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Students Defend Donald Trump Grads: CGSU

Say president-elect’s message appeals to‘the people progress forgot’

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor

Although a majority of Cornellians responded to Donald Trump’s election with dismay — with over 1,000 demonstrating on Friday to display their disapproval — some students criticized the liberal bias on campus, arguing that the president-elect speaks for constituencies forgotten by previous administrations.

“This guy is not stupid,” said Mark Svenjak ’18. “We’ve basically elected a frat star. He was probably the guy who sat in the back of the classroom and copied off his classmates but then got 100 on every test.”

While Svenjak called President-elect Donald Trump “probably the biggest bullshitter to grace this earth” he stressed that, at the end of the day, Trump still “holds those American values.” “[Trump] basically lived the American dream,” he said.

“He had a little more leeway financially, but he’s a smart man who basically dipped his foot very far in every industry.

This is a guy who’s been on WrestleMania, who’s a reality TV star, on top of being an

extremely successful real estate developer who basically started the gentrification of what is now modern day New York.”

Trump’s Campaign ‘Spoke to’ Voters

John Rutkauskas ’20, a half-Hispanic student from Illinois, said he voted for Trump despite not agreeing with “everything Trump says.” “[Trump] could’ve phrased things differently, he could’ve brought up more statistics, but I truly don’t believe he was trying to be racist or biased against Hispanics in any way,” Rutkauskas said. “I think he really cares about this country, and I think he wants to provide jobs for everyone. I really don’t think what he said was that over the top.”

Richard Ulbricht ’18, who voted for Trump in New York, agreed, challenging those who say Trump’s comments disparaged the way African Americans live in inner cities, arguing that his statement was mischaracterized.

“I’m from west Baltimore and I’ll tell you that from people I know back there, people actually living in those communiSee TRUMP page 4

Trump trumps hate | Some Cornellians say President-elect Donald Trump will represent the working class better than other candidates could have.

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Harasses Students To Gain Members

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

Graduate students say they are being harassed and “emotionally blackmailed” by members of Cornell Graduate Students United, as the group fights to gain the signatures it needs to put unionization to a vote.

According to CGSU’s “The idea [ is] code of conduct agreethat if you are ment with Cornell, the union must obtain author- not signing this, ization cards from 30 peryou don’t care cent of the bargaining enough about unit — which consists of students like teaching other students. assistants, who are Just because employed directly by the University — in accoryou have it dance with guidelines provided by the National good and other people are Labor Relations Board.

Critics of CGSU say suffering, you representatives’ visits feel are selfish and like solicitations by salesmen, as though “someone that’s why you [is] trying to sell you something that you’re not do not want it.” really prepared or interestTeja Bollu grad ed in at the time,” according to Juan Guzman grad.

Students said union members have frequently spoken to them at their offices and over the phone.

Some, like Ruidong Chen grad, were even visited at their homes.

“I was going home and as I was going in the door, there was two people asking if you are See CGSU page 4

Cornellians Demand Resignation of South Korean President

By ANNA KOOK Sun Staff Writer

Approximately 40 Korean students gathered outside Sheldon Court and marched to Ho Plaza Friday night to peacefully call for the resignation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. The Korean Graduate Student Association organized the protest to mirror a movement in Seoul Friday night, where approximately a million citizens took to the streets to protest Park.

About three weeks ago, news emerged that Park has allegedly been taking advice from her lifelong friend, Choi Soon-sil.

Choi has been accused of leading a cult and was arrested for using her relationship with Park to coerce companies to donate up to $70 million to Choi’s foundations. These organizations were later discovered to have embezzled funds for personal gain, according to The Washington Post.

Many South Korean citizens are demanding that Park resign immediately

and to hold a re-election for a new administration, but with only a year left in her presidency, Park does not currently have any plans to resign, according to The Guardian.

Participants in the protest at Cornell held

candles and signs that said, in Korean and English, “Resign President Park”, “You’ve shamed us all,” “Choi Sun-sil must be punished” and “President Park illegally accumulated wealth.” They also shouted in unison,

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Solidarity across the sea | Korean students took to the streets Friday night in solidarity with the millions of South Koreans demanding the resignation of the nation’s president.

“Resign President Park,” just as protesters were doing in Seoul that night.

“We are here to join the movement happening in Korea right now, to ask President Park to resign,” said Dong-wook Yoon grad.

“We are hoping that our message gets heard all the way to Korea.”

Yuna Won grad, an organizer of the protest, stressed that Park’s mistakes are not “just another political corruption” but “an unconstitutional affair that Park must take responsibility for.”

“It turned out that Choi has exerted her influence on Park and her cabinet the last four years and meddled in most presidential decisions even regarding major appointments and national security without proper knowledge,” she said. “This means that the decision making process of Park’s administration was irrational and illegal.”

Won explained that South Korea has had some “depressing world records,” including See SOUTH KOREA page 4

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Dems, Repubs Debate Impact of Third-Party Votes

Going green | Some Cornellians argue that votes for third-party candidates, such as Jill Stein, swayed the election in Donald Trump’s favor.

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

The 2016 presidential election’s unprecedented levels of voter dissatisfaction prompted many voters to support third party candidates who would not have gained significant traction in other years.

The New York Times exit polls reported that neither major party candidate reached a 50 percent favorability rating; 18 percent of voters did not have a favorable view of played in Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, as swing state either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, according to Fox elections were so tight. Johnson won just two percent of News exit polls. Tellingly, The Times reported that close to Florida, amounting to 206,007 votes, but Trump topped four in 10 voters said they would be afraid for the country if Clinton by just shy of 120,000 votes.

Donald Trump was elected; three in 10 were wary of a “It is frustrating to learn that the number of votes for Jill Clinton presidency.

Stein made up the difference between Clinton and Trump in The Cornell Republicans — who made headlines in Michigan and Wisconsin,” said Kevin Kowalewski ’17, September by breaking party lines to President of Cornell Democrats. “In an endorse Libertarian candidate Gary election as important as this one, we Johnson — maintained their support of believe that citizens had a responsibility “It was her failure to the candidate despite criticism that said to use their vote to stop Trump.” connect with working their support swayed the election in Considering Clinton won the national class voters in this state popular vote, Kowalewski reasoned that Trump’s favor.

“Given the outcome in swing states, it that lost her the election.” “third party votes further obscured the would appear that independent voters fact that most voters did not choose have become very frustrated with the Trump.” Navadeh also reasoned that Cole Stefan ’18 Washington elites, particularly establishvotes for Johnson were cast by more ment Democrats,” said David Navadeh potential Clinton voters than Trump vot’19, the group’s second vice chairman. “On Election Day, ers. independent voters banded together with Republicans and However, Corn said she believes the votes were justified, many Democrats alike and rejected an essential third term as many came from “disillusioned Republicans looking for for Obama.” the option that wasn’t Donald Trump.”

Cornell Republicans Chair Olivia Corn ’19 added that Cole Stefan ’18, treasurer of Cornell Republicans, pointthird-party candidacies were “especially important in this ed out that because third-party voters often say they feel election, where both main party candidates were subpar,” failed by the two major parties, “they might not have voted echoing the exit poll findings of voter dissatisfaction. at all because they would have been forced to choose someHowever, in the end leading third-party candidates one they didn't like.” He also stressed that Clinton only underperformed — Johnson received only three percent of gained 47 percent of the vote in Michigan — which swung the national popular vote and Green Party candidate Jill toward Trump Tuesday night — while Obama had 54 perStein earned only one percent. cent in 2012.

Still, many question the role third-party candidates “It was her failure to connect with working class voters in

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this state that lost her the election,” Stefan said. “These voters went elsewhere. Period. It doesn't matter if they went to Trump or a third party, all that matters is that they left Hillary.”

Even if third party voters were forced to choose between Trump and Clinton, Navadeh said he “[does not] think it was enough to sway the election, particularly since Trump is far above the 270 threshold by many states.”

Corn agreed, saying it is “dangerous to continue the narrative” that the election outcome might have differed without third-party votes.

