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Student Presents Thesis in Underwear as Protest

Decision comes after professor questions her choice of clothing

By SARAH SKINNER

“Strip, everybody!” said Letitia Chai ’18, as she stepped up to give her college scholar senior thesis presentation in a conference room in the Physical Sciences Building Immediately after, 28 of the 44 people there slowly started to remove their clothes

Chai led the demonstration Saturday morning after a clash with a professor earlier in the week, where the professor allegedly questioned her choice of clothing for a trial run of her thesis presentation on rehabilitation for displaced people and refugees

“The first thing that the professor said to me was ‘is that

really what you would wear?’” Chai explained as she detailed what happened when she tried to begin her presentation in her Wednesday section of PMA 3815 Acting in Public: Performance in Everyday Life

Chai, who had dressed in a blue button down and cutoff jean shorts, said she was stunned

“I think that I was so taken aback that I didn't really know how to respond,” she said in an interview with The Sun

Chai said that the course instructor, Prof Rebekah Maggor, performing and media arts, went on to say that her shorts were “ too short” and that as a speaker she was making a “ statement ” with the clothes she was wearing

for them what constitutes appropriate dress,” Maggor said in a brief email to The Sun “I ask them to reflect for themselves and make their own decisions ”

Maggor mentioned to the class that another student in a previous section had been asked to remove a cap from his head, also abiding by the dress policy

“The first thing that the professor said to me was ‘is that really what you would wear?’” L e t i t i a C h a i ’ 1 8

The class does not have a formalized dress code, but asks students to “dress appropriately for the persona [they] will present, ” according to the course syllabus obtained by The Sun

“I do not tell my students what to wear, nor do I define

Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Criticizes Police Brutality

P r o f J e l a n i Cobb, jour-

n a l i s m , C o l u m b i a Un i v e r s i t y, c r i t i c i z e d police violence and d i s s e c t e d the different relationships between people of color and law enforcement officials in the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture on Thursday

Cobb, who was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, said that the media and the government have been responding to police brutality in a predictable and underreacting way, like a “ type of cyclical event ” “We can tell that there is a script that tends to be played out There is the initial action, there is a shock and reaction among people of the community,” Cobb said “There is generally an administrative attempt to downplay the egregious elements of the story and then there is a series of bureaucratic and

Responding to Maggor’s comment, Chai told The Sun that “telling someone to take their cap off is not the same thing as telling a girl her shorts are too short ” She also mentioned that Maggor had told her that she would attract “ men ’ s attention” away from the content of her presentation

“I am not responsible for anyone ’ s attention because we are capable of thinking for ourselves and we have agency, ” Chai said

C.U. Revokes Recognition of Sigma Nu After 3 Hazing Incidents

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun News Editor

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b y V i c e Pr e s i d e n t Ry a n L o m b a rd i O F S L re c e i ve d f o u r a n o n ym o u s h a z i n g r e p o r t s a b o u t Si g m a Nu d u r i n g t h e l a s t we e k o f Ja n u a r y 2 0 1 8 , w i t h t h re e re p o r t s c o m i n g i n t w o d a y s , s h o r t l y a f t e r w i n t e r r u s h a n d d u r i n g n e w m e m b e r o r i e n t at i o n To c o n d u c t t h e i r i n ve s t ig a t i o n , t h e o f f i c e p l a c e d Si g m a Nu o n c e a s e a n d d e s i s t a n d b e g a n i n t e r v i e w i n g c h a p t e r l e a d e r s , n e w m e m b e r s a n d o t h e r i n d i v i d u a l s i n vo l ve d i n t h e h a z i n g i n c i d e n t s o n Ja n 2 9 “ T h e I F C w a s ve r y d i s a pp o i n t e d t o s e e t h e a l l e g a t i o n s a g a i n s t Si g m a Nu Ha z i n g i s n e ve r p e r m i s s i b l e a n d t h o u g h we a n d t h e Of f i c e o f So ro r i t y a n d Fr a t e r n i t y L i f e w o rk t o e d u c a t e c h a p t e r s a n d t h e i r m e m b e r s a b o u t i t s d a n g e r s ,

“I hope this news is a call to action for fraternity members to speak out when they see detrimental behavior.”

Paul Russell Jr ’19

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Local

New Gimme! Coffee Location Opens in Community Corners

Gimme! Coffee, the famed coffee chain based in New York with a Cornell location in Gates Hall, is opening up a new store in Community Corners, an upscale shopping district located in Cayuga Heights It is slated to serve vanilla, chocolate, and mixed flavored coffee, the Ithaca Voice reported

The 903 Hanshaw location will be the eighth coffee shop to be operated by Gimme! Coffee and will serve ice cream

The ideas for setting up a new coffee shop came about through discussion between the Gimme! Coffee founder and the former tenant of the new location, who had a business relationship beforehand

Around the Ivies

Representative John Lewis Selected as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker

Har vard University has announced that Representative John Lewis (D-G A ) will be delivering Harvard’s commencement speech at their graduation ceremony later this month

“For more than 50 years, John Lewis has dedicated himself to the ideals of has dedicated himself to the ideals of equality and decency, standing up for what is right, even when it meant putting himself in harm’s way, ” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement “His public ser vice legacy is unparalleled, and he is an inspiration to me and to countless other people across the United States and around the world

National

Gina Haspel Attempts to Withdraw From Nomination as Next CIA Director

According to four U S officials, Gina Haspel, Tr ump ’ s nominee for CIA directors sought to withdraw her nomination on Friday after After White House officials feared that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects would stop the Senate from confirming her appointment

Haspel has spent 33 years in the CIA, currently serving as the CIA’s deputy director She spent most of her time at the agency within the CIA’s interrogation program, a controversial group which was created after the 9/11 attacks

According to the Washington Post, on May 4th, Haspel met with officials at the White House to discuss her experiences within the interrogation program, which used techniques commonly considered to be torturous, like waterboarding

At this meeting, Haspel told the White House that she would prefer to withdraw than to face a harsh confirmation hearing, which could both hurt her reputation as well as that of the CIA Compiled by Katherine Heaney ’20

Pollack Announces Reform of Greek Organizations

New policies ban hard alcohol in residential chapter houses, launches new scorecard on judicial history

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Managing Editor

implementation These range from measures that will be effective immediately to those that will be incorporated as late as fall 2021

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“Community expectations have shifted; behavior around hazing must change, too.”

President Martha E Pollack

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“Everything that happens might not be a home run, it might not be perfect the first time it’s offered, but you have to start somewhere.”

Ryan Lombardi

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By fall 2018, each Greek chapter is required to submit a ne w member educat i o n p l a n f o r n e x t y e a r ’ s recr uitment, and current members will also have to p a r t i c i p a t e i n mandator y education programming to par ticipate in the ne w-member intake process

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Balloons With Thank You Notes to Be Displayed on Arts Quad

Lifted’s online portal collected 480 thank you notes from Cornell community members

By HELEN LIANG Sun Contributor

Lifted, an organization run by anonymous Cornell students, will place balloons attached with thank you notes on the Arts Quad for the third year running to lift the spirits of the community

Cornellians submitted thank you notes to any member of the community they wanted to acknowledge through Lifted’s website These notes will then be transcribed onto cards and attached to balloons which will visible on the Arts Quad for one day

Letter submission is closed at the time of this article’s publication as the organization had already received 480 letters, which is the maximum numbers of balloons they could put up

“It’s easy ... to be so stressed out that we don’t have time to look around and see all of the people that have helped us.” Members of Lifted

Lifted declined to reveal the exact date, but said that they will secretly set up the balloons when “the weather is nice and stress on campus is high ” T h e s e c re t i ve group, which decided to collect letters using an online form rather t h a n i n p a p e r t o i m p rove o u t re a c h , received the largest number of thank you notes this year Notes were usually written on paper in the past years, according to the organization’s representative who communicated with The Sun via the organization’s Facebook page

Recipients of the thank you notes will also receive an

email on the day of the event with the exact location of their card In case they cannot make it to the Arts Quad on that day, they’ll also be sent the message via email after the event is over

