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Gannett Health Ser vices’ $55 million dollar expansion project, which will more than double the space available for health ser vices from 25,000 square feet to 52,000 square feet, is on track for its scheduled fall 2017 completion, according to Nianne VanFleet, associate director of operations at Gannett

Construction work over the summer reinforced the current Gannett building’s foundation and excavated the expansion’s basement Currently, workers are building the second of two stair well towers before beginning work on the addition’s structural skeleton, according to VanFleet

“ The project involves two separate phases: a large addition to the back of the current Gannett facility, which will be completed next summer, and then a full

renovation of the current Gannett building,” he said

The project began after Gannett was pressured to accommodate the needs of a growing student body, an increase in the overall number of visits to Gannett to over 80,000 per year and a nearly three-fold increase in the n

Ser vices since 1996, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett

A six-stor y office and classroom building on the 200 block of Dryden Road in Collegetown will house the Johnson Graduate School of Management ’ s executive MBA programs after its 2017 completion

“Locating this new building in Collegetown [will] enabl[e] the continued growth of the Executive Education

MBA programs and other business education programming at Johnson,” said Soumitra Dutta, dean of the Johnson School

According to Dutta, the new executive education center will contain classrooms, meeting rooms, offices, multiple auditoriums and a large atrium The facilities will service two programs Cornell Executive MBA Metro New York and

“Expanding the health center has been a University priority since 2005, when an independent study showed what we already knew from experience that our current facility is severely undersized to ser ve Cornell’s growing student population,” Dittman said Original plans dating from 2007 called for the demo-

Cornell Names Inclusion Dean

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C.U. Breaks Fundraising Records in ’15

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

Cornell raised more than $670 million in the 2015 fiscal year, breaking previous participation and monetar y records, the University announced Thursday

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The Ithaca campus received approximately $441 million in cash donations a record-breaking figure and saw contributions from a total of 55,717 “individuals, corporations and foundations,” the largest number of donors Cornell has seen to date, according to a University press release

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helped the Cornell Now campaign achieve a total of approximately $6 billion, according to the release The campaign, which started in 2006 and will conclude this December, raises funds for Cornell’s Ithaca campus, Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medical College

President Elizabeth Garrett said she was “inspired” by the generosity of Cornellians in light of the University’s sesquicentennial year “ They have my gratitude and appreciation for their confidence in Cornell, and I look for ward to char ting the next chapter of Cornell’s extraordinar y histor y with their

“Philanthropic gifts play a crucial role in our ability to advance and excel in teaching, research, scholarship, ser vice and creative activity ”

The areas that will benefit from this year ’ s donations include financial aid for undergraduates, graduate fellowships and professional school scholarships, faculty and program support as well as new facilities and upgrades, according to the University

The University’s first Giving Day, held in March, helped “ attract a significant number of first-time donors” to Cornell, according to

the release Approximately 9,680 gifts were given and nearly $7 million was raised during the 24-hour period

Notable gifts made to Cornell’s Ithaca campus this year include a $50 million gift from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust which helped the University establish the Engaged Cornell public ser vice initiative and a $50 million gift from Nancy ’62 and Peter Meinig ’61 to name the new School of Biomedical Engineering

Students Create New Online Marketplace

By TOM SCHREFFLER Sun Staff Writer

CampusExposure, a studentdesigned, Craigslist-like marketplace for students to buy and sell items, launched Aug 21

Once they become members of the site, students can send messages to people who have posted ads They can also post ads for items they want to sell

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the ne w online market, according to co-founders Evan King ’17 and Corey Dean ’17

The website’s users can expect to find ads selling an assor tment of items, from textbooks and home appliances to apar tment sublets, according to King and Dean Just in its first week, the site has featured ads for a set of lab goggles, an iPhone and a car King and Dean, both in the

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CampusExposure during winter break of last year, outside of their regular course work They repor ted that there have been

over 15,000 page vie ws and over 300 ads posted since its launch last week The site has hosted an average of 20 sales a day “ We so far have received overw h e l m i n g l y p o s i t i v e s u p p o r t from current students, alumni, and faculty,” King said “ Things are selling off of the site at a rapid pace, much quicker than we had expected ”