The exit poll numbers agree. Of the voters with unfavorable opinions of both Trump and Clinton, nearly half voted for Trump, according to Fox News.

According to additional Fox News exit polls, third-party candidates only captured six percent of the vote of those with unfavorable opinions of Clinton and also six percent of the vote of those with unfavorable opinions of Trump.

Gunjan Hooja ’17, vice president of Cornell Democrats, said that third party voting was “not the only problem,” but that election results can also be attributed to low voter turnout in young voters.

“We need to make sure that young people understand just how important it is to participate in the political process,” Hooja said. “With the potential dangers of a Trump presidency, we hope this moment will clarify the urgent need for civic engagement and electoral participation."

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at aeskenazi@cornellsun.com.

Swing State Cornellians Stunned by Trump Victory

By ANNE SNABES Sun Staff Writer

Many Cornellians who hail from swing states expressed disappointment with the results of the 2016 election and made predictions about the future of their divided home states moving forward.

Trump won multiple swing states, including Pennsylvania and Florida, by very small margins. In Florida, for example, 49.1 percent voted for Trump and 47.8 percent voted for Clinton, according to CNN. “Florida’s gone through a lot of hatred and a lot of divide over this past year,” said

Lily Garrido ’18, a Latina Florida resident who voted for Clinton. “We had the Orlando shooting, we’ve had various bomb threats in schools. We’re a state that’s divided, and to vote for someone that seems to want to divide us even more is so hard for me to accept."

Garrido said she anticipates that the election outcome will generate doubt among her friends, teachers and employers and a “lack of trust” across the nation.

“Are the people that I call friends and people that I care about, people that I thought cared for me, are they the ones that believe Trump’s words and side with his

Dance the night away The Impact Dance Troupe rehearses in the Schwartz Center on Saturday evening.

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views that are against respecting me as a human being?” Garrido said. “Do they see me as a real American citizen or do they see me as some sort of foreigner, or someone that’s below them?”

Garrido said it “hurt” to see Trump win “especially in a state like Florida,” which is known for its racial diversity in its southern regions.

“There is a great divide between southern Florida and northern Florida, but even parts of southern Florida voted for Trump, parts that I didn’t expect to vote for him,” she said.

Jordan Fuller ’19, also a Florida resident, said even though many people from her high school chose Trump based on his tax plan and abortion stance, she is still concerned that they chose to overlook Trump’s racist comments during his campaign.

“A lot of them couldn’t look past Hillary’s emails and Benghazi and cited that as a reason why they chose Trump as well,” she said.

“I like to think that none of them voted because they were actively racist, however they chose to look past this.”

Fuller also explained how difficult it was for her that her best friend from high school voted for Trump.

“When somebody votes for somebody with those views, it’s kind of telling you that she doesn’t respect yours,” she said. “As a person of color, it’s really hard, because she knows what I’ve been through, and it’s just incredible to believe that she understands how racism has hurt me in the past and that she can still vote for a candidate that supports things like that.”

Noah Chovanec ’18, a Pennsylvania resident, said he was surprised Pennsylvania — which “has been blue in presidential elec-

tions since the 80s” — became a red state this year.

“I was disappointed by the fact that nobody seemed to see this coming,” he said.

“A lot of the fault lies on the Democratic National Committee, and I don’t think they did what they needed to do to ensure that Trump wouldn’t get elected.”

Ning Ning Sun ’19, an Ohio resident, described the difference between Ohio’s rural regions and its “progressive” metropolitan areas.

“There’s a barn with a huge roof and it’s just painted the Confederate flag,” he said.

“I remember seeing it for the first time when I was seven, not really knowing that there was still racism … I was just shocked because I had learned about the Civil War and [it was] just absolutely mind-blowing that people would still stand for a cause that would allow slavery. It’s a very different place once you get out past the city.”

However, Sun noted that Ohio’s rural regions were not solely responsible for the state turning red this election cycle. He said Democratic turnout decreased this year, in part because Clinton was less “exciting and charismatic” than President Barack Obama.

“Clinton’s perceived lack of honesty and transparency really hurt her, because it fired up the right to take back control of the presidency, even with Trump’s flaws,” he said.

“Both are heavily unpopular, but I think that many Ohioans were just sick of the scandals and the political elites running the country and were willing to take a chance on Trump because he was the one who wanted to shake everything up.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

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Korean Cornellians: Pres.Park‘Disappointed the People’ SOUTH KOREA

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the highest suicide rate and lowest birth rate. She said Park’s presidency has not benefitted the people and has actually “divided the country so deeply and disappointed the people so much.”

For example, Park’s administration and the Saenuri Party have been accused of sabotaging the investigation of the Sewol Ferry Disaster, “in which 304 passengers and crew members died, including more than 200 students on their way to a field trip,” according to Won. “I think this nation-wide protest against Park and her administration is the culmination of the people’s frustration and disappointment about the government,” she said.

After seeing tens of thousands of citizens demonstrating against Park’s administration at home, Won said the KGSA grew increasingly sympathetic to the opposition movement.

“We wanted to express our support and add our voice in some way,” she said. “So we decided to throw our own rally.”

Won read a statement written by 14 members of KGSA aloud to the group. The statement demanded that Park step down, prosecutors thoroughly investigate the scandal and the Saenuri Party make a sincere apology to the people.

The group also called for the corporations involved in Choi’s illegal accumulation of wealth to face the prosecution’s investigation and the policies and decisions made under Choi’s influence to be reconsidered.

Joo-hyun Im grad acknowledged that this small-scale protest may not have a significant political impact, but she said the goal was to give people an opportunity to express their personal frustrations.

“Personally, I was very angry with my country’s administration and I wanted to do anything I could abroad to express that and promote discussion on this issue,” she said.

“If we do something and something changes, that’s great.

But if we don’t do anything, nothing’s going to change.”

KGSA plans to hold demonstrations every Friday at 6 p.m. “at least until the end of the semester” until Park steps down, according to Won. Anna Kook can be reached at akook@cornellsun.com.

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ties who are truly underprivileged, that message spoke to them,” he said.

Allison Callen ’18, who voted for Trump in Florida, echoed Rutkauskas, saying she does not anticipate that Trump will be able to “enact something to hurt other people.”

“There’s always been talk,” she said. “There’s been talk for years about banning abortion, and has it been banned? No. Is it going to be? No. I highly doubt that will happen. It’s definitely not the first thing on [Trump’s] list.”

Svenjak, who abstained from the election but said he would have voted for Trump, added that many of the president-elect’s statements are “nonsense” that “cancels itself out.” “[Trump] said he was going to build a wall and Mexico would pay for it,” he said. “He knows damn well Mexico’s not paying for that and that wall’s not being built. He’s saying it to get

votes.”

Svenjak also defended Trump’s campaign strategy, saying “you can’t just pansy around the bush and just kind of go halfway on anything you say” when running for president.

“Either you’re all in or your platform just fizzles out, and that’s what happens with all these other extremely educated candidates,” Svenjak said.

An Audience In the Working Class

While Ulbricht admits his loyalty to Trump has “wavered many times,” he said he maintained his support, because he believes the president elect will ultimately give voice to “the people progress forgot,” transforming the Republican party into “the party of the working class.”

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Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

‘Emotional Blackmail,’ Students Say CGSU

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Ruidong — because I guess they have a list of people’s pictures and names and addresses,” Chen said.

“I was surprised that they’re actually going to people’s [houses], going door to door.”

Other graduate students worry that CGSU members adopt an intentionally negative tone during these in-person visits, by initiating encounters with questions such as “Do you have a problem with your advisor?,” according to Siddarth Chandrasekaran grad.

These questions are a result of the way Chandrasekaran says CGSU implies that there is a divide between students and the administration on campus.

“I think CGSU has a way of presenting their story in a way where they can potentially be polarizing the campus,” he said.

Maggie Gustafson, a member of CGSU, defended these in-person solicitations as a normal part of the unionization process, although she acknowledged that requests may feel uncomfortable to graduate students on both sides of

the table.

