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Faculty Moves to Protect

Undocumented Students

Says C U should resist federal intrusion, despite legal complexity

By STEPHANIE YAN

Assistant

Around 100 faculty members formed the Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy last

Prof Aziz Rana, law who heads the coalition’s Legal and Policy Working Group explained that the coalition, primarily composed of Cornell faculty, was the result of a widespread desire to make the sanctuar y petition more “ cross campus ”

“Members also thought it was essential to provide the main sanctuary petition with as much support as possible

Monday, hoping to advance a petition to make the University a sanctuar y campus for undocumented students, according to the coalition’s media representatives

“The initial main petition was an effort that predated the formation of the coalition,” Rana said “The members also thought it was essential to provide the main sanctuary petition with as much support as possible, both in terms of publicizing it and

Rawlings pledges to defend DACA Cornellians

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

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By JOSEPHINE CHU & YUN SOO KIM

A television worth at least $1,000 was allegedly stolen from Pi K a p p a Ph i’s f r a t e r n i t y h o u s e a t 5 5 R i d g e w o o d Road early Thursday morning, four days after brothers at Beta Theta Pi reported that two unidentified thieves had stripped their house of several valuable electronics

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity social chair Dan Cadena ’19 said that he was at the house over Thanksgiving break, when he heard noises at around 1 or 1:15 a m , prompting him to grab a broom he found on the second floor

“I come downstairs to get a glass of water before going to bed and I start hearing noises, so I grabbed a b ro o m t h a t w a s o n t h e s e c o n d floor,” he said “And when I see the

robber I yelled at him to get out and he ran away and into a car He made it out with only our big TV ” Cadena, who was the only resident in the house during the inci-

dent, said he called the Ithaca Police De p

t h e encounter He added that the IPD identified the robber as a white male who was approximately 28 to 30 years old

Pi Kappa Phi brother

Austin McLaughlin ’18 said the brothers are uncertain as to how the burglar entered their house

“We think all doors were locked so we don’t know h ow t h e y g o t i n , ” McLaughlin said

fraternity house, located at

Party Building in the Age of Universal Entitlement: Lessons From India

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

Monday, November 28, 2016

Cooperation or Collusion? The Efficiency Implications Of Physician Integration

1:15 p m , G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Meeting

5:30 - 7 p m , Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall

Leaders in Sustainable Global Enterprise Speaker Series

6 - 7:15 p m , B08 Sage Hall

C U Music: Cornell Woodwind Quintet

8 - 9:30 p m , Barnes Auditorium

Connecting Crystals to Glasses on Curved Surfaces

12:20 - 1:45 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Plant Genetic Resources and Biotechnology Under Biodiplomacy

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

A Subjective Tour of Topics in Statistical Genetics

4 - 5 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Quantum Entaglement in Higher Dimensions

4 - 5 p m , 700 Clark Hall

ORIE Colloquium: New Results for Sparse Methods for Logistic Regression And Related Classification Problems

4:15 p m , 253 Frank H T Rhodes Hall

University Assembly Meeting

4:30 - 6 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

The Human Edge: Skin, Cloth, and Stone In Aeschylus and Euripides

4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure, and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America 6 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

Ithaca Ranked 25th Best City for New Graduates

Of 382 cities, Ithaca places fifth in lifestyle, but fourth worst in affordability

Top NASA Official to Visit Cornell, Speak on Mars Exploration

Dava Newman, the deputy director of the

Administration, will detail NASA’s progress in planning human exploration of Mars at a lecture next Thursday

The organization is currently researching t

propulsion and space agriculture that will design long-term missions in which “explorers will be practically independent from spaceship Earth,” according to a release from Cornell’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering NASA aims to have “boots on Mars” within the next two decades

“ The innovation required to achieve a human mission to Mars cuts across science, human exploration and technology,” the release said “It builds on what has gone before, while driving the next advances ”

Newman was nominated to her position in Januar y of 2015 by President Barack Obama and began her term on May 18 of that year, according to the release Newman is also a professor of astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she conducts research, focusing on how low gravity affects human biology, and works to design technology to optimize astronaut locomotion, according to MIT ’ s website

The lecture will take place on Dec 8, at 2 p m in B14 Hollister Hall, and is free and open to the public

Compiled by Stephanie Yan

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

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Electronics Allegedly Lifted From Two Fraternities

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main television, an Xbox and two laptops were stolen

Beta Theta Pi President Red Giuliano ’17 said he believes two perpetrators entered the house through an unlocked side door

He s a i d o n e b r o t h e r s a w a “hooded figure” when he was returning to the house, but it was too dark to distinguish a face

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“It’s possible [the perpetrators] just noticed there were no cars in the drive way, ” he said

“But it’s kind of crazy that they decided to do this on the weekend that we were all away I’m not saying it’s anyone that anyone knows, but it is kind of a weird coincidence ” Ir vin McCullough ’18, Beta T h e t a P i b r o t h e r a n d I n t e rf r a t e r n i

President of Programming, was one of five brothers who stayed at the house He said the television, Xbox and laptops were still in the Great Hall when he left the house at 10:30 p m B e t w

g h t and 2 a m , some brothers noticed the television was missing, but t h e y “ j u s t a s s u m e d someone else in the house had moved in it for whatever reason, ” Giuliano said By Sunday morning, the brothers realized the Xbox and two laptops were missing as well

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have scrambled to take the first valuable things they saw, ” he said “ They skipped right over our Wii and our other Xbox ”

Kappa Phi brothers said they were confronted by two unidentified males at their front door

