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500 students and faculty pack the Physical Sciences building for the 15th annual Taiwan Night Market. | Page 3

Troy Sherman ’18 calls Norah Jones’ show at the State Theatre an “absolute success.” | Page 6

Men’s hockey falls 5-4 to Quinnipiac in a tough battle this weekend. | Page 16

Federal Bill Would Cut TCAT Funding $200K Annually eliminates transit funding dedicated to states with high population-density, including New York, a change that will significantly impact transit systems across the state,” NYPTA President and CEO of the Capital District An amendment to a federal highway bill that passed Transit Agency (CDTA) in Albany Carm Basile said in the the United States House of Representatives Wednesday release. proposes to cut funding for public transit and Basile emphasized that this cut would seriwould slash 12 percent of the federal portion “A 20 percent or more cut in funding will force us to ask our riders ously compromise the quality of services of TCAT funding, or $207,000 annually, to pay more for less service, and slow economic growth.”

TCAT provides. according to a TCAT press release.

“A 20 percent or more cut in funding will In 2013, 10.6 percent of the TCAT’s Carm Basile force us to ask our riders to pay more for less annual budget came from federal funds, service, and slow economic growth in our according to its website. communities,” Basile said.

TCAT workers plan to protest the bill along with other most affected by the cuts.

At a meeting called by the NYPTA Friday, NYPTA The mobilized organizations aim to work with the transit agencies in the state, according to the release.

According to The Syracuse Post-Standard, the bill United States Senate, which has not presently passed the announced its plans to collaborate with transit agencies would cut $820 million over the course of six years bill and could amend or reject it, according to the release.

See TCAT page 4 “The recently passed House Surface Transportation bill statewide. New York state currently receives $140 million

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a year from the federal government for public transportation.

The New York Public Transit Association said it plans to mobilize and lobby for further funding for public transit in the state and throughout the east coast — the region

Racial Tensions Build Among I.C.Students, Admin

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Students urge vote of no confidence

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca College students and faculty have grown increasingly frustrated with the administration’s response to racial issues on campus, with tension reaching a new high in the past few weeks as students and faculty call for a vote of no confidence for President Tom Rochon.

“You can’t even walk through campus right now without hearing about [these issues] or go to class without hearing it part of class discussion,” said Dominick Recckio ’16, president of Ithaca College’s Student Government Association.

According to Recckio, problems first surfaced during Residential Advisor training at the start of this year when RAs reported racial aggression by Public Safety officers.

At the training session, Officer Terry O’Pray reportedly stated that racial profiling does not occur at Ithaca College. Officer Jon Elmore showed RAs various weapons, and when he showed a black BB gun, he See ITHACA COLLEGE page 5

Pole dancers from Risley Residential College’s pole dancing club perform during the opening credits of Rocky Horror Picture Show Saturday.

Garrett toVisit Alumni on Int’l Tour Cornell to Provide Pre-College far and wide,” Mazza said in a University press release.

Garrett also said she is eager to connect with President Garrett is embarking on a six-month Cornellians nationally and internationally, both to present her priorities for Cornell and to tour, aspiring to connect with receive feedback.

Cornellians across the nation and over“Cornell is a global university, and I seas and explore Cornell’s role as a “globwant to connect with our alumni, famial university.” lies and friends in the places they now Garrett’s presidential tour, which was live and work,” Garrett said in the organized by the Division of Alumni release. “This tour will give me insights Affairs, includes 12 stops in locations about our spirited and diverse Cornell including Washington D.C., Seattle, community, as I share my own vision Mumbai, Beijing and Hong Kong, and passion for our great university.” according to the University.

GARRETT The tour’s first stop will be in Jim Mazza ’88, associate vice president for alumni affairs, said the tour will allow Washington D.C. on November 10. According to Garrett to interact directly with a diverse selection of the event’s website, more than 50 people have already indicated they are planning to attend the alumni and discuss her vision for Cornell’s future.

“Thanks to our close partnerships with, and the event, many of them alumni. good work of, Cornell club volunteers around the globe, this tour promises to be a terrific opportunity Phoebe Keller can be reached at to introduce our inspiring president to Cornellians pkeller@cornellsun.com.

By PHOEBE KELLER

Sun Assistant News Editor

Services to Ithaca Students

By ZACHARY KAPLAN Sun Contributor

With a $198,000 state grant and nearly $50,000 from the University, Cornell’s Public Service Center is coordinating a Science and Technology Entry Program to begin in January that will provide pre-college services to 99 disadvantaged students across Ithaca over the next five years.

The grant, which comes as part of the New York State Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP), allows Cornell to join a coalition of 58 colleges and universities around New York also working to expand higher

education opportunities for disadvantaged middle and high school students.

The Public Service Center’s program will serve local students at DeWitt Middle School, Boynton Middle School and Ithaca High School over the next five years, according to Jana Leyden, the program’s assistant director.

In addition to the $198,000 grant from the New York State Department of Education, the University will match 25 percent of the state funds, Leyden said.

Both the state grant and the See STEM page 4

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Hundreds CelebrateTaiwanese Night Market

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Local Man Steals Purse at Gunpoint The Ithaca Police reported that a male suspect pointed a handgun at a female victim and demanded money in the Fall Creek neighborhood on Saturday, according to The Ithaca Voice. The man then forcefully took the woman’s handbag and ran away. The woman emerged from the attack unscathed and the police responded to the incident promptly, The Voice reported.

State New York Legislator Fights Against Nail Salon Reforms Ron Kim, a New York State assemblyman, has publicly questioned Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new law, which is designed to protect nail salon workers from labor abuses and hazardous chemicals, according to The New York Times. Kim has taken particular issue with a provision of the law which is designed to protect workers from wage fraud. Kim has said the requirement unfairly singles out nail salons and says when he signed the law he did not believe the new provision would apply to nail salon businesses alone. Many state officials have expressed confusion and disappointment with Kim’s opposition to the law, saying they believed it was always clear that the law would apply on to the nail salon industry. Alphonso B. David, the chief counsel for the governor, said he questions Kim’s motivations after his abrupt change in position, The Times reports.

National Missouri Football Players Join Protest

By Boycotting Team Activities Dozens of black football players at the University of Missouri have joined demonstrators in protesting the Univerity President, blaming him for poor handling of racial tensions on campus, according to The New York Times. Protests on campus have been in response to several incidents in which racial slurs were directed at black students and one in which a student used feces to draw a swastika on the wall of a residence hall. Many students have blamed the University’s administrators and officials for failing to respond to the incidents and are calling for the University president, Timothy Wolf to step down, The Times reports.

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With a line spilling out the front door, the 15th annual Taiwanese Night Market welcomed over 500 students to celebrate Taiwanese heritage through food, music and games in the Physical Sciences building Saturday.

“Taiwan is such a small island and not many people know much about it,” said Yvonne Huang ’16, vice president of Cornell Taiwanese American Society, which organized the event. “Night markets are a very famous part of Taiwan and there are certain foods that are unique to it.

Our goal is to spread Taiwanese culture and awareness to the Cornell community and what’s a better way of doing it than through free food?”

The event aimed to serve three purposes, according to Tech Kuo ’16, CTAS president.

“For the people who are from Taiwan, it’s a chance to get a taste of home. For people of Taiwanese heritage, it’s a chance to learn more about where you came from,” Kuo said. “For the greater community, Taiwan has a very vibrant culture and it’s amazing that we get to give more exposure to the small country.”

In addition to live music played by the CTAS band and common night market games, a major highlight of the event was the authentic, traditional Taiwanese dishes, including pork belly bao buns, three cup chicken, minced pork rice and shaved ice.

“Every time we make these dishes I learn something new and that is very cool because I get a better glimpse of what my parents’ lives were like,” Kuo said.

