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TRUMP WINS

Cornellians Aghast at Stunning Upset

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DAMON WINTER / THE NEW YORK TIMES

As midnight approached and a series of swing states turned red, disproving countless polls and shocking the nation, Cornellians expressed horror that Donald Trump could actually become president.

“How the fuck is he winning? What the fuck?” said a student early on in the night, at an electionwatching gathering in Flora Rose House, as Trump took the state of Ohio.

Other students — such as Maria Chak ’18, who said Trump has inspired her to run for president “because if Trump can win, anyone can” — turned to morbid humor to interpret the results.

“We should’ve died in 2012 while we still had the chance,” added Mitch Laski ’17, echoing several students who said they fear a Trump presidency will be the end of equal rights for minorities and free speech in the United States.

Shayra Kamal ’17 said she is genuinely concerned about her future in the United States.

“I’m looking into flights

back to Bangladesh right now, so I can deport myself before Trump repatriates me,” she said. “Liberty and freedom are dead.”

Other students said they were ashamed of voters in the United States and shocked that they would validate the policies Trump has promoted, many of which negatively target minority groups.

Roman Pidyk ’19 voiced concern about the future of a country that would, even narrowly, choose a candidate who has run on a platform of racism and misogyny.

“I’m concerned for the state of the country overall,” he said. “I don’t think there will ever be such a shitshow like this in our lifetime.”

Many students also said they felt genuine emotional distress “knowing that something like this [Trump’s presidency] could happen,” said Dejah Powell ’18.

Matan Presberg ’18 agreed, adding that “tears were shed on my walk home” after he watched the news.

“I've always believed in forward progress and that even if change happens too slowly, it happens in the right direction,” he said. “But this is a huge step back.”

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Reed Retains Congressional Seat; Will Work to Repeal Obamacare

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) has retained his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after defeating Navy Captain John Plumb, a Democrat from Randolph, New York.

Reed prevailed, despite overwhelming dissent from Tompkins County voters, who cast 70.8 percent of their ballots in favor of Plumb. The following term will be Reed’s fourth in the House.

In a departure from their occasionally vitriolic campaign rhetoric, both candidates accepted their respective outcomes with grace.

“As I spoke to [Plumb] tonight, I offered my sincere congratulations on running a

great campaign, and his service to our country is something I so appreciate and thank him for,” Reed said. “He was a good candidate, but at the end of the day it’s up to the people, and that’s the wisdom I will always respect.”

Plumb said that he was proud of the race he ran, but respects the will of the voters.

“I’m proud to say that we ran the race I wanted to run,” Plumb wrote on his Facebook page shortly after the contest’s results were announced. “We ran our race with integrity and honor, and with a focus on the communities we seek to serve. Those are the values I ran our campaign with, the values that run deep in the Southern Tier, Western New York and the Finger Lakes.”

“Unfortunately, the votes have been

counted and today did not go in our favor,” he added.

Anticipating a Donald Trump presidential victory, Reed said that a key focus of the forthcoming congressional term will be to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “What we need to replace it with is new healthcare in America that drives the costs down and we empower individuals and our doctors — not insurance carriers or government bureaucrats,” Reed See REED page 4

Reed reams | The Republican incumbent defeated his challenger, even while his candidacy was rejected in liberal Tompkins County.

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS

Campus-Wide Breaking Bread: Post-Election America 6 - 8 p.m., Biotech Atrium

Tomorrow Environmental Rule in Vietnam: Governmentality, Networks and Nature in the 20th Century Noon - 1:30 p.m., Conference Room 102, Mann Library Current Events Roundtable on U.S. Foreign Policy: Now What?

12:15 - 1:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall Black Women Writers Book to Screen Presents Haitian Filmmaker Easmanie Michel 3 p.m., Hoyt Fuller Room, Africana Studies and Research Center Starbursts, Outflows, And the Emergence of Disk Galaxies 4 - 5 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building Careers in Labor Student Panel 5:30 p.m., 105 Ives Hall PHOTO COURTSEY OF MANN LIBRARY

A3C and AASP lunch series | Associate Prof. Allen Carlson, government, and director of China Asian Pacific Studies Program (inset above) is featured in this week’s Asian American Studies Program lunch, in 429 Rockefeller Hall today.

Today The Critical Role of Methane in Global Warming 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m., Bailey Hall

In the Name of Memory: Film Writing 1:25 - 2:30 p.m., Film Forum, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

After Orlando Staged Reading 7:30 p.m., Film Forum, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Innocent Souls: Vietnam 1968 3 - 5 p.m., Art Gallery, Willard Straight Hall

Human: Part Three 8 - 9:30 p.m., 141 William T. Keeton House

Emotion, Aging and Health 4 p.m., Stern Seminar Room 160, Mann Library

Oreos and Milk Study Break 9:30 - 10 p.m., Lobby, William T. Keeton House

A3C and AASP Wednesday Lunch Series With Allen Carlson Noon - 1:15 p.m., 429 Rockefeller Hall

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S.A. Fund Aims to Improve Infrastructure

Hopes to expand past ‘small, insignificant’ proposed projects

By HANY ZERBIB

SAIFC. Despite the SAIFC’s history as a reservoir for extra funding, its endowment each year is limited, Kasher said.

After many years of contributing to “small, insignifi“It is always difficult to get things done on this campus, cant” projects, the Student Assembly Infrastructure Fund because money is always tight,” she said.

Committee is planning to become involed in larger infraThe committee receives an annual payout from its structure changes that will have significant impact on cam- endowment fund — which is invested and grows every pus, according to committee chair Miranda Kasher ’19. year — and expects around $80,000 this year, according to Created three years ago, the SAIFC helps fund infra- Kasher. She added that the committee tries to keep at least structure changes on campus by financing student-initiat- $20,000 in the fund every year. ed building proposals, according to Kasher. In the past, the The SAIFC plans to contribute to larger projects this committee has provided predominantly monetary contri- year, resulting in fewer project contributions overall, butions, which she said some felt demotivated members. according to Kasher. She cited the Schwartz Center Plaza “By only funding the proproject — which the commitposed ideas, we lost passion for “It is always difficult to get things done tee helped start by donating what we were doing and fund$20,000 to the $500,000 budon this campus because money is ed a lot of really small, insignifget provided by Cornell — as icant projects,” she said. “This an example of the type of inialways tight.” year the committee hopes to tiative the SAIFC will favor act as a think tank, using the Miranda Kasher ’19 because it will “really make a proposals presented as public difference around campus.” suggestions in order to brain“We are looking for quality storm large projects that will improve the Cornell cam- over quantity,” she said. “We want to create something that pus.” will serve purpose and the student body will remember.”

