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Rawlings: Union Would ‘Weaken’Grad Education

Cornell Graduate Students United says president misrepresents group’s objectives, affiliates

By SUN STAFF

Interim President Hunter Rawlings revealed his posture on graduate student unionization Thursday, saying he believes representation by a collective labor union could undermine shared governance and individualized learning, and so is “not in the best interests of graduate education at Cornell.”

Rawling’s announcement on unionization comes months after the National Labor Relation Board’s August decision that graduate students are characterized as workers, in addition to students, opening the door for labor movements at private universities across the country.

Cornell Graduate Students United is currently gathering signatures from graduate students to authorize an election, according to Michaela Brangan grad, an administrative liai-

son for CGSU. She said that, under the National Labor Relations Act, the organization needs approval from 30 percent of graduate students in order to vote on unionization.

“I believe we are better able to work through differences of opinion in a collegial atmosphere.”

Hunter Rawlings In a statement emailed to students, Rawlings voiced concern that the Cornell Graduate Student Union would change the working relationship between faculty and graduate students by creating an artificial divide between workers

and “management.”

The interim president said the nature of a union would interfere with the “flexibility, individuality and inventiveness” of graduate education, making students responsible to a larger collective labor group, rather than able to cater their educational experiences individually.

Rawlings also expressed doubts about the ability of the American Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers — two unions affiliated with CGSU — to adequately represent students’ interests in dealing with the administration.

In contrast, he cited the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the General Committee of the Graduate School as examples of bodies that endow graduate See CGSU page 3

TrusteesVote to Rename Plantations

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

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Let them eat cake | Cornell dining workers say their wages are significantly lower than those of comparable positions at all other Ivy Leagues.

Dining Staff:Wages Are Low, Strikes Forbidden

By DEVON GILLIAMS Sun Staff Writer

Harvard dining hall workers went on strike almost a month ago, protesting problems of low pay, inconsistent employment during academic breaks and limited ability to better their working conditions. Cornell dining employees claim that they earn even less.

Workers at Harvard staged a walkout following failed negotiations between the university and Unite Here Local 26, the union representing employees. The union’s demands included a salary increase to $35,000 a year and a freeze on out of pocket health expenses. Harvard acquiesced to both of these requests, ending the strike on Wednesday.

Cornell dining workers interviewed by The Sun — all of whom asked not to be named out of concern for their jobs — expressed similar grievances, saying their average wages fall well below the salary of comparable positions at all other Ivy League schools. But Cornell workers are loath to walk because they say they were warned that such a demonstration would lead to their dismissal.

One worker detailed how Cornell employees were explicitly told not to stage a walkout during collective bargaining because it would be considered an unsanctioned union walkout. They were informed that they would face dismissal by the University if they disobeyed these instructions.

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The Cornell Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change the name of the Cornell Plantations to Cornell Botanic Gardens Friday, after 72 years under the former title.

The name change follows a more than twoyears-long initiative by Christopher Dunn, the Elizabeth Newman Wilds director, to find a name that better describes the gardens and avoids the “negative and painful connotations” of the plantations name that has been in place since 1944.

Cornell’s Black Students Union, in a November of 2015 delivered a letter to former president Elizabeth Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi, demanding that Cornell “change the name of the Cornell Plantations as soon as possible.”

Dunn said the concern of BSU and other campus groups added fuel to an initiative he had proposed in his first interview for the director job, when he was still at the University of Hawai’i.

“I feel like the door has opened for the future,” Dunn said minutes after the trustees voted. “I think we were somewhat limited, in terms of our ability to really connect people with plants and gardens, by the name, and [the change] feels liberating.

“We’ve been the Cornell Botanic Gardens for 12 minutes and it feels great,” he added.

The gardens are one of the five largest gardens in North America, Cornell said in a statement, and are home to 50,000 plants as well as 3,400 acres of natural area preserves.

Dunn said that during the job interview for his current director job, he asked Cornell leadership about the history of the name and the potential for changing it.

“When I was hired, I was given the encouragement to pursue it,” Dunn said. “We wanted good justification and good support for a change, not just a knee-jerk reaction to one thing or another.”

The two-year process included focus groups, surveys and internal polling of 2,700 stakeholders’ reaction to nine potential new names for the gardens.

In August, the results came back from the sur-

veys and focus groups, with Cornell Botanic Gardens leading the pack.

“That’s when things really took off,” Dunn said, and the University began preparing for the name change.

Dunn said one problem with the former name, in addition to the slavery connotations of the word “plantation,” is that it was inaccurate term to describe the Cornell gardens.

Plantations are large swaths of land, dominated by a single crop that is harvested and sold, Dunn INSET: LINDSAY MYRON / SUN FILE PHOTO

Botanic disputes | Plantations director Christopher Dunn said he first proposed the renaming two years ago. said. That name, Dunn said, was a poor description of the diversity that Cornell’s gardens include.

Cornell has already acquired a website, cornellbotanicgardens.org, although it is not yet active, and the University says a new logo is being drafted.

New signage will also be installed by spring 2017, according to a statement from Cornell.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at njb99@cornell.edu.

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Rawlings Speaks on‘State of the University’

By STEPHANY KIM Sun Staff Writer

Interim President Hunter Rawlings — who disclosed his vision for a more unified “One Cornell” earlier in the semester — reemphasized the need for collaboration among the University’s campuses and schools in his annual State of the University address Friday.

In the address, held at the Cornell Trustee-Council meeting, Rawlings explained that strengthening the connection between Cornell’s three campuses will help bridge the divide between upstate and downstate New York, “two completely different states in one.”

“Cornell is the only large institution that bridges that divide with enduring relationship with the state of New York and now the City of New York,” Rawlings said.

“Before now, we have been perceived as a university essentially located in upstate New York. With the advent of Cornell Tech, we cannot be perceived that way any longer.”

Cornell Tech, on Roosevelt Island, is beginning a life that is “inextricably tied to Ithaca” and will enable the University to build strong departments in both campuses via direct interactions among the faculty, according to Rawlings.

The president also introduced “The Hinge Project,” a fund that will allow Ithaca faculty interested in Cornell Tech research to “put a foot” on Roosevelt Island while “keeping a foot” in their Ithaca department.

Like Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has also been strengthening its ties with the Ithaca campus, according to Rawlings. As an example of this partnership, he cited an initiative by Dr. Monica Safed — who began her tenure as chief of Weill’s division of general internal medicine in January — and will bring Cornell medicine to the rural areas of the Appalachia.

Rawlings added that departments in the Ithaca campus have been making efforts to utilize resources in New York City, all of which will take “Cornell from upstate to down-

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State of the art | Interim President Hunter Rawlings laid out his vision for ‘One Cornell’ in an address to trustees Friday. dents to become critical thinkers will address issues of state or downstate to upstate.”

In addition to collaboration among the three campuses, “political and internet nonsense,” “vapid consumerism and Rawlings’s vision of “One Cornell” includes crosstalk celebrity culture,” and “ethnic and class divide in the U.S.” “An education without the arts and the humanities is between the deans and faculty in the University’s seven like a frame without a picture,” Rawlings said. “[Liberal undergraduate colleges.

He emphasized the role that the College of Arts and education] shows us ‘all the light that we cannot see.’”

The address was followed by a faculty panel from the Sciences curriculum review will play in this collaboration, as the other colleges “depend on the arts college for the College of Arts and Sciences on the discussion of thme curriculum review. Panelists included Prof. Tracy McNulty, foundational pieces of their curriculum.”