Warren Hall Receives LEED Certi cation

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor

After three years and $51 m i l l i o n o f re n ova t i o n ,

Warren Hall has become the first Cornell renovation to be

c e r t i f i e d L E E D Pl a t i n u m , the highest level of certification offered by U S Green

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The 80 year-old building completed its refurbishment process earlier this year It now features “salvaged stone flooring, energy efficiency, corridors of daylight, natural ventilation and even gardens in the sky,” according to a University press release

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“ The project team goal from the start was to deliver a modern building with a zero increase in the energy use They accomplished this task by making some brave decisions,” said Kozlowski in the release

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trickle ventilation into exterior windows, decoupled heating and cooling from the ventilation system, insulated and repaired the building’s exterior, and found ways to bring sunlight deep into the interior

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lition of the current Gannett building and the construction of a completely new building totaling 120,000 square feet and costing $133 million, according to the project’s website

“Plans for a new facility were tabled in 2009 due to the financial crisis The current building design a renovation of the Gannett facility with a new addition is less than half of the cost of the original design,” Dittman said

The renovated Gannett will have many benefits for students, including “up-to-date and accessible facilities that meet the most current health care standards,” according to Dittman

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“We’ll have an appropriate number of exam rooms for the size and needs of our population, more private clinician offices and larger check-in and waiting areas to improve privacy and comfort,” she added

The most “intensive” construction on the project was scheduled for this summer, in order to reduce the disruption to students, according to VanFleet

“During periods when we expected noise and vibration from pile-driving, we moved some office spaces around so clinicians and counselors could meet with patients in quieter parts of the building,” VanFleet said

Vanfleet also called the initial construction “ a lot less disruptive than we feared ” Julie Glanville, h

agreed, saying Gannett has receives “ ver y little” negative feedback from students who continued to use Gannett during the construction, although a few have found the change in patient parking “inconvenient,” she said

“Patient parking is very limited during construction, and is temporarily located diagonally across the street in front of Carpenter Hall,” Glanville said “We still have two accessible parking spots and a drop-off area, right at the building’s entrance facing Campus Road ”

Glanville added that the lack of use of the online feedback tool was additional evidence that the construction has not been disruptive

“So far we ’ ve only gotten one comment submitted through the feedback form to tell us we had a misspelling on the website, which we promptly fixed,” Glanville said

Construction work has also affected traffic around the site, forcing pedestrians to walk on the southern side of Campus Road and slowing traffic “ a bit” for cars travelling below the intersection of College Avenue and Campus Road, according to VanFleet

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

The first ten frames alone of Max Mad: Fury Road are enough to send tingles down the spine The guttural “ vrooms ” of apocalyptic engines matched to the Warner Bros logo is the first example of how every shot in this movie is composed to within an inch of its life Indeed, as the shots keep on rolling, you begin to discover you could watch any one of them forever, dissect it and study it as a piece of artwork

all its own Director George Miller generously provides us with around 2,700 of them within Fur y Road’ s mind-blowing two hours

The sum total begins to emerge as a gleeful, glorious, gorefest comic book come to life, but one with shocking heart and humanity at its center

steals the show from Max in an Oscar-worthy performance Theron becomes an emotional point for the audience to latch onto amidst all the maelstrom of madness and cacophony that surrounds her and Hardy She’s the reason why the film works the simple, strong, beating heart of Furiosa is the eye of the storm which gives all the action a palpable weight Because of her, we care about the characters in peril

Those characters include the Wives, a badass group of escapees from the citadel of the dastardly scabrous Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)

