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IFC Votes to Ban All Alcohol From Spring Rush

Votes for stronger regulations on night events, frst-year curfew

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun City Editor

In another reform to the fraternity rushing process passed on Tuesday night, the Interfraternity Council voted to ban alcohol — and tighten other rules — at spring rush events.

The Tuesday proposal, which was voted on by the fraternity presidents, passed with a supermajority, IFC President Cristian Gonzalez ’20 said. All fraternities were represented, he said.

The changes attempt to reform many of fraternities’ traditional spring recruitment practices, which Gonzalez called “laissez-faire.”

Fraternities will be forbidden from serving alcohol at any recruitment events. Other drastic changes include a curfew for freshmen who are participating in the recruitment process, commonly called rushing. First-years will be expected to sign into their dorm with their Residential Advisor, the proposal suggests, who will check if they are sober.

afterwards, Gonzalez said. Other proposals, which will be released in full in the next few days, also mandated fraternities register all night events and that potential new members abide by a curfew which will be set by IFC.

“They’ve found that these have been the necessary steps ... in order to create a more safe environment.”

The purpose of a curfew is to prevent fraternity chapters from inviting potential new members for late-night events; violation of the curfew could result in loss of recruitment eligibility, Gonzalez said. The IFC president said that he would be in talks with residential life staff in the upcoming days to assess the plan’s feasibility and implementation. While the reforms are fairly unprecedented, Gonzalez said he’s received mainly positive feedback.

Cristian Gonzalez ’20

“They’ve found that these have been the necessary steps … in order to create a more safe environment for everything,” Gonzalez said. “They feel that everything’s at stake.”

University Suspends Mock Trial Team Over Hazing Of New Members Last Fall

The University placed the Mock Trial team on a temporary suspension for the fall 2019 semester for hazing that occurred during the fall 2018 semester. The investigation found the team had engaged in two events considered hazing, in violation of the Campus Code of Conduct.

As a tradition of the Mock Trial team, members were divid-

ed into three separate teams to compete in a “Gauntlet,” according to the report published to the University’s hazing website on Nov. 7. The challenge consisted of finishing a sheet of pizza, a 30 rack of beer, a fifth of liquor and a “mystery condiment” such as Nutella or frosting. The report noted that soda was available as a substitute.

While there was no time limit

In the past, fraternities “contacted” freshmen in their dorms on two occasions in the evening around 7 - 9 p.m., but the IFC proposed to push those later into the night to encourage freshmen to stay in their dorms instead of attending parties

Tuesday’s resolution is the latest in a string of reform attempts by the IFC, and was approved hours after President Martha Pollack promised to announce Greek Like reforms by the end of the semester.

After the death of first-year Antonio Tsialas ’23,

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Former Cornell Student Admits to Murder of Father After Prior Acquittal

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun News Editor

Charlie Tan ’17, a former Cornell student, admitted in an affidavit filed in federal court on Monday to killing his father, Liang “Jim” Tan, in 2015. Tan was arrested for the murder but the charges were dropped after a four-week trial that ended in a hung jury in 2016.

“I entered my parent’s home through the back door, walked upstairs turned into my father’s office and shot my father three times as he was sitting at his desk. I knew I had killed him,” Tan wrote in the affidavit.

Tan is currently in prison; he was sentenced in to 20 years in jail in November 2018 after pleading guilty to three federal

gun charges filed in connection to the gun used in the 2015 murder of his father.

Tan is seeking a reduced sentence based on ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing. Rochester criminal defense attor-

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gun charges and during the state murder trial.

Tan claims the two failed to provide the full history of domestic violence and abuse within Tan’s family and advised him not to admit guilt.

“They advised me not to admit that I shot my father. They were legal experts, and so I accepted that strategy.”

Charlie Tan ’17

and Brian DeCaroli represented Tan during sentencing for the

“They advised me not to admit that I shot my father. They were the legal experts, and so I accepted that strategy, even though I knew what I had done was wrong,” Tan wrote.

New York City-based attorney Joel B. Rudin is currently representing Tan on his motion.

After the murder charges were dropped because the judge declared a mistrial, Tan declined to return to Cornell

ahead of a campus disciplinary hearing, The Sun previously reported. He instead returned to living in Canada, but was arrested at the border in September 2017 on the gun charges while attempting to return to the US for a friend’s wedding.

The gun used in the murder was purchased by Whitney Knickerbocker ’18, his friend and fraterity brother. The charges stemmed from the fact that Tan tricked Knickerbocker into buying the gun and ammunition for “hunting purposes,” and because he knew the gun would be used in a crime.

In the affidavit, Tan describes a history of abuse within his household and growing

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World Philosophy Day

11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Willard Straight Hall

Biennial Roundtable - Cornell Biennial 2020 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m., 407 Olive Tjaden Hall

Religious Authority and Islamist Extremist Success In Java, Indonesia Noon - 1:30 p.m., Kahin Center

Caregiver Support & Education Network Meeting Noon - 1 p.m., 395 Pine Tree Road, Room 241

Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in U.S. Foreign Policy 12:15 - 1:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall

Frances Harper, William Still, and Reconstruction Installment

12:15 p.m., 404 Morrill Hall

Undergraduate Lunch Series: Ross Brann 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., 410 White Hall, Lounge

Summer Research Opportunities With the Leadership Alliance 4:45 - 6 p.m., 206 Stimson Hall

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ADELANTE! Latinx Student Experiences Noon, 429 Rockefeller Hall

Jon McKenzie: Media Studies Midday Colloquium Noon - 1:15 p.m., 311 Uris Library, Media Classroom

Berger International Speaker Series: Enrique Gonzalez J.D. ’91 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., 182 Myron Taylor Hall

Composers Forum: Colin Tucker 1:30 p.m., B27 Lincoln Hall

Philosophy Discussion Club 3 - 5 p.m., 206 Stimson Hall

Guest Artist in Dance Ayo Jackson: “White is the New Black” Performance 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Class of ’56 Dance Theatre

Kwanza Necklaces and Bracelets Making 7 - 8 p.m., William T. Keeton House

Ice Cream Night

8 p.m., Carl Becker House, Conference Room

Star Wars Movie Night 8 p.m., William T. Keeton House TV Room

Solar Flashback: History of Cornell Greek Life

By SHRUTI JUNEJA and BREANNE FLEER Sun Senior Editors

Greek life is one of the oldest and most controversial systems at Cornell. The current structure of Greek life that we’re familiar with has been decades in the making, and in this week’s Solar Flashback, we wanted to take a look back at some of the most significant policy changes involving social Greek organizations. As Greek life reforms come into the spotlight once again, it’s important to understand its history in order to gain insights for future change.

Solar Flashbacks is a special project connecting The Sun’s — and Cornell’s — past to the present to understand how this rich history has shaped the campus today. Flashbacks appear periodically throughout the semester. #ThrowbackThursday

Greek life at Cornell has evolved throughout the history of the University, inspiring camaraderie and controversy, and continues to play a profound role in the lives of students today.

Fraternities: The Early Days

The first fraternities appeared at Cornell over a decade before The Sun printed its first issue. In fact, seven fraternities — Zeta Psi, Chi Phi, Kappa Alpha, Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Psi and Delta Upsilon — existed at Cornell by the end of the University’s first year, according to the 1962 book A History of Cornell, by Morris Bishop 1913 M.A. 1914.

But before the fledgling University had reached the 1870s, opposition to fraternities had already developed.

“Against the fraternities the Independents organized, as early as December 1868, with the declaration that fraternities are ‘the foulest blots upon college life,’” Bishop wrote.

However, these social organizations continued to flourish at Cornell, and Alpha Delta Phi built the first chapter house in 1878, according to Bishop. In 1881, Kappa Alpha Theta emerged as Cornell’s first sorority, Bishop wrote.

Decades later, in 1906, seven Cornell students made history by founding the country’s first African American intercollegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, according to a Cornell Library exhibit. National members included figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Misbehavior

Over the years, Greek organizations have had their fair share of accusations of misbehavior — ranging from minor infractions to larger concerns about rush practices.

In 1958, “penalties for four of the five members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, whose theft of a cedar tree from University property last Friday resulted in an auto accident, have been imposed by the Men’s Judiciary Board and upheld by the President’s Committee on Student Conduct.”

At Zeta Psi in 1973, “a Cornell freshman was branded with a hot iron and received second-degree burns at a fraternity initiation.”

Furthermore, the concept of “dirty rushing,” or rushing outside of the official recruitment period, is nothing new.

In the years around 1915, “dirty rushing exploded into a wild free-for-all among houses competing for the most desirable freshmen. A conflict ‘of the survival of the fittest’ developed; ‘freshmen were kidnapped, taken out of town overnight, barricaded in their rooms, hid in cellars and attics,’” according to a Sun column from 1959.

