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ILR Profs: CGSU Fight Mirrors National Union Trends

Say recruitment tactics, administrative disapproval adhere to historical patterns

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By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

The turmoil of student and administrative support and resistance surrounding Cornell Graduate Students United follows general patterns of unionization in American history, according to Cornell experts.

“Through the collective Prof. Alexander Colvin, industrial and labor relations, and Prof. bargaining process, Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and [employers] may lose labor relations, provided their expertise on unionization processes. some freedom.”

Opposing unionization — a response that typically stems from a Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg fear of losing control of workers — is often a reflexive response from management, particularly in America, according to Colvin and Ehrenberg.

“Why might employers not want unions?” Ehrenberg said. “It’s because they, through the collective bargaining process, may lose some freedom on how they’re running their business.”

Union and division | Cornell union experts say management officials typically resist unionization efforts in order to avoid losing executive power.

Pictured above is the Big Red Barn Graduate and Professional Student Center.

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Thousands Urge C.U.to Become Sanctuary Campus

By STEPHANIE YAN

fear.” The president-elect has repeatedly vowed to take action to deport millions of immigrants.

“We ask that you honor Ithaca’s tradition of being a place As of Sunday afternoon, nearly 1,500 students, faculty and of sanctuary as well as Cornell’s historical roots in the aboalumni have signed a letter — lition movement, by making an publicized Friday at 4 p.m. — “We ask that you honor Ithaca’s tradition unequivocal statement of supdemanding that the University’s port for undocumented persons of being a place of sanctuary.” administration make Cornell a and their families,” the letter “sanctuary” for undocumented says.

“Make Cornell a Sanctuary Campus” petition students.

The letter — drafted by over Citing the University’s “any 20 Cornell faculty and staff person, any study” motto, the letter’s authors expressed con- members with the support of many others — was written cerns for students’ safety in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s after faculty expressed concerns about “disturbing developelection, saying Cornell has a responsibility to “maintain an See SANCTUARY page 3 environment in which all of our students can learn without

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International Students Fear Trump Presidency

By ADITYA BHARDWAJ Sun Contributor

Borderline business | Many international students are unsure how welcome they will be at Cornell following Trump’s election. Here, Trump meets Ari Emanuel, brother of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, in front of the clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. yesterday.

International students were shocked

by Donald Trump’s rise to power — but even more than domestic students, they are concerned about their potentially volatile future in Trump’s America.

“My family expressed more surprise than concern after the election results,” Aishwarya Sreenivas ’21 said. “I don’t think an outsider like Trump could have ever bypassed the political establishSee INTERNATIONAL page 4

Cornell Senior Awarded Rhodes Scholarship Cornell biology major Ahmed M. Ahmed ’17 was named one of this year’s Rhodes Scholars, the Rhodes Trust announced Saturday.

Every year, 32 U.S. students are selected as Rhodes Scholars and can pursue degrees at the University of Oxford with full financial support from the Rhodes Trust.

Ahmed — whose family came to the United States from a refugee camp in Kenya — is a firstgeneration Somali immigrant, according to the announcement.

Ahmed currently conducts research on producing polyolefins in the laboratory of Prof. Geoff Coates, chemistry and chemical biology. He also serves as biology student advisor, biochemistry teaching assistant and general and organic chemistry tutor at the Learning Strategies Center.

As a member of Students Working Ambitiously to Graduate, Ahmed also mentors African American students at AHMED ’17 Cornell.

Ahmed received an award for his work as a teaching assistant in 2015, according to his LinkedIn page. The student also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity for two spring breaks and as an EMT on Cornell’s Emergency Management Services.

At Oxford, Ahmed plans to work toward a master’s degree in research in organic and medical chemistry, the announcement said.

Afterward, he hopes to attend medical school and pursue a career in academic medicine, according to the Office of Undergraduate Biology website.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

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C.U. Mentors Strive to Help Youth Reach Potential

Program brings at-risk Ithaca youth to campus,promotes community service,diversity

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Bursting the bubble | Cornellians say mentoring at-risk Ithaca youth affords them a unique opportunity to connect with and give back to the local community.

By TREY AGUIRRE Sun Contributor

Cornell’s chapter of College Mentors For Kids — a national mentoring program based in Indianapolis — is celebrating its fourth consecutive year of operations, according to the David DellaPelle ’17, the organization’s president.

Since its founding in 2013, the program has tripled in size and now serves over 100 elementary school students from the Ithaca area, according to DellaPelle. The majority of students involved in the program are considered “at-risk,” meaning they come from single parent households, families where neither parent has attained a college degree, low-income brackets or other backgrounds that put the

children at risk of not pursuing their full potential at either a college or a trade school.

“Whatever [students] want to do, we want to inspire them to achieve that,” DellaPelle said.

DellaPelle said there are 133 Cornell students — 105 mentors and 28 student leaders — and several faculty members and alumni, who oversee the administrative aspects of the organization.

DellaPelle explained that College Mentors For Kids is unique, compared to other mentoring programs, due to its “highly structured” nature. “[The program] actually brings the students to Cornell’s campus so they can envision a positive and successful future for themselves,” he said.

Each week, elementary school students visit Cornell’s campus

from all over Ithaca to participate in a variety of enriching activities focused on “community service, higher education and cultural diversity,” DellaPelle said. He added that activities range from visiting Cornell’s ornithology lab to ROTC-themed relay races and teamwork-building exercises in Barton Hall. This semester, mentors and their “little buddies” visited a petting zoo known as Ezra’s Farm, Cornell Orchards and the Cornell Dairy Bar. Each mentor is paired with a student who they directly work with for the rest of the year through structured activities designed to introduce students to the college environment and “inspire them to reach their full potential,” DellaPelle said.

“These kids live in Ithaca, but most of them … wouldn’t ever

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ments” in rhetoric toward marginalized groups after the election, according to Prof.

María García, history and Latino/a studies, one of three media contact representatives for the letter.

Faculty held a meeting last week to discuss “how we might respond as private citizens and as faculty,” García said.

“The letter is an immediate response to convey to our students and colleagues that we care — and that they are not alone,” she said.

“Over the next months — and years — we will have other meetings to discuss what we can do to protect the safety, privacy and intellectual freedom of our students and colleagues.”

The letter asks the

administration to release a statement denouncing violence and hate speech directed at immigrants, as well as provide legal and counseling services for Cornellians affected by new government policies.

The document also requests that the University guarantee funding for undocumented and international students, raising concerns about Trump’s promise to eliminate executive actions like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — a policy enacted by President Barack Obama that allows immigrants who came to the country as children to live and work in the United States.

Finally, the letter asks the administration to make the campus a space safe from U.S. immigration officials and refrain from releasing “information that

can make students vulnerable.”

“We cannot evade our responsibility to the present and the future,” the letter continues. “We ask you to stand on the right side of history.”

García said faculty were “not surprised” at the overwhelming support the letter has received from Cornellians.

“We expect many more will sign in the days to come,” she said.

“We are a caring community — Cornellians disagree about a lot of things, but we value safety and respect intellectual freedom.”

Involved faculty will meet Monday to discuss when to deliver the letter to the administration, she added.

The letter was inspired in part by the actions of several other universities — including Yale University, Tufts University and the University of

California, Los Angeles — which staged walkouts and published letters last week as part of the sanctuary campus movement, according to García.

At Brown University, a similar movement was blocked when administrators responded to a request for the university to become a sanctuary, saying that the college would not have the legal authority to protect undocumented students or defy federal mandates.

