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Prof. Ross Brann, Near Eastern Studies, recounts favorite memories from his tenure at Cornell. | Page 3

Mark Distefano ’16 calls the movie Creed “vigorously entertaining and coursing with emotion.” | Page 6

In a dramatic, overtime finish, men’s hockey narrowly loses its trophy to Boston University. | Page 12

Garrett Gives Final Approval For Grocery

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor

In the midst of a vibrant campus debate on how best to tackle food insecurity, President Elizabeth Garrett gave her approval of the plan to open a student-run grocery store in Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 23, clearing the final administrative hurdle blocking the store’s proponents from turning their plan into reality.

The resolution to open Anabel’s Grocery was originally approved by the Student Assembly last April as a way to address food insecurity on campus.

After President Emeritus David Skorton declined to offer his judgement on the plan in his last months at Cornell, the S.A. debated the issue again this year, and passed a second resolution in favor of the proposal on Oct. 5. It received the stamp of approval from the Cornell Community Coordinating Committee a couple of weeks later, and needed only Garrett’s okay to proceed.

Following Garrett’s announcement, the store’s proponents now only need to finalize certain business agreements and finish preparing the space in order to open the store next semester.

The store will be accessible to the public, but will offer subsidies to help financially needy students better afford groceries. Its initial start-up GARRETT costs will be funded by a $320,000 allocation from the Students Helping Students Grant, a $1.5 million endowment typically reserved to help students cover emergency expenses.

This has drawn criticism from some community members who say that a start-up business is too risky an enterprise to spend Students Helping Students money on.

In her letter of approval, Garrett said that Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and academic services, is working with the Center for Transformative Action, a nonprofit which currently See GROCERY page 4

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Legal business | A rendering depicts the proposal to transform an existing open colonnade into an enclosed passageway on the portion of Hughes Hall that faces the parking lot level just west of, and below, the main Myron Taylor Hall complex.

Hughes Hall Renovation Plans Reviewed The remodeling will focus on three new features: enclosing the open-air loggia that currently connects Hughes Hall with Myron Taylor Hall, adding a staircase to the west side of Hughes Hall and repaving the dining terrace by the Fork and Gavel Café, Gilbert

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Through a planned renovation of Hughes Hall, the University intends to replace the current residence hall for first-year law students with administrative and event spaces.

The renovation, “[ We hope to use] architecture that discussed at Tuesday’s harmonizes [with] what’s there, but City of Ithaca Planning and De vel that’s also of its time.” opment Board meeting, is the second part Gilbert Delgado of a three-phase renovation plan for the Cornell Law School. The first Delgado, University architect, told phase, completed last fall, includ- the board.

Inside Hughes Hall, administraed an addition to Myron Taylor Hall that consisted of under- tive offices and event spaces will be ground academic space and a new See PLANNING BOARD page 4 auditorium.

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Step up | A rendering shows a proposed new glass-enclosed staircase facing west behind Hughes Hall.

Kappa Sigma Fraternity Suspended

By SUN STAFF

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Under investigation | Kappa Sigma fraternity, located at 600 University Ave., was suspended this month pending a hazing investigation.

The national organization of the Kappa Sigma fraternity suspended its Cornell chapter this month, pending an investigation of hazing allegations.

The suspension went into effect on Nov. 13, the Office of Fraternities, Sororities and Independent Living an nounced in a statement

Wednesday. A notice from the national organization said the “chapter is to cease all operations.”

Additionally, the chapter will become alcohol free indefinitely, applying to any Kappa Sigma fraternity event.

“The chapter house, and unofficial chapter house or any other location where brothers gather must be alcohol free,” the notice read.

The Office of Fraternities, Sororities and Independent Living and the Greek judicial board, which conducted their own fact-finding, is waiting for the conclusion of the national organization’s investigation before deciding the next actions, according to the University.

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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Brann Passionate About Engaging Students in Intellectual Inquiry

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Staff Writer

After he finished his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Ross Brann, Near Eastern Studies, said he knew he wanted to remain on a college campus.

“Although I didn’t realize it at the time, the incredible energy and the obvious significance of ideas in transforming public debate on issues of racial and socioeconomic justice and war and peace was so much a part of being on a campus in the late 60s, a time of immense social and political change in the United States,” he said. “Campuses were alive with intellectual and political energy, and it was not a conscious choice but I just kept going to school. I never wanted to leave the university setting.”

This view of campuses has shaped Brann’s approach to teaching.

“As an educator here at Cornell, my job is to engage students in inquiry about matters typically spoken about as if they are simple or straightforward,” Brann said. “My goal is to render these issues complex and rich.”

Although he started out as a mathematics major, Brann said he was drawn to other kinds of complex issues, and he hopes even today that his students come away from his class with an appreciation for complexity.

“I’m drawn to inquiry concerning questions that are complex but that most people tend to oversimplify,” he said.

Brann said his commitment to humanities goes beyond the pre-modern Islamic and Jewish cultures he studies. He said he believes that humans are “inherently curious” about each other and that the humanities help humans understand one another.

“Human beings are not simply curious creatures about the physical and biological world that we inhabit. We are inherently curious about one another, about our behaviors, about for want of a better term, our diverse cultural practices,” Brann said. “The humanities employ tools we need to use in order to understand one another and appreciate differences across time and place. They enable us, when we’re paying close attention and reflecting critically, to understanding the complexities of human creativity, human sensitivities, and human behavior in all its various manifestations.”

Brann was also among the original group of faculty members who created the current West Campus Housing System. In the mid 1990s, when Prof. Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, was the vice provost for undergraduate education, Kramnick appointed Brann to be the first faculty-in-residence at Alice Cook House.

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“Those houses were and still are the embodiment of connecting Cornell undergraduates to Cornell faculty across the seven undergraduate colleges,” he said.

West Campus housing aims “to assist students and faculty to understand that we’re here to work with one another in a variety of ways,” according to Brann.

“The House System is still a work in progress, but it was a real turning point for the undergraduate experience for some here at Cornell,” Brann said.

Brann can recount many exciting stories from his time living in the Alice Cook House, from throwing a Saturday Night Live-style dance party for former Attorney General Janet Reno to the time a fire alarm woke up Bill Nye ’77 in the middle of the night while Nye was staying in the guest suite.

“We really had a wonderful series of guests during those six years from every walk of national and international life,” Brann said.

Brann emphasized that while the house community had a lot of fun with the guests they invited, they also developed intellectually from the guests’ presence.

“The idea is hold social and cultural events but also foster intellectual engagement for students outside of class,” he said. “My goal was to have many Cornellians come and talk about how what they studied at Cornell bore no resemblance to what they ended up doing professionally. To reassure students to not worry so much, but rather to utilize their time here at Cornell to expand their horizons.”

Brann said one of the highlights from his time at Cornell was addressing and arguing against islamophobia with a group of students and faculty in the central New York region following the September 11 attacks.

“I’m very close to most of the students I did that with down to this day,” he said. “We shared a very powerful social and educational and political experience as educators working to combat some of the hysteria that was prevalent in the United States, even in Ithaca, even in Tompkins County, even in Central New York and even on the Cornell campus during that particular period.

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

Spitz Appointed Vice Provost for International Affairs

By MADELINE COHEN Assistant News Editor

Local Public Education Initiative Aids Educational Pursuits The Ithaca Public Education Initiative has awarded its first round of Red and Gold Grants this year in an effort to fund educational pursuits in its district, according to The Ithaca Journal.

IPEI gave 21 one-time grants totaling $9,555 to five elementary schools, two middle schools and Ithaca High School. The money will go to programs for local farming, engineering and yoga classes at these different schools.

—Compiled by Madeline Cohen

Laura Spitz JSD ’06 has been appointed vice provost for international affairs, effective Tuesday, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced.

She has served as the interim vice provost since July, after her predecessor Fredrik Logevall accepted a position at Harvard University the same month.

