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Police Jail 2 Suspected Campus Backpack Thieves

Police arrested a man and woman on Friday and charged them each with a felony for allegedly stealing valuables from students at Cornell after 11 backpacks containing nearly $12,000 worth of computers, cash and other items were reported stolen on Thursday

Ithaca Police arrested Richard Huyler, 39, and April Mace, 31, on Friday afternoon and charged each with crim-

Wings Over Ithaca To Open This Week

In Collegetown

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Wings Over Ithaca will begin dishing out and delivering wings, fries and sandwiches this week from a new Collegetown location under the ownership of four Cornell alumni

The new location at 121 Dryden Rd can seat about 30 people and boasts a menu of burgers, wraps, salads and 25 flavors of boneless and regular wings

While an exact opening date is not yet set, the restaurant will open sometime this week, said Dan Leyva ’14, the main operating partner and a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration Leyva and the three other owners Kevin Mok ’14, Raunak Nirmal ’14 and Mike Wang ’07 showed a group of reporters around the restaurant on Saturday as music played from speakers and two large, flat-

screen televisions displayed live college basketball action

Leyva emphasized that he and the current owners have nothing to do with Bruce McPherson, the former owner of Ithaca’s previous Wings Over Ithaca location on East Hill who was charged with 20 counts of tax fraud in October, shuttering the business

When the four Cornell alumni saw that their favorite eatery had closed, they began texting each other and joking about the idea of opening up their own store Soon after, the joking turned into planning and the Cornellians signed an agreement with the Wings Over franchise, which has about 40 locations across 13 states Chris Gardner worked for 9 years at the former location and said it was a rough experience when it closed under surprising circumstances, putting him out of a job

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inal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, a class E felony The charges stem from the Thursday thefts on campus, Cornell Police said Mace was a lead supervisor at Cornell from 2005 to 2014 super vising more than 100 employees, assisting in payroll management and helping to open five dining halls across West Campus according to posts on her Facebook and LinkedIn profiles

Reached on Sunday afternoon, Melissa Osgood, deputy director of media relations, said she could not immediately confirm or deny whether Mace had been employed by Cornell “I start my new job Monday,” Mace wrote in a public Facebook post in November 2014 “Bad news is that I will

be leaving Cornell, I will miss everybody the employees and the students !!!”

New York State Police arrested Huyler in January of 2016 and accused him of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine, a felony, according to multiple news reports

Huyler was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail on Friday without the option for bail and Mace is being held at the jail in lieu of $3,000 cash bail or $6,000 bond Mace had not bailed out as of Sunday evening, according to a correction officer at the jail

A plethora of items were reported stolen on Thursday: six Apple laptops, multiple U S passports, keys, textbooks,

momentum | An organizer speaks at the

People’s School No. 2 Gathers Over 100 Group debates strategies to tackle racial inequalities, social issues

By ALANA SULLIVAN Sun Staff Writer

A different type of school was in session at Beverly J Martin Elementary School in Ithaca on Saturday when over 100 people gathered at the elementary school to attend the second session of The People’s School

This meeting of The People’s School a social justice education group comprised of Ithaca community members, activists, and Cornell faculty and students came following its original meeting at the end of January in Klarman Auditorium

“At our first People’s School meeting, we said the time for stargazing has passed,” said an organizer in the event ’ s opening remarks “It’s time instead to look not up, but to look around To look to each other for our politics and for our schooling The People’s School is both ”

Another organizer agreed, saying that they “hope to build on the

momentum of [their] last meeting and make The People’s School a sustained and shared effort to bridge theory and practice and to build the tools necessary to bring about a collective emancipation ” Organizers of the event declined to give their names, with one organizer saying that to do so would be against the spirit of the People’s School, as “ we are all teachers, we are all students and we are all organizers ” In contrast to the group ’ s first meeting, which was just a week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the second meeting was limited to focusing on the failures and effects of racial capitalism through the topics of education, creating community, labor, food, mass incarceration, immigration and housing Representatives from groups such as the Tompkins County Immigration

Rights Coalition, Cornell EARS and the Ultimate Reentr y Oppor tunity of Tompkins County led discussion sessions on topics ranging from disability rights and support in the Trump era to ways of enacting change through techniques used in the Theatre of the Oppressed

“The time for stargazing has passed It’s time instead to look not up, but to look around To look to each other ”

Delmar Fears ’19 facilitated a discussion on behalf of Cornell’s Black Students United that focused on identifying and exploring ways of combatting what she called “distractory tactics ” Fears explained that these are “ tactics used to distract from the real issues of institutional white supremacy and

Daybook

Climate Change Seminar: The Oxymoronic Possibilities of Climate Change Comedy 12:15 - 1:15 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Species Interactions in a Changing World: Evolutionary Consequences of Global Change 12:20 p m , A106 Corson/ Mudd Hall

Insurgent Comparisons: Early Communism in Late Colonial India 12:20 - 1:45 p m , 186 Myron Taylor Hall

Do You Understand Me? The Differential Effect of Three Facets of Perspective Taking on Prosocial And Antisocial Behavoir 1:30 - 2:45 p m , 102 Mann Library

Searching for Axion and Hidden Photon Dark Matter With Electromagnetic Resonators: The Dark Matter Radio Experiment

4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

Globalization and the American Worker: Learning from the China Shock

4:30 - 6 p m , Hollis E Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

How China Sees Trump: Past Lessons and Future Prospects for U S -China Relations 4:30 - 6 p m , G64 Goldwin Smith Hall

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly 5:30 - 7 p m , Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall

Connecting the Dots:

From Genetics to Food and Nutrition Security 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Seventh Annual Harold I Saperstein ’31 Cornell Student Topical Sermon Contest 4:30 - 6:15 p m , Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall

The Carl Becker Lecture Series: Barack Obama and the Afterlives of American Exceptionalism 4:30 - 6:30 p m , G76, Goldwin Smith Hall

Ornamentalism: A Feminist Theory for the Yellow Woman 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

University Organist Annette Richards in Concert 8 - 9:45 p m , Sage Chapel To m o r r o w

Panel Addresses Questions, Concerns From DACA Students

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

Aimed to address the community’s concerns for students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, particularly following President Donald Trump’s election, the University held a panel discussion to elaborate its policy

The four panelists Carlos Gonzales, executive director of the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the Graduate School, Prof Estelle McKee, law, and Vijay Pendakur, dean of students fielded questions and explained what they know about the current situation and ways the University can assist

Most of the audience's questions centered around financial aid and monetary initiatives to help DACA students

Knuth said all DACA students have been eligible for the same need-based financial aid as U S citizens at Cornell since November 2016

“Last year a working group I chaired, that was appointed by the provost, whose undergraduate student, faculty and staff members called the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group developed a recommendation to move students who have DACA status into our domestic admissions pool for undergraduate and our domestic financial aid pool,” Knuth said

The University is also currently appealing to

donors in an effort to expand their financial resources for DACA students, according to Knuth Knuth also said efforts will be made to help fund graduate students with DACA status but financial aid may not necessarily be provided However, she said that the University still offers loan options for students in need of summer housing

Panelists also answered questions about the Cornell University Police Department’s policies and student resources

McKee explained the services that Cornell Law School has offered so far include providing legal counseling for anyone in the Cornell community in need Should the occasion arise, McKee said, the Law School may extend these services to meet mounting demand

“Right now the immigration law faculty is able to handle the counseling needs, but should they become too much, then we, the Law School, [are] prepared to start a clinical fellow to work on these,” McKee said

She also addressed the resolutions the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County passed, confirming that the city and county will not honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detainer requests nor will they carry out administrative warrants or warrants of removal unless judicially issued

According to McKee, the Law School is also

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Students Host 92nd Annual HEC Conference

Hotelies take over operations of Statler Hotel for weekend

By DYLAN MAJSIAK Sun Contributor

As faculty, alumni and members of the hospitality industry flooded the Statler Hotel for the 92nd Hotel Ezra Cornell Conference, hundreds of hotel school students successfully took over the management of the hotel from Thursday to Saturday last week

The student-run event is planned and organized nearly a year in advance by 16 board members and over 200 student volunteers spanning the “Hotel School and Beyond,” said Warner Hazell ’17, managing director in the conference program

The conference featured events such as guest lectures on the topic of advancements in the hospitality field, sponsored activities such as “Starbucks Tasting” and networking opportunities with prominent figures in the industry

These events centered around this year ’ s theme: Face the Future, Preserve the Past, which emphasized both the transitioning hotel school and the evolving hospitality industry in today’s increasingly technology-based world

“We’re ready to adapt to the future but at the same time we

“This experience is what really helped me land my next job after graduation.”

