds completely outdated, but I don’t think it will be converting any newage rap fans into oldheads. The album is definitely more of an opportunity for older Wu fans to rejoice at some new, classic Wu. Songs like “Pearl Harbor” sound like something straight out of the 90s, with signature production from WuTang producer Mathematics, who does an extraordinary job on this album. That said, it’s hard to see songs like these get-

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dvsn has been involved in the music business for much of the last decade.

In the early years, dvsn leaned heavily toward rap because, as Daley said in a recent Rolling Stone article, it wasn’t really the “coolest thing to say ‘Yo, I sing – have you heard that Boyz II Men record, that new Usher or Ginuwine?’” However, once 85 heard the remarkable voice of Daley, he knew that the talent couldn’t be ignored.

Through dvsn’s passion for R&B, they were connected to mega-star producer 40. 40, who is known primarily for his work with Drake and the rest of the OVO collective, remained in contact with the group for several years, despite constant travel with Drake, and eventually granted the young Toronto natives the opportunity of a lifetime: a record deal with OVO. Within a few months of signing, the group made their major label debut with Sept. 5, and, shortly after, went on a global tour. Since then,

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ting remotely any mainstream attention or radio play today, and they really only have a more nostalgic value for oldheads.

Mathematics’ production on The Saga Continues is truly one of the album’s highlights; the beats are as smooth and grimy as ever. Many of the beats clearly draw inspiration from jazz elements, which is vital to Wu-Tang’s classic sound.

While Mathematics generally sticks to 90s-esque production on the album, he shows his ability to incorporate new sounds into his production as well, especially on songs like “G’d Up.” Even the skits on this album are enjoyable, channeling somewhat of an MF DOOM vibe by sampling old superhero cartoons. The skit, “Famous Fighters” truly sounds like something straight off Madvillainy or Operation Doomsday, two of DOOM’s more well-known albums.

Perhaps my favorite song on the album is “Fast and Furious, ” featuring Hue Hef and Raekwon. As a fan of Raekwon’s solo work, it’s great to hear him get on such a smooth, soulful beat and remind us about his legendary flow and impressive lyricism. “Fast and Furious” plays on the title of the popular movie series, but dials it up a notch; it’s about Hue Hef and Raekwon’s stories of they have made major headlining appearances including OVO Fest in Toronto.

Sept. 5 was a collection of moody, throwback songs for the soul that, to be honest, fell one step short of artistry. For a while they toured off of this material, but it seemed that there was something missing. Since the first release, however, dvsn has honed their sound to speak to something more than just lovedistraught 20-somethings grinding against each other in Toronto. Their most recent release, Morning After, proves that dvsn, after nearly a decade of preparation has achieved their true voice.

Before even listening to the music, striking visuals capture the attention of listeners. The album art, a pink-washed, urban photograph which brings to mind nights with your significant other skating in the local high school’s parking lot, intoxicates and is a reason that this piece feels to be such a complete work of art.

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drug deals and run-ins with the feds gone wrong. Inspectah Deck and Redman also show off their talent on the track “Lesson Learn’d,” the second single off the album.

While it’s great to hear all of these familiar Wu-Tang voices once again, perhaps the one I was most looking forward to was Method Man’s. While Method Man has generally taken himself out of the rap scene the last few years and opted instead for movies (specifically starring in Key and Peele’s full-length comedy, Keanu), Method Man’s performance on this album is better than ever. On songs like “Frozen,” Method Man demonstrates his unmatched flow over one of Mathematics’ signature beats. Method Man raps, “Music is life I ain't into fashion or ice/I ain’t into chain snatchin', ain’t into smackin’ a wife.” He reminds listeners that rap should be about the music, and not about some stereotypical gangster lifestyle, an important message in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations levied against rapper XXXTentacion.

The Saga Continues is one of WuTang’s best projects in nearly a decade.