“While we wish we could offer absolute protection to members of our community who are threatened by possible changes in policy, it would be irresponsible to promise protections that we cannot legally deliver,” the university’s president and provost wrote.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

come to Cornell’s campus without this program,” he said.

“They’re learning about what college is and when they think, ‘My mentor went to Cornell and studied history. I too can study history’ — it’s really remarkable.”

DellaPelle said College

“Whatever [students] want to do, we want to inspire them to acieve that.”

David DellaPelle ’17 Mentors For Kids has achieved great success nationally, with 80 percent of mentees graduating high school and 76 percent of mentees attaining a two or fouryear college degree.

DellaPelle also stressed the importance of “allowing Cornell students to get outside their bubble.”

“It’s easy at Cornell to … stay on campus and not branch out into the community, and [this program] allows [Cornell students] to see what the Ithaca community is really like,” he

said.

DellaPelle said Cornell’s chapter of College Mentors For Kids’ aims to increase its mentormentee pairs from 105 to 120 in the spring and to expand further into Cayuga Heights — specifically the West Village housing community, which contains many at-risk children.

David Golding ’18, the organization’s vice president of programming, said he is especially excited for this expansion.

“Working with the children from West Village housing community has allowed us to fully carry out the College Mentors for Kids mission and really confirms the positive influence a mentorship program like ours can have, not only for the Cornell community, but also the greater Ithaca area,” he said.

DellaPelle said the most important aspect of the program is to “bridge the divide between Cornell and the Ithaca community.”

“I think that that’s kind of an overlooked benefit that this organization is providing to both Cornell and Ithaca,” he said.

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ILR Profs Call Reactions to Unionization Textbook UNION

that contact information.”

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The same is true for a university’s administration — which, much like a business, “would like to have as much freedom as it can in running the university,” Ehrenberg said.

“If a union vote passes, they are obligated to bargain with it. They would like to be able to do things that make sense just for them,” he said. “Not necessarily to do things that make sense from the graduate student's’ perspective.”

Solicitations and Subpoenas

CGSU’s frequent solicitations of students, as the body attempts to spread information and gain the number of members it needs to put unionization to vote, have caused some concerns among the graduate community. After acquiring a subpoena that allowed the union access to graduate student contact information, union representatives have frequently visited potential members at their offices, and even homes.

These types of solicitations are “one of the biggest challenges in union-organizing drives,” according to Colvin.

Because union members do not have the same workplace access as management, they are compelled to take more persistent measures.

“Unions somehow have to contact the workers. So how do they do it?” Colvin said. “They’ll often try and do things like “[The administration] home visits … They’ll would like to have as go to bars where much freedom as it can workers hang out — in running the university.” other settings like that.”

Requesting the Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg release of workplace information, as in the subpoena, ensures a fair election under American labor laws, he added.

“Management has all that information and can directly contact all the workers,” he said. “For fairness, if there’s going to be a fair election, union members should have all

Beneficiaries

Colvin also noted that union communications and organization are often “built around feelings of being treated unfairly.” “[Unions] tend to succeed more where there is that sort of justice issue,” he said.å Union campaigns tend to focus around three central arguments: economic, voice and justice, according to Colvin.

Generally, economic arguments are more tenuous, because there is no guarantee that management will increase wages during collective bargaining. Voice and justice arguments — which say the union can more powerfully communicate grievances than individual students — are stronger because they are “not dependent on management,” he said.

Even though unions insist on their desire to give a voice to the voiceless, they often face questions about ulterior motives, especially because of the dues unions require, according to Colvin. Ehrenberg agreed that there is an economic incentive for unions to gain members, as the union strengthens and collects more dues the larger it grows.

The divides between graduate students can also dampen the effect of a union’s arguments, according to Ehrenberg.

Recalling Cornell graduate students’ failed attempt at unionization in 2002, Ehrenberg said choosing to include research assistants in the bargaining unit — the portion of graduate students employed directly by the University — reduced the probability that the union would succeed.

Research assistants add more students from STEM fields to the bargaining unit, and these students “see pots of gold for themselves as soon as they leave, because the job opportunities for the STEM fields are particularly good,” he said.

Their future job prospects typically differ from the students who comprise the teaching assistants within the bargaining unit, Ehrenberg said.

“The graduate students who were often the most forceful advocates of the union are the people in the humanities and the non-quantitative social sciences, who may not see a great future ahead of them,” he said. “So their work conditions, while they’re [at Cornell], are very important.”

Int’l Students Anticipate Trump’s America

Many concerned about education, job search after graduation Sreenivas added that her parents are worried about her brother’s job prospects after his graduation from Stanford University. ment and still get elected in India.”

“The Trump administration’s Akhilesh Issur ’17, Student constant flip-flops on immigration Assembly international student liaipolicies certainly don’t help,” she son at large, said has spoken with said. many international students who Despite the general air of pesare concerned for their futures. simism, Issur argued that Cornell’s “I’ve been contacted by several attempts to reassure international international students regarding the students, with events like Breaking election results in the past few Bread and Vice President Ryan days,” he said. “There have been Lombardi’s message to the Cornell incidents of sexism and racism on community, have had a positive campus. We’ve encouraged people impact. to report these events using the Students also said they Cornell bias reporting syshave faith in the checks and tem and look out for each “[My parents] are seriously re-considering balances that the U.S. conother.”

Sahir Choudhary ’20 whether they should send my sister to the stitutional structure provides against arbitrary polisaid he fears Trump’s elecU.S. for her undergraduate degree.” cies. tion will inspire racist inci“I don’t believe the dents targeting minorities Sahir Choudhary ’20 Republican Congress will and international students. necessarily be looking to “As a Muslim, I was parHad the election results been pass anti-immigration laws,” Issur ticularly affected by Trump’s bigotry and divisive rhetoric,” he said. announced before he was admitted, said. “We should give the new “I’m even more scared, though, by Choudhary said he certainly would administration a chance to execute their policies before passing judgethe fact that many people now view not have applied to Cornell.

“I’d be looking at universities in ment” Trump as an enabler for their sexist Issur also remarked that the supthe U.K. and Canada,” he said. and racist behavior.”

Back home in India, Choudhary “Although the actual student visa port provided to international stusaid his parents are keeping a keen process in those countries is proba- dents from other minority groups eye on the events unfolding in the bly more difficult, there is a far within Cornell has been immense.

“The entire Cornell community more positive attitude towards United States.

“Although I’ve told them that international students and their job has really come together over the past few days, and the best way to things are better than they seem, prospects.”

Future job prospects are also a move forward is to stand in solidar[my parents] are seriously re-considering whether they should send major concern for international stu- ity with all those individuals who my sister to the United States for dents in the United States. feel marginalized by the new politiher undergraduate degree next Although he has been looking at cal scenario,” he said. summer internships in Florida and year,” he said.

Choudhary’s concerns have been Texas, Choudhary said he has since Aditya Bhardwaj can be reached at avb42@cornell.edu. echoed by many international stu- dismissed those possibilities.

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dents at Cornell. While the Trump administration’s specific policies on international students remain ambiguous, Issur said he worries Trump’s controversial anti-immigration stance may cause fewer international students to apply to American universities.

“The Cornell administration’s biggest fear is the possible drop in international applications,” Issur said. “Even though New York itself remains a largely liberal state, America’s overall image of inclusiveness and diversity has been damaged.”

