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C.U. Students Meet Pakistan’s

Cornellians

Over spring break, Cornell students made Pakistani national news when they met with the c o u n t r y ’ s Pr i m e Mi n i s t e r, t h e Chief of Military and the incoming ambassador to the United States

Or g a n i ze d by Mo h a m m a d Zohair Javed grad and Shan-EAhmed grad, the trip was intended to give Cornell students a greater awareness about Pakistan beyond how the country is typically portrayed in the mainstream media, Javed said

A s a M PA c a n d i d a t e a n d Pakistani native, Javed said he recognized a lack of understanding

“When I came to Cornell, I realized that there isn’t a great u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e c o u n t r y [Pakistan] or the dynamics of it in the U S not to blame people per se it’s just what is out there in the media and the information t h a t t h e y c o ns u m e , ” Ja ve d said “ Bu t I d i d find a lot of curiosity in my friends in the public administration program and the business school about Pakistan and about wanting to understand more, ” he

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added “I thought that I could do something for people here for students here to experience the country ” After learning about his fellow s t u d

t r y, Ja v e d d e c i d e d t o plan the nined a y t r i p Ac c o rd i n g t o Javed, the trip was unaffiliate d w i t h t h e U n i v e r s i t y since Cornell didn’t want to be associated because of Pakistan’s restrictions As a result of this “understandable reason, ” Javed said the organizers could only use word of mouth and informal marketing

The group of 20 consisted of one undergraduate student, nine MPA students, five MBA students, two law school students, two Cornell Weill medical students and two Harvard Kennedy School alumni During the trip, t h e y

Valley and Mona Javed stressed that an important aspect of the trip is that it did not aim to promote a positive image of Pakistan, but rather to allow students to form their own

Lee ’20 of the Speech and Debate Society a n d Qu i n n Ot t o - Mo u

Cornell Republicans

The national conversation about gun

c o n t ro l l e g i s l a t i o n , re i g n i t e d by t h e Parkland shooting in February that killed 17 people, has led to campus walkouts, marches and most recently, a student forum focused on the politics and policy of gun control

“We thought it was really important that a march not be the last thing that gets done,” said Giancarlo Valdetaro, a member of the Roosevelt Institute, referring to the March for our Lives at Cornell that his organization led about a month ago

The Roosevelt Institute, a student public policy think tank, organized Friday’s forum and presented perspectives from four students and a professor on topics ranging from legislation to cultural values surrounding guns It also coincided with a second nationwide school walkout

The panel included Sydney Eisenberg ’21 of the Roosevelt Institute, T J Hunt ’21 of the Cornell Political Union, Denny

Valdetaro also emphasized the importance of how the conversation brought in voices from across the political spectrum, saying that the campus can often be a “liberal bubble ”

“We forget to talk about solutions and importantly we forget to talk to people who disagree with us, ” Valdetaro said

Some audience members also echoed the call for multifaceted discussion, including Mason Woods ’20, who said he would be “looking to see if there is bipartisan discussion happening in this area ” and contrasted his upbringing in Texas with his personally left-leaning views

“I don’t necessarily think that gun ownership equates to that person being bad, but guns can end up in the hands of people who are that way, so how can we mitigate

By ANDREA VALDES Sun Staff Writer

The department of computing and information science gathered a panel of experts and students last Wednesday to speak about women in technology-related careers who are breaking stereotypes and helping others reach their goals

The panel, moderated by Prof Éva Tardos, computer science, included Heather Cabot, a veteran journalist and co-author of Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech, Ana Pinczuk ’84, senior vice president and general manager of HPE Pointnext, Rediet Abebe grad, co-founder of Black in AI and Avani Bhargava ’20, co-president of Women in Computing at Cornell Cabot signed copies of her book, Geek Girl Rising, before the panel She and co-author Samantha Walravens sought to compile success stories from women in the technology industry They found an “incredible sisterhood” where regardless of location or profession, there was an “incredible responsibility that women seemed to

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Monday, April 23, 2018

A L I S T I N G O F F R E E C A M P U S E V E N T S

Hebrew Conversation Hour Noon, 410 White Hall

Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity, by Fabiola López-Durán 12:15 - 1:10 p m , 153 Uris Hall

Beyond Academia: Transforming a CV to a Resume 2:00 -5:00 p m , 102 Mann Library

What Climate Do We Owe to Our Great-GreatGrandchildren? 2:55 - 4:10 p m , 125 Riley-Robb Hall

Latin studies | Fabiola López-Durán will share how eugenics has impacted the modern Latin world

Tackling Imposter Syndrome with Dena Simmons 3:00 - 4:30 p m, Lecture Hall 4/5 College of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Physics Colloquium 4:00 - 5:00 p m , Schwartz Auditorium Rockefeller Hall

Labor Economics & Human Resource Studies Workshop: Kevin Murphy 4:15 p m , 115 Ives Hall

A Most Awkward Sphere: The ‘Religion Sphere’ in Modern and Contemporary China 4:30 - 6:00 p m , G64 Goldwin Smith Hall

Eric Fassin: ‘The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Sexual and Racial Politics in France Today’ 4:30 - 6:00 p m , KG42 Klarman Hall

Truman Scholarship 4:35 - 5:30 p m , 103 Barnes Hall

Chains to Change: Makerspace Workshop 2:00 - 4:00 p m , 112 Mann Library

Playing by the Rules: Ethics at Work 4:25 - 5:40 p m , B08 Sage Hall

Archaic Greek Poetry and the Shield of Heracles 4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

Arts Quad Camp-Out 8:00 - 11:59 p m , Arts Quad

By SHIVANI SANGHANI Sun Staff Writer

Commemorating the life and legacy of their fraternity brother Jeremy Ojalehto ’14, who passed away in Januar y 2016, Sigma Phi Epsilon held a memorial 5K

r u n t h r o u g h t h e C o r n e l l B o t a n i c a l

Gardens on Saturday and donated the proceeds to a mental health organization

Citing Ojalehto’s passion for the outd o o r s a n d p h y s i c a l w e l l n e s s , Pe t e r

