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Leaders vow action against Islamic State

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) World leaders vowed a vigorous response to the Islamic State group ’ s terror spree in Paris as they opened a two-day meeting in Turkey on Sunday, with President Barack Obama calling the violence an “attack on the civilized world” and Russian President Vladimir Putin urging “global efforts” to confront the threat

“The skies have been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in Paris ” P

But beyond the tough talk and calls for action, there was little indication of how leaders intended to escalate the assault on the extremist group

The attacks in the heart of Europe combined with earlier incidents in Lebanon and Turkey, as well as the downing of a Russian airliner in Egypt suggest the Islamic State is reaching beyond its base in Iraq and Syria, an expansion the West has feared “ The skies have been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in Paris just a day and a half ago, ” Obama said shortly after arriving in Antalya, a seaside resort city just a few hundred miles from the Syrian border He waved off a question from reporters about whether he would authorize additional action against I S Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the summit host, pledged leaders would produce a “ strong message ” about fighting international terrorism, though he, too, did not spell out specific steps

All Cornellians in Paris safe; Garrett condemns attacks

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

Following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris Friday, the University confirmed Saturday that all known Cornellians currently working or studying in Paris are safe

The attacks, which left at least 129 dead, were part of a plot carried out by the Islamic State that included a mass shooting, hostage taking and several explosions, according to French officials

Garrett Aims to Streamline Staff Workload

President Elizabeth Garrett addressed Cornell staff for the first time Friday afternoon, highlighting the importance of diversity and streamlining efforts to reduce staff members’ work burdens

Hosted by the E m p l o y e e Assembly, Garrett’s address emphasized the importance of a cohesive body of staff and a multitiered effort to reduce unnecessary paperwork and burdensome processes She began by thanking staff in the audience, saying, “You are not thanked often enough ”

Approximately 20 students and staff members were in Paris at the time of the bombings, according to Lex Enrico Santí, the University’s coordinator for travel and safety A double suicide bombing also occured in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday However, no Cornellians were known to be in Beirut at the time, Santí said

In response to the attacks, President Elizabeth Garrett released a statement Saturday decrying the acts of terror-

Two Men Fall From Rooftops Over Weekend

Cornell’s campus in realizing the University’s academic mission

“ Whether we care for the campus grounds or maintain advanced research equipment, counsel students or manage payroll or process travel reimbursements, motivate donors or carry out the myriad of other ways and

“Your efforts support excellence in Cornell’s research, teaching and outreach ”

“Your efforts support excellence in Cornell’s research, teaching and outreach, and you create an environment where faculty, students and staff together thrive,” Garrett said Garrett emphasized the importance of staff roles across

functions in which a research university operates, we are all engaged in the academic mission and the academic enterprise,” Garrett said “We are all citizens of the University and contributors to that success ” Garrett added that it was important to recognize the role staff play in daily life at Cornell “It can be difficult sometimes

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Two college-aged males were airlifted to hospitals Saturday as a result of two separate falls one on Stewart Avenue and another near Ithaca College campus, according to Ithaca Police Public Information Officer Thomas Basher, Jr

A college aged male was airlifted to Robert Packer Hospital after falling from a roof at 306 Stewart Ave at approximately 4:30 p m Saturday The man was unresponsive and “seriously injured” following the fall, according to Basher

Bangs Ambulance, the Ithaca Fire Department and Ithaca Police were at the scene Ithaca Police interviewed witnesses and are investigating the accident, according to Basher Seven hours later, another college-aged male was flown to Upstate Medical Center after falling from a balcony near Ithaca College The man “suffered serious injuries,” according to Basher Ithaca College police are investigating the incident

This is the third reported incident this semester in which a college-aged male has fallen off a roof and been evacuated to a hospital by helicopter At the end of September, Ithaca Police reported that a 20-year-old man had fallen off a fraternity roof on North Campus Compiled by Sofia Hu

Monday, November 16, 2015

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Orestes by Euripides

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Solidarity Protest Cancelled Amid Concerns

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

A protest to show solidarity with the stud e n t s o f Un i v e r s i t y o f Mi s s o u r i , Ya l e University and Ithaca College was canceled Thursday due to concerns voiced by Black Students United and other students in the Cornell community

Across the nation, thousands of students took part in walkouts and rallies on college campuses Thursday in a show of solidarity with protesters at the University of Missouri, Yale University and other colleges racially embroiled

Protest organizer William Heisenberg ’15 said he decided to organize a protest to take place Friday to show solidarity after seeing demonstrations at other universities

“I heard about the protests in Ithaca and Missouri, and then saw many students at Cornell showing solidarity,” Heisenberg said “I now realize I should have first checked to see if anyone else was organizing a protest, but I hadn’t heard anything about one yet, so I thought maybe I can get this ball rolling ”

A couple hours after the Facebook event page for a “#ConcernedStudent2015 protest ” was created, many students began to post on the page with concerns Soon after, Black Students United posted on the event page, pointing out the lack of people of color in the planning and attendance of the event and requesting its cancellation