While it’s impossible to rival such classics as 36 Chambers or Wu-Tang Forever, it’s definitely worth a listen for all hip hop fans, something that can’t really be said of many of their recent albums. The overall sound of the album is much more akin to the sound of the 1990s than the 2010s, a fact that will surely divide listeners once again into the eternal old versus new rap debate. Regardless, in the midst of countless releases by new-age rappers, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black and more, it’s nice to hear to some vintage Wu-Tang.

Will Widmann is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at wrw59@cornell.edu.

of the album they published media in the forms of film posters and previews which alludes to a potential visual release along with the album, similar to Kanye West’s film for MBDTF and, most recently, Lil Uzi Vert’s release of cartoon videos to go along with Luv Is Rage 2.

Once the music begins, dvsn’s artistic vision comes full circle. The opening track, “Run Away,” just may be my favorite on the entire album.

Nineteen85’s booming 808 is rendered timid by the ghostly falsetto of Daniel Daley. The combination is something that evokes a desire to bump from deep in soul.

“Think About Me” shows Nineteen85’s masterful production techniques, predominantly in the beautifully crafted autotune effect inflicted upon the transition phrases of Daley’s lyrics.

While the entire album is truly an exhibition of musical and visual beauty, there are a standout moments. The first of which is “P.O.V.” — a sensual track that utilizes a

sample from soul legend Maxwell’s 1999 song “Fortunate,” which once again highlights dvsn’s commitment to classic R&B. The maybe most triumphant moment from the project is the suave love ballad “Conversation in a Diner.” Daniel Daley serenades his love and professes his undying dedication over the smooth pads and synths of Nineteen85. Further, on this track we see the use of conversation samples that play under the music and lead to a full stereo effect.

Dvsn deserves immense praise for what they have created with Morning After; the album displays countless hours of dedication and truly masterful musicianship. Not only do I think that this album may have been one of the nicest surprises in the music industry thus far in 2017, but I also find it to, perhaps, be the best release of the year.

Will Widmann is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences.

He can be reached at wrw59@cornell.edu.

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Advocates for a ‘Cruelty-Free’ Guggenheim

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f, for the past couple of weeks, you've been following either the art world's murmurings or the Most Popular Petition category on change.org, you would be well aware of the Guggenheim's recent Animal Rightsrelated quagmire, a tiff with PETA advocates which resulted, on Sept. 25, in the removal of three pieces from its fall blockbuster exhibition.

Whether or not you've been keeping close tabs on both, you likely missed the fact that the show in question, Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World, opened to the public this past Friday, Oct. 6.

What reviews it has received have been, for the most part, somewhere between tepid and enthusiastically restrained (or else just petty), colored by and large by the Guggenheim's milquetoast reaction and concession to those accusing it of complicity in animal rights violations. The 70 artist, 140 workstrong exhibition, which was supposed to be a milestone for U.S. reception and awareness of contemporary art from Chinese artists (Holland Cotter, in his review for the New York Times, calls it a show capable of reminding us that the country of 1.4 billion has given the world more than Ai Weiwei), has, it seems, been too profoundly marred by the museum’s willingness to nix some art at a cry of “Wolf!”

This cry began in the form of a change.org petition — written by Stephanie Lewis and directed at the Guggenheim's curators, administrators and corporate sponsors and subsequently backed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — which garnered nearly 800,000 signatures. “The exhibit,” the petition read, "will feature several distinct instances of unmistakable cruelty against animals in the name of art." These several distinct instances, in fact, number three: Peng Yu and Sun Yuan’s “Dogs Which Cannot Touch Each Other” (2003), Xu Bing’s “A Case Study of Transference” (1994) and Huang Yong Ping's “Theater of the World” (1993). The former pits against each other two riled and vicious pitbulls, restrained inches apart so that they, of course, “cannot touch each other.” The second consists of two mating pigs, gibberish “composed” of invented Roman and Chinese characters scrawled on their bodies. The latter — from which the exhibition gets its name — stages the titular theater as a small, heated enclosure filled with bugs and reptiles, who, for the duration of their exhibition, eat, kill, live, mate, die, survive or fail to do so, their life cycles on display for gallery-

goers through their chamber’s grated top.