“We believe that it’s easy, at Cornell, to get wrapped up in our own lives, to be so stressed out and always going, going, going that we don’t have time to look around and see all of the people that have helped us, ” a Lifted member said Through this decorative event, “Lifted hopes to get students to slow down and reflect about the people in their lives” and “ to lift everyone who sees it ”

The organization wants to stay anonymous and keep their members’ identities secret because they “believe that Lifted shouldn’t be accredited to one person or one

group/groups of people ”

“Nobody and no groups have put their name on this project because it shouldn’t be done for recognition but just to uplift the Cornell community,” the organization said

While letter submissions are closed, Lifted said they will place a “red mailbox on the edge of the quad” for people to put in their own thank you notes, recognizing that many more people may still want to express their appreciation These notes will be sent out after the event, the member added

Helen Liang can be reached at hl973@cornell edu

Sigma Nu Recognition Revoked Following 3 Hazing Incidents

sequences ” During the inter vie ws conducted by O F S L a n d t h e O f f i c e o f Ju d i c i a l Administration, members confirmed several of the allegations against them The charges against the chapter included several counts of blindfolding, alcohol, being picked up in a car, being hosed, having clothes removed, exercise, house cleaning and many references to females being present

A chapter cease and desist involves barr i n g a l l n o n - f

Displaced by nature

According to Lombardi, the delay in posting this decision on hazing cornell edu was due to the appeals process “ What I tr y to look at is the totality of ever ything I revie w in the case and think about what is most appropriate to affect the change I’ve heard that’s documented in the materials and in the conversation I’ve had and in the dialogue I’ve had,” Lombardi said “I do think I’ve had many c

strengthening the chapter in the future and the three years still allows for the ‘refresh ’”

Dre w Logsdon, director of communi-

cations for Sigma Nu national, said in response to The Sun’s request for a comment that they are aware of the Gamma Theta Chapter’s suspension and that the fraternity is completing their own investigation and revie w process regarding the chapter’s actions

“Upon completion of that investigation, the fraternity will take whatever action is determined to be appropriate Sigma Nu fraternity prohibits and condemns hazing in any form and was founded in direct opposition to hazing,” the statement said

Following the investigation, a five-year revocation of recognition was levied, but

after an appeals process, the chapter’s punishment was reduced to three-years by Lombardi Hazing repor ts vie wed by The Sun consisted of phrases like “I want this to stop, ” or “makes me want to kill myself,” but Lombardi said the repor ts themselves are not the sole contributor to the decision

“ The repor ts, on their own, is not solely what leads to the outcome It’s a combination of repor ts that come in, additional fact-finding that takes place, the hearing, and the conversation that they had with the chapter leadership as they go through with that process, ” he said

As of right now, “if they desire,” current and ne w members of Sigma Nu are allowed to join other chapters as there is no prohibition, according to Lombardi

This decision to suspend the chapter was issued at the same time as President Mar tha E Pollack’s letter to Ithaca students, faculty and staff In her letter, Pollack specifically discusses how Greek letter organizations have negatively contributed to campus climate and lists a series of changes the community will face over the next fe w years

According to her statement, Pollack does not want to “attack or an attempt to diminish the role of these organizations in student life,” but her hope is “that all of our Greek letter organizations will emerge stronger as a result of these measures and more fully embody the best that Cornell has to offer ” “I ver y much interpret this initiative as an attempt, and hope that we can stay in front and be leaders at Cornell in terms of

being an example about how we can demonstrate what a positive Greek community,” Lombardi said

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Editorial

A First Step on Greek Life

From President Pollack

x t t h re e ye a r s , a re f a r re a c h i n g a n d w i l l n o d o u b t e l i c i t p u s hb a c k f ro m s o m e i n t h e Gre e k c o m m u n i t y, b u t t h e y a re a we l c o m e s t e p i n t h e w a k e o f ye t a n o t h e r d i s t u r b i n g i n s t a n c e o f u n a c c e p t a b l e b e h a v i o r by a C o r n e l l f r a t e r n i t y Of t h e m y r i a d re f o r m s Po l l a c k l i s t e d , t h e m o s t n o t a b l e i s t h e c re a t i o n o f a n o n l i n e s c o re c a rd t h a t w i l l “ i n c l u d e , a m o n g o t h e r t h i n g s , t h e f u l l j u d i c i a l h i s t o r y o f e a c h c h a p t e r ” a t C o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t i e s h a ve s h o r t m e m o r i e s t h e u n d e r g r a du a t e c o m m u n i t y s e e s a l m o s t 1 0 0 p e rc e n t t u r n ove r e ve r y f o u r ye a r s , a n d i n t h a t c o n t i n u o u s c yc l e , i t c a n b e e a s y t o f o r g e t i n c i d e n t s t h a t o c c u r re d j u s t a s h o r t w h i l e a g o A s a re s u l t , i n s t i t u t i o n a l a n d s y s t e m i c i s s u e s , s u c h a s t h o s e t h a t p l a g u e t h e Gre e k s y s t e m , o f t e n g o u n re s o l ve d a n d u n re m e m b e re d T h i s s c o re c a rd , w h i c h Po l l a c k c l a i m s w i l l b e we l l - p u b l i c i ze d , w i l l a l l ow C o r n e l l i a n s t o e va l u a t e

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m i n a t e l o n g e r p ro b l e m a t i c t re n d s t h a t c a n g o u n n o t i c e d w h e n we l i m i t o u r f o c u s t o o n e i n c i d e n t a t a t i m e Of t h e o t h e r re f o r m s l i s t e d i n t h e e m a i l , t h e o n e t h a t h a s d r a w n t h e m o s t a t t e n t i o n i s a b a n o n h a rd a l c o h o l i n re s i d e n t i a l c h a p t e r h o u s e s W h i l e i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o re c o g n i ze t h e ro l e a l c o h o l ( a n d a c c e s s t o a l c o h o l ) p l a y i n b o t h h a zi n g a n d a n o t h e r o n e o f Gre e k l i f e ’ s p e r va s i ve i s s u e s , s e x u a l a s s a u l t , b a n n i n g h a rd a l c o h o l f ro m c h a p t e r h o u s e s s e e m s i n e f f e c t u a l a n d p o t e n t i a l l y d e t r i m e n t a l

Un l e s s t h e Un i ve r s i t y i n t e n d s t o e m p l oy a v i c e s q u a d t o p a t ro l e ve r y ro o m o f e ve r y c h a p t e r h o u s e , t h e r u l e i s l i k e l y u n e n f o rc e a b l e a n d a t b e s t w i l l b e i g n o re d At w o r s t , i t w i l l p ro m p t f r a t e r n i t i e s t o h o s t m o re o f f - s i t e e ve n t s , i n C o l l e g e t ow n a n n e xe s o r e l s e w h e re , w h e re t h e y a re s u b j e c t t o e ve n l e s s ove r s i g h t A s f o r t h e o t h e r i t e m s , t h e y a m o u n t t o a m e l a n g e o f re v i e w s , ove r h a u l s a n d l i ve - i n a d v i s o r s A l l t h i s h a s b e e n t r i e d b e f o re , i n o n e w a y o r a n o t h e r, t o l e s st h a n - d e s i r a b l e e f f e c t Wi l l t h i s t i m e b e d i f f e re n t ? It re m a i n s t o b e s e e n We h a ve a n e w p re s i d e n t , b u t a ve r y o l d u n i ve r s i t y, a n d o l d h a b i t s h a ve a n o l d h a b i t o f d y i n g h a rd

T h e a c t i o n s f o r w h i c h Si g m a Nu w a s f o u n d g u i l t y o f a re a s t a i n o n t h e Gre e k c o m m u n i t y a n d o n C o r n e l l A s m o re d e t a i l s e m e r g e a b o u t t h a t p a r t i c u l a r i n c id e n t ( n o t h i n g m o re t h a n a b r i e f s t a t e m e n t h a s b e e n re l e a s e d ye t ) , i t w i l l b e c o m e c l e a r j u s t h ow d a m a g i n g h a z i n g c a n b e f o r t h o s e i n vo l ve d Ha z