“Organizing campaigns put people out of their comfort zone, both organizers and the people they’re trying to reach,” Gustafson said. “I think that discomfort is normal, but it doesn’t mean that the cause and the campaign aren’t good and aren’t worth it.”

Following their initial meetings with the union, some graduate students have said they feel that opposition or hesitation is not accepted

by CGSU members. For Teja Bollu grad, raising concerns about the effectiveness of a union has “always been mischaracterized” by CGSU, which equates it to disdain for the welfare of fellow students.

“Characterizing the whole population who has opposition to the union as unconsidered with welfare of their fellow students and very narrowly focused on their own self-interests — I think [this] is unacceptable,” Bollu said.

He added that the process through which union members attempt to gather membership cards is an additional point of critique by graduate students has also involved what he calls “emotional blackmail.”

“The idea [is] that if you are not signing this, you don’t care enough about other students,” he said.

“Just because you have it good and other people are suffering, you are selfish and that’s why you do not want it.”

When Guzman and a fellow graduate student resisted signing membership cards, the union members “were pretty forceful about asking us the reasons, the discrete reasons why we didn’t want to,” Guzman said.

Ultimately, some students said they signed membership cards so CGSU would leave them alone.

Addressing the pressure students may feel during their interactions with the union, Gustafson argued that the decision-making process comes down to the individual.

“I don’t think there’s any intent to shame people. I think there’s more of an intent to make people aware of what’s happening around them,” she said. “It’s up to individuals to decide how much of a part they would like to play or not in our approach to changing that.”

Not all graduate students share this view of their encounters with CGSU. Jordan Jochim grad said that he has “found that [CGSU and AFT members] are genuinely invested in the wellbeing of the graduate students here and are really motivated by ensuring adequate working conditions and outlets for shared governance.”

The number of graduate students who have signed membership cards is currently unknown.

Because of what she referred to as “strategic” decision, Gustafson, on behalf of the union, declined to comment on the number of membership cards CGSU has collected.

Although the agreement requires this minimum amount of support, “the kind of union we’re trying to build, the kind of community we’re trying to build, we’re not going to vote at 30 percent,” Gustafson said.

She explained that CGSU will initiate the vote at a currently undetermined time, when it feels it has involved the entire community in the process and the movement “really has groundswell support.”

“A big part of our campaign is making sure that everybody has a say and has a voice and gets to participate. And we can’t do that if we can’t talk to people,” Gustafson said. “We are trying to build a community and that requires frequent and or constant outreach.”

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

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In defense of campus diversity To the Editor:

My politics, like those of many academics, are liberal. On Wednesday, though, unlike some professors, I held my classes. I did so without thinking much. I was too shaky to think much, too shaky to stay at home alone.

I started crying as I walked to my first class. I was losing it. I hadn’t slept since before the election. To pull myself together, I ducked into a women’s bathroom, was wiping my face and blowing my nose with paper towels when a young woman, a student I didn’t know, said to me, “It’s going to be okay.” Then she said, “Let me hug you,” and I did. I was, and am, deeply grateful.

Then, in my classes, I told my students that I was not prepared, was not thinking clearly, and I invited them to talk. And they did: they spoke openly, generously, searchingly. One student said that to see me in such a state (I was so obviously unglued) was helpful; that before my class, she’d found it uncomfortable trying to pretend everything was normal. And another shared the information that her parents support Trump, and — bravely and thoughtfully — she helped me and others in the class understand where her parents are coming from.

After my classes had ended, later in the day, I wondered about those students here who support the President elect. The majority of students here at Cornell seems to have supported Hillary Clinton — obviously, however, there must be students here who supported and support Trump. Amid all this tension, I’m wondering if these students now feel supported by their fellow students, by their professors, and by this University as a whole. I hope that they can.

It can be deeply unsettling, frightening even, to be surrounded by emotionally agitated people. Strong emotions can cloud the thoughts. And when we’re in a group, irrational emotions can gather momentum and force. I hope that all of us remember, and this is a reminder to myself as much as anyone: whenever we’re in a majority (and no matter where, no matter about what) we can’t allow our emotions — our own, or those around us — to escalate. We need to keep each other cool. We can’t risk becoming an angry crowd. We can’t become a combined force that intimidates or threatens any who stands apart. If our shock, sorrow and anger threatens our collective humanity, we perpetuate our shock, sorrow and anger. And, I believe, we give Trump an additional victory.

On Wednesday, I felt alone and frightened, and on campus I was comforted. I hope that any individual here who feels alone may also be comforted and embraced.

You can discern a lot about a person’s character by the way she handles disappointment. I’m concerned that Cornell’s current culture of safe spaces is hindering students from developing the character required to handle disappointment graciously and courageously. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say most of you are disappointed by the results of the recent presidential election which should give you the opportunity to reflect on the values you hold that have made you dissatisfied with the direction you see our country moving in.

I encourage all of you to take this time to reflect on your commitment to diversity. Just a few months ago, The Cornell Daily Sun published an editorial arguing for the College Republicans to renounce Donald Trump. They cited reasons ranging from his temperament to his lack of policy chops but the bulk of their argument rested on an appeal to Cornell’s commitment to diversity.

This University’s commitment to diversity is one of its most unique and beautiful characteristics but it is unnerving that, in a country in which half of the voter block chose Donald Trump, it appears that Cornell students have never had a meaningful conversation with one of those voters. Is it fair to characterize Cornell as a community committed to celebrating “differences of opinions” when students who voted for a certain candidate are afraid to express support? What about their “emotional well-being”?

Confession: I’m a conservative and I voted for Donald Trump. And I am grateful I graduated from Cornell when I did, not just because I don’t know that I would be able to find a home at Cornell today. More because I’m not sure I find it very reasonable to expect families to spend nearly $70,000 a year to send a child to an institution that uses that funding to insulate students from opinions that upset them.

As a proud American, I support your right to peaceably assemble and protest.

As an adult capable of liberty, I am disappointed in the reaction of the Cornell community. The day after the election, you responded by literally sitting on the ground and crying. What is worse is that student funds were used to provide said students with hot chocolate and coloring supplies. This is not what adulthood looks like.

Consider this: what happens over the coming months and years when those students who were crying in the middle of Ho Plaza (much less the students who are named in organizing it) are ready to have a rational conversation about controversial policies? Their points of view, however valid they may be, have been seriously damaged by their inability to appropriately express disappointment. How can the leaders of Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Cornell expect future debate opponents to take them seriously when they have a demonstrated proclivity to react in a manner not dissimilar to a toddler?

The “cry-in” isn’t the only questionable expression of disappointment seen on campus in response to the elections. Multiple professors cancelled classes because they were reportedly too distraught to do their jobs. Again, is this what we expect from an institution people pay a fortune to attend? Beyond that, we cannot expect students to become responsible adults and citizens capable of life in a civil society when these are the role models they have.

Protest, petition, get involved, let your voices be heard, but do it the right way.

We are so fortunate to live in the freest country the world has ever known. Don’t throw away your shot! A robust policy debate creates a civil and liberal society in which anyone can find a place so long as the conversations we have are truly inclusive and open minded. It is easier to coerce than to convince but cutting corners is no way to govern or be governed.

Many things have made Cornell one of the best educational institutions in the world: rigorous academics, a range of areas of study, and, yes, its diversity. Is Cornell still great? If yes, work to keep it that way. If no, work to make it so.

Either way, hard work and grit is required of every student. Seek out differing opinions — it’s not tolerance when you agree. Challenge yourselves and feel uncomfortable. This will not only strengthen your arguments but it will shape you into people capable of disagreeing without being disagreeable.

As I left Trump Tower late this morning, I was overwhelmed by how much spirits had been bolstered among a group that had never expected to come out the winners in a brutal election cycle that seemed like an uphill battle from the beginning. With the fresh taste of victory on their tongues, they had but a single question remaining: now what?

The election of Donald J. Trump was the final cry for help from an increasingly desperate working class that could no longer be ignored. The President-elect’s coalition is built up of people who are overqualified and underemployed, voters whose swelling dissatisfaction with their downward economic spiral exploded into a populist movement that few pundits anticipated. A message of returned greatness did not echo for them thoughts of the 1950s or the pre-civil rights era; instead, it was a promise of once again being able to feed your family without working so long that you never got to see them.

