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Largest Donation Ever to Ithaca Campus

H Fisk Johnson ’79, M Eng ’80, M S ’82, MBA ’84, Ph D ’86 already made Cornell history by holding the record for the most Cornell degrees earned by a single student Today, he makes a monumental impact on the University by donating $150 million to the College of Business, endowing it as the S C Johnson College of Business

This is the largest gift ever made to Cornell’s Ithaca campus and the second largest to a U S business school, according to Cornell

“ C o r n e l l University has been a part of my f a m i l y f o r m o r e than 1 2 0

years, ” Johnson said “I hope this gift will serve as a significant catalyst to help growth the reach and impact of Cornell’s College of Business The goal is to strengthen the College of Business overall, while enhancing its three individual schools and the qualities that make each exceptional ” Despite the controversy surrounding the creation of the College of Business just last year among current students, alumni, and faculty members, Johnson’s gift will be an important milestone for the growth of all three respective schools within the college

The $150 million gift will be divided into two compon e n t s , a c c o r d i n g to the Un i ve rsity

$100 million will be used to establish a

to support the c

, including faculty recruitment, rigorous research oppor tunities and the S C J o h n s o n Scholars program, which will provide i m m e r s i o n programs, internships, and shadowing opportunities to undergraduates in Dyson and the School of Hotel Administration, according to the University

Soumitra Dutta, dean of the College of Business

“This extraordinary gift will further [our] goal by creating more diverse and rigorous learning and research opportunities for both faculty and students across As protesters swarmed airports

was working within the legal system Joe Shaeffer ’92, an attorney in Seattle, worked with the Amer-

Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to keep two men who were detained at

Airport from being deported

This endowment will help further the college’s initial goal of establishing a comprehensive and collaborative business management program, announced

Gift Continues Family Legacy

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

H Fisk Johnson’s ’ 79 $150-million donation to the College of Business the largest single gift made to the University is

In fact, the connection between the Johnson fam-

ily and Cornell goes back more than a century

maintained such

strong tradition of Cornell involvement and support over several generations,” said Corey Earle ’07, former lecturer of the course American Studies

University

The Johnson name is

Shaeffer said had visitor visas,

Chemical Engineering Seminar: “Harnessing Entropy to Build Materials”

9 a m , 165 Olin Hall

Islam in Asia: Diversity in Past and Present

10 a m - 2 p m , Kroch Library, Olin Library

SAP Seminar Series: “Sufi Hagiographies and Historical Memory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Gujarat” 12:15 - 1:15 p m , G08 Uris Hall

What Controls Ecosystem Carbon Storage in a Changing World?

12:20 p m , A106 Corson/Mudd Hall

EARS Counseling Room: Opening Day 3 p m , Willard Straight Hall

Department of Physics Colloquium: “The Future of the Large Hadron Collider”

4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

The Task of the Artist in the Time of Monsters:

A Talk by Rev Osagyefo Sekou 4:45 p m , 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

Human Rights in the Modern Day: What Can the World Do?

5 - 6 p m , Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Kripalu Yoga

5 - 6:15 p m , Garden Room, 215 Willard Straight Hall

Up Close: The Models of Zaha Hadid 5:30 p m , John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome

Peer support | Drop-in visits for EARS, Cornell’s peer counseling program, will re-open for the new semester at 3 p m in Willard Straight Hall COURTESY OF

Empathy Academy: Social Practice and the Problem of Objects

10 a m - 5 p m , Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art

Exploring a Sea of Glass: A Multimedia Celebration of Art, Biology and History Noon - 5 p m , Mann Library

University Assembly Meeting 4:30 - 6 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Chimes Competition Information Session 5 - 6 p m , McGraw Tower

Over One Hundred Gather to Organize ‘Mass Action’

By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Staff Writer

“The People’s School will occupy the spaces that once kept us apart, ” the organization declares in their mission statement

On Friday, over one hundred Ithaca community members, Ithaca High School students and Cornell students and faculty congregated beneath a stark red “People’s School” banner in the Klarman atrium to rise to that occasion

they’ve strayed from that,” she said “I also think they have a purpose for improving the world for everyone, and I think that they’re failing ”

Session facilitator Barbara Regenspan, a lifelong activist and former professor of education at Colgate and Binghamton Universities, noted the contradictory role Cornell often plays as an elite institution

“I think this is way more diverse than your average Cornell gathering.”

Arranged largely by Cornell undergraduate and graduate students, The People’s School hosted four sessions of facilitated lectures, conversations and workshops in an attempt to create a more apt environment for social justice learning

Students, professional activists and community members facilitated the sessions, and their topics ranged from populism in America to Black Lives Matter to Islamophobia Free soup was provided by Temple of Zeus

Lucy Dean Stockton ’17, who facilitated a session about protest art, marked Cornell’s lack of accessibility as a key issue

“I think academic institutions have a responsibility to make knowledge accessible to everyone, and I think that

“Elite education still has the possibility of enlightening its students about the persistence of massive social inequality,” she said “But at this time most colleges and universities are bulwarks of the capitalist economy, and they tend to support the continued enrichment of [a] tiny percentage, as opposed to educating a wide array of students from all social classes ”

The People’s School has origins in anti-Vietnam War protests in the 70s, according to Emily Dong ’18, who helped organize the event

“There’s a legacy of this, which is why I feel it is really organic,” she said

Dong noted that the organization of the event was decentralized and that it came together through the collaboration of students, faculty, and community members

“The People’s School is a space for anyone, whether you ’ re an Ithaca community member or a student, to share

Ithaca Residents Flood Commons

In Support of Immigrant Neighbors

By SHAUNA CHEATHAM Sun Staff Writer

Following President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven countries, hundreds of determined Ithaca residents of all different ages, ethnicities and religions gathered together with their immigrant neighbors during the Emergency Rally to Support Immigrant Rights on Saturday

The purpose of the rally was to send a supportive message to Muslims, Mexicans and other immigrant residents in Ithaca that the people of Ithaca do not tolerate racism and will defend and protect their rights, according to the organizers Prof Paula Cohen, genetics, Ellen Walsh, Walaa Horan, Doa Abdel-Ghany and Gina Giambattista,

“We want to stress that we are all immigrants, and that if the Trump administration wants to come after one of us, they will have to come for all of us, ” Cohen said

Chants like “ no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here” and “2-4-6-8 we will not be ruled by hate” echoed through the air to start off the rally, followed by a speech from the organizers

“We are here to send a very strong message to our government and to our new president that we disapprove of these actions and that these executive actions go against everything that makes us American,” Cohen said “This goes against everything that this country was founded upon ” Horan, an immigrant from Egypt herself, challenged the people to “fight these executive orders” by calling their representatives and legislators

“My proudest moment as an Egyptian was

seeing how we as a country stood together for the good of all,” she said As much as she loves Egypt, she added, she loves this country enough to stay and fight for it and hopes Americans do the same Walsh said that as a white person, she is often asked why this cause matters to her and why she gets involved as someone who isn’t being threatened by Trump’s administration

“When you target a group of people based on their nationality, or based on their religion, you miss out on all the love and learning that you only get knowing people who have had a different experience than you, ” she explained

Following the organizers’ speeches, participants vocalized their opposition against Trump’s isolationist immigration policies Some acknowledged their white privilege in this country and explained that they refuse to sit back while their neighbors, coworkers and friends lived in fear

The turnout far exceeded the organizers’ expectations, according to Horan When the organizers were asking for the permit from the city, they had been expecting 50 people but the rally ended up drawing a crowd of between 200 and 300 supporters

“Just seeing you all here, I know I’m not alone,” she said as she was brought to tears by the number of people who came and showed their support “Ithaca represents the melting pot that is America Yes, there are divisions, but we are trying to heal those divisions ”

Shauna Cheatham can be reached at shaunacheatham@cornellsun com

People’s School | Students and faculty discuss various social justice issues, ranging from income inequality to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

what you know,” she added “We have the power, we know a lot ”

Anaar Desai-Stephens grad attended Dong’s session about the unpaid labor of student diversity groups

“That was a room full of students of color and allies and more broadly, I think this is way more diverse than your average Cornell gathering,” she said “Right now, for the

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Students Voice Anti-Abortion

Sentiments

at March for Life

By ALANA SULLIVAN Sun Staff Writer

A week after the Women’s March, four members of the Cornell Catholic Community and Ithaca is Going to D C , a local pro-life group, traveled to D C and participated in the March for Life, the largest annual anti-abortion protest in the country

The trip was organized by Katie Forkey ’19, social justice chair on the Cornell Catholic Community’s Student Leadership Team and one of the three students who attended

“[Attending the March for Life] was something I did in high school and I thought it was a good experience, a powerful experience, and so I’m hoping it will continue, but it’s not a tradition yet, ” Forkey said Lauren Conger ’19, freshman outreach co-chair, added that the location of the buses that took to the group to the March for Life was kept a secret until shortly before they were due to leave for the group ’ s safety, because “in the past the group has had trouble with protesters ”