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want to recognize our identities as hotelies and to allude that to the hospitality industry as well,” said Jaimie Kim ’18, program director “No matter what kind of changes that may come through technology or other types of policy changes, we should be able to

North Korean Escapee

By ANNE KIM Sun Contributor

Before he turned 18, Austin Hyeon had been in five prisons in four different countries not because he had committed a crime, but because of his identity and his country of origin: North Korea

On Friday afternoon, Hyeon visited as a speaker for Cornell’s debuNK an organization that strives to raise awareness for human rights issues in North Korea and provided a glimpse into the lives of ordinary citizens in one of the most oppressive countries in the world

In 1994, a series of natural disasters, compounded by the loss of economic support from the Soviet Union and sanctions by the United States and the United Nations, catalyzed the most severe shortage of food in North Korean histor y, Hyeon said

While Hyeon often went hungry, he was still luckier than many others

“Some friends of mine died of star vation,” he said “I still remember watching people carry dead bodies to the mountainside to bury them ”

For many North Koreans including Hyeon and his family the famine served as the impetus for the escape from North Korea to China

Hyeon’s mother sought out a broker who, for the right price, smuggled them across the border The family then took refuge with Chinese Christian missionaries, who provided them with food and shelter

“ The first evening in China, I was so shocked, because I’d never seen people eating so [much] food for just one meal,” Hyeon said “To me, China was heaven people just ate as much as they [could], and they accumulated rice and other stuff in their house ”

retain the essence of hospitality, which is service ”

While faculty advisor Prof Heather Kolakowski, food and beverage management, offered consultations with the students, the event was primarily executed by the students themselves This served as a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the different aspects of the hospitality industry, according to Euna Hur ’20

“It showed me a lot of ins and outs of the hotel and how much work it actually takes to pull of one of these huge events, ” Hur said

Having been involved with HEC since his freshman year, Franklin Yang ’17, rooms director, also added that this experience even helped him secure his post-graduate plans

“This experience is what really helped me land my next job after

From the first house that he stayed at when he arrived in China, Hyeon could still see the silhouette of North Korea

JEEAH EOM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

No normal undergrad | Columbia undergrad Austin Hyeon describes his expererience escaping from North Korea and subsequent imprisonments

“From North Korea to here, it took only ten minutes but this [was] a totally different world What kind of country had I been living in?” he said

As he quickly learned more about the extent of the human rights issues in North Korea, Hyeon described how he was stunned as he discovered that every basic notion of his world and his life was challenged and upturned

“I learned that I was brainwashed to believe in [the] North Korean regime and the Great

“I learned that I was brainwashed to believe in [the] North Korean regime and the Great Leader ”

Leader,” Hyeon said “I was so upset because I was deceived ”

Along with this enlightenment, however, came the harsh realization that Hyeon’s security still remained unstable As a North Korean refugee, he was an unwanted person in the eyes of the Chinese government, facing the constant risk of imprisonment or repatriation back to North Korea

This fear proved a reality after two years, the Chinese police eventually caught Hyeon and his parents, imprisoning them for a week, and then sending them back to North Korea

At 14, Hyeon was separated from his parents and forced into the horrific conditions of a North Korean youth prison center on his own

“When I first get into my cell, there were three kids who were about same age like me Two boys and one girl,” Hyeon said “But when I first saw the girl in the prison cell, I was stunned, because her ankles were cut off So she was moving with her two hands She couldn’t stand, and she had to use her two hands to move soon, I [realized that] if I stayed any longer, I could be like her, or die ”

Hyeon expressed how words failed to capture his utter despair

See NORTH KOREA page 12

2 Arrested for Reported Backpack Thefts

Nearly $12,000 worth of valuables reported stolen in one day

ARREST

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cash, debit cards, driver’s licenses, purses, an iPad and at least one iPhone, according to the campus crime log

Items from nine of the 11 backpacks reported stolen have an estimated value of $11,777, the crime log shows Police released grainy security camera images on Friday of a man and woman each holding a backpack

Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner previously told The Sun it was not yet known whether the two suspects are thought to be responsible for all of the items reported stolen on Thursday Zoner said the duo is suspected of committing at least several of the thefts

people took advantage of how people are super trusting in this special place of learning ”

The area where students left their backpacks and coats looked like a safe place, Raskolnikov said, because a security camera is trained on the location and two librarians work close by

Raskolnikov said she was especially frustrated because the students had followed her and others’ requests to leave their bags outside of the lecture room and then returned to find some of their backpacks and valuables missing

“These people took advantage of how people are super trusting in this special place of learning ”

Prof Masha Raskolnikov, English, told The Sun that three of her students had their backpacks stolen while they were in The Carl A Kroch Library for a research presentation

The students were handling rare, old books, so they were required to leave their coats and backpacks outside of the lecture room in a designated area, Raskolnikov said

When the students returned from the lecture, three of their backpacks all holding computers were gone, as well as a fourth student’s wallet and a fifth student’s cigarettes, the professor said A student’s hat was taken as well, she said

“All the students were writing papers for me on those laptops, and those students were having a genuine Cornell-only learning experience at the archives, which is a really special part of Cornell,” Raskolnikov said “These

Louisa Heywood ’20 said her backpack full of workout clothes, running shoes and swim gear was taken from the first floor women ’ s locker room of Helen Newman Hall on Thursday Heywood, who writes for The Sun’s dining section, said she gave a written report to Cornell Police and an officer told her police had found the suspects when they attempted to use a stolen credit card

Cornell Police also told Heywood she may not get her possessions back for several months because they will likely be used as evidence, Heywood said

Another student, Meaghan Gee ’19, said her bag full of school notes and handouts, a laptop, Beats headphones, a passport and lots of other items was taken while she was working out in the Noyes Fitness Center on Thursday afternoon It had been sitting right near the fitness monitors’ desk

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

Cornell Law Profs and Deans Clarify University Policy for DACA Students

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Anu Subramaniam can be reached at asubramaniam@cornellsun com

People’s

School No.2 Promotes Education for ‘Collective Emancipation’

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anti-blackness, which are often used by white people and other people of color ”

A major distractory tactic Fears said she has seen recently used at Cornell is the debate over whether or not Cornell would achieve greater “diversity of thought” with an increased number of politically conservative faculty members This debate has even come in a form of a Student Assembly resolution which failed to pass by one vote

“The major hot button topic at Cornell is the Cornell diversity of thought I really feel like Cornell diversity of thought is a distractory tactic from achieving actual diversity on campus, ” Fears said

“We need more diverse faculty, but focusing on how Cornell donates money and using that to say we are more liberal-leaning isn’t going to be useful,” she added “People go through their entire careers at Cornell without having a black professor and that’s an issue That’s a bigger issue than worrying about conservative faculty ”

Cait McDonald, grad, attended Fears’ discussion and said she appreciated the ways it explored “clapbacks” to use when someone uses a distractory tactic

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Alana Sullivan can be reached at asullivan@cornellsun com

Wings Over Ithaca to Open Any Day

Now, he is ready to start doing what he loves again in Collegetown at the new restaurant

“I’m so excited,” he said “I can ’ t wait to just get back in there and do what we do It’s what we know and we ’ re passionate about ”

Leyva and the other owners hired several managers from the previous Wings Over Ithaca location, forming about half of their management team

Gardner said his wife works at Cornell and has been peppered with questions from colleagues about when the restaurant is going to open, raising the stakes for him

“My wife said, ‘ you better do a good job,’” he said, laughing

The wings stop will open at 11 a m

every day and stay open until 3 a m on Friday and Saturday nights, 2 a m on Thursday nights, midnight on Sundays, and 1 a m Monday through Wednesday

The sizable wings generally cost about $1 each, but party deals offer l ow e r p r i c e

a r g e o rd e r s Hamburgers and other sandwiches and wraps will cost about $7

Students can order online, eat at the restaurant, pick up take-out orders or stay at home and order delivery, Leyva said