Although this is the Night Market event’s 15th year, CTAS has tried to make the event accessible to more students each year, according to Huang. This is only the second year that the event has been free to the public, made possible by funding from CUTonight, an group which finances events for a variety of organizations, and only the first year CTAS had planned to serve 500 people at the event, according to numerous members of the CTAS executive board. “[The food is] all homemade,” according to Kuo. “The recipes that are used have been passed down. But it’s amazing to see so many people line up. We are just a bunch of college students, not professional chefs.”

Not only is CTAS’ Night Market their biggest event for their publicity, but also a chance for members of the organization to bond, with volunteers within and outside the organization spending the entire week prior to the event planning and cooking in preparation, according to Lily Shi ’17, a member of CTAS. “You really get to know everyone in the club and it strengthens the bonds between members,” Shi said. “Some people you might not know too well, but you cook one dish together and suddenly you become great

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Dig in | Hundreds of students attended the 15th annual Taiwanese Night Market in the Physical Sciences Building Saturday.

friends.”

In particular, Kuo said that Night Market is a unique event because the members of CTAS experience all the cultural aspects of the food by preparing and enjoying it. He added that most cultural organizations at other universities allow caterers and chefs to handle the food when organizing events similar to Night Market.

Winston Lee ’18, another CTAS member, added that the hard work CTAS put into organizing the event was ultimately rewarded when hundreds of students showed up to enjoy the Night Market.

“Planning for the Night Market takes a lot of time and work, but in the end it’s a rewarding experience to be able to see all these people and really appreciate the efforts that we made,” he said.

Lauren Kelly can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun.com.

Harvard Prof Explores Limits and Definitions of Life

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Sophia Roosth, history of science, Harvard University, spoke in Kaufmann Auditorium Thursday about the limits of the biological and how we define life in a new age of science, which defy typical expectations and definitions of life.

The lecture, titled “Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological,” focused on several examples of “unlikely life,” such as the development of the T7.1 virus. Led

by Prof. Drew Endy of MIT, synthetic biologists developed this virus in order to better understand the T7 virus, Roosth said.

“Instead of trying to rebuild the model, Endy’s team wanted to rebuild the phage to be more understandable,” Roosth said. “That’s a symptom of the move to manufacture in the life sciences — comprehensibility becomes a design principle, and making becomes a form of inquiry. Knowledge about how life works is furthered not by experimenting on life, but by making new forms of it.”

As synthetic biology methods become more ingrained in modern science, scientists are constructing a more complex definition of life which encompasses a more diverse set of organisms, according to Roosth.

“I call these objects of synthetic biology including T7.1 persuasive objects,” Roosth said. “Such living things do not simply exemplify what life is or what it might next become, they are vital manifestations of theories that simultaneously convince and compel synthetic biologists to redefine life itself as a much [something] broader.”

According to Roosth, defining the origins of life is complex, as the term “life” itself has recently taken on an increasingly malleable identity.

“Life, in short, is something that gets made,” Roosth said. “The unlikely lives born by syn-

thetic biologists grow, mutate, metabolize and divide, yet they also speak eloquently of nature and artifice, of analysis and synthesis, of life and its limits.”

Roosth said the extremely resilient tardigrade, a microscopic eight-legged aquatic extremophile is also an example of unlikely life, which he said has proliferated in almost every terrestrial ecological niche. Biologists have subjected these organisms to many extreme conditions in order to test the tardigrades’ durability, according to Roosth. These tardigrades survive extreme conditions through a process unique to their species and divergent from the typical conception of life.

“The reason that tardigrades can endure such extremes is that when exposed to such conditions they enter a state of suspended animation,” Roosth said. “What that means is that they are pausing their metabolism until they

appear as if dead.”

Some theoretical ecologists now believe that some organisms, more than others, challenge our traditional concept of life, Roosth said.

“These are creatures that behave in ways that resist our assumption about how life happens,” Roosth said.

These examples, according to Roosth, served as cases to explore the many problems or theories of life and its limits.

“Rather than being the common denominator underlying all living things, life is perpetually problem of ontological limits and discontinuities,” said Roosth. “Life is indeed a concept ... but of course that doesn’t mean that life does not exist, rather that our theories of life are spectacularly lively.”

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun.com.

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What is life | Prof. Sophia Roosth, history of science, Harvard University, speaks about the way we understand and define life in Kaufmann Auditorium Thursday.

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The pre-college services will include career and college counseling, SAT/ACT preparation, individual subject tutoring, leadership training, college tours and financial aid guidance, according to Leyden.

These services are intended to encourage entry into the fields of science, technology, engineering and math in addition to state-licensed professions such as social work and landscape architecture, she added.

“It’s difficult for teens who haven’t been exposed to the STEM fields to understand what most STEM careers really are, and it’s important that [STEP] is connecting those students to STEM in their communities,” said Betty Lazias ’18, a program assistant.

In order for local students to STEP, they must be either economically disadvantaged on a basis of family income and assets or historically underrep-

resented in the STEM fields, according to Leyden. The state classifies historically underrepresented students in STEM as students of African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and Alaskan Indian origins.

was approved by the state’s Department of Education on July 1. Since then, the program has entered its recruitment process and is now accepting applications from students throughout Ithaca. Leyden said she expects Ithaca’s program to

“It’s difficult for teens who haven’t been exposed to the STEM fields to understand what most STEM careers really are.”

Betty Lazias ’18 “Lots of programs like this exist, but what sets this one apart from the others is its longterm nature,” Leyden said.

“This is a five year grant … that has a position where the assistant director meets with the students on a regular basis inside the school building so we really become a part of the schools.”

Cornell’s Science and Technology Entry Program proposal was initiated last spring by Jen Rudolf, the director of the University’s pre-college opportunity programs, and

be fully operational by January.

Personnel in the Cornell Public Service Center have been primarily responsible for coordinating and organizing the Science and Technology Entry Program implementation since last spring, but have been largely assisted by several organizations including 4H Youth Development and Cornell Business & Technology Development, according to a University press release.

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said he would shoot anyone he saw with one on campus, according to The Ithacan, Ithaca College’s student newspaper.

RAs and other students who became aware of the incident found parallels with other incidents of police violence towards African Americans, specifically with the shooting of 12-yearold Tamir Rice who was shot while carrying a black BB gun, according to The Ithacan.

Following the training session, President Rochon issued a statement saying that racial discrimination is a “college-wide issue that needs ongoing attention.” According to Recckio, however, President Rochon never publicly apologized and students expressed their frustration through demonstrations.

The second event involved two alumni who made racially insensitive remarks about another black alumna at a college event, Blue Sky Kickoff on Oct. 8, according to The Ithacan.

In an open letter to The Ithacan, Ithaca College Faculty wrote, “we were distressed and offended by the fact that one of the guest speakers, Tatiana Sy ’09, was repeatedly called ‘the savage’ by another guest speaker, Chris Burch ’76.”

Burch referred to Sy as “the savage” after she made a comment about her “savage hunger,” referring to her ambition.

The faculty pointed out that this phrase, which they said they found offensive, was also used by the moderator, Bob Kur ’70.

“Although Burch and Kur seemed unaware of the racist and sexist implications of referring to Sy, who is AfricanAmerican, in this way, others in the room were not,” the Ithaca College Faculty wrote.

The third and final event occurred on Oct. 9 when unaffiliated fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, sent out Facebook invitations to their themed party, “Preps & Crooks.” According to The Ithacan, the event said the“Crooks” theme suggests “a more ’90’s thuggish style” and “bling” and “Preps” theme refers to one’s “favorite Polo shirt, button down … or boat shoes.”

Daniella Resto ’18 said in article in The Ithacan she felt that this theme and its suggested dress code represented an attack on the minority community.

While an apology from the fraternity came within hours of the invite, students and faculty had to wait four days for an apology from President Rochon about the remarks made at the Blue Sky event, according to The Ithacan.

The People of Color group at Ithaca College has led multiple rallies and demonstrations in response to these incidents over the past few weeks. In one rally on Oct. 20, over 200 students and faculty demonstrated on campus chanting “Tom Rochon! No confidence!” and “no more dialogue, we want action.”