Hard liquor ban will not solve alcohol problems

The following is an open letter to President Pollack

De ar Pre s ide n t Po ll ac k,

Underage drinking, particularly of hard liquor, has and always will exist on college campuses Since neither you or I can change the legal drinking age, I would hope we could ensure that when this drinking does occur, it occurs in a regulated environment

The banning of hard liquor from chapter houses inevitably does nothing to the amount of hard liquor consumed by college students, but rather changes the locations in which this consumption occurs Rather than occur in an environment in which there are sober monitors and university policies in place, such as Greek mixers, they will occur in unregulated off-campus environments Some of the leading academics on the matter are at our university, such as Professor William Sonnenstuhl, ILR, and will tell you that regulated and visible environments for drinking are crucial What was once a small drinking and sexual misconduct issue will become a silent but deadly matter

In an effort to hold fraternity men more accountable, thousands of women have had their safety jeopardized by this rule This is not us crying because we want to party with fraternity men, but rather because we feel infinitely more comfortable knowing our closest friends are drinking in regulated atmospheres rather than in unknown off-campus environments I know that myself, and many of the women I hold dear, have experienced the grave consequences of binge drinking and sexual harassment in the apartments of others rather than in the safety of a Greek mixer in which we have dozens of women looking out for one another

I understand your experiences with Greek life are not pleasant I am a Michigander myself and have witnessed the social culture at the University of Michigan However, the policies that were implemented at the university have not reduced the amount of drinking that occurs but only the visibility of the locations and accountability of those in which it happens

Subjugation of any student is unacceptable, and it must come to an end in and outside of Greek life Removing the safe spaces for students to conduct normal college drinking behavior, however, is not the answer

Re: ‘A Warning in the Wake of Greenwood”

To th e Ed itor:

It is not my usual and customary practice to respond to letters such as the one that appeared in The Cornell Daily Sun on April 26, 2018, but as one of Jack Greenwood's attorneys, I feel it is imperative to respond to the many misstatements in that letter That letter is a result of a complete mischaracterization of the facts of this case

First and foremost, Jack Greenwood is completely innocent of the charges that were originally filed in this case There was a rush to judgment back in September when the local papers sensationalized the assault of a Cornell student because of his race This could not be further from the truth Here are the true facts:

On September 15, 2017, students from two fraternities engaged in a verbal altercation on the sidewalk of 810 Seneca Street where members of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity live during which time both sides made inappropriate remarks which amounted to “trash talking ” Unfortunately, some of the remarks that were made prompted Solomon Shewit to run to the neighboring house at 306 Eddy Street where Greenwood and others lived

Then, Shewit entered the premises where he sustained a bloody nose The evidence clearly demonstrates that Shewit ran onto the neighboring property and entered the home where his blood and DNA were located This paper initially reported that “ once he [Shewit] got to the walkway leading to Greenwood’s house, Greenwood and several other men punched him ” The actual facts are as follows:

-Shewit ran, alone, from his home to that of Greenwood’s;

-Shewit entered the premises uninvited where the physical altercation occurred; -the District Attorney stated that “alcohol was a significant factor in this altercation”; and both DNA and blood spatter evidence demonstrate that Shewit was inside the house

Further, police body cam footage revealed that when asked if Greenwood was the person that struck him, Shewit said, “No,” and when prompted again by the police he said he did not recognize Greenwood as one of the perpetrators

Equally important is the fact that Shewit's shirt was covered in blood after his physical altercation Jack's white shirt worn that evening was tested at a reputable lab for any blood stains and the results were negative for blood There is no question that Jack Greenwood was not the person who caused Shewit's bloody nose Further, there is no question that Shewit ran over to 306 Eddy Street and received a bloody nose by someone inside that residenceNOT Jack Greenwood

The District Attorney himself made very clear in his statements to the Court that the charges were dismissed due to the “problems” with this case He told the press, “The fact that the victim, who is a person of color, pursued the defendant onto the defendant's property, with the intention of confronting Greenwood about his offensive language, creates a level of doubt whether the victim was selected based upon his race ”

Rather than the District Attorney having no further interest in prosecuting the case as was stated in the letter to the Editor, the fact is that he took his time and considered and examined all the evidence presented to him which resulted in the dismissal of all charges against Jack Greenwood

He was wrongly accused and he and his family have suffered greatly from the negative press This is the danger of a rush to judgment in a case such as this that carries serious repercussions to someone ' s reputation and future who was entirely innocent

Jack Greenwood is as much an advocate for social justice as any Cornell student including those who signed this editorial piece

We cannot surrender due process and the rule of law and substitute our own subjective beliefs as the only appropriate outcome No greater danger to justice occurs when we fail to respect the legal process however much we may disagree with its conclusions The District Attorney fulfilled his obligation to the community, reviewed all the evidence including what we submitted to him, and a proper disposition, which was a dismissal of all the charges against Jack Greenwood, was reached

Sarah Park | S*Park Notes

Letter of Recommendation: Okenshields

Last week, in a moment of hunger

a n d d e s p e r a t i o n , I w e n t t o Okenshields Like most members of our campus, I had written-off this meme of a dining hall Thanks to my pecuniar y-minded friend, Gabe, I put some faith in “A Night of Chocolate and Intuitive Eating ” For those who know what “intuitive eating” means, I

w o u l d l o v e a n s o m e c l a r i f i c a t i o n because nothing about Okes is intuitive For the uninitiated, Okenshields is a medieval-style dining hall at the hear t of campus named after a Lord of the Rings dwar f, guarded by the happiest man at Cornell, filled with gothic chandeliers boasting an sundr y assor tment of salad, grains and Asian food with walls covered in black and white photos of Cornell’s histor y and 2000s throwbacks booming from the ceiling And they take swipes

love the fact that they ser ve Fresh Summer Squash in the Spring, which means they must be lying about the fresh or the summer, as well as Jerk Chicken, which is a pretty accurate description of my last boyfriend

However, in the words of reconsidered Yelp critic Catherine W, sometimes it feels like it’s “definitely the worst ” Sometimes it’s impossible to s

want to walk out the door and never return only to remember you already swiped away $15 70 to Happy Dave when you entered Okenshields is q

often surprising and sometimes terrible, but ever y now and then, it’s tr uly great

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d that squash belongs in its solid form Despite my failed venture into intuitive eating, I got

luxur y of eating dinner with a friend B

To th e Editor

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We, the undersigned members of the Cornell University community, call on Cornellians of conscience to denounce the Israeli military’s recent massacre of unarmed Palestinian protesters participating in the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip

Since March 30, 2018, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including youth, women and men, have affirmed their internationally-recognized “right of return ” as historically displaced persons by marching peacefully toward the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel The Israeli military has responded with indiscriminate lethal force Military officials have declared an area 300 meters inside the border fence a “kill zone, ” and video evidence shows that soldiers are shooting protesters well behind that line, as well The Israeli military has killed more than 30 Palestinians Tear gas, rubber bullets, and lethal fire have injured more than 1,000 protesters The use of lethal force against unarmed protesters is not a “clash,” as commonly reported by U S media Nor is Israel’s open-fire policy a case of “firing back ” It is a massacre in violation of international law and an outrage against basic principles of human rights, dignity and life This massacre is the latest injustice in a 50-year occupation, and 70-year ethnic cleansing, endured by the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli government The current wave of protests marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by the emergent Israeli state Since then, generations of Palestinians have grown up as stateless refugees under conditions of apartheid In their struggle to affirm their right to return to their homeland, they have been met with deadly fire from Israel and with silence from America

It is our duty as members of the Cornell community to break this silence Cornell prides itself on being a place of critical engagement This commitment requires us to challenge oppression, and to review our own country ’ s and institution’s role in perpetuating it Israel is dependent on U S military aid and political support Cornell is itself complicit in the subjugation of Palestinians through the partnership between Cornell Tech in New York City and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which develops technology enabling the military occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people

