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Cornell Receives $35 Million to Boost Food Security in Africa Cassava breeding must ‘be responsive’ to users, says prof

By HNIN EI WAI LWIN

to fund its first five years of research.

The additional funding provided this year aims to support the project for The Bill and Melinda Gates the next five years as the project enters Foundation and the United Kingdom its second phase. government collectively awarded $35 Phase two hopes to “identify traits million to a Cornell project research- preferred by farmers and end-users ing and promoting the use of cassava, and incorporate them into new cassaa carbohydrate-rich tuber plant, in va lines to ensure that varieties are sub-Saharan Africa. responsive to people’s needs,” said While cassava is a major staple crop NextGen project director Prof. indispensable to Chiedozie Egesi, food security in plant breeding and Africa, it has “Researchers must talk but genetics, in a press received scant attenparticularly listen to men release. tion compared to In his planned and especially women other crops. Next speech at the sixth farmers and end-users.”

Generation Cassava annual NextGen Breeding Project, a Cassava meeting in Prof. Chiedozie Egesi Cornell-led internaDar es Salaam, tional project with Tanzania on 11 partner instituThursday, local time, Egesi will elabotions across three different continents, rate on the importance of taking into addresses this gap in research and account regional as well as crop prefmakes the crop more accessible to erences among men and women in civilians. developing new cassava variants, NextGen Cassava emerged in 2012 according to a speech transcript with the intent to shorten the cassava obtained by The Sun. breeding cycle, improve cassava flow“Researchers must talk but particuering and seed set, enable greater larly listen to men and especially germplasm exchange and improve women farmers and end-users,” Egesi information exchange between cassava said. “Using the kind of statistical preresearchers and breeders, according to dictive analyses offered through the website. genomic selection and the genderThe Foundation and the U.K. gov- responsive survey work, new releases ernment provided $25 million to the See CASSAVA page 4 project when it was launched in 2012 Sun Staff Writer

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Nuts and bolts | Fourteen Cornell Tradition fellows traveled to Puerto Rico during winter break to clean debris from homes to aid the island in its rebuilding phase.

Students Build 4 Houses In Puerto Rico After Hurricane

By ANGELA CHON Sun Staff Writer

In the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria, 14 Cornell students worked over winter break in Puerto Rico to help rebuild and clear debris from the island, cleaning four homes by the end of the trip.

Aoife Casey ’19 worked with the Cornell Tradition program and Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción to organize a group of students to aid in rebuilding efforts. The trip was funded by the Cornell Commitment office and the Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Tradition Endowment.

“Right after the hurricane, I was devastated from looking at the pictures of the destruction and reading about the effects,” Casey said. “I kept thinking about the fact

that the Puerto Rican people were on an island which made it more difficult for them to evacuate both before and after the storm.”

Because resources were unable to reach the island and its residents, the disaster stood out to Casey from other areas impacted by a massive hurricane, he said.

“I wanted to use my platform as a student advisor in the program to make a larger impact [because] I have access to the 500 fellows [part of Cornell Tradition],” Casey said. “I knew that by the time we were on winter break … it would be in its rebuilding phase, [a phase] that hasn’t gotten as much support as the immediate response that followed the storm.”

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Cornell Embraces Sustainability RecycleMania encourages waste reduction on campus the end of March.

Waste diversion, which involves directing waste into their correct destinaCornell will “go green” for an eighth tion whether that be landfill, recycling or year in RecycleMania, a national waste- compost, is emphasized in this year’s RecycleMania. reduction competiOne of the keystone tion held between “We have continued RecycleMania events is the universities and GameDay Basketball chalcolleges across the to show improvelenge, which compares nation. The winner ments year after waste diverted and recycling of the competition year.” per capita at a home basketgets a trophy comball game. This year’s chalposed of recycled Kimberly Anderson lenge will be held during materials and holds the men’s game against Yale it for the year.

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NextGen farming | Prof. Chiedozie Egesi will address the significance of considering crop preferences across genders in a speech in Tanzania on Thursday.

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Local Activists Suggest Solution to Homelessness: Build Homes

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

According to local activists, the solution to homelessness in America may actually be deceptively simple: build houses.

Describing the current homelessness situation in Ithaca as “ludicrous” and worse than before, a panel of local activists advocated to find sustainable solutions to the housing crisis on Saturday afternoon.

“The number one cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing,” said panelist Mark Horvath.

Horvath is the founder of Invisible People, a digital storytelling platform that helps homeless people share their experiences. He was joined by three other panelists: Mike Foster, the program manager at the Rescue Mission, a non-profit that provides temporary housing and resources for the homeless; Carmen Guidi, the founder of Second Wind Cottages, a non-profit that provides housing and support for the homeless; and Deb Wilke, an active volunteer at Second Wind Cottages who wanted to provide a “female perspective” on the homeless situation.

Many in Ithaca’s homeless community currently gather in “The Jungle,” an encampment in the woods behind Wegmans, The Sun previously described. The Jungle is technically owned by the City of Ithaca, so individuals — including the homeless — could be arrested for trespassing if they go there, even if they go to help people, Foster said.

BORIS TSANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “We were just shocked at what we saw [at The Jungle], The jungle | Local activists raised concerns that the situation for Ithaca’s homeless, many of whom reside in “The Jungle,” is in close proximity to all the big box stores that everyone visits in the area. A short walk back to the woods and worse than before and demanded action. there are people living in tents, in huts, no running water, Jungle in campers behind his house, discussed a model solving the issue. no facilities,” Wilke said, adding that The Jungle is espe- called “Housing First” that prioritizes finding permanent While not everyone can or should go down to The cially scary for the women who live there.

Jungle, the panelists emphasized that there was somehousing in order to solve the homeless crisis.

“Those women need us,” she said.

“People can’t find housing, and the answer is really thing everyone could do to help address the problem, After describing their encounters and conversations simple, you just build housing,” he said. from advocating for policy changes, to donating land and with those living in The Jungle, the panelists discussed Guidi argued that, while people might object to this money, to giving their time. the stigma of homelessness and how In the future, Horvath thinks that the homelessness sitprogram because they think that the society tends to blame the individuals homeless don’t deserve to just be given a uation will only get worse, especially since the presidential “People can’t find for their situation instead of underhouse, such a mindset is “pure igno- administration wants to cut roughly $8 billion from the housing, and the answer rance” that ignores the fact that the budget that would help affordable housing, and emphastanding the larger context of the issue. is really simple, you just Housing First model has been working sized the important role of faith-based organizations. “[The majority of the general pub“The only way that I see the future is faith-based orgain communities around the country. build housing.” lic] say, ‘you drug addict, you bum, “There’s no comparison to how much nizations — Muslims, temples, Jewish, Christians, stepyou’re lazy, the number one solution it costs to temporarily house people ping up and working together to end homelessness and to Carmen Guidi is get a job,’” Horvath said. “Well, when you can put them in permanent help other crises,” he said. there’s more truckers than any other Moderator Lee Rayburn summarized the key takehousing,” he said. “You would save milprofession in this country, and in 5 to 10 years, trucks are lions of dollars.” aways of the discussion, emphasizing the need for audigoing to drive themselves.”

Foster added that it currently costs about a quarter of ence members to speak with those who weren’t at the “‘Get a job’ is not really a practical solution,” he con- a million dollars a month to temporarily house people in panel to help address the stigma of homelessness. He tinued. “The number one cause of homelessness is lack of Ithaca, and Guidi later said that doing anything other added that the other priorities were building homes, affordable housing. When you add in mental illness, than building housing is just putting a “Band-Aid” on organizing as a community, building relationships with childhood trauma, hurricanes, there’s a lot of causes to the problem. the homeless and advocating for policy changes. homelessness, yet as humans we blame the person, [sayThe world runs on money, Horvath said, and figuring ing] ‘it’s their fault, I’m not going to help them.’” out a way for developers to make money off of creating Shruti Juneja can be reached at Guidi, who at one time housed people from The affordable housing would have a significant impact in sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

Basketball Player and Social Activist Etan Thomas to Speak at Cornell

By RONNI MOK Sun Staff Writer

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Politics meets sports | Etan Thomas’ new book contains interviews and testimonies from 50 individuals, from athletes to victims of police brutality.

Basketball star and social activist Etan Thomas will present his new book We Matter: Athletes and Activism, a work on social activism among today’s athletes, on Tuesday.

His book, which will be released March 6, includes a collection of interviews and testimonies of 50 individuals, with commentary from Thomas, as well as athletes, activists, media personalities, scholars and the families of victims of police brutality.

“I am excited about Etan’s new book because it includes a lot of oral histories and other testimonies about people who have worked or are working at the intersection of sports and politics,” said Prof. Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evelyn Milman Professor in American Studies.