At another demonstration on Oct. 27, about 40 #POCatIC student leaders stormed the stage during a town hall meeting at which President Rochon was speaking. The initial group encouraged about 1500 other students to leave the meeting as well.

This past weekend, the group circulated the document,

“The Case Against Tom Rochon,” which details, among other things, Rochon’s “disregard for minority community members” and “poor leadership” since coming to office in 2008.

Many of these demonstrations occurred during trustee weekend in order to garner more support and reach a larger audience, according to Recckio.

According to The Ithacan, Elijah Breton ’16, who led the People of Color rally, directed his remarks to the administration and trustees present, “[I] hope that it made you feel uncomfortable standing here because if you feel uncomfortable, imagine how uncomfortable we feel living.”

In early September, the administration hired an external consultant for improve campus-wide relations as well planned to established a Council on Diversity and Inclusion. In late October, administration proposed a massive diversity plan in order to help create a “safe space” for multicultural students.

Mandatory sensitivity training is of these initiatives. However, Recckio said poor communication has hindered the administration’s efforts to respond to racial problems.

Recckio said there is “a complete lack of communication” between activists and administration. When the President Rochon did invite student leaders to a meeting, he proposed what Recckio called “two fairly weak action plans.” According to Recckio, student leaders walked out of the meeting because they are “tired of empty dialogue.”

“It seems a lot less meaningful than it should be,” Recckio

said. “It feels like too little too late. I have almost no followup from the administration for anything.”

In the midst of recent protests, Recckio said he knew if students were chanting for votes of no confidence, it was his job to take action. He said he wrote a resolution and made the call for a vote of no confidence in the university’s president campuswide. The Student Government Association unanimously voted in favor of a no-confidence vote.

“As a representative and someone who serves [the student body], it was my duty to initiate the vote,” Recckio said.

As of Nov. 4, faculty in two of the five schools — the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Roy H. Park School of Communications — have decided to hold a vote of no confidence. Of the other three schools, faculty in the School of Business voted against holding a vote, and faculty in the School of Health and Sciences and Human Performance have yet to decide.

The open vote — which was emailed to all students — began on Nov. 4 and will continue until Nov. 30. The day the vote closes the Student Government Association will hold a public meeting announcing the results, and based upon the results will determine whether to pursue any further action, according to Recckio.

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sachriche@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ‘Come AwayWith Me’:

Norah Jones at the State Theatre

BY TROY SHERMAN Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor

Together we pushed through a gradually drunkening mass of anticipatory over-50s, all jocund and overpriced beer and premonitions of the soft-sung night to come. Under the gaze of a scrutinizing usher, he groped around in his clothes looking for our two tickets, which with a broad smile he produced, wrinkled and smudged from a short life spent at the bottom of a crammed pants’ pocket. Stubs deemed satisfactory, a brusque sweep of an arm pointed us up the stairs and into the boondocks of the State Theatre’s OF balcony. When his eyes fell on our COURTESY NORAH JONES seats, a coy look of apprehension washed over his face, which I quickly did my best to dispel by saying that, in my opinion, the best way to see Norah Jones perform is from far off and above, with the ability to melt back into your seat and, eyes closed, feel the night’s velvet slink around you without any expectation of or desire for one of those coveted, meaningless little glances from the performer that those in rows closer to the front are wont to crave.

As the night proceeded, though, I came to realize that there’s one more criterion for having an enjoyable experience in seeing Ms. Jones perform: to be, while in the midst of her lovestained caresses, in a state of utter platonism. Because, if I had had anyone but a good friend sitting next to me while she lilted on, in her ineluctable smoothness and suavity, about loves lost and loves found and loves kindled and loves burning out, my mind might have dolefully drifted off into the State’s aether to commingle with Norah’s jazzsmoke breath which, with every cabaret note or pluck of country twang, floated upward to rest, almost tangibly, just beneath the theatre’s muraled ceiling in hazy andamento. But instead of all that lovelorn garbage, I had with me on Saturday night a friend with whom I had to worry about doing nothing more than absorbing the music of a veritable legend in muzak history.

Jones, as it turned out, was actually the audience’s reward for

enduring the blandest opening act which any mess of oversexed millennial Brooklynites with a taste for “indie rock” could conceivably conceive: Alberta Cross. The band hails from across the pond, but has been residing in Brooklyn for the past seven years, presumably for the purpose of honing their craft. And honed their craft was: Whoever writes their songs has an overwhelming knack for moulding vapid clusters of overused words into no less vapid lines of metered cliches, and they played their instruments with the whittled competence of people who have been playing their instruments in Brooklyn for seven years. Lead singer Petter Stackee delivered tepid truncations of what might have been mediocre lyrics, but were in fact too mumbled and gurgled in the name of Sounding Cool to speak on with any definition. Leaning over his armrest in between songs, my friend aptly whispered, “They sound like the music that plays in the background of a drama movie when having music doesn’t really fit the vibe, but silence would be too weird.”

Unfortunately, their set lasted a grueling six songs. Fortunately, the soundcheck was short, and before long the lights dimmed and the State erupted. An unassuming Jones, clad in a flowing, gossamer, leopard-print dress took the stage with her band — a guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboardist whom she’d go on to intermittently introduce throughout the night. With little more than a brief hello — she’d prove by the end of her set to be endearingly softspoken — she and her cohorts slipped into their first song, a track which, admittedly, I didn’t know and I don’t remember.

But, that’s beside the point, because Jones’s performance would prove to be not one defined by lugubrious stretches of deep cuts and newer material interspersed amidst the hits everyone’s waiting for. Instead, she avoided this trap which performers in her same boat — that is, those who have a low huge-hits to rest-oftheir-catalogue ratio — usually fall into, and imbued in every one of her songs (not only “Don’t Know Why”) a sultry import which proved, at least to me, that she is and has always been more than just a sweet crooner with a pretty piano and nothing to say; even if what she has to say has already been uttered to infinity by oth-

ers more articulate, it’s still something I desperately want to listen to. And listen I did on Saturday night.

The captivation, however, wasn’t just incited by Jones. For one thing, her band was remarkably adept. Regardless of the sonic environment required by Jones’s arrangements or lyrics, the men behind her knew how to match the feeling. Shifting with uncommon ease from spryness to ghostliness to precision to absence (they gave Norah a few songs to herself and her piano), they followed Jones wherever she might take them, but it never seemed like they were being led. They were at their best when they had the chance to show off, the most remarkable instance of which occurred when guitarist Jason Roberts plunged into a solo which wouldn’t have been out of place at a hard rock show, nor, strangely, did it seem at all out of place at all during Jones’s set.

But in the end what Norah’s band did was lend a backbone to her music, which, in its own unpretentious way, is ultimately as sweet and innocuously affecting as holding hands or receiving a gift for no reason. For me, this fact made itself clearest near the beginning of her set, during a song which, in fact, wasn’t even her own. “If you don’t mind,” she began to say as she stood up from the piano and positioned an acoustic guitar strap around her neck, “we’re going to play a Jerry song. My band turned me on to the Grateful Dead, and I hope all of you like them as much as I do now.” And with that she began a simple strum, common to as many country laments as have ever been written with a halfbroken heart. But with Norah Jones and her band up on stage, flooded in red light and summoning from their instruments and her throat some of the most starkly meaningful sounds that’ve ever been played for me, this surely wasn’t a lament. If the smile which complemented my heavying eyelids and back-tilting head was reflective of what Jones was doing on stage (and I for one think it must have been), then this instead was a celebration. Of what, I don’t know, but a celebration nevertheless; one to be best enjoyed with a friend to your left, someone else entirely consuming your brain and a twinkle of utter contentedness flowing straight from the stage to the very back of the State Theatre and into every fibre of my body. “It Must Have Been the Roses” was the prime example of Jones’s ability to make, if even for a moment, every sad thing seem okay and every bittersweet thing seem entirely happy. If the ability to muster such a sweeping effect is one way in which a performance can be judged, then Norah Jones’s show at the State was an absolute success.

