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‘Asking for a union is not a sign of our privilege; it’s a sign of our solidarity’

GRADS TO VOTEON UNIONIZATION

Sen. Chuck Schumer praises labor movement, CGSU effort

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

As graduate students prepare to head to the polls, U S Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N Y ) sent a statement to Cornell graduate workers pronouncing his support for unionization

Pointing to Cornell as a “valuable economic driver” both in the state and the nation, Schumer noted that t h e Un i

“I believe in the right of employees to organize and to collectively bargain for fair contracts.”

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plished this status “fueled by t

n g efforts of R A s and T A s ”

Although Schumer did not specifically tell graduates how he thought they should vote this week, he proclaimed his support the National Labor Relations Board’s decision in August a decision that allowed graduate workers to unionize saying that “it is a decision [he] strongly supported because [he] believe[s] in the right of employees to organize and to collectively bargain for fair contracts, ” the statement read

Along with his support for the NLRB ruling, Schumer added his belief on the value of unionization and the American labor movement, which he said has

AFT President Randi Weingarten ’80 rallies grads before major vote

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Managing Editor

Randi Weingar ten ’80 returned to Ithaca on Saturday to discuss the same topic she studied as a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations: unionization

A s t h e p re s i d e n t o f t h e American Federation of Teachers the national union affiliated with Cornell Graduate Students United Weingarten praised Cornell graduate workers and urged them to vote for unionization on Monday and Tuesday In an address to graduate students gathered at Hasbrouck

C o m m u n i t y C e n t e r, We i ngarten assured the group that the AFT would not try to diminish

l o c a l a u t o n o m y In s t e a d , s h e said, it would be a group that would support graduates if they needed it

Weingarten highlighted the

been “ a springboard for advancement, economic equity and fair representation in the workplace ”

“It has been my experience that workplaces function most effectively when there is a proper balance between workers and management, ” Schumer said in the statement “Most importantly, unions build the middle class by affording hardworking people fair wages, decent benefits and a say over their work lives ”

diversity of locals that are affiliated with the AFT She said the 3,500 locals “ are as different as they can be,” and pointed out that the AFT is still growing, especially since the election of President Donald Trump She said that when the first travel ban was announced, she and her partner went to John F Kennedy Airport in New York City to protest with hundreds of others

While on her way, she said she got a call saying that a prof e s s o r a t C U N Y w h o belonged to a union affiliated with the AFT was unable to enter the United States because of the ban

T h ro u g h w o rk i n g w i t h a variety of people including U S Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N Y ), the professor was able to come

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Graduate students head to the polls to cast ballots on union recognition

By ANNA DELWICHE

News Editor

A f t e r t h re e years of organizing a n d c a m p a i g n i n g by Cornell Graduate Students United, Cornell graduate students head t o t h e p o l l s o n Monday and Tuesday to cast ballots for the union recognition election

The results of this election will determine whether C o r n e l l g r a d u a t e students establish C G S U w i t h affiliates American Fe d e r a t i o n o f Teachers and New York State United Te a c h e r s a s their graduate student union

If a majority of

vo t i n g g r a d u a t e students vote for re p re s e n t a t i o n by the union, Cornell “shall immediately g r a n t re c o g n i t i o n to the union as the exclusive collective b a r g a i n i n g re p resentative,” according to the contract b e t we e n C G S U and the University That bargaining representative would have all the rights and obligations of a National Labor Review Board-certified union W h i l e u n i o n s h a ve b e e n c o mmonplace at public u n i ve r s i t i e s with CGSU memb e r s f re q u e n t l y pointing to Unive r s i t y

Days before polls open for the election, many graduate students are still unsure of how they want to vote.

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Polar Plungers Raise $40K for New York Special Olympics

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Hundreds of brave Cornellians and Tompkins County residents raised more than $40,000 for local Special Olympics athletes by running or d i v i n g i n t o f r i g i d C a y u g a L a k e a t

Taughannock State Park on Saturday afternoon

The fourth annual Ithaca Polar Plunge raised $40,192 via registration fees from students, local organizations and others who high-stepped into the cold waters on a rainy afternoon

“It was cold it was freezing It definitely takes your breath away when you first jump in.”

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“It was cold it was freezing,” said Cooper Paston ’18 said as he and several other Phi Kappa Psi members who had participated in the plunge dried off at the park “It’s been colder in years past, but this was fun It definitely takes your breath away when you first jump in ”

Just chillin’ | Cornellians and members of local agencies ran into Cayuga Lake on Saturday to raise money for New York Special Olympics athletes

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“You’re ready to get in and out, ” he added as another fraternity member wrapped himself in a New York Yankees bathrobe

The fraternity has participated in each of the four years the plunge has been held at the park, members said

Many plungers donned silly outfits clown noses, chicken costumes, colorful clothes or recorded selfie videos as they entered the water

About a dozen members of the Ithaca Police Department donned their uniforms and entered the cold waters of Cayuga Lake, including some officers who dove head-first into the water

Afterward, IPD officers stood for a group photo in the lake and were splashed by another member of the department IPD raised more than $1,500 for local Special Olympics athletes

Phi Sigma Kappa raised $2,415, more than all teams except for the New York State Park Police and a group named 5K Chili C o r n e l l C a m p u s a n d C o m m u n i t y

Engagement raised $2,385 and The Cornell Store & Friends raised $1,380, according to the plunge website

The money will be used to support New York Special Olympics athletes

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

Uncertainty | Some expressed doubts about the possible

Grads Express Qualms At CGSU Info Session

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

Despite the unionization election being only a few days away, many graduate students remain uncertain about some of the foundational components of Cornell Graduate Students United Particularly, its affiliation with the American Federation of Teachers

At an information session CGSU hosted for graduate students, Michael Durney grad, questioned the portrayal of the administration as a “rich, uncaring” group

Instead, Durney pointed to AFT as the source of this behavior, referring to them as the “King George” in relation to graduate students

“I’m a little concerned at some of the rhetoric of CGSU that we ’ re fighting against some rich, uncaring administration,” Durney said “The rich, uncaring people in my mind is AFT And so I support everything you guys are doing in terms of making sure I have a voice But I don’t support that you ’ re doing it by bringing in a rich, uncaring person and so I don’t view the administration as rich or uncaring I view King George the AFT as rich and uncaring ” Sena Aydin grad, clarified the

Cornell International Gala Connects Many Cultures

By MEG GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Hundreds attended the fourth annual International Gala at the He r b e r t F Jo h n s o n Mu s e u m Saturday to celebrate a night of international culture

T h e g a l a ’ s o r g a n i ze r s

In t e r n a t i o n a l St u d e n t s Un i o n , Po r C o l o m b

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n , Ghanaians at Cornell and the Turkish Students Association came together for “ a night of fun and cultural celebration,” according to the event description

“As international students, it can be difficult for us to come to Cornell,” said Sonali Tonali ’17, p re s i d e n t o f t h e In t e r n a t i o n a l Students Union

“Everything here is so foreign to us, ” she continued “The basic idea behind the gala is to bring together every single culture we can It is such a good way to show diversity here on campus We try to cover as many nationalities as we can

The night began with a perfor-

mance by YAMATAI, followed by performances by Big Red raas, C o r n e l l L i o n Da n c e , Ke y El e m e n t s , C U Ab s o l u t e a n d Pro f e s s o r Ju n e Be l l yd a n c e Workshop

In a d d i t i o n , t h e Gu s m a n

Atrium featured an African Art

Ex p o a n d Fo o d , t h e Hi r s c h

L e c t u re Ro o m h o s t e d a

C o l o m b i a n Pa r t y, t h e Hi r s c h Hallway included a Calligraphy Workshop and Food, and the Lynch Conference Room held an ISU and CMA Dance Party

“It’s important to build friend-

divides,” said Aliya Ali ’17, vice president of planning for ISU “The International Gala really b r i n g s t h e In t e r n

t i o n a l C o m m u n i t y a n d t h e C o r n e l l Community together,” she said “We at ISU hope to achieve this further by hosting charity galas, f o o d f e s t s , s p o r t s e ve n t s , a n d advocacy projects ”