Many a time, these people were told that their labor jobs were being replaced with more technology, and that was necessary for economic progress; however, this election does not belong to those who favor technical progress — it belongs to the Americans that progress forgot. Uniting an injured nation, creating jobs and shifting our economy into a new era of production without leaving millions of people on the sidelines, is a daunting set of tasks for the new President-elect.

At Cornell, the air is filled with doubt, disdain and hopelessness. I offer you one plea, one repeated both by President Obama and Secretary Clinton this afternoon: do not give up on Trump before his presidency begins.

As Obama said, we are not on the teams of Democrats or Republicans; we are Americans, and the work under any administration depends on all of us, not only the incumbent’s electors. In his victory speech, the President-elect extended an olive branch to his opponents: “…I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.” As the stock exchange closes at an all-time high after a brief spot of uncertainty overnight, and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed strong interest in building an alliance between the U.S. and Russia, there is good reason to feel, at least, that the coming years may turn out well for America.

It is difficult to trust someone you once held an enemy to act in your best interests. It is nearly impossible to look beyond such a vitriolic campaign season and bond together with that enemy and put in a sustained effort. But President Trump will fail in his endeavors, and then he will fail again; and that will be okay, because the new president will have the greatest, most diverse and most dynamic nation to fall back on for support and guidance. The path forward to prolonged peace and prosperity, evident in an imperfect yet hopeful administration, is not to seek to destroy the new government; instead, to participate in it, along with all Americans, to direct it in such a way as to design a nation better for us all.

When you bet against a President for whatever reason, you bet against the most vulnerable citizens in his nation.

Donald Trump is soon going to be President Trump, and President Trump is going to need you, me, and all of us. If Cornell, and America, works on building this government together, then we might make something akin to greatness.

Megan Tubb ’13

Richard E. Ulbricht III ’17

Prof. Joanie Mackowski, English

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The path forward To the Editor:

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n Thursday night, I had a conversation with a black graduate student in which he described how he has spent the semester reeling from an endless onslaught of racist bullshit from faculty and colleagues, along with a dreadful display of apathy on the part of his department. In response to my friend’s plight, his committee masked a self-preservationist agenda with gallingly tepid concern, conveying in the most unrepentant of terms that the program’s reputation superseded a black student’s right to be treated with dignity or humanity.

In recounting the events to me, my friend described the rest of the country — or, at least, the rest of the country’s black people — as having finally caught up to his level of silently subdued rage and chronic uneasiness with those who claim to share his values. And though he uttered this sentiment in an understated, almost humorous way, it struck me as simultaneously tragic, profound and disquieting.

Indeed, I have spent the past few days teetering on the precipice between a renewed commitment to love and a desire to recoil from everyone and everything. I walked past a group of staff — whom I always go out of my way to acknowledge — and when one of them asked me how I was doing, I could manage only a desultory smile

and curt nod before hustling away.

To engage in any sort of civil dialogue with anyone, even a meaningless greeting, seemed to me an unbearable act after witnessing such a flagrant display of our nation’s love affair with institutionalized privilege and legally sanctioned bigotry.

Still, though, I must admit that I am more wary of friends than strangers. Sure, there are some people living in our nation with whom I vehemently disagree on a host of issues, but no amount of personal disgust, fear or anxiety will ever preclude me from engaging with them — especially since many of these tragically triumphant Americans remain deafeningly oblivious and woefully misguided in a way that brings me great sadness. Yet they are not so different from the people who continue to accuse them of driving a pointless skewer into the gaping maw of a wound that already threatens to bleed this nation dry.

There are few people to whom I can turn and even fewer whom I can trust, and I write these words with a temperament more resigned than resentful. For there is no solace or recourse to be found amongst my peers right now, since so many of them have clearly harbored an earth-shattering amount of ignorance and cowardice themselves, either through their tacit condoning, listless inaction or subconscious

support.

Yes, I now understand better than I ever have before, and with a crisp, chilling clarity, exactly how a nation founded on the presumption of universal liberty, respect and justice could demonstrate such hypocrisy from the moment its progenitors set foot on a land they did not own and ravaged its people.

I can see now how it was that human beings could legally own other human beings for nearly half a millennium without the world so much as blinking an eye. I now understand how, once freed, the victims of this horror and their descendants could be hunted, mutilated, murdered, discarded, neglected, abducted and dehumanized — tossed into an unending nightmare that so often takes the form of spattered blood, physical entrapment, psychosocial decimation and sobbing, convulsing communities — without a destinyaltering uproar from the people who had the power to prevent this all along.

So please, do not tell me this is the beginning of the end, because we have been living in the end forever, even if we continue to find ever more innovative ways to repackage our nation’s oppressive systems so that they seem more humane, more reasonable and more acceptable.

Consider, for example, that stocks in

private prisons skyrocketed almost soon as the outcome became clear.

This has been attributed to an anticipation by the market of increased arrests, which would inevitably arise from a combination of post-election riots and, of course, any subsequent policy shifts in criminal justice — all at the expense of the most marginalized lives. In other words, the wealthy and privileged in our nation chose to profit from the perceived and warranted outrage of the disenfranchised by hoping that, well, they would stay disenfranchised.

As I wrote before, but feel compelled to reiterate now: the truth about race is that we live in a nation born of, founded in and supported by racism. Our money bears the faces of racists, our national anthem was written by a racist and is based off a poem with racist overtures, and our institutions are adorned with the names of racists. We have consistently failed to nullify the spastic heartbeat and corrupted soul of this country, and we have gotten what we deserve. This is who we are we have affirmed, resoundingly, that we are frightfully unashamed of ourselves.

Naturally, as a person of color, my first and primary disappointments go towards the vast majority of white people. They have failed me, themselves, their nation, their families and the world by not heed-

ing the words and pleas of those who begged them to take this election seriously, warning them repeatedly that Trump’s campaign was indicative of a society wrought with division, hatred, mistrust, violence and, of course, oppression. The swiftness and almost enviable ease with which many of these same white people have recovered — shrugging and insisting that our daily lives (read: their daily lives) will be largely unaffected — does not even astound me as much as it should. Whether or not they have consigned themselves to this delusion in the core of their hearts remains to be seen, but the myopic nature of their comments shows a willingness to deny the power of symbols. Those who convinced themselves that a black president marked the end of racism in America are now faced with a president who has denigrated, disparaged, discriminated against, or otherwise endangered the lives of every group imaginable. Yet, fascinatingly, the outcry from these same people has been decidedly muted.

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

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ooking around, pop culture has been shaken. I personally blame Donald Trump. He’s made the people who make progressive taxation necessary choke a bit on their fruit infused water every time they see his name. If you’re technologically sound, you might’ve noticed the trend amongst the line of A-list celebrities that recently threatened to leave the country if he managed to win the presidency. Bryan Cranston became a man of God. Lena Dunham, who’s decided to step away from making black men feel uncomfortable, thought about dipping her toes in Vancouver. Cher cheekily said she’d move to Jupiter (That’s not going to happen, but at least Elon can get her to Mars). Neil Young told him to fuck off; YG brought an effigy of him on stage and had people beat it. Even Mr. Nice Guy, Frank Ocean, got in on the action. Point is — Donald Trump, among the savants of pop culture, isn’t popular.

Hillary Clinton didn’t get pop culture, either.

But she knew how to flex her funds to make it gravitate towards her. Her campaign was the politically correct version of Jay Z’s The Blueprint 3: diluted by mainstream trends, imbued with a touch of growing elitism, sponsored by the biggest brand names (Hello, LeBron) and burdened by the shaking sense that its best days was behind it. Beyoncé strutted around on stage to throw support towards her; Rae Sremmurd’s suddenly viral, always excellent, “Black Beatles,” hummed along as her team attempted the mannequin challenge.

