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Cornell Honors 9/11 Victims

Cornell Republican group raises hundreds for county’s veterans

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

Dozens gathered on Cornell’s Arts Quad on Monday evening to pay tribute to the thousands of Americans who died in the Sept 11, 2001, attacks 16 years ago “ Through histor y there have been a lot of instances that have shaken the world and it’s in those situations that a lot of people in this countr y, regardless of their background, have come together t o c h e r i s h t h e p e o p l e a n d mourn the people that they have lost in these events, ” Steven Pierce ’20, a member of the Cornell University V

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The event

Silence | The Cornell chimes remained silent as students remembered those lost on 9/11

was organized by Cornell Republicans, who have hosted a memorial vigil ever y year since the attacks

“It is important to remember this event ever y year, especially as future students will not have any living recollection of the events of that fateful day,” said Austin McLaughlin ’18, president of Cornell Republicans

While the crowd gathered in solidarity for a solemn candlelit vigil, Cornell’s chimes remained silent between 7:30 and 8 p m

“ This historical event, when it first happened, there was a lot of hate, a lot of angst, rightfully so, but tonight, however, I saw nothing but love and that’s a beautiful thing,” Pierce said, “especially when it comes to remembering those that we have lost, the personnel that were there at the towers, the civilians, the police and firemen, the first responders, and the loss to our militar y ser vice members following that in the wars to come on terror ”

In addition to arranging the candlelit vigil in the evening, the Cornell Republicans staffed a table on the Arts Quad during the afternoon to raise money for Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ithaca, a non-profit veterans ser vice organization ser ving Tompkins County veterans

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

What many local observers predicted would be a strong challenge to Collegetown’s current representative on the County Legislature by a progressive activist half his age is now a one-man race

Reed Steberger ’13, a 27-year-old community activist, exited the race for District Four legislator on Thursday night following a report in The Sun detailing a woman ' s claim that Steberger raped her in 2010, when both were students at Cornell Steberger did not dispute the woman ’ s claim and withdrew hours after the report was published, leaving Rich John ’81, the incumbent, as the sole contender

In an interview on Monday, John said he had been preparing for a close vote on Tuesday in the Democratic primary There are no Republicans running for the District Four seat, which represents more than 7,000 people in most of Collegetown and the Ithaca Commons

think that Reed ran a really good campaign, frankly.”

“I think that Reed ran a really good campaign, frankly There was tremendous organization and I know they were going door to door and there were lots of signs,” John said, referring to Steberger, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns

“I think that the principles that were underlying Reed’s run, they're good things to strive for,” John said “We want afford-

By KATHERINE HEANEY and NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer and

Cornell students, graduates and employees have for years been an integral part of the Cayuga Heights Fire Department, an all-volunteer department ser ving Cayuga Heights, the Town of Ithaca, Cornell and other Tompkins County regions

Chief George Tamborelle said that whether students go on to become paid firefighters or let their helmet collect dust in a garage, ever y student volunteer takes their experiences with them after they graduate or leave Ithaca

Devon Savoy ’15, who has volunteered at the department since her sopho-

more year at Cornell, told The Sun that she learned a lot about firefighting and also found a community during her time at the department

Blake Berger ’15 volunteered while he was an

tions within this fire department that will stick with me for the rest of my life,” Berger said

While the Cayuga Heights department is better staffed than most departments around the county, Tamborelle still worries ever y year about having enough volunteers to handle emergencies

“Ever y department including ours is really running on the edge these days,” he said “ We are always worried about the next year and that’s why we recruit heavily twice a year ”

undergraduate and master ’ s student and now works for the university and continues to volunteer He said it gives him a “ sense of purpose and a second family ” “I have made connec-

The fall recruitment dinner will take place at the station on Sept 21 at 7 p m and Tamborelle is hoping to see a large class of Cornell students who want to make an impact in their new com-

munity

Ray Bally ’19 said that “ every call we get has its challenges,” though these challenges have provided learning experiences and

made volunteering more rewarding and enjoyable

“Challenges are both physical, such as managing the heat of a fire or climbing our 75-foot ladder, or men-

tal, such as focusing on a patient’s responses or determining the best way to stabilize a crashed car, ” Bally

