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Student Charged With Hate Crime ‘Plans to Stay’ at C.U.

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The new attorney for John Greenwood ’20, the Cornell student charged with a hate crime, said on Wednesday that his client never touched the victim, that he took a lie detector test proving as much and that he is on leave but plans to return to Cornell.

Ronald P. Fischetti, a prominent New York lawyer, said there was “trash talking” and “pushing and shoving” in the early hours of Sept. 15, the morning Greenwood was arrested in Collegetown. But Fischetti said his client, who is white, did not punch Solomon Shewit ’19, who is black and said he was attacked by Greenwood and several other white men.

Fischetti said that after an altercation on Eddy Street, Greenwood and his friends returned to their neighboring house and closed the door.

“At that point, the altercation was over,” Fischetti said. Then, the lawyer said, “Mr. Shewit came running from his house to their house, … burst into the door where they were and started a fight with a number

of people who were there.”

“He entered the house, he started the fight,” Fischetti said of Shewit, who did not respond to a text message seeking comment on Wednesday morning. “There’s no question about that. And he got a bloody nose.”

Shewit has told police and The Sun that he attempted to separate a fight near his house when he heard a group of white men yelling “Nigger! Nigger! Fuck you nigger!” as they walked away from the area.

Asked if his client had used the slurs, Fischetti declined to comment, saying, “You’ll see that at trial.” Greenwood has apologized for using “unacceptable and inappropriate language,” and a witness recorded a video of a man appearing to be Greenwood calling another student a “sandnigger.”

Greenwood, in blue, enters Ithaca City Court on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017.

That witness told police that Shewit “ran over” to Greenwood’s house “before anyone could actually stop him,” but was not trying to start a fight.

Shewit was disoriented after the altercation and his shirt was wet with blood, wit-

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

C-town assault | John Greenwood ’20, center, arrives in Ithaca City Court on Wednesday morning with his attorneys to be arraigned on charges including assault as a hate crime.

nesses told police. Shewit spoke to The Sun from the hospital in September on the day of the incident, and he later said he had been told at Cayuga Medical Center that he did not have a broken nose or a concussion.

Fischetti has represented many high-profile clients, including Gene Gotti, the brother of Gambino mob boss John Gotti, in a racketeering case. Speaking to local reporters in Ithaca City Court on Wednesday morning, he said he plans to take the case to trial and has “scientific evidence” that Shewit was in Greenwood’s house, although he declined

to provide the purported evidence.

“That’s all I’ll say. That’s all I’ll tell you,” he said.

Fischetti, a trial attorney who has replaced Ithaca attorney Ray Schlather J.D. ’76 in the case, said Greenwood took a liedetector test at his request. Greenwood said during the test that Shewit had been inside the house and that he had not punched Shewit, Fischetti said, adding that the results would be included in a motion filed later See GREENWOOD page 4

Fired Radio Host’s Ithaca Show in Doubt

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Showtime | Students pack the stairwells in an attempt to get tickets to an advance screening of Justice League at Cornell Cinema in Willard Straight Hall on Nov. 14. The Cinema’s funding is now in jeopardy.

Today’s Vote Could Decide Cinema’s Fate

By JOHN YOON and YUICHIRO KAKUTANI Sun Asst. News Editor and Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly will vote Thursday afternoon on whether to discontinue allocating student activity funds to Cornell Cinema after Provost Michael Kotlikoff said the administration would provide $36,000 to $40,000 to the Cinema in the next byline cycle.

The administration’s contribution would resolve the funding gap that would be created if and

once S.A. decreases the allocation from the current $10.90 to $8.50 per student, Cornell Cinema stated on its Facebook page.

The statement came after representatives from the University, members of S.A. and members of Cornell Cinema met yesterday to negotiate a funding plan as a result of an agreement earlier this month between the provost and members of S.A. to begin a collaborative process to ensure the Cinema does not shut down.

However, it remains undecided whether members of the

Assembly will vote to allocate $8.50 or approve the Appropriations Committee’s original recommendation to allocate $0. In fact, several members of the S.A. leadership told The Sun in an interview on Wednesday that they were inclined not to support the organization.

“There were a lot of back door dealings without the Student Assembly being part of the process,” said Varun Devatha ’19, S.A. executive vice president, See CINEMA page 4

Author and radio host Garrison Keillor, who was fired

by Minnesota Public Radio on Wednesday over “inappropriate behavior” with a colleague, is scheduled to perform in Ithaca on Saturday, although at least one tour stop has been cancelled.

The Minnesota station fired Keillor — who founded and hosted A Prairie Home Companion for four decades and The Writer’s Almanac since 1993 — saying in a statement that the station had learned “of allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with” Keillor, who is 75.

Keillor’s scheduled performance in Massachusetts on Wednesday night was cancelled.

Dan Smalls Presents, Inc. had promoted the Massachusetts show and is also promoting the show at the State Theatre of Ithaca on Saturday. Berkshire Theatre Group said the Massachusetts show had been cancelled “per DSP Shows.”

“I’m 75 and don’t have any interest in arguing about this.”

Garrison Keillor Reached by text message on Wednesday afternoon, Dan Smalls told The Sun, “when we have a comment we will post it.” He did not immediately respond to an email later on Wednesday night.

A notice on the ticket selling website Ticketfly late on See KEILLOR page 4

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Pollack Encourages Cornell Employees to Take Risks

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

President Martha Pollack addressed questions about how free speech applies to University employees and encouraged risktaking at Wednesday’s Employee Assembly meeting.

Kristine Mahoney, the College of Human Ecology representative, asked Pollack to elaborate on comments she made during her presidential address in October about changing the culture on campus to foster more risk-taking behavior.

Pollack said she was struck by the current lack of willingness of individuals at all levels to take risks. At her level, she said the most influential thing she can do is make use of the bully pulpit and “make the case as often as I can that the world is changing quickly, and if we are too cautious, if we look inward too much, we’re not going to be able to adapt enough.”

Although she said she has not finalized the details yet, Pollack said she hopes to institute some reward programs that encourage people to take risks even if they fail, emphasizing that the important thing is not necessarily to succeed but rather to learn something.

Pollack said that the entire Cornell Tech campus is a big risk that is “incredibly important for the future of this university” and also mentioned the new Center for Teaching Innovation, which encourages faculty to try new approaches in their teaching methods and adopt evidence based teaching practices.

Ulysses Smith, Employee Assembly chair and LGBTQ+ representative at-large, asked Pollack to engage in a brief discussion about two topics, free speech and a consensual relations policy, that were brought up at the last University Assembly meeting.

See POLLACK page 4

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Big boss | President Martha Pollack answers Employee Assembly members’ questions about free speech, risk-taking behavior and the need for a new consensual relations policy.

Reducing Bureaucracy at C.U. Historian Reveals Abuses Of Law in Ottoman Empire An ‘Existential Crisis,’ Prof Says

By GIRISHA ARORA

Proposes steps to reduce inefficient institutional mechanisms

By MEGHAN FLANIGEN Sun Staff Writer

“Reducing bureaucracy at Cornell is an existential crisis,” said Sol Gruner, John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics, at a College of Arts and Sciences forum about bureaucracy reduction on Wednesday.

Gruner, member of a working group of faculty tasked with critically examining the University’s bureaucracy, discussed the findings of a recent report regarding bureaucratic processes and operating structures within Cornell.