The petitions’s ultimate, unequivocal claim is, admittedly, hard to argue: “[A]nimal cruelty,” they wrote in their petition, “holds no place in art.” As it were, though, equally hard to argue are those of the many reactionary voices

Troy Sherman Troy to the World ringing on the other side of the debate, summed up well by a statement in the New York Times from Tom Eccles, the executive director of Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies: “Museums are here to show works that are difficult, uncomfortable, provocative. The chilling effect of [the Guggenheim’s decision to pull these three works] of course is [that] museums will now look to make exhibitions that won't in any way offend.”

In a vacuum, both of these claims seem more than just valid; they’re nothing less than common sense. Who doesn’t want our animals happy and our art provocative, and why on earth can't we have both? The disconnect, I think, stems from a handful of fundamental COURTESY OF SUN YUAN AND PENG YU

issues with the reasoning for outrage — both philosophical and practical — on both sides of the debate, and the implications are enormous for the questions both of free speech and artistic expression, and of the status of the animal in art and culture.

The arguments for wanting these pieces pulled, per the change.org petition, have at their core an unsettling tendency towards humanization, framing the animals’ plight as a problem of fundamental rights and appealing to wouldbe petitioners’ heartstrings on the bases of pure outrage and passionate, thoughtless, immediate understanding: “Guggenheim,” the petition read, “please do what you know in your heart is right.”

The problem with this is twofold. On the one hand, as Mary Wang pointed out for Vogue, the whole screed reeks of “a specific type of white liberalism that continuously elevates visible ... social causes over interrogating more complex modes of ecological, racial and colonial oppression.” That is, petitioning the artsploitation of pups and pigs forced into acts of (paradoxical) inhumanity is sexy enough to get the world yelping in unison, but you'd be hard pressed to spin a deeper issue with, say, the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and its specific relation to warming’s disproportionate effects across race, gender and class divides into a petition capable of raking in 800,000 signatures. It’s in this way that the case against the Guggenheim has been very much in line with, say, Jill Stein’s Green Party or your liberal, Facebook-prolific relative with a whole lot of opinions: They’ve made a big ol’ fuss about the issues that get people riled up really, really easily, but ignored the much grittier, much tougher steps, admissions and concessions it would take to even start effecting real change, for animals or for people.

The other issue (a little loftier, but no less pertinent) has to deal more directly with the age-old question of representing animals in art — or, rather, with thefundamental neglect in failing to mention it.

In an exceedingly real sense, animals have always been symbols and metaphors first and lives, living beings, second. Very likely since people have been people, animals have populated our folk tales and

fables, epic poems and didactic stories as things that, by being them, make us us.

As John Berger put it in his famous essay “Why Look at Animals?”, “The first subject matter for painting was animal.

Probably the first paint was animal blood. Prior to that, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the first metaphor was animal... If the first metaphor was animal, it was because the essential relationship between man and animal was metaphoric.” That is, since time immemorial it's been almost necessary for humans to make animals into art for reasons more profound than the simple desire to paint a picture: it’s because the capacity for representation is what places us above animals, and our ability to represent them — to talk and think about ourselves in relation to animals in ways those quadrupeds never could — places us above them in a manner that makes us human. In this way, drawing or representing an animal isn’t so far removed from killing or eating it, in that both are more or less unnecessary acts that nevertheless serve to make us, perversely, the humans — who dominate nature and rule a world of our own design — that we are (or else strive to be).

The core problem of a campaign which focuses on “animal rights” (a more or less useless term when you realize that “rights” only protect citizens, and a citizen is sort of a human being by definition) is that it places the impetus for action entirely in the wrong place. An animal’s closeness to us as a “cohabitant of this planet” isn't what's going to stop an artist from forcing it to fight or to mate, or from fabricating a terror dome in which it can live and die. Instead, it’s this very impulse of the artist to use the image, the metaphor of the animal to spur on and mediate our discussions — be they about globalization or orientalism or neoliberalism or what have you — which is what necessarily comes before and makes possible our domestication, collection, herding, eating, use, torture and training of animals.