Fur y Road stars Tom Hardy as “Mad” Max Rockatansky, taking over from Mel Gibson after the Aussie-American star of Miller’s original trilogy hit career trouble As far as Hardy’s Max goes, there’s almost no need for comparison This Max is a Max all his own, much in the same way that Daniel Craig reinvented Bond in Casino Royale Hardy mumbles and grunts his way through the first half of the movie, wearing a skeleton-grille iron muzzle over his face, so that by time you ’ re into it, you forget he’s actually playing the franchise character He’s got just enough depth to keep us satisfied, but the real three dimensional character in this story belongs to a femme fatale

Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa, the half warrior princess, half Harriet Tubman of the post-apocalyptic age,

IThey are the only characters in Joe’s dominion who are not missing any teeth or appendages, they stride in flowing white robes like Greek goddesses, and because of their beauty, they serve as Joe’s breeding stock

The film keeps the plot very simple: Furiosa arranges to shuttle the wives (Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Rosie HuntingtonWheatley, Abbey Lee and Courtney Eaton) out of the citadel in her war-rig, but is soon found out Joe dispatches his army of War Boys in pursuit (shaved-head albinos who spray their faces with chrome and dream of dying and going to Valhalla), amongst them Nux (Nicholas Hoult), who later becomes a critical character

After being captured by Joe’s infantry and making an escape of his own, Max runs afoul of Furiosa at first, but then the two see they are on common ground and join forces Max is to help Furiosa get the wives to the Green Place, where Furiosa was born and kidnapped from The film wears its feminist themes proudly throughout each gobsmacking action sequence and riveting, earth-shattering explosion

And what action! The movie moves very logically from point A to point B, and then reverses directly back to point A

during the final third of the film This makes the film, geographically, easy to chart It’s a two hour chase with non-stop thrills, spills and chills Occasionally, with a few moments spared for a heartfelt moment or two, between Furiosa and Max or between the wives and one of the supercool elderly motorbike women they encounter; but only a moment

The real star of the movie is the warped, twisted, deliriously demented vision of Miller, who choreographs every action sequence with such breathtaking precision that the hands of the audience members flew over their faces repeatedly during the screening of the film I attended This baby has to be seen loud and huge, on the biggest, clearest screen possible, with an immersive, stereoscopic sound system

Miller, a filmmaker with as diverse filmography including Babe, Happy Feet, Lorenzo’s Oil as well as the original Mad Max trilogy, reveals an untapped potential for action filmmaking hitherto unseen in the franchize or, for that matter, ever seen before This is the purest quicksilver filmmaking you ’ ve ever seen, every shot expressing a direct action in expertly compressed time, shunted together and framed center-screen so that your eye follows the action without so much as a hiccup Miller shows that he’s a master, and this film is his magnum opus To name a better action movie of the past 25 years is to draw a blank The Hong Kong classics of John Woo (Hard Boiled, The Killer) are the only films that come close

Avengers: Age of Ultron is disappointing Ant-Man is meh Jurassic World delivered the goods in a serviceable way Fury Road reinvents its franchise into something so entirely original that it is standalone in its own right, and deserves full Academy consideration in all the biggest categories for its stubborn refusal to cave to the blockbuster formula

It’s a $150 million, loud, balls-out, entertaining-as-hell art film by an artist at the top of his form, and it’s just the adrenaline injection we need in a summer such as this To quote Nux as he rides into a whirlwind of mammoth tornadoes and multiple lightning strikes, “Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!”

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

Puppies, Elitists and Sci-Fi, Oh My

have always felt a suspect aura around award shows Something strange lurks in the concept of taking passionate creators, who sacrifice time, energy and money to perfect their craft, and choosing which one is The Best Science fiction fans have watched the patina chip off their beloved Hugo award for months, revealing a hatefully divided underbelly For over fifty years, fans themselves have voted to grant the Hugo awards to sci-fi masterminds such as Philip K Dick and Octavia Butler This, however, was the year of the Puppies Well, factions of sci-fi insiders and their cohorts, working as the “Sad Puppies” and “Rabid Puppies,” who have complained that Hugo voters unfairly valued racial, sexual and gender diversity over quality writing During the nomination process, the Puppies successfully overwhelmed the ballot box to ensure that the five categories presented only Puppyendorsed candidates In response, thousands of fans bought voting memberships in order to vote “ no award” rather than honor any Puppyendorsed candidate

