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By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

FBI agents and local police seized an AR-15 rifle, a homemade bomb, a bulletproof vest, 300 rounds of ammunition and a plethora of other weapons, combat apparel and survival supplies from a former Cornell University student’s apartment, extracting the weaponry from the center of Collegetown earlier this month in an operation that may have saved lives

“Collectively all of these items certainly suggest a specific recipe for large scale destruction.”

There is no threat to the campus or Collegetown, Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said on Friday, but the Ithaca Police Department, the FBI and other agencies are investigating why the student was hoarding so much firepower and protective gear in his eighth-floor studio apartment, which overlooks downtown Ithaca and sits just 500 feet from the edge of campus Police arrested the former student, Maximilien R

Reynolds ’19, who is 20, and in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, Assistant U S Attorney Richard Southwick accused him of four federal crimes: possessing an explosive bomb, possessing a homemade gun silencer, and two similar counts of providing false statements in acquiring a firearm by paying a friend to purchase the gun for him from a vendor in Tompkins County If convicted, Reynolds faces up to 40 years in prison

The unassembled AR15-style weapon found in Reynolds’ apartment was a Savage MSR-15 Patrol rifle, Derek Valgora, a special agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, said in an affidavit Valgora said he also found a 10-inch NAPA brand fuel filter modified to form a silencer, which is illegal to own if it is not registered Inside a plastic bin with other fireworks, Valgora dis-

Search and seizure | FBI agents and Ithaca police raided Reynolds’ apartment, 8K, in Collegetown Plaza and found a wide array of weapons and tactical gear

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Friends described the former Cornell student who police said kept an AR-15 rifle, homemade bomb and vast array of survival gear in his Collegetown apartment as an unpredictable, compassionate 20-year-old who prides himself on being self-sufficient but struggled with bipolar disorder and a nagging paranoia prior to his arrest

Maximilien R Reynolds ’19, a plant sciences major, had been on a forced academic leave from Cornell for at least two semesters before his arrest and was taking classes at Tompkins Cortland Community College while he worked at a Cornell professor’s home

Unprecedented discovery brings gun, mental health debates to C.U.

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Managing Editor

The revelation from police that a former Cornell student was hoarding an AR-15 rifle, ammunition and a homemade

tered many students’ image of Ithaca as a city immune to concerns faced by the rest of the country

The FBI and local police’s finding of survival materials and weaponry is an unprecedented

the nationwide debate over guns and mental health to the University’s doorstep

Maximilien R Reynolds ’19, who was on leave from Cornell,

is in the custody of U S Marshals and has been charged with four federal crimes including possessing a silencer and directing a friend to buy the rifle for him

“Whenever you hear about events happening around the

something like this, it’s at home, and it hits you hard ” Ko lives in Cascadilla Hall, just across Dryden Road from Collegetown Plaza, the apartment complex where Reynolds lived and which the FBI Ithaca

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New App to Turn Cornellians’ Phones Into ‘Personal Safety Device’

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Senior Writer

As crimes and sexual assault continue to rock the campus, Cornell introduced a mobile application called Rave Guardian on Friday, in which students and employees can request virtual guardians to track their location and anonymously submit suspicious activities to campus police

The mobile safety app arrives to campus as Cornell grapples with two separate assaults in Collegetown last weekend: a female Cornell student was sexually assaulted in Collegetown on Sunday night as she tried to get into her home and three male students were assaulted on Saturday morning one of whom said he was harassed using racial epithets

Additionally, FBI agents and local police found 300 rounds of ammunition, an AR-15 and bomb-making materials inside a former student’s studio apartment in Collegetown Plaza during a March 7 raid Police arrested the former student, Maximilien R Reynolds ’19 who if convicted faces up to 40 years in prison

In the midst of these incidents, Rave Guardian will act as a free mobile emergency Blue Light system that turns a user ’ s smartphone into a “personal safety device,” the University told students in an email Rave Guardian users can create safety sessions during which their selected guardians friends, family, or the Cornell University Police, for instance can view their status and location in an emergency situation

“Cornell University Police officers and staff take a lot of pride in our many connections to the Cornell community,” David Honan, deputy chief of CUPD, told The Sun “Any additional connection we can make that helps keep the community safe is an immense help ” Cornell previously installed a new variant of the Blue

Light phone station in front of Ho Plaza in February, which replaced one of the 950 emergency phones on campus

App users build a profile that includes any personal and medical information they choose to share with designated responders The users can then deliver crime tips and chat in real-time with campus safety officials, or select those officials to be their guardian, according to the app description

Cornell Police can also access a user ’ s personal profile information if the user makes an emergency call, sends a tip or if CUPD is a selected guardian

“We hope that the RAVE Guardian app is one additional option among many offered by the University for faculty, staff and students to use to keep themselves safe and get help quickly if they ever need it,” Honan said

Eri Kato ’20 called the Rave Guardian a more advanced version of the iOS location sharing app Find My Friends, and said that the app will prove useful on a campus where getting home safely at night is a “challenge” for students who cannot afford transportation services like taxis or Ubers

“Most of my sisters and friends in other sororities live in deep North [Campus] where roads can get dark and scary at night,” she told The Sun “The University notifies us of dangerous situations very quickly via email, which makes me feel safe ”

Asked whether she’ll use the app, Kato said it all depends on if her friends decide to join since they all currently use Find My Friends to share their locations when walking home alone

When Alexandra Farhangui ’20 saw the report that a former Cornell student was storing weapons and a bomb in his Collegetown apartment, she decided to download the app But she told The Sun that she might not use it

The app includes a timer that notifies a guardian when

Cornell Cinema to Receive ‘Bridge Funding’ for F.Y. ’19

By MATTHEW MCGOWEN Sun Staff Writer

The College of Arts and Sciences will provide Cornell Cinema with funding for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, according to cinema director Mary Fessenden

Last semester, the Student Assembly’s decision to defund Cornell Cinema was met with student protest and resulted in an estimated funding gap of $150,000, which cast doubt on the institution’s ability to survive

However, prior to S A ’ s official decision to cut funding, Provost Michael Kotlikoff promised between $36,000 to $40,000 to the cinema for the next fiscal year

Fessenden, who expressed uncertainty in Januar y that the money Kotlikoff mentioned would materialize, confirmed to The Sun on Saturday that the funding would come as part of a larger bridge funding package

“Cornell Cinema recently learned that the College of Arts & Sciences will find bridge funding for the next academic year so as to provide the needed time for Cornell Cinema to fundraise, identify other potential co-

restructure for the future,” Fessenden said

According to Fessenden, the bridge funding will be in place for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending on June 30, 2019 Cornell Cinema would need to have a new plan in place before budgeting for the 201920 fiscal year begins, Fessenden said That announcement relieves some of the pressure from the budget shortfall following the decision to reduce student activity fees contributing to the cinema from $10 90 to $0

In response to the Student Assembly’s decision, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly voted to increase its funding of the cinema from $10 54 to $11 per graduate student, but that bump would not be enough to cover the loss from undergraduate contributions, which was nearly 30 percent of total revenue

Though bridge funding will take some of the pressure off of the cinema in the short term, the underlying issues that lead to the funding dispute, including staff wages, are as yet unsolved

Gabe Kaufman ’18, S A vice pres-

the user has arrived home, a function Farhangui said she wouldn’t use for fear that she would forget to turn it off after reaching her destination, “causing undue panic ”

Farhangui said other app functions, like options to call CUPD, friends and family, were redundant

“Though this is a good first step by the University and it serves to show they acknowledged the issue and are attempting to make a change, it seems like it was mainly done for the public appearance of the act, ” she said

Cornell Students to Protest NRA Online

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun News Editor

Amid national and local uproar over gun violence, Justin Langfan ’19 is leading an effort to tackle the issue from a different approach: using mass social action to “revolutionize our politics ”

Langfan is organizing a group of people to utilize social media to hold the NRA accountable as part of a movement he calls Shaping The Future On Tuesday, everyone participating in the movement will comment the following question on the NRA’s most recent Facebook post:

“The NRA has said that ‘people who are dangerous should not have access to firearms ’ If the NRA believes this statement, why is it against implementing background checks for the 22% of gun purchases that don’t require them? #JoinUsandPostThis #ShapingtheFuturenow com ”

“The biggest thing is that your voice really does matter, ” Langfan told The Sun “The NRA only gets like 200-500 comments per post, so really it just takes a 100 bold people to say that I’m going to join you in doing this ”

Langfan said that 140 people have signed up to participate as of Saturday, but admitted that he can ’ t guarantee that every single one of them will actually post on Tuesday

It is unclear how many of those who signed up are Cornellians, but Langfan said he raised awareness for his event primarily on-campus, including campaigning around dining halls