“I’ve definitely felt uncomfortable [at Cornell] with being able to share my opinions, and there have been a lot of times when I’ve not shared my opinions for fear of offending someone, ” Conger said “I think Cornell attempts to be diverse and that is the right direction to head in, and the goal is correct, I think it’s just sometimes not executed ” Forkey said that she too has experienced difficulties openly expressing her opinions at Cornell

“It’s definitely a struggle here to disagree with a lot of people on my beliefs about abortion and also just being Catholic in general,” Forkey said “I do think that sometimes because of how sensitive Cornell is to diversity and almost its fear of offending people, it kind of forgets how to let people share their opinions without always being afraid of offending somebody ”

Several high-profile individuals, including Vice President Mike Pence

and Kellyanne Conway, top advisor to President Donald Tr ump, addressed the crowd of thousands gathered for the March for Life on the National Mall

“The March was certainly what I was hoping it would be It was especially encouraging to see all the people from around the country who support the right to life,” Forkey said

Just one week earlier, a crowd of nearly half a million gathered in the same space for the Women’s March on Washington D C , whose platform strongly advocated, among other issues, women ’ s rights to reproductive freedom Despite the two marches’ extremely differing views on reproductive rights, Victoria Begley ’18, president of the Cornell Catholic Community’s Student Leadership Team, described how she was disheartened by the pro-choice stance of the Women’s March and how she believes feminism and antiabortion opinion are not mutually exclusive

“I have considered myself a feminist for years and I think issues like equal pay and an end to sexual assault are issues that I certainly agree with, and I think all people should feel like they agree with,” Begley said “I think it’s unfortunate that the Women’s March was unwilling to partner with pro-life feminist groups because I think many people, myself included, see abortion as a feminist issue in the sense that abortion is a direct result of society’s sexism ”

However, past all the differences, John Morton, a Catholic campus minister for the Cornell Catholic Community, along with all the students who attended, explained that “the lasting impression I had from this march was that you should never be afraid to express what you believe in, but you should always value the diversity of others’ opinions peacefully and without judgement ”

Alana Sullivan can be reached at alanasullivan@cornellsun com

Alumnus Fights Against Trump’s Executive Order

to keep the two visitors from being deported A third traveler who had been detained at the airport was deported before the team of lawyers arrived, Shaeffer said

Shaeffer took sworn written statements from two congresswomen and Port of Seattle officials and helped coordinate communications between the attorneys filing the petition and those in the airport, which was filled with more than 1,000 protesters

Shortly after 6 p m , U S District Court Judge Thomas S Zilly ’62 in Seattle granted an emergency stay of removal, prohibiting the U S from deporting the two men detained at Sea-Tac airport

“I am happy to announce that the two men at Sea-Tac who were nearly excluded and deported have finally been released,” Shaeffer wrote in a Facebook post Sunday morning

Shaeffer told The Sun that he joined his law firm MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless primarily because of its commitment to civil rights and social justice

“I joined them certainly with the mission of continuing that objective, and I’ve always been passionate about social justice, so this is just giving me an avenue to do that,” he said

Everybody coming from overseas already has to show proof of entry into the U S , Shaeffer said, noting that the

two men in Seattle had “already been vetted before they arrived ”

“ Through a crazy series [of ] events, and with the

Rights Project and the ACLU, we succeeded in getting an order signed blocking the deportation temporarily,” he said

Judge Zilly set a hearing for Feb 3 to determine whether or not to lift the stay he ordered, but Shaeffer said that hearing may not be required since the two men have already been released from the airport

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

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So Hyung Kim can be reached at sohyungkim@cornellsun com

People’s School Pushes Open Dialogue

most part, a majority of what constitutes diversity at Cornell becomes something that’s roped back into Cornell’s branding The kind of pat-on-the-back, multi-cultural institution that it is in this neoliberal age ”

Desai-Stephens added that Cornell on its own is inept at facilitating culturally diverse experiences due to a disproportionately white and male faculty

“Those are the people who are facilitating a certain dissemination of knowledge and also represent the face of the institution, so that’s a problem,” she said

While many said they hoped The People’s School would have happened regardless of the election results, they also acknowledged that Trump’s victory propelled the movement forward

“ The organizers acknowledged that this event was borne from the People’s Walkout at Cornell, which was itself an immediate and direct response to the presidential election results,” Stockton said “However, I think there was a lot of alternative and radical organizing energy there before ” Piragash Swargaloganathan

’19 initiated a discussion about Cornell’s relationship to Palestinian injustices, including its partnership with Technion University and its medical school in Qatar

“There’s a perception that this is something post-2016 election, but these problems have always been here,” he said “What I wanted to see more was this notion of being aware, being conscious of what’s going on, so this was a good start ”

Though the event was wellattended, Swargaloganathan, who hopes to draw attention to Cornell’s actions against Palestine with a Student Assembly referendum later this spring, had hoped for a higher turnout

“I personally expected more Cornell students to be here, considering my friends being part of the Women’s and other types of activities since the election,” he said “[The election] has brought us the rather immediate realization that this is something we need to address right now, otherwise we might lose what we have as a governing structure I’m glad the election has done that, but this is not something that is postelection ” Regenspan agreed, adding that the current “ overt fascist

agenda” has alerted white people to these issues

“This discussion is not part of the typical curriculum of elite colleges like Cornell or Colgate,” she said “Hillar y ' s victory would have put us back to sleep in accepting the limitations of a system that has always drastically diminished the life prospects of people in the black community before the election of Trump ”

Desai-Stephens said she’d like to see more events like The People’s School, adding that she hoped to take the next People’s School “off the hill ”

“Education isn’t top-down, it’s across and between and from the bottom up, and really between us as form of community building,” she said

Dong added that The People’s School will hopefully continue to develop outside Cornell’s campus

“ The People’s School will hopefully become a more consistently occurring space, ” she said

“The most important goal is to bring it downtown and make it sustaining The People’s School isn’t meant to stay on the hill ”

Rachel Whalen can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun com

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About a year ago, a story ran by The Daily Mirror caught my interest It talked about a “Dark Web”, a sort of black market on the internet that was relatively difficult to access but provided a venue for illegal activity to thrive This article illustrated in particular how two British computer sleuths uncovered a Dark Web website that scammed people into paying money for hitmen to assassinate the person of their choice It sounds ridiculous – like the plot of a movie Liam Neeson would be interested in – but it was true And perhaps more stunning, it worked: By the time they were caught, the two men had raised over 50,000 pounds in a year, without actually carrying out the work They just sat back, relaxed and let their fake website cash out Unfortunately, this article isn’t about the Dark Web To access it,one must install questionable software that leads to even more questionable links, and quite frankly, I’m not sure how kindly Cornell’s I T Service would take to that But the Dark Web, and the entire web in general, is a good analogy for how the bulk of society works There’s the mainstream and the underground, the known and less known But let’s start with the mainstream, where there are the websites that generate massive amounts of unique views per month – think CNN, Buzzfeed, Deadspin, ESPN and Fox News These sites not only have massive popularity, but also sway When they report or debate, there is a certain credibility factor they can promote

Let me give an example: earlier this year, Buzzfeed published an unverified, bombshell dossier that was gathered by a former MI6 agent The dossier contained tales of depravity and decadence indulged in by President Trump while in Russia that I don’t have the stomach to retell here While it seemed like the classic scoop in journalism, Buzzfeed’s publication of the dossier and the following backlash show the complex nature of the media The problems began when the dossier was proven to be unprovable – while there was no evidence to suggest it was false, there was also no evidence to suggest it had any merit As it turns out, the dossier had been common knowledge in the media for months, but without any evidence to support it, no one has stepped up to report on it But when word spread of Buzzfeed’s impending decision to publish the document, other organizations such as CNN shot off their own reports of the dossier, though, in line with journalistic standards, they refused to publish the unverified text But the fact they had to respond to Buzzfeed shows the national pull Buzzfeed has (or had) in the industry

This is the power of being a media titan This is the (generally) politically correct sphere

And then there’s Reddit and 4chan

Both are notorious forums not for the fainthearted The members who post are allowed to run amok and are constantly ignored by the mainstream media When Ellen Pao, the former interim CEO of Reddit, tried to curtail the Wild West of regions of the site, the members lashed back in form of harassment and bad press, ultimately forcing her resignation Look up anything you want on reddit – you’ll find it Interested in pictures of dead horses? You got it Looking for brazen anti-P C culture in the form of appalling language? Gotcha Both websites have recently risen to political prominence with the ascension of Donald Trump It’s hard not see to why they love him so much – his outsider views mirrors the outsider stance on Reddit and 4chan, where anonymous posters toil away from the limelight of mainstream media His caustic language is the linguistic offspring of the words bubbling from the mouths of redditors and 4channers The appeal of this whole schadenfreude is their outsider status, the intentional counterpoint to the liberal dominated media Unsettlingly, their identity doesn’t just embrace the anger their rise has caused they need it to stay relevant