In September 1948, the IFC had to hold a special session in Barnes Hall “as a result of a number of fraternities being charged with ‘dirty rushing.’”

Second semester rushing was instituted for the first time in 1954, with the column from 1959 stating that “deferred rushing has been accepted with somewhat less violence.”

In 1955, a controversial column titled “Problem of Dirty Rushing” described how “experience at other schools has often led certain individuals at this school to state that deferred rushing is unfeasible because it is impossible to eliminate dirty rushing.”

However, the column continued that the IFC formed “a special committee” to address “the immediate problem of forming a set of regulations to meet the situation.” At the time, it was “suggested by some that the most feasible means of doing so would be to impose a strict moratorium

between fraternity men and the freshmen, with penalties both for the fraternity and the individual when violations occur.”

Exclusivity Concerns, Anti-Discrimination Reforms,

and the Ban Debate

In October 1949, The Sun reported that the number of rushees to Greek organizations had broken previous records, with hundreds of students pledging Greek houses. Greek life remained strong as ever, but concerns of exclusivity loomed.

A November 15, 1949, a Sun editorial urged fraternities to adopt anti-discrimination measures, noting efforts taken by the University of Michigan’s Interfraternity Council to tackle “racial and religious prejudice.”

The question of discrimination persisted.

In an April 1965 column, Nathaniel W. Pierce ’66 argued that despite the strong anti-discrimination position of the University president and a series of IFC resolutions, “much more remains to be done.”

“As long as there is one fraternity that is restricted by its national as to the type of freshmen that may be pledged, the entire Cornell fraternity system will suffer, as will the reputation of Cornell University,” he wrote.

While there is less information on the plight of sororities, in 1958 “the constitutions and by-laws of the 13 national sororities represented at the University have been found to contain ‘no limiting clauses’ with respect to membership selection.”

Within Cornell’s first couple of decades, the issue of socioeconomic privilege also caught attention. In 1887, Bishop explained, living in a fraternity house “cost from $200 to $500 more than lodging-house existence,” so this option was “restricted to the wealthy.”

These critiques, both about racial discrimination and financial exclusivity, contributed to the formation of a group for the banning of Greek life in 1985. On Oct. 7, The Sun reported the formation of “People for the Elimination of the Greek System (PEGS).”

“We believe that without the Greek system, the Cornell campus would be a better place. Sexism, outright misogyny, racism, homophobia, elitism and tribalism would be reduced,” PEGS members Daniel Carew ’86, Harry Sices ’88 and Daniel Browder ’88 wrote in a letter to the editor later that fall.

Other students defended Greek life in response, arguing that their sorority experiences had allowed them to better appreciate diversity.

“We can honestly say that we have become more tolerant

as a result of belonging to a sorority. We now have sorority sisters that we know and love, so different from ourselves,” Rena Hecht ’87 and Brenda Bailey ’87 wrote in a letter to the editor.

In Recent Years

Over the years, participation in Greek life surged from a quarter of male students in 1887, with a humble 14 fraternities to choose from according to Bishop, to one-third of the campus today, featuring a choice of 60 recognized fraternities and sororities according to the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life. Over 4,500 undergraduates hold membership in one of these organizations.

These organizations are divided into the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council, not including professional fraternities and honor organizations.

The Greek system has again provoked attention and debate over recent incidents and disciplinary infractions. Since 2004, there have been 67 incidents in which Greek organizations were officially found guilty of hazing, according to University records.

In 2011, George Desdunes ’13 — a sophomore at the time — died after being forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol the night before at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Three students involved in the hazing incident were found not guilty by a Tompkins County Court, and Cornell disbanded the chapter.

In September 2017, a Zeta Psi member allegedly chanted “build a wall” near the Latino Living Center, The Sun previously reported. Zeta Psi Nationals and the member

apologized, though La Associacíon Latina called on all Greek organizations to “take active steps” to remedy the problem “deeply ingrained within the current culture.”

Also in September 2017, Black Students United accused Psi Upsilon members of being behind the shouting of racial slurs in an incident in Collegetown, The Sun reported. A black student said four or five white men had yelled slurs and then “started punching [him] in the face repeatedly” when he confronted them.

Phi Upsilon, which had already been unrecognized for over a year, announced the closure of its Cornell chapter days later, The Sun reported.

Nationwide controversy erupted in early 2018 after it was alleged that members of Zeta Beta Tau held a “pig roast” contest awarding points for sex with women, though the University later said it had “mischaracterized” investigation findings, The Sun reported.

Now, following the passing of freshman Antonio Tsialas ’23, whose death in late October is still under investigation, the IFC not only decided to cancel most regulated social events for the remainder of the semester but also voted to “give teeth” to regulations around dirty rushing and ban alcohol at all spring rush events.

Tsialas was last seen at a Phi Kappa Psi dirty rush party that involved what President Martha E. Pollack called “significant misbehavior,” and Phi Kappa Psi was suspended afterwards.

On Tuesday, Pollack wrote in an email to the Cornell community that she would enact reforms of Greek life by the semester’s conclusion.

Freshman Turned Political Operative Helps Lead Dem. Presidential Campaign

Elijah Emery ’23 one of four students to lead Sen. Mike Gravel White House bid

By ARI DUBOW Sun Staff Writer

At 18, Elijah Emery ’23 has yet to vote in a presidential election, but he has already helped run a presidential campaign. From March to August 2019, Emery and three of his friends were at the reins of the presidential campaign of former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (D-A.K.).

“When Trump won, we had this feeling of we should have been able to do more,” Emery said. “We felt that if there was any change we could make, then we should engage.”

It was this sense of responsibility, combined with strong self-described “left-wing” convictions, that led this group of four teenagers — David Oks, Henry Williams, Henry Magowan and Emery — to initiate and manage Sen. Gravel’s presidential campaign.

Last March, the group reached out to the former Alaskan senator, offering to run his presidential campaign. The goal of Gravel’s campaign was less to win the White House than it was to push the conversations happening in the Democratic Party to the left, particularly on America’s foreign intervention, according to Emery.

instance, when the campaign buttons arrived, the campaign team realized they did not have a place to store them. So, before distributing the buttons, a staff member offered to keep them in her house.

“There were pounds and pounds of buttons in her apartment,” Emery said. “Everyone in this campaign jumped in and did what needed to be done.”

Gravel represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981. He was well known for his opposition to the Vietnam war, in particular for his effort to publicize the Pentagon Papers, Emery said. According to Emery, Gravel’s work in the Senate helped establish positions against foreign adventurism within the Democratic party.

“Politics is so much more than America, and the mistakes made by Dick Cheney, for example, are really felt by the families of people killed as a result of foreign adventurism,” Emery said. “We wanted to make the United States a more moral country.”

The campaign team nearly succeeded in landing Gravel in the first Democratic debate this past summer, getting 67,000 donors — 2000 donors above the qualifying number of 65,000 donors. But even with the qualifications, the DNC barred Gravel from participating in the debate without clear explanation, Emery said.

“Working on this campaign opened my eyes to how huge the world is, and how meaningful engagement in the political process can be.”

Elijah Emery ’23

Gravel had run for president in 2008, and he was immediately receptive to the proposal to run in 2020, according to Emery — though said that he would first have to convince his wife. Eventually, she signed on and the campaign could move forward.

Emery’s role within the campaign was primarily to hire new staff, which totalled around 65 people, all of whom worked as volunteers. Emery also communicated with media outlets, and helped manage merchandise distribution. Coordination amongst the campaign staff was primarily carried out online, with comparably little in-person communication.

“The nominal headquarters was David’s house in Ardsley, New York,” Emery said. But the campaign’s staff were located around the country, including Washington, D.C., Detroit, and San Francisco.

At times, the lack of physical headquarters meant that adjustments had to be made. For

“It was super clear that the Democratic establishment just resented having his voice in the debates,” Emery said. “They wanted to control the process.”

Emery said that even without making the debate and officially shutting down in August, Gravel’s campaign succeeded in moving the conversation among Democratic candidates to the left, particularly on issues of foreign intervention.

This wasn’t the group’s first involvement in electoral politics. At age 16, Oks ran for mayor of Ardsley, New York, and Williams and Emery were his staff. Still too young to drive, they had to be chaperoned around town to knock on voters’ doors.

Despite frustrations with the Democrats’ refusal to allow Gravel into the debate, Emery seemed far from disillusioned.

“Working on this campaign opened my eyes to how huge the world is, and how meaningful engagement in the political process can be, even if it is at times difficult and disheartening,” he said. “It taught me that sometimes, doing something is a matter of just doing it.”