Thomas will also visit Glickman’s class, HIST 1585: Sports and Politics in American History.

“My class is addressing a lot of questions of definitions,” Glickman said, including “What is politics?”

“I’m hoping for when he speaks in my class that he will discuss how we conceived politics, maybe how that is changed over time, and what role in particular athletes have to play in our political culture,” he said.

After finishing his collegiate career at

Syracuse University as the Big East Defensive Player of the Year, Thomas started his professional career as the first round pick of the Dallas Mavericks. During his nineyear career, Thomas went on to play with the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder and Atlanta Hawks.

While playing professionally, he received multiple honors for his social justice advocacy, including the 2010 National Basketball Players Association Community Contribution Award and the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation Legacy Award.

As a writer, he has published a poetry collection and an autobiography, and his writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN and ESPN. “Etan Thomas has had an impressive career both as a professional basketball player and as a Renaissance man, who has acted written poetry and political commentary,” Glickman said. “I’m hoping a lot of Cornell students will come out to hear him speak about his new book, about his career and about how sports and politics have long been interconnected.”

Thomas’s lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, with a book signing afterward.

Ronni Mok can be reached at rmok@cornellsun.com.

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Overcoming Language Barriers, $35 Million Goes to Cassava Study Students Help Rebuild Puerto Rico Cornell-led project reaches second phase VOLUNTEER

saw in the moment and could not be Continued from page 1 enhanced by asking the homeowners questions about the past,” Casey said. interest in the trip, Casey worked with Physical fatigue was another challenge MPA director Alejandro Silva ’11 to find the group faced, as the work was laborspecific locations most in need of assis- intensive and the heat made work more tance. difficult, Casey added.

The students worked in various “There were many times I was doing coastal towns directly hit by the storm, my all to fight back the tears, [but] as a including Villa Calma, which was flood- group, we knew we needed to fight our ed by 16 feet of water, Casey said. feelings and be as supportive as possible,” “One house, which belonged to an he said. elderly woman, was coated with debris Though the students invested from the river which we spent hours resources and their physical labor, limitadigging out and then power washing,” tions such as time and funding strained Casey said. “Another house fortunately the magnitude of their work so they were did not have much on the first floor. only able to clean four homes, Kimberly However, their entire backyard was St Fleur ’20 said. covered in the debris, including mud “[What we cleaned] was only four [and] objects such as school desks and homes in an entire village that was floodmetal pieces that flowed with the ed,” Fleur said. “That’s the part that river.” hurts the most — knowing that what we The volunteers also cleaned a nature accomplished was not going to fix an reserve that contains caves once inhabit- entire island.” ed by indigenous Taino people and spent Although some students wished they another day at an after-school program could have done more, Brendan Dodd for students, ’21 praised Casey said. “the power of The team “Even without power or air conditioning resilience” of faced a lan... people there continued to live their the Puerto guage barrier Rican people. lives as best they could.” during the “Even withtrip, accordpower or out Brendan Dodd ’21 ing to Casey. air conditionOnly two stuing or even dents were able to communicate with access to the first floor of their homes civilians, “while the rest of us needed to due to flooding and mud, people there be patient and wait for one of [the two continued to live their lives as best they students] to translate for us when we had could,” he said. a question,” he said.

“This obstacle made it difficult to get a true understanding of the impact of the Angela Chon can be reached at storm because it was based on what we achon@cornellsun.com.

CASSAVA

Project, which spanned from 2012 to 2017, developed an open access database for cassava genetic information, of cassava, which used to take a called Cassavabase. decade or more to develop, are ready “Cassava researchers all over the in as little as six years.” world can now compare results and Egesi noted NextGen Cassava’s improve breeding programs without emphasis on how different genders duplicating efforts by using prefer certain crops Cassavabase,” Egesi stems from an earli“Cassava researchers ... said.Hautea explains er project.

“This emphasis can now compare results that NextGen on gender-responCassava has proved and improve breeding sive breeding … that “genomic grew out of the programs without dupliselection, a comCornell-led Borlaug paratively modern cating efforts by using Global Rust technology, is a Cassavabase.”

Initiative, beginning viable method to in 2008, with our improve cassava Prof. Chiedozie Egesi work on breeding breeding.” rust-resistant wheat “This is the first varieties in sub-Saharan Africa,” Egesi time [genomic selection] has been said. “It led to an emphasis on gender used for an under-researched crop in NextGen when it launched in like cassava, and much work has 2012.” been accomplished in only five Phase two of the project also aims years,” Hautea said. “This could to research “implementation for the make NextGen a model for other delivery of improved varieties to similar breeding programs for smallholder farmers,” communica- under-researched crops around the tion specialist Samantha Hautea, world.” international programs projects, told The Sun. Hnin Ei Wai Lwin can be reached at Phase one of NextGen Cassava hwailwin@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell to Participate in Inter-University National Waste Reduction Competition RECYCLE

place” in minimizing waste. On the individual level, Anderson advocated taking food only with the intention of eating it.

Anderson, sustainable engagement manAnderson attributes recent ager and head of this year’s RecycleMania. RecycleMania success to the Cornell won the GameDay Basketball RecycleMania Steering Committee, game challenge in 2016, she added. which she described as “a collaborative Cornell currently stands in 13th place team of students and staff that create and in total recycling and in 39th place in the drive what the tournament looks like on category of waste diversion, with a recy- our campus.” cling rate of 44.149 percent, trailing Other initiatives supported by the Harvard University by less than one per- committee include “sustainable sporks” cent. promoting individuals to use their own “For composting, look forward to utensils, a BuzzFeed quiz on waste diverweek three,” sion and an Anderson effort to make “All of the coffee cups and hot cups on the University said. The week three Google Maps campus have a wax liner that makes ne wsletter include inforwill include them un-recyclable in Tompkins County.” mation on more inforwaste-related Kimberly Anderson mation on data points, how stusuch as recydents can divert waste properly by com- cling centers. posting, part of food organics, a category The University began composting in which Cornell is currently ranked 25th. non-food items in 1992, and incorporated The second goal of RecycleMania — dining-related composting by 1997, waste minimization — focuses on sys- according to the Sustainable Campus temic change that will reduce waste over website. In 2001, Cornell Greens, a stutime. dent group, held a seven-day protest pushOne of the ongoing campus-wide ini- ing for the University to adopt the Kyoto tiatives — the ‘Mug Club’ — focuses on Protocol, a 1997 United Nations initiative decreasing the amount of waste that stu- that aims to reduce participating nations’ dents produce. The effort discounts up to greenhouse gas emissions.

80 cents per hot drink if customers bring In 2007, a vote showed that 75 percent their own mug or reusable to-go cup. of undergraduates supported a $5 semesAccording to the RecycleMania weekly ter fee to promote sustainability projects. newsletter, over one million hot coffee Ultimately, however, this fee was never cups end up in the landfill each year from implemented by the Student Assembly.

Cornell alone, and tossing those cups into RecycleMania competition will run the recycle bin isn’t a solution. until March 31, with final results posted “All of the coffee cups and hot cups on at the conclusion of the competition. campus have a wax liner that make them Sustainability tips for individuals can be un-recyclable in Tompkins County,” found in the RecycleMania weekly Anderson said. “So if you go into a coffee newsletter and on the campus sustainabilshop and get one of these cups, [they] are ity website or Facebook page. destined for a landfill.”

Anderson also emphasized the impor- Maryam Zafar can be reached at tance of “not wasting food in the first mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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Galantis?

The announcement of Galantis, a Swedish EDM duo, as the next headliner for Cornell’s annual Slope Day concert was met across campus with disappointment and, at best, ambivalence.

Responses on Twitter ranged from “what is a galantis” (@bernardbmensah) to “smh ya doing bad” (@thatkidzaiah) to “Suddenly, I'm not sad about missing slope day” (Sun Sports Editor Zach Silver, currently in Barcelona). Another Sun editor remarked that Galantis had once been nominated for “Best Swedish EDM Artist” and lost. (We checked — in 2017 the group was nominated for “Best Swedish Act” at the MTV Europe Music Awards and lost to fellow EDMers Axwell Λ Ingrosso.)

Even the students who organized the concert seem unhappy with the decision.

Members of the Slope Day Programming Board repeatedly stressed that the selection process suffered from budgetary constraints (SDPB receives $18 per student from the student activities fee, an allotment of around $250,000), and admitted that while Galantis “might not have been a consideration to begin with,” their conformity to a University risk assessment made them attractive. Similarly, it seems opening artist Young Bombs was chosen less for their music and more because they came “from the [same] agency” and were in the limited price range.

We are not suggesting that SDPB spend ungodly sums of money to bring Beyonce to Cornell (Fisk Johnson, if you’re reading this, maybe tack on a few extra million to your next gift and make it happen), but rather that they spend what they have more effectively and plan an event that more Cornellians can be happy about.

