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Prof. Aziz Rana, law — who heads the coalition’s Legal and Policy Working Group — explained that the coalition, primarily composed Around 100 faculty members formed the of Cornell faculty, was the result of a widespread Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy last desire to make the sanctuary petition more “cross campus.”

“The initial main pe“Members also thought it was essential to provide the main tition was an effort that sanctuary petition with as much support as possible.” predated the formation of the coalition,” Rana said.

Prof. Aziz Rana “The members also thought it was essential to provide Monday, hoping to advance a petition to make the main sanctuary petition with as much support the University a sanctuary campus for undocu- as possible, both in terms of publicizing it and mented students, according to the coalition’s media representatives.

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Rawlings pledges to defend DACA Cornellians

By STEPHANIE YAN

grants who entered the country as children and are protected from deportation — will remain in place for undergraduates.

Responding to a recent letter demanding All DACA students will be able to receive that Cornell become a “sanctuary campus” for the same need-based financial aid as U.S. citiundocumented students, Interim President zens and incoming or transfer DACA students Rawlings reaffirmed the University’s intent to will remain eligible for need-blind admission, “stand with every Rawlings said.

Cornellian.”

Addressing the “We are determined to ensure that all letter’s In a statement request to released Tuesday — can participate fully and freely in the support undocuafter the sanctuary mented students’ life of the institution.” petition garnered mental health, over 2,000 signaRawlings cited CorInterim President Hunter Rawlings tures from students, nell’s “wide array” of faculty and alumni information and — Rawlings addressed concerns about the counseling services a a resource for students to future of undocumented students at Cornell utilize. during Donald Trump’s presidency.

The interim president added that the Rawlings stressed that the equal status the University is “committed” to keeping student University offers to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival students — eligible immiSee RAWLINGS page 3

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Cornell men’s hockey defeated UNH at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday in the Frozen Apple. A game highlight was a penalty shot goal from Alex Rauter that electrified the crowd and gave Cornell a 3-1 lead. See more on page 12.

Two Fraternities Report Burglaries dent, said he called the Ithaca Police Department promptly after the encounter. He added that the IPD identified the robber as a white male A television — worth at least who was approximately 28 to 30 $1,000 — was allegedly stolen from years old.

Pi Kappa Phi’s fraternity Pi Kappa Phi brother house at 55 Ridgewood Road early Thursday morn- “I come downstairs to get a glass Austin McLaughlin ’18 said the brothers are uncertain as ing, four days after brothers at Beta Theta Pi reported of water before going to bed and I to how the burglar entered their house. that two unidentified thieves start hearing noises.”

“We think all doors were had stripped their house of locked so we don’t know several valuable electronics.

Dan Cadena ’19 how they got in,” Pi Kappa Phi fraternity McLaughlin said. social chair Dan Cadena ’19 Another burglary allegedly said that he was at the house over robber I yelled at him to get out and Thanksgiving break, when he heard he ran away and into a car. He made occurred at Cornell’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, located at 100 noises at around 1 or 1:15 a.m., it out with only our big TV.” Cadena, who was the only resiprompting him to grab a broom he See BURGLARY page 4 dent in the house during the incifound on the second floor.

By JOSEPHINE CHU & YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editors

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Not again | A television was allegedly stolen from Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, located at 55 Ridgewood Road, early Thursday morning.

“I come downstairs to get a glass of water before going to bed and I start hearing noises, so I grabbed a broom that was on the second floor,” he said. “And when I see the

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Ithaca Ranked 25th Best City for New Graduates Of 382 cities, Ithaca places fifth in lifestyle, but fourth worst in affordability

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

Ithaca was ranked fifth in the lifestyle category and 25th overall in ValuePenguin’s best cities for new graduates, published this month.

A personal finance research and analysis website, ValuePenguin ranked 382 metropolitan areas across 27 data points, drawing most of its data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The lifestyle ranking was based on the city’s amenities — including entertainment — further educational institutions and recreational establishments, in addition to the general demographics of the city. The ranking “prioritized choice, recreation and the proportion of single, well-educated graduates.”

The city also ranked 22nd in the jobs category, reflecting lower unemployment rates for the college educated population in relation to the general population, but 379th — the fourth lowest of all cities — in affordability.

ValuePenguin assessed affordability according to nine factors including “rent, levels of student debt, transit, food, utilities and property costs, as well as the poverty level for graduates.”

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Singles in your area | Ithaca’s high ranking in part reflects its proportion of single, well-educated graduates.

Top NASA Official to Visit Cornell, Speak on Mars Exploration Dava Newman, the deputy director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will detail NASA’s progress in planning human exploration of Mars at a lecture next Thursday.

The organization is currently researching technology — including solar-powered propulsion and space agriculture — that will design long-term missions in which “explorers NEWMAN will be practically independent from spaceship Earth,” according to a release from Cornell’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. NASA aims to have “boots on Mars” within the next two decades.

“The innovation required to achieve a human mission to Mars cuts across science, human exploration and technology,” the release said. “It builds on what has gone before, while driving the next advances.”

Newman was nominated to her position in January of 2015 by President Barack Obama and began her term on May 18 of that year, according to the release.

Newman is also a professor of astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducts research, focusing on how low gravity affects human biology, and works to design technology to optimize astronaut locomotion, according to MIT’s website.

The lecture will take place on Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. in B14 Hollister Hall, and is free and open to the public.

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Rawlings Pledges to Maintain Aid to Undocumented Students RAWLINGS

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information private, after the sanctuary petition requested that the administration decline to release any information that could place students at risk of deportation.

“We are determined to ensure that all can participate fully and freely in the life of the institution, that we embrace the diversity represented by those who join our campuses and that we support and defend the most vulnerable

among us,” Rawlings said.

Rawlings did not respond to the letter’s request that Cornell resist a future “intrusion” of immigration officials on campus. Responding to a nearly identical petition, Brown University’s president and provost said in an op-ed last week that as a private university, Brown would not be legally able to defy any such federal mandate.

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ensuring that there were other complementary statements and letters.”

Rana said he views sanctuary petitions, which have surfaced on campuses around the Ivy League, as appeals to

“What [these petitions] are calling for is for these universities to stand by their own principles.”

Prof. Aziz Rana universities’ values of “openness as a center of education and learning” and “commitment to anti-discrimination and egalitarian principles.”

“What all of [the petitions] are calling for is for these universities to stand by their own principles and, specifically in the context of undocumented students, to ensure that undocumented students are able to continue to study without fear of deportation or threat posed by the government,” he said.

Rana also addressed questions on the legal feasibility of forming sanctuary campuses, specifically at private universities, where several colleges have been hesitant to commit to resisting federal mandates. In a statement, Brown University adminis-

trators said they did not have the ability to provide students with full legal protection, while Columbia University pledged to resist immigration officials’ investigations if they had not obtained a subpoena or warrant.

Cornell’s Coalition for Inclusive Democracy plans to request that the administration decline to “actively cooperate” with efforts to deport students, although it is unclear what actions the University could take if pressured by a subpoena or warrant, according to Rana.