“We knew that this was a staple for the community but we didn’t realize how much of a staple it was until it went away, ” Leyva said “We’ve been trying to get this open as quickly as possible ”

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

Hotelies Assume Statler Operations

During 92nd HEC Conference

reasons why people come ”

graduation,” Yang said “If I didn’t have the experience that I have now, I would not have gotten the offer that I had ” Yang added that the variety of guests and speakers exposed him to different aspects of the hospitality business as well

“Just about ever y single industry is completely covered,” Yang said “ They all come and converge, and it’s essentially a big meeting of the minds, so it’s a ver y valuable experience, and there’s a lot of

Many alumni enjoyed returning to Cornell to meet with old classmates and professors, according to Diana Delli ’11, assistant general manager at Untitled at the Whitney Union Square Hospitality Group

“I was definitely looking for ward to coming back and just catching up with faculty and classmates,” Delli said “After graduating and working in hospitality and then coming back all the experiences [can be] applied in different scenarios It’s fun being back on

the other side ” While the planning for next year ’ s event has not begun, Yang anticipates it to be even better than this year

“Each conference is going to be great and e a c h c o n f e re n c e we expect is going to be

t one, which is the neverending phrase: this year is going to be the best e ve r, ” Ya n g s a i d

“Everyone learns from mistake they’ve made

whole ”

Dylan Majsiak can be reached at dwm254@cornell edu

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Letter to the Editor

In support of CGSU

To t h e Ed i t o r :

I’m writing to support the CGSU, even though I am not a graduate student

I am a final-year veterinar y student studying dair y production systems Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of spending a lot of time thinking about how to construct and maintain systems that bring out the best in ever yone involved, and that find a way to protect and cater to the needs of ever y individual while still prioritizing the well-being of the whole organization I have also had the privilege of getting to know quite a few graduate students I wouldn’t be part of the proposed bargaining unit, but I’m choosing to spend time helping out with CGSU outreach because of the stories I’ve heard about instances where grad students are expected to do their work, which is challenging enough already, in a system that fails to consistently provide them with reasonable protections that I think they should have

I heard about a person who was aggressively stalked and sexually harrassed, but the crime was never addressed becase the victim was pre-A exam and the perpetrator was post-A exam The victim was counseled by her program to simply avoid him until he graduated, because there was nothing that could be done That is barbaric any way you look at it, and I want to do whatever can to prevent that from happening again I think CGSU could do that, through bargaining for an improved grievance policywhich might even end up helping vet and other professional students

I heard about a Master’s student who was driven out of his Master’s program because his mentor broke promises and expected outrageous working hours, when he had other things in his life that also required his time I know first-hand that many, if not most, of the Professors at Cornell are wonderful people who would never do this because they care deeply about the well-being of their students; I see this as *more* of a reason for both students and faculty to establish uniform baseline protections against unrealistic and unsustainable expectations by the small minority of faculty members who are willing to participate in this cycle of abuse in science CGSU could, with your input, negotiate these protections When I graduate, I’ll get get a job and sign a contract that outlines what is and is not expected of me and my employer; I think that good fences make good neighbors, and I don’t see why academia should expect less

We all are here because we care about science, want to do good work, and want to improve life around us But ever y time an incident like the two I mentioned above happens, it has the potential to drive another promising, hard-working, potentially groundbreaking young thinker out of science That’s bad for all of us Grad students deser ve a management system that prioritizes them, and right now that is not what we have

You may be in a good situation with a good mentor, and if that is the case then I applaud and congratulate you and hope that nothing will change your relationship with your mentor But, you have before you an opportunity to improve your management system The vote is anonymous; unionization is a group action and not an individual one; and when the time comes to place your ballot, I hope you will make whichever choice you feel is best for all Cornell grad students

My best wishes to you all, and a heartfelt thank-you for the good data you generate that makes our lives as veterinarians that much easier!

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I t m i g h t h a v e a m o r e m a n i c u r e d Fa c e b o o k p r o f i l e , t h e k i n d w i t h t h e d e l i b e r a t e l o o k o f s o m e b o d y t r y i n g t o s e l l y o u s o m e t h i n g A t i t s c o r e , t h o u g h , i t i s a c h a r a c t e r t h a t p r o j e c t s i t s c o o l t h r o u g h t h e g l a z e d L E D i m a g e o f i t s p o l i t i c s To b e c l e a r, t h e s o r t o f a e s t h e t i c p o li t i c s t o w h i c h I h a v e b e e n d r a w n d o e s n o t o n l y m a n i f e s t i t s e l f o n s o c i a l m e d i a , a l t h o u g h t h a t i s w h e r e i t i s m o s t o f t e n o n d i s p l a y T h e u s e o f b u z z w o r d s i s t h e l i n g u i s t i c e q u i v a l e n t o f a f i l t e r o n a p r o f i l e p i c t u r e It d e m o n s t r a t e s n e it h e r a n u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f , n o r a c o mm i t m e n t t o , t h e i s s u e s t h a t t h e w o r d s o r i g i n a l l y d e s c r i b e I n s t e a d , t h i n g s b e c o m e p r o b l e m a t i c , a n d s y s t e m s b e c o m e n e o l i b e r a l , n o t s o m u c h b e c a u s e t h e y a r e , b u t b e c a u s e o b s e r v i n g t h a t t h a t t h e y m i g h t b e s a y s s o m e t h i n g a b o u t t h e s p e a k e r ; t h a t i s , t h a t t h e y a r e o n t h e r i g h t t e a m T h e r e i s , o f c o u r s e , v a l u e i n s o l i d a r i t y a n d c o m m o n l a ng u a g e ; h o w e v e r, r e f l e c t i n g w i t h t h e r i g h t a m o u n t o f h o n e s t y, I f i n d t h a t m y m o t i v a t i o n c a n b e a b i t m o r e s e l f - i n t e re s t e d t h a n I a m o f t e n w i l l i n g t o a d m i t I n t h e r o y a l b l u e w o r l d I i n h a b i t , t h e r e i s a l o t o f v a l u e t o b e f o u n d i n h a v i n g t h e p r o p e r i d e o l o g y D u e i n p a r t t o c i r c u m s t a n c e a n d a c c u m u l a t e d s o c i a l c h o i c e s , m y c o m m u n i t y o f p e e r s i s r e m a r k a b l y i d e o l o g i c a l l y h o m o g en o u s M a y b e i t ’ s u n r e m a r k a b l e R e g a r d l e s s , t h i s c o n t e x t o f g e n e r a l a g r

Phony in Farsi

Bouye eidi, bouye toup, bouye kaghaz rangi Bouye tonde mahi doodi, vasate soffre-ye now Bouye yas-e ja namaz-e, termeye madar bozorg

The smell of eid, the smell of toy soccer balls, the smell of colored paper,

The sharp smell of smoked fish in the middle of the table

The smell of jasmine on grandma s cashmere prayer rug

When I smell lime-baked pistachios and tokhmeh, I think of maman ’ s haft seen sparkling in the afternoon sun that peeked through our windows When I smell spring air and grass I think of running back home from the school bus in my brand-new Eid clothes and sniffing the nectar from the hyacinths my mom had planted in our front garden I remember coming inside, throwing my backpack off and cracking salty tokhmeh between my teeth while I watched over our annual Nowruz goldfish, the tart odor of fish food still surrounding its much-too-small bowl Maman would see my backpack and lunchbox sprawled over the floor and scold me for being such a mess Then, remembering it was Eid (How could she forget?), she would hug me and I would inhale the perfume of dryer sheets and honey off of her

Little by little, in what is likely Steve Bannon’s worst nightmare, my unabashedly Iranian family has come to the United States It started with my parents, then my brother and I, then my aunts and uncles and cousins We came one by one, and slowly but surely crafted our own Irans in awkward places; a young Iran in a one-story house on the corner of a cul-de-sac in Boise, an adolescent Iran in a single neighborhood in semi-rural Virginia, a new Iran in downtown Richmond, Albuquerque and so on We tucked our Irans into American crevices wherever we went like a trail of breadcrumbs Our Irans were small, but never vacant Our Irans were elaborate Persian rugs cautiously shipped from Shiraz and intricate brass dishes that were to be seen and never used They held the sharp aromas and stinky flavors of ghormeh sabzi, the soft geometries of Iranian handiwork and the deep syncopations of pre-revolutionary Iran’s mononyms: Googoosh, Ebi, Mahasti, Viguen

