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By SHRUTI JUNEJA

Staff Writer

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“I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color.”

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By MEREDITH LIU Sun Staff Writer

- g e n e r at i o n C o r n e l l i a n Fo l l ow i n g h e r l e a v e n e x t f a l l , R i t t e r w i l l re t u r n t o t e a c h i n g a n d re s e a rc h a s a f a c u l t y m e m b e r i n t h e

Gove r n m e n t De p a r t m e n t R i t t e r m a n a g e d t h e t r a n s i t i o n t o t h e Un i ve r s i t y ’ s n e w b u d g e t m o d e l d u r i n g h e r f i r

“The Rock can do no wrong [ H e ] could murder my family and I would just assume they did something to deserve it ”

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s h y i n d i s h i n g a b o u t h i s w e l lk n o w n s i g n i f i c a n t w e i g h t l o s s t o t h e a u d i e n c e He s a i d l o s i n g 1 3 0 p o u n d s h a s b ro u g h t h i m m u c h c o n f id e n c e a n d h a s s t o p p e d h i m f ro m b e i n g “ a f r a i d o f t h e s e a t b e l t s o n r e g i o n a l f l i g h t s ” Fu n c h e s s a i d h e h a s d e c i d e d t o l i ve a re a l h e a l t h y l i f e n o t t h e A m e r i c a n d e f i n i t i o n o f h e a l

See COMEDIAN page 4

Daybook

SAP Semiar Series: “Pedophilia in the Archive - The Gayer Anderson Twins and their Indian Painting Collection”

12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Confronting Climate Change in Urban Grasslands 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 404 Plant Science Building

Integrating Phenotypic, Spatial and Genetic Information to Develop Disease-Resistant Grapevines 1:30 - 2:30 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Leaders in Emerging Markets With Emmanuel Ajani 2:55 - 4:10 p m , B08 Sage Hall

Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic

3 - 4:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Science and Technology Studies SeminarJay Aronson, Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 - 5 p m , 701 Clark Hall

Department of Physics Colloquium

4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

“Derrida: Margins of Freud” 4:30 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

Dress and Body: Oneness or Duality?

Exhibit Opening Reception

5 - 6 p m , Jill Stuart Gallery, Human Ecology Building

Free Speech on Campus: Erwin Chemerinsky 6:30 - 8 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium

Monday, November 20, 2017

LEPP Theory Seminar: BRST vs EPR: The Maxwell Story, Ronak Soni, TIFR Mumbai 11:30 a m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Health Economics Institute: Hannes Schwandt Noon - 1:15 p m , G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

November Stem Cell WIP: Liu and Danko Labs Noon, Lecture Hall III, Vet Research Tower

E&EB Special Day Seminar: Hidetoshi Inamine, Dissertation Seminar 12:20 p m , A106 Corson Mudd Hall

Explorations of Resistance to Fall Armyworm Herbivory in Maize 12:20 p m - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Identification of Local Adaptation in Latin-American Maize Landraces Through Environmental GWAS 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

LASSP and A&EP Seminar: Marko Loncar 12:20 - 1:45 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Multiparental Genomic Selection for Local Adaptation in Barley 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Synapsis Student Presentations 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Get Breakfast or Coffee at the Engaged Cornell Hub 2 - 3 p m , Third Floor, Kennedy Hall

ORIE Colloquium: Jiaming Xu, Purdue University, Applications to DNA Sequencing 4:15 p m , 253 Frank H T Rhodes Halll

Physics Graduate Society Board Game Night 7 p m , 701 Clark Hall

The Blue Room 7 - 8 p m , Second Floor Conference Room, Willard Straight Hall

Woman Sues IPD, Says Dog in K-9 Unit Attacked Her

Suit claims 70-pound German Shepard ‘did attack, bite and maul’ her in The Ithaca Shopping Plaza parking lot

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

A woman is seeking unspecified damages from the City of Ithaca and an Ithaca police officer in court after she says she was severely injured by a dog in the Ithaca Police Department’s K-9 Unit

Debra S Brown of Ithaca filed suit against the city and Officer Jamie Buffone last week over an incident that Brown says occurred on Nov 16, 2016, in the parking lot of The Ithaca Shopping Plaza between Elmira Road and South Meadow Street

Brown said Buffone took the dog, Rex, from her vehicle to show to Brown, but that shortly after the dog hopped out of the vehicle, it “did attack, bite and maul” Brown, resulting in severe and serious personal injuries

Reached by phone on Sunday afternoon, Brown’s attorney, John Stevens, of the Ithaca-based law office of Williamson, Clune and Stevens, said his office is not commenting on the suit The Ithaca Police spokesman, Officer Jamie Williamson, and Buffone did not respond to emails

on Sunday

In the lawsuit, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court in Tompkins County, Brown says Buffone and the City of Ithaca knew that Rex was “vicious, uncontrollable, and possessed of propensities to forcibly attack third parties, and possessed a ferocious nature and disposition ”

“[Rex was] vicious, uncontrollable, and possessed of propensities to forcibly attack third parties ” D e b r a B r o w n

Brown says her injuries were the result of the negligence of the defendants, specifically allowing Rex to walk around the shopping center parking lot “in contact with and among citizens without being guarded, restrained, muzzled and/or confined ”

Buffone told The Ithaca Voice in May of 2016 that Rex was born in Hungary in January of 2015 and is trained to both patrol such as tracking and to detect narcotics

Buffone said she joined IPD in 2005

In January of this year, IPD announced that Rex would be receiving a bullet- and stab-protective vest from a nonprofit called Vested Interest in K9s When Rex received the vest, IPD posted a picture of the canine saying Rex had been busy helping the Ithaca community

The dog in question, Rex, is a 70-pound German Shepard who was sworn into service on June 15, 2016 in a ceremony at City Hall, joined by Buffone as well as Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and the police chief at the time, John Barber In August, police brought Rex and another canine, Bert, to the Greater Ithaca Activities Center summer camp Brown is seeking damages from the defendants for the injuries she said she sustained, as well as the cost of the proceedings

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

Commons Garage Mural Aims to Bring Unity

By RUBIN THOMAS Sun Contributor

As of Saturday, Ithacans will be met with something more colorful than a blank wall when they park in the Commons a brand new mural, aiming to bring unity to the community

“In this day and age when so much is going on in our country ... symbols of peace mean so much ”

Members of the Ithaca community

c e l e b r a t e d Sa t u rd a y m o r n i n g t h e unveiling of this mural, a “hidden treasure that we can all be so proud of,” said JoAnn Cornish, director of planning and development for the City of Ithaca

This mural, designed by local artist Lachlan Chambliss is now featured in the Green Street parking garage in the Commons

The mural highlights the Islamic community in Ithaca and the broader Finger Lakes region

The mural “incorporates principles

underlying some aspects of Islamic philosophy yet represents universal themes such as charity, with different architectural elements from cultures influenced by Islam,” Chambliss said

The ultimate aim, he said, is to “ encourage a diversity of thought and strengthen community relationships ” The mural, named “Portals to Peace,” depicts five door ways, each showing a different scene on the journey to peace

On the theme of community unity, many of those in attendance had contributed to the mural themselves In fact, nearly 200 Ithaca residents pitched in to help with the mural, according to Caleb Thomas, an Ithaca mural coordinator

When Thomas asked the crowd for a show of hands of who contributed, hands shot up from almost half the crowd

Fo r p ro

Lacka Arriaza, such generosity was a sign that “ our community really does support us ”

T h e s i g n

l seemed to resonate with many others in attendance

“In this day and age when so much is going on in our countr y [and] in our world, where peace is being interrupted, where harmony and unity is being

interrupted in ways that are ugly, symbols of peace mean so much,” said L e s l y n Mc B e a n - C l a

director of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center

In a n i n t e r v i e w w i t h T h e Su n , Arriaza compared the mural to a “giant welcome sign ”

“As the climate in the U S has been a little bit unfriendly, to say the least, towards Muslims and our culture in the

“We wanted to reassure the Muslim community here that they are in fact welcome ”

media is usually negative, we wanted to reassure the Muslim community here that they are in fact welcome,” Arriaza said