Wherever you went, Hillary had shamelessly soaked up whatever commercial appeal there was to attract young voters. If I wasn’t forced to side with her, I would have called her antics plainly transparent.

But the election wasn’t decided by star power. It was won and lost by the underground, something the Clinton campaign realized too late. They’ve admitted as much: Wisconsin, thought to be the load bearing brick in the Democrat’s wall of blue states, fell on Tuesday night. So did Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. The odds of Trump winning all four of them were like playing the Powerball, but then again, last November, his odds of winning the presidency was a big fat zero. He didn’t just

The One Thing He Has to Do beat the odds — he buried it six feet under, insulted it and then proceeded to build a wall around it that gets 10 feet taller every time someone mentions it.

The problem for Clinton (and any poor soul that got trampled in his path — I am never going to forget his “Little Marco” quote), was that Trump tapped into the frustrated, rural, white vote. I’m not sure it was righteous anger.

Some of it was blatantly racist, xenophobic and frankly, appalling. But it was anger nonetheless.

Perhaps the most defining moment of the Clinton Campaign was the simple but memorable slogan “Love Trumps Hate.” It was a clever play on words, and casted a rather dichotomous feeling to the whole election. Love does trump hate! The problem was that the general electorate never loved Hillary the way she should’ve been. Blame it on the emails. Blame it on the Clinton Foundation. Blame it on the forever smug James Comey. But by the end, the people more or less accepted her only because who she opposed, or who had endorsed her. A lot of people tolerated her. But tolerance is still 70 electoral votes short of love.

On the other hand —– that guy. I’m not sure what else I can say about Donald Trump that hasn’t been said. The most dissected, psychoanalyzed, questioned, unpopular, flame inducing candidate in American political history has dominated the year. His rise inflamed the Black Lives Matter movement. He became a choice target for Colin Kaepernick. And, like it was said earlier, he became easy meat for pop culture fixtures. John Oliver is the funniest man alive in America, and whenever his comedy dips into the never ending cycle of Trumpism, it becomes must watch TV. Frankly, if you haven’t formed an opinion on Donald Trump by now, you must be a converted Movementarian.

“The Donald” didn’t rely much on star power. For a time, he was the modern John Tyler — the man without a party. He lashed at those who opposed him, and was denounced by multiple members of the GOP after the tape that was heard ‘round the world was leaked. He and Paul Ryan turned politics into performance art, where each took an increasingly passive aggressive dig at each other. But he won through the populist

route, the route, frankly, that each party had tossed away in hopes of an elitist utopia. He won through social media, he won through soundbites, vicious attacks that were unbecoming of the politicians he faced. The level of vitriol he embraced was satirical. At some point, his campaign devolved from a ground movement into a constantly whirring, hellacious, unfiltered parody of a parody. He did Mel Brooks proud.

But something’s changed about him recently. In the lead up to the election, his stance softened. He quieted down a bit. His Twitter became dull (His staff took it away from him).

In that moment, he might have realized the rising probability that he would become president.

I don’t think Donald Trump ever fully wanted the presidency job. It’s a stressful job, and unbelievably taxing on the human body. He’s an old 71, if not a very angry one. But watching him greet President Obama after his election night victory was something spectacularly above irony.

The same man who abused Obama through ludicrous suggestions that he wasn’t a U.S. citizen was smiling meekly, outstretching his hand for a shake as Obama beamed and declared they had an “excellent conversation.” Trump declared, to a press corps in disbelief, that it was an “honor” to meet President Obama.

Continuing on his victory speech tone, he was nice and respectful, perhaps a bit unsure. It would have been less shocking if Vladimir Putin had walked in shirtless with a fly fish rod.

But a swath of American could care less about the president elect’s reform. And why should they? He’s denigrated Mexicans, bragged about groping women and threatened a Muslim ban.

The joy of sect has dissolved. The anger at his victory has turned into marching and chanting, Facebook posts that call for unity, tears and frustration, confusion, infighting amongst families.

But while that has gotten the media’s attention, a larger, disturbing trend has emerged. Minorities, women, victims, have been attacked from the moment of the election. Supporters of Trump, extremists yes, criminals also, have been emboldened and inspired by their victory and lashed out at those against them The coincidence isn’t a coincidence; the abstract isn’t abstract. Real people are getting hurt. You hear stories that crawl up

through the muck of the internet. The girl at school who has her hijab yanked off (“I know of at least 50 instances of this happening in the past 48 hours.” Shaun King tweets, who is a reporter for the N.Y. Daily News). Or maybe it’s at Shasta High School in California where Latino students are given “deportation letters.” It gets worse.

Students posing next to the Confederate Flag, wearing blackface. An Indian guy who is greeted by “Time to get out of this country, Apu!” A Spanish speaking woman, never once harassed in her life, told to speak English when she has the audacity to speak her own language. African American men told to pick cotton; cars defaced by slurs. Students chanting “Heil Hitler” at local high schools. The number of acts keep growing by the day, and it’s hard not to find where the sparkplug is.

Donald Trump isn’t responsible for all of this.

He didn’t create appalling human beings, and he didn’t invent racism. But his whiplash rhetoric has fueled the growing hate and sexism in this country and led to others following his act. His presence has driven a feeding frenzy, and innocent, decent people are suffering because of it. It was easy to pass of his words as just that — words. But we’re past that. We’re past “Donald Trump can’t be serious” or “Donald Trump will never win.” We’re at Donald Trump, future President of the United State of the America.

Whether you like it or not, some people consider him a role model, so it’s up to him to accept the burden of being the most influential man in the world. He must denounce the kind of action that is going on in this country today, and call out his followers who attack others because of their race, gender or beliefs. Until he does, people who support him will continue believing their actions are acceptable. It isn’t. Proclaiming this moral mantle won’t solve everything. But if he’s committed to the idea of being a president for all American people, then I’d nudge him to this path. It’s not the necessary thing to do, or frankly, the practical thing to do. It is, however, the right thing to do.

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Inter Change Send submissions to Andres Vaamonde, alv49@cornell.edu. * Pair.

My brother, my son Asks for the Good Samaritan again Is our home neighbor the same Neighbor As your America neighbor, Didi?

An absinthe-marinated liver kind of fiend Who touches girls the way he wrestles bulldogs Makes me America sick from stale vapors The way vomit makes you want to vomit and pray For him, your neighbor, at the same time.

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Comment of the day “Oh c’mon. These Cornell “kids” are amazingly smart. And intellectually diverse. Thank God they care about the world. Thank God Cornell supports an environment of electricity in thought. At Harvard, where I live and teach, they watched the results and then turned back to their homework ... We have so much to be proud of as Cornell alumns and of our current Cornell population. Engaged concerned population. Agree, disagree, whatever — engagement is what matters.”

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A Fourth of July barbeque in the Outer Banks, The oil, the thirst, the sea.

Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

My brother’s shrieks of laughter pouring From his small mouth, watching the crab scuttle in circles Around itself like a broken windup-up toy.

Fireworks unshell, knock The wetness out of mothers and Fathers out of dirty reverie – Images of their neighbors dissolve and Piss begins to flow again.

The startled crab halts and my brother quiets and They both fold their legs, the crab beneath its discolored Shell, my brother beneath his narrow hips, Their black eyes seizing the other In silence, in thirst, like the sea.

Father approaches, the crab disappears In the sand in a blip in itself; God knows, the crab knows, the way we live.

My brother, my son Asks me if the crab found its way home alright, Shorely.

Here you can either Be a priest, a Samaritan, or a little boy. * Mark & Luke, a baby.

Old wine will burst new wineskins and The wine will be lost and so will the skins Because new wine is for fresh skins, And old wine has no place Like a son’s head on his sister’s shoulder, but he, a lawyer, desiring to justify himself – My brother, my son Desiring to justify me, pretends to be asleep. * Didi, can I come with you? So we can be neighbors? * Homeward.

I fall asleep in America with one of those books That makes you dream about a house “And its somewhere you know, but altered, Full of strange new [terrifying] rooms.”

The fire in the hearth of the house stands up And walks along the carpet Hunting for the portrait of my family To prove that fire takes better to oil Than we do.