Sanderson ’20, one of the primar y organizers of the event, said the 5K r un allowed the fraternity to “continue to keep Ojalehto’s memor y alive ” “ This is something that we had to do, in order to honor him,” Sanderson said “ That was due to both the intellectual and physical drive that he gave to ever yone else here ”

In October 2013, Ojalehto sustained a traumatic brain injur y in a jogging accident that initiated a long-term battle with mental illness, The Sun previously repor ted After taking a leave of absence from Cornell, Ojalehto passed away at the age of 23 in Monroe, Washington

The third annual 5K was attended by over 150 people The event generated more than $15,600 in revenue, which was

more than two times the amount raised last year, according to Sanderson One-hundred percent of the proceeds from ticket sales and contributions from past fraternity brothers and friends will be d

Association of Mental Illness’ local Ithaca chapter

“For us to see someone so driven, so incredible and so strong, succumb to [mental illness] was a sign that it doesn’t really matter who you are or how strong you are, ” Sanderson said “Mental health is really something that can affect anyone in any circumstance and for us that was a really impor tant thing to address through this 5K ”

Sa

t y “ We didn’t want this to just be a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity 5K, where we do a little bit, and people forget about it,”

Sanderson said “I think that making this an event that is known by the greater community and one that ever yone looks for ward to and respects is something that we ’ re hoping to do ”

After the race, the Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers hosted a dinner for Ojalehto’s fam-

ily and close friends at the fraternity house

Hoping to host the 5K r un on an annual basis, Sanderson added that the fraternity’s brothers felt personally compelled to honor Ojalehto’s legacy and address mental health within the Ithaca community

“Jeremy was one of the most valued and respected brothers that we ’ ve had in our chapter in a long time,” Sanderson said “ Within the brotherhood itself, we want to make it clear to ever yone that this is one of the most impor tant things we do as an organization ”

Fraternity Organizes 5K Run to Commemorate Life of Brother BOOM Showcase Highlights Technology Projects for Students and Sponsors

The atrium in Duffield Hall buzzed with ideas Wednesday

a f t e r n o o n a s s t u d e n t s f r o m across the University presented a total of 36 projects and tech designs at the 20th annual Bits On Our Minds showcase Examples of the inventive p r o j e c t s o n d i s p l a y i n c l u d e d Deaf Dance, an app and device designed to help deaf people

l e a r n h ow t o d a n c e a n d Robomix, a robot mixologist

t h a t w a s s u p p o s e d t o p o u r mixed drinks more efficiently and precisely Matt Jastremski grad, one of the student attendees, said that he was intrigued by the practical applications of a pair of calendar management apps that encouraged productivity and gave notifications for events happening around campus “ They both seem really interesting because they have practical applications that I would personally use, and things that I have wanted out of that type of

software, so it’s cool to see it being developed here on campus, ” he said The showcase also enabled the audience to interact with p re s e n t e r s Fo r e x a m p l e , t h e Cornell Mars Rover team had its robot pick up a screwdriver and place it in a child’s hand In addition to the showcase, a program was held for middle school kids in coordination with the event that allowed the child re n t o v i s i t re s e a r c h l a b s , explained Leslie Morris, director of communications for Cornell computing and information science

“ We probably had about 50 kids come, and we put on a whole program for them and they came to some of the engin e e r i n g l a b s a n d g o t t o s e e what’s going on, ” Morris said Prior to the event, BOOM sent the resumes of all the participants to the event ’ s sponsors As an added incentive for the students, these various sponsors attended to scout for talent and offered cash prizes to teams they found particularly innovative

“It’s interesting to get to talk to those companies about what they’re doing on the tech side and have a more intimate oneon-one with them as opposed to what you would see on their website, or sending your resume o u t a n o n y m o u s l y, ” s a i d L o l a Legrand grad, who was presenting her team ’ s project, Robomix

However, many of the partici p a n t s a n d s p o n s o r s l o o k e d beyond recruitment and viewed the event as an opportunity to engage with and learn from each other

K u n j i t h a p a t h a m

Muthuvelayutham M B A ’10, a representative of J P Morgan, spoke highly of the potential he saw at BOOM “ We get to see good solutions here where people propose a lot of these designs and architectures, ” he said “ We are looking f o r i n n ov a t i v e s t u d e n t s a n d innovative people, and this is the place to be, the place to see those innovative students ”

CALS Day to Feature Farmers Market, Project Showcases

Integrated Plant Science, the communication department, the Lab of Ornithology and Cornell Botanic Gardens

The Ag Quad will be filled with project showcases, a farmers market and other community activities on Friday as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hosts its first CALS Day to celebrate diversity within the Cornell community as well as the newly renovated Mann Plaza

The festivities will begin at 2 p m with remarks from Dean Kathryn J Boor followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the entrance of Mann Library

“I’m working with the CALS Student Advisor y Council to ensure that CALS Day is a success, ” said Scott Pesner ’87, director of the engagement and annual fund at CALS alumni affairs and development “This is the first time we’ll be doing this, but we plan on making it an annual event ” The event will showcase projects from various organizations, including the School of

Students will also have the opportunity to eat free ice cream from Cornell Dairy, shop for local produce from student-run farmers markets and learn about Alpha Gamma Rho, Cornell’s chapter of the national agricultural fraternity, according to AGR’s OrgSync page

The two-hour event is free and open to all Cornell community members, and the first 500 attendees will receive free tie-dye CALS t-shirts

The CALS Student Advisory Council developed the idea and reached out to student groups and departments, building enthusiasm for the event, Pesner said