I had heard of Third Space Theories before I had heard of Homi Bhabha and I had read Negin Farsad’s funny and smart TED essay on being an Iranian-American Muslim: not wholly Iranian, not wholly American, but instead a “Third Thing,” a hybrid caught in the midst of a push-andpull of cultures where you take a Lunchable to school on one day and khoresht karafs the next I had understood being a Third Thing, identified with it even, but my response to it was oddly clinical I knew I was trapped in the ugly eye-

Letter to the Editor

shaped middle section of a venn diagram, but I also thought that maybe, just maybe by stretching as much as I could, by wholly engaging with our little Irans, I’d be able to have a foot in both circles I’d be able to be Iranian and American, no hyphen necessary

Over winter break, for the first time in years, all our little Irans came together in our Virginian Iran This meant several things: that our house was bursting with people and that there were never enough chairs at the breakfast table, but also that we passed around laughter and dribbled stories back and forth like footballista It meant that our Iran never stopped smelling like chai and zaferoon and golab It meant our Iran was full and hearty, but also that it was different This Iran was more contemporary, more Shiraz- or TehranIran than the Idaho-Iran or Virginia-Iran that had been mine My Iran had always been peppered with Americanisms: books on the presidents, Fargilisi (grossly synthesized Farsi and English) and clandestinely watching the Disney Channel while my parents had their backs turned

Esgh-e yek setare sakhtan ba dolak Tars-e na tamoom gozashtan-e jareemeha-ye eid-e madreseh

Zora Neale Hurston writes, “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background ” I feel most Iranian when I am eating sabzi polo at a majority-white middle school named after a civil-war battle I feel most American when I mess up the words for maestro (ostad) and engineer (mohandes) when talking about the legendary classical musician Mohammad-Reza Shajarian I only recently turned around and noticed the contrast between myself and the Iran I was thrown against Somehow, when I was younger my legs were longer, or the middle space between the two circles of the venn diagram was smaller, and I managed to barely stretch across the pervasive gap Now, I struggle to engage intellectually and socially with Iran the actual one, not my own construction because I’m left grasping at language and culture from which I’ve fallen behind I never quite realized how markedly different my Iran was from that of my cousins, and it hurts to realize it now I’m so behind I’m so behind Growing up, my brother and I always received compliments on our flawless Farsi, but now I struggle to string together a sentence in adult conversation I know little to no slang and barely any abstract language necessar y for argumentation I still listen to 2000s Googoosh and Ebi in an era where there are too many independent Iranian artists to name in nearly every genre of

music I haven’t watched a Persian TV series since, like, 2010 I’ve tried making khoresht in my Collegetown apartment to tragic ends, sadly defaulting to Dino Nuggets instead I don’t have the same ascetic Iranian background as my Iranian-born cousins I’ve never done the ghashogh zadan that Farhad sings of in his classic Nowruz anthem “Koodakaneh,” but I used to go trick-or-treating every year I’ve never played the games Farhad bellows of nostalgically I’ve never gone to an Iranian school, never been through the shaytooni of universally mischievous Iranian schoolchildren

Some of “Koodakaneh” is so familiar to me, yet so much of it is blatantly foreign What a bizarre notion, for Iran to be foreign

I feel pathetic writing this My Iran was a phony, a fake Iran I created in my head and in my heart to reconcile the dissonance I had been born into It’s not that I didn’t know I was a Third Thing; I did, and always have, in theory Now, I am forced to acknowledge its reality in practice I feel scared and I feel sad and I feel helpless, despite knowing there’s an escape Practice Farsi instead of screwing around on Facebook or shadow maman as she swiftly skitters across our kitchen, sprinkling turmeric here, adding dill there

Paradoxically, part of me doesn’t find it urgent

Authenticating my Iran isn’t a priority

Ba yna zemestoon-o sar mikonam

Ba yna, khastegim-o dar mikonam

With these, I end winter

With these, I end my fatigue

“Koodakaneh” is Farsi for childish Farhad sings through a heavy musk of nostalgia, recounting his childhood Nowruz only in terms of sensory memory The smell of yas, the feeling of counting and recounting your Eid money until it’s worn The frenzy of family The warmth of family I find it better when I don’t take the lyrics literally, and instead let his rich, tough voice guide me back to my Irans across America, guide me back to memories of listening to the song itself while Maman made ash-e reshteh and let me lick the spoon These memories get me through the admittedly gloomier spring equinox in Ithaca, wake me up for the 6:28 a m saal-tahvil, remind me to drink the tea Baba bought me and ensure me that my Irans were real They were different, yeah But they were real

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

Administrative interference and the union

To the Editor:

We are Cornell graduate students concerned with the way

s o m e C o r n e l l a d m i n i s t r a t o r s have conducted themselves during the grad unionization campaign In our view, administrators have undercut the election agreement between CGSU and Cornell, and have even subverted t h e i r o w n p o l i c i e s

We are also disturbed that the “Ask a Dean” forum seems little more than a way to disseminate anti-union propaganda and pit

g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s a g a i n s t o n e another

T h e u n i v e r s i t y a n d C G S U agreed in May that there would be one formal statement “setting f o r t h t h e Un i v e r s i t y ’ s o f f i c i a l p o s i t i o n ” f r o m C o r n e l l ; t h a t l e n g t h y s t a t e m e n t , f r o m President Rawlings, was issued in the fall The agreement also perm i t s c e r t a i n a d m i n i s t r a t o r s t o “ c o m m u n i c a t e t h e Un i ve r s i t y ’ s official position (collectively ‘the issues’),” while refraining from using such communications to coerce grads Accordingly, our expectations were that university officials would leave the choice

on whether to unionize up to us, honoring the guidelines set out and agreed to last spring

In the fall, grads began to receive unsolicited emails from the anti-union group At What Cost? using a “cornell edu” listser v According to the university’s I T policy, e-lists should only be used in support of “instruction, research, outreach, administration or other recognized university activities ” We do not believe that this group fits these criteria, and according to email inquiries from grads, AWC thought the same Given its focus, AWC did not expect a cornell edu listser v, b u t n o n e t h e l e s s r e c e i v e d o n e from administrators, seemingly by surprise To be clear, this is not an attack on At What Cost Any group has the right to find legitimate, effective ways to reach out with their message But the university should not support unsolicited anti-union messaging on its official channels We, and several other colleagues, independ e n t l y f i l e d c o m p l a i n t s a b o u t this To ameliorate the violation, we later proposed that Cornell could simply ask AWC to send a m e s s a g e w i t h i t s n e x t e m a i l ,

requiring people to reply “STAY” to continue receiving their communications In its refusal of our r e q u e s t , C o r n e l l f r a m e d cornell edu spam as “bad manners ” and told us that we could just unsubscribe We find this recommendation

u n s a t i s f a c t o r y ( A t t h i s t i m e , AWC’s emails no longer have a link to “unsubscribe ”) The university is here, as in so many instances, the sole arbiter of its o w n p o l i c i e s , l e a v i n g l i t t l e recourse for those affected by the breaching of them Such unilateral, self-ser ving judgments are precisely why a union is essential for grads to advocate for themselves against institutional power Further, allowing unsolicited emails from a cornell edu listser v transmits tacit approval of those emails’ contents We don’t expect anyone to refuse gifts, and AWC are not restricted from seeking them (though on their honor, they claim they “do not have any a f f i l i a t i o n w i t h C o r n e l l University”) To our dismay, we have reason to think Cornell is p r ov i d i n g m o r e t h a n t a c i t a p p r ov a l AWC ’ s u n c a n n i l ytimed emails to the grad body, containing previously unreleased

information about the election, suggest that they are being contacted with information, which they then disseminate to supplem e n t u n i v e r s i t y c o m m u n i c at i o n s In i t s b e s t l i g h t , s u c h a c t i o n s b y C o r n e l l w o u l d b e extremely unseemly