Projects the SAIFC has contributed to include renovaThe SAIFC will hold its annual proposal meeting — tions to the exterior of the Schwartz Center Plaza and the during which students will be able to present ideas — next addition of electrical outlets to the Green Dragon Cafe, Tuesday, according to Kasher. She added that the commitaccording to Kasher. tee is an ideal place for students to claim a voice in the The committee was created as an outlet for money University’s infrastructure decisions. placed in the University’s student endowment fund, which “Administration has always been supportive of the originally aimed to compensate students for the $241 infrastructure fund,” she said. “They always want student activity fee in every tuition payment, according to Kasher. input on new infrastructure projects, and this gives them Kasher explained that by investing a small amount of exactly that.” money from the activity fee, the returns could eventually cover the fee. However, this tactic proved unsuccessful, and Hany Zerbib can be reached what remained was a large sum of money that became the at hez6@cornell.edu.

Sun Staff Writer

Records Show Stabber Has Criminal History Although police have declined to comment on the criminal record of Nagee Green — the man charged Monday with the murder of Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire — records show that in the past three years Green has been arrested twice, on counts of drug and weapon possession.

Cornell’s Prof. Lance Salisbury, law — and Green’s defense attorney — told the court Monday that Green has no previous convictions, according to The Ithaca Voice. However, records show that Green, 23, was detained twice in recent years for possessing drugs and stolen firearms.

In December of 2013, Cornell Police found a 16 gauge shotgun and a .22 caliber rifle — both stolen from the City of Ithaca — in a vehicle with Green and two other Ithaca residents, according to a University release. Green was charged with fourth degree criminal possession of stolen property, a class E felony.

Green and John A. Benton, another Ithaca resident, were also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and criminal possession of a controlled substance in April of this year, after police found marijuana and crack cocaine in their vehicle at a traffic stop, according to a press release from the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office.

Salisbury did not respond to requests for comment.

Green was detained Monday afternoon and charged with murder and assault in the second degree. He has pled not guilty to both charges.

Green will appear before a grand jury in Ithaca at 1:15 p.m. Thursday and no evidence will be presented until that time.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

Students Create DokuWebsite to Facilitate Sale of Used Books

By CHANCE MASLOFF Sun Staff Writer

After experiencing difficulties buying and selling textbooks at Cornell, Julian Koh ’20 and Jörg Doku ’17 developed a website called Doku Market, which they say allows students to buy and sell items at the click of a button.

Koh and Doku — who met in “Entrepreneur and Private Equity,” an entrepreneurship class that they are both taking this semester — said they found current options for exchanging textbooks between students unsatisfactory. “[Doku] mentioned how sometimes it would take him weeks to schedule a mutual time to meet up with a seller/buyer,” Koh said, referring to his experiences using Facebook to find interested buyers.

Doku Market aims to streamline the buying and selling process by making the physical exchange of textbooks simpler, according to Koh. “[Selling] is a simple two-step process where you upload an image and write a description of the item. If a buyer is interest-

COURTESY OF JULIAN KOH ’20

Publications for the people | Julian Koh ’20 and Jörg Doku ’17 developed Doku Market to help students buy and sell textbooks.

ed in the item, he will click ‘Buy’ and pay us through Venmo,” Koh said. “We will then pick-up the item from the seller and deliver it to the buyer.”

There is currently no delivery fee associated with the program, in order to encourage students to use the service, according to Koh. The founders said the website has been successful so far, receiving “thousands of views to the page” with “transactions every week.” Koh added that, since its inception during fall break, Doku Market has facilitated over 75 transactions.

Along with selling textbooks, the website also sells clothes, shoes, electronics and other miscellaneous items, according to Koh. While the website currently operates solely at Cornell, Koh and Doku said they hope to grow the market to “surrounding schools and eventually to big cities” in the future. However, for the time being, they said they are focusing on expanding their services on campus.

Chance Masloff can be reached at ccm227@cornell.edu.

Senior Council Calls for Ethical Company Leadership

By JAI MALHOTRA Sun Staff Writer

Brackett Denniston, senior council for Goodwin Procter LLP, stressed that “ethics and right behavior are at the core of leadership” in global companies, saying company leaders must set an example for their workers at a lecture Tuesday.

Denniston said ethics have a quantitative effect on companies, emphasizing that a company’s value is highly correlated with its ethical reputation.

He explained that companies under investigation for both bribery and financial fraud tend

to experience significant decreas- tion does not lie solely in the company. During his time at hands of the government. He General Electric, Denniston said es in market value.

According to Denniston, cor- proposed that companies them- company leaders were held porate commitment to law and selves must create corporate cul- responsible for any alleged fraudorder has greatly contributed to tures that promote regulation ulent conduct.

“You’re responsible if you parthe success of the U.S. economy, compliance and honesty. ticipated in the [unethical] noting the number of corporate bribery “We as a society must take our stand to conduct,” he said. “But you’re also responsible if you cases prosecuted by demand that our leaders of companies didn’t create a culture of various countries compliance in the affected from 1999 to today. ... meet the high test of character.” area. So if you were the The United States, leader and this happened, with 128 cases, was Brackett Denniston you were disciplined.” the world leader Denniston claimed that studied in a report Denniston said company lead- prevention, detection and by the Searle Civil Justice ers must be held accountable for response are key to corporate due Institute, by a wide margin.