At the helm of the Sad Puppies stand Larr y Correia and Brad Torgersen, while Theodore “Vox Day” Beale leads the Rabid Puppies All have serious sci-fi credentials and a strong Libertarian bent All three write science fiction Torgersen is a past Hugo nominee, while Beale edits for Castalia House, a science-fiction publisher The Puppy leaders rail against what they perceive as Hugo voters ’ propensity to favor intellectual, elitist works over good ol’ action-based thrillers

Thought leaders amongst their opposition assert that Puppies truly hate to see the genre celebrate works that feature non-male, non-gender conforming and non-white protagonists and writers Yet, as Amy Wallace notes in an August 23 Wired article, Correia and Torgersen “bristle at assertions in the blogosphere that they are racist, sexist homophobes ” The Puppies exist on the fringe of the science-fiction industry, but what exactly do people on the fringe think?

As the names suggest, a chasm in attitude exists between the Sad and Rabid Puppies At one extreme, Beale acts purely as a

troll and, as many news outlets have noted, is previously (in)famous for using his blog and twitter feed to post racist and race-baiting remarks about other authors The Sad Puppies act and think more moderately than their Rabid allies For example, Beale referred to his supporters as “390 sworn and numbered vile minions,” in a quote in Wallace’s Wired article In contrast, the Sad Puppy leadership recommended their slate of authors to nominate as a suggestion to like-minded voters, not dogma

Amy Wallace notes that Torgersen and his allies feel that they are disadvantaged by a Hugos voting base that is “snobby and exclusionary, and too often ignores books that are merely popular, by conservative writers ” Milo Yiannopoulos further expounds this view in an August 23 Breitbart post in which he summarizes the Puppies’ position as “quality and popularity over well-meaning but boring identity politics ” Yiannopoulos’ argument errs in a basic way, however: creating a false dichotomy between popularity and identity politics The wealth of sci-fi writers and readers currently discussing identity politics in their works, and fully embracing sci-fi’s command to speculate on what could be, evidences Yiannopoulos’ error Yiannopoulos succeeds, however, at noting two interesting parts of the whole debacle from a Pro-Puppies stance First, Yiannopoulos notes, “Puppies authors tend to sell a lot more books ” The discrepancy in sales, Yiannopoulos argues, proves that the elitist voters have lost touch with the rest of the sci-fi scene Yet, a fan hoping to become a Hugos voter must only buy a $50 membership in the World Science Fiction Convention This little rule allowed 5,950 people to purchased voting memberships this year, many of them fueled only by a desire to quash the Puppies, and quash the Puppies they did Or did they?

Vox Day did not think so Yiannopoulos

notes that in an email following the convention, Day trumpeted what he saw as a Puppies’ victory Day argued that the voters decision to issue no awards in Puppy-controlled categories evidenced “the extent to which science fiction has been politicized and degraded by their far left politics ” As Day pointed out, the voters denied “ an influential editor like Toni Weisskopf or science fiction grandmaster John C Wright” Hugo awards in order to spite the Puppies No matter who won or lost the ideological struggle, a number of great creators did not receive a Hugo due to Puppy support or, like writer Annie Bellet, pulled their named out to distance their unwanted endorsers

Perhaps the standoff fittingly went down in a science-fiction arena, a place familiar with epic battles, faceless armies and struggles between good and evil Yet, to come full-circle, this year ’ s Hugos epitomize what has always bothered me about award shows Creators can work for years on their project and a rapid political development, totally out of their control, may still keep them from the award they deserve

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

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David Russell | Barely Legal