As we continue to pay massive sums of cash to groups like Cash Cash, Big Gigantic and now Galantis and Young Bombs, who primarily remix the music of others and do not often perform any live music, perhaps we should consider returning to artists more suitable for open-air, midday concerts. Slope Day should be more than just a glorified Spotify playlist and a fancy light show — especially for $250,000.

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Putin’s Inner-scape is Completely Beside the Point

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read with mixed feelings Artur Gorokh’s Feb. 13 column “Putin’s Fears and Grievances.” In it, he asks us to consider Putin not as an evil antagonist ever-bent on chaos, but as more of an antihero — a once-keen idealist turned into the callous ruler we know today by circumstance. Gorokh is correct insofar as Putin’s early rhetoric was much easier on the international ear. It is also true that the villainizations of Putin by Western outlets range from the hypocritical to the absurdly comical. All that aside, it is perhaps most useful of all to look at a few actual events early in Putin’s political career to assess where he falls on what is referred to in superhero circles as “the evil villain spectrum.”

Tuesday morning in The Sun. Here he portrays Vladimir Putin as a sympathetic actor — an idealist turned evil by fear and frustration, “having started with understandable values and noble goals.” For Gorokh, Putin is a tragic figure, a victim of his own good intentions, the classic villain trope we have come to expect, like Vader, like Voldemort (Magneto is Gorokh’s choice). It’s just like in the movies: they start out alright before falling victim to circumstance and inner demons.

While I find Gorokh’s characterization of Putin naive and, well, cartoonish, his column left me conflicted. He rightly points out that much of Putin’s political maneuvers make sense in light of things like NATO’s ambitions, resentment and

Why should we care if President Putin started out with noble intentions? Why are we trying to evaluate his tender hopes and gauge the fragility of his feelings?

In 2004, on what would be called backto-school day here in the States, the Beslan School No. 1 in North Ossetia was taken hostage by a group of Chechen fighters. It was no accident that the hostage operation fell on the exuberant first school day — this is why when the dust settled after the tanks had blasted the terrorists out of the building, the collateral damages were discovered, as if awaiting burial, already in their best clothes. In all, 334 hostage casualties were reported, 186 of them children.

Throughout the crisis, the Russian state persistently lied and obstructed the press, and Putin’s aftermath-photo op was not announced until after he’d come and gone.

International outrage notwithstanding, this kind of heavy-handed nihilistic response was already par for the course for the Putin presidency.

Two years before, Vladimir Putin had taken to the television following a similar incident in Moscow itself to defend the unrestrained response to the takeover of a theatre by Chechen independence fighters. In this case, Russian government agents had pumped a highly toxic gas through the theatre’s air conditioning system after a three-day standoff. The statesiphoned gas ended up poisoning everybody in the building and killing 130 of the hostages. According to journalist Oliver Bullough, he had then watched as the government agents entered the front doors, found the Chechen’s among the fallen bodies, and shot them in the head on the spot.

It was thanks to this early-Putin lack of inhibition that the former KGB agent won the hearts and minds of a terrified Moscow, a city subjected to years of bombing attacks from Chechen separatists. A decade of violence and tragedy had brought out cruelest aspects of human nature on all sides: the decimation of Chechnya’s capital Grozny by Russian bombs, the conscription as suicidebombers of the most desperate of Chechen women by the terrorists, the endless list of innocent victims, and the debut of Putin, strongman himself. Rereading the accounts, I still struggle to make sense of it, and then I hear Marlon Brando’s heavy and slow voice somewhere in the background, iterating Conrad’s “The horror!..

The horror!”

It was details like these that gave me pause when reading Gorokh’s column this

international humiliations in double dealings with the US, and a reluctance on the part of Russians to feel like they have become patsies of the West.

But while Gorokh rightly finds fault with the “simplistic narrative” of the Russia and Putin we hear about, he likewise falls into his own caricatures, bringing up of the inner lives of political headliners, comparing Putin and Donald Trump. Why should we care if President Putin started out with noble intentions?

Why are we trying to evaluate his tender hopes and gauge the fragility of his feelings? It is not only Putin’s inner life I don’t give a damn about, but also not Trump’s, not Obama’s, not Aung San Suu Kyi’s and not Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons. Why, you ask?

Because politicians should be judged by what they do — not whatever they end up saying in front of TV cameras. Even if every last bit of it isn’t superficial, it might as well be. We will only ever be able to judge these show-people by what they end up doing. What they say is just part of the calculus that somehow put them where they are. A math Ph.D. might put it this way: the better a politician can approximate the best-of-all-possible-combinationof-words, the better they will maximize their preferred outcomes, whatever those outcomes are.

Let us reject, along with Gorokh, the simplistic narratives and press releases — but let us also defy the personality narratives that give these politicians much of their dark powers in the first place. It’s hardly a stretch to say that both Russians and Americans are prone to delineate their own identities in terms of the personalities of their leaders. This is always a mistake.

Heads of state have more in common with each other than they do with their subjects. Remember the last scene in Animal Farm? It is all about who you are sharing the table cloth with! Likewise, peoples have more in common with each other than with their figureheads. Let our bread be broken thusly. We should identify first as citizens of the world, and leave politicalpuppet pop-psychology and personality analysis to Access Hollywood and TMZ. Ryan Sherman is a masters candidate in international agriculture and rural development. Guest Room runs periodically. Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com.

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Jason Jeong | Jeongism

Winter Olympics... In Ithaca?

Dear Mayor Myrick, I hope your February break has been going well. It’s been a few weeks since I saw you driving through the Commons.

I waved at you, but you pretended not to notice. I’m going to act like that never happened, because I have bigger issues that I want to address today.

Since the last time we’ve met, I’ve been watching a lot of this Winter

quick Google search. I tell them it’s an hour or so away from Seoul, and because Korea is a pretty small country, I’m thinking that my guess is unassuming enough.

The point is, I think the Olympics could be an incredible business opportunity to put Ithaca on the map. Every few years, the eyes of the world fixate on a city as the beacon for our finest athletes,

The Winter Olympics can be a catalyst for profound reinvention of Ithaca small businesses.

Olympics — dozens of sports that I never knew existed two weeks ago have now consumed my entire life. As a proud Korean, I am so excited that my native country is hosting these Winter games.

But also as a proud Korean, I find myself having to lie to people that I know exactly where Pyeongchang is. About seven people have asked me so far, and to be honest, I still haven’t bothered to do a

and in 2018, the world looks to a small, unknown county in South Korea. To be honest, if people had told me a few years ago that Pyeongchang was hosting the Winter Olympics, I would’ve told them it’s pronounced “Pyongyang” and made fun of them for being ignorant about East Asian geopolitics.

The beauty of Ithaca is that our volatile weather could allow for us to

host both the Summer and Winter games, but let’s be real — we’re not at Summer Olympics status yet. Let’s leave those up to the big boys over in Los Angeles or Beijing. But don’t let that disappoint you — I would argue that Ithaca’s landmarks are better suited to the Winter games anyways.

The Olympic Village can be situated in the dorms up in North Campus. This move can also be advantageous in cutting costs, because we already have hundreds of safe sex posters displayed throughout freshman dorms.

Furthermore, these athletes are some of the finest physical specimen the world has to offer, and diet will be one of their crucial concerns. Luckily for them, Appel offers unlimited chicken breast, which is a great source for clean proteins, as well as a mid-sized salad bar. For the more high maintenance athletes who are unhappy with these options, I suggest they drive to Corelife and eat by themselves.

You might say that these details are secondary and what about the sports themselves? I’m so glad you asked. I recommend that we transform Libe Slope into a fully-functional ski hill, equipped

with a state-of-the-art lift. This addition will not only be useful for the games, but I also guarantee that class attendance from West Campus residents will go up by at least 74 percent during the school year. As for the other sports, I don’t know too much about how they work, but I’m guessing that we can fit most of them into the hockey rinks at Cornell and I.C. The Winter Olympics can be a catalyst for profound reinvention of Ithaca small businesses, and it would be a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of our finest attractions like Gorgers Subs and the 7-11 on College Avenue On a side note, it could also be advantageous for your own career and it would look really nice on the resume for a potential congressional run in the next few years.

And what am I getting out of all of it? If this means we can bring Travis Scott to Slope Day, I wouldn’t be opposed to that either.

Yours truly, Jason Jeong Jason Jeong is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjeong@cornellsun.com.