Everyone who signed on will receive three texts on Tuesday: the first will be a greeting from Shaping the Future; the second will contain the question itself, so that it is easy to copy and paste; the third will be a link to the Facebook post that everyone should comment on, which will be determined the day of

ident of finance and chair of the appropriations committee, said in January, “it’s really the staff wages that are the most problematic ” Staff wages account for about 70 percent of the cinema’s expenditures, according to the office of the provost

According to Kotlikoff, the arts college and Student and Campus Life are currently working closely with the cinema on a new “staffing and funding plan” and that the administration is “committed to providing the [$36,000 to $40,000] ” Cornell Cinema will host its own campaign during Giving Day this Tuesday, which will accept contributions online for a 24-hour period and factor into the cinema’s future budgetary plans “ We hope all our suppor ters, including current students and alums, will consider making a donation to Cornell Cinema on Giving Day as part of these efforts to maintain one of the University’s most valuable and beloved cultural resources, ” Fessenden said

“This has never even really happened before, so how do you even give the word to describe it?” he said “Right now, we are calling it an event, but it’s really not an event You can do it whenever you want, it takes five seconds ”

In the future, Langfan hopes to expand beyond the issue of gun violence and target a range of prominent topics and figures, ranging from politicians to special interest groups, and hopes that Tuesday’s event will be the “spark” to start the movement

“Given the climate in our country, the gun topic seemed like a really good one to start with,” Langfan said

Nationwide Protests |The Facebook protest will follow a series of protests pushing for gun-control in many parts of the country

Just last week, the FBI and Ithaca Police seized an assortment of weapons, including an AR-15 rifle and a homemade bomb, from a former student’s apartment, raising “questions about how a former Cornell student was able to

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Weapons Cache Seized from Former Student’s Apartment

Homemade bomb, guns, ammo found

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covered a 4-inch-long mortar firework designed to be shot into the air from a launch tube But the firework had been modified, Valgora said: someone had taped steel or lead shotgun pellets to its exterior to act as shrapnel that could inflict “injury or death” to anyone nearby when it exploded

The modified firework is an explosive bomb and classified as a destructive device under federal law, Southwick said

Among the other items police

s a i d t h e y f o u n d i n Re y n o l d s ’ a p a r

armor, chemicals that are fre-

could be used as shrapnel in a bomb, pipes commonly used to assemble destructive devices, food rations and medical supplies for traumatic injuries Many of the 300 rounds of live ammunition discovered, police said, were in h i g h - c a p a c i t y m a g a z i n e c l i p s compatible with the AR-15

“Collectively all of these items certainly suggest a specific recipe for large scale destruction,” Ithaca Police Chief Pete Tyler said in a statement “I’m very proud of the team of investigators who worked diligently and methodically to p re ve n t a n y p o t e n t i a l t r a g e d y from occurring ”

Tyler told The Sun on Friday evening that police have no reason to believe a campus rumor that Reynolds was planning to target Slope Day If anyone does have credible information relating to the investigation, he said, they should contact police

Neither police nor prosecutors have indicated any motive for Reynolds’ alleged stockpiling of weapons, but the former student’s lawyer said in federal court in Syracuse on Friday that a mental illness may have led Reynolds to believe he needed to protect himself

T h e l a w ye r, R a y m o n d Schlather J D ’76, said Reynolds h a d b e e n d i a g n o s e d w i t h schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features, and said that what drives the former student’s behavior “is a huge para-

noia of the world beyond him and protecting himself from that world ”

Schlather said Reynolds had been voluntarily receiving treatment at Cayuga Medical Center’s behavioral health unit since the March 7 raid on his apartment and up until he was taken into custody by the U S Marshals Service on Thursday night The attorney also said in court that doctors had found his client poses “ no threat to others or himself ”

U S Magistrate Judge Thérèse

Wi l e y Da n c k s o rd e re d t h a t Re y n o l d s re m a i n i n Ma r s h a l s ’ custody and undergo a medical evaluation to assess his competency before any further court proceedings take place Reynolds did not enter a plea Dre s s e d i n a n o r a n g e j a i l jumpsuit and with short, dark brown hair and a faint beard, Reynolds sat beside his lawyer on Friday afternoon in court and answered the judge’s questions with “Yes ma ’ am ” His mother, who left the courtroom in tears moments after the arraignment began, reentered at the end of the proceeding to blow Reynolds a kiss and tell him she loved him as he was taken away in handcuffs

Reynolds studied plant scie

c e s i n t h e C o l l e g e o f Agriculture and Life Sciences and is one of three children from a wealthy family in New Jersey He is on leave from Cornell and was t a k i n g c l a s s e s a t To m p k i n sC o r t l a n d C o m m

n i t y C o l l e g e until his arrest, according to the ATF agent ’ s affidavit

The former student had been living in the same apartment in the Collegetown Plaza complex at 111 Dryden Rd for about two years, a student who lives in the apartment next door told The Sun

Most people on the eighth floor of the building said they did not know Reynolds and couldn’t re m e m b e r e ve r s e e i n g a n yo n e

walk in or out of his room, 8K, until police and men in suits showed up in the hallway several times earlier this month

Nick Parker ’18 told The Sun that even though he’s lived in the apartment next to 8K for the last two years, he had never learned Reynolds’ name

“I’d see him around,” Parker told The Sun when asked about the person living next door “He was super quiet ”

Parker said he saw officers in Reynolds’ apartment earlier this month, “taking pictures, taking the whole place apart ”

The police inquiry began on March 7, when an unidentified Walmar t employee now being described as a hero alerted local police that Reynolds had used a gift card to purchase large quantit i e s o f a m m u n i t i o n , c a m p i n g gear, knives, tools and other items deemed suspicious at the store off of Route 13

“What started as a tip from a citizen at a local business about some suspicious behavior led to an alarming discovery,” Tyler said

Following the tip, an Ithaca Police investigator and FBI special agents spoke with Reynolds’ girlfriend inside his apartment on March 7 and found the place in “ severe disarray,” Valgora said, with “what appeared to be mathematical writings” on the windows in red ink and laboratory glassware strewn about the residence

The unnamed girlfriend said

t Reynolds, who was at a community college class when police arrived, and she told investigators that he seemed manic, was not getting enough sleep and had stopped taking his medications, according to Valgora’s affidavit

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and farm, helping with small tasks and landscaping

Reynolds was compassionate and funny around his peers, suffered from insomnia, took a combination of medications and harbored an irrational fear of someone attacking him or people close to him, according to interviews with nine people who know him Some said they were concerned, in retrospect, that they had underestimated his paranoia Reynolds “wanted to be prepared for any event, and I think he may have taken that thinking to the extreme, ” said Edwin Kye ’19, a close friend

“This sounds a little crazy, but one of the things he used to tell me he was concerned about was a school shooting,” Kye said “And in that situation, he thought he’d be equipped to handle that situation ”

Kye and others said they wrote off many of Reynolds’ comments, seeing him as an excessively precautious individual, and never thought he would amass the firepower police said they found in his apartment Reynolds has been charged with four federal crimes and Assistant U S Attorney Richard Southwick accused him of owning a gun silencer, possessing a bomb and paying a friend to purchase the AR-15 rifle for him

Many of his friends said they were shocked when The Sun reported on Friday that police had raided Reynolds’ residence on March 7 and found the rifle, bomb, 300 rounds of ammunition, body armor, chemicals and trauma kit in his eighth-floor studio apartment in Collegetown Plaza

Reynolds’ attorney, Raymond Schlather J D ’76, said Reynolds was diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features and had “ a huge paranoia of the world beyond him ” On Friday, a federal judge ordered that Reynolds undergo a competency evaluation before the criminal case proceeds further

Reynolds was raised in Monmouth County, New Jersey,

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hoard weapons and combat materials in his Collegetown apartment without drawing attention,” The Sun previously reported

“With over 90% of Americans agreeing there should be universal background checks, it is time for the NRA to hear the American people,” reads one of the statements on Shaping the Future’s website

Langfan argued that part of the reason that organizations like the NRA are so powerful is because they promote extremist viewpoints He said that the NRA wouldn’t be as powerful if normal people had an outlet to express their opinions

“Right now, our politics seemed to be trapped in extremes, ” he said “Things are so tense, and there’s no way for people with like my kind of mindset to communicate, which

is that we don’t live in the extremes, we live kind of in the middle and we just want to ask sensible questions ”

Langfan was optimistic about the power of social media to implement change, calling it the “the 21st century political battlefield ”

“Sixty-seven percent of Americans get their news from social media,” he said

Though Langfan admitted that the NRA may not directly respond to or change due to these Facebook comments, he said his larger goal is to change the way people engage with political issues