Rawlings, who has frequently shared his stance on the French and literature, Prof. Julia Thom-Levy, physics, and importance of a liberal education, reiterated its significance Prof. Verity Plank, classics. in his address, saying that “national discourse has descended to the language of the gutter.” He added that teaching stu- Stephany Kim can be reached at skim@cornellsun.com.

Classics Department Resurrects History With Festival

By DONGYEON LEE Sun Contributor

The department of classics’s weekend festival aimed to make an ancient topic more accessible to a modern public, according to Prof. Verity Platt, classics, one of the event’s organizers.

The event — which featured several lectures from professors and Latin declamation contest for students — was the first of its kind at Cornell to be open to the public, according to Platt. Students from Ithaca High School and Ithaca Montessori School joined Cornellians among the attendees.

“This is the first time we’ve done a big outreach event to celebrate what it is that we do,” Platt said. “I wanted to be able to share the exciting experience with school kids here in Ithaca. … We wanted to be as inclusive as possible.”

Platt said the idea for the festival was con- currently taking Latin.

“My greatest hope [for the attendees] is ceived when faculty members expressed concern about the lack of classics representation that they’ll have a lot of fun … seeing that most of us are pretty passionate about what at Cornell. “[Nowadays] there is a problem with the we do,” Fontaine said. “There’s now a status of the humanities where fewer stu- groundswell of enthusiasm for treating Latin like a regular language dents are taking classes in the field,” she said. “So “I hope that it will help instead of this mystical code that you decrypt.” we wanted to publicize them see that the Platt agreed, sharing what we do to a bigger audience across and ancient world isn’t just a her hope that attendees left the festival with a beyond the University, dead world.” better understanding of and celebrate what it is how classics can apply to that interests us about the Prof. Verity Platt the real world. ancient world.”

“I hope that it will Prof.

Michael Fontaine, classics, another of the festival’s help them see that the ancient world isn’t organizers, agreed that the department owes just a dead world, that it’s not completely it to the public to “show them what [work it consigned to the past, but that it’s still very does].” He also emphasized the need to relevant to many of the concerns we have make the classics more inspiring to students today,” she said. “Making connections

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students with a “significant voice” and are specifically Cornell-centered.

“We have not been able to solve every issue raised by students, but I believe we are better able to work through differences of opinion in a collegial atmosphere than in a potentially adversarial collective bargaining setting,” he said of these groups.

Speaking for CGSU, Brangan criticized what she called Rawlings’s misrepresentation of the union. The organization believes Rawlings decided disparage graduate student unionization because “the administration sees the union as a threat to power,” according to Brangan.

“Right now the administration can decide what to pay graduates, what kinds of benefits they have, they can conduct all business as they see fit without any real checks on their power — and it makes sense, they don’t want to give up any of that power,” she said.

Brangan also said Rawlings misrepresented CGSU’s relationship with its national union affiliates — the American Federation of Teachers and N.Y. State United Teachers — by unfairly grouping their union

objectives.

“We also felt that it was misleading that he stated the interest of the national union would necessarily be implicated in a contract,” Brangan said. “Only Cornell graduate students — not affiliates — will get to decide on what their contracts will look like, and the interests represented there will those of the graduates.”

Furthermore, Brangan explained that the central role of national affiliates will be to support their local unions.

“Dues from AFT and NYSUT help to fund our campaign. Right now we do not pay any dues,” she said. “So, they’re a national union that serves as support for local unions, but a contract that is negotiated with the University will be what Cornell graduate students want.”

Brangan stressed that, despite the questions Rawlings raised, CGSU believes its formation is in graduate students’ best interests.

“CGSU wants real choices and real changes for graduate students — for both T.A.’s and R.A.’s,” Brangan said.

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

DongYeon Lee can be reached at wdl582@cornell.edu.

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[between disciplines] is one of the most productive things that you can learn as an undergraduate.”

Derek Li ’17, a classics major attending the event, said he was excited by the festival’s success in bringing together the classics community.

“It’s intriguing to be able to listen to people talk about classics and see people come together,” Li said.

Platt added that the event also served to remind the classics department of their common goal of making the subject more accessible to the public.

“I wanted to remind everybody that we have more in common than what divides us,” she said. “We all care very much about making the ancient world live.”

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Dining Workers Living in Poverty DINING

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“That was why we all decided not to strike, because we got told that if we did strike, they would replace us,” the worker said.

“They would replace every one of us. And most people working here have families so they’re like, ‘Oh well, I can’t afford to walk out of my job.’”

When asked to confirm these allegations, the University denied telling workers not to strike, saying the decision “is the union’s

“You got alumni coming in, donating $25 million, $10 million, $5 million. I don’t see what they’re doing with the money.”

Dining Worker alone to make, consistent with its constitution and bylaws.”

Workers also revealed ironic personal anecdotes about working alumni events — during which the University often collects extravagant donations — while being denied livable wages.

“You got alumni coming in, donating $25 million, $10 million, $5 million. I don’t see what they’re doing with the money,” one employee said. “We’re not getting any more money.”

Living on the Poverty Line

Cornell dining employee wages average $16.88 an hour, which is “neither the highest or the lowest” when compared to other Ivy league schools, according to Melanie Ciotoli, director of human resources for student and campus life. Ciotoli stressed that this number is, on average, 30 percent better than the local market value for comparable positions.

Experienced employees inter-

viewed by The Sun say they are paid an average hourly wage of around $17 — the Harvard employees on strike made $21.89 an hour. They said, however, that this initial number is misleading, as short hours and interruptions in employment, due to academic breaks, infringe upon their ability to earn a living wage.

“We get cut off all year round.

We get cut off in the summer. We get cut off between December and January for a month. We get all the breaks, spring break, fall break — cut off for that,” one employee said. “They close it down, and we don’t get paid for none of these breaks. We work literally nine months out of the year. That’s crazy.”

Others added that even in parts of the semester when work is consistent, many schedules fall short of full-time work.

“I’ve been here five years, I make $16.33 an hour. I work 35 hours a week; they won’t even give me 40 hours a week,” the same worker said. “They said I was hired as a 35-hour-a-week employee.”

With this wage, a 35-hourper-week limit and the unavailability of work, due to school closure during breaks, this particular full-time employee makes a yearly salary of around $20,000. The federal poverty line for an individual without a family is currently $11,880, and $24,000 for a family of four.

Responding to these issues, Ciotoli acknowledged that employees are “susceptible to the academic schedule” but said Cornell tries to supplement these hours during breaks with paid trainings, by assigning worker to other University departments and opening dining halls for academic conferences or summer camps. “[We] are proud to say that any employee that has wanted summer work for the last few years has gotten summer work,” she said.

‘Saving Cornell Money’

Employees also claimed that their managers often do not find replacements when co-workers are fired for various reasons, leaving work that is meant for two employees to a single person.

“They call it ‘saving Cornell money,’” one worker said. “How is it saving Cornell money, if you’re working your employees extra hard till they get so tired they, they’re like ‘I’m not coming in tomorrow my back hurts, my feet hurt.’”

Ciotoli stressed that dining management “works diligently” to fill vacant positions and uses floaters to accommodate absences.

Workers also took issue with the publicization of Cornell Dining’s third-place ranking by the Princeton Review — an honor that the University exhibits throughout campus dining halls, on its literature and on its website. Cornell’s success, some employees claim, is unfairly attributed to dining management and not the dining employees.

“No one actually thinks about us. We got the third rating in the Princeton Review and the man-

“If all the workers were to walk out, there would be no rating. There would be no dining.”

Dining Worker agers are so happy about it,” an employee said. “But they claim it all, they claim that they’re the reason that they got that rating, when they don’t seem to realize that if all the workers were to walk out, there would be no rating. There would be no dining.”