Jeongism appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Cole Johnston | Guest Room

Disaffiliating is Not Enough A

fter reading Ara Hagopian’s recent column titled “Don’t Decry the Greek System if You Use It for Your Own Gain,” I felt a flush of emotion: anger, sad-

nomic status, international students, religious minorities and many others. Cornell is a mountain of privilege that is heaped on the backs of the marginalized, and so by simply attending

We should not be calling on marginalized people to further compromise their campus positions and remove themselves from institutions that give them power. ness, shame and, ultimately, an overarching sense of disempowerment. As someone who holds multiple marginalized identities and actively works to reform my fraternity and the Greek system at large, I felt betrayed.

I first want to challenge the idea that there is an option to “not participate” in the Greek system at Cornell. Any undergraduate student who attends Cornell interacts with Greek members on a daily basis, benefits from the financial contributions of wealthy Greek alumni and creates a professional network that is heavily influenced by the Greek system.

Historically, these privileges were created by excluding people of color, the LGBT+ community, people of low socioeco-

the university you are benefitting from this oppression.

Separating yourself from this system is impossible, and denying your participation makes deconstructing the system impossible.

At one point, the column calls for women to recuse themselves from the Greek system, “If not for the sake of your own community, then for the sake of your gay friends.” Not only is this demand of women typical of the traditional gender power dynamic, but it erases the multiplicity of identity and neglects the narratives of other marginalized identities, such as people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, first-generation students, people of color, international students and differently-

abled people, who are oppressed not only within the Greek system, but broadly across our campus.

The column’s well-intentioned call for solidarity is certainly important in deconstructing the oppressive institutions within the Greek system, but it is aimed at the wrong people. It is historically privileged identities who have the most power to address inequity. We should not be calling on marginalized people to further compromise their campus positions and remove themselves from institutions that give them power. The privilege offered by the Greek community is historically inaccessible by these groups, and asking them to surrender newlyclaimed privilege is outright regressive.

Consider if every person who holds a marginalized identity were to deactivate from the Greek system. Would this weaken the institution in any form? Access to the alumni network and institutional power via trustee alumni would be unaffected. Access to exclusive housing would be unaffected. The major difference is that the institutions would become exponentially more homogenous. In my eyes, this exacerbates the issue in every aspect.

Okay, then let’s burn it all down. If the University bans the Greek system wholly, does this abolish the core of racism, sex-

ism, heterosexism and classism that exists on this campus? Or would a mock system simply rise from the ashes? Most importantly, would this mock system be as easily influenced by the University as an institution?

It is time that we stop viewing Greek life as the source, but rather as the vehicle of oppression. We can use the vehicle to our advantage by encouraging the marginalized to continue to rise up and claim institutional power within these exclusive spaces. These are the people who will make the reforms we so desperately need. In shaming the marginalized for our work at reforming the institution, and

icism. If that looks like a nonGreek educating themselves or others on how Cornell and the Greek system as institutions perpetuate oppression, then I will support your voice with mine. If it looks like any Greek running on a platform of reform, then I will promote your campaign and cast my vote for you.

My final thought is to recognize that none of us have the perfect solution. No one has been spared from oppressive socialization. No one can indisputably “teach” perfect social justice to anyone else. We are all a work in progress in terms of equity and inclusion. With that

It is time that we stop viewing Greek life as the source, but rather as the vehicle of oppression. for failing to “align your everyday actions with your morals,” you are failing to stand in solidarity. You are committing horizontal oppression.

The solution is not to disaffiliate (although if you must for self-care, I would never take that away from you), nor is it to disempower target identities.

The solution is to dig deeper, to empower each other, and to claim victory in the face of crit-

in mind, I beseech you to get involved in the campus dialogue. We are all teachers and learners in the story of social equity.

Cole Johnston is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and is the Diversity and Inclusion Chair for Phi Delta Theta and a facilitator for the Intergroup Dialogue Project.

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Priya Kankanhalli | Matters of Fact

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oices flock to controversy like bees to honey. The case surrounding the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting is no outlier — without delay, a multitude of sentiments regarding the affair has peppered the national landscape.

As in prior responses to tragedy, we have heard vehement accounts from survivors, onlookers, afflicted families, and of course, politicians.

This is precisely what we would hope for in response to an unthinkable calamity, is it not?

Hardly. The recent commentary around the shooting, which took 17 lives and shattered many others, is more perplexing than reassuring. It is a mosaic of those expressing hurt, disbelief and fury; it is fuel for conservatives and progressives ever eager to disagree about gun-control; it is a jolt, as events of this nature typically are, to the passive streams of daily life. In all this discussion, however, of systemic flaws that have led us to this point and solutions we might implement (supplying teachers with firearms is a particularly comical one), is an alarming undercurrent, deadly in its imperceptibility and insinuation: the discussion of the shooter.

Pain and circumstance notoriously weave themselves into any analysis of the motive of the shooter — we are incredibly prone to lacing our opinions with tales of personal hardship and enlightening struggles. In most scenarios, this poses no harm — we are products of our

experiences, and rightly so. We are creatures who prize logic and reasoning, who continuously labor to identify causes and effects, so this is expected. Permitting our own situations to inform our viewpoints is a perfectly natural behavior.

In other scenarios, the harm is astounding.

Positioning the troubles of any perpetrator, responsible for a mass killing or any heinous crime, at the fulcrum of discourse sets a dangerous precedent. Firstly, it offends the plethora of souls that suffer from sunrise to sunset, in identical degrees, yet somehow manage to avoid leaving trails of destruction in their wakes. We are all victims of some circumstance, but we do not all take victims.

Then, it encourages the notion that humanizing a criminal is due process — an utterly unfounded idea and completely separate from an evaluation of culpability. Be it a broken home, ostracism, bullying or any ingredient of a battered past, absolutely nothing could vindicate a killer. By implying that it could, through lengthy dialogue weighing the woes of our star offenders, we only invite similar transgression, signaling that an overly exaggerated external display of one’s misfortunes is defendable.

Granted, directing the pain inwards is not a cure either. Mental health professionals have long peered

On February 14, Nikolas Cruz lost his claim to sympathy.

into the minds of murderers. I don’t believe this is a futile effort. The distinction between worthwhile and worthless pursuits, in this instance, rests in the consequence. Understanding a killer is productive, as far as flagging potential suspects; delusions that this understanding might simplify or validate the chaos is not.

Prevention is a viable goal; justification is not.

Most will agree — at least in speech if not in action — that the premise of victim-blaming is inherently wrong. The burden of civility is doubtlessly placed on the abuser, certainly not the subject. The clash that seems to characterize the shooter, however, is the tendency to cast him in an empathetic light, framing him as the victim himself.

Furthermore, assessing mass murders on a sequential timeline indicates that eventually the aftermath runs its course, and the horrors are to be dismissed to the depths of latent memory. This is the exact opposite of what is owed to the deceased.

Pain is not relative. It’s absolute. Nikolas Cruz seized Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in terror, publicly declaring his pain only by inflicting it on others.

What I might have previously conceded was immeasurable distress in his life, and the lives of fellow murderers over the years, was plainly quantified. On February 14, Nikolas Cruz lost his claim to sympathy. I only feel disgust.

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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e know, at this point, that massacre is routine in this country.

17 children were shot and killed in an afternoon at school. It wasn’t the first time shots were fired at schools this year, or the fifth or the 15th. It wasn’t the first mass shooting this year, or the fifth, or the 15th, or the 25th.

Perhaps for older generations it is still experienced with shock, but those my age have a memory dotted with acts of domestic terror.

During the Cold War, students were taken through bomb drills due to the threat of foreign military attack; our schools ran lockdown drills to help us survive a classmate or neighbor who decided to kill us. We have come into consciousness expecting some bloody breaking news every few months, with the understanding that a lot more “unexceptional” carnage is happening all the time. There are countless forces that have allowed this reality to fester, but perhaps none more insidious now than the popular suggestion tragedy should not be politicized For the vast majority of us, our response to these tragedies is precooked.

It really is an immense task to respond to the death of 17 children. The average person has no point of reference for that level of suffering, and so it takes a massive amount of wattage to process this kind of news in any real way.

Over the last two decades, I have, in a way that I think is absolutely common, approached this incrementally. In creeping thoughts during late nights and long walks, I’ll let hypotheticals bounce off the walls of my brain, trying to give them a shape that resembles something personal — it’s a certain distant and melancholy anger, mixed with a variety of policy prescriptions.

So, in weeks like this one, our sincere grief presents itself in practiced roles.

Internally, we experience national grief in the way we’ve planned. Externally, we

Kids and Guns express condolences and take our positions on our preferred side of public policy. Yet for a growing group of people, mostly on the right, this has meant declaring that policy questions have no place in our holy space of national mourning. Republican politicians and conservative commentators shame everyone who calls for gun control, claiming that it exploits victims and their families.

On its face, this claim holds some water. Victims deserve a great deal of care, and it may feel incredibly painful to be instrumentalized by strangers.

However, it is not clear that these are the wishes of most victims.