The widespread inconsistency in campus responses to sanctuary requests stems from uncertainty “about how far the university can actually go in resisting laws that come down,” according to Rana.

“The way that I read the Brown position was basically that they’re going to do everything they can to the extent within the legal means they have,” he said. “But they’re noting that if the government were to actually give warrants they might be limited in what they can do within the law.”

Disparate responses from universities are also attributable to uncertainty about how forceful the impending Trump administration will be in rolling back DACA protections, Rana said.

“Right now the picture remains pretty unclear exactly how aggressive the govern-

ment is going to be in attempting to force the universities to cooperate, and that’s where the issue gets a little bit dicier,” Rana said.

However, Rana stressed that despite this hesitation, many university presidents have shown support for upholding DACA and protecting undocumented students. He also expressed his hope that national resistance to deportation efforts, even in the face of warrants, could create “real political pressure” on the government.

While Interim President Hunter Rawlings also released a statement Tuesday affirming the University’s support for undocumented students, the

“[T]he picture remains pretty unclear exactly how aggressive the government [will] be.”

Prof. Aziz Rana sanctuary petition’s organizers have not yet officially presented the document to the administration, according to media representatives.

“We are still seeking to meet with President Rawlings and present the petition with over two thousand signatures supporting our request,” they said.

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

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Electronics Allegedly Lifted From Two Fraternities Brothers say ‘shady characters’ took televisions,video game consoles when houses were almost empty BURGLARY

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fraternity house, located at 100 Ridgewood Road, at around midnight on Nov. 19. The brothers reported that their main television, an Xbox and two laptops were stolen.

Beta Theta Pi President Red Giuliano ’17 said he believes two perpetrators entered the house through an unlocked side door.

He said one brother saw a “hooded figure” when he was returning to the house, but it was too dark to distinguish a face.

The majority of the brothers who live in the house went to the Catskills over the weekend for a brotherhood retreat, so only a few brothers were at the house when the alleged burglary took place, according to Giuliano.

“It’s possible [the perpetrators] just noticed there were no cars in the driveway,” he said.

“But it’s kind of crazy that they tors likely did not enter any of Sherrill ’18. decided to do this on the week- the brothers’ rooms, McCulAfter the brothers denied the end that we were all away. I’m lough said. men entry into the house, they not saying it’s anyone that any“[The perpetrators] must “acted very sketchily,” Sherrill one knows, but it is kind of a have scrambled to take the first said. He explained that the weird coincidence.” valuable things they saw,” he brothers walked them to their Irvin McCullough ’18, Beta said. “They skipped right over car, and one of the men was Theta Pi brother and Inter - our Wii … and our other Xbox.” “bragging that [his car] was a fraternity Council Vice That same night, the Pi BMW.” Sherrill added that the President of Programming, was Kappa Phi brothers said they brothers saw a “large amount of one of five brothers who stayed were confronted by two uniden- cash visible in the back seat.”

“At that point, [the brothers] at the house. He said the televi- tified males at their front door were nervous that these sion, Xbox and laptops guys had weapons were still in the Great “Saturday morning we were playing because of the cash, but Hall when he left the our Xbox on our TV, and Saturday night they just drove off and house at 10:30 p.m. left,” Sherrill said.

Between midnight they were both gone.”

Giuliano said the Pi and 2 a.m., some brothKappa Phi brothers ers noticed the televiIrvin McCullough ’18 wrote down the plate sion was missing, but number of the “shady they “just assumed characters’” car, which the Beta someone else in the house had around midnight.

“They were dressed in all Theta Pi brothers then handed moved in it for whatever reason,” Giuliano said. By Sunday Cornell clothing but looked to the police. Cadena, who witmorning, the brothers realized older than regular college stu- nessed both incidents at the the Xbox and two laptops were dents, and when [the brothers at house, said he did not believe the door] asked them they said that the perpetrators in the two missing as well.

All missing items were from they went to TC3,” said Pi cases at Pi Kappa Phi were the the main floor, so the perpetra- Kappa Phi President Lynah same.

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IPD was unavailable to comment on the most recent burglary at Pi Kappa Phi. On Thursday, Officer Jamie Williamson said it was “entirely way too early” to determine if last week’s two incidents were related, although they occurred on the same night. He said the investigation is still an active case, there are no suspects and the police are in the process of determining what occurred.

After their house was burglarized, the brothers of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity said they felt “a bit despondent.”

“Saturday morning we were playing our Xbox on our TV, and Saturday night they were both gone,” he said.

McCullough added that it was “a pain” to move the smaller TV downstairs for the fraternity’s open house on Sunday.

“We like showing off our ‘Great Hall’ — but that’s a bit hard to do when the missing television’s leaving a big hole in the room,” he said. “By the end of the day, we’d all recovered and restored our sense of normalcy.

We had a successful open house and met some great potential new members. Now we’re just trying to move forward.”

Giuliano said the brothers reported the burglary to the Ithaca Police Sunday morning, and an officer examined the front door for fingerprints but did not find any.

“It really sucks for the brothers who got their laptops stolen,” he said. “One of them said he hasn’t really backed up any of his projects, and he lost a lot of hard work that he’d done, but it’s really hard to do anything about it.”

The brothers are working with alumni, the Ithaca Police and IFC to improve the house’s safety and “go back to normal,” McCullough said.

“Our executive board is evaluating new security systems to ensure that only brothers and brothers’ guests can enter the house, and our alumni board is working tirelessly to make sure we can get back to normal,” he said. “We’re fully cooperating with the police to find out who did this, whether a townie or a student, and bring them to justice.”

McCullough, who transferred from University of Maryland, said he felt “much safer in Ithaca than in College Park,” but Saturday night’s robbery “shook things up.”

“It’s Ithaca — we don’t think these things happen,” he said.

“Robberies aren’t something we read in an infrequent email from Kathy Zoner. They happen indiscriminately and irrationally.

It can happen to anyone.”

Nevertheless, McCullough said the fraternity is “bouncing back” after the incident.

“We’re starting to feel safe again, and our improved security measures will make us one of the safest houses on campus,” he said. “I’m confident that Beta won’t be robbed again.”

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com. Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

The Importance of Red Drops Pair to No.1 Wisconsin Non-League Games Badgers’ potent offense proves too much for Cornell defense C

By JAMIL RAHMAN

ornell junior forward Alex Rauter skated in on UNH goalie Danny Tirone at breakneck speed. As Rauter prepared to propel the puck, a Wildcat stick hooked him and sent him flailing into Tirone’s left post. The referee instantly pointed for a penalty shot, and Rauter delivered, burying a shot between Tirone’s blocker and glove. Remarkably, Rauter’s penalty shot was Cornell’s first successful penalty shot in 29 years. It also sealed the deal on Cornell’s 3-1 win over Hockey East opponent New Hampshire on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

Cornell will take on Colgate on Tuesday, and the clash with the Raiders will be a good chance to earn a road conference win. The game is also notable because it will be Cornell’s first in the newly constructed Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton. Win or lose, it will mark Cornell’s last ECAC game of the 2016 calendar year, even though the Red has four games in December.