A Letter from Management

Colvin explained that to suppress unionization drives, management will often issue statements that follow the lines of “standard management arguments.”

This argument includes doubts about the economic benefits a union may promise, cites past fair treatment as evidence to combat the need for unionization and points to the union as the outsider, according to Colvin.

All of these concerns were raised in Interim President

“Employer-established bodies are more limited in effectiveness because you don’t have the ability to structure your own voice.”

Prof. Alexander Colvin Hunter Rawlings’ Oct. 27 statement denouncing the unionization initiative.

To establish the union as the outsider, management will often say groups established by management itself are a more effective voice for employees, according to Colvin.

For graduate student unionization, this is the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, which Rawlings said in his statement has a “has a demonstrated record” of solving student-administration disputes.

Although groups like these have the ability to represent a larger group of employees, “employer-established bodies are more limited in effectiveness because you don’t have the ability to structure your own voice the way you want to,” Colvin said.

Management also typically claims that a union “interferes with the relationship between the workers and the managers, which is a close relationship,” according to Colvin. Rawlings claimed something similar in his statement, raising concerns about how interactions with CGSU would change the interaction between individual students and their faculty advisors.

Distinct Nature of Union Contracts

Colvin said this worry stems from a common misunderstanding of union procedures: the assumption that “all union contracts look the same — which they don’t,” he said.

In reality, union contracts follow different structures and push for different benefits. The contract negotiated during collective bargaining can be catered to the workplace, according to Colvin. While an industrial contract may ensure equal pay procedures for all workers, a contract for the NFL or Hollywood actors allows for individual bargaining.

Colvin said if he were a university president, he would negotiate a contract similar to that of the NFL, which would “set up certain rules and structures to govern that individual negotiation, but individuals still get to negotiate their own contract.”

The presence of a union may be very important in these individual relationships because “if the faculty member behaves badly in that type of relationship, then it could have tremendous adverse effects on the student,” according to Ehrenberg.

For example, faculty might attempt to keep students at Cornell “longer than what is educationally necessary,” Ehrenberg said.

“If there currently is not protection for graduate students in that situation, then hopefully one of the things that a union would do would be to try to negotiate some arrangements that do provide that protection,” he said.

University Limits Faculty Perspectives

Colvin refrained from speaking specifically about CGSU and the unionization effort at Cornell, citing personal beliefs about the role management — which includes faculty members in this situation — should have in the process.

“Generally I don’t think I should or any other person in a management position should have a role in the worker’s decision,” he said. “Any management shouldn’t be in a position of being able to communicate during organizing campaigns.”

Following these guidelines, the University’s Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Faculty sent a notice to faculty on Aug. 25, cautioning faculty members about speaking with students on CGSU. “You can listen to graduate students if they voluntarily express their personal views or other information, and you may share your personal views, in a non-threatening, noncoercive manner,” the notice reads.

Several professors, when contacted by The Sun for their perspectives on unionization, declined to be interviewed for this reason.

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Man With a Movie Camera Stylistic innovation, substantive rumination

BY LORENZO BENITEZ Sun Staff Writer

When asked to analogize Russian documentarian Dziga Vertov, who died in 1954, to a more contemporary artist, I have difficulty locating an answer. For a lot of other filmmakers, this isn’t so. The work of Akira Kurosawa, cinema’s most refined master of breathtaking spectacle and intelligent kineticism, can be aesthetically paralleled to the maximalist records of Kanye West, whose symphonic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy remains among the most rousing and epic of this century’s popular music. The philosophical films of director Terrence Malick, which follow characters ambling aimlessly through existence in search of earthly salvation, parallel the music of Sufjan Stevens: thematically in their shared Christianity, aesthetically in how their subdued emotional intensity is conjured by sporadic acknowledgements of quiet wonder. Dziga Vertov, on the other hand, defies easy categorization.

In Man With a Movie Camera, which screened at the Cornell Cinema earlier this semester, we witness cinematic innovation that barely registers because of our familiarity with the filmic techniques it introduces. But that does not blemish the merits of what is still, to this day, considered by a respected many to be among the greatest films ever made. Indeed, its relentlessly avant-garde form literally demonstrates the hypothesized limitlessness of cinema. This is not only because of its Marxist attentiveness toward history’s working class, nor its ethnographic rendering of the mundane necessities alongside the sincere pleasures of daily life, but because its meta-textuality that makes the medium into the subject turns the art form in on itself. Nothing can escape the interrogative eyes of cinema,

even cinema itself.

And indeed, the interrogations prompted by Man With a Movie Camera, a seemingly shapeless documentary edited together purely through aesthetic association instead of narrative chronology, question the efficacy and purpose of the medium without losing any of the complexity of their other questioning. In representing the world so candidly, Vertov detachedly invites us to consider both the relationship of the medium to the world, and the world itself.

To be swept up by the eclectic, but refined, curiosity of the film is to allow your thoughts to wander while under the elegant guidance of a filmmaker intent on provoking philosophical inquiry.

The images of urban Soviet life may prompt one to contemplate sociologically the idiosyncrasies of organized society, or ponder metaphysically upon the spatiotemporal structuralism of the physical world. Indeed, the breadth of Vertov’s riveting images are mirrored by the breadth of potential thoughts they conjure. And all the while, Vertov reminds us that we are watching a film, and all that that entails. To what degree does film mediate the phenomenal world?

Vertov asks us to consider the difficult balance between obfuscating and clarifying that underlie the most effective aestheticizations of the world.

It therefore shouldn’t surprise one to learn that much of the editorial techniques that we today take for granted were pioneered in Vertov’s cutting room. The slow motion, jump cuts and split screens are among the many techniques that make their debut in Man With a Movie Camera. Isn’t it fascinating that something like a filmic technique could have once not existed? A technique, a nonphysical entity, is a concept. Are they “invented,” or “discovered?”

The formal innovations of Man With a Movie Camera don’t sit as

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impressive sideshows to the film’s very essence.

Instead, the history of cinema, the possibilities of its future, the arbitrary of nature authorship and countless other notions of artistic expression are all a consequence of form. Make no mistake, this film is among art’s most formally daring experiments. It probably blew open the minds of many inter-war Soviet cinemagoers for whom its visual distinctiveness would have signaled an aesthetic awakening.

Ultimately, as a film constantly heralded for its contributions to the development of cinema, Man with a Movie Camera demonstrates the potent co-existence of stylistic innovation and substantive rumination. It deeply rewards

through its breadth of focus while preoccupying us with the specificities of the medium.

Lorenzo Benitez is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com.

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Romance, Blood, Calamity:

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Murder Ballad at Risley Hall

BY KATIE SIMS Sun Staff Writer

Murder Ballad is just what you want out of a Friday night as Risley Theater.

It’s fun and exciting, a little bit messed up, well executed and small-scale. The musical has four main characters — a woman, her two love interests and a narrator. It’s a fairly typical New York City love triangle. Sara (Ana Carpenter ’19) is stuck between the respectable NYU poet and the sketchy downtown bartender.

The show follows her heartbreak with the bartender, Tom (Spencer Campbell ’19), starting a family with Michael (Milo Dominguez ’20) the poet, and then realizing that just being a wife and a mother is not enough.