Asleep, I slipped into the walls of the house, Trying to be the nail that holds the portrait In place, the way one kisses their mother goodnight To dull their fears of sleeping alone.

I wake far out in the sea I know, the Caribbean sea – Mother, father, my brother dancing with the crabs on the shore And I, watching Voice liquid, sunburned back face fingers, Paddle. * The poetry continues online at cornellsun.com Nisha Jain is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun.com. Sun Story Sundays appears Sundays this semester.

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anders / Castro 2020. Now that that’s out of the way, I want to make a few points about what just happened.

I grew up in a rural small town. My family was working class, as was everyone else. I stuck out a little because of my Middle-Eastern heritage, but for the most part life was great.

I had friends. My best friends were three brothers who lived on a local dairy farm.

We were schoolmates, we went to camp together and we spent time at each other’s houses. In the summer I worked with them as a farmhand, which was my first ever job.

One of the brothers rallied to Trump’s cause very early on.

This didn’t bother me too much, at least not in itself.

What did bother me were the things he began to post on social media. “Nuke the Middle East” is one example. “Deport all goatfuckers” is another. This is someone I grew up with, someone I respect. Someone who is currently in basic training, preparing to serve his country in the armed forces. In other words, not a bad person.

When I first saw these words, I was confused. Didn’t he know that I was Middle-Eastern?

When I mentioned the subject to my mom, she chalked his behavior up to “cognitive dissonance.” “He’s just a little off,” she said. “He’s not talking about you.”

I never took the initiative to confront my childhood friend, even through a Facebook message. After a while, his comments upset me less and less.

They even seemed rather harmless. Aren’t I lucky, I thought to myself, that I live in a society where his bigotry hurts him more than it hurts me.

I regret that line of thinking,

especially in the context of what has happened over the past few days.

Small acts are always important, but they are especially important in times like this.

The Republican party has made a number of disturbing promises to its base, and they have the means to fulfill those promises.

A good deal of progress stands

years. “A riot is the language of the unheard” is the popular tagline, but I believe that the real intellectual meat of the passage lies elsewhere. “It would be morally irresponsible [to condemn riots],” he says, “without, at the same time, condemning… the conditions that exist in our society.” This is an important point for people who hope to make a difference with their speech, their actions, and their effor ts.

Expressing an idea, even a true idea, can sometimes be morally irresponsible.

I contend that it is irresponsible, for example, to make too much of the backlash against third party voters. It is true that people have the right to vote for the candidate they want, but the fact of the matter is that multiple groups of people stand to be victimized in much more real and profound ways.

It’s like seeing a drowning man and complaining about the weather.

I contend that it is irresponsible, for much the same reason, to preach patience and togetherness when hate crimes against Muslim-Americans are up almost 90 percent. It is irresponsible to focus on the outdatedness of the electoral college when much more harmful policies are about to be implemented. It is irresponsible to throw up your hands and denounce the entire system while the system still has the power to do harm.

What is done and said over these next few weeks will shape the anti-Trumpism movement for years to come. Let’s start off on the right foot.

A good deal of progress stands to be unmade. We have to be ready to make it all again. to be unmade. We have to be ready to make it all again.

The branches of government are closed to us. Activism and organization are our only recourse, and this mode of action is as potent as it is dangerous. It rises or falls on the basis of small acts, as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther and Colin Kaepernick clearly show. Small acts make movements, but they can also unmake them.

Perceived hypocrisies or character flaws have undermined many a progressive’s attempts to do good work.

Speech is not merely a precursor to action, it is an action in itself. I urge people to be extremely careful about what they say over the next few months. Consider what Dr. King said in response to riots that had broken out among some of his supporters during the civil right movement: “It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society… I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

This particular quote has been widely circulated in recent

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornell.edu. Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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What do you think when you think horror? A rated R flick that tries to scare the daylights out of you? Recently, rated R has become a dying art replaced by PG-13, a much bigger and more profitable demographic. But does it work? It does in The Haunting (1963) (rated G) and Lights Out (recent PG-13 flick) but doesn’t always, as with the 2014 film Ouija. People went to see it because it was a Ouija movie on Halloween, so, of course, they made a sequel, or really a prequel, Ouija: Origin of Evil.

The trailer seemed promising enough, and I was hopeful that this film would work as a PG-13 flick.

But, should director Mike Flanagan have made the film an R rating? Note, I will not be talking about one of the producers Michael Bay, as he is already talked about so much. I will say that there are no explosions and over-sexualized women.

I’ll give the film this: the effects are decent, and there is one awesome scene. Character’s eyes flawlessly change to white to signify that they been possessed. The demon’s appearance is realistic but looks too much like Sauron from Lord of the Rings, especially when a yellow eye is seen in the darkness of someone’s mouth. And, the demon entering the main possessed girl, Doris (Lulu Wilson), looked funny with the overly stretched mouth. The choking motif leads to interesting visuals, such as when Lina’s mouth mutates until it is sealed shut.

By far, the best part of the movie is a slow closeup of Doris’s face as she describes how it feels to be “strangled to death.” Her monologue is done in one take, and the delivery is incredibly uncanny. In fact, Doris was my favorite character because of how creepy she was, and Wilson did a great job giving light to this peculiar kid character. I just enjoyed every time she was on screen, and I felt like there wasn’t enough of her. There were even scenes focusing on the mother, Alice (Elizabeth Reaser), and Doris’s older sister, Lina (Annalise Basso) that involved an in-depth conversation while Doris does frightening things in the background. Keep the camera on her!

Unfortunately, this film suffers from a lot of holes and a boring set-up. I went to see a horror film but saw a lame attempt at a feel-good movie. Alice was a good character, but Lina and her “boyfriend,” Mikey (Parker Mack), were just flat stereotypes. Taking Mikey out of the story would change nothing. Lina is a stereotypical rebellious teenage daughter. Yes, she

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lost her father, but that’s the only character trait we’re given. We never find out anything else about these people. Doris is picked on by bullies and is socially isolated, but we’re never told why.

How is she different?

And, what happens to the bullies? As seen in the trailer, Doris makes one of the bullies accidentally shoot himself with a slingshot, but we never hear anything about them again.

I wished Alice had more depth. She seemed to be a major focus in the trailer, and opening, but was more passive as the film progressed. I thought she would decide to buy the Ouija board on her own since it makes sense to help her business. But, the only reason Alice buys one is because her daughter tells her it would be a good idea. I wanted the whole family to be fun con artists that enjoy scamming people, which would play nicely off of the ghosts taking advantage of them in the end. Instead, they’re good people who are just trying to get over their father’s death, something overly discussed in the film.

I understand that kids are always vessels in these films, but there has to be some reasoning behind it.

For example, when Alice starts asking the Ouija board questions, Doris is somehow already under its spell as she answers from upstairs. Why? Is it because she’s the youngest kid? Even later in the film when Alice yells at the demon to take her instead of her daughters, the demon says that she’s not a good vessel. I laughed out loud at that part. Can you somehow outgrow being a vessel?

The film’s scares range from creepy to just plain silly. Doris, when possessed by the demon, takes over people by whispering in their ear, which produces a creepy image. However, Doris whispers into Lina’s ear earlier in the film, but she doesn’t react until later whereas the effects are quicker on everyone else.

Jump scares are not utilized entirely, which is nice, but the scares can be lame. For example, there is one scene where the ghost pulls the sheets off of Lina.

And, before any suspense can be built, it cuts to the next day. That’s a big problem with the film.

Scary things happen with Doris, but there’s no build in suspense.

The first half focuses on Alice, posing as a medium, who utilizes the belief of ghosts to help people move on from a loss, so no suspense is built there. And, once Doris can actually communicate with the supernatural, we’re supposed to be fooled into thinking that the ghosts are good. But, it’s obvious that the ghost she’s communicating with is evil.

We’re watching a movie entitled Origin of Evil.