So who are the Big Red’s opponents in the last four contests of 2016? Cornell will face Miami (OH) for a two-game set at Lynah Rink this weekend. The Red will then make its traditional trip to Florida a few days after Christmas for the Florida College Hockey Classic. The Red’s opponents this year in Florida are Northern Michigan and either Colorado College or Merrimack. The Red’s first game of 2017 is a road game at Merrimack on Jan. 7, so this will be a five-game stretch of exclusively non-conference contests before a return to ECAC play.

Non-conferfor Full Court Press ence contests may seem less important than ECAC games at first glance. After all, these opponents are not traditional Cornell rivals and they do not count for points in the allimportant ECAC standings. However, they are crucial, just for different reasons. First, as an Ivy, Cornell plays around seven fewer games per year than all the non-Ivy teams. This means that Cornell plays seven non-conference games per season instead of the usual 14 or so for most schools. When the NCAA rankings committee has to judge Cornell against other schools, they only have seven games where Cornell has played opposition from around the country. This stretch of five non-conference games is the rest of Cornell’s non-conference slate, as two non-conference games so far have been split, with a win and a loss. Simply put, Cornell cannot afford to lose several of the next five games.

The NCAA rankings committee becomes important in the spring, at NCAA tournament time. This past season, Cornell fell one spot short of earning an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Perhaps one more out-of-conference win could have propelled Cornell to a slot, particularly if the Red could have held onto a two-goal lead and beaten BU at last year’s Red Hot Hockey in Madison Square Garden. Cornell will want to win the majority of its non-conference slate this year in order to impress the committee in March.

Success is critical in non-conference games because Cornell has just seven of these games and needs to impress the NCAA committee. Yet, Cornell hockey fans should have reason for optimism.

The remaining opponents, from Northern Michigan to Merrimack and Miami, are all ranked below Cornell in the national rankings and are thus winnable games. After Colgate, these next five contests might not count in the ECAC standings, but they will still play an important role in Cornell’s season.

Kevin Linsey

Kevin Linsey is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at klinsey@cornellsun.com.

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Gillam in goal | The Red will soon begin a slate of out-of-conference games.

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s hockey team took to the road for a slight break from conference play to battle No. 1 Wisconsin for a two-game series. The Red came into the game undefeated in its last four games, but dropped both of the weekend’s games.

Coming into the game, the Red (6-4-1, 4-2-1 ECAC) knew it had to play strong defensively to hold off Wisconsin’s (14-1-1, 12-1-1 WCHA) third-best offense in the nation.

“Our mindset going into both games was to concentrate on the defensive because of how strong offensively Wisconsin was as a team, they were able to place pucks on the net from every angle,” said freshman Amy Curlew.

Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis recorded a careerhigh 51 saves on Friday night’s game against the Badgers, and the team recorded a season-high 24 CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Defensive challenge | Wisconsin’s offense — ranked third in the country — scored eight goals in the two games over the weekend.

blocked shots, but the performance still was not enough to fend off the Badgers’ strong offense.

Through two periods, the Badgers outshot the Red 28-8, but neither team was able to draw first blood and the teams entered the final period of play in a 00 draw. The Badgers finally broke the deadlock at the 8:46 mark of the final period, when Baylee Wellhausen took control of a loose puck and put it into the back of the net.

With just under five minutes to go in the period, Sarah Nurse slipped the puck past the net and put the Badgers up 2-0. Annie Pankowski sealed the deal for the Badgers by scoring an empty-net goal in the final minute of play for the 3-0 victory.

Voorheis’ 51 saves were the most for the Red since 2010, and Wisconsin finished the night outshooting the Red 53-11. Curlew acknowledged that the strong Badgers offense was difficult to contend with.

“They were really relentless in the offensive zone,” Curlew said. “They were a challenging team who didn't let up at any point. We made some unforced errors that they capitalized on.”

Wisconsin’s offense didn’t slow down on Saturday.

The Badgers opened up the scoring early when they capitalized on a power-play opportunity and went ahead 1-0 just 70 seconds into the game, thanks to a goal from Maddie Rolfes.

The Red wouldn’t refused to down easily and saw a good amount of back-and-forth in the first period.

After a backhanded shot by freshman Paige Lewis was saved, sophomore Lenkar Serdar grabbed the rebound and tied the game one-all at the 11:13 mark.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Songs of 2016

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Ultralight Beam Kanye West

It’s now difficult to picture Kanye in his College Dropout days, a young producer with a knack for soul samples struggling to pitch his rapping skills to record labels. The critical acclaim, the ego, the Kardashian-assisted mega-fame — all of it has worked to build a cult of personality around a guy whose music has increasingly depicted his life as something akin to Greek tragedy. It’s fitting, then, that Chance the Rapper acts as his surrogate on “Ultralight Beam,” a cavernous gospel production that recalls the feeling — if not the exact sound — of the “old Kanye.” In a single verse that upstages both Kelly Price and Kirk Franklin, the young Chicago rapper pledges himself to fatherhood, alludes to old Kanye songs, invokes the Old Testament and, above all, has fun with it. In a difficult year for Kanye and many others, “Ultralight Beam” is the prayer we all needed.

— Chris Stanton

Formation, Beyoncé The black power anthem “Formation” shows Beyoncé at her finest. She acknowledges common criticisms of her and turns them into bragging points. She flaunts her confidence, wealth and talent, packing the song full of gender reversals and claims to power like, “When he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, cause I slay.” When the internet started a petition for Beyonce to comb her daughter’s hair, she took control and responded with, “I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros.” Couple Beyoncé’s assertions with an infectious beat made with Mike Will Made It, and “Formation” delivers an undeniably fun energy while still offering a commanding pro-black, pro-feminism message that serves as a rallying cry in today’s political climate.

— Ryan Slama

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Your Best American Girl, Mitski

Listening to “Your Best American Girl” for the first time felt like coming home to a place I didn’t know I had been locked out of; to a cavernous, open room in which there was finally space enough for the multitudes of sadness and anger, shame and pride, self-loathing and love contained inside the body of a girl.

“Your Best American Girl” tells the story of a woman, attempting to squeeze herself into an ill-fitting identity in order to make a relationship work; and ultimately choosing herself; conveying immense sadness, fury, regret, pride and self-compassion all at once. Mitski’s multitudes don’t fit comfortably within the various attractive, romantic and pathologized narratives of women’s emotions that we are familiar with. So, on “Your Best American Girl,” and the rest of her 2016 release, Puberty 2, she claws and carves out a space for her stories; freeing them from cosmos, myth, slogan and diagnosis. Mitski creates these affective and sonic spaces with an amalgam of her low, and then suddenly huge-hollow voice, minimal, shredded guitar playing, crashing, swollen keyboard synths and stark, intimate songwriting. With “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me/But I do, I think I do” as a war-cry, Mitski is wielding her sadness as knowledge, her anger as energy, her vulnerability as inquiry—reminding us to wonder how we came to be wounded in the first place, and giving us a language with which to read our pain.