Troy is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

A Look at Twentyhood

BY GWEN AVILES Sun Staff Writer

Throughout your time at Cornell, you will meet a multitude of “writers”; people who are currently writing, but never seem to produce anything, or at least not enough to see their work fully actualized. But that is not the case for Anna Alison Brenner (’16), a senior who’s been penning some version of the play Twentyhood (which premiered at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts this weekend) for the last few years. According to the director of the show, Andrea Fiorentini (’16), Fiorentini has watched this show become “pulled apart, created and recreated” as it grew from “a play about painting, to a play about Italy, to a play about self-discovery and college life.” There is no doubt this play has many faces, both literally and figuratively, and that is due in part to Brenner’s identity as a logophile. Actors learned to adapt quickly as lines were changed, remolded or discarded, even during the week leading up to the show.

Yet, neither the last minute line adjustments nor the sensitive, personal material of the play Twentyhood seemed to faze any of the actors.

Twentyhood follows the narrative of Olive (“like

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the fruit”) Glass, a college student who is staying with her friends during a summer in Ithaca.

Glass, portrayed by Elise Czuchna (’18) is a revered playwright, respected by peers and faculty alike for her talent. However, Olive’s security in her playwriting identity does not extend itself to all facets of her life. During her summer as a “Lampchop Playwriting Fellow,” (Brenner has a habit of poking fun at the world of theater while at the same time embracing it), Olive develops feelings for two of the actors in her theater program, Evander, played by Luke Bianco (’19) and Helena, played by Siobhan Brandman (’17). Olive first tries to convince herself it’s the charming (albeit broke) Southern gentleman that she wants, but then realizes their interactions are far more awkward and entail far less chemistry than she had originally conceived. I mean, really, who quotes Romeo and Juliet upon leaving the girl they just kissed for the first time? Not only is it a little obnoxious, but it’s one of those things some girls might think will be romantic in theory, but is just cringe-worthy in actuality. Instead, it is Brandman’s tantalizing and fearless Helena that captures Olive’s affections and the affections of the audience. That is, until Helena starts hooking up with Evander herself, leaving Olive in the lurch.

Twentyhood is remarkable for several reasons, a primary one being its commitment to truthful storytelling and avoidance of all that is maudlin and trite (especially since the show, co-sponsored by Haven, Cornell’s LGBTQ Student Union, obviously touches upon serious issues of identity). Ultimately, however, Twentyhood’s biggest strength is its balanced approach. Czuchna’s performance as Olive could have easily been the overdramatized account of a college student struggling to find herself and awaken her sexual identity, but her command of subtlety allowed Olive’s story to more greatly affect its viewers. Czuchna also balanced out Carly Siege’s (’19) performance of Becca, one of Olive’s overtly aggressive and emotional friends, who is devastated after the boy she loses her virginity to takes someone else to his room.

Luckily, the play’s devastation is offset by its physical and linguistic comedy and its parodying of theater. Calvin Kuang (’17) as Mike, the man-whore of Olive’s friend group, is effectively hilarious in his drunken stupor and inability to sleep alone. Christian Kelly (’16) who plays Gino Marino, Olive’s gay best friend, has a way of making every line sound suggestive, and his use of physical comedy, despite or perhaps maybe even because of being on crutches, gar-

nered consistent chuckles from the crowd. And finally, visiting lecturer Jeffrey Guyton’s portrayal of Aurora, a harried, overdramatic, bitterly divorced theater professor might have been the funniest thing I’ve seen in years; the laughter that it inspired was the athletic equivalent of a 300 crunch workout. Still, even through the hilarity of Aurora’s stripping and declaration that she is not giving up on herself, we see a person who too is going through her own struggles.

Twentyhood is a challenging play both to perform in (one of the main actors dropped the show in the beginning of this project, for that very reason) and to watch. It will sadden you, perhaps even anger you, but above all, it will remind you of the human capacity for pain and resilience. As Gino Marino instructs us, “This is the beginning … because when the party is over and you’re sitting on the floor by yourself, you better know how to pick yourself up.” The good news is that even if you don’t know automatically how to do so, you will learn, as all the characters of this play did in their own way.

Gwen Aviles is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at gfa28@cornell.edu.

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The Prophet at Cornell Cinema

What is it about Liam Neeson that makes him, at age 63, one of the most popular movie stars? He’s not strikingly good-looking, or especially physically imposing. Without a doubt, it’s Neeson’s voice that drove his “ReNeesonce” in acting, in such pretty-bad films as Taken and Non-Stop. His voice is fatherly, warm and reassuring, but also capable of gravity and menace. Above all, Neeson’s voice conveys wisdom, even when the script he’s reading decidedly doesn’t.

It’s this quality, and not that of incapacitating ten nameless bad guys in under a minute, that makes Neeson an excellent choice to provide the voice of the titular character in The Prophet, an animated film adaptation of the Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 book of poetry of the same name. Neeson brings sophistication, compassion and a light sense of humor to the character Mustafa (called Almustafa in the book).

The framing story for Mustafa’s lessons is almost wholly invented for the film. In Gibran’s book, Almustafa has lived on the island of Orphalese for twelve years, until one day a ship arrives to take him home. This mystical framework is left unexplained; the reader does not know what brought Almustafa to Orphalese in the first place, or how he knows that the ship in the harbor has arrived to take him home. This mystery serves the book well, as it is about Almustafa’s words, not the character himself or the plot.

Before leaving, Almustafa spends the day talking to the townspeople in gorgeous, Biblical prose on every topic ranging from work and money to love, freedom and death.

However, in the film, Mustafa is a political prisoner

under Orphalese’s totalitarian government, and is being set free by the rulers on the condition that he return home immediately on the ship. Mustafa’s exit is accompanied by a bumbling, arrogant sergeant, and silently followed by the mute girl Almitra, who is fascinated by the lessons he

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imparts to the town on his way. The narrative of tyranny and resistance addresses politics and division in a way that Gibran never does. Gibran’s writing is universal and forgiving: He writes, “You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good. You are only loitering and sluggard.” However, the presence of the unsympathetic and malicious sergeant and governor undercuts this message by creating an “us vs. them” narrative that is antithetical to

Gibran’s message of oneness and moral fluidity.

The story itself is the film’s weakest aspect. Luckily, much of the film consists of captivating and euphoric animated segments paired with Mustafa’s poetic lessons, on topics ranging from freedom and work to love and death.

Not surprisingly, these are the real substance of the film, as they are the parts that are actually drawn directly from Gibran’s work.

While the framing storyline is directed by Roger Allers, who oversaw The Lion King, these interspersed segments are created by nine different directors, and make up an impressive range of different animation styles, from flowing, fluid colors to angular, Picasso-like shapes and bodies. Some particularly memorable segments include “On Marriage,” in which a bride and groom dance barefoot in a blue, deserted restaurant surrounded by ancient ruins, and “On Death,” in which a cloaked woman with a flowing and inconstant shape walks through the woods before casting off her garment and climbing into the sky.

The film adaptation of The Prophet is imperfect; its framing storyline is generic and a bit silly, and the somewhat haphazard arrangement of Mustafa’s lessons doesn’t reflect the unified structure and message of the book. Nonetheless, the segments that pair Neeson’s reading of the original text with a variety of animation styles are imaginative and memorable. The film provides both an engaging new look at Gibran’s poetry for those who have already read it, and an entrance for those who have not yet been exposed to its pure, brilliant beauty.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dwj32@cornell.edu.