However, Denniston said the unethical conduct, in order to set diligence in any fraud allegation. responsibility for fighting corrup- an example for the rest of the “It’s not … just good enough

to talk,” he said. “You also have to enforce. You also have to have systems, you have to perform, you have to execute.”

Denniston concluded by saying that company culture is established from the top down, with the ramifications of companies’ ethical conduct influencing society as a whole.

“We as a society must take our stand to demand that our leaders of companies in this nation meet the high test of character — of honesty, civility, courage, candor and behavior,” Denniston said.

Jai Malhotra can be reached at jbm298@cornell.edu.

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STUDENTS: ‘LIBERTY AND FREEDOM ARE DEAD’

Anticipate deportations, persecution

Trump triumphs | Students react in

shock as Donald her former opponent Bernie Sanders Trump wins a Continued from page 1 and scores of political and cultural string of swing celebrities, in addition to the best An ‘Uprising’ Among Middle-Class ground game money could buy.” states Tuesday White America Voters’ choices could be considered a night.

Olivia Corn ’19, the chair of Cornell protest against elite decision-making in CAMERON POLLACK / Republicans, said she believes the elec- electoral politics, according to Sanders.

SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR tion results reveal that “people don’t “One could see this election as a want the corrupt politician” to rule our massive democratic uprising against the country. elite project of globalization, open bor“I always expected he would do bet- ders and the commodification of goods ter than the polls suggested because and people — the vision Clinton commany don’t want to admit they support municated in her handsomely compenTrump,” she said. “I also think that the sated speeches to large banks in the could have ever imagined, and kind of country is incredibly dissatisfied with U.S. and Canada,” she said. horrifying to think that this larger per[Clinton] and it shows.”

Carolyn Spencer ’19, who said she centage of the country can vote for Austin McLaughlin ’18, executive voted for Clinton, was someone who’s made such blatantly taken aback by the outpour- racist statements,” Riopelle said. “I “This election has been really ing of support for Trump, think that regardless of the results, this especially because she said election has been really illuminating in illuminating in how backwards a “around campus there’s how backwards a lot of our country is.”

Kate Ryan ’20 said she was surprised been a lot of support” for lot of our country is.” that the Latino population in Florida Clinton.

“I thought that there failed to deliver a Clinton win.

Kelly Riopelle ’20 “I’m definitely disappointed that the would be more people voting for Hillary,” she said. Latino surge didn’t happen in Florida,” director of Cornell Republicans, called “Especially right now with all of the said Ryan, who added that she is the surge of support for Trump, “a allegations [of sexual assault] that have shocked by how inaccurate polling has rejection of Washington, Wall Street, been coming out about Donald Trump, been throughout the entire election.

“I feel as if many of my peers are in and the media.”

As the night wound down, in I thought that would really impact his — at a time that is so critical to shock “Trump’s unexpected performance chances.”

Facebook posts and other social media, makes it clear that the polls failed to “Coming out of a prelim and hear- Cornellians began to share their condo- our identity development, this invalidates who we are,” said Dustin account for large swaths of the populace ing Trump is leading the polls is the ’19. “Many feel this as a percoming out for Donald Trump, particu- worst feeling,” Priyanka Konan ’20 “Coming out of a prelim and hearing Liu sonal attack, and I can only larly rural older whites,” he said. “It said of the night. think of how we can support may be revealing that Hillary Clinton Trump is leading the polls is the one another in the days moving did not have the level of the support of Trump Supporters Came worst feeling.” forward.”

Hispanics and blacks that she thought ‘Out of the Woodwork’ she did coming into Election Day.” Other students called the results Priyanka Konan ’20 Rachel Whalen ’19, Anna Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, govern- “eye opening,” saying they revealed Delwiche ’19, So Hyung Kim ’19, ment, called the results of the election an entire demographic of American “stunning.” voters who “came out of the wood- lences for female and minority friends, Josephine Chu ’18 and Stephanie Yan ’18 “How could this happen?” she asked. work.” Kelly Riopelle ’20 said the close- saying that Trump’s election to the pres- contributed reporting to this article.

“Clinton outspent him two to one, had ness of the election was evidence of the idency gives implicit permission for a united party and abundant help from bigotry prevalent in the United States. others to adopt “horrible” stances he The News Department can be reached at the president, first lady, vice president, news-editor@cornellsun.com.

“It’s definitely a lot closer than I has endorsed.

TRUMP

Reed Wins 23rd District Without Support of Liberal Tompkins County REED

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said. “Philosophically, coming out of Tompkins County, many people disagree with us, but at the end of the day, we represent everyone. And our door is open to everyone.”

Reed said that while he is happy with today’s victory, he is looking forward.

“The job is not done. Now it’s time to continue tomorrow,” Reed said.

Tompkins County voters suffered another loss in New York State Senate elections.

Democratic challenger Leslie Danks Burke failed to defeat incumbent Tom O’Mara (R58). The defeat will be felt across New York, as a Danks Burke victory would have been key in gaining a Democratic

majority in the N.Y. State Senate.

However, Tompkins County voters prevailed in reelecting Democratic Assemblyperson Barbara Lifton to the N.Y. State Assembly. They also elected Democrat Matt Van Houten to the county’s district attorney post.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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Great expectations | Students console each other as they watch Trump open a path to victory.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Listen In, but Hold Your Judgment

BY ANDREI KOZYREV Sun Contributor

Racial dialogue is a sensitive topic in the United States. It seems as if a special blend of courage is required to participate in it. Such thinking is wrong, but it is inadvertently perpetuated when people eschew “race talk” than rather than participate in it.

A recent study by Pew Research identified “profound differences between black and white adults in their views on racial discrimination,” with 88 percent of African-Americans saying there is more work to be done to achieve racial equality, while only 53 percent of white respondents shared those views. The intensely polarized views and no less intense feelings that come with them create a “someone else can talk about it” mindset among people that are new to the idea and practice of interracial dialogue.

It is no surprise, then, that Art and Empathy first isolates you, in order to connect you. Part of the CCA Biennial, the piece stands in Mann Library lobby, a bustling space hardly conducive to small talk, let alone deep introspection. It is in that deafening space that a group of three Cornell professors want you to hear.