‘College of Public Policy’ Slammed at HumEc Hearing

By JILL CROSBY Sun Staff Writer

Over eight months since its founding in March, the Social Sciences Implementation Committee, created to help bolster Cornell’s public policy programs, has moved closer to making a recommendation — though its proposals have garnered push back from students and faculty.

In an email sent to members of the Cornell community on Monday, the Committee, which was convened by President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff, articulated the advantages and disadvantages associated with each of the two possible “models” the University has so far suggested to “elevate research, teaching, and outreach around public policy.”

The first would create what the report called a “cross-college school of public policy” between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Human Ecology — a structure described as analogous to Cornell’s Computing and Information Science, which houses three academic departments across multiple existing colleges. According to the report, such a cross-college entity, like CIS, would bring together relevant faculty and academic units into a broader, more collaborative umbrella in order to take advantage of Cornell’s existing public policy resources.

On the other hand, the second would involve repurposing the College of Human Ecology into a “College of Public Policy,” a move that would involve combining faculty and scholars “whose work has implications for policy-making and policy implementation.” The College would have its own Dean and admission powers.

Although the report stressed that the Committee “has decided that it is beyond the scope of the Committee’s mandate to make any recommendations around which of these options Cornell ultimately should pursue,” the document highlighted a number of “serious challenges” over the cross-college model.

“Some people are actively thinking or already on the job market as a result of this process.”

For instance, it wrote that such an approach, while the most “straightforward,” carried the potential of creating confusion over governance, issues with budget allocation given that school would not be an admitting entity, and lack of visibility compared to Cornell’s existing, fully independent seven colleges. But the second possible option — converting the College of Human Ecology into a College of Public Policy — has emerged as particularly contentious among both students and faculty, with the report itself conceding that such a move would “would likely involve significant ongoing negotiations,” and may leave some students feeling that “their scholarship and teaching could not thrive in this environment.”

Faculty and staff attended the Social Sciences Review Open Session on Wednesday evening, where they reacted to the Committee's report.

Prof. Corinna Loeckenhoff, human development and gerontology, explained to the committee that teaching, research, and resources could

IFC Votes to Restrict Spring Rush, Impose Curfew

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the IFC has rolled out a range of reforms. Tsialas, whose death is currently under investigation, was last seen at a fraternity party on Oct. 24, before his body was found in a gorge on Oct. 26. Since then, the IFC first banned most social events this semester, and then announced stepwise changes of fraternity party culture and of the recruitment process.

“The way we’ve been tackling the reform is trying to be as comprehensive as we can and tackle as many parts of Greek Life as we can,” Gonzalez said.

The University has also taken some action. Cornell

suspended the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on Nov. 8, and President Pollack condemned a “pattern of misconduct” in the Greek Life system in a statement the same day. In a campus-wide email on Tuesday morning, President Pollack restated that the fraternity had served alcohol in the presence of first year students, and that the unregulated party on Oct. 24 happened the day after the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity had attended a judicial hearing on other matters.

In her Tuesday morning statement, Pollack said that she would announce meaningful reforms by the end of the semester after what she called a “continuing and disturbing pattern of activity that violates our policies and threatens the health and safety of our students.” In the

Students, Faculty Voice Issues With ‘College of Public Policy’

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be unduly redirected with such a transition, going so far as to say some colleagues have considered leaving Cornell.

“Multiple other faculty, when they see the second model, they see a threat,” Loeckenhoff said. “Some people are actively thinking or already on the job market as a result of this process.”

“I am quite concerned about what that leaves behind for the parts of Human Ecology that are deeply valued by the University.”

Prof. Steven Jackson

Instead, Loeckenhoff urged the Committee to keep asking faculty in the College of Human Ecology about their concerns for the planned policies, noting that faculty members at the junior may not be comfortable candidly voicing their thoughts in a public setting.

Prof. Steven Jackson, information science, expressed the positives of Cornell’s Computing and Computer Science, an multi-department school that mirrors the proposed school — rather than College — of public policy.

“I am quite concerned about what that leaves

behind for the parts of Human Ecology that are deeply valued by the University,” Jackson said. “My own sense in looking at the two is that the school model would work better based on my guess of these two models.”

At another public comment hearing held earlier this semester, current Human Ecology students similarly slammed the proposal to rebrand and restructure the College.

“I think that’s doing a huge disservice to members of the HumEc community that read the report today and are now fearful of the uncertain future of their jobs, majors, and college placement,” Hayley Timmons ’20, a policy and applied management, previously told The Sun. “There needs to be at least a basic statement of what the plan would be for these other majors, or the proposal shouldn’t move forward.”

Other students said that such a move could comprise the College’s “unique concept and framework for a school,” which is comprised of nine majors ranging from topics as diverse as nutritional sciences and fashion design.

“If they think we can transfer into the College of Public Policy, without considering the majors in the college that do not focus on policy, it makes me question how they think about my major,” said Abby Lerner ’21, a design and environmental analysis major.

Jill Crosby can be reached at jcrosby@cornellsun.com.

Former Cornellian Confesses

To Murder of Father, Cites History of Abuse as Motive

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up in fear. Throughout out the case, Tan and his mother spoke about his father’s abuse, often resulting in documented police visits to his home. The police visits recounted in the affidavit resulted in his father leaving the home for a few days, Tan wrote.

“I remember spending my sixth or seventh birthday in a women’s shelter and feeling relieved to be there because anything was better than being at home with all the fighting and abuse,” Tan wrote.

she lost consciousness.

The motion includes 27 exhibits and a 51-page psychological evaluation. A court date to address the motion has been set for March 6, 2020.

“I remember spending my sixth or seventh birthday in a women’s shelter and feeling relieved.”

Charlie Tan ’17

The abuse got worse after Tan left for Cornell, he said. He recalled an incident his mother told him about on Jan. 28, 2015 where his father choked her and

People convicted in federal courts and in custody can submit a motion under 28 U.S. Code § 2255 for relief “upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such a sentence, or that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law, or is otherwise subject to collateral attack.”

Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun.com.

past year and a half, she wrote, Cornell has suspended six Greek Life organizations.

In the spring, Cornell suspended the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity for hazing and event management violations, and the Lambda Chi Alpha and Delta Chi fraternities for hazing. This semester, among fraternities under IFC jurisdiction, Cornell has found Alpha Gamma Rho and Phi Sigma Kappa responsible for hazing; the University placed both groups under probationary recognition.

The IFC will release the full text of the resolution in the coming days.

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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to the event according to the report, participants did have to finish a 500-piece puzzle within two hours.

At least one member who was in attendance at the event confirmed to the Office of the Judicial Administrator that marijuana was present during the challenge.

The team also made new members undergo a variety of auditions for the team, the report found.

During the auditions, they were subjected to a number of situations such as being continually interrupted, having to pretend that a member of the judging panel was a current significant other and flirt with them or win them back after a break-up and completing a number of LSAT questions in under 15 minutes — tasks “unrelated to the purpose of the organization,” according to the report.

Mock Trial team leadership did not respond to The Sun’s requests for comment.

Judicial Administrator Michelle R. Horvath said in a statement to The Sun that the sanctions enforced by the University were

designed to help the team “address the deficit of skills or information” that led to the behavior in order to reintegrate them into the Cornell community, and to address the “harm” caused to “others and the organization.”

As a result of the findings, the Mock Trial team was suspended at the beginning of the fall 2019 semester. The team petitioned the University Hearing Board for a review, and the hearing board upheld the suspension.

Instead of proceeding to a hearing, a Summary Decision Agreement was reached between the Mock Trial team and the University, wherein a “resolution of Responsible was entered” for the conduct prohibited by the Campus Code of Conduct, namely the possession and distribution of marijuana and alcohol to minors, as well as hazing. The report was published on Nov. 7. The report also noted that “consistent with established practice,” the matter was referred to the Office of the Judicial Administrator.

Hunter Seitz can be reached at hseitz@cornellsun.com.

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Refresh Pre-Enroll

IT’S 6:59 A.M. AND YOU ARE TRYING TO PROCEED TO STEP 2.

Maybe this will be the semester you get all the classes. Or maybe your page will have the dreaded grey load box in the corner and you will be locked out of enrolling in your classes — both the mandatory ones and your electives — yet again. Cornell’s current pre-enroll system simply favors those with good internet connection. And that’s not okay.

Internet service in an apartment or living space is not guaranteed. There are many students that live off campus and many students who may not want to splurge on or simply cannot afford high-speed internet for two days a year. And the campus wi-fi cannot handle the mass traffic at 6:59 in the morning of each grade’s pre-enroll. It should not be a race of megabytes per second but a process that is equal and does not disadvantage those who cannot afford the best of the best internet.