The Post-Close Partner

Oneday at my summer legal internship, a fellow intern let’s call him Hank and I were sitting in his office talking about job interviews and killing time After venting about our job search anxiety for a while, I eventually said, “You know what, Hank? This is ridiculous These firms should be making me partner, pronto You don’t let this handshake go to waste doing actual legal work You set it free to go out and do what it was born to do close handshake deals ” Hank was blown away “You know what, David? You’re right You’re a goddamn innovator ” And that’s when it hit me “Hank,” I said, “that’s it, dude I think I just came up with a way to leverage the power of my handshake and turn my unhealthy obsession with handshake deals into straight cash ” And that is why I created the post-close partner

I think everyone, even people who know nothing about law, has an idea of what a “closer” is Harvey Spector (of the TV show Suits) is a closer Louis Litt comes in to do all of the work and then Harvey comes in and handshakes the deal closed, once and for all Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a closer in reality In truth, teams of lawyers exhaustively work on a deal and at the end there’s a sad, anticlimactic signing ceremony And that’s where the post-close partner would come in

Deals are God’s gift to Americans prepossessed with a handshake oracle

In reality, the post-close partner epitomizes something that I think is actually lacking in corporate law: creativity.

and a love of making straight money Deals should be celebrated I’m talking “ESPN highlight reel” celebrated It’s a travesty that corporate law ever allowed the hallowed nature of the deal to sink so low It’s come to a point where the only thing that can save our deals, and our handshakes, is the post-close partner

The post-close partner ’ s only obligation in a law firm is to celebrate the deal He doesn’t practice law He doesn’t talk to clients All he does is celebrate the deal Imagine a standard deal closing, a standard boardroom, the representatives of the companies and some lawyers, completely staid At some point the representatives will sign the contract and possibly open a bottle of champagne After that, everybody goes home or maybe some of the younger lawyers go to a bar

Now, imagine a deal closing done by a post-close partner Imagine a boardroom decked out in sports memorabilia, with pictures of Patrick Ewing hitting the ball out of someone ’ s hands or a life size photo of “Macho Man” Randy Savage Maybe there’s even a picture of Theodore Roosevelt standing on top of a bear Imagine that the representatives come in, sign the contract, and shake hands All the while, imagine a partner walking through the office on his way to the boardroom, hopped up on Monster energy drinks and high-octane swagger Imagine this partner kicking open the boardroom door Maybe he has shades on, and maybe he takes said shades off “Woooo!” the post-close partner says a la Rick Flair, “Did a deal just happen in here?! Are you serious?! You cannot be serious! Tell me right now, did we just close a deal?!” At this point, the post-close partner starts to pump his fists, and maybe he high-fives the “Macho Man” Randy Savage poster “Show me where this deal happened! What a beautiful deal! We’re going to be rich, baby, rich!” Now everyone ’ s starting to get into it “Yeah,” says one of the representatives, “that deal was awesome!” Another representative starts raising his arms in triumph just as confetti falls from the ceiling and Guns N’ Roses blares over the speakers

Do I think the post-close partner is a million dollar idea? No I think this is a billion dollar idea In reality, the post-close partner epitomizes something that I actually think is lacking in corporate law: creativity The opportunity to celebrate the deal is the opportunity to make something special People love when other people make things special for them, and people are more likely to return to places that make them feel special Even though the post-close partner costs essentially no money (other than the millions his God-given talents are worth), I would be surprised if the postclose partner didn’t generate his firm repeat business “So wait, David, are you telling me that I can generate additional income from my clients with no cost besides one person ’ s salary?” I’m not only telling you that, I’m handshaking on that Now, I’m not a businessman, but that sounds like a perfect opportunity for business So, how about we close this deal the way our fathers closed deals?

You got yourself a goddamn deal (Handshake)

David Russell is a student at Cornell Law School Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun com Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester

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Paola Muñoz | Midas’ Crumbs

“Getout of my country ” First of all, “ my ” country? Okay, let us pretend for a second that your “this land is your land, this land is my land game ” didn’t start by you barging your way into someone ’ s house, essentially evicting and exterminating all residents, dismantling the very physical home structure itself, their land, and erecting your houses upon the sturdiest material you could find: bones

How do you dare call it your land? You call yourselves phoenixes, when rising from the ashes of others? If this deeply euphemized analogy of a crash course version of U S history still doesn’t sound convincingly heinous, then get this: Elementary school teachers post pictures all around their classrooms of colonizers sharing meals with indigenous folks when November comes around Thanksgiving: A time to deny the erasure of an entire civilization Wow, what a truly inspirational and generous encounter that must have been between colonizers and the colonized!