“They are truly responsible for the success of this event, ” he said “We wanted to make sure ever yone who works on the Quad was included, and I think we ’ ve done a really good job with that, as there are a lot of

Lecturer Addresses Trump’s ‘Sudden’ Changes in East Asian Policy

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Speaker Details Organization’s Work Advocating for Child Migrants

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Dump the Distributions, Open Up the Curriculum

The great scam of Cornell’s College of Ar ts & Sciences is that it fails to provide a liberal ar ts education despite purpor ting to do so And with a $54,584-a-year price tag at that

In a comprehensive final repor t on recommended changes to the undergraduate curriculum, the Ar ts & Sciences Curriculum Revie w Committee suggested a simplification of the current system of distribution requirements Instead of a confusing matrix of requirements, t h e C o m m i t t e e r e c o m m e n d s requiring students to take one course in a simple set of 10 categories

No r d i c m y t h

requirements are not requisite for promoting student discover y or for enhanci n

I spoke to said while she might not have taken her current histor y course without the distribution requirements, she also

The great scam of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences is that it fails to provide a liberal arts education.

The Committee’s proposal is a reshuffling of a curricular system that has promised a curriculum of breadth but instead left students with a failed curriculum of distraction And I mean literally failed: Cornell received an F grade on a prominent 2010 American Council of Tr ustees and Alumni sur vey of core curricula in American colleges and universities, citing that many requirements may be satisfied by courses with little content per taining to the core sub-

would have had more room to take more classes like it in the first place, were it not for the other distribution requirements taking up her limited course space

Instead of just simplifying the curriculum, the College should upend it entirely The Committee repor t states that the C o

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Distribution requirements are not requisite for promoting student discovery or for enhancing interdisciplinarity.

ject of the requirement

The ne w plan for Ar ts & Sciences ignores the real tragedy of the distribution requirements: It’s not about the categories, but the menu of courses that fit them Why else would Ar ts students be fighting to enroll in popular courses like P L P P M 2 0 1 0 : Ma g i c a l Mu s h r o o m s , Mischievous Molds that add little to what the ACTA repor t calls “the broad foundation of knowledge that general education ought to require”?

These kinds of accessible and specific courses are still immeasurably valuable areas for research and instr uction, and they make for vibrant, focused study within a major They do not need to be at the core of a general education The lack of serious foundational knowledge is especially prevalent in PBS and MQR requirements, where there seems to be a false dichotomy between highly specific courses accessible for nonmajors and the actual foundational courses that are considered to be too hardcore

ration ” What better conduit for exploration than freedom?

Cornell should abolish the distribution system and go “Brownward,” like it already does in my personal academic home, the small and largely unpublicized College Scholar major, which I am pursuing At the center of this conversation should be the understanding that students should be the primar y architects of their education, and, as Guterl writes, “ We should be fostering self-discover y and critical thinking for ever y student approaching them as adults capable of making informed, explorator y choices ”

As such, the College should provide students with a more rigorous system of aca-

Instead of just simplifying the curriculum, the College should upend it entirely.

The result, so often cited that it’s a little trite, is a system of checking off boxes rather than intellectually exploring As Prof Matthe w Pratt Guterl, American studies, Brown University, writes, what e n d s u p h a p p e n i n g i s t h a t a c a d e m i c advising becomes “ a matter of making s u r e t h a t s t u d e n t s s i m p l y m e e t t h e requirements to finish on time Guiding them to completion can tr ump a focus on individual awakenings and, in the worstcase scenario, produce a sor t of ‘plug and chug’ approach ” The goal of distribution requirements are, of course, to promote intellectual discover y and to push students out of the infamous and wretched comfor t zone As the argument goes, it’s okay if you have to take “Icelandic Family Sagas” because you could discover a love for and interest in

repor t already suggests

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Why We Need an Equal Rights Amendment

One hundred seventy-nine countries in the world have a gender equality provision in their constitutions The United States is not one of them

About thirty seconds into Cardi B’s first appearance on Love & Hip-Hop: New York, I joined her legion of loyal Instagram followers She was animated, real and side-splittingly funny In two and a half years, I watched a former sex worker rocket past the glass ceiling of D-list reality TV (underneath which Latinx/Black women of humble beginnings are often con-

f i n e d ) a n d o n t o t h e m a i n s t a g e o f American pop culture

As a woman of color, her explosive success is more than a pleasant surprise it’s a delightful shock I never thought I would see someone so boldly AfroLatina, so proudly female and so blatant-

ture that they feel represent their authentic lived experience; avatars who reflect a “big mood ” Cardi B is one of them

What I find most compelling about Cardi B is not what she symbolizes, but how unafraid she is to poke holes in hegemonic ideas She condemns the notion that there should be prerequisites for civic participation and encourages those facing injustice to advocate for themselves Moreover, she holds nothing back in her critiques of power

ly hood be so widely embraced

Being a woman of color in the world is like constantly holding your breath

Your existence is inherently too loud, too assertive, too sexual, too coarse; your vivacity is too hostile to whiteness and to patriarchy You are to be neither seen nor heard, because God forbid you make a w h i t e w o m a n u n c o m f o r t a b l e o r a Latinx/Black man feel emasculated

Yet, Cardi B refuses to be suffocated Instead, she sucks all the oxygen out of the room, and, somehow, makes everyone okay with coming up for air

Unlike most successful women of color before her, she did not have to adapt to respectability politics in order to enter the mainstream Why? Because Cardi B came up in an era where authenticity is currency Or, as I like to call it, th “bi mood” e “ B

m o o d” social m

impart t

ing via an avatar who expresses that feeling externally It’s also a good way to characterize the pattern of behavior that defines our political moment

People feel like their voices are echoes in a void They feel completely detached from agency in their own lives And they are So, they have activated a collective voice through shared symbols They say #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter and they march and they protest And, they seek out avatars in political and pop cul-