“And that’s why we wanted so many people involved so that across cultures, a c r o s s f a i t h s , a

could say, ‘ Yes, we are in fact one, ’” she said

Rubin Thomas can be reached at rt359@cornell edu

Attempted Knife

Robbery Reported Near Cascadilla Creek

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Ithaca Police are looking for a suspect who a woman said pulled out a knife and demanded all of her money near the bottom of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail on Friday evening

The woman said that at about 6:21 on Fr i d a y e ve n i n g , a h e a v y s e t m a n t u r n e d around after walking by her and began to follow her When the woman turned around, she told police, the man demanded all of her money

At that point, police said, the victim ran into the road and attempted to stop a car, presumably for help The man began to walk away, police said, while the car stopped, but returned after the car drove away

The woman then screamed that she was calling 911, police said, and the man turned and walked north, away from the victim The incident occurred in the area of Terrace Place and Linn Street, police said, which is adjacent to the base of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail

“The suspect was not able to take any property from the victim,” said Ithaca Police Sgt Derek Necheporek in a press release

The victim described the suspect as a 6foot tall, heavyset black man in his 20s or 30s wearing dark clothing with a hood, police said There are no witnesses, Necheporek said, and police are investigating the incident

Police asked anyone who may have information regarding the incident to call dispatch at 607-272-3245

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

Apple

V.P. of Diversity and Inclusion to Step Down at End of Year

from page 1

According to Apple’s Diversity Repor t, which provides data up to July 2017, Apple is 32 percent female globally and 54 percent white nationally Critics said that Young Smith’s statement could justify Apple’s overwhelmingly white male composition

Young Smith later apologized in an email to her team, saying that she regretted her choice of words “My comments were not representative of how I think about diversity or how Apple sees it For that, I’m s o r r y, ” s h e w r o t e “ Un d e r s t a n d i n g t h a t d i v e r s i t y includes women, people of color, LGBTQ people and all underrepresented minorities is at the hear t of our work to create an environment that is inclusive of ever yone ”

On Friday, TechCr unch first repor ted that Young Smith will be leaving Apple at the end of the year The ar ticle said Young Smith might have been planning to leave Apple before making the controversial statements An unnamed source said that she had been talking with Tim Cook about the next phase of her career and life for about a year and that Apple had already been looking for her successor for a fe w months

At Cornell Tech, Young Smith’s role will be to “work with students to build an early career-stage awareness of inclusive leadership and diverse talent,” according to the University release

Young Smith will be the second executive-in-residence at Cornell Tech after Judith Spitz, a former

“We’re thrilled to have Denise on board to expand Cornell Tech’s commitment to a more diverse pipeline of tech talent.”

Verizon CIO, first held the position Spitz joined Cornell Tech in 2016 and created the Women in Technology Entrepreneurship in Ne w York program, of which she later became the full-time program director Spitz was not able to provide a comment Sunday “ We’re thrilled to have Denise on board to expand Cornell Tech’s commitment to a more diverse pipeline of tech talent,” Spitz said in the University press release “Creating the WiTNY program was an incredible star t,

Stand-Up Comedian, Star of NBC Series Performs for Cornellians

As a comedian without a fixed contract, he said he is also looking forward to “living next door to somebody who actually works ”

and building a frame work for educating the next-gen workforce about inclusive leadership in technology is cr ucial ”

It is unclear whether Young Smith’s depar ture from Apple will affect the intent of her position at Cornell Cornell media relations said they did not have more to comment on regarding Young Smith’s position besides the Nov 7 press release

Phoenix, according to her Linkedin profile

In the University press release, Young Smith said she chose to take on the position at Cornell Tech because it will “allow me to address the deep sense of urgency I feel to help evolve the thinking of our current and future tech leaders ”

“By instilling the value of tr ue diversity and inclusion into Cornell Tech’s unique base of students and faculty, we will not only make an impact on the institution but also, and most impor tant, on the next generation of leaders as they go out into the world,” she said

sjuneja@cornellsun com

Arts and Sciences Dean to End Term After 5 Years

RITTER

“Just because I needed Guitar Hero when I was 22, my son can’t go to college?”

Funches argued with him, and the conversation ended in a fight “He punched me in the mouth over and over again and I just kept saying ‘do it again,’” Funches laughed “[I’m] like a psychopath ” “But if I see anyone being racist to anyone, even if [the victim] is not of my own race, ” He paused a second and smirked “I’m willing to let him punch in my face again ”

Another such challenging moment came when Funches was trying to buy his first house He said it was not until then that he realized just how much his credit history has affected his life

“Just because I needed Guitar Hero when I was 22, my son can ’ t go to college?” Funches said, admitting to not have been able to pay the bill a few times in the past

He announced happily though that he has already bought a house, which he will be moving into with his son shortly

Guitar Hero was also not the only video game on the notable player’s list He judged American games for being “ too mundane,” and prefers the Japanese games with mystery and surprising plots such as Persona 5

“In American games you ’ re just shooting zombies,” Funches said “But in Persona 5 you get to be a Japanese high-schooler who fights demons ”

On the note of judging American popular culture against other countries, Funches also said The Great British Bake Off is among his top three favorite reality shows, along with Naked and Afraid and RuPaul’s Drag Race

“The best thing about The Great British Bake Off is that when a competitor has finished his task, he goes to help others,” Funches said “That’s how you know it’s British we don’t do this in America ”

The comedian was unabashed in his admiration for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, actor and professional wrestler, multiple times during his show “The Rock can do no wrong, ” Funches said “[He] could murder my family and I would just assume they did something to deserve it ”

o m i n g ye a r s , a n d p rov i d e d s u p p o r t t o n e w i n t e rd i s c i p l i n a r y re s e a rc h i n it i a t i v e s i n a r e a s s u c h a s m e d i a s t u d i e s a n d n e uro t e c h n o l o g y, h e w ro t e “ T h e re i s n o t h i n g I h a ve e n j oye d m o re t h a n s p e n d i n g t i m e m e e t i n g w i t h s t u d e n t s , a s a n a d v i s o r, a t e a c h e r a n d a c o l l a b o r a t o r o n w a y s we c a n i m p rove yo u r u n d e r g r a d u a t e e d u c a t i o n , ” R i t t e r t o l d s t ud e n t s “ I c o n s i d e r o u r e d u c at i o n a l m i s s i o n t o b e a m o n g t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t c o n t r ib u t i o n s t h a t we m a k e t o s o c ie t y ” R i t t e r w a s a l s o i n vo l ve d i n c r e a t i n g t h e M i l s t e i n Pro g r a m i n Te c h n o l o g y a n d Hu m a n i t y t h e f i r s t u n d e rg r a d u a t e p ro g r a m t o p a r t n e r w i t h C o r n e l l Te c h a n d a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o m a k e l i b e r a l a r t s a n d s c i e n c e s e d u c a t i o n c e n t r a l t o t h e d i g i t a l a g e He r re s e a rc h f o c u s e s o n t h e h i s t o r y o f w o m e n ’ s C o n s t i t u t i o n a l r i g h t s a s we l l a s s t u d i e s o n c o n t e m p o r a r y i s s u e s c o n c e r n i n g d e m o c r a c y a n d c i t i ze n s h i p i n A m e r i c a n p o l i t i c s , a c c o r d i n g t o h e r b i o g r a p h y R i t t e r h a s a l s o c o n t r i b u t e d t o re s e a rc h o n e f f o r t s t o r e d u c e c o l l e g e a c h i e v e m e n t g a p s t h a t i n c l u d e i n t e r ve n t i o n s t r a t eg i e s a n d t h e e x p l o r a t i o n o f n e w l e a r n i n g m o d e l s i n h i g he r e d u c a t i o n Fo r t h e re m a i n d e r o f h e r t e n u re , R i t t e r w i l l c o n t i n u e t o s u p p o r t t h e c u r r i c u l u m re v i e w p ro c e s s a n d t o e x p l o re n e w a p p ro a c h e s t o s t re n g t he n t h e s t u d e n t a d v i s i n g s t r u c t u re Sh e w i l l a l s o f o c u s o n h o w t h e C o l l e g e c a n e n h a n c e C o r n e l l ’ s p u b l i c e n g a g e m e n t m i s s i o n a n d re b u i l d t h e s o c i a l c o m p a c t t h a t s u s t a i n s h i g h e r e d u c at i o n ’ s c o n t r i b u t i o n t o d e m o cr a c y, Ko t l i k