At the end of the day we are all here to complete at least one major and to get a good education. But when an almost random process determines what classes we can take and what requirements we are able to take, those goals, those intentions, get disrupted. The way pre-enroll is currently structured makes it very easy for students to not be admitted into classes that are mandatory for their majors, minors or college requirements. There is no set office, group of people or protocol to contact or enact when students struggle with fitting in what they absolutely need to graduate in eight semesters. It’s 7:04 a.m. and there are six red exes on your screen because you did not get into any classes you needed to be into. Who are you supposed to go to? Waiting till add-drop is not a suitable solution when your progress in your major and your educational plan is at risk.

Additionally, why are we not enrolling in our major, minor and required classes first? It would be more work on the University’s part, but allowing students to register for their necessary classes before opening them up to the rest of the student body would immensely relieve a lot of track derailment and frustration. It would ease the burden advisors face when they receive dozens if not hundreds of panicked student emails about their life plans being in jeopardy. It would allow students to accurately lay out their class options and take advantage of opportunities the University offers accordingly instead of readjusting things at 7:01 a.m. to try and salvage their enrollment period and get something they need to eventually get done on their schedule.

If the University took the time to administer an interest survey about classes and polled to see how many students were planning to take their required classes, logistics for the following semester could be tailored accordingly and pre-enroll could be a less stressful and more fair process. How many times have you been in an empty lecture room for a class that was slated to have 100 people and didn’t? And how many times did you not get off the waitlist the University said you probably would because there were just too many people trying to squeeze into a 20-person classroom?

If following a traditional path, we go through eight pre-enrolls. We put our faith in our internet speed eight times in order to achieve our academic goals. We do not know who we should go to if things go awry. We do not know how logistically possible our schedules are. There needs to be a protocol in place for students to request admission into mandatory or required classes. There needs to be more advertised academic planning options so students can make adjustments. There needs to be a more tailored list of classes or an option to select the classes you need to take so student’s academic plans are taken care of. We are a school and we have made pre-enroll a joke. Our academic futures are why we came to Cornell and it’s not funny when we put our hopes and dreams into a single click of a laptop or desktop.

Be a Tourist at Cornell

When I leave Ithaca for good come May, I want to be able to hang on to more than memories. If you follow me around campus long enough on any given day, you will see me go out of my way multiple times to photograph Cornell’s scenery — both the beautiful and the mundane. A quick glance at my camera roll reveals a sunset photo of a West Campus staircase, a crooked picture of the Arts Quad after the season’s first snowfall, a gloomy shot of my favorite bus stop and a 37-second video of the McGraw Tower chimes performing a spooky rendition of the alma mater on Halloween.

allows us to seal ourselves off from the world around us. Vacationers don’t walk around a foreign city with headphones blasting, in part because they want to fully experience urban life. To get the most out of Cornell and Ithaca, we shouldn’t either — music drowns out and distracts. You’ll miss the birdsong that animates campus on spring nights, the calming white noise of water rushing through a gorge or the eerily fascinating clanking emanating from the latest Arts Quad art installation.

If you had a week left at Cornell, how would you spend your time? What experiences would you prioritize?

And although I might look like a clueless Midwestern dad taking pictures for the family group chat, approaching Cornell like a tourist has led me to better appreciate my college experience, and it can do the same for other Cornellians

During my first three years here, I took my experience too much for granted; until the end of my junior year, graduation seemed to be a century away. I allowed myself to get too caught up in the daily grind — the demands of prelims, the responsibilities of campus involvement, the stress of social life — to fully appreciate living a lifestyle I’ll never experience again on a stunningly picturesque campus in America’s best college town. And I realized that memories of unpleasant or high-pressure experiences have a way of crowding out memories of the fleeting yet meaningful moments of calm, usually outdoors, that bond me to this place and help keep me sane.

Approaching Cornell from the perspective of a visitor also alleviates Cornell’s unjustified institutional insecurity, which I urged Cornellians to ditch in a column earlier this year. Familiarity breeds contempt, and we tend to underestimate our peers, ourselves and our privilege because we’re immersed in an environment where the impressive is commonplace and the exceptional can be average. By contrast, a newcomer to our community, who doesn’t carry the baggage of being a student, sees Cornell for what it is: a premier institution of higher learning with inordinately accomplished students, Ivy League gravitas and an egalitarian spirit. A student who can push baggage aside, even temporarily, grasps a similar perspective. The tourist approach looks different

And when you trudge up the hill to campus tomorrow, remove your Airpods, take a few seconds to admire Cascadilla’s rapids or the clock tower’s silhouette.

A tourist mentality creates and elevates positive memories. Ideally, a tourist knows her time is limited, so she fills her days with what’s meaningful to her. She strives to hang on to each experience, and she temporarily pushes aside the demands of daily life for the sake of her wellbeing. As a tourist, a student will be present and engaged with what is directly in front of him, even if he’s inclined to just go through the motions of his daily life. Because I’ve chosen to be a tourist, I’ve created an archive of photos that evoke the emotions I feel in my fleeting moments of unadulterated Cornell happiness, I’ve discovered stunning Ithaca vistas I never knew existed and I’ve become better at creating meaningful memories amid my student responsibilities. In short, I’m defining how I’ll look back on my short time here.

We should also heed the advice of President Martha Pollack, who argued at this year’s New Student Convocation that Cornellians should refrain from wearing headphones around campus. The technology, she explained, prevents us from “be[ing] present in the moment,” and

for each Cornellian, so I’ll leave you with a call to reflect. If you had a week left at Cornell, how would you spend your time? What experiences would you prioritize? Which spaces would you prioritize? Are there any memories you want to re-capture before they fade along with your young adulthood?

It might seem difficult to do what I’ve proposed; Cornell’s pressures have a tendency to consume our time and mental energy, deterring us from even reflecting on our priorities, let alone going out of our way to appreciate just being here. But it doesn’t take a lot to productively tourist-ify your life at Cornell. All you need is a conscious effort to alter your perspective, a willingness to soak in the natural beauty of our environment and a bit of time out of your week to explore realms of campus you haven’t experienced before. And when you trudge up the hill to campus tomorrow morning, remove your Airpods, take a few seconds to admire Cascadilla’s rapids or the clock tower’s silhouette against the rising sun and maybe even snap a photo. It’s that easy.

John Sullivan Baker is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at jsullivanbaker@cornellsun.com. Regards to Davy runs every other Thursday this semester.

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Sometimes, I wish I could feel love as intensely as I did when I was 13, chasing after a boy who didn’t even like me and who I once blew behind an elementary school. It was my first heartbreak. I remember feeling it so vividly because it was the first time my emotions had conjured real, physical pain, like dropping 20-pound weights on my chest.

When I was a high school sophomore, love felt more substantial because it was reciprocated, but I was just as naive.

“I love you,” my first boyfriend Cameron said, looking straight into my eyes, a minute or two into our first time together. It took me by surprise. It was so perfect and orchestrated that it felt like he rehearsed how, when and where he’d say it to me.

Blonde | Love in the Time of Tinder

Girls, Girls, Girls

ince middle school, I’ve craved male attention. Early on, I developed a sixth sense for athletic and charismatic boys, the kind who’d make the loudest jokes in class; ask the girl next to me to slow dance while seeming to look right through me. At night I prayed to magically wake up more extroverted, flirtier and funnier and please, please less pimply. I became certain if I could just make one boy like this love me (or at least look at me), then I would somehow be lovable,

Though I remained fixated on boys, my closest, most intimate relationships were with other girls. There was my best friend in seventh grade, who would read me Harry and Louis One Direction fan fiction on the bus while I found my eyes inexplicably drawn to her lips. I spent late nights talking with her, confessed my love for writing and fear that I wasn’t good enough. She knew me better than anyone, far better than the boys I chased. Why, then, was it not her opinion of me that

In high school, I experimented physically with boys, but even during intimate acts, maintained emotional distance. I needed to be wanted, to know the right way to kiss and touch. I needed stories to tell my new group of girlfriends, and mostly, I needed a way to feel less crushed when she — we’ll call her Lazy Line Painter Jane — told me about crushes or later boyfriends. I didn’t just want Painter Jane to like me so I would feel I was likable, and it was much more complicated and less fixed than the way I felt and still feel

I wanted her to like me because she overwhelmed me. I wanted her to like me because of the softness of her voice and how I couldn’t not lean in to listen. I wanted her because of her room that was collaged with photographs and glow-in-the-dark stars, and because of the freckles sprinkled over her nose and cheeks. I wanted the nights when we drank strawberry beer and lay side by side on a blanket in my backyard, and I wanted the days we were cold and ignored each other. More than anything, I wanted the nights we stayed over at each other’s houses so I felt the heat of her skin through thin sheets and tried to close my eyes and

Riley Read | Tongue Tied Te ‘L’ Word

Ever since, I’ve had a weird complex with the “L”-word. In the words of Michael Che, “like” is much better than “love.” People kill their loved ones all the time. No one ever kills someone they like.