Okes has been widely regarded as the armpit of our dining halls, compa-

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s Ostensibly, the distaste for this dining hall lies in its long lines and questionable cuisine While it may not have the variety of Trillium or the ar tsy aesthetic of Zeus, this is no mere dining hall; this is a fully-immersive, transcendent, dining experience

Up o n d e s c e n d i n g t h e s t a i r s i n

W i l l a r d St r a i g h t i n t h e h e a r t o f Cornell, you’ll come face-to-face with the man who stole the hear t of Cornell After Happy Dave swipes you in, you’ll enter a room that doesn’t look like it’s been updated in quite a fe w decades, despite the fact that it was renovated last year Large medieval signs will direct you towards a choice of salad, “Soup and Sustenance,” asian/wok or “La Cocina ” With s p e c i a l l y - d e s i g n e d r e c t a n g u l a r Asian plates, illustrious attempts at hiding the fact that quinoa tastes like flavored dir t and dissonant burnt orange back room with a TV for those who don’t e v e n w a n t t o p r e t e n d t h a t they’re not eating alone, there is something for ever yone

As you enter the Healthy Har vest line spanning the length of the room to assess today’s variety of grains, you may even be lucky enough to find yourself waiting behind that girl from your FWS you used to know You’ll contemplate saying “Hi,” but will remember all the times you told her “let’s get lunch” and decided not to give her the oppor tunity to take you up on the offer

Okenshields’ food quality can be controversial, but its 4/5 star rating on Yelp speaks volumes Take it from celebrated food critic Ashudeep S , who lauded the food as “really hygienic and healthy,” which is all you can really ask for in your food Esteemed Yelp-er Chun J described the almost magical power of Okenshields to “cook all the things the same flavor ” Power ful stuff Catherine W gave it 3 stars and said to walk to West, but pay her no mind I

alumnus got so deeply and personally offended over the fact t h a t s o m e o n e w o u l d r u i n p e r f e c t l y good cocoa and coffee by r ubbing it on a pork loin with whatever demi glaze is, I couldn’t help but think about how lucky I am to be here And how lucky I am to have such a weird and wonderful friend and mentor to guide me the mess of Student Assembly as passionately as he deems each ne w plate of chocolate-infused food inedible

There is a surprising, comfor ting

n o s t a l g i a a b o u t O k e n s h i e l d s e v e n though it can ’ t quite decide what it’s yearning for Maybe it doesn’t live up

t o i t s p r o m i s e o f “ a b u f f e t - s t y l e g o u r m e t m

c Ne w York-style pizza” just as Cornell doesn’t fully live up to its promise of “ any person, any study” or a tr uly “diverse stu-

Why do our signatures matter? While many countries assault human rights on a daily basis, Israel is unique in its insistence that its actions including those on the Gaza border in past weeks are compatible with international law Americans have been slow to join the growing chorus of global condemnation of Israeli atrocities Today, showing solidarity with Palestine is more crucial than ever The systematic effort to deny the humanity of the Palestinian people is linked to the devaluing and destruction of people of color within the United States As we combat racism and militarism at home, we salute those Palestinian demonstrators who are facing one of the world’s military giants armed only with their determination to be free

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dent body” beyond the two counties of Long Island

But in a fe w weeks we’ll say goodbye to our dear imper fect Cornell for a summer, a year or forever This means no more hikes up the slope in the snow, no more midnight conversations in Libe, no more 1 a m walks home from Loco and 2 a m walks home from Olin We will miss the things that brought us together the good and bad alike like watching Happy Dave bop to some 2000s banger or uniting over something so universally hated So in the next fe w weeks, I recommend giving Okenshields a tr y, even if it’s just because you ’ re out of BRBs

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

Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

D i s a p p o i n t Yo u r Pa r e n t s

Last week, after a phone conversation on what I wanted to do after I graduate ended inconclusively in tabled arguments and passive-aggressive goodbyes, my dad texted me the median income of a political science

Ph D “About the same payscale as an operator ” at the company where he works, he wrote “You will study hard for LSAT and then we can discuss ”

It hurts knowing it would be literally and metaphorically easier on his heart if I had just gone all-out for law school or had read Cracking the Coding Inter view back when I had the chance Anything would be better than my current trajector y of understably worrisome directionless half-asser y

My father is painfully practical and intensely loving, with the kind of radical sensibility of so many other Asian immigrants in America After all, Baba already took his risks: He started a revolution and fought for it through a horribly bloody war On top of that, he left ever ything to come to America

There are words that kids of immigrants chew out of habit like bubblegum, cliches we keep handy for constant use “Left ever ything” is one Words like “sacrifice” and “disappointment ” Phrases like “ came here with nothing” or “ gave up so much ” It’s within these semantic constraints that the immigrant’s kid has a moral obligation to pay back the debt of opportunity or freedom or whatever via pride or economic relief or simple peace of mind

It’s a heavy and invisible debt, and paying it comes with a maddening opportunity cost American dreams turn to American heartbreak when the assuredness of stability is married to the constant itch of unpursued passion That’s the whole paradox of this place, isn’t it? That one generation can work so hard to assure something for the children they love, and their children can so easily screw it up for something as stupid as their fickle dreams? It’s no wonder that studies show US-born children of

immigrants are at higher risk of anxiety and other mental health disorders than their parents

There is a ver y visceral and enduring pain that comes from being a disappointment, from diverting away from what Sun columnist Narayan Reddy calls “ The Path,” where “the intermingling paths of ambition, passion and love are all closed off ” It’s a pain I’m not sure can otherwise be understood: My white friends often ask why I

I have been saying “no” to a lot of things in the hopes that a hundred noes will someday materialize into a massive, strong yes.

don’t just pursue X or why I don't just tell my parents I don’t want to do Y My brown friends tell me to suck it up, because it’s entitled or ungrateful not to They say this much more diplomatically, of course, but the expectations are heavy nonetheless

I guess following dreams is mostly for white kids, and I still have long-term arguments with my parents where we ’ re all deluded into thinking there has to be a way to compromise, or to let me like a job that is secure and pays well Getting a job and then later, when you have money, pursuing your crazy dreams is a kind of compromise Law school is a kind of compromise, or as one of my friends jokingly puts it, “ a way to trick parents into letting you do humanities ”

But sloppy pursuits are almost as bad as dreams deferred, and these so-called compromises are just shortterm tricks, red herrings to get you to follow The Path,

which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless it makes you live a life of contempt and anger and resentment The tradeoff sucks, because if what you love isn’t what’s currently lucrative and nearly riskless, it really is a zero-sum game: You either do what you love, or disappoint the people you love

It’s this fear of disappointment that brought me to our living room couch in Virginia last month, l ing, admitting I have this perealousy for my dad’s tumula n d f e ve ro u s yo u n g - a d u l t, full of risk and excitement ife and passion I tell him I’m us, and I tell him I know it’s a essed up thing to think I tell him I feel like in 40 years I’ll be living a boring, tired life, never having taken a single leap of faith I tell him I don’t want to disappoint him I’d never told him these things before We’ve only spoken in implications I’d always assumed he wouldn’t understand

The politics of his youth fresh in his mind, he tells me that sometimes change and excitement can lead you to make mistakes I tell him maybe it’s good to make mistakes “Pegah,” he says, in that calm voice that dads yield when you least expect it, “You’re twenty years old You have lots of time to make mistakes ”

Our conversation and my evolution into a disappointment are both simultaneously painful, productive and ongoing I have to call Baba later today Good luck to both of us

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at pmoradi@cor nellsun com A l l Jo k e s A s i d e appeared alter nate Mondays this semester

Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

I’ m in the twilight of my days as a columnist for The Sun

I know that, typically, columnists will close out their time with parting words of advice to incoming firstyears or graduating seniors But, although I’ve done that in the past weeks, the fact of the matter is that I don’t have much advice to impart Or, at least, much advice that you haven’t already heard hundreds of times, and will hear a hundred more times Go to office hours, try out something new on campus, make sure to wear sunblock on Slope Day, etc