Musically, Murder Ballad is just as split as Sara. It’s a rock musical and a pop musical, depending on whom Sara is leaning towards in that scene. When Sara is with Tom, the music is charged and exciting; late nights, leather jackets and passion. When she’s with Michael, the music is as calm, caring and as poetic as he is. The two themes are smart and helpful. They do a great job of keeping the music from becoming monotonous, as can happen when musicals don’t have enough variety. The quartet sing well together and play off of each other. Ana Carpenter’s voice stood out in particular.

The entire play is narrated by Judelle White ’17. She kept the story on track

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and gave it the necessary context. though they’re older, married and have a Without her role, the play wouldn’t child.

What I find particularly amazing function. She’s in charge. The Narrator also brings some comedic relief and about the play is how interesting it was weirdness to a play at risk of being over- despite often being very topical. Despite dramatic. Her expressions and body lan- the fact that many parts of the musical guage during some scenes, where she is boiled down to archetypes and clichés, it judging Sara’s actions, are major high- was fresh and exciting. The moments lights of the show, although they’re small that were expanded apart and new and and quick. She is constantly managing inventive came at just the right time. the mood, context and timing of the musical, and really steals the show at the end.

Murder Ballad put the group in a hard spot, requiring rapidly aging characters to be played by college students without so much as a full c o s t u m e change.

If there’s one spot where the play is lacking, it’s that the characters look and act like college stuCAMERON POLLACK / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR dents, even

Katie Sims is a freshman in the College of Engineering. She can be reached at ksims@cornellsun.com.

Poetry in a Time of Crisis

dmittedly, during times of intense roles other than the stereotype of an up one of the many online and literary crisis or panic, most people aren’t apolitical romanticist. Perhaps the older replies published in the days that folrunning around asking what the conception of the poet — as a trouble- lowed. On November 9, poet Danez poets think. My own interpretation of maker whom Plato would not want in Smith released the piece, “You’re Dead, this fact is not that people don’t care his ideal Republic — might be all the America,” a work driven at first by what poets have to say. It’s rather that more relevant in the coming years of anger and disgust, then marked by a they don’t believe in any reason for lis- difficulty and turmoil we’re about to shift towards communal resolve. tening to them (a faulty judgement that experience. Certainly, it’s easy to see Through sparse, understated lines, I suppose amounts to the same result). If that there could be usefulness in some- Smith recognizes the American project we experience social upheaval, for exam- one using language to understand and as a political failure — not only groundple, what good would reading reflect on the emotional experiences of ed in pain and hate, but also caught up Wordsworth do? If we encounter history in palpable manifestations, why read a poet to understand that history? It Perhaps the older conception of the poet — as a would seem a bit strange to seek out an troublemaker whom Plato would not want in his ideal art form known widely for its inherent lack of political value to understand our Republic — might be all the more relevant in the common daily lives, permeated by policoming years of difficult and turmoil we’re about to tics as they are. After all, it’s an estabexperience. Certainly, it’s easy to see that there could lished fact that poetry is useless.

But if there’s one growing sentiment be usefulness in someone using language to among poets and readers today, it’s at understand and reflect on the emotional experiences least the opposite of Auden’s famous axiom, “poetry does nothing.” I’ve of our present moment. heard many people disagree with this notion, and I would say that nowadays many of us could be willing to accept our present moment. in a failure to address that violence: that poetry, in all of its forms, does “It’s like the election wasn’t just an “you’re dead, America//& where you “something.” Now, what it might do is election but the portal to a horrifying died/grew something worse.” I also find up for debate. alternate reali- it interesting that Smith’s poem was But I believe ty,” wrote published through Buzzfeed who, fortuwe’re seeing a poet Kathleen nately, has been a frequent publisher of growth of readRooney fol- pieces which address current political ers and poets lowing the situations. In contrast, Hannif Williswho recognize s u r p r i s i n g - Abdurraqib’s work, “The Day After the that poetry can f o r - s o m e Election I Did Not Go Outside,” Appearances become, at its events of addresses the more heartbreaking expecore, proNovember 8. rience of this moment in history, a feelfoundly politiWhile this ing captured vividly in the lament, “oh cal and historicomment rep- country, my new and brief country. how cal. This also means poets can begin to resents only one emotional response to I walk from you/ full & into the wrecktake on different cultural and social this month’s election results, it makes age. how I wish you everywhere

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There’s comfort in a vaguely familiar story, and they build off of that in a way that is exceptional.

Small theater is supposed to be lively, a little bit interactive, bold and engaging. Murder Ballad did just that.

now./how I try to taste you in the air instead of blood.” The piece articulates a sensation of smoothness, memory, pain and nostalgia. Its power is channeled first through physical imagery, until the speaker commands the reader to “make a border around any place you are loved & call it yours.”

Here, we might even see how Abdurraqib is addressing a simple but salient question many of us felt after the election: what do we do now? How can we confront the future? In instances like these, encounters with poetry and poets demand that we must change not only our societies and cultures but also ourselves. Perhaps this might amount to the first step in a broader series of changes whose importance everyone believes is so paramount in a post-election world. For me at least, poetry has helped stir this realization: if we are to continue into Trump’s divided, violent America, we must be able to understand each other. Not in a broader, bi-partisan sense. Don’t try to understand racists or the hateful. But for those of us who have identified the sickening moral backdrop of the Trump campaign, we must learn to live in radically different ways. In this dead America, which will eventually waste away under both systemic and interpersonal violence, we must “make a border” around ourselves and the communities that protect us.

We should, as Abdurraqib says, “build what/ you must to keep the devils out.”

Stephen Meisel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Justice for Marsha Jean-Charles To the Editor: On September 21, at 4 p.m., Marsha Jean-Charles walked out of Caldwell Hall into the afternoon sun, surrounded by friends and greeted by supporters. She’d just finished presenting her case clearly and calmly to her appointed Graduate Grievance Review Board, after nearly four months of navigating Cornell’s grievance process. A hearing with a GGRB, composed of a board chair plus two anonymous faculty members and two anonymous grads, is the fourth and final step of this process. One way or another, Marsha felt ready for a decision — for closure.

Six weeks later, Marsha was still in limbo. Incomprehensibly (and as the policy listed on the Graduate School website fails to make clear), a grievant is not entitled to access the recommendation of the GGRB. This document is sent directly to the Provost, who is singly responsible for the final decision. There is no prescribed timeline for the Provost’s decision.

At six weeks, Marsha had heard nothing about her future here at Cornell: not from the Provost, and not from the Graduate School, even in response to her inquiries.

At a subsequent Union-Management Committee meeting, Maggie Gustafson, CGSU’s Grievance Chair, pushed Barbara Knuth, the Dean of the Graduate School, for any information on the decision. Dean Knuth replied that she had nothing to do with the Provost’s decision and refused to give an update. The next morning, Marsha, with no explanation for the delay or sudden break in silence, received a copy of her GGRB recommendation and a projected timeline from the Provost’s office. She would learn the outcome of her case

by November 18. On November 18, having heard nothing, Marsha reached out to the Provost’s office and was informed that she would instead hear the decision after Thanksgiving — once more, with no explanation. She’s been left waiting again, powerless.

According to University policy, there is no further action she can take.

In the six long months since Marsha filed her grievance, she has been given little reason to think the University’s grievance procedure is fairly administered or designed for her benefit. In several rounds of phone calls and emails, she was discouraged by Graduate School officials from pursuing the grievance. Arbitrary deadlines were set for meetings or phone calls, even though those setting the deadlines knew that Marsha was out of the country and would be unreachable. When it came time to hold a GGRB hearing, the members of the board were chosen secretly, and unilaterally, by the Graduate School. Every step of the way, Marsha has been treated as the villain, rather than the victim, by administrators — she felt like she was on trial.