“I think, initially, they won ’ t care what the people say, ” he said “But, by doing this mass action, you ’ re going to affect fellow Americans and by affecting fellow Americans, you ’ re going to then in turn affect those organizations ” The school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February created backlash against the NRA

and his father, Tim Reynolds MBA ’94, earned millions as a founder of Jane Street Capital, a Wall Street trading firm Reynolds drove a 2017 Subaru registered to his mother, authorities said, but he told some friends that he was struggling financially, despite his family’s wealth

Reynolds told Patty Chan ’18 in the spring of 2017 that he was relieved to secure the landscaping job for $12 an hour, saying he would finally be able to pay his living expenses and eat a full lunch every day

Kye said Reynolds viewed his family’s wealth as a matter of chance and didn’t like to ask for money from his parents

“He would just wear boots and jeans and this big green jacket every day,” Kye said “He never cared what he wore ”

Prof Kevin Nixon, plant biology, said Reynolds was very quiet when he first hired him to work

“At this point there’s only one victim and he’s the victim of his own disease.”

on the property and that he would have “good days and bad days,” sometimes finding it difficult to follow directions

“I kind of became attached to him because he’s extremely likeable,” said Nixon “Never at any point in time did he voice any ideas of violence, any anger, and I never felt uncomfortable at all around him ”

Nixon said Reynolds kept a knife in a sheath strapped to his leg while landscaping and enjoyed using it for opening boxes and other tasks, but Nixon said he never felt uncomfortable when Reynolds used it around him

Police interviewed Nixon following the March 7 raid of Reynolds’ apartment and asked him about the former student, whom Nixon employed but never taught at Cornell The weapons in Reynolds’ apartment show that he “clearly was a danger, ” Nixon said, adding that he was glad police arrested Reynolds but hopes the student avoids prison and gets any treatment he needs

that has made local impact: Ithaca High School held a walkout on Wednesday and Cornell University Democrats organized a simultaneous walkout at Cornell in solidarity

In addition, local activists will be holding a March for our Lives Rally on March 24th to advocate for gun control legislation which will be accompanied by C U Democrats and the Roosevelt Institute organizing a march from Cornell to the Commons Langfan said that he has been in contact both of these organizations to help raise awareness for his event, but said that he ultimately wants Shaping the Future to be its own separate platform

“When you have these other organizations with these own histories, that kind of takes away from that purpose, ” he said

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“At this point there’s only one victim and that’s Max and he’s the victim of his own disease,” Nixon said “I don’t think anyone gets anything from scapegoating him as some kind of evil force ”

Many people who know Reynolds said he is an incredibly smart person who enjoys teaching himself math and history and learning about plants

“He was always a diligent worker in labs just like all of us, and like me, he shared a passion for the botanical world,” Yuqi Chen ’19 said of his freshman year at Cornell, when she took several classes with him

“He had an insatiable curiosity and was really driven to understand the world around him,”

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We, the undersigned, are a group of community members concerned about preserving the freedom of expression at Cornell, namely the dangerous response to Mark Colbran’s collection at the CFC 2018 Fashion Show Some of us know Mark personally, others do not Some of us enjoy, or agree with, his collection, others do not However, we all find alarming the policing of speech at Cornell, either by university affiliates or by independent groups such as The Cornell Daily Sun, through silencing, misinformation and false equivocation

The article in the March 12, 2018 edition of The Sun written by Meredith Liu and Paris Ghazi under the banner “Fashion Show Disrupted,” relating to events at the CFC 2018 Fashion Show, contains many factually incorrect statements and dangerously equates the peaceful expression of dissent with targeted harassment The following discussion will not address all of these errors, nor the biased nature of the piece, but will address the most egregious errors and policing of dissent

The authors of the article, and The Cornell Daily Sun, owe Mark Colbran an apology They also ought to reflect on their role in protecting the freedom of expression as journalists and students

Mark Colbran’s design collection did not include an elephant tusk, but it did include a large wooden club that he personally carved for his collection Nor did he flail a “banner ” The writers’ characterization of that item completely missed the point: which is that it was a cloak that Mark, after displaying, attempted to wrap around himself as he walked off stage One side expressed his rejection of hate and his dissent of institutional negativity The other side, covered in a field made up of the word “LOVE” and “FSAD BOYZ 4 EVER,” expressed his embrace of positivity and the creative community The latter message was meant to be the final message as he walked off stage A message that was silenced by the aggressive and uninvited interference of Jessa Chargois

Mark did not approach Jessa, but she did attempt to aggressively silence the final moments of his exhibition Jessa did not try to “wriggle” the cloak from Mark, as the reporters wrote apparently seeking to minimize the violence of her intervention She aggressively grabbed the cloak and vigorously wrestled it from him Mark at no time “ put his hands on [ Jessa],” as The Sun reported A review of the immediately available official CFC video coverage shows clearly that he only held on to his cloak and pulled back on it in an effort to retain possession of his property When it was clear any further action to retain his property would escalate the situation, he let go of the cloak and peacefully walked off stage Her accusation that he put his hands on her is untrue and, if she was correctly quoted, defamatory Jessa’s unwarranted action on stage to silence freedom of expression and creative liberty at Cornell causes all of us distress

Moreover, the article suggests no members of the audience expressed approval for Mark’s collection, instead responding with “whispers” and “ gasps ” These statements are essentializing and revisionist Although people responded disparately and in their own way, cheering for his creative expression occurred throughout the crowd: both in reserved seating for those who attended to support him personally, and in general seating for those who did not

Mark Colbran’s collection was not targeted harassment, and the false equivalence of peaceful dissent and harassment is unacceptable The headline characterization of the message on the cloak as “obscene” is conclusory and incorrect The use of the language on the cloak was intended to be, and was clearly, an emphatic expression of his dissent It was not in any way sexual Additionally, there was at no time any “targeted harassment” of any individual or any group of people by Mark or anybody else, as is suggested in the article Further, Mark at no time suggested by his actions that his collection or expressions represented the view of anyone other than himself The suggestion that any of the designers who presented their collections on Saturday night were seeking to “ represent the opinion of everyone involved” fundamentally misconceives the nature of creative work, and the relationship between designers and those who assist them in executing their creative vision The work of a designer is purely a matter of individual expression There was also some controversy surrounding David Wild’s collection Although Mark and David are co-founders of the FSAD BOYZ brand, both Mark and David presented their separate, disparate and individual expressions of fashion through their own creative work They did not act in concert or speak collectively, nor did they purport to speak for anyone other than themselves as individuals

However, what troubles us most is that both Mark and David were not allowed to walk back onto the stage at the end of the show In fact, before the finale, both were asked to leave the building, contrary to Jessa’s quoted statement that David “ was not asked to leave ” Mark was not “escorted out by the police” as Jessa is quoted as having said Mark was asked by the coordinators of the show to leave the building and he immediately and politely left Although two police officers were in attendance when the request was made, once again, the implication by Jessa that Mark was escorted out under duress is misleading and defamatory Mark and David left the building alone

It is unfortunate that the overreaction of Jessa and her colleagues not only unnecessarily soured the event, and deprived Mark and David of the opportunity to join their fellow designers onstage at the end of the show to celebrate four years of hard work, but also deprived their assistants of the opportunity to join them on stage in celebration Additionally, Mark’s models, who were in no part involved in his interaction with Jessa, were barred from watching the show to which they personally contributed

It is also very unfortunate that the authors, in an apparent rush to publish, chose to sensationalize the coverage of Mark’s actions and cast his peaceful artistic expression in a negative light, rather than first determining the underlying story and focusing on the facts His collection aside, it is a rare sight to see a group of models with diverse lived experiences, body sizes, body types, gender expressions, sexual orientations, races and ethnicities participate together on stage at a fashion show

Regardless of if someone personally enjoyed, or agreed with, Mark’s collection, we believe they should be troubled by the discussion around it if they believe in a society with freedom of expression We are saddened that The Sun chose to publish a piece rife with misinformation that falsely equivalates peaceful artistic expression with targeted harassment or obscenity, instead of choosing to contemplate, corroborate and fact check their journalism prior to publication

It is notable that the more measured article covering the show in the Arts and Entertainment section of the same edition failed to mention Mark’s collection at all One might speculate as to the motives behind this omission Perhaps it is simply that so much journalistic space and opportunity had already been squandered

Ri cha rd Wan g ’ 1 7 production assistant and model, “Solastalgia” by Mark Colbran

Bjor n Bjo rn sso n ‘ 18 model, “Solastalgia” by Mark Colbran

ri sti n Zak ‘ 18 model, “Who Are We?” by David Wild

“But it didn’t happen,” is the chill response I got from some friends (and my mom!) after learning that we may have been tiptoeing along the asymptote of terror

Ap p a re n t l y b e i n g o n t h e b r i n k o f tragedy doesn’t cut it anymore, and why should it? Our generation found per verse unity in the

w h o l l y

A m e r i c a n constancy of

l o c k d o w n drills, in the nonchalance of backpack searches and school security cameras

often presumed to be constant in the U S that I was surprised when, while she was consoling me in Klarman on Friday afternoon, Shaina Verma ’18 mentioned that gun violence had been a pretty big factor when deciding whether to come to college in the U S

While we’ve set such poor expectations of safety ... students and parents across the globe have been paying close attention.