And of course, I can ’ t forget Twitter There’s perhaps no website/social media that I’ve spent more time on for the past 7 years In the beginning, I just used it for sport updates I cheered with my fellow Pats fans when the Patriots won, groaned when they lost and scoured the search engine for rumors and by-the-minute updates Amidst all the

hand-wringing and corporate coup d’états, Twitter has proven to be a revolutionary tool for journalism and interaction It’s the only site where seconds matter – when a story breaks, a flood of tweets splurge onto the internet, forever permanent Unlike Facebook, it allows for strangers to interact, and its lax regulation allows for thriving subsets of communities that, although differing in view or pedigree, can reach out across the world and communicate among each other

For instance, as a huge Boston sports fan who’s lived in Dallas and New York for most of my life, I’ve struggled to get along with other sports fans in my area Twitter solves this problem, because I can instantly follow the Red Sox and Patriots and their beat writers, and then have Twitter suggest to me similar accounts to follow With a few swipes, I can expand my network into hundreds of people on Twitter who cheer for the same team

But there’s something ominous growing about Twitter in recent years The ability to connect with complete strangers has proven toxic You don’t really understand the person behind the account, and in this polarized political climate, things can get testy when they start spouting their opinions I can ’ t tell you how many times I’ve clicked the unfollow button on someone who started spewing their alt-right opinion Look under any political tweet from any moderately popular Twitter account and you’ll see comments that range from snarky to vicious, and then a huge backlash of comments that eviscerate the original tweet The “Trending Topics” menu has also proven poisonous on Twitter Click on a trending topic – say, “Donald Trump” or “#Syria” – and you can view a host of tweets on that matter that you might disagree with vehemently Interject angrily and watch 10 other people respond with to you with daggers The freedom of navigation and lack of an intimate community on Twitter exposes users to tweets that might upset them and feed their anger I’ve stumbled multiple times on the “Deep Web” of Twitter, where bot accounts or accounts with less than 10 followers spew an extremist view with offensive language This is essentially the “Reddit/4chan” section of Twitter, where accounts roam unabated, unbothered and unchecked as they migrate from topic to topic, burning bridges as they argue against strangers

And that’s what so disturbing and at the same time illuminating about the internet ecosystem The mainstream channels like CNN and Deadspin represent the more liberal, millennial view of the world, but at the same offer a view that is softer and more politically correct; meanwhile, 4Chan and Reddit provide the no fucks given, unabashed view that’s propelled Donald Trump to the presidency The mainstream and far alt-right, conspiracy based sites aren ’ t living in the same country; they’re not even living in the same spheres of the web But Twitter is different It where the battlelines are drawn, where the two sides meet And there’s no sugarcoating that fact that half of the site is bound to disagree with you; unlike Facebook or Snapchat, there isn’t a community of likeminded individuals and friends we can run to Twitter is desolate and unforgiving Send a tweet with #DonaldTrump, and expect something nasty in reply, whether you support him or not So Twitter, along with the Mafia riddled Dark web, the members in 4Chan and the benign moderators in mainstream media, serve as a parallel to America today Just as no one could have foreseen the victory of Donald Trump on the back of populism, the Deep Web that is cluttered with his supporters rarely breaks into the daylight Just as CNN has come under fire from the right for being out of touch, so have the elite liberals that live in the cities; and finally, just as America is divided along lines that seem now impossible to mend, Twitter is where the nastiest revolts and fights break out as accounts argue past each other with no end in sight It’s disheartening, but maybe not that surprising And frankly, it’s going to be a long 4 years

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun com Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester T

Well, here we are Serendipitous opportunities notwithstanding, I have exactly seven columns remaining And while the international state of affairs has certainly given me plenty of material for the next six, I will need more time to digest and dissect all of that before writing

In the meantime, I find myself reflecting on my time at home in Atlanta Those close to me know that I could easily write a book about all the thoughts, observations and emotions that result from my infrequent excursions there, but my most recent return found me thinking a lot about language

As I’ve mentioned before, I speak near-fluent German, but I began learning the language as a child, long before I had fallen in love with words Now, though, as I continue my nascent studies in Japanese, I can ’ t help but see both English and German in a new light, amplified even more so by my blackness After all, I understand the historical legacy that is, colonialism, crackling with the wreckage of abduction, coercion and erasure from whence the power of my English comes

To that end, whenever I get the opportunity to listen to my family’s vernacular or that of any black person, for that matter I tend to soak in every syllable After all, we grabbed the reigns of the English imposed upon us and finessed a fresh aesthetic from its archaic bones, which was an undeniably brilliant act of resistance And now, regardless of all the turbulence associated with its antecedents, English belongs to black folk too So despite

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what those hapless souls at the literary citadel might have to say, I have long since realized that the red line on my word documents is a brittle, spindly, pathetic creature In other words, I will always write my ain’ts without restraint

On that note, I’ve found myself paying special attention to the turns of phrases of my grandparents or the syntax of my best friends They fascinate me, because they are loaded with all these linguistic pirouettes and rapid riffs, evidence of the ongoing evolution of language, which we native speakers often take for granted I appreciate them so much more these days, if only because I recognize the twopronged paradox of impossibility and wonder that they present to a fledgling learner

wandering through my speech with a laughable lack of cultural acuity

And to read! Oh, to read! Lately, reading the work of my idol, James Baldwin, has become an even more unusual experience On the one, I am reading to witness the sleight of hand and sinewy craft in his stories: incisive jabs, coupled with tender pleas, driven by a dauntless spirit and inimitable cadence On the other, I am embodying the perspective of one for whom reading a book of that level would require intense focus and a deep pool of patience, as is the case for me when

I reserve the right to assert my freedom, avail myself of all precedents and dictate the terms of my own language in the same way that my ancestors did

Consider, for example, that I can already hold an entire conversation with a Japanese person, even if it would at times be unbearably, dreadfully halting and simplistic Yet, when I took my 11-year-old brother to the doctor, it dawned on me that I could pick any two or three of his childish sentences and even those would be too studded with colloquialisms, not to mention cobbled together from too many complex clauses, for me to even entertain the idea of translating them into Japanese As for German, I may be able to converse at the academic’s level in that tongue, but if I were to meet a black German, I would probably sound like a robot,

The United States of America is curr e n t l y “ T h e D i v i d e d St a t e s o f A m e r i c a ” a c c o r d i n g t o T I M E

How did we get here? Par t of it has to do w i t h e m o t i o n Mu c h h a s b e e n m a d e about the role of emotions in the most recent presidential election They played an impor tant role in shaping a massive populist movement headlined by Donald Tr ump, one that underscored the need to r e t a i n s o m e s e m b l a n c e o f a ‘ g r e a t e r ’ American past in which its foundational promise as a nation to be open-minded and big-hear ted is not made As a result, f i c t i o n , o r “ a l t e r n a t i ve f a c t s ” d e f e a t e d facts

Nearly three months later, these emotions have not tempered At best, they h a v e l a r g e l y b e e n d i s p l a c e d b y t h o s e against President Tr ump The same division wrought by his election, however, remains With a transition period and now a presidency more closely resembling the most consequential reality show of all time with each passing day, it’s easy to see how compelling emotion can be a tr uly destr uctive force

Emotions shouldn’t be completely condemned just yet They don’t always create hardship: oftentimes they help people e n d u re h a rd s h i p, a s m a n y a re a t t h e moment As unrealistic, fear-mongering p o l i c y p ro p o s a l s a re t r a n s f o r m e d i n t o federal policy, communities under duress are becoming increasingly tight-knit and passionate in the defense of their own rights and the rights of others What’s largely overlooked are the par ticular emotions that were preyed upon during the campaign There was hostility, anger and fr ustration It was focused vitriol against p e o p l e a c c u s e d o f t a k i n g s o m e t h i n g , whether it was jobs, morality or both There was also widespread panic about

reading German works Or, further still, I imagine what it might be like to read Baldwin if the familiar symbols and diction were as foreign, obscure and peculiar to me as all of the Kanji I have yet to memorize Buried within all of this, I think, is supposed to be some kind of opinion, right?