Employees believe that their work should be recognized more broadly. The solution? Workers suggest representation and livable wages, to start.

Attempts by the dining employees’ union, United Auto Workers, to remedy trouble with the University have had mixed success, one employee said. In the most recent collective bargaining agreement between the University and the dining employees’ union, the union only managed to obtain a two percent wage increase — well below a dollar on most Cornell employees’ hourly wage.

The employee detailed the hardships associated with struggling to pay bills and provide for a one-year-old daughter.

“I make $17.22 an hour,” the employee said. “I’ve been here 3 years. I make $25-30 grand a year. It’s literally ridiculous.”

Devon Gilliams can be reached at dgilliams@cornellsun.com.

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Red Collapses Against Tigers

Cornell cedes second-most yards in program history

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Score. Celebrate. Repeat. | Princeton’s wide receiver Trevor Osborne throws up his arms after scoring a touchdown in Saturday’s game. The Tigers’ dynamic offense hung up 645 yards on Cornell and scored eight touchdowns against the Red’s defense, which had been solid for the first half of the season.

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yards on the ground.

After halftime, with fans trickling out of Schoellkopf Field, Cornell momentarily stopped the bleeding on the first drive of the second half when sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks hit senior captain and receiver “You need to make a Ben Rogers in the end zone, decision that [the loss] capping off an is not going to define 86-yard drive.

The score us.” proved to be David Archer ’05 the team’s only touchdown of the game.

Yet Princeton came right back with a touchdown of its own. Though a sack backed the Tigers to their own five-yard line, the Red again brought pressure on second down, but Lovett deftly dodged the impending tacklers and tossed a quick pass to Isaiah Barnes. Barnes — who finished with 170 receiving yards — ran untouched into the endzone to reestablishing the Tigers’ lead back to 35.

Heads hanging and shoulders slumped, the men of the team were visibly dejected with the way the game was playing out. As Princeton’s lead ballooned, Cornell’s players showed their frustration in the second half.

When the referees penalized Cornell for a false start in the third quarter, the coaches and the players demonstratively disagreed with officials and continued to argue their case with the referees even as the next play began. The sideline was whistled for an unsportsmanlike conduct call.

“Anytime you’re down in a game it gets frustrating,” Weber said. “So you need to be able to

recenter yourself and lock back in and be focused. Worry about what you can control and have an internal locus of control.”

According to Archer, that frustration stems from the players’ knowledge that they could have played better.

“They put so much into it and today just wasn’t our day,” Archer said.

Despite the depressed demeanor of the team at the end of the game, Archer said he is confident the Red will rebound and move past this deflating defeat.

“You need to make a decision that it’s not going to define us,” Archer said. “It’s not going to be carried over for anything longer than today. We can’t do anything about the Princeton football game right now, all we can concentrate on is Dartmouth and our last three games.”

Weber acknowledged that there are two paths the team can take as the final stretch of the season approaches.

“There’s two different directions I think this team can go,” Weber said. “We can mail it in and coast through the next three “Anytime you’re down in a games and game, it gets frustrating. not continue So you need to be able to to improve and not fight recenter yourself.” and not enjoy the last three Jackson Weber weeks we have together. Or we can do the total opposite and continue to come with a hard hat every day, work hard, get better and cherish the bond that we have and continue to fight.”

The senior said he is confident the team will choose the latter path.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Remembering God’s Cartoonist: The Case for Jack T. Chick

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he phrase “Chick tract” may not immediately conjure up an image for all of you, but I’m sure most of you know what they are — like much quintessential Americana, the sight of a Chick tract conjures up strong associations regardless of our prior knowledge. Chick tracts are short, punchy religious comics in a rectangular format, notable for their vitriol and hardline stance on the power of conversion. These little pamphlets are the physical embodiment of American evangelical movements, audaciously insisting the reader will burn in hell unless they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior, presented with jittery, vividly literal cartoon imagery. Targets of the Chick tract’s scorn have ranged over the years from homosexuality to Catholics to climate change to Dungeons and Dragons, harsh invectives inconspicuously left on park benches and bus seats by believers.

Over the years, these comic tracts have attracted mockery and sarcastic disdain from the skeptical readers (i.e. most of us), so it’s understandable that the recent death of Jack T. Chick, the writer, frequent artist and publisher of the tracts, has generally not been treated as the loss of a great artist. Chick’s work is vulgar hate speech, albeit of an enterprising nature that could only come out of late capitalist America. Yet at the time of his passing, I think it’s a good moment to acknowledge Chick’s commendable qualities, a prolific, imaginative and remarkable pioneer in self-published comics.

Consider the anti-witchcraft tract “Happy Halloween,” not as iconic as “This Was Your Life” or “Somebody Goofed” (the latter being definitive proof that you should never trust a hipster) but a classic nonetheless. The strip opens with some all-american, sweaterclad, ethnically ambiguous kids straight outta the Magic Schoolbus wandering into a HAUNTED HOUSE, given a few good spooks — all in good fun, right? — until a cauldron stirring witch deposits them in this: This scene of literal hell combines the gaudy humor of American pop culture circa-Boris Karloff with the real satanic

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missed, that has made Chick a mainstay where other entrepreneurial zealots of literature have come and gone. For an artist so determined to save our souls, Chick has succeeded best in spreading an image of hell that has remained delightful and fascinating, especially to the skeptics.

Chick’s directness and willingness to tackle intense subject matter is especially commendable, his self-publishing empire evolving concurrently with the underground comics of the ’60s. That frank quality in Chick’s work is reflected in many great alternative comics — Justin Green’s seminal autobiography Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is blatantly indebted to Chick, and the original presentation of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning Maus — a comic notable for rendering hardto-process horrors in blunt clarity — was originally presented as a rather tract-like insert in the oversized art-comics mag RAW. But Chick may be the most successful artist of the comics codeeschewing bunch — undergrounds were contained in headshops, while you might find a tract on your doorstep.

Chick’s tracts are powerful, influential and COURTESY OF CHICK.COM hard to imitate — I have yet to read a parody of “God’s love gift — Jesus Christ.” In the world of Jack T. Chick, Chick that has been remotely as pleasurable as the genuine artithere is no mercy other than that of Jesus, none. Good, evil, it cle. Chick’s mission to bring both comics and Christ to the hardly matters. All there can be is sin and salvation, witches and people will continue, likely by Fred Carter, Chick’s frequent artistic collaborator who may well be the most widely read good little boys.

Chick’s stories are brutal, not only in their punishments African American cartoonist. Nonetheless, the passing of Chick but in their clarity. Chick should be recognized as a turning point in the comics world. tracts communicate their Jack T. Chick will be remembered as a hateful man, but also a message with the efficiency passionate, true formal visionary whose work undoubtedly of a bullet train and the sub- enriched comics. tlety of a bomb threat, every 1 The critic Joe McCullough recently pointed out on Twitter square inch packed with information and terror. It’s that, over enemy lines, the great mangaka and youkai expert The Next the fervor of a man who Shigeru Mizuki had a storied encounter with the spirit world on found God in the chaos of the same military frontier on which Chick was stationed at around Panel the Second World War — the same time. Such serendipity makes you wonder.