As head of the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Spitz will oversee programs including Cornell Abroad and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

She will also chair the Internationalization Council, which consists of leaders from each college and Weill Cornell Medicine. The Internationalization Council works with the Office of Risk Management and Insurance and in conjunction with Cornell faculty and staff to oversee the University’s international travel policy, according to the University.

Spitz will also be tasked with providing colleges and centers with support to help execute plans related to Global Cornell, a University enterprise aimed at strengthening the global dimension of learning at Cornell, according to the University.

The vice provost’s office is in charge of supporting the University’s international presence by encouraging international research partner-

ships as well as exchange with research institu- was an associate professor of law at the tions around the world. The office also wel- University of Colorado, and also taught at comes foreign dignitaries and officials from Emory University and the University of New international academic institutions to Cornell Mexico. She received her undergraduate degree and provides information for senior administra- in history from the University of Toronto, her tors when they travel abroad. law degree from the University of British Spitz will also oversee Cornell’s planned Columbia and her JSD from Cornell Law international offices, beginning with one in School.

Shanghai anticipated to open in 2016.

Spitz said she is excited to continue working President Elizabeth Garrett “I am excited about the tremendous said in a release that energy and commitment shown by the she looks forward to working with Spitz. faculty, students and staff who make “I look forward to working even global education a part of their ... lives.” more closely with Laura Spitz JSD ’06 Laura to enhance Cornell as a global center for excellent research, scholarship and with the Cornell community to find ways to teaching,” Garrett said. “The many aspects of further the University’s international engageour global portfolio — including the education ment. of our students as citizens of the world — are “I am excited about the tremendous energy critical to Cornell’s success and the impact we and commitment shown by the faculty, students can have globally.” and staff who make global education a part of Before she assumed the position, Spitz served their everyday lives,” she said. “They are the as an associate dean for international affairs at foundation on which the Global Cornell initiaCornell Law School and executive director of tive builds.” the school’s Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@corPrior to her arrival at Cornell in 2012, Spitz nellsun.com.

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occupies space in Anabel Taylor Hall, to update their Facility Use Agreement to be compatible with the plans for Anabel’s Grocery — a process she expects to be completed by midDecember. Once this agreement is reached, she said she supports the proposal.

The project has been shepherded largely by Emma Johnston ’16, S.A. executive vice president, and Matthew Stefanko ’16, S.A. vice president for finance. Both have defended the research done to support the propos“Our team could not be more al, saying that food insecurity on campus and general excited to continue our work demand for a convenient towards the opening the store grocery option make it a sound business plan. next semester.”

“After so many months of preparation, our team Emma Johnston ’16 could not be more excited to continue our work towards opening the store next semester,” Johnston said.

While Johnston acknowledged that plans cannot fully launch until Lombardi finishes the process of finalizing the store’s rent agreement, she said the Anabel’s Grocery team is “delighted” to continue working to develop relationships with suppliers, planning to renovate the space and “engaging the Cornell community” in their plans.

“We hope that our project will be able to show that when students put in their due diligence, they are more than capable of taking on ambitious projects despite their short time here,” Johnston said.

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.

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Facelift | Planned renovations to Hughes Hall will convert the current residence for first-year law students into space for administrative and faculty offices.

Renovation Planned for Hughes Hall PLANNING BOARD

open, with an exception of a couple of instances,” Delgado said. “One of these instances is the terrace. Our intention is to try and focus that work in the summer located on the lower floors, while the upper floors will months [so the path isn’t blocked during busy house new offices for the law school’s faculty. The build- months].” ing will no longer maintain its current designation as a The Hughes Hall renovation will seek to gain at least residence hall due to the renovaSilver certification from the “The intention is to keep this tion.

Leadership in Energy and Delgado said he hopes to use pedestrian walkway open, with an Environmental Design “architecture that harmonizes program from the U.S. [with] what’s there, but that’s also exception of a couple of instances.” Green Building Council. of its time” in Hughes Hall’s The council awarded the Gilbert Delgado redesign. first phase of the renovation Though staging and construcwith Platinum certification, tion will occur away from major thoroughfares, the highest possible accreditation, last December.

Delgado said there are plans to close the pedestrian Delgado said preliminary plans for his renovations walkway that passes between the Fork and Gavel Café will be delivered to the board for review in January. and Cascadilla Gorge Trail for the remodeling of the Jeanette Si can be reached dining terrace.

“The intention is to keep this pedestrian walkway at jsi@cornellsun.com.

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Obama Joins World Leaders at Climate Summit PARIS (AP) — Facing push- private spending to encourage the leaders of a few island back at home, President Barack green energy innovation, the nations, to highlight “the existenObama said Sunday that White House said. tial challenge” they face from risAmerican leadership was helping For the U.S., that means dou- ing sea levels, in the words of the make gains in the global fight bling government spending on president’s deputy national secuagainst climate change as he tried clean energy research to $10 bil- rity adviser, Ben Rhodes. to reassure world leaders assem- lion over the next five years.

Obama, with just a year left in bling for a historic conference in Energy Secretary Ernest office, wants to lead the world by Paris that the U.S. can deliver on Moniz, in a conference call with example on climate change. But its own commitments. reporters, acknowledged that he faces opposition at home that Obama was joining more than winning approval for those dol- makes it harder for him to credi150 leaders for the opening days lars would require “a complex bly make the case on the world of a two-week conference where discussion” with the Republican- stage that the U.S. will honor its countries are trying to negotiate controlled Congress. But he pre- promises. an agreement aimed at avoiding a dicted that spending for research The U.S. is the world’s second calamitous increase in global and innovation was more likely largest climate polluter, surpassed temperatures. In a Facebook post to attract bipartisan support from only by China, and the president as he flew to Paris, the has pledged that the president said he was U.S. will cut its over“optimistic about what “[I am] optimistic about what we can achieve all emissions by 26 because I’ve already seen America take we can achieve because percent to 28 percent I’ve already seen incredible strides these past seven years.” by 2030.

America take incredible But his climate strides these past seven action plan has run President Barack Obama years.” into stiff opposition At the summit’s from Republicans opening Monday, Obama and lawmakers than has financing for who control Congress. They say French President Francois a U.N. fund to help poorer coun- his commitment to reduce emisHollande were to join tech giant tries adapt to climate change. sions from U.S. power plants Bill Gates to announce new pub- Senate Republicans have been would cost thousands of lic and private efforts to dramati- working to block Obama’s American jobs and raise electricity cally increase spending around request for the first installment of costs for businesses and families. the globe on developing clean his $3 billion pledge for the U.N. Half the states are suing to energy technologies that can help fund. block the power plant rules, reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Eager to leave a legacy of envi- claiming Obama has abused his The U.S. and at least 19 other ronmental protection, Obama authority under the Clean Air governments will pledge to dou- scheduled meetings with the Act. The president also faces conble their clean energy research leaders of China and India to gressional opposition to commitand development spending in the underscore how developing ting U.S. dollars to a U.N. Green next five years, even as Gates and nations are embracing the effort Climate Fund designed to help wealthy businessmen from 10 to combat climate change. Also poorer countries combat climate countries pledge billions more in on the agenda were sessions with change.

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E.U., Turkish Leaders Meet To Discuss Refugee Crisis

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders and the Turkish prime minister sealed a joint summit with a commitment to re-energize Turkey’s long-stalled membership talks and bolster their common resolve to deal with the Syrian refugee crisis.

The 28 E.U. leaders were leaning hard on Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to stem the flow of migrants seeking a better future in Europe's heartland and European Council President Donald Tusk said the latest estimate showed that “approximately 1.5 million people” had illegally entered the bloc this year, a lot coming through Turkey.

It left the E.U. in need of help from Ankara, even if their recent relations have been sown with discord. On Sunday, it was hugs all around as Tusk and Davutoglu completed what they called a breakthrough summit to put relations on an even keel again.

“Turkish membership will be an asset,” said Davutoglu after “no disagreements emerged” during the hastily-called emergency meeting.