Meg Gordon can be reached at mgordon@cornellsun com

relationship between CGSU and AFT to explain AFT ’ s presence on campus Aydin admitted while she is critical of the relationship, she believes that early on in the campaign, “the affiliation with AFT was needed ”

“There is a large amount of graduate student body [at Cornell] and the union, starting as small as it was, didn’t have neither the financial nor the timewise needs to

“I view King George the [American Federation of Teachers] as rich and uncaring.” M i

reach out to graduate students as a body,” she said “So that is one point that we needed some support which means that people who are paid can actually do that ”

Similar to viewing AFT as a king-like figure, many graduate students worried that AFT will impose authority over CGSU

However, Aydin argued that they hope CGSU will lead negotiations and processes after ward, giving AFT an “advising” role

Sen. Schumer Encourages Grad Unionization

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United, even though the Cornell administration opposes those rights,” Berry said

Schumer additionally spoke from his perspective as senator having worked with the American Federation of Teachers the national union with which CGSU has affiliated

“I have worked for many years with the American Federation of Teachers and can say that they are a first-rate institution that knows how to advocate for its members and build positive, win-win relationships with employers, especially in academic settings,” the statement read Schumer highlight-

ed the importance of the free and fair process in the election and subsequent negotiations, should graduate students vote in favor of unionization

“The healthy functioning of the university community is best secured by ensuring a free and fair election on unionization and, should the majority elect union representation, a prompt engage-

recent endorsement from Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 have been especially significant for Berry considering their earlier campaigning in 2014

“I look forward to an ongoing relationship with Cornell University and all its vital components ” S e n C h u c k S c h u m e r

ment in good-faith negotiations for a contract, ” the statement said

This statement from Schumer as well as a

“ We started as a grassroots organization and I think the fact that we ’ ve been able to gain more and more support from the Mayor of Ithaca, from now Senator Schumer as we ’ re going into election reflects what we ’ ve been building for the last three years, ” Berry said With the election now just days away, Berry said that while he believes “ voters should inform themselves and make their own decisions,” Schumer’s statement “lends a lot of strength to our organization and

just demonstrates how important our struggle for our workers’ rights are ”

“I wish you the best as you engage in this critical process, ” Schumer said “And I look for ward to an ongoing relationship with Cornell University and all its vital components to continue to build that great institution’s capabilities and impact ”

A s s e m b l y m e m b e r Barbara Lifton (D–125), whose district includes Tompkins County, endorsed the union on Sunday “I support Cornell Grad workers, as I do all workers, in your struggle to win fair and safe working conditions,” she said

Reach Anna Delwiche at adelwiche@cornellsun com

National Union Praises Cornell Effort

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home, an event which Weingarten said was an example of the union having someone ’ s back

“If you vote to organize and ratify a union this Monday and Tuesday, you will never, ever, ever, ever see me ever telling you what to do,”

Weingarten said “What you will see is a union throughout this country who will have your back every single day, for the issues that you champion, for the people that you represent and for the country that we want to be ”

“That is who a union is these days That is who a union needs to be these days That is what, if you vote for a union, that is what the graduate students/workers at Cornell will be,” she added

Weingarten then turned to more local issues, and in what she said was “the only political piece I’ll say today,” criticized Prof David Collum, chair of the chemistry department, who sent out an email to his colleagues calling graduate student unionization “ an existential risk to Cornell’s graduate program ”

“Look, I went to this school I went to the school of labor relations at this University So personally I am really offended that somebody who has a lot of power, and who has tenure and who has voice would actually say in a university that has an ILR school here, that having real labor relations is an existential threat,”

Weingarten said “Don’t tell me that they’re an existential threat when we have on this campus, and what makes this campus a great campus, what makes it a land-grant university is having an ILR school,” she continued to applause

“This [unionization push] is not top-down.”

R a n d i W e i n g a r t e n ’ 8 0

In an interview with The Sun, Weingarten highlighted CGSU’s position as what she called a bottom-up organization and criticized Cornell’s administration for its behavior during the campaign

“This is not top-down,” she said of the unionization campaign “When the boss tries to make it that way, that is the boss attempting whether the boss is a university president or whether the boss is the head of Walmart it is the boss trying to create fear and polarize in the same kind of way as Donald Trump tries to polarize ”

Weingarten also condemned what she called a “whispering campaign” whose effects she said she saw even since she arrived earlier that morning

Earlier several graduate students spoke

about their struggles with having kids as a reason for their support for CGSU

They spoke about the “exorbitant” cost of childcare in Ithaca and pointed out that even though at times things might be alright, a union is necessary for when things go wrong

“What I’ve experienced with fellow grads and friends who are nervous about unionization is this notion that ‘well we ’ re okay already,’” said Anaar Desai-Stephens grad, with her child in her arms “But sometimes that falls through, that relying on these individual links with our advisors, our departments is really tenuous at best ”

She added that many changes around campus that benefited her, such as the ability to pump on campus, were things that happened because of collective advocacy around campus

“Asking for a union is not a sign of our privilege, it’s a sign of our solidarity,” DesaiStephens said Jane Glaubman grad, thanked Weingarten and praised the relationship between CGSU and the AFT

“They always say the union is an outside force coming in,” she said “Our union was inside people, it was grad students who started a union, but we needed help, and AFT came through and they’ve done a fantastic job ”

Josh Girsky can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

Unionization Vote a Landmark Decision for Private Universities

Final Push For ‘ Yes’ Vote At Info Session

fully take stride at private universities

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from a case between Columbia University and The Graduate Wo

Monday and Tuesday vote is a historic occasion for graduate student unionization regardless of ultimate results.

graduate students can be considered workers with the rights to

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momentum as the r uling triggered provisions in the cont r a c t n e

CGSU and Cornell in May 2016

While CGSU began as a grassroots campaign in 2014, rallying around the issue of g

dents, CGSU garnered more suppor t after the NLRB r uling

This growing suppor t culminated in CGSU presenting its representation petition with over 1,200 signatures to the a

c h 8 and announcing its intention to file membership cards to the A m e r i c a n A r b i t r a t i o n A s s ociation

The increased suppor t for CGSU, however, also brought wariness and opposition

Early last semester, the camp u s g r o u p A t W h

policies and demand greater transparency in the unionization effor t This opposition did not fade

Da y s b e f o re t h e e l e c t i o n , some graduate students were still unsure of their vote and many others resolute in their opposition

When AAA verified that the membership cards represented 30 percent of the bargaining u n i t t e a c h i n g a s s i s t a n t s , r e s e a

research assistants the election was scheduled

CGSU and the University collectively agreed on in-person voting in their contract Voting will occur in polling l

assigned to graduate students in the bargaining unit depending on their field Student eligible to vote have been notified via email of their polling location

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Lounge in Duffield and the former Temple of Zeus space in Goldwin Smith Hall

Voting hours are 10:30 a m to 2:30 p m and 4 p m to 10 p m

One off-campus location at t h e Ge

open for voting on Tuesday from 10:30 a m to 2:30 p m Whether students head to the polls tomorrow clad in red suppor ting the CGSU or confidently cast a ballot to deny the establishment of a union, the election alone marks a historic occasion for Cornell and for private universities nationwide

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun com

giving AFT an “advising” role

“When it comes to the negotiation with the University with the hopes that we ’ re going to win the recognition election I think anybody here would agree that we all want to be the ones negotiating at that table and have AFT and NYSUT representatives as an advising position,” she said “Not in a position where they make the decisions or they do the negotiations ”

Katie Smith grad, explained that that the current contract reflects an affiliation agreement For that reason, the “ agreement with AFT [is] about the campaign, the election and contract negotiating that agreement is not about afterward,” she said

After the election, should the graduate students vote in favor of unionization, CGSU aims to establish itself as a local that has representation in AFT

After being chartered as a local union of AFT, CGSU will be governed by the AFT and NYSUT constitutions but still will be able to maintain independence and autonomy, according to Todd Dickey grad, and one of the CGSU members who voted to affiliate with AFT

“We want to be running our own union.” P a u l B e r r y g r a d

“AFT and NYSUT both operate under constitutions and bylaws that guarantee local autonomy and independent decisionmaking CGSU’s current constitution ultimately would need to be converted to local union bylaws as part of this structure, ” Dickey said “Under the AFT and NYSUT constitutions, local autonomy is protected and CGSU’s participation in the unions’ representative assemblies and conventions at the state and national levels is welcomed, encouraged, and expected ” In fact it was this democratic structure that attracted Paul Berry grad, and other CGSU members to AFT

