04 17 17 entire issue hi res

C.U. Charges Student for Sharing Docs With Sun

Mitch McBride ’17 walked into Day Hall on March 8 determined to come clean regarding internal working group documents that were published in The Sun

When Christina Liang, an associate judicial administrator, asked McBride whether

would have to write two, five-page reflection papers; and would have to meet with Senior Vice Provost Barbara Knuth, who also serves as dean of the Graduate School

But McBride rejected the agreement primarily because of an additional provision of the deal: The Office of the Judicial Administrator would maintain a disciplinary record for McBride until 2023

“Cornell is trying to stretch the Code to reach behavior that the Code does not cover ” P r o f K

he had shared the documents, he said yes

Two days later, Liang sent a plea agreement to McBride, offering to find him “responsible” for violating two sections of the Campus Code of Conduct Under the plea agreement, McBride would be put on disciplinar y probation for three weeks;

McBride, who has been accepted by Georgetown Law, worried that pleading responsible and having a reprimand on his record for six years could keep him out of his dream school

Weighing on him even more, McBride said, is his belief that the University is trying to make an example out of him and that a plea of “responsible” will set a dangerous precedent

Agreeing to the plea deal, in McBride’s mind, would mean giving in to an overzealous Judicial Administrator’s office and tacitly endorsing Cornell’s narrowing definition of free

speech and freedom of the press on campus

“The broader picture is very troubling,” McBride said in a recent interview

At least three faculty members agree with McBride, telling The Sun they believe the OJA’s case against McBride is “ludicrous,” “unjustified” and “Kafkaesque ” Liang and Judicial Administrator Michelle Horvath referred an inquiry from

Bike Share Provides New Type of Transport

Big Red Bikes attempts to make campus

By KELLY SONG

Bike

‘accessible’ on two wheels

“My hope is that this pilot bike program can facilitate a conversation with the University ”

The Sun to Media Relations “We’ll decline comment at this time,” said John Carberry, director of media relations

The University Hearing Board is scheduled to hear McBride’s case on Wednesday at 4:30 p m in 163 Day Hall

The hearing will be public, which

88-Year-Old Woman

Robbed on Easter Sunday

An elderly woman was pushed to the ground and an attacker took her purse on Easter Sunday as the woman was walking home from church, Ithaca Police said

An 88-year-old woman was walking home from church on the 200 block of South Geneva St re e t a ro u n d 1 2 : 1 0 p m w h e n s o m e o n e grabbed her purse from behind, Sgt Robert Brotherton said in a statement

The churchgoer “struggled with her attacker, ” police said, before the suspect shoved her to the ground

The strap on the woman ’ s purse then broke, allowing the suspect to take the purse and jump into a light-colored vehicle, police said

The woman was treated for minor injuries on the scene

A suspect drove the vehicle a gray or white sedan or SUV north on South Geneva Street and turned left onto West Green Street, driving toward traffic on a one-way street, authorities said

Officers have so far been unable to locate the vehicle or the suspects, Brotherton said

Police described the suspects as a heavyset black woman in her 30s wearing light-colored clothing and a black man who drove the getaway vehicle from the scene It was not immediately clear from the release whether the man or woman allegedly grabbed the purse

Police urged anyone with information about

Department’s tip line at 607-697-0333

Compiled by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Monday, April 17, 2017

Incarceration: Economics, Impacts and Alternatives

5 - 7 p m , 146 Morrison Hall

Reading Between the Lines: Indian Poetry in English And the Challenges of the Archive 12:15 - 1:15 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Science and Technology Studies Seminar

3:30 - 5 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Nothing Impossible With Anthony Melchiorri 4:30 - 6 p m , 196 Statler

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: Sounding the Depths / Deaths of the Image

5:15 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

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

CIS Seminar Series On Emergence of Intelligent Machines 7:30 - 8:30 p m , 155 Olin Hall

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

Climate Transitions

During the Last 65 Million Years Noon, 178 Frank H T Rhodes Hall

Governing the North American Artic: Sovereignty, Security and Institutions 4:30 - 5:30 p m , 107 Olin Library

S. A. Passes Bill Urging C.U. to Oppose Local, National Pipelines

By RACHEL WHALEN Sun News Editor

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“Having these local pipelines is going to hurt [ C U ]’s environmental goals.”

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Reed Rejects Planned Parenthood Invitation

By ALEXIS OH Sun Staff Writer

In light of recent controversy regarding the funding of Planned Parenthood, a panel of volunteers was hoping to show Congressman Tom Reed (RN Y ) the importance of the services the organization offers to women, some of whom cannot find those services elsewhere

The panel, filled with volunteers of all ages, shared its experiences with the ser vice and highlighted the organization’s role in the Ithaca community on Saturday However Reed declined the invitation to attend

Regina DeMauro a former patient at Planned Parenthood spoke to the challenges that she faced “I was 22, I couldn’t get a full-time job,” DeMauro said “I was working it wasn ’ t like I wasn ’ t trying really compre-

hensive healthcare wasn ’ t an option ”

In addition to its reproductive health ser vices, Planned Parenthood checks vitals and other components of basic health, giving women “ a little bit of peace of mind,” DeMauro added Planned Parenthood offers a sliding fee scale, and the Ne w York State Medicaid Family Planning Benefit Program completely funds exams and contraception

Medical associate Emma Miller described how Planned Parenthood helps patients “ get diagnosed and the follow-up team of nurses gets them all the further care they need” by connecting patients to more specialized providers

To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun com

Alexis Oh can be reached at aoh@cornellsun com

Greeks Give Back To Community in Record Numbers

By SICHUN LIU Sun Contributor

A record-breaking 780 members of Cornell Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Letter Council volunteered in multiple local community organizations on the Greek community's largest day of service Saturday Greeks Give Back is a biannual day of service that has been on campus for two years after being called “Day of Demeter” for at least five years, according to Marielle Sheck ’19, vice president of university and community relations for the Panhellenic Council