Both sides got concessions: The E.U. desperately needs Turkish help to contain the flow of migrants into the bloc, and “Turkey must do its utmost to Turkey resuscitated longmothballed hopes to join a contain the illegal bloc in which it would, by immigration into Europe and population, become one of the biggest member states. the number of refugees has The refugee crisis has to decline substantially.” reminded European leaders just how much Turkey — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte whether a bloc member or not — is a pivotal partner for the E.U. and a buffer state from the bedlam rocking much of the Middle East in recent years.

French President Francois Hollande said Sunday that the E.U. will need to monitor Turkey's commitments “step-by-step,” deal with the migrant crisis, fight extremism and help end Syria’s political crisis. He said any funds for a 3 billion-euro ($3.2 billion) package to help Turkey deal with the migrants on its territory will be released progressively as the commitments are checked.

Davutoglu said that money wasn’t earmarked for Turkey per se but for the refugees on Turkish soil. Yet the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming into the E.U. this year have caused the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, and E.U. nations have been at pains to draw Turkey in as part of the solution.

“Turkey must do its utmost to contain the illegal immigration into Europe and the number of refugees has to decline substantially,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

As a sweetener it is again discussing issues that were long off the table.

Davutoglu said Turkey stood committed to help, but couldn’t make hard promises.

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Planned Parenthood Suspect’s Words Lend Insight Into Clinic Shooting Motive COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Robert Lewis Dear told authorities “no more baby parts” after being arrested for the shooting of a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, according to a law enforcement official, part of a rambling statement that investigators are parsing to understand the reasoning behind an assault that left three dead.

Colorado Springs police on Sunday said they would not disclose any information on the motive for the attack, a move that guarantees further speculation over the intention of Dear, whom acquaintances described as an odd, reclusive loner, as he prepares for his initial appearance in state court on Monday.

Planned Parenthood cited witnesses as saying the gunman was motivated by his opposition to abortion. He killed a police officer and two civilians who were accompanying separate friends to the clinic: Jennifer Markovsky, 36, a mother of two and Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq

War veteran and father of two.

The law enforcement official who recounted Dear’s statement spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not allowed to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation.

The official said the “no more baby parts” comment was among a number of statements he made to authorities after his arrest, making it difficult to know his specific motivation.

Still, U.S. Attorney John Walsh said investigators have been in touch with lawyers from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights and National Security divisions, suggesting officials could pursue federal charges in addition to state homicide ones.

One possible avenue is the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a crime to injure or intimidate clinic patients and employees.

The attack thrust the clinic to the center of the debate over Planned Parenthood, which was reignited in July when antiabortion activists released

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Andrew Lindsay, a senior from Kingston, Jamaica, on campus at Amherst College Nov. 17. Minority students demanding change at Amherst were met with both sympathy and criticism that they sought to stifle free speech.

Trump Drops Event With Black Pastors After Some Object JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has cancelled a press conference in which his campaign said he would be endorsed by as many as 100 black evangelical religious leaders. Many of those invited to the event say they had no intention of endorsing the billionaire businessman and former reality television star.

“It’s a miscommunication,” said Darrell Scott, the senior pastor of New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who has helped to arrange meetings between Trump and black pastors in recent months. Trump’s campaign “thought it was going to be a press conference for an endorsement when it wasn’t,” Scott said Sunday in an interview.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email that Trump would still be holding a private meeting with the group on Monday before departing for a rally in Georgia.

She did not respond to additional questions about the cancellation.

Trump has been courting the support of evangelical black clergy members as he works to broaden his appeal in a crowded Republican field. He has held several meetings with pastors from across the country in recent months.

His campaign issued a press release last week that read: “Mr. Trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 African-American evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP front-runner after a private meeting at Trump Tower.”

Scott estimated that more than 100 preachers would nonetheless be meeting with Trump on Monday, despite criticism in an open letter in Ebony magazine from more than 100 black religious leaders.

In the letter, the group wrote that “Trump’s racially inaccurate, insensitive and incendiary rhetoric should give those charged with the care of the spirits and souls of black people great pause.” They also expressed concern that the meeting on Monday would “give Trump the appearance of legitimacy among those who follow your leadership and respect your position as clergy.”

Earlier this month, a black protester was roughed up by Trump supporters at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama. Trump said after the incident, “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

Trump also drew criticism recently for re-tweeting an image of inaccurate statistics that vastly over-represented the number of whites killed by blacks.

undercover video they said showed the group’s personnel negotiating the sale of fetal organs.

Planned Parenthood has denied seeking any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement costs for donating the organs to researchers. Still, the National Abortion Federation says it has since seen a rise in threats at clinics nationwide.

Vicki Cowart, the regional head of Planned Parenthood, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the organization has faced hateful speech.

“I can’t believe that this isn’t contributing to some folks, mentally unwell or not, thinking that it’s OK to — to target Planned Parenthood or to target abortion providers,” she said.

Gov. John Colorado Hickenlooper on CNN’s State of the Union called the attack “a form of terrorism” and said people need to be mindful of “inflammatory rhetoric.”

Thanksgiving Week Has Smooth Ending Due To Manageable Travel Conditions NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans returning home after the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend Sunday had cooperative weather and mostly efficient airport operations to thank for smooth traveling conditions.

Besides a winter storm that will bring freezing rain and snow to the central Plains Sunday night and into Monday, weather across much of the country is seasonably mild, said National Weather Service meteorologist Bruce Sullivan.

“Enjoy it while it lasts,” he said.

Most airports across the country were running with delays of 15 minutes or less Sunday night, according to Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control system data.

But a large volume of passengers at Seattle-Tacoma International

in Washington, Newark International in New Jersey and LaGuardia in New York, led to slightly longer delays, the data show.

In Atlanta, officials are projecting 88,000 travelers to pass through the world’s busiest airport by the end of Sunday, making it their busiest day so far this year. A spokesman for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport says the previous record for the year was 80,000 people on Columbus Day. Lobbying group Airlines for America estimated more than 25 million passengers would take to the sky on U.S. airlines during the 12 days surrounding Thanksgiving.

And the motoring group AAA estimated that nearly 47 million Americans were expected to travel at least 50 miles from home via car, plane or bus

over the weekend — the highest number since 2007.

At Pennsylvania Station in New York City, college junior Seth Greenspan said the normally chaotic transit hub appeared strangely calm as he awaited an Amtrak train back to the College of William & Mary in Virginia after spending Thanksgiving on Long Island.

“Amtrak itself can be unreliable, whether or not it’s a holiday,” he said ahead of an eighthour trip. “So far it seems OK.” Toni Baines and her husband, Marlon, who spent Thanksgiving in the Bronx and were head back to their home in Richmond, Virginia, said it appeared transit officials anticipated an influx of travelers and planned accordingly.

“They’ve been running a lot of extra trains,” she said. “So far we haven't had any problems.”

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prove himself, he quits and moves to his father’s hometown of Philly to locate his dad’s cornerman — the one, the only Rocky Balboa (the one, the only Sylvester Stallone). He begins a touching Man, oh man, do I love Ryan Coogler’s approach to film- relationship with downstairs neighbor Bianca making. Plugging in the small-scale indie director behind (Tessa Thompson), a singer with progressive hear2013’s searing Fruitvale Station to reinvigorate the Rocky fran- ing loss who tells him, “I’m just trying to do what chise was a brilliant decision. This method has been tried I love for as long as I can — I think that’s all any many times before with disastrous results (Josh Trank, Neill of us are trying to do.”