He elaborated on the findings within the report, highlighting the current bureaucratic problems facing Cornell, as well as proposed solutions.

“What we found was an incredible growth of shadow work,” he said, referring to a common and growing practice of shifting work to employees that were originally hired to do

other work.

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Gretchen Ritter ’83, also in attendance at the forum, said that, “We hire great faculty here to help us do two things that are important to this University: research and education. When we, instead of doing those things, burden those fac-

“There is lots of good will, but little willingness to rock the boat, and to do the work that is needed.”

Prof. Sol Gruner ulty with other things, or burden our talented staff members with things that are not in their particular areas of specialization, we are doing ourselves a harm, in terms of our overall mission.”

“People are the most impor-

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Shadow work | Prof. Gruner says the practice of assigning work to faculty originally hired to do something else has hurt performance throughout Cornell.

tant expense that Cornell really has … shadow work compromises faculty performance, and afflicts all of Cornell,” Gruner added.

However, he said he also identified possible solutions in curbing shadow work.

Gruner proposed that by using the results of experiments conducted on small subsets of faculty, one could identify how shadow work perpetuates, and then eventually extrapolate these findings in the backdrop of larger groups.

Another bureaucratic issue found in the report was overzealous risk management.

Gruner said the growth of bureaucracy at Cornell is largely caused by attempts to avoid risk.

“We often have people doing things that are not necessary because the cost of avoiding the risk can exceed the cost of the risk itself,” he said.

To solve this, the report suggests forming a committeebased mechanism to employ end-user faculty, or gate-keepers, who would have to approve risk management processes before they are enacted.

Finally, Gruner said Cornell needs a “red tape officer,” or someone who will curb and lead the fight against excessive bureaucracy.

Overall, Gruner said that there have been “lots of meetings, lots of efforts and some promising changes in attitudes, but few permanent results,” but that progress can be made against excessive bureaucracy for the future, “There is lots of good will, but little willingness to rock the boat, and to do the work that is needed,” he said.

“Unless Cornell is willing to commit to institutionalizing concrete steps towards bureaucracy reduction, the effort will fade away.”

Meghan Flanigen can be reached at mmf222@cornell.edu.

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In a quaint room in the Toboggan Lodge, which used to be a ski lodge when Beebe Lake froze over, Prof. Mostafa Minawi, history, drew his audience to the late 19th-century Ottoman Empire, intriguing them through pictures, maps and how ambiguous legal language was used for expansionist practices known as “juridical colonialism.”

In his lecture, Minawi traced Ottoman diplomatic actions from their inclusion in the European “Family of Nations,” to the 1890s when secret deals were being made behind the Ottomans’ backs to take away territory that they had under their control.

This progression in European outlook was also portrayed by the professor through a series of paintings that covered three decades, which showed how over time the Ottoman delegation — which at one point was at the center of paintings — later shrinked into abstraction and isolation with only a single man characterized by his beard and fez.

Minawi talked about how

the Ottomans were a part of the European bid to secure colonies, but were able to secure colonies not by the conventional economic or military measures. Being neither “civilized” Europeans nor “savage” non-Europeans, their limbo status allowed the Sultanate to use modern international law to its advantage, he said.

“They claimed colonies not through economic means, not by being there, but instead through legality. Their stance was that we have signed this treaty, we are Europeans and hence we have a claim to this land,” he said.

Soon after, however, Minawi explained how this competition over colonies reoriented itself to instead focus on preserving Ottoman sovereignty.

“The only way they could remain in the international system and the European system was by playing at this game [of controlling colonies] that they were losing,” Minawi said. “But at least they were still playing the game.”

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Student Charged With Hate Crime ‘Plans to Stay’ at Cornell GREENWOOD

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and would show that Greenwood had answered truthfully.

“Jack never touched him,” Fischetti said, referring to his client and Shewit.

Tompkins County’s top prosecutor, Matthew Van Houten, charged Greenwood this month with three Class A misdemeanors: attempted assault in the third degree as a hate crime, aggravated harassment in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree. Van Houten said Greenwood damaged the iPhone 7 of the woman who recorded him using slurs, warranting the last charge.

Greenwood did not answer questions from reporters at his lawyer’s direction.

“He’s a fine young man,” Fischetti said of Greenwood.

“He’s a champion squash player. He loves Cornell.”

The coach of the Cornell squash team, David Palmer, previously told The Sun that he cut Greenwood from the team shortly before the assault because he had not been reg-

ularly participating in team training.

Fischetti confirmed that Cornell’s case against Greenwood, handled by the Office of the Judicial Administrator, is on hold until the court case ends.

“He’s on leave and plans to stay in Cornell,” Fischetti said.

Cornell spokesperson Lindsey Hadlock declined to confirm Greenwood’s status at Cornell, but President Martha Pollack said earlier this month that Greenwood is “not on campus.”

Fischetti took issue with how Van Houten handled the case, saying the prosecutor should have left the hate crime charges up to a grand jury, as Van Houten initially said he would do.

“The district attorney decided to charge this as a hate crime for a bloody nose and some trash talking back and forth and I think that’s wrong,” Fischetti said.

Van Houten told The Sun in the weeks after the arrest that he planned to present the evidence to a grand jury and let the citizens decide whether to charge Greenwood with a

hate crime. He later reversed that decision, deciding to charge Greenwood with a hate crime without taking the charges to a grand jury, because the charges were reduced to misdemeanors based on Shewit’s injuries.

“That’s wrong, that’s not fair and that’s not what he said,” Fischetti said of Van Houten’s decision.

Van Houten, who was in the county court on Wednesday, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Greenwood is also being represented by Ithaca lawyer John A. Stevens.

Defense motions are due in the case on Feb. 2, and prosecutors will need to respond by Feb. 16, said Judge Richard M. Wallace, who released Greenwood on his own recognizance. The parties will return to court on Feb. 21, but Greenwood received permission from Judge Wallace to not appear with his attorneys for some future appearances.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

Host Canned Days Before Ithaca Show Cinema Funding Negotiations Fired Garrison Keillor scheduled to perform at State Theatre KEILLOR

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Wednesday said the service “for this event is currently down.” It is not clear if the notice was on the site prior to news of Keillor’s firing. The State Theatre deleted a tweet promoting Keillor’s show after the Ithaca Voice embedded it in a story.

“I put my hand on a woman's bare back,” Keillor said in an email to The Minneapolis StarTribune. “I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized.”

Keillor said he and the unnamed woman “continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called.” On his website, Keillor said, “I’m 75 and don’t have any interest in arguing about this.”

Keillor broadcast live from Cornell’s Bailey Hall on May 31, 1997, along with 20 members of the Cornell Glee Club in front of a 2,000-person audience, according to Ithaca Journal archives.

“This is a town where one could live one’s

whole life and never run out of choices in granola,” The Journal quoted Keillor as saying.

Angie Andresen, director of communications and member and audience services for MPR, said the station had retained an outside law firm to conduct an independent investigation last month.

The investigation is ongoing, Andresen said.

MPR and its parent company, American Public Media, which is based in St. Paul, will no longer distribute or broadcast The Writer’s Almanac and end any rebroadcasts of The Best of a Prairie Home Companion that are hosted by Keillor, Andresen said.