The community organizations served by the greeks this year include Salvation Army, Collegetown Cleanup, Cayuga Nature Center, Museum of the Earth, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca Children’s Garden, Tompkins County Public Health and the YMCA Outdoor Education, many of which already have connections with different chapters

The most participants come from the Interfraternity Council, the largest council among the three, which has roughly 400 members volunteering to serve the community

“Philanthropy is a fundamental pillar of Greek life at Cornell, and Greeks Give Back merely allows Greek students the avenue to carry out his commitment on a semesterly basis,” said Drew Lord ’18, president of the IFC

One of the newly-implemented charitable opportunities was a letter writing outreach program that allowed people to write letters addressing causes they care about Based on a service organization called Letters Against Depression, the program created an opportunity for people who struggle with depression to request a written letter of support from a stranger anywhere in the world

Luke Bianco ’19, vice president of university and community relations for the IFC, worked with the CEO of the organization to create a portal specifically for Cornell, which features stories about 50 people who suffer from mental health

C o r n e l l i s a

Un i ve r s i t y t o p u bl i c l y c o n d e m n p i p e l i n e e x p a n s i o n a n d t o c o m m i t i t s re s o u r c e s t o f i g h ti n g i t s e x p a n s i o n l o c a l l y, ” H a n n a s a i d “

l a n d g r a n t i n s t i t ut i o n a n d i f i t ’ s n o t d o i n g a l l i t c a n t o f i g h t t h e e x p a n s i o n o f p i p e l i n e i n f r a s t r u ct u re , w h i c h h a r m s c o m m u n i t i e s , i n d i g e n o u s a n d o t h e r w i s e , t h e n i t ’ s n o t l i v i n g u p t o t h a t l a n d g r a n t m i s s i o n ” Ha r t a d d e d t h a t w h i l e s t u d e n t s o f t e n b e c o m e i m p a s s i o n e d a b o u t n a t i o n a l i s s u e s s u c h a s t h e Da k o t a

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“We have created a way for people to volunteer from their houses because we want to challenge the notion that the only way to give back is doing manual labor,” Bianco said “This program expands the reach to not only help the community here but also communities across the nation and world ”

Brittney Zamot ’19, a new member of the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, spoke of her experience volunteering for Letters Against Depression

“I got to pick who I want to write it to and it is important to let these people know that they are not alone and that things could get better,” she said

Angela Sun ’19, vice president of university and community relations for MGLC, believes that being privileged and high up on the hill, Cornell students tend to lose accountability and misunderstand what service is

“Service is about learning and reciprocity, as well as realizing that you are gaining just as much, if not more than, what you are giving to the communities,” Sun said “It also fosters a good foundation of service within the Greek community ”

Bianco also pointed that that the Greek community is aware that the impact they have on the community is not always positive, but they wanted to make sure that on that day, the impact was extremely positive

“Greeks Give Back is not to create a superficial image and promotion of ourselves that is not true, but it does give an option for people who are passionate about service to have a platform to do so, ” he said

See PIPELINE page 5

Sichun Liu can be reached at sl2473@cornell edu

S.A. Asks C.U. to Cut Ties With Bank

PIPELINE

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[Cornell’s] environmental goals ”

In addition to asking Cornell to clarify its position on local pipeline projects, Resolution 36 asks the University to reexamine and cut its ties with Wells Fargo, which has been implicated in the production of the Dakota Access Pipeline and other ostensible human rights violations, such as funding private prisons, according to the resolution

Wells Fargo also has ties to the hotel school The bank is an “industr y fellow” of the school’s Center of Real Estate and Finance, according to the University

“[The resolution] asks for a one-time review of Cornell’s existing financial and programmatic ties so any sort of endowment investments or any sort of programming or strategic corporate alliances that we have,” Hanna explained

If the University decides to divest from Wells Fargo based on this information, it would not be unprecedented: according to The Daily Californian, the University of California system divested from the company earlier this year

These actions all rely on the University following up on the actions called for in resolution

Jevan Hutson ’16 MPS ’17 has high hopes for the sustainability of the project, and he indicated the importance of community involvement as it progresses

“Getting people to think locally and act locally isn’t something that we achieve by a Student Assembly resolution, but it can begin the building blocks of gaining allies in this fight,” he said “It’s a first step, it’s not the be-all endall ”

Rachel Whalen can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun com

‘Convenience’

and ‘Effciency’ Motivate Campus-Wide Bike Share

Will undergo trial period before becoming permanent

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experience a one-hour free trial before April 20

“Bike share is one of the key things to really building an accessible campus, ” said Susan Powell, active transportation coordinator for transportation ser vices “It will be a really excellent thing for people on campus to get excited about, and it will help us start building other bike programs It’s about getting people really comfortable about where they want to go, all on two wheels ”

The program is completely student-funded, supported by organizations such as Big Red Bikes and C o r n e l l D e p a r t m e n t o f Transportation and Mail Ser vice It will be available for a 15-months pilot period, and if successful, there are negotiations under way to its becoming an official startup in 2018

“It’s

unsuccessful trial After students pushed to bring the ser vice back, they launched a new program partnered with the brand Zagster, the largest bike share provider in the United States

“At the end of the day it’s about convenience and it’s about efficiency,” said Max Widmer, a Zagster employee working with Cornell on the program “Our goal is to make it so that someone doesn’t have to worr y about lugging their bike around or keeping it in their dorm room, but still having that impulse access and having a really quick ability to grab a bike whenever they want and zoom around campus ”

about getting people really comfortable about where they want to go.”