Blomkamp), but this time it is a rare and immediately apparAfter some persistence, Donny convinces Rocky ent success. Creed shrewdly lands its hardest punches outside to come out of retirement to train him, and it’s a the ring, within the boxer’s friendships. It is proof that in real treat watching those montages as they jog up Coogler, we are witnessing the emergence of a true auteur who and down the river and pummel the punching bag. has a knack for effortless intimacy no matter the budget or Not only because of the joy of seeing Rocky back in scale. The director has said that Creed was just as intensely per- action, this time as a trainer, but because of the rather beautiful sonal for him as Fruitvale was, and it clearly shows. He teams emotional bond between Stallone and Jordan. Both A-game up again with bona fide star Michael B. Jordan, and the two actors take their time in building their performance detail by create a dynamic that is every bit as involving, engrossing and detail, and the screenplay is such that the film’s greatest focus is tactile as the heartrending story of Oscar Grant. concentrated on the connection between these two. In fact, You know this isn’t just your average studio product when, there are only two boxing matches in the film — but they’re after the three logos of major corporations go by, the film good ones, expertly staged and rousingly cathartic. Thanks to begins in a juvenile detention center. It’s an affectionate nod the strength of these two, when Rocky is diagnosed with cancer, from Coogler to his former the moment is downright devastating. From career — he worked for years then on, it’s an I-fight-you-fight kind of deal Creed with incarcerated youth as Rocky trains Donny and Donny insists before becoming a filmmaker. he’ll only carry on if Rocky goes through Directed by Ryan Coogler In this environment we meet the chemo. Cue the tears, fist-pumps Starring Michael B. Jordan, with a little boy called Adonis and whistles. Stallone is back in his prime Sylvester Stallone “Donnie” Johnson, emhere, and he deserves notice from the broiled in a fistfight over a Academy — this dude in the Fedora is the crack some kid made about one we all know and love, the same one his mother. He’s the biologiwho captured our hearts back in 1976. cal son of Apollo Creed, conThis is an art film that just happens to ceived out of wedlock and a be a seventh installment and feature a charstranger to his mother, Mary acter named Balboa, but it comes free of all Anne (Phylicia Rashad), who takes him in shortly after. the studio tentpole sheen.

Cut to 15 years later and Donnie has grown into the hefty Strong box-office should ensue for this baby, but its core is body of Michael B. Jordan, fighting on the side in bare-knuck- wholly renegade. Scenes are cut together with jumps and le matches down in Tijuana, while working a blue collar job in freeze frames displaying text alongside a handsome face. Most Los Angeles. Deciding he needs to pursue boxing full time to discussions are shot hand-held and close-up, getting us right

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up close to the expressive faces of Jordan and Stallone, so that we feel all their nuances. Then when the story enters the ring, Coogler films an entire round in one vibrant, energetic steadicam swoop. In the climactic bout, the kinetics of Raging fricking Bull come to mind. There’s one pivotal moment when our hero gets K-O’d and it looks like he’s down for the count.

The shot plays out in painful slow-motion with little insert cuts back to Creed as a child, and it provokes a guttural reaction from everyone in the house.

The real distinguishing factor here is the pervasive humanism of Ryan Coogler. His direction is sensitive and attuned and his script finds the humor and the sorrow in all the ordinary moments. Rocky’s cancer diagnosis stings a real nerve, because Donnie grabs him and ushers him to the toilet, then goes home to Bianca and swings him over his back. Time is made for a dinner conversation between the makeshift family of three, so that Rocky can say he’s a lucky man to know them.

Sorry for getting sappy, but this is really sweet, genuinely affecting stuff and it confirms the guiding talent behind it as one of the best of his generation. Once again, with a lot more money and the burden of a franchise on his back, Coogler has made one of the best films of the year — vigorously entertaining and coursing with emotion.

Mark Distefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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Yet, Free TC has a lovely orchestral sound, and Ty proves a charismatic and talented singer. Though marred by weak tracks, there’s the skeleton of a great project in here.

Free TC has two themes. The first is familial sadness over the conditions of inner-city L.A., and for the imprisonment of Ty’s brother Big TC. The second is Ty’s apparently action-packed sex life. At times, these sentiments are an odd match with each other. For instance, Ty follows his panoramic opener “LA” — which deals with survival in a maad city — with “Saved,” which lays out the mission statement for most of the album: “Dolla sign’ll fuck, but he won’t date her.” Eventually, the knuckle-dragging misogyny wears thin. Ty lacks the female-friendly openness and sex-positive attitude of, say, Miguel. Cuts like “Horses In The Stable,” while musically strong, are marred by their lyrics — the titular horses, of course, referring to Ty’s women, whom he “can ride any time.”

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So, too, is “Miracle/Whenever” representative of the warm, complex sound that comprises the best parts of Free TC. The beats on the first half of this album layer strings, massed choral vocals, acoustic guitars and vocal samples into huge walls of sound. These tracks are mostly great.

“Straight Up” moves at a languid pace, pitting Ty’s syrupy tenor against choral “la-la-las” and orchestral touches. Even better is “Solid,” in which Ty’s melody is matched by an acoustic guitar underneath. This is lovely, catchy and thoroughly listenable R&B. Had Ty produced an entire album around this aesthetic, Free TC might have been stronger, but stylistically it’s all over the map. The second half of the album is dedicated to transparent bids for radio plays, and these songs veer from sound to sound. “Bring It Out of Me” sounds like trapinfluenced EDM, and the dark Moog bassline on “When I See Ya” is a far cry from the pleasant, expansive R&B around which the album is built. These tracks are filled with features designed to maximize mass-market appeal,

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but Ty fails to get the most out of his guest artists. Future’s hook on “Blasé” is, for lack of a better word, stupid, and Fetty Wap, Wiz Khalifa and R. Kelly all stop by without making much of an impression. Bigger names like Kanye and Diddy are featured on “Guard Down,” but prove irrelevant at best.

Free TC has the feel of a project to which more and more was added until its original intent was compromised. Ty’s take on the prison-industrial complex comes from a personal and emotionally effective place, and despite the lyrics his sex jams are melodic and well-written. But the radio singles on this album sound unlike the tracks on the first side, and they’re worse. The beats, too, seem to have been built like wedding cakes, adding layer upon layer to attempt to subdue the listener through sheer excess. Ty himself is a charismatic frontman and a gifted vocalist, with potential star power. His future projects should involve both a narrowing and a broadening: Sonically, his focus should be narrowed to the orchestral R&B he does best, and lyrically, he must expand beyond his “All we do is fuck when I see you” ethos. But despite its flaws, Free TC is an agreeable and listener-friendly experience — at its best moments, the sound of a man transmuting his brotherly grief and voracious sexual appetite into glimmering, symphonic pop.

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mfv23@cornell.edu.

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Breaking the Mold: Netflix’s Jessica Jones

BY BRYNN RICHTER Sun Contributor

Jessica Jones treats its viewers to an engaging, suspenseful, neo-noir-inspired crime drama. The title character just happens to be able to lift cars and punch through walls. The emphasis Jessica Jones places on its plot and character development over its characters’ “gifts” makes the show widely accessible to even traditionally non-superhero fans and refreshing among the seemingly endless stream of superheroes.

Throughout the 13 episodes released on Netflix, we are introduced to Jessica Jones, a smart, sarcastic private investigator. When a mother and father arrive at Jessica’s door in search of their missing daughter, Jessica discovers that the man who once held her in captivity, Kilgrave, is still alive and luring her back to him through the kidnapping of the current couple’s daughter, Hope. Jessica rescues Hope and returns her to her parents, only to be reminded of Kilgrave’s cruelty as Hope shoots both of her parents. Jessica desperately tries to prove Hope’s innocence, beginning her mission of tracking down and capturing Kilgrave to prove that his mind control powers are real.

The details of Jessica’s trauma, as well as Kilgrave’s true abilities, are revealed piecemeal throughout the show during Jessica’s PTSD episodes. This method of dispensing information avoids clunky exposition, leaving viewers with just enough information to keep them on the edge of their seats. Kilgrave’s range of control is revealed through examples, as he orders innocent people to do whatever he wishes, causing emotional, physical and, in Jessica and Hope’s cases, sexual abuse.