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M Antoni J Ucerler, S J , “Christian Encounters With Early Modern East Asia: Lessons in Cultural Accommodation and Dialogue” 4:30 - 6 p m , 120 Physical Sciences Building

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GPSA Proposes Budget Allotting Funds to

$20,000 in spending to benefit graduate, undergraduate students without meal plans

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

Me m b e r s o f t h e Gr a d u a t e a n d Professional Student Assembly on Monday night said the group ’ s proposed plan to spend more than half of this year ’ s budget supporting Anabel’s Grocer y is an expense that will give the group oversight of the new grocer y store and will provide an important ser vice to Cornell students

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GPSA voted in 2016 to fund Anabel’s a student-run organization that aims to address Cornell’s food insecurity for a maximum of four years This year, GPSA proposed spending $20,000 on the store, which would be 55 4 percent of GPSA’s 2017-18 budget

give, so we wanted to make sure that we retained the ability, if things went really sour, that the Assembly as a whole could decide to re-negotiate that ”

While the cost may seem large, McCann said he hopes educating graduate and professional students on Anabel’s relationship with the graduate students will alleviate concerns

“I think when people see the $20,000, that’s a big shock,” he said But McCann said that having Kerr y Mullins ’18, co-director of Anabel’s at the meeting on Monday night and speaking about the relat i o n s h i p b e t w e e n A n a b e l’s a n d G P S A reduced members’ concerns

“We wanted to make sure that we retained the ability, if things went really sour, that the Assembly ... could decide to re-negotiate that.”

“Some of the idea of funding them through our internal budget was to provide us the ability to provide greater oversight,” said Tyler McCann, grad, the appropriations chair “It’s not an insignificant amount of money that the GPSA decided to

Ithaca Parks to Adopt New Logo

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

New York City’s 1,700 parks have placards with the classic circled leaf The 180 New York State parks have rustic brown signs with yellow lettering What design represents the City of Ithaca’s 22 parks? Right now, there isn’t one

But the city is one step closer to establishing a parks logo of its own with the help of its c i t y f o re

Commission and a couple of Ithaca College students

The Board of Public Works on Monday afternoon approved a proposed logo for the City of Ithaca Parks, sending the design to Common Council for final approval on Oct 4

Mullins said that “graduate students have a lot to gain from utilizing Anabel’s,” noting that graduate students often live off of campus and do not have meal plans and can stand to benefit from the cheap, healthy food that she said the store offers

The GPSA’s next-highest expense in the 2017-18 budget, which was proposed on Monday night for discussion, is categorized as administrative costs and runs to $6,000 out of the group ’ s $36,100 budget for this academic year

The meeting also included a report on a new initiative promoting a different GPSAfunded organization each week This week’s

International Student Union, said Arianna

“Graduate students have a lot to gain from utilizing Anabel’s ”

Maria Gagnon, grad, vice president of communications for GPSA G P S A’s

President Donald Trump’s recent decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, said Alex Loiben, grad, vice president of operations and staffing

“ There’s a lot of things happening right now, both on campus and in the political climate, that I think it makes sense for the

address as a whole,” he said

“ The most obvious thing, recently, would be DACA and how it affects students, how we can protect the students that are affected, and ways that we can encourage the administration to put action to the words that they’ve said ”

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun com

The logo, which was jointly designed by Emily Delnicki ’18 and Brett Levine ’19, two Ithaca College students, shows the leaf of a bur oak, which is a tree that is native to the Ithaca area and “is also tolerant of a wide range of conditions, even urban environments, ” said Ellen Leventry ’95, the chair of the Parks Commission

Three bur oak trees provide shade for pic-

nic tables outside of City Hall, next to the Gre

Forester Jeanne Grace ’10 is hoping a unified logo will let people know that some of Ithaca’s more obscure parks are open to the public “A logo is something I’d wanted for a long

Challenger Withdraws, Leaves Sole

Contender for C-Town County Seat

we want ”

able housing, we want good wages for people It was really good to have the discussion about those issues and we ’ re going to have to continue to talk about them ”