S u s a n P o w e l l

“My hope is that this pilot bike program can facilitate a conversation with the University on building better biking infrastructure on campus, ” said Erin Tou ’18, co-president of the Big Red Bikes student chapter “ The bike share program is going to fill the need for students who don't have bus passes but want a more efficient means of getting around both on and off campus ” Big Red Bikes is a revamp of the bike share previously launched on campus, which was closed after an

Professors Defend Charged Student

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McBride requested and the University opposed, resulting in a ruling in favor of McBride and the public hearing by UHB Chair Prof Timothy DeVoogd

In February, McBride shared draft documents with The Sun from the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group, which he served on, showing that Cornell was considering viewing the financial needs of transfer students as part of the admissions process, graduating students with more debt and admitting more international students who do not require financial aid

“I believed that, principally, the community needed to be involved before such a drastic decision was going to be made that was going to change the mission of the university from ' any person, any study' to any rich person, ” he said “We need to be going the opposite direction ”

McBride receives no financial aid, he said, but thought that if the University was considering moving away from a solely meritbased system of admissions, students should be involved in that decision

On March 16, less than a week after McBride rejected the plea deal, Liang, the associate judicial administrator, informed the senior that he was being charged with violating the Code, alleging that he disclosed confidential information to The Sun McBride told The Sun he knew Knuth wanted the documents to be kept confidential, but added that no working group members never made any written or oral agreements to do so

The OJA charged McBride with violating two provisions of the

Code The first is a section under Title III of the Code that makes it a violation “To forge, fraudulently alter, willfully falsify, or otherwise misuse University or nonUniversity documents” and the second, under Title IV, compels students “ to comply with any lawful order of a clearly identifiable University official acting in the performance of his or her duties ”

Prof Kevin Clermont, law, was part of a team that revised the Code in 2007 and 2008 and told The Sun this week that neither of the provisions McBride is accused of violating apply to the circumstances in his case

“Cornell is trying to stretch the Code to reach behavior that the Code does not cover, ” Clermont said in an email If “misuse” is read broadly to include sharing purportedly confidential documents, that interpretation “would simply set the provision adrift,” he said, adding that the “idea is that ‘misuse’ takes its meaning from forge, alter, and falsify ”

As for not complying with a University official’s lawful order, Clermont said that provision can only apply when the order is made “ to maintain public order” because of the Ne w York Education Law under which the provision was adopted

“ The conception that a Cornell administrator can simply ‘order’ students and faculty to do things would radically alter the society we live in,” Clermont said “That reading is airtight The J A cannot charge him under Title IV ”

Prof Richard Bensel, government, a member of the Faculty Senate, proposed a resolution on Thursday that would make “ proceedings in which a senior administrator prosecutes a member of

the Cornell community open and public if the defendant requests that they be open and public,” The Sun previously reported

Bensel told The Sun on Thursday that Knuth made the initial incident report to the OJA, resulting in the investigation Knuth did not respond to two requests for comment last week

“There is a real problem in having the senior vice provost prosecuting Mitch for what I think is a trivial, unimportant [matter],” Bensel said, adding that the OJA said “there was no evidence of harm” stemming from McBride’s sharing of the documents

“The most important of my worries is the extremely chilling effect,” Bensel said “To go out and stomp on [students] like you ’ re stomping on a rat is crazy it just makes no sense to me and it isn’t the kind of values this University should have ”

Prof Elizabeth Sanders, government, has been following McBride’s case and said the OJA’s prosecution is “excessively punitive, heavy-handed, and unjustified

”

“We need to shine more light on university governance and to institute far-reaching reforms that will check autocratic power and open up decision-making on major policies to much broader par ticipation and publicity,” Sanders said in an email

“Things like this happen far too often at our university, and they reflect very poorly on an institution that ostensibly celebrates openness and creative thinking ”

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

The bike share requested feedback from campus members in order to function at its best level Gar y Cremeens, one of the directors of Cornell’s Transportation and Mail Ser vices, encouraged Cornellians to post comments on the program ’ s Facebook page, as well as to speak up at various student assembly meetings

“I’m ver y impressed by those who organized this,” said Jung Won Kim ’18, the incoming president of the Student Assembly “ The fact that a group of 10 to 12 students organized this out of their own initiative I think is ver y impressive This will save me and a lot of other students time and energy it’s good for the environment, our health and our safety ”

Kelly Song can be reached at ms2968@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Henry Graney

“Is it wickedness? Is it weakness?” opens Kendrick Lamar’s long awaited four th album, Damn The question he poses in “BLOOD,” the album’s first track, is answered by the rest of the album, highlighting the failings of man to meet his own expectations, burdened by fame, and still tr ying to make sense of his countr y, community and self Dropped on April 14th, Good Friday (which has sparked rather desperate speculation of a followup album on Easter), the 14-track album is a stripped down version of Kendrick, whose vocals and rich lyricism do the heavy-lifting, a welcome deviation from the instr umental, narrationheavy critically and popularly acclaimed good kid, m A A d city and To Pimp a Butterfly Though the album lacks the consistency of earlier concept releases, its purpose is to show the versatility of his stor ytelling, unbound by a single narration and style In the face of a pre-release lead up that saw Kendrick checking his rivals, Damn puts him over the non-existent edge displaying the various personalities, conflicts and manifestations of the man on the throne of the music scene, King Kendrick

Replete with biblical references, gangbanging, lilting samples and a tor tured ar tist contemplating, critiquing, praising and chronicling, the album is born of a familiar formula that has made Kendrick such a popular and critical success But this album is more personal If his previous releases crowned him hip hop’s king and savior, Kendrick cr ucifies himself on Damn cognizant of his own failings, following an examination his own sins on “PRIDE ” with the braggadocios “HUMBLE ” Confused in his own fame, Kendrick seeks to find a voice among his own canon, asking which par t of him is the most authentic And for a man who features prominently in the eyes of Barack Obama and The Game alike, the dichotomy is clear Now that Kendrick has arrived at fame, where will it take him and will it poison the soul he has yet to find?