Kilgrave’s mindset is much scarier than his abilities, because he truly does not understand morality. In order to save Kilgrave from a neurological disease, Kilgrave’s parents performed medical experiments that tortured

him and gave him special powers. From a young age, whatever Kilgrave said came true, and his parents, too frightened of him, never taught him acceptable behavior.

He does not consider himself a murderer because he’s never actually murdered anyone and because his victims deserved to die.

Kilgrave’s twisted outlook is further revealed as Jessica calls him out for raping both her and Hope. Kilgrave recoils at the use of the term, saying that he had no way

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of knowing that Jessica and Hope didn’t want to have sex with him. Kilgrave loves Jessica and is horrified that she views his actions as torturous and cruel. Kilgrave’s reaction makes a strong point about rape in today’s society through this plot, as it mirrors a scarily common reaction in real life.

Along with the psychological analysis of Kilgrave’s skewed motives and ethics, the show effectively addresses

the psychological damage left on Jessica and the other survivors of Kilgrave’s mind control. Through a support group for victims and Jessica’s comforting of Hope, the show is subtle, but powerful in emphasizing that it is not the victim’s fault.

Despite all of his cruel actions, I felt myself struggling to hate Kilgrave. I know I should hate him, but David Tennant is incredibly charismatic. His portrayal of Kilgrave is smart, charming and enjoyable to watch, and it evokes an odd sense of empathy. A rarity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kilgrave is a deeply-written villain who provides an even match for Jessica.

Jessica Jones is powerfully feminist, as Jessica’s character type is much more frequently played by men. She is a tough, heavy drinker, doesn’t rely on anyone else and prefers to be alone, but none of these traits seem out of place in Jessica.

She is not written as a woman who is independent and strong (both physically and literally), but rather as a character who has these traits. No one questions whether Jessica is strong or can do something just because she’s a girl, and if they do, Jessica had absolutely no problem throwing them into a wall to show them otherwise.

Jessica is by far the protagonist most capable of defeating Kilgrave, despite the efforts of Luke Cage, who is indestructible and strong, and Will Simpson, an overly-violent soldier turned cop, to convince her otherwise. Ultimately Jessica’s best friend, Trish, becomes her greatest ally.

Trish isn’t scared to take her safety into her own hands and does what she can to protect Jessica, acting as a moral guide for Jessica.

Jessica Jones is at its best when it examines the emotional effects of trauma and morality. Yet, even in its weaker moments, it still provides a suspenseful and genuinely enjoyable crime drama.

Beynn Richter is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at ber65@cornell.edu.

I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore

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hroughout my tenure as a writer, editor and now the Hamilton cast recording ten times (an accurate list, columnist for the Arts & Entertainment section, but problematic nonetheless). I care dearly for my culmy favorite tradition has remained the end-of- tural compatriots at The Sun and do not wish to shame year lists we publish, in which we lowly critics gerry- anyone, but I fear for our future. Not merely our mander and jockey our favorite albums, films and TV future, but the future of art at Cornell and beyond. shows for a shot at proving that our opinions are objecThe Arts and Entertainment section has always been tively correct and yours are wrong. We do this on the troubled by the breadth its coverage. That’s the doubleassumption that you care about the art about which we edged sword of allowing writers to pick their own stospend the year opining; that our recommendations and ries. They will cover what they like and, more unsetratings may encourage you to see a play or listen to a tling, what they know. We are all guilty of this. Two track that you may have otherwise ignored; that, some- years ago, every other article was a film review. We were how, we are enriching the arts on campus and providing inundated with aspiring Roger Eberts and Richard a necessary service to the reader. The critic’s dream. But Ropers. On my first day editing, we published side-byif there is anything I have learned since coming to side reviews of Her. It was one of the darkest moments Cornell, it’s that you don’t care. of my college career. Nobody cares that much about Don’t feel bad. Turns out nobody does.

Her. I — wishfully, probably douche-fully— consider Today, we experience a similar blight. If music be the myself a jack-of-all-arts, equally knowledgeable in tele- food of love, the Arts & Entertainment section may be vision, film, theatre and video games. My Achilles Heel morbidly obese. I greatly admire our current music is pop music; always has been, always will be. But I try writers — the work they turn in is consistently some of my best to familiarize myself with the groovy tunes the the best I’ve read in our section, period — but at times youngsters like these days. I do so because I believe it feels as if our only real interests, as a section, lie there. (know) that life lived in the absence of art is no life. You As the most visible forum for the discussion of arts on cannot truly undercampus, we have an obligation to repstand beauty until resent and encourage the appreciation you hear the opening of all arts, even those outside of what bars of “Claire de we already know and enjoy. We have Lune” or you watch failed our obligation. the three-minute I am reminded of the recent events tracking shot from surrounding Cornell Cinema and the Pulp Goodfellas or you Student Assembly, when the appropriFictSean gaze at “A Sunday ations committee recommended that Afternoon on the the theater not receive a funding Island of La Grande Jatte.” They make you feel the increase based on low attendance. Having attended things that you can’t get from a textbook or a fantasy many screenings at Cornell Cinema, I can attest to football team. And who among us can honestly say they this. And yet, suddenly a “Save Cornell Cinema” do not want to surround themselves with beauty and Facebook event appeared and concerned students love. If you aren’t actively seeking diverse, artistic expe- flooded S.A. meetings and voiced their opinions and riences on a daily basis, are you even alive? the day was saved. But can you blame the S.A.? Where Imagine my surprise when I learned that hardly any were we when Cornell Cinema brought countless filmof our writers had seen ten movies this entire year, let makers and great movies to campus? Not in those alone enough to make a best-of list. In the words of an seats. It’s not a case of wanting our cake and eating it, editor, “a straight mess.” Truer words have never been too; it’s a case of wanting our cake and then ignoring spoken. Heck, when it came to listing albums, I wrote it because, although we would like to eat it, we have to

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study for a prelim tomorrow and I’m just really tired and my friends are going out to Dunbar’s and maybe next week. Definitely next week.

We don’t make time for art anymore. There’s no urgency for beauty. We make time for parties and studying and homework and networking and for, what, cheap thrills and the guarantee that your starting salary will be higher than that of your peers? We prostitute our free time, our summers and winters and weekends to unpaid internships and job fairs and things that don’t matter on the promise that if we buckle down now, we’ll enjoy leisure time later. We belittle students that devote their college careers to the pursuit of the arts because we wish we had that luxury, to actually enjoy our studies and not secretly loathe ourselves, but we do. We go to Cornell, one of the greatest institutions of learning in the entire world, and all we are encouraged to learn is the rhythm of the corporate circlejerk, counting down the weeks until we get our framed career permission slip and start our “real” lives. But what of culture? What of art? What of happiness?

We live in Ithaca, one of the greatest centers of art in New York, a never-ending fount of culture at our fingertips just under the surface — Cornell Cinema, Cinemapolis, The Haunt, The State Theatre, The Kitchen Theatre, the Hangar Theatre, Risley Theatre, the Schwartz Center, The Johnson Museum, to name a few — but chances are you’ll never allow yourself to experience all of these wondrous places. Do not throw away your shot.

I’m pleading with you: Make time for art. Skip class.

Read a book outside of class. Binge watch a random show you’ve never heard of. Go to Cinemapolis and pick a movie to watch based on its poster. Listen through your Discover Weekly playlist and don’t skip anything. I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” We’ll all be better for it.

Sean Doolittle is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at sdoolittle@cornellsun.com. Pulp FictSean runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Hail,all hail The following is an open letter to the Big Red Marching Band: There's only one way to get through a football season that presented as many challenges as this past one did. Together.

Togetherness on the field. Togetherness in the locker room. Togetherness across campus. Togetherness in the stands.

The Cornell Big Red Football Family is a big, loud, proud supportive one. And nowhere was evidence of that support bigger, louder, more proud or more supportive than in the collective unit that is the Cornell Big Red Marching Band.