If you were to print the W i k i p e d i a page for “List of School Shootings in the United States,” it would be 172 pages long (For comparison, “List of awards and nominations received by Mer yl Streep” is just 35 )

Gun violence is so routine that it’s easy to forget that we ’ re living in an international abnormality This kind of carnage is so

leges, my mom was

America for univer-

who is from India,

ondar y school in the U K “She told me,

and that could be you too ’”

That’s starkly different from how my family reacted to the news of one of our

Collegetown apartment When I sent the link to the stor y in my family group chat, it was completely ignored and the next message was my mom saying “@Dad can u go

to costco?” When I called her Friday night in distress, she told me “ These things can happen You could also get into a car accident at any point We are risking our lives all the time ”

She’s right, as moms tend to be, but her outlook is extraordinarily grim And while we ’ ve set such poor expectations of safety for ourselves, our children and our peers, students and parents across the globe have been paying close attention Lily Liu ’20, who is from a seaside city in southern China, tells me she was similarly primed to think about guns when deciding on where to go to college “ We had heard some terrible stories about gun violence happening near some U S college campuses, ” she says, adding that these stories have real effects on how families come to decide on a university: “Some Chinese parents think Columbia University is not in a safe [neighborhood] of New York; they may be worried if their kids decided to apply to Columbia ”

While gun violence isn’t at the top of ever y international student’s mind when deciding on whether to study in the U S (As columnist Lorenzo Benitez ’19 told me, “I still think I’m more likely to get hit on

Sarah Park | S*Park Notes

Ever wonder what happens to the discarded frogs from Trump’s drained swamp?

It seems that quite a few of President Trump’s cabinet members have fallen from his good graces Perhaps he overstated his access to the best people, best managers and best dealmakers or he hasn’t been able to shed his love for firing people As an ILR student, I know that his hundreds of vacancies and record-setting turnover rates can indicate crippling inadequacies in the strategic management of his administration But let’s not worry ourselves with such silly speculation Instead, let’s take a closer look at the dear departed to see where they are now!

James Comey

In one of the most surreal events of 2017, the FBI director glanced at the television to watch the news of his firing break He has since become a hardcore Hillary groupie

Sean Spicer

Trump’s first White House press secretary was hired by MS-13 as an official spokesperson He figured if he’s defending illegal actions, he might as well get paid like it

Anthony Scaramucci

Just ten days into his tenure as W h i t e Ho u s e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s director, the Mooch was fired over a verbal tirade against presidential staff members After a year of growth, new ventures, and reconciliation with his wife, he landed a job as Kim Jung Un’s press secretary and hopes to last more than two weeks

the head with a coconut ”), a university’s location often ser ves as a proxy for these concerns Though Rohin Garg ’19 who comes to Cornell from India tells me that gun violence didn’t play a role in his decision, he qualifies his claim by noting, “Ithaca is a pretty liberal town, and Cornell is a pretty liberal university, and so the probability of such things happening was assumed to be low ”

When a shot is fired, its sound travels around the world And while many of us have grown numb from being folded up under desks in dark classrooms in morbid drills, the rest of the world including our own classmates are still alert How we choose to respond to national calamity or local distress (no matter how liberal the locality) has real and tangible effects on how others internationally choose to join and interact with our communities

The world is watching, and has been for a while now It's about time we started looking harder as well

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun com All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays

Former Trump Staffers: Where Are They Now?

Stephen Bannon

After the fiery populist chief strategist and master manipulator was removed over clashes with staff members, he returned to his post at Breitbar t However, since his Januar y removal from Breitbart, Bannon has been desperately trying to improve his popularity He’s considering following in the footsteps of American hero, Kim Kardashian, and releasing his sex tape with his cousin to get back into the good grace of the deep south

Tom Price

The former secretary of Health and Human Services was fired after failing to cut the ACA and spending $400,000 on chartered flights

Tragically, he died of the common cold after realizing that the government would have to pay for his healthcare His tombstone reads “socialized medicine will kill us all”

Omarosa Manigault Newman

The former Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice, and All-Star Celebrity Apprentice contestant joined the 45th season of the White House as the communications director of the office of public liaisons and only African-American woman She was evicted from the White House after 11 months, but not before bringing her 39-person bridal party to the White House for a photo shoot She has since appeared in Celebrity Big Brother, where she placed 5th and is a top contender to be the 14th Bachelorette

Dina Powell

The Bush administration alum served as the White House deputy

national security adviser and was critical in drafting the National Security Strategy and working towards Israeli-Palestinian peace

Once she discovered the extent of the power-hungry money-grabbing self-ser ving male-dominated culture of White House politics, she retreated to the relative sanctity of her executive position at Goldman Sachs

Kellyanne Conway

After stunning us all with her Olympic-level logical backflips, artful pivots, and breathtaking spins, Kellyanne has been noticeably missing from the public sphere

While she has not officially stepped down as counselor to the President, we suspect her role has been significantly downsized as it has been months since a ne w Kellyanne meme has surfaced We fear that she’s fallen victim to the Second Coming of the Bowling Green Massacre If anyone has any reports, please let us know We miss you, Kel

Carl Higbie

The chief of external affairs for corporation for national and community ser vice resigned after reports surfaced of his offensive remarks about black people, Muslims, gays and veterans with PTSD He has since joined the underground pledge class of Cornell University’s Psi Upsilon

Brenda Fitzgerald

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director resigned after reports surfaced that she purchased stock in Japan

Tobacco despite the CDC’s goals to prevent smoking She now sells Juul pods to teens

Rob Porter

This Harvard-educated Rhodes scholar served as the White House staff secretary and resigned after not one, but two, of his former wives reported physical abuse He has since become an amateur MMA fighter and is set to face off with former Trump speechwriter and fellow domestic abuser, David Sorensen He also listens to a lot of Chris Brown

Rex Tillerson

The former Secretary of State was fired last week via Twitter, which is the presidential-equivalent of ending a relationship by changing your status on Facebook He’s decided to take a gap year to backpack through Europe and really just find himself In the meantime, he’s been spending a lot of time at gas stations

Gary Cohn

The former Trump aide and National Economic Council director decided to break the White House to Goldman Sachs pipeline, working for J P Morgan instead

Ben Carson

The leading neurosurgeon returned to work at a pediatric hospital, forgetting he’s the secretar y of Housing and Urban Development

Hope Hicks

The 29-year old former model resigned the day after testifying that she had told “white lies” on behalf

of Trump She left her dead-end job as White House communications director to pursue other opportunities She is updating her resume and has enlisted Victor Cheng to help her practice quantitatives for consulting recruiting season in the fall

Rick Dearborn

Trump’s deputy chief of staff resigned from his post to save government funds after realizing there was no need for a deputy chief of staff in the wake of such a rapid declining number of staffers He now serves as Barron Trump’s executive tutor

Andrew McCabe

On Friday, the deputy director of the FBI was fired two days before he could retire He’s decided to take this opportunity to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a rapper He’s working with Comey on a fire Trump diss track which is s e t t o d ro p a n y d a y n ow o n Soundcloud

For all these white men and stray women, while their time at the White House was cut short, they can leave with their heads held high, knowing that they contributed to the least popular presidential administration in the polling era We will miss all these fine swamp animals dearly, but we’ll be sure to see them at the reunion, when they testify for Robert Muller!