— Jael Goldfine

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Self Control, Frank Ocean “Self Control” eases in in a deceptively mellow fashion, riding Alex G’s offbeat guitar plucks. Then Frank starts to sing some of the album’s most gut-punch lyrics: “You cut your hair, but you used to live a blonded life/Wish I was there, wish we’d grown up on the same advice.” He’s said before that Prince’s “When You Were Mine” is his favorite song of all time, and he mirrors that song’s norm-bending desire: Prince sings, “I never was the kind to make a fuss/When he was there, sleeping between the two of us,” and “Self Control” echoes the line with guests Austin Feinstein and Yung Lean singing, “Keep a place for me/I’ll sleep between y’all, it’s nothing.” The song builds from a light jam to a crescendo of layered vocals, then sticks like a record in one place and evaporates. “Self Control” shows how easily Frank Ocean makes the conventional sound extraordinary.

—Jack Jones

We the People...

A Tribe Called Quest

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard anything that sounds simultaneously so retro and so current as “We the People….”, the single from A Tribe Called Quest’s first album in eighteen years, We Got It From Here…

Thanks You 4 Your Service. The ominous fuzz, sirens and booming rock drums sound straight out of the NWA playbook; it’s more aggressive than anything on Tribe’s classic albums. But the lyrics are purely 2016. They never say Trump’s name, but it’s clear who they’re talking about in the chorus: “All you blacks folks, you must go/All you Mexicans, you must go.” The album dropped on November 11, three days too late for the song to be a warning. Instead, it’s a call to action. Fans hoped for a new Tribe album for years, but I doubt many expected anything as vital and politically relevant as “We the People….”

— Jack Jones

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Hold Up Beyoncé

“Hold Up” opens up with the classiestever use of an airhorn, which churns Beyoncé’s blaring, post-betrayal hurt into a lush, devious display of power. The song — the second on Lemonade — serves as the backdrop to the queen’s liberating property destruction, a representation of our human need to wreck the things around us after our own emotional wreckages. Yet as much as we revel in Bey’s happy-go-lucky romp through the streets, it’s hard to shake off how temporary it feels: after all the windows are broken, all the cars crushed, there remains our broken selves to pick up. She sings, “What’s worse, lookin’ jealous or crazy?/Or like being walked all over lately, I’d rather be crazy.” It’s a masterful reminder that being crazy can be a choice, but so is cleaning up the post-craze mess — a burden that too often falls on Black women.

— Sofia Hu

Old Friends, Pinegrove

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With Cardinal, Pinegrove surprised everyone who was listening with one of the best straight-up rock n’ roll albums in years. “Old Friends,” its opening track, is the most perfect distillation of all the reasons why it’s just that: plodding, aimless instrumentation, composition as taut and peeling as bark on a tree, lyrics as circuitous and rambling as our downcast protagonist. It sounds sprung from the mind of an artist way too old for his years, but it only could have been written by a fuckin’-around 20-something. “I got too caught up in my own shit,” sings vocalist/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall in the last verse, “that’s how every outcome’s such a comedown.” While it’s that kind of self-criticizing, listless pathos with which “Old Friends” leaves you when the final strings’ve been strummed, the sounds backing Smith are so permeated with that timeless hopefulness which all good rock music packs that however you might be feeling, it pleads with you to reconsider.

— Troy Sherman

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“Pink + White” is one of my favorite tracks from Blonde, for a number of reasons. Like other songs on Blonde, “Pink + White” inspires thoughts of finite love and bittersweet nostalgia, and references moments in Ocean’s own life that have contributed so much to his artistic character. Its lyrical complexity is a fine representation of Frank Ocean's abstract imagery and poetical songwriting: “If you could fly then you'd feel south/Up north’s getting cold soon/The way it is, we’re on land/So I'm someone to hold true.” The relaxed drum beat and the repeating piano intervals create a dreamlike atmosphere, and these two features combined with Beyoncé’s vocals in the final chorus perfectly personify the tone of the piece in a surreal, sonic swirl. It is songwriting and musical production at its finest.

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Pink + White

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— Nick Swan

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(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School For Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn’t a Problem) Car Seat Headrest

Two Deliverances The Hotelier

Depending on your predilections, The Hotelier’s Goodness is an emo masterpiece or a laughably pretentious work. The 47-minute release packs in production tricks, spoken word interludes and overwrought lyrics. Yet, in “Two Deliverances” the group drops their gimmicks and delivers an earnest track. Over interlocking guitar and bass progressions, Christian Holden sings about the intertwined awkwardness and intimacy (“Your secret world speaks without words/And I feel clumsy and cumbersome in this place”) that come with hanging out in an ex’s room. The song swells to a peak of regret and sorrow when Holden screams, “Was kind of banking on a future that’d be involving you/But I couldn’t ask that of you, I couldn’t ask that.”

Critics have wondered if The Hotelier and their peers are bringing back emo, but on “Two Deliverances” The Hotelier reinvents, rather than revives, the genre, delivering a nuanced, confused emotional plea.

— Shay Collins

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Steve Jobs once said that hallucinogens reveal another side to reality, but in “Joe Gets Kicked Out Of School” — written about an acid trip taken by Car Seat Headrest frontman Will Toledo — the revelations aren’t so pleasant. On acid, Toledo sees himself and his friends as “filthy people,” hedonistic pleasure-seekers with no meaning or purpose.

Good thing the song is so fun. The band’s album, Teens of Denial, builds huge, operatic epics from the building blocks of indie rock, and “Joe” is a perfect example, a sevenminute journey that begins with Toledo strumming an acoustic guitar and develops into a foot-stomping breakdown.

Its chorus leads into itself: “Drugs are better with friends are better with drugs are better with friends…” But this is ironic; Toledo is disgusted with his friends, their drugs and himself. “Joe Gets Kicked Out Of School” can be related to by anyone who’s ever questioned their own behavior — and enjoyed by any fan of ambitious, complex, personal guitar rock.