Suffragette and Stonewall:

Hollywood’s Whitewashing of History

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t’s no secret that the movie industry has a diversity were looking at working women, so they problem. In 2014, only 17 percent of the top 100 didn’t enter our story.” films featured non-white leads, and only 12 percent While Gavron’s focus on the intersecfeatured female protagonists. In the same group of tions of class with the British feminist films, there were just 19 queer characters with speaking movement is commendable, the film still roles out of 4,610 total characters, and zero of them managed to include a nod the white ariswere trans. The lack of diverse casts isn’t that surprising tocratic activist Emmeline Pankhurst, when you consider that there is even less diversity but it did not make reference to the among filmmakers. famous Indian suffragette Sophia So this notorious lack of representation in film Duleep Singh, with whom Pankhurst makes it all the worse when films depicting actual, his- worked with closely. Photographic evitorical events fail to give credit to the people of color dence also shows that there were other who participated. The recently released movies Indian suffragettes in Britain, and they Suffragette and Stonewall — movies about events in the did not appear even in the background women’s and LGBT liberation movements respectively of the film. There are always going to be — both faced controversy for their whitewashing of too many stories to tell in one movie, important movements for social change. but it is hard to stomach a film that purSuffragette focuses on the early fight for women’s ports to be feminist, but does not depict rights in Britain, following the stories of the working a single person of color. class women who fought against the British governStonewall is another movie that has ment for suffrage and the intense brutality they faced. faced great controversy for its egregious As part of the film’s publicity campaign, four of the whitewashing. The Stonewall riots — violent demonactresses wore t-shirts with the words: “I’d rather be a strations for LGBT liberation known to have been rebel than a slave.” While the logo was a real quote by incited by trans women, drag queens, lesbians and peofamous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, played by ple of color — have been earmarked as some of the Meryl Streep, this evocation of slavery by white women most important moments in the early gay liberation came across as tone-deaf and racially insensitive — movement. A lot of people were probably excited when especially because they found out that a movie was in the there are virtually works depicting this important event, no women of especially given the aforementioned lack color in the film. of representation of LGBT people in Director Sarah mainstream movies. But any excitement Gavron explained was promptly crushed upon the release the movie’s lack of the trailer, which showed that the Midnight Radio of diversity by protagonist was a fictional white, cis, saying that gay male — traditionally handsome and women of color an Indiana-born NYC-outsider — who were not involved in Britain’s suffragette movement like personally started the riots by throwing the first brick. they were in the U.S.: “When you look at the U.K. in All gender-nonconforming, women and people of color 1912, unlike the U.S., we didn’t have immigration on characters in the film were, inaccurately, reduced to the the same scale. In the U.S., there were many women of background as support for the invented white male color involved in the movement, and also many exclud- protagonist around whom the whole movie revolves. ed. In the U.K., the issue at the time was class, not When asked to respond to the accusations of whiterace.” She added, “there were two Asian women who washing the story around the riots, director Roland were involved in the movement and they were both Emmerich claimed that he had to make the protagonist aristocrats, who were treated very differently. But we digestible for straight audiences: “I kind of found out,

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in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, [Danny] is a very easy in. Danny’s very straight-acting.

He gets mistreated because of that. [Straight audiences] can feel for him,” he told Buzzfeed. Catering to the straight, white, male audience that (supposedly) would not accept a version of history that did not revolve entirely around a “straight-acting” white male is a gross betrayal of both history and the community that the movie was meant to depict. Stonewall karmically bombed at both the box office and in its critical reception.

While it is disheartening that these two new movies depicting the histories of women and LGBT people are tainted by whitewashing and cis-washing, the backlash they’ve faced at least shows that we’re talking about the lack of diversity in film — and it’s a very important conversation to have if we want directors to recognize that their audiences are demanding more representation.

And more diversity behind the scenes of films is essential for avoiding problematic portrayals and increasing representation in the stories filmmakers choose to tell.

Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cobrien@cornellsun.com. Midnight Radio runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Cornell University: perpetuating bad common sense To the Editor: Ideally, a college education should teach students an important skill that, in my experience, no longer seems to be a concern in secondary education: critically questioning received ideas and “common sense.” Yet even this “common sense” idea that universities merely “teach skills” excludes the university’s (disappearing) role in making future leaders reflect critically on their relationships to institutions, fellow citizens and the world. Two recent incidents on campus suggest that undergraduates — in their shared governance roles, at least — are learning not to think about their responsibilities to others. Instead, they are encouraged to enforce and perpetuate received ideas that are destructive in our university community and beyond.

The first incident involves a report in The Cornell Progressive suggesting that the Student Assembly Finance Commission worked with Gina Giambattista (Director of the Office of Assemblies) to create a confidentiality policy ex post facto to seal the SAFC’s records from a student organization’s appeal. According to The Progressive, Big Red Bikes lost its funding after missing an “arbitrary” filing deadline set by the SAFC when they failed to release application materials on time. If The Progressive’s allegations are true, undergraduates should be outraged that student leaders managing their activity fees believe that they can cite policies of confidentiality fabricated for the face-saving convenience of the SAFC. Moreover, if Giambattista colluded with the SAFC, this is indicative of a corporate administrative culture at Cornell that encourages student leaders in their improper behavior. The message being conveyed is, ‘If you are in a position of control over resource allocation, and you do something despicable, don’t worry about it: People in power stick together and protect one another.’

Unethical institutional corporatism is nothing new for university administrators and leaders in student governance on this campus. Another illustrative incident involves the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee’s initial reaction to Cornell Cinema’s request for additional funding. According to a report in The Cornell Daily Sun, the SAAC recommended rejecting the request on the basis that Cornell Cinema should find a way “to reduce costs by … more selectively showing screenings, reducing the number of days that Cornell Cinema is open or … alternative mechanisms.” The statement sounds more like something from a group of shareholders to a corporate board of directors than from a student governance body to a wildly popular, student-run cultural institution. As a community, we should be alarmed when students uncritically repeat the jargon of Wall Street executives in a situation as bland as routine distribution of fee monies for on-campus programming. How will these students behave when they ultimately have power over allocation of resources after their time at Cornell?

In the latter case, the broader Student Assembly voted against the SAAC’s recommendation. It remains unclear, however, whether student leaders know that they can and should question the common-sense application of profit maximization strategies to every realm of life. Questioning those underlying terms of these debates is necessary to end inequitable exclusion from resources in our community and beyond.

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he other week, I found a export cheaply if it opened up. Because Facebook picture that was fasci- of its closed economy, China can keep nating. I know what you’re think- exports cheap by floating its exchange ing — and no, the photo didn’t involve rate against the dollar, keeping China’s anyone's crazy weekend. I’m sure there domestic currency weak (Google purwere some crazy photos of some crazy chasing power parity to find out why). It weekends, but this photo was definitely routinely abuses human rights, infringes crazier. It was a picture of Facebook — on intellectual property and cuts corners specifically a graph of all the cities con- to keep costs down.

This seems counter-intuitive from our nected by Facebook. Tiny dots with lines drawn between them represented the point of view. An open tech sector has connections between each city. As you driven economic growth in the United can imagine, using the dots and lines you States. However, China’s economy isn’t could make out the shapes of all the like ours. It’s a misconception to think major continents. We are really connect- China has a market economy in the sense we do. Our economy thrives because ed.

But that’s old news. The picture I’m American consumers want new products. referring to is actually five years old. For the most part, China’s economy grows because foreign These days, talking countries demand about the places connected to Facebook is Conventional wisdom their cheap exports.

China’s population boring. Talking about says an open was starving before the places that aren’t economy — China flooded interconnected is more markets with interesting.

There promised by an open national cheap imports. Now, were five as of 2010: The Middle East, web — would help it is one of the world's richest countries (in Central Africa, Brazil, China. But China terms of total wealth, Russia and China.

China is by far the thinks an open web anyway — not so much per-capita most interesting to would only wealth). China doesn’t talk about. The reawant to risk these sons Brazil, Russia, undermine its gains. Social media’s Central Africa and the economy. history in the Middle Middle East aren’t East has parallels with connected are obviChina’s fears about the ous. Brazil and Russia used competing social media — web. Conventional wisdom would say a although Facebook has since taken the more open political systems — promised edge. The Middle East and central Africa by social media — would help the don’t have the infrastructure or stability region. However, social media didn’t deliver on its promises in countries like to connect.