“ While we appreciate the solidarity and interest of our allies across campus, we would like to be able to address prejudice on this campus and campuses like it in our own way, ” the post read “In the future, please ask how you can support us before organizing on your own With that in mind, we would appreciate the cancellation of this event ”

Heisenberg said he immediately decided to cancel the event after seeing the post

“I didn’t check the event until a couple hours after I posted it, and when I did go back to it I saw that lots of people were criticizing it a lot of people had commented, saying ‘ This was inappropriate, he isn’t doing this the right way, ’” Heisenberg said

While commenters said they believed he was starting the event insincerely, Heisenberg said his intentions of letting other voices be heard were sincere

“I didn’t expect people to think that I was mocking them I certainly didn’t want that to be the result,” Heisenberg said “I was startled by people’s reactions, and I was hurt by the fact that I might have hurt other people Other people should have their voices heard, and I don’t want to crowd them out or block them in any way ”

While Black Students United declined The Su n ’ s re q u e s t f o r c o m m e n t , Mov i m i e n t

Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (M E Ch A) de Cornell posted a statement of solidarity with Black Students United “Racism destroys because it is backed by power, policy and action As students of color, directly affected by racial discrimination, the power to dictate how change must come about is ours, ” the statement reads “ The #ConcernedStudent2015 protest organized by Heisenberg disregards this notion, and instead perpetuates a white savior complex, placing the power to decide change in the hands of those not living our realities In o rd e r

oppressed students, our voices must be taken into account and must be at the forefront of these movements ”

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun com

Cornell Hosts Annual IvyQ Conference

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

At the seventh annual IvyQ conference held for the first time at Cornell this weekend, 380 students from around the countr y d i s c u s s e d g e n d e r, s e x u a l i t y, racism and intersectionality

The conference, which included workshops, keynotes, a career fair and social events, touched on different themes stemming from

activism and public policy to gend e r i d e n t i t y a n d e x p

i o n , according to Annie Fernandez ’17, co-chair of Cornell IvyQ

2015 Fernandez said it was an honor for Cornell to be selected to host the IvyQ Each year many schools compete to hold the conference, writing bids which all participating schools vote on to determine a winner

The event star ted off as a

queer alliance between the Ivy League schools but has since tried to become more i n c l u s i v e , a c c o rd i n g t o Fernandez Te r i Ta n , a s e n i o r a t

“At the end of the day we aren’t just queer or black We’re poets, we’re engineers.” A l e x i s T e m p l e t o n

seemed “ ver y exclu-

sive,” said she was pleased with the speakers and topics discussed A c c o r d i n g to Fernandez, t h i s y e a r ’ s IvyQ differed from that of previous years i n t h a t i t offered financ i a l a i d a n d m e a l t i c k

to those not financially able to eat on campus

Saturday were Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton, founders of Millennial Activists United, an organization based in Ferguson, Missouri that ser ves as a safe haven and advocacy center for black youth, women and LGBT individuals Fernandez said after hearing Ferrell and Templeton speak last year at Creating Change the biggest LGBT activist conference in the United States she knew she had to bring them to Cornell “ I ’ m n o t c o - c h

keynotes,” Fernandez said “ They encompassed ever ything I haven’t been able to ar ticulate that I wanted to do with the conference ” Ferrell, 24, and Templeton, 21, spoke passionately about top-

, racism, white supremacy, patriarchy and intersectionality

“Intersectionality is about how a variety of oppressions connect, ”

Garrett Praises Staff at Address Vigil for Victims to Be Held Today

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to remember how important the roles you play are, but we could not do the work we faculty and our students that we do without the support of our exceptional staff ”

Garrett discussed Cornell’s recent placement on the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s list of 100 most adoption-friendly workplaces in the United States She said Cornell has also received a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine Garrett said these awards spoke to the success of recent efforts to increase inclusion

“As you know, our student body is already very diverse racially, ethnically, socioeconomically, geographically, in their sexual identity, religion and many other aspects, ” she said “We must continue to recruit and retain the most talented faculty and staff, recognizing that that talent is increasingly diverse, and that diversity walks hand in hand with excellence ”

Garrett added that staff with a variety of backgrounds contributes to “ a rich tapestry of difference” that enhances faculty, staff and student experiences at Cornell

“Our goal should not be to homogenize, but rather to find motivation in our differences, recognizing that sometimes that can be uncomfortable,” she said “Problems are better solved when we debate them vigorously with different points of view, and the process is enriched when those involved bring varying backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to the table ”

While Garrett encouraged staff members to pursue matters of special interest to them, she emphasized that Cornell is “in a climate of constrained resources ”

“We need to be creative in our approaches, and we can ’ t afford to let our processes or procedures be part of the problem,” she said

In order to advance Cornell’s academic goals

without using unnecessary financial resources, Garrett said the administration is working with staff across the University to follow a “leanprocess approach,” the main goal of which is to reduce burdens that slow down important bureaucratic processes

Provosts, deans and vice presidents will be returning efficiency assessments in approximately a month Garrett said this assessment process is not a “once-in-a-lifetime analysis,” but a continual source of feedback and improvement