— Max Van Zile

Sharon Jones and the Upside of Echo Chambers

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week ago, John Oliver concluded the third season of public life throughout 2016, but the acute pain of iconic flare to back up one of the most charismatic performers Last Week Tonight with a cathartic send-off to the performers passing away has struck time and again. At this I’ve ever seen grace a stage. year in a segment so eloquently dubbed, “Fuck You, point, the go-to reaction has shifted from shocked sadness While her music alone endeared her to listeners of all 2016!” If you haven’t seen the episode, I’ll give you three to a beleaguered “Who’s next?” Bowie, Prince, Phife Dawg, types, Sharon’s unlikely rise to stardom and ultimately fatal guesses as to what it’s about. In a year that began with Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Gene Wilder, Leonard struggle with pancreatic cancer (as documented in this David Bowie’s death, the state of affairs never bothered to Cohen, the list goes on. year’s Miss Sharon resettle on any form of status quo — opting instead to per- Each of these hurt in its Jones!) made her a petually tumble further downhill. The general mood on own way, and each was met source of inspiration campus following Election Day has seemed to oscillate with an outpouring of and embodiment of somewhere between vitriol and despair, to the extent that shared grief and celebration resilience. After years a casual “How are you?” serves as an invitation to air out of life — often expressed spent working at grievances rather than go through the motions of small through the unique platRikers Island as a talk. And whether in tone or subject matter, the election form provided by social correctional officer results have pervaded a large portion of The Daily Sun’s media. A few of these outwhile performing output because, well, what else is there to think about? weekends with a pourings (Phife Dawg, Alan As the White House proceeds in its transition to high- Rickman) likely afflicted wedding band, stakes reality TV show, pundits have made much of the my newsfeed more than Sharon finally made modern media’s role in President-elect Trump’s ascent. others, it big with the Dapalgorithmically Executives at CNN have expressed regret over airing unin- prompted onto my comKings at the age of terrupted Trump rallies early on in the election cycle, while puter screen by my 40 — a feat unheard CBS Chairman Les Moonves earned himself a footnote in unabashed “liking” of a few of in a notoriously history textbooks for his boast that Trump’s candidacy Harry Potter fan pages. The sexist industry. As “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for most affecting among these she tells it on “I’m CBS.” The real story, though, surrounds social media posts, though, have focused Still Here”: “I had to “echo chambers,” otherwise known as the newest buzz- on those artists’ whose work as a prison word that journalists toss around. guard, tell the men appeal transcended the The theory goes that — because of Facebook algo- demographic confines of to do what they’re JACOB BLICKENSTAFF / STARZ DIGITAL VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES rithms that steer people’s newsfeeds toward stories similar age groups, political views told/’Cause some to ones they have already “liked” — social media users have and music tastes. In particular, Sharon Jones’ death two record label told me I was too fat, too short, black and insulated themselves from ideweeks ago provoked a beauti- old.” ologies that oppose their own.

In 2013, Sharon received her diagnosis — three years fully unified response from a The Sun’s reliable contingency spectrum of people who may after losing her mother to cancer. In a matter of months, of aggravated online comnever agree on another topic. she started performing again, all the while receiving treatmenters might articulate such “It is hard, now, to imag- ment for the disease. Even when reduced, her stage energy a phenomenon as an extension ine another contemporary was a force to be reckoned with, and her work over the last of the “brainwashing” taking artist with as broad and as few years exemplifies an almost superhuman dedication.

Really Terrible, place at today’s elite universiundeniable an appeal,” wrote “Happiness is the most important,” she said in a 2014 ties. But now that the former the New Yorker’s Amanda interview with Noisey. “I’ve been out here. I’ve gone And Such Small CEO of Breitbart News has Petrusich in her postscript on through things. You have to be happy. You have to feel that Portions the president-elect’s ear, this the singer. “To love Sharon you’ve done something in life. And I think over the years, “echo chamber” has revealed Jones is simply to be a hot- that’s what we’ve accomplished.” Her death may have its insidious potential to heedlessly reinforce dogma, prov- blooded human.” For those unfamiliar, Sharon shot to come amidst divided, uncertain times, but Sharon’s life and ing that it should have no place in political discourse. stardom over the last two decades as the frontwoman for legacy provided a greatness that we can all agree on.

However, rather than dismiss social media entirely, let’s the Dap-Kings, a soul-funk outfit committed to a latealso stop to consider its role in helping us to process the 1960s sound that might have faded from popular music Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He year’s other events. without them. Their records have sold well, but the band can be reached at cms459@cornell.edu. Really Terrible, and Such Tragedies have occurred in just about every aspect of carved out its niche as an incomparable live act, using retro Small Portions! runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Criticizing Santorum’s visit to Cornell Re: “Cornell Republicans to Host Rick Santorum as Fall Speaker,” News, Nov. 14 To the Editor: Appreciating the challenge of producing the immediate post-election issue of The Cornell Daily Sun I wanted to congratulate your staff on a fine job of grappling with both the emotional and strategic issues facing the Cornell and broader Ithaca communities at this time.

One article reported on the front page deserves critical comment, however. The invitation of Rick Santorum to visit and speak on behalf of the Cornell Republicans is presented as an uncontroversial, even thoughtful choice of a group who claims to want to return its attention to conservative philosophy after being distracted by the Trump campaign, which Santorum, unlike the Cornell Republicans, supported and endorsed.

Santorum is an extreme Islamaphobe, climate change denier, homophobe and sexist, who is opposed to the use of contraceptives even in marriage. His infamous comment to President Obama related to welfare provoked a media debate about whether his greater problem was his ignorance or his racism. Shame on the Cornell Republicans for choosing an anti-intellectual right-wing extremist to misrepresent conservatism. And to the greater campus community: let’s not allow decisions like this one to be normalized in the present dangerous national climate.

Prof. Barbara Regenspan, Colgate University

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handler’s boss made a joke in a Friends episode referencing a possibility that many Americans have been waiting to witness for quite some time: Hillary Clinton as President of the United States, becoming the first woman to wield the title ‘leader of the free world.’ He said, “I strongly believe that we should all support President Clinton — and her husband Bill.” It was based on the premise that Hillary was overstepping her role as First Lady, to the point of essentially doing her husband’s job. She was out of her place.

Although the tasteless joke was made by a schmuck and Chandler only laughed to avoid any conflict, it did touch on how sexism can affect a powerful woman. Pundits have speculated over the multitude of reasons for the election outcome in the past few weeks.

Conservative commentators have been quick to argue that any effects of sexism were cancelled out by Hillary’s status as an elite. I argue, however, that Hillary’s affluence stood to not only help but hurt her. In this column, “traditional family values” loosely refers to the values of nuclear families that populated the yet-to-be defined time when America was Great. Trump was a refuge for people who take comfort in these values, and the Trump campaign exploited the same underlying pitch in an attempt to show that Hillary wasn’t a true crusader for women to deter support among those who don’t.

Sarah Palin received mass appeal when she was first announced as McCain’s pick for vice president, and a large part of it came from her self-proclaimed identity as a “hockey mom” fiercely dedicated to her family. Though she was a woman vying for the vice presidency, many took comfort in the fact that she would use the same empowerment she derived from being a mother to her children when she would took up the responsibilities of the vice president.

“The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit-bull is lipstick” meant that she could lead effectively while still upholding traditional family values that were seen as in danger of erosion, especially with more women than ever prioritizing professional aspirations over maternity. This isn’t unique to Republican women, as Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) converted a “mom in tennis shoes” insult into a motto that would play a pivotal role in a series of elections that ultimately won her a seat in the Senate.

Politicians commonly cite their bluecollar, tight-knit family background to connect with the ‘everyday American.’ For men, the mere mention of such a history can be enough. For women, however, such a history must be a central aspect of her identity to accomplish the same. An affluent background for any politician is (usually) detrimental, but the extent of its damage can vary based on gender.

Even though Hillary Clinton did in fact have a homemaker for a mother and a small-business owner for a father, when she recounts this childhood, it is dismissed when viewed against the decades of her life as a Clinton. Her status bolstered a depiction of her as a shrewd, deceptive character that followed her from her time as First Lady of Arkansas into her email investigation. Furthermore, even when traditional family values are harped upon, it doesn’t hurt male politicians who invoke them when the man is designated the breadwinner. Consequently, Hillary could not be the champion for everyday Americans in the way Trump portrayed himself as and eventually became, the ‘boy from Queens’ who also infamously received a million-dollar loan from his father.