China’s reason for not connecting is Egypt (which ousted one dictator only to more complicated. Facebook is blocked embrace another) and it plunged counin China. If your high school blocked tries like Syria and Libya into civil war. access to certain websites on school com- These countries couldn’t leverage open puters, then you have a sense of how the communication platforms for open pubinternet works in China. China has a lic debate. Similarly, I’m not sure China firewall blocking the uncensored web — could take advantage of a more open granted, China’s techniques are slightly economy. China certainly doesn’t think it more sophisticated and on a significantly can.

I’m not saying China should stay larger scale than your high school’s firewall. Call me a dork, but I find China’s offline — although truth be told, it doesfirewall fascinating. We talk about how n’t matter what China does. If your high we’re so connected, but nearly one-sixth school blocked websites, you know a fireof the world’s population isn’t — and wall didn’t stop some kids from getting won’t be for the foreseeable future. We on blocked sites. Getting around China’s embrace an open web, but China is terri- firewall is easy. I also love the internet fied of it. It begs the question, why. The and don’t think China should stay answer comes down to China’s wallet. offline. I’m optimistic that China could The cost to their economy would be embrace an open economy. However, there are reasons to not love the web and huge.

Conventional wisdom says an open it’s important to talk about them. That’s economy — promised by an open web my schtick and I’m sticking to it. Stay — would help China. But China thinks tuned alternating Mondays this semester! an open web would only undermine its economy. China’s economy grows at near Schulman is a junior in the College of Arts and double digit rates because of its centrally Eric Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellcontrolled markets. China’s growth is sun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate based on cheap exports, but it couldn’t Mondays this semester.

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Why Should I Give Back?

“If you get, give. If you learn, teach.”

— Maya Angelou

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et, every time we are asked to give, we feel unsettled. At Cornell, student leaders are constantly battling, working with and against the administration with respect to the rising costs of tuition. An Ivy League education is expensive, despite the number of generous endowed scholarships, grants, need-based, needblind or merit-based financial aid. The cost of private higher education is going up faster than inflation. In this environment, maintaining a sense of “any person, any study” at Cornell is, to say the least, a challenge. The classroom experience in private higher education in the United States is constantly moving towards the cutting edge of sophistication and best-in-class research and faculty resources. The challenge administrators at Cornell have is how to maintain the admirable value of a Cornell education and still make it available for students who are ambitious enough to take on the Cornell challenge?

A pertinent question to ask is, how are our peer institutions doing it? Well, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown and Columbia all have a higher University endowment per student ratio than Cornell. Despite our endowment being lower than other Ivy League institutions, students paying full tuition at Cornell are only paying approximately 60 percent of the actual cost of their education, with gifts from alumni, parents and friends, young and old, playing a critical role in subsidizing the difference. On top of that, about half of Cornell students receive some form of financial aid, thanks in part to gifts ranging from five dollars to many millions.

Last year, 32 percent of Cornell seniors gave back to Cornell compared to 90 percent of seniors at Penn. Are we less grateful for the incredible and often life-changing opportunities we have received at Cornell compared to Penn students? Increasing tuition costs are a problem everywhere, but they also mean increasing financial aid costs. At Cornell, the actual cost of attendance for most income levels has actually decreased over the last decade thanks to expanding financial aid programs, which rely on alumni support.

A small contribution from each senior is an indication that we

We do have a cost issue in private higher education today, and yes, there is always room for improvement at our own alma mater.

One way we can be part of the solution is to pay it forward for future generations like alumni have done for us. care about Cornell. We care about what happens to Cornell after we graduate. We care about the issues we raised while we were on campus and we will continue to care after graduation. I guess the dialogue I am initiating in this column goes beyond giving back to Cornell financially and speaks to a larger question — what kind of alumnus or alumna do you want to be? One who cares about what happens to the place where it all started? Or one who remembers Cornell as some distant memory buried in the past?

Many people bring up that we are students, so we cannot afford to give back just yet. But gifts to Cornell under $500 add up to millions of dollars each year. If every senior gave a gift — let’s say $20.16 — we can have a major impact on the programs, departments and organizations we support. Seniors can choose where to direct their gifts in order to support what means the most to them, whether it’s their college, a department, student life and organizations, Cornell Outdoor Education, the library, athletics, financial aid or the Cornell Annual Fund, which provides support where the need is greatest. Gifts can even be made in honor of an individual, like a favorite faculty or staff member.

We do have a cost issue in private higher education today, and yes, there is always room for improvement at our own alma mater.

One way we can be part of the solution is to pay it forward for future generations like alumni have done for us. Without generations of alumni support, we would not have the opportunities we have at Cornell. Going back to Maya Angelou’s quote, with which I started this op-ed, I do honestly believe that I have received a lot from Cornell, and I will give back in my own way. I do believe in the enormous strength of the ripple effect. If anything I said resonates with you, do give back to your class campaign before you graduate in a way that is meaningful to you. If not, I hope future generations will have a more fulfilling experience than you did at Cornell and our contributions will help shape that experience. As Khalil Gibran once said, “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” A truly engaged person understands that identifying the problem is easy, but the challenge lies in honestly caring about it.

Aditi Bhowmick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester. She may be reached at ab738@cornell.edu.

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Arbitrating Sex and Athletics

eenage track star Dutee Chand has found herself at the heart of a controversy confounding athletes around the globe. On the surface, the debate contends to address unfair advantages in athletics; on deeper inspection, the arguments expose biases underlying gender categories in international competitions.

Dutee Chand trains hard and runs fast. In September, she clinched the gold medal for the 100 meter sprint at the National Open Athletics Championships in Kolkata. With medals in her relay race and the 200 meter dash as well, her reentry into competitive track and field has been triumphant. However, her comeback arises during a lull in the turbulent gender scrutiny she underwent last year that initially barred her from competing. Upon revelation of Chand’s hyperandrogenism — a naturally occurring condition that induces higher production of androgens in female-sexed bodies — she was deemed unfit (or purportedly, “too fit”) to compete with other women.

Sports arbitrators, including FIFA, the International Olympics Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), have instituted rigid policies regarding the eligibility requirements for female athletes.

These regulations customarily exclude hyperandrogenic women from competing with women whose testosterone levels fall under the threshold of a standardized norm, in a dubious effort to eliminate biological “advantages.”

Under the codes of IAAF, disqualified intersex athletes can reenter competition if they undergo body-altering medical interventions (surgery to reduce testosterone production or a regime of hormone-suppressing drugs).

Today’s biomedical policing of intersex athletes burgeons from a dark genealogy of gender verification exams that pathologized nonbinary bodies. For most of the 20th century, all female athletes in international contests underwent testing to prove the “appropriate” hormones and chromosomes that would allow them to compete.

Unlike their peers, male athletes have not been subject to such panoptic inspection. Contrary to the unfair advantage that high levels of testosterone supposedly imparts on women, too much “femininity” in male athletes is perceived to be a handicap and thus irrelevant to arbitration of advantages. This assumption fails to critique the possibility that the conflation of women and weakness is a self-fulfilling prophecy imbedded in cultural expectations of passivity and lack of funds and opportunities for female athletes — rather than a biologically determined fact. Katrina Karkazis of Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics argues, “there is no [scientific] evidence that successful athletes have higher testosterone levels than less successful ones.”

IAAF’s testosterone policy hinges on this inkling of an impervious boundary between the male and female sex, which, as scientists,

feminists and anthropologists have pointed out, is a socially fabricated bifurcation. The imposition of two diametric boxes for sex identity obscures the range of variation in human anatomy; we can be male or female, and nothing in between, outside, oscillating or otherwise.

Karkazis asserts that “scientifically, there is no clear or objective way to draw a bright line between male and female,” because testosterone levels vary widely, depending on a range of non-generalizable factors.

Culture and science do not exist in parallel vacuums, but rather mutually influence one another, particularly in demarcating “natural” and “normal.” The “objective” processes of scientific research are laden with cultural biases that have led to the pathologization of bodies that “deviate”

Women who do not conform to racialized gender stereotypes often fall under suspicion. The hyper-monitoring of racialized women in arbitrations of gender testing in sports typifies this vestige of colonial racism; most women whose gender has been called into question by athletic adjudicators have been women of color and/or women from the Global South.