As I see it, everyone ’ s experiences at Cornell are so disparate that I would really just be giving advice to a younger version of myself retracing my own footsteps So in lieu of

sage advice, I leave with a final observation from my time here

If you want something done on this campus, you ’ re going to have to do it yourself I’m thinking of the Straight Edge pop-up last week, which transformed Willard Straight Hall’s, well, devoid-of-personality terrace into a happening rooftop bar that would make Brooklyn proud This past weekend, another group of students also enlivened Eddygate, the area behind Cascadilla Hall in Collegetown They brought in seating, larger-than-life games (giant Connect 4 is, it turns out, really hard to stop playing) and live music

In addition to these recent events, I remember all of the student-organized events on-campus throughout my years I remember the joy of Fanclub Collective shows, like when I crowd-surfed during Rest Ashore’s set at Cayuga Lodge

Some of these events, like the Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual runway show, are crown jewels in Cornell’s arts and entertainment community Others are student-founded initiatives that are concretely creating a more equitable cam-

BY HENRY GRANEY Sun Contributor

“ There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a countr y called Germany It was the end of the world ” So writes Cliff Bradshaw, the starr y-eyed American novelist whose search for love and advent u re i n 1 9 3 0 s G e r m a n y f r a m e s Jo h n Kander and Fred Ebbs’s Cabaret In the haze of the Kit Kat Klub, a haven for stockings, lipstick and high-heeled performers, Berlin is in full view, beautiful in its celebration of self and doomed by the rising political waves that would ultimately engulf Europe

Ithaca College’s production of Cabaret was an astounding success, executed with masterful design, orchestration, choreography and par ticularly amazing talent

Designed to bring the audience into the nightclub, with red “Ausgang” signs, dim l i g h t s a n d t h e o rc h e s t r a d re s s e d a s a cabaret band, Clark Theatre brought the tantalizing Kit Kat Girls and Gals as close to the audience as possible With as many can-can lines and lipstick smeared faces as one could hope for, the diverse ensemble dressed evocatively, sang and danced their way back in time to pre-WWII Germany the cabaret, as said by the Emcee, is a bunch of wild kids getting wilder and wilder waiting to be caught by the adults

The stor y of Cabaret follows American novelist Cliff Bradshaw, Corey Kline ’18,

pus, like Anabel’s Grocery and Cornell Lending Library I don’t mean to say that people won ’ t be there to help you; you don’t have to do everything all by yourself But I do believe that students can and will shape the future of Cornell To a degree Unless we overthrow the Board of Trustees we ’ re not going to be able to lower tuition and fees anytime soon (rats!), but I strongly believe that students can shape our community to be more just, more kind, and more just-plain-fun

Whenever I’ve had to write some sort of bio for graduation, I’ve found myself unthinkingly thanking my classmates as well as my professors Perhaps the greatest gift, academically, that I’ve received during my time at Cornell is realizing that education is not a strict hierarchy Some of my professors, I can happily say, are my close friends and mentors Some of my greatest teachers on campus have been other students It took me a while to realize it after years of learning by rote memorization in high school, but you ’ re allowed to have an opinion on your coursework Who knows, it might even be a good one

I would be remiss, of course, if I didn’t mention one more student-run resource I joined The Cornell Daily Sun my freshman fall, and started writing for the Arts and Entertainment section I eagerly brought a notepad to a showing of Frank at Cinemapolis, and scribbled away furiously in the cinema’s lowlight, terrified that I would miss a critical detail Since then I’ve written about how Air Bud is capitalist propaganda, movies about architecture starring long-haired cats, Kanye West’s dystopian concert in Buffalo and a lot of music reviews I’ve had people tell me that my writing resonated with them, and also call me a complete idiot who did not understand Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster at all I couldn’t have asked for anything more

So I leave not with advice, but with a laundry list of thank yous Thank you to the editors who came before me

as he looks to finish his novel in preWWII Berlin His desire for adventure and a life worth living brings him to the Kit Kat Klub, where he meets the mesmerizing Emcee and falls in love with the “ one and only” Sally Bowles (Sydney Parra ’18) This leading performer pair takes the love of drugged-up drama queen Bowles and a bisexual Cliff lost in lust and love to a new level of rawness The actors portrayed Cliff and Sally’s deranged and jealous love beautifully, matching the setting around them: a city rotting away from hate, slowly being consumed by evil

The April 26 production saw Will Thames ’18 (understudy) play the role of Emcee, commanding the stage and the audience’s attention as the production’s metaphoric Minelli

In a role it seems only he could play, Thames brought an intoxicating spirit and was theater gold A haunting, damned character for his time, the Emcee is the show’s venerable narrator, framing all its events, stalking the shadows as the production’s harbinger of debaucherous celebration and doom It is worth noting that T h a m e

n more success for the role’s listed performer, Tuan Malinowski

Among all the lipstick and fishnets, Cabaret’ s most compelling romance is between the middle-aged boarding house owner Fraulein Schneider and her older s u i t o r, t h e Je w i s h f r u i t v e n d o r He r r Schulz The tender and doomed love of the production’s most endearing characters

and made the Arts & Entertainment section a quirky, engaged, polemic section Zachary Zahos ’15, Sam Bromer ’15, Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15, Sean Doolittle ’16, Mike Sosnick ’16 and Jael Goldfine ’17 Thank you to all of the editors who have come since and brought their own, excellent visions to the section Katie Sims ’20, Andrei Kozyrev ’20, Viri Garcia ’20, Lev Akabas ’19 and Pete Buonanno ’21

If only I could say thank you enough to my two best friends in the section Troy Sherman ’18 is a brilliant scholar, a terrific skateboarder, an incisive writer, an excellent coeditor and, most importantly, an amazing friend Jack Jones ’18 is a subtle writer whose pieces sometimes make me nostalgic for a Northern California I didn’t grow up in, a thoughtful arts consumer, a clear-headed critic and, also, a terrific friend and housemate

Thank you to my family whose constant support and encouragement have always helped me no matter what the task at hand is Thank you to all of my friends on campus, and to all of my collaborators in dance and music Thank you to anyone who’s ever read something I’ve written In the words of the eponymous Frank from the first movie I ever reviewed: “I love you all ”

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

is portrayed by the show’s standout pair, Mackey Sakamoto-Simmons ’18 as Schulz a n d H a n n a h C l a r k e L e v i n e ’ 1 8 a s Scheider Sakamoto-Simmons and Clarke Levine had audiences equally laughing (especially to “A Pineapple,” a ballad in which Schulz gifts Schneider an exotic fruit and token of his love) as cr ying when the anti-Semitism of their time rips their love apart

Despite what the Emcee exhorts, leaving one ’ s troubles outside is impossible for the Kit Kat Klub as Nazis rise to power in Berlin The show begins with the androgynous crossdressing emcee turning off the radio transmission of a Hitler address in the dancer’s dressing rooms As the show’s narrative progresses, the clandestine rise of Nazism rears its ugly head in the form of Ernst Ludwig, the charming stranger who welcomes Cliff to Berlin and Fraulein Kost, the hooker-turned-Nazi

It is impossible to divorce this performance of Cabaret from the events that frame its audience’s interpretation of the stor y Following Ludwig and Kost’s number of Nazi-praise, the audience was hesitant to applaud The audience knew that a p p l a u d i n g e v e n t h e p e r f o r m a n c e o f Nazism was unseemly At times, audience members shuddered, as even the mocking of a Hitler salute called to mind the increasing number of hate crimes against minorities of race, religion, sexual orientation and other identities rise in America Never before has a haunting representation of the rise of hatred been so relevant

in the United States

For those of the Kit Kat Klub, it was the end of the world It was the end of the self-expression and free-living that the cabaret had come to symbolize Amongst this beauty grew a flame of politicized hatred and mobilized evil Like too many things in Germany and across Europe, the beauty of the cabaret, all its vibrant individuals and its unrivaled energy would be enveloped in flames and become a ruin of a world once known This stor y as performed by Ithaca College’s magnificent cast and crew ensured that the stor y of the cabaret burned bright into the minds of the audience and reminded them just what stakes there are when expression, individuality, and love are eclipsed by bigotr y, hatred and pure evil