This dynamic harmed Hillary when it came to voters who are comfortable with gender roles, but her opposition also used it to diminish her position as a women’s advocate. From her own admission, Hillary was an ambitious and driven young person long before her husband entered public life. She also said she wouldn’t want to just “bake cookies” when her critics viewed her professional and personal independence as harmful to her husband’s, fending off charges that keeping “Rodham” or having an office in the West Wing would hamper public confidence in Bill’s leadership. How can you instill doubt in people who view her fierce and storied record as a champion for women as a plus? By asserting that Hillary hungers more for power than she cares for the rights and safety of women.

Hillary was repeatedly attacked for enabling sexual assaults allegedly committed by Bill Clinton, and for deciding to stay with him after having known about his extramarital affair. Both were linked to a desire to secure more power for herself at the cost of being an empowering role model for women. Even James Comey’s last-minute alert to Hillary’s potential involvement with Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal played right into this narrative.

If they were with her, then she was not with them.

For Hillary, her drive to eventually put not only a vocal feminist, but a gender equality activist in the Oval Office was the very thing used to question her dedication to that cause. It is one thing to not endorse traditional family values, but these allegations paint Hillary as someone who actively destroys them. Compare Hillary’s treatment to that of Trump, who has not only spouted blatant misogyny, but also has woman after woman recounting the sexual harassment and assault he committed, actions that were crudely supported by his own words.

Donald Trump was already perceived as a powerful and misogynistic man incapable of denouncing his slimy ways, traits that buffered against negative impacts from reported incidents of further misogyny.

This is problematic. Everyone should be held to the same standard for their treatment of women, whether they are a man or a woman. Women are disproportionately given the brunt to bear for shirking their duties to uphold feminism, even when accusations of backing out are backed up by unsubstantiated claims. This disparity worked against Hillary Clinton, especially when a group of men themselves accused of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault of women played important roles in the election outcome: Anthony Weiner, Julian Assange and Donald Trump.

It is unreasonable to say that Hillary Clinton lost because she is a woman, but equally as unreasonable to suggest sexism played no role in her loss. Even with the seemingly antiquated view of sexism as a force that chastises women who seek to expand their reach outside the household, and terrific strides made by activists in the ongoing fight for gender equality, it is still important to note that this same underlying conviction still presents in prejudices that confront some of the most powerful women in the world today. The 2016 United States Presidential Election is a harrowing reminder that the glass ceiling is still indomitably intact; the very idea of an American female president remains a punchline for many.

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

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Lyse Mauvais | Guest Room

Against Polarization

A post-Trump letter of support from France

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n the distressing times that followed election night, it seems natural that our community would feel the need to pull together, to stand as one and fight harder for the recognition of shared values. There are two purposes for mobilization: the first is to provide a supportive space for the liberals among us, to build solidarity and help each other through fear, pain and uncertainty. Following this call to unity came a call to activist mobilization: we need to protest, take the streets and “fight back” against the hate crimes and the hurtful speeches that Trumpism normalized. With this call to activism comes concern: especially when it comes to values and ideals, the activism of a group may require the alienation of another. As friends unfriend friends on Facebook and as some families struggle to bridge their political divides, the temptation to “fight back” brings with it the shadow of counterproductive polarization.

I would like to share with you a testimony from France, where over the past years a proto-fascist party, the Front National, rose rapidly, now threatening our upcoming presidential and legislative elections. My testimony is the one of a country where as the F.N. kept claiming more votes, our media, our politicians and our intellectuals opted to “fight back.”

During local elections, traditional parties blocked against the F.N. The outraged media denounces its rhetoric ible with liberal values. The

FN is racist, and its supporters are reduced to that status only. Much like how Cornellians laughed at Trump during political debates, students of my university invited FN leaders to debates to laugh at their simple rhetoric and their simplified vision of history. On Facebook, we mocked FN supporters or stigmatized them morally: racist, intolerant, ignorant, embittered nationalists caught on the wrong side of globalization.

Did this strategy help us? Faced with moralization and dismissal, F.N. sympathizers grew increasingly alienated. Despite party blocking, every local elections saw increases in F.N. scores. Complacently, we used morals as a shield to ignore some of the most problematic points raised

by F.N. rhetoric. When populists attacked refugees and integration policies with economic arguments, we shoved pictures of little Aylan in their face, thinking empathy could be our principal argument. Seeing only the racist discourse, we failed to understand its origins or address underlying themes.

It is obvious today that the way we defended liberal values did not convince those who disagreed, it silenced them. To their fears (about the job market, about globalization, about terrorism, about security), we responded with a moral backlash.

We shunned resentment, shaming arguments that could only be debunked if they were acknowledged. Trump’s election makes us

fear that the alienation and the stigma placed on the far-right electorate will surge back in the ballot box.

We forgot that tolerance is not embedded in people: it is built through positive interactions. College is one of the most enabling place where to develop tolerance: because we are surrounded by other liberals, by foreigners, because our classes are infused with liberalism, because we tend to be less uncertain about our economic future, it becomes easier to see globalization with optimism, harder too to burst out of our bubble. In many ways, one could argue that to “grow up” tolerant — to have our education expose us to liberal values — is a formidable cultural privilege. How different would we be without this permanent pressure to discuss and think critically?

Yet even in this enabling environment, liberal values have become such a strong ideology that they constrain debate. The “safe space” we want to create in the classroom has rigged discussions with invisible landmines.

This was one of the most difficult experiences I have had here at Cornell: many times, I was afraid to be misinterpreted, to offend someone unintentionally, to suffer moral backlash because my cultural background masked to me what I was or was not entitled to say. If I, a liberal to the gut, felt anxious to speak up — for fear of disrupting a liberal principle I wasn’t aware of — do non-liberals feel comfortable engaging in debate in our

classrooms?

I turn again to my country of origin. As we approach our own elections, there is a sense of panic, of “running out of time” among the students of my government school.

Trump’s election slapped me in the face: I saw here the same challenges France grapples with. One of these challenges is: how do we handle racism efficiently? How do we change people’s beliefs? I witnessed my own grandparents drift into daily prejudice and intolerance. They are a very progressive, intellectual, socially liberal, very well-travelled couple: yet as their neighborhood hosted more and more immigrants from the Middle East, as a mosque was built next to their house, resentment built.

How do we answer the very concrete concerns and fears, the perceived loss of identity of people who are by every other standard generous, kind and educated?

I think there are solutions, but these require pragmatism. Despite our strong beliefs and despite the satisfaction that comes from pulling together and fighting back, this strategy can have unintended, counterproductive consequences. This is only my personal testimony; I understand that the American context is specific in many ways, but I also see many parallels between our societies. Of course, reason and empathy and discussion will not bring hate groups to tolerance. There are some associations between people

and beliefs that are impossible to break. Yet I refuse to believe that 50 percent of Americans are the racist, sexist pigs that liberal media has portrayed: although it’s easier to see things in a binary, intolerance is a spectrum. There are many people around me who are generous, and open-minded, but afraid — and their fear is as real as ours: and they do not hate minorities, but they see their own community as threatened, and this means they will not care about “out-groups” so long as they perceive their way of life to be under threat. This is not an excuse, only a key to unlock change.