John noted that District Four, with a large population of Cornell students, has historically low voter turnout figures, and said he is not taking Tuesday’s vote for granted Steberger will still appear on the ballot on the Working Families Party line, despite the party ’ s rescinding of its endorsement

“Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in New York to remove the candidate’s name from the ballot,” said Jesse Lenney, Upstate New York political director for the Working Families Party “Despite Reed’s name appearing on the Working Families ballot line, the candidate no longer has our endorsement ”

John was cautious, warning that he “could still lose this election ”

“I don’t want to leave the impression with anyone that this is a done deal,” he said

Public health and public safety, John said, are inseparable issues that must be looked at together Reducing recidivism and keeping the Tompkins County Jail population low are important projects, he said

“People coming out of jail just want to be left alone just like anybody else,” he said “They don’t want to be told what to do We have to really establish trust and make it easy for these people to get on new pathways ”

Another project important to John is the former Tompkins Trust Company building near the Bernie Milton pavilion on the Ithaca Commons The building, which the county is in the process of purchasing, John said, will hold the History Center, a visitor center and several other non-profit agencies

Steberger, in an interview with The Sun in May, criticized John for not referencing mass incarceration in the Jail Study Committee meetings John, on Monday, said he and other members of the committee are cognizant of “how all the issues of poverty and race relate to mass incarceration ”

“I don’t want to leave the impression with anyone that this is a done deal ”

John, who has served on the Tompkins County Legislature since 2015 when he defeated Elie Kirshner ’18, said running against Steberger had forced him to think hard about what is most important in the community and how to best solve its problems

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“I don’t see Tompkins County as a community as that is emphasizing jail as a solution,” John said, adding that the county incarcerates people at about a third the rate of the national average

“There’s a ton of stuff to do,” John said, listing his priorities, which largely center on his roles as chair of the Public Safety and Jail Study committees

“We don’t have a dedicated detox facility in Tompkins County,” John said “In effect, we ' re using our jail as a detox facility, and that's not what

“I want to say that Tompkins County is different, ” he said The vote for the Democratic nomination is Tuesday and the ultimate vote will take place on Nov 7

Volunteering at Local Department Is ‘Unique Experience’ for Cornellians

said “Learning to manage and address these challenges is what this work is about ”

Most of the difficulties of his job come not during emergencies but after, he said

“It's essential to revie w my actions, to recognize my successes, but more impor tantly, areas in which I could have been better,” he said While the work that the volunteers do is often in high-stress environments and may seem daunting, ne w volunteers are not expected to have prior experience in firefighting or emergency response

“All that is required of a person is that you show up with a positive attitude, a willingness to learn and take instr uction and ready to take pride in your work,” Bally said

Because so many volunteers are students, the program is designed with flexibility for students, who may be concerned with the time commitment “It is challenging to balance both, but doable,” Berger said

Savoy said volunteering for the depar tment has helped her learn about Ithaca and meet people who are passionate about the same things she is

“I was having a hard time finding other students who were interested in similar activities,” Savoy said “I had always been interested in physically challenging spor ts, and firefighting seemed like another great challenge ”

“As a female, I was intimidated at first, but the community at Cayuga Heights really helped me transition to living here in Ithaca,” she added

“ This fire depar tment provides a unique experience for Cornell students,” Berger said “ Within a year, we can take someone with zero prior experience and train them to exceptional standards where they can enter a burning building We impact our community on a daily basis, tr ying to change lives for the better ”

Tamborelle, the chief, met his wife at the fire station when she was a Cornell student, and his four children now play with him and the other firefighters at the station

Some student volunteers have gone on to work as paid firefighters at the Ne w York City Fire Depar tment, in Los Angeles and in Washington, D C Others, he said, hang their helmets in their offices or pull them out of boxes in their attics to show their children

Regardless, Tamborelle said, “that experience becomes a par t of their lives ”

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A Case for Nicotine Use

Cornell can be a lot of work Hard pressed to make more out of finite waking hours, we use all means available to boost productivity That can be good study practices, an exercise routine, or neurochemical enhancement, the latter being especially seductive for its magic-like effortlessness Sadly, there are few effective substances one can safely use, and when coffee fails to deliver, some choose to go to sleep, and others resort to not-so-safe amphetamines But what about nicotine?