Finally, with the use of the “Ask a Dean” forum, Cornell is b l a t a n t l y s k i r t i n g t h e “ o f f i c i a l p o s i t i o n ” s t i p u l a t i o n A t f i r s t glance, “Ask a Dean” appears to be a step towards transparency But by directly responding to i n d i v i d u a l g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t questions, then for warded to the entire graduate student community, Cornell promotes a range of a n t i - u n i o n v i e w s t h a t d i v e r g e wildly from Rawlings’s “official position ” One particularly vitriolic question accuses CGSU of perpetuating “lies” to attract new members, and “Ask A Dean” has even provided links to the AWC website in response to such questions Even if we grant that the q u e s t i o n s a re g e n u i n e , i t s t i l l appears that deans, with their u n f e t t e r e d a c c e s s t o C o r n e l l grads’ inboxes, are consciously using this forum to subvert the agreement and disseminate antiunion propaganda

The administration espouses the view that the unionization debate should be a free and open exchange of ideas, but uses its powerful platform to undercut the debate, and grads’ expectations that they can make their d e c i s i o n s f r e e o f i n s t i t u t i o n a l interference This is highly disappointing, but it points to why we want a union: to even the playing field between grad workers and the institution We thus call on all grads to support unionization and vote yes, so we can have a real voice in the policies that affect us in many areas of our

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A Necessary Evil Prioritize Privacy

Over Partisanship

Although politics make me want to vomit, every semester there’s a political issue I weigh in on This semester, it’s Wikileaks’ high profile leak of CIA hacking materials: Vault 7 Last week, my Reddit exploded with coverage and I’m bothered by the lack of mainstream outlets’ explanation of the leaks

This is another missed opportunity to start a national conversation about digital privacy There are an uncomfortable amount of gray areas involving digital privacy specifically, monitoring people’s digital habits without their explicit permission Your computer says a lot about you you can learn a lot about someone by looking at their Netflix All kidding aside, passive aggressively letting technological capability decide what is acceptable until it becomes a problem is not the proper course of action

Even worse, media outlets dismissed the leaks as a “distraction” from inquiries into U S Attorney General Jeff Sessions meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak Attacking Wikileaks’ sources is unapologetically ad hominem It avoids discussing the ethics of the CIA's extensive program to moni-

tor civilians via the exploitation of consumer technology

Discussing the CIA’s hacking exploits is really important You should not think that you are safe just because you have nothing to hide People don’t act the same when they’re monitored, and spying on civilians feels uncomfortably like the practices of a police state out of a novel like 1984

It is also comically partisan to prioritize Russian influence over CIA overreach This is the first time Democrats view the CIA more keenly than Republicans This change in sentiment isn’t ideological at least I hope not Giving the CIA a pass for hacking foreign governments but throwing a fit when Russia hacks us is incredibly hypocritical Most likely, this change happened because in politics the enemy of the my enemy is my friend Democrats are also salty about Wikileaks for publishing John Podesta’s emails this fall

However, this isn’t a partisan issue; Wikileaks isn’t partisan Obviously, Wikileaks knew the implications of Podesta’s emails on this fall election, but they weren ’ t so calculated Wikileaks wouldn’t have hesitated to publish RNC emails if they could get them But, hacking is hard, and in some cases impossible Getting John Podesta’s emails involved an insanely unlucky typo He gave away his email credentials because his tech staff accidentally implied a phishing email was legitimate

And of course, I’ll admit Wikileaks’ relationship with Russia raises eyebrows The leaks this fall likely originated with hackers sponsored by the Russian government And, the Russian government (like every other government) was interested the race ’ s outcome But, Wikileaks is anything but a Russian puppet They’ve thrown Russia’s government under the same bus as the CIA, John Podesta and many others During the height of the Syrian civil war, they didn’t hesitate publishing diplomatic cables between Putin and Assad these cables had serious implications

So if it wasn ’ t clear, dismissing the Wikileaks’s Vault 7 documents as Russian propaganda is ad hominem, hypocritical and comically partisan These documents should kickstart the national discussion on digital privacy That’s my schtick and I’m sticking to it Let’s finally start the discussion about digital privacy Tune in next time for more

Eric Schulman is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at eschulman@cor nellsun com Schulman’s Schtick appears alter nate mondays this semester

On any given day at Cornell, you are bound to see at least one person walking around in a suit They could be r ushing a pre-professional fraternity or headed to one of the millions of daily Handshake events, but it’s usually safe to assume that they’re not just headed to class Last semester, The Sun published an ar ticle on why students held disdain

t Cornell, while I’ve admittedly seen pockets of what could be described as careerism, the vast majority of what I’ve seen has mostly just been pragmatism

Careerism is defined as “the policy or practice of advancing one ' s career often at the cost of one ' s integrity,” so it makes sense that many Cornellians aren ’ t huge fans of its supposed presence on campus I’m not a fan myself, but I think there’s an impor tant distinction to be made between careerism and general pre-professionalism Careerism, by its definition, is obviously bad Preprofessionalism, on the other hand, is fine You might

o n LinkedIn, but in the grand scheme of things, this kind of pre-professionalism is ultimately harmless The reality of college is that someday it ends Having a plan for after graduation could be considered preprofessional, but it’s also necessar y unless you have the financial means to live without an income which most people don’t

At a school with a yearly tuition of $52,000, it’s not safe to assume that ever yone who is concerned about their future salar y is simply a greedy person

The kid you see as “careerist” might just be graduating with a ton of student loans, or have a family back home in need of financial suppor t Or maybe they’re just interested in making a lot of money, but you never really know, nor do you need to Par t of the beauty of college is that, in some cases, we get to learn for the sake of learning Not ever y

class includes conventionally marketable skills, but marketable skills also aren ’ t deemed the only valuable currency in academia That being said, I think there is a notion that someone can ’ t be an intellectual while being pre-professional, that worr ying about jobs and salaries in addition to worr ying about academics is somehow an example of selling out, or being smallminded I think this is a flawed way of looking at the link between academics and the applicability of our lessons in real life

One thing I will concede about careerism, pre-professionalism or any kind of culture that revolves around jobs and future plans, is that they can add to the stress levels on campus and beyond But I don’t think that these are Cornell-specific (or even fieldspecific) phenomena Whether you ’ re an English major or someone studying AEM, you have to figure out where you ’ re going to go and what you ’ re going to do when you eventually leave Ithaca This is a reality for all students, not just students at Cornell The previous Sun ar ticle on careerism pointed out an obsession with prestige and marketability, and I can definitely see this on campus But I think the subset of students who are driven exclusively by the goals of impressing others and making a lot of money are in the minority

Figuring out your plans, as long as you do so in a way that doesn’t vie w school itself as peripheral, doesn ’ t seem to me like it poses any great threat to learning and growing on campus In the end, pre-professionalism isn’t a simple binar y of good and bad; it’s something that feels necessar y at times but also has negative facets that potentially detract from academia

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun com The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester

Guest Room | Michael Kotlikoff

Housing and Enrollment

Last fall, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi and I met with faculty, staff and students to outline a plan for addressing student housing on our Ithaca campus This plan arose from a comprehensive review of student housing, including surveys and meetings with students, faculty and staff, and was the result of a decision by Cornell’s leadership to focus on improving the student experience one of our three major strategic goals The university guarantees on-campus housing for all freshmen and sophomores, but despite the fact that our residence halls operate at nearly 100 percent occupancy, we do not have sufficient university housing to meet the demand for on-campus housing of almost half of our sophomores Cornell’s insufficient housing capacity results in a stressful situation for many first-year students, who are faced with the challenge of finding off-campus housing for their sophomore year within their first weeks on our campus Operating at full capacity also prevents us from taking beds offline to address deferred maintenance, resulting in a significant backlog of deferred maintenance in our campus residences The Housing Master Plan presented last fall addresses both capacity and maintenance in a way that will ensure housing for freshmen and sophomores and create appropriate residential environments for each class year

Achieving this goal will require the addition of new housing and dining facilities on North Campus, as well as the ongoing renovation of existing residential buildings An additional component of the plan involves working with city officials to identify ways to improve off-campus housing for students living in

The Housing Master Plan presented last fall addresses both capacity and maintenance in a way that will ensure housing for freshmen and sophomores.