She has lambasted tax revenue allocation as an opaque system that fails to effectively redistribute resources to poor citizens, particularly urban residents and incarcerated, but manages to fund “ a wall and a war ” She has ridiculed the proposal to arm teachers, noting the abysmally low wages for public school educators and questioning the racialeconomic motivations for the prevalence of metal detectors in inner city schools She has argued that feminism is for everybody, criticizing classism in gender discourse

The rapper is not only breaking glass ceilings in music and media; she’s opening doors in the halls of power She describes the psychological implications of residential segregation, encourages women to uplift one another instead of tearing each other down, and even articulates the importance of social welfare programs so persuasively Bernie Sanders is paying attention Cardi B is the champion for democracy we ’ ve always needed

“Of course the success of people like me scares people, that’s why they belittle us, ” she told i-D magazine “It don’t

m

Republicans try to make us feel like we ’ re not [important], cuz we is I know the truth ”

For people of color and women of

The Equal Rights Amendment, an amendment first introduced in 1923 by Alice Paul, is alive and well and more necessary than ever The ERA states: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex ” Following women ’ s suffrage, Paul saw the amendment as the next logical step in codifying gender equality Support for the amendment grew slowly, and in 1972, the ERA passed the House and Senate with the required two-thirds majority The amendment then went to the states with a seven year deadline for ratification

The ERA passed 35 of the necessary 38 states before the deadline expired, and three states short, gender equality was never written into the Constitution

You might tell yourself: “ a constitutional guarantee of equality is just for show We don’t actually need it ” Let me tell you why we do

In 2005, Jessica Gonzales went before the Supreme Court with a domestic violence case After the police refused to enforce a restraining order Gonzales had filed against her ex-husband for herself and her three young daughters (ages seven, nine and ten), Gonzales’ ex-husband kidnapped and murdered these girls Due to the absence of a gen-

the Violence Against Women Act that would have allowed a college freshman, Christy Brzonkala, to bring her rape case against two varsity football players to justice During the school-conducted hearing at Virginia Tech, one of the perpetrators admitted to having sexual contact with Bryzonkala despite her repeatedly telling him “ no ” The college ultimately failed to punish the perpetrators despite this admission, and a state grand jury sided with the perpetrators Brzonkala then turned to the Violence Against Women Act

color in particular it is especially difficult to assert one ’ s agency The way forward is by personally and politically adopting the “big mood” Cardi B gave us at Coachella, which was, to paraphrase: I’m here, I am what I am and I’m not going anywhere

der-equality amendment, Gonzales could not bring a gender-based violence claim before the court and instead brought forth a claim of property violation under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment The Supreme Court declared in Jessica Gonzales v USA that Gonzales had no right to enforcement of her protection order under the Due Process Clause

The United States failed to bring justice to Jessica Gonzales, and the case went to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which declared that the United States had violated the human rights of Jessica Gonzales and her children by failing in its legal obligation to protect women from domestic violence The claim that Jessica Gonzales was not protected from domestic violence is not a claim that even exists at the Constitutional level

In a case a little closer to home here on our college campus, United States v Morrison, the Supreme Court struck down the provision of

of 1994, which offers remedy to victims of gender-motivated violence at the federal level However, Morrison and Crawford moved to dismiss her complaint against them claiming her suit was unconstitutional, and they were not wrong The District Court and the Court of Appeals affirmed that Congress did not have the power to enact her claim under the Violence Against Women Act, because of lack of constitutional basis under the Commerce Clause and the Equal Protection Clause Ultimately, the Supreme Court affirmed that nothing in the Constitution gave the Supreme Court power to enforce this gender-based discrimination case, and as a result, the Court affirmed the decision made by the Court of Appeals Christy Brzonkala, a young girl who was raped as a college freshman and whose rapists admitted to her not consenting, somehow was denied justice by the United States This is unacceptable

It is absolutely unacceptable that victims of gender-based discrimination are not entitled to legal recourse at the Constitutional level recourse for issues such as domestic violence, sexualbased violence, equal pay and pregnancy discrimination

If you hear “ERA,” and you think that it is a long, lost movement of second-wave feminists in the 1970s, you are wrong If you think we are past the point of needing an ERA, you are wrong The ERA is just as relevant now as it has always been As the late Justice Scalia once said, “certainly the constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex The only issue is whether it prohibits it It doesn’t ”

It is our responsibility to bring change as people, as students, as proud members of an institution with a legacy of great leaders and changemakers before us Please join me in taking action for change on April 26 for Cornell’s Campus ERA Day, at 6 p m in Plant Sciences 233

Liel Sterling is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically

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Winter Soldier traded out the campy war dynamic of its predecessor for a gritty espionage thriller ambience After seeing Cap successfully fend off an alien invasion with his teammates in The Avengers, the temptation can be to follow up his solo outing with something equally if not more ludicrous The Russo brothers wisely instead strip Cap of everything he knows and tell a tightly-knit political thriller that asks pressing questions about technological surveillance and freedom all the while providing some of the MCU’s most brutal hand-to-hand fight sequences Chris Evans portrays the super soldier with much more nuance, transforming the character from a star-spangled poster child to an introspective and weary vigilante who wrestles between saving the world and abandoning it The film was such a critical and financial success that Marvel had the brothers direct the sequel, Civil War As Infinity War nears, audiences are wondering whether lightning can strike a third time