SPOILERS: the demon is a supernatural Polish con artist. The big “twist” is that the people com-

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municating via the Ouija board were all really the demon. I like the consistency of the con artist motif, but so much for a powerful supernatural entity. The priest literally tricks the demon into answering one of his questions wrong when at a séance by repeating what he wanted it to say in his head. I guess demons don’t have all-knowing powers like in other films.

Continuing with plot holes (SPOILERS), the ending with the father ex machina and last scene with Doris make no sense. Why is the father helping now? Why is the demon letting him be seen? And, why does Doris appear on the ceiling in the last scene about to attack a guard at the insane asylum?

Doris dies by having her mouth-sewn shut, so she leaves peacefully into the next world. They collect Alice’s body, but Doris’s goes missing for some reason. And, why is she still evil? Didn’t the entity leave?

How can she attack the guard? Doesn’t this break the continuity of the first film, even though no one cares about that one? Ahhhhhh!

As an aside, Ouija is a game with many rules, but these films act like there’s only three. These three are constantly broken throughout the film. In fact, the first time a Ouija board is used is with Lina and her friends, and they break a rule by breaking the circle.

But, instead of the entity coming after, and killing, Lina, it focuses on Doris. The filmmakers had such a disregard for the rules that Doris starts saying “Blah, blah, blah” to start her séances since they happen so frequently.

So, is the film worth watching? Well, I’d say see it for that one scene with Doris’s monologue except it is in a trailer. So, I’d say watch that instead because in context it makes no sense in the film. This ruins the monologue because it’s said to the wrong character, Mikey, instead of someone who experiences choking.

And, as far as the PG-13 rating, I’m sorry. It would have been better as an R. It feels restrained and censored. It would have been more enjoyable if it went all the way with its intention, making a memorable, frightening horror film. It should have built suspense and displayed grotesque visuals. Maybe show Doris’s face and expressions as her mouth is sewn up or even a wound when Alice is stabbed. But, no gore here. Why? Because it has to appeal to the most lucrative demographic. I’m disappointed because I saw the potential in this set-up, characters, strangle motif and crazy Doris. But, it was mostly a nonsensical bore. Horror producers! The golden ties that bind are sealing my mouth shut! Cut my binds so we can make horror without being censored by a profitable demographic! I can’t breathe!

Trip Hastings is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at gh357@cornell.edu.

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top to end its five-game losing streak.

Hungry for its first win since Oct. 1, the Red pounced on the Lions, picking off Columbia quarterback Anders Hill on the first play of the game. A few plays later, Walker broke past the line of scrimmage on fourth down and scampered 27 yards into the endzone for his first career score.

“It just felt fake,” Walker said of finding the endzone for the first time. “It was just so wide open. It was fake. I came to the sideline and said, ‘Was that real?’”

If there was any doubt whether the score was real, it disappeared when Walker went on to perform twice more, scoring on 28- and 71-yard runs which looked almost identical to his first touchdown. He ended with 230 yards on the ground.

Walker’s third touchdown of the game was a 71-yard sprint to the end zone.

All season, Walker has been close to breaking out a big run.

On Saturday, he finally executed.

“It’s just learning,” Walker said about what he was able to do differently this time around.

“When you get back in the open, make sure to get your feet up.

I’ve gotten tripped way too many times.”

Walker and Archer both made sure to point out the effort from the offensive line, a group that made Walker’s career day possible.

Columbia answered right back with a pair of scores, dropping the Red into a 14-7 deficit in the first quarter.

With the ball back, Cornell shot down the field, determined to tie up the game. Senior wide receiver Ben Rogers hauled in a perfectly thrown ball from Banks for the touchdown.

Banks, after a series of games in which he struggled, looked calm in the pocket, alternating long downfield passes with short, efficient throws. He ended with 267 yards on 23-of-37 passing.

“He’s such a mature kid for a sophomore you forget that he’s just a sophomore,” Archer said.

“I probably put too much on his plate in the middle of the year we just tried to scale it back.”

One of Banks’ few imperfections on the day was a pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage and intercepted by a Columbia linebacker. The Lions would go on to turn the turnover into points, taking a 21-14 lead.

The Red tied it back up when Walker ran for his second touchdown of the game, but a field goal from Columbia gave the Lions the halftime lead. “[Trailing an opponent] doesn’t scare us,” said junior safety Nick Gesualdi. “We’re used to playing down, we know that there is always a chance we’re going to win and we’re never going to stop fighting. We fight to the end just like you saw today.”

Later in the game, Nolte’s touchdown catch was sand-

wiched by two Columbia field goals, and Cornell led by the narrowest of margins entering the fourth. A long, time-killing drive

by Cornell culminated in a oneyard run from Banks, putting the Red up eight with under 10 minutes to go.

In the past, the Red had seen similar leads dissolve as opponents orchestrate comebacks and send Cornell to stinging defeats.

But strong play from all sides of the ball ensured that would not happen.

“We had to take away all the little mistakes and no big plays,” Gesualdi said. “We thought we were the better team. We thought we had a better matchup if we keep doing what we practice all week. If we stayed technically sound, that we were going to win it.”

Yet, despite the confidence from Cornell, Columbia fired back, marching down the field for a 13-yard touchdown pass.

The Lions’ two-point conversion attempt came up empty when Gesualdi locked down Columbia’s ball carrier.

Cornell’s lead stood precariously at two with 6:26 left in the game. But that was when Walker tacked on one more run, this one the most important of his career.

The 71-yard touchdown made the game a two-possession contest with under five minutes to play.

An acrobatic Gesualdi interception on the ensuing drive effectively iced the game. And when Columbia’s onsides kick came up empty, the Red officially snapped its losing streak.

In the locker room after the game, the players chanted, “Empire Bowl!” and passed the trophy as the men celebrated the win.

“We’ve had so many highs and lows this season,” Archer said. “Recently a bunch of lows, and to see them respond, and play like this, as banged up as they are, to come away with a victory was just a great thing to watch. I’m just really, really proud of them.”

The team had pent-up frustration after a series of recent losses, many of which were close to falling in the Red’s favor, according to Archer.

“When you get close and you don’t come away with a victory, it’s really frustrating,” Archer said, “but to see guys just keep coming back and coming back and making plays, it was really cool.”

Fraser and the rest of the senior class are inching towards the end of their careers with Cornell. A victory on Saturday was important for the team to get back on the right track as the season’s end approaches.

“There was a lot of frustration but we pulled it off at the end and it’s an amazing feeling,” Fraser said. “We came in here determined to win. … We knew [Columbia] was going to come in and play really hard on their senior day. At the end of the day we made a lot of big plays and pulled it out.”

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season. Just seven minutes later, Bunton came back charging down the ice for her second goal of the game, assisted by sophomore co-captain Micah Hart.

Despite being up 2-0, the Red kept its foot on the pedal — the team ended up outshooting the Bears 3114 when the final buzzer rang. The Red scored its third goal of the game when faced with a six-on-three situation due to two Cornell penalties and Brown’s goalie pulled.

Bunton would later complete her hat trick at the 19:11 mark of the final period after another assist from Hart.

“We just brought it more in the third period,” Boissonnault said. “The first two periods were a bit of a slow start — not our best work — but in the third period after talking in the dressing room, we became

more consistent in our plays which successfully gave us a great score at the end.”

On Saturday, three different players for the Red scored their first goals of the season to help the Red skate past Yale 4-2. In Saturday’s contest, Cornell came out with a fast start, as Sophomore Diana Buckley scored just under five minutes into the first period. And six minutes later, Gerace scored a goal of her own to give the Red a 2-0 lead just over halfway through the first frame.

The Bulldogs drew the score to within one after a goal five minutes after Gerace’s. Yale then tied the game 2-2 in the second period, capitalizing on a power-play opportunity.

Freshman forward Grace Graham notched her first career goal at the 17:42 mark of the second, a goal that ended up being the eventual game-winner. Graham’s classmate and fellow forward Kristin O’Neill continued her early-season rampage and added an insurance goal

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last year’s campaign. Rauter’s linemate, junior Trevor Yates, has already scored a third of the goals he scored last year with goals at Harvard and Yale this season.