Garrett cited several examples of times when “reducing bureaucracy” influenced work processes for Cornell staff She said the lean process improvement initiative launched in 2013 has already yielded $2 million in savings across the University In addition to financial savings, Garrett said many units reported increased job satisfaction and reduced stress among staff as a result of the initiative

Garrett also said the College of Veterinary Medicine has improved 10 processes using the lean-process model, including a system for monthly invoicing Before streamlining, the process required a staff member to spend four hours on the first day of every month creating the monthly invoice Now, the process takes one hour or less, saving staff 156 hours a year

Staff members, who addressed questions to Garrett both in person and via online submission, voiced concerns that “streamlining” meant potential layoffs Garrett replied that reduction in staff size is not a goal of the lean process model she advocates

“Streamlining is not about staff layoffs,” she said “It’s about burden ” While Garrett said she could not guarantee there would not be “ some changes in staffing,” she said the primary goal of process analysis is “making our processes better ”

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun com

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“On behalf of the entire Cornell community, I extend our sympathies and condolences to all those affected by the tragic series of attacks that occurred Friday night in Paris,” she said “As a global university with many personal and professional conn e c t i o n s t o Fr a n c e t h r o u g h o u r alumni, staff, students and faculty, Cornell joins in condemning these acts of terror and stands united with the residents of Paris ”

In order to confirm the safety of Cornellians, the University worked “tirelessly” to contact all individuals known to be in France at the time through text messages, Facebook, emails and phone calls, Santí said in a statement

As of Saturday afternoon, Santí said that he had successfully made contact with all individuals and that support ser vices were available to Cornellians abroad and at Cornell’s Ithaca campus

Currently, the University has no plans to end study abroad programs or work in Paris, according to Santí

“I should mention though, that anyone dealing with acute trauma after the violence in France should take their time and evaluate their continued stay in countr y, ” Santí said “It is normal, after events like these, for individuals to face a great deal of stress and shock No semester plan is worth the deletrious effects of trauma, and we will support our community as they make plans to take care of themselves

Students abroad also employed similar methods of reaching out to friends at the time of the attacks

Emily Fournier ’17, who is curre n

University of Paris, said that while s h

evening, that she had also called and messaged friends within Paris to confirm their safety

“I was lucky enough to be outside of Paris during the attacks, but many of my friends were nearby,” Fournier said “ The girls I was traveling with and I sat in our Airbnb calling and messaging all our friends who were in the city, and though no one was hurt, some of them had been ver y close to the attacks and heard police sirens all night ”

Fournier added that she appreci-

around the world, but that she was “still shaken and worried about what will happen next ” and that she was

crowds from now on

“I’ve eaten at the restaurant where t

Cambodge, with a couple friends from the program, ” she said “It’s ver y small and not near any monuments, so the location was really shocking ” Tonight on Ho Plaza, Cornellians will have a chance to mourn the deceased from the bombings Beirut and attacks in Paris Organized by the French society, the event titled “United with Paris, Beirut” will take place at 6 p m

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

Global Leaders Call for United Front Against I.S.

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Putin urged nations to pool their efforts to combat terrorism, adding that the fight must respect international law, the U N Charter and each nation’s sovereign rights and interests

“ We understand ver y well that it’s only possible to deal with the terror threat and help millions of people who lost their homes by combining efforts of the entire global community,” Putin said

While U S officials said Obama viewed the attacks in France as an act of war, they cautioned he had no plans to overhaul his strategy for dismantling the Islamic State group and said he remained staunchly opposed to an American ground war in Syria Instead, they foreshadowed an expansion of steps the United States is already taking, namely airstrikes and train-and-equip missions for rebels inside Syria

The Paris violence ratcheted up the urgency at the previously scheduled Group of 20 summit, an annual meeting of leading rich and developing nations At least 129 people were killed in Friday’s coordinated attacks around Paris

In Turkey, five police officers were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a police raid on a suspected I S hideout near the Syrian border Turkish security forces also rounded up 20 suspected I S militants in and around Antalya before the summit

The crisis in Syria was already expected to be on the leaders’agenda given an uptick in diplomatic maneuvering over ways to wind down Syria’s civil war The conflict has stretched into its fifth year, left more than 250,000 people dead and 11 million displaced, and created a vacuum for the Islamic State and other extremist groups to thrive

Foreign ministers gathered in Vienna over the weekend to discuss a new plan to end the war The proposal appears to be based largely on a Russian initiative and envisions negotiations between embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and opposition groups starting by Jan 1

But hopes for a major breakthrough were softened by open questions about the proposal such as Assad’s future and the list of opposition groups to be deemed terrorists and barred from participating

Obama and Putin huddled on the sidelines of the summit for 35 minutes to discuss the proposal, as well as Russia’s militar y

“It’s only possible to deal with the terror threat by combining efforts of the entire global community.”