Zachary Lee

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Fro m t h e i n t ro d u ct i o n o f Bl a c k Pa n t h e r t o t h e a i r p o r t f i g h t s c e n e t o t h e p e r f e c t l y f r a m e d s h o t o f I r o n M a n ’ s b l a s t e r re b o u n d i n g o f f C a p t a i n A m e r i c a ’ s s h i e l d , t h i s m o v i e i s f i l l e d w i t h c o m i c b o o k f u n Bu t i t a l s o b o a s t s a n i m p r e s s i v e l y n o nc a r t o o n i s h p l o t , a d d re s s i n g w h e t h e r o r n o t p o t e n t i a l l y d a n g e ro u s s u p e r h e ro e s s h o u l d b e r e g u l a t e d A n d b e c a u s e Ma r ve l a c t u a l l y t o o k a d o ze n m ov i e s t o s e t u p i t s h e ro e s , u n l i k e

D C , w h i c h t r i e d t o d o i t i n t h e f i r s t 3 0 m i nu t e s o f B a t m a n v S u p e r m a n , w e u n d e rs t a n d w h e r e d i f f e r e n t c h a r a c t e r s a r e c o m i n g f ro m C a p t a i n A m e r i c a ’ s d i s t r u s t i n t h e g ove r nm e n t i s s e t u p i n Wi n t e r S o l d i e r a n d Iro n Ma n ’ s d e s i re f o r c h e c k s a n d b a l a n c e s i s e s t a bl i s h e d b e c a u s e h i s m i st a k e s a c c i d e n t a l l y

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B a t m a n B e g i n s

After a series of campy, underwhelming Batman films in the 1990s, DC brought in director Christopher Nolan, who delivered one of the first realistic, sophisticated portrayals of any superhero Nolan uses his signature non-chronological narrative style to brilliantly intersperse Bruce Wayne’s training period and his earlier childhood, allowing the audience to understand both the “how” and the “why” of becoming Batman The movie’s complex screenplay includes multiple compelling villains with clear motivations, one of whom is instrumental in defining Bruce’s past

All of this makes Batman Begins the only cinematic superhero origin story that actually makes you believe that a guy would dress up in a costume and fight crime In addition to that impressive feat, Liam Neeson brings gravitas to the role of Ra's al Ghul, Michael Caine is in peak “ not pronouncing his Rs” form as Bruce’s loyal butler and Morgan Freeman plays Morgan Freeman to round out the stellar cast Begins changed the game for superhero movies and is a superb film in its own right Lev Akabas

Spiderman: Homecoming

After the Amazing Spider-Man’ s two unnecessary films rebooted the Sam Raimi trilogy, it was hard not to be nervous about the MCU’s swing at the webslinger, but Kevin Feige and company nailed it Homecoming is one of the better coming of age stories in recent memory It really emphasizes that Peter Parker’s a high school student he doesn’t have this whole superhero-ing thing down yet He’s still discovering who he’s going to be in the suit and in doing so he’s finding out more about who he is without it Tom Holland’s casting as the M C U ’ s Sp i d e r i s re a l l y what brings it all together

He’s awkward and relateable and closer to the comic book Peter Parker than any to take the name onscreen before him Homecoming is chockfull of compelling character arcs, the most compelling of which culminates in easily one of the MCU’s most tense sequences to date Nicholas Smith C a p t a i n A m e r i c a: C i v i l W a r 6

There are few superhero films that become “ event ” films: cinematic experiences that have to be seen in the theater and do more than just deliver on the genre conventions of dynamic fight scenes and quippy humor Such films are the kinds of movies that leave you thinking long after the credits roll, make you want to come back for multiple viewings and makes you regret selling your comic book collection when you were younger Black Panther is one of those films; wrapped up in

impressive fight sequences, stunning visuals and an all-star (and amazingly all-black) cast, director Ryan Coogler is able to tackle themes of race, ethnicity, colonization and isolationism with thoughtfulness However, Coogler is never preachy or black and white about his presentation of the themes He instead accurately and compellingly frames ideological clashes through realistic characters and lets the audience decide who is right By doing so he grants the MCU with an amazing

and memorable villain in the form of Michael B Jordan’s Erik Killmonger Ultimately, Black Panther made innovation and experimentation a norm of superhero movies; superhero movies should not be devoid of asking deep questions and exploring them should not have to feel tedious either Recently it was announced that it dethroned Titanic to be the third highest-grossing film of all time it is not hard to see why

Zachary Lee

When the universe wants to tell you something, it will tell you a few times I take the same attitude with phone calls Unless you call a few times or leave a voicemail, I’m not calling back Late last night, when I was falling asleep to an episode of S-Town, I

realized that I’ve been learning the same lesson for about a year

I will graduate in almost exactly a month, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the lack of despair I feel about that fact In the past, my friends who were seniors set down rules leading up to the big day Don’t talk about how close they are to the end Don’t ask them what they’re doing after Don’t say the g-word But when my therapist asked if I thought my anxiety partially resulted from the big, looming change, I probably shocked her with my extreme answer “No, none of it,” I said, “absolutely zero percent ”

The utter joy that I feel about graduating is thanks to the series of realizations that I’ve had in the past year Working backwards, the most recent came half a week ago at my thesis defense I had written about Julius Eastman, the inventive

It’s Not the Void

composer, musician and dancer who had ended his life in near-complete obscurity

Fifteen years after his death, in 2005, composer Mar y Jane Leach stimulated a resurgence of interest in Eastman, creating C

works The renewed fascination with Eastman created a number of questions that I wanted to answer: What effects did reviv-

mously have? Did Eastman want

death? Does it even matter if he did or didn’t?