Continued from page 1 Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com

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Web Editor

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ANDREI KOZYREV ’20

Arts & Entertainment Editor

EMMA NEWBURGER 18

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CHARLES COTTON ’19 Assistant Sports Editor

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KARLY KRASNOW 18 Assistant Photography Editor

JEREMIAH KIM 19

MEGAN ROCHE 19

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PHOEBE KELLER 18

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YOON ’20

Concerning graduate student tax reform

Cuts and Jobs Act does not repeal Section 117(a)-(c) of the current US Tax Code

GLASS ’18

MATHUR ’18 Senior Editor

On Nov 16, 2017, the House passed their long-anticipated Tax Cuts and Jobs Act The suggested tax reform, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, includes the following provision:

Under current law, qualified tuition

by

institutions to their employees, spouses,

income The exclusion may be provided in the form of either reduced tuition or cash The reduction must be part of a program that does not discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees and may not apply to graduate programs (except for a graduate student who is teaching or a research assistant) Provision: Under the provision, the deduction for interest on education loans and the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses would be repealed The exclusion for interest on United States savings bonds used to pay qualified higher education expenses, t

t i o n reduction programs and the exclusion for employer-provided education assist a n c e p r o g ra m

w o u l d a l s o b e repealed ” Section 1204, Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts Section-by-Section Summar y

This section states that “ gross income does not include any amount received as a qualified scholarship by an individual who is a candidate for a degree at an educational organization ” Section 117(a), US Tax Code A “qualified scholarship” is “ any amount received by an individual as a scholarships or fellowship grant to the extent it is used for qualified tuition and related expenses ” Section 117(b), US Tax Code However, this is limited by the language that “the scholarship income exclusion doesn’t apply to any amount received that is payment for teaching, research and other ser vices by the student required for receiving the qualified scholarship or qualified tuition reduction ” Section 117(c), US Tax Code

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p h would also force the same group of graduate students to pay taxes on their “scholarship” because these students receive that scholarship as “compensation” for teaching/research ser vices However, under this s

receive a scholarship do not receive taxable income because there is a not a “specific act ” required of them as there is of graduate students (i e research requirements) Interesting, no?

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Under current tax law, graduate students who are teaching and/or research assistances can exclude tuition reductions received for graduate-level work Section 117(d)(4), US Tax Code However, graduate students still must pay taxes on the money they receive that is not directly used to pay their tuition (i e their living stipend) This is an equitable and fair system that incentivizes thousands of students each year to pursue their passion and add value to their intellectual community Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the above-mentioned tuition-reduction exception is repealed via the Section 1204 prov i s i o n ( s u p p l i e d a b ov e ) T h i s h a s t h e impact of making a graduate student liable for taxation both on their tuition reduction and on their living stipend (money received above their tuition reduction) To show the impact of this fundamental shift, please review this real-world scenario:

“ The annual stipend for a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science is about $32 400

T h e u n i v e r s i t y c ov e r s t h e s t u d e n t ' s $43,000 tuition, in exchange for the research she conducts and the courses she teaches Under current law, the government taxes only a student’s stipend; the waived tuition is not taken into account But under the GOP bill, her annual taxable income would rise from $32,400 to $76,234 Even factoring in new deductions also included in the proposal, the CMU document estimates her taxes would amount to $10,209 per year nearly four times the amount under current law That would slash her net annual stipend by 25 percent, from $29,566 to $22,191 ”

But there may be a solution The Tax

Thus, I am proposing that Cornell retroactively re-classify all graduate students who would be impacted by this egregious tax reform to make their designation mirror that of student athletes Cornell, i n s t

c teaching/research acts from these graduate students, should only require a general commitment to a department, much like student-athletes are required to commit to their team This retroactive reclassification would ensure that, if this tax reform is passed, Cornell University graduate students will still only be taxed on their living s t

“tuition reduction” will be reclassified as a scholarship not conditioned on specific teaching and/or research ser vices and thus excludable from taxable income These scholarships will be condition on a “ general commitment to performing the duties required of specific department members” much like student-athletic scholarships are condition on a “commitment to performing the duties of a team member ” Thus, if s

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receive a “tuition reduction” predicated on future ser vices and only excludable under a special exception in Section 117(d); this section is being repealed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Under my proposal, graduate students would now receive a “qualified scholarship” that is not “ payment for teaching, research or other services” and is thus excludable from taxable i

treated as student athletes and subject to tax liability for only the portion of their scholarship that does not towards tuition I

and/or functional, that is fine But something must be done

William Wang | Willpower

Ifeel like the semester has keeled over and fallen into the abyss

Recently my Chinese history professor pitched a 20-25 page essay as a final project It had taken a full semester for me to realize why this class was 4 credits We had spent the majority of it pleasantly reading quaint Chinese scholars ruminate about the difficulty in Chinese bureaucracy while holding far-ranging discussions in class that always concluded with some kind of zany anecdote about our experiences in China

This paper doesn’t gr ow on tr ees.

How to Live Time to Take A Step Back

and taking a step back from the semester is a necessity You could play games like my Caltech friend, or you could run like my CS friend It didn’t really matter For me, it’s a slow burner of many things It’s one part David Bowie songs (“Let’s Dance,” “ Young Americans” and “Beauty and the Beast” are the highlights, if anyone ’ s curious), and one par t Simpsons reruns Which, is to say, I like living in the past more than in the future

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Narayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

Thinking “I’m a complic a t e d h u m a n b e i n g ”

h a s p re c e d e d a l l m y

In the back of my head, I knew it was too good to true I was right, and now, I’m currently stuck trying to piece together excerpts from around 10 books to form a coherent thesis My hands are shaking from all the typing I don’t think I’ve ever had to write this much in my life I hope I don’t ever have to write this much again in my life

The Simpsons has a quality key to keeping me leveled The Simpsons family Homer, the father; Marge, the mother; Bart, the son; and Lisa, the daughter are innovative yet typically cartoonish For one, the characters are obscenely ugly Marge’s hair is the aesthetic of frozen lips puffy, and blue Homer is enthusiastically inappropriate He drinks and curses, strangles his son and has a plainly silly temperament

If that exchange esn't sum up my life t this point, then I’m not sure what does.

We all have ways of coping with the stress of a busy semester

One of my friends from Caltech visited this weekend To him, Caltech is a pressure cooker where the best of the best are constantly laser focused on their homework Its notoriety as an academic hellhole is well earned To cope with the deadening glaze of the school, he started to play video games Hours of them In more than one way, he needed an escape from the real world before his head combusted

Perhaps you could exercise To get away from a cesspool of labs, homework and team projects my CS friend went for a daily jog in the morning around Beebe lake for half an hour to clear her head of all the nonsense Then she went to the gym to shoot hoops, lift weights and as she delicately put it: “Kick ass before homework kicks mine ” Or maybe you throw that all out of the window and just be sensational like my engineering friend Div who takes 25 credits, sleeps at 11, wakes up at 6 and doesn’t seem to be the least bit bothered about his gruesome workload What’s remarkable is I’ve only seen him smiles from him Well except, once One night, he came back to his dorm, slightly tired and almost frowning It was such an astonishing event, I had him to ask him on the spot what happened

“Just a bad score on my test ”

Oh, really?