To listen. To internalize and maybe to respond. The professors are Corinna Loeckenhoff and Anthony Burrow from the School of Human Ecology, and Francois Guimbretiere at the Information Science department, who teaches a popular course called Rapid Prototyping. The project was done in collaboration with Mann Library, Cornell Intergroup Dialogue Project and students Kevin Ma grad and Dongwook Yoon grad.

The installation is a telephone booth shaped like a human ear, made out of carbon casting tubes and soundproof foam. As you walk inside the ear and make your way around a curved corner, there is a telephone connected to a tablet, which is lit up with a selection of pictures (one, notably, of a police cruiser). The soundproof material creates a sense of comforting privacy once you are inside. Pick up the phone, tap on one of the images and you are presented with an anonymous recording of a monologue or conversation about racial prejudice, microaggressions and other race related problems.

Casual in nature, the dialogues achieve their purpose of making you feel as if you are in the conversation. You can also record a response or your own story. Yet, the system artificially constrains those options, not letting you record anything until the audio is done. There is no way to interrupt; you can either listen until the end or walk away. “It was an intentional design decision to, kind of, override what you would usually do in interface design, and in this case force them to listen,” said Loeckenhoff.

The intention is that the listener actually performs her role until the end, instead of immediately thinking of a response; but the

value of these training wheels is unclear. In my mind it brought a pause. She then added that “the interior structure is gigantic up the question of how far should we go into “designing” a space carbon tubes that are designed for concrete casting… the people for racial dialogue, when outside of such spaces there won’t be a who delivered it were very surprised because they never delivered safety net to fall back on? And how do you ensure that people this to any residential property.” The completed piece had to be walk out of the exhibition transported in two parts using a rented internalizing what they heard? truck. The most surprising element of this “These are important quesstory is that buying an actual phone tions that I am not sure are booth, like the classic British red teleeasily answerable… part of it phone box, would be more expensive than is to create a space and see this process. Aside from financial conwhat people do with it,” said cerns, the self-made nature of the piece Burrow. After a moment of also manifested an emotional value: “At contemplation, he continued: the end of the day, we couldn’t just go find “There is something about these readymade spaces; there was somethis space that reifies and reinthing about building this space that met forces the idea that the experithe real need of what we were trying to get ence is still there,” which will at — it kept us going,” said Burrow. The remain so even after the exhidesign blueprints and the tablet interface bition closes, because the were created by Professor Guimbretiere, recordings will be preserved who also decided to rely on a physical on a website. Burrow conphone as opposed to a microphone to add cluded saying, “I don’t know an additional level of intimacy for the lisif we ever designed this thinktener, who is left on his own with a mysing you need to empathize, terious interlocutor on the other end of part of it is, ‘What do you the line. want to say?’ And I hear you” The recordings for the installation – the latter three words are were made in collaboration with the written on the outer wall of Intergroup Dialogue Project, an on-camthe booth. pus organization that leads workshops, The inspiration for the meetings and several courses on interCOURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY project came from creators’ group dialogue for undergraduate studeeply personal experiences. Burrow recounted to me an incident dents, graduate students and even faculty levels. Jazlin Gomez from his time at UNC Chapel Hill, where he attended college, MPA ’17, Garrett Heller ’17 (both IDP facilitators) and Adi when he and his friends drove to a friend’s apartment off-campus. Grabiner Keinan, IDP’s director, conducted conversations with On the way back, “as we were driving out of the apartment com- other members of the group about “different types of oppression plex, 9 police cars surrounded us. 10 to 13 officers got out with that occur, from the interpersonal and individual to also the institheir guns pointed.” Burrow and his friends, all black men, were tutional and structural level,” said Heller. arrested on charges of stealing the car they were in, and they were After this year’s unprecedented presidential campaign and the meant to be driven to a magistrate. The police, however, turned waves of racially charged violence (which of course spans over around after a report came in that the car wasn’t stolen. Someone decades), wouldn’t it be cathartic to just listen, empathize and called the police on Burrow and his friends after allegedly seeing then respond? But actually, maybe you should hold the response them steal the car. “I have the police recording… she [the for now. accuser] said, ‘I didn’t actually see them, I just suspected that was The Race & Empathy exhibition is on display in Mann Library what they were doing.’”

Lobby until November 11th. An online version of the project is In creating this installation, the professorial trio relied upon available at https://richreview.net/rrr/. the garage Ms. Loeckenhoff and Mr. Guimbretiere’s (they are married). “We were using all kinds of materials that are not Andrei Kozyrev is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. meant for their purpose [in the project],” said Loeckenhoff with He can be reached at aak85@cornell.edu.

The Poetry of Monotony: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary With Chris Abani

BY ZACHARY LEE Sun Contributor

William Martin stated: “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.” Yet it can be difficult to discover new meaning and inspiration within the mundane aspects of everyday life. If I were to profusely read poems by Billy Collins and Robert Frost, perhaps for a cycle I may be inspired by their pastoral descriptions of our natural world to appreciate the multiplicity of hues which color Ithaca’s trees or the torrential gorges as I walk over the suspension bridge. But eventually, I lose the wonder of these sights and remain trapped in the routine of prelims, homework and sleepless nights. But after hearing poet Chris Abani read and perform several of his own compositions this past Thursday, I found the new awe, joy and magnificence within my daily life, including my 2:30 a.m. walks back from Olin library.

As I entered Klarman Hall G70, I didn’t know what to expect from a poetry reading. My prior experience with poetry readings had been back in Chicago at Louder than a Bomb (LTAB), which was Chicago’s largest annual slam poetry event for high school students. Up and coming DJ’s would play their newest mixes in between poetry performances. The audience was much more interactive, and they would unleash a cacophony of thunderous snaps as poets read original compositions packed with double entendres, smooth cadence and an energetic flow that matched the depths and heights of life on the South Side. At many times it felt a bit more like a hip-hop concert than a poetry reading, but I still loved every minute of it. Doing a brief bit of research on Chris Abani’s body of work, I arrived at Klarman knowing that this reading would be a little more subdued than LTAB, but was surprised nonetheless to experience how powerful it still was.