That Marsha has put herself through all of this is itself an achievement, of sorts. No grad has made it all the way through the process in nineteen years — a fact that speaks less to the lack of grievances among Cornell grads and more to the incredible hardship the process itself entails for a solitary grad. Grads are expected to put their heads down, do their work and avoid disrupting business as usual by doing something as audacious as filing a grievance against their employer. If they do, they can expect a war of attrition.

This case is unique in its publicity, but not in what it reveals about the reality of the power dynamic and the oppressive culture of bureaucracy here at Cornell. Among other things, departmental politics may have contributed to the extreme unfairness of Marsha’s case. That provides an even better argument that we need real change in the policies that dictate the terms of justice for grads.

There will always be departmental politics in academia. But we can level the balance of power through improving the advocacy and processes which are supposedly here to help grads. In Marsha’s case, her chair and her special committee were not consulted, or even notified, before she was defunded. Even they could not protect her from the unfair treatment she has received. The current system only works when nothing goes wrong. The minute there is an issue, it leaves grads vulnerable to the whims of individual faculty and administrators who would prefer not to disturb the status quo. The interpersonal relationships, personalities and egos of faculty or administrators should not make or break a graduate student’s success, happiness and future at this University.

If Marsha were in a union at a grad local elsewhere, she would have access to a collectively bargained grievance procedure. (See, for example, the contracts from the Graduate Assistants United at University of Florida, Article 22, the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation at the University of Oregon, Articles 13 and 15, and the Coalition of Graduate Employees at Oregon State University, Article 18.) There would be a clear, binding timeline for advancing the grievance process. She could have a union representative with her at every step. The administration would submit its proposed resolution in writing at every stage, which Marsha could appeal. And most importantly, she could call on a third-party, neutral arbitrator to make the final decision. In short, if Marsha had a union, she would already know the fate of her graduate career. More importantly, that fate would have been decided by a fair, transparent and timely process in which she had a voice.

In the meantime, Marsha waits. We call on the Provost to reinstate Marsha’s funding and to guarantee that her progress toward degree be judged only by her chair and her special committee, as it should be. We call on the Graduate School to stop bullying and silencing grads who come to them for help. And we call on Cornell grads everywhere to join us, as we fight for our voice and our rights. Become a member of Cornell Graduate Students United. Sign CGSU’s Statement of Solidarity, and talk to your colleagues about what needs to change and how we can accomplish it. Vote “yes” to be recognized by Cornell in the coming election. Then work to help craft a contract that benefits us all and build a culture of advocacy at Cornell that ensures justice for those who need it, when they need it.

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Quantum Computers Are Game Changing

t’s okay if you don’t know the differOf course, this is just an example. ence between quantum computer and People aren’t building quantum computa flux capacitor. Even if quantum com- ers to predict football. People talk about puting seems complicated, its implica- cryptography and optimization (which tions are easy to understand. Although require keeping track of many interacting they sound like something out of a sci-fi states), but the area quantum predictions novel, these things are going to change the stand to change the most is predicting the world. Quantum computers are going to economy. People expected that with revolutionize our ability to predict com- advances in computing would predict economic indicators like inflation, stock plicated phenomena.

Quantum computers are good at mod- returns and unemployment with accuracy.

Obviously, this hasn’t been working eling complicated things because they exploit quantum uncertainty, the principle out. In 2008, we had a financial crisis. No that an electron can be in two states at one realized we had spread risk pervasively once. Simply put, they are good at multi- around our financial system because nortasking compared to normal computers mal computers that compute sequentially because normal computers calculate one are not suited to make economic predicthing at a time. For example, if I add one tions. As you can imagine, economic deciand one on a normal computer I get two. sions are not sequential.

On a quantum computer I can add one and one and get zero, one or two I’m optimistic smart people because I can add any combination of zero and one will work out this out because together at the same time. there is so much potential for Predicting sports highlights this difference. quantum computing.

Normal computers are great at predicting baseball. If you’ve seen Moneyball, you know People make decisions simultaneously and what I mean. In 2002, the Oakland those decisions interact. Quantum comAthletics made the playoffs by building puters have a better chance at predicting their team purely based on statistics. economic indicators because they account Although the movie didn’t bring it up, I for all these states by superimposing them.

Of course, quantum computing still imagine computers made that strategy has some bugs. Untangling results from a possible by crunching the numbers.

Computers are well suited to making quantum computations is tricky because baseball predictions because baseball is we can only observe an electron in one mostly sequential. The pitcher throws a state. So, if I want to add one and one, I pitch, the batter swings, the fielders make a can get zero, one or two, but may not play and repeat. Obviously, certain things always observe right answer. I will only happen simultaneously. A runner can steal observe two with a certain probability.

That being said, I’m optimistic smart a base, during an at bat for example.

But, it’s very different from a sport like people will work out this out because American football, where things happen there is so much potential for quantum simultaneously all the time. In football, computing. Predicting sports is fun, but there are 11 players on each team. Players predicting the stock market and uneminteract and make at least two or three ployment is world changing. That’s my individual decisions. Keeping track of all schtick and I’m sticking to it! This is my these things to make predictions across a last column this semester, so stay tuned few plays would overwhelm a normal until the spring for more. computer. Quantum computers are game Eric Schulman is a senior in the College of Arts and changing because they can efficiently Sciences.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

In Sickness And in Health N

othing reminds me how disgusting I am like the common cold. When I get sick, both my entire body and everything I touch become covered in a thin layer of mucus in some really twisted and slimy version of the Midas Touch. I get breakouts from cold sweats. I put what little hair I have into what can only be described as a “man bun.” I am physically repulsed by the thought of putting on pants that are not pajamas. When my nose is runny, I have to carry around an entire box of Kleenex and a plastic bag. I recently ran out of tissues, so I’ve been carrying around a roll of toilet paper everywhere. When my nose is stuffy, I’m incapable of eating or drinking without pausing every five seconds to take a breath. It’s a harsh reminder of my own body and all of its processes, all of its yucky painful processes.

In a weird way, though, I kinda like getting colds. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t love not being able to breathe through my already messed-up nose (Thanks, deviated septum!) or waking up to pee three times in one night. I don’t love sickness, I just sorta like being sick.

Whenever I’m sniffling and coughing and using my Mucus Touch, I’m reminded of how it takes some sort of external justification (other people knowing I’m sick, and them knowing that my grossness is because of being ill) for me to accept my disgustingness in public. I wonder if I should care less about how I’m being perceived in public spaces. Maybe I care too much, or too little, or maybe I care a healthy amount.

Hear me out: I think there’s an unabashedness to having a cold. As in, there’s something liberating to being explicitly gross and doing so in public. I stand by the belief that most people are pretty disgusting in general, and that we’re socialized to hide all the disgusting stuff we do (hence why that stuff disgusts us in the first place). But when you’re sick, all those social norms seem to go out the window. So what if you’re in Libe Cafe and you have to double-fist orange juice after using a roll of toilet paper to wipe your leaky-faucet nose? You’re sick. You, the gross, disgusting, beautiful human being, are justified in being … that way. You’re sick, and visibly so. You get a free pass.

I don’t like to think of myself as particularly self-conscious.