Chick found Christ over the radio while touring New Guinea1 and Okinawa. It’s a vision of Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and justice filtered through the eyes of one man convinced of his Sciences. The Next Panel will appear online at www.cornellrighteousness, Dante’s Inferno as written by the Burger King. It’s sun.com Wednesdays this semester. He can be reached at this maddening vigor, this absurdity which can’t quite be dis- ndc39@cornell.edu. panic such kitsch tends to mask, the vaguely incoherent scribble-shading suggesting unseen evils in the periphery. The kids flee, only for one to die by random car accident and burn in that hell for all eternity. We are told by a wise mother that this gruesome fate can only be avoided through acceptance of

Nathan Chazan

Black Mirror and the Propagation of Paranoia

rarely expose myself to anything in the horror genre. Unless tinued to watch more episodes of the show, managing to finish there are computerized ghouls emerging from subway the first and most of the second, seasons in just a few days. tracks, only to be blasted away by comedic goddesses (I see Granted, the seasons are short, and the episodes, while long, are you, Ghostbusters 2), I have very little interest in deliberately not unmanageably so, but still. For a show that genuinely scaring myself. I’m more energized by the possibility of a good scared me, I was surprisingly captivated.

Black Mirror is not a show about laugh or cry than the spine-curling, hair-raising horror shows characters. You don’t watch an episode and films out there.

Despite this, over the summer, like many, I endeavored to and immediately connect to one figure watch Stranger Things. The show gripped me without necessar- or another. And the characters don’t ily “scaring” me in the conventional sense. There were no axe stick around from episode to episode. murderers on the loose and not too many sudden movements. Actors change, narratives diverge and While the first few episodes definitely gave me an aura of the each episode feels more cinematic unease, once I realized that the “stranger things” were actually than the last. It’s a collection of concepts, just monsters in the “upside-down,” my fears were mostly alle- a series of thought experiments in which viated and I could appreciate the show for what it was. It quirky-minded, somewhat sadistic writharked back to an era of scary stories, making us all feel a bit ers take you on a trip. Make you stretch transported and transfixed. And the performances were unusu- your mind to points you never quite al and impressive. We all got to root for the little guys, in this wanted to.

Black Mirror forces us to reconcile case, children. Winona Ryder, who I remembered from her role in the film version of The Age of Innocence, plays a mildly bat- with the possibilities of the future and to shit but ultimately endearing mother. This show worked, and I deal with the ethical issues surrounding wouldn’t quite characterize it as a horror series. Instead, it felt emerging technologies. While some episodes feel more like a Goosebumps like they exist novel, one that anyone and decades away from our current everyone could find some world, others are alarmingly similar pleasure in. to today’s landscape. There are What scared me recently chances that all of us might become was surprisingly the British (or perhaps already are) hamsters in a television drama, Black Mirror.

Millennial wheel, working solely for some mateI decided to watch it late one rialistic reward. We may gain access night over fall break after feelMusings to our memories in ways we’ve never ing disenchanted by my Netflix queue. In reading the had before, remembering even the show description, I began preparing myself for a thriller or psy- darkest moments with just the press of a button. All of this, chological drama. I ended up feeling deeply disturbed, pro- while farfetched in the present, is alarmingly possible in the foundly troubled and ultimately very paranoid. And yet, I con- long-term. It’s 1984 all over again, warning us of what may

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happen if we let our agency go and allow our technology to control and consume us.

After watching the five or so episodes that I did, I wondered what I could do to make the paranoia go away. I retreated to Family Guy and The Office, hoping that the mindless jokes and endless wordplay might balance me out again. Somehow nothing quite seemed to help. And maybe that’s the point.

I’m still not sure if I want to see what more Black Mirror has to offer. Season three just came out, and it features an episode co-written by the beloved, comical Rashida Jones. Maybe there will be humor here and there, or I might continue to squirm in my seat at the possibilities our future brings.

But I do believe that it’s good COURTESY OF CHANNEL 4 for us to endeavor in those thoughts every now and then, to be more cognizant of what might happen if we don’t remember our humanity or if let our technology go too far. Shows like Westworld promise a similar sense of paranoia, and I think this genre will continue to expand as technology does. Sci-fi has existed for ages, but this visualization of the future, this deeply troubling, imagined perception feels somehow new to me. New, and all the more unsettling.

Anita Alur is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aa567@cornell.edu.Millenial Musings appears every other Wednesday this semester.

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In regards to the Rawlings-Brickhouse letters To the Editor: “The administration may make one formal communication to Graduate Assistants regarding the University’s position on unionization. ‘Formal communication’ shall be defined as a written document setting forth the University’s official position that is signed by the President or another senior University Officer. i. The document shall be distributed via email to the Cornell campus (one time) and posted to a public CORNELL website(s). …”

This passage is from the “Union-University Conduct Rules and Recognition Election Agreement,” the document signed last May that details the current Union-University relationship. Interim President Hunter Rawlings was far from violating the agreement when he emailed his and the administration’s opinion last Thursday and in fact was distributing it to the entire Cornell Campus as stipulated. Despite this The Sun published an irresponsible letter to the editor alleging he had sinister plot to isolate and disparage graduates students and incite the campus against them. The author paints graduate students as the targets of a vicious smear campaign that simply isn’t supported by Rawlings’ letter or the Union-University Agreement.

The letter first alleges there is a power imbalance: Rawlings can use the mass email system while the union cannot. While it is true the union cannot email the entire campus, the administration is limited in what it can do by the agreement.

It can only send one, 1600 word letter to the campus setting out its opinion, it has only seven designated speakers to articulate its opinion orally and in writing, and it cannot send emails or letters to individual students. Furthermore it may not “coercively initiate conversations” or interrogate graduate students; due these restrictions and as a matter of practicality, to my knowledge, the administration does not approach or interact with students individually.

Many of these same restrictions do not apply to the union. While they may not have the entire campus’ email address the union has each grad student’s and can contact them individually. Additionally they do interact with students personally and have sent paid union representatives to students to encourage unionization.

Twice I, though not a grad student, have been approached by unionization advocates who normally travel in groups of two or three. I should note that I do not know whether the people I interacted with are union members or pro-union grad students, regardless they were pro-union. This ability to interact with grad students face-to-face is much more powerful than a single 1600 word letter to their peers could ever be. If anything, the union has the upper hand in any power imbalance.

The second concern was the “biased” nature of Rawlings’ email: “President Rawlings used his position to privilege one side of an argument.” This concern presupposes the Cornell Administration has an obligation to present a balanced, impartial view on the issues. As a corporate entity Cornell University is entitled to hold an opinion. More specifically the National Labor Relations Board has firmly acknowledged the right of employers to opine about active unions and unionization campaigns provided they are not threatening or coercive in any way.

Just as the union is allowed to make its case for, so the University can make the case against and I dare think the author would hold a union representative to the same unbiased standard.

But the previous letter charges the mere fact that the letter was sent to non-grad students was coercive enough. That its anti-unionization stance will insight the campus against the union and grad students will quake under the weight of our negative approval. Utter hogwash. This reasoning deprives us of our mental faculties painting a campus that is swayed by a single, lengthy letter and not by facts or reason. Secondly, it alleges that we will impose our beliefs upon grad students, a claim I see no evidence for. Finally it argues grad students will change their votes because of what the faculty, staff, and undergraduates think. One feature of the election the author conveniently overlooks is the secret ballot. No grad student need fear individual retribution for their vote as it will not be made public. Yet grad students still might be hesitant to unionize if the campus would be against the union. To which I ask just as students and faculty have little power to influence the UAW, the largest staff union, and their negotiations, why would we have power over a graduate student union?

As a web commentator succinctly wrote: “That line of reasoning seems to reduce graduate students to mostly empty intellects to be filled with the President’s master plan.” Although I know just a few graduate students, I know this is not the case.