Sherrill ’18

around midnight

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After the brothers denied the men entr y into the house, they “acted ver y sketchily,” Sherrill s a i d He e x p l a i n e d t h a t t h e brothers walked them to their car, and one of the men was “bragging that [his car] was a BMW ” Sherrill added that the brothers saw a “large amount of cash visible in the back seat ” “At that point, [the brothers] were ner vous that these g u y s h a d w e a p o n s because of the cash, but they just drove off and left,” Sherrill said Giuliano said the Pi K a p p a P h i b r o t h e r s wrote down the plate number of the “shady characters’” car, which the Beta Theta Pi brothers then handed to the police Cadena, who witn e s s e d b o t h i n c i d e n t s a t t h e house, said he did not believe that the perpetrators in the two cases at Pi Kappa Phi were the same

IPD was unavailable to comment on the most recent burg l a r y a t P i K a p p a P h i O n T h u r s d a y, O f f i c e r Ja m i e Wi lliamson said it was “entirely way too early” to determine if last week’s two incidents were related, although they occurred on t h e s a m e n i g h t He s a i d t h e investigation is still an active case, there are no suspects and the police are in the process of determining what occurred

After their house was burglarized, the brothers of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity said they felt “ a bit despondent ”

“Saturday morning we were playing our Xbox on our TV, and Saturday night they were both gone, ” he said

Mc Cu l l o u g h a d d e d t h a t i t was “ a pain” to move the smaller TV downstairs for the fraternity ’ s open house on Sunday “ We l i k e s h o w i n g o f f o u r ‘Great Hall’ but that’s a bit hard to do when the missing television’s leaving a big hole in the room, ” he said “By the end of the day, we’d all recovered and restored our sense of normalcy We had a successful open house and met some great potential ne w members Now we ’ re just tr ying to move for ward ” Gi u l i a n o

Ithaca Police Sunday morning, a n d

i n e d t h e front door for fingerprints but did not find any

“It really sucks for the brothe r s w h o g o t t h e i r l a p t o p s stolen,” he said “One of them said he hasn’t really backed up any of his projects, and he lost a lot of hard work that he’d done, but it’s really hard to do anything about it ”

T h e b r o t h e r s a r e w o r k i n g with alumni, the Ithaca Police and IFC to improve the house’s safety and “ go back to normal,” McCullough said

“Our executive board is evaluating ne w security systems to ensure that only brothers and brothers’ guests can enter the house, and our alumni board is working tirelessly to make sure we can get back to normal,” he s a i d “ We’re f u l l y c o o p e r a t i n g with the police to find out who did this, whether a townie or a student, and bring them to justice ” McCullough, who transferred f

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, said he felt “much safer in Ithaca

Saturday night’s robber

shook things up ”

“It’s Ithaca we don’t think these things happen,” he said “Robberies aren ’ t something we read in an infrequent email from K

indiscriminately and irrationally It can happen to anyone ”

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h said the fraternity is “bouncing back” after the incident “ We’re star ting to feel safe again, and our improved security measures will make us one of the safest houses on campus, ” he said “I’m confident that Beta won ’ t be robbed again ”

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ornell junior forward Alex Rauter skated in on UNH goalie Danny Tirone at breakneck speed As Rauter prepared to propel the puck, a Wildcat stick hooked him and sent him flailing into Tirone’s left post The referee instantly pointed for a penalty shot, and Rauter delivered, burying a shot between Tirone’s blocker and glove Remarkably, Rauter’s penalty shot was Cornell’s first successful penalty shot in 29 years It also sealed the deal on Cornell’s 3-1 win over Hockey East opponent New Hampshire on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden Cornell will take on Colgate on Tuesday, and the clash with the Raiders will be a good chance to earn a road conference win The game is also notable because it will be Cornell’s first in the newly constructed Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton Win or lose, it will mark Cornell’s last ECAC game of the 2016 calendar year, even though the Red has four games in December So who are the Big Red’s opponents in the last four contests of 2016? Cornell will face Miami (OH) for a two-game set at Lynah Rink this weekend The Red will then make its traditional trip to Florida a few days after Christmas for the Florida College Hockey Classic The Red’s opponents this year in Florida are Northern Michigan and either Colorado College or Merrimack The Red’s first game of 2017 is a road game at Merrimack on Jan 7, so this will be a five-game stretch of exclusively non-conference contests before a return to ECAC play N o n - c o n f e rence contests may seem less important than ECAC games at first glance After all, these opponents are not traditional Cornell rivals and they do not count for points in the allimportant ECAC standings However, they are crucial, just for different reasons First, as an Ivy, Cornell plays around seven fewer games per year than all the non-Ivy teams This means that Cornell plays seven non-conference games per season instead of the usual 14 or so for most schools When the NCAA rankings committee has to judge Cornell against other schools, they only have seven games where Cornell has played opposition from around the country This stretch of five non-conference games is the rest of Cornell’s non-conference slate, as two non-conference games so far have been split, with a win and a loss Simply put, Cornell cannot afford to lose several of the next five games

The NCAA rankings committee becomes important in the spring, at NCAA tournament time This past season, Cornell fell one spot short of earning an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament Perhaps one more out-of-conference win could have propelled Cornell to a slot, particularly if the Red could have held onto a two-goal lead and beaten BU at last year ’ s Red Hot Hockey in Madison Square Garden Cornell will want to win the majority of its non-conference slate this year in order to impress the committee in March