The album immediately reintroduces the listener to Kendrick’s world view of the precariousness of life in the album’s opening track, “BLOOD ” It tells the tale of Kendrick as he approaches a blind woman who seems to be looking for something on the pavement After offering his help, the blind woman shoots Kendrick Whether a symbol of the supposed “blindness ” of ustice in America and its aberrant propensity to target black men, or just a tale of the bleak por trait he paints for human beings, the message is clear: Kendrick will not stop shying from the violence of his past or the poisoned soul of America that he has regaled us all about in the past

Kendrick’s political references in Damn are more over t than ever, emboldened by the increasing dissent toward the president and conser vative constituency that placed him in the White House He samples conser vative commentators multiple times, the first in “BLOOD ” as Fox commentators recoil at his lyrics in “Alright,” specifically “ we hate popo, wanna kill us idea in the street fo’ sho’ ” He goes on to sample another Fox News clip in the bridge of his brash, u n a p o l o g e t i c “ D N A ” It f e a t u r e s c o m m e n t a t o r Geraldo Rivera criticizing the lyrics from “Alright,” yet again, saying “ This is why I say that hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years, ” a bogus claim that Kendrick lets speak to the ignorance and lack of understanding of many to the black condition

The criticism of America is not just singular to our current situation Kendrick has railed against what he finds wrong with the countr y in all of his work but he elevates his condemnation in U2’s featured track “XXX ” Bono helps expand the stor y of dissuading a

young gangbanger by widening the scope to a greater American wrong “Hail Mar y, Jesus and Joseph/the great American flag/Is wrapped and dragged with e x p l o s i

s Do n a l d Tr u m p

o f f i c e / We l o s t Barack and promised to never doubt him again/But is America honest, or do we bask in sin?” The criticism is also personal, calling America “ a mirror” on “XXX ” His own dark past, central to good kid, m A A d city, is a platform for his latest installation of introspection, the conclusions of which resonate with so many others Aligned with Bono’s refrain about questions unanswered and problems still developing, “It’s not a place/This countr y is to be a sound of dr um and bass/You close your eyes to look around,” the track is an understated critique of a culture that keeps places like Compton down and praises their most achieved alum and a countr y that has lost itself in division

In all of his work, Kendrick has tried to expand understanding of others’ tr uths and make his audience recognize the role that circumstances play in the development of a person His “good kid” and “caterpillar” personas from his two previous albums respectively, are testaments to that The “good kid” finds himself abused by the systems around him and people that bring him down in the community he loves The “caterpillar” must fight off the capitalism of “Uncle Sam” and the indulgence and sin of the devil, “Lucy,” as he finds himself in the spotlight with gr ubby hands reaching inside him to cash out on his soul If the two previous albums were Kendrick’s rise and then his arrival into fame and the conflicts he faced in each phase, this album is his tenure as tor tured, reigning king, unabashedly including the new insecurities and external pressures singular to his established level of fame and distinction

In “FEEL ” Kendrick illustrates this isolation in a burdened stream of consciousness illuminative of the recognizable tor ture that he endures, unresolved from even more recognition and the designation as “hip hop’s savior ” The track is reminiscent of To Pimp a Butterfly’ s “ u, ” chronicling the disappointment he feels being unable to change the community he hails from and where his fame is heavily rested And like “ u, ” the song changes mid-way to a brash, trance-like praise whose energy is matched only by the most reverent of Pentecostals Unlike “ u ” the track lacks the emotional rawness of a cr ying, dr unken and depressed Kendrick, rather it sees an all-too-familiar scene of a contemplative Kenny tr ying to make sense of the world, his situation and himself

“FEEL ” is Kendrick’s most compelling statement of self It is clear that Kendrick Lamar is burdened by his critical distinction Some call out his diss tracks as low-brow Others criticize him for posturing on his “ c o n s

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m p e l l i n g , arguably the most raw confession of one ’ s own tr uth Kendrick knows people look up to him, that he occupies the most coveted position in the industr y but his humility in recognizing his own failings outweighs the u

M B L E ” Kendrick’s desire for fame tor tures him because in his high regard he has yet to find himself

Considering the heavy-handedness of his recent releases, “ The Heart Part 4” and “HUMBLE ” it’s surprising the album is not chock-full of Kendrick flexing his lyrical genius and checking his rivals While he does differentiate himself from his contemporaries with “DNA , ” claiming he has “royalty inside my DNA,” the album is full of the tender and gritty stor y-telling that characterizes much of Kendrick’s work This is a welcome reprise from his diss tracks, as for some they seem below the artist He is no longer the punk who

dominated the 2013 BET Cypher calling out ever yone in the game, or the self-assured hijacker of Big Sean’s “Control ” This Kendrick lets the others squabble for money and fame as he believes he is called to rap to ser ve a higher purpose This album makes something ver y clear: this is King Kendrick and this is hip hop

Though the album is a cohesive showcase of Kendrick’s ranging vocal styles and stor ytelling it does lack the consistency of his previous concept albums, good kid, m A A d city and To Pimp A Butterfly This in no way takes away from the master y of the album, it merely differentiates it from his previous work This album is Kendrick showing he doesn’t need to tell a 17-track stor y to be a good rapper Lamar can tie love songs, prophetic parables, scathing diss tracks, lullabies and the sounds of a nightmarish environment for a young man, into one album with dissimilar instr umentals, inconsistent transitions and the lack of a singular narrator And the album still thrives Because the differentiating factor in all hip hop is the power of voice, and Kendrick’s rings the most tr ue Kendrick’s array of emotions manifest themselves in different identities and vocal cadences that wax and wane throughout the album Artistically, the standout feature of the album is the vocal range that Kendrick exhibits The singing on “YAH ” waxes and wanes, a mature, subdued vocal that still lilts, not quite the affected quality of “Money Trees” and free of the frantic energy of “untitled 08 ” The fer vor is held in “DNA ” and “HUMBLE ” full of primal growls and Narcissus-like boasting This contrast of personalities within his previous albums and throughout Damn ser ves to show that the self is malleable and ever-changing Kendrick wants to show that people bend to their circumstances, to sur vive in a “ m A A d city,” and that they must undergo change to make themselves, like a butterfly In Damn that journey is not over, but it’s a development at the peak of his fame He’s settled in his throne and displaying all the voices and inner machinations that got him to this point This album is a meditation on ever ything that contributes to his self, searching for the authenticity within

The hardship in his stories is reinforced in the album; themes of depression, self-hatred, isolation and societal injustice make an unwelcome return to the canon of Kendrick Lamar Yet the way he tells these stories is entirely new Kendrick adopts an increasingly raw presentation of self, vocal sophistication and bare bones instr umentation His beats are stripped, his track titles bold and blunt and his style heavy on the vocality and lyrical genius that has gotten him this far The lack of a lulling back-track or sophisticated instr umentation requires the audience to listen again and again, finding more on revisitations