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he music executive standing in straight. No shuffling of the feet. Don’t front of us seemed either irritat- move your hands when you talk. Say ed or irrationally passionate. It “thank you” when you present after was hard to tell. He hardly seemed someone. It was a little odd, I thought. executive. He stood a good two feet We were manufacturing robots. Since above the podium, shouting, criticizing when did we outsource to Japan? and barraging the streaming industry, Professionalism was preached from calling out no talent artists and what day one. We had prepped resumes and not. It was the vaudeville of Warren Linkedin profiles before we had gotten Hall. Between the vivid pictures he the necessary skills, and dressed up for painted impasto and the outbursts that interviews. Interviewees to business had to be a little unsettling to our col- frats who weren’t properly shaven and lared business professor, he had man- dressed flawlessly were berated. It was aged to say a lot more than his resume all a little pompous. The school had could. Mr. Weiss was his name. He was been given a Jackson Pollock, and a former Cornell business graduate decided it wanted a Malevich.

With that in mind, I felt the need to whose father was a musical executive, so he became one too. He liked to get cut through Mr. Weiss’s romp on office down and dirty, and detested working culture. I raised my hand.

“What do you in office spaces. think about When he started Frank leaving his career, he We’d been told numerous U n i v e r s a l went from the Recordings for ground up, lookthings to look employable. an Apple Exclusing for musicians ive?” that he could Look straight. No shuffling sign. He certainI probably ly was opinionshouldn’t have of the feet. Don’t move your asked that. Frank ated about them.

When asked Ocean had guthands when you talk. Say ted Def Jam a about his fa vorite musician few weeks earlier “thank you” when you he worked with, by releasing his he didn’t hesisophomore tate. “R. Kelly,” present after someone. It album through he res ponded. his own label “Complete psywas a little odd, I thought. and selling it to chopath, maniaApple to stream cal, absolutely e x c l u s i v e l y. crazy, but,” he What was brilpaused with a smile, “a genius.” liant about this move was that, to fulMr. Weiss didn’t look like the model fill his contract with Def Jam, he only businessperson we were told to be like. needed to release one album. So, he He cussed up a storm when he talked, released a visual album titled Endless and wore his pants loose. His suit was and put it on Apple Music. The only left crumpled on his seat. This shocked problem was that it wasn’t for sale and the preppies. We had been taught a cer- was free, and Def Jam made nothing tain amount of etiquette was needed in from the album except a batch of PR the business world to survive, where embarrassment. Now free from Def suits and ties were cuffed to us. Jam, he then followed up this with the Conformity was something to be release of his commercial smash desired, and monotone was pitch per- Blonde, of which he made a cool milfect. Yet, for all his roughness and lion in the first week with a deal with jagged approaches, he was also Apple. The bitterness from Def Jam immensely successful. He’d risen to was practically dripping cash flow. become CEO of Def Jam, a musical When they first signed Frank, they label, and had been associated with questioned his ability to succeed and platinum acts such as Justin stalled his career, but now, at the Timberlake and Britney Spears. height of his monetary gains, they’d It’s hard to fit in a box what been duped in retaliation by the R&B kind of person he was. His talks crooner. It’s just good business. spewed forward and backward, sideMr. Weiss’s neck seemed to swell a ward and diagonal, and criss crossed few good inches at the question. until he’d get to his point. It was a little “Frank fucked Def Jam over with that Trumpish, without the bigotry. But it deal,” he snapped. He loosened his was more like John Oliver. He’s get to collar, glared and continued to ramble one point, crack a colorful comment on. A few of the students next to me and have us fanning ourselves, and nervously laughed. I grinned. It’s nice then move on like the world’s most off- to finally see someone being themkilter infomercial. It was something we selves. sorely needed. Our in class presentations of case study had been devoid of William Wang is a freshman in the College of life, sucked dry, all in the name of pro- Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached fessionalism. We’d been told numerous at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears things to look employable. Look alternate Mondays this semester.

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Eulogy: For My DearestTaft

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bought Taft in 2006. He was sold at a makeshift pet shack beside the I5, about ten miles south of the Kettleman City exit, where everyone veered off the road to relieve swollen bladders and indulge barely-caffeinated Starbucks Frappuccinos. At first, the shack appeared to be a strawberry stand; it stooped in front of a seemingly endless array of manicured fields and sporting a bright red tablecloth. Large “FOR SALE” lettering had caught my eye, compelling me to make yet another stop in the hopes of sinking my teeth into ripened berries — or, at least, prolonging actually arriving at my destination.

The booth was manned by your stereotypical Californian-wannabe-redneck. His shoulders were sunburned. He crudely chewed a wad of foul tobacco. He might have been the real deal if it weren't for the Staples paper nametag that read, “Hello, my name is... AL.” His name was written in highlighter. Real rednecks don’t use highlighters.

It quickly became evident that his shack was devoid of berries and stocked, instead, with strange merchandise. His first tried selling me on a Juventudian voodoo doll, which apparently could make any enemy “rue the day” — another telltale sign of his faux redneck-ness. I joked that I could get the battered looking rag doll for Danny; perhaps he could use it to enact the revenge he intended for the Federal Prosecutor.

Next, Al elected to show off a freshly patented bar of Pope Soap. He claimed it was made from a combination of ground rosaries, infused with shards of shredded bible and held together by a delectable smelling Eucharist paste. It "saved the sultry soul and squashed unpleasant scents," or so claimed the label. I told him I was an atheist. He quickly dropped the bar and grunted.

“I be knowin’ what heathens wan, ya shuda jus said so!”

Al reached below the counter and produced a metal cage, awaking its sleeping inhabitant. He rested the contraption on the counter and beamed a gloating smile. “... what is it?” I asked.

“Well ma’am, this here be a ferret, them is illegal contoraband!”

The little creature had positioned itself in a crescent moon shape and nestled its chin between two lightly furred front paws. It looked intently up at my face with a pair of pebble-sized brown eyes.

I had never done anything illegal, nor did I intend to. But something about the little animal made me feel obligated to rescue it from Al’s tchotchke emporium. I bought the ferret, and the voodoo doll and, begrudgingly, I returned to I-5. The voodoo doll would live at Taft Prison with Danny. Or, at least, this was the plan. School having beat the creativity from my brain, I decided the ferret would also be named Taft.

In preparing this eulogy I have come to realization that Taft was much more than an illegal collection of cells. He was a tabernacle of memory.

Thus, I would like to share three catalogued Taftian tales.

One: The room was circularly shaped. It resembled a large black and white cookie, with a line of flames delineating the middle. You could stand on the flames for some amount of time before they started to cauterize the soles of your feet.

However, the line moved at inexplicable and immeasurable intervals. Thus, aside from having to worry about scorched feet you also had to vigilantly monitor even the slightest movements of the flame in order to remain on its neutral parallel. Otherwise you could find yourself on either the white or black half of the circle. The white half was covered with lush, off-white shag carpeting and was bordered by a mural of aboriginal flowers and kangaroo children that jumped around the opulent-looking spring meadow. This side of the room had mastered the false veneer of pleasantry, creating a poison aura that led to inevitable addiction. Conversely, the other side of the room was covered in charcoal linoleum and was filled with suffocating grey fog. The bad news was that, once you stepped into this side of the room, you could never see your way out.

The good news was that you would suffocate to a quick death within moments.

The white side, I should have mentioned, has a large mirror that reflects the black side. Thus, one could never be sure which side they were on. Only waiting anxiously to asphyxiate could answer this question. All this aside, trust me when I say, it is best to remain on the central fire strip. As Taft said, choose your battles. If you’re saving your lungs, who gives a rat's (he hated vermin) ass about your feet?