It is important to support each other, and to defend tolerance. It is also crucial to ensure that our protest does not become a way to shun “the other” and a gaping wound in the political debate. We need to back liberal visions with arguments that answer people’s concerns. In France especially, our political elites can no longer dismiss F.N. rhetoric as racism unworthy of attention: we can’t turn F.N. voters into democrats by hammering them with abstract values.

Similarly, the American millennials will fail to bring about the change they wish to see if they turn the liberal bubble into a fortified castle.

Lyse Mauvais is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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William Wang | Willpower

¡I,Caramba!

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oombas are adorable. They look like rounded pieces of To-Ak chocolate, and cost about the same. My parents managed to pick one up before the holidays, and it whirs around during the day, dusting off the micro-pests that clutter the household. My dad seems genuinely amazed. “Look at this,” he says giddily. He takes opens an app on his iPhone, and presses a large, green button that says “Clean.” The bot detaches itself from its base, and starts moving in a straight line until it bumps it head into the wall. Then it reconfigures, and moves away to clean some more. The house has never been cleaner; the brooms and pans have been tossed away, mops and gloves abandoned. We’ve gone back to the future.

Still, not everyone’s thrilled with what these Roombas symbolize for the future.

Automation of jobs has always been a tricky issue. While they increase efficiency and accuracy for management, the excessive hand wringing in the working class over the potential of job displacement has started to create arthritis. Let’s take the trucking industry for instance. While self-driving cars are a bit far off (the cost to implement them has sent even the billionaires of Palo Alto running for the Hollywood hills), selfdriving trucks are already here. Last year, Nevada tested a self-driving truck that was unfortunately termed the “Inspiration Truck.” The technology was sci-fi nirvana.

Its bells and whistles include the “Highway Pilot,” which is a cruise control option that can be activated with the press of a button.

It has radar sensors to detect oncoming cars and lane changes, and takes over steering and braking from the driver. Then again, the technology isn’t sublime. When given with a set of lanes and turns that are too complex, it gives a warning to the driver

and hands it back to them after a short interval. It’s not autonomous just yet. But when it does become autonomous, 3.5 million trucking jobs are at risk.

Trucking isn’t the only thing that’s starting to be encroached however. In the past, when we’ve talked about machine vs. man, it was a blue collar problem while white collars just gave their perfunctory shrug.

Remember the Luddites? They were early 19th century, lower class English textile workers who, under the storm of the Napoleonic wars, violently protested the use of automated textile equipment in their industry. Though they were eventually unsuccessful (you’d be surprised at how effective public executions are), their legacy was their name. Luddites now symbolize the wider counter-movement against machines, robots and technology that might come a take their jobs, but for the longest time, these were problems confined to the bottom depths of society. People with degrees weren’t concerned. Machines were accurate and efficient, yes, but also dependent on our whims, and most importantly, they didn’t learn by themselves.

But the landscape has changed. No one’s been quite able to grasp how quickly technology has surged. A recent Oxford study decided it wanted to dab in sensationalism instead of Earl Grey and declared that 47 percent of jobs were at risk of being automated in the next 20 years. Stunningly, it included finance among its list, where high priced degrees go to tan. But it makes complete sense: finance is a data processing and analysis career, which is exactly what A.I. intelligence and automation are built to do. Antony Jenkins, a former chief Barclays bank executive, ominously predicted in a lecture that in the future, half of the jobs in the sector would be gone. He’d called them

“Uber moments,” referencing the loss of taxi driving jobs to part time, lower wage Uber driving jobs. During his speech, it’s possible the irony of his predictions may have dawned on him; he’d been fired earlier from Barclays that year.

But then there’s the moments when speculation starts to get out of control.

Look at the medical fields: The rise of impossibly precise robots and further advancements in A.I. learning have led people to dream more about an automated healthcare system. The da Vinci surgical bot is one instance. It’s an octopus like machine, each arm whirling and prodding, performing minimally invasive surgery to the highest degree. It’s led some to cast out their thoughts that robots can perform surgery entirely, to go along with diagnosing, cutting healthcare costs to a minimum. It’s wishful thinking, and it ignores the ethical intelligence of a human, not to mention their ability to step out of bounds to complete the task at hand. Most importantly, while automation has started to run rampant across the industry, there will always be expertly trained humans needed to guide the bots in complex and/or unforeseen situation. It’s also a little unbelievable that someone would be willing to hand over their lives and well-being over to a programmed bot. But still, people wonder.

It’s easy to understand why imaginations runs wild. Call it sci-fi hijacking.

We’ve been partly informed by the sleek, futuristic promises of tomorrow from the high budget movies of today. Medical droids, A.I. service bots, Robocops, holograms, humanoids — all have their origins in the imaginations of Hollywood producers. When pop culture is constantly begging to wow us with the newest creations of the future — before the future — there’s almost

this expectation that our future will resemble it. The plastic, whip smart robots in I, Robot are the best example. They’re exceedingly smart, lithe and powerful, quick to learn and adapt, and they’re able to pick up the ability to mimic humans. While the movie they inhabited wasn’t very good (Will Smith aside, of course), they presented us with the belief that one day our future could be very much like that. It goes along with the hazy expectation that robots in particular will become more and more advanced at an accelerated rate, so much so that one day, the abilities they possess can be unlimited. It gives us the ability to dream. It also gives us the ability to be reckless.

Back here in our stunted world, no one can quite predict the trajectory of robots.

There’s a chance that their growth might expand past our models and become malignant (Hello, VIKI), but then again there’s a chance Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis might save all of us from an asteroid tomorrow. It’s impossible to say. But most likely, we’ll find that robots will push out jobs and deflate salaries, even in the most educationally laden fields, but it’ll be their assistance, rather than their dominance, that’ll prove most beneficial. Automation gives humans extraordinary powers, and by our side, our steps will turn into leaps and bounds.

Society will flourish as never seen before.

Unfortunately, we’re not as close as we might think. As I watch my parents painstakingly try to lug our bulky Roomba up the collapsible stars to clean the attic, it reminds me that while the sky’s the limit, we’re still stuck down here.

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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up junior forward Trevor Yates in front of the net, who was able to get a stick on it and deflect in the the equalizing goal. Yates’ goal marks his fourth of the season in eight games, while the junior had six goals in 32 total games last season.

“He has a little knack around the net,” Schafer said of Yates. “He leaned out over the summer, a little bit faster after dropping 20 pounds, and it’s paying dividends in his performance so far this year.”

Following the goals from Bauld and Rauter, the pressure fell to senior goaltender Mitch Gillam to keep the Wildcats at bay; and that’s exactly what he did.