After a touching introductory address from Lyrae Van CliefStefanon, Chris jokingly stated that he wasn’t a poet who did the whole “explaining thing.” He made the short disclaimer: “I’ll just give the poems to you. I want you to feel them.” Right away, he established himself as a down-to-earth individual who wanted to bypass the formalities of the event. Lyrae had read off a litany of Chris’ accomplishments and awards, but he downplayed his accomplishments in favor of connecting with the audience. He then told a humorous anecdote involving a group of South Africans trying to evacuate from a burning plane (he confessed that this was the only clean joke that he knew). Even in the almost packed auditorium of Klarman Hall, Chris was still able to inject a sense of intimacy and comfort.

He then went on to read several of his compositions from Sanctificum and other works. As he read, his works created a poetic biography and testimony which covered a multiplicity of topics, from his Nigerian upbringing and religious background, to his journey to, and time in, the United States. He spoke at a rapid pace and with a sense of urgency as though he earnestly wanted the audience to take a first-person perspective of his narrative world and join him in his poetic journey. Through his works, he detailed how he cut tomatoes, wrote to his father from his mother’s perspective and would roll up pages of his father’s King James Bible and smoke oregano through them with his brother, and all of these painted a beautiful collage of his life experiences and outlook.

It was clear that his culture and religion bled through his work. As he sliced the tomato, he described it as a culinary prayer, admiring the precision of the knife. Yet inversely, he shared a poem about how killing an animal with the same weapon was haunting, because it reminded him of the possibility and power that he had to kill a man as well. This was a powerful juxtaposi-

tion, and displayed his versatility in being able to describe the hostility and the comfortability of a knife. When describing elephants looking at their dead kin he said, “The elephants howl to the absent flesh on bones.” Yet in the soon after, he stated that “every human body is scripture”; the dichotomy of his works showed his maturity of perspective; that themes such as death, life and religion could be explored through a multiplicity of emotion.

He spoke about seeing a street performer in Chicago and how the rhythmic popping and clicking of cicadas offered a measure of comfort to the performer. In my opinion, one of his greatest pieces was the poem “The Calculus of Faith.” Here, one can clearly see how he inherently values the seemingly simple things in life. In the poem, he stated that when he tasted the sweetness of the mango, it was his first miracle, and that ripping out pages from the King James Bible, rolling up the thin paper and smoking oregano was the second great miracle. The third was his mother’s turquoise ink fountain pen, which he realized had the power to create literary worlds. He was able share so many pieces, and yet he never rushed. Chris gave enough time to let the audience soak up the imagery within each line.

Chris Abani’s poetry was visceral. He invited his readers to an emotional journey, and I’m grateful to have visited his past and present world. His poetry drew out emotions that reminded me of my own culture and faith. His work reinvigorated a wonder of my own ordinary upbringing and current college life. He wanted to make every day extraordinary and sacred. So I am elated to have been a tourist of the literary world that he created, even if it was for only 45 minutes. But most importantly, I’m excited that I have my own ordinary world to discover anew and explore.

Zachary Lee is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zjl4@cornell.edu.

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The GPSA is not enough To the Editor: I am writing as a graduate student who has been involved with the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly since spring 2013 and with Cornell Graduate Students United since spring 2014 in order to respond to some of the discourse around shared governance that has emerged in debates over graduate student unionization this semester.

I am a proud member of both organizations and believe deeply in the necessity of each, and based both on my own experience and the extensive evidence from other universities at which both graduate student unions and assemblies productively coexist, I believe unequivocally in the potential for both organizations to continue to work effectively after a unionization vote. The GPSA is not at all threatened by the formal recognition of CGSU as an exclusive collective bargaining unit.

More importantly, I want to respond to the idea encapsulated in Interim President Rawlings’s statement that graduate students already have a significant voice in administration, and that “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.” There are two issues to look at in evaluating this claim: first, the Board of Trustees’ decision to not raise the minimum stipend of Research Assistants to be equal to Teaching Assistants in spring 2014, and second, workers’ compensation.

When the Trustees made their decision on graduate student stipends, they did so with the consultation of a handful of graduate student leaders who were forbidden from discussing the issue with other graduate students. In the trustees’ and administration’s eyes, this qualified as consultation with graduate students. I simply ask, do you really believe that a decision about graduate student pay made with only a handful of the thousands of graduate students at Cornell even privy to the conversation was democratic and fair — given that these privileged few were then not allowed to talk to the rest of us about it?

The GPSA does valuable, important work, but so long as the Board of Trustees and the administration can make decisions that ultimately disregard the expressed opinions of graduate students — or, in this case, without even consulting graduate students for their opinions in the first place — the GPSA is not positioned to substantively advocate for graduate students in certain crucial ways. In a GPSA meeting earlier this semester, Dean Barbara Knuth explained that this difference in minimum stipend amount was eliminated after the Graduate School realized that a large majority of faculty were electing to pay research assistants at a level higher than the minimum, as if it had increased the same amount as the teaching assistantship stipend. That’s good, but this was only the case because individual faculty made the decision out of the goodness of their hearts to pay their research assistants fairly. It very easily could have been different, since this fact is contingent on these individual decisions. A formally recognized union would be able to make legally binding agreements on issues like this so that policies on graduate student pay are crafted with actual consultation of graduate students and implemented without being contingent on individual supervisors’ whims.

On the issue of workers’ compensation, the line repeated by Graduate School and Cornell administrators is that following discussion with the GPSA Student Advocacy Committee in 2013-2014, Cornell “clarified” its workers’ compensation policy. This line was just repeated by Dean Knuth in her last appearance before the GPSA, and it relates to President Rawlings’ asserted preference for “collegial atmosphere” over “potentially adversarial collective bargaining.” It is certainly true that the GPSA did tremendous work that required hours of extra meetings, and it is true that in this instance discussion between administration and a committee of the GPSA resulted in concrete benefits for graduate students. As a member of the Advocacy Committee that year I was proud to be a small part of this work.