“What we really needed was a lot of support to run a successful campaign,” he said “However, the reason we chose AFT as opposed to UAW, for instance, was local autonomy within our organization

”

To emphasize this point of local autonomy, Berry, a former GPSA member, likened the power of a union to the GPSA’s advocacy committee

“We want to be running our own union,” he said “In a way, I really think the union is like the GPSA advocacy committee if it had teeth The teeth that I wish it had and I wish it had been able to push through some of these things over the last several years And it certainly wasn ’ t for lack of trying ”

Anna Delwiche be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun com SESSION Continued from page 3

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Matthew Indimine For S.A. President

SUNDAY EVENING, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS had the opportunity to cast their ballots in the 2017 Student Assembly election Although there are thirteen total positions, The Sun traditionally endorses only in the races of President and Executive Vice President The candidates for president of the Student Assembly are Matthew Indimine ’18 and Jung Won Kim ’18 The candidates for executive vice president are Mayra Valadez ’18 and Varun Devatha ’19

In the race for president, we are proud to endorse Matthew Indimine ’18 Indimine, who has served for the past year as executive vice president of the Student Assembly and before served as LGBTQ+ representative, has shown himself to be a leader who can be trusted to advocate for students whenever necessary as a member of student government he organized the first-ever Mental Health Awareness Week, and as LGBTQ+ representative helped organize Sexual Assault Awareness Week Indimine spoke candidly of the limits of S A power, and contended that S A should refocus their attention on issues they could influence directly, mainly through byline funding Such a shift, he said, would reinvigorate student interest in the Assembly If elected, Indimine hopes to fight for access to the full student email list, which he will use to disseminate a regular newsletter apprising all students on movements within the S A , and importantly, providing context and follow-up information regarding previous resolutions and actions now being implemented Much of the incredible student apathy towards the Assembly stems from a perceived lack of causality between resolutions and results; a more forceful effort to keep the student body informed over the long term is admirable Indimine also advocates for early disbursement of financial aid to help students make rent deposits the Collegetown renting market is notoriously cutthroat, and additional assistance from the S A and the University is a commendable goal That being said, we have concerns regarding some of Indimine’s preferred methods of governance As a sophomore, Indimine, while holding a directly elected seat on the University Assembly (which granted him ex-officio status on the S A ) decided to run for LGBTQ+ representative on the S A against three other candidates After winning, Indimine held two directly elected student government seats for the Spring 2016 semester in effect, precluding one more student from being seated at the proverbial table Student government requires as many student voices as possible to function moving forward, Indimine should use his power not to exploit the shared governance system to consolidate power, but to bring as many students to the table as possible

In the race for executive vice-president, we are proud to endorse Varun Devatha ’19 Devatha has served as undesignated representative at-large on the S A for the past year, and as freshmen representative before that This year, he served as internally-elected V P of Outreach and chair of the Outreach Committee As freshmen representative, Devatha single-handedly changed dining hall policy on North Campus, keeping RPCC Eatery open until 9:30 p m to accommodate for different student schedules As executive vice president, Devatha aims to implement his S A mentorship program, under which members of the Assembly would take the time and effort to train their potential and elected successors before they exit their seats Such a program, especially if codified into S A bylaws, would go a long way toward preserving the institutional knowledge of the Assembly Recent impediments to the opening of Anabel’s Grocery show that a steep learning curve for the Assembly can have deleterious effects with a program like Devatha’s, the S A could potentially avoid the pitfalls that plagued Anabel’s the next time a project of this size is implemented We hope that if elected, Devatha will improve on his attendance record; a review of S A minutes indicates that Devatha is one-half absence away from being subject to executive committee review of his status as an assemblyman As executive vice president, Varun must make every effort to attend every meeting

The coming years will be difficult for Cornell A new presidential administration (at both the University and national levels), the forthcoming issue of unionization, lingering animosity surrounding the formation of the College of Business, and the ever-increasing specter of college affordability make the next series of elections incredibly important It is imperative that every student make their voice heard our thoughts and ideas are worthless if not vocalized The S A is our mouthpiece; we must use it to its full extent Pay attention, not just during the election but afterwards Hold your representatives accountable, whether they were your choice on the ballot or not Do not let your representatives disappear into the bureaucracy for all but two weeks out of the year Show up to their town halls Send them emails and Facebook messages Attend their meetings to show your support and protest them to show your displeasure Give them credit where credit is due, and hold their feet to the fire when they let you down That is the only way government, at any level, can work We’re all a part of the same community Let’s work to make it the best it can be

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Newt Gingrich Has A Few Things to Say

“Ithink it’s important to realize how much the world has changed ”It’s the kind of phrase that sounds bold at first, but blander the second time But context matters The world has changed a backlash from nationalist populists against the unpleasant backwash of globalism has grabbed headlines by the throat This past year, we ’ ve seen Britain exit the European Union, a rejection of refugees from multiple countries and resurgence of the far right in countries such as France and the Netherlands At the epicenter, of course,was Donald Trump, the tweet-mugging, bombastic, always entertaining leader of the free world And the man now standing in front of us was none other than one of his staunchest allies, Newt Gingrich

“In Brazil, they have a bribery scandal involving their government owned Petroleum Company, which apparently amounts to about 40 billion dollars in bribery The current president was impeached, the former president was indicted and the replacement president is now under investigation ” He talks with a cutting voice that reaches all the way back to the auditorium Physically, he isn’t impressive he’s pudgy yet stumpy, and his default expression is bemused but he speaks with such conviction you ’ re almost forced to believe him

He continues

“In Italy, the corruption was so bad, that for the first time in its 1200 year history, Rome elected a woman as mayor, and she was the candidate of a party that was founded by a comedian ”

Before his meteoric rise in politics, Mr Gingrich had lived a sleepy life as a history professor for an obscure Georgia college Wanting something more, he left academia for politics Still, the strands of the profession never left him Like a professor, he barely used the podium given to him to speak from Instead, he paced around the stage, never once lifting his gaze for the audience His cadence was perfect for the lecture hall: clear and unwavering, with only a slight Southern drawl While he looked like the kind of man who would say “dandy,” he didn’t After all, you don’t become Speaker of the House by talking like Jem Finch

His tales of Italy and Brazil had a point What it showed to him was that the world was adopting a new philosophy in choosing their leaders The political game had evolved Career politicians no longer had an edge on outsiders On some level, he’s Charles Darwin, explaining the obvious evolution of politics to this natural ferment of populism But on another level, he’s talking about disruption

“To understand Trump” and now he held the gaze of every single person in the lecture hall “he’s 1/3 Andrew Jackson for sheer disruption ” Inwardly, I groan a bit Andrew Jackson isn’t exactly what people remember fondly as a great president Between the Trail of Tears and the Panic of 1837, his track record is filled with some of the dimmest lowlights of any president But then again, that’s maybe not what Mr Gingrich meant Put the portraits of Jackson and Trump together, and you might see the parallels: the flamboyant, sometimes untamed hair, the intense eyes that remain laser focused on something just beyond their grasp, revealing their high-wire obsession with the concept of never backing down In 1832, Jackson was faced the dissolution of the Union, when South Carolina refused to comply with tariff laws and proposed that any state could nullify federal laws Enraged, he threatened to send troops to the state that he declared stood “ on the brink of insurrection and treason ” Squint hard enough, and you might convince yourself Trump was

actually the one that presided over the nullification crisis

“The reason he [Trump] got rich in part is that he’s very practical ”

One of the things Gingrich touts about Trump is his practicality He could measure the number of bricks in a building with the margin of error of an engineer He wasn ’ t Wall Street he didn’t finance buildings, rather he built them And that’s why, he believes, Trump won He’s in touch with the working class, because he’s just like them But the elites didn’t get him Why?