Sarah Park is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at sarahpark@cornellsun com S*Park Notes appears alternating Mondays this semester

Lorenzo Benitez | Not a Cop

Science Never Disproved God

When I was 14 years old, a substitute teacher at my Catholic school decided to overstep his responsibility and debate God’s existence with a student That student was me, and at the time I was firmly in the “God exists” camp, while he, ironically for a Catholic school, was ver y much of the opposite belief If I remember properly, it was in science class, for when I challenged him for a disproof of God’s existence, his answer was to “look at science ” As my credulity toward science at the time was equal to that toward God’s existence, I had no response I felt defeated, unable to defend the ideology that imbued my life with a profound sense of direction and meaning

In the eight years since, my religious beliefs have oscillated between devout Catholicism and militant atheism At around 16 years of age, I even thought it was my calling to become a priest Indeed, as someone who has lost countless hours of sleep ner vously wondering whether his prayers were just insane ramblings to a more sociallyacceptable imaginar y friend, I don’t think there has been a single day of my life I haven’t at least momentarily considered God’s existence

Consequently, it continues to bother me whenever people cite the limited findings of the empirical sciences to asser t that the question of God’s existence has been settled While the scientific method mandates that the burden of proof lies squarely in the “God exists” camp to paraphrase the late Christopher Hitchens, that which is asser ted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence science has never logically disproved God’s existence Sure, to claim that God exists is strictly just as logical as the claim that there is at this moment a teapot orbiting Mars, in the sense that neither can be deductively proven or disproven However, unlike a teapot orbiting Mars, a spiritual, transcendental life force is something humans have been organically intuiting for as long as histor y, while there aren ’ t many who can ’ t help but sense t h e r e e x i s

Moreover, the existence of God remains compatible with today’s most widely-accepted physical theories: it’s perfectly reasonable to intuit that something couldn’t have possibly come from nothing, in reference to the enduring m y s t e r y o f h t mi ht’ preceded the singularity of

By nature, student organizing is ephemeral Its leaders are passionate and authentic; the moments they create are powerful and important Yet the inescapable truth is that student activism is always the flawed product of temporary citizenship The opinions we form about our university have just four years to emerge and instrumentalize before Cornell evaporates from our lived experience

As a result, campus movements often have quite a short half-life This is not due to a lack of dedication among advocates, and it does not mean that they can never be successful But these movements exist to confront broad and complex problems that require immense institutional solutions If we want a university that fully reflects the image and interests of its student body, we cannot afford to be temporary citizens We need our alumni to do better, and they need to do much, much more Cornell alumni, for the most part, are asked to be fans They should stay updated, give back and cheer us on They should hang a pennant in their office and carry our values into each new space they enter They should click New York Times links about Ezra’s Tunnel and live stream the hockey games Sometimes being a good fan means attending a reunion or an alumni event, other times it just means reading the newsletters Certainly, it always means donating when asked So while students occupy a role that sits somewhere between citizen and customer, graduation seems to trigger some shift to passive supporter

This is not to say that alumni never wade into campus issues, but when they do it tends to bear three important characteristics First, it is almost always in favor of things as they used to be Whether it’s the troubling tenden-

As we first learned from Descar tes, the philosopher who gave us the plane upon which we per form calculus, something that’s imaginable is metaphysically possible If we can conceive it, it is within the realm of our intuitions, and the realm of our intuitions has a lot to offer by way of possibility Admittedly, it might be conceivable due to ignorance, like how since-dismissed physical theories such as the ear th’s flatness were once conceivable However, since the persistent unknowability of God will never be resolved God purpor tedly transcends the physical universe, so it’s unimaginable that the physical

disproof it’s not

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just outside the limits of our physical universe can be just as hard to accept as that of a teapot orbiting Mars However, there are multiple interpretations of how God manifests that warrant greater credulity than the anthropomorphic image we conjure of Them As someone schooled by the Jesuits, who emphasize finding God in all things, Spinozan monism in my opinion offers a compelling interpretation of God’s immanence (Let’s not forget that many great scientists throughout histor y, includi n g Ne w t o n a n d Ei n s t e i n , we re t h

) Surprisingly, my undergraduate studies in an analytic

already the most foundational and rigorous of all knowledge, and yet mathematician Kur t Gödel proved that

n unproveable “ tr uths ” Mathematics, and hence the physical theories expressed using it, will always depend on some fundamental intuitions that will never be proveable, which isn’t unlike the reasoning posited by theists in defense of God’s existence So, whatever credence we lend to mathematical statements can arguably be extended as well to metaphysical statements, including those concerning God Funnily enough, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems caused in me an epistemic epiphany so powerful that it pushed me away from atheism altogether

Understandably, the image of a bearded man sitting

philosophy depar tment have since tempered whatever atheistic tendencies I once had Today, I calmly sit at the polite middle of agnosticism, recognizing the equal strength of intuitions in either direction But, the question of God is currently and will likely forever remain unsettled, and so for atheists to pretend other wise by invoking the finite sciences is to embellish an ideology because it fits more conveniently with their existing vie ws And that, to my mind, is even more irrational

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun com Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays this semester

Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

H o w t o H o n o r O u r A l m a M a t e r

cies of the Greek system, or the half-measure commitment to diversity and accessibility, we always assume that our alumni will be the greatest obstacles to change It’s that massive, amorphous bloc of rear-looking stakeholders that makes every battle seem nosebleed-steep You can find them writing one-off op-eds and commenting in the space below this article However, their presence is really felt in extreme incrementalism practiced by university leadership across the country who fear that any dip in donations will upset the delicate budgetary ecosystem they have constructed

Part of this is the natural tendency towards rose-colored hindsight New concerns supplant old ones, and the frustrations that many students feel are brushed aside as youthful ignorance It’s a mildly patronizing perspective, but one that’s so universal that it can ’ t really be faulted

A more troubling source of this status-quo bias is rooted in the particular construction of the alumni-alma mater relationship While alumni are encouraged to think critically about their university, it always carries the basic premise that their college is, and always has been, fundamentally good This is especially true of institutions like Cornell, which traffic so heavily in legacy and past greatness As a result, the most common criticism we hear is that the University has failed to achieve some past virtue, not that it’s been flawed from the jump

The second deficient characteristic that alumni involvement often carries is that it is woefully disjoint Even when someone takes up a noble cause, genuine collective action among alumni is virtually non-existent Instead, the only truly effective advocates are those individuals who are endowed with the

financial clout to personally apply leverage

And this is not for lack of pressure points Cornell really does rely on a stream of small donations to support a lot of its key programming For example, next week is Giving Day, Cornell’s annual made-up holiday that it celebrates by asking people to give it stuff This is precisely the kind of moment that carries acute, obvious leverage Moreover, alumni always have greater normative power to make demands because they do not suffer the tired label of “ungrateful-students-who-don’t-really-get-it ”

What they do lack, however, are modes of easy assembly and communication They are spread around the world, and identify with countless communities more strongly than their alma mater However, this is only to say that it is more difficult, not prohibitive

The last, and most crucial, fact about the way alumni care is that it’s necessarily impersonal While we are here, students experience institutional policy and our campus community fully and tangibly Tuition hikes and aid changes mean new loans and third jobs Acts of hate and intolerance mean lost safety and peace of mind Even those issues that do not touch our lives directly often affect our friends and classmates

As soon as we step away, the tangible, personal issues in our lives are suddenly something different They become local government decisions, workplace dynamics and national politics I am well aware that one year from now, there will be much less reason for me to care about this community and the policies that affect it

Of course, Cornell alumni have diverse interests and beliefs, and many do not agree with the causes I support However, I think that there are many who do, who we rarely

hear from in a meaningful way So many students care very deeply while they’re here, only to have that energy dissipate soon after they leave The result of all this is that while students are able to affect change around the margins, the basic direction of the University and the fundamental logic behind its decisions are dictated the independent discretion of administrators and the interests of the most vocal, most wealthy alums

So, as I hurdle towards graduation, I want to offer a handful of guidelines for being an effective, permanent citizen of this university: We should hold onto the issues that affect us today, because they will absolutely matter to those that come next; and we should hold onto the frustration, the emotion and the urgency of it all, because these problems aren ’ t less tangible just because we don’t touch them We should be shameless in the things we demand, even when it risks the appearance of complacency and ingratitude

Crucially, we have to maintain the sense of community, and the capacity for collective action that makes student activism so unique Whether it is mobilizing alumni around issues or collaborating with students on campus, we cannot become atomized the moment we graduate Finally, we need to recognize power where we have it In the last year, President Pollack has attended 103 alumni events, meaning the most indispensible public for this university is its alumni

The only way to honor our university is to never let it take us for granted

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 alternate Fridays this semester

A Gay Man’s Take on Love, Simon ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

For a while, Love, Simon fle w under my radar Once I first saw trailers for it though, I became intrigued but also cautious I didn’t know how a teenage romance movie would handle a gay protagonist The film, directed by Greg Berlanti and written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Bergerm, could easily go so wrong Luckily, my fears have been dispelled Love, Simon reflects the anxieties of coming out in our world today with a solid teenage drama to carr y the message