Well, I do believe you should collect words with reckless, maniacal abandon I also think you should discover and experience other languages, even if you don’t have the time or resources to learn them As for myself, I reserve the right to assert my freedom, avail myself of all precedents and dictate the terms of my own language in the same

way that my ancestors did I think back, for example, to Baldwin’s writing of Giovanni’s Room, a spellbinding novel about white men falling in love with each other in 1950s Paris At the time, he insisted upon vehemently rejecting its characterization as a “ gay novel”, and when the outcry inevitably arose over a black writer writing about non-black people, and in a book that only hinted at race via clever subtext no less, Baldwin again pushed back on the notion that black writers must be just that: writers who are black, and thus subject to the whims of their o w n r a c i a l i z e d c o n d itions I chuckle at the white w o r l d ’ s a t t e m p t s to castrate

Baldwin, and I simmer at the black community’s attempts to devalue him; they were both baffled, it would seem, because they could not see that he truly did envision himself as a human being above all else Even in 2017, this self-image remains a terrifying one for too many

Naturally, I agree with my idol: we need not insulate ourselves within our own worlds, and I feel no need to do so I try not to force anything when I write, because I trust myself to know how and what I want to say and learn from my mistakes

Some might view this as an unseemly combination of faith and arrogance, but this philosophy has nevertheless consoled me in times of artis-

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the consequences of inactivity for the disenfranchised that resonated with Tr ump ’ s message: the countr y ’ s forgotten men and women Without a champion, they were told, they would remain an after thought and be left to fend for themselves in a foreign environment The Tr ump campaign declared a cultural war between “ us ” and “them ” A

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nor that you should stifle dialogue if it means avoiding conflict I’m saying that we are at a turning point where we cann o t a f f o rd t o ov e r l o o k a n y c o m m o n ground, even if that ground is purely emotional Emotion is what this division reduces to, and in the spirit of fighting fire with fire, we need it to close the division itself Political identity, or voting

tic uncertainty I have a deep conviction in the mobility of thoughts in their proclivity for leaping over obstacles and crashing through barriers So whenever I feel that I have lost a good idea to memory or disillusionment, it usually manages to claw itself out of a premature grave and evade the literary grim reaper

This resurgent, unburied creation does not always arrive in the same form and is rarely born by the same means as its progenitor, but it has returned all the same

The only prerequisite for art is life, with all of its attendant peculiarities and sources of inspiration

Unfortunately, simply being alive can strike the idle as redundant and the content as mundane But for those pretentious or disturbed enough to proclaim themselves artists, life’s repetitiveness can serve as a powerful conduit for renewed inspiration We are all constantly being gifted with opportunities to respond to our environment, and we deny ourselves a great many joys when we fail to allocate any attention to the predictable aspects of life, to the questioning of why these aspects consistently reemerge or the pondering of their purpose

These are throwaway thoughts after all, admittedly pompous and mostly empty, so I have neither a conclusion nor a unifying theme for you But I do have language, words, life and humanity And, really, that’s all I could ever ask for

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

ing cries that became voices of a movem

n t grounded in hatred Misdirecting resist

Culpability lies with the leaders of that movement If anything, they should not be tr usted with uniting the countr y after they were the ones who organized its division Fur thermore, emotion should be removed of any blame as well In fact, emotion should not only be excused, but also used as par t of the effor t we must take upon ourselves to reunite the countr y against the discriminating force of the Tr ump administration Even though they are both based in raw, unfiltered emotion, hatred has always been a divisive force, and love one that unifies I’m not saying you should propose to the next person who disagrees with you

record for that matter, has little to do with considered reflection of and opposition to Tr ump ’ s disaffected policies The successful appeal to emotion in strengthening suppor t for them can be used to d i m i n i s h p a r a l y z i n g p a r t i s a n s h i p a n d

o enforce them

We can shore up the gaps between the two “sides,” person by pers o n , c o n v e r s a t i o n b y c o n v e r s a t i o n It should be an effor t informed by the collective goal of respecting and seeing our shared humanity with more clarity than ever

I have essentially described a nationwide process of soul-searching Despite Tr ump ’ s rhetoric today, America has been

a multicultural democracy for centuries Nonetheless, this is an uncer tain time when many are reevaluating our pride as a melting pot In his memoir America is in the Hear t, Carlos Bulosan recounts his experiences as a Filipino immigrant in the United States during the ‘30s and ‘40s His life is one marked with restlessness and relocation, a sur vival dictated by a spastic labor market especially br utal for those at the bottom like Bulosan Even though the narration reads like a series of “beatings, threats and ill health,” i t a l s o c o n t r a s t s h i s f e e l i n g s a b o u t America r un with his stricken American narrative

He strongly feels that America is indeed an ideal, albeit an incomplete one He also feels that we should all work towards its completion: all Americans from all classes, races, religions, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities and disabilities Each and ever y person capable of feeling emotions necessar y for us to h e a

o n , empathy, love and kindness; taking hear t in each other has always been effective in

against each other Even with the embittered hatred Bulosan faced throughout his life, he saw the sharing of his emotions, ever y little moment of sadness and joy, as something towards this end Eve n

“ most cherished dream” of becoming a citizen, his ability to connect with the

affirms that Bulosan was, in ever y sense of the word, an American

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun com Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester

A Donald Trump Is Coming to Pro Basketball

The NBA, like America, is on an unsustainable course of growth and excess The league is taking more and more three-pointers every year, and playing at a faster and faster pace and just two teams, the top one percent of the league, have a near monopoly on elite players The Warriors and Cavs will likely face each other in this year ’ s championship for the third consecutive time A backlash is coming

America, too, has experienced a backlash: in this case, to the accelerated pace of global finance, demographic change and widening inequality That movement is led by Donald Trump, who dominated the culture with authoritarianism and xenophobia and by successfully branding himself as the enemy of the hated elites Soon, a parallel figure will arise in the NBA

The NBA’s Trump figure will ascend after the league office decides that the three-point shot has gotten out of control Last year Stephen Curry, the back-to-back MVP, shattered his own record for threes made in a season He’d set it the previous year The Houston Rockets recently topped their own record for threes attempted in a game; they’d set it one month ago The league as a whole has broken the record for total threes attempted for the last six years in a row This year, they will surely break it again

A game that revolves around the long-range shot rewards small, quick shooters like Steph That high-speed style has made basketball faster and more explosive every year In America, meanwhile, the financial sector continues to grow even despite global crisis, and wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a select few The Warriors and Cavs together represent the established liberal order of New York City, Silicon Valley and Washington, D C circa 2015 technologically savvy, analytically minded, aesthetically beautiful, a little smug, wealthy and still rising The Warriors

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just added former MVP and three-point assassin Kevin Durant; the rich get richer

The NBA’s Trump figure will be the kind of player that is out of place in today’s league: a huge, physically imposing center in the tradition of the great centers of the past As Trump is a postmodern variant on Ronald Reagan, he will be a variant on Shaquille O’Neal His rise is only possible once the league institutes some sort of rule to make the long-range shot less valuable moving the line back, making the shot worth fewer points, maybe eliminating the juicy corner three After that happens, the game will swing back the other way, and favor big men once again

The NBA’s Trump figure will have a game that old-school purists love and modern analytics progressives hate He will play with brute force He will be strong He will be yuuuge He will post up, throw down huge dunks, run the floor and smack lay-ups back into the third row He will not shoot threes Like Shaq, Kareem and Wilt before him, he will probably play for the Lakers

Stephen Curry, the avatar of today’s NBA, has a game which is a pure expression of human joy Watch him dance, laugh and skip around out there He fucking loves hitting threes It’s like even he can ’ t believe they keep going in The NBA’s Trump figure, on the other hand, will be mean He will be nasty He will be hyper-masculine His game will not be refined, beautiful or joyful

Steph is the NBA’s Barack Obama: a revolutionary figure, a family man, technically perfect, media-savvy, balanced on the line between confident and cocky, subtly flawed Obama was reelected, but his legacy lost; Trump now stands to undo much of it Likewise, it’s not Steph, but the guy after Steph, who will be the Hillary Clinton to the NBA’s Trump (Obama, by the way, said he’s having more fun watching Steph than he has since Jordan ) The NBA’s Trump figure won ’ t destroy Steph himself, but he will play a style that undoes the changes Steph has helped bring to the game

Donald Trump himself is a hopelessly overweight guy with stubby fingers and goofy hair The NBA’s Trump figure, on the other hand, will be a titanically muscular guy with comically large hands and a no-nonsense buzzcut This is one way that they differ

The NBA’s Trump figure will be at least seven-foot-two and over three hundred pounds He will, like Trump, be focused overwhelmingly on himself; he’ll be a shameless ball hog and unwilling passer who clashes with his coaches He will lead the league in blocks and rebounds He will be an awful free throw shooter He will, like Trump, attract sycophantic figures who help cover up his weaknesses Where Trump has Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway, the NBA’s Trump figure will have a deferential, pass-first point guard who gets him the ball down low and doesn’t care about the spotlight

He’s coming He’s in a gym somewhere right now He’s not working on his jump shot; he won ’ t need one He’s lifting weights, eating meat, building himself up He wants to make basketball great again Someday, the league will be his