“We need all four lines rolling,” Starrett said. “I think that’s going to take us far this year — if we can have all 12 forwards, all six defensemen contributing in the goals column. [Senior goalie] Mitch [Gillam] will stop the pucks, so if we can keep the goals in the other team’s net then it will take us a long ways this year.”

It was also a tale of two

“As a group we really committed to blocking shots tonight,” Vanderlaan said following Yale. “I know I have to do it just like everybody else has to get down and do it as well. You have to be proud of both sides of the puck today.”

The two wins come at a huge time for the Red, both physically and mentally.

Dropping both these games would have meant a winless road trip to the travel-heavy start of the season.

Especially considering the injuries, Schafer said he was proud of his team’s performance this past weekend.

“It was huge, huge for us to get those wins,” he said.

“We need all four lines rolling ... If we can keep the pucks in the other team’s net then it will take us a long way this year.”

Sophomore Beau Starrett games this weekend in terms of special teams play.

Against Brown, Cornell was handed eight power plays — four in the first period — but came up empty-handed on every man-advantage opportunity.

Against Yale, Cornell’s fate was on the opposite end of the scoresheet. Nine penalties were committed by the men in Red, which was something Schafer was wary about against Yale’s potent power play prowess.

Schafer called Yale’s power play unit “dangerous,” especially with the everlooming threat of Yale’s captain and Chicago Blackhawks prospect John Hayden, who scored twice on Sunday.

Coming into Saturday, the Bulldogs managed to score on a quarter of power play opportunities and were granted nine chances against the Red. Thankfully for Schafer’s squad, the penalty kill unit came up huge and killed eight of nine power plays, helped in part to an astounding 28 blocked shots.

“We haven’t played a home game yet this year — five straight road games [to open the season] for the first time in history. [Going] 2-2-1 — .500 on the road — with all the injuries we’ve had is quite an accomplishment.”

Now when the team takes the ice to prepare for the upcoming weekend’s slate of games, there will be one key difference: Lynah Rink.

With roughly 1,800 miles traveled now in the rearview, the men of Cornell hockey will finally get a chance to play at home in front of the Lynah Faithful. Despite a strong showing of Cornell support on the road, it will be a welcome break to make the short walk over tp Lynah instead of Hanover, Providence or North Andover.

“We’ve been on the bus a lot,” Schafer joked. “We’re excited to play in front of our Lynah Faithful fans and we’re all fired up for Friday night.”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

just 33 seconds into the third period to put the Red up 4-2, her sixth of the season.

The Bulldogs came into Saturday’s contest averaging 4.14 goals a game, proving Cornell’s strong focus on defense had paid off by holding Yale to two goals. It was only Yale’s third time of the season being held to two goals or less.

“Since the start of the season our team has had a goal to be one of the best defensive teams in the NCAA,” Gerace said. “We knew that Yale was very offensive, and we stayed strong defensively and were able to limit their scoring opportunities. Our defenseman and goaltending was solid in both games.”

The women will travel to Quinnipiac and Princeton this coming weekend to face off against two teams that sandwich Cornell in the ECAC standings at fifth place.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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Wild Game Snaps Five-Game Skid

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

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NEW YORK — Chris Fraser does one thing exceptionally well for Cornell football: he punts.

After Saturday’s thrilling 42-40 win over Columbia, he can add game-changing receptions to his repertoire.

The three-time All-American punter caught a 33-yard pass in the third quarter of Saturday’s game that shifted momentum to Cornell, allowing the Red to knock off the Lions for the fourth straight year.

Trailing by three points early in the second half, Cornell’s offensive drive stalled, and it

Run Forrest, run | Sophomore running back Chris Walker had a career game, rushing for 178 yards and three touchdowns.

looked like the Red was going to have to give the ball next play, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks connected with junior tight end Hayes Nolte in the endback to Columbia’s offense.

That was when special teams coordinator Guido zone to put the Red in the lead for good. Cornell Falbo suggested to head coach David Archer ’05 that would add two more scores to keep the Lions at bay the Red try a fake punt. The Red had practiced the and win the Empire State Bowl for the fourth straight year. play throughout the season “You probably won’t hear the end of — one that originally CORNELL @ COLUMBIA it in practice this week,” joked sophorequired backup quarterback more running back Chris Walker about Jake Jatis to throw across the the play. middle. Yet time and time Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL A year ago, a field goal was enough again in practice, Fraser, the Cornell 14 7 7 14 42 for Cornell football to come away with play’s second option, was Columbia 14 10 3 13 40 its first, and only, victory of the season. open down the sideline and In that game, a 3-0 win at home, the made the catch.

Red and the Lions played sloppy offense, with neither Saturday was no different.

“I’m literally thinking to myself ‘I’m going to catch team assembling a semblance of a strong drive.

In New York City on Saturday, it would take a lot this ball,’” Fraser said. “Jake trusted me, he threw it to me and we made a big play and that really helped more than three points for the Red to come out on change the momentum of the game.”

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Hat Tricks Power HockeyTeams to Weekend Sweeps Women continue unbeaten streaks against Brown,Yale

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s hockey team came away from the weekend with four points as the Red defeated both Brown and Yale at home, continuing double-digit unbeaten streaks against both teams.

The last time the Red (5-2-0, 3-2-0 ECAC) lost to the Bears was in 2007. This weekend also marks 16 games undefeated against the Bulldogs.

Head coach Doug Derraugh said he believes that this weekend was a confidence booster for a team that came out last weekend with a couple of tough losses against RPI and Colgate.

“I think [this weekend] helped our young team to realize that we can find ways to win in the third period,” Derraugh said. “That was important after losing a couple of tough games late in the third [period]."

Senior forward Hanna Bunton recorded a hat trick and sophomore goaltender Marlene Boissonnault recorded a shutout on Friday to help the Red get past the Bears 4-0.

The game got off to a slow start, as both teams only combined for nine shots in the first period. The second period was also scoreless, but Cornell picked up the pace, outshooting Brown 13-4 in the period.

Cornell came out quickly in the third period and scored just over two minutes into the frame off the stick of Bunton for her first goal of the See W. HOCKEY page 15

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Consistency | With a hat trick against Yale, sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan has established himself as a goal-per-game player.

Primary and secondary scoring total 10 goals for season’s first wins

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Before the first puck drop of the season against Merrimack, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 laid out a firm goal for his offense: more secondary scoring.

Just under half of the team’s scoring last season was contained to four forwards, which is not a bad thing as long as the wins are flowing. But

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Back in the groove | Senior forward Hanna Bunton entered the weekend with two points, but left with a hat trick and two more assists.

towards the end of the season, a hole was powered by Vanderlaan’s first within the forward lines led the team career hat trick, the first for Cornell to into a long winless skid. since former Red center Tyler Roeszler So far this season, the team has its ’11 notched one against Colgate in usual suspects scoring — sophomore 2011. forwards Mitch Vanderlaan and “It’s been a while, so I’ve heard,” Anthony Angello sit among the top Vanderlaan said. “It was fun, a good goal scorers — but team effort tonight. the forwards Big win for us, so CORNELL @ BROWN beyond the first excited to keep line were the difmoving forward ference makers Game: with it.”

1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL against Brown.

While the team Cornell 1 3 0 4 The four scor- Brown is happy to see 1 0 1 2 ers during Friday’s some of its leading convincing 4-2 scorers finding the win over Brown scoresheet on a CORNELL @ YALE had only five comconsistent basis, the bined goals in emergence of scor1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL their careers enter- Game: ing depth has made Cornell 2 3 1 6 ing the night.

Cornell’s offense a 0 3 0 3 That number Yale two-headed threat became nine by in just five games. the time the final buzzer rang.

Sophomore forward Beau Starrett “We are getting offensive contribu- and junior forward Alex Rauter have tions from a bunch of people and we already surpassed last year’s individual need that to continue,” Schafer said. goal totals in just five games, although On the other hand, the 6-3 win Starrett was sidelined for a majority of over Yale on Saturday came from the See M. HOCKEY page 15 Red’s regular goal scorers. The win

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