Love, Simon stars Nick Robinson as the titular Simon Spier, a high school student living in a model nuclear family He has a close circle of friends and par ticipates in the school’s drama productions He has a secret though; he has not revealed to anyone that he’s gay One day, a post in the school’s anonymous confessions web page sets ever yone ablaze There’s a closeted gay kid at school, who only signs his post with the pseudonym “Blue ” Simon reaches out with a different email and his own pseudonym, “Jacques ” The two begin to build more and more of a rappor t, with Simon thinking about who Blue might actually be One day though, another kid named Mar tin (Logan Miller) finds Simon’s emails left open on a computer Mar tin threatens to out Simon, unless Simon helps him score a date with one of his friends Simon has to juggle an growing tangle of relationships as he str uggles to keep ever ything from falling apar t

One of the best things about the movie is how the characters are built For years, media about high school have been dominated by tropes Saved By The Bell and High School Musical Love, Simon steers away from many those tired tropes Simon himself feels like a relatable, average kid He likes going to par ties with his friends, he spends time with his family, he has a good relationship with the school authorities He’s a kind person who grapples with anxieties that many people can relate to Meanwhile, his three friends, played by Katherine Lang ford, Alexandra Shipp and Jorge Lendeborg Jr , all have distinct personalities They feel like many people I kne w in high school, and give the film a sense of sincerity

Simon’s family fur ther helps to ground the stor y His mother, played by Jennifer Garner, works as a therapist, and in her free time devotes her effor ts to social justice marches His father, played by Josh Duhamel, is a well-meaning guy who’s not afraid to show his soft side, but still has a tendency to tell the wrong jokes at the wrong time Simon’s little sister, Nora ( Talitha Bateman), aspires to be a culinar y master, and often prepares meals for the family, some of which are stomached purely out of love The family shares banter back and for th, but also expresses their suppor t for one another Between Simon’s friends and his family, we have a solid emotional base that powers

the hear t of the movie

And then we have Mar tin, the guy blackmailing Simon Mar tin is obnoxious and grating in all the right ways He doesn’t feel outright evil or cr uel Instead his selfishness feels more casual, which curdles the stomach even more He speaks and acts without thinking about how it will hur t others around him In shor t, he feels real Logan Miller plays the role with vigor, and the stor y handles the character well Most impor tantly, even though he later expresses regret for some of his actions, the stor y doesn’t “redeem” him It’s cr ystal clear that his actions carr y consequences that he cannot fix with apologies, and that’s important

The rest of the suppor ting characters round out our cast You have a couple of bullies who actually use language you’d hear in a high school environment They’re br utal and nasty, not cleaned-up as is often seen in films like this There’s also Ethan, who has been openly gay for a while In a way, he’s a foil to Simon; Simon is a typical kind of guy, while Ethan well, when he came out, nobody was surprised You have a vice principal, a drama teacher and other people you’d expect to see in a high school movie So sure, it does sometimes play into stereotypical high school movie Ever y now and then things get a little cheesy

and “ out there,” and it detracts a bit from the film

But far more things do work rather than don’t work, so the flaws get outweighed

With all these characters assembled, the plot flows along with fluid motion One thing leads to the next in a logical pattern Besides the tension between Simon and Mar tin, the plot also hinges on the identity of Blue It’s like a “whodunit” of gayness I followed the roller coaster of ups and downs I laughed and I cried (a lot), because so much of the film resonated tr ue with me It’s thanks to this well-built stor y that it earns the right to talk about such a cr ucial, intimate topic

Love, Simon manages to capture so much of what it’s like to be young and gay in 2018 For one thing, technology has enabled relationships to blossom longdistance That same technology can also threaten our privacy, though a special threat for people who, for whatever reason, are not ready to come out yet It also captures how society is far more tolerant than it was even a decade ago, but being gay is still considered some what “abnormal ” It changes how people perceive you, consciously or other wise Simon knows people around him will suppor t him, but he fears the way his life could change beyond his control

The film shows how it can be an awkward conversation It even demonstrates how being outed against your will can hur t, a lot That’s something I experienced too being outed without your consent is not a light action It’s a gross violation of privacy, and a dramatic violation of tr ust Love, Simon treats it like that

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Simon also brims with joy It’s hear twarming and fun

Some of the best par ts are Simon’s fantasies For example, he pictures Blue as different guys around school

There's also the adver tised scenario, “ What if straight people had to come out?” My favorite segment is Simon thinking that he can at least come out at college He proceeds to envision his dorm room covered in pride materials, and dances down the staircase

People in rainbow shir ts follow him to the yard in a big spectacle then he returns to reality “Okay, maybe not that gay ” Love, Simon stands head and shoulder above other teenage romances It deals out both drama and fun, while also giving a window into what it’s like being gay in the United States today Sometimes it gets a little too cheesy for its own good, but at hear t the film beats tr ue It was an absolute delight to watch, and it's definitely something that a lot of people need right now

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun com

From the release of his debut mixtape Young Sinatra, Logic has been dropping the jaws of listeners with his fast-paced lyrical acrobatics His discography includes three studio albums and seven mixtapes consisting of a diverse collection of bangers and vibes, each packed with jumbles of tongue-twisting talent Drawing on inspiration from directors like Quentin Tarantino and artists like Jay Z, Logic writes concept albums that tell stories in which science fiction meets street and emotional vulnerability meets eye-rolling confidence

On March 9, Logic released his newest mixtape, Bobby Tarantino II, as a follow up

to 2016’s Bobby Tarantino The original Bobby Tarantino was widely criticized for its lack of a coherent concept, its simplicity and for the aloof, braggadocious version of Logic that it presents Despite the criticism, with hits like “Flexicution,” “Super Mario World” and “The Jam,” there is no denying that the album slaps

Bobby Tarantino II starts off with “Grandpa’s Spaceship,” a dialogue between television characters Rick and Morty, during which the two are choosing what music to play on a spaceship ride After a long, extremely explicit conversation, they finally decide on Bobby Tarantino, because they view it as the perfect combination between rap with meaning, and rap that just bumps

The dialogue leads straight into the simple but bouncy “Overnight ” This track consists of a simple synthesizer riff with seven repeating notes Logic uses a lyrical pattern in which the first two beats of each bar consist of a slow delivery of stressed syllables, and the next two are fast and choppy In the song, he maintains the braggadocious theme of the last installment to the Tarantino series but adds a flavor of wisdom

Amidst an array of self-aggrandizing lyrics, he says “I treated everybody with respect and now I’m rich ” Although this song could have fit perfectly into the 2016 album, the wisdom that is lightly incorporated into it presents a version of Logic that, though still intent on bragging, is able to reflect on his success, emphasizing the prosocial qualities that he embodies and that many ignore in chasing money and power

“Boomtrap Protocol,” the mixtape’s fourth track, is unique It begins as a classic Bobby Tarantino banger, with a sample peeking in at the intro, a beat drop four bars in and a quick and slick entry by Logic He begins rapping over the beat in his classic double-time triplet rhythm By the end of

the verse, th h h i i D k style flow beginning at the end song consi slightly a seems that Ty Dolla Although fits within T a r a n t theme, th style repr e s e n t s L o g i c ’ s embrace of yet a n o t h e r new sound P e r h two of th exciting t album are “Indica Badu (feat Wiz Khalifa)” and “State of Emergency (feat 2 Chainz) ” These tracks are complete opposites, with “Indica Badu” acting as a chill stoner ’ s anthem and “State of Emergency” acting as heavy hitting trap banger What is interesting about these two pieces, however, is that they showcase an ability of Logic that was not apparent in the 2016 mixtape: his adaptability The previous mixtape only contained one feature in “Wrist (feat Pusha T),” Pusha seemed to conform to Logic’s style Contrastingly, in “Indica Badu,” Logic takes up the persona of a stoner, and by doing so, he both compliments and highlights Wiz’s iconic stoner vibe On the other hand, some would say 2 Chainz and Logic are opposites While 2 Chainz focuses on making hard-hitting trap anthems filled with difficult to distinguish, slurred, misogynistic words, Logic often focuses on making crisp, smooth, woke (yet

Emergencies,” using a slower delivery and taking many breaks to make the listener anticipate each hard hitting drum

The beauty of this mixtape as an addition to the Bobby Tarantino collection is that it actually supports what Logic has spent 24 tracks bragging about He can be thought of as what rapper Q Tip calls a “ rap chameleon ” This album presents an artistic expansion to a new range of unexplored styles by Logic Somehow, in adapting to new instrumental and artistic environments, he doesn’t compromise his own abilities or uniqueness In his own words, “You can ’ t put me in a box / my talent put me in a mansion ”

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found 300 live rounds of ammunition, a bulletproof vest and other survival materials, The Sun previously reported

The seizure of the rifle, highcapacity magazine clips and many sur vival items a gas mask, chemicals, shrapnel, a trauma kit, food rations from a Collegetown residence is unprecedented in recent memory, police officials said

“I’ve been here 36 years, ” Vincent Monticello, deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department, said in an inter vie w “Occasionally, we have a suspicious device, but when it comes to this, this is something the first time I’ve seen something like this ”

“I know where this is,” a Cascadilla Hall resident, Sarah Li ’20, said of Collegetown Plaza “My friend lives in this building I can probably see it when I look out of my window ”

Students who live in Collegetown Plaza told The Sun they were concerned that they did not learn of the arrest and seizure of the rifle, homemade bomb, and other tactical supplies until Friday, when Reynolds was arraigned in court, more than a week after the initial raid on March 7

“It’s frightening to know that someone who is in possession of guns and other artillery lives in the same building as I do,” said Shiana Kuriakose ’20 “Also, if this happened a week ago, why were building residents never notified?”