The recurrent tale of mainstrea science going awry when pres well-meaning politicians alway the same way: sooner or later the scientists come to their skeptic senses and head back into the lab

ally refers to are smoking studies But drawing conclusions about nicotine from smoking studies is like measuring the effects of lemon juice by administering participants rounds of Long Island iced teas!

The recurrent tale of mainstream science going awry when pressed by well-meaning politicians always ends the same way: sooner or later the scientists come to their skeptic senses and head back into the lab With nicotine, this seems to have happened in the recent couple of decades, during which a number of experiments on administering pure nicotine to humans and animals took place I won ’ t belabor you with the details here, but exemplary is the 2016 Royal College of Physicians report concluding that “nicotine alone in the doses used by smokers represents little if any hazard to the user ” Nicotine has even been touted as a potential antidepressant and as a treatment to prevent Alzheimer’s Still, its infamous legacy lives on

First things first Just as any brochure on the subject will promise you, smoking is addictive and packed with health risks But what public education gets wrong is that nicotine is to blame: this mild and relatively safe substance is like an innocent pedestrian who got framed for murder for being at the wrong place at the wrong time

The year was 1988, and the anti-smoking campaign was at its climax The problem was, even though it was clear cigarettes were addictive, no one really knew why, and for a good reason: tobacco smoke is a complicated mix of tar, carbon dioxide and an uncountable list of toxins Pressured to find a culprit, scientists squinted at their numbers and proclaimed nicotine guilty Now, whenever you see a statement like, “nicotine is as addictive as heroine and increases the likelihood of a heart attack 10-fold,” what the statistic actu-

By now I have hopefully planted some doubt about whether nicotine received a fair trial But beware Don't trust the amateur that I am Research the matter yourself before taking action

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You can order nicotine gum on Amazon or buy it in a nearby pharmacy Marketed for quitting smoking, it works just as well for our purposes of cognitive boosting At the price of $0 20 per dose (1-2 mg should be enough for a nonsmoker), it’s probably the best value cognitive commodity on the market After chewing it for a minute you will feel alert, energetic and ready to rumble To be more precise, you start to move and react faster, remember more, you gain approximately one IQ point; sleep becomes less essential for performance; finally, although not as importantly, your handwriting improves (the things those scientists chose to measure) In contrast to coffee, there is no slump or withdrawal: your performance simply returns to the baseline when you stop taking the substance, but never below it

Dan Meyer ’87 | Guest Room

Wow Sarah Lieberman’s ’19 column on August 30 was a thunderclap Cornell Alumni across

t h e g l o b e f o r w a rd e d t h e l i n k M s Lieberman fires Rush 2018 starter gun by s e n d i n g o u t a n a d v e r t i s e m e n t t o t h e Cornellians interested in joining our frat e r n i t i e s L a b e l l i n g f r a t e r n i t y m e m b e r s with such stereotypes is as inaccurate and inappropriate as the claims that Cornell women are judged by fraternities rather than other Cornellians If Cornell’s Class of 2021 assesses rush opportunities simply by the content of Ms Leiberman’s column, that would be a terrible disser vice Cornell’s institutional philosopher, the soft-spoken Prof Carl Becker, histor y, wrote The Cornell Tradition: Freedom and Responsibility in October 1940 It was Carl who stated for the Class of 2021, “I came to Cornell, prepared to do as I pleased, wondering what the catch was ” Indeed, the catch In 2012, I was asked to volunteer as p r e s i d e n t o f t h e C o r n e l l Un i v e r s i t y A l u m n i In t e r f r a t e r n i t y C o u n c i l i n t h e wake of Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother

G e o r g e D e s d u n e s ’ d e a t h i n Fe b r u a r y 2011 I accepted the volunteer challenge understanding that it is rarely our institutions which fail It is we who fail That is why Sarah Lieberman’s column correctly calls for reform, rather than extermination But how do you reform an individual? That’s the catch CUAIFC has 42 member presidents, representing Cornell Alumni of 42 of the 72 Houses that either exist, or existed, on the Hill since 1868 Our members understand the value of free speech and free association within the Cornell community The question, therefore, since the fall of

1868: what bounds do we place on speech and association at Cornell? In order to do justice, how much liberty must we crush?