These women face increased body policing, medicalization, and exclusion from opportunities when failing to comply. Courts disproportionately negate the agency of female athletes of color to selfidentify, thereby propagating racism within athletic arenas and gender constructions.

Nonetheless, last summer Dutee Chand won a lawsuit that temporarily overturns IAAF’s

Testosterone testing helps no one — least of all the intersex athletes whose dreams are sidelined, careers are cut short and identities are refuted through the imposition of capricious borderlines. from normative standards. Today, intersex babies often undergo “corrective” surgery moments after birth (frequently without their parents’ knowledge or consent) to placate a social discomfort with nonbinary persons. These “corrective” interventions are cosmetic measures that aim to situate people more neatly into categories and often result in psychological damage for the individual. Cultural queasiness with intersexuality and the “corrective” surgeries work in a positive feedback loop, exacerbating medical surveillance and intolerance of intersex individuals.

Scores of athletes have been stripped of medals and disqualified because of variances that inevitably exist in the infinitely diverging array of female anatomy. Yet, IAAF avows that a fundamental limit of testosterone divulges the distillable essence of “woman” — a measure that confines the admissibility for participation in female athletics. In codifying the corporeal limitations of “woman,” IAAF policies reaffirm perilously narrow-minded conceptions of sex and gender.

The scrutiny and marginalization of intersex athletes becomes standardized through the ensnaring, co-constitutive effects of sexist stereotypes and gender binaries.

Furthermore, this highly regulated and essentialized femininity is rooted in centuries of white supremacy. Dissected and molded by the white male gaze, the archetypal female is a racialized concept, stemming from the desire for a docile, submissive, diminutive and reproductive homemaker to serve the active, willful, colonial male.

The standardized boundaries of “woman” (physically, psychologically and socially) develop from a racist patriarchal organization of control that leaves little room for deviance from the idealized, compliant, white female.

testosterone policy. The Court of Arbitration for Sport decided that Chand has the right to compete with her natural body, based on the absence of scientific proof demonstrating that testosterone enhances athletic abilities. Within track and field competitions, the hyperandrogenism exclusion has been lifted for two years, during which the IAAF must evidence their claim or give it up.

Common estimates indicate that one in 2000 people are intersex, meaning that the delineations of binary boxes fall short for millions across the globe. To institutionalize an incompetent binary system within international athletics is to disregard, reject, erase, disparage and deny the existence and the exigencies of millions of athletes — past, present and future.

The inadequacy and destructiveness of these categorizing schemes becomes evident in the exclusion of passionate athletes like Dutee Chand who deserve the opportunity to compete without forcibly transforming their bodies.

We are all affected by the reinforcement of gender binaries that stem from racist and misogynist ideologies and serve to squash us into restraining categories of preconfigured identities. Testosterone testing helps no one — least of all the intersex athletes whose dreams are sidelined, careers are cut short and identities are refuted through the imposition of capricious borderlines. Dutee Chand’s victory is a leap towards undoing the damaging confines of gender testing in sports, but much work remains to bring justice to the multiplicity of sex and gender identities. We all have a stake — let’s start pushing.

Kate Poor is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at ksp57@cornell.edu. Triple Jump appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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take your foot off the pedal,” Hilbrich said. “Staying mentally tough is key to not giving them the momentum back.”

Coming out of the second period, Cornell extended its lead back to three goals on what looked at that moment to be a key play. Off a screamer from freshman Anthony Angello, classmate Mitch Vanderlaan gathered the long rebound and backhanded the puck top shelf.

Then it all started to break down for the Red, who could not put up another goal for the rest of the match.

“I think we took our foot off of the gas a little bit,” Weidner said. “We got up 3-0 and then 4-1 again. Guys relaxed naturally throughout the game and that’s where we’ve got to step up. Older guys have to take the reins. We’ve been here before and send every line over the boards ready to step on their throats while they are down.”

However, Cornell did not step on Quinnipiac’s throat and let the Bobcats come back to life late the second period.

Just over a minute after Vanderlaan’s goal, the Bobcats netted two goals within a minute of each other. The first goal from Quinnipiac’s Travis St. Denis was counted after review.

Right after, the Bobcat’s Andrew Tavener, who was a nuisance for the Red, ending the game with two goals and two assists, scored his first goal of the evening.

“You have to have the effort to put it away,” Schafer said. “They had the effort to come back and we didn’t to do the things necessary — discipline, not blocking shots on their power play, little things. It was disappointing. We were up 4-1 halfway through the [second] and we end up losing the game.”

Cornell committed what proved to be another costly penalty with a charging on sophomore Trevor Yates. 30 seconds into the power play, Taverner struck again with a game tying goal to make the Lynah Faithful a little uneasy at 4-4.

“This game was an official dominated game,” Schafer said. “[A lot] of power plays and [a lot] of penalty kills. … A lot of guys didn’t play tonight [with] all the special teams that went on in the course of the game. There was … no flow to game tonight.”

At 14:49, Cornell went on the power play in a key spot to try and take the lead before the end of regulation. However, the Quinnipiac defense proved to be stout, giving up their bodies to prevent the Red from scoring.

Junior Eric Freschi was called for boarding at 19:24, sending the Red onto the penalty kill and virtually squashing Cornell’s chances of winning in regulation.

“The more physical we are, the better hockey team we are,” Schafer said. “But as [I] said, you got to be physical, but you have go to be smart.

In the last penalty of the game we took, it was physical but it was dumb.”

Quinnipiac secured the win in overtime off a deflection goal from junior defenseman Connor Clifton.

“We didn’t make smart plays,” Weidner said. “That came back to bite us there at the end and it cost us.”

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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“When you’re up 3-0, not getting ahead of yourself — because it’s easy to take your foot off the pedal and staying mentally tough — is key to not giving them the momentum back,” Hilbrich said.

This lack of discipline prompted Schafer to mess around with his last three lines frequently in the third period.

Schafer moved up senior wing Teemu Tiitinen to the second line in the place of junior wing Matt Buckles, while sophomore wing Jared Fiegl saw a significant increase in playing time after strong showings on the penalty kill units.

However, the major increase in penalties in the last two periods seemingly fell right into the hands of Pecknold’s plan of

attack coming into Saturday’s game. The taunting from the Bobcats, notably from Alex Miner-Barron, of the Lynah Faithful after the game certainly indicated that, despite the early three-goal deficit, everything unfolded for the Bobcats exactly how they had planned. “[The taunting] doesn’t surprise me,” Schafer said.

And now for the Red, turning that corner and finding a way for the team not to lose its grips — not take its foot off the pedal — when up by three goals will prove critical to the team’s potential success moving forward this season.

“We’ve got to show more discipline,” Hilbrich said. “We’ve got to run them out of the building.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

standing at last place in the league. They’ve sold out every game since 2013 and had the highest average ticket price in the league by 50 percent.

MLB Baseball

For America’s pastime, the St. Louis Cardinals fans hold the top spot, according to the Bleacher Report. Showing that classic Midwestern love as the team with the most local fans, the Cardinals beat out the Boston Red Sox fan base, who came in a close second. The Sox had the greatest comeback in baseball history in 2004 and swept the Cardinals and hasn’t had a game that wasn’t sold-out since 2003.

NBA Basketball

In basketball (if you couldn’t tell by the same three jerseys that everyone wears), the top three fan bases, according to Bleacher Report, are those of the Boston Celtics (No. 3), the

New York Knicks (No. 2) and the Chicago Bulls (No. 1).

However, I learned quickly that I shouldn’t get excited when I see someone wearing a Bulls hat or jersey, because nine time out of 10, they are not from Chicago.

The Celtics have legends like Larry Bird and Bill Russel, and they have 17 NBA championships, the most of any franchise. The Knicks have the arena of all arenas, Madison Square Garden. The Bulls have Michael Jordan, whose legacy still carries momentum for basketball fans in and outside of Chicago.