The president of MPR, Jon McTaggart, said he appreciated Keillor’s contributions to the station but believes severing ties “is the right thing to do and is necessary to continue to earn the trust of our audiences, employees and supporters of our public service.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

‘Pressing Need’ for Consensual Relations Policy at C.U., Pollack Tells Employees POLLACK

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In particular, he felt that current conversations about free speech have not included how academic freedom is related to free speech in the workplace for employees.

“What we forget oftentimes is that the political views of the employees seem to differ quite a bit from [those of ] the students,” Smith said. “Regardless of what I believe, I don’t want anybody to feel like they can’t take part in that discourse, but they walk that thin line of ‘When does taking part in discourse or expressing a contrary opinion create a hostile work environment for somebody else?’”

Pollack acknowledged that free speech issues are tricky and that people’s free speech rights as employees are slightly different than than their rights as citizens of the United States.

For example, she said that academic freedom does not give astronomy faculty the right to teach astrology in their classes. Additionally, the University would be within their rights to prevent faculty

from doing so.

“It isn’t like there is a hard answer to the issue of what free speech is for an employee,” said Mary Opperman, vice president of human resources. “It’s a conversation that we have and I think you’re right to raise it.

In the employment setting, it is a different thing. While we are a university, we are employees at the University and that is our primary goal here.”

Pollack also emphasized the pressing need of the University to create a comprehensive consensual relations policy. She said that while many other universities have a policy defining consensual romantic and sexual relationships between students and faculty, Cornell technically has no official code but rather an informal policy dating back to the 1990s.

“We have to have such a policy. We need it to protect our faculty and staff, we need it to protect our students, we need it to the reputation of the University,” she said.

Charlie Van Loan, dean of faculty, and Anna Waymack, grad, have been appointed to lead a committee tasked with developing such a policy by the

end of the year, Pollack said.

Pollack also said the University is “just about ready” to announce the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate. Although she said she had hoped that it would have already been up and running, the creation of the task force was delayed due to concerns about the process by which people were named to it.

“We are still going to ask for the work to be done by the end of the spring semester, people will just have to work more quickly,” Pollack said.

The Employee Assembly also unanimously passed two resolutions at their meeting.

The first resolution called upon Transportation Services to develop a Comprehensive Transportation Planning Study starting in spring 2019 to address transportation and parking concerns on campus.

The other resolution recommended specific administrative initiatives that would ensure LGBTQ inclusion and protection in the workplace.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

Were Unfair, S.A. Leaders Say CINEMA

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referring to the meeting between the Cinema and the Office of the Provost prior to the joint meeting with S.A. members.

S.A. members said they are concerned that the student activity funds would continue to pay staff wages despite the Cinema’s statement that receiving the University’s contributions means the administration in fact will cover the portion of the student activity funds that currently supports wages.

“Cornell Cinema would be able to fully support its staff wages with non-S.A. funds in the upcoming byline cycle if the Assembly votes to allocate $8.50 per student,” said Charlie Liao ’18, co-director of the Cornell Cinema funding analysis, based on an accounting of budget projections.

That projection takes into consideration the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s resolution this month to increase funding to the Cinema, in addition to other University subsidies, Liao said.

Voting in favor of the Appropriations Committee’s recommendation may alter the Cinema’s state of operations by cutting nearly $150,000, or a quarter of its budget, The Sun previously reported. Members of the Cinema have said the budget reduction may introduce the need to cut costs, lay off employees or potentially put the survival of the business at risk.

The S.A. bylaws contain no language restricting organizations from paying staff wages with activity funds, Liao said in his analysis.

Liao added it was also “unreasonable to punish the Cinema” for its inability under wage privacy laws to disclose its laborrelated expense information to the Appropriations Committee.”

After the joint agreement among S.A. members and the provost, the S.A members added, members of Cornell Cinema met with the Office of the Provost without any S.A. members present, about which S.A. members were not happy.

Jung Won Kim ’18, S.A. president, said, by the time of the

joint meeting, the funding plan had already been decided by the University and the Cinema. He said he believed the S.A.’s interests were inadequately represented at the meeting.

“This wasn’t even a negotiation,” Kim said. “Essentially the Cinema is getting money and that’s great, but that’s not negotiation for us.”

“I think it’s unfair to expect undergraduate students to expect their representatives to be able to fund the organization that is not willing to work with them,” Devatha added.

At Cornell Cinema’s meeting with the Office of the Provost, Director of Cornell Cinema

“This wasn’t even a negotiation.”

Jung Won Kim ’18

Mary Fessenden discussed the budgetary information that had been requested by the Office of the Provost for review to determine the appropriate contribution by the University, Yang said.

Jung also expressed his concern that under a new funding plan, the Cinema would still receive the $8.50 per student byline that the Appropriations Committee originally rejected.

“Further cuts to Cornell Cinema will represent cuts to the programming offered to students,” Yang told The Sun on Wednesday.

“It is our goal to continue efforts with the S.A. to seek external funding, but those conversations cannot be had when the threat of Cornell Cinema’s indefinite closure is at hand,” he said.

At the meeting Thursday afternoon, Gabriel Kaufman ’18, chair of the S.A. Appropriations Committee, will also present recommendations for byline allocations to 10 additional student organizations.

John Yoon can be reached at jyoon@cornellsun.com. Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com.

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I am writing to you and your readers in the hope that I might be able to be a little helpful and supportive.

When I was a 25-year-old college student back in the 1970s, I was very badly sexually harassed by a female college professor who had a lot of power over me. It finally ended when another female college professor insisted that I tell her what had obviously been bothering me.

It ended when she confronted my harasser and told her that she would report her to the authorities if she did not stop. Like most of my fellow victims and survivors, I have been too ashamed and embarassed to tell anyone about it for the past 40 years aside from my wife — until now.

I have recently found out that a lot of people do not take the sexual harassment of a male by a female seriously. Recently, I have sometimes been mocked, teased, bullied and insulted about it. And, as many others find out, I have sometimes been called a “liar” and that “you made the whole thing up just to get attention, publicity, pity and sympathy from others.”

I want to urge all victims of sexual harassment to immediately report it to someone in a position of authority. One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I did not. Please do not repeat my mistake.

These perpetrators need to be stopped. And please do not repeat my mistake of blaming myself for it. You did not do anything to bring on that predatory behavior or to encourage it. It was not your fault.

Stewart Epstein Rochester, N.Y.

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OPINION

Kelly Song | The Songbird Sings

Humanities Majors Aren’t Homeless Wannabes P enniless. Paint spattered jeans. Living under a cardboard canopy with peace sign stickers peeling by the edges and a battered typewriter bought off the streets.

This is what flashes through the mind of someone who asks me, “Why are you an English major?”

Yes, this is the exaggerated version of a starving artist — the kind of writer with the wild hair and the collection of quills made of feathers plucked from pigeons on

and poets were quietly told to pick another color from the crayon box.

To which I answer, often with a raised eyebrow and a book in my hands, you might think it’s dying out, but it’s the only thing that makes me feel alive. And no, I don’t want your STEM pamphlet. Yes, the one with the stock photo of a model with overly-fashionable lab goggles.

Because when society pictures a degree in the

To quote the all-knowing Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society: “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” the streets. But I swear that’s what my parents and friends picture in that panic-throttling moment when I say, “I want a degree in the humanities.” Their eyes go blank and nervous laughter trickles into the suddenlyawkward air, often accompanied by holding onto some sort of railing for emotional support.

Then the questions ensue: “You know it’s a dying industry right?” “How are you going to make money?”