I once walked around my high school for an entire day dressed as Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, mustache and all. Still, I think everyone — even those who seem the most unapologetic in their own presence — are deeply insecure. It’s impossible not to be, especially when we’re constantly under scrutiny, thanks to both the public nature of living at a college and the ubiquity of social media. Admitting you’re insecure is hard; it’s essentially admitting you don’t fully and wholly love everything about yourself, even if you really try to. And we do really try to, don’t we? All these Dove-Love-Yourself-Or-Else campaigns paradoxically make it more difficult to admit that, despite all your efforts to accept yourself, sometimes it’s still tough.

Whenever I’m sniffling and coughing and using my Mucus Touch, I’m reminded of how it takes some sort of external justification (other people knowing I’m sick, and them knowing that my grossness is because of being ill) for me to accept my disgustingness in public. I wonder if I should care less about how I’m being perceived in public spaces. Maybe I care too much, or too little, or maybe I care a healthy amount.

Or maybe none of anything I just wrote made any sense and this entire column is a result of me being drugged up on Nyquil. Did I actually write this, or is this another one of my surreal dreams? Who knows? That Nyquil stuff ’s powerful.

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Comment of the day “After reading the articles about Trump in this newspaper, it is clear that Cornell suffers from a lack of understanding of who Trump is, and how he won the election. This is the expected result of having professors and teachers who have failed to provide the diversity of ideas necessary to understand the political landscape of our country.”

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Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

Finding a Voice in Other Places

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f you’re here for an in-depth issue, there are hundreds of orga- as important to the meaning of thinkpiece on what happened nizations and non-profits or local citizenry as turning up to vote on two weeks ago, you’re in the government departments, that election day. We need to care a wrong place. I don’t want to give are one phone call (or a few little more about politics during you my hot take on how Hillary blocks) away. Don’t ignore those the other 364 days of the year, missed the rust belt Forgotten or excuse yourself from engaging especially if we weren’t feeling too Man, or talk about Trump sup- in them just because you’re upset hot on the morning of November 9. Yes, liberals need to figure out porters who are boycotting about the outcome of election.

Are you worried about the rest of America. The rest of Hamilton and writing “Trump” on their Starbucks cups. By this whether our constitution will be America, in turn, needs to figure point we’ve seen all of this time upheld objectively? Donate to out liberals too. The United and time and time again on our something like the American States has a lot of healing to do.

Facebook newsfeeds. Instead, I’m Civil Liberties Union. Is it Let’s start that healing by looking going to talk about the less sexy important to you that the United at some non-partisan starting side of politics. More specifically, States be a hospitable place for places.

So find your issue, and find the side that requires people like refugees? Start here in Ithaca, and you and me to step off our reach out to the organizations out how you can try to make Cornell campus and out from that are preparing for the arrival whatever community you live in behind the comfort of a column, of 50 refugees in the coming look a little more like an America and into the world that we think months. Concerned about repro- that you’re proud of. Or don’t do and learn and write about every- ductive rights for women? any of these things, but at least day here. There are millions of Donate to Planned Parenthood, don’t forget that you can. The options —here in Ithaca, and or follow the lead of many electoral college decided that around the country — that Ithacans and reach out to the Trump is president, but it didn’t enable citizens to impact our Ithaca center directly. Think bar you from participating in the America communihe’ll be runties in ways ning for the that no vote For each issue, there are hundreds of next four could begin to do. It’s organizations and non-profits or local government years. Will s m a l l time for disdepartments, that are one phone call (or a few actions like appointed these solve Democrats blocks) away. Don’t ignore those or excuse all issues and excited that a Republicans yourself from engaging in them just because Tr u m p to reconnect presidency with those you’re upset about the outcome of election. presents to resources. a progresThursday after the election, at 8:40 in the Trump’s Twitter crusade on the sive agenda? Of course not, not morning, my American political New York Times foreshadows even in mass accumulation. But campaigns class was particularly how he’ll treat journalists during if enough people are proactive, it packed. One slide in lecture read, his administration? Buy some will certainly provide a counter“There’s tons of research on vot- local and national news subscrip- current to backwards movement. ing and election day, but very lit- tions as holiday presents for your There’s strength in that.

I didn’t intend to write a pretle research on political engage- family. Is climate change a major ment that does or does not hap- issue for you? Write a letter (or scription for how people should pen the other 364 days of the call) your representatives urging act or feel in response to this, and year.” I’m not sure if it was even them not to appoint a climate if you had asked me two weeks meant to make a point, but it change contrarian to head the ago, I wouldn’t have predicted an did, because we now find our- EPA. The list could go on, but outcome in which I have to. But selves moving into that sweet the point stands: even if you’re I feel like the alternatives here are spot that doesn’t directly book- doing something small in being naively optimistic, which end the presidential election. It’s response to Trump, it’s better would be a disservice to many more important now than ever than nothing. He is our presi- people, or fatalistic, which would that we don’t tune out. We don’t dent-elect and he will affect the be a disservice to all of us. For need to wait four more years for national agenda in ways we can’t the next four years, complaining another presidential election, or control, but don’t underestimate (or writing a column in The even two more years for the the impact you can have on your Sun) is not going to be enough for any of us; Republicans or midterm, to have agency in our locality.

Whether you’re in the “let’s try Democrats. communities again.

Whether you want to invest to work with Trump and see what money or time in movements happens” boat, the “I’m moving you care about, you have options. to Canada” boat or the “I voted Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be Pick the thing that worries you for Trump and my candidate reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com.

— or excites you — most about won” boat, having a collection of The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this a Trump presidency. For each movements to get behind is just semester.

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Max Van Zile | Guest Room

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Four Ridiculous Opinions About Trump

n these ridiculous times, it’s tempting to take ridiculous positions; after all, we have a ridiculous President-elect. From his golden hair to his stubby fingers, Trump is a caricature of American wealth, power and superficiality. Of course he’ll lead us into outlandish positions.

These are a few such positions. Regardless of your political beliefs, don’t let yourself fall into any of these traps, and you’ll be an island of sanity in the ocean of weirdness that political debate has become.

Donald Trump should be assassinated. I shouldn’t even have to include this, but I’ve heard more assassination talk bandied about by my friends on the left than I’d have guessed, and #AssassinateTrump even trended on Twitter. Even as a joke, language like this is dangerous and stupid, and to even sorta halfway believe in it is morally bankrupt. Violence shouldn’t be part of the political process; that Trump himself has violated that norm doesn’t excuse anyone else doing it.

Donald Trump is striking a blow against entrenched Washington interests. Not so far he’s not. Trump has spent the first days of his presidency naming

prominent lobbyists and political operatives to all sorts of important roles. Marc Short, who until recently ran the billion-dollar Freedom Partners lobbying network, is now a close advisor to Mike Pence. Michael Catanzaro, the head of Trump’s energy transition team, was a partner at a lobbying firm whose clients included the petroleum giant Koch Industries. Trump’s chief of staff is the former head

no real ideology or personal convictions. They bet — wisely, it seems — that they could use his Saturn-sized ego and complete disinterest in policy to pass their program of tax cuts, reduced social spending, prolife legislation and opposition to gun control and environmental protection.

Whatever his differences with Republican orthodoxy may be, Trump lacks the personal ideals

Court justices overturn Roe v.