The Cornell community is not a Care Bear den prolonging one ’ s adolescence As a Cornell undergraduate, one is not finishing the last four years of adolescence The freshman is starting the first four years of the rest of her or his life As we use speech and association to define who we are, there will be offense taken The critical Cornell question since April 19, 1969 has been: what bounds exist on our speech and association to make the Hill an empowering i n s t i t u t i o n , c a p a b l e o f l i f t i n g a l l

Cornellians to greater achievement?

Phi Kappa Psi was to me, in 1984, a haven Our ‘house’ is a lifetime commitment Someday, the last of my pledge brothers will lift a glass to all departed, remembering many years of Cornell life I sat with a ’20s brother doing just that when I was a sophomore A pledge brother paid for my heating when I was unemployed during the winter of 1999-2000 Another brother, for whom I was Pledge Master, carried me through law school as I suffered from PTSD following Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm When 47 of my fellow sailors gave their lives for you, gentle reader, in 1989 on board the battleship USS Iowa, four of my fraternity brothers made sure I was not the 48th victim These examples are not from my undergraduate years It would take a librar y to record our brotherly love and adventures over those crazed and madcap years, 1983 to 1987 For us, Phi Psi reduced the 20,000 Cornell community to a manageable 90 And the 1200 of us

t o t a l , d r a w n f ro m a c ro s s 7 0 ye a r s o f Cornell classes, live, work and communi-

Nicotine is short-lived, the effect from a single dose lasting somewhere from 30 to 60 minutes, and I find that to be a welcome feature The hardest part about getting things done is getting started, and writing this column was no exception to this I don’t really need to be wired in the whole time; moreover, excessive energy can be harmful for clear thought and writing (the prime example of this being Stephen King's cocaine years) But I sure could use a gentle kick in the bottom at the start, something that would get me past staring at the ominously blinking cursor Nicotine does just that, and then it lets go of you

Here’s another reason why short half-life is a darling You’ve probably heard of Pavlov’s dog: back in the 1800s, my compatriot used food as a repeated reward to develop conditioned reflexes in dogs Well, his theory applies to humans just as well, and instant rewards can be used for efficient habit formation The only problem is we humans are so used to our food it barely registers as a reward anymore Enter nicotine

Say you want to start running, but getting yourself out of the bed for the first couple of weeks is beyond your willpower, so five minutes prior to the workout you chew some gum The accompanying energy makes it easier to put on the Nikes and start moving, and your inner brain correlates the workout with the neurochemical reward of nicotine and makes the activity easier to commence the next day by circumefusing your brain with dopamine After a couple of weeks the habit is formed and the chemical crutches can be tossed aside Voila!

All substances are flawed and so is this one The main problem is similar to caffeine: if you use it daily you will develop tolerance and ramping up the dose can only go so far The other important detail is that there is still very little research on long term effects of nicotine use in isolation, primarily because nobody besides ex-smokers ever uses it

Finally, remember that using stimulants is the lazy way out and by no means a requirement for academic success

Now go chew on that

Ar tur Gorokh is a graduate student studying applied mathematics at Cor nell University He can be reached at ag2282@cor nell edu Radically Moderate appears alter nate Tuesdays this semester

Cornell Freshmen, Rush!

cate with each other, ever y day still The undergraduate Chapter has disappointed us once or twice in 30 years But we house alumni simply took those moments as an opportunity to volunteer, as Cornellians, to lift up our younger brothers Sarah, all the ills you identify exist to some degree in our Cornell houses They a r e a l s o i n t e a m s , c l a s s r o o m s , c l u b s , dorms, apartments and associations across the campus They are in Day Hall and the Cornell shops They are not a product of a n i n s t i t u t i o n T h e y e x i s t w i t h i n t h e Cornell classes arriving ever y fall and in the employees the Un i v e r s i t y h i r e s C a r l B e c k e r ’ s ‘ c a t c h’ i s t o t a k e responsibility for your role in the Cornell community, and seek the rational and humane in our midst