“Yeah, only got an A ” God Damnit Div

But for all the non-super geniuses out there, de-stressing

It’s wholly stupid, yet wildly entertaining Bart is the crack-up he makes fake phone calls, engages in pranks, and thumbs his nose at authorities Lisa is your typical egghead As singular entities, they can be boringly one-sided Together, they form a show that keeps me distracted just enough to remain sane, where the humor is a slight knife sharp, and aiming for the jugular

At one point during a particularly quirky exchange, Bart and Lisa are lying gloomily on their beds on a particularly horrendous summer camp experience run by a group of nasty camp counselors The wind is pounding their cabin doors, the temperature hovering below the freezing limit, their meals a mess of sludge and grovel They’ve just been forced to a day of sweatshop labor, making Gucci wallets for the vendors of Hong Kong and death marches around camp It’s miserable

A traumatized Lisa, shivering from the weather, can ’ t take it any longer She says:

“I feel like I’m going to die Bart ” Bart, a little sagely and coolly, replies, “We’re all going to die Lisa ” “I mean soon, ” she clarifies He sighs

“So did I ”

If that exchange doesn't sum up my life at this point, then I’m not sure what does

William Wang is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at wwang@cornellsun com Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester

w o r s t l o o k s t h i s s e m e s t e r

Maybe I should attempt to be s o m e w h a t p re d i c t a b l e I should make it a New Year’s resolution I’ll let you know how that goes Jokes, but I couldn’t always laugh There’s been many times when some matter or another made me feel so utterly flat Some felt like they were the last one I could handle Fortunately, that thought hasn't visited me this semester because of the last time it did

This is my first semester back after a nearly yearlong mental health leave Spent in the house that I had flown out of “ The last one ” came during, not before my leave I couldn’t motivate myself to do o r f e e l m u c h o f a n y t h i n g because I had been unregistered of a life that instructed me on what to do and feel Ever y day was spent in uncertainty of whether I’d even be readmitted “early ” It was my only and last chance since four more months was unthinkable I started to count down the days, then the hours of each day, to when I would find out if I would begin again I e n d u re d h o p e l e s s l y d i s a ppointed parents, hid exactly how bad I was doing from my therapist and dragged myself back into many closets to get (back) into Cornell and be a “Cornellian” again

Eventually, I decided not to tr y and conquer my leave, but to just get through it So, I did Since adopting that outlook, my life has changed for the better When I say my only goal is graduating, I’m not kidding It’s too easy, however, to say that I just lowered my standards I started to take less seriously the labels that created those standards that precipitated my leave in the first place, and through that therapy I developed an appreciation for my humanity within a context that suppressed it Well before I re c e i v e d a d e c i s i o n f r o m C o r n e l l He a l t h , I a c k n ow le d g e d t h a t d r o p p i n g o u t wouldn’t be the end of me

My leave helped, but not in t h e c o n v e n t i o n a l s e n s e

Forcing myself to lie about most of my truth made me fear that I might lose my abilit y t o l i v e i t T h a n k y o u , Paulina Glass, for letting me

c o n t i n u e t h i s c o l u m n Without it, I don’t know what

I would do Well, that, and a Word document saved on my

c o m p u t e r t h a t i s p a s s w o rd p r o t e c t e d 1 0 0 s i n g l espaced pages and counting of thoughts too deep for 900 words It’s called “How dare you ” and I’m still not kidding Writing became and remains my means of sur vival I'm literally living for it

When I did finally step foot on campus again, ever ything came bursting out I’m extra now, more than ever Through writing, I can flesh out the range and depth of emotion brought out by waiting for a text But it’s more than just t y p i n g Bl e n d i n g o p e n n e s s with self-expression is wholly liberating Each experience I go through, or rather, the feelings elicited by them and their memories, are par ts of me This means that no matter how horrible things may seem, ever ything is part of a progression Therein lies the reasoning behind my frequent interjection of “I wouldn’t say I’m a good person ” to the alarm of my listener I tr y to “just do right,” but don’t know what that means yet Having a premature sense of righteousness

health leaves at Cornell are structured reinforce this toxic culture

This culture of silence is why Asian Americans are three times less likely to seek mental h e a l t h s e r v i c e s t h a n w h i t e A m e r i c a n s T h i s s t a t i s t i c i s why I don’t provide the perspective for any one or intersecting identity for The Sun I offer one, but it’s mine I get t h e r a p y w e e k l y I h a v e n o qualms about going against any of the agendas attached to the labels imposed upon me, o r e x p re s s i n g f e e l i n g s t h a t don’t jive with them for reasons that I explained I have, just did several times over and will a few more times before this column ends They’re my identities

In that same vein, I don’t feel too obligated to meet any expectations or express myself in a certain way No one can renounce all shits, but I’m fairly selective I do my best, but sometimes my best is getting out of bed Even if I don’t finish all my work, I’m OK with d i s a p p o i n t i n g p e o p l e s o m etimes As an Asian American, that’s healthy For that computer science major who is

The expectations that labels impose on people make up the bulk of mental health concerns among the Cornell student body. “Cornellian” is one in itself.

is stunting and privileged to an extent The fact that “good” is t h e l a b e l t h a t I ’ m re s i s t i n g explains why I’m doing alright this semester

The expectations that labels impose on people make up the bulk of mental health concerns a m o n g t h e C o r n e l l s t u d e n t body “Cornellian” is one in itself If you aren ’ t reveling in stress and despair during finals we e k , t h e n yo u a re n ’ t o n e When someone feels the need to be outside the space afforded by this label, like talking about how this dynamic is affecting their mental health, they will likely choose not to Participating in a norm that we all bask in is easier than s h a r i n g a n o t h e r s e n t i m e n t Ev e n t h e w a y t h a t m e n t a l

taking six finals and is under i n t e n s e p re s s u re t o m e e t parental expectations, match t h o s e o f f r i e n d s a n d b u c k those of male counterpar ts, opening up about her off-thescript struggles in dealing with them is a good thing It could even be lifesaving Ever yone should feel free to say so, but i t ’ s r a re l y s a i d , l e t a l o n e expressed Let’s make a real resolution to listen more closely during these last few weeks, to others and ourselves Or, better yet, for the rest of our lives We are and will always be worth it

Narayan Reddy is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun com

Reddy Set Go! appears alternate Mondays this semester

Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

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’ ve enjoyed many a movie at Cornell Cinema, and I believe that art is what makes life worth living Naturally I tried to do what I could to protest the proposed defunding of the cinema by the Student Assembly I signed the petition, went to the S A meetings, even spoke to a few assembly members that I happen to know personally When I heard that the resolution had been tabled and that they’d decided to “negotiate on alternative funding possibilities,” I felt like I had played a very small role in accomplishing something good

On a meta-ethical level, however, I felt compelled to reflect on my decision to support this cause It seems silly to be worried about a movie theater while melting permafrost releases methane into the atmosphere Should I really be expending mental energy on Gabe Kaufman when the president of the United States just personally insulted a notoriously unstable, nuclearweapon wielding dictator?

Now I acknowledge that I am far from an activist dynamo If I haven’t gone to those student assembly meetings to defend Cornell Cinema, I probably would have stayed home and watched Curb Your Enthusiasm But for the sake of the discussion, let’s imagine the platonic ideal of a socially conscious go-getter What should this perfect progressive spend their time and energy defending?

Being active in one ’ s community is widely considered a commendable thing People identifying local issues and taking

a l s o b e e n r a i s e d by a g e n e r a t i o n o f p a re n t s t h a t a re s u bs e r v i e n t t o t h e n e e d s o f t h e i r c h i l d re n To d a y ’ s p a re n t s v i e w t h e m s e l ve s a s s a c r i f i c i a l l a m b s , e x i s t i n g o n l y t o b e tt e r t h e i r c h i l d re n T h i s , i n t u r n , h a s g i ve n m i l l e n n i a l s a s e n s e o f e n t i t l e m e n t – – a s e n s e t h a t t h e y d e s e r ve t h e s a m e k i n d o f s a c r i f i c i a l t re a t m e n t f ro m e ve r y h u m a n t h e y e n c o u n t e r In s h o r t , we m i l l e n n i a l s a re e n t i t l e d , i m p a t i e n t , s p o i l e d l i t t l e b r a t s – – a n d t h i s i s t h e ro o t o f s e x u a l a s s a u l t a m o n g t o d a y ’ s yo u t h B oy s h a ve g o n e t h e i r e n t i re l i ve s t h i n k i n g t h a t t h e w o r l d i s t h e i r s a n d b ox , a n d t h a t t h e y d e s e r ve t o h a ve w h a t e ve r t h e y w a n t , w h e n e ve r t h e y w a n t i t T h i s , o f c o u r s e , d o e s n o t m e s h we l l w i t h a w o m a n t h a t re b u f f s a s e x u a l a d va n c e Fo r t h e b oy w h o h a s k n ow n n o t h i n g b u t i m m e d i a t e g r a t i f i c a t i o n a n d t h

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun com Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester

P u r l o i n e d P ro g r e s s i v i s m , A l l i t e r a t i o n a n d C o r n e l l C i n e m a

steps to make their voices heard; what could be wrong with that? I do not think there is anything “ wrong ” with such action, but I do believe that it betrays an almost