But it must be said that to call these discussions “collegiate” or amicable would be a mischaracterization at best, at least to my ear as a member of the Advocacy committee during 2013-2014 and co-chair in spring 2015. While the tone and substance of these conversations was sometimes collegial, they also at times became explicitly adversarial as administrators objected to any hint that graduate students might be thought of as workers or employees. Workers’ compensation was not an issue solved by the university merely clarifying its policies in response to questions and inquiries from graduate students; the policy articulations in 2015 were the result of conversations that ranged from collegiate to adversarial. To pretend that the current structure is always “collegiate” and that a union would introduce a new level of “adversarial” discourse that did not before exist is not simply to make a hypothetical or theoretical point, but to misrepresent the nature of actual conversations between GPSA committees and administration, at least in this one recent and salient example.

In the end, it is true that the GPSA does valuable work, but it is also true that there are limits to its effectiveness. The GPSA exists in relation to administration and the Board of Trustees through a stark power differential. Cornell does not ultimately have to do anything at all that the GPSA recommends (as we saw when the Trustees rejected Fossil Fuel Divestment after four shared governance bodies including the GPSA passed resolutions to the contrary), and this power differential can potentially manifest in adversarial posturing in even those conversations, like the ones on workers’ compensation, that have positive results for graduate students. A union, however, would be different. A union would democratically seek the input of all members of its bargaining unit through openly-structure meetings and streams of communication, and the policies crafted in conversation between the union and the university would be legally binding. I look forward to seeing this more even playing field become a reality.

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think I speak for everyone when I say I love failing prelims. A feeling quite like euphoria sweeps over me when I log on to CMS (or Blackboard, or a department’s surprisingly unaesthetic student portal) and see that 63 percent, after the curve. Have I, at long last, done something right? I proceed to peek at the accompanying histogram of scores: the mean is an 84 percent, and, oh, the median is an 89 percent.

Nice — I like what I see. It’s not crowded over here in the 60s — I have plenty of room to stretch my legs, the service is great and people don’t flock to me for any sort of guidance. There’s just something so therapeutic about

mom said I couldn’t go, sorry!

Is poor performance really even my fault? Should I really blame myself for not studying enough, waiting till TMinus 24 Hours before Prelim Day to crack open the textbook? I think not.

There’s some truth to the proverb that things worth having (read: respectable scores, pride in oneself, societal approval) don’t come easy, but the frequently overlooked flipside is pretty convincing too: things that come easy tend to come often, and I don’t awfully mind coasting through this fleeting life, hopping from one dropped class to another, being The Friend with Netflix and Good Snacks (mutually exclusive

I imagine it’s pleasant to have your major figured out before you’re a second-semester senior, to visibly contribute to your collegiate community, etc., etc., but in an effort to make myself at home here, in a place above Rock Bottom but well below Sky High, I want to believe that intellectual mobility exists. withdrawing from this wannabe arms race, renouncing the crusade of the Holy GPA. I, for one, am glad that I’ve found the strength within myself to align with this noble cause.

Of course, I’m not the perfect warrior against grade inequality. I do have my moments of weakness; I, too, play the numbers game. If I get an 97 percent on the final, I’ll still get a B in the class. If I do the extra credit and also attend every lecture and doggedly click in on every iClicker question, an A- is an attainable goal. It’s not impossible for fantasy and reality to overlap, I tell myself, no matter how slim the chance… but wait! Do I even want them to? I know it sounds counterintuitive. I’m in college, I’m paying a lot for this quality education, I ought to try hard and do well and take sick days only when I’m actually sick, but, you see, that’s just the more publicized route to success. There’s much less traffic on the back roads — fewer academics disrupting your windshield view, less Saving-of-the-World to fret about, speed: unregulated.

Listen — the pursuit of knowledge is a beautiful thing, and we are all privileged to be able to partake. I support it unconditionally, except when it is on a timer and teems with competition and is painfully quantifiable and regularly offers tangible reason to grieve.

It’s weird that something as simple as the gathering of information for selffulfilling purposes would be such a high-contact sport. Yes, nothing on Earth is truly autonomous; I can put these complaints aside, and maybe if you can’t beat them (which I certainly cannot), join them? I would, but my

with The Smart Friend), and with every new dawn, choosing a new passion.

It’s not that I would actually refuse a platter of scholastic victories if it were presented to me — I’d probably take it.

I imagine it’s pleasant to have your major figured out before you’re a second-semester senior, to visibly contribute to your collegiate community, etc., etc., but in an effort to make myself at home here, in a place above Rock Bottom but well below Sky High, I want to believe that intellectual mobility exists. Guardedly, I will concede that effort has the potential to be fruitful, and there’s a wealth of untaught knowledge that is worthwhile too. (I will report back on the veracity of these beliefs shortly.)

Having so openly admitted my shortcomings, I pause here belatedly to consider my audience. I doubt this is relatable content to the majority of Ivy Leaguers, who, at least from my vantage point, seem like model citizens with good grades and better internships and only the best jobs. I hope, then, that this piece finds the few who cope with the pressures of the literary journey through fatalistic humor and are content cheering their friends on from the bleachers. If I am the only one currently populating this target demographic, then I invite you to join me. Skip a class, fail a prelim, self-sabotage your entire future — it’s kind of fun and only minimally harmful.

Priya Kankanhalli is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternating Tuesdays this semester.

CORRECTIONS A previous version of the Nov. 8 News story, “Students, Faculty Evaluate Arts Requirements at Forum” incorrectly stated that Laura Brown is the senior vice provost for undergraduate education. She no longer holds the title and is currently the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English.

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epresentation matters. As a recent Time article pointed out, representation changes the scope of our imagination.

Representation stimulates aspirations in underrepresented minorities throughout our country — expanding their perceptions and furthermore, broadening their opportunities. As members of society begin to see more women and underrepresented minorities in positions of power, the corporate hierarchy changes as employers inherit an increased confidence in diverse leaders. Nevertheless, leading up election day, the excitement towards electing the first female president of the United States dwindled.