Gillam’s only goal allowed was rather uncharacteristic for the senior to give up, but he kept Cornell afloat through the Red’s six penalty kills on the night. For Gillam, seeing plenty of shots early and getting into his groove was the key.

“They had some shooters and good stickhandling and they were able to attack me from everywhere,” he said. “But I like to get early shots quick right in the breadbasket to feel the puck and get used to it.”

Gillam went on to make 29 saves.

While this game will go into the standings as just another outof-conference win, it was much more than that for the team.

Leading up to the game, Schafer labeled the contest “not just another game,” and that mentality certainly showed in the team’s resilience to come back after being down early.

But even after a strong performance on such a big stage, Schafer’s first two words to the media in the postgame press conference were “rocky start.” He knows there is still much to be done this season, and no one performance can change that.

“UNH played a very good game tonight and [Gillam] made some great saves for us,” Schafer said. “It wasn’t a 3-1 game where we came in and blew the doors out. It was a tight game.”

Tight game or not, this win could help Cornell find the winning rhythm it has been looking for. With a quick turnaround and trip to Colgate just a few days away, this could be the perfect moment to begin a push towards the top of the ECAC. And what better person could there have been to highlight what could be the team’s defining win than the hometown kid whose mom was in attendance. Once invited to participate in a Rangers offseason training program, Rauter’s chances at playing hockey at the professional level are currently up in the air.

But whether he does or does not crawl his way into the NHL, Rauter has made the most of his time living out what was once an ephemeral dream of playing at Madison Square Garden.

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

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Cornell Defeats UNH at Madison Square Garden Red victorious in World’s Most Famous Arena

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Bright lights, big city | After trailing 1-0 early, Cornell’s three unanswered goals pushed the Red to victory over the Wildcats.

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NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden holds a special place in junior forward Alex Rauter’s heart. A New Jersey native and die-hard New York Rangers fan, Rauter dreamed about one day playing at MSG since he played in the ‘mites on ice’ game during a Rangers intermission as a young child. His passion for New York hockey dates back to his father, who named his son Alex in honor of nine-year Ranger Alexei Kovalev just two days after Kovalev won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994, or the day Rauter was born.

Saturday’s game against New Hampshire was not the first time Rauter got to live out his childhood dream — he recorded an assist in Cornell’s 3-3 tie against Boston University at MSG last year — but this 3-1 win against UNH certainly was his most memorable.

During the penalty kill, Rauter tipped the puck to himself up the ice and drew a penalty while driving to the net. In a moment meant for Hollywood, Cornell fans — who had been raucous the entire game — fell silent for this young player’s moment.

It came in the third period with Cornell holding onto a tenuous one-goal lead, and Rauter knew how to score on UNH goalie Danny Tirone; his opponent in net had been an old friend of his in grade school.

Cornell’s last penalty shot goal came back in 1986 off the stick of now-NHL hall of famer Joe Nieuwendyk ’88. Rauter had the perfect chance to end the drought.

Rauter faked like he was going backhand, then sent a picture-perfect shot past Tirone’s glove side, which he knew

would present the best opportunity against a goalie he knew all too well. He then basked in the cheers from the thousands of fans like he saw his old idols do when he went to Rangers games at MSG as a young child. With a penalty shot goal, his childhood dream reached new heights and put the game away for Cornell.

“It’s surreal,” he said. “It is something special. I think I will definitely look back on it. I was just happy my mom got to see it, honestly.”

While Rauter’s goal was the most poignant moment in an incredibly emotional game, it was not the most important. In an arena built for the highest caliber of players, it was an inexperienced freshman’s goal that proved to be the game-winner.

Forward Noah Bauld’s first career goal in the second period was the critical one, and he was on top of the world when he realized he had gotten number one.

“The feeling was amazing,” Bauld said, at a loss for words.

Despite all the glory that now accompanies this win, Cornell was in trouble early on in the game, yet again.

Starting slow has been a recurring theme for Cornell, and the trend continued against the Wildcats. UNH forward Patrick Grasso broke into the zone, heavily defended by junior defenseman Dan Wedman. Wedman brought Grasso to the ground, but the freshman was still able to score from his knees and continue his season-opening tear, netting his 11th goal of the season to put UNH up early.

Including Saturday, the Red had scored first in a game only twice this season — a win over Yale and tie against Dartmouth — but the squad was able to dig its way out of the early 1-0 quickly as the game developed.

“We got off to a slow start … but we buckled down,” Schafer said. “Scoring on our first power play was key.”

Senior defenseman Patrick McCarron sat idly with the puck in the corner during the power play and fed a tangledSee M. HOCKEY page 11

Freshman Noah Bauld’s First Career Goal Breaks 1-1Tie in Second Period

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

NEW YORK — Playing in front of the biggest crowd of your life in prime time at the World’s Most Famous Arena sounds like a lot for a 19-year-old college kid to handle.

But freshman Noah Bauld seized the moment and had a night he will not soon forget.

The freshman took the setting in stride and in the end, his second period goal — the first of his career — made the difference in Saturday’s victory over UNH at Madison Square Garden.

“I guess it hasn’t really hit me yet,” Bauld said after the game, “but it’s an amazing feeling for sure.”

With just over three minutes left to play in the second period, the freshman scored what would go on to be the game’s winning goal, electrifying the boisterous Madison Square Garden crowd. The goal put the Red up 2-1.

Cornell would tack on another in the third and close out the win, 3-1, in its now annual trip to MSG. After the Red controlled the puck in the offensive zone, Bauld got his stick on a shot from the point by sophomore defenseman Matt Nuttle and redirected it past UNH goaltender Danny Tirone for the go-ahead

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Raise the sticks | Cornell earned a thrilling victory in front of a boisterous crowd in New York City. goal.

The freshman credited luck and his teammates for the goal, as much as he did his own performance, after the game.

“It was a great pass from [Nuttle],” Bauld said. “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I got some luck and it went in.”

The Nova Scotia-native had been playing well all season, but, entering Saturday’s game, he had yet to find the back of the net.

In New York, however, he scored when the Red needed him most. His first ever Cornell goal could not have been more timely, according to head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

“He’s been really solid for us all year,” Schafer said. “But it was great that he scored

his first collegiate goal tonight. It couldn’t have come at a better time.”

Going into the game, Bauld said he knew that playing at the Garden would be something special — the sort of thing kids dream about growing up — but he was able to keep his emotions in check and get the job done.

“While you’re playing, you just try not to let [the stage] affect you,” he said. “You try to think it’s just another game and go out there and do your best.”

Immediately after the puck hit the back of the net, Bauld was mobbed by his teammates, who knew just how big this moment was for the freshman and the rest of the team.

“That was tremendous,” Bauld said.

“They were really happy for me.”

New to the spotlight and the onslaught of questions from reporters, the freshman could not help but keep the focus on his team even though Saturday was his night.

“It was important to get the win tonight,” he said. “We have a big game against Colgate Tuesday night.”

While the Class of 1965 Arena is no Madison Square Garden and Hamilton, N.Y., is no New York City, Bauld will look to, once again, provide a sought-after spark for Cornell against Colgate with a game coming on the road in just a few days.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.