Oh and bless you, Cristóbal Colón, too (I’ll call him by his Spanish name, the name asserted by his lips as a greeting to conquest, violence, authority and erasure) Here’s a day especially just for you! And Native Americans? No holidays for you That’s ‘Murica for you, where you can have a day off from work or school to celebrate a mass land heist with your family, a party celebrating colonizers, cultural and literal genocide, slavery and rape Not to mention that these guys completely wiped out the Taino and Arawak people my indigenous ancestors in Hispaniola (present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) The Greater Antilles and Caribbean just wasn ’ t enough, correct? The Sun, all celestial bodies and continents must revolve around you

As for the U S , I’ll call you “Los Estados Unidos” because it sounds warmer the way the name used to roll off of my parents tongues like a sacred promise Unidos, like familias are in Latinx culture Los Estados Unidos, however, wasn ’ t as starspangled fabulous as my parents ’ cousins made it out to be when they bore elaborate gifts and promised stories upon their return from what appeared to be a golden, kind land They didn’t know that even before they set foot on stolen land claimed by colonizers, they weren ’ t welcome

I am the daughter of the diáspora, Dominicans dropping names and entire lives in the Atlantic in exchange for the golden dream When they came here, the diáspora busted their bones so hard their hands, feet and backs shattered from pressure, suffering arthritis and herniated discs after working three jobs for the past 30 years They need emergency eye surgery that they’re scraping pennies to pay for, or they’ve sacrificed their bodies all together to a lost lucha with cancer And when the smoke finally begins to settle in the aftermath of this apocalyptic reality, daughters leave the nest

Hijas De La Diáspora

with a guilt in their chest that perhaps they shouldn’t leave without bringing everyone else with them

Your anti-latinx, anti-immigrant rhetoric is deeply insidious “Taking your jobs,” huh? Besides the theft narrative being ironically reversed, I’m sorry that my dad still insists on driving you around, between the late hours of his 4 p m to 4 a m shift, even when your drunken whispers to your wife in the back of his cab sound something along the lines of “this stupid spic ” I’m sorry that my Tia has been taking care of your dying mothers and fathers for the past 15 years as a hospice nurse (shift, 8 a m to 5 p m ), when she can ’ t even begin to lift herself out of bed anymore

But you don’t understand what it truly means to sacrifice your youth, pride, years and physical body for another generation, so instead you poke fun at her broken English a woman that speaks more languages than you can understand What do you expect of a people using an unfamiliar tongue, with a noose of expectations strapped around their necks? You’d be choking and spitting out words, too, if a nation was wringing your life dry by the throat on the daily, while you cling to Spanish in your heart You’d be biting your tongues each and every time a good-for-nothing told you that this land is my land, and not yours and you think back to the crazy rent that you owe at the end of this month, and how many taxes you ’ ve paid in the past 30 years, and you ’ re sure that $800 a month doesn’t weigh the same to them on their backs as it does for you “You’re lazy You’re unintelligent You’re taking up too much space, but you ’ re also too invisible for me to care Just stop existing in any and all relative forms ” Our community in the South Bronx is becoming increasingly gentrified Chain stores pop up left and right, pushing my father’s rent all the way up to the top, the nest has received a Starbucks and organic smoothie upgrade You know what happens when you open up a Starbucks in a low-SES community? The rent shoots up like a caffeine high, except it never crashes My father has to stay out even later in order to sustain your caffeine fix, while he’s struggling to even see how much he’s getting scammed A family Bodega that’s been around for 20 years (as long as I’ve been alive) shut down this past summer The little diáspora corner store gone No more seeing my dad and his friends playing dominoes, in the middle of nostalgic Dominican-esque summers with bachata booming out of a caribbean stereo, drinking cool Coronas in paper bags, chilling on milk crates No more running up and down Sheridan with my sister and friends, waiting for the coquito guy to stop by, and on command of his bell, like Pavlov’s dog: “Coco, Cherry, Mango, Rainbow!” I hope I never live to see the day that my vecinos (neighbors) leave, like Doña Rosa, the sweetest Boricua

lady you’ll ever meet I’ll be damned if an organic smoothie store pushes my people away