Troy Sherman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com. Troy to the World runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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in the first quarter.

“I think he is going to be a good player for us,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “It was a lot for a freshman. Quite honestly, he wasn’t ready to play, but he was forced into being ready due to injury. He’s going to have a really good future here.”

“It was definitely a jump from JV and high school,” Howard admitted. “It’s something I’m going to have to get used to.”

Being thrown into an offense when the only experience you have is in the JV games would be hard for anyone. Luckily for Howard, Coles took him under his wing to try and prepare him as best he could for Saturday.

“The biggest thing for me was knowing the offense,” Howard said. “Not that I wasn’t nervous at

“Quite honestly he wasn’t ready to play, but he was forced into being ready due to injury. He’s going to have a really good future here.”

Head Coach David Archer ’05 all moving up, but it was more stuff like the mental preparation and knowing the plays quick because we get going sometimes. …. Harold was out this week and he was a really big help for me.

Everyone has just really taken me in.”

Since the injury-riddled backfield is expected to return to some level of normalcy by the time Brown comes to town next weekend for Homecoming, Howard’s exposure at the varsity level his freshman year could be short-

lived. But in the coming years, the all-time leading rusher out of Forsyth Central High School knows getting some snaps in his freshman year will set him up nicely for when he does swap in regularly.

“It really came down to trusting the line and knowing the guys in front of me were going to do their job.”

Freshman S.K. Howard “It’ll definitely just add some confidence,” Howard said.

“Today, obviously, we didn’t walk away with the win, but I felt like I got a lot more comfortable than I was going into this game. If next year was my first time touching the field it would have been scary.

This experience is definitely key.”

Howard is by no means the only freshman to make an impact in his first year, giving a glimpse of what might come in future seasons. Despite playing only two games before a season-ending injury, Eric Gallman shined at the wideout position, leading the team in receptions before he went down.

Archer has lauded the 130th Cornell team as an experienced group, one that will be juniorsenior led, and he called the running back position, specifically, as “probably our deepest position on offense.”

If Saturday was any indication, the head coach can rest assured knowing that several positions on his team have more than capable youngster waiting in the wings.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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From the start | The Red started its average drive at the 20-yard line — just half of Bucknell’s average start at the 40-yard line.

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back against Bucknell, finishing the day with 10 carries and 37 yards.

Freshman S.K. Howard also saw his first varsity action, filling in nicely when called upon and going for 73 yards on 18 rushes.

“It was a lot for a freshman,” Archer admitted. “But I think he is going to have a bright future here.”

The Bison broke through on their second series of the game, a twoplay drive capped off by a 64-yard touchdown from quarterback John Chiarolanzio to Jack Horan, then adding a 19-yard field goal with three minutes to play in the first half after Sweet fumbled deep in Cornell territory.

The Red got the ball back on its own 24, tasked with trying to put points on the board and avoid going into the half scoreless. Facing a 4th and 1 from their own 33, Archer elected to go for it.

Senior quarterback Jake Jatis picked up the crucial yard, and the offense was able to march the rest of the way down the field to set up junior kicker Zach Mays, who converted on a 35-yard field goal.

On the first drive of the second half, the offense marched down the field and scored quickly to knot the game up at 10 thanks to a nine-yard pass from Jatis to sophomore wide receiver Davy Lizana. It was the former’s first passing touchdown since his freshman year and the latter’s first career touchdown.

“He’s a jack-of-all-trades, he does everything for us,” Banks said about his complementary quarterback. “He’s a great athlete, good quarterback and smart with the ball.”

From that point on, Cornell was left searching for the big play that never came. Besides a kneel to end the game, the Bison scored on each of its remaining drives but one, prioritizing the run game to kill the clock and dismantling Cornell’s rush defense in the process.

Cornell sophomore punter Nickolas Null punted four more times, including one that got blocked, to eradicate any chance of a comeback.