For the freshmen carr ying ill-manners to us, two sortings occur ever y autumn The first round of prelims take the highest 10 percenters and violently scatter them over an entire cur ve It is educational violence, soulbreaking We all went through it So will the Class of 2021 It is Cornell’s collective “Hell Week ” Someone will be bottom 10 percent She or he could also be 2017’s billion-dollar Cornell donor Second, that first sortings’ veterans then have to find sophomore housing Again, the institutional paddles come out If we are not careful, the wounded from the first sorting will derive the wrong lesson, and chose to form “wolf-packs” during the second sorting Yes, Ms Lieberman, in a community of 20,000 we form packs for a reason: Cornell sur vival These sortings can release an individual’s bigotr y; when our identi-

ties are challenged, the worst can follow Our fraternities cannot become havens

unbruised need to rush, together after prelims, combing their talents for the collective good What our Cornell fraternity men and women need is quality of life and high community expectations This takes the Cornell freshman out of his or her first semester, tells them life goes on regardless of prelims and puts them on the path to safe, but enabling, Cornell living and

learning The advertising is trash; Cornell is not transformative It is transitional The goal is to not be subordinated and dominated All a freshman will be, is inside the freshman They just need the field to take to, in life’s crazy pursuits It is hard work helping them; CUAIFC has too few volunteers by about a dozen But if any member of the Cornell community has recommendations respectful of free speech and free association, we are glad to hear and consider adopting them And for the Cornell freshmen looking for a great next 60 years, rush and join us!

Dan Meyer graduated from Cornell s College of Arts and Sciences in 1987 He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester Artur

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY AJ STELLA Sun Contributor

Following a show in Berlin, Germany, Irish indie-rock band Two Door Cinema Club will be performing at the Ithaca State Theater Thursday, as part of their world tour Before they travel the countr y and head off to South Africa, Two Door Cinema Club will be playing in upstate New York for the first time in almost four years

Two Door Cinema Club formed in Ba n g o r a n d Do n a g h a d e e , No r t h e r n Ireland, back in 2007 The three members came together to produce and experience a new sound Ever since their first album, Tourist Histor y, was released back in 2010, people from all over the globe have been bumping their heads and tapping their

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Two Door Cinema Club falls into the indie rock genre, but their use of electronic beats along with classic guitar allows them to create a sound that distinguishes them from other rock bands The alluring mix of sounds that they put together makes for captivating and uplifting beats

BY ANDREA YANG Sun Contributor

“Maybe it’s a fact we all should face / ever yone makes judgments based on r a c e ” T h i s l y r i c , f r o m t h e m u s i c a l

Avenue Q, was one of the first things that popped into my mind as I walked out of Smar t People at the Kitchen Theatre a play that delves unreser vedly into the difficult, yet ever-so-relevant c o n v e r s a t i o n o f r a c e , p re j u d i c e a n d , most impor tantly, our fear of that conversation Written by the award-winning playwright Lydia R Diamond and directed by the talented Summer L Williams from Company One Theatre in Boston, Smar t People is wildly funny, gripping and remarkably thought-provoking at its core It dares us into the daunting task of thoroughly reevaluating ourselves and the world around us

With an innovative opening sequence involving projections of various news headlines and the voice recording of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign announcement, the play unfolds around four main characters: Brian, a white neuroscience professor at Har vard who has dedicated himself to finding a neurological explanation for racism and prejudice; Ginny, Brian’s fellow psychology professor at Har vard who studies and counsels Asian American women suffering from anxiety and depression; Jackson, Brian’s best friend, a black surgeon in residency; and Valerie, a young black actress who par ticipates in Brian’s study and later works for him as a re s e a r c h a s s i s t a n t O n e o f t h e m o s t remarkable aspects of Diamond’s writing is undoubtedly the dimension and depth that he gives to each character’s personality and narrative

Politically charged theater often falls into a pattern of reducing characters to their backstor y and the ideas their stories are supposed to convey, because balanci n g c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n , s t o r y t e l l i n g a n d thematic elements within the framework of a script turns out to be a challenging endeavor In Smar t People, however,