To be clear, the “L”-word itself doesn’t bother me. I tell my friends and family I love them all the time. It’s the weight that surrounds it when it’s applied to significant others.

There is hardly an accusation more damning in American political discourse than to be declared a “sponsor of terrorism.”

“I love you too,” I replied quietly in between thrusts.

When he eventually broke up with me, and aside from the chest-hurty feeling returning, the primary emotion I felt was betrayal. “How could you break up with me? We say, ‘I love you’ to each other all the time!”

It was once the ultimate goal in my preteen eyes — guided by the Katniss and Peetas, the Hazels and Augustuses, the Alex and Masons. Nowadays, I cringe when I watch movies and someone refuses to stop chasing after an ex-SO because they “love” them. Because love is just a proxy for their selfish desire to impose themselves on someone who doesn’t want them. Love, as an unconditional, unchangeable state of being, just invites toxicity. Your unremarkable testament to commitment, claiming you will be bound to someone regardless of what they do or who they become, suggests obligation. Obligation to stick around no matter what happens. That can be pretty beautiful. It can also be pretty terrifying. People need to feel comfortable with leaving relationships when they become unhealthy.

Funnily enough, I accidentally told my current boyfriend that I loved him about a

sleep but found I was wide awake. I wanted her because I could cry in front of her or skip school to skinny-dip. And I wanted her because of her words — out loud and in writing — and how they always made me ache.

Very little actually happened between Painter Jane and I in high school. We kissed a couple times, wrote letters and made mixtapes and spent many nights almost saying what we felt, hanging in the kind of almost that defined our intimacy. And yet, she was and still is one of my best friends, my first love, one of the people I trust the most. It was and was not about sex; I wanted her in the vague way of being young and longing without totally knowing what the object of that longing is.

After high school, I dated and even loved boys. I threw myself into intimacy and sex, and it felt good — better even than I’d imagined it could, though I still thought about Painter Jane, still wondered occasionally about that mysterious ‘second sex.’

When I walk into a room, I instinctively scan the male-presenting faces seeking someone to desire — or more accurately someone to make desire me. I count my self-worth on the number of fingers of boys who’ve liked me back. Still, I naturally find myself drawn to girls in friendships. In bed, boys are a language and I know all the words. With girls, I’ve barely tried, and when I do, I find myself wishing I’d brought a dictionary. Why do I need boys to validate me, to feel the contours of my body and tell me I am female, whatever that word even means? Why do I naturally fall into sex and relationships with men while continuing to feel greater closeness with women?

Maybe I’m less attracted to girls physically, even though I usually feel closer to them emotionally. Or maybe I’m scared that if I really go there with another girl — both physically and emotionally — I’ll be forced to feel recognized for real, to see myself for what I am and not as a made-up ideal of femininity, or a confident and outgoing mask concealing the shy, afraid girl I still can be. I guess I don’t really know yet. My own body still sometimes feels like a hazy outline, other people’s even more so. I don’t know yet what I want from intimacy or love, or if I see those two things as separate or the same. Maybe a year from now, I’ll fall in love with another boy, or have a string of casual hook-ups with people of all genders, or maybe I’ll love a girl, and it will be as it was in seventh grade, and as it was with Painter Jane. But this time, I’ll know the words to say what my self and this body are, and I won’t need a man or anyone else to tell me what I am: desirable and deserving of love.

week into dating.

“I love you because you say shit like that,” I said in response to some dumb joke he made, casually and unnoticed to me. Well, he certainly noticed, because his eyes grew wide like saucers and his mouth was agape in shock. I corrected my slip.

“I mean, not like that. What I meant was, I love that you say shit like that.”

Even now, months later, he refuses to tell me he loves me because he,“doesn’t know what it is.” He wants to be sure that he’s in this ultimate state with me before he starts telling me he is in love, which is fair. But clearly, I don’t believe that this ultimate state is something anyone can ever achieve. He doesn’t want to devalue the word, whereas I don’t think it has much value at all. Especially when we throw it around the way we do. We’ll be at dinner and he’ll say, “I fucking love Indian food.” Imagine pledging allegiance to Sangam Indian Cuisine before your own girlfriend. But for some reason, “I appreciate you,” or, “I value you” doesn’t have the same ring as “I love you.”

Even though the “L”-word doesn’t mean much to me, it means something to him, and that in turn, affects me. I can’t say it doesn’t

hurt a bit that he doesn’t say it to me. Once again, love takes its position as the some goal for me to reach. Until then, the “I like you”s will suffice.

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Friday Night Macro Dinners: Everyone Is Family

Enjoying plant-based meals served in these Cornell instructors’ own home

By RAE SPECHT Sun Staff Writer

Nestled amongst the maple trees off of Coddington Road, Priscilla Timberlake’s and Lewis Freedman’s cozy country house radiated warm light out into the chilly November night. For over twenty years, every Friday at 6:45 p.m. about 50 people, an eclectic mix of friends, neighbors, colleagues, students and a handful of curious strangers, come together to share a home cooked, plantbased meal around candle-lit dinner tables. It’s best described as a giant, vegan, gluten-free family dinner, where the word “family” is employed loosely; in Priscilla and Lewis’s home, anyone and everyone is treated and fed like family.

I’d been hearing about this tradition since I arrived on campus last year, fables that Cornell’s walking meditation and yoga instructors open up their home for community dinners every single week, so my three friends and I from The Sun’s Dining Department decided to experience it for ourselves. After a twenty minute drive down some dark, winding roads, we kicked off our sneakers by the front door. I had just walked right into the home of perfect strangers for dinner. Wasn’t that exactly what my nervous parents always warned me not to do?

though the hosts kindly accommodate allergies, you eat what’s being served. The menu is constantly changing with the seasons, so you get what you get and you don’t get upset; it’s part of the allure.

To start, hot broccoli soup, followed by the main course: a vibrant

ommended $16-20 for students), which helps to keep this special tradition going and is well worth every dollar, considering the large quantity and the quality of the meal.

After dinner, I chatted with Priscilla and Lewis about everything from cooking techniques to the spir-

But, there I was peeling off my coat unfazed, like I was walking into my cool, quirky aunt and uncle’s house for Thanksgiving.

But, there I was peeling off my coat unfazed, like I was walking into my cool, quirky aunt and uncle’s house for Thanksgiving.

We were told to make ourselves at home, offered hot tea and invited into the main room attached to the kitchen, where Priscilla and Lewis continued bustling around, taking this and that out of the oven, seasoning, dressing and plating. I looked around the living room, watching guests, listening to small talk, wondering which were weekly regulars and which were like me, experiencing this scene for the first time. I recognized a couple of faces in the mix, students that I knew I’d seen before on campus, but never made an effort to talk to. But here, settling down around tables clad in funky, printed linens, we all chatted like long-time friends.

When everyone had found a place, Priscilla announced the evening’s offerings. She began: “Your choices for the night include … that was a joke, there are no choices here,” to which laughter erupted from the guests. It’s true —

smorgasbord of creamy steamed squash, hearty greens with pecans and cranberries, a melange of cooked veggies with a rich peanut sauce, broiled corn polenta, a medley of vivid red root vegetables and, for good measure, a hefty scoop of brown rice and black beans. My friends and I agreed that the vegetables with peanut sauce, the sweet, soft steamed squash and the crispy corn polenta stole the show.

long they spend cooking in preparation for the meal, I figured it must take at least an entire day — which it does, they confirmed. It’s a great feat to host several dozens of friends and community members for dinner and to do it every single week seems almost inconceivable. It’s a lot of work, but they do it with incredible grace and astonishing composure. “We cook all day, but we get to hang out together, we listen to music, we have Alexa play Bob Dylan,’’ Lewis says, smiling. They introduced me to their long-time friend Terry, who owns a little organic farm in the town

What’s presented on the plate is truly the freshest and most nutritious produce available, harvested, prepared and enjoyed within a matter of hours.

hosts ask for a sliding scale donation (rec-

ituality of food, to how they met and fell in love (right here at Cornell!). Lewis, a registered dietitian and I chatted about the health benefits of plant-based diets and the healing powers of food. I wondered how

of Danby, ten minutes south of Ithaca, where she grows vegetables and keeps pet chickens. A long-time gardener, she started farming in the 1990s and realized that she simply had more vegetables than she knew what to do with. “I really don’t make much of a profit off of it,” she explains, “I just do it to provide people with healthy, fresh food.” She brings Priscilla and Lewis fresh vegetables every Friday morning for the evening’s meal, so what’s presented on the plate is truly the freshest and most nutritious produce available, harvested, prepared and enjoyed within a matter of hours. After a year subsisting exclusively on repetitive dining hall food and packages of Wegman’s veggie sushi, it was refreshing to sit down at an actual dinner table and eat a lovingly home-cooked meal, made with ingredients just plucked from the earth. I had never once set foot in the house before,

nor had I met virtually any of the other guests, but sitting there felt natural, the conversations around the table were fluid and effortless. These were people that I normally wouldn’t have shared a meal with. As busy students wrapped up in the chaos of campus life, we rarely find opportunities to engage with the unique, quirky greater Ithaca community around us.