Success is critical in non-conference games because Cornell has just seven of these games and needs to impress the NCAA committee Yet, Cornell hockey fans should have reason for optimism

The remaining opponents, from Northern Michigan to Merrimack and Miami, are all ranked below Cornell in the national rankings and are thus winnable games After Colgate, these next five contests might not count in the ECAC standings, but they will still play an important role in Cornell’s season

Red Drops Pair to No. 1 Wisconsin

Badgers’ potent offense proves too much for Cornell defense

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s hockey team took to the road for a slight break from conference play to battle No 1 Wisconsin for a two-game series The Red came into the game undefeated in its last four games, but dropped both of the weekend’s games

Coming into the game, the Red (6-4-1, 4-2-1 ECAC) knew it had to play strong defensively to hold off Wisconsin’s (14-1-1, 12-1-1 WCHA) third-best offense in the nation

“Our mindset going

blocked shots, but the performance still was not enough to fend off the Badgers’ strong offense

Through two periods, the Badgers outshot the Red 28-8, but neither team was able to draw first blood and the teams entered the final period of play in a 00 draw The Badgers finally broke the deadlock at the 8:46 mark of the final period, when Baylee Wellhausen took control of a loose puck and put it into the back of the net

With just under five minutes to go in the period, Sarah Nurse slipped the puck past the net and put the Badgers up 2-0 Annie Pankowski sealed the deal for the Badgers by scoring an empty-net goal in the final ay for the 3-0 victory 51 saves were the most for the Red since Wisconsin finished the night outshooting 11 Curlew acknowledged that the strong nse was difficult to contend with re really relentless in the offensive zone, ” “They were a challenging team who didny point We made some unforced errors pitalized on ”

n ’ s offense didn’t slow down on Saturday opened up the scoring early when they n a power-play opportunity and went st 70 seconds into the game, thanks to a addie Rolfes wouldn’t refused to down easily and saw unt of back-and-forth in the first period handed shot by freshman Paige Lewis was more Lenkar Serdar grabbed the rebound and tied the game one-all at the 11:13 mark

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The black power anthem “Formation” shows Beyoncé at her finest She acknowledges common criticisms of her and turns them into bragging points She flaunts her confidence, wealth and talent, packing the song full of gender reversals and claims to power like, “When he fuck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster, cause I slay ” When the internet started a petition for Beyonce to comb her daughter’s hair, she took control and responded with, I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros ” Couple Beyoncé’s assertions with an infectious beat made with Mike Will Made It, and “Formation” delivers an undeniably fun energy while still offering a commanding pro-black, pro-feminism message that serves as a rallying cry in today’s political climate Ryan Slama

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“Self Control” eases in in a deceptively mellow fashion, riding Alex G’s offbeat guitar plucks Then Frank starts to sing some of the album’s most gut-punch lyrics: “You cut your hair, but you used to live a blonded life/Wish I was there, wish we’d grown up on the same advice ” He’s said before that Prince’s “ When You Were Mine” is his favorite song of all time, and he mirrors that song ’ s norm-bending desire: Prince sings, “I never was the kind to make a fuss/When he was there, sleeping between the two of us, ” and “Self Control” echoes the line with guests Austin Feinstein and Yung Lean singing, “Keep a place for me/I’ll sleep between y all, it s nothing The song builds from a light jam to a crescendo of layered vocals, then sticks like a record in one place and evaporates “Self Control shows how easily Frank Ocean makes the conventional sound extraordinar y Jack Jones

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“Hold Up” opens up with the classiestever use of an airhorn, which churns Beyoncé’s blaring, post-betrayal hurt into a lush, devious display of power The song the second on Lemonade ser ves as the backdrop to the queen ’ s liberating property destruction, a representation of our human need to wreck the things around us after our own emotional wreckages Yet as much as we revel in Bey’s happy-go-lucky romp through the streets, it’s hard to shake off how temporar y it feels: after all the windows are broken, all the cars crushed, there remains our broken selves to pick up She sings, What’s worse, lookin’ jealous or crazy?/Or like being walked all over lately, I’d rather be crazy ” It’s a masterful reminder that being crazy can be a choice, but so is cleaning up the post-craze mess a burden that too often falls on Black women Sofia Hu

With Cardinal, Pinegrove surprised everyone who was listening with one of the best straight-up rock n ’ roll albums in years “Old Friends,” its opening track, is the most perfect distillation of all the reasons why it’s just that: plodding, aimless instrumentation, composition as taut and peeling as bark on a tree, lyrics as circuitous and rambling as our downcast protagonist It sounds sprung from the mind of an artist way too old for his years, but it only could have been written by a fuckin’-around 20-something “I got too caught up in my own shit,” sings vocalist/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall in the last verse, “that’s how every outcome ’ s such a comedown ” While it’s that kind of self-criticizing, listless pathos with which “Old Friends” leaves you when the final strings’ve been strummed, the sounds backing Smith are so permeated with that timeless hopefulness which all good rock music packs that however you might be feeling, it pleads with you to reconsider Troy Sherman

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Depending on your predilections, The Hotelier’s Goodness is an emo masterpiece or a laughably pretentious work The 47-minute release packs in production tricks, spoken word interludes and over wrought lyrics Yet, in “ Two Deliverances” the group drops their gimmicks and delivers an earnest track Over interlocking guitar and bass progressions, Christian Holden sings about the intertwined awkwardness and intimacy (“Your secret world speaks without words/And I feel clumsy and cumbersome in this place”) that come with hanging out in an ex ’ s room The song swells to a peak of regret and sorrow when Holden screams, “ Was kind of banking on a future that’d be involving you/But I couldn’t ask that of you, I couldn’t ask that ” Critics have wondered if The Hotelier and their peers are bringing back emo, but on “ Two Deliverances” The Hotelier reinvents, rather than revives, the genre, delivering a nuanced, confused emotional plea