In one of their most famous songs, “ What You Know,” they use an assortment of instruments, such as the tambourine and synthesizers, to lay the foundation of a g

their up-tempo melodies that so easily grab the listener’s attention The band is capable of engineering music that sounds both exciting and relaxed It makes all of their fans dance, as it is almost impossible not to

Trimble hypnotizingly sings over With “ What You Know” and other hits from Two Door Cinema Club, such as “ So m e t h i n g G o

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move along to the beat Even critics must admit to the catchiness of their music

Two Door Cinema Club has established itself as a prominent band in its genre, and it has multiple features in

movies and television episodes to show for it Some of the more notable Hollywood projects that used their songs include the myster y movie Now You See Me, and the

Anatomy

The opening band for the concert is Circa Waves, another indie rock band from the UK They come from a city that has produced some of the most famous

heroes The Beatles, Circa Waves is

evolved into in the modern era, but they still produce some music that sounds similar to 60’s rock, almost as an ode to the trailblazing Beatles Circa Waves pairs nicely with Two Door Cinema Club, as they both have similar alternative sounds, but Circa Waves uses a little less of the electronic beats and focuses a little more on the drumset E

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Race

with the actors ’ nuanced, emotionally rich por trayal, a l l f o u r c h a r a c t e r s re v e a l themselves to be unique, flawed and sometimes ver y conflicted individuals who are easy to sympathize with The audience witness the characters work their way through their conflicts with

s o c i e t y, e a c h o t h e r, a n d themselves Brian str uggles

w i t h t h e c o n t r ov e r s y around his research and his turbulent relationship with Ginny, who in turn is coming to terms with her inse-

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d o m i n a t e d a c a d e m i a Ja c k s o n d e a l s w i t h b i a s against black doctors and Valerie discovers the hard-

s h i p s o f b e i n g a b l a c k actress The characters push

u s t o q u e s t i o n o u r ow n belief system and behavior

I’m inclined to believe that ever y member of the audience that night had a moment in which something they’ve never noticed about themselves suddenly dawned on them For me, as an Asian woman myself, the epiphany occurred early on, during Ginny’s first meeting with Brian When Brian star ts flir ting with her, my first thought went to “yellow fever,” which turns out to be Ginny’s i m m e d i a t e r e a c t i o n a s w e l l

C o n s e q u e n t l y, w h e n B r i a n g i v e s a n unexpected response to her question about his dating demographic, telling her that his last girlfriend was white and b l o n d , m y f e e l i n g o f e m b a r r a s s m e n t echoed Ginny’s I justified my prejudice with the fact that I’ve seen similar scenarios too many times Does this mean that prejudice is a mechanism, albeit an unwanted one, to “ protect ” us from the foreign, the unknown, the “other”? Are we inevitably biased against those different from us, even if we never intended to be?

The answer Brian tries to offer his

colleagues and students is a concrete yes He goes as far as claiming that our brains are hardwired that way, an idea that’s hard to swallow Smar t People, however, doesn’t tr y to convince its audience one way or another it simply encourages us to face the existence of bias In the second-to-last scene, pièce de résistance of the whole play, when the four characters gather at Brian and Ginny’s for dinner, the heated argument that has been building up since the beginning finally er upts Diamond’s clever, witty dialogue transforms itself into a needle and jabs us where it hur ts most The mixture of anger, fr ustration, cynicism and the desperate urge to understand coming from the characters is over whelming, yet satisfying When the monster called prejudice that’s been lurking in a dark corner all this time finally rears its ugly head, and the weight of the conversation, thinly veiled in lighthear tedness and humor in the hour before, comes crashing down upon the characters and the spectators, we become distressed and enthralled at

the same time The scene is a beautiful mess Disturbing because of the selfawareness it thr usts upon us, yet breathtaking in its intricate and multifaceted analysis of racism

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The only thing that appears to be cer tain is that this countr y, this world and humanity as a whole might always be a work in progress And that’s surprisingly comfor ting to know, especially in the current political climate Only then can we refuel our optimism, our hope for a better tomorrow It’s why we go to the theater, after all