Banks orchestrated a 12-play, 67-yard drive capped off by a touchdown and two-point conversion to make it an eight-point game.

But the touchdown was too little too late, as the prior Bucknell drive took over six minutes off the clock. A failed onside kick and kneel later, and the Bison had sealed the victory.

With the loss, Cornell finishes its out-of-conference slate 0-3 and the first half of the season 1-4. But despite the disappointment today, the team has five Ivy League games to play and believes the Ivy title is still well within reach given its 1-1 in-conference record.

“Although it sucks to lose, we’ve got a greater mission ahead of us,” Banks said.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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

Cornell Hall-of-Famer Departs From Team USA ARENA

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This past November, Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach of the United States’ Men’s National Team. Klinsmann led the team from 2011 to 2016 and was replaced after a disappointing run for what many believed to be a very talented team.

Over the last 11 months following Arena’s return, the team was off to a hot start, winning its first 14 games, but fell apart after stunning losses to Costa Rica and

Trinidad and Tobago. Unsure what the future holds, Arena expressed his gratitude and love for his time with the United States’ Men’s National Team.

“I don’t know what the future holds for me, but I can say this from the bottom of my heart: from the high of reaching the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup to the low of a few days ago; I have appreciated every minute of being a part of this program,” he said in his statement.

Tim Morales can be reached at tim8@cornell.edu.

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Stroke of luck | After being stuck in Turkey during a coup, senior Kiley McPeek was able to avoid a dangerous situation through an unexpected coincidence.

Staff writer Karen Papazian sat down with Cornell volleyball senior Kiley McPeek to talk about everything from what makes this year’s team special to her time in Turkey during the 2016 attempted coup.

The transcript has been modified for content and clarity.

1. When did you realize that you would want to pursue volleyball at the college level?

I made my junior varsity team as a freshman and this was when I realized I may actually be okay at this sport and that I should try looking to see how long I could play it. I had started playing volleyball in middle school because it’s a hard sport to play when you’re little. I played club and competed at that level during my high school career. I stopped playing softball to start playing volleyball full time and started my recruiting process then.

2. What made Cornell stand out the most to you?

Cornell has been in my family for a really long time. I’ve had 10 family members who came here, including my parents, grandparents and sister. I think what really sold me on Cornell was the fact that I could study at such a high level and play a Division I sport all in the same place. Academics were really important to me, which is why I thought Cornell kind of fit the bill for both of those. I also really love the coaches and the players here so that definitely sold me.

3. What stands out about this year’s team compared to past Cornell teams you played on?

One big thing that jumps out to me is the experience that we have this year.

In the past, we’ve had really young teams with a lot of freshmen and sopho-

mores on the court. This year we have a lot of upperclassmen on the court leading the team, many having a lot of experience.

4. Do you see yourself as a superstitious person? Have you ever had any pre-game rituals?

Oh yeah, a 100 percent. Before every game, I do the same visualization every time. I also get very superstitious about my ponytails. I have my one lucky ponytail that I must always use. I also have this breast cancer ponytail that I always wear. I’ve had a lot of people in my family who had breast cancer, so I try and wear it during games to represent them as well.

5. Who has been your biggest inspiration?

I would say my mom. She started her own company when I was really little and has been able to both start a company from the ground up and raise [our family] our whole lives. My mom has been a role model to me showing me that you can do it all. I feel as though that has helped me at Cornell too because it’s hard to be a student-athlete sometimes. You consistently have a ton of work and prelims and need to find time to get everything done. She has shown me that you can do it all and that you can be successful at multiple things.

6. I heard that you were in Turkey when the [attempted] coup occurred in 2016. Can you tell us about your experience going through that?