Many studies have analyzed the unease that individuals have with female leadership, attributing it to an overarching unfamiliarity with women in power positions. For example, a Harvard School of Education study found that students of all races and genders have the most confidence in white males as student leaders. In addition, Cornell studies have revealed that a higher level of respect is given to male professors thaen female professors in the way that students communicate with them in class of over email. Even our students have been quick to second guess female faculty members over their assertions while not questioning male professors making the same remarks. A Time article attributes this difference in treatment to a subconscious bias that we hold from living in a society dominated by white male leadership, a world where female names are associated with less power and impact than male names, and where retrograde attitudes toward women’s standing in the world enables others to condone this treatment of them.

An even more startling effect of this debasing attitude toward women is that it may promote intolerance towards other minorities in society. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “[o]ver two-thirds of educators reported that young people in their

As a community we should each play a role in educating others about the effects of subconscious biases. This involves putting ourselves in each other’s shoes to see the importance in the issues and initiatives that others strive for ... As students and educators we can play a role in analyzing and discussing the impact of this year’s election, and as community members we can take on alternate perspectives in effort to fully understand issues before deciding on their merits. schools — most often immigrants, children of immigrants, Muslims, African Americans and other students of color — expressed concern about what might happen to them or their families after the election.” In Tennessee, for example, a kindergarten teacher reported that a Latino child — told by classmates that he will be deported and trapped behind a wall — asked every day, “Is the wall here yet? ”In addition, some native-born AfricanAmerican children asked about being sent back to Africa, returning back to slavery, or being rounded up and put into camps. As minority children felt increasingly disparaged, a portion of teachers expressed a hesitancy to even teach about the election, potentially leading to increased tolerance and confusion about this disparaging treatment of minorities.

Whether Secretary Clinton wins the election or not, pundits will find a way to attribute her victory to anything but her personal efforts. They will find a way to undermine her historic win by pointing out mistakes she may have made in the past, an imperfectly pronounced word in her acceptance speech, or a blemish in her pantsuit ensemble. As a community we should each play a role in educating others about the effects of subconscious biases. This involves putting ourselves in each other’s shoes to see the importance in the issues and initiatives that others strive for. I would argue that funding for the BLUE light transportation system would increase if it weren’t seen as a measure for women’s safety but for a safer campus, or that the debate over free tampon distributions wouldn’t be contentious if men were in need of this provision. As students and educators we can play a role in analyzing and discussing the impact of this year’s election, and as community members we can take on alternate perspectives in effort to fully understand issues before deciding on their merits.

Dara Brown is the graduate student-elected trustee. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

“How can Ithaca and surrounding communities help in their resettlement? Can we donate items or provide services to help these people out? They are coming from horrible situations. Let’s show them that America is already a great country. Love trumps hate.”

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o it’s been over a year since Clinton and Trump announced their campaigns for presidency, and every second of it has been horrible.

It has been a long, tiring journey to Election Day 2016 and it’s hard to believe I’m here.

Throughout this entire process, I have never written a column about any of the candidates or anything that has happened in relation to the elections. I never wanted to feed into the amount of attention these people were already going to receive, mainly because I never wanted to even dwell upon it myself and nothing that was being done was particularly shocking to me.

Now, I’m ironically enough writing about it with the same level of defeat I felt filling out my absentee ballot.

Instead of condemning people for voting or not voting, I really want to discuss the fact that whatever the decision of the election is, it does not change the fact that we are already living in a dystopian society. Trump is disgusting, no doubt about that, but just because we don’t elect him to be president, doesn’t mean that as a society we have “beaten him” or those with a similar mentality. We don’t deserve a pat on the back for ensuring he doesn’t get elected and voting for another imperialist. The idea of how any of these candidates are going to “run the country” stresses me out, but the responses to Trump have honestly stressed me out the most whether they have been against or in support of him.

It isn’t just the fact that Trump is a real person, I guess, that is actually running for presidency of the United States, it’s that he isn’t the only Trump.

There are people who agree with him and identify with him, otherwise he wouldn’t have gotten on the ballot (not that that’s the only way to get candidacy, but in a “traditional” sense). The only difference between Trump and every other racist is that he’s been given a big stage to match his big unnecessary mouth. Some people actually identify with that, which is terrifying to dwell on.

felt sick and instantly stopped talking mid-sentence because engaging with that person was the last thing I wanted to do.

Overall, there’s a whole lot of noise going on in regards to the election and my way to cope with it is honestly just ignoring what every other person is saying either directly to me or all over social media. I’m over here just trying to make it through, so I don’t need a con-

The only difference between Trump and every other racist is that he’s been given a big stage to match his big unnecessary mouth. Some people actually identify with that, which is terrifying to dwell on.

Bigots have always existed, Trump is just a very large and annoying symbol of that.

People everywhere walk through life very sure that their opinion is the correct one even though it may be disrespectful and disregard a person’s existence, whether they support Hillary or Trump.

How I feel now, during this election, is a more intense version of how I feel everyday; waiting for the next moment someone is going to disrespect a culture, make a misogynistic joke, use a racial slur, etc.

Feeling this way has become an unwanted aspect of myself and election day is only a heightened version of this emotion.

Just today, I accidentally interacted with someone I didn’t notice was wearing a Trump hat. As I saw those words stitched to that bright red cap, meant to grab your attention, I

stant reminder that even though people pander to liberal ideas of change, nothing will happen. All institutions are filled with empty ambitions and initiatives. Oppression will continue no matter who is elected. There will still be racism, misogyny, dead bodies in our streets and overseas.

I’ve provided an onslaught of cynicism and nihilism, but that becomes your state when you feel like you’ve already lost. It is important for those of marginalized backgrounds to remember and practice self care throughout the electoral process since we’re the ones that will be damaged either way; so do whatever you need to do to make it through.

Sarah Zumba is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Freshman Forward Adjusts to America

Pedlow recounts his journey to college soccer

By ANNIE TAYLOR Sun Staff Writer

The transition to collegiate athletics is a universally challenging one for any competitive freshman athlete. Different team dynamics, more intense training programs and faster-paced competition test these novices in new ways. On top of these changes, the courseload of the average Cornell student and the abrupt change from home life to college life is inevitably overwhelming.