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Aweek ago, John Oliver concluded the third season of Last Week Tonight with a cathartic send-off to the year in a segment so eloquently dubbed, “Fuck You, 2016!” If you haven’t seen the episode, I’ll give you three guesses as to what it’s about In a year that began with David Bowie’s death, the state of affairs never bothered to resettle on any form of status quo opting instead to perpetually tumble further downhill The general mood on campus following Election Day has seemed to oscillate somewhere between vitriol and despair, to the extent that a casual “How are you?” ser ves as an invitation to air out grievances rather than go through the motions of small talk And whether in tone or subject matter, the election results have per vaded a large portion of The Daily Sun’s output because, well, what else is there to think about?

As the White House proceeds in its transition to highstakes reality TV show, pundits have made much of the modern media’s role in President-elect Trump’s ascent Executives at CNN have expressed regret over airing uninterrupted Trump rallies early on in the election cycle, while CBS Chairman Les Moonves earned himself a footnote in histor y textbooks for his boast that Trump’s candidacy “ may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS ” The real stor y, though, surrounds social media “echo chambers,” other wise known as the newest buzzword that journalists toss around

The theor y goes that because of Facebook algorithms that steer people’s newsfeeds toward stories similar to ones they have already “liked” social media users have insulated themselves from ideologies that oppose their own

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o f a g g r a v a t e d o n l i n e c o mmenters might articulate such a phenomenon as an extension of the “brainwashing” taking place at today’s elite universities But now that the former CEO of Breitbart News has the president-elect’s ear, this “echo chamber” has revealed its insidious potential to heedlessly reinforce dogma, proving that it should have no place in political discourse However, rather than dismiss social media entirely, let’s also stop to consider its role in helping us to process the year ’ s other events

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Steve Jobs once said that hallucinogens reveal another side to reality, but in “Joe Gets Kicked Out Of School” written about an acid trip taken by Car Seat Headrest frontman Will Toledo the revelations aren ’ t so pleasant On acid, Toledo sees himself and his friends as “filthy people,” hedonistic pleasure-seekers with no meaning or purpose Good thing the song is so fun The band’s album, Teens of Denial, builds huge, operatic epics from the building blocks of indie rock, and “Joe” is a perfect example, a sevenminute journey that begins with Toledo strumming an acoustic guitar and develops into a foot-stomping breakdown

Its chorus leads into itself: “Drugs are better with friends are better with drugs are better with friends ” But this is ironic; Toledo is disgusted with his friends, their drugs and himself “Joe Gets Kicked Out Of School” can be related to by anyone who’s ever questioned their own behavior and enjoyed by any fan of ambitious, complex, personal guitar rock

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public life throughout 2016, but the acute pain of iconic performers passing away has struck time and again At this point, the go-to reaction has shifted from shocked sadness to a beleaguered “ Who’s next?” Bowie, Prince, Phife Dawg, Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Gene Wilder, Leonard Cohen, the list goes on Each of these hurt in its own way, and each was met w

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y artist with as broad and as undeniable an appeal,” wrote t h e Ne w Yo r k e r ’ s A m a n d a Petrusich in her postscript on the singer “ To love Sharon Jones is simply to be a hotblooded human ” For those unfamiliar, Sharon shot to stardom over the last two decades as the frontwoman for the Dap-Kings, a soul-funk outfit committed to a late1960s sound that might have faded from popular music without them Their records have sold well, but the band car ved out its niche as an incomparable live act, using retro

flare to back up one of the most charismatic performers I’ve ever seen grace a stage While her music alone endeared her to listeners of all types, Sharon’s unlikely rise to stardom and ultimately fatal struggle with pancreatic cancer (as documented in this y

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o m e record label told me I was too fat, too short, black and old ” In 2013, Sharon received her diagnosis three years after losing her mother to cancer In a matter of months, she started performing again, all the while receiving treatment for the disease Even when reduced, her stage energy was a force to be reckoned with, and her work over the last few years exemplifies an almost superhuman dedication “Happiness is the most important,” she said in a 2014 inter view with Noisey “I’ve been out here I’ve gone through things You have to be happy You have to feel that you ’ ve done something in life And I think over the years, that’s what we ’ ve accomplished ” Her death may have come amidst divided, uncertain times, but Sharon’s life and legacy provided a greatness that we can all agree on

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at cms459@cornell edu Really Terrible, and Such Small Por tions! r uns alternate Tuesdays this semester

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President Clinton And Her Husband Bill

Chandler’s boss made a joke in a Friends episode referencing a possibility that many Americans have been waiting to witness for quite some time: Hillary Clinton as President of the United States, becoming the first woman to wield the title ‘leader of the free world ’ He said, “I strongly believe that we should all support President Clinton and her husband Bill ” It was based on the premise that Hillary was overstepping her role as First Lady, to the point of essentially doing her husband’s job She was out of her place Although the tasteless joke was made by a schmuck and Chandler only laughed to avoid any conflict, it did touch on how sexism can affect a powerful woman Pundits have speculated over the multitude of reasons for the election outcome in the past few weeks