If every activist chooses the issue that they are

t h i n g toward its ideal state

I c o n s i d e r Smithian thought to be the most blatantly fraudulent institution

advocate for an areligious break schedule that attempts to optimize student mental health, but I know that it would be better than polishing the turd and patting our-

bills) That being said, I think he’s got a point Singer is especially relevant in today’s climate (and I use the word “climate” both

I consider Smithian thought to be the most blatantly fraudulent institution since the selling indulgences, and with good reason. Free mark enable lapses in judgement, and a free marke sympathy is no different.

s i n c e t h e s e l l i n g o f indulgences, and with good reason Free markets enable lapses in judgement, and a free market of sympathy is no different Consider the “happy holidays” phenomenon Well-meaning individuals advocate the replacement of “Merry Christmas” with the phrase “happy holidays” so as not to place Christians above other members of society A fine sentiment, but it misses the big picture Hanukkah is not a Jewish high holiday; it attained its position in the public consciousness because it happens to be a ro u n d t h e s a m e t i m e a s C h r i s t m a s December is the holiday season because it’s the Christmas season Say “happy holidays” all you want, but nobody’s moving school vacation to late September or early October so that it’s in line with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur I don’t know if we should

selves on the back

Moral philosopher Peter Singer advocates for what he calls “effective altruism ” There should be no difference in the giver’s mind, Singer says, between a member of their community and a starving child thousands of miles away Or, to apply his thinking to our situation, there should be no difference in our minds between Cornell Cinema and a hospital in a third world country We shouldn’t let our personal attachments get in the way of using our resources to do the most good Nobody, including Singer himself, behaves completely in accordance with this advice (The following may be the most context-dependent and therefore misquotable statement of all time, but Singer has been rightly criticized for paying his mother’s hospital

instance) Ever yone should be in crisis mode if they aren ’ t already Yes, Cornell Cinema has a great deal of educational value, and education is the means by which society is improved But there’s no time for the long game The world is crashing down around us If ever yone were to march on Washington, there might be no one left to prevent the local park from becoming a Starbucks But unless the more

stuck on the treadmill

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun com The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DC Punches Back with Justice League

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

I’m writing this review disappointed and I’m surprised to say it’s not with the movie To be totally honest with you I was ready to cash in this review (not that I’m paid for these) In a lecture today the professor said the specifics of the slides wouldn’t be on the final so like any upstanding, journalistically-ethical Cornellian I totally checked out, ripped a page out of the back of my notebook and hammered out my opening paragraphs I had this whole thing written where I compared the Marvel and DC matchup to a football game where DC was being forced to throw it deep on first down I expected DC to settle for a field goal with Justice League after Wonder Woman put them squarely in the red zone Both

u n f o r t u n a t e l y a n d h a p p i l y, I ’ ve scrapped that intro because, wait for it: this movie was actually good Yeah! I know right?! Despite how much I was expecting to, I can ’ t trash this film

In my defense though, why wouldn’t it be bad? I didn’t love Man of Steel, Suicide Squad was a hot mess and, though I think it gets a bad rap, Batman v Superman had serious problems (“Martha!”

“Why did you say that name?! ahahahaha I mean how stupid was that, right?)

Wonder Woman was awesome but I chalked that up to solid directing and heavy focus on well motivated and acted characters

The film wasn ’ t written to be an

a n t i c i p a t i o n b u i l d e r f o r “ D C s Avengers” but rather to be an outstanding film in it’s own right Justice League didn’t look to be that kind well-focused film three of the six main characters hadn’t even been introduced to the universe yet, four if you count the main

b a d d i e ! It s p ro d u c t i o n s a w a

c h a n g e a t d i re c t o r, e x t e n s i ve rewrites and reshoots and an earthshattering mustache controversy

On top of all of that, the studio felt the need to mandate a sub-twohour runtime, so the movie came in at a cool hour and 59 minutes With everything the movie needed to do and all the in-production drama, I viewed Warner Brothers’ mandate as a Godsend After all, why would I want to endure more of what I assumed would be a bad movie?

Everything I liked about the earlier DCEU movies was largely carried over here and they fixed a lot of what I didn’t For example, unlike Batman v Superman, this movie didn’t look like it was shot in a “gritty” Instagram filter Justice League, as we ’ ve come to expect from these high budget films, is absolutely beautiful and surprised me with its brilliant flashes of c o l o r I a l s o f e l t t h e d i a l o g u e improved drastically when compared to the prior movies, but still wasn ’ t great

Despite all the hate I’ve heard towards the “Batfleck” casting decis i o n , I t h i n k Be n A f f l e c k h a s

excelled twice now as Batman Batman V Superman’s shortcomings were due to the rushed writing a n d m u d d l e d s t o r y l i n

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Snyder’s earlier film is the best Batman action ever put to film, surpassing even that of Christopher No

excellence in action is continued here across all characters Justice League’s fight scenes are hard-hitt

graphed, and that’s nowhere more apparent than when Batman’s in the fray I especially like how in this film they explored Wayne’s social “failings” in his disagreements with other members of the team Bruce Wayne’s life is anything but usual, and the writers on this film did a great job of coaxing Affleck into a performance that reflects that I’m just gonna put this at the beginning, Gal Gadot is perfect as

She’s fierce, witty and stunningly beautiful Everything you loved her for in her titular film on is display here and the audience gets to see behind the Amazon’s put-together exterior as she continues to struggle with the death of Steve Trevor in

n c e s e x u d e strength and speed I generally liked how Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne squabbled throughout the film Though it wasn ’ t executed perfectly (at times it felt forced), I liked that the movie at least tried to explore the idea that not everyone on the team would be on the same page immediately If nothing else, Justice League gave Gadot’s already we l l - d e ve l o p e d c h a r a c t e r e ve n more depth and she continued to be a bright point in the previouslysubpar DCEU

To talk about Superman/Clark Kent (Henry Cavill), I’m gonna have to “spoil” something, so consider this your warning for the rest of the paragraph Whether or not you ’ ve seen the film I actually want you to do this: raise your hand if you ’ re surprised Superman comes back to life Good? Now if you ’ re four years old, first of all, congratulations on reading this far and second, put your hand down Of c o u r s e Su p e r m a n c o m e s b a c k ! Hell, his “ not an S” hope symbol is on the poster so I took some issue with the movie trying to make the audience believe we might see a Justice League adaptation without t h e f a m o u s K r y p t o n i a n T h a t aside, Henry Cavill is another brilliant casting choice (that’s gonna be a recurring theme I think all the heroes in the DCEU are pretty perfectly casted) Similarly to how you might be forgiven for thinking

T h o r w a s b a s e d o n C h r i s Hemsworth, Cavill has a way of making me believe he is Superman My problem with Superman is that

kinda makes the rest of the gang obsolete When the dude wakes up he literally beats the shit out of the rest of the group Though part of my issue, watching him see the Flash then hitting Batman with a “do you bleed?” might’ve been the most badass sequence I’ve seen this year Maybe the idea is that for the Justice League to work they need all their members but I didn’t get here Superman is kind of “ game breaking ” Despite all that, like I mentioned, Cavill’s Superman is a hell of a lot of fun to watch It’s only in the comedown from the film that I even conjured up this gripe There we re a c o u p l e t i m e s w h e re Superman had the whole theater going crazy and I’m excited to see C a v i l l a g a i n , s a n s - m u s t a c h e , i n Shazam (which will come out in 2019 assuming DC can stick to their schedule) Finally, although Justice League features very little Clark Kent, I’d be remiss to not m e n t i o n t h a t I ’ m l ov i n g A m y Adams (Lois Lane) in just about everything lately

Aq u a m a n ( A r t h u r Cu r r y ) , Cy b o r

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r y ( Jason Momoa) and Cyborg/Victor Stone (Ray Fisher) I was pretty psyched when I heard Game of Thrones’ Khal Drogo was playing Aquaman, and Jason Momoa lived up to my expectations Similarly, I thought Ray Fisher was solid as Cyborg, though his CGI looked a l i t t l e w o

e looked more like an elaborate mask than a part of his body to me) While both characters looked cool in their action scenes and develop their own unique and witty rapports with the rest of the team, we got very little backstory on either character so I can t say all that m u c h a b o u t e i t h e r o f t h e m Aquaman’s set to get his own film in 2018, with Cyborg’s following in 2020, so I suppose I’ll update you all then Barry Allen and the Flash (Ezra Miller) are almost two distinct people Not that Barry s personality changes when he puts on the all-

too-technical suit, but that his two lives are different enough for the audience to give a rat ’ s ass about normal-speed Barry Allen To be totally honest, I don’t care about Diana Prince’s job as a museum