He explains: “40 percent of our governing elite are intellectuals yet idiot ”

“The only thing they’re good at is taking exams and writing essays They could write a brilliant essay on how to change a tire, but if you showed up with a flat tire, they wouldn’t have a clue ”

“Intellectual”, he pauses, “ yet idiot ”

“IYI ”

It’s not what he said that’s interesting It’s who he’s speaking for In a country that is now split not along party lines but rural and urban ones, Gingrich (and Trump) have taken a sledgehammer to the façade of the intellectuals It is why, when he ties Trump to an election in Rome or praises his practicality, he’s not being ; he’s being in touch with the commoner

The Democrats learned it the hard way this time But Gingrich too learned it himself a long time ago: in the 1974 election for the 6th congressional district of Georgia his very first foray into politics he’d run as a Republican candidate who appealed greatly to Suburban families, winning a substantial amount of votes But he lost the election when the man running against him won large tallies in the rural areas, a striking parallel to last year ’ s election At the time, it was a bitter defeat for the unknown history professor But the election resonated with him That’s why today, when he speaks about the sway of populism, he isn’t speaking as a Trump sycophant He’s speaking from experience

One of the things that surprised me about Gingrich was the striking contrast between him and Trump While both he and Trump raised contentious points, Gingrich spoke in a self-aware, softer tone that belied my expectations Watch Trump speak on T V , and he’s looking to stoke anger His cadence has been sharpened to a point, his emotions palpable, while thinly veiled threats are part of his repertoire But Gingrich is smarter He relies a bit more on humor and anecdotes (At one point, he mentions that when his conservative colleagues become irate with Trump, he tells them: “Close your eyes, and say the words ‘President Hillary Clinton’ ” The swarm of conservatives around me burst out laughing

My liberal friend and I aren ’ t so amused ) He also shows a level of accountability When pressured with a question on drug and criminal policy, he admits his past mistakes: “We made, I think, a major mistake in that we treated crack cocaine different than other cocaine, and that clearly had an unintended and dramatic effect on the black community ”

But most importantly, he’s a man of nuance He understands the final act of his career will be defined by the Trump presidency It’s a risky bet He gets it

“This is one of the great gambles of America in American history”, he admits “It may work out to be extraordinarily successful, or it may it work out to be a mess, I don’t think we know yet ”

He smiles

“But I’m on the biased side that it can be very successful ”

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

You Don’t Realize You’re Intelligent Until It Gets You Into Trouble

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nine transgender women of color (and counting) who have been killed so far in 2017?

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Or should I direct to you to Akhilesh Issur’s recent guest column, which poignantly illuminates Cornell’s ongoing mishandling of our international students’ urgent plight, not to mention the hypocrisy and apathy demonstrated by the institution at ever y turn?

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f Timothy Caughman the first, according to Jackson, of many?

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t h e C o r n e l l s t u d e n t w h o i n Januar y found himself on the receiving end of a text by another Cornell student calling him a nigger, only for the incident’s brief flare to be quickly extinguished?

I’m not sure what I should write about, to be honest, nor am I sure if I have the energy or desire to do so today But I do know that whatever I write, I can expect to be disillusioned even if only temporarily by the responses and reactions Just take a look at the comment section for my last column

As I touched on in Par t 1 of this series, black writers must live with the knowledge that, by a l l a c c o u n t s , t h e w o r d s t h e y write and speak will be avidly consumed and contemplated by people who have done close to nothing for them and mean ver y

little to their message And so y o u f i n d y o u r s e l f h o p e l e s s l y entangled in an endless feedback loop, or echo chamber, talking to yourself ad nauseum until, as Baldwin says, “ your will gives out it has to ” For rarely do my pieces find their way to the people with whom I have the most in common, and in this failure I am far from unique

T h i s i s w h y I Am No t Yo u r Negro, beautiful and cerebral as it may be, is received by the white and black intellectual with such vastly d i f f e r e n t a v e n u e s , e m o t i o n s , i m p l i c ations, critic i s m s a n d c o m p l iments T h e p r o b l e m , of course, is that black people have never needed to be told about white people in the way that the film does; we already know and have lived the film

back home who need to see this film, but I’m not sure if it would resonate for them in the ways that it has for me I write those words with a heightened and grim awareness of the educational privilege that has allowed me to do so, as one who has infiltrated the white world

I recognize, for example, that Lemonade contrasts with I Am Not Your Negro in that it is in fact for black people, and even more so for black women Yet I find that there is a great, unspoken

Being privileged in any identity and tryi to grapple or contend with the experien of the oppressed is like discovering, in middle age, that your brother is not who he said he was

Our ver y presence is the manifestation of the histor y brought f o r t h b y i t s i m a g e r y, a n d a revie w of that histor y is not a stimulating, speculative thought experiment so much as it is a noxious provocation, simmering and sunken So, intrinsically, the film is not for black people, and it is especially not for the black p e o p l e m o s t a f f e c t e d b y t h e complex systems described within I have family and friends

value in the album receiving as much attention as it did by bitter, angr y, uncomfortable, and confused white listeners Is there a way, then, I wonder, to tell a stor y for your own people and still be heard by the world? Will those white fans to which I referred in Pa r t 2 ) , w h o r a p “ n i g g a ” s o emphatically as if to take ownership of the word, ever truly be able to comprehend the intimations of the songs for which they clamor Or have we become so molded by the tangible, impermeable aftereffects of the socially constructed ills represented by black art that black artists’ cre-

JidduKrishnamurthy was a prominent

f i g u re i n e a s t e r n In d i a n w i s d o m

t h ro u g h o u t t h e 2 0 t h c e n t u r y He believes everything, including all life, is interconnected He would likely recoil at “ eastern Indian wisdom” because it demarcates specific arbitrary groups “Eastern,” “Indian” and the like Social psychology tells us that as an in-group becomes more mobilized and tight-knit, the atmosphere is increasingly ripe for conflict with outgroups individuals seek out similarities and in turn segregate differences There develops a profound lack of motivation to find common ground with others because such commonalities would only weaken the strength of the groups we hold so close to our identities

It’s clear what I’m getting at The “talk to people who aren ’ t like you ” advice has made the rounds, including in one of my past columns Even the point of its overuse has been recently addressed in Jacqueline Groskaufmanis’ The Dissent However, I’m mostly interested in something deeper upon which the message touches, the forces that prevent it and how a concept associated with mental wellness could prove useful in fostering not only personal but also socie t a l we l l - b e i n g T h e h e a r t o f K r i s h n a m u r t h y ’ s t e a c h i n g d i d n ’ t s o l e l y attack grouping, but rather, investigated the mechanisms with which we sorted ourselves into groups and as a result built walls between them One is ambition To fores h a d ow K r i s h n a m u r t h y ’ s t h o u g h t s o n ambition, he would also recoil at his being “ a prominent figure ” Ambition is something we know all too well at Cornell I’m thoroughly middleclass, but I still experienced modest culture shock as a freshman Cornell is a concen-

a t i o n s w i l l s i m p l y a l w a y s , b y virtue of white supremacy, never be fully accessed or appreciated without white people refusing to admit that it’s okay to not have ever ything? If a book has colloquial slang and syntax, or cultural phenomena, or thought processes, or social str uctures, or characterizations, or perspectives, that are taken to be common knowledge among most black folk, this does n o t m e a n t h a t y o u s h o u l d n ’ t read the book Oftentimes, the a r t i s t d i d n ' t m a k e i t t o teach you, but i n s t e a d t o s h a r e h i s / h e r / t h e i r own stor y; you just happened to learn somet h i n g a l o n g the way (a la Moonlight) But no one asked you to comment This is why f i l m s l i k e Ge t O u t , w h i c h attempt to reconcile the message with the masses, are so polarizing Why, just the other day, I read a revie w of the film written by a fellow Sunnie, and well suffice it to say I had to laugh to keep from cr ying The author c l e a r l y h a d l i t t l e i n t e r e s t i n e x a m i n i n g t h e d a r k , v a c u o u s chasm separating his experiences from my own So he flung himself, unintentionally and ignorantly, into the chasm, simultan e o u s l y e x p a n d i n g i t s d i m e nsions and intensifying the vis-

Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

Mindful Resistance

trated body of individuals, each filled with dreams of the meaningful lives they may lead with the help of an education most in the world couldn’t fathom It is a world on its own, populated by ambitions run amok This was both intoxicating and suffocating I became enamored with my own possible future but also crippled under the standard of perfection and perpetual struggle we

s t r i ve t o m e e t a s C o r n e l l i a n s It’s not true

t h a t a l l Cornell stud

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e x p o s e d t o and influenced by it

Excessive personal ambition diverts our motivation to be upstanding It becomes a means to enter groups defined by prestige and notoriety rather than to express gratitude for and understanding of the privileges we ’ re already afforded Specifically, the privilege that the jackpot we hit is the very thing we can use to assist and work with others who weren ’ t so lucky Although both drives can inform public service, only the latter merges the world we ’ ve created at Cornell and the one outside Cornell, while the former separates them further It’s a philosophy that will make our work more grounded, engaged and ultimately more impactful Its absence is precisely why campus politics can easily distract us from the fact that our Ivy is housed in a city wracked

cous danger radiating from its depths

Being privileged in any identity and tr ying to grapple or contend with the experiences of the oppressed is like discovering, in middle age, that your brother is not who he said he was Or, rather, that he has been tr ying, desperately to tell you who he is for some 400 years, and you have simply refused to listen And now, here he is, your brother, your flesh-and-bones, and y e t i n c o m p re h e n s i b l e t o y o u And it's your fault Now, in the case of race, I as the brother have to find a way, because I lack the power, to be heard And it can ' t be through my own language, nor can it be through my own community’s way of telling stories at least, not without the t h r

n , misuse, and abuse on the par t of the consumer As James Baldwin said, “ Whites want black writers to deliver an official version of

life can be contained, in the American vocabular y The only way that you can deal with it is by doing great violence to the a

c h t h e vocabular y is based But they won ' t let you do that ” They might not let me, but I still have to tr y

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

with poverty that existed well before the presidential election

A moment when our world felt more breached than ever came when President Trump was elected I don’t agree at all with the criticisms that Cornell students needed to “toughen up ” about it and dial down their reactions Emotion ignites social progress Most, but not all Cornell students, however, are not d i re c t l y o r n e w l y affected by the policies P r e s i d e n t Tr ump has implemente d s o f a r Ma n y s t ud e n t s h a d a l r e a d y feared “law and order” long before it became a Trump rally classic Half faced pressures to “look like women ” long before it was a Trump employment requirement Our innermost emotions were drawn out because we, as a largely liberal student body, are disgusted with his victory’s assault on our ideals and va l u e s ; t h e b e l i e f s t h a t s t r u c t u re d t h e dreams we had for our communities, our c o u n t r y a n d o u r s e l ve s c o l l a p s e d i n t o

doubt

A telling segment on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal profiled the sheer emotional firepower of the anti-Trump movement, but also reminded us that emotion wasn ’ t nearly enough, that grit was needed for horsepower Individuals at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement were interviewed, and they didn’t recall everlasting

vitality, but patience and cooperation as they labored through mountains of paperwork and countless planning sessions that resulted in powerful shows of civil disobedience

It is the grunt work that is essential; it keeps the fire burning and we need to do it alongside the people in the trenches if making a difference is really what we want This sacrifice entails a smaller assertion of ourselves and a larger understanding of what our purpose is in a broader upheaval that uproots people beyond our university and has frankly registered little shock to our own realities Fighting injustice is easier when we have the resources to intellectualize it Others suffering a different scale of oppression have only the reserves to survive it

Mindfulness is a nonjudgmental and clear-headed way of living and thinking, and I thought of it when I understood Krishnamurthy’s core instruction: to listen Remove all assumptions, preconceptions and ambitions to hear the whole of your environment and learn the most from selfl e s s e x p e r i e n c e He e n c o u r a g e s u s t o become students not just of our majors but of our own lives This is a truly liberal and universally accessible education stretched to the limits of depth and breadth, illustrating the interconnected nature of our story that the arc of history bends towards justice and perhaps a recognition of our individually minor yet collectively important role within that history is the key to finally reaching it

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

CGSU’s Constitution Is Neither Fair Nor Democratic

Along-standing criticism of the Cornell Graduate Student union is that its organizational structure has serious flaws which undermine its ability to be an effective democratic body who bargains for aggrieved graduate students? Who constitutes the voting body? How are the votes allocated? And, most importantly, is the representation fair? While some of CGSU’s governing documents, like the agreement CGSU has signed with AFT, remain secretive and unavailable to an uncommitted graduate student like me, they have released their constitution for public perusal In my reading of their constitution (the governing document that dictates how the CGSU will function) I find that the union’s tag line of Fairness, Respect and Democracy is more aspirational than actual Voice at the negotiation table is disproportionate to the number of students in a discipline the CGSU Legal Affairs committee recently proposed the composition of its Negotiation Committee (reference: Constitutional Amendment III) This has been endorsed by 10 percent of its membership, and has likely been reviewed by all its current Officers A simple analysis (see table below) reveals that students in the some disciplines get more than twice the representation as compared to students in the Engineering, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences Given that it is the Negotiation Committee that will sit at the table with Cornell to strike a

bargaining agreement, I am very concerned about this discordance between the number of members in a constituent discipline and the representation they receive

All organizations from the United States Congress to Cornell’s GPSA require a minimum number of voting members to be in attendance for any meeting to be called to order This prevents such organizations from being run by a small clique of members Of the 2,200 potential voting members that will constitute the CGSU, their Constitution only requires 20 members to be present (reference: Quorum Requirements Article I B 2 4 ) This means that if less than one percent of the graduate students are present at a meeting, they may pass most policies with a majority therein only 11 out of 2,200 members need to vote in favor of a policy at their meeting

The CGSU has been consistently critical of grievance procedures of the University, and in some instances have been right to call for greater transparency and sensitivity Given this position, the current internal grievance procedures in the CGSUs are draconian in their scope and their ability to deal with sensitive cases Specifically, CGSU’s constitution mandates that in case any member (you or I) has a grievance with the union, we give up the right to approach any state or federal court for redress until the union’s internal Grievance board makes a ruling Further, in the event of a grievance, the Grievance board will

make a ruling that will be announced to all the members of the union for a majority vote This procedure leaves no room for the protection of sensitive information vis-à-vis the victim (reference: Article IV B) For instance, as per the current guidelines, if a student filed a case of sexual harassment against a union officer or member, this case would be brought to the floor, to the attention of all the members with no precautions taken to safeguard the identity of the individual Finally, once you do file a grievance, and it gets addressed by an ad-hoc board with no requirements, get ready to start campaigning for votes in your favor The final say on the grievance procedure is not by qualified members who are well read on the matters of the constitution, but by a majority vote of the entire voting body (reference: Article IV B) As an analogy, would you like the courts, staffed by justices that are well read in the constitution to rule on cases, or would you like the entire population to vote on a case? Are we reducing the grievance system to mob justice?

CGSU has fundamental issues concerning financial and budgetary transparency There are currently no guidelines and no rules for how CGSU committees spend and allocate their budgets Outrageously, there are no mechanisms for any financial accountability of any unit to the union membership with only vague references to an undefined “finance committee” (reference: Article II: Section C 4 7)

CGSU requires that all members of the bargaining unit you are included irrespective of how you voted or even if you voted must sign the union card to have any say in how the union is governed Members of the CGSU have repeatedly disputed that there are not going to be “ two classes” of students in the bargaining unit, this is clearly false under their constitution (reference: Article I A1 2)

At the GPSA, I have worked extensively to facilitate diversity in thoughts and opinion within the Assembly To this end, we have a representational system where voting members proportional to the size of each division in Cornell and field representatives are proportional to the number of graduate students in the field and we are currently in the process of bringing in representatives from outside the strict academically defined units

However, despite CGSU’s explicit goal of ensuring diversity, their constitution does not represent this attitude (reference Article II, and Article V) There is no provision to ensure proportional representation through either academic or demographic categories, within the various committees of the CGSU Meaning, all committees and officers can easily be dominated by singular groups of individuals

At this point, in the hunt for a solution, you may hope that once the union does come to fruition, you may join the union to be involved in student governance and to address these issues The mecha-