In fact many of the most vocal advocates for gun laws are the victims of gun crimes. Moreover, it takes a very narrow vision of our obligations to think that we only owe our soft condolences, rather than a societal effort to prevent their pain from being replicated.

And of course, it’s hugely hypocritical.

The American Right has no problem using tragedy to advance a political agenda when it’s feasible. The President used his first State of the Union to highlight the families of murder victims who were killed by undocumented immigrants. This, we were told, should illustrate the need for restrictive immigration policy. Surely, our foreign policy and security agenda has regularly been advanced in the wake of tragedy and loss of life. The reality is, tragedy is one of the strongest catalysts for national action.

The crucial problem with this idea, though, is that the premise is wrong. At its core, the claim is that these tragedies

are apolitical events, which are politicized after the fact when policies are suggested in response. This is false.

American mass shootings are inherently, unavoidably political events.

This has nothing to do with the motivations of the shooter or the context of the violence. Rather, it is because gun violence is facilitated by myriad political choices that our nation has already made.

The weapon used on Wednesday was previously illegal under a federal assault weapons ban that Congress chose not to renew; the high deference paid to the Second Amendment is largely the result of a 2008 Supreme Court case; the outsized role that weapons play in our political culture is fostered by ads showing candidates holding firearms; the NRA is one of our strongest electoral forces; and debates over gun law has played out in legislative chambers across the country.

deeper result is that wears down the thin trust that remains between Americans who disagree on guns. The last remaining potential for common understanding between factions in a decades-long debate, is that both sides ultimately care about the victims of violence. Yet this tactic of shaming people for politicizing tragedy carries the damning claim that they do not. It says that while those on the Left might say they speak for victims, in reality they simply hope to use them for their own political purposes. This is catastrophic for a political debate that was already fraught with distrust and a nation cleaved by polarization.

My belief that we need expansive gun control legislation arises from genuine personal grief for the victims of mass violence. It comes from hours spent trying to translate distant suffering into my own terms, and develop a response. And it’s borne of a life lived in a culture that breeds a certain type of violence, and a nation full to the brim with weapons to facilitate that violence. That’s all to say that my beliefs, and the beliefs of most Americans, are absolutely honest and basically concerned with safety of others. It’s when we lose sight of that fact, and refuse to engage, that the twisted morality of a small minority of powerful actors remains codified in our national law.

My belief that we need expansive gun control legislation arises from genuine personal grief for the victims of mass violence.

We do not have this many guns because of an inexorable cultural divide — the polling is clear that the majority of gun owners support significant regulation.

No, we have this many guns because a minority of political activists has been wildly successful in achieving their policy agenda. We have this many guns because of our politics.

There are two truly sinister consequences to this brand of obfuscation.

The first is that it kicks the debate indefinitely down the road, and the truth is we just never come back to it. The second,

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com. The Common Table appears online alternate Fridays this semester.

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Jesse Martens “You gotta listen to Twin Fantasy!” urged my friend to me at about the same time that Car Seat Headrest’s 2016 Teens of Denial was provoking music critics to reconsider whether rock was actually dead. I knew lead singer and songwriter Will Toledo had already released a whopping 12 albums under the Car Seat moniker before signing with Matador Records. But after watching Toledo shriek out “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a toy drum set to accompany him in what must be the shrillest Tiny Desk Concert to date, I struggled to believe that his work could get any more lo-fi.

When I did finally endeavor into Toledo’s 2011 homemade opus Twin Fantasy, I was torn. While I could recognize the gumption of a kid who self recorded 10 minute rock n’ roll epics about his depression and somehow had the talent to make it convincing, I struggled to plod my way through the blown-out vocals and macgyvered production to find something that resonated with me.

Eventually, after several more dogged listens, I finally discarded my Frankfurtian second order desires and accepted that I just couldn’t get into Twin Fantasy.

When it comes to our DIY deities, few of us are willing to eat dirt and embrace their earlier, less sexy works when their glossier, more professionally recorded albums are so much more accessible. And yet, I’ve dismissed plenty of gems simply because they have inferior mixing. Whether or not 2011’s Twin Fantasy was marred by its laptop gestation, the recently re-recorded and re-released Twin Fantasy is as good as anything you will hear in 2018.

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Toledo’s lyrics are deliberately contradictory because contradiction is inextricable from the human experience, especially in the context of a teenager who is trying to make sense of adulthood, social expectations, sexuality, drug use and mental illness. Whether we look to Toledo’s song titles, “Sober to Death” and “High to Death”, or his lyrics, “there’s no devil on one shoulder and angel on the other, they’re just two normal people” in “Bodys,” it is clear that he struggles to make sense of the conflicting influences in his life.

Moreover, Toledo’s Sun Kil Moon-reminiscent stream of consciousness storytelling and brutal honesty make his lyrics resonate all the more. Parts of Twin Fantasy songs can often feel awkward (“those are you got some nice shoulders, I’d like to put my hands around them” in “Bodys”) or omittable (“the speed limit kept decreasing by ten” in “Beach Life-in-Death”). Toledo expresses every part of his life — the devastatingly sad, the transcendent, the boring and the confusing — leaving out nothing. As a result, his songs reflect not what he wants his life to be, but rather what his life is, which is why his lyrics typify the human experience, especially the experience of a young

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Life is a tragic comedy of sorts, and someone who concedes the ridiculousness in every situation, happy or sad, is able to express himself or herself in a way that feels genuine and fundamentally human. Toledo’s duality is no better epitomized than in “Stop Smoking, We Love You,” in which he repeatedly sings the song’s title behind an acoustic backing track that’s straight out of an MTV unplugged session. It’s difficult for the listener to discern whether Toledo’s making an honest plea to a loved one, humorously regurgitating a request that has become a banality, or both, especially in the context of a later track “High to Death” in which Toledo implores “keep smoking, I love you.” Somehow, all the confusion makes the song that much more convincing.

It’s human nature to disregard things that do not meet our immediate criteria for being valuable, especially when we have a long list of things to go through (like Car Seat’s discography), and Matador Records seems to be keenly aware that sometimes you need to repackage the same product to get recognition. Maybe 2018’s re-recorded Twin Fantasy is simply the music equivalent of the iPhone 8, but I don’t really care. At the end of the day, it’s a lot easier to embrace Toledo’s brilliant lyricism when he’s not singing into a laptop mic and is backed by a real drummer, so on that basis alone, I’m enjoying the hell out of this record.

Jesse Martens is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jtm238@cornell.edu.

Black Panther: Good King, Maad Nation

BY ZACHARY LEE Sun Staff Writer

“You are a good man with a good heart.

But it is hard for a good man to be king.”

These are the deceased T’Chaka’s final words to his son T’Challa before the latter is crowned king of Wakanda, an African nation that poses as a third world country, when in reality it is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world, thanks to the natural resource of vibranium. Throughout Black Panther, T’Challa has a hard time accepting the contradiction of this statement: there is a disconnect between the man he is and the king he must be. As a whole, the film questions (and answers) its own permutation of T’Chaka’s proclamation: can a good superhero film have heart and explore themes of race, power and privilege, or will its genre conventions — namely CGI spectacle and quippy one-liners — reduce it to simply being blockbuster entertainment?

Black Panther shows that the two can be harmonious; Ryan Coogler’s film is at once a celebration of blackness, a sobering analysis of the responsibilities and obligations that people of privilege and power have and a dazzling superhero film in its own right. The philosophical struggle manifests itself through the titular T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and the villainous Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). T’Challa views Wakanda as an edenic paradise; a place where black creativity and expression can roam free without the fear of white or western contamination, and one that should

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remain isolated. Killmonger seeks to turn Wakanda into an empire and supply the nation’s powerful weapons to oppressed black people all around the world so that they may kill their oppressors. Both actors play their characters with such conviction, it is hard to determine who is in the right.

Yet while Black Panther explores these themes, it is a superhero film after all, and while the action sequences are few and far between (it may be the film’s only foible, which speaks to its excellence), Coogler and cinematographer Rachel Morrison craft some sequences and shots that you’ll long remember after the credits roll. In comparison to his past films Fruitvale Station and Creed, Coogler is given a much bigger toolbox when it comes to orchestrating elaborate set pieces. He gives the intimate fight scenes, like the one between M’Baku and T’Challa, a greater sense of scale, while making the film’s grandiose set pieces, like that of the finale, more personal. Coogler engages all the senses, incorporating tracks from the film’s official album as a backdrop for the fight sequences. In particular, as T’Challa and Shuri race through the streets of Busan, “Opps” by Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok plays in the background, and the trio’s ferocious verses are interwoven nicely between the car explosions.