When investigators raided Reynolds’ apartment on March 7, he agreed to be committed to the behavioral unit at Cayuga Medical Center Federal agents did not arrest and charge him until more than a week later, on Thursday night, when they learned of the possibility that Reynolds was going to be transferred to a different hospital, federal prosecutor Richard Southwick said in court

Elizabeth Yardley ’19 heard about the arrest from friends and said she felt as if “the exterior world [is] seeping into a place like Cornell ”

“We mostly hear of shootings in high schools,” Yardley said, pointing to the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last month that killed 17 “But college incidents are not unprecedented and I think we all need to realize that ”

“It seems so strange, hearing stories of shootings and other crimes at other universities, believing that it can never happen here,” Yuqi Chen ’19, a plant sciences major, said “But this is the reality, I suppose ” Zhun Che ’18 said the arrest of Reynolds arrest was a wake-up call that Cornell is not inside of a bubble

“On campus, there is this sense that nothing can happen,” Che said, recalling that many of his friends frequently leave their doors unlocked

Cornell Police Chief Kathy

Zoner told The Sun that leaving doors unlocked “is never a good idea” and shows that many students do not fully understand the potential for danger in Collegetown or on campus

“While on one hand I’m really proud that students can feel that kind of safety here in Ithaca, it’s necessary to face reality, and for students to take some basic measures to help preserve their own personal safety,” Zoner said

The seizure of an AR-15 and wide array of chemicals and survival gear from a student’s Collegetown apartment may be without precedent, but it is far from the first time guns have been found on an Ithaca resident

Police found two assault rifles, a shotgun, four handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in a car driven by Corbin Whyte, 31, in April 2016 He was sentenced to eight years in prison last year

The unassembled AR-15 rifle police said they found in Reynolds’ apartment is the same style of semi-automatic weapon used in last month’s shooting at Marjor y Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida

U S Rep Tom Reed (R-N Y ), who represents Ithaca in Congress, said following the Florida shooting that he would vote against any ban on weapons like the AR-15, saying he was concerned that a law that did so would violate the Second Amendment

“I’m afraid the knee-jerk reaction of banning cer tain items would pacify, but not solve the problem,” Reed told the Olean Times Herald

For students in Ithaca, the mere possibility that police officers ’ arrest of Reynolds may have saved lives has them advocating for improved gun control legislation

“He asked someone to buy a gun for him,” Che said “The fact that you can just ask a random person to buy you a gun, that points to a serious flaw ”

The ex-student’s lawyer, Raymond Schlather J D ’76, said in court that Reynolds had been diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar disorder with paranoid features, a claim that some students said made them more concerned that he was apparently able to acquire a gun, even illegally

“While I’m not in a position to comment on his personal situation, it is scary that someone diagnosed with such unstable mental health has access to weapons and guns like that,” Che said

Ko said the case highlights that “in a campus this big,” students should look out for each other, and “if you think someone is having a bad day, you should take the time to help them out ”

“Ever yday you see all these people and you don’t know what’s going on in their heads,” he said

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs ’19 contributed reporting to this article

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Chan said of his time at Cornell

Reynolds had hoped to return to Cornell and applied to come back in the fall Reynolds told Nixon that the University rejected his application because some kind of mix-up at the community college had left him with an “incomplete” marking for a class he had intended to drop

“He was going through a really rough time in his life and it very much seemed to be a rollercoaster, ” Chan said “In October, he sent a text and it seemed like he was very much on an upward trend, and afterward he sent me something that indicated he was in a bit of a troubled spot both financially and emotionally ”

“He was going through a really rough time ... [his life] very much seemed to be a rollercoaster.”

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Several friends said they lost touch with him at various points in the past year Chan said she h a d n ’ t s p o k e n t o h i m s i n c e November, when he was “stressed about his life situation and [there were] a lot of people near and dear to him that he was worrying about ” Reynolds’ girlfriend, identified in court documents as N H , told police that she was concerned that Reynolds seemed manic, was not getting enough sleep and had stopped taking his medication

But others said he appeared to be doing better in the months leading up to the arrest, seeming to indicate the changing nature of Reynolds’ persona

Reynolds told Kye that he was starting to enjoy Ithaca more in

re c e n t m o n t h s a n d t h e t w o

e x p l o re d t h e c o m m u n i t y, f requently getting dinner at a chin e s e re s t a u r a n t o n C o l l e g e Avenue

“Surprisingly, I had a lot of conversations with him in the weeks before the [arrest] and he seemed 100 percent normal, as he h a d b e e n b e f o re , ” Kye s a i d “Actually even more so He was super [responsive] and very alert This was a complete shock to me ”

When he first began working at Nixon’s property, he would apologize frequently and profusely for minor mishaps and was very timid, but seemed to increasingly be coming out of his shell, Nixon said

Some said they were surprised, at times, by Reynolds’ restraint in moments that could make the average person furious Once, in freshman year, a drunk student accidentally stepped on and killed Reynolds’ pet turtle, Kye said, and while Reynolds was upset, he told the student not to worry and that he understood it was unintentional

Nixon said Reynolds showed up late one day to work after popping a tire backing over a broken glass bottle that was behind one of his car ’ s wheels Reynolds told Nixon that someone may have

placed the bottle there intentionally, but he was disgusted not angry about the possibility Bu

some irrational worries, friends said He was detained by Ithaca Police in June of 2016 and stayed a

according to an affidavit filed in court and a friend at Cornell

Sarah Marino ’19, a plant sciences major, said she spoke with Reynolds frequently in the fall semester of their freshman year

He was kind, but spent a lot of time alone and spoke to her several times about trying to find

berries, which she found odd

Chan said that “while he could be perceived as a loner by people who didn’t know him well, he was the kind of person that could open up in a smaller group ” and that there is “ a bit of unpredictability with his personality ”

Reynolds also spoke to Kye about being concerned, with no evidence, that someone was going

Cornell

He was worried about someone attacking his loved ones, “and so that’s why he accumulated what he had,” Kye speculated “He was 100 percent defensive in n

about anyone, never had any grudges ”

“In this current climate, if you didn't know him, then you would naturally jump to conclusions,” Kye said, stressing that the stereotype of the white, male school

Reynolds

“It wasn ’ t like he was isolated or ostracized or anything like that,” Kye said “Anyone who knew him liked him ”

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Red Earns Season’s First Win Against Fordham

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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c o a c h i n g s t a f f , ” S c h a f e r said “I don’t know what

t h e i r m i n d s e t w a s a f t e r [Princeton] scored that second goal, whether they were feeling sorr y for themselves, or they thought it was going to be easier or what ” I n t h e e n d , Pr i n c e t o n

g o a l t e n d e r Ry a n Fe r l a n d came up big for his team when it needed him, holding the Red scoreless down the stretch

Pr i n c e t o n ’ s M a x Veronneau scored his team ’ s third goal of the game, and

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m a d e m a y b e b e i n g o u t o f p o s i t i o n h e re a n d t h e re a n d t h e y c a p i t a l i ze d o n i t ”

Fi f t h - y e a r g o a l t e n d e r C h r i s t i a n K n i g h t , w h o i s o f f t o a h o t s t a r t t h i s s e a s o n , w a s u n a b l e t o p i c k u p t h e w i n i n t h e c a g e t o d a y T h e n e t m i n d e r

m a d e 1 1 s a ve s o n 2 4 s h o t s o n g o a l At t h e e n d o f t h e d a y, C o r n e l l o n c e

got good pressure ” Despite coughing up its early lead, the Red entered t h e s e c o n d i n t e r m i s s i o n down by just one goal, but Cornell seemed unable to get it going late in the game “ We were down one goal going into the third period,” Rauter said “But we didn’t do what we needed to do to get back into it ”

The per formance Friday was a stark contrast with the way Cornell played just last w e e k e n d a d o m i n a n t quar ter final series win over Q u i n n i p i a c