Comm en t of the day

If my time as a newspaper columnist has taught me anything, it’s that the written word is far from the best way to reach people When I was hired by The Sun, my own arrogance allowed me to believe that I could be different from socalled ‘echo chamber’ journalists I told myself that I would aim my words not at those who already agreed with me, but at those who didn’t Such a thing is easier said than done, however Fundamental ideological differences, emotional reactions to the mention of cer tain issues and the inherent ambiguity of language are tough obstacles to overcome in a medium in which no clarification or follow-ups are possible Every word becomes an appeal, the writing suffers and the message fails to resonate with people either side That’s why I wanted to try something different this week in my discussion of the Rick Santorum controversy In November of last year, conservative politician and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke in Statler Auditorium Remarks made by members of the audience, many of whom showed up to the event in protest of Santorum, have been a source of controversy on campus I will attempt to address one side of this controversy, then I will attempt to address the other If you’ll indulge me

always changing” when asked about global warming He said that condemning all conversion therapy as fraudulent or abusive would be “throwing the baby out with the bathwater ” He advised anyone who suffers abuse at the hands of their church’s conversion therapist to “ contact the authorities,” contradicting his earlier claims that there should be a “wall of separation” between church and state He made dubious claims about “sociological data” that prove the importance of the

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First off, to my fellow progressives: students, professors, members of the Cornell Community Brothers and sisters I was in Statler Auditorium during Santorum’s speech, and I can ’ t support what you did Not because it was disrespectful, but because it was ineffective Santorum said a number of things Wednesday night that were concerning at best and downright alarming at worst He said that “the climate is

nuclear family (side note: this was the claim that enraged me the most because even if we assume that it is true, it blames homosexual couples for not overcoming obstacles that he himself wants to keep in their way It’s hard to bring your kid to soccer practice when you have 5 o ’clock conversion therapy ) The narrative following Santorum’s appearance should be the centered around his disquieting remarks, not his ability to remain composed in the face of protesters The fact of the matter is that the laughing, the interruptions and the yelling over each other made us look bad and him look good Protests work by affecting the body politic You and I may feel the unfairness of being told to respect a man who doesn’t respect us, but the people that our movements have to reach may not Think of the famous protests throughout history: sitins, salt marches, theses nailed on doors Not shouting matches Meeting hatred and bigotry with focused, dignified action may not be easy or fair, but it’s the only thing that works Now I wish to address my

conser vative readers: Cornell University College Republicans, Trump supporters, members of the Cornell Community Brothers and sisters I understand why you consider the Santorum protestors, and perhaps liberals in general, to be intolerant If I were in your shoes, I would probably believe the same thing Liberals do need to make some progress when it comes to empathizing with blue collar conservatives If I were jobless, hungr y and poor I wouldn’t be in a position to worry about the welfare of others Now the fact of the matter is that there are groups of people in this country that, on aggregate, face more adversity than working class whites But as Santorum rightly pointed out Wednesday night, you don’t compare yourself to faraway people you never see You compare yourself to your neighbors I ask you now for the same empathy that you ask of us When people feel compelled to shout their vie ws during a speech, the question shouldn’t be “what makes them think they can be so disrespectful?” The question should be “why?” As a man in the Q&A session pointed out, we are afraid Afraid for our health care, for our safety, for our way of life And even if you believe our fears are unfounded, a moral person does not dismiss anyone ’ s fears Rick Santorum, as a former senator and still-active figure in the United States government, should not write off the concerns of citizens that he himself represents We are not obligated to respect him, but he is obligated to respect us That is the double standard that comes with power

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornell edu Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Search Party: Great Millenial Comedy

BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Columnist

The Urban Millennial is a prickly trope in comedy

Many have tried to parody the U M Many have failed (See: The Great Indoors) Few have succeeded

Think of the U M parodies you ’ ve seen It’s likely something along the lines of a character with thickframed glasses saying something like “I’m always on my phone!” or a BuzzFeed-esque publication employee wearing a beanie with Beats headphones around his neck holding an iPad and happily announcing “I’m, like, extremely, like, raw vegan ”

Okay, okay; these examples are clearly heavy-handed, but they’re not far off from what seems to be the mainstream sitcom-y version of an U M These examples are also extraordinarily unfunny, primarily because they’re just untrue It sometimes feels like the only people writing about U M s are old men hunched over legal pads muttering stuff like, “ What if this kid’s just always on his damn phone! Ha! That’ll get ’ em Write that down, Patrice You’re a sweetheart Damn shame I’m married! Am I right, boys?” then they all laugh and cough on their cigar smoke

Parody is successful when a truth is exaggerated to reveal a certain weakness Parody is particularly unsuccessful when (1) an untruth is exaggerated, (2) when a truth is exaggerated to no effect and (3) when an easy truth is exaggerated so often that it becomes tired Hence, why “U M s are always on their phones” and “U M s are all vegan ” isn’t funny, at least not anymore

When it comes to Search Party, though, the parody doesn’t come from exaggeration Instead, it’s created t h r o u g h s u b t l e t y Ta k e , f o r e x a m p l e , Do r y ’ s ( A l i a Shawkat) boyfriend, Drew ( John Reynolds) Drew is uninspired, slow and overly dependent on Dor y In one scene, Drew draws Dor y ’ s attention away from her search for the missing Chantal (Claire McNulty) by saying, “Babe Baby Yo! Babe! I need to eat now, ” and then plays an awful song on his ukulele while Dor y microwaves a meal Drew is, by many measures, not conventionally masculine, and it would be so, so easy for the writers to make him into a caricature of those damn du m b, lazy U M s In fact, the viewer expects Drew to be just that Drew is, however, a much more complex, nuanced character, deeply in love with Dor y but unaware of how to

express his feelings He is insecure, yet lacks self awareness of his insecurity Drew is a real hu m an being, which makes his character that much funnier After all, who hasn ’ t seen or met a Drew?

The same goes for the other two main supporting characters, Eliott (the brilliant John Early) and Portia (Meredith Hagner) If the term “comedic edging” hasn’t been coined yet, I’m going to do it now; Early and Hagner are masters at taking their U M characters to the ver y edge of overexaggerration, but then stepping down at the last second They don’t take the jokes to their absurd ends, 30 Rock-style They stop them as soon as they’re on the cusp of escaping U M reality The entire cast takes ver y specific steps to ensure that their characters are not caricatures, but actual people Actual people, but still funny people

The subtlety in the millennial hu m or is paired with an absurdly complex plot, which involves an affair with a shady P I , a shiny non-profit tu m bling to the ground after an egregious lie, and a birthing cult The ending to

this tu m ultuous journey (which I swear I won ’ t spoil!) manages to wrap up the season brilliantly through meticulous brinkmanship I loved Search Party I highly recommend Search Party In fact, if you ’ re willing to navigate TBS’s janky video player, I want you to watch Search Party right now (The free episodes expire on Januar y 30th ) That said, Search Party’ s glorious by-millennials for-millennials schtick is a little too complacent with its standing While it pokes fun at U M s, it never reveals some of their macropolitical shortcomings The show takes place in a pastel, idealistic Brooklyn, yet hardly alludes to the main characters being a conduit of heavy New York gentrification

Search Party has a bit to go before it makes the most of its U M hu m or Until then, it’s still a stellar binge watch to curb your post-syllabus week blues After all, many have tried to parody the U M Search Party has succeeded

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun com

‘ G e t F r e e ’ : R e v . S e k o u a n d H o l y G h o s

BY JAEL GOLDFINE Sun Columnist

There was a great deal of hand-wringing about the dearth of protest art being produced over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, and after the election of Donald Trump These hand-wringers, however, appear not to have looked ver y hard at all

Reverend Osagyefo Sekou and Jay-Marie Hill met on the frontlines of a 2015 Movement for Black Lives protest After being pepper sprayed arbitrarily by police at the demonstration, where activists were demanding the release of an illegally detained 14 year old, Reverend

Sekou helped wash the toxins out of Hill’s eyes Several weeks later, they would title themselves Rev Sekou & the Holy Ghost, and release their anthemic record, The Revolution Has Come Sekou and Hill both come from long, rich traditions and backgrounds of art and activism Hill (she/they) is a Black and Boricua genderqueer artist, musician, teacher and youth organizer from the Bay area Reverend Sekou, described by Cornel West as “ one of the most courageous and prophetic voices of our time,” is a 3rd generation Pentecostal preacher, public intellectual, author and Black Lives Matter activist, whose philosophies emerge from liberation theology and Arkansas Delta blues culture Rev Sekou and the Holy Ghost is the love child of

the pair’s histories, cultural legacies, experiences and knowledge and a catalyst for resistance and revolution Rev Sekou and the Holy Ghost’s sound is expansive in its influences and musical infrastructure drawing on blues, gospel, soul, funk and freedom songs but singular in its “deep, bone-marrow-level conviction” in the truths they sing about: that black lives matter; that people have power when they come together; that a revolution is here and strengthening The radiant dissent, joy, hope and conviction in their music offers a kind of catharsis, rejuvenation and exhilaration that is necessar y for all those who are engaging with political life in America today

Art has a unique role to play in challenging the status quo; it can open our eyes to injustice, but it can also remind us that we are neither powerless, nor alone Rev Sekou and the Holy Ghost’s sounds and words of protest does both