Editor’s Note: Catch “Smart People” at t h e K i t c h e n T h e a t re C o m p a n y n o w through September 24th, before the show leaves for the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY

BY RUBY QUE Sun Contributor

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Red Upsets No. 24 Maine to Continue Undefeated Start

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

After beginning the season with three consecutive onegoal wins, Cornell field hockey’s shutout streak was ended Sunday, but upset No 24 Maine, 3-2, in Vermont on Sunday

In the game Sunday, the Red got out to an early 2-0 lead on goals by senior midfielder Sam McILwrick and junior forward Isabel Siergiej But the Black Bears did not go down without a fight

Maine came roaring back with two goals of its own, both scored by junior Samantha Wagg The two goals came within four minutes of one another

Just after halftime, the Red took advantage via a Krysten Mayers goal, and Cornell never looked back, clinging to yet another one-goal lead

The Red relied on senior goaltender Kelly Johnson, who made 10 saves in the contest Coming into this weekend, Johnson had been splitting halves with sophomore Maddie Henry, who played the entirety of the previous game against Vermont, a typical 1-0 win on Friday

Red Starts Strong, Comes Up Short in Hamilton

By JACK ROSCOE Sun Staff Writer

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“You always know when you go into halftime at two or three [to zero], the game is not over yet, ” Smith said “I was proud of our group in the second half because we kept composed emotionally and kept looking to play the ball around ” Cornell’s ability to create goals this season is improved from last year Through the first four games last year, Cornell managed just four goals That number sits at

Sophomore forward George Pedlow got things started for the Red against Lafayette with a goal assisted by freshman midfielder Harry Fuller The goal was Pedlow’s team-leading second of the season, matching the amount he scored all of last year

“I could feel the centerback behind me and Harry played a really nice ball across and I just faked left and went in front,” Pedlow said “It was just a little touch into the front pocket ” Two freshmen scored the next goals for

the Red, as midfielder Caleb McAuslan and defender Austin Evan both found the back of the net before the end of the first half Even with the newcomers, Pedlow already recognizes the maturity the team is showing on offense this year

“We’ve definitely upped the technical level with our players,” Pedlow said “Offensively we ’ re playing with much more freedom and confidence ”

Cornell has benefited from a freshman class with several different players capable of making a difference on the pitch Players like McAuslan and midfielder Tyler Bagley have added creativity and fresh offensive skill to the squad

“They don’t seem to be playing like freshman,” Smith said

“The freshman have definitely contributed a significant amount, ” Pedlow added “There is still a lot to learn from the system and defensively we ’ ve had a few lapses in concentration, but they’ve came in and added a lot, especially on offense ”

Over the years, Cornell’s strong suit has been its defensive unit, and against Lafayette, the back line was in sharp form, allowing just three shots on goal

“We were rock solid at the back today,” Smith said “We had a film session yesterday in training to go over some of the things I felt as though we needed to improve and I thought we did a real good job of it ”

Nothing came easy for the Lafayette strikers when they were on the ball, most evident by the fact the lone Leopards goal came off a near-perfect free kick Not even

the most stingy defenses can prevent a set piece shot into the corner of the net

And even though he was not called upon often, sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Shellow added a few key saves to stop Lafayette from closing the gap in the second half

On one such occasion, a Lafayette player broke free in the box and flicked an uncontested shot in toward the net Shellow slid to his left and made a glove save to deny the chance

“One of their guys came into the box and was able to get a clean hit,” Shellow said “I just tried to hold my ground and react to what he did ”

Following its first win, the young team will look to build some momentum off of its weekend results

Even though the Red dropped its match against Lehigh, there were several positives to take away from that game, including a goal from the freshman midfielder Fuller, who continues to put in strong showings for the Red He has a knack for finding the net, sitting behind Pedlow for second on the team in shots on goal

And as conference play looms, the win against Lafayette should provide the Red with confidence

“We have a much higher goal for this season and expect better results,” Shellow said “It’s definitely good that all of the hard work we ’ ve put in so far can lead to a result ”

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