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

Third Time’s a Charm

nisms to request to change the bylaws or the constitution of the organization by any constituent member is arduous (requires signatures of 10 percent membership) To add insult to injury, officer elections are scheduled to be held on or before April 15, 2017 (reference Article V A1 2 d) This leaves a window of two weeks (perhaps less) between when the union may be voted in, and when you may run for office In essence, these leadership positions are likely to be staffed exclusively by current members of CGSU

Some of these problems are acceptable for new volunteer based organizations and could be genuine oversights However, since CGSU is requesting to be the sole bargaining representative for the unit and to be responsible for the language in graduate student contracts, I think it is fair to hold the union to a reasonable standard

However the events of March 27 and 28 turn out, my sincere hope is that the CGSU puts in careful thought into its governance structure and deals with these clear structural deficits in a timely and transparent manner

Teja Pratap Bollu is a

D candidate studying neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University Bollu was previously executive vice president, vice president for operations and University Assembly representative for the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun com Guest Room runs periodically this semester

o r m e d m e t h a t t h e e v e n t w a s a s e n d - o f f f o r I n t e r i m Pr e s i d e n t Hu n t e r R a w l i n g s R a w l i n g s h a s b e e n p r e s i d e n t o f C o r n e l l t w i c e b e f o r e ; h e f i r s t o c c u p i e d t h e p o s i t i o n f r o m 1 9 9 5 t o 2 0 0 3 , s t e pp i n g i n a g a i n i n 2 0 0 5 a f t e r t h e r e s i g n at i o n o f Je f f r e y L e h m a n O n e m o r d a n t c u st o m e r t o l d m e , “ I w o n ’ t b e g r u d g e Hu n t e r h i s r e t i r e m e n t p a r t y f o r t h e t h i r d t i m e ” It d o e s s e e m a b i t , a s t h e k i d s a r e s a yi n g t h e s e d a y s , e x t r a W h i l e s t o c k i n g t h e s h e l v e s o f Z e u s w i t h c o c o n u t w a t e r a n d g l u t e n - f r e e L a r a b a r s , I h e a r d a f e w n o t e s o f m u s i c f r o m a c r o s s t h e h a l l No t a m e l o d y, b u t a d i s t i n c t l y i n h a r m o n i o u s s e q u e n c e o f n o t e s Ev e n t u a l l y I r e a l i z e d t h a t a p i a n o h a d b e e n b r o u g h t i n t o t h e b u i l d i n g , a n d t h a t t h e p i a n o w a s b e i n g t u n e d I ’ v e m e t Pr e s i d e n t R a w l i n g s b r i e f l y a t Z e u s ; h e s e e m s l i k e a n i c e g u y I ’ m s u r e h e ’ s c o g n i z a n t o f t h e s i l l i n e s s o f t h e s i t u -

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j o k e s a b o u t i t i n h i s s p e e c h t o t h e t r u s t e e s “ T h i rd t i m e ’ s t h e c h a r m , r i g h t g e n t s ? ” Ye t t h e e v e n t ’ s s t i l l h a p p e ni n g w h i l e t h e g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t u n i o n i s b e i n g d e n o u n c e d , a s t u d e n t g r o c e r y s t o r e t h a t w a s e n v i s i o n e d t o c o m b a t f o o d i n s e c u r i t y i s k e p t f r o m g e t t i n g o f f t h e g r o u n d a n d a “ m e n t a l h e a l t h w e e k” i s p a r a d e d i n f r o n t o f a r c h i t e c t u r e s t ud e n t s t h a t s l e e p i n s t u d i o b e c a u s e t h e y h a v e s o m u c h w o r k T h e o p t i c s o f i t a l l s i m p l y a r e n ’ t t h a t g r e a t

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Te c h n o l o g y h a s f u n d a m e n t a l l y a l t e r e d

The inherent superiority of the rich is an idea that is completely integrated into the minds of the poor and middle-class as well as the minds of the rich themselves. It shapes our voting patterns, our history textbooks, even our fairy tales. The trustees, who have a ridiculous amount of power over the University, are costing us tens of thousands of dollars to get together for Hunter Rawlings’ third retirement party?

T h i s a r t i c l e c o u l d e a s i l y t u r n i n t o a c r i t i q u e o f t h e C o r n e l l a d m i n i s t r at i o n B u t e x p o s é s a r e i n f e r i o r t o p o l e m i c s i n m y o p i n i o n , a s t h e l a t t e r r e n d e r s t h e f o r m e r u n n e c e s s a r y I n h i s e s s a y e n t i t l e d “ I n P r a i s e o f I d l e n e s s , ” p h i l o s o p h e r a n d s o c i a l c r i ti c B e r t r a n d R u s s e l l d i s c u s s e s l a b o r i n t h e p o s t - i n d u s t r i a l e r a H e w r i t e s , “f r o m t h e b e g i n n i n g o f c i v i l i z a t i o n u n t i l t h e I n d u s t r i a l R e v o l u t i o n , a m a n c o u l d , a s a r u l e , p r o d u c e b y h a r d w o r k l i t t l e m o r e t h a n w a s r e q u i r e d f o r t h e s u b s i s t e n c e o f h i m s e l f a n d h i s f a m il y m u c h t h a t w e t a k e f o r g r a n t e d a b o u t t h e d e s i r a b i l i t y o f w o r k i s d e r i v e d f r o m t h i s s y s t e m , a n d , b e i n g p r e - i n d u s t r i a l , i s n o t a d a p t e d t o t h e

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Even before Jamila Woods stepped on stage, you could tell it was going to be an incredible night At first, the Risley dining hall seemed too stiff of a venue for a show that celebrated black artists as healers and protesters (after all, the room is modeled after the Christ Church Refractor y at Oxford), but openers Paulitics and SadoSan brought energetic and fun tracks that made the somber portrait of A D White peering over their shoulders appear ridiculously irrelevant

Paulitics Cornell’s own Paul Russell ’19 blended hip hop and indie rhythms for the perfect intersection of jumping and chill Dancing without restrain across the stage, Paulitics basked in the fun absurdity of his songs and got the crowd moving From “college is exploration with ecstasy in between” on his opening song “Hotels” to “I’m falling

sideways / I guess that’s all I ever do” on the aptly-titled “Youth,” his lyrics embrace and surrender to the emotional precarity of young-adult lives Paul, who is also an opinion columnist for The Sun, set a light-hearted tone that was easy to enjoy and dance to SadoSan followed with a grittier, more intense sound A slow drawl of “We are not friends / So you gotta go / I swear you ’ re doing the most ” morphed into a trippy, inyour-face rejection of social pretense What followed was a set that was both unpretentious and theatrical as he interspersed streams of rap with sips from a red Solo cup SadoSan was joined by two other members of the hip hop collective 99SUBLIME: Devulio, who engineered a continuous stream of expansive beats, and Jak Lizard, whose brown overalls seemed an incongruous fit for his flawless cover of Missy Elliott Their performance brimmed with the excitement of three close friends riffing off each other and picked up on the loose happiness from Paulitics’ set

This fun intimacy set the perfect stage for Jamila Woods and her captivatingly lush music that accomplishes the near-impossible feat of sounding youthful, vulnerable, soulful and defiant all at the same time It is, as she describes in her own words, protest music that you can “ rest and refuel to ” As I waited for her to take stage, I looked around the crowd that was not only much smaller than I expected, but also whiter Here was an artist whose 2016 album HEAVN forefronts the bitter truth of being black and female in contemporary America and does so with seemingly effortless quality, whose lyrics celebrating black girl magic are so refreshing and much needed in the predominantly white Ithaca music scene That Fanclub Collective and the Multicultural Funding Advisory Board of ALANA Intercultural Board put together a show of nearly all black artists and that one of those artists was Jamila Woods is incredible So it was disappointing to see the low turnout maybe everyone was prepping for Gucci Mane on Sunday? but perhaps I shouldn’t be too surprised given where we live, and at least it didn’t take away from the vibrancy of Jamila Wood’s music

Dressed in all black, Jamila Woods and her band brought a more restrained yet also more intense set They added guitar shredding and intense instrumentals that weren ’ t on the original productions and gave the songs a chaotically spiritual veneer And though the acoustics in the room weren ’ t great, Jamila’s voice was undeniably piercing as she opened with “VRY BLK ” She hit the chorus “I'm very black, black, black / Can't send me back, back, back / You take my brother, brother, brother / I fight back, back, back, back” with a sweet defiance that was impossible not to smile and dance to After