Su p e r m a n i s b e t t e r a t “ b e i n g ” human life than he is As for Aquaman and Cyborg, like I said earlier, we get very little exploration of their backstories and Clark Kent, apart from about five minutes of non-Superman screen time, is almost entirely absent from the film Barry, on the other hand, is a delight and is my favorite part of the movie He’s just hysterical! I’m a huge fan of The Flash TV show and was worried Ezra Miller wouldn’t fill Grant Gustin’s shoes to my liking To my pleasant surprise, he did! He was perfectly diminutive and gut-bustingly selfaware and though there’s currently no standalone Scarlet Speedster movie scheduled, I’m hoping we see him pop in and out of the universe in the coming years

Though his famous humor isn’t absent when Barry Allen dons the suit, I do have issues with his costume design and CGI of The Flash His suit just looks too serious for the character I get that changing it to reflect his humor would probably make it stick out to severely from the rest of the gang but to an extent his humor does the same thing Additionally, I just don’t know why the animators decided to make him run the way he does I can ’ t really describe it to you but he doesn’t even look playfully silly, he kinda looks stupid (though I’m a fan of the switch to blue lighting), which is a bummer for an otherwise awesome character!

This is where I’m gonna out myself as not being a comic reader, but I’d never even heard of this guy Steppenwolf before he appeared in the film My ignorance was a problem because, though I’m sure it’s better flushed out in the comics, I really had no clue what this guy ’ s m o t i va t i o n s we re o t h e r t h a n “destroy the world with these three boxes ” Sure, he, his parademons

and the hellscape they tried to create looked great in terms of CGI, but the cronies lapsed into feeling like that generic army of practice dummies for our heroes to be mildly inconvenienced by on their way to fight the boss And even t h e n , t h e f i n a l f i g h t w i t h Steppenwolf was somewhat anticlim a c t i c Fo r m e , St e p p e n w o l f served as a fine entry level team-up movie villain and, to be fair, I can ’ t even remember who the bad guy was in the first Avengers He did mention Darkseid, who we can now pencil down as the villain in the Justice League sequel, but other than that did very little to further the DCEU story arc in his own right other than being a unifying evil for the good guys to rally against

All my gripes with Justice League can be attributed to the fact that DC has been playing catchup to Marvel since Man of Steel To present, Marvel’s had 17 films spanning back to 2008, all of them i n c o r p o r a t e d i n t o t h e M C U Compare that to DC’s five over four years and you can see why some of the DCEU’s exposition feels rushed and forced So while it might be somewhat excusable, the writing of these films up to this point has lagged behind Marvel’s s t a n d a rd Po s i t i ve l y t h o u g h , despite some definite issues in the script, the newest film shows that DC is capable of slowing down and simply making a good movie

After the now mandatory two post-credit scenes (the second of which was actually surprising and a we s o m e ) , m y f r i e n d s a n d I couldn’t wait to talk about our favorite parts and that simply doesn ’ t happen with bad films If I can compare this to boxing, Wonder Woman was DC getting off the mat and Justice League is one hell of a cross It’s increasingly seeming like we might be gearing up for a future where the two comic behemoths can go toe to toe regularly, and that’s a future I’m excited for

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nsmith@cornellsun com

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

When I heard that Sony Animation, the same studio that brought us The Emoji Movie, was going to be attempting a Biblical story, I prepared for the worst I feared that it would only give us relentless pandering and cringe-worthy gags I mean, the teaser has a bird shaking his butt at a couple of dogs, so I feel like I was justified in bracing myself Finally The Star has hit theaters, and I find myself, thankfully, relieved While it has several flaws, The Star manages to deliver its own take on the Nativity that feels sincere and has its own unique edges

The Star is directed by Timothy Reckart, and written by Carlos Kotkin and Simon Moore It opens with the Annunciation of Mary (Gina Rodriguez), where she is informed that she will bear the Messiah, the Son of God This is overheard by a field mouse who rushes off to tell everyone the good news We then meet a donkey called Bo, played by Steven Yeun He’s fed up with being a mill donkey, so he and his friend Dave, a dove voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, plan to escape and join the royal caravan

Once they do they run into Mary and Joseph (Zachary Levi), and end up inadvertently sucked into the Nativity narrative

Now normally, I break down my reviews into a “positives” section,

How Does The Star Present Christmas?

followed by a “negatives” section

With The Star though, it’s a little difficult to do that because every strength is dulled by a shortcoming, and most flaws are tempered by a silver lining Starting with the characters, we have an exceptionally mixed

though? Well, Bo is a likable enough protagonist, and follows a simple plot arc where he ends up turning down the royal caravan in order to help Mar y Predictable, yes, but effective enough for kids Dave the dove can get a little grating at times,

cere Any time something dramatic or frightening happens, the film insists on immediate goofiness and cartoony sound effects It s like The Star wants to be bold, but every time it is, the movie immediately says “Never mind, we want to be a kids’

bag The biggest problem here is the sheer VOLUME of characters The central conflict revolves around Bo and Dave helping Mary and Joseph get to Bethlehem while avoiding a brutish soldier with two dogs dispatched by Herod Right there, you have a clean and concise plot But that’s not enough for The Star We need to also involve the camels of the three wise kings, and a sheep who talks about the importance of having a flock and three wacky stable animals The result is an overwhelming number of characters! How about our main characters

but ultimately pulls through in the end Mary is presented well, with all the tenderness I would think befitting her Joseph is a little more mixed In The Star, Joseph undergoes his own personal conflict: he feels that he’s unworthy to raise the Son of God Now that’s a concept that doesn’t get talked about a whole lot and is worth really delving into But we don’t have time for that, because Joseph has some wacky slapstick hijinks to get into!

That’s the biggest problem in The Star, an over-reliance on humor that makes the movie feel less sin-

movie ” It’s a similar situation to Thor: Ragnarok, where dramatic themes get undercut by an overuse of humor Of course, a comic book movie can get away with it more easily, while The Star is about a Biblical story that’s a cornerstone of faith for billions of people globally

It’s a shame because there are some genuinely good moments within The Star For example, in the climax the evil brutish soldier is dangling off a cliff, weighed down by his two hunting dogs, who are also developed characters Bo offers to help him, but the soldier refuses

Instead, he decides to drop his dead weight that being, the two dogs It’s executed really well, and left me chilled in a PG movie Sadly, such a brilliant scene has to rub shoulders with dialogue like “Nazareth can kiss my gleaming white tail feathers goodbye!”

Moving on to the animation, I have to say it actually looks good, considering a $17 million budget Cinesite Animation did the visual work on this movie, and they honestly did pretty well One note I have to make though, a huge mark of praise, is in the character design of Mary and Joseph specifically The Star’s Mary and Joseph look like they do actually live in the Middle East, and I just have to remark that I’m thankful for that accuracy there I went into the theater bracing for the worst, and thankfully I did not get the worst The Star does suffer from a severe tonal mismatch, and I wish it had taken itself a little more seriously That said, I still found different elements that I did enjoy I went to a screening full of children, and there were plenty of laughs that I heard around the theater There was even a joke or two that I enjoyed All in all, it’s a decent movie, but with more focus it could have been great

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at djg284@cornell edu

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Sheldon Rempal, who took two touches to send the Knights to a 3-0 lead

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As a program full of talented freshmen facing their first loss of the season, Schafer put a majority of the blame on the upperclassmen, saying that they did not show the typical leadership qualities they portray to come away on top “ The old guys tonight need a kick in the ass from how they played,” he said “ They’re the ones that [have to] lead the young guys to show h ow u p s e t t h e y a re with regards to losing that kind of game on our home ice ” Things got off to an uncharacteristically rocky start for the Red Within the first minute of the game, sophomore defenseman Yanni Kaldis was sent to the penalty box for

w a s n ’ t j u s t o n [ Ga l a j d a ] , i t w a s o n a l l

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Cornell seemed to generate some chances for itself in the second period but was unable to get anything past Clarkson netminder Jake Kielly “Definitely we didn’t create