The familiarity of Kendrick’s messages is evident in this album It’s still hip hop for a disillusioned liberal majority, especially in the face of a defeating and divisive election It’s still hip hop for the modern condition of the black community, calling out injustices instead of gang references, illuminating the circumstances of violence instead of encouraging gang banging and voicing tr uth instead of mumbling about painkillers In his own words: “I don’t do it for the ‘Gram, I do it for Compton ” And though this album isn’t the instr umental-rich and ear th shattering social testament delivered in 2015, it’s the welcome evolution of a conflicted, barebones and raw kid-turnedman from Compton, America’s most poignant and compelling stor yteller, Kendrick Lamar

Henry Graney is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at hg382@cornell edu

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otlanta” is a groovy

A l l m a n B r o t h e r s track It also nicknames a humid sprawl with an area of about 8,300 square miles which has generated its fair share of Confederate battle-flag toting liber tarians and trap superstars

For the past 20 years, the city has risen in notoriety, mostly for

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their music, they act out forces and traditions that could have

h o s e words would 20 years later, when Lil Yachty and Migos top the char ts with no signs of fatigue in sight

Donald Glover cemented a vision of Atlanta as a haze of c o n c r e t

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h e Southern city carries an exquisite pain and a glamorous harshn e s s , b a c k l i t by v i o l e n c e a n d dr ug use Buckhead restaurants and backwoods deals go hand in hand Parks full of old oaks and c e m e t e r i e s f u l l o f d e a d s l a v e owners, the city is a fever dream of heat and lights Atlanta comes closer to defining a visual tone of life for the city than much else has in a long time

T h a t b e i n g s a i d , D o n a l d

Glover’s pet project offers a version of this city that we expect But with this specific image, we assume this heap of glass sky-

s c r a p e r s a n d r e d c l a y c a n ’ t become any other kind of place than what the TV show depicts Atlanta is many different places

Fl a n n e r y O ’ C o n n o r w r i t e s o f

Atlanta as the prime host for a Southern brand of white nightmares, where r ural and suburban whites encounter their racialized fears in parables of hypocrisy

come from nowhere else Algiers’ music casts Atlanta in a 100d

chrome fog, in a blackout with no lights left to keep it pretty They produce a hellish sound that howls and weeps It holds the histor y of the southeastern town in a digital, frantic light

transit stretches only so far out into the suburbs The train stops at what white residents deemed a safe distance away from them in the 60s No one has bothered to build it fur ther since I look in Flanner y O’Connor ’ s stories and consider how much has changed In my mind: ver y little, for the good at least Racial divisions in Atlanta are s t r o n g e r t h a n e v e r C o mmunities are still segregated The w h i t e s u

r s speculate in awe about what goes o n u n d e r g ro u n d He ro i n a n d amphetamines pour through the city’s infrastr ucture Gr o w i n g u p i n t h e c i t y ’ s shadow, I saw Atlanta and its surroundings as a place I needed

to flee I couldn’t understand where I lived beyond its faults

That’s not to excuse the faults of t h e Ge o r g i a s u b u r b s , s u c h a s pseudo-kindness and late-capitalist apathy, but where else have I felt the sun on my skin or the aroma of the grass in a way that felt both unique and familiar?

Granted that clogged airpor ts a n d h i g h w a y s m a k e A t l a n t a depar tures difficult, I’ve never left this humid mass without the signature pang that accompanies each instance of leaving home My inner rationalist might argue that home is a variable dependent on circumstance and environment Yet the mud and clay you come from carries a specific s c e n t Yo u k n o w t h e f e e l i n g when it’s there Home can haunt you Origins can be the source of demons They can echo a past you ’ re tired of confronting But if we don’t examine how places and people have formed us both the good and the bad we do a disser vice to ourselves We obscure one of the only paths to

build an exterior against whatever influence our pasts hold over us This is the risk I take if I forget the sources of myself And I don’t plan to

Stephen Meisel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun com His column Appearances appears alternate Mondays this semester

Wild Adriatic at Haunt

palette; it reminded me of The Bl

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ow and it stayed like that through the opening set by Leopold and His Fiction Loud rock in a mostly empty venue, with a few people around the bar and a few others at the tables, far away from the front of the stage I liked their music, though their ro

d have certainly benefited from a larger and more lively crowd

When Wild Adriatic started playing with no intro fanfare the audience had not gained s i g n i f i c a n t n u m b e r s So m etimes after the first couple of songs they asked ever yone to come closer to the stage, and I’m glad we all listened

Judging by their recorded material, it never occurred to me that Wild Adriatic would have such a strong blues and h a rd - r

thought was reinforced by a cover of Foxy Lady around the middle of their set The rest, all original songs, had a harder edge than the recordings, with long wailing guitar solos (Travis Gray), balanced against a funky h i n t i n t h e b a s s ( R i c h Derbyshire) and drums (Mateo Vosganian) which gave their sound a nice bounce

Just between guitar, bass and drums, without backing brass or keys, they improvised generously, each taking turns to drive the song to some new place between melody and noise, all layered on a solid rhythm I left pleasantly s u

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So m e t i m e s , t h e b e s t v i e w i s n ’ t t h e o n e yo u ’ re s e e i n g T h e l a s t m a rk e t i n g

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Letter to the Editor

Take concrete steps to end exploitation in Qatar

To th e Ed itor:

On March 17, President Rawlings responded to “Promoting Fair and Humane Labor Practices in Qatar,” a Student Assembly resolution calling on Cornell University to increase transparency about its presence in Qatar Regrettably, he dismissed our calls to publish the dates of university meetings with Qatar Foundation officials and commit Cornell to combatting Qatar’s kafala system As Martha Pollack assumes her role as Cornell’s president, we urge her to heed these demands and take a stronger stance than her predecessors on this critical issue