Two: This one was more of a gallery, a brightly populated homage to history’s brightest moments. Let me preface this by saying, contrary to popular belief, in order to be bright something does not need to be good. The paraphernalia that filled this room included Elvis’ favorite guitar, a Tibetan monk mandala that had been glued to a dismantled cardboard box, a spool of unfettered Chinese green tea stolen from Mao’s kidnapped geisha, the remnants of a Faberge egg smashed to smithereens by Stalin, several potted tulips that refused to drink anything besides Grey Goose, a cooler of depleted liver sacks from goose harvested for foie gras, beaks of ravens that had been removed and fashioned into nail clippers, etc. Taft said he would have photographed the loot for me if it hadn't been for the silhouette of a honey badger that presided over the trove. He didn't speak, but the showed claw of the badger extended its middle finger to follow Taft wherever he scampered and would start shaking the finger violently if Taft came close to actually touching any of the objects. Taft debated stealing a particularly brilliant set of curated blue eyes that bobbed in a mason jar on one of the shelves as a souvenir for me, but was worried what the honey badger projection would have to say about thievery and pondered how unpleasant it would be to become the taxidermic ferret of the vast collection.

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Becca Schwartz is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Sun Story Sundays appears Sundays this semester.

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Why Bashing Trump Supporters Is Cool

recently read an online article voices were silenced. The fallac- being used to rally the victims of entitled “Why Bashing ies of Trump’s platform (if you our exploitative system on the Trump Supporters isn’t can call it that) must be fleshed political right, but if you end the Cool”. Here’s the link if you out, and humor is one of the exploitation, you end the deswant to check it out. The author best ways to do so. To quote peration… we’ve got to stand of the piece, one Caitlin Mark Twain, “Power, money, together.” I would say in reply Johnstone, condemns jokes that persuasion, supplication, perse- that the phrase “yes, racism, are at the expense of Trump sup- cution — these can lift at a xenophobia and Islamophobia porters, calling them “classist colossal humbug — push it a are being used” shouldn’t ever little — weaken it a little, cen- have a “but” after it. I try to condescension.” She writes: “If I see one more millionaire tury by century, but only laugh- avoid using the word ‘privilege’ because it’s comedian go become someto a Trump thing of a rally and Demagoguery may only work on buzzword and make fun of charged words how low-class desperate populations, but those who rarely lead to and uneduoppose demagoguery are forced to changed cated some of minds. But his supporters become even more desperate. sometimes I are, I’m just can’t help gonna put myself. Aren’t my fist through my computer. I mean ter can blow it to rags and you lucky that you feel secure for God’s sake, duh, yes, many atoms at a blast. Against the enough to preach togetherness of them are lower class and assault of laughter nothing can while Trump threatens to “target under-educated. That’s the stand.” Comedy is much more the families” of his enemies. problem. That’s why they’re powerful than earnest discourse Aren’t you fortunate that you’re angry. That’s why I’m angry. We when it comes to reaching peo- protected enough to be offended know that their country has ple. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz by jokes while whole groups of did more for the normalization people are being denounced as failed them.”

Johnstone goes on to draw a of interracial marriage than any criminals and rapists. What a parallel between Trump-ism and academic or activist I know of. privilege it must be.

While a large group of Consider the work of comeNazi Germany. “Demagoguery only ever works on a desperate dian and former Cornellian Americans being uneducated population,” she says, proceed- Robert Smigel, the man behind and ignorant is tragic, it’s also ing to outline the difficulties the foul-mouthed canine puppet dangerous. Demagoguery may faced by post-WWI Germany known as Triumph the Insult only work on desperate populathat led to the rise of Hitler. Comic Dog. He is exactly who tions, but those who oppose While justification of Nazism Johnstone is criticizing — a rich demagoguery are forced to may rub some folks the wrong comedian that goes to Trump become even more desperate. way, I actually agree with her on rallies and exploits the comedic The attitudes of Trump and his this point. I do not believe that value of Trump supporters. supporters put some Americans every Nazi was an evil person (if Some of it is stupid humor, but in genuine danger, which makes indeed men can be evil) or even some of it is genuinely incisive. them the most pressing issue a bad person. Not only were the For example, Triumph (a hand- currently facing the country. I’m German people desperate, but puppet controlled by Smigel, all for “standing together” to they were facing death if they just to clarify) tells a man that address the injustices that plague dissented. I like to think that if it Trump used to be “a bigger lower-class Americans. After were me I would have stood up Democratic supporter than Trump’s candidacy and the hatefor my beliefs, but I’m not sure Michael Moore’s bra.” It’s funny, ful thinking behind it are but it also sheds light on Trump’s quashed. In the meantime, I’ll of it by any means.

I’m unwilling to condemn history of reversing his positions absolutely support anyone who all Nazis, and I’m certainly for his own gain. It’s very possi- helps in this effort, be they averunwilling to condemn all ble that someone who isn’t very age Joes or “millionaire comediTrump supporters. As the man politically informed might ans.” If you don’t understand himself once said — some, I watch Triumph videos and end that, maybe we shouldn’t stand together after all. assume, are good people. I up learning a thing or two.

Returning to Johnstone’s artiwould say in response to Johnstone’s logic, however, that cle, I believe the truly problem- Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of the reason Hitler was able to atic part comes at the very end. Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at accumulate so much power is She writes, “Yes, racism, xeno- ahagopian@cornell.edu. Whiny Liberal precisely because opposing phobia and Islamophobia are appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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There Is Nothing for Me Here Now

n the mornings, like most people, I wake up. Then, begrudgingly, I rouse my attendant devices.

The laptop, which contains a bevy of unused words, unheard songs, unseen films and unedited stories, blares lascivious light into my eyes, even though I have no time to indulge its temptations.

This recognition of my inability to do so is a point I’ve beleaguered many times now, yet it does little to my grumbles and gripes with Cornell’s creative impediments. In this sense, I continue to wonder if I will ever acquire the gumption and audacity to write how I truly feel, and what I truly want. Until then, there may very well be nothing for me here, so long as I remain on this campus.

On the way to class, I pass by a noisy willow tree, shivering in the autumn cold. Another tree, pummeled by the wind, looks as if someone uprooted the poor plant, then reattached several of the buried limbs to the behemoth’s head. The resulting abomination lacks aesthetic harmony, yet strikes me with an intrigue not unlike that felt during the summer. At that time, campus was littered with overzealous oaks, their boughs buckling under the excesses of the season. But now the ground is blanketed in death — the deceptively gorgeous kind, hand-crafted

by Roy G. Biv himself. There is nothing here for me, though, because I am not doing as well as I would like in Japanese.

Still, as I trudge up the hill, I notice the little birds, stonily still until I pass. They scatter from their perfect camouflage, always twice as many as I thought I saw, then van-