Conservative commentators have been quick to argue that any effects of sexism were cancelled out by Hillary’s status as an elite I argue, however, that Hillary’s affluence stood to not only help but hurt her In this column, “traditional family values” loosely refers to the values of nuclear families that populated the yet-to-be defined time when America was Great Trump was a refuge for people who take comfort in these values, and the Trump campaign exploited the same underlying pitch in an attempt to show that Hillary wasn ’ t a true crusader for women to deter support among those who don’t

Sarah Palin received mass appeal when she was first announced as McCain’s pick for vice president, and a large part of it came from her self-proclaimed identity as a “hockey mom ” fiercely dedicated to her family Though she was a woman vying for the vice presidency, many took comfort in the fact that she would use the same empowerment she derived from being a mother to her children when she would took up the responsibilities of the vice president

This dynamic harmed Hillary when it came to voters who are comfortable with gender roles, but her opposition also used it to diminish her position as a women ’ s advocate From her own admission, Hillary was an ambitious and driven young person long before her husband entered public life She also said she wouldn’t want to just “bake cookies” when her critics viewed her professional and personal independence as harmful to her husband’s, fending off charges that keeping “Rodham” or having an office in the West Wing would hamper public confidence in Bill’s leadership How can you instill doubt in people who view her fierce and storied record as a champion for women as a plus? By asserting that Hillary hungers more for power than she cares for the rights and safety of women

Hillary was repeatedly attacked for enabling sexual assaults allegedly committed by Bill Clinton, and for deciding to stay with him after having known about his extramarital affair Both were linked to a desire to secure more power for herself at the cost of being an empowering role model for women Even James Comey’s last-minute alert to Hillar y ’ s potential involvement with Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal played right into this narrative If they were with her, then she was not with them

For Hillary, her drive to eventually put not only a vocal feminist, but a gender equality activist in the Oval Office was the very thing used to question her dedication to that cause It is one thing to not endorse traditional family values, but these allegations paint Hillary as someone who actively destroys them Compare Hillary’s treatment to that of Trump, who has not only spouted blatant misogyny, but also has woman after woman recounting the sexual harassment and assault he committed, actions that were crudely supported by his own words

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“The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit-bull is lipstick” meant that she could lead effectively while still upholding traditional family values that were seen as in danger of erosion, especially with more women than ever prioritizing professional aspirations over maternity This isn’t unique to Republican women, as Sen Patty Murray (D-Wash ) converted a “ mom in tennis shoes” insult into a motto that would play a pivotal role in a series of elections that ultimately won her a seat in the Senate

Politicians commonly cite their bluecollar, tight-knit family background to connect with the ‘everyday American ’ For men, the mere mention of such a history can be enough For women, however, such a history must be a central aspect of her identity to accomplish the same An affluent background for any politician is (usually) detrimental, but the extent of its damage can vary based on gender

Even though Hillary Clinton did in fact have a homemaker for a mother and a small-business owner for a father, when she recounts this childhood, it is dismissed when viewed against the decades of her life as a Clinton Her status bolstered a depiction of her as a shrewd, deceptive character that followed her from her time as First Lady of Arkansas into her email investigation Furthermore, even when traditional family values are harped upon, it doesn’t hurt male politicians who invoke them when the man is designated the breadwinner Consequently, Hillary could not be the champion for everyday Americans in the way Trump portrayed himself as and eventually became, the ‘boy from Queens’ who also infamously received a million-dollar loan from his father

Donald Trump was already perceived as a powerful and misogynistic man incapable of denouncing his slimy ways, traits that buffered against negative impacts from reported incidents of further misogyny This is problematic Everyone should be held to the same standard for their treatment of women, whether they are a man or a woman Women are disproportionately given the brunt to bear for shirking their duties to uphold feminism, even when accusations of backing out are backed up by unsubstantiated claims This disparity worked against Hillary Clinton, especially when a group of men themselves accused of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault of women played important roles in the election outcome: Anthony Weiner, Julian Assange and Donald Trump

It is unreasonable to say that Hillary Clinton lost because she is a woman, but equally as unreasonable to suggest sexism played no role in her loss Even with the seemingly antiquated view of sexism as a force that chastises women who seek to expand their reach outside the household, and terrific strides made by activists in the ongoing fight for gender equality, it is still important to note that this same underlying conviction still presents in prejudices that confront some of the most powerful women in the world today The 2016 United States Presidential Election is a harrowing reminder that the glass ceiling is still indomitably intact; the very idea of an American female president remains a punchline for many

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

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Mauvais | Guest Room

Against Polarization

A post-Trump letter of support from France

In the distressing times that followed election night, it seems natural that our community would feel the need to pull together, to stand as one and fight harder for the recognition of shared values There are two purposes for mobilization: the first is to provide a supportive space for the liberals among us, to build solidarity and help each other through fear, pain and uncertainty Following this call to unity came a call to activist mobilization: we need to protest, take the streets and “fight back” against the hate crimes and the hurtful speeches that Trumpism normalized With this call to activism comes concern: especially when it comes to values and ideals, the activism of a group may require the alienation of another As friends unfriend friends on Facebook and as some families struggle to bridge their political divides, the temptation to “fight back” brings with it the shadow of counterproductive polarization I would like to share with you a testimony from France, where over the past years a proto-fascist party, the Front National, rose rapidly, now threatening our upcoming presidential and legislative elections My testimony is the one of a country where as the F N kept claiming more votes, our media, our politicians and our intellectuals opted to “fight back ” During local elections, traditional parties blocked against the F N The outraged media denounces its rhetoric ible with liberal values The