At home games, from the pre-game parade and concerts in the Crescent to your performances inside historic Schoellkopf Field, your musical motivation brought confidence and hope to hometown fans and left visitors full of envy. On the road, from Yale and Sacred Heart to Princeton and Penn, you inspired the Big Red Football Family and put opponents and their fans on notice that Cornell University was in town.

We cannot thank you enough for your passion, your dedication and support of Big Red Football, and the many sacrifices you made throughout this past season. We're already looking forward to our 2016 campaign when we can once again join together in leading Cornell Football to even greater success.

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t’s not accurate to say that practiced in the secular states of Indonesia Islamophobia is new in American life. and Turkey. So too do they miss the Islam It was present in 2008, when critics of practiced by American Muslims whose Barack Obama claimed that he was a worship is quite simply not their business.

Muslim, assuming that it would be damn- Both the left and the right are guilty of ing if he were. So too was it woven into overlooking the vast majority of peaceful the 2011 opposition to a mosque planned Islam in favor of a view that incorrectly two blocks from ground zero in New pegs the religion as more likely to be radiYork. It was said that this mosque would calized than any other. Though it is true honor the ideology of the attackers. We that radicalized interpretations of Islam understood Islam to be a violent faith have a unique power today, the failure to then, and this sentidisaggregate this poment has not changed. wer from the religion The same tenor rang in Truly though, this is itself and its practice Ben Carson’s statement by the rest of the not just a criticism of world’s Muslims leads that a Muslim could not be president. the discriminatory the right. There is a to Rather than to say policies and rhetoric Islamophobia is new in seen in much of the segment of the left Western American politics, it is world. that has been just as more accurate to say Furthermore, that over the last few although Maher seeks distrustful and weeks America has tolerance and choice, caught a glimpse of its he misses distinctly inconsistent in its own reflection. This is Muslim strands of fema lucid moment, when treatment of Islam. inism and LGBTQ+ fear and anger have advocacy seen throughbrought our ugly out the Middle East image into view. It is an opportunity to that draw on a religious foundation to reflect. ground their progressive agendas. Asserting What is new is how open and explicit differing interpretations of the Qur’an, politicians have been, particularly on the groups from Egypt to Iran have advanced American right. In various iterations, pres- liberal aims. This is where Islam creates idential candidates have proposed goodness in a way that Maher’s left could increased scrutiny and surveillance of never accommodate, and Trump’s right Muslims and mosques throughout the would never notice.

United States, and have flatly opposed the Really though, the past several weeks admission of Muslim Syrian refugees. have been a reminder of the extent to They say that these are the sacrifices to which we fear lives that we do not underindividual liberty that we have to make in stand, and threats from faces we do not order to protect our collective security. recognize. Murder in schools, movie theThis is truly shocking to hear from a aters and churches can’t shake us, so long party that wouldn’t ask a clerk to process a as the killer has a face and a background marriage certificate or a baker to make a we can understand. But when terror cake if it may tread on their religious coat- assumes the name of Islam, or wears a tails. It is also surprising to hear rhetoric of mask of a slightly darker shade, we renege safety over liberty from a party whose on our promises and turn our backs on principled opposition to gun control has the huddled masses. These are the terrible been founded upon just the opposite. implications of our fear.

Truly though, this is not just a criticism What’s vital to remember is that the of the right. There is a segment of the left terror we feel today is not going away. that has been just as distrustful and incon- Though I pray otherwise, there will likely sistent in its treatment of Islam. When Bill be another attack; then there will be Maher says, to the applause of his mainly another. One may be devastatingly close liberal audience, that Islam is incompati- to home. And the hardest truth to bear is ble with liberal values, he nurtures fear that there is likely very little we can do to and distrust. He also betrays an ignorance make ourselves feel safer. Sure, we can to a vast amount of Islamic practices and banish refugees, who already passed an scholarship, and a narrow and prescriptive 18-month screening process, but it likely liberalism that fundamentally misses its won’t have an impact on our safety, both own objectives. real and perceived. What meaningful steps Maher asks us only to look at the we take abroad will help, but they won’t oppressive Muslim cultures of Saudi be visible enough to assuage the suffocatArabia and Iran, where women are treated ing sense of helplessness that many feel. as second-class citizens, and gender and This is why an open and compassionsexual minorities are routinely abused. Of ate society requires such immense strength course he ignores similar sexual oppres- and attention. America is genuinely sion that exists on the basis of Christianity afraid. Much of the country has discerned in Uganda, and the practice among a sub- a difference between itself and the other. stantial number of Malian Christians of Where the left says Islam is illiberal, the female genital mutilation. He doesn’t right says it is dangerous, so we find ourmention Judaism’s long history of gender selves gripped with open hate. Meanwhile inequity in its religious leadership, and the many seem to turn a blind eye, acting vast gender imbalance that still exists in blithely surprised at this “unexpected economic and political life throughout the turn” in American politics. Truly, America secular Western world. The problem is has the capacity to offer relative safety, certhat oppressive sentiment tends to run a tainty and freedom in a world that is now lot deeper than the practice of religion. severely wanting of the three. But to do so Individuals and communities bring what we have to martial courage in the face of they will to their faith; consequently, that this oppressive feeling of fear and impofaith will be a reflection of the people who tence, and avoid hatred at its most appealare practicing it, not the other way ing moment. around.

More important to this conversation, Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the though, are the parts of Islam that go College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached ignored by Maher’s left and Cruz, Trump at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table and Huckabee’s right. They miss the Islam appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

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hen I sat down to write this column, I couldn’t help but feel the shadow of past emotions lurking quietly behind me. In writing, emotion seems to be the only thing more intoxicating than the potential for a beautiful description. Two weeks ago, I had quite a lot of emotion because the glare of ignorance seared my eyes from all sides. I wanted desperately to dampen this fire somehow, and so I let the tempestuous wrath of my own frustration, sadness and rage go wild. As a result, the words kind of just forced themselves onto the page, propelled largely by their own momentum.

Today, the emotion is still there, but now it simmers. Now that the Trillium takeover is over and the demands have been sent, I guess I’m in a sort of limbo while I await the next wave of events.

Though that’s not to say I don’t have plenty to write about in the meantime. Like fear, for example.

I don’t usually get too caught up in social media and online comment sections, because I value my sanity. But lately, I’ve found myself more and more drawn to these domains, if only because the ignorance is hitting so close to

home. The fear that compels peo- brush, dipping it into the paint ple to post anonymously on Yik and letting a few drops splatter.

Yak or to keep a safe and comfort- Those drops will diffuse slowly able cybernetic distance between outwards until they connect with themselves and a Facebook friend other drops, and the canvas will is no longer an abstract entity. No, slowly, naturally change color. Or, now it has become the manifesta- at least, that is my hope when I’m tion of a more deeply rooted fear feeling optimistic and patient. But this only works if the people viewof conflict and discomfort.

This fear torments me in much ing the canvas are going to be the same way that paranoia did in receptive to a new color. the early days of freshman year, when my awakI’m at a point now where I feel well ening as a person equipped to dismantle the of color was in full effect and I architecture surrounding the hearts of felt as if my psynot only my enemies but also my che was under friends. constant siege.

After all, these kids were walking When I see the uncertainty and right past me on campus, bearing this fear while they refused to look fear in the words of strangers me in the eyes. And I felt power- across the country, I know the canvas is not ready yet, as demonless to change that.

In my moments of idealism, strated by the reception this colI’ve often compared creating umn has received. I see my friends change to creating a painting. In silently wondering: Has Amiri this really bad metaphor, the act of relinquished his “love of all peoslathering an entire canvas in one ple” mantra and become dangersingle, perfectly distributed layer ous, or is he still someone I can of paint is not only tedious but trust to talk to about superficial damn near impossible. Rather, nothingness while we avoid my change comes only by taking the distaste for the current events

unfolding on college campuses?