“Can I offer you this STEM pamphlet?”

From the day we started making crayon drawings of our “dream job,” we were encouraged to be doctors, engineers, mathematicians. So while the other kids sketched scientists and accountants, the playwrights

involve bacteria.

To quote the all-knowing Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society: “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

What we create may not be tangible objects we can hold in our hands. They might not earn us six-digit salaries with a picket-fence house in sunny Silicon Valley. But we sit alongside Shakespeare and Van Gogh because that’s the only act of passion we believe in. It’s our way of saying it doesn’t take a lab or a formula to change the course of life — when we put words on a page and create poems from thin air, that is how we choose to speak, salary or not. “Human” is ingrained in the word humanities; if we give up on the only thing that makes us “human,” then what will we have left?

So to those who say my choice to be an English major to was “to glorify the idea of a starving artist,” my passion is not an act of rebellion. It’s not trying to be a con-hippie, to defy my parents’ wishes and live in a cardboard box. It’s an act of steadfastly scribbling in journals because it’s the only thing that can keep me up at night from its thrill. I know I speak for my colleagues when I say we didn’t “ruin our lives” when we chose sociology or architecture or comparative literature; we only started living when we did.

So call me an out-of-date grandma, a disappointment to millennials, head-in-the-clouds dreamer stuck in the past. But with my nose buried in a book is the only place I choose to be, and no STEM pamphlet is ever going to pull me away.

humanities, they think of old philosophers smoking gold-plated cigars, rambling on about something they found in a leather journal in their basement. The art of humanities is antiquated, everyone says — it belongs to the past century, and STEM belongs to this one. It’s milk gone sour, week-old leftovers, that handbag that’s so off-season your weird aunt doesn’t even want it.

But the formulas and the codes and the bacteria — it’s not for everyone. For some of us, we love the crinkle of turning a fresh page in a book. We love looking at the hues of orange and yellow and blue in a painting and Kelly Song is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She discovering how it shaped an entire decade. And that’s can be reached at ksong@cornellsun.com. The Songbird Sings not exactly an invalid fascination just because it doesn’t appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Matthew Lam | The Despatch Box

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Lessons from That ‘70s Show

attling the boredom that comes with being stuck in a Queens suburbs for Thanksgiving, I decided to watch other people have more fun in a similar situation by revisiting That ’70s Show. For those who are unfamiliar, That ’70s Show is a sitcom about teenager Eric Forman and his adventures with ditzy friends and family in the suburbs of 1970s Wisconsin.

A show that travels back to the 1970s — a decade of distasteful fashion, politics, cars — it features simple storylines with relatable humor and devilishly creative camerawork that is almost avantgarde for a network show. There really are no adventures in Point Place, WI – the lyrics of the theme, “Hanging out down the street. The same old thing, we did last week,” divulge this readily in the title sequence. The plots mostly revolve around the antics of teenage life in the American suburb and they resonated with me even in Rego Park, NY in 2017.

The third episode of the first season struck me, however. The year is 1976, and President Gerald Ford stops by Point Place to hold a reelection campaign town hall. In an effort to show some good ol’ Midwestern hospitality (and to grovel to the 38th president), the local Republican committee decides to include a Q&A session featuring an “ordinary Joe,” but with scripted questions. They chose Red Forman, Eric’s father, and tell him to ask the hilarious, “Which is your favorite Thanksgiving parade?”

Mr. Forman, having been just put on part-time work by the local G.M. plant, would much rather have asked what millions of Americans also worried about: “What the hell are you going to do to fix the economy?”

Some historical context is needed here. Although it was America’s bicentennial, 1976 was not the country’s best year. The economy was in a recession

that extended well beyond Wall Street to Main Street. Already reeling from an oil crisis, ordinary Americans faced stagflation, a period of high unemployment and high inflation to which no one, from the Federal Reserve chairman to Red Forman, knew how to react.

Previous episodes of the show already alluded to other social problems during this time. In the first episode, Mr. Forman, although a G.M. employee, has to buy a Toyota, because by then, Japanese cars had outmatched their American counterparts in efficiency and reliability. Leadership from a White House still disgraced by Watergate was tepid. President Ford’s leading solution was the lackluster “WIN” (or Whip Inflation Now!), basically a federallyfunded public relations campaign on how people should ration and save. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors at the time, later regretted his reluctant support of the president’s initiative, deeming it “unbelievably stupid.” Two years into his presidency, the Michigander, despite his good intentions and humor, was largely seen as illegitimate and incompetent.

Noticing the passing motifs of this episode (the election, a disreputable president, the failing Midwestern plants, general dissatisfaction after a hard-hitting recession) I could not resist the comparisons to today’s America. The similarities are eerily uncanny.

So what was our solution in 1976, in when seemed to be the darkest hour of America? A twenty-minute sitcom about the suburbs, That ’70s Show provides no profound solution to this question which not even the White House back then could answer.

The glimmer of hope I saw, however, was two-fold. First, Red Forman does the right thing and asks Ford, “Why the hell did you pardon Nixon?” instead of being

a sycophantic “ordinary Joe.” In the resolution scene, he teaches nerdy and scrawny Eric that “sometimes, a man’s gotta do what’s right in his heart.”

Freedom of speech is indeed important, and a president is not someone over whom we should fawn. The president is a public servant. They might sit atop the political food chain and enjoy all the trappings of their power, but they are a public servant nonetheless. In fact, because it is the pinnacle of power, the White House ought to not have any self-

every tweet or gaffe the White House makes. Media companies make us think otherwise — they have to, in order to buoy their ratings or clickbait for ad revenues — and we have to defend ourselves against that notion. Policies, rather than politics, do affect us. But thankfully, Washington is pretty inept at concocting those right now, and the sensible, moderate Republicans in the Senate who have disrupted dangerous policies should be lauded. There are, of course, adverse effects — political apathy runs ridicu-

But That ’70s Show arguably does, and maybe there is a lesson to be learned from this silly mirror of American life. serving intentions — there is no greater honor left to seek. Back then, a president’s moral compass seemed a lot more important: Jimmy Carter’s perceived integrity, compared to Ford’s compromised morals over the Nixon affair, later won him the election of 1976. Let’s not leave this basic, ethical standard for our leaders in the dustbin of history.

The second message is less obvious: life goes on. This is implied not just by one particular episode, but by the entire show, which ran for eight seasons. Yes, of course, the Formans and their friends are doing well in the next episode — the show has to reset to keep running. But the “reset” present in so many sitcoms somewhat reflects reality as well. Because of the expanse and federalism of this country, political strife is a sideshow to the lives of most Americans. We should take comfort that we are not affected by

lously high in this country — but in these stressful times, perhaps it is okay to simply cherish the people and life around us. We have to be attentive of Washington, but also be less anxious.

Network sitcoms, especially those that get canceled after two episodes, don’t always reflect real life very well. But That ’70s Show arguably does, and maybe there is a lesson to be learned from this silly mirror of American life. Once President Ford left their town, the Formans went back to living normally, as if nothing had happened. We should probably worry less too, at least for a minute, since this president probably doesn’t have the courage to show up to Ithaca soon anyway.

Matthew Lam is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mlam@cornelsun.com. The Despatch Box appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Lo | Bananas & Cream

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Cornell Purity Test (Signs You’re a Hoe)

fucking love my friends. They’re the bravest, funniest, most self-destructive hoes I know.