As dynamic as the action is, the characters are the heart of the film, and black women get to shine brightly in Black Panther. It is exciting to see Coogler flip the script on the traditional tropes of gadgeteer, love interest and bodyguard as an extension of that cele-

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bration. All of Wakanda’s mechanical splendor is due to Letitia Wright’s Shuri, but rather than being stuck behind a desk, she gets in on the action herself, aiding her brother against Ulysses Klaue’s forces. Wright brings such an excitement and freshness to her role, and you can tell Coogler’s own elation lives vicariously through her as she dreams up of new technological weapons: what’s better than a bulletproof catsuit? How about one that can emit kinetic energy blasts?

Lupita Nyong'o’s Nakia, while T’Challa’s love interest, is no damsel in distress; she’s fiercely independent and more than able to hold her own in a fight. Likewise, Okoye (Danai Gurira), leader of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda’s all-female special forces, is not just a submissive foot soldier but T’Challa’s rival when it comes to combat, and equal parts witty and deadly. She provides some of the film’s standout fight sequences. Andy Serkis’s Ulysses Klaue, a black market arms dealer, is delightfully histrionic and his sin-

gle-minded ambitions clash nicely alongside Killmonger’s more personal vendetta.

After one of T’Challa’s first missions, Shuri offers him an updated gadget, and he declines the modifications, stating that the current one works just fine. To this, Shuri berates her older brother, stating, “just because something works, does not mean it can’t be improved.” How fittingly meta for a film like Black Panther, a superhero movie that improves on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s already winning slate. Coogler’s film is art that is not political in its agenda, but honest in its inquisition: it speaks powerfully to human suffering and tackles its heady themes with poise and grace. In a time where the rhetoric of wall-breaking is prevalent, Black Panther reminds us to build bridges and to seek unity, not uniformity.

How’s that for typical superhero fanfare?

Zachary Lee is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zlee@cornellsun.com.

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Black Panther Roundtable

What was the best moment in Black Panther?

Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger was...

Jonvi Rollins: Black Panther taking Killmonger to watch the Wakandan sunset. The moment perfectly exemplifies the “good heart” of the title character while farther humanizing his adversary. The paths of the men finally converge as Panther takes steps to understand, through Killmonger, his duty to others outside of his nation.

Andrea Yang: T’Challa’s second visit to the spirits of the past Black Panthers, in which he speaks to his father again and makes a decision about what kind of king he wants to be. It undoubtedly is a turning point in the film and in T’Challa’s character arc.

Noah Harrelson: EVERY MOMENT that was a part of Wakanda's worldbuilding.

Lev Akabas: A six-way tie between Shuri shouting “WHAT ARE THOSE!”, the car flip, Michael B. Jordan’s “Hey Auntie,” any and all times Forest Whitaker says “the Black Panther,” the upside-down shot of Killmonger entering the throne room and the African chant kicking in after Killmonger finally sees a Wakandan sunset.

Ashley Davila: The first exchange between T’Chaka and T’Challa, particularly the lines about the difficulty of being both a good-hearted person and a fair leader. By reflecting on hardships faced by great leaders, the heartbreaking talk between father and son showed Marvel at its best.

Nick Smith: In a word: right. I know the movie’s “villain” probably went about acting on his motivations in the wrong way, but Killmonger is one of those rare movie villains who makes the hero seriously question themselves. That dynamic by itself makes Black Panther stand head and shoulders above some lesser entries in the MCU. I know that I was supposed to root for T’Challa, but I couldn’t stop asking myself how Killmonger was wrong. It’s hard to imagine that I’d act differently in his situation, which is a testament to the anti-hero’s story arc.

Rollins: Not just a villain, but a victim of the intersection between Wakandan leadership's ignorance and the systems of oppression consistently working against African Americans. The line “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage” demonstrates the character's ambition, righteousness and dedication to justice.

Yang: A conflicted and complicated villain with a tragic backstory who deserves understanding and sympathy.

Harrelson: The true protagonist of Black Panther.

Akabas: Compelling as a villain to the point where he actually challenged and ultimately changed the hero's worldview and goals. That’s Joker-level stuff.

Davila: One of the best MCU villains to date. Besides Loki and Hela, the MCU has not produced many memorable antagonists, as many of them have been very one dimensional or CGI (see: Ultron or Malekith). Killmonger’s painful story allows the audience to understand how he became a villain.

What is your favorite aspect of Wakandan culture?

David Gouldthorpe: The tribal nature of the country. I'm a sucker for worldbuilding, and the political structure we see is easy to access and understand while also introducing conflict into the story.

Yang: The Dora Milaje. I love the idea of a team of elite female warriors. How I wish Asgard’s Valkyries were still around so the two teams can fight together.

Harrelson: The Dora Milaje. Those women were badass.

Akabas: I was digging the ceremonial battle for throne, if only because the Democrats challenging Trump’s presidency by having Hillary Clinton shout “is this your king?” as blandly as possible and then throwing him off a waterfall would've been the greatest thing ever.

Davila: The different tribes within Wakanda. I loved the small glimpses we were given about the Jabari mountain tribe, and the attention to detail (wardrobe/makeup choices, fighting styles and warrior calls) made the tribes distinct.

Black Panther is important because...

Yang: It completely turns our existing perspectives on the world upside down, and asks the questions we may not dare to or have not thought to ask.

Harrelson: It does for superhero movies what Raisin in the Sun did for American theatrical drama.

Akabas: It is, amazingly, one of the first movies I've ever seen in which two women of color have a substantive conversation. That’s scary. I see a lot of movies.

Davila: It finally shows groups of people who have previously been ignored in the superhero genre that their stories are valid and vital. As a woman of color in America today, it is easy to be pessimistic about the landscape of our country; progressions in representation are inspiring and make me more hopeful for future films.

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SCIENCE

SCIENCE

Communication

Science Guy Bill Nye Refuses To Let the Planet Die In latest project, Nye spreads science education to adults

By ELEANOR BENT Sun Staff Contributor

Remember those rainy days in elementary school? Sitting in your assigned desk and staring at the clock, counting down the minutes until lunch.

Suddenly, the door swings open and an assistant teacher wheels in the TV cart.

The classroom instantly fills with excited chatter. The mood lifts. Your teacher, exhausted from hours of trying to hold your attention and fill your brain with things you don’t want to learn, sits back in her swivel chair and sips her coffee.

Cue the upbeat music and chanting. It’s a Bill Nye day.

If you went to elementary school in the ’90s or early 2000s, you most likely feel nostalgic right now. To our generation, Bill Nye is a hero. He taught science in a way that didn’t make you feel like you were being forced to learn information that would never apply to your life. His experiments were fun, accessible and easy to understand. Although the underlying scientific principles were often complex and highly theoretical, he would present them in a way that made sense within the context of everyday life.

Whether it was holding a recently used comb near water to see how it would bend away from the negative charge, dropping a watermelon off a parking garage roof to demonstrate gravity or blowing bubbles into a jar of sea water to demonstrate ocean acidification, Bill Nye brought science — the subject often feared the most by elementary school kids — into the realm of possibility.

Fast forward 20 years, and the same charismatic man whose presence once graced our classrooms is still at it, using his geeky charm and knowledge to infatuate the world with a love for science.

The problem is, the world is a lot harder to influence than a group of second graders. In his new film, Bill Nye: Science Guy, Nye goes head-to-head with climate change deniers, creationists and a whole host of anti-science personalities to try and persuade them that the world is in trouble because of humanity’s own doing. The rivalry most central to the film is between Nye and creationist and anti-evolutionist Ken Ham. An Australian Christian fundamentalist and author of several books, Ham is probably most famous — or perhaps infamous — for being the president of the “Creation Museum,” an interactive museum in Petersburg, Kentucky that teaches the history of the world as told in the Bible. Some of the museum’s prominent features include cavemen in tropical dioramas living alongside dinosaurs, Lucy, the beloved Australopithecus afarensis pictured as a gorilla, and countless other exhibits that bolster the claim that the earth is only 6,000 years old and that evolution is a myth.

The heated rivalry between Nye and Ham culminated in a famous debate that took place at the Creation Museum on Feb. 4, 2014, which went on for approximately two and a half hours.

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Each participant gave a 30-minute introduction arguing why his belief is a viable explanation for how life originated. Back and forth they went, Nye passionately presenting his evidence and Ham calmly countering it with quotes from the Bible. When the debate was over, there was no clear winner. Both argued fervently that his own position was the only correct one, and neither would budge. As presented in the film, the Twitter storm that followed overwhelmingly supported Nye as the clear winner, but those who said otherwise were already in support of the creationist view.

So, what did this accomplish? As it turned out, according to the film, the debate functioned as a publicity stunt for the Creation Museum, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in ticket sales in the following months. Nye didn’t lose face by engaging in the debate, but he also most likely didn’t “convert” anyone who wasn’t already in support of him — seemingly his motivation for taking part in the debate in the first place. Herein lies the question: can someone who so effectively communicated science to kids do the same for adults?