My family has expressed: “Hija de la diáspora, my dreams have now been passed down to you, because it’s the only thing I have left to pass down We’ve given away all of mami’s clothes to your cousins in Santo Domingo (D R ’ s nickname) because ‘ni por aqui, ni por alla’ (neither here, nor there) do we possess anything else but our dreams, so you better hold tight ”

To which I respond: Papi, Mami and Tia diáspora, did you ever expect that the journey from Santiago to New York would last more than a four hour flight? That even today, your daughters are still swimming towards a destination that seems to not exist?

Because you ’ re our father, we don’t tell you certain things We turn water into land for you in our conversations, and we speak of universities that finally offer us a real casa You want a Santiago without the Santiago-ness of it You want the beauty of caribbean summer nights, without the heat A place where no matter how many Starbucks open up, we’ll still keep our family and ourselves around Diáspora, truth is: We’re drowning This doesn’t feel like home, and I’m not sure we’ll ever know what home is Maybe you remember home as the Dominican Republic between the 60s and the 80s, but as a firstgeneration American, and now as a first-generation college student, I belong neither here nor there, but in between constantly swimming Ni por aqui, ni por alla

In Junot Díaz’s book, Drown, he quotes Gustavo Pérez Firmat: “The fact that I / am writing to you / in English / already falsifies what I / wanted to tell you My subject: / how to explain to you that I / don’t belong to English / though I belong nowhere else ” Home was never a place, so don’t you worry your pretty little heads about kicking me out I never felt like I belonged to begin with Home has always been, for los hijas de la diáspora, a journey In a nomadic way, our fear of losing our home is essentially a fear of paralysis a policing of our motion It’s a fear of not being able to “ go ” not being able to peel ourselves off of our beds, not living to attend our daughter’s graduation, not being able to physically see the avenues and streets you ’ ve driven since the day you arrived in this country because once you stop swimming, you drown At the bottom of the Atlantic, drowning is the only way my family can retrieve their names That’s why they dropped their names in there for “Maria,” “Gladys” and “Juan ” They trust that the daughters of the diáspora are restless, that they will never live to see the ocean floor Palante, siempre palante

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first and foremost identify themselves with their spor ts, which causes a mental imbalance the tipping of the scales, too much pressure, too much focus on a small slice of life And if things go unexpectedly awr y, as in injur y, they may face severe backlash Dr Fenimore said athletes are more susceptible to negative emotional states due to many factors like over training and burnout

Being able to focus with a clear head is a huge factor in maintaining consistency and per forming when the pressure mounts If athletes have a healthy mind-

s e t , n o t o n l y will it impact

t h e w a y t h e y play, but it also m i g h t h e l p g r o u n d t h e m in reason

an incredible thing that remembers the way it contracts muscles instantly and recalls exactly where to place its par ts It does its best work when it is free to behave naturally

The body is an incredible thing that remembers the way it contracts muscles instantly and recalls exactly where to place its parts.