Collegetown By making this investment, we hope to create better student housing options, decrease firstyear stress, and enhance the livinglearning experience While addressing housing needs for our current and future students, the plan also provides the university with added flexibility to accommodate an increase in undergraduate enrollment Pressure to modestly increase our undergraduate student population arises from several new academic programs and shifts in existing majors We have launched programs such as Biomedical Engineering and have hired new faculty without an attendant increase in student enrollment Similarly, applications to the Dyson School have more than doubled since creation of the Cornell S C Johnson College of Business without any added enrollment More students are also needed in the College of Agriculture and

Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences to address recent shifts in majors We anticipate admitting 275 more freshmen beginning in 2020 This increase in enrollment will not only make a Cornell education available to more students, but will also create opportunities for greater academic investment, helping to further advance Cornell’s academic stature and our research and outreach missions Increased enrollment will necessitate careful evaluation of our existing majors, student support services and undergraduate curricula We have begun a comprehensive study of our Gateway Courses, and the College of Arts and Sciences, under the leadership of Dean Gretchen Ritter, is undertaking a comprehensive curriculum review Moreover, we are planning significant investments in faculty and staff, as well as in upgrading our major academic buildings and classrooms Together with the university’s investments in academic programming and faculty hiring, the benefits of improved housing and infrastructure investments will improve the student experience and advance Cornell’s reputation as a premier teaching and research institution

Michael Kotlikoff is the provost of Cornell University Guest Room runs periodically thoughout the semester Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsu com

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( i n c l u d i n g Mo re Li f e ) h a s b e e n d e c e p t i ve l y u n o r i g in a l i n i t s p rox i m i t y t o o t h e r c h a r t - t o p p i n g r a p p e r s

How d i f f e re n t a re Dr a k e ’ s a n d 2 C h a i n z ’ s ve r s e s o n

“ Sa c r i f i c e s ? ” Wi t h 2 C h a i n z l o n g b e i n g c o n s i d e re d a n e x a m p l e o f t h e d u m b i n g d ow n a n d d e g e n e r a t i o n o f h i p h o p, Dr a k e s e e m s t o b e o d d l y s i m i l a r i n h i s c h o i c e o f b e a t , d e l i ve r y a n d , f r a n k l y, h i s u n i n s p i re d p u n c h l i n e s On e s h o u l d a l s o n o t i c e t h e r a p p e r s t h a t a re f e a -

t u re d o n Mo re Li f e Be t we e n t w o Yo u n g T h u g f e at u re s , 2 C h a i n z a n d Qu a vo , i t w o u l d b e h a rd n o t t o p l a c e h i m i n t h e i r c a t e g o r y i f t h i s w a s yo u r f i r s t e n c o u n t e r w i t h Dr a k e A n d we w i l l g l o s s ove r t h e f o r g e t t a b l y d i s a p p o i n t i n g PA RT Y N E X T D O O R f e a -

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T h e a b u n d a n t s i n g i n g i n Mo re Li f e i s a n u n q u e s t i o n a b l e b l e s s i n g ; “ No t h i n g s In t o So m e t h i n g s ” a n d “ Te e n a g e Fe ve r ” m a k e u s f e e l l i k e c h o r u s e s f ro m Ta k e Ca re o r No t h i n g Wa s t h e Sa m e No s t a l g i c f a n s d o n o t o n l y m i s s t h e c h o r u s e s , t h e y a l s o m i s s t h e b a r s On “ L o s e Yo u , ” Dr a k e f i n a l l y a d d re s s e s t h e a l i e n a t i o n h i s f a n h a ve f e l t f ro m h i s l a te s t l y r i c s O ve r i n t e r s p e r s e d c h o rd s o n a g r a n d p i a n o ,

Dr a k e a s k s i f h i s o r i g i n a l f a n s h a ve s t a ye d w i t h h i m i n h i s n e w e n d e a vo r s Sa d l y, o n a 2 2 t r a c k a l b u m , t h e re d o e s n o t s e e m t o b e e n o u g h ve r s e s t h a t re a l l y h a ve s o m e t h i n g t o s a y “ Do No t Di s t u r b” ( a n d t h e p re - re l e a s e d “ Tw o Bi rd s

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k e h a s l o s t u s A s w i t h l i f e , c e r t a i n m o m e n t s , p h a s e s a n d f e e l i n g s a re i r ret r i e va b l y i n t h e p a s t Dr a k e w i l l c o n t i n u a l l y t o e vo l ve a n d d e ve l o p a n e w i d e n t i t y, a n d e x p e c t i n g t o h e a r s e q u e l s t o S o Fa r Go n e a n d Ta k e Ca re w i l l s e e m i n g l y o n l y e n d i n d i s a p p o i n t m e n t Bu t p e r h a p s we c a n g r a n t Dr a k e h i s w i s h a n d l e t Mo re Li f e b e a n e w p l a y l i s t a d i f f e re n t p l a y l i s t f o r o u r n e w l i f e a d ve n t u re s , w h e t h e r o r n o t i t i s a n yt h i n g l i k e t h e Dr a k e we u s e d t o k n ow

Nick Mileti is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at ncm45@cornell edu

M o h s i n H a m d i ’ s N o v e l E x i t W e s t O p e n s D o o r s To t h e M i g r a n t E x p e r i e n c e

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Contributor

Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel Exit West tells the compelling stor y of migrants Saeed and Nadia as they face the challenges of a nameless countr y in the midst of civil war In fleeing their countr y, the couple passes through Greece, England and the United States, and face literal and p

anonymity that appeals to human experie

detachment that explicate the migrant experience to his readers Through simple but poignant prose, Hamid spins a tale of anxiety and hope that is equally engaging and humbling

Mohsin Hamid is an internationally bestselling author and essayist who is known for tackling topics that shake global social and political spheres Exit West

p re s e n t s t h e s e t h e m e s t h a t h a ve w o n Hamid a myriad of awards, including the Man Booker Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature These accolades are not without warrant; Hamid’s dynamic style and honest tone allow his fiction to straddle postmodernity and the moment

Whether through the sprinkling of smaller, more contained glimpses of unaffiliated characters within the larger narrative or through the blending of the real and the surreal, Hamid uses pastiche and intertextuality to propel the reader into a post-

modern world that has striking reverberations throughout globalized experience With an emphasis on the psychological i m p a c t o f m i g r a t i o n , p a s s a g e o c c u r s through magical realist “doors,” that take refugees, like the novel’s protagonists, to other parts of the world in the span of a sentence

When Saeed first falls for independent, motorcycle-riding Nadia, their relationship is tried merely by natural tensions in their different personalities But, as their romance develops and their city becomes increasingly dangerous, their relationship fosters a sense of comfort for each of them as violent militants besiege their city The war complicates, even inhibits, aspects of ever yday life in the urban setting that resembles cities like Aleppo and Mosul These trials throw a wrench into Saeed and Nadia’s respective lives and drive Nadia to seek refuge westward After the passing of his mother due to a “ stray heavy-caliber round,” it becomes more evident to Saeed that he must leave his home, and the two begin to make plans with agents to escape the atmosphere of gunfire, soldiers and drone sur veillance that over whelms the city The decision to leave, though it appears to be one of agency, is really one of exile Saeed is forced to abandon his life at home, including his father who refuses to leave the remnants of the life he and his wife erected t h e re T h i s d e p a r t u re s e n d s f r a c t u re s throughout Saeed’s and Nadia’s lives, as “the scattering of his extended family and his circle of friends and acquaintances,

forever, struck him as deeply sad, amounting to the loss of a home, no less, of his home ” Nadia and Saeed are taken by the undertow of compulsor y migration and are dragged, both willingly and unwillingly, into the throes of global migration

“In those days ” Hamid writes “the passage was bo being born ” S a b a n d o n m e n t v a d e s t h migrant expe e n c e i n t “when we mig

w e m u rd e r our lives those behind ” But same time, N Saeed are to new worlds as t h r o u g h

L o n d o n a n d Francisco Bay of their new l undercuts thi both Saeed’s ness his m cence begin couple’s late about starr y nights and futures dissipate into companionable silence, then aphonic detachment The way that movement consequently changes one ’ s person interrupts the momentum of Nadia and Saeed’s relationship, but the tone is not resentful Instead, it is one of acceptance

allows the novel to look for ward with a complacency at what could become a reality in which we are all migrants of sorts