Cornell freshman defenseman Alex Green was then sent to the penalty box after being c a l l e d f o r a h o l d t o g i

play Just 28 seconds into the man-advantage, Rempal recorded another point as he sent the puck to Terrance Amorosa, who ripped it near the blue line into the upper-right corner of the Cornell net It gave Clarkson the 4-0 lead, which ended up being the final scoreline of the game for the Golden K

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nation’s best penalty kill team, which had

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penalty killing unit would once again bail their team out That is, until the final three seconds

Astren tried a one-timer from the point, ripping it past freshman goalie Matthew Galajda’s glove to give Clarkson the early 1 - 0 l e

game

Things would not get any easier for the Red in the opening period, as Clarkson kept up the relentless offensive pressure Freshman Jack Jacome took the puck from Cornell sophomore for ward Jeff Malott and raced down to the Red’s goal, sliding the puck past Galajda to give t h e Go l d e n K n i g h t s a n o t h e r tally at the 14:39 mark of the opening frame “ T

as [many chances] as we would have liked to, ” said junior capt a i n a n d f o r w a rd M i t c h Vanderlaan “I don’t think we were as good as we could have been on entries, either, but we’ll all get together and go over the power plays and sort that out in the coming days ” Senior for ward Jared Fiegl later had a pass sent to him through the air, catching the Clarkson defender off guard Fiegl only had Kielly left to beat

After the opportunity in on Kielly, Fiegl began to celebrate a n d Ly n a h e r u p t e d , a s i t seemed like the Red cut the deficit to one But the puck hit the post and bounced out, and with no-call by the referees, p l a y c o n t i n u e d o n a n d l e f t Cornell scoreless

A f t e r a n o t h e r o n e - o n - o n e chance with Kielly, this time when junior for ward Anthony A n g e l l o ’ s s h o t o n g o a l w a s deflected wide, Clarkson got the save and came back with the counterattack On the Red side of the ice, Clarkson’s Devin Brosseau gathered the puck and sent the pass to his teammate

shutout of the season

looked like

shell of the squad that star ted its season 7-0 A team that only gave up nine

Saturday gave up four in the first two periods alone, and was successful in only 67 percent of its penalty kills, compared to just over 94 percent heading into Saturday It never found its groove on offense either, being outshot by Clarkson, 2315 and going 0-6 on power plays C o r n e l l , n ow 7 - 1 o n t h e year, will look to rebound when it hosts Niagara Tuesday night “ We should definitely have c

, ” Kaldis added “It’s our first loss of the year It’s not the end of the world [but] we have to have o u r b e s t g a m e o f y e a r o n Tuesday ”

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun com

Red Ends 2017-18 Campaign Tied With Harvard for 5th in Ivy League

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record in the Ivy League to tie with Harvard for fifth

“What a spectacular effort out of their all-everything Justin Watson,” said head coach David Archer ’05 “Especially down the stretch he might have touched the ball every play I don’t know very many people in our league or in the FCS that can make some of the catches that he made ”

Watson showed the league’s No 1 pass defense why he is the best offensive player in the Ancient Eight; on his Senior Day, he hauled in 13 passes for 192 yards and a touchdown With a dizzying array of screen passes, crisp routes and long receptions downfield, Watson, who is likely NFL-bound, dominated the game, and Cornell had no answer for him on defense

Following Watson’s fourth-quarter catch and the ensuing touchdown run, Cornell faced a seven-point deficit with two minutes to go After some tidy offensive work capped off by a 28-yard reception by senior wide receiver Collin Shaw, the Red worked its way all the way down the field to the Penn 1-yard line

With 18 seconds left, sophomore running back Harold Coles was stymied at the line The clock continued to run, and it appeared as though junior quarterback Dalton Banks’ spike was just milliseconds too late; the game clock hit zero and Penn fans screamed in elation

But the referees conferred and awarded Cornell with one more second; one more chance to win; one more opportunity to earn the Red’s first winning record in the Ivy League since 2005

But Banks’ pass was knocked down at the goal line, ending the Red’s season in heartbreaking fashion

“What a football game What a football game, ” Archer said “My senior class and my team showed a lot of character to come down here and play this type of football game against a really good team ”

The teams traded leads early in the first half with neither

pulling away With two first-half interceptions as well as a third in the fourth quarter sophomore cornerback David Jones was critical to keeping Cornell competitive in the opening two quarters His first pick set up Cornell’s first score of the game, a 32-yard field goal from Nickolas Null that gave the Red the lead Later in the half, with Penn’s offense in the red zone, Jones’ second pick derailed the Quakers’ scoring attempt to preserve Cornell’s 10-7 lead

“They were driving to score and he comes up with a pick, what a great effort,” Archer said of the sophomore, who is also the team ’ s primary kick-returner “He’s really emerged as a playmaker in the kick game and certainly the defensive secondary ”

Eventually, the Quakers built themselves a 21-10 lead into halftime They looked to add a fourth touchdown early in the second half when the squad marched to the Red’s 13-yard line, but once again a member of Cornell’s secondary came up huge when it mattered Senior captain and safety Nick Gesualdi tipped the ball up to himself and came down with it as he fell out of bounds The interception was the 14th of Gesualdi’s decorated Cornell career, leaving him one shy of tying the all-time program record

But after the Red punted it away, Watson and the Penn offense went to work, going 97 yards in 13 plays for the goahead score Cornell’s potential game-tying drive, and bid for a winning Ivy record, fell just short

Despite the result, the team remains steadfast in its assertion that Cornell football has made strides in the past few years, and that much more is yet to come

“The biggest thing we ’ ve always talked about is changing the culture, the culture of a losing team, ” said Gesualdi, one of 25 seniors to have experienced two straight 1-9 campaigns to open their careers “We’ve finally got that out of here This year is the first year in which we finally pushed it all aside ”

“The biggest thing we’ve always talked about is changing the culture, the culture of a losing team.”

Cornell then marched 92 yards down the field for a touchdown, culminating with senior Mac Pope’s first career score in his final career game After the Red’s two-point conversion came up empty, Cornell trailed Penn by five with 4:37 left in the third quarter

On the Red’s next offensive drive, Coles’ 44-yard tacklebreaking run brought the Red to the Quakers’ six-yard line Four plays later, a Banks quarterback sneak gave Cornell a narrow one-point advantage with 14 minutes to play in the game

Jones made it a hat trick of picks on the drive following the touchdown, snagging a pass deep in Cornell territory to keep the Quakers out of the end zone

To many of the seniors, that culture change is one of their proudest accomplishments on the team

Said Shaw, whose five-year Cornell career came to an end Saturday: “The class that I was in that graduated last year and the class this year have really stepped up and have been like, ‘Buy in and we ’ re going to freaking win a championship ’ Obviously we fell short of our goal but we completely flipped the culture of this program and we ’ re actually competing in every game ”

Archer who has said he has a special connection to this year ’ s senior class, his first recruits as a head coach added that while it was difficult to send out the seniors on a sour note, he is confident they have been instrumental to the program ’ s improvement

“From when they came here we were not competitive in football games to being competitive in every game they play and competing for a title and being relevant for a title in week nine,” he said “I’m really proud of these seniors who have left this place better than they found it Night and day ”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun com

TURKEY, TURKEY, BURNING BRIGHT, FULL OF DARK MEAT, FULL OF LIGHT, HOW SOON ARRIVE THE FESTIVE DAYS WHEN HEAD & CHEST MUST PART THEIR WAYS! YOUR TIME HAS COME TO SQUAWK & HOBBLE, BUT DO NOT FEAR, O NOBLE GOBBLE, FOR GOD (I THINK) IN WRIT PROCLAIMED,

“A TURKEY FOR ROASTING IS E’RE ORDAINED.”

SO INTO STOVE YOU MUST BE THRUST, AND AT YOUR LEGS GROWN MEN WILL LUST! BUT BE CONSOLED, O MIGHTY FOWL: YOU SURE TASTE BETTER THAN AN OWL.