Wade and you accidentally get pregnant in Texas, you’ll either start shopping for strollers or make a trip east — assuming you can afford to. #NotMyPresident is selfabsorbed, petty, entitled liberalism at its worst. We’re one country with a system we’ve collectively agreed upon to choose our leaders. According to that system, Trump won the election

Regardless of your political beliefs, don’t let yourself fall into any of these traps, and you’ll be an island of sanity in the ocean of weirdness that political debate has become. of the RNC. Barack Obama called Trump a “con man”; Marco Rubio called him a “con artist.” If politicians as far apart as those two agree on something, it’s probably true. In fact, Trump is a con man and he’s always been one, an unwitting vehicle for establishment conservatism who became a populist because he loves the roar of the crowd.

Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell don’t even think that Trump is a real conservative, they just know that he has

and political savvy required to translate them into policy. If you voted for Trump, you voted for establishment conservatism. If that’s what you supported anyway, you made the right move. If not, you got conned.

Donald Trump is not my president. Yes, he is. If Donald Trump issues an executive order, it will apply to you. If Donald Trump starts a war and, with Congress’ help, initiates the draft, you will be drafted and either go to war or jail. If Donald Trump’s new Supreme

fair and square. Therefore, after he’s inaugurated, he will be your president.

If you think that Trump is an unqualified fraud who fell assbackwards into a job he doesn’t even understand, then the best thing you can do is oppose him on principle, not abandon your civic responsibility and run to Canada, or cover your eyes and pretend he’s not there.

Donald Trump can be supported without, at least indirectly, supporting racism. Trump’s campaign was openly based on racial

animus. His remarks about Hispanics, Muslims and blacks — Paul Ryan himself called his attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel “the textbook definition of a racist comment” — have made him a hero to white nationalists across the country. His political profile was built in the first place on baseless accusations that the first black President was an illegitimate, foreign-born Kenyan.

He’s named Steve Bannon, head of Breitbart News, as his chief strategist; former Ku Klux Klan Grandmaster David Duke said Bannon is “basically creating the ideological aspects of where we’re going.”

Not all Donald Trump supporters are racists; in fact, implying that they are only strengthens him. But racially charged language was an essential part of Trump’s appeal. So if you supported him, you have, regardless of your personal feelings towards people of any color, indirectly supported racism.

This column originally appeared online on November 18, 2016.

Jack Kim is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

Ruth Weissmann | A Word to the Weiss

The Rise of the Sticker Selfie L

ast Tuesday, along with just over may have made references to the way woman. I wanted that sticker in part half the country, I voted. (Only small children act when toys are taken because I wanted the world to know 55 percent of voting age from them. Incidentally, the only fami- that I was a proud voter, that I wasn’t Americans cast ballots. Come on, peo- ly member who had gotten a sticker ashamed of taking part in the election, ple.) I drove the 48 miles to my home- was my youngest brother, who had that I was exercising a right that hadn’t town, a region projected to be a deep scored a Future Voter one. And while I always been present for my demoshade of red. It was nearly an hour into know that who does and does not get graphic. But I also wanted to show my enemy territory, all to participate in an “I Voted” sticker does not matter, Instagram feed. person and fulfill my civic duty. My that your vote is counted with or withSharing voting updates across social family piled into the car and drove to a out the proof fastened to your shirt, media is certainly not unique to this church a few blocks over; we even took that absentee votes don’t get stickers election, but the Internet has grown my youngest brother along, despite his either, I was saddened. I had wanted to tremendously in the last four years — not being able to vote until 2020. And do what my friends and family had it’s become something used with frethere, in a rec room turned voting booth, I cast my ballot.

When I went to I wanted that sticker in part because I wanted the world to know get my “I Voted” sticker, the kindly that I was a proud voter, that I wasn’t ashamed of taking part in grandma volunteerthe election, that I was exercising a right that hadn’t always ing informed me that they had run out of been present for my demographic. But I also wanted to them. In its place, she show my Instagram feed. offered me a very sweet homemade floral bookmark — laminated, no less. Now, I vote because I believe deeply in the been doing: posting their sticker selfies quently by all ages, not just college studemocratic process and the idea of par- and voting photos up, back and side- dents testing out new apps. And in that ticipating in your government, but I ways across social media, revealing to time, we had become more comfortable wanted that sticker. I had expended the world that they, too, had been to with online disclosure. Even considering the particularly polarizing tensions considerable effort to vote in my dis- the voting booth that day.

Eventually, I had to take a step back of this year’s election, I was surprised at trict, in person, and I deserved that sticker. I was not content with the and ask myself why I was so down- how many of my friends and family trodden about not getting a sticker. I posted something on Election Day. bookmark, however sweet it was.

My family gave me a fair about of mean, there are several countries Why the frenzy? Well, the main virtue guff (i.e., they harassed me all the way where citizens cannot vote, where of social media is that it validates us — home), teasing me for being so deject- women cannot vote, and where no one in our choices, in our image, and in the ed about not receiving a sticker. They is afforded the chance to vote for a things we stand for and the people we

associate with. People posted their sticker selfies on November 8 because not only were they proud to have voted, and they wanted people to validate that.

This election was so much about social media. So much about appearances. Celebrities took sides, political commentators turned lies into laugh track, and mainstream media battled with social media over who was skewing the truth. In a way, it felt right that this election, fought so much over Facebook and Twitter, should end there as well. Things come full circle. But whichever side of the aisle you sit, sticker or not, post or no post, anyone who voted was still a voice in this democracy For my part, I have since resigned to my lack of sticker — we all have bigger fish to fry.

But something tells me I won’t have to worry about being denied an “I Voted” sticker ever again — I’ve heard talk that my family is conspiring to buy me a whole roll for Christmas.

This column originally ap peared online on November 18, 2016.

Ruth Weissmann is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Penn’s drive had run out of time and Cornell jogged towards the locker room. But the refs motioned for the team to come back, claiming that Penn head coach Ray Priore had called a timeout with six seconds left, giving the Quakers one more shot to add to their lead.

Solomon would go on to score his second touchdown of the day, dropping the Red into a 28-13 halftime deficit.

Penn furthered its lead with some deception of its own in third quarter. With the Quakers on the Cornell seven-yard line, Torgersen lateraled the ball to Nick Demes, a 6-foot-4, 280pound offensive linemen. The senior thundered into the endzone for the score, giving Penn a 22-point lead.

Cornell showed flashes of the team that orchestrated a stunning comeback against Colgate earlier in the season when the Red tried yet another trick play. Backup quarterback Jake Jatis lateraled the ball to Rogers. The receiver again waited patiently until Jatis and launched the ball to the quarterback who fought through two Quakers for a 23-yard gain.

“Jatis made an unbelievable play,” Rogers said. “That was completly him on that one. It was fun, you like to go out there and try to make something happen and luckily we were able to.”

Banks’ ensuing touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Marshall Deutz shrank the Penn lead to 15 points.

Cornell had a chance to further cut into the deficit when sophomore cornerback DJ Woullard made his first pick since his two-interception day against Bucknell in the season opener.

But Penn’s defense made sure nothing came of the mistake and intercepted Banks on the very next play.

The Quakers’ added one more touchdown and killed the clock, capturing the win and the conference title.

Despite the loss, Rogers and senior captain and linebacker Jackson Weber mentioned that the work of the senior class has helped the program make strides towards winning conference titles.

“You come into a place like Cornell and you want to win a lot of football games, you want to win Ivy League championships,” Weber said, “but over that, you want to leave the place better than you found it. … Like the classes that came before us, we’ve been laying the bricks, we’re continuing to build.”