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moves in Syria Putin began launching airstrikes in Syria about a month ago, a campaign he says is aimed at the Islamic State group, but the U S views as an effort to strengthen Assad’s grip on power Obama appeared to take a softer tone with Putin in their talks

According to a White House readout of the meeting, the U S president “noted the importance of Russia’s militar y efforts” aimed at I S

Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the leaders share similar “strategic goals” for defeating the Islamic State extremists “but tactical differences remain ” Russia is Syria’s biggest benefactor, and Putin’s buy-in is crucial to any political transition The Russian leader was also scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel late Sunday Obama, meanwhile, huddled with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, another crucial player in the effort to end the Syrian war The Saudis are staunch opponents of Assad and a major funder of rebel groups in the countr y

A more immediate option facing leaders was the possibility of France asking for help from its NATO allies Only once in its 66year-histor y after 9/11 has NATO's communal defense obligation been invoked

Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said it was up to France whether to invoke Article 5 of the NATO charter European Union leader Donald Tusk called on G-20 leaders to show “full determination” against terrorism and urged cooperation to prevent terror financing a step that nations have already been pursuing for more than a year And United Nations Secretar y General Ban Ki-moon said the response should be “robust, but always within the rule of law ”

In addition to the terror threat, this year ’ s G-20 agenda also included efforts to hasten global economic growth, with a particular focus on addressing the effects of China's economic slowdown

In a draft of the final G-20 communique obtained by The Associated Press, leaders renewed their goal to grow their collective GDP by another 2 percent by 2018

IvyQ Conference Stresses Intersectionality

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Templeton said “It is not a theoretical, abstract idea ”

As a gender non-conforming individual, Templeton said identity should not be constrained by race, gender or sexual orientation

“I hear all the time, ‘You’re black first and then you ’ re gay, ’” Templeton said “No You can ’ t put my race over my sexuality You can ’ t put my race over my gender ”

Before opening the floor up for questions, Templeton asked the audience to join in a chant to “give power to our people ”

“It is our duty to fight for our people It is our duty to win,” Templeton and the audience chanted “We must love and support each other We have nothing to lose but our chance ”

this and why we haven’t been able to tackle this issue in the past 250 years since the founding of our country, ” she said

Fernandez also praised Cornell’s administration, saying it offers strong support to LGBT students

“Financially, the LGBT Student Union, Haven, is the third most endowed organization on campus, which is telling of where Cornell’s priorities are, but there is work that needs to be done with other issues that also affect the LGBT community, like the student health care fee and university divestment,” Fernandez said

“I think Cornell has its heart in the right place, but I think there’s definitely means for improvement.”

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Fernandez also stressed the importance of understanding and celebrating the complex nature of all human beings

“At the end of the day, we aren ’ t just queer or black We’re poets, we ’ re engineers and we ’ re students,” Fernandez said “I wanted to be able to create a place where everyone ’ s identity was celebrated and not just tolerated ”

Fernandez called the conference an opportunity for young people to unite and address the many issues facing the LGBT community

“This event has the potential to bring fresh young minds together and inspire them to not only fight for LGBT rights, but to delve into what’s at the root of all

Fernandez said she has always personally felt safe at Cornell, but added that her experience is not necessarily representative of all others in the LGBT community

“I’ve been lucky to have never walked across campus and felt personally unsafe,” Fernandez said “Although not representative of the whole LGBT community here, I’ve kissed girls on this campus and I’ve never felt treated differently ”

Although Cornell has made strides toward becoming a safe and welcoming space, the University still needs to grow to be more accommodating of its LGBT community members, according to Fernandez

“I think Cornell has its heart in the right place, but I think there’s definitely means for improvement,” Fernandez said

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Cornell Classics Department Presents: Euripides’ Orestes

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Guster

With Darryl Rahn & the Lost Souls 8 p m Friday at the State Theatre

Jason and Shirley

7 p m Thursday at Cornell Cinema

Portrait of Jason an interview-style 1967 film made by Shirley Clarke, documenting the life of Jason Holliday, black and gay hustler and nightclub performer is a canonical piece of queer cinema Jason and Shirley is a modern filmmaker’s response to that film

Director Stephen Winter has investigated what might have happened when the cameras weren ’ t rolling during the making of Portrait, attempting to recreate the meeting of and relationship between that groundbreaking filmmaker and her dynamic subject, both of whom defied all stereotypes He interrogates their constructed personas and agendas, and the power struggle between them Prepare to have your expectations shattered, as you become immersed in their precarious relationship Cosponsored by the Department of Performing and Media Arts, Stephen Winter will be making an appearance via Skype for a post-screening discussion

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History Has Its Eyes on You: Revisionism on Stage

On the eve of the Battle of Yorktown, George Washington sang a few words of advice to the newly promoted Alexander Hamilton: “ You have no control, who lives, who dies, who tells your stor y ” Or, at least, that’s what Hamilton composer-star Lin-Manuel Miranda thought George Washington should have said, because it’s a really great thematic through line for a musical about their lives The scene itself is an introspective, even self-referential moment for a show that literally tells a stor y about people who have no control over the narrative Yes, I’m talking about Hamilton in another column Get over it

Ponder the phrase “historical fiction ” It sounds like an oxymoron, an innate paradox at first glance How can any piece of fiction take dramatic license with the past and still claim to depict what happened? It rouses one of the great epistemological questions that historians face ever yday: How do we really know what the past was like? Read all the primar y sources you want, you’ll never really know exactly what Thomas Jefferson or the Marquis de Lafayette were like So dramatists, well, dramatize But to what degree?