Ca b a re t w a s d i re c t e d by C a t h e r i n e

Weidner, Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts The 1998 version, as performed by Ithaca College, which unlike earlier versions clearly indicates Cliff ’ s h

s Sally’s numbers “Maybe This Time” and “ Me i n He r r ” g i v i n g m o re d e p

a n d tragedy to the leading lady It tells the stor y of the ill fated LBGT community in the Kit Kat Klub, and all others Nazis that will systematically persecute and destroy during their takeover of Germany and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s

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

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BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

It is time to break our silence After speaking with Rosenna Bakari '11 and hearing her insights on living as a sur vivor of sexual assault, it is evident that it is time for women to live openly about their experience with assault and move past the discomfort in order to reframe the conversations we are

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p between silence and psychological trauma in a way that imbues its audience with her own personal reality in an honest, relatable fashion Dr Bakari is a Cornell alumna whose stor y and dedication to creating a space for sur vivors is beyond inspirational Her organization Talking Trees, founded in 2010, has fostered a supportive community for sur vivors that allows them to live openly about their experiences In an inter view with Dr Bakari, she explained that Too Much Love Is Not Enough was a natural next step in her career and mission to generate safe spaces for sur vivors In her own words, her memoir is a motion to “invite people on [her] healing journey,” and her writing does not only invite listeners, but encourages them to challenge the way they treat conversations about sexual assault

The memoir details Bakari’s life from childhood to adulthood, but is largely an unraveling of her experience with childhood sexual assault Too Much Love Is Not Enough touches on various aspects of sexual assault, such as the guilt and blame associated with it She also focuses on the relationship between silence and healing She writes: “Like a girdle worn to fit into the dress bought one size too small, I wore my silence, tight enough to make me look good as long as I did not care to breathe adequately Like the six-inch heels that make my legs look divine, my silence radiated a confident personal presentation No one knew my discomfort of shame as I soaked in the accolades about my perceived beauty and brilliance ” In living in silence one is upholding a facade of perfection that belies the trauma one has experienced With this image, Bakari illuminates the reality of suppressing the truth: silence empowers perpetrators and denies a sur vivor of self-healing

In addition to calling for a breaking of silence, Bakari nuances silence in a way that deconstructs the reality of living untruthfully through the way she differentiates sharing a secret from breaking silence When asked

to elaborate on this aspect of her writing, she said: “It took me all this time to understand that when you tell someone a secret, whatever it is, it becomes bigger and loses you Now there are more people invested in your secret ” There is a difference between expanding the bandwidth of your silence and breaking it as an acknowledgement of the truth in order to heal According to Bakari, our truth is what keeps us safe, whether it be in regards to our own healing or the way we approach our behavior She dismantles the notions that perpetuate the blaming of women for their assault because of their beauty or the way the dress and behave by asserting the ways that truth has been absconded by societal perception In her inter view, she discussed thoughtfully the way that we have used certain societal perceptions in order to maintain a facade of safety She says, “ we deser ve to live on a full spectrum of beauty clothes do not make us safe Truth makes us safe ”

The concept of pursuing truth as a means to disenfranchise rape culture is one takeaway, in particular, I got from my interview with Bakari We discussed the way that the rhetoric surrounding sexual assault must change, beginning with a kind of reframing of the way sur vivors and listeners alike detail the realities of our experience with sexual assault She said, “I’m hoping that people always see themselves from a position of resilience we are not victims anymore We were, but we are not anymore We are survivors and we are resilience, whether we drank or ate

o r a n g e re d o u r s e l v e s here, we are here and we h a v e s u rv i v e d So

e v e r y t h i n g we do from here we do from a position of resilience of knowing and always feeling like sur vivors and not victims ”

e xc l u s i o n a r y n a t u re of the media’s port r a y a l o f s e x u a l assault to be particularly interesting

Sh e u n d e r s c o re d the way that sexual assault has been filtered through a spec i f i c l e n s t h a t h a s defined sexual assault in as one aspect of what violation is, and that lens is strictly s e x u a l h a r a s s m e n t She pointed out the ways that victims of incest, childhood sexual abuse, and more, were excluded from t h e c o n v e r s a t i o n s that were proliferati n g a c r o s s s o c i a l media platforms In her inter view, Bakari

e x p a n d e d o n t h i s idea contesting that t h e o r i g i n s o f t h e # Me To o m ov e m e n t a re v e r y m u c h g r o u n d e d i n o p e nness and inclusion of a l l f o r m s o f v i o l e n c e a g a i n s t w o m e n

Whether we realize it or not, we are in constant contact with survivors and the things we do and say may close off safe spaces for them.

It is not enough to “let go ” of one ’ s experience because it undercuts the trauma that s u r v i v o r s h a v e e x p e r i e n c e d a n d m ov e d through Rather, sur vivors, who were victims not by choice, should acknowledge their resilience in the face of the victimization they were forced into Discussing our own trauma from a position of resilience confronts the constant victimization of women from ourselves and from listeners

Considering the recent eruption of the #MeToo movement, I asked Dr Bakari’s opinion on the way #MeToo is treated in the media Having read her article, “ What We Are Not Saying When We Are Saying #MeToo,” I found her commentar y on the

However, she believes that the media, an entity ver y much still dominated by men, funneled the movement into what it has b e c o m e T h e y t o o k v i o l e n c e a g a i n s t women and pinned it as the kind of v i o l e n c e t h e y a re m o s t c o mf o r t a b l e

with: sexual harassment in the workplace

When asked where the literature about sexual assault must change, in regards to the #MeToo movement and beyond, Bakari said that for these kinds of movements, “ at the end of the day it’s not about who spoke, but it’s about who listened ”

The #MeToo movement in its inception created an incredibly important space for sur vivors who were bursting at the seams to t e l l t h e i r s t o r i e s , b u t i t s t i l l c o n s t r u e s women ’ s experiences into a structure that takes audience comfortability into account The #MeToo movement is one manifestation of an expression of women ’ s experience without adequate listeners

Following this insight, I asked Bakari what she hopes readers, and listeners, would take away from her memoir She broke down her readers into three categories, hoping each would glean a different kind of message First, she hopes that sur vivors reading her work feel a solace in reading about her experience She hopes they understand that “they are not alone in their feelings of guilt and shame” and that they “ see that they have the right to heal ” The path to healing is difficult, she affirms, but it is possible

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For readers who are not sur vivors, she hopes that they can understand that it hurts and that pain may not alway be visible Whether we realize it or not, we are in constant

contact with sur vivors and the things we do and say may close off safe spaces for them

To men reading, she hopes that they listen She says, “I hope that they can read the book and understand the severity of the plight of women in general in this world, but I also hope that they can read it and understand that if your significant other is closed off or closed down, maybe there’s a reason for that ”

She suggests the importance of being cognisant of other people’s sexual histor y because you never know where your partner is in their healing Many sur vivors don’t understand what good sex feels like because sex may not be empowering to them She continues: “ men don’t invest in that, and women don’t feel like they deser ve that ” She explains that there is not enough distinction between the way people who love you approach you and the way your predator approached you So, it is important for men to offer themselves to women in a way that shows you are not violating them Too Much Love Is Not Enough is an incredibly important read in this increasingly vocal media climate As someone with the resilience to write daily for years about her experience with sexual abuse, what Bakari has to say is eye-opening, whether the reader is relating to her content or if the reader is understanding from a listener's perspective She attributes much of her strength to her time at Cornell and to the communities of geniuses she had the pleasure of interacting with during her time there She spoke about Cornell as a place where she found what she needed to be pushed to a level of academic and social proficiency But her stor y is not one that should be attributed to the institution she attended, but rather the person that she grew and shaped herself into Her own personal healing journey and her mission to create safe spaces for women like herself is not only admirable but an example of what we should be aiming for as a society