W Timothy Gallwey writes in his book The Inner Game of Tennis that all of us have two selves when we are involved in any sor t of game There is a “teller” and a “doer”, the one who gives instr uctions and evaluations and the one who per forms the actions Gallwey argues that to get “in the zone ” , one must silence the “teller” and tr ust the “doer ” The body is

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One of the myths about how to get into this “ zone ” is the notion of positive self-talk It has been commonly proven that negative self-talk is detrimental t o p e r f o r m a n c e , a l t h o u g h the results of positive selftalk are less widely understood It can be just as harmful to any player when the mind has a big ego It is best to not pass judgment to somehow know what is going on and react to it effectively without offering a positive or negative description of it A healthy detachment may assuage the athlete’s vulnerability to an extent I grew up in the figure skating world I was a competitive athlete from kindergarten until my junior year of high school I’ve seen the sport break people down; ever y year there were fewer and fewer skaters that I had started with that were still practicing Skating eventually broke me, too My coaches constantly told me I was a basket case, my head getting in the way of ever ything they were tr ying to teach me It’s sad, but sometimes the act of having dreams presents obstacles in itself We want things

Passion fights against any meditative, subdued insticts we might have and sports certainly bring out this passion.

too much and feel things too powerfully It makes us vulnerable – pawns to emotions like frustration and depression If I had been more mentally strong and if I had practiced healthier thinking habits, maybe my experiences would have turned out differently Maybe I could return to the sport with-

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y what I consider my failures I know it’s easier said than done to inhabit this “ zone ” or state of mind and change your way of thinking Passion fights against any meditative, subdued instincts we might have and spor ts cer tainly bring out this passion Excitement tells us to “break free” and use both of our selves to win the

Pressure brings out feelings in us that want to be expressed by our voices The strongest

impor tance of claiming the mental aspects of their spor

turn them off

endeavors, but their fiercest opponents are more than likely themselves

Runners to Start Season in Early September

CROSS COUNTRY Continued from page 12

only will we be aerobically fit this fall, we will have more functional

“A main improvement for this year is a focus on being stronger and more durable.”

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strength then in the past ”

Senior captain Brian Eimstad also noted the team ’ s newfound focus on strength training

“A main improvement for this year is a focus on being stronger and more durable athletes Of course we ’ re all still rather scrawny, but stronger by distance runner

standards,” he said With a strong freshman group who each boast impressive credentials, the Red is in a position to have a strong season Each player, by virtue of the fact that they run for an Ivy program, has shown great commitment and dedication to the squad already

“The best part about running for the Red is knowing that all these guys want to be on the team As Ivy League athletes, there’s no scholarship keeping them here or any other incentive besides the enjoyment of running, racing, and a great group of teammates ” Eimstad said

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bb572@cornell edu

Run Red, run | Both the men and women’s teams have spent the first couple of

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Spor ts

Men, Women Prepare

Season

Both teams utilize off-season to train individually during summer

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Contributor

m e s d i f f e re n t c h a l l e n g e s f o r t h e

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“This is a great group of freshmen and I’m confident they’ll fit in right away.”

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Envision an athlete You might conjure up images of a muscular figure in a gym, lifting weights, running drills, training his or her body to act extraordinarily upon demand A tough machine of physical prowess

Jessica Brofsky Mind Games

I’m guessing you don’t consider the figure tucked into bed, lying awake in another sleepless night, visualizing the next game the center of his or her world A trail of thoughts leading to unknown scores, steady streams of anxiety, a vulnerable shell of a person

But this latter description is just as accurate and real Sports have risk factors and challenges not encompassed by those of physical health tucked away, private, quotidian moments of an athlete’s career

Mental health is something to take very seriously in the context of athletics Dr Pia Fenimore published an article stating that for college athletes, mental health is as important

See BROFSKY page 11

a s e c o n d p l a c e f i n i s h i n l e a s t y e a r ’ s Iv y L e a g u e He p t a t h l o n “A l l t h e g u y s o n t h i s t e a m k n ow t h a t we h a ve t h e p o t e n t i a l f o r g re a t t h i n g s a n d we h a ve a l l p u t i n s o l i d s u m m e r s o f t r a i ni n g , ” s a i d s e n i o r c a p t a i n C o n n o r He r r “A l l t h e g u y s o n t h i s t e a m k n ow t h a t we h a ve t h e p o t e n t i a l f o r g re a t t h i n g s a n d we h a ve a l l p u t i n s o l i d s u m m e r s o f t r a i n i n g

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Squads Look Forward to October Start

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