Perhaps most regrettably, Rawlings dismissed calls for unionization at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar by noting that unions are illegal in Qatar In light of President Rawlings’ declaration that WCM-Q cannot recognize unions because of their illegality, we reaffirm workers’ fundamental right to a union as outlined in ILO Convention 87 The committee for Freedom of Association has confirmed all Qatar-based workers’ right to form a union, noting that the country ’ s labor code blanketly violates the ILO’s mandate that governments respect the rights of workers to join labor organizations of their choosing “without distinction ” As it stands, WCM-Q has a simple choice between heeding the legal mandates of an effective slave-state or adhering to international labor law and we demand that it do the latter Pending fundamental labor reform, president-elect Pollack ought to ensure that WCM-Q grants collective bargaining rights to its workers and democratically negotiates the terms of their work with their chosen representatives If the Qatari state resists these efforts, then perhaps our university ought to withdraw from a country that insists on maintaining a feudal employment system at all costs

We also reaffirm our support for an independent third-party investigation into working conditions at WCM-Q Rawlings asserted that “there have been no allegations of violations by contracted staff against their employers,” despite the fact that the International Trade Union Confederation has found widespread abuse on Education City campuses That aside, why would workers living under kafala the Qatari system of labor monitoring that holds workers in slavery-like conditions feel comfortable lodging complaints with even “benevolent” employers like Cornell? Only an independent monitor can truly assure us that WCM-Q is safe for workers

As we move forward, we acknowledge that calls for dignity at Cornell’s Doha campus are linked to worker struggles on our Ithaca campus and around the world In the same breath that Cornell has denied student calls for increased transparency about its labor practices in Qatar, it has intimidated dining workers, undermined graduate workers’ attempts to form a democratic union and maintained ties with sweatshop-using corporations Though it is shameful that a university that boasts one of the world’s oldest and most respected labor programs has adopted a posture that is deeply hostile to organized labor, we retain hope that President-Elect Pollack might reverse this disturbing trend President-elect Pollack: Take concrete steps to end exploitation in Qatar! X avie r E ddy ’1 9 , o n b e h alf of C o rn el l Org an iz atio n f or Lab o r Ac

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b u t i t w a s h e re s y t o t h e s t u d e n t s h e w a s t a l k i n g t o T h e u n s p o k e n a s s u m p t i o n a b o u t

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s t u d e n t s w a n t a c a re e r i n f i n a n c e A n d n o t j u s t a c a re e r i n f i n a n c e o n Wa l l

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By t h e w a y, Fo g a r t y i s n ’ t d o n e ye t Ne a r t h e e n d o f h i s t a l k a b o u t h i s c a re e r a n d w h y h e c h o s e i t , h e l o o k s u p a t u s , a n d t a k e s a i m a t t h e ze i t g e i s t “ How m a n y o f yo u a re i n t e re s t e d i n a c a re e r o n Wa l l St re e t ? ” So m e t h i n g i n t e re s t i n g h a p p e n s In m y h e a d , I i m a g i n e a t l e a s t a t h i rd o f t h e c l a s s r a i s i

s e t t i n g i t p rov i d e s s t u d e n t s E a c h c l a s s o f f re s h m e n i s o n l y a b o u t 1 0 0 s t u d e n t s , a l l o w i n g s t u d e n t s t o m a k e s t r o n g e r, f r i e n d l i e r c o n n e c t i o n s T h e r e ’ s s o m et h i n g d i s a r m i n g l y c h a r m f u l i n h ow c a s ua l D y s o n i s In c o m p a r i s o n , W h a r t o n i s f l o o d e d w i t h 6 0 0 f re s h m e n e a c h ye a r, e a c

We became close friends over the course of junior year of high school It soon became clear she wanted something more than friendship I knew she did, but I reasoned that because I was in the closet I would have to tell her I didn’t feel the same way, that in fact, I didn’t feel that way about any girl I knew or would ever know I repressed myself more than ever at the time As people increasingly noticed how couple-y we were and kept asking why we weren ’ t a couple, I found myself responding with abject silence, and the inquirers read that as a sign of how smitten I was

She finally cornered me during the first few weeks of senior year, as we waited for my mom to pick us up from chess practice after school (we were co-captains) She confessed that she really liked me, and she asked me out She also said that it would be okay if I didn’t like her back and didn’t want anything romantic with her

My heart was jumping out of my chest, but not for the right reasons I had known this moment would come and I was disappointed in myself for not having excessively prepared for it like I did for all my tests The following exchange has always made me feel grateful that common sense isn’t formally part of the state ’ s curriculum I told her I liked her back, but that’s not all I told her I really liked her I realized my grave mistake on

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the way home When my mom stepped out of the car to pick up some groceries on the way home, she began to hold my hand and said something about forbidden love She later told me she loved me I couldn’t even imagine telling the truth, so I just stepped up the ante I languished that we couldn’t date because of my controlling and traditional brown parents She u n d e r s t o o d and accepted my wish to honor my parents ’ rule That awkward interaction in the car captures our r e l a t i o n s h i p senior year She showered on me her affection, affection she now knew I had for her as well Meanwhile, I tried to ignore and downplay it like the good brown boy I was My anxiety over the situation grew larger, so naturally, I took things to the next level It was time to ask people out to prom and she was waiting I felt awful about leading her on for so long, so I thought the least I could do was take her to prom After assuring my parents that prom could be platonic, I organized the most amazing chess-themed promposal there ever was Then I anticipated what I thought would be the most uncomfortable day of my life