Reading Too Much Love Is Not Enough is a breaking of silence not only for Bakari, but an encourage for all women to break their silence

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r e f o r m s t o Gr e e k l i f e w e r e announced in 2012 by thenPresident David Skor ton followi n g t h e d e a t h o f G e o r g e D e s d u n e s ’ 1 3 i n a n a l c o h o lrelated hazing incident in Sigma Alpha Epsilon The fraternity’s recognition was revoked by the University and their house now ser ves as an undergraduate residential hall

In t h e r e f o r m s i n t r o d u c e d then, Skor ton had challenged the Cornell community to “end p l e d g i n g a s w e k n o w i t ”

However, not all of the elements of the reforms were implemented, and the recommendations stopped shor t of full implement a t i o n , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e University

Despite this, Lombardi did n o t v i e w t h e p re v i o u s s e t o f reforms as a “failure ”

“I think it really star ted a ver y impor tant conversation on our campus and a heightened level of awareness, ” he said W h i l e

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Lombardi said he looks for ward to combating hazing “holistically” and is looking to eventually include pre-professional fraternities, co-ops and living centers within the educational programs

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“[Holi participants] can get color on anyone It shows that it doesn’t matter who you are.”

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Student Presents Thesis In Underwear as Protest

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A male international student in the class made a comment during the discussion that the speaker has a “moral obligation” to her audience to dress conservatively during

“I am not responsible for anyone’s attention because we are capable of thinking for ourselves ”

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her thesis presentation, at which point Chai left the room with two students following to comfort her

According to a statement written by 11 of the other 13 students in the class, once Chai had left the room, Maggor, “apologized [to the class] for her choice of words” and acknowledged that “the notion of ‘short shorts’ on women carries a lot of cultural and political baggage ” However, according to Chai, the incident worsened after

Maggor came out of the theater She asked Chai what her mother would think of Chai’s clothing decision, to which Chai responded, “My mom is a feminist, gender and sexuality studies professor She’s fine with my shorts ”

At this point, Maggor asked Chai what she was going to do

“I'm going to give the best damn speech of my life,” Chai told her

Chai stripped down to her bra and underwear and walked back into the theatre room, where she performed the entirety of her thesis presentation in the same state of undress

That night, she wrote a Facebook post about the incident, which at press time had over 1,050 likes and 165 shares In the post, she invited the public to her College Scholar thesis presentation, which took place Saturday morning Chai did not name Maggor or any other student in her original Facebook post In light of the attention garnered by Chai’s Facebook post, 11 of the 13 other students that were

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Cobb Speaks on Police Violence Student Presents Senior Thesis in Underwear as Protest

trative policies that generally do not culminate in a criminal or civil penalty for this loss of life ”

Cobb, who shadowed the “ gang unit” of Newark Police Department in 2015 to film the documentary Policing the Police, said that there is “ a phenomenal tolerance for violence as it relates to the police ” According to the documentary, the task force employed a method of “field inquiry” on Newark’s most dangerous streets in which officers stop, search and frisk residents based on what unit members described as “just knowing” the residents’ criminality, often in the absence of any specific evidence against them

According to a 2014 Department of Justice report and Cobb’s commentary in the documentar y, “the Newark Police Department was stopping people without reasonable suspicion 75 percent of the time ”

Cobb resisted calling the police force a “uniquely racist” sector but said “the consequences of policing are uniquely dangerous ”

“The mechanisms of policing essentially have been to police by race wherein your skin color becomes the basis of what makes you suspicious and that can be rationalized in the name of keeping you safe,” Cobb explained

On the same note, Cobb said that people of color see the police differently from white people, who have “the option of seeing the police as the solution, as the cure for a problem” whereas minorities “tend to see police as a treatment for the problem, and sometimes the side effects of the treatment are worse than the problem itself ”

According to Cobb, while shadowing the force, he saw officers take unregistered guns off the streets but also witnessed innocent pedestrians wrestled to the ground in fear

“It’s clear to me that there’s no trust That’s what happens when ever yone assumes the worst of everyone else,” Cobb said

Among the many snapshots of police violence showed at the lecture, Cobb identified the Rodney King video of 1992 as one of the most important events in inciting shock and reflection The video, with its display of unrestrained police brutality, in part, inspired the adoption of the 1994 crime bill, which instituted a Department of Justice process for police regulation, according to Cobb

The adoption of the “ consent decree” program that allows DOJ to investigate police practices and mandate reform, Cobb explained, initiated a method of “ common regulation” and “quality control” for the nation’s nearly 18,000 police forces “The hope is to overcome a historic lack of transparency, ” said Cobb of the measure

Cobb said that the issue of police violence on the black community originates from the nation’s foundational questions of citizenship More specifically, the relationship between African-Americans and law enforcement began with the slave revolts and in the “ extralegal execution of people after the end of slavery,” Cobb explained

“The first step toward fixing the police system requires that we lift up that rock and look at what’s under it,” Cobb added

in class that day wrote a joint statement to The Sun, saying that they supported Chai’s protest but not her public account of the incident

“The majority of us are students of color, from multi-ethnic backgrounds, who very much relate to Letitia’s frustration with systemic oppression that is part of the fabric of this country, ” the statement read “We do not want to discredit [Letitia’s] narrative ”

The students wrote that while there was an “ error of phrasing” on the professor’s part, her intent for the class and her desire to encourage diversity and inclusion had always been “extremely sincere ”

“[Maggor] is a gift to Cornell,” the statement read, stating that the students felt Chai’s post did not “adequately represent [Maggor’s] past and continued advocacy for women and minorities” and that Maggor had “apologized on more than one occasion ”

Chai said that her intention was not to go after her professor but to raise awareness about this “huge societal issue,” which she regards as based on a mindset rather than individual incidents

Chai also did not mention her professor nor the specific incident during the introduction of her thesis on Saturday, which she walked into wearing the same clothes she had worn in class

Her presentation was livestreamed on

Facebook, in which a teary Chai said she stood in solidarity with people who have been asked to “question themselves” based on others’ perception of their appearances, stripping down to her underwear again in front of the room

F o l l o w i n g Chai’s call for the others in the room to remove their clothes as well, over two dozen people stripped to bras or boxers, with about half the room remaining in states of undress for the entirety of Chai’s thesis

sion training for faculty

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Chai’s thesis focuses on the integration of refugees and internally based persons into host communities by treating them as contributing members of local society rather than an exterior burden

The audience consisted of several professors as well as other college scholars and their guests, and according to a Facebook post, Chai cleared the demonstration beforehand with the director of the college scholar program, Prof Michael Goldstein, psychology, and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Gretchen Ritter ’83

After her presentation, Chai hosted an informal roundtable with students and Goldstein on methods of diversity and inclu-

“I’ve gotten so many messages from students [saying] ‘this happens to me in so many different classes on so many different occasions,’” Chai said during the discussion “ That is not okay ” Chai said that although the Title IX office had contacted her regarding the incident, she is not actively pursuing a case at present

Although Chai will graduate this year, she told The Sun that she hopes the conversation regarding the incident will continue, and that she has been in contact with Ritter regarding possible programming or outreach possibilities

Prof Denise Green ’07, fiber science and apparel design, plans to use Chai’s experience in her classes this fall, Chai said

In keeping with her thesis, Chai said that the only way to make progress is to continue to view each other as equals despite appearance, clothing or difference

“This topic transcends all of our social identities,” Chai told her audience, “and taps right into the heart of who we are ”

Rowers Redefne Team Culture, Embody ‘Grit’

By RAPHY GENDLER

Sun Assistant Sports Ed tor

Women’s rowing interim head coach Barney Williams’ crew has closed the gap on each of its Ivy League opponents this season After a few down years, he said his program is beginning to reinvent itself as an elite squad

“It’s just moved away from what I think at one point may have been a misguided [idea] that Cornell’s great because they have free chocolate milk,” he said

‘Push, decide, respect’