ish into bushes. They display an anymore, unless I abdicate from all stumble across an instructor from aerial adeptness that is as brazen as of my responsibilities. freshman year. I’m not sure if she their silent swiftness is bewilderBack to my walk. On the way can tell that I recognize her, but she ing. The birds strut so closely to from the Language Resource bears the anxious, weary look of you. They flutter up, hover and Center, I stop at Beebe Lake and one yearning to connect with a dissink or glide in pairs of two or sit on a seat-shaped boulder. There tant memory. Apparently I wasn’t a chase each other through the air. are a few fish (maybe koi?) floating nameless face in her intro bio lecOf course, moments later, a chip- a few inches beneath the surface, in ture. As she slowly disappeared, the munk scampers across the steps a triangular formation. In the dis- chill of the morning receded into and dissolves into a crack or half- tance, ducks coast or rest on logs. the furnace of midday. covered hole in the ground. A heron, nauseatingly cliché in its Later, I would watch an ant Nonetheless, there is not much majesty, takes off from the con- carry a leaf up a concrete bench, time for contemplation, and thus crete dam and glides just a few then a flake of orange as it twirled not much for me here. inches above the water. It lands in mischievously across a secluded I always find myself stopping to the tiny cove to my left. From meadow -- could have been a butpause at the plastered leaves and there, I watch as it stalks through terfly or a leaf; I never found out. vines which tend to fan out over the mud and lily pads, painstak- Anyway, after that I crossed West Campus’ gothic Thurston architecture, layered Bridge that and vibrant like an People look up to me, and I try my best to night, eagle’s wings. The pausing feathers are unsure of give them a good reason to do so. But I am briefly to themselves and their stretching myself in far too many directions, observe a direction, so they alterspider, nate between aggregat- so there may well be nothing for me here spotted ing in colorful clumps anymore, unless I abdicate from all of dark brown and climbing upwards my responsibilities. with a bulin a straight line, clingb o u s ing to the wall with abdomen dragon-esque tenacity. ingly patient and slow, before strik- and scrunched legs, crawl around However, I can’t afford to dwell ing and coming up with a strug- in its web. There were dozens of on eagles and dragons. After all, I gling, squirming dragonfly. them, some with legs extending have been a bad student more often But witnessing this sublime like stilts outward, others aglow in than I should have been and a scene isn’t going to get me a job, an the lights lining the underside of much more flawed person than acceptance into grad school, or an A the railing. They had caught quite anyone seems to realize, yet I am on that upcoming Forest Ecology a lot of food, and I stopped when I tasked with advising freshmen prelim. Besides, I am easily both- noticed two in particular that were from two different organizations ered, slow to trust and more inter- mating. I felt incredibly intrusive, and I share a classroom with anoth- ested in observing or listening to so I walked away. er undergraduate in which we are people then interacting with them.

There’s nothing here for me at charged with helping to facilitate So there must not be much for me this school where I’ve failed more the education of our peers on issues here on a campus full of human often than is acceptable, disapof social justice. In other words, beings, even as I watch a couple pointed more people than I ever people look up to me, and I try my dance across the lake, two dervishes planned to, and become about as best to give them a good reason to whirling about at the water’s edge. sure of my love for writing, art, do so. But I am stretching myself in They kiss as the sun sets, and I and social justice as I have become far too many directions, so there know it’s time to move on. On the unraveled by my distaste for may well be nothing for me here way up the path to the Ag Quad, I school. The construction workers

on the Ag Quad are working on a project that I won’t be around to see, so I suppose it’s time for me to go. Their monstrous machines, with churning bellies and bruising claws, move about without much regard for me. The people who operate them, though, are frighteningly nice. The silhouettes of slumbering beasts, mounds of dirt and stacks of wood or slabs of concrete are somehow promising, because they portend beauty.

There is nothing for me on this campus, even though I recently saw a flower growing out of a trunk the other day, and listened to the gentle splashes of a bird bathing in a tiny pool of rainwater.

You’re getting the director’s cut, of course; this is just a diminutive fragment of my collected footage.

I’m obsessed with watching the world work and breathe, and I can thank my time here for that I suppose. The aforementioned documents would not be as full and wide if not for the nothingness of this campus, too. In fact, now that I think about it, the critical introspection arose from a similar source. I could go on describing moments from campus for another 1000 words, easily. Maybe they would have a greater impact on you than these did, especially since I haven’t even begun to touch on all that people have shown and given me. Maybe not. Either way, this senior, tired of college as he is, isn’t so sure if there is nothing left.

Not just yet.

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

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etting to India is the struggle. With each year that passes, my parents renew their interest in travelling back to the country they spent the first half of their lives in. They have nostalgia for practically everything they used to do; my mom missed sampling the seemingly endless supply of street food along MG road in Bangalore, and my dad missed playing cricket at his agricultural college he attended in Coimbatore, amongst a million other memories they formed during a time fondly recalled as ‘the days before the kids were born.’

India pleaded with my parents to make arrangements for a return every year, and without fail, the travel agent listing the hefty costs of such an endeavor as well as the complaints of how incredibly busy my sister and I were with middle and high school responsibilities answered.

Excitement was always tempered, but never lost. A trip to the decent Indian buffet alleviated any case of home-homesickness, followed with what has now become a staple in my house: a viewing of a Bollywood film. It kept the uncultured American children at least minimally informed of their heritage.

Over the years, I have grown to cherish a number of Bollywood films, but they are definitely an acquired taste. If you were, for example, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, then you probably wouldn’t nominate a Bollywood film for an Oscar, consider it as a nominee nor even be asked to consider it. Bollywood has established a tried-andtrue template for films shot out of Mumbai: several exhausting musical numbers, religious adulation for the legendary heroes and a plot that manages to defy logic and reason simultaneously and consistently. We liken the extent of this frame-

A Little Less Masala work featured in a film to how much “masala” it has. Masala is the spice paste used to give curry an array of tastes. It is an ingredient used liberally in B-grade Indian restaurants, usually at the expense of the food quality, but if you’re Indian you’ll still eat it for the overdose of familiar flavors.

The recipe has been a hit for decades, and it continues to churn out the “masalabangers” that almost immediately dethrone each other in the all-time boxoffice collection records for India and amongst overseas film markets. People love it, I love it, but the lovable mess has been venturing into territory it just isn’t equipped handle.

India is currently in a state of movement. The new crop of passionate and social-justice oriented young people has taken to spreading awareness for the social and political issues that plague the country. Young men don sarees to protest the government’s passivity to the rape epidemic and a young woman’s rap set to the tune of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” exposing the negative health impacts of industrial pollution, especially as they relate to the working class, has gone viral. Filmmakers have taken notice and are doing their part. They are creating movies to partake in the national dialogue, but are failing to adjust their format to respect them.

One of the most socially and politically charged issue that has remained fixated on the Indian consciousness is the tension between India, Pakistan, and their respective citizens. Consequently, elite Bollywood directors have sought to depict the volatile tensions arising from the conflict in their films. Bajrangi Bhaijaan, a film I watched with my family shortly before leaving for Cornell, is now the second highest grossing Bollywood film ever (third if we include all Indian languages,

with “Bollywood” referring to those in which Hindi is spoken). It discusses the continuing hostilities between Indians and Pakistanis, but does so in the most Bollywood (worst) way possible. It starts with the simple story of a man trying to return a mute little girl home, and ends with what seems to be the entire populations of India and Pakistan plastered along the fences lining their countries’ border, chanting “Bajrangi Bhaijaan!” (the strong, honest Indian man) as the little Pakistani girl screeches “uncle!” (her first word ever).

Bajrangi runs to embrace her while the billions of people surrounding them are losing their shit. The message of unity is lost in the saturation of theatrics ironically used to get the point across. Director Kabir Khan ends up bludgeoning the audience with it and in the process drains it of any meaning or impact. There was a lot of miscellanea during that final scene, but an authentic, realistic account of hostile Indian-Pakistani relations was one particular thing not present. A depiction of the realities people face as a result of this toxic, nationalistic hatred was not filmy enough to make the cut.

The highest grossing Bollywood film of all time released in 2014, PK, deals with the divisive interactions between religion and society, especially as it relates to a predominantly Muslim Pakistan and a predominantly Hindu India. The similar theme with Bajrani Bhaijaan, however, is not the only thing the two movies have in common. The climax of PK is a nationally televised debate (with everyone in the country tuning in) between an alien (from outer space) and an unethical Hindu leader in which the alien’s argument that modern-day religion only creates conflict between individuals and exploits them for profit, a respectable opinion. However,

this is a Bollywood movie. Validation of his argument wholly depends on whether or not Pakistani Muslim Sarfaraz will return Indian Hindu Jaggu’s call (spoiler: he does) and once again, everyone loses their shit. Once again, the chance to raise awareness to an important issue was neglected. PK could have given voice to the number of people who have been brainwashed into extremism, swindled of their life savings, and/or have become sexual assault victims to self-proclaimed avatars and prophets. Instead, Rajkumar Hirani opts for the tired recipe designed specifically and only to pack cinemas and yield massive dividends at the box office.