Many of the guests, old-time friends of Lewis and Priscilla, that have been attending dinners since before I was born, are people who I would normally never have the chance to interact with as I mosey along through my everyday Cornell routine. Even among the guests whom I knew I’d seen before, maybe hiking up the slope or riding the TCAT, most of us had never acknowledged each other, let alone shared a conversation or a meal. Perhaps one afternoon we’d silently sit next to each other at Temple of Zeus in default of open tables, or stand side by side for twenty minutes waiting in line at Okenshields, but dining halls and campus cafes, quasi-study spaces where laptops are part of the place settings, don’t cultivate fuzzy feelings of community and intimacy. Friday dinners are a celebration of healthy, plant-based eating and delicious seasonal vegetables, but more than that, they bring people together in a really profound way. Everyone I have spoken with who has attended a dinner, young and old, vegan and non-vegan, routine guests and one-timers, have had the same reaction, saying something along the lines of: “The food is delicious, but what’s so special about Friday dinners is the sense of community.”

In their cookbook,which contains nearly one hundred delicious vegan and gluten-free recipes, Priscilla and Lewis have included a quote by Japanese scholar and healer, Michio Kushi: “Peace does not begin with any political party, religious movement or social platform. It begins in kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where the physical source of our daily life — food, the staff of our life, our daily bread — is grown and prepared.” I think Friday dinners embody this philosophy in a very special way.

Rae Specht is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at rks229@cornell.edu.

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Unlimited Meal Plan, unlimited Fury

By ISHA VAISH Sun Staff Writer

During our first week as sophomores living on West Campus, before classes started, my roommates and I ate at the dining hall — I kid you not — five times in one day. We were like, “Unlimited swipes? Bet.” During my first week, I even swiped into Becker three times in one day — once for lunch, a second time to grab a banana and a third to get some coffee. With so many different options literally within a five-minute radius from your dorm, what more could you ask for? We were so ready to make the most of the $3,047/semester mandatory unlimited swipes house meal plan. And now, as our first semester as sophomores draws to an end, the only thing I ended up making the most of (maybe a little too much) were my Big Red Bucks. So why am I down to $28.56 in BRBs when we haven't even hit Thanksgiving break yet? What happened to my fevered West Campus dining hall hopping days where I milked all the money Cornell was forcing us to pay when all we really wanted was to live in a convenient place close to campus? Well, I quickly learned as my weeks grew busier that the West Campus dining hall system is 100 percent not worth the money, and no amount of meal swipes can make it be so. So what’s specifically wrong with the West Campus meal plan? The dining halls are actually more inconvenient than convenient, the food is repetitive and definitely not worth the money and the system makes you feel guilty for eating anywhere else.

The fact that we are paying for an unlimited amount of meals swipes makes no sense when during the day, five days a week, most of us are on central during lunch time. Who walks down the slope, eats on West and then walks back up in between classes, especially if you only have a 30-60 minute gap? If that’s you, color me impressed. And yes, the

house meal plan includes swipes at Okenshields so if I really didn't want to go down to West I could just eat there. Well, if I was going to eat at Okenshields anyways, then I could do so with a less expensive meal plan like the 10 meals or 7 meals per week option.

The other time of the day you could potentially make use of the unlimited swipes is eating breakfast every morning before class. But let’s be honest, if you have an 8 a.m. or even a 9 a.m. are you really waking up extra early to get food before class? And even then, say you get up early to get breakfast every morning. Are you just going

The dining halls are actually more inconvenient than convenient, the food is repetitive and definitely not worth the money and the system makes you feel guilty for eating anywhere else.

to eat the same thing everyday?

The breakfast foods on West are so repetitive and even more so than for the other meals. Switching off between dry home fries, even dryer and frankly extremely bland french toast, thin flavorless pancakes and suspicious play-dough looking scrambled eggs is a little unfair, especially when we’re paying so much money. And what’s worse is that only Bethe and Becker serve hot breakfast while Keeton, Cook and Rose just lay out cold flaky pastries and fruit. So if you live in one of those houses and don’t

have time to eat out at a different dining hall, you’re in for a depressing morning. I don't know about you, but I’d rather grab a delicious Route 32 bagel with melt-in-yourmouth cheese, soft and fresh avocado and perfectly grilled juicy chicken from Bus Stop Bagels than eat drier-than-the-Sahara home fries for the third day in a row. Speaking of a lack of variety, why do all of the dining halls close at 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. except Cook House? What if I have an evening review session, a meeting or practice? Am I supposed to only eat at Cook? I would hope not, especially when I'm paying $3,047/semester for a plan that I didn't want but was forced to get in return for convenient housing. Not to mention that an individual meal swipe at a dining hall costs around $16, so it would just be better to eat out at an on-campus cafe or in Collegetown where you can get better tasting food for $7-10. And is it just me, or do you also feel guilty when you go for a night out in Collegetown with your friends and eat dinner there instead of at the dining hall? Just last week, the guilt ate away at me as I ate a deliciously warm and hearty budae jjigae at Koko (my favorite meal to get in Collegetown). I can’t help but get distracted by the fact that every time I eat out, I’m basically spending an additional $16 on the meal since I wasted a meal swipe opportunity. $16 adds up fast and I’d rather enjoy all the fruits Collegetown eateries have to offer without being served an additional side dish of guilt.

I know I should limit the amount of times I go out to eat in Collegetown. But it’s hard when you have friends who are upperclassmen who spontaneously want to go out and you don’t want to be left out of the festivities.

Even when I eat on West with my friends on a Friday night, the atmosphere just isn’t the same. At the dining halls, because they are so conveniently located, it’s easy to feel pressured to quickly eat and then head back to your dorm

and do work. Thus, the priceless moments you’d make with your non-West friends that help shape your college experience just aren’t present when you eat on West. And you can’t even fully let go and eat out in Collegetown without the guilt of wasting money weighing down on your conscience.

After quickly realizing that the mandatory meal plan makes West Campus 100 percent not worth living on again, my roommates and I started the perilous and stressful search of finding decently priced, decently convenient and decent quality off-campus housing for the

next school year. Which is even harder than I already made it sound. The fact that the house meal plan which is supposed to be one of the best options for Cornell Dining and it’s so seriously flawed shows that at the end of it all, Cornell’s just out to take our money, showing little regard for our quality of housing and dining. A true disappointment considering how much money the University rakes in being an Ivy League institution.

Isha Vaishis a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ikv2@cornell.edu.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Tere Are Still Movies Willing to Take Risks

Both critics and viewers alike have been lamenting the state of Hollywood for years now. From criticisms leveled against the industry for being too white, to the vast uncovering of sexual harassment, to prominent filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese lambasting Marvel movies for not being cinema but rather something akin to “theme parks,” it’s no wonder that crowds are choosing to stay at home and binge Netflix rather than shell out the money and go to the movie theater.

However, it isn’t all hopeless. In the barren landscape of today’s big screen, Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean comedy-thriller Parasite bursts through like a spring. The narrative centers around the Kim family, mother Chung-sook, father Ki-taek, brother Ki-woo and sister Ki-jeong, who are struggling to make ends meet. However, their fortunes change when Ki-woo’s friend, about to go abroad, suggests he take over his job as a tutor for the daughter of a rich family, the Parks. After his sister helps him forge college documents, Ki-woo gets the job, and the rest of the family soon follows, taking up other jobs within the house and pretending they are all of no relation to one another. Though the situation seems a perfect arrangement for both parties, things manage to get dark very quickly.

What really struck me about the film, though, was not its darkness or the serious topics it tackles but how fun and entertaining it actually turned out to be. Despite its moralizing and nearly didactic, Marxian message about class struggle, it never feels preachy or inaccessible. In one scene, the Kim family gathers “to celebrate the reconnection of [their] phones and this bounteous Wi-Fi.” These moments of black comedy are what make the film feel fresh. Playing off of Bong’s deftness at switching between genres and atmospheres, such undercurrents of levity and anxiety add balance and cohesion, while a commitment to realism in regards to characters’ motivations and emotions grounds the film. Likewise, the fact that most of the action takes place at the Park mansion gives the story an an additional layer of unity, though it’s fascinating

to see how Bong uses this setting in various, often unexpected ways throughout.

Since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Parasite has been lauded by critics and audiences alike, scooping up South Korea’s first Palme d’Or and becoming a possible contender for the first Korean Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. In an interview, Bong describes his surprise at the worldwide popularity of the movie. His conclusion is this: “Essentially, we all live in the same country … called capitalism.” This is no less true of the world depicted within the film as the world of cinema that surrounds it.