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writers have to face whenever they decide to work with histor y Is this important enough to merit staying truthful? Would it make more sense, narratively, to change this detail? One detail becomes three details and soon you ’ re working with something that may misrepresent itself to audiences

Last week, Allegiance, a ne w musical starring Lea Salonga and George Takei opened at the Longacre Theatre in New York It tells the oft-forgotten stor y of JapaneseAmericans in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the signing of Executive Order 9066, which effectively gave the government the power to forcefully remove American citizens into internment camps based on ethnicity It’s that one little detail that gets paved over in histor y textbooks because we were busy fighting Nazis and saving the world like America ought to Such an important tale of marginalization and hysteria deser ves accurate representation

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ries, like Inglourious Basterds Of course, there are tons of movies in between that purport to be histor y in one way or another but get some of the details wrong, like Braveheart, which envisioned Scottish revolutionar y William Wallace as a racist anti-semite with an affinity for the phrase “ sugar tits ” There’s a thin line between depiction and revision that

Allegiance has come under fire from critics, however, for the dramatic license it apparently takes with the events experienced by Takei and thousands of others during the war The civilian-administered camp of Heart Mountain, in which the bulk of the stor y takes place, is conceived as a more-or-less direct standin for the Nazi concentration camps Whereas arrivals at Heart Mountain received vaccinations before being allowed to go about their business in the confines of the camp they were in the middle of Wyoming, with no real chance of escape, so the guards were fairly lax here they are depicted as having been brutalized by vicious MPs, shoved to the ground and beaten in a scene reminiscent of the processing of Jews on their way to a concentration camp in Schindler’s List It’s clearly meant to evoke strong emotions, and while it is incredibly necessar y to represent and condemn the systematic dehumanization of an entire race, to do so by

equating it with the Holocaust is a quite a leap The Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest AsianAmerican civil rights group in the countr y, issued a statement a little over a month ago, stating their belief that “it is important to keep in mind that this musical is an artistic interpretation of events that provides a backdrop for a love stor y [and that] audiences may forget that they are watching a historical fiction ” Allegiance becomes a bit of revision that may do more harm than good Now, I should clarify by saying that this revisionist label is not necessarily meant pejoratively Not in the case of Hamilton, at least Hamilton’ s brand of revisionism is most visible in the casting choices; Lin-Manuel Miranda chose to cast his entire show each and ever y founding father, mother and other wise with people of color Not simply color-blind casting, but a methodical choice to represent PoC in “white histor y, ” which can be shortened to just “histor y ” for all intents and purposes As the phrase goes, histor y is written by the victors, and the victors are almost exclusively white men Hamilton never shies away from discussing slaver y, adulter y and the many unsavor y aspects of the founding fathers’ lives Perhaps most inspiringly, it shirks the entire historical fiction schematic by devoting its entire finale not to glorifying its eponymous character, but to the life of Eliza, Alexander Hamilton’s wife In this context, the line, “ Who lives, who dies, who tells your stor y, ” takes on another meaning, addressing the systematic ignorance historians and dramatists alike have paid to the agency of women and PoC throughout recorded histor y Revisionism, when done right, can be a powerful tool in reclaiming histor y and giving a voice to the voiceless, but it should never forsake the historical fact it is rooted in for some cheap dramatic effect Truth is stranger than fiction, and histor y is often more interesting than drama

Sean Doolittle is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Pulp FictSean appears ever y other Monday this semester He can be reached at sdoolittle@cornellsun com

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Our Collective Grief

Whengruesome statistics flood our news, as they seem to do every several months, I often settle into sadness Standing in a crowd around a late-night news screen, it seems to be the most natural response There are sirens and pairs of stained sneakers The anchor sounds tired, but she keeps retelling the story of what she knows so far She asks her guests what they know, as if they might know something more They speculate We keep watching

Grief is easy to muster I find it in the pit of my stomach, and then hang onto it, because it seems like the right thing to feel Even when my life has not been touched, tragedy breeds a sadness that feels important to hold It also feels important to share So with friends, I sternly shake my head, then we sit forlorn together over coffee Online I might post a status in solidarity, change my profile picture and tweet a hashtag so that I can share this grief with those who I am sure are feeling it as well

Social media has made experiencing tragedy entirely collective When an event touches a large enough number of people, many use the platform to express the way it has affected them This can be through anything from a common hashtag to a filter for a profile picture, but the result is that there is one specific response begins to dominate Often, this response reaches an unbelievably wide audience, but is almost always a singular message

In some ways this can be a wonderful thing Following this weekend’s attacks in Paris, there has been an outpouring of solidarity and grief, which has the potential to uplift any who may need support At times, we collectively celebrate, like after June’s Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of gay marriage Being able to experience an emotional event with a vast number of people can be comforting and fulfilling But the trouble is that, as well intentioned as this may be, the way we share our third party sadness can sometimes shut out anything else

that might need to be said

Grief can make other conversations hard to have It is an emotion that breeds fear and vitriol, and makes people likely to blame one another It makes responses to tragedy less rational and more polarizing At times, it can make productive discourse impossible to even begin, as those who attempt to raise a concern are condemned for politicizing tragedy This is a time for us to be sad, they are told, and there is no room for anything else