FN is racist, and its supporters are reduced to that status only Much like how Cornellians laughed at Trump during political debates, students of my university invited FN leaders to debates to laugh at their simple rhetoric and their simplified vision of history On Facebook, we mocked FN supporters or stigmatized them morally: racist, intolerant, ignorant, embittered nationalists caught on the wrong side of globalization

Did this strategy help us? Faced with moralization and dismissal, F N sympathizers grew increasingly alienated Despite party blocking, every local elections saw increases in F N scores Complacently, we used morals as a shield to ignore some of the most problematic points raised by F N rhetoric When populists attacked refugees and integration policies with economic arguments, we shoved pictures of little Aylan in their face, thinking empathy could be our principal argument Seeing only the racist discourse, we failed to understand its origins or address underlying themes

It is obvious today that the way we defended liberal values did not convince those who disagreed, it silenced them To their fears (about the job market, about globalization, about terrorism, about security), we responded with a moral backlash We shunned resentment, shaming arguments that could only be debunked if they were acknowledged Trump’s election makes us

Roombas are adorable They look like rounded pieces of To-Ak chocolate, and cost about the same My parents managed to pick one up before the holidays, and it whirs around during the day, dusting off the micro-pests that clutter the household My dad seems genuinely amazed “Look at this,” he says giddily He takes opens an app on his iPhone, and presses a large, green button that says “Clean ” The bot detaches itself from its base, and starts moving in a straight line until it bumps it head into the wall Then it reconfigures, and moves away to clean some more The house has never been cleaner; the brooms and pans have been tossed away, mops and gloves abandoned We’ve gone back to the future

Still, not everyone ’ s thrilled with what these Roombas symbolize for the future Automation of jobs has always been a tricky issue While they increase efficiency and accuracy for management, the excessive hand wringing in the working class over the potential of job displacement has started to create arthritis Let’s take the trucking industry for instance While self-driving cars are a bit far off (the cost to implement them has sent even the billionaires of Palo Alto running for the Hollywood hills), selfdriving trucks are already here Last year, Nevada tested a self-driving truck that was unfor tunately termed the “Inspiration Truck ” The technology was sci-fi nirvana Its bells and whistles include the “Highway Pilot,” which is a cruise control option that can be activated with the press of a button It has radar sensors to detect oncoming cars and lane changes, and takes over steering and braking from the driver Then again, the technology isn’t sublime When given with a set of lanes and turns that are too complex, it gives a warning to the driver

fear that the alienation and the stigma placed on the far-right electorate will surge back in the ballot box

We forgot that tolerance is not embedded in people: it is built through positive interactions College is one of the most enabling place where to develop tolerance: because we are surrounded by other liberals, by foreigners, because our classes are infused with liberalism, because we tend to be less uncertain about our economic future, it becomes easier to see globalization with optimism, harder too to burst out of our bubble In many ways, one could argue that to “ grow up ” tolerant to have our education expose us to liberal values is a formidable cultural privilege How different would we be without this permanent pressure to discuss and think critically?

Yet even in this enabling environment, liberal values have become such a strong ideology that they constrain debate The “safe space ” we want to create in the classroom has rigged discussions with invisible landmines This was one of the most difficult experiences I have had here at Cornell: many times, I was afraid to be misinterpreted, to offend someone unintentionally, to suffer moral backlash because my cultural background masked to me what I was or was not entitled to say If I, a liberal to the gut, felt anxious to speak up for fear of disrupting a liberal principle I wasn ’ t aware of do non-liberals feel comfortable engaging in debate in our

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and hands it back to them after a short interval It’s not autonomous just yet But when it does become autonomous, 3 5 million trucking jobs are at risk

Trucking isn’t the only thing that’s starting to be encroached however In the past, when we ’ ve talked about machine vs man, it was a blue collar problem while white collars just gave their per functor y shr ug Remember the Luddites? They were early 19th century, lower class English textile workers who, under the storm of the Napoleonic wars, violently protested the use of automated textile equipment in their industr y Though they were eventually unsuccessful (you’d be surprised at how effective public executions are), their legacy was their name Luddites now symbolize the wider counter-movement against machines, robots and technology that might come a take their jobs, but for the longest time, these were problems confined to the bottom depths of society People with degrees weren ’ t concerned Machines were accurate and efficient, yes, but also dependent on our whims, and most importantly, they didn’t learn by themselves

But the landscape has changed No one ’ s been quite able to grasp how quickly technology has surged A recent Oxford study decided it wanted to dab in sensationalism instead of Earl Grey and declared that 47 percent of jobs were at risk of being automated in the next 20 years Stunningly, it included finance among its list, where high priced degrees go to tan But it makes complete sense: finance is a data processing and analysis career, which is exactly what A I intelligence and automation are built to do Antony Jenkins, a former chief Barclays bank executive, ominously predicted in a lecture that in the future, half of the jobs in the sector would be gone He’d called them

classrooms?

I turn again to my country of origin As we approach our own elections, there is a sense of panic, of “running out of time” among the students of my government school Trump’s election slapped me in the face: I saw here the same challenges France grapples with One of these challenges is: how do we handle racism efficiently? How do we change people’s beliefs? I witnessed my own grandparents drift into daily prejudice and intolerance They are a very progressive, intellectual, socially liberal, very well-travelled couple: yet as their neighborhood hosted more and more immigrants from the Middle East, as a mosque was built next to their house, resentment built How do we answer the very concrete concerns and fears, the perceived loss of identity of people who are by every other standard generous, kind and educated?

I think there are solutions, but these require pragmatism Despite our strong beliefs and despite the satisfaction that comes from pulling together and fighting back, this strategy can have unintended, counterproductive consequences This is only my personal testimony; I understand that the American context is specific in many ways, but I also see many parallels between our societies Of course, reason and empathy and discussion will not bring hate groups to tolerance There are some associations between people

“Uber moments, ” referencing the loss of taxi driving jobs to part time, lower wage Uber driving jobs During his speech, it’s possible the irony of his predictions may have dawned on him; he’d been fired earlier from Barclays that year

But then there’s the moments when speculation starts to get out of control Look at the medical fields: The rise of impossibly precise robots and fur ther advancements in A I learning have led people to dream more about an automated healthcare system The da Vinci surgical bot is one instance It’s an octopus like machine, each arm whirling and prodding, performing minimally invasive surgery to the highest degree It’s led some to cast out their thoughts that robots can perform surgery entirely, to go along with diagnosing, cutting healthcare costs to a minimum It’s wishful thinking, and it ignores the ethical intelligence of a human, not to mention their ability to step out of bounds to complete the task at hand Most importantly, while automation has started to run rampant across the industry, there will always be expertly trained humans needed to guide the bots in complex and/or unforeseen situation It’s also a little unbelievable that someone would be willing to hand over their lives and well-being over to a programmed bot But still, people wonder It’s easy to understand why imaginations runs wild Call it sci-fi hijacking We’ve been partly informed by the sleek, futuristic promises of tomorrow from the high budget movies of today Medical droids, A I service bots, Robocops, holograms, humanoids all have their origins in the imaginations of Hollywood producers When pop culture is constantly begging to wow us with the newest creations of the future before the future there’s almost

and beliefs that are impossible to break Yet I refuse to believe that 50 percent of Americans are the racist, sexist pigs that liberal media has portrayed: although it’s easier to see things in a binary, intolerance is a spectrum There are many people around me who are generous, and open-minded, but afraid and their fear is as real as ours: and they do not hate minorities, but they see their own community as threatened, and this means they will not care about “ out-groups ” so long as they perceive their way of life to be under threat This is not an excuse, only a key to unlock change It is important to support each other, and to defend tolerance It is also crucial to ensure that our protest does not become a way to shun “the other” and a gaping wound in the political debate We need to back liberal visions with arguments that answer people’s concerns In France especially, our political elites can no longer dismiss F N rhetoric as racism unworthy of attention: we can ’ t turn F N voters into democrats by hammering them with abstract values Similarly, the American millennials will fail to bring about the change they wish to see if they turn the liberal bubble into a fortified castle

Lyse Mauvais is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

this expectation that our future will resemble it The plastic, whip smart robots in I, Robot are the best example They’re exceedingly smart, lithe and powerful, quick to learn and adapt, and they’re able to pick up the ability to mimic humans While the movie they inhabited wasn ’ t very good (Will Smith aside, of course), they presented us with the belief that one day our future could be very much like that It goes along with the hazy expectation that robots in particular will become more and more advanced at an accelerated rate, so much so that one day, the abilities they possess can be unlimited It gives us the ability to dream It also gives us the ability to be reckless

Back here in our stunted world, no one can quite predict the trajectory of robots There’s a chance that their growth might expand past our models and become malignant (Hello, VIKI), but then again there’s a chance Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis might save all of us from an asteroid tomorrow It’s impossible to say But most likely, we’ll find that robots will push out jobs and deflate salaries, even in the most educationally laden fields, but it’ll be their assistance, rather than their dominance, that’ll prove most beneficial Automation gives humans extraordinary powers, and by our side, our steps will turn into leaps and bounds Society will flourish as never seen before Unfortunately, we ’ re not as close as we might think As I watch my parents painstakingly try to lug our bulky Roomba up the collapsible stars to clean the attic, it reminds me that while the sky’s the limit, we ’ re still stuck down here

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

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up junior forward Trevor Yates in front of the net, who was able to get a stick on it and deflect in the the equalizing goal Yates’ goal marks his fourth of the season in eight games, while the junior had six goals in 32 total games last season

“He has a little knack around the net, ” Schafer said of Yates “He leaned out over the summer, a little bit faster after dropping 20 pounds, and it’s paying dividends in his performance so far this year ” Following the goals from Bauld and Rauter, the pressure fell to senior goaltender Mitch Gillam to keep the Wildcats at bay; and that’s exactly what he did

Gillam’s only goal allowed was rather uncharacteristic for the senior to give up, but he kept Cornell afloat through the Red’s six penalty kills on the night For Gillam, seeing plenty of shots early and getting into his groove was the key

“They had some shooters and good stickhandling and they were able to attack me from everywhere,” he said “But I like to get early shots quick right in the breadbasket to feel the puck and get used to it ”

Gillam went on to make 29 saves

While this game will go into the standings as just another outof-conference win, it was much more than that for the team

Leading up to the game, Schafer labeled the contest “ not just another game, ” and that mentality certainly showed in the team ’ s resilience to come back after being down early

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But even after a strong performance on such a big stage, Schafer’s first two words to the media in the postgame press conference were “rocky start ” He knows there is still much to be done this season, and no one performance can change that

“UNH played a ver y good game tonight and [Gillam] made some great saves for us, ” Schafer said “It wasn ’ t a 3-1 game where we came in and blew the doors out It was a tight game ” Tight game or not, this win could help Cornell find the winning rhythm it has been looking for With a quick turnaround and trip to Colgate just a few days away, this could be the perfect moment to begin a push towards the top of the ECAC

And what better person could there have been to highlight what could be the team ’ s defining win than the hometown kid whose mom was in attendance Once invited to participate in a Rangers offseason training program, Rauter’s chances at playing hockey at the professional level are currently up in the air

But whether he does or does not crawl his way into the NHL, Rauter has made the most of his time living out what was once an ephemeral dream of playing at Madison Square Garden

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Red victorious in World’s Most Famous Arena

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Madison Square Garden holds a special place in junior forward Alex Rauter’s heart A New Jersey native and die-hard New York Rangers fan, Rauter dreamed about one day playing at MSG since he played in the ‘mites on ice’ game during a Rangers intermission as a young child His passion for New York hockey dates back to his father, who named his son Alex in honor of nine-year Ranger Alexei Kovalev just two days after Kovalev won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994, or the day Rauter was born Saturday’s game against New Hampshire was not the first time Rauter got to live out his childhood dream he recorded an assist in Cornell’s 3-3 tie against Boston University at MSG last year but this 3-1 win against UNH certainly was his most memorable

During the penalty kill, Rauter tipped the puck to himself up the ice and drew a penalty while driving to the net In a moment meant for Hollywood, Cornell fans who had been raucous the entire game fell silent for this young player’s moment

It came in the third period with Cornell holding onto a tenuous one-goal lead, and Rauter knew how to score on UNH goalie Danny Tirone; his opponent in net had been an old friend of his in grade school

Cornell’s last penalty shot goal came back in 1986 off the stick of now-NHL hall of famer Joe Nieuwendyk ’88 Rauter had the perfect chance to end the drought

Rauter faked like he was going backhand, then sent a picture-perfect shot past Tirone’s glove side, which he knew

would present the best opportunity against a goalie he knew all too well He then basked in the cheers from the thousands of fans like he saw his old idols do when he went to Rangers games at MSG as a young child With a penalty shot goal, his childhood dream reached new heights and put the game away for Cornell

“It’s surreal,” he said “It is something special I think I will definitely look back on it I was just happy my mom got to see it, honestly ”

While Rauter’s goal was the most poignant moment in an incredibly emotional game, it was not the most important In an arena built for the highest caliber of players, it was an inexperienced freshman’s goal that proved to be the game-winner

Forward Noah Bauld’s first career goal in the second period was the critical one, and he was on top of the world when he realized he had gotten number one

“The feeling was amazing,” Bauld said, at a loss for words

Despite all the glory that now accompanies this win, Cornell was in trouble early on in the game, yet again

Starting slow has been a recurring theme for Cornell, and the trend continued against the Wildcats UNH forward Patrick Grasso broke into the zone, heavily defended by junior defenseman Dan Wedman Wedman brought Grasso to the ground, but the freshman was still able to score from his knees and continue his season-opening tear, netting his 11th goal of the season to put UNH up early

Including Saturday, the Red had scored first in a game only twice this season a win over Yale and tie against Dartmouth but the squad was able to dig its way out of the early 1-0 quickly as the game developed

“We got off to a slow start but we buckled down,” Schafer said “Scoring on our first power play was key ” Senior defenseman Patrick McCarron sat idly with the puck in the corner during the power play and fed a tangled-

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

NEW YORK Playing in front of the biggest crowd of your life in prime time at the World’s Most Famous Arena sounds like a lot for a 19-year-old college kid to handle

But freshman Noah Bauld seized the moment and had a night he will not soon forget

The freshman took the setting in stride and in the end, his second period goal the first of his career made the difference in Saturday’s victory over UNH at Madison Square Garden

“I guess it hasn’t really hit me yet, ” Bauld said after the game, “but it’s an amazing feeling for sure ”

With just over three minutes left to play in the second period, the freshman scored what would go on to be the game ’ s winning goal, electrifying the boisterous Madison Square Garden crowd The goal put the Red up 2-1

Cornell would tack on another in the third and close out the win, 3-1, in its now annual trip to MSG

After the Red controlled the puck in the offensive zone, Bauld got his stick on a shot from the point by sophomore defenseman Matt Nuttle and redirected it past UNH goaltender Danny Tirone for the go-ahead

goal

The freshman credited luck and his teammates for the goal, as much as he did his own performance, after the game

“It was a great pass from [Nuttle],” Bauld said “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I got some luck and it went in ”

The Nova Scotia-native had been playing well all season, but, entering Saturday’s game, he had yet to find the back of the net

In New York, however, he scored when the Red needed him most His first ever Cornell goal could not have been more timely, according to head coach Mike Schafer ’86

“He’s been really solid for us all year, ” Schafer said “But it was great that he scored

his first collegiate goal tonight It couldn’t have come at a better time ”

Going into the game, Bauld said he knew that playing at the Garden would be something special the sort of thing kids dream about growing up but he was able to keep his emotions in check and get the job done

“While you ’ re playing, you just try not to let [the stage] affect you, ” he said “You try to think it’s just another game and go out there and do your best ”

Immediately after the puck hit the back of the net, Bauld was mobbed by his teammates, who knew just how big this moment was for the freshman and the rest of the team

“ That was tremendous,” Bauld said

“They were really happy for me ”

New to the spotlight and the onslaught of questions from reporters, the freshman could not help but keep the focus on his team even though Saturday was his night

“It was important to get the win tonight,” he said “We have a big game against Colgate Tuesday night ”

While the Class of 1965 Arena is no Madison Square Garden and Hamilton, N Y , is no New York City, Bauld will look to, once again, provide a sought-after spark for Cornell against Colgate with a game coming on the road in just a few days