The Cornell American Studies Department will host a concert by Rev Sekou and the Holy Ghost on Tuesday, at 7 p m at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca Reverend Osag yefo Sekou will speak Monday evening on The Task of the Age in Times of Terror” at 4:45 p m in Goldwin Smith Hall 142 Both the concert and the lecture are free and open to the public

Jael Goldfine is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun com

BRAVE NEW BATMAN Striking Back at The Dark Knight Strikes Again

BY NATHAN CHAZAN Sun Staff Writer

If there’s anything I’ve learned from my time in and around “geek culture” (an awful phrase, but bear with me), it’s to be wary of the scene ’ s conventional wisdom This doesn’t mean to doubt people’s intelligence or shoot down enthusiasm, but the dogma of fandom is often built on dubious estimations of art The flavor of the month is probably not the best one, while a popular contrarian attitude is also worth interrogating

My latest encounter with fandom’s oversights has come in recently reading a number of comics by Frank Miller Undeniably one of the most prominent creators of the 1980s along with folks like Alan Moore and Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller was a writer-artist before that was cool in America (and in superhero comics to boot, where that’s still not so kosher) Miller’s dystopian Batman miniseries The Dark Knight Returns was massively influential and his original noir series Sin City remains popular in a way most creatorowned comics just aren ’ t However, in the comics scene, pretty much ever yone from art snobs to ComicCon types look at Miller’s work with scorn – I know I used to – for his crassness and recent xenophobia (which, to be fair, is pretty irredeemable – his last graphic novel, Holy Terror, features a Batman knock-off heroically murdering and torturing muslim stereotypes) And besides, weren ’ t all his innovations in mark making and cinematic pacing on loan from Japanese and French comics anyway? Why read a Wolverine comic influenced by Lone Wolf and Cub when I can just read that now instead?

But here’s the thing: ravaged by hate as Miller’s mind has come to be, his comics are pretty darn incredible Miller’s work is idiosyncratic and literate to comics art history while remaining constantly distinctive His stories navigate the vigilantism and paranoia hinted at by genre fiction with all the subtlety of a steamroller, hilarious and captivating in their intensity Particularly strong are his collaborations with his former spouse, the colorist Lynn

Varley, whose expressionist washes of color gradients form some of the best comics compositions ever For better or for worse, few commercial cartoonists get to be this uninhibited Recently some in the scene have remembered that Frank Miller’s actually pretty great, in particular holding up an often-mocked, generally forgotten work as a causecelebre: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Miller and Varley’s 2002 follow-up to The Dark Knight Returns The original book, in which an aging Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement to take one last stand against crime, was a major work in the “grim and gritty” turn of superhero comics, contextualized as such in an introduction by Alan Moore When he began Strikes Again, Miller had a rep as a Serious Guy despite most of his work being quite funny Strikes Again is anything but serious, a defiantly goofy clash of the titans whose plot essentially amounts to Batman and a ragtag group of rebels convincing Superman to loosen up and bash the fash As you can imagine, those seeking “realism” in a comic about a geriatric guy in a bat costume hitting people hated it If The Dark Knight Returns took the idea of Batman to its logical conclusion, The Dark Knight Strikes Again takes the very concept of superhero comics to the absolute extreme Every major D C hero is burlesqued, and good triumphs over evil as an inevitability New gods replace corporate masters – the president is a hologram and an aged Lex Luthor is a bloated old toad only a butt-whuppin away from histor y Superman turns on his masters and the premise of colorful masked defenders becomes a global reckoning The Steve Ditko version of The Question even shows up to spout some Fountainhead politics in case you forgot what Watchmen’ s Rorschach was based on Much of the comic centers around fashion, the iconography of superheroism digitally smeared on the bodies of “SuperChix™”, gaudy celebs in capes and tights. The original heroes wield this passing fad to galvanize their rebellion, a brilliant and relevant satire of commodified counterculture iconography – what if your Che Guevara T-Shirt from

Target incited an actual revolution? If weirdness of the story bothered people, the artistry of the work was even more alienating Miller’s art at this point is minimal, dynamic and iconic, using negative space and thick brushwork in a way that’s very striking and expressive but not “ correct ” in the way most superhero readers expect a comic to look And then there’s Varley’s colors, ditching the paints for bold digital experimentation, eye popping kaleidoscopes of neon that somehow strobes off the page, easy to read as a mistake under the narrow expec-

tations for digital color expressed in basically every other comic at the time

But, man, those images Those searing blobs of ink and color I adore one sequence in particular in the second chapter Superman, a weather-beaten mass of inky smears and massive sad hands of exploited labor, evoking the hardbitten heroes of Jack Kirby and Goseki Kojima, maybe even a hint of Kathe Kollwitz’s haunting portraits of the working class Before him emerges Wonder Woman, more like a Greek goddess than a star-spangled hero-

ine The two embrace, her arms clawing at his blood-red cape They crash through ice, soar into space, plunge underwater where there’s a g*ddamn shark But everything is still Finally they emerge, Superman his chipper silver age self It’s just one of many moments in Strikes Again that feel transcendent and beautiful in spite – or maybe because of – their ham-fisted context And, if that’s not a great comic I don’t know what is

Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at ndc39@cornell edu

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

Soccer World Latest: Winter Break Edition

Th i s i s a s p e c i a l w i n t e r

b re a k e d i t i o n o f T h e

Beautiful Game, in which I will touch on a few major events in the soccer world that happened while we were away over break

Soccer, as the most popular sport on the planet, has a reputation for bringing people together

Logically, one would think the game has a unified governing structure Well, that’s not exactly the case, given the reputation of soccer ’ s international governing body, FIFA Just the mention of the organization around soccer

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Many dislike the organization for its past corruption scandals and preference for profit over sport at times

This time, though, it’s not a scandal that has FIFA in the headlines, but the organization’s decision to expand the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams in 2026

Supporters say the decision allows for more countries to join the event, yet critics assail the idea, saying it will dilute the quality of the tournament It is also important to note that the

g r o u p s t a g e w i l l g r ow t o 1 6

g r o u p s o f t h re e t e a m s e a c h , extending the length of that segment of the tournament

The expanded group stage at t h e 2 4 - t e a m Eu r o p e a n Championship this past summer led to more conser vative soccer, as managers did not need to take risks if several ties could get them to the next round In fact, even-

t u a l c h a m p i o n s Po r t u g a l t i e d their three group stage games, qualified for the knockout stage and then won all their remaining games to win the trophy

My view is that it will likely not be worth decreasing the quality of the tournament in order to let 16 more countries experience it, but I am willing to give it a chance Frankly, the 2022 Qatar World Cup and the questions surrounding it will pose more trouble for FIFA than this decision

Another major soccer stor y of December was the downfall of Bob Bradley at Swansea Bradley the club’s manager for most

o f t h i s s e a s o n a n d t h e f i r s t American manager in Premier League histor y was fired in D e c e m b e r T h e We l s h c l u b’s American owners were keen to give an American a chance in English soccer, but it did not go well for Bradley

In my opinion, Bradley was a fish out of water in England; he simply is not experienced enough for a role as a top-flight soccer manager He did manage the United States national team for a successful spell, but club managem e n t i s v e r y d i f f e re n t f r o m national team coaching, and his club career consists of unremarkable stints in Egypt, Nor way and the French lower leagues

Sw

d away from appointing Bradley with the club in the thick of a relegation fight, and their new boss

Paul Clement is now tasked with tidying up Bradley’s mess Now on to their third manager of the s

Francesco Guidolin was in charge

Premier League’s lone Welsh representative faces a fight to retain Premier League status for next season

To wrap up my winter break soccer column, what better topic than winter breaks in soccer? In many top leagues in Eu

n g Spain, Germany, Italy and France, teams take

around the holidays While fans

from this lack of sport, it allows players, coaches and staff to relax, spend the holidays with their family and recharge for the draining second half of the season This arguably produces better soccer in the spring, with fresher players In E

hand, not only do players have continuous games over the holidays, but they also generally play more frequently than usual This keeps international players away from their families over the holidays Players are more fatigued from the extra games and make u

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much as fans enjoy the chance to watch Premier League football on Boxing Day and New Year’s, it would be better for the players and staff to be allowed at least a few weeks off to recharge their batteries

Red Looks Ahead to Union, RPI Next Week

DARTMOUTH

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and Josh Hartley

“It happened pretty quickly,” Weidner said trying to explain the hectic sequence towards the end of the second “[Gillam] covered it up and they got a couple extra whacks on them I gave the guys a shove and then all hell broke loose ”

While killing off the remaining seconds of an earlier-committed tripping minor via junior for ward Dwyer Tschantz, Dartmouth defenseman Cameron Roth cut the lead in half with just 35 seconds left before second intermission