I went for an internship experience. ... The coup actually happened on our last day of the internship. We finished work and we were going out to celebrate at a restaurant right on the water, and the guy that we were with had to take a phone call, which resulted in us having to go back to the apartment. Right

where we had previously eaten dinner was where the coup started, so we got super lucky that he decided he needed to go back to the apartment. We ended up being stuck in our apartment for four days because the U.S. Embassy and Cornell told us not to leave as they were coming up with a plan to try and evacuate us. Eventually, Cornell got us a flight through Germany to come back to the United States because all of the flights from the United States to and from Turkey were canceled. My family was actually going to be on their way to Turkey to come and visit me. I was going to show them around Istanbul and then we were going to go to Greece, but I decided to tell them to stay home.

7. If you could travel anywhere, where would it be?

I really would love to do a tour around Asia. I’d love to go to Vietnam, China and Japan. Going to a lot of places that are different from the United States is definitely something that I want to do. Taking a tour around Asia is something different, and it would be nice to see that part of the world and learn a different culture than ours.

8. What do you envision yourself doing after college?

Right now, my plan is to move to New York City. I’m going to be living with my sister there. I’m going to be working at Citibank in sales and trading. But, in the way-way future, my dream is to open my own coffee shop.

I’m still unsure of when that will happen, but that’s what I want to do eventually.

9. What are some things that you like to do in your downtime?

I really love going around and doing different things in Ithaca with my teammates. We recently went and picked

apples at the apple orchard together. We like to go to AppleFest, walk around the plantations, go to the gorges — just spend some time outside and do a lot of different things that Ithaca has to offer, especially since I won't be here for that much longer.

10. Is it tough being a student-athlete and always having to travel for away games?

Yeah, it is tough being a student-athlete especially when you have a lot of classes on Friday’s that you have to miss when traveling. During midterm and prelim season, it’s pretty hard when you have three prelims the next week but you have games on Friday and Saturday, so all of your studying gets pushed to Sunday. It is hard but you have to figure out how to balance doing work on the bus, in-between games or when you're in the hotel. It’s hard especially when you’re a freshman since volleyball is a fall sport you kind of get thrown into the fire right away so you have to figure out really quickly how to balance everything. I think that is a huge strength a lot of the girls on our team have. They have great time management skills to get things done when there isn’t a lot of time.

Bonus: What are your favorite sports/teams outside of Cornell?

I’m originally from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, so I typically root for the Chicago teams. My favorite team is the Blackhawks. I love watching professional hockey. The Blackhawks are usually pretty successful which helps.

My second favorite sport would have to be baseball. It helps that the Cubs have been really good and won the World Series last year as well.

Karen Papazian can be reached at kpapazian@cornellsun.com.

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Red Falls Again in Last Non-Conference Game Field positioning, injuries plague team drive started on its own 40-yard line.

“They always had better field positioning,” Banks said. “That’s a big facSun Sports Editor and Sun Assistant Sports Editor tor in football that no one really A week after its historic win over notices.”

Poor field position, coupled with an Harvard, Cornell football couldn’t replicate the magic from last week, injury-riddled backfield, was a recipe dropping a 28-16 contest against for disaster on Saturday.

For the second game in a row, the Bucknell to fall to 1-4 on the season.

“This loss is on me,” said head running game was supposed to be the coach David Archer ’05. “I am the focus on offense after a 233-yard perforhead coach, and I didn’t have the team mance against Harvard. But Cornell had to try and repliready to play. cate that showing Whether it’s not BUCKNELL @ CORNELL without sophoresponding well more Harold from last week’s Coles, who was great victory, Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH out with an ankle clearly, I didn’t Bucknell 7 3 13 3 injury, and senior get the team Cornell 0 3 7 8 Jack Gellatly, who ready to play. Too dressed but did many penalties, not see the field in too many mistakes. I did a terrible job and we lost the first half. He had only two carries for BORIS TSANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER eight yards and a catch to convert on a the game.”

Young talent | After injuries to established runningbacks, Howard was given his first varsity experi“We were on such a high after the two-point conversion. ence on Saturday.

The freshman had 73 rushing yards and was one of the Red’s lone bright spots.

To make matters worse, junior Harvard win last week,” added junior defensive lineman Cyrus Nolan. “We Chris Walker, who leads the team in probably didn’t do what we needed to rushing attempts, went down after a do this week in practice to get the win big hit on a 19-yard reception and did not return. [today].”