Though, at the conception of his novel, Hamid could not have predicted the political atmosphere into which Exit l a u n c h e d , h i s with almost psyhroughout cong l o b a l c r i s e s the resonances y appeal to the icy of the Trump ation, but also to al sentiments of on that are not so He alludes to a r s a

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n a n d b oy will all be lost me after us and unites humanity, g, the temporar y nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow ” He continues, “it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity’s potential for building a better world ”

Instead of dwelling on the unimaginable trials of migration, Hamid evokes a

Victoria Horrocks is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at vrh23@cornell edu

Redefining Space at the Johnson

BY VARUN BIDDANDA Sun Contributor

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assumes the narrative of a mass migration The arrows mirror not only the countless decisions of a journey but

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s o f Tiravanija’s passpor t Fusing place and

also the innumerable (and often contradictor y) narratives which simultaneously inhabit and constr uct their space

Thus, while Tiravanija’s life may have been the original inspiration for the work, it is cer tainly not the only one. He has elegantly created a breathtaking space that may be by him but cer tainly not of him, a space of staggering propor tions and humbling reach that initiates a conversation of global inclusion

t h e s t a b b i n g m ove m e n t s o f “ K n i f e ” f o r m i n g a s t a rk c o n t r a d i c t i o n t o i t s

c o n ve n t i o n a l l y a s s o c i a t e d m ove m e n t s o f c h o p p i n g a n d d i c i n g ) A f t e r T, t h e re m a i n i n g l e t t e r s a re d r a w n by Ro s l e r ’ s ow n m ov e m e n t s w h i l e s h e h o l d s a

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t h e i r i n t e n d e d p u r p o s e m a k e s i n c re a si n g l y o bv i o u s h ow l i t t l e Se m i o t i c s o f t h e K i t c h e n h a s t o d o w i t h t h e a c t u a l k i t c h e n T h e re s u l t i s a d i s s o l u t i o n o f t h e d o c i l i t y c o n ve n t i o n a l l y a s s o c i a t e d w i t h t h e d o m e s t i c s p a c e a n d a s t h e i m p l e m e n t s a re s t r i p p e d o f t h e i r t y p ic a l s u b s t r a t e , t h e s e t o o l s b e c o m e t h e h e l p l e s s o b j e c t s o f t h e a r t i s t ’ s c o nt a i n e d , ye t a t t h e s a m e t i m e u n d i m i ni s h e d , r a g e In t h e i m p l e m e n t s ’ t r a n sf o r m a t i o n f ro m t o o l s o f o p p re s s i o n t o t o o l s o f i n s u r re c t i o n , t h e y n o t o n l y re a l i ze t h e t r a n s i t i o n f ro m d o m e s t i c i t y t o v i o l e n c e b u t a l s o t r a n s f o r m d o m e st i c s p a c e i n t o a s p a c e o f re vo l u t i o n a n d re s i s t a n c e At t h e h e a r t o f t h e Go l d Ga l l e r y i s a

e s t h e f o r m a t o f a n a l p h a b e t i c p ro g re s s i o n , w i t h c o m m o n k i t c h e n i m p l e m e n t s b e i n g u t i l i ze d a s re p re s e n t a t i ve s o f t h e i r re s p e c t i ve l e tt e r Be g i n n i n g w i t h ove r h a l f a m i n u t e o f t h e u n f l i n c h i n g g a ze o f t h e a r t i s t h o l d i n g a s i g n o f t h e w o rk’s t i t l e , a n u n d e n i a b l e s e n s e o f d i s c o m f o r t i s p rod u c e d f ro m t h e s t a r t ; n o n e o f t h e k i t c h e n o b j e c t s o f t h e s t u d y a re u s e d i n c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h t h e i r t y p i c a l s u bs t r a t e : f o o d R a t h e r, t h e i m p l e m e n t s a re o f t e n u t i l i ze d , o f t e n t i m e s a g a i n s t e a c h o t h e r, i n w a y s t h a t r a n g e f ro m l a u g h a b l y c o n t r a d i c t o r y ( t h e a c t o f u t il i z i n g “ Gr a t e r ” o n “ Fo rk” ) t o v i s i b l y v i o l e n t ( e xe m p l i f i e d i n o n e i n s t a n c e by

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r l y i n g t h e m e o f t h e e x h i b i t T h e s u b l i m e b e a u t y o f t h e e x h i b i t i o n , t h e re f o re , d o e s n o t o r i g i n a t e f ro m t h e a e s t h e t i c t e c h n i q u e s m a n i f e s t e d by i t s w o rk s , t h o u g h u n d o u b t e d l y i m p re s s i ve i n t h e i r ow n r i g h t It re s i d e s i n t h e n o t i o n t h a t t h i s e x h i b

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d e l i ve r a n c e “ I d i d n ’ t b e l i e ve i n Go d u n t i l t h a t m o m e n t , ” h e s a i d “ I j u s t p r a ye d , ‘ If yo u a re a re a l Go d , a n d i f yo u a re a l i v i n g Go d , p l e a s e r e s c u e m e f r o m t h i s p r i s o n ’ ” T h e n e x t d a y, by s o m e m i r ac l e , a s e n i o r o f f i c e r b r o u g h t

Hye o n o u t o f h i s p r i s o n c e l l , a n d a l l owe d h i m t o ro a m f re e l y o n t h e p r i s o n y a rd w i t h o u t h i s s u p e r v i s i o n Gr a b b i n g n o t h i n g b u t t w o s t o n e s p o t e n t i a l w e a p o n s Hy e o n t o o k t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o r u n a w a y f ro m t h e yo u t h p r i s o n a n d s u c c e s s f u ll y h e a d e d b a c k t o C h i n a Hy e o n r e u n i t e d w i t h h i s m o t h e r i n C h i n a , b u t t h e i r j oy w a s s h o r t - l i ve d a s t h e y s o o n d i sc ove re d t h a t Hye o n ’ s s i s t e r h a d

b e e n c a u g h t b y t h e C h i n e s e p o l i c e a n d w a s b e i n g s e n t b a c k t o No r t h Ko re a De c i d i n g t h a t t h e y c o u l d n o l o n g e r l i ve i n t h e c o n s t a n t f e a r o f h a v i n g t h e i r i d e n t i t i e s d i s c o v e r e d , Hy e o n a n d h i s m o t h e r r e s o l v e d t o s e a rc h f o r t h e i r f re e d o m a n d s a f e t y i n So u t h Ko re a Un d e r t h e g u i d a n c e o f a

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“I knew I couldn’t survive in the country. My parents were in prison ... there was no reason to stay in the country.”

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T h e y t r a ve l l e d f ro m C h i n a t o My a n m a r, w h e re t h e y l e a r n e d t h a t t h e So u t h Ko re a n e m b a s s y c o u l d d o l i t t l e t o h e l p t h e m i f t h e y we re n o t p h y s i c a l l y p re s e n t a t t h e e m b a s s y T h u s , Hye o n a n d t h e o t h e r No r t h Ko re a n s d e c i d e d t o c ro s s t h e Me k o n g R i ve r a n d b e c o m e re f u g e e s i n L a o s “ We b o u g h t f o u r t i re s We d i s t r i b u t e d t h e t u b e s t o t h e f e m a l e s , a n d I [ h e l d ] m y m o m ’ s t u b e A n o t h e r No r t h Ko r e a n p e r s o n a n d Gr a n d f a t h e r j u m p e d i n t o t h e w a t e r w i t h o u t a n y t u b e s , ” Hye o n re c o u n t e d “ Bu t w e w e r e s o s t u p i d We t h o u g h t we c o u l d s w i m i n t h e w a t e r, b u t b e c a u s e t h e c u r re n t w a s s o s t r o n g , w e w e r e j u s t w a s h [ e d ] a w a y A n d , s o o n , we f o u n d o u t t h a t Gr a n d f a t h e r w

“I decided to go to school because I know [that] if I want to be the person who can help out North Koreans, I have to learn ” A u s t i n H y e o n

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Assistant Sports Editor Josh Zhu sat down with senior and captain lacrosse player Catie Smith to talk about everything from her proudest accomplishments as an athlete to her thoughts on the Slope Day artists

1 How did you become involved in lacrosse?

I had two older brothers and they both played before me, so around the second grade I started to play

2. Can you tell me about your time in

Conestoga High School?