In recent years, when he’s not debating deniers of climate change or evolution, Nye has appeared on numerous news channels, made guest appearances on TV shows and YouTube channels, and even had his own Netflix Original series. While he’s become slightly more grave-faced and has a new sense of urgency in his voice, he still uses the same tactics of demonstrating scientific principles through fun experiments, guest appearances and a youthful screen presence. While to some this may seem like the wrong way to go about instilling

a love of science in adults, Nye’s fanbase has continued to grow over the past few years, and he remains the science celebrity he was several decades ago.

Prof. Norman Porticella, communications, who specializes in teaching science communication courses, says Bill Nye is “an excellent science communicator who varies his style according to whether he’s trying to teach kids or adults and according to the topic he’s addressing. I’ve seen him run the spectrum from wacky fun to dead serious and always with relevant accessible language.” There is truly no individual, save perhaps Neil Degrasse Tyson or Cornell’s own Carl Sagan, who has risen to such great heights thanks to his or her ability to communicate science.

In a way, Bill Nye was one of the earliest pioneers of science communication, a field that today is becoming a popular subject of study among undergraduates and graduates alike. At Cornell, Porticella is one of several professors who teach courses that aim to instruct students on the proper way to disseminate scientific principles in an accessible way. He is even developing the Tompkins County Science Hub to strengthen connections between the local community and its many science engagement opportunities.

“Many of the world’s most pressing challenges depend on how we think about and use science. Teaching the next generation of scientists how to inform the public and how to build interest and trust — with a constructive dose of skepticism — is critical to supporting an engaged and informed society,” he said.

“It’s important for scientists to understand who they are communicating with and to be aware of the larger context in which their work will play a role.”

At the end of Bill Nye: Science Guy, after a disheartening segment in which Nye attempts to sway the opinion of meteorologist, bodybuilder and climatechange denier Joe Bastardi to no avail, Nye is shown appearing as a guest-star on several science-themed YouTube channels. Recently, YouTube has become an accredited and widely utilized educational tool home to thousands of channels that are dedicated to amateur instruction on a variety of academic topics. Some of the more well-known channels in this category include Khan Academy, Crash Course and AsapScience. While these channels utilize more advanced graphics and animations, their style of compact, accessible and fun-filled communication of scientific principles is reminiscent of the early days of Bill Nye's beloved show.

But will they change the world? Will climate change deniers watch an episode of Physics Girl and suddenly change their mind? Likely not. What they do accomplish, as Nye says in one of the last scenes of the documentary, is keep the conversation going. Science is always growing and expanding, much like the universe itself, and it is kept alive and relevant by being discussed and debated.

What Nye and YouTubers are continuing to do, whether they are successful or not, is keep science in the discussion.

Ham will likely never change his opinion no matter how many scientific facts, statistics or figures are thrown at him.

What will change, however, is the ability of scientists — both professional and amateur — to disseminate this information to the public and let the people decide for themselves.

Eleanor Bent can be reached at ekb68@cornell.edu.

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UNDER REVIEW

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Tough love | Despite ultimately landing the close win against Brown, Schafer spoke critically of the Red’s performance.

Men’s Hockey Barely Avoids Brown Upset Schafer calls out team’s ‘lackadaisical’ effort side and past the faceoff circle before teeing up Malott with a centering pass right at the net.

On Rauter’s goal, Angello Malott was assessed a fiveminute major penalty and game received a pass from senior misconduct for a hit from Trevor Yates near the right facebehind. The Cornell penalty off dot and immediately fed kill, ninth-best in the country, Rauter with a beautiful cross-ice frustrated its opponent’s oppor- feed, leaving his captain with a tunity to erase the Red’s lead. wide-open net.

It was the first power-play Brown went 0-for-4 on the goal for Cornell since Jan. 2 power play.

“We’re all confident in our against Union.

Highlighted by Malott’s tally, kill,” Rauter said. “We work hard on it, that’s one of the sta- the Red controlled play to begin ples of our game. I thought we the contest, outshooting Brown, played well, killing that one off, 8-3, in the first period. But and a lot of guys had to step Galajda and the defense’s night was far from up.”

Late in the “I thought we didn’t really over. Cornell entered the third period, come ready to work hard first intermisBrown was close to tying and support each other on sion with just a one-goal the score the forecheck and in our lead despite again and controlling forcing overown zone.” the opening time. Galajda Senior Alex Rauter frame. made a series Brown tied of key stops in the game early the final minute after the Bears had in the second period when Tyler pulled their goaltender. The Bird tipped in a shot from the freshman made 25 saves in the point past Galajda.

“We did not come ready to victory — 16 of them in the play in the second and that was third.

Rauter agreed with his coach evident on not picking sticks up that the team lacked the effort on [Brown’s] goal,” Schafer said. that it had displayed in January, “We were careless with the puck when it had dominated oppo- just outside our blue line, then we won’t block a shot, then we nents.

“I thought we didn’t really won’t pick up.”

It was the first goal Galajda come ready to work hard and support each other on the had allowed since the second forecheck and in our own period of a Feb. 3 loss to RPI. Minutes later, Rauter’s evenzone,” Rauter said. “There were spurts in the second and third, tual game-winner gave Cornell but overall we really did not the lead, and the country’s best defense hung on. play very well.”

Cornell will celebrate Senior Junior forward Anthony Angello recorded another strong Night when it hosts Yale at 7 offensive performance, setting p.m. on Saturday. up both Cornell goals.

Early in the contest, Angello Raphy Gendler can be reached at carried the puck down the right rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Flawless In Ivy Play Rookie key in nail-biter, Senior Day win YALE

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Locke with 1:51 left in the middle frame.

While Yale was able to respond with a quick tally in the third, senior Jared Fiegl scored his fourth goal of the month to ensure the lead didn’t last much longer than the intermission.

“Sitting on the bench before that play, I noticed that when the defense would roll there was an open lane to the net,” Fiegl said. “I figured just throw something to the net, you’ll never know what will happen. It just happened to go in. I was lucky to have big Dwyer Tschantz around there screening the goalie. It’s impossible to see the puck around that guy.”

Mullin put the final touches on his clutch performance when he buried his second tally of the night with just 1:47 left in the game.

Freshman goaltender Matt

Galajda made 30 saves to hold on for the win.

The Red emerged victorious despite missing arguably its two best defensemen.

Junior Brendan Smith was out again with an injury, and classmate Alec McCrea was inactive after getting hurt in Friday’s win over Brown. Senior captain Alex Rauter moved from his usual forward spot to the depleted blue line for Saturday’s contest.

“Alex had to move back and play on defense, and Senior Night that’s kind of fitting for him that he had to sacrifice playing forward to go back and help his team playing on defense,” Schafer said.

With victories in its final two regular season home games this weekend, the Red will travel to RPI and Union for its final two games before it enjoys its firstround playoff bye.

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

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Morgan added. “We all did what we needed to do in terms of recovering and we just didn’t have any of the intensity on defense.”

Freshman guard Terrance McBride highlighted the Red offense on a rare night in which both Morgan and Gettings struggled. The rookie had a career high of 14 points on a perfect six-for-six from the field and added four assists. Junior guard Jack Gordon also had a perfect game with 12 points on five-for-five from the field.

“Terrance … and Jack hit some big shots and helped us stay in it that first half when me and Matt were struggling,” Gettings said. “[All] the guys are getting more

and more confident which is great for us.”

Morgan and Gettings finished the game with 12 and 11 points respectively.

With the loss, the Red falls back into the middle of a tightlypacked race for a postseason conference tournament bid. Cornell is tied with Brown and Columbia for fourth place, and remains one game back of third place Yale and one game ahead of seventh place Princeton.

The Red will play its last two regular season home games next weekend when it tips off against Yale on Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m. and Brown on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 6:00 p.m.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Second Half Sinks Red Against Top Seeded Penn

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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All-around effort | Morgan and Gettings once again led the Red in scoring, but it was the solid efforts from the rest of the team which gave the squad a final push to its thrilling triple overtime win.

Hoopers Down Princeton in 3OT Head coach Brian Earl earns his first win against his alma-mater

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Some late-game heroics and a resilient overtime effort gave the Cornell men’s basketball team its largest comeback in over a century, and handed head coach Brian Earl his first win against his alma mater in the 107-101 decision against Princeton on Friday.

Down as many as 22 points on the night, the Red (10-12, 45 Ivy) rallied to take the lead during overtime and down Princeton (11-13, 3-6). After a back and forth affair in much of the early portion of the extra time, the Red scored 19 points in the third overtime period to notch the win.