The answer is yes. I am both the same and anew. I am still loving, but more importantly, I am now dangerous. Dangerous, because I’ve spent the past couple years growing and molding. I’m at a point now where I feel well equipped to dismantle the architecture surrounding the hearts of not only my enemies but also my friends. The tools I use allow me to reconcile dissonant viewpoints. They have made me more aware of the lens through which I view an issue so that I can criticize myself as much as I do others. But these tools are useless if people refuse to voice their opinions in my presence or engage with me in person. I wish people would stop pretending like nothing is happening, or like they don’t have opinions.

Fear has the ability to tear asunder the canvas of society and is so good at doing this because of its toxicity, the way it trickles down like water. Fear becomes oppression — racism, sexism and

the like — which is the bane of every painter. I mean seriously, the word “homophobia” has fear intrinsically built into its very definition! To those on this campus who are succumbing to the profoundness of fear’s powerful poisons, I say only this: The people who have disrupted your lives and angered you so much with their one, peaceful hour at Trillium clearly have reason to be upset if you feel so personally offended by such modest actions.

And while I would love to do nothing more than write up the countless responses they have for your cowardice, I will instead request yet again that you stop floundering about in the muck of your fear and start seeking answers (Cornell Skin Deep Stories on Facebook is one great place to start). I anticipate that you will not listen, either because you think I’m not referring to you or because you know for a fact that I am. Either way: Please, for once, prove me wrong.

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

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his year, college students across the country have united to demand the end of the systemic racism and classism that plague our system of higher education. While the demands of student protesters vary from campus to campus, in the broadest sense the fight boils down to a call for increased representation and accessibility for historically disadvantaged groups of students and faculty as well as a demand for improved administrative accountability.

Over the past 20 years, the share of Black undergraduates attending America's most elite four-year colleges, which include selective private colleges as well as large public research universities, has remained relatively flat at an average of 6 percent of the student body, due in part to an increased reliance on standardized testing that disadvantages minority students. To put this in perspective, the U.S. Census reports that around 15 percent of college-age Americans are Black.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education reports that in 2013, Black and Hispanic individuals comprised only 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of the total number of faculty and staff members at American postsecondary institutions.

Representation is important — identity grants the experience necessary to achieve a wider range of perspectives — but increasing numbers alone won’t solve the issue that these colleges primarily serve affluent students who already benefit from private resources composed of family assets, betterquality high schools and stronger social connections. In addition to the need for student body diversity, we need diversity of curriculums, faculty and support systems for the students who are able to matriculate into these universities.

There is a lot of work to be done. In spite of this fact (or because of it), it is often tempting to flatten student protesters into two-dimensional versions of the complaints we’ve been ignoring for decades. By characterizing them — and Millennials in general

— as entitled, selfish and lazy individuals, they become shadows of the hard-working, self-sufficient idealizations of previous generations. Their claims, then, cannot be seen as material in value. Our misguided faith in the meritocracy of the American college system, in which any individual can succeed with hard work and a little bit of luck, might cause us to mistakenly interpret the disproportionately small minority representation in postsecondary institutions as a product of their own choices and not as a result of the compounded disadvantages they face on the path to higher education.

There should be little doubt regarding

with the simplistic assertion that these students are merely “overly sensitive.”

Furthermore, dismissing the need for tolerant campuses ignores the very obvious fact that the students who stand to benefit the most from more inclusive environments, typically minority groups who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, have had, on average, the most persistent exposure to these “upsetting ideas,” which has become somewhat of a euphemism for general discriminatory speech.

While the First Amendment contains no protection for “hate speech” (though it does contain exceptions for “true threats” and

Demanding a fair campus does not need to be incompatible with the tenets of free speech, but these two forces are constantly presented as being at odds with each other. both the legitimacy of the demands made by these students as well as their legitimacy to make these demands in the first place. As some of the most prominent institutions in American life, universities set the example for all to follow. When Black students and allies call for the resignation of a college president in response to his failure to condemn racist remarks, as in the case of Ithaca College, they echo the lives of the 304 Black people who have been killed by police so far in 2015.

These are not isolated incidents.

Why, then, in one of the most racially divisive years in recent history, have claims emerged that college students are “coddled?”

No one is saying that students should be sheltered from every single idea that they may disagree with or that upsets them.

Besides being condescending and paternalistic, this dismissal of legitimate claims threatens to undermine the entire call for equality

“fighting words”), this is commonly accepted as one of its limits. Groups that already suffer from systemic discrimination are more vulnerable to hate speech than privileged groups. Universities, above all, should be promoting civil discourse and maintaining student safety; colleges should not be tolerating hate speech and hurtful actions as normal modes of expression. Banning racist Halloween costumes (Yale) and questioning the need for buildings named after Ku Klux Klan apologists (Princeton) would be a good place to start.

Demanding a fair campus does not need to be incompatible with the tenets of free speech, but these two forces are constantly presented as being at odds with each other.

Free speech is one of the most important American freedoms, and it is vital to the principles of our system of higher education.

A tolerant and inclusive campus does not

need to threaten free speech; this is a false dichotomy. Asking students, faculty and staff members to be conscious of intentional language choices is not the same as waging a war on free speech.

At its best, this type of political correctness is an awkward and clumsy but well-intentioned attempt to be conscious of our language and to treat people with respect. At its worst, it doesn’t really exist in any form other than as a dismissive rhetorical tactic used by those who feel uncomfortable when confronted with conversations that call to attention their own privilege. On an individual level, confronting privilege requires a complete overhaul of our understanding of self. There is immense personal guilt in acknowledging that levels of freedom and access to opportunities vary greatly based on arbitrary factors like country of birth, race, wealth, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few. In response to this, our responsibility as individuals is to be consciously anti-racist by listening to the oppressed, recognizing the legitimacy of their suffering and taking action. On a larger scale, addressing inequality on college campuses will require our collective acknowledgement that our institutions are fundamentally flawed.

Before we worry about whether or not college students have become too sensitive, we should first ensure their safety, emotionally as well as physically. We cannot remain indifferent to, or worse, critical of, the demands of student protesters and allies. We are all exhausted. But for what it’s worth, having to hear the complaints of these students every now and then is far less uncomfortable than having to live through the daily oppression they face.

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at enh33@cornell.edu. Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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“We had some great scoring chances and we kept scoring chances away,” Schafer said. “We did exactly what we wanted in the first period and we established the physicality of the game. The quick starts — it’s always a quick start and every team wants to score the first two goals. We’d love to score three goals in the first three minutes every game, but you’ve got take what’s given.”

Angello continued his strong freshman campaign with a tip-in goal off of a shot from the point by junior defenseman Patrick McCarron. The goal marked Angello’s team-leading fifth goal of the season for Cornell. Sophomore center Trevor Yates tallied the second Cornell goal of the night on a rebound off of a Teemu Tiitinen wraparound shot on Terriers goalie Connor LaCouvee.

The Terriers, however, dominated the period after the goals, with Gillam’s strong performance in net carrying Cornell through to the whistle at the end of the second.

B.U. began to mount a comeback five minutes into the third period after Terrier freshman center Bobo Carpenter lit the lamp following a beautiful passing sequence from A.J. Greer and Nikolas Olsson.

The goal ended Gillam’s shutout streak at 213 minutes and 17

“We did exactly what we wanted in the first period and we established the physicality of the game.”

Mike Schafer ’86 seconds, the third-longest streak in Cornell history. Greer tied the game with a goal of his own, beating Gillam top shelf from the left circle eight minutes into the third period. “[In] the third period, there are some things we wanted to get back, but the team responded great in the third period giving up a two-goal lead,” Schafer said. “Holden scored a great goal to make it 3-2 and then we don’t hold it.”

While the Kelley-Harkness won’t return to Ithaca this year, decided by a shootout post-overtime that did not affect the result of the game, Schafer and his team walked out of one of the world’s most famous arenas satisfied with what the Red head coach deemed a “good night for college hockey.”

But for the Red, the blocked shots from Wedman and the surprising offensive contribution from Anderson represented what Schafer has talked about all season long: returning to the roots of Cornell hockey.