Iwork at Temple of Zeus My English teachers have always told me to “show, not tell” in my writing, but gosh darnit I just can ’ t help myself I work at Temple of Zeus and I’m proud of it In a Febr uar y ar ticle, The Sun’s dining depar tment ranked all the eateries on campus Zeus finished second Louisa Heywood ’20 wrote, “ Temple of Zeus did what we all wanted, and what Cornell Dining has

t h u s f a r refused to cave

i n t o : b r i n g Ithaca Baker y bread and past r i e s t o c a mp u s T h e i r d e l i c i o u s p a st r i e s , c o f f e e , prepared food and sandwiches are only in competition with their perfect soups ” She goes on to say that “the only annoyance with [Zeus] is that you cannot use Big Red Bucks ” It is tr ue that Temple of Zeus, being unaffiliated with t h e C o r n e l l D i n i n g c o n g l o m e r a t e , i s unable to accept the nebulous fiat money known as Big Red Bucks To quote a 2012 Cornell Chronicle stor y, Temple of Zeus “ was founded in 1964 through the collaborative effor ts of students, faculty and staff The students were demanding a place to meet with faculty that was neutral territor y, so the college came up with this place ”

There’s no surprise here I was right, but the day before prom nearly took the crown I told her I was gay the day before prom in a desperate attempt to relieve myself of unbearable anxiety Over the phone She was wrecked, but we still went to prom because it took weeks to get ready and everyone was expecting to see the adorkable couple We painfully slow-danced

to hear, but it would have eliminated the fresh hell of senior year if I had just been honest When I said I was interested and blamed my parents for keeping us apart, I was lying to myself too I was so used to explaining away and denying my feelings that I reflexively concocted a cover stor y when there was no need for one I asserted my parents ’ rule (one that would really be enforced if dating was even remotely a possibility for me) to put the burden of acceptance on them, when it actually revealed that I didn’t accept myself and didn’t plan to do so anytime soon

the night away, listlessly swung our hands together during the songs that were a bit raunchier and drowned ourselves in chocolate fondue when it became too much It was horrendous for me and her, but we survived Years later, I realized my being gay had little to do with what I put her through The whole time I was of the understanding that because I was gay, I could not be with her The truth is I didn’t like her and it didn’t have to have anything to do with my sexuality She said she would be fine if I wasn ’ t interested It would have been painful for her

For a long time since then I projected my insecurities on others I felt like the only true way for me to be gay was to be unapologetically “fierce ” I acted and appeared as a stereotypical gay man and cut out anyone who I felt wasn ’ t with that I began to see homophobia where it wasn ’ t It took some hard looks in the mirror to see that me at my “fiercest” was me at my most repressed, most pretending to be something I’m not in blind pursuit of something that I thought I should be I was still lying to myself, still carrying on a false narrative to avoid

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Ich Bin ein Zeusian

reform of a religious order, I seem to have found my epos in the making of sandwiches It is my earnest belief that Zeus is a paragon of vir tue that American society desperately needs to learn from Healthy f o o d m a d e w i t h f re s h , l o c a l l y - s o u rc e d ingredients Business conducted for the benefit of the people, not the profit of the b u s i n e s s m a n Su c h b u s i n e s s , w h i l e i t necessitates some sacrifices on the par t of

hand According to sources, (you have no idea how great it feels to write that phrase) Temple of Zeus will soon be rechristened “Ad e l s o n c a f é ” i n h o n o r o f Ja m e s F Adelson, oil magnate and member of the C o r n e l l A r t s & S c i e n c e s A d v i s o r y Council Mr Adelson currently ser ves as president of an Oklahoma energy company called Nadel and Gussman, LLC In 2013, Nadel and Gussman plead guilty to

In fact, I’d like to thank Mr. Adelson for the generous donation he must have made t Cornell. But the library of ornithology is already called the “Adelson library” what more could a person want? If it’s a bench or a computer lab or another library, by al means give it to him Hell, erect a statue of the man where the chair sculpture used to be But please don’t take Zeus

the consumer, is especially essential in the food industr y Trillium may accept Big Red Bucks, McDonald’s may be convenient and addictive, but Zeus and the little mom-and-pop restaurant down the street are better for you, the planet and the community Even if you are a hardcore capitalist for whatever reason, it’s hard to argue against the fact that capitalism and human health don’t mix The invisible hand should not feed the corporeal mouth The free market would have us eating each other if it could get away with it

self-confrontation, and in the process pushing away people who meant no harm

I’m changing once again, but in the sense that I don’t put pressure on myself to change in any way anymore There really isn’t any correct expression of queerness, or any aspect of one ’ s multidimensional identity for that matter Being your genuine self is liberating and that freedom takes shape when you ’ re honest and straightforward with the people in your life about what that means and allowing them some time to adjust if need be An even harder step is moving towards self-acceptance and giving yourself the same discretions of time and the chance to make mistakes and learn from them

We’re still good friends today, and it’s now only slightly cringe-y to look back at the golden years

My sexuality, something that I had always assumed would tear us apart and my life in general, has barely gotten in the way of our ability to keep our friendship going Ironically, it was my efforts to bury it that did just that, I see that now, and I am determined to be real about myself and my problems instead of escaping into the fondue fountain for most of the night

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

This is not the first time I have mentioned my workplace in my column Just as Saint Teresa found her epos in the

But I have waxed too philosophical As a p r o g r e s s i v e h o p i n g t o a c t u a t e r e a l change, I must keep my focus on the tangible And there is a tangible issue at

a violation of the federal clean water act after 4,700 gallons of oil spilled in a Wyoming creek and the company ’ s operations manager failed to repor t the spill

I don’t want to belabor the point about the oil spill; journalism shouldn’t be character assassination In fact, I’d like to thank Mr Adelson for the generous donation he must have made to Cornell But the librar y of ornithology is already called the “Adelson librar y ” what more could a person want? If it’s a bench or a computer lab or another librar y, by all means give it to him Hell, erect a statue of the man where the chair sculpture used to be But please don’t take Zeus

It may seem a little silly that I’m making such a big fuss over the title of a café

It’s par tly the name itself (nobody wants to go to Adelson poetr y night), but it’s much more than that Ever yone has experienced the uncomfor tability of taking classes in buildings named after wealthy, often problematic figures (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read the Wikipedia page on Goldwin Smith ) For the life of me, I can ’ t think of a place at Cornell besides Temple of Zeus that has a n o n - h o n o r i f i c name If you t h i n k m y c h a r a c t e r i z ation of Zeus as a b e a c o n f o r s o c i e t y i s grandiose, will y o u a t l e a s t agree that it is a b

the lives of Cornell students? Zeus is, above all, about community It’s about a professor and her student discussing literature while waiting in line to get coffee