There is absolutely reason to grieve in times of tragedy, but when the propensity to cling to sadness is coupled with the tendency of online outlets to amplify a singular message, the result is that very often these tragedies just become another thing that we are sad about Although it is important to be sad, at a certain point, the public conversation has to shift to a tone of productive response There is no timetable for this shift, and for those personally affected by the attack, there is no requirement to ever shift But for the fortunate bystanders, who have the luxury to think about something else, we have a responsibility to do so

I do not think that it has to be now, nor do I really know when the time might be, but if there is no concerted effort to seek future solutions, we often slip straight from sadness to apathy There is a limited public attention span, and it is important that it not be manipulated by the response of the majority as portrayed by social media Rather than remaining in the cycle of periodic devastation that has defined the majority of my conscious life, we ought make an effort to seek a productive way forward from this tragedy, and resist the inclination to slip into our common collective grief

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at red243@cornell edu The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester

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whether food insecure students will shop here dismisses the exper tise of Cornell faculty who work with food insecure students and suppor t Anabel’s It also disregards the testimonials of food insecure students who see Anabel’s as the solution to their str uggle for food security Research indicates that hundreds of food insecure and non-food insecure students would shop at Anabel’s In a recent randomized sur vey of 135 undergraduates, Cornell’s Social Business Consulting group repor ts that 98 percent of respondents said they would shop at Anabel’s, of which 88 percent said that they would shop there at least once a month C o n c e r n s ove r t h

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struck on Friday, and so the world weeps But for whom?

The world certainly weeps for the 129 and counting who have fallen in Paris, as it should Once again, hundreds of lives have been lost to terror, and so the world has responded to this global tragedy, because terror is terror is terror, and a human being is a human being, period Yes, when extremists strike, the whole world listens and responds with fear, fur y and anguish Always

In fact, I can recall vividly those gripping moments last April, when the deaths of 147 Kenyan college students were mourned with the same fervor oh wait, they weren ’ t In much the same way that the July deaths of over 140 Muslims, who were slaughtered by Boko Haram in Nigeria, were not globally mourned like this In much the same way that I don’t have the option of changing my Facebook profile picture to show solidarity with the 43 civilians almost exclusively Muslim who were murdered in Lebanon, just one day before Paris And I’m still waiting for more national news coverage of the Baghdad bombings, which took place on the same day as Paris and killed at least 21 people

This is the world we live in A world where thousands of Syrian refugees can flee the kind of evil we are currently in the midst of condemning, only to be informed that they are unwelcome Even as I write this, a refugee camp is burning in France, quite possibly set on fire in retaliation for Paris But something tells me this is not the

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narrative you’ll hear, if you hear anything at all Instead, I have a hunch that this fire will be quickly dismissed as an untimely and easily forgettable coincidence

I don’t want to believe that we can be so apathetic towards the plights of those with whom we cannot easily relate, or that race, religion and ethnicity can in any way inform the perception of the hive mind that is our media Of course, I also don’t want to believe that a racist terrorist named Dylan Roof murdered nine black people in Charleston, South Carolina, or that “ White Girls Only” happened at Yale, or that students of color have received anonymous death threats at Missouri Unfortunately, these incidents are more likely to be quickly downplayed now that Paris has happened, as if bloodshed is the metric by which we should measure the severity of an incident Why? Why must one experience with oppression or violence somehow negate the validity of another?

ties like a mature adult People have somehow managed to label discontent as ungratefulness, oversensitivity and a lack of concern for those suffering elsewhere This, much like everything these days, boils down to nuance getting lost in translation

Take, for example, the outcry against the students who have protested their administration in the past few weeks The media would have you believe that the

I don’t want to believe that we can be so apa towards the plights of those with whom we c easily relate, or that race, religion and ethnic in any way inform the perception of the hive mind that is our media

I am constantly inundated with tired views, such as the “Look how lucky and safe you are in America” trope Such sentiments sound eerily similar to some less coded versions that I’ve seen on Cornell’s Yik Yak There, I will be reminded that “ at least I’m not a slave ” I will be informed that “microaggression” is a contrived term, designed to help me avoid dealing with my own insecuri-

president of Missouri resigned because he was forced out by unruly students In reality, he succumbed to the over whelming power of a lucrative revenue stream (football), which his continued role as president had frozen The media would also have you believe that a few seconds from a viral video of a student yelling at a professor are indicative of a radicalism running rampant on Yale’s campus a video, mind you, that conveniently confirms any subconscious biases or preconceived notions people might have about social justice activists or women of color These easily overlooked details allow the uninformed to completely miss the complexity and depth of a situation They allow conflict and disengagement from dialogue to proliferate unchecked