Williams, a former Canadian men ’ s national team coach and 2004 Olympian, came to East Hill in the fall looking to grow personally He became interim coach after

Liz Dennison stepped into an associate director role

In taking on a new challenge, Williams has also seen a team culture reimagined

“I came here to become the best version of myself, to grow, ” Williams said “I almost described to people as coming here to reinvent myself having had a significant tenure at the national [level] ”

Assistant coaches Paula Thoms, the team ’ s director of development, and Steph Chivers, the recruitment director, said the team is a place where athletes seek the “best version of themselves ”

When he arrived at Cornell on August 22 the same day his athletes came to campus Williams spent a week obser ving the team environment before jumping in and making any changes He soon realized his philosophy

aligned perfectly with his athletes’

Prior to the season, the athletes developed a team charter designed to guide and develop a team identity It boiled down to three words: push, decide, respect

“I was, through the [first] week, preparing my opening remarks, and just thinking about my opportunity to share some of my perspectives and most importantly tr y to create a real sense of excitement for this season, ” Williams said “And I went through my opening remarks after, and I realized how many times I used the words push, decide and respect So it really almost felt like a match made in heaven ”

And Cornell women ’ s rowing has seen results the Red has closed the time gaps on each of its Ivy League foes and benefitted from having its developmental period coincide with a time of change in the powerhouse conference Dartmouth and Columbia also have new head coaches this season, and the Ivy League is as competitive as ever there are five Ivy teams in the national top-20

“ We feel we had the most opportunity to grow of any program out there because there was this perception out there that maybe we weren ’ t competitive,” Williams said “So I feel like half the battle was just getting that mindset of wanting to compete and wanting to push ”

Freshman Madeline Franck, a member of the V8+ crew, said the successful team dynamic has been built on trust Williams trusts his athletes, allowing them to trust him

“It’s just gaining confidence on the water and gaining confidence and trust in each of the boats and just really not being afraid to red line the piece,” Franck said “Just go all out and not hold anything back, put it out there and trust the training we ’ ve done ”

Thoms said the charter has shaped the team ’ s success “ Those three words [from the] end of August, beginning of September have defined our team culture in ever ything they do and say in and out of the boathouse,” Thoms said “And to have those core values all together have really transformed the culture ”

‘Crunchy granola feel’

The type of recruiting Cornell women ’ s rowing has done has changed in recent years as the squad looks to get back on the national radar Williams said high school recruits help the current team

Despite Series Win, C.U. Eliminated From Playoff Race

By MILES HENSHAW

Staff Writer

Cornell fought hard in Providence, Rhode Island, this weekend, but a split in Saturday’s doubleheader ensured that the Red would not be competing in the Ivy League playoffs

The Red surmounted an early six-run Brown lead to win Saturday’s first game, 10-7, in 10 innings only to fall short in the second The Red tied game two on a ninth inning grand slam from freshman Kalani Matton, but surrendered an unearned run in the bottom of the inning to fall by one, 7-6

keep Cornell’s chances alive

Cornell head coach Dan Pepicelli knew that despite the need for help, Cornell’s fate depended on playing good baseball

“To be honest,” he said last week after a series win over Harvard, “this whole thing has been about us If we play well, we ’ re pretty good If we don’t play up to our standard, anyone in this conference can beat us ”

Things looked grim for Cornell to start Saturday’s first game They surrendered six runs in the first two frames Cornell put two runs on the board in the third with a home run from senior Kyle Gallagher, setting the pace for a strong offensive day

Senior Dale Wickham doubled to bring in a run in the fifth before junior Will Simoneit homered to make the score 7-5 The Red tacked on two more runs in the late frames to tie the game going into the ninth The Red then batted around in the 10th to score three and take a secure 10-7 lead

doubling his RBI count for the season and tying the game, 6-6

The Red lost the game on a throwing error from second base that allowed the winning run to score from second with two outs The loss eliminated the Red from playoff contention

Cornell had high hopes coming into the season, but never got over a cold start

“We thought we had a good team com-

ing into the year and we just really had a tough start, ” Pepicelli said “It’s such a short season that if you have a tough start it can jump on you really quick ” In game three, Sunday’s inconsequential rubber match, Cornell got off to a quick 20 lead, getting baserunners on with ease in the early frames Senior pitcher Tommy

Under the Ivy League’s new playoff format, the top two teams in the league face

o f f i n t h e Iv y L e a g u e c h a m p i o n s h i p Cornell (13-20-1, 8-10 Ivy) entered the weekend in the middle of the pack with an outside chance at second place

If Cornell were to take two of three against Brown (11-26, 6-15), Princeton would have had to sweep Dartmouth this weekend However, Princeton lost both games Saturday and a third Sunday Even if C o r n e l l h a d s we p t Brow n , Pr i n c e t o n would have had to win at least one game to

The Red’s bullpen shined in game one sophomore Jeb Bemiss tossed three scoreless innings, ceding just one

Be a r b a s e r u n n e r So p h o m o re A n d re w Ellison pitched a perfect 10th inning for the save

Cornell’s offense stalled in game two until late The Red entered the ninth inning down 6-2 Senior Trey Baur got things started with a ground-rule double A hit-by-pitch and catcher’s interference call that Pepicelli seemed to talk the umpires into loaded the bases Freshman pinch hitter Kalani Matton smoked a grand-slam,

‘This

NEW YORK After a long seven-year drought, Cornell men ’ s lacrosse has reclaimed the throne as Ivy League champions

Throughout the 2018 season, the Red continued to surprise and show that no challenge was too difficult for the group Today, Cornell did it again Not even the nation’s best team No 1 Yale was too big a challenge for the Cornell squad as they sent the Bulldogs packing, 14-8

“ We competed in ever y facet,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “ We knew that there was a lot of uphill battles in the game today, we just needed to come out and compete I thought we did a good job of that ”

In the early going of the championship game, the lead continued to change hands between Cornell (12-4, 6-2 Ivy) and Yale (13-3, 7-1 Ivy) Neither team was able to grab a substantial lead and the Red entered halftime up a goal, 6-5

“ We struggled through some bad clears, we struggled through some turnovers, ” Milliman said “Guys just really rallied and stayed positive and stayed supportive and did an awesome job ”

But the underdogs wouldn’t have entered halftime close to Yale, let alone ahead, if not for the performance senior goaltender Christian Knight

After a stellar per-

Br ow n , Knight stood on h i

a d a g a i n Sunday, recording 16 saves on the day Knight’s 35 combined saves over the weekend’s two games set an Ivy League tournament record

“ This is one of the happiest moments of my life,” Knight said “It’s a really special thing to accomplish with a really special team We set our minds on an Ivy League championship, a tournament championship, during the fall And this is what we ’ ve worked [toward] since the beginning ”

For its part, the Cornell defense was outstanding in front of Knight Assistant coach and defensive coordinator Jordan Stevens ’15 was the architect as the Red gameplanned to shut down a high-powered Yale offense “ This ranks up there with the top couple of defensive games we ’ ve played this year, ” Milliman said “ When you can give [Knight] an opportunity to see the ball and know where the shots are going to come from, it’s a lot different of a look ”

Perhaps the biggest defensive adjustment that came in the game was Cornell’s approach to Yale’s standout attackman Ben Reeves, the reigning Ivy League player of the year In the first half, Reeves scored four of Yale’s five goals and had the Bulldogs still ver y much in the game at the

By DYLAN McDEVITT

Sports Editor

break In the game ’ s final 30 minutes, however, Reeves scored just one goal as Cornell pulled away for the win “[ We made] subtle changes tr ying to pressure him a little bit when he was adjacent to the ball,” Milliman said “Just make it harder for him to get the ball deny him a few possessions ”

One of the most electric moments of the game came at the 14:24 mark of the fourth quarter, when senior defensive Jake Pulver scooped up a ground ball at Cornell’s own restraining line, took a few steps for ward and fired the ball from more than midfield into an empty Yale net

“I knew he was throwing it into the net, ” sophomore

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