“We have a very tight team and a strong bond between the group,” Anderson said. “If guys are injured or we’re a little bit thin up front because of that, I have no problem stepping in just like anyone else would had.”

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

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minutes of solid energy. Throughout the game we had sparks of good defense or we ran the floor well, but we stopped playing well when Marshall took away our strengths.”

Campbell said the Red’s focus was on containing the players and the tempo of the game.

“We were focused on containing their players since we knew going in they were fast and like to get to the basket,” she said. “Offensively, we were hoping to control the tempo and make them make mistakes on defense.”

On offense, Cornell’s guards took the reins this time, with both Moran and LeDuc notching nine points, while the bigs rebounded down low. Marshall and Campbell had six rebounds each.

Despite the loss, the two teams the Red faced this past week offer unique ways to learn going forward.

“Going forward, we are obviously disappointed with the results of this week,” Campbell said. “Now we have to focus on learning from our loss and not making the same mistakes in the future.”

junior guard Megan LeDuc took three defensive charges for the team, as well as doling out the majority of the team’s assists.

Just three days later, the team traveled down to West Virginia to play the Thundering Herd. The home team entered the contest at 4-0 and after two relentless halves, extended that streak to 5-0, beating Cornell, 73-47.

The Thundering Herd proved to be the opposite kind of team from the Bills, known for jacking up threes and pushing the tempo on offense compared to the high pressure defense the Bills showed the Red earlier in the week. With such aggressive offense, Cornell got aggressive itself.

Marshall had four fouls during the game and the three other forwards, Campbell, Caroline Shelquist and Nicholle Aston all had three apiece. The fouls limited their playing time and gave Marshall the momentum it needed to keep racking up the score.

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Hockey Loses Trophy to Boston “That’s the way that guys have stepped up this year,” Schafer said.

That sacrifice similarly manifested itself Saturday Sophomore defenseman Dan Wedman curled up as night in New York City with junior defenseman turned his knee touched the ice. Wedman anticipated the forward Holden Anderson. Anderson came up big in puck to zip towards the net as the No. 11 Boston the third period, redirecting a shot from junior defenseUniversity hockey team set up the power play and man Patrick McCarron and slipping the puck through when the puck flew off the stick towards the goal, the legs of Terriers goalie Connor LaCouvee. This put the Red up 3-2 at the time and served Wedman took it to his thigh, deadas a response to two unanswered goals ening the play and the momentum of BOSTON UNIVERSITY V. CORNELL from the Terriers.

B.U. He then took one stride and 3 3 “[Anderson] is playing a position limped slightly, but his blocked shot that he’s never played before, scoring a — the standout play for the No. 15 Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD OT Final goal and doing a great job with it,” Cornell men’s hockey team during a Boston 0 0 3 0 3 Schafer said. “I think that speaks a lot penalty kill in overtime — kept the Cornell 0 2 1 0 3 about our players.” score tied 3-3 and helped the Red The first period was uneventful and both teams prevent the Terriers from putting together a sequence struggled to put together much offensive rhythm. The for the game-winning goal.

Throughout the season, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 Terriers outshot the Red by a 10-9 tally and most of the has harped on his men to sacrifice for the team, off the shots for Cornell came from the line of Hilbrichice and on it, in order to reestablish the culture that Weidner-Buckles, who combined for a third of the Red’s made Cornell hockey a program that transported the scoring attempts on net. Schafer said his team succeedLynah faithful 224 miles across the state to Madison ed in establishing the tempo and physicality of the game Square Garden for the biannual Red Hot Hockey event. from the get-go.

And with six forwards out due to injury, Schafer needed See HOCKEY page 11 the sacrifice from many in the tie.

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Paying Our Athletes

ollege football and basketball are huge spectator sports. Every year, hundreds of thousands of fans watch the Rose Bowl or participate in brackets for March Madness with the same, if not higher amount of enthusiasm than for professional sports. Teams certainly make a name for themselves when they are doing well, drawing attention with star players or playoff runs and bringing in masses of television viewers. So if college sports are so huge and draw in that big of a following, that begs the question: should

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay collegiate athletes be treated like pros and compensated for their hard work? This is a tricky argument to make because of the understanding that student athletes are not just there for the sport, but to get an education, separating them from pro athletes who are just that — athletes.

There are scholarships, yes, but players, especially big names like Heisman trophy winners, definitely draw crowds and drive up ticket sales to college games. However, these players are not compensated for the recognition and fandom they are bringing to their respective schools. Is this fair or just the nature of the NCAA? This has recently been a hot topic of debate in the college sports world, despite the firm stance of the NCAA that no, athletes should not be paid.

The argument that it is unfair for schools to make money off of their athletes without giving them any compensation is countered by the fact that in actuality, schools do not even make that much money from these star players. In fact, they barely break even. Meghan Durham, spokeswoman for the NCAA, stated that only 20 of the roughly 1,200 schools of the NCAA make more from sports than they

spend on sports. Additionally, ESPN reported in March that over two-fifths of the teams that participated in March Madness either broke even or lost money this past year.

But are these schools breaking even because they aren’t making money or because they are spending too much of it?

Some argue that most of the revenue made during a year from sports goes to building new state-of-the-art facilities or paying college coaches salaries, which are equivalent to that of professional team coaches. In that case, if the coaches are getting paid a professional-worthy salary, why aren’t the athletes? Working out as a collegiate athlete is like a full time job. Most sports economists, such as Stefan Szymanski, argue that paying athletes would just be a simple matter of reallocating revenue and that most schools can in fact afford to pay their athletes.

Some fear that giving athletes salaries would ruin the concept of college sports and lead to “bidding wars.” But essentially, this problem already exists in the world of college sports. Athletes choose schools based on their reputations, the number of athletes they help go pro and the ones with the best facilities. Naturally, this means the best schools already get most of the best recruits. It wouldn’t be much different if we paid athletes. Rather, it would be like going to college while simultaneously having a job and honestly, that would be a pretty sweet deal. Many more college players would be able to set themselves up for a better futures due to already having had a source of income.

College athletes work as hard as pro-athletes and dedicate themselves to their sport, especially if they are generating income for the school. It would only be fair for them to receive compensation for their efforts. To come out of college without any debts would be more than ideal and it would have the added bonus of feeling like you’re playing pro (and let’s be real, athletes on the top teams probably already feel like that).

Sophia Scazzero is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sscazzero@cornellsun.com.

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Red in net | Junior goalie Mitch Gillam had a strong first half in goal, helping the Red tie with BU in regular play.

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By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

This past week, the women’s basketball team traveled all over the East Coast for Thanksgiving break, first playing University of Buffalo Upstate and then Marshall University on Friday.

Playing the University of Buffalo was going to be a challenge and the Red was preparing for the team’s speed and agility on both sides of the ball. In order to counteract that speed, the Red worked on its defensive play as a team, and on the other side of the court, getting the ball off the perimeter and into the paint, where Cornell had the advantage in height.

Forwards junior Nia Marshall and sophomore Christine Ehland led the Red in scoring, finishing with nine points each. Freshman forward Caroline Shelquist added eight of her own, keeping Cornell’s numbers solidly with the bigs.

“We needed inside points, but they were effective with their double teams unfortunately,” said senior Maddie Campbell. “Our shots didn’t fall and we were out-rebounded. Overall it was a tough loss we are trying to learn from.”

Despite having great possession time, Cornell’s shots just could not find their mark, and the team dropped its first game of the break to the Bills, 41-59.

“Defense has been something we have really focused on so far this year,” said junior guard Kerri Moran. “We knew the Buffalo players were fast, especially the guards, and we prepared to play team defense, not just one-on-one defense.

Our shooting percentage wasn’t great against Buffalo, but we also didn’t finish plays where we needs to finish them and ultimately let them get too much offensively and we didn’t capitalize defensively.”

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Defending Cornell | This season, the Red squad has been focused on tight defense and containing the tempo of the game.