When I stood up to leave at the end of my defense, I remarked to my committee, almost without thinking, “It seems like the only certain is that there’s still a lot of work to do ” It was a comforting epiphany For better or worse, I’ve been a student for 16 years Now, in a month, I’ll switch paths to being a I don’t really know yet, to be honest I’m not going to grad school (yet), and I don’t have a job lined up following another summer working on campus On one hand, my days of being a student are behind me On the other, they actually aren ’ t

I’ve always enjoyed reading either lying on the couch with a book or, for some reason, sitting up in bed reading copious amounts of Wikipedia articles for hours on end in the early morning hours Continuing to learn, read, watch, think, argue, debate and critique doesn’t have to end just because I have a diploma I daydreamed the other day and made a list of

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a d i n g s assigned to me by professors It included baseball, the Soviet Union, Phish, Will Eisner, San Francisco in the ’60s and ’70s, and another large handful of barely related topics T

t hand-in-hand with another that’s ebbed up from timeto-time A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column about how I compens

I didn’t know enough music, movies, books, etc by just faking it Just saying I had h e a rd o f,

h e n I hadn’t I concluded by stating I would tr y to get rid of my anxiety about daring to not know ever y reference my friends made In the past year, I started going even further I wasn ’ t just okay with how little I knew, or how little I experienced I loved it At the end of the day, I listen to music, watch movies, read books, etc because I like doing so The less I know means the more that I get to do the above things I listened to Trout Mask Replica for the first time last week Ditto with the Betty Boards recording of the Grateful Dead’s ’77 performance at Barton Hall My Chrome bookmarks bar is filled with links to Amazon pages for books that I swear I’ll someday

read I have my whole life to do so

The first realization, however, came at the very end of Ithaca’s beautiful August, when my older sister, Kit, was visiting One of my friends mentioned that she was worried about graduating, that she didn’t know how to anticipate what came after Kit, who’s in her mid-20s, responded with an answer I still remember: “It’s not the void ”

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences Morning Bowl of Surreal appears alternate Mondays this semester He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

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Otto-Moudry, who sported a tie-clip in the shape of a handgun said he volunteered to participate in the panel because he is passionate and informed about gun rights and saw serious issues with arguments from gun control advocates

“Generally when I’ve talked to people who are pro-gun control, they d o n ’ t

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n d t h e Se c o n d Amendment, they don’t understand the laws that exist or the laws they want passed,” he told The Sun

Prof David Bateman, government was also invited by the Roosevelt Institute to explain political barriers to gun control legislation and discussed his thoughts on the event in an email to The Sun

“I agreed to join the discussion because I think that student engagement on these sort of issues, across different perspectives but towards a definite goal, is fundamentally important, both in society and as part of the mission of the university,” Bateman said

He also pointed out that although such debates are not necessarily going to change minds, they might still serve the political movement for gun control

“These events can be good at concentrating and building energy for a political movement, and it is the threat of policy and political losses that will produce change,” Bateman told The Sun

Weifeng Yang ’20, a member of Cornell Political Union, expressed concern after the panel discussion about what he saw as lopsided political representation among the group

“In many ways this could have represented what the general campus might say on the issue, but instead we ’ re having a more liberal professor alongside a liberal political organization with one conservative with the constant role of defending what 50% of people support, ” Yang said

According to Valdetaro, the Roosevelt Institute plans on using notes taken from the discussion along with community input to write a policy proposal, but has no concrete plans for additional events

“In regard to any future events, I can ’ t guarantee any seeing how close it is to the end of the semester, but I know that there is definitely an interest in hosting a range of policy discussions in the future,” Valdetaro said in an email to The Sun

Matthew McGowen can be reached at mmcgowen@cornellsun com

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have for one another in this industry to help and support each other and to really bring on the next generation ”

The book was the inspiration for the panel, which Marrie Neumer, assistant dean of alumni affairs and development for Cornell computing and information science, helped arrange to bring together perspectives on “what it was like before the tech boom and also thinking about the struggles women are having ”

Pinczuk, who entered the technology industry in the 1980’s, said she has seen the progress of women in the industry but more still needs to be done

“We’re seeing some evidence of the numbers and the opportunities getting better for women, ” she said, citing how the incoming freshman class was 51% women “There is still a ways to go for us but I think as we look at the progression it’s getting a little better ”

In order to provide a more complete picture of the industry, two students also participated in the panel

Abede grew up in Ethiopia, and said she didn’t confront the gender bias against women in science until coming to the U S

“When I came here and started noticing these things, first subtly and later not so subtly, I was really shocked,” she said “I had no idea where it came from ”

As a graduate student, she now feels part of the sisterhood and “empowered ”

“Now I can support other women undergraduates who want to go to graduate school,” she said

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things going on in the Ag Quad buildings and in CALS ”

According to Pesner, the event will bring together the people who “work around the Quad, everyone involved in CALS, students, faculty, staff and alumni ”

Other opportunities during the event include learning about diversity initiatives on and off campus, seeing insects with Cornell’s entomology club

Snodgrass and Wigglesworth and ordering the CALS day custom drink from the Manndible Cafe booth

“It’s meant to be a gathering, a chance to create one big campfire, to share what CALS and those on the quad are doing, to meet with friends, co-workers, and classmates, and to celebrate CALS,” Pesner said “All during what I know will be a beautiful day ”

Angela Chon can be reached at achon@cornellsun com

Bhargava began her own journey in computer science in middle school, which inspired her to become involved in Women in Computing at Cornell and encourage other girls to pursue this field

“I think that it’s important to build up this workforce that is very diverse and the second part of it is making sure that once they are in computer science they want to stay, ” she said “That comes through mentorship, building a community and other efforts WICC tries to do ”

During the panel discussion, the audience asked questions related to recruiting women in male-dominated spaces, the rise and fall of women in technology, allyship and workplace culture

Afterwards, one such audience member, Jimmy Briggs grad, commented on how it can be difficult to be an ally

“It’s harder to be an ally in the moment, ” Briggs said “A lot of the time, to us [discrimination] is invisible, which is not good ”

Palashi Vaghela grad said she thought the panel “is a good start ” but that conversations around the burden of the sisterhood culture were missing

“What are some of the things you have to adapt to and let go of, what are some of the masculine traits you have to buy into?” she asked