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Philadelphia All my best friends played lacrosse with me there My coach played at UNC she was really awesome and kind of let us run the team as seniors That had its ups and downs, but overall I had a really great experience there In fact, I actually got into Cornell because of a game in high school The coach came to one of my games in high school, saw me, and that's actually pretty much how got into Cornell

3 How did you decide upon playing at Cornell?

Actually when I was a junior in high school, I almost decided I didn’t want to play lacrosse in college anymore because I got missed in the first round of recruiting I ended up focusing all my time on my highschool team Then in a random game, I scored one of the last goals I think it may have won the game and one of the coaches saw me and emailed me I came up to campus, loved it, and then automatically chose it

Can you talk a little bit more about that game?

I don’t really remember too well, but I want to say it was a playoff game before the championships I had an eight meter shot right after the other team committed a foul on me in front of the goal, and I had a couple seconds left so I just ran it in and made it

4 What is your greatest accomplishment as a Cornell athlete?

I would say winning the Ivy League championship last year We definitely came in as the underdogs in the tournament, ranked third overall To come back and beat two teams we had previously lost to in the regular season, Princeton and Penn, was just an awesome feeling It was also the first time Cornell women ’ s lacrosse had won an Ivy tournament so it was just awesome

5 What would you say is the greatest strength of the team this year?

I think the greatest strength is how much everyone supports each other on and off the field We’re all really close knit friends, so whether someone ’ s having a bad day, dropped a ball on the field, or missed a goal, we ’ re all backing each other up 100 percent of the time That fosters a lot of trust in games and in difficult situations

6. If you didn’t have to worry about money or a job, where would you live in

the world?

Probably Hawaii I went there for [for the first time] this Christmas break and it was awesome and beautiful and hot, unlike Ithaca It also had really great food

7 What do you think about the Slope Day artists?

To be honest, I haven’t really thought about it because we don’t go to Slope Day if we make the NCAA tournament I do like MisterWives’s “Reflections” and “Our Own House,” but I haven’t heard of any of the other artists Sorry!

8 What is the most memorable class you ’ ve taken at Cornell?

Definitely Critical Reading and Thinking It’s HE 1115 with Professor Helene Selco and she pretty much helps you manage your life, like writing calendars and stuff It wasn ’ t a taxing class, but it was more useful than I thought it would be

9 Who is one of the biggest inspirations in your life?

I would say my mom She’s always doing things for other people and putting everyone else first She’s pretty much taken care of everyone around her and is so humble My dad, too; he’s very humble and has just taught me so many good values in my life

10 What is something about you that not many people know?

Everyone knows that my two favorite foods are chocolate and strawberries, but I hate chocolate covered strawberries

Bonus: You only get three words to describe yourself ; what are they? Weird, happy, hungry

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Red Falls in ECAC Finals, Earns NCAA No. 3 Seed

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

LAKE PLACID, N Y In three games against Clarkson in the ECAC quarterfinals, Cornell men ’ s hockey failed to put up more than 18 shots in any of the three contests, forced to capitalize on a mere few scoring chances to take the three-game series

Just one week later, in the ECAC semifinals against a superior team in Union, Cornell put up more shots in a 20 minute frame than in any Clarkson contest, en route to a 4-1 victory and a spot in the championship match against Harvard

“We got here, and unfortunately we didn’t get the result we wanted, but proud of the guys in the

“That was the turning point in our season, ” senior forward Eric Freschi said of games two and three against Clarkson “Our season was on the line after we lost game one, then we fought back and won two games That really showed the character of our team ” Friday night’s opening period was tied for the most shots in a single period for the 201617 Cornell team, with the other 21-shot frame coming in the second period of a 5-2 win over Northern Michigan at the Florida College Classic The team that struggled to get out of its own end at times against Clarkson flipped the script to open the game, and held one of the country ’ s most potent offenses to a seven-shot first period

“A word was thrown around that we underestimated this team, ” said Union head coach Rick Bennett “I have no idea why we would ever think that going into this game, but that’s the mindset sometimes of a college guy ”

The focus for Cornell going into the semifinal matchup like any team ’ s gameplan against Union would be was trying to figure out how to limit the country ’ s finest in Mike Vecchione and Spencer Foo, both of whom are finalists for the Hobey Baker Award In two regular season games, the combination of Vecchione and Foo amassed a total of six points on the Red

On Friday, the duo had only one a Foo assist on his team ’ s only goal For Cornell head coach Mike Schafer ’86, senior forward and captain Jake Weidner selected as the ECAC’s best defensive forward was the key to that accomplishment the third time around

“ There’s no doubt in my mind that [Vecchione] should win the Hobey Baker Award,” Schafer said “[Weidner] has gone head to head against Vecchione in threestraight games, and he hasn’t given up a fiveon-five goal against him He leads by example and our guys follow him ” Rather than just limiting Vecchione and Foo, the team put forth its own onslaught on Union’s Alex Sakellaropoulos, and the Union netminder did all he could to keep his team afloat by denying everything Cornell threw at him in the first

But 3:23 into the second period, Cornell freshman forward Noah Bauld became the first to solve the Red’s opponent in net Linemate Dwyer Tschantz’s shot hit post, then bounced right to Bauld’s waiting stick, and the freshman sent the no-doubter into the back of the net to put the Red on the board first

Weidner made it a two-goal hole for the Dutchmen on a power play one-timer from the top of the left circle The play required review, but upon confirmation, the captain followed up the freshman for what would turn into the eventual game-winner

But after Weidner’s tally and around the halfway point of the second period, Union finally began to play like a team that earned

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

LAKE PLACID, N Y It was that kind of night for Cornell men ’ s hockey

Not Friday night, when the team used a 21-shot first period and four goals to cruise by Union Nor was it a night like Clarkson game one, where the Red was blown out 6-2, and it looked like a NCAA bid might be in limbo

It was not one of those nights

Cornell’s 4-1 loss to Harvard in the ECAC championship match was one of those nights that simply make you scratch your head and wonder what the team from Ithaca did to upset the supernatural powers that govern the sport of hockey

Bounces like that, along with the tournament ’ s most outstanding player in Madsen making 25 of 26 saves in his team ’ s win, was the Red’s downfall Cornell consistently threw a flurry of shots at Madsen, but the finalist for the ECAC’s top goalie award kept his team on top all night long

“The kid made a couple great saves and they come down and fire one in,” Schafer said of Harvard’s ability to capitalize when necessary

To go along with Madsen, Harvard swept every position on the all-tournament team but one Cornell senior defenseman Patrick McCarron was given all-tournament honors at defense

Every sequence, bad bounce after bad bounce seemed to plague the Red, certainly not helped by the stellar play of Crimson goaltender Merrick Madsen

“The game can be cruel like that sometimes,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 “But bottom line they capitalized on their scoring chances and we didn’t

With three minutes played in the third, and Cornell already facing a 20 deficit, Harvard defenseman Wiley Sherman sent an innocuous dump into the Red’s end, and Cornell senior goalie Mitch Gillam went through the routine motions to collect it behind his net

But a bizarre bounce on the glass resulted in the puck creeping out in front of the net, only to find the stick of Crimson for ward Michael Floodstrand With Gillam out of position, Floodstrand goalless to this point all season sent the nodoubter over a sliding Holden Anderson to stifle solid Cornell pressure and get his team up three

But no honors could have made Saturday’s loss more sweet Harvard sophomore Ryan Donato netted two goals, and Luke Esposito added one more in addition to Floodstrand The bounces went Harvard’s way, and the Crimson have taken all three matchups against the Red so far this season, scoring four goals in each contest

“We didn’t capitalize on our scoring chances and they capitalized on theirs,” Schafer said “That’s the way hockey is sometimes ”

Regardless of missing out on the program ’ s 13th Whitelaw Cup, it has not been a disappointment by any stretch of the word Cornell was picked to finish in the middle of the pack in the preseason polls, but fought off arduous road trips and key injuries to finish a respectable third in the ECAC come the regular season ’ s end

“ This is our expectation ever y year, ” said senior captain and forward Jake Weidner “Every single year we start doing what we need to do to get to the ECACs and move on to the