“Emerald St ” and “LSD,” Jamila brought back a classic, Destiny Child’s “Say My Name,” that she blended with her own “In My Name ” Throughout it all, Jamila and the band seemed to play with effortless ease

She then launched into one of the best songs of the night, “Thirst Behavior,” a musical rendition of her poem that turns Drake’s “Worst Behavior” on its head and tears him down for using his sad-boy aesthetic as an excuse to mistreat women “You hate feeling invisible / Well, I hate feeling edible,” she pointedly sang “If this poem ain’t about you, it’s about you If you ’ re scared it’s about you, it’s about you If this can ’ t be about you, it’s about you ” Throughout her music, Jamila balances her measured, introverted nature with unflinching resistance, and it becomes apparent that her music is free to be what she wants it to be, that she alone chooses what she will or will not say On “Lonely Lonely,” she crooned, “I could be crazy / But my crazy is my own / My own, my own ” and “I don’t wanna wait for our lives to be over / To love myself however I feel ” This is where her music shines: Jamila reminds us that black women should be free to be who they want to be, as complex, as sweet, as angry, as caring, as strong, as vulnerable as they are, and it becomes a damning critique of society that it continually denies them this human complexity that it so eagerly gives to other groups, namely white men Jamila closed out with “Sunday Candy,” the Chance the Rapper song that brought her to national prominence, and “Blk Girl Soldier ” Her voice filled the room as she sang, “Call it blk girl magic / Yea she scares the gov ’ ment, ” and it crystallized a space of healing and power Jamila dedicated her last song to black women, saying, “I hope that this campus is a campus where black girls feel safe ” It was a reminder that her music despite its wide-reaching appeal and infectious charm is most importantly for black women It is for the femmes of color, for the black and brown people in the crowd who cried as Woods put into song what they know intimately, for the people whose self-care and self-love has become a politically radical act in the face of racial oppression

The Districts: Energetic, Invigorating at the Haunt

BY ISABELLA YORK Sun Contributor

When I started listening to The Districts a few summers ago, I quickly fell for the band’s fresh and personable sound It was the lead singer’s powerful voice and the band’s unique sound that kept me a fan for years

Stepping into the venue Saturday night, I was filled with suspense and excitement The band filled the smaller venue with their vibrancy and rich sound By the end of the night, the band had transcended my expectations

The atmosphere was upbeat and nostalgic As the band members went on the stage at around 10:30 to set up for the performance, the venue played a gospel hymn to welcome them I had never been to a rock concert in which gospel music introduced the artists; nevertheless, this only added to the excitement and created an atmospheric sense of spirituality Soon after, the band opened with one of their top songs: “4th and Roebling ” With the first strum of the guitar, the audience was wide awake

The lyrics “sunshine stretching like valley river beds” opened the set and the District's rich sound cascaded throughout the Haunt Rob Grote, lead singer, pressed his mouth to the mic and offered his emphatic vocals to the crowd The lyrics “living lives in two places wear my soul too thin” set the standard of energy for the night: electric

Grote had a distinct sound that recalled the sounds of the late 60s and early 70s In addition to Grote, the band includes Connor Jacobus on bass, Pat Cassidy on guitar and Braden Lawrence on the drums The members formed the band while attending high school in Lititz, Pennsylvania They released “A Flourish and a Spoil” in 2015 which contains their hits Young Blood and 4th and Roebling

What made the performance so compelling was the energy Not only was each song just as powerful as the one before, but the band members embodied such effervescence that the crowd left with a feeling of euphoria

Moreover, Grote took control of the stage with such ease as each instrumental solo was explosive and powerful He would move his body to the rhythm, shaking his body for-

ward and back while strumming with an intense energy

There was such an electricity that made the set so gripping

The Districts performed old songs and offered the audience some new pieces as well Grote stated that they have been doing a lot of writing and are hoping to release a new album soon The energy that night was kinetic and the sound was invigorating Ever y song was presented s h a m e l e s

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o f e f f e c t s o f f e r e d a l m o s t e v e r y s o u n d b u t w h a t o n e c o u l d e x p e c t f r o m a g u i t a r - b a s sd r u m s t r i o T h e s e t s t a r t e d w i t h s o a r i n g m e l o d i c p r o g r e s s i o n s w h i c h r e t u r n e d t o t h e s a m e B a l k a n a n d Tu r k i s h h a r m o n i c c o r e s , o n l y t o b e i n t e r r u p t e d b y r i f f s o f d o u b l e - p e d a l ( Je f f M a n n o n d r u m s ) a n d s t r u m m e d c h o r d s o n

Nevertheless, I was overtaken by The Districts that night and listening to them through my headphones will not be the same However, I look for ward to reminiscing about the good vibes and the intoxicating sounds I experienced that night

Isabella York is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at iy43@cornell edu

Pluck and Verve Jerusalem Quartet enlivens

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

Since the mid-1990s, the Jerusalem Quartet has been slinging its unmistakable tone and adroit programming to audiences worldwide, and at last to Bailey Hall on Saturday night What distinguishes Jerusalem Quartet from its umpteen contemporaries is its interlocking tonal spread, meticulous attention to rhythm and balance of repertoires For this performance, these spirited musicians presented a trifecta of drama, whimsy and lyricism

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quartet No 11 in F Minor set the stage not only musically, but also technically, as idiosyncrasies came immediately to the forefront First violinist Alexander Pavlovsky brought a clarion register that meshed superbly with second violinist Sergei Bresler’s warmer colors, while violist Ori Kam and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov completed the picture with an organic rusticity and dance-like undercurrent From the opening movement ’ s latticed spaces to the folkish fourth, the playing navigated every change of pace with the adaptability of a racecar driver The Bach-inspired fugue of the second movement, with its gyroscopic core, was especially moving, and snuggled nicely against the conversational third Though a pleasant piece with which to begin, one that showed its composer ’ s penchant for cellular invention and negotiations of ferocity and finesse, it was but an appetizer to the main course of Sergey Prokofiev’s Quartet No 1 in B Minor This compact yet multifaceted gem spanned only three movements, upending convention by ending with the slowest That final andante was as songlike as it was ashen and overcast Like a memor y

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snagged on a branch, it resisted our attempts to seize it in a most beguiling way Before that was nutrient-rich center, the crowning highlight of the concert From root to branch, it maintained integrity with solid growth and showed off the flair of cellist Zlotnikov’s way with (and without) a bow This was preceded by an allegro which, with abundant rhetorical flourishes, felt like Prokofiev guiding us through a maze, running down certain passages and tiptoeing through others

After intermission, we luxuriated in the depths of Antonín Dvorák’s Quartet No 13 in G Major Among the composer ’ s final quartets, it reaffirmed the fact that few understood the sonority of the genre more than he did Delightful yet weighed by the ante of human contemplation, every dance-like gesture in the surrounding movements only served to emphasize the anthemic beauty of the adagio Like a restless dream during hibernation, it changed colors and textures with almost surreal seamlessness and epitomized what violist Kam in his program notes cited as their goal of showing the string quartet as a “singular instrument ” Likewise the encore, which presented the allegretto pizzicato from Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No 4 in the manner of master clockmakers offering a glimpse of their craft

Uniting all of this was a sense of hearing not only composers but also performers unafraid to think out loud Like a great jazz performance, it reminded us that even within the borders of prescribed music there is infinite room for variation and interpretation

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University He can be reached at tcg32@cornell edu

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Red Caps Off Memorable Season

down into the zone and sent a shot from the slot past Cornell senior goalie Mitch Gillam

Turnovers like that burned the Red throughout the course of the night, as UML has always been a team built around transition offense With an injury-ailed defensive corps, Cornell had trouble containing the explosivity of the River Hawks lineup

“That [depleted defense] kind of showed tonight with [UML’s] transition speed to get up and down the ice,” Schafer said

But Cornell came out with a short burst of good pressure to start the second Freshmen forwards Jeff Malott and Noah Bauld both drove on Wall with speed and strength, but the opposing freshman in goal got the better of the Cornellians on both occasions