“We’re still kind of at a grassroots level in terms of helping women and minorities get a seat at the table,” she said

Neumer hopes gender inequality will no longer “be an issue in the future ”

Andrea Valdes can be reached at avv5@cornell edu

Legendary ’70s Teams Honored at Schoellkopf

Red won 42 straight games and 2 championships from 1976-77

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

On May 24, 1975, Cornell men ’ s lacrosse suffered a tough defeat in the NCAA semifinal at the hands of Navy

It was the end of a season that saw the Red ranked in the top four of the national polls wire to wire By any objective measure, the 1975 squad had a great year and turned in a valiant effort

Determined to return to the national tournament, Cornell resumed play on March 20, 1976 and thrashed Adelphi, 24-8, to open its season

It was looking to be another good year for Cornell But what the players and coaches on the field that day couldn’t have known is that the win against Adelphi would be the first of many dozens in a row The grueling final four loss to Navy 10 months prior was Cornell’s last defeat for more than three years

At Schoellkopf Field this past weekend, the men who made up the greatest collegiate lacrosse team in history were honored in celebration of the 40th anniversary of their unprecedented and unreplicated streak

The Red went on to win every game in that 1976 season en route to the program ’ s second national title Yet, despite the dominance that Cornell showed, biases toward the teams from Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic prevented the team from ever being ranked No 1 in the polls

While there was hope that a national championship victory over then-No 1 Maryland would change that and the pollsters would finally give Cornell and the northeast the respect it deserved that was not the case

Cornell opened the 1977 season ranked third and the squad that went undefeated en route to a national championship the year prior was determined to still prove its might So they went and did it again

In two consecutive seasons, Cornell had piled up 29 wins, zero losses and two national titles

When all was said and done, Cornell’s magical run came to an end in the 1978 national championship game, where Johns Hopkins put an end to the Red’s 42-game win streak an NCAA record that still stands and likely will forever

The team, honored this weekend, was led by head coach Richie Moran, who led Cornell for 29 seasons, amassing three national championships and 15 Ivy League championships Moran’s leadership left him regarded as one of the greatest coaches in both Cornell athletics and NCAA lacrosse history

On the field, Cornell was graced with two of the best to

ever play the game, Mike French ’76 and Eamon McEneaney ’77

French and McEneany each were three-time AllAmericans and rank second and third respectively, all-time in career points at Cornell In 1976, French tallied 65 goals and 40 assists a 105-point season that remains the highest mark in program history

McEneany was killed in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and was posthumously honored as the 2012 recipient of the Tewaaraton Legends award, given to a player who competed prior to 2001 and whose level of skill changed the sport

In his memoir, It’s Great To Be Here, Moran dedicates an entire chapter to McEneany and his impact on Cornell lacrosse history

French and McEneaney were among the 10 AllAmericans at Cornell in 1976, which subsequently became nine in 1977 and 1978

In the second half of Cornell’s 19-5 win over Brown on Saturday, sophomore attack Jeff Teat tied the Cornell record for most 10-point games in program history held by French Though it’s likely that French’s team set records that no Red squad will ever break, Teat and his current teammates are striving to make a mark of their own

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at

dmcdevitt@cornellsun com

Red Wins 1st Ivy Series

By MILES HENSHAW Sun Staff Writer

Down 5-0 in a series rubber match on Sunday, Cornell baseball seemed doomed for another Ivy League series loss

But Cornell (8-17-1, 4-8 Ivy) earned its first Ivy series win of the season in Philadelphia this weekend, scoring seven runs in the eighth and ninth innings to swipe a victory from Penn (12-21-1, 6-8-1) after splitting a doubleheader on Saturday

In the Red’s game one victory on Saturday, the team showcased its highly touted offense, teeing off on the Quakers for 10 runs on 17 hits

Senior Ellis Bitar dominated at the plate, hitting two home runs and a pair of doubles in game one good for six RBIs He tacked on another homer in game two

The team carried a 10-3 lead into the ninth, where Penn came out firing, trimming the lead to just one run after a series of walks and extra base hits with nobody out Sophomore

Andrew Ellison, the anchor of the Red’s bullpen thus far, was called in to shut down the Quakers and did his job, earning the save and cementing a close 10-9 victory

The Red came up short in a close game two After five innings of close baseball, it looked like Penn was going to pull away, as the Quakers put up four runs in the sixth on the Red’s sophomore starter Seth Urbon, capped by a three-run homer

Cornell answered back in its next time up with four runs of its own, though After a walk and a single, second baseman Ryan Krainz doubled to bring in a run Senior Kyle Gallagher grounded out to bring in another and Dale Wickham homered to tie the game back up at five, his second of the day

But Penn wasn ’ t done there and had one more big inning in its arsenal over Cornell The Quakers rallied for another four runs in the bottom of

the eighth and didn’t look back from there, taking game two, 9-5 Penn looked to be in control throughout Sunday’s game The Quakers opened up the contest with a two-run homer in the first, then padded the early lead with one run in the third and two in the sixth Penn’s lead shrunk suddenly when Cornell rallied in the seventh The Red strung together three singles before Wickham hit a three-run blast his third homer of the weekend bringing the Red within one Ellison entered to pitch for Cornell in the seventh and held the Quakers, setting them down in order Cornell then played some smallball in the eighth Sophomore Kaleb Lepper drew a leadoff walk to get the tying run on base After a sac bunt, wild pitch and another walk, Krainz singled and tied the game with a perfectly executed safety squeeze Gallagher lined to left for a single, plating a run to take the lead

Displaying some heads-up running, Krainz took third while Penn’s third baseman talked to the pitcher on the mound That extra base would prove to be crucial: Wickham, the next batter, flied out deep to score Krainz, tacking on an important insurance run Penn rallied in the eighth to score a run, fired up after head coach John Yurkow was tossed for arguing balls and strikes Ellison kept things in hand, holding the Quakers to one in the eighth and coming back out in the ninth to shut things down, earning the win