So if you’re from any of these cities and care about sports at all — congrats, you are part of some of the best fan bases in the country. If not, I’m sorry, because your sports experience could be so much more fun.

Sophia Scazzero is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at sscazzero@cornellsun.com. Instant Replay appears every Monday this semester.

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Red Falls to Quinnipiac in 5-4 Loss The Fans Make

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

It was simply a “disappointing loss,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86, as the Cornell men’s hockey team (3-1, 1-1 ECAC) gave away a 4-1 game after taking an early lead on the Quinnipiac Bobcats (8-0, 2-0 ECAC). The Red dropped its first game of the season, 5-4, in overtime. The team fell short in this one, and they know it.

“We gave ourselves an opportunity to make a statement, a statement game against a great team. It looked good, but we let it slip away,” said senior Christian Hilbrich.

On Saturday evening, momentum swung in the Red’s favor 3:45 into the game. Quinnipiac’s Thomas Aldworth committed a hit from behind, warranti-

ng a five minute major penalty for the Bobcats and an ejection for Aldworth.

Just over 30 seconds into the power play and four minutes into the match, Cornell took a lead over the Bobcats on a goal from senior defenseman Reece Willcox. Willcox was able to get his stick on the puck from a shot by his counterpart on defense, sophomore Ryan Bliss.

“It was good to see the power play clicking there at the start,” said junior wing Jake Weidner.

Bliss fired a shot at the Quinnipiac goaltender Michael Garteig, who successfully fought off Bliss’ attack. But the Red would not let the play die, with an immediate follow-up shot from freshman Matt Buckles. Buckles flicked the puck towards the open left side of the goal where Garteig nearly got his pad on the shot. Fortunately for the Red,

Head games | Senior Christian Hilbrich, above, attributed the Red’s loss against the Bobcats to a lack of mental toughness.

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Willcox was there to clean it up and secure a 1-0 lead for the Red. Cornell struck again a minute later with a goal from junior Jake Weidner.

Hilbrich slid the puck across the crease to set up Weidner for a one-timer to which the junior deftly put past Garteig.

The Red capitalized on Quinnipiac’s lack of discipline, tallying two goals during the five minutes of the power play and coming out with an early lead.

In the same period, the Red extended its lead over the bobcats on a nice set up by the defense pair of Bliss and Willcox.

Bliss, from the top of the left side of the zone, sent the puck across the width of the ice to his fellow defenseman Wilcox.

Wilcox then detected Buckles in the middle of the ice.

The puck went from Bliss to Wilcox to Buckles quickly. Before Quinnipiac could react, Buckles’ shot hit the back left of the net, giving Cornell a somewhat surprising 3-0 lead only halfway through the first period.

“The special teams kind of dominated the first [period],” Weidner said. This would show to be true for both sides.

Just as the Red thought it would enter the first intermission with a decisive lead, the Bobcats put themselves on the board.

Freshman Anthony Angello was sent to the box for cross-checking. With 30 seconds left in the power play, Tim Clifton of Quinnipiac put the puck past Junior goaltender Mitch Gillam, putting the score 3-1 in favor of the Red heading into the second period and changing the momentum of the game.

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Cornell Penalties Give Bobcats the Edge

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Lynah crowd roared as freshman center Mitch Vanderlaan took the rebound of a shot from freshman wing Anthony Angello and scooped up the puck, promptly backhanding it into the top shelf past Quinnipiac goalie Michael Garteig. The score was 4-1 halfway through the second period and it looked as if the Red was going to put together a statement victory against the No. 5 team in Division I hockey. Even after low preseason expectations, Cornell men’s hockey was a force to be reckoned with.

Then, exactly 90 seconds later, Quinnipiac center Travis St. Denis put a puck past Cornell goalie Mitch Gillam and 40 seconds after that, Bobcats wing Andrew Taverner made a nice move to register the first of his two goals against the Red Saturday night. The third unanswered goal from Taverner and the Bobcats (8-0, 2-0 ECAC) came five minutes later on the powerplay. In a tick under six minutes, a potential statement victory for the Red was suddenly a tie game against one of most offensively dynamic college hockey teams in the country.

“We took our foot off the gas a little bit [after the fourth goal],” said junior center Jake Weidner.

The penalties began to pile on in the second period, and given that special teams marked the strength of the Bobcats squad visiting Ithaca on Saturday, the prospects of a victory grew slimmer and slimmer as more and more Cornell (3-1, 11 ECAC) players began to take trips to the penalty box. The officials, in the words of head coach Mike Schafer ’86, “dominated” Saturday’s 5-4 overtime loss against the Bobcats.

“A lot of guys didn’t play tonight with all of the special teams that went on in the course of the game,” Schafer said. “There was kind of no flow to the game tonight. It seemed every time you turned around there was a power play or 4-on-4, so certain guys playing special teams and some guys sat for long periods of time.”

Throughout the game, both teams remained chippy. Several skirmishes started after the whistle and late hits from both sides flew all around the rink. The Bobcats penalties that led to the

Red’s three goals in the first period turned into Cornell penalties, seemingly almost at will through the badgering off the referees by Bobcats head coach Rand Pecknold.

This shift from power play to penalty kill for the Red fell into the hands of what appeared to be Pecknold’s strategy. After Saturday’s game, Quinnipiac has converted 37.5 percent of its power play opportunities, good for second in all of NCAA hockey. On the flip side, the Bobcats rank eighth in NCAA hockey on the penalty kill, killing off 90.6 percent of opponents opportunities.

Senior Christian Hilbrich said the team let the high emotions of the game get away from them. The key, Hilbrich said, to the Red not letting this happen is mental toughness and work ethic.

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thletes are great with their athletic ability and all that, but it’s really the fans and the atmosphere surrounding them that makes sports what they are. Sports fans can be clever, awesome and make the whole experience of the game that much more fun. Some of the best parts of going to any sports event (except golf and tennis, I guess) are the cheering, chanting, jeering, heckling, tailgating and painting of bodies and spirit apparel.

There’s nothing like being around thousands of excited people, all hoping for the same thing — a win. One thing is for sure, the American population loves its sports, so here are some of the teams and arenas that have the best atmospheres in North America.

College Football

College football is renowned for its amazing fan atmosphere. The stadiums are crazy-

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay large — some bigger than many NFL teams’ stadiums — and the fans are all students or alumni with die-hard school spirit. In a ranking of the Top-10 college stadiums with the best atmosphere by The College Football Fan Index, LSU claims the top spot. Fans allegedly tailgate for at least five hours before every game, and opposing team coaches lament the incredible noise created by the crowd, which fills the stadium’s capacity of 102,321.

University of Michigan’s Stadium is the largest in America and the second largest stadium in the entire world, with a capacity of 107, 601.

Now that’s taking football seriously.

NFL Football

The NFL team with the most dedicated fan base, according to Business Insider, is the Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys fans dub the Dallas Cowboys “America’s Team,” which their number one spot in crowd attendance and ticket prices seems to prove. Honestly, though, I think that’s just the advantage of being a team in Texas. Tony Romo hasn’t been having a great past couple of years and the Cowboys are currently 2-5, so those fans are showing some real optimism.

The New England Patriots, the team everyone else loves to hate, rank second. They obviously have the advantage of having a fanbase that stretches across a whole region of the country, on top of the fact that their team just recently won the Super Bowl. Tom Brady also remains one of the most famous quarterbacks in the league, with four Super Bowl Rings and three Super Bowl MVP titles.

NHL Hockey

In Hockey, ranked by Forbes, the Pittsburgh Penguins fans hold the top spot with a five-year sell-out streak. The Montreal Canadiens fans came in second, known for having the loudest arena in the league, the Bell Centre, which has been sold out since 2004.

Much like the Dallas Cowboys, proving that you don’t have to be a winning team to have a dedicated fan base, the Toronto Maple Leafs hold the number three spot despite currently BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Splipping away | After holding a 3-0 lead, the Red dropped its game against the Bobcats in a disappointing loss.

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