“There’s your couple opportunities to get one and maybe make it a 1-1 game and change the momentum a bit, but we never did,” Schafer said “It’s a long uphill fight for the rest of the night ”

Almost 20 minutes passed until UML struck again, this time off the stick of Ryan Lohin in the midst of a delayed penalty in favor of the River Hawks A fake shot caught Gillam off his moorings, then Lohin sent the puck past the sprawling Gillam for the two-goal lead

Karma appeared to be coming back in Cornell’s favor, as a Gillam gaffe awarded the River Hawks a layup of a goal on the penalty kill, but replay revealed UML had too many men on the ice Cornell’s deficit remained at two

Thirty-six seconds after that nearly disastrous Cornell power play ended, C J Smith got another for UML, and this time no video review was necessary The River Hawks entered the second intermission with a three goal lead

At the third period’s early moments, Cornell came out yet again sharp and with a vengeance, but UML simply overpowered the team from Ithaca and added two additional goals in the period en route to the convincing 5-0 victory

“We didn’t capitalize on any of our chances and they did,” said senior forward and captain Jake Weidner “That’s the way it goes sometimes ”

W LACROSSE Continued from page 16

Hope is not lost for both the program and Cornell hockey fans While a disappointing result in the moment, the 2016-17 team far exceeded any and all expectations laid out for it After being picked to finish fifth and sixth in the preseason media and coaches poll, respectively, the Red found itself third by the regular season ’ s end, and as runner-ups in the ECAC postseason

All of this was done without one goal scorer surpassing 30 points, only two homes games in the 2016 segment of the season and the myriad of injuries across the roster, especially to the defensive core

“As a coach I’ve been around a long time,” Schafer said “[And] the pride I have in that group of guys and how they’ve stuck it out all year long is impressive ”

It would be easy for the men to be satisfied with how the season has ended given what was expected of them The first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2012 is no small feat, and a loss to a respectable UML team is certainly not something to hang one ’ s head about

But as is evident in the type of culture that Lynah Rink has grown to become associated with, good enough is simply never good enough The team feels its eight graduating seniors have laid the groundwork for continual and repeated success in the coming years

“This is a great program and one that expects a lot from its players,” said senior forward Jeff Kubiak “With us getting back to the tournament this year it’s going to only lead to good things in the upcoming years, and I think that’s one thing the guys in the room are going to take away from this experience and remember how it felt today ”

Luckily for Cornell, a strong group of young talent, paired with a solid pool of recruits, means that questions surrounding the program can be quickly hushed All that’s left in the moment is to wonder what could have been, and honor the eight seniors that contributed four years to the team on East Hill

“We’re still in that transition [period],” Schafer said “But I thought these guys had a great year, one of the best years we ’ ve had here at Cornell ”

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“We’ve got to be playing with 100 percent focus for 60 minutes of the game, and we didn’t do that today ”

“You have to play through every play, you have to stay focused through every play if you’re going to win in the Ivy League.”

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“With two new coaches and a lot of younger players stepping into their roles, we have different strategies that other teams are not prepared for.”

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Karen Papazian can be reached at kpapazian@cornellsun com

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Icers’ Season Ends in First Round Shutout

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

To say members of Cornell men ’ s hockey were excited to compete in their first NCAA tournament would be an understatement Senior defenseman Patrick McCarron called it the most excited he’s ever been in his career The inexperienced postseason team from Ithaca seemed confident and poised to make a deep run knowing any game could be the last for its eight seniors

And that confidence was rightfully earned Throughout the entire season, Cornell was one of just seven teams to not get shutout while serving up several shutouts of its own But every streak eventually comes to an end, and unfortunately for the Red, that shutout-less streak ended in the first round of the NCAA tournament, when UMass Lowell walked away with a convincing 5-0 win to eliminate the team from its first NCAA appearance in five years

“I couldn’t be prouder of our hockey team with what they’ve gone through this year, ” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 “Tip of the hat to [UML], but from our perspective, couldn’t be prouder of our hockey team ”

It’s a tough way to go out by dropping a 5-0 decision, which brings a swift end to the long-awaited return to the national tournament But from the game ’ s inception, the

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Poor Timing | Cornell was held scoreless for the first

Red seemed as if it was going to make the most of its time on the big stage

Cornell appeared to score 54 second into the game, when sophomore forward Mitch Vanderlaan collected a rebound and sent it by UML’s freshman goalie Tyler Wall The play went to video review, and refs deemed that senior forward Eric Freschi played the puck with a high stick just moments before, meaning the play should have been called dead before Vanderlaan’s tally The hot start was quickly cooled off Wall’s name would hold true from that point on, as the freshman stopped all 19 shots Cornell threw at him over the

course of the remaining 59 minutes

What ensued following the called-off goal was a huge momentum swing in favor of the River Hawks Cornell sophomore forward Anthony Angello was called off for a trip, and the No 6 power play in the country got a shot to get on the board first Cornell evaded the danger on the UML man-advantage opportunity, but the River Hawks’ pressure eventually paid off 6:34 into the contest A turnover behind the net eventually found its way to Ryan Dmowski, who was creeping

Women Maintain Hot Start; Men Continue Struggles

By KAREN PAPAZIAN

Staff Writer

After a slow start against Yale this past weekend, the Cornell women ’ s lacrosse team made a stunning comeback in the second half to overcome the Bulldogs

Cornell (6-1, 3-0 Ivy) took on Yale (5-4, 1-2 Ivy) on Saturday in a thrilling matchup, in which the Red extended its winning streak against Yale to 10 games The game also brought the Red’s alltime record against Yale to 20-19

The Bulldogs quickly took advantage of its home court advantage in the first half, putting up two goals within the first two minutes At halftime, the Red was down 5-3 its third halftime deficit of the season and knew it would have some ground to cover in the second half

Then, after tying with Yale five minutes into the second half, the team put on its game face and shot off nine unanswered goals The Red’s unprecedented second half put the team up 15-6 to win the game

The rally of the Red’s nine unanswered goals, which was its largest scoring-run of the season, began with a goal from senior Amie Dickson Junior Joey Coffy then tied the game and followed

Red

to Penn on

By JAMIL RAHMAN

Assistant Sports

The Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team knew that Saturday’s game against Penn would be an important one During its season opening five-game slide, the team looked for bright spots to build on as it approached the heart of Ivy play

Despite being blown out by Yale 17-8 to open league play, Cornell (1-6, 0-2 Ivy) came back the following week with a dominating performance to beat Colgate 15-6 for its first victory of the year The team hoped the win would bring some momentum heading into its following matchup against Penn the first of a three-game Ivy League stretch but ultimately dropped the

minute

game in a close 10-9 decision

"Really unfortunate that we let that one get away, " said head coach Matt Kerwick "Credit to Penn, they stayed in it, they made the plays they needed to down the stretch, but we gave that one away, and that’s really unfortunate ” The game was a back-and-forth affair, with neither team trailing by more than two goals during the entire game Penn (4-3, 1-1) opened the scoring after the Quaker’s Tyler Dunn slung the ball

“I thought we started slow, but once we got up to speed we started making some plays.”

from 10 yards away, getting the ball past senior goalie Christian Knight

Freshman attacker Connor Fletcher answered by scoring backto-back goals and giving the Red a 2-1 lead Penn would then follow up with two goals of its own to head into the second quarter with a 3-2 lead

Both teams would only score one goal each in the second period to give the Quakers a one-goal lead heading into halftime

“I thought we started slow, but once we got up to speed we started making some plays,” Kerwick said “I thought we battled all the way through the end of the game but some really poor turnovers led to opportunities for them " Penn extended its lead to 6-4 during the third period before Cornell went on a 5-1 run beginning in the third period and continuing into the final period of play to give the Red a 9-7 lead halfway through the fourth quarter The run was dominated by Red freshmen, with Fletcher scoring three of the goals during the run, and classmate Jeff Teat finding the back of the net another time

Cornell kept pushing the pace despite the lead, something that Kerwick took no regret in

“When you ' re up 9-7, we ’ re certainly not going to sit on it at that point,” he said “There were eight minutes to go, so we wanted to run some good offense I thought we had shot selections that weren ’ t good [but] we played