Traditional Cornell Daily Sun Thanksgiving poem by D. Michael Rosenberg ’78 and J G S ’74

Yale Runs Away With First Solo Title Since 1980

Preseason No 4 Bulldogs dominate preseason No 1 Harvard in The Game at home for outright crown

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

So much for a seven-way tie

Although the 2017 Ivy League football season was certainly a wild one, there was one team who emerged as the league’s best: the Yale Bulldogs After routing Harvard in The Game, Yale finished the season 9-1 overall and 6-1 in Ivy play, one game better than both Columbia and Dartmouth The Red (3-7, 3-4 Ivy) finished tied for fifth after a crushing loss to Penn, only one spot better than last season despite sitting tied atop the league just a few weeks ago

Entering week eight, the league faced the slim, but real, possibility of a seven-way tie if all the results went the right way Yale made sure that did not happen, besting Princeton and dominating the Crimson in the last two weeks for its first Ivy title since 2006 and its first outright crown since 1980 Columbia and Dartmouth did their part with wins in their respective matchups to stay alive for the title this weekend, but the Bulldogs, who lost just one game in 2017 to Dartmouth by a single point, made the wins meaningless

Yale 24, Harvard 3

After clinching at least a share of the Ivy title last weekend, Yale needed a win Saturday to own that championship outright And what better way to do it than over arch-rival Harvard in the most anticipated game of the year

Despite getting off to a bit of a slow start, the Bulldogs, ranked No 4 heading into the 2017 season, found their stride and had no trouble with the Crimson, dominating their way to a 24-3 victory in front of a raucous 51,000 fans at the Yale Bowl

Yale’s defense used four turnovers to keep Harvard out of the end zone for the Crimson’s second consecutive week without a touchdown, and the Bulldogs added a defensive score as well Freshman running back Zane Dudek led the way for Yale’s rushing attack, which finished the day with 118 more yards Dudek ends his rookie season with a league-leading 1,133 yards on the ground and 15 rushing touchdowns

Harvard freshman quarterback Jake Smith was ineffective, throwing for just 83 yards and coughing up two fumbles before being pulled in the second half With the loss, Harvard falls to 5-5, its worst record since 2000 Yale now leads the overall series with Harvard 67 to 59

Columbia 24, Brown 6

While it proved impossible, Columbia entered its final matchup of the season with a shot at the league crown just one game back of Yale The Lions became the latest team to beat up on a winless Brown team which fell to 0-7 in the conference after Saturday’s 24-6 defeat But Columbia, which finished with a magical 8-2 campaign, had to settle for second after Yale’s win

It was another huge day for Columbia wide receiver Josh Wainwright who caught 13 passes for 127 yards and a touchdown to go over 1000 for the season Quarterback Anders

Grapplers Impress in Win No. 1

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Claiming its largest margin of victory over a ranked opponent since 2014, No 19 Cornell wrestling topped No 13 Northern Iowa, 30-10, to begin the 2017-18 season with plenty to be happy about

Sophomore Chaz Tucker (133) put the victory in motion with a second period fall in the first match of the evening, earning his team a quick six points It was the Red’s first of three falls on the evening

In what was a tough first matchup against UNI, the youthful core of Cornell managed to start their collegiate wrestling careers on the right foot All three freshman won their matches

Hoping to make a name for himself like his brother, two-time NCAA Champion Gabe Dean ’17, No 17 freshman Max Dean (184) upset No 4 Drew Foster of UNI by decision, 9-7

Earlier on, freshman Yianni Diakomihalis, ranked No 13 at 141 pounds, claimed another C o r n e l l v i c t o r y ove r a r a n k e d w re

Diakomihalis won by decision over No 14 Josh Alber, 5-2

The last of the freshmen was Ben Darmstadt

Panthers’ Jacob Holschlag with a fall midway through the first period of the match

Alongside Tucker and Darmstadt, junior Jon Jay Chavez (165) also earned the Red six points In the waning moments of the second period, and with his team holding a slim 9-7 lead over UNI, Chavez completed the pin on Dan Kelly a decisive moment in Friday’s dual meet

Following the Chavez fall, Cornell won four of its remaining five matches, ending with a 20point victory in what Koll described before the

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Nonetheless, Koll’s squad took care of business

The margin of victory was the largest against a ranked opponent since a 34-0 sweeping of No 14 Virginia Tech in 2014

Next up for Cornell is a prolonged hiatus before the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec 1, where the squad will try its hands against some of the nation’s best wrestlers

Hill did what he needed to do, completing 19 of 26 and not turning the ball over Brown heads into the offseason with a 2-8 record, an embarrassing mark for a team expected to finish in the middle of the pack

The Lions, on the other hand, have completely turned around their football program No longer bottom-dwellers, Columbia finished the 2017 season 8-2 and earned a tremendous amount of respect along the way

Dartmouth 54, Princeton 44

Dartmouth found itself in the same position as Columbia entering the final week, needing a win and a Yale loss The Green did its job in Hanover but also like Columbia, found no luck down in New Haven

In what was the day’s wildest game, Dartmouth found a way to top the Tigers, 54-44, behind a 34-point fourth quarter effort that was too much for Princeton to overcome The Green stood strong in a game that featured seven lead changes, five of which came in the fourth quarter

Dartmouth got the win done primarily on the ground, amassing a whopping 343 yards of rushing Running back Jared Gerbino ran for 203 yards on 32 carries to go along with an impressive four touchdowns

Princeton’s Chad Kanoff did everything he could in defeat, tallying 444 passing yards and three touchdowns Kanoff finishes the season atop the league in just about every passing stat, but the defending-champion Tigers, ranked No 1 entering the season, fell to 2-5 in the Ivy League, better than only Brown Dartmouth finishes tied for second

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun com

Icers Best St. Lawrence, 6-1

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Red de-canonizes the Saints behind sophomore’s hat trick

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

Noah Bauld, never one to shy away from the big stage, was forced to watch from the sidelines as his teammates celebrated their dramatic win over Harvard last weekend

With a bit of a chip on his shoulder, the sophomore used the past week in practice leading up to Friday night’s matchup against St Lawrence wisely, practicing well enough to earn himself a spot back in the lineup

Bauld took full advantage of the opportunity, recording a hat trick against St Lawrence to power

No 6/5 Cornell men ’ s hockey’s 6-1 de-canonization of the Saints to improve to 7-0 on the year

“I used it as a little bit of motivation,” Bauld said of the emotions that came with sitting out against Harvard “We’ve got a deep lineup this year so I have to work for everything that I can get ”

“It obviously shows he doesn’t want to come out of the lineup again,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 added of his sophomore forward’s performance Friday night

Despite Bauld’s first career hat trick, members of the Lynah Faithful got to keep their hats on a chilly Ithaca evening Cornell’s sixth goal at the 17:40 mark of the third period was initially credited to senior for-

Tale of two games | Cornell completely overpowered the Saints Friday but received its own medicine the following night

Men fall flat in Saturday’s clash of top 10 teams, shut out for first time

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

For a Cornell men ’ s hockey team that entered Saturday’s tilt dominating a majority of the teams it came across thus far, the Red was never able to find its groove against Clarkson the only other remaining undefeated team in conference play which was visiting Ithaca for the first time since last season ’ s ECAC quarterfinals series at Lynah Saturday’s top-10 matchup between Cornell and Clarkson

would determine who sat alone atop of the conference And in the pivotal early-season bout, the Golden Knights scored twice in each of the first two periods, manhandling Cornell for the 4-0 win to end the Red’s undefeated start to the year

“Give Clarkson all the credit in the world, I thought they played a great game, ” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said following his team ’ s first loss “They played a lot grittier They took it to us in all facets of the game ”

Red Ends Season in Heartbreaking Fashion to Penn

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

PHILADELPHIA The men of Cornell football thought they had the chance to secure their first winning record in the Ivy League since 2005 on

star receiver shredded Cornell for 192 receiving yards, including a diving 34yard reception that set up the Quakers’ game-winning score late in the fourth quarter The senior helped Penn edge Cornell, 29-22, in the season finale for both teams

provides optimism

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

PHILADELPHIA

The last play in Cornell football’s 29-22 loss to Penn in the sea-

game-tying pass attempt broken up as the game clock expired is about as heartbreaking as any storyline out there But with the disappointment of the final