For George Pedlow, a first-year striker on the Cornell men’s soccer team, the transition to university life included a transcontinental journey.

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which he said he is incredibly grateful for. “[But] sometimes I do feel a bit isolated,” he admitted.

Pedlow’s family also includes three older sisters, all of whom also came to the United States for higher education. His two oldest sisters, Mikaela and Sophia, graduated from Penn and Dartmouth, respectively, while his other sister Sophia is currently a senior at Wesleyan University.

With his older siblings setting such a high bar, Pedlow said that his academics have always been a priority.

“I wanted to play Division I, if I could,” Pedlow said. “[But] I never would have sacrificed… not going to a top-tier school just to play soccer. I always want to strive for all of my academic passions.”

A Budding Entrepreneur

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Trigger happy | Pedlow is tied for the team lead in goals, with two, and has accounted for about a quarter of the teams shots this season,

in the United States has given him the best opportunity to make this dream a reality.

“If I could come up with an idea for a business,” Pedlow said. “That would be my dream…start[ing] it up from the bottom.”

His passion for entrepreneurship is closely tied to an interest in product design, as well as mobile applications. Pedlow said he is hoping to get the chance to take some computer science courses, in addition to economics and business classes during his time in Ithaca.

“Obviously London is so different [from] Ithaca,” Pedlow said. “Recently it’s Pedlow is currently enrolled in the been dawning on me that I am kind of in College of Arts and Sciences, on track to Let’s Get Physical the middle of nowhere.” major in economics, but is undecided about Pedlow is originally from South London, his final major selection.

But in addition to his academic future, where he attended St. Paul’s School, study“Being an economics major in Arts ing economics and captaining both his seems really appealing and also AEM seems Pedlow is committed to making an impact school and club soccer teams. At first, really cool,” Pedlow said. “I’m kind of feel- while playing varsity soccer at Cornell. Just like the cultural transition, the abrupt Pedlow said he was too busy to step back ing it out right now.” and notice the lifestyle change.

As a student at Cornell, Pedlow says it is change in intensity of training was suprising to the freshman striker.

“The first month at college there’s so “I really had no idea what to much going on,” he said. “Especially “I try to go into every game with the expect,” Pedlow admitted. “You can’t when we’re playing soccer every day. So I had my group of freshmen — it’s like same mindset that I’m confident but also really tell the pace and aggression and the athleticism [from watching games nine guys — who I’m always talking to need to be composed.” online]. When I first came I was really and getting to know, going to eat with impressed by how fit and how physical and going to training. And I’m always Freshman forward George Pedlow everyone was here… The first time you working.” play in a college game [is] kind of But lately, Pedlow said he’s been noticing the distance. easier to handle his indecision here than if nerve-wracking.”

The increased physicality is more than “Being out here kind of gives you time to he had gone to school in England. When think and time to focus on your studies,” he British students apply to universities, they just an element of collegiate athletics. said. “And it’s nice being around greenery apply with scores from major-specific exams Pedlow said that many of his opponents and and not just pavement all the time. I guess called “A-levels,” which by themselves can teammates in London had comparable it can be a little bit… sad when your family determine almost entirely which schools a technical skills to some of his teammates at is so far away, but I’ll get to go back at student is admitted to and also sets them on Cornell, but few of them were as physically fit. He siad the change in athleticism took Christmas and see them.” track to study one subject.

Pedlow’s parents are originally from “I didn’t want to give my life away to one some getting used to.

“I’ve never been used to running so Westchester, N.Y., but are still currently liv- area of study so early,” he explained. ing in London. They have traveled to the After Cornell, Pedlow said he hopes to much and having to shut down [another states to see several of his games this fall, start his own company. He believes studying player] so quickly,” Pedlow said. “I was like,

Always workin’ | In just his freshman year, Pedlow is determined to propel Cornell men’s soccer to the next level.

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‘Whoa, these guys are really fit and they take it really seriously,’ which I kind of relish. It’s what I like about it.”

In spite of the challenging physicality of collegiate games, Pedlow has had an enormously successful first season. He has managed to take almost twice as many shots over the course of the season as any other member of the team. Individually, he is responsible for almost a quarter of all shots taken by the Red this season.

Eight games in, Pedlow led Cornell’s offense against Syracuse, who, at the time, was ranked second in the NCAA. Thirty minutes into the match, he broke through the Orange defense to score Cornell’s only goal of the game and allowed the Red to lead for the rest of the first half.

“I try to go into every game with the same mindset that I’m confident but also need to be composed,” Pedlow said. “[Head coach John Smith] has a really good motto.

He says, ‘Fire in the belly and ice in the veins,’ which is something which I always try and think about when I’m going into the games.”

‘Fire in the Belly and Ice in the Veins’

As Pedlow finishes out his first season with the Red, he and his teammates have a plan for how to improve the outcomes of their games next season.

“Having gone through the season now, I know what I need to work on,” Pedlow said.

“There’s a few key pillars that I need to work on as a striker which Coach Smith has drilled into the strikers pretty well.”

He and his teammates have already discussed getting out in the offseason to generally develop fitness and work on the goals their coach has laid out.

“I’ll be getting out there every day, definitely, with the ball and doing work,” Pedlow said. “It needs to be a constant thing… [sophomore defender] Ryan Bayne has already messaged us saying that we need to put in blood and sweat in the spring, so I’m really pumped about that.”

For Pedlow, the long-term goal is development of the team. Next season, he said he and his teammates are looking to develop more of a winning mentality to bring about an Ivy League Championship.

Despite the Red’s limited success this fall, Pedlow said he is convinced that an Ivy win is on the horizon for the team. He said he fully expects to win at least one conference championship during his time at Cornell, and this confidence stems from a complete faith in his coach.

“Smith just knows,” Pedlow said. “He knows how to do it. He did it at Stanford.

They went from a mid-tier team to winning the national championship… Already I’ve seen him pull the best out of all of the players and I just have confidence in him.”

Annie Taylor can be reached at ataylor@cornellsun.com.