It’s hard to imagine that a film of such depth, that looks at the nuances of wealth inequality straight in the eye and does so with humor and humanity could be made nowadays in America, where — apart from the success of the likes of A24 — only a handful of distribution companies dominate.

In art, risk is not just valuable, it’s crucial. We need artists who can stretch the boundaries of their mediums and let their imaginations go wild. But we also need industries and audiences who are willing to take risks with them. The success of movies like Parasite show that there are those willing to take risks, that people really do want movies that aren’t dumbed-down or, as Scorsese says, merely “audiovisual entertainment.”

Ramya Yandava

Ramya’s Rambles

Writer Donna Tartt asserts that “the first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying.” However, Bong shows us that a work can be both entertaining and artistic at once, without having to compromise on either. Indeed, the entertainment value of a work is often why we come to it in the first place, while its complexities, nuances and investigations of deeper issues are what make us stay. Do movies today still have the power to do this? Yes, says Parasite. But only if we’re open to it.

Ramya Yandava is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ryandava@cornellsun.com. Ramya’s Rambles runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

Bob Dylan Performs At Ithaca College

PETER BUANNANO SUN ARTS EDITOR

Legendary counter-culture icon Bob Dylan performed at Ithaca College’s A&E center to a crowd of thousands on Sunday night. As specified in an email sent out prior to the event, Dylan took the stage promptly at 8 p.m.. He needed no opener.

The 78-year-old singer-songwriter sounded incredible, but a simple fact remained. He was incomprehensible. I can count on one hand the amount of words I understood. He has always been known for his unique voice, but Sunday night took it to another level. He invented a new language, but sadly no one in the audience spoke that language. Fans on every side of me were expressing their disappointment for the entirety of the show. At times, laughs rose from sections of the crowd when certain lines that everyone knew sounded like Dylan was speaking with a mouthful of spaghetti.

Regardless, Dylan’s performance was immaculate. His voice was soothing, and it lulled the audience for the full hour-and-a-half set. Further, the aesthetic of the show was beautiful. Dylan and his band donned sparkly jackets and performed as if they were on a 1950s television show. The stage was illuminated with warm lights, which hung from the ceiling and faded to black between each song, providing a true steampunk vibe to the show.

Dylan barely spoke the whole night, only speaking to introduce the band (although this could not be understood by anyone in the audience). And the legend moved across the stage seamlessly. Paradoxically, the godfather of the rebellion was both a shell of his former self and more powerful than ever. He gave off an aura of wisdom; he was purposeful with every action.

Lastly, his guitar, piano and harmonica playing was exquisite. It was the perfect combination of sultry and rough. His performance was unrefined, yet classic in every way. It was memorable, and he left the crowd awestruck by his presence.

While the show itself was outstanding despite the pitfalls that came with Dylan’s age, the event itself was an utter mess. I’m not referring the organization, promotion or setup of the venue, either. DSP Shows, the promoter of most Ithaca concerts and artistic events, especially should be commended for their work in bringing such an icon do our backyard.

However, the audience was under constant scrutiny by the security. It felt like we were in George Orwell’s 1984. Audience members were escorted out for standing during the performance, it was truly disgraceful. Flashlights were constantly shined in the face of the audience by overzealous security guards. In one instance, I overheard a woman being told that security would drag her out if she didn’t stop dancing. I’ve honestly never seen anything like it in my life.

In general, the sad truth is that the event staff (excluding the student staff) entirely ruined the experience, even corralling people who wished to stand up into the side of the arena where they wouldn’t be a disturbance.

Thank goodness Dylan was able to keep the crowd focused. If it were any other artist, I would’ve walked out of the venue instantly.

Peter Buannano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pbuannano@cornellsun.com.

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Football to Host Columbia

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nears the end of his collegiate career.

“It’s definitely bittersweet — I’m trying to take in every moment from practice to tape,” Taylor said. “It’s kind of surreal — I don’t think it will hit me until maybe like Thursday, when it’s the last practice.”

Archer praised Taylor and senior offensive lineman George Holm III, who have led the team as captains.

“George just brings such a positive energy and enthusiasm and just a will … he’s been a great rock that way during adverse times,” Archer said. “Jelani is probably one of the best that I have been the coach of … just his football smarts, his production, his off-field accomplishments — he’s a special player.”

The Red wants to send its seniors out on the right note, especially given the outcome of last year’s game at Columbia.

In the final contest of the 2018 season, Cornell held a 21-17 lead with under a minute left in the game after then-senior quarterback Dalton Banks ’19 found the end zone on a two-yard QB sneak. But the Lions’ dynamic return man — Mike Roussos — returned the ensuing squib kick for a touchdown, which proved to be the game-winner.

Last year’s game is certainly on Holm’s mind.

“That one was tough,” Holm said. “It was definitely an emotional game and, you know, sending our seniors out on something like that is not the kind of memory you want to have parting with football. I don’t want that to be my story.”

A win on Saturday could also set the team on the right path heading into next season.

“You definitely want to leave it better than you found it, which is something that I think we’ve done,” Holm said. “We have a lot of talented guys that have improved steadily over the last couple weeks, so I think if we got out with a bang, it will be good for the Big Red in 2020.”

“It’s huge,” Archer added. “That’s the springboard for next year’s team. This game is about our seniors and finishing out the 2019 team … but to be able to have that heading into offseason feels much better than losing.”

Like Cornell, Columbia — which has the same record as Cornell at 3-6 overall and 2-4 in Ivy League play — has had its fair share of ups and downs this year. The Lions have notched two big conference victories with a blowout 44-6 win against Penn as well as a 17-10 overtime triumph over Harvard. But they have also suffered some disappointing defeats, including a 48-24 setback against Ivy bottomfeeder Brown last week.

“We have to win our one-on-one matchups because they play so much man coverage,” Archer said. “Their defense is going to be in-your-face aggressive, so we need to take that same approach offensively. Our defense — we got to continue to play out well, to snuff out the run, not let their playmakers get going.”

In Archer’s mind, the Lions’ biggest threat is Roussos, who leads the Ancient Eight in all-purpose yards with 1214.

“I think the key to the game is going to be stopping the return man [Roussos],” Archer said. “Nobody knew him last year when he scorched us for a punt return and a kick return. Well, he’s one of the best in the country, and he’s proven himself to be a special talent. Making sure we contain him is going to be huge.”

For Cornell, there are a number of motivating factors heading into this game. Whether it’s claiming victory in the Empire State Bowl, giving the seniors a proper send-off, or starting next year on the right foot, the Red can draw inspiration from many sources as it approaches its final game of the season.

Kickoff against Columbia is set for 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Schoellkopf Field.

Luke Pichini can be reached at lpichini@cornellsun.com.

Wrestlers Gear Up for Season

InterMat’s preseason poll and at No. 18 in the NWCA Coaching poll.

“We will miss a lot of our big hitters — three of our AllAmericans and one really solid guy — and obviously that shows in our preseason rankings,” senior Noah Baughman said. “It is definitely going to hurt us in a lot of ways, but it is also going to give us a lot of opportunities to show just how good and how much depth we have as a team. So I think we will see a lot of guys in the lineup this year that will definitely surprise a lot of people.”

Although Cornell’s season as a team has yet to commence, preseason preparations have been in full swing. Cornellians opened up individual competition last weekend at Binghamton University, where the fresh lineup showed off its skills in the 2019 Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open. Army, Binghamton, Bucknell, Franklin & Marshall, Harvard, Lehigh and Lock Haven were all in atten-

dance, along with their nationally-ranked wrestlers.

Even against some of the nation’s best, the Red’s preseason preparations evidently paid off, and the team displayed its depth of talent. Thirteen wrestlers placed in their respective weight classes at the open, with first-place titles from Baughman, junior Hunter Richard and freshman Colton Yapoujian.

“I think we wrestled pretty well at Binghamton,” Baughman said. “A lot of guys had some great performances — three first places, which is awesome. We also had a lot of performances from guys that show that they are right on the cusp and really close to doing great things. I think it showed how close we are to being a really good team this year.”

In addition to prior members of the team competing in the starting lineup for the first time, 10 new freshmen will have the chance to vie for a starting spot. Jonathon Fagen, Drew Flynn, Michah Hoffman, Jonathan Loew, Andrew Merola, Phillip Moomey, Ryan Moore,

Nathan Thacker, JJ Wilson and Yapoujian, top high school recruits, were welcomed into the program for the 2019-2020 season.

“This will be the youngest team that I have had from what I can recall,” Koll said. “But they are really talented. We have high expectations for these guys as they do for themselves. So while I do not expect to be winning the national championships this year, we do expect to get some All-Americans and win the Ivy leagues — do the things we always do.”