Only he didn’t expect to lead the team in

By ZACHARY SILVER In their place, a different pair of The Red kept up with the Bison Sun Sports Editor carries by final whistle. through most of the game but could backs got a chance to step in and try Without sophomore Harold Coles and not come up with the big play to turn and leave its mark on the season.

As a healthy running back, a rarity for junior J.D. PicKell, and senior captain the tide. Zero turnovers on defense, Senior Josh Sweet, who had only eight Cornell football at the moment, freshman Jack Gellatly only seeing the field in the just 287 yards of offense — 67 coming carries last year and three entering S.K. Howard knew he was going to get his second half, Howard quickly shot his way in relative garbage time during the final Saturday’s contest, became a featured first touches at the varsity level in the up the depth chart at running back. And drive — and a poor second half showSee FOOTBALL page 14 Red’s 28-16 loss to Bucknell Saturday. after the primary back junior Chris Walker ing killed Cornell’s chances of forming left the game following a crushing hit a win streak. immediately after a 19-yard reception, Cornell converted on just three of Howard popped into the top two.

13 third downs and struggled to keep “I knew I was going to play but I didn’t drives alive. The defense wore down as think it was going to be like this,” Howard the game went on, and ultimately had said.

“I wasn’t counting on Chris going no answer to Bucknell’s predictable out, obviously.

It really just came down to running game. trusting the line and knowing the guys in “We kind of lost the momentum,” front of me were going to do their job and Nolan said in regard to Bucknell’s secmake something of whatever they had.” ond-half success on the ground. “We When called upon, Howard made himjust need to be more consistent self known — to both the Cornell and throughout the game.”

Bucknell sidelines. The freshman out of The Cornell offense, held to 101 Georgia ran for 73 yards on 18 carries, just yards in the first half, was not aided by 26 yards less on two fewer carries than the cards it was dealt. The Red began Bucknell’s All-Patriot League selection its first five offensive drives on the five, Joey DeFloria. Howard also had one catch 25, 17, one and 24 yard-lines, respecBORIS TSANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER for four yards for 77 total yards on the day, tively, with an average drive start on its all of which came with just one appearance Glimmer of hope | Despite finishing non-conference play 0-3, the Red still hold a 1-1 Ivy own 20 for the game.

By comparison, Bucknell’s average record, and will look to capitalize in its next five games against Ivy League teams.

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Sudden End | The Cornell Athletics Hall-of-Famer stepped down last Friday following elimination of the United State’s Men’s National Team from World Cup qualification.

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Bruce Arena’73 Resigns From USMNT

By TIM MORALES Sun Sports Writer

Cornell Athletics Hall-of-Famer Bruce Arena ’73 resigned as the head coach of the United State’s Men’s National Team on Friday after a surprising loss to Trinidad and Tobago eliminated the team from World Cup qualification for the first time since 1986.

Commonly referred to as the most decorated coach in United States’ soccer histo-

ry, Arena was in his second stint coaching the team when he stepped down Friday morning. In his first stretch, which lasted from 1998 until 2006, Arena led the team to its best World Cup finish since 1930 with a quarterfinal berth in 2002.

Inducted into the Cornell Hall of Fame in 1986, Arena was an All-Ivy first-team lacrosse midfielder and soccer goalie his senior year. As a goalie, Arena was named AllAmerican second-team and the team’s most valuable player in the Red’s historic NCAA Final Four run.

He was later drafted by the New York Cosmos in 1973 and played professionally for both Seattle and

Tacoma.

Arena began his coaching career at Cornell, leading the freshman lacrosse team in 1974 and the lacrosse Varsity B team in 1978.

Later that year, he was appointed head soccer coach and assistant lacrosse coach at the University of Virginia.

After his first run with the Men’s National Team in the early 2000s, Arena coached both the New York Red Bulls and L.A. Galaxy, winning three titles in eight-plus years with the help of international superstars David Beckham and Steven Gerrard.

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