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For another example of this, also Yale-related, we can turn our gaze to Erika Christakis’ email responding to a campus-wide call for tact when planning Halloween costumes In her message, Christakis questions the university's apparent censorship This at first seems relatively innocuous, but whether or not she should lose her job for doing so is and never was at the core of the events unfolding on Yale’s campus Students of color were upset that an i n d i v i d u a l whose position is to take an unbiased a p p r o a c h towards fostering community has seemingly ignored the farreaching societal and historical context behind wearing certain costumes They were upset because, regardless of her intent, Christakis failed to consider the implications her message would have for students who felt forced to combat oppression in a system that shies away from the very word They were upset because she had equated complacency and cowardice with respect and reason I have one last example for you This one occurred right here on Cornell’s campus, when a student who is infamous for some particularly ill-advised and incredibly insensitive “satire” took it upon himself to schedule a protest dedicated to addressing racial tension on campus Naturally, Black Students United, among other minority

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a s t w e e k t h e w o r l d s e e m e d t o i m p l o d e A t h o m e , t h o u s a n d s o f c o l l e g e s t u d e n t s m o b i l i z e d a g a i n s t t h e i n s t i t u t i o n a l r a c i s m o f o u r h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n s y s t e m a n d re c e i v e d d e a t h t h re a t s i n t h e p r o c e s s Ac r o s s t h e w o r l d , t e r r o r i s t a t t a c k s t o o k h u n d re d s o f i n n oc e n t l i v e s T h e s e n s a t i o n a l i s t m e d i a p re se n c e o n l y i n c re a s e s o u r s e n s e o f h e l p l e s sn e s s a s o b s e r v e r s In t i m e s l i k e t h e s e , i t o f t e n s e e m s m u c h e a s i e r t o t u r n o f f t h e n e w s Fo r t h o s e f o r t u n a t e t o b e f a r e n o u g h r e m o v e d f r o m t h e s e z o n e s o f c r i s i s , r e s p o n s e s t o t h e n e w s i n t h e s o c i a l m e d i a a g e c a n h a v e a d i s t a n c i n g e f f e c t We c h a n g e o u r p r o f i l e p i c t u r e s , r e p o s t a Fa c e b o o k s t a t u s , s h a r e a h a s h t a g a n d t e m p o r a r i l y a b s o l v e o u r s e l v e s o f t h e g u i l t o f a c k n o w l e d g i n g p r i v i l e g e i n a n i n h e r e n t l y u n j u s t w o r l d S o c i a l m e d i a p r ov i d e s a n a c c e s s i b l e p l a t f o r m f o r c o ll e c t i v e a c t i o n t h a t c a n h a v e a r e a l e f f e c t i n i n c i t i n g s o c i a l c h a n g e It h e l p e d f a c i li t a t e t h e A r a b Sp r i n g , w h e n a c t i v i s t s t o o k t o Fa c e b o o k , Tw i t t e r a n d Yo u Tu b e t o p l a n d e m o n s t r a t i o n s a n d b r o a d c a s t e v e n t s t o t h e r e s t o f t h e w o r l d T h i s s u m m e r, m i l l i o n s o f p e o p l e a d d e d a r a i n b o w f i l t e r t o t h e i r Fa c e b o o k p r o f i l e p h o t o s t o s h o w s u p p o r t f o r t h e Su p r e m e C o u r t ’ s d e c i s i o n t o l e g a l i z e m a r r i a g e e q u a l i t y L a s t w e e k , Fa c e b o o k a n d Tw i t t e r u s e r s s h a r e d t h e h a s h t a g # C o n c e r n e d St u d e n t 1 9 5 0 i n r e s p o n s e t o r a c i s t d e a t h t h r e a t s a t t h e Un i v e r s i t y o f M i s s o u r i O n a n i n d i v i d u a l l e v e l , s h ow i n g s u pp o r t o n s o c i a l m e d i a c a n b e a p ow e r f u l m e t h o d o f re c l a i m i n g a g e n c y w h e n f a c e d w i t h t h e h e a r t b re a k i n g re a l i t y o f t h e w o r l d It’s a w a y t o t e m p o r a r i l y s u b d u e f e e l i n g s o f h e l p l e s s n e s s a n d i n a c t i o n B e c a u s e o f t h e f re q u e n c y w i t h w h i c h w e c o m e i n t o c o n t a c t w i t h s o c i a l m e d i a , e x p o s u re t o t h e s e s t o r i e s , e v e n t s a n d m o v e m e n t s b e c o m e s u n a v o i d a b l e

On an individual level, showing support social media can be a powerful method reclaiming agency when faced with the heartbreaking reality of the world.

organizations felt compelled to voice their concern that such a protest was being organized without any input from those who are most affected by campus racism Granted, the response did not fully convey exactly what was intended, nor did BSU clarify that the student in question has often made light of serious matters But BSU’s request has been quickly misconstrued as an irrational rejection of assistance from all white people The incident has even been picked up by a few low-profile conservative news websites, which is ridiculous I don’t have the space here to go into every single element of the above issues So I’ll just say this: As a person of color, I find myself under a constant deluge of psychological assaults on both my humanity and my existence And, as a flawed human being just like you I am also prone to getting emotional and flustered, reacting quickly and lashing out in futility against society I am prone to mental fatigue, and my words are prone to misinterpretation I won ’ t always be able to explain everything in full online, or via social media And the world isn’t going to do me any favors in fairly telling my side of the story either That being said, if you still remain unconvinced, shoot me an email, and I mean that Let’s meet up somewhere and have a nice, long dialogue in person I’ll listen to you if you’ll listen to me