With the win, the Red moves out of last place in the Ivy League, with three conference series remaining for a late-season push

Cornell travels to Binghamton Tuesday night before returning

for a series against Harvard next weekend

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Laxers Bruise Brown, Clinch No. 2 Ivy Seed

By DYLAN McDEVITT

Sun Sports Editor

It was celebrations all around at Schoellkopf field on Saturday afternoon Riding a six-game winning streak entering the contest, Cornell men ’ s lacrosse had no trouble dispatching Brown, 19-5, and the Red’s seniors were honored on the field after the final regular season home game of their careers

The win secured Cornell (10-3, 4-1 Ivy) a berth in the Ivy League tournament as the conference’s No 2 overall seed The winner of the conference playoff, set to take place May 4 and 6 in New York City, receives an automatic qualifying bid to the NCAA tournament

“[Reaching the Ivy tournament is] something that we set out as one of our initial objectives, one of our goals,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “I wouldn’t say we ’ re going to settle on being satisfied by it because there’s still a lot more left to do ”

Cornell jumped out to an early and commanding lead,

rattling off the game ’ s first 11 goals, while the Bears (5-7, 23) didn’t score until more than 10 minutes had elapsed in the second quarter

“We won a few scrappy ground balls and faceoffs early on, ” Milliman said “We’ve had a pretty consistent run here offensively where we get a few possessions early and make them count by moving the ball well and finishing our chances ”

The Red did more than just dominate the possession battle early and capitalize on its offensive opportunities Cornell played near seamless lacrosse on the defensive end of the field, allowing the offense’s production to widen the gap with every chance

“It was really just a team effort, getting the ball to our offense,” Milliman said “Our defense was about as good as I’ve seen them, they really were tough when they needed to be tough and selling out for big plays for us ” Senior midfielder Jordan Dowiak was the standout from his class on the day, registering a total of four points on three

Tigers Pull Away in 2nd Half

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women ’ s lacrosse got off to a strong start against a tough Ivy foe on Saturday, leading at halftime, but eventually succumbed to Princeton, 15-10, after a fivegoal scoring run by the home team created too much of a deficit to overcome

The Red (7-7, 2-4 Ivy) traded goals with the Tigers (8-5, 4-1) throughout the first half and headed into the second half holding a onegoal advantage as sophomore attacker Izzy Zachara found the back of the net off of an assist from senior captain Ida Farinholt with a little over a minute left in the half

rhythm after halftime, opening the second half on a five-goal scoring run

“Coming out of halftime, we got back on our heels and struggled to stop their fast breaks,” Graap said “The Tigers got into sync, winning the majority of the draws in the second half ”

“Coming out of halftime, we got back on our heels and struggled to stop their fast breaks.”

“Cornell played a strong first half and we were aggressively going to the net, ” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86 “[Freshman midfielder] Grace Paletta netted our first two goals and our defense made some great stops ”

But the Tigers seemed to find their

The five-goal streak by its opponent didn’t completely doom the Red Facing a four-goal deficit, the Red remained persistent, netting three goals in the final 15 minutes of the half But the gap proved too wide to close

Despite being outmatched in shots and draw controls, Cornell held the statistical advantage over Princeton in both caused turnovers and ground balls winning six to four and 17 to 13, respectively

Junior attacker Tomasina Leska led the way for the Red in ground balls fielding four, while sophomore and senior defenders

M K Bonanni and Anna Baumeister each fielded three

Offensively, sophomore attacker

goals and an assist Dowiak’s classmate midfielder Charlie Estill, an Ithaca native, came into the game late and scored a goal of his own in his last career regular season game at Schoellkopf

“It’s awesome to get a win against [Brown],” Dowiak said “Actually, Charlie and I had never beaten Brown in our time here So that felt good ”

Sophomore attack Jeff Teat had an impressive day, coming away with two goals and a career-high eight assists Teat’s statistics are among the tops in the nation, and the sophomore is continuing to produce in a manner which qualifies him as perhaps the best player in the country

“As a team, I think we ’ ve had it all along,” Teat said “I think we ’ re really showing our dominance now And going into the Ivy League tournament, we ’ re going to need it ”

Fifth-year senior Christian Knight started in the goal after missing several games throughout the season due to an undisclosed injury Knight made eight saves before giving way to sophomore Caelahn Bullen at the end of the third quarter

“It’s been a long process, about four weeks without playing,” Knight said “Today it was awesome to get back out there Everyone played hard from the seniors down, and it really made today special ”

Of Knight’s injury status, Milliman confirmed that the senior is now healthy and will continue to be Cornell’s starter

Sophomore faceoff specialist Paul Rasimowicz went down with an injury in the middle of the second quarter, leaving the Red without one of its bright spots for the remainder of the contest

“We’re going to see, I don’t know exactly what the injury was, ” Milliman said “So we got to wait and see how he is, so we’ll hope for the best ”

While it was the last regular season home game for the seniors, there is still a chance they are able to play on Schoellkopf one last time If the Red plays well enough to earn a top-eight seed in the NCAA tournament, it will host a first-round game in Ithaca

Until then, Cornell will return to action next weekend against Princeton in the final game of the regular season before heading to the Ivy League tournament in New York City the following week

Coming up short | The Red took a one-goal lead into halftime, but Princeton’s

Caroline Allen notched another hat trick, while Farinholt also tallied three points on the day with two goals and an assist Paletta found the back of the net twice and Zachara, senior midfielder Joey Coffy and junior captain Sarah Phillips added a goal each Defensively, Bonanni and senior defender Cait Callahan each caused two turnovers Sophomore goalkeeper Katie McGahan also made eight saves and fielded two