Without a national champion in Diakomihalis and other key contributors, the 2019-20 season will be one of growth and development with a fresh lineup.

“This year the team has a lot to prove and gain, and not a lot to lose,” Baughman said.

The Red will put their new lineup to the test against NC State on Saturday. The team will hit the mat on 1p.m. in Bartels.

While the season seems to have just gotten started — Cornell has played just six of its 29 regular-season games — the Red is nearing the home stretch lead-

ing up to its winter hiatus. After this weekend, Cornell will prepare for a Red Hot Hockey matchup with Boston University set for Nov. 30 in New York City, followed by a road trip to Harvard and Dartmouth to close out 2019 and the unofficial first half of the season. Face off is set for 7 p.m. Friday against Quinnipiac and 7 p.m. Saturday against Princeton.

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COLUMBIA AT CORNELL

HARVARD AT YALE

DARTMOUTH AT BROWN

PRINCETON AT PENN

PENN STATE AT OHIO STATE

TEXAS A&M AT GEORIGA

TEXAS AT BAYLOR

PANTHERS AT SAINTS

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Red Faces Columbia

By LUKE PICHINI Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After trudging through a disappointing season, Cornell football finally notched a marquee victory last weekend.

Coming into its game against an undefeated Dartmouth team, the Red was a 30.5-point underdog and had a very slim chance of victory. But Cornell pulled off the improbable, downing the Green in Hanover, 20-17.

“Everybody was obviously happy but not really surprised because we go into every game knowing that we can win,” said senior safety and captain Jelani Taylor. “It was the first time we played a fully complete game.”

“I think [the Dartmouth game] was validation for all of the close games we’ve had that haven’t gone our way — to beat a really good

team at their place,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

The Red has dropped one-point decisions to Penn and Colgate, and its biggest loss came against Princeton. In that game, Cornell stayed competitive through most of the night but fell, 21-7.

Now, Cornell can shift the narrative of the season as it hosts Columbia in the Empire State Bowl, looking to end the year on a winning streak in Ivy League play. With a 2-4 record in conference play, the Red could ascend to a tie for fourth place in the conference standings with a win over the Lions. Not only does this upcoming game boast major implications for the end-of-season rankings, it also holds special significance as Cornell’s Senior Day. Taylor has started to reflect as he

6-0 No. 2 Red Returns Home for ECAC Games

Cornell set to take on Quinnipiac and Princeton in last two home games of calendar year

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Sports Editor

Sporting a perfect record and with one of the season’s toughest games in the rearview, Cornell men’s hockey returns to Lynah Rink this weekend for the last time until mid-January.

Coming off a North Country sweep that included a 4-2 victory over nationally-ranked Clarkson, the Red — now the No. 2 team in the country — hosts Quinnipiac and Princeton this weekend in its third set of ECAC contests.

Behind Cornell’s 6-0 start is the team’s ability to wear down its opponents by beating them in different ways. In two games last weekend, Cornell’s 10 total goals were scored by 10 different players. The weekend before, the Red won behind the star power of Morgan Barron. In several games this season, it’s been special teams success, in others classic defensive efforts fans have come to expect under head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

“We showed we got some guys that can put up big nights but we also can get balance from a lot of different people and that’s always been the strength of Cornell hockey and it always will be, and I think that was never more true than this weekend,” Schafer said.

Thanks to good early-season health and a strong crop

“[We] can get balance from a lot of different people and that’s always been the strength of Cornell hockey.”

Mike Schafer ’86

of freshmen, the Red has confidently rolled four lines. A team historically known for its defense is scoring 4.83 goals per game — second-best in the ECAC only to Harvard’s whopping 5.4 — and allowing just 1.67, also second to the Crimson. The Red’s power play is operating at an excellent 42.3% clip.

Meanwhile, a freshman-heavy defensive corps has looked solid in front of junior goaltender Matt Galajda, who has allowed two or fewer goals in every game. The Red has allowed just four even-strength goals through six games.

And then there are the stars like Barron — the junior captain whose hat trick powered Cornell to a dominant win in its most recent home game — and seven other players who have two or more goals through six games. 16 skaters have scored a goal so far this season for Cornell.

Going strong |

With a tough road game at Clarkson behind it, Cornell is 6-0 heading into its final home games of the semester.

“Cornell’s usually known as a really defensive team. And obviously I think we’re still a good defensive team [and] it starts with a great goalie in Galajda, but you can see we have a lot of guys who can score,” said sophomore forward Michael Regush. “You can see we have a lot of guys that can chip in and that kind of makes teams have to pick and choose their matchups so it opens it up for us.”

Among the two-goal scorers is sophomore forward Liam Motley, who has played in only two games. On the fringe of the lineup, Motley is one of a handful of forwards who has to earn every minute of playing time. The team’s impressive depth has created a culture of internal competition.

Motley said that although it can be discouraging to not know whether he’ll be in the lineup, the competition in practice makes him and his teammates better.

“Nobody wants to feel like they have to have that uncertainty of ‘I feel like I’m a bottom player on the team.’ It’s tough but that’s just how it is,” Motley said. “Coach Schafer talked about how this is why we wanted to come to Cornell, because of how great the players are, how great our program is. We want that competition, that’s why we want to be here.”

Quinnipiac and Princeton come to Ithaca this weekend looking to put an end to Cornell’s hot start. Coming off a Capital District sweep, the Bobcats are 2-1-1 in ECAC play. The Tigers started the season with a win and a tie on the road at then-No.16 St. Cloud State, but have struggled since, posting an 0-3-1 mark in conference games.

With the Quinnipiac matchup set for Friday, the Red gets the weekend’s higher-profile game out of the way first. Cornell settled for a share of the Cleary Cup last season, tying the Bobcats in the regular season standings. Quinnipiac was picked third in the ECAC preseason poll, behind Cornell and Clarkson.

Like last weekend, when Cornell faced Clarkson on Friday and lowly St. Lawrence on Saturday, the series’ second game is against a lesser opponent, at least on paper. The Tigers were picked 11th in the preseason poll and, after losing a few star players to graduation and the NHL, have fallen a long way since beating the Red at Lake Placid en route to a league championship two seasons ago.

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C.U. Has Eyes on 18th Straight Ivy Title as Season Begins

By FAITH FISHER Sun Staff Writer

With four of Cornell’s best wrestlers redshirting to pursue their Olympic goals during the collegiate season, the Red’s 2019-2020 lineup is almost unrecognizable. Nevertheless, the powerhouse of a team is anxious to hit the mats and continue its consistent league and national domination.

As a team in the

2018-2019 season, Cornell put up a perfect 5-0 conference record and earned a 17th consecutive Ivy League championship. A 13-3 record in dual meets against the nation’s fiercest competition primed the Red for a second-place team finish in the EIWA tournament. The Red earned a seventh-place finish at the

Olympics. With his absence, the 141 spot goes from the Red’s greatest strength to a major question mark.

Last year’s impressive results were by no means an aberration. Consistently one of the top programs in the nation, Cornell’s 17 straight league titles is the longest streak in any sport by any school in the Ivy League. In fact, entering the 2019-2020 season, the team has 88 straight Ivy wins under its belt.

On the national level, the team has competed in the NCAA tournament for decades, and the program has produced the thirdmost NCAA champions since 2003, trailing only Penn State and Oklahoma State.

Such team-level and individual-level success and consistency was spearheaded by head coach Rob Koll, a former NCAA champion himself. Over the last 30 years, Koll has brought the program to its current elite level. Along the way, he has won an impressive string of accolades, including being named the Ivy League Coach of the Year for the past five years.

Cornell wrestlers, both new and old members of the team, will fill the voids left by Vito Arujau at 125 pounds, Diakomihalis at 141 pounds, Andrew Berryessa at 165

pounds, and Max Dean at 184 pounds. The 125, 141, 149, 157, 165, 197 and heavy weight weight classes will be filled by wrestlers who were not in the lineup last year.

“Every year our goal is to win. We want to win the Ivys and the Eastern Conference and ultimately be in the top 10,” Koll said. “With four kids taking the year off to try to make the Olympics, it is certainly a lofty goal. But it will make it fun because you get new guys in there who have never started who will have the chance to show their wares.”

Three of the 10 spots on the starting lineup will be filled by previous starters and nationally-ranked wrestlers: senior Chas Tucker at 133 pounds, senior Brandon Womack at 174 and sophomore Ben Darmstadt at 184. Tucker recently represented the United States in Budapest, Hungary, where he competed in the U23 World Championships.

Despite the absence of three AllAmerican wrestlers, such talent is a testament to the sheer strength of the program. Even with its unrecognizable lineup, the Red checks in as the 22nd-ranked team in