I implore Bollywood directors who want to illustrate the country’s many challenges to move away from how it has always been done to how it should be done, out of respect for social responsibility and for those that live the subject matter these films attempts to portray. Cramming the complexities typical of multi-faceted issues of societal importance into the Bollywood entertainment machine is disrespectful, it exploits them for entertainment value and calls attention to the bombast of the film itself as opposed to the seriousness of the themes woven into the film’s plot. A paradigm shift isn’t necessary, but a major adjustment is in accord. These films may produce a smaller margin of profit, but ultimately will make up for it with the much greater outcome of spreading awareness to the multitude of issues that may not be so visible to the average filmgoer and actively moving those filmgoers to act on them. Besides, sometimes less masala tastes better anyways.

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com.

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Princeton Demolishes Cornell at Home, 56-7

Led by Lovett’s seven touchdowns,Tigers blow out Red,issuing C.U.fourth straight loss

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Looking more like the team that posted back-to-back one-win seasons than the squad that started this year 3-0, Cornell football wilted at home against Princeton Saturday, losing 56-7 to the Tigers.

The team’s 3-0 start — once the talk of campus — now seems like a distant memory. After four straight losses, this one by far the most embarrassing, the Red now sits at 3-4 with three games left in the season. “ W e played “I don’t think that was the real I 2016 football team out there. This what think is our worst game game is not going to define the of the searest of our season.” son,” said David Archer ’05 head coach D a v i d Archer ’05.

“I don’t think that was the real 2016 football team out there.

This game is not going to define the rest of our season.”

After Princeton’s initial drive sputtered out, the Tigers scored touchdowns on three straight possessions, setting the tone for the blowout and placing Cornell into a hole the team was not able to dig out of.

Juking, tricking and dodging their way to 18 first-half first downs, the Tigers, self-assured and commanding, held a 35-0 lead at the half, in complete control of the game.

The Red’s defense seemed lost at times, leaving receivers wide open throughout the game; and the Tigers took full advantage. Princeton had 392 passing yards, 198 for John Lovett and 194 for Chad Kanoff. Five of the Tigers’ eight scores came through the air.

Lovett — on the roster as the backup quarterback — seemed to be everywhere for the Tigers. In the first half alone, Lovett accounted for five touchdowns — two pass-

ing, two rushing and one receiving. He tacked on two more passing scores in the second half.

“He just made a lot of plays. He can play with his arm, he can play with his feet,” Archer said. “Obviously we didn’t do a good job of [stopping him].”

Like Brown’s Alex Jette last week, Lovett found the soft spots in Cornell’s defense and exploited them over and over again. After his fireworks display in Ithaca, the one-man show now has 23 touchdowns on the season — more than Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Yale.

Play after play, the Tigers, running their unpredictable brand of football, utilized Lovett in a different way. Senior captain and linebacker Jackson Weber noted that Lovett plays comfortably at multiple positions on the field and is dangerous wherever he lines up.

“Running the ball, he is really patient,” the captain said. “As a quarterPRINCETON @ CORNELL back, he can run, but when he is in the quarterback spot, he is almost like a true quarterback. As a receiver, just treat him Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH as a normal receiver.”

Princeton 21 14 14 7 Beyond just the team’s inability to Cornell 0 0 7 0 contain Lovett, Archer was critical of the defense as a whole, chalking the performance up to “mental mistakes and physical mistakes.”

Cornell gave up 645 yards, the second most in program CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR history.

Deflating defeat | Princeton, running its unique brand of “[The defense] just wasn’t what we’ve been accustomed football, opened up a 35-0 lead by halftime. to this year,” the head coach said.

In the first six weeks of the season, the trademark of this have focused on the past and will continue to focus on.

Cornell defense had been takeaways. Even in the Red’s Balls didn’t bounce our way today.” recent losses, the team prided itself on the defense forcing The problems extended beyond just the defense. turnovers and getting the ball back to the offense.

On offense, the Red lost center Alex Emanuels to a Interceptions and fumble recoveries were critical for leg injury in the first half and his absence was certainly Cornell to keep itself in games. felt. Princeton’s vaunted run defense neutralized Yet on Saturday, the takeaways just would not come.

Cornell’s rushing attack, holding the Red to just 49 “Getting turnovers can get you back into any game even when you’re down,” Weber said. “That’s something we See FOOTBALL page 5

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Red Upends Nationally-Ranked Tigers in Double O.T.

By SARAH PETERS Sun Staff Writer

Junior forward Krysten Mayers’ goal in double overtime knocked off nationally-ranked Princeton and sent the Cornell field hockey team to its first victory over the Tigers since 2007.

“I am very happy for the girls,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook. “They worked hard and played a competitive, hard-fought game. They dug deep and managed to connect.”

Currently, Princeton is ranked second in the Ivy League conference and 12th overall, according to NCAA Division I standings. Cornell is ranked two places below in the Ivy League conference and 22 places below overall.

“Yesterday was an important win for the team,” Hornibrook said. “It shows they are continuing to battle, compete and work hard.”

The game started strong for the women. The Red scored two goals within the first 16 minutes of play. Both goals were scored by Mayers and they were assisted by junior forward Katie Carlson and senior midfielder Katy Weeks.

Princeton came back to tie up the game 2-2 by the end of the first half.

Both teams fought hard and Cornell managed to score in the 91st minute of second overtime, ending the marathon game.

The contest was evenly matched throughout, according to Hornibrook.

The Tigers had eight shots on goal and

four saves during the game. The Red managed seven shots on goal, with six saves.

Cornell’s defensive unit was very solid throughout the game. This is one skill area the women have been working on all season, according to Hornibrook, and their polished defense was on display all game.

“Our backline played really, really well,” Hornibrook said. “[Junior back] Sam McILwrick has been a workhorse all year.”

Hornibrook also commended the steady competitive nature of junior forward Isabel Josephs and senior back Luisa Schulte-Bockums.

“A win against Princeton is great because it has been the team everyone has chased after,” said Hornibrook. “For us to finish strong is a testament to the team’s character.”

One key factor in the win was Mayers’ ability to sneak in goals, according to Hornibrook.

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Magical Mayers | Krysten Mayers capped off her hat trick against Princeton with the gamewinning goal in the second overtime period.

on the board,” Hornibrook said. “She has created opportunities all season long but things are going in for her right now so she is definitely dangerous.”

Despite this victory, the Red has faced adversity throughout the season, losing key players to injury.

“We have had some ups and downs throughout the season,” Hornibrook said.

“Because of injury we have had to deal with putting young talented kids into key roles really early in their career.”

An example of this trend is freshman goalkeeper Maddy Henry. She played the entire game against the Tigers and held her own, according to Hornibrook.

“She played really well, really composed and competitive,” Hornibrook said. “She took advantage of the opportunity and went for it, showing a lot of composure.”

Another freshman who made an impact was back Rose Gorski. She maintained consistent composure, despite her relative inexperience, according to Hornibrook.

Overall, the women were proud of the outcome in addition to their quality of play.

“We are really proud of how the kids played and excited to finish the season strong,” Hornibrook said.

Cornell will take on Dartmouth at home for its final game of the season on Nov. 5 at noon.

Sarah Peters can be reached at speters@cornellsun.com.