Dartmouth forward Alex Jasiek then scored a pair of goals within about a minute of each other in the third, one of which went in off the chest of Weidner Jasiek gave his team the 3-2 lead, and Troy Crema’s empty netter with 1:31 to go sealed the deal for the Green

At the start of the third period in the Harvard game, Cornell had taken a back seat, allowing four goals and 14 shots within the 20 minute frame Despite a similar result, the Red played notably better in the third against the Green compared to the night before, outshooting the Green 14-9 in the final period and racking up plenty of solid scoring opportunities

“We said we wanted to be less passive in the third period and I thought we did that,” Weidner said “We had some chances to put them away but we obviously didn’t capitalize Penalties cost us and the discipline wasn ’ t there tonight ”

To Cornell’s defense, puck luck played a major role in being outscored 7-0 across two third periods on the weekend A couple of Harvard’s goals in the 4-1 loss came in an instance where seemingly supernatural occurrences got pucks past Gillam, and several of Dartmouth’s goals went in off Cornell players

“We’ve had enough bad bounces the last two nights to last a year, ” Schafer said “Hopefully those things turn and go the other way for us ”

Penalties, too, were a sore spot in Saturday’s loss Schafer expressed notable displeasure with the officiating both on the bench and in the postgame room saying several of the calls against the Red in the third “ weren ’ t appropriate ” Cornell’s top-ranked penalty kill unit only mustered to kill three of the penalties on the night 50 percent

Without making a statement win in a weekend that presented the Red an opportunity to better establish itself in the league, the next weekend at No 5 Union along with last-place RPI will be telling for the Cornell program

“There are certain things in the sport you can ’ t control You can ’ t control the officials [and] when pucks hit your guys and go in,” Schafer added “What we can control is how we can respond to this tough weekend going on the road to Union and RPI and how we can bounce back from this ” Hopefully for the Red, the response next weekend will be less awkward than the responses tossed around during the opening moments of the postgame press conference Saturday

g o i n g t o n e e d a l o t o f c h e e r i n g , b e c a u s e c h e e r i n g i s re a l l y w h a t h e l p s u s g e t t h r o u g h s o m a n y c o m p e t i t i o n s To d a y w a s j u s t s o m e g re a t p r a c t i c e i n p re p a r at i o n f o r t h a t ” Pa r t o f w h a t m a k e s t h e R e d ’ s p e r f o r m a n c e s o i m p r e ss i v e i s t h e f a c t t h a t s e v e r a l k e y m e m b e r s o f t h e t e a m d i d n o t p l a y d u e t o i n j u r y, i n c l u d i n g a l l - A m e r i c a n s e ni o r V i c t o r i a W i n e s a n d f o i l c a p t a i n Z u s i n Wi t h t h e a b s e n c e o f t h e s e t e a m m e m b e r s , s e v e r a l l e s s e x p e r i e n c e d f e n c e r s w e re a b l e t o s e e v a l u a b l e p l a y i n g t i m e a n d g a i n f a m i l i a r i t y i n t o u r n a m e n t e n v i r o n m e n t s “ W i t h t h e f o r m a t t i n g a n d e v e r y o n e l o o k i n g a t t h e m , s o m e p e o p l e a n d e s p e c i a l l y t h e f re s hm e n w e re a l i t t l e m o re n e r v o u s t h a n t h e y n o r m a l l y w e r e , ” S c h n e i d e r a d d e d “ [ T h e C o r n e l l I n v i t a t i o n a l ] r e a l l y a l l ow e d t h e m t o g e t f o c u s e d a n d n o t b e d i s t r a c t e d b y t h e i r n e r v e s ” A f t e r

h a m p i o n s h i p s a r e i n t w o

e e k s a n d f o r t h a t w e ’ re

Fencers Sweep Competition for Home Crowd

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell fencing showcased sheer dominance and confidence in the Cornell Invitational this past weekend, as the Red went for an overall 72-9 in its first and only home tournament of the season

“Overall, we did very well and we didn’t make many mistakes,” said junior saber Megan Buteau “We didn’t lose many of our matches and I think we attacked especially well and really listened to our coach during the timeouts ”

Cornell began the day with a competitive match against Wellesley While the epee and foil squads both put on solid 6-3 performances, the Red only truly secured the 19-8 win over the Blue after the saber squad impressively went 7-2

“We had a pretty challenging meet with Wellesley in the beginning,” said head coach Daria Schneider “We fenced a lot of our newer fencers to give them some experience, but also gave our starters an opportunity to close out a tighter match ”

Following its first match, Cornell went on to drop only a single bout, as the Red defeated Carnegie Mellon, 26-1, and blanked Lafayette, 27-0 The saber, epee and foil squads each posted impressive overall records of 25-2, 243 and 23-4, respectively

“I don’t think we underestimated our opponents at all, which helped us focus and led to such a great performance, ” said freshman epee Vera Lin “It was also helpful to be fencing at home, the format of the tournament and all the cheering that was going on ”

The weekend’s Cornell Invitational featured a notably non-traditional tournament format In contrast to the standard college layout in which each squad fences on

their individual strips the tournament was organized so every bout was contained on a single strip

“Instead of the regular format, we did all 27 matches on one strip,” Schneider said “We did it partially for the spectators, so they could see every single bout, but it also helped us match better, because the first to 14 bouts wins the match ”

In addition to benefiting the spectators, the tournament

Crimson Tops Cornell In Historic Rivalry Match

T h i s i s o n l y t h e s e c o n d t i m e t h i s y e a r t h a t t h e Re d a l l ow e d i t s o p p on e n t t o s c o re f o u r g o a l s T h e f i r s t t i m e w a s a n o t h e r l o s s H a r v a rd , 4 - 3 , i n Nov e m b e r “A f t e r t h i n g s w e n t d o w n 2 - 1 t o n i g h t I t h i n k g u y s re a l l y w a n t e d i t b a d a n d t h e y r e a l l y t r i e d t o w o r k h a rd , b u t t h e y j u s t l e t i t g e t a w a y f r o m t h e m , ” S c h a f e r s a i d “ T h e y d i d n ’ t e x e c u t e a l l t h e l i t t l e t h i n g s t h a t w e t a l k e d a b o u t t o b e s u c c e s s f u l a g a i n s t t h e m i n t h e f i r s t t w o p e r i o d s C o m i n g i n t o t h e n i g h t , S c h a f e r s t re s s e d t h e i m p o r t a n t r o l e t h a t s p ec i a l t e a m s w o u l d p l a y : H a r v a r d ’ s No 1 p ow e r p l a y u n i t i n t h e c o u n t r y f a c e d o f f a g a i n s t C o r n e l l ’ s No 3 p e n a l t y k i l l B u t a i d e d b y o n l y o n e p e n a l t y c o m m i t t e d i n t h e g a m e , t h e Re d’s p e n a l t y k i l l u n i t f a c e d a m a n - d i s a d v a n t a g e f o r t w o m i n u t e s i n t h e e n t i re g a m e O n t h e o t h e r h a n d , t h e Re d w a s a w a rd e d t w o p ow e r p l a y s o f i t s ow n , u n a b l e t o c o n v e r t w i t h a H a r v a rd m a n i n t h e b o x How e v e r, i t w a s n o t t h e s p e c i a l t e a m s t h a t d i c t a t e d a n y o f t h e s c o ri n g i n t h e g a m e A l l g o a l s i n t h e c o nt e s t c a m e w i t h b o t h t e a m s a t f i v e - o nf i v e A n d a f t e r g o i n g d ow n o n e , R a u t e r h a d t h e c h a n c e t o t i e t h e g a m e b a c k u p, b u t a h a rd s l a p p e r f r o m t h e r i g h t c i r c l e c o u l d n o t h a v e h i t t h e t h e p o s t t o H a r v a rd g o a l i e Me r r i c k Ma d s e n ’ s l e f t w i t h a n y m o re f o r c e C o r n e l l s t u d e n t ’ s t h o u g h t i t h a d g o n e i n , b u t t h e re f e re e s d i d n o t e v e n f e e l o b l i g a te d t o re v i e w t h e s h o t t o t h e d i sp l e a s u r e o f t h e s t u d e n t s i n a t t e n d a n c e H a r v a r d ’ s a d d it i o n a l t w o s c o re s p u t t h e g a m e a w a y “ I f p e o p l e h a d t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o g o i n [ t h e l o c k e r r o o m ] y o u’d s e e h ow u p s

“After things went down 2-1 tonight I think guys really wanted it bad and they really tried to work hard, but they just let it get away from them.”

formatting carried another unanticipated consequence

Because foil, epee and saber each fenced separately, teammates were able to cheer for members of different squads, leading to an often loud and spirited environment

“[ While] I don’t think the format really made a huge difference in terms of actual result, it was great to see how

Dartmouth Comeback Upsets Red

DARTMOUTH

to a weak third period, where the team allowed Harvard to score four unanswered goals