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“ We were confident, we had a great weekend last weekend,” said senior forward Trevor Yates “Maybe we were overconfident ” Yates scored the game ’ s first and the Red’s only goal It was his first tally since Jan 6

Even with its lackluster

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effor t in the final two peri-

nation power play scoreless on the day

“ I f y o u t o l d m e w e’d come in tonight and we’d hold [Princeton’s top line] to one shot, outshoot them 28-18 and they’d go [0-for2] on the power play, I’d say

the game, ” Schafer said One of the drastic differences in the game was the international size ice sheet o n w h i c h t h

f e r e n c e t o u r n a m e n t i s p l a y e d

Lake Placid’s Olympic ice is 13 feet wider

“Anybody who says [the bigger ice] is not a factor, they’re lying,” Schafer said “I personally don’t like it There’s not one team in our

l e a g u e t h a t p l a y s o n a n

Olympic ice sur face ” Pr i n c e t o n a d v a n c e d t o t h e c o n f e r e n c e c h a m p ionship on Saturday where it d e f e a t e d t h i r d - s e e d e d Clarkson in over time to win the Whitelaw Cup

The loss ends Cornell’s c o n f e r e n c e s e a s o n , w h i c h saw it clinch a regular season championship for the first time in more than a decade It was just Cornell’s four th conference loss in 23 games this season

“ [ T h e p l a y e r s ] w i l l b e d i s a p p o i n t e d i n t h e mselves,” Schafer said “ They had a great year and worked v e r y h a rd t o g e t t o t h i s point ”

Cornell will play as the No 1 seed in the Nor theast

r e g i o n o f t h e N C A A Tournament, set to begin this coming weekend

nation, an improvement from its eighthplace finish a year before Cornell finished inside the top 10 in the nation for the 11th straight season

“We have finished top-10 ever y year that’s just the expectation,” Koll said

The highest seeded Cornell wrestler in the tournament was Darmstadt, who sported an impressive record of 31-1, with 25 bonus point victories, entering the weekend

The 197-pounder’s path to a national title was stopped short in the semifinals where he lost by fall to No 3 seed Jared Haught of Virginia Tech

Darmstadt would lose his next two consolation matches, placing sixth Nonetheless, Darmstadt exceeded expectations in his freshman campaign

“ [ D a r m s t a d t ’ s ] expectations were to finish higher,” Koll said “But, there’s a two-time national champion who didn’t place in this tournament, so you got to be thankful for being in the top eight The reality is, Ben didn’t start off as a varsity this year He was beaten off the team ”

The third freshman to make the trip to Cleveland was Dean, who finished in eighth place and also had an impressive rookie campaign for the Red

“Dean has just worked his butt off,” Koll said “But I don’t think anybody would have expected him to place this year Just based on his accolades, he wasn ’ t an AllAmerican caliber kid ” Dean fell out of the main bracket after losing in the quarterfinals to top-seed Bo Nickal of Penn State at 184 pounds Nickal defeated Dean’s brother, Gabe, in the 184 title match in 2017

Of the seven who competed at the NCAA Championship, not a single wrestler was a senior For Koll and the rest of the program, it’s exciting to consider what the future holds for Cornell wrestling next season

“I don’t think our team has ever had five All-Americans returning; I’d be surprised,” Koll said “ Ver y few teams have that type of power It’s going to be a lot of fun ”

Laxers Fall Short, Drop Ivy Opener to No.7Yale at Home

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It was a tough one to swallow for Cornell men ’ s lacrosse Taking the lead on seven different occasions, the home team had several chances to win But down the stretch, the defending Ivy League champions held the edge in the game ’ s critical waning moments

In its first Ivy League game of the season, the Red fell to Yale, 13-11 Neither team trailed by more than two goals during the contest, and the game was tied with under five minutes remaining Nonetheless, the underdogs

were unable to finish the job

“It’s obviously a disappointing loss,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “We wanted that one very badly I felt like we were competing well enough to deserve it, but we didn’t earn it at the end of the day ”

Down by a goal with two minutes left on the clock, Cornell had the ball on the attack following a Yale timeout This was the chance to even the score and at the very least send the game to overtime

Having notched six points on the day at that point, sophomore attack Jeff Teat naturally had the ball in the situation But Teat,

across the field, turned the ball ove

Keating Teat had seven turnovers in the game, comprising half his team ’ s giveaways

“I think it came down to the end of the game, the fourth quarter, ” Teat said “We had a good amount of turnovers, specifically me, going down the stretch, not making plays I think that was the difference ”

The Bulldogs would go on to score their 13th goal and seal the deal for the visiting squad

“There was some plays there t h a t m

[Yale’s] a very good team, they play quality lacrosse,” Milliman said “They make you earn everything and in a game like that it’s really important that you execute across the board We had a few too many turnovers and some mistakes in some certain places ”

The Red beat out the Bulldogs in the ground ball game, executed all but one clear and won the faceoff battle an area the team has struggled with by a significant margin with the help of sophom o re f a c e - o f

Rasimowicz

“I’m proud [of ] our faceoff unit specifically,” Milliman said “[Rasimowicz] fought hard and got some scrappy victories there I’m proud of our guys for winn

Red Downs Massachusetts in Double Overtime Nail-Biter

By GRACIE TODD Sun Staff Writer

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Diakomihalis Wins National Title

By DYLAN McDEVITT

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Icers Falter in ECAC Semifnal

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

LAKE PLACID, N Y A week

after dominating the conference quarterfinals, Cornell men ’ s hockey fell victim to an underdog Princeton team on Friday at an ice rink known for upset victories

Cornell was leading 1-0 after the first period, after which it seemed to be in control of the game But two fortuitous bounces allowed the Tigers to score two straight goals in the second, and Cornell was never able to catch up, ultimately falling by a score of 4-1

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Grapplers Earn 7th-place Team

Finish at NCAAs

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Ed tor

With less than 30 seconds to go in the 141 pound title match, it looked as if Cornell wrestling would go a second straight year without a NCAA champion

No 3 seed freshman Yianni Diakomihalis (141) had other ideas

In the final moments of the match, Diakomihalis executed a masterful four-point cradle to defeat top-seed Br yce Meredith of Wyoming, 7-4, and become a national champion

“[Diakomihalis] usually waits until like 15 seconds left to win it,” said head coach Rob Koll “It was a little nerve racking, not going to deny it But there wasn ’ t a time where I felt like, ‘okay, he can ’ t win; he can ’ t pull this out ’”

The young grappler joins four-time national champion Kyle Dake ’13 as the second Cornell freshman to win the tournament, also at 141 pounds

Dean (184) and junior Jon Jay Chavez (165), earned All-American honors over the weekend Koll was nothing less than pleased with his team ’ s results from this weekend, and the season overall

“If you told me at the beginning of the year we would have four All-

“I don’t think our team has ever had five All-Americans returning I’d be surprised.”

H e a d c o a c h R o b K o l l

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun com

Diakomihalis, alongside classmates Ben Darmstadt (197), Max

plan,” said senior captain Alex Rauter “We had a great first period you ’ ve got to give them credit, but I don’t think we played our best game “

Trailing by a goal in the second period, Princeton defenseman Josh Teves sent a long shot wide of freshman goaltender Matt Galajda The puck ricocheted off the end boards and off the Tigers’ Eric Grande’s skate and past an unsuspecting Galajda, tying the game, 1-1

“The hardest part, at least for me, is

that we knew exactly what we had to do to win the game, ” Rauter said “We knew how to be successful, and we just didn’t do it ” The Tigers’ second goal came courtesy of an Eric Robinson breakaway after a blocked shot sent him in all alone against Galajda

Americans, win the Ivies and again have a 13-2 record, I would have been a little cynical to be quite honest,” Koll said “Only one person on this team who was there this weekend, had ever been to a national championship, and walking away with four AllAmericans is just remarkable ” Cornell came in at 35th in the preseason rankings but went on to finish seventh in the

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Red Sent to Mass. As No. 1 Seed in NCAA Tournament

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After its best regular season since it advanced to the Frozen Four in 2003, Cornell men ’ s hockey will head to Worcester, Massachusetts, and face longtime rival Boston University in the NCAA tournament

Despite an upset loss to Princeton, the eventual ECAC champions, in the conference semifinals, the Red had already locked up a No 1 seed

Cornell, the No 3 overall seed, faces the Terriers in the northeast regional If it wins its game March 24, it will take on the winner between Michigan and Nor theastern in the national quarterfinals The Red takes on B U at 1 p m March 24 The game will be broadcast on ESPN News, and the winner will take on Michigan or Northeastern at 4 p m March 25

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler @cornellsun com