While the loss is certainly stinging in the moment, Archer, with his eye perpetually on what is next, knows preparing for next season begins now.

“We hit the recruiting trail,” Archer said. “We have to recruit and develop players and keep pushing it in the right direction.

If you recruit guys like these [Rogers and Weber] and some of their buddies, it’ll keep us going in the right direction.”

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

Sports

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MEN’S HOCKEY

After Loss to Bobcats,C.U.Bounces Back toTop Tigers

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Nearing the end of the third period, sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan darted towards the goal crease as a defender pulled him to the ice. A ricocheted shot sent the puck fluttering towards Vanderlaan, who tipped the puck in from his skate to give Cornell men’s hockey the go-ahead goal against Princeton.

The officials gathered to review the play and determined that Vanderlaan did not intentionally kick the puck into the net, which would have waved off the score. It was a gutsy play from Vanderlaan, who also gained a penalty on the play when the Princeton defender dragged him down.

After trailing by two goals early in the game, Cornell (33-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) would go on to top Princeton (0-6-1, 05-1), 4-2. It was a much needed victory after losing at home to Quinnipiac (9-3-1, 5-1-0) on Friday night.

On the go-ahead goal, Vanderlaan was not entirely sure who scored when his teammates started to celebrate.

“I got [the puck] back to [freshman defenseman] Yanni [Kaldis] who threw it at the net and then I got taken down,” Vanderlaan said. “I got up and everyone was celebrating and the guys told me it went in off of me.”

Vanderlaan added a second goal shortly thereafter off of a Princeton turnover to put the game out of reach and secure the victory for the Red. While Vanderlaan’s goals were crucial to the win, it was his play in the second period that really turned the tide for Cornell, who trailed after the first period, 2-0.

“Mitch came out in the second period and had one of the best periods of hockey that I’ve seen from a kid in a while,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “He was a workhorse and I think all of the guys fed off of him and got their feet going.”

Vanderlaan stepped up at the right time, as Cornell desperately needed a jumpstart at the start of the second period after a sluggish early going.

“It was a slow start and not the start we wanted,” Schafer said.

In the first period, Princeton capitalized off of sloppy play in both zones by Cornell and pestered senior goalie Mitch Gillam.

“We made some huge mistakes behind [Mitch] tonight and turned pucks over,” Schafer said. “He bailed us out one time and couldn’t bail us out the second time.”

Princeton forward Eric Robinson put the Tigers up 1-0 on a power play goal. Cornell responded with a stretch of pressure and generated a few scoring chance, but the team could not get the puck into the back of the net.

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Magnificent Mitch | Sophomore Mitch Vanderlaan’s pair of goals in Saturday’s game against Princeton helped Cornell overcome a two-goal deficit.

Junior forward Alex Rauter streaked down the left the side of the ice and connected with a shot that just deflected off of Tigers’ goalie Colton Phinney’s pad. Phinney later denied a chance from sophomore forward Anthony Angello to preserve the tight lead.

In what would continue for much of the night, both teams made several mistakes, which allowed for several scoring chances on the power play. In the first period, Princeton capitalized on its power play, while Cornell could not.

After Princeton killed a late power play opportunity for the Red, the Tigers counterattacked and scored another goal to break open a two-goal lead just as the first period wound down.

In the locker room during the intermission, Schafer encouraged the team to play with more energy.

“We weren’t working, we weren’t competing,” Schafer said. “We came out [in the second period] and moved our feet in all zones, which was supposed to be one of our keys going into the game.”

Cornell generated consistent offensive pressure from the start of the second period to the end. Princeton struggled to keep the puck out of its own zone.

After Phinney denied several Cornell shots, junior for-

ward Jared Fiegl came through for the Red, ripping a shot into the top right corner of the net from the slot. The goal was assisted by sophomore defensemen Alec McCrea and Brandon Smith on the power play.

Cornell maintained the pressure for the remainder of the period and almost had a second goal off of a blistering shot from senior forward Jake Weidner. The shot just clipped the post after Weidner broke free from the Princeton defense on another power play.

Following the Fiegl goal, Cornell tied the game on a power play goal from junior forward Trevor Yates. It was the first Red power play goal in 22 attempts.

“This year with the amount of power plays that we are getting, to see one go in the net was huge for our confidence,” Weidner said.

Vanderlaan’s pair of goals in the third period allowed the Red to complete the comeback and earn its first win at home this season.

Cornell will look to carry the momentum of the win into action next weekend when the team takes on UNH (5-5-2) at Madison Square Garden.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

FOOTBALL

Red Unable to Prevent Penn’s Championship

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Fueled by the promise of a conference championship, Penn football played like a team on a mission on Saturday, out-running, out-tackling, out-maneuvering and, overall, out-playing a Cornell squad hoping to derail the Quakers’ coronation ceremony.

Piling up 527 yards of offense on Cornell, the Quakers bulldozed their way to a 42-20 victory in Ithaca on Cornell’s senior day. With Princeton’s victory over Dartmouth, Penn earns a share of the league title for the second straight year.

“This game I really thought we were competitive up until the end,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “We just couldn’t overcome some of the things that you have to overcome to be able to beat a championship-caliber team.”

Cornell ends its season 4-6, the best finish in Archer’s four-year tenure as head

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End of the road | The loss ended Cornell’s season and dropped the Red to 4-6 on the year, a three-win improvement over last year.

coach and a marked improvement from the Red’s one-win seasons from 2014 and 2015.

Archer had tremendous praise for the senior class, whose leadership he’s praised consistently throughout the season.

“These [seniors] have pushed us to where we’re a competitive a football team right now,” Archer said. “That’s not easy, you have to be a true believer and you have to put in so much extra work to go from noncompetitive to competitive.”

In the seniors’ final game of their careers, Penn got on the board first when the league’s leading rusher Tre Solomon punched the

ball in from one yard out. The junior gained 173 yards on ground in Saturday’s game.

Cornell’s offense was sluggish on the first drive, but began to find a rhythm as the first quarter matured. Last week, a fake punt was critical to the team’s win over Columbia.

Against Penn on Saturday, Cornell used a trio of trick plays to try to stay in the game.

The first of the three was sophomore running back Chris Walker’s 35-yard pass that ignited Cornell’s first scoring drive of the day. Two plays later, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks lofted a pass to senior Collin Shaw for a touchdown.

Cornell threatened again five minutes into the second quarter, but the team’s offensive momentum was derailed when Penn’s Mason Williams picked off Banks in the endzone. It was the first of three interceptions on the day for Cornell.

The Quakers got the ball back and marched down the field, eventually scoring on a five-yard run from quarterback Alek Torgersen.

The Red used a little more trickery in the second half to close the Quakers’ lead to eight. After the snap, Banks flipped the ball to Walker, who in turned tossed it to Rogers.

The senior patiently waited behind the line of scrimmage and then launched the ball to Walker who danced past three Penn defenders for the score. “[Rogers] has been lobbying me [to throw the ball] for four years,” Archer said. “He was a high school quarterback and I got to personally recruit him. Last game, let it rip.”

In his final game in a Cornell uniform, Rogers notched 84 receiving yards and and 81 passing yards. He ends his career in the top-15 all time in program history in allpurpose yards.

“Why not pull out all your tricks in the last game?” Rogers said. “We’ve had that in our back pocket for a while. It worked out that we were getting the coverage that we wanted.”

Later in the half, the Red thought it had escaped to halftime, trailing by just eight.

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