It’s about r ushing from your lecture hall before seating or grilled cheeses or any other hot commodity r uns out It’s about Choklay and her soups, Nyima and his sarcasm, Fred and his stupid impressions It’s about the way the world used to be b e f o

standardized, hear tless and named after oil tycoons

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Ronaldo’s Secret To Greatness

RONALDO

Continued from page 12 for criticism, with a reputation

pouting when calls do not go his way, and commonly perceived to be selfish and arrogant

But to traverse this path is to discredit a legend in the making On Wednesday, with two finishe

h , Ronaldo became the first player to score 100 goals in European competitions And the game per-

makes Ronaldo stand out While Messi receives the ball, and then uses his magic to bring it under his spell, weaving in and out of traffic and toppling defenders like logs, Ronaldo is the exact opposite He lurks without the ball, always eyeing space in the box where the play is developing and then he pounces: a flash of movement, a shot of unerring accuracy It means that he only catches the attention for a brief

He lurks without the ball, always eying space in the box where the play is developing and then he pounces.

moment, but it is those moments that win matches It is this careful look at his play which refutes c

comes from his teammates and can be achieved by anyone in his position

After all, if what he did was easy then why are we only witnessing such greatness now?

Junyoung Lee can be contacted at junyounglee@cornellsun edu Any Given Monday appears on Mondays this semester

Spor ts

Fletcher and Teat Become Highest Scoring Duo, Lead Laxers Past Lehigh

Freshmen set scoring record as Red continues fght for Ivy spot

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Throughout the course of Saturday afternoon’s affair, a slight drizzle was creeping over the crescent at Schoellkopf, but never quite fully formed into a consistent precipitation

That’s because the true downpour was occurring down on the turf, as the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse (4-7, 2-2 Ivy) offense ignited to down Lehigh (6-6, 3-4), 16-11, for a bounceback win after Tuesday’s collapse at Syracuse

“Very excited to get one and they’re tough to come by this year, ” said head coach Matt Kerwick “The guys really put forth the effort that we wanted to see as a team ”

While a team effort, two individuals took center stage Saturday, as they do nearly every contest

When freshman attack Connor Fletcher received a pass from sophomore Clarke Peterson to make it 11-8 Cornell, the goal gave the lethal freshman duo of Fletcher and Jeff Teat their 79th combined point of the year to make them the highest scoring firstyear pair in program history by passing Rob Pannell ’12 and Roy Lang ’12 The two finished Saturday with 11 points on the day eight from Teat, three from Fletcher and 83 combined season points between them

“If you work hard, good things are going to happen, and that’s what these two are doing a really good job with,” Kerwick said “We are excited about where we are heading ”

Petterson’s assist on Fletcher’s record-setting goal helped make it a career day for the sophomore who was named 2015’s most valuable freshman on the team It was one of four assists on the day for Petterson, who added

“We’re playing for our lives right now and we hold our own destiny, so we’re pretty excited about that.”

H e a d C o a c h M a t t K e r w i c k

two goals in the contest as well

“We were just trying to share the ball on offense,” Petterson said “I was just fortunate enough to be in the right spot at the right time It was team offense and I was beneficiary at the end ” It was not all comfort for the Red,

“We settled in on both sides of the ball and became more comfortable with what we are doing.”

H e a d C o a c h M a t t K e r w i c k

however Lehigh came out shooting, and took the first two goals of the game and a 4-3 lead into first break As a zone defense team, a system Kerwick says Cornell has not seen as much, Lehigh held the Cornell offense rather quiet in the first quarter

Later on, once Cornell eventually got itself up to a 15-8 lead with seven straight unanswered goals, the Mountain Hawks utilized three unanswered of their own to make what seemed like a sure win a little bit more tense Lehigh added 18 shots in the final quarter

“We only had two days to get ready for their zone, so the comfort level for the offense took a little time to get there,” Kerwick said

But Kerwick’s squad had senior goalie Christian Knight in the cage, who, after a rocky start to begin the year, has come into his own in the recent slew of games He made 17 saves Saturday, with his best play coming during Cornell’s worst stretch

“The one individual who I thought was incredible was Knight,” Kerwick said “He played the game of the season for him He was really poised, he was seeing everything When we got a little bit sporadic in the fourth quarter there a bit he bailed us out He’s as good as it gets in the cage ”

Before the scare in the final quarter,

Cornell played some of its most crisp lacrosse of the season From around the midway points of the third to fourth quarters, the Red held Lehigh without any goals and true offensive pressure On the other end of the field, Cornell ran up the score with seven of its own

“We settled in on both sides of the ball and became more comfortable with what we are doing and executed a little bit better,” Kerwick said Despite all the accolades and career days that might have come with the win, Kerwick and his team know there are still plenty of holes left to fill heading into the final, crucial stretch of Ivy play

Cornell managed a mere six faceoff wins Saturday in 30 total draws, not winning a single one in the first quarter It resulted in senior attack Ryan Matthews taking his first stab at the faceoff dot since his freshman season, when he played as a reserve faceoff specialist for Johns Hopkins Freshman defenseman Brandon Salvatore who notched his first career point on a long strike Saturday also saw some action in the faceoff circle

“We need to change our approach because we are struggling at the faceoff X right now, ” Kerwick said “We have to keep working at that obviously ” But Kerwick has also preached in the past about fixing the problems with ground balls and those 50-50 chances On Saturday, Cornell nearly doubled Lehigh on ground balls, 3219

With just two games left in the season, and with only four teams making it into the Ivy tournament, Cornell sits at 500 within the league and still a fighting chance at making the postseason tournament, sitting in a tie with Brown for third

“The goal is to be 4-2 in the Ivy right now, ” Keriwck said “We’re playing for our lives right now and we hold our own destiny, so we ’ re pretty excited about that ”

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It is this careful look at his play which refutes claims that Ronaldo’s success comes from his teammates and can be achieved by anyone.