The following list is a tribute to them. It’s the new purity test, the Cornell purity test, because fuck Rice.

1. Lost your Cornell ID going out 3+ times.

2. Made the walk of shame from Collegetown to North Campus.

3. Made the walk of MORE shame from North Campus after hooking up with a freshman.

4. Gone out trying to get laid and ended up at Nasties.

5. Made out with someone you can’t remember.

6. Hooked up with more than half of the people in your friend group.

7. Hooked up with the same person as your roommate (sharing is caring).

8. Gotten a hickey from a stranger.

9. Maintain a hoe list because you’ve hooked up with way too many people to remember.

10. Used Tinder to find a free place to spend the night.

11. Snuck onto the TCAT through the back door.

12. Gone out four nights in a row.

13. Hooked up with 7+ people during O-week.

14. Were drunk all of O-week.

15. Argued your way out of a J.A. 16. Hooked up with a T.A. 17. Failed at seducing your TA so you masturbated to the thought of them instead.

18. Flirted with a prof.

19. Hit on or been hit on in a library.

20. Failed a prelim because of a boy/girl.

21. Had sex in a classroom.

22. Met someone you ended up dating at a party.

23. Hooked up with 3+ people in one night.

24. You or the person you hooked up with had to take Plan B. 25. Seriously considered sleeping with your prof for a better grade.

26. Done hard drugs since you’ve been at Cornell.

27. Smoked weed with your hallmates and caused the entire floor to reek of it.

28. Hooked up with someone from IC (and are deeply ashamed).

29. Had your pregame shut down.

30. Made a snow penis.

31. Written “send nudes” in the snow.

32. Run into a friend doing the walk of shame while you were ALSO doing the walk of shame. Hoes stick together.

33. Hall-cest (hooked up with a hallmate).

34. Hooked up with multiple people in the same sorority/fraternity.

35. Hoe-cation (traveled for the sole purpose of sex).

36. Hooked up with your roommate.

37. Tindered at a party because no one there was cute enough.

38. Frozen your ass off having sex in Ithaca weather.

39. Kissed someone on the suspension bridge at midnight.

40. Anxiously awaited the results of a Gannett STD test (sorry Cornell Health).

41. Had someone who lives near you comment on how loud you were last night.

42. Talked to a T.A./prof while having a visible hickey.

43. Hooked up with someone who has a car.

44. Hooked up with someone because they have the answers to your homework.

45. Fucked Harvard (literally, you’ve fucked a Harvard student and betrayed your alma mater).

46. Had a FWS with someone you hooked up with.

47. Hooked up with someone between classes (the best lunch break).

48. Injured someone while hooking up (chomp).

49. Hooked up with a grad student.

50. Hooked up with someone in each of the seven colleges.

51. Hooked up with someone from every Ivy. 52. Hooked up with a stranger in a different city and later learned they also go to Cornell.

53. Had a threesome.

54. Gone to Gannett just to grab lube/condoms.

55. Hooked up with someone your friend also fucked just to evaluate their skills.

56. Hooked up with someone because of their impressive resume.

57. Eaten breakfast at a frat/sorority the morning after.

58. Had sex with someone and forgotten their name.

59. Hooked up with a freshman just to cross it off the list of 161 things.

60. Used a “bingalee dingalee” pickup line.

61. Gone to office hours just to flirt with your TA even though you didn’t need help.

62. Stalked a hookup/crush on LinkedIn. 63. Posted in Cornell Crushes confessing true love.

64. Been late to class because of a hookup.

65. Hooked up with a prefrosh during Cornell days.

66. Given a hand job/fingered someone on the TCAT. 67. Hooked up with someone on the Shortline.

68. Had sex in a campus bathroom.

69. Ran out of new people on Tinder.

70. Increased your age range or distance range on Tinder because you ran out of people.

71. Hooked up with a different person each night of the weekend.

72. Hooked up with someone from Tompkins County who doesn’t go to Cornell or I.C. 73. Had sex in a lecture hall.

74. Felt turned on by someone’s intelligence while at Cornell.

75. Been to every bar in Ithaca.

76. Had your fake taken away in the Commons.

77. Done a blowjob shot at Loco, liptease and all.

78. Taken a pole dancing class at Risley.

79. Visibly worn lingerie to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

80. Asked someone if they’ve gotten STD tested before fucking them.

81. Had to log into myCornellHealth to show someone your STD test results.

82. Casually ignored Tinder matches when you ran into them.

83. Sexiled, or been sexiled by, your roommate.

84. Fallen off your twin-XL bed during sex.

85. Gone skinny dipping in a gorge.

86. Hooked up the night before a prelim.

87. Hooked up with a law student because their starting salary is sexy as hell.

88. Failed to hook up with someone because you both passed out.

89. Hooked up in your roommate’s bed.

90. Had sex on the slope after dark.

91. Took part in a Cornell orgy.

92. Paid for a hotel room because your roommate wouldn’t leave.

93. Hooked up with someone while your parents were visiting.

94. Flashed someone to get into a frat party/bar.

95. Had sex while your roommate was sleeping in the same room.

96. Been walked in on by your roommate or hallmate while in the act.

97. Been caught masturbating in your dorm.

98. Started slope day and didn’t even make it to the slope.

99. Accidentally handed a fake to someone instead of your real ID. 100. Been EMSed. Lo is a student at Cornell University. Bananas & Cream appears monthly this semester.

Veuve Cliq-Hoe | Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow

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Losing My Virginity: A Memoir

rom the painfully awkward day my parents and I had the “Sex Talk,” I knew exactly how I wanted to lose my virginity. It would be magnificent — a combination of all of the steamy sex scenes I had secretly watched on the 2 p.m. daytime soap operas. A warm, candle-lit room with a plush bed and silky white sheets, rose petals sprinkled around the room in a shape of a heart, and bubbly Dom Perignon awaiting my arrival. My future boyfriend would be gentle and making love would be beautiful.

Growing up with these elaborate expectations and years of my parents reinforcing their conservative point of view on my virginity, it was no surprise that I was on the verge of graduating from college and had never had sex.

But, as much as I would like to place the blame solely on my prudish parents, this was my body, my choice. Truth be told, entering college, I knew I didn’t want to have sex.

I wasn’t ready. I was scared — of the pain, of STDs, of a pregnancy, of my own emotions post-coitus.

Opportunities to have sex popped up frequently, but I declined them because I knew I wasn’t ready.

As cliché as it sounds, this semester, I felt differently.

Perhaps all of the Snapchat Cosmo articles got to me, or

maybe the feminist literature I studied throughout my time at Cornell released me from the shackles of antiquated societal standards, but for the first time, when I thought of losing my virginity, I didn’t picture that lofty, Hollywood sex scene—in fact, I didn’t picture anything.

And that excited me.

Being the competitive, driven, Cornellian I am, I read a vast number of articles on losing your virginity because I had to be above the mean at sex too. From the standard How-Tos to the 10 Myths, I felt like I knew all of the sexy sex tips I would need. Then, I began thinking about each step methodologically, and nothing made sense.

When exactly does the guy put the condom on? Will he need a napkin to wipe off the condom lube before we have sex? What if the condom gets stuck inside of me? Are there any weird sex noises other than the bed creaking that I should be aware of? What happens after sex — like, does he take the condom off and need another napkin? Will there be a giant puddle of blood and cum on my Egyptian cotton 1000-thread count sheets? Will I for sure get a UTI if I don’t pee immediately after sex? How soon after sex do guys get another erection and have sex again? Should we cuddle? Does he stay the night? Was I good? Was he?

These questions were all variable, dependent on with whom, when, where and how I would lose my virginity, and even after asking my friends for the nitty-gritty, I truly just hoped he had experience and would know the ins and outs of condoms, lube and other non-sexy sex details.

And he did. There were no rose petals or French champagne waiting for me, but the room was warmly lit and I bought myself my own lavish virginity gifts beforehand: boutique Parisian perfume and designer condoms and lube. After an electric night out, we taxied to the apartment, and as he lay on the bed, our eyes connected, and the room sizzled. I undressed and slipped on top of him, my fingertips trembling as I unbuttoned and removed his clothes. Hands, lips, fingers, minutes later, his hot body was on top of mine. His biceps encircled me, and with a few swift movements, he was wrapped and ready to go. I held him away and murmured this was my first time.

Taken by surprised, he confirmed that I wanted to have sex with him that night. Reaching for his lips with my own and wrapping my legs around him, I moaned yes.

Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University. Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow appears monthly this semester.

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DINING GUIDE

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Fa ce of f : Koko ’s vs. Fo ur Se aso n s MURALI SARAVANAN / SUN STAFF WRITER

By MURALI SARAVANAN Sun Staff Writer

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ince Koko’s and Four Seasons are the two restaurants in marketing Collegetown themselves as Korean restaurants, I decided to do a comparison of the two. Comparing restaurants is a really tricky business since so many small external factors can affect your experience at each restaurant.

To keep as many factors constant as possible, I visited both Koko’s and Four Seasons for dinner around seven in the evening and bought the same two entrees at both restaurants. I ordered Dwaeji Bulgogi, a pork dish marinated in spicy hot sauce, and Beef Dolsot Bibimbap, a beef and steamed vegetable dish served over steamed rice and topped with an egg in a siz-

zling stone pot.

Both restaurants provide a casual, sit-down atmosphere. The service was friendly and speedy, with the food arriving within 10 minutes. At Four Seasons, I spent about $34. At Koko’s, both these dishes only cost $28. This price difference was entirely due to the difference in the Dwaeji Bulgogi Gui. At Four Season’s this dish was more expensive, but it also came with slightly more meat.

I’ve been to a few Korean restaurants back home, and I’ve gotta say that the Dolsot Bibimbap at both locations definitely tasted better than what I’ve had before.

The rice, vegetables and meat complemented each other really well, making a savory and hearty meal. The only difference was that at Koko’s the Dolsot Bibimbap came with a little less meat and more rice. Also, the egg was not fried as it was at Four Seasons; it was simply placed on top raw.

The Dwaeji Bulgogi at Koko’s was decent. It was a spicy pork dish with a twinge of sweetness and tasted delicious with some rice. It did, however, taste a little dry, and the dish got cold really quickly.

However, the Bulgogi at Four Seasons was phenomenal.

Although not as spicy as Koko’s, the meat was more tender and juicy. The sauce was incredibly savory, and the dish stayed warmer for longer as well. Since the dish was bigger at Four Seasons, I would recommend sharing it with another person.

Both these Korean restaurants were great. I really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere at both of these places, and the food was above average. If you’re looking for great Korean food, both of these restaurants are great choices. But overall, I would recommend Four Seasons over Koko’s because their Dwaeji Bulgogi was absolutely delicious and for that alone, the restaurant is definitely worth checking out.

Koko’s Serves: traditional Korean food Vibe: a casual, sit-down restaurant Price: $$ Overall: Four Seasons Serves: traditional Korean food Vibe: a casual, sit-down restaurant Price: $$ Overall: ½ Murali Saravanan is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at mms396@cornell.edu.

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DINING

The Best Restaurants in Ithaca If You’re Gluten-Free

By ALLISON WILD Sun Staff Writer

Coal Yard Café ith the option of gluten-free bread, Coal Yard really opens up its doors for its gluten-free customers. Offering everything from omelets with a side of GF toast to a wide selection of sandwiches on GF bread, Coal Yard is a welcome breath of fresh air to the gluten-free folks who are used to picking between a garden salad and a bunless burger.

Moreover, the staff is very open and happy to accommodate their customers, so it’s very easy

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to leave Coal Yard feeling great.

Ciao Gluten-free pizza, pasta and far more. You name it, Ciao has probably got it; they have an array of options far broader than most. Not to mention their food is delicious, traditional Italian cuisine. This is the place to go for a gluten-free dinner.

Viva By using primarily corn products, Viva has become a haven for GF customers. As they say on their menu, the only items there that aren’t gluten-free are “flour tortillas and beer.” While it may be sad that ALLISON WILD / SUN STAFF WRITER

glutards can’t have a cold one here, they can have nearly everything else. From nachos, to enchiladas, to tacos, to tostadas, you basically can’t go wrong at Viva.

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Waffle Frolic Waffle Frolic is the stuff of gluten-free dreams. With a designyour-own menu style, there are nearly limitless opportunities. Start with their gluten-free, vegan waffle and then simply start heaping the toppings on. All of their toppings are gluten-free, with the exception of a handful of their ice cream flavors — and they even mark allergens on the menu!

Ithaca Bakery and CTB Unfortunately, their gluten-free products are not all house-made like their other baked goods, but Ithaca Bakery and CTB are the places to go if you’re itching for a sandwich or bagel. You can get nearly all of their sandwiches, wraps, paninis and bagels totally GF. Plus, there are plenty of gluten-free baked goods, smoothies and specialty drinks if you’re not feeling one of the classic CTB specials.

Moosewood This world-famous vegetarian mecca is underratedly for glutards as well. When you check out their menu, you will notice that they even mark their gluten-free options. One of the most exciting things about Moosewood is that,

unlike most restaurants, all of their dressings are totally gluten-free.

While many of their dishes are naturally gluten-free, they also have specific gluten-free foods, such as gluten-free pasta, available upon request.

Pizza Aroma Your search ends here. There’s a pizza parlor that serves gluten-free pizza. You might not be able to grab a slice from CTP or a calzone from Calio’s, but you can get a whole gluten-free cheese pizza with up to four different toppings from Pizza Aroma.

Café Dewitt Café Dewitt has a delicious assortment of naturally gluten-free options. Their omelets, served with a side of rosemary potatoes, are the ideal brunch. There are also so many different combinations on their menu that it’s virtually impossible to get bored there. Just make sure to stop at the ATM before dining because they are cash-only.

Allison Wild is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at arw232@cornell.edu.

A&E

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Movies of 2017 Get Out Get Out is more than a thriller: it is a brilliant, gripping, realistic mystery about an interracial couple. Rose (Allison Williams) invites her boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) to meet her family for the weekend upstate. Rose’s family hosts a party, and Chris is one of the only African Americans in a sea of wealthy white families. I will refrain from saying more and spoiling the rush of this film. Jordan Peele eloquently addresses underlying racism present in our society in Get Out. Let’s see if Get Out tops global rankings in the most wonderful time of year (awards season).

— Rebecca Frank

2

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan’s first foray into the war genre comes in the form of Dunkirk, an intense, chestpounding epic detailing the evacuation of the Allied Soldiers from Dunkirk who evade enemy fire from the Germans. Rather than focus on the gory aspects of warfare, Nolan crafts a suspenseful and thrilling narrative that follows the evacuation from three different venues (air, land, and sea) with different time stamps. It certainly is unconventional, but it further proves that Christopher Nolan is at the peak of his creative powers.

— Zachary Lee

5

Wonder Woman

Despite Marvel's usual critical and box-office dominance of the comic book genre, D.C. scored a triumph with the first female-led superhero film in the form of Wonder Woman. It is empowering and inspiring, teaching to find hope and love in the midst of a calloused and broken world. Witty banter, eye-catching period costumes, and explosive action sequences all make this film stand out in its own right, but it’s Gal Gadot's charismatic and fierce portrayal of the titular character that glues the film together; to say "you hit like a girl" in her case becomes not an insult, but an impressive feat of showmanship.

— Zachary Lee

8

Columbus

Through Kogonada’s auteurist lens, the clean and balanced architecture of Columbus, Indiana becomes the backdrop of a serendipitous relationship between John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson, refreshingly paired together and both perfect for the role. In this slow-paced melody of people’s letting go and moving on, modernist architecture seems to have a mysteriously tender healing power that the film also possesses.

— Ruby Que

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

3

The Big Sick

Everyone loves a dramatic true story. Now add in the fact that The Big Sick is a “Rom-Com,” and it is no wonder that Kumail Nanjiani’s love story was so popular. Kumail is a Pakistani immigrant, standup comedian and loveable Uber driver in Chicago.

He meets Emily (Zoe Kazan) after a stand-up show, and the two begin very casually dating. As the two get more serious, Kumail is conflicted about his family’s tradition to marry a Pakastani woman.

Now add in a fight and a near-death hospitalization for Emily. The Big Sick is a must-see: it’s hilarious, meaningful, and graceful.

— Rebecca Frank

6

Baby Driver

What Edgar Wright ended up directing can be best described as a 113-minute music video instead of a movie, and yet, it is still the summer blockbuster of the year. Wright may not be tackling any buzzworthy socio-political themes, but does that really matter? Is there an interesting story? Yes. Cool characters? Yes. Colorful car chase scenes perfectly synchronized to music by Queen with guns, money, and explosions? Yes. Baby Driver has everything any movie ever needs.

— Wilbert Ren

9

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: Ragnarok is as funny as it is colorful and is a brilliant addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a much needed breath of fresh air for the ailing Thor franchise. Benefitting from crackling chemistry between leads Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Mark Ruffalo (and his Hulk alter-ego), the film served as more than an effective counterpunch after Wonder Woman finally got D.C. on the board. With great directing from Taika Waititi and a solid soundtrack, Ragnarok surprised audiences everywhere with it’s whimsical story and innovative conclusion.

— Nicholas Smith

4

1

Logan

Just as Deadpool's success came from the proper treatment of the source material (retaining the character's licentious humor and fourth-wall cognizance), Logan is the Wolverine films that many fans asked for and never received until now. This final outing for veteran actor Hugh Jackman ditches the jokes in favor of a darker feel than its predecessors with brutal violence and foul language to match. Taking place in 2029, Logan and Professor X have given up on restoring mutantkind, but a young girl with powers similar to Logan's gives them hope. Logan teaches viewers that it is not the day to day struggles that make us human, but the ability to believe and hope that tomorrow can be better.

— Zachary Lee

7

The Florida Project

10

Lady Bird

Disney World is not always as magical as we think.

The Florida Project takes place in an impoverished motel complex right outside of Disney. Poverty, perseverance, and love are seen through the adorable lens of an irrepressible six-year-old girl named Moonee.

Watching Moonee (Brooklyn Prince) curse and play pranks for 115 minutes is a treat. A shortage of money does not stop her imagination. Though Moonee’s mother (Bria Vinaite) does not seems like a typical role-model mother, she clearly loves and cares about Moonee. The Florida Project stirs a variety of emotions, and reminds viewers of the complexities of “good” parenthood.

— Rebecca Frank

Lady Bird would remind you of your senior year in high school - or any transitional moments in life, really - the time when you are lost and terrified, but ready to take on the world with all you’ve got. Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut follows the coming-of-age of one idealistic and rebellious, sensitive yet inattentive Lady Bird. It is not just another rose-colored teenage melodrama — just the direct opposite, Lady Bird portrays its characters with a sense of honesty so real and personal it becomes magical. It’s also the best-reviewed movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes — no big deal.

— Ruby Que

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WINTER IS COMING...

PREPARE YOURSELVES...

Check your treads on your car AND your shoes.

When your tread is worn, you slip and slide— just like you would if driving on bald tires.

When the snow does hit, please remember to...

Walk like a Penguin:

• Keep your hands/arms free (use a backpack!)

• Bend slightly and walk flat-footed • Point your feet out slightly • Keep your center of gravity over your feet • Use your arms for balance • Watch each step • Take short, shuffle-like steps • Go slowly!

• Report hazardous conditions to 254-COLD (2653)

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SPORTS

Morgan Drops 24 in Victory M.BASKETBALL

Continued from page 16

said. “He is always going hard when he is healthy, so we’re happy to have him back, playing major minutes for us.”

Jack Gordon came out of the gates on fire, scoring 10 firsthalf points on 4-5 shooting. He ended the contest with 12. “[Gordon] is our most cerebral glue guy,” Earl said. “He does almost everything correctly when he is on the floor on both offense and defense.”

The bench, which had been a strong suit for the Red thus far,

was rather quiet against Duquesne, as forward Josh Warren was the only non-starter to score. He finished the night

“We have had two nice wins against higher level competition.”

Head Coach Brian Earl going 3-3 from the field with eight points.

Cornell will look to extend its two-game winning streak, the first of its kind under Earl, when the Red travels to Boston

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this Saturday to face Northeastern for the finale ahead of the annual exam break.

“Obviously every game is important, and we have had two nice wins against higher level competition,” Earl said. “My hope is that we don’t take our foot off the gas at all and just get back to work this week. We are just taking it one practice at a time, and we will play our next opponent whenever that comes.”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Set For Battle With Miami HOCKEY

Continued from page 16

Like in past weeks, the Red will have to avoid getting caught up with the pressure of national recognition. Now unanimously picked in the top five, Schafer said the rankings do not matter to him or his team.

“The polls are only a measuring stick of where you are in the present. And we’re not playing in the present, we’re playing in the future,” Schafer said. “If you stay still in the tracks you’re going to get run over.”

Cornell will be without forwards Cam Donaldson and Jared Fiegl, both battling injuries.

The games are set for 7:35 p.m. Friday and 7:05 p.m.

Saturday, both at Miami’s Cady Arena.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Amid Team’s Struggles,Widdman Shines Bright

By KAREN PAPAZIAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s basketball has had a tough season thus far.

Plain and simple. With a combination of excessive turnovers and a slow offense, the Red (1-5) has failed to close out games.

Tuesday’s matchup against Lafayette (3-3) was no different; Cornell could not hang on to an early lead and fell 59-58 when all was said and done.

Although the Red does not have the record it hoped for, the team is working toward getting better each day. One player in particular has stepped up when her team has needed her most: Sophomore Samantha Widmann.

Leading the team in game highs for steals, blocked shots, rebounds and points, Widmann is proving to be one of the most versatile players on the team.

Last season, she scored just 145 points in 26 games played, and she currently has 95 points on the season through just six games. She is well on her way to passing her last season point total, with nearly twice as many points as her next highest scoring teammate. Starting all six games this season is new for Widmann, as she did not have the opportunity to start a single game during her rookie season.

“So far, I’ve had a few strong performances, and ultimately the team has been getting stronger as a unit,” Widmann said. “We push each other every day whether it be in practice or in the weight room.

A big part of how I’ve played this year is also attributable to the coaches and the older teammates who worked with me last year during my freshman season.”

Head coach Dayna Smith believes Widmann has become the team’s biggest offensive threat as well as its hardest worker. She has been able to make important shots and guide the team when needed, and she is valuable on and off the court.

“This year [Widmann] understands that our team needs more scoring,” she said. “We need people who are offensive threats, and that’s exactly what she has been for us. She can be a high energy spark plug for us, and when she does that, good things happen for her [and] good things happen for our team.”

Widmann’s coach and teammates know her as someone who loves to compete. Although this year is only her second season, she has become a force to be reckoned with. And being a young player on a young team does not discourage her, it only fuels her to help the team grow together.

“Last year we had five seniors who led the team and were very experienced, whereas this year we are the second youngest team in the NCAA and are still working on finding our identity,” Widmann said. “But the more we grow together the closer we all get, and we all want to see each other succeed.”

Although individual accolades are nice, Widmann’s personal goal is to have a winning season and to be able to contribute in any way that she can. Widmann is grateful for simply having the opportunity to play with all of her teammates.

“We win together and lose

together, and I wouldn’t want to be with any other group of girls,” Widmann said. “They are my home away from home.”

Looking forward to the remainder of the season, Smith is looking for her players to keep getting better each and every day.

Improvement is essential, particularly with a young team that will be together for seasons to come.

“I think we’ve seen tremendous growth and improvement as a team just three weeks in,” she said. “We have a lot of games through this stretch, so it’s been hard to catch our breath. It’s been night and day since our first game, and as coaches we just hope to continue that improvement.”

Widmann and the rest of the team will look to give their home crowd a victory on Friday night against Stony Brook in Cornell’s last game before a two-week break for final exams.

Karen Papazian can be reached at kpapazian@cornellsun.com.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore standout | Despite her superb play thus far, Samantha Widdman’s top priority remains winning games alonside her teammates. The Red is currently just 1-5.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

No.5 IcersTake On Miami Before 4-Week Break

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

During its impressive 9-1 start, Cornell men’s hockey hasn’t seen much action outside the friendly confines of Lynah Rink. As his team gets set for just its third road game of the season, however, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 is encouraging his skaters to treat the matchups with Miami (OH) like any other game.

“Playing good road hockey means you just amp up your discipline. You don’t want to go on the road and be undisciplined,” Schafer said. “You want to play simple hockey, which we’ve done at home and on the road so far this year.”

The Red will face off against the Redhawks in Oxford, Ohio, this Friday and Saturday, before a fourweek hiatus.

“They’re a good hockey team,” Schafer said of Miami.

“They work “They’re very prideful, and they extremely hard in pride themselves on work ethic and togetherness, and so do the offensive we.” zone, they work The weekend series will be extremely hard in the Red’s last two games before a long break for final exams and the defensive winter break, which means a zone.” strong effort will be important.

The team will not take the ice Head Coach again until Dec. 30.

Mike Schafer ’86 “We have five days before we go on break, and we wanted to have a couple great days of preparation here. We’re going on the road, we’re bussing out nine hours,” Schafer said. “They face the same issues a lot of other students are facing: papers at the end of the semester, trying to get ready for finals … but we want them to totally zone in here for five more days.”

Dealing with the struggles of academic life at Cornell for the first time aside, the Red’s 10 freshmen will have the chance to match up against a similarly young Redhawk team that features 19 underclassmen.

But youth is not a liability for Cornell, according to Schafer. All his skaters can match up with opponents, and their presence gives the team that much more depth.

ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN FILE PHOTO

National respect | For the first time since the 2012-13 season, Cornell men’s hockey was ranked in the top-five in both NCAA polls this week.

“It makes it easier when you have depth. You don’t have to protect … a line or a D-pair,” Schafer said. “You have confidence that anybody at any time can play against the other team’s top line, so as a coach that makes it a lot easier, but it also allows everybody to play at all times on the road.”

In the team’s two-game series at Lynah last season, the Red swept a pair of tightly contested one-goal games. Cornell will now look to take a lead in the all time series with the Redhawks, currently tied 3-3. This will be the first matchup hosted by Miami.

While the Red continues to add to its win total, the team’s penalty kill, dominant at the beginning of the season, has come crashing back to earth in its last few games. It will be put to the test again at Miami, a team that boasts junior defenseman Grant Hutton and his six power play goals on the season thus far.

The series will be a clash of two teams that pride themselves on effort, Schafer said.

“They work extremely hard in the offensive zone, they work extremely hard in the defensive zone,” he said. “They’ll push people out of the zone and try to catch you in transition.”

Freshman goaltender Matt Galajda will look to return to his early-season dominance, after allowing 11 combined goals in this last three games.

Schafer said his netminder has gone through the growing pains that come with being a freshman, but praised Galajda for making key saves late in the BU game and finding ways to win.”

“9-1, you can’t ask for much better than that,” Schafer said.

See HOCKEY page 14

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Cornell Holds Off Duquesne, Moves to .500 on Season

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

In a back-and-forth game, Cornell men’s basketball was able to take advantage of some cold shooting by Duquesne in the second half, holding on in Pennsylvania to improve to .500 with one game left before the break for final exams.

Despite trailing at halftime, the Red led by as much as 13 points multiple times throughout the second half. The Dukes were able to cut the lead to single digits in the waning minutes of the contest, but the Red clung to its lead for the 78-71 victory for its second win in a row and the first win over Duquesne in program history.

It was a similar story to games past, as the Red has relinquished double-digit leads but found ways to win in all three of its victories so far.

Cornell’s second-straight victory was powered by 56 percent shooting from the field and stout defense to deny the Dukes, which shot just a fraction over 30 percent on field goals in the second frame. The Red, meanwhile, has now shot over 55 percent in each of its last three games.

“We definitely take pride in trying to

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Leading the way | Junior guard Matt Morgan continues to dominate with his fifth consecutive 20-point performance. Fifteen of his 24 points came in the second half Monday. attempt the best shot we can on every possession, so I’m not too surprised with how well we have been shooting so far this year,” said head coach Brian Earl.

“It’s good as a coach to see that our guys

understand how we want them to play offensively, especially on the road.”

Junior guard Matt Morgan led the way for the Red with 24 points, 15 of which came in the second half. Junior

forward Stone Gettings added 19 points, while transfer Steven Julian chipped in with eight points, eight rebounds, three blocks and one emphatic dunk.

Morgan’s performance places him in exclusive company, as he is the first member of the Red to score 20 or more points in five consecutive games since 1986-87.

As the reign“I’m not too ing two-time Ivy scoring champion, Morgan is surprised with expected to have how well we games of that have been nature. Gettings, on the other hand, continues shooting so far to build on his this year.” stellar breakout sophomore seaCoach Brian Earl son, with at least 10 points in his past three games.

More impressively, his 19 against the Dukes came in just 18 minutes of floor time. “[Gettings] started a lot of games for us last year, and he is now finally 100 percent back from a knee injury,” Earl See M.BASKETBALL page 14