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

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S o c c e r F r o m A -Z

“Swansea ’ s Andre Ayew signed on a Bosman transfer from Marseille this summer just received a yellow card ” You will find sentences and terms like this in a discussion on soccer Plenty of people, terms

and teams are unique to the sport; soccer is an in-depth world Today’s column, a “ soccer alphabet,” is designed to teach ever yone something new about the sport, no matter if you are new to soccer or if you follow it religiously

A : Adva nt a g e The advantage rule means that if a foul is committed on a player attacking, the referee may allow play to continue to let the team have a chance at scoring This is called “playing the advantage ” It is designed to prevent defending teams from intentionally fouling to stop the play

B : Ba ye r n Muni c h Bayern Munich is one of the most successful soccer teams ever The German club has won 25 league titles

and 17 domestic cup championships, most recently winning the Champions League in 2013

C : Cr i st i an o Ro na ld o

The Portuguese forward is widely considered the world’s second-best player, with only Lionel Messi thought of as superior He scores a ridiculous amount of goals for his club, Real Madrid, including his five tallies in one contest against Espanyol last month

D: Di e go M a ra d on a

Revered in his home countr y of Argentina, Maradona remains one of the greatest players to ever play the game He is most famous, however, for his “Hand of God” goal in the 1986 World Cup, where he appeared to illegally use his hand to direct the ball into the net

E : E ngl a nd

England is home to millions of soccer fans, as well as the world’s most popular league, the English Premier League The national team faces immense pressure to succeed on the international stage, and have only one World Cup title (1966) to date

F : F C Ba rc e lona

Perhaps the world’s most dominant team at the moment, F C Barcelona is a force to be reckoned with Lionel Messi plies his trade for the club, as well as other star forwards Luis Suarez and Neymar

G : Ge r ma ny The Germans are the defending

H : Ho ldi ng m id fi eld

“It’s unbelievable how resilient this defense has been, especially today I think we really put four quarters together.”

Sa t u rd a y “ [ Fr a s e r ] c e r t a i n l y c h a n g e s yo u r d e c i s i o n m a k i n g b e c a u s e yo u k n ow w h a t h e ’ s c a p a b l e o f, s o yo u c a l c u l a t e i n yo u r h e a d , ‘ Ok a y, w h a t c a n h e d o i f t h e d r i ve s t a l l s h e re ? W h a t k i n d o f f i e l d p o s i t i o n w i l l t h e y g e t ? ’ ” A rc h e r s a i d “ Eve n k i c k i n g i n t o t h e w i n d t h e re w a s a t i m e w h e n h e w a s a b l e t o f l i p t h e f i e l d , s o h e ’ s a g re a t we a p o n ” A g a i n s t a f i r s t - h a l f d o m i n a n t t e a m i n C o l u m b i a , t h e Re d’s d e f e n s e w a s c r i s p, t i g h t a n d s o l i d , a l l ow

World Cup champions, winning in Brazil in 2014 Key figures for the team include goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger

An increasingly important position in the modern game, a holding midfielder sits in front of the defense and aims to win the ball back He also can be relied upon to provide distribution forward when in possession

I : Ibr a h im ov ic

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a polarizing figure in soccer The talismanic striker has unquestionable talent and has been a top-class forward for teams all over Europe However, his selfish and egotistical personality has led many to view him in a negative light

J : Juve nt us

A former club of Ibrahimovic, Juventus is one of the giants of Italian soccer “The Old Lady,” as it is nicknamed, reached the Champions League final last year, perhaps finally overcoming the shadow of the 2006 Calciopoli scandal

K : Ke nny Da lg lis h

A former Liverpool for ward and manager, Dalglish played in the Merseysiders’ successful 1970s teams The Scot is one of the club’s all-time heroes

L : Li o nel Me ssi

Perhaps the greatest player of all time, Messi holds all sorts of goal-scoring

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records Yet, many claim that in order to be the best ever, Messi needs to win a World Cup with Argentina

M : M a nc he st e r Uni t ed

One of the biggest clubs in England, United boast one of the most recognizable brands in soccer They have struggled the past few seasons, but have still won 13 Premier League titles in 22 seasons of the competition

N : Nu t me g

The nutmeg skill passing the ball through an opponent ’ s legs is considered one of the most impressive skills to pull off in a soccer game Players such as Messi use nutmegs to create goal-scoring opportunities

O: O w n g oa l

Own goal is the term for a goal that goes in off a defending player or goalkeeper It happens fairly frequently, due to the speed of soccer and the size of the goal

P: Pa r is Sa i nt -G er m a in Ibrahimovic’s club, PSG, is one of the major forces in Europe Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi has purchased the team and used his immense wealth to purchase top talent

Q: Q a t a r Qatar is a country poised to play a major role in soccer over the next few years The country is currently on track to host the World Cup in 2022, and

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