“We knew how much it would mean [to Earl] to beat his alma mater,” said junior guard Matt Morgan. “I think that’s what drove us the last 11 minutes. It gave us that little more motivation to go out there and play that much harder for him.”

Despite the high scoring game, the Red was able to string together crucial defensive stops in the latter portions of the game to secure the win. Thanks to an aggressive full court press, the squad forced 15 turnovers on the game leading to 21 points on the break.

“Our press got a little more aggressive and we were able to [force] turnovers a couple of times,” Morgan said. “We put stops together and once the defense got together, it made everything easier on offense.”

Once again, a major game changer in the matchup came in the form of free throws.

However, this time, the narrative was switched up for the home squad — a welcome sight for a team which has faced its share of struggles from the line throughout the season. Cornell drained 29 of its 32 shots from the charity stripe, while Princeton was only able to convert on five of its 11 attempts, including a crucial missed free throw with 0.4 seconds left in regulation.

“We’ve been working on free throws quite a bit and we were just able to lock in [on Friday],”

said junior forward Stone added 12 points before fouling Freshman Terrance Gettings. “It was just one of out. those nights where you see a few McBride recorded an impressive all-around go in and then game of nine everyone was “It was just a crazy and points, six making them.” rebounds, C o r n e l l ’ s fun game to be a part of five assists power duo of ... I don’t think I’ll be and two Morgan and steals, and Gettings once forgetting that game.” freshman again paved the Junior Matt Morgan J i m m y way for the win.

Boeheim Morgan recordnotched a ed 31 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, while solid eight points and four Gettings registered another 26 rebounds.

“It was just a crazy and fun points, eight rebounds, five assists, three blocks and two game to be a part of,” Morgan said. “With beating [Coach steals.

However, solid efforts from Earl’s] alma mater and everythe rest of squad were what ulti- thing, I don’t think I’ll be forgetmately tipped the scale in the ting that game.”

Red’s favor for the six-point win.

Junior Steven Julian recorded 13 points, eight rebounds and two Joshua Zhu can be reached at blocks, and junior Jack Gordon jzhu@cornellsun.com.

The Cornell men’s basketball team stuck around for a half, but then Penn flexed its muscles and showed why the Quakers are the top-seeded team in the Ivy League.

After heading into halftime with the game tied at 31, Penn (19-7, 9-1 Ivy) quickly took control in the second period with multiple three-pointers and never looked back. The Red (1013, 4-6) cut the lead to five points thrice throughout the half, but the Quakers responded each time to hold onto for the 79-71 win.

“In the second half we just couldn’t put together enough stops to cut into the lead [especially] once [Penn] saw a couple shots go in,” said junior guard Matt Morgan.

Following a back and forth affair in the first half, Penn was lights out in the second half, shooting 54 percent from the field and 58 percent from threepoint land. In contrast, the Red fell off from a solid first half

shooting performance with 48 percent from the field and 27 percent from downtown.

“They hit some tough shots [and] in that second half, they were just a little fresher than us,” said junior forward Stone Gettings. “They hit those 50-50 balls, they got some offensive rebounds and they were just tough to match because they were stringing together consecutive stops.”

While fatigue could be expected from the Red after coming off its thrilling tripleovertime victory against Princeton the previous night, the squad did not attribute its performance to tired legs.

“You can blame it on whatever you want, but in the end we were just outplayed,” said junior forward Stone Gettings. “It’s tough in the Ivy League and everyone’s legs were tired, but Penn also had a long bus ride and we were just outplayed unfortunately.”

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Career night | McBride scored a career-high 14 points against Penn.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to defeat the conference leaders.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Clinch First Undefeated Ivy Season Since ’96 Freshman Mullin’s last-minute goal secures 3-2 comeback Senior Night victory against Yale

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

Freshman Tristan Mullin picked a good time for his second collegiate goal. He picked an even better time for his third.

Two goals by the rookie powered Cornell (22-3-2, 16-2-2 ECAC) to a 3-2 Senior Night win over Yale (1412-1, 9-10-1) on Saturday.

Mullin’s second tally of the contest came with just 1:47 remaining in the game. Sophomore defenseman Yanni Kaldis took a shot from the point that ricocheted off the end boards, and Mullin corralled a quick pass from senior forward Dwyer Tschantz before sending a shot over the shoulder of Yale goaltender Corbin Kaczperski.

“I just had to get around the net and get gritty. It was a lot of relief to get that goal.”

Tristan Mullin ’21 “I just had to get around the net and get gritty,” Mullin said. “It was a lot of relief to get that goal.”

The comeback victory gives the Red its first undefeated slate of Ivy League games since 1996.

In addition to the game-winner, timely goals throughout the night were a welcome sight for Cornell, whose offense had fallen victim to a tough slump entering the contest, scoring just four goals in the team’s last four games.

“That was a fun hockey game to play in,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “The effort and competing level that we had for 60 minutes was outstanding.”

As a whole, the matchup was a fast-paced affair, marked by 11 total power play opportunities. Yale, entering the game with the country’s worst power play unit, scored both of its goals on the man advantage.

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The top ivy | Freshman Tristan Mullin scored two goals — the second of which came with just 1:47 remaining on the clock — as the Red celebrated Senior Night with a comeback win over Yale.

Mullin’s first goal, which tied the game 1-1, also came on the power play.

After a scoreless first period, the Bulldogs, entering the contest riding a five-game winning streak, took a 10 lead in the second as sophomore forward Jeff Malott served his second game misconduct penalty in as many games.

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“We weren’t that disciplined,” Schafer said. “[In the] first period, we took a [penalty on the] power play. We took another undisciplined one in the second period.”

The Red was able to tie the game on a power play when Mullin tipped in a shot from freshman Brenden See YALE page 14

WRESTLING

Icers Cut it Close in Grapplers Down North Carolina in Landslide 2-1 Win Over Brown

By JACK KANTOR

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Despite the win, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 was unhappy with his team’s performance.

“Lackadaisical effort, not When sophomore forward very happy with our guys,” he Jeff Malott scored 1:27 into the first period Friday, it said. “I thought it was one of appeared as if the Red, having the worst games we’ve had this scored just twice in its last year as far as effort is conthree games, was primed for an cerned, attention to detail [and the] little bit of selfishness that offensive resurgence.

But it was a timely penalty crept into our hockey team today.” kill and “We had another strong per- “I thought it was one of selfishness right the very formance the worst games we’ve until end of our game from freshhad this year as far as tonight,” he man goaltender Matt effort is concerned.” added. “We wanted to score Galajda that and we didn’t Mike Schafer ’86 allowed the know the right Red (21-3-2, way to do it.”

1 5 - 2 - 2 A few minutes into the ECAC) to squeak out a 2-1 win over Brown (6-16-4, 5-13- third period, clinging to its 21). Senior forward and captain 1 lead, the Red seemed to be in Alex Rauter scored the game- a dangerous position when winner, a power-play goal in See BROWN page 13 the second period.

By RAPHY GENDLER

Sun Staff Writer

On the heels of its 16thstraight Ivy League Title, No. 11 Cornell wrestling closed out its regular season with yet another resounding victory, topping outof-conference opponent No. 24 North Carolina, 32-6.

The Red has not lost a match since December — good for a nine-match winning streak. The team finished the season with 13 dual meet victories and two losses.

Starting off the night with a win by forfeit at 125, followed by

a pair of major decisions, Cornell jumped out to an early 12-0 lead.

When all was said and done, the Red walked away victorious in 8 of 10 weight classes, including three bonus-point wins on the back end of the meet.

Freshmen No. 4 Yianni Diakomihalis (141), No. 11 Max Dean and No. 3 Ben Darmstadt continued their rookie-year dominance by defeating their ranked opponents. Notably, Darmstadt completed his 16th fall of the season against No. 15 Danny Chaid and Chavez won by major decision.

Diakomihalis and Darmstadt both finished the regular season with near-perfect resumes of 27-1 and 26-1, respectively, and more than 20 bonus point wins apiece.

Dean also has had an impressive freshman campaign thus far, sporting a record of 25-2 with 13 bonus point victories. But the work is far from over for these young highly ranked wrestlers, who will likely make some noise in the postseason.

The win comes against Head Coach Rob Koll’s alma mater. As a Tar Heel, Koll was a NCAA Champion and a four-time AllAmerican wrestler at 158 pounds.

Since becoming head coach of the Red in 1993, Koll has posted a record of 293-91-5.

Up next for Cornell is the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championship on March 3 and 4. The Red is searching for its 12th-straight EIWA title, as it looks to fend off No. 9 Lehigh.

The Red defeated the Mountain Hawks last month, 2314.

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Heavyweights | Trio of freshmen — No. 4 Yianni Diakomihalis, No. 11 Max Dean, and No.3 Ben Darmstadt — continue dominance in N.C. win.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.