But Schafer did make a surprising lineup switch for Saturday’s Dartmouth game: highly critical of the recent lack of production from his top line trio of sophom o re w i n g e r s Mi t c h Vanderlaan and Anthony Angello and senior center Jeff Kubiak, Schafer electe d t o m a k e a l i n e u p switch, breaking up the JAM line and swapped the team ’ s leading scorer of Vanderlaan with freshman Noah Bauld

In the opening minutes, it worked Cornell sprinted out of the gate and dominated the first few shifts Just like the Harvard game, the Red c a m e o u t s w i n g i n g , n o t afraid to flex its muscles by throwing the body

Just 3:26 into the game, it

paid off on the scoresheet

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St

ve classmate Matt Nuttle alone in the slot, who wristed the puck home to put Cornell up Nuttle appeared in only two games last season, but has quickly established himself as a dependable blueliner

with a spot in the lineup every game this season His goal that put Cornell up early against Dartmouth was the first of his career

“He’s been working hard Kind of a little snake-bitten, but to get that first goal I’m sure was a weight off his back,” said senior captain and forward Jake Weidner “ Ho p e f u l l y t h e re ’ s m a n y

more to come ”

Nuttle’s tally After a lackluster night on the power play on Friday, the Red made the most of its very first mana d va n

rd

y Sophomore defenseman Alec Mc Cre a

c h found the stick of senior Matt Buckles for a skillfully-deflected goal But midway through

dropped the gloves, and several Cornell and Dartmouth players took penalties after

behind senior goalie Mitch Gillam’s cage Senior for-

Weidner got into the mix and were sent off, along with Da

Spor ts

No. 14 Icers Swept at Home by Ivy League Rivals

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

f o r C o r n e l l , a t e a m t h a t h a s

Harvard survives fsh, scores four unanswered goals in comeback Darmouth’s third period goals spoil weekend ceremony

T h e g a m e b e g a n w i t h t h e a n n u a l t r a d i t i o n : r i g h t o n

c u e , C o r n e l l f a n s h u r l e d f i s h a t Ha r va rd’s s t a r t i n g l i n e u p

Bu t a f t e r 6 0 m i n u t e s o f h i g h - i n t e n s i t y h o c k e y, i t e n d e d

w i t h Ha r va rd’s s k a t e r s s h o o t i n g t h o s e s a m e f i s h i n t o t h e

g l a s s t h a t s t a n d s i n f ro n t o f t h e C o r n e l l s t u d e n t s e c t i o n

p o e t i c j u s t i c e t h a t re p re s e n t e d t h e Cr i m s o n ’ s 4 - 1

c o m e b a c k w i n ove r t h e Re d

L o o k i n g t o n o t c h i t s f i r s t h o m e w i n ov e r r i v a l

Cr i m s o n i n ove r t w o ye a r s , C o r n e l l b e g a n w i t h a d o m in a n t s t a r t ove r Ha r va rd T h e o p e n i n g m i n u t e s o f t h e

g a m e g a ve a s o l d - o u t Ly n a h e x a c t l y w h a t i t p a i d f o r :

h a rd - h i t t i n g , p h y s i c a l p l a y t h a t f e a t u re d m o re b o d i e s o n t h e i c e t h a n s h o t s “ It w a s e l e c t r i c i n t h e re Yo u c o u l d f e e l i t i n t h e f i r s t 1 0 m i n u t e s w h e n e ve r yo n e w a s b u z z i n g a r o u n d , ” s a i d j u n i o r f o r w a r d A l e x R a u t e r “ [ E r i c ] Fr e s c h i , [ A n t h o n y ]

A n g e l l o a n d [ Ja k e ] We i d n e r k i l l e d l i k e f i ve p e o p l e o n t h e i r t e a m I ’ m s u re t h e y we re n ’ t t o o h a p p y w i t h t h a t ”

It w a s R a u t e r ’ s s e ve n t h g o a l o f t h e s e a s o n 4 : 2 2 i n t o t h e s e c o n d t h a t h i g hl i g h t e d C o r n e l l’s f a s t s t a r t o u t o f t h e g a t e Ha r va rd h a d o n l y o n e re a l c h a n c e i n o n g o a l , w h e n a b a d b re a k o u t p a s s e v e n t u a l l y f o u n d i t s w a y t o Ry a n

Do n a t o a l o n e i n f ro n t o f s e n i o r g o a l i e Mi t c h Gi l l a m Do n a t o p l a ye d w i t h t h e p u c k o n h i s s t i c k , t h e n s e n t a b a c k h a nd e r t o Gi l l i a m ’ s g l ove s i d e , b u t t h e s e n i o r ’ s c a t - l i k e r e f l e x e s k e p t t h e

Cr i m s o n o f f t h e b o a rd

C o r n e l l’s d i c t a t i n g p l a y t h ro u g h t h e

f i r s t t w o p e r i o d s g a ve t h e a u d i e n c e o f s t u d e n t s h o p e s o f a n i c e we l c o m e - h o m e

w i n ove r a s t a u n c h r i va l a m i d t h e f i r s t

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

“Questions?” was the first word uttered in the postgame room by head coach Mike Schafer ’86 upon his entrance not the standard procedure

“Can you just start us off with general thoughts?”

Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Brandon Thomas asked the head coach, which is usually standard format following a game

“I don’t have any general thoughts, but thanks Questions?” the head coach asked again

The tense opening to the press conference following the shocking 4-2 loss against Dartmouth was fitting given how the game unfolded before Schafer’s eyes For the second straight night, Schafer’s watched his team head into the second intermission with the lead, playing like the better team and poised to defeat an Ivy rival But unfortunately for Schafer, his squad, yet again, gave up the lead in the third period and allowed the visiting team to squeak by with a victory

“[ We are] disappointed that we couldn’t play to the tradition of Cornell hockey and win in front of them,” Schafer said in reference to attending members of the 1967 NCAA championship team who were honored at first intermission “Disappointing to have that kind of environment on the weekend, but not get the wins ” On Friday night, after losing 4-1 to No 9 Harvard, Schafer was asked if the loss would “change anything ” The head coach said he did not want to overreact to one loss that boiled down M E

we e k o f c l a s s e s T h e n , t h i n g s t o o k a n a s t y t u r n C o n c e d i n g i n f o u r g o a l s i n t h e t h i rd

p e r i o d d rove t h e d a g g e r i n t o t h e h e a r t

W O M E N ’ S H O C K E Y

Voyaging East, No. 8 Women Manage Three-Point Weekend

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women ’ s hockey picked up a win against Dartmouth on Friday and a draw at Harvard on Saturday in what was a productive road trip at a crucial point in the season

“It has always been a tough road trip going into those buildings,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 “We would’ve liked to get four points on the trip but the team worked hard and played strong defensively ”

The No 8 Red (14-6-3, 10-3-3 ECAC) gathered three points on the weekend to remain in third place in a tight ECAC playoff race Cornell is currently four points behind second place St Lawrence (21-3-2, 13-2-1) in the standings

Cornell struggled to convert on its offensive chances in both games, but the team pressured the puck on the defensive end and limited scoring chances for Dartmouth (516-0, 3-12-0) and Harvard (3-15-3, 3-103)

“We have to do a better job when we have opportunities to score, ” Derraugh added “That includes finishing around the net and creating more second and third chance opportunities ”

On Friday, senior for ward Kaitlin Doering scored Cornell’s only goal on the night midway through the first period A strong defensive performance and great

goaltending from sophomore Marlene Boissonnault was enough for a 1-0 victory over Dartmouth

Doering also scored against Harvard on Saturday and has come alive offensively for the Red during a recent stretch of play

“Kaitlin is having a real strong second half for us and she has been a great leader for us, ” Derraugh said “She’s always been a player you can put in any situation on the ice ”

On Saturday, Harvard obtained an early lead after a sluggish start for the Red For most of the first period, Cornell struggled to put pucks on net and maintain possession

In the second period, Doering notched a power play goal that leveled the score

Minutes later, junior defenseman Sarah Knee scored her first goal of the season, giving Cornell the lead

Cornell maintained its lead for much of the third period, thanks in large part to senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who made a series of saves to keep her team ahead

Nonetheless, a costly penalty late in the third period gave Harvard an opportunity to salvage a point from the game, and the Crimson took advantage With three minutes remaining in the final frame, Harvard scored the tying goal to send the game into overtime

“ We took a penalty that was really unnecessary, ” Derraugh said “If it’s a goal

scoring chance where you need to make a desperate play that’s one thing, but the penalty was away from our net ” Cornell gained a power play late in overtime, but ultimately the clock ran out and the Red had to settle for a draw Harvard came to play on Saturday, much as the Red expected, but ultimately Cornell was in a position to win the game late It was an uncharacteristic mistake that opened the door for Harvard

“We are not a team that can afford to take penalties late in the game, ” Derraugh said “We really have to pay attention to the details ” Cornell will look to build up some momentum at home this weekend with a slate of games against Union and RPI

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun com