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“I was so lost when I got into the detention center, I didn’t know what to do. Now I’m rejoiced to be released ”

“We’re no longer at-will employees, which for me is such a sense of relief.”

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toward the advancement of the company mission,” Kevin Cuddeback, owner and CEO of Gimme Coffee, said in a

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Baristas at four Gimme Coffee shops in Tompkins County members of what may be the only recognized barista union in the country have voted to ratify their first union contract with the coffee shop’s management

The union, Workers United 2833, formed last May and includes all baristas at the Upstate New York cafes Its members voted unanimously, 22 to 0, on Dec 31 to ratify a three-year contract that includes wage increases and the establishment of a paid sick day program, according to a joint statement from baristas and Gimme management released by the Tompkins County Workers’ Center on Wednesday

Baristas at Gimme’s original shops on State and Cayuga streets in the City of Ithaca, which opened in 2000 and 2001, are covered by the union, as are baristas at the Gates Hall and

Samantha Mason, a barista who has worked at Gimme for about three years and led the baristas in their unionization effort, said in an interview that the union would allow baristas and Gimme to “ create a more meaningful workplace where workers can participate and have a democratic voice ”

“We’re no longer at-will employees, which for me is such a sense of relief,” she said

Mason said the union inserted a planned renegotiation of wages into the contract as a condition of agreeing to the management ’ s wage proposal, which the union found unsatisfactory The union and management will negotiate wages in December of this year, per the contract, but the rest of the contract is valid for three years, Mason said

While negotiations between baristas and management have hit some bumps, the union effort is unique in that it has not been publicly opposed or hindered by the company, as with other unsuccessful union attempts at Starbucks and elsewhere

“I’m a proponent of people coming together to build a better world, and I look forward to working with the union

A workshop led by Laurent Ferri, curator of the Musee Conde a Chantilly in France, will delve into the details of witch trials Kroch Library currently displays a collection of witchcraft artifacts, “The World Bewitch’d,” shown above

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How Can Diaspora Talent Promote Prosperity and

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Obser vations of a Practitioner 12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Bioinspired Design & Additive Manufacturing of Wearable Robots 12:20 - 1:10 p m , G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Feeding America With Sustainable Land Use 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Laurent Ferri, “By the Book: the Interrogation and Torture of Alleged Witches” 4 - 6 p m , 2B48 Kroch Librar y, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections

Read in the Name of Your Lord: Islamic Literacy Activism Between Reform and Revolution 4:30 - 5:30 p m , 110 White Hall

The New ‘Perspectives’ of the Chinese Spaces: On Art Museums and Exhibitions 4:45 - 6 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Trump, Year One: Obser vations of a White House Correspondent 4:45 p m , Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Tomorrow

AASP and A3C Spam and Eggs Breakfast 9:30 - 11 a m , Latina/o Studies Resource Center, Rockefeller Hall

Emily Goldman: Open Data, Civic Tech and Planning: Examples From New York City 12:20 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Rebecca Lave: Environmental Data Justice 1:30 - 3 p m , B73 Warren Hall “ The Difficulty of Democracy”: Ethics and Public Life Lecture Series, Paul Pierson 3 - 4:30 p m , 132 Goldwin Smith Hall

After Experimental Music: Keynote Address by George E Lewis 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

2018 Chinese New Year Gala 7 - 10 p m , Barnes Hall

SNL’s Colin Jost With Special Guest Melissa Villasenor 7 - 9 p m , Bailey Hall

Big Red Carnevale 2018 9 p m - 1:15 a m , Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Students to Build Independent Mental Health Task Force

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

“We’re not just going to do things because we think they are right, we want to find evidence and go based on what we’ve seen ”

Natalie Brown ’18

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Tony Nominee Stars in Cornell Prof’s Play

Sister cast in professor’s play inspired by their parents

By ANGELA CHON Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell professor has assembled the full artistic force of his family of Pulitzer, Tony and Emmy nominees for his new play Dancing With Giants

Pulitzer Prize nominee Prof David Feldshuh, performing and media arts, will be acting in the play and will be accompanied by his sister Tovah Feldshuh, who has been nominated for four Tony Awards and two Emmy awards The play also contains cartoons and music created by Feldshuh’s sons, Zach Feldshuh and Noah Feldshuh, respectively

Tovah will be playing the role of Yussel the Muscle, a New York “wheeler-dealer boxing manager ” according to Illusion Theater’s website For David, his sister was an obvious choice for the role

“I had seen a number of actresses [play a male role],” David said in an email to The Sun “I believed that my sister, with her range of craft and experience, could bring both credibility and magnetism to the role ”

David also said that he decided to cast

his sister for her acting skills as well as to involve his family in “this tribute to my mother and father,” he said “When my mother died, I decided to search for a story that might capture the time, place, and spirit of my parents and their youth,” he said

David chose to write the play on “ preWorld War II, the Bronx around the Yankee Stadium,” he said

“[The main character] is a figure whose sense of humor, physical energy, willingness to try anything and go for it, and ability to bounce back reflect the approach to life of people whose struggle was fueled by a determination to survive the Depression and make a life in a remarkable country, America,” he said in an interview with the University for the Cornell Chronicle

Zach created cartoons for the play’s set while Noah, founding lead guitarist of X Ambassadors, created “The Song of the Low Blow Champion” to be used in the performance

The song is a “biting, political satire of a pre-war German, Berlin cabaret,” David

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Alumni Aid Nonprofts With Site

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Task Force

To Produce Findings by Fall of 2018

TASK FORCE

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t a n t ro l e in terms of collecting different perspectives and facilitating interaction between students and the administration

“ We don’t want to be blaming anyone, ” he said “Especially in today’s political climate, there is too much blaming assigned to one party and not enough com-

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each other to do something that we ’ re all passionate about, which is mental health ”

“We want to find the evidence and go based on what we’ve seen empirically ”

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organizations on campus, the task force will be independent and not part of any existing organization

“ We want to come together not as student leaders, but as students,” he said “More often than not, people in these positions of power tend to dominate the conversation We want to m a k e s u r e w e h a v e a w i d e breadth of people ”

The current plan is for the task force to go through four phases over the next year The initial research phase will begin later this month once the group is assembled, and the final polic y / r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s p h a s e i s scheduled to occur by middle to late fall 2018

“We don’t want to be blaming anyone. Especially in today’s poilitical climate.”

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“ We’re scared, but we ’ re also t re m e n d o u s l y e xc i t e d b e c a u s e it’s a new thing,” Jirsa said “It’s something we are really passionate about it, but we don’t know at the end of the day what’s going to get out of this, and that’s important to understand that We don’t know if this is going to create change, but we want it to and we ’ re approaching it in a way that we think it could ”

There will be another information session held on Saturday night at 8 p m in Stimpson

G 0 1 A p p l i c a t i o n s a r e d u e Sunday at midnight

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun com

SOPHIA DENG / SUN EDITOR IN CHIEF

Pour-over | The union covers baristas at four Gimme cafes, including Gates Hall

Barista Union Ratifes First Contract With Gimme

port the unionization effort Workers said they believe the union is the first successful barista union in the country

statement

Prof Ileen DeVault, academic director of The Worker Institute at Cornell, said in an email to The Sun that baristas, “like other workers in food service and retail jobs, face a number of problems ranging from low wages to lastminute and uneven scheduling and more ”

“In recent years, there has been considerable effort made to address these problems through legislative campaigns at various levels as well as worker organizing,” DeVault said “Gimme! workers’ success is part of this much larger movement As many other workers have discovered over the years, coming together collectively in a union is one of the best ways to address workplace problems ”

Mason called the union effort “ a journey” that has been hard for all baristas, but specifically lauded a portion of the contract that establishes monthly meetings between union members and managers

“It’s really nice to just create this space to communicate and talk about what’s possible and really hear from people in the company, ” Mason said “It’s not something that is common in the work culture in this country ”

The contract also includes a clause that requires “just cause ” to fire or discipline a barista and a grievance and arbitration process to resolve workplace problems, the statement said

The county workers center and Workers United’s Rochester office collaborated to sup-

In a phone interview on Wednesday morning, Pete Meyers, coordinator of the Tompkins County Workers Center, said that Gimme’s union, composed almost entirely of young workers, is exciting for the future of organized labor

“It’s a population that didn’t grow up with unions in their midst,” he said of the union members

Meyers said he thinks the baristas are motivated, in part, by a realization that conditions may not improve unless they take matters into their own hands

“There’s an intention here to organize a larger hospitality union writ-large” in the region, Meyers said “There’s some efforts afoot that I can ’ t talk about in the hospitality industry ”

Meyers said that organizing in the hospitality industry is a tough task, and that while Gimme’s effort was at times difficult, it could prove to be easier than other hospitality workforces around Tompkins County

Sophie Tantillo ’21, a part-time barista at the Gates Hall cafe since June, said she has felt supported by the Gimme management and enjoyed the wage increase she received the beginning of 2018, which she said was due to the union contract

“It’s so nice to feel protected,” Tantillo said “It’s nice to have an actual, legal support system as opposed to just an emotional support sys-

tem ”

While the union ratified the contract in December, the workers center, management and baristas did not publicly reveal the successful vote in a joint statement until Wednesday Meyers said that the delay was because of negotiations between the union and management, which he did not specify

“In the spirit of the union’s interest in collaboration with the company, we all took time to ‘do it right’ with cooperation between baristas, Workers United, Gimme! management, and TCWC,” he said of the delay “This all by itself is a reflection of how the partnership of hospitality workers, the union, and the workers ' center want to do things in general, when possible ”

Gary Bonadonna, Jr, manager of Workers United’s Upstate New York headquarters in Rochester, saluted Gimme baristas “for the dedication and hard work they put in to organize their union and negotiate an initial union contract, ” calling the baristas “ an inspirational group ”

He said workers trying to form a union often have “ to walk through a minefield of threats and intimidation by their employer ”

“I want to recognize Gimme! Coffee management for not going down that road,” Bonadonna said “My hope is that other employers in Tompkins County will follow this more ethical path ”

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

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When the first day of rush came, I threw on my heeled black boots and my best sorority girl smile.

o r w h o l ove i t So m e p e o p l e w a n t t o b u r n i t t o t h e g ro u n d , a n d o t h e r s w i l l l a y t h e i r l i f e d ow n o n a b e e r p o n g t a b l e f o r t h e i r s i s t e r s Eve r yo n e w h o w r i t e s a b o u t s o ro r i t i e s h a s a n o p i n i o n a s t ro n g o n e a n d n o o n e k n ow s w h o t o t r u s t f o r t h e t r u t h So t h i s b e c a m e m y j o u r n a l i s t i c p roj e c t t o r u s h a s o ro r i t y a s a n u n d e r -

c ov e r j o u r n a l i s t , a n d f i n a l l y g e t a n u n b i a s e d p e r s p e c t i ve f o r m y s e l f W h e n A s i a n s o r o r i t y r u s h r o l l e d a ro u n d t h i s s p r i n g , I k n e w I f o u n d t h e p e r f e c t o p p o r t u n i t y It i n c o r p o r a t e s a c u l t u re t h a t c o n n e c t s d i re c t l y t o m e , a n d u n l i k e t r a d i t i o n a l Gre e k l i f e , i t ’ s c ove re d l e s s o f t e n , b u t n o l e s s “ s o ro r i t ye s q u e ” T h e p l a n w a s t o r u s h w i t h n o p re c o n c e p t i o n s , n o a g e n d a Ju s t a b l a n k s l a t e s e a r c h i n g f o r t h e t r u t h a b o u t s o ro r i t i e s W h e n t h e f i r s t d a y o f r u s h c a m e , I t h re w o n m y h e e l e d b l a c k b o o t s a n d m y b e s t s o r o r i t y g i r l s m i l e I w a s w a l k e d i n t o a ro o m o f 2 0 g i r l s f o r t h e s p e e d d a t i n g e ve n t , w h e re I w a s h i t by b r i g h t s m i l e s a n d l o u d vo i c e s , c h a t t e ri n g a b o u t h ow “ Wow, we h a ve t h e s a m e

c l a s s ! ” o r “ Oh m y Go d , I ’ m a h o t e l i e t o o ! ” Gi r l b y g i r l I m ov e d a c r o s s t h e t a b l e s , c h a t t i n g i n m y p e rk i e s t vo i c e o n t h e m u l t i t u d e o f re a s o n s I w a n t e d t o b e

a s i s t e r, b u t i n m y m i n d I w a s t a k i n g d ow n n o t e s l i k e a n i n t e r v i e w T h e y

a s k e d m e e ve r y q u e s t i o n t h a t e ve r e x i s t -

e d W h y a m I a n En g l i s h m a j o r, w h e re a m I f ro m ( “ Oh m y Go d I t o t a l l y k n e w y o u w e r e f r o m C a l i f o r n i a , a l l C a l i f o r n i a n s we a r s c a r ve s ! ” ) , w h a t ’ s m y o p i n i o n o n t h e w o rd “ m o i s t ” A d d i n g m e o n Fa c e b o o k a f t e r b e c a m e a r i t u a l So d i d t e l l i n g m e t h e y l ove d m y l i p s t i c k , l ove d m y n a i l s , l ove d m y s h i r t Eve r y s i s t e r w a s p e rk y, “ s u pp o r t e d e a c h o t h e r ” a n d f ro m w h a t I c o u l d g a t h e r, w a n t e d t o s u p p o r t m e t o o T h e y h e l d m y h a n d a n d w i d e n e d t h e i r e ye s w h e n I w a s t e l l i n g a s t o r y a n d l a u g h e d l o u d l y w h e n I m a d e a j o k e T h e y t o l d m e I w o u l d f i t r i g h t i n , t o l d m e I c o u l d b e j u s t l i k e t h e m By t h e e n d s o m e o n e e ve n a s k e d m e t o g e t d i nn e r w i t h t h e m I m e t t h e m f o r t w o m i n u t e s A n d t h e n t h e re we re m o m e n t s w h e n I t r u l y e n j oye d c h a t t i n g w i t h s o m e o n e , w h e n i t w a s n ’ t f o rc e d T h e re we re q u a li t y p e o p l e i n t h e ro o m w h o d i d n ’ t f i t t h e s t e r e o t y p e , a n d e v e r y g i r l h a d i n c re d i b l e i n t e re s t s a n d i n t e l l e c t Fo r a s e c o n d , I e ve n b e l i e ve d t h e m w h e n t h e y s a i d t h e y c a re d a b o u t m e , w h e n t h e y s a i d “ I ’d f i t r i g h t i n ” Bu t t h e n t h e n e x t g i r l c a m e b e h i n d m e a n d t h e y g a

t a f t e r r u s h i n g , I re a l i ze d w h y s o m a n y p e o p l e w a n t t o b e a p a r t o f a s o ro r i t y It’s n o t b e c a u s e t h e y ’ re “f a k e , ” n o t b e c a u s e t h e y a re a l l a b o u t d e s i g n e r w a l l e t s , b u t b e c a u s e t h e y ’ re a g ro u p o f p e o p l e l o o k i n g f o r f r i e n d s j u s t l i k e t h e re s t o f u s , f o r a s y s t e m t h a t i s re l i a b l e T h e y ’ re l o o k i n g f o r a c rowd o f p e o p l e w h o w i l l a l w a y s l ove t h e m Bu t t o t h e s i s t e r s I m e t , l e t m e t e l l yo u s o m e t h i n g A s o ro r i t y i s a g re a t w a y t o f i n d f r i e n d s , a n d yo u s h o u l d c h o o s e yo u r p a t h w i t h p r i d e It’s n o t f o r m e , b u t d o e s n ’ t m e a n i t ’ s “ b a d ” Bu t d o n ’ t g e t l o s t i n t h e s y s t e m Do n ’ t s e e s o m e o n e t e l l i n g a g i r l s h e h a s t o d r i n k m o re , a n d t h i n k yo u n e e d t o b e o k a y w i t h i t Do n ’ t w a t c h s o m e o n e s t o p e a t i n g b e c a u s e a l l h e r o t h e r s i s t e r s a re s k i n n i e r Do n ’ t f o r g e t t h a t yo u ’ re a l s o s m a r t a n d b e a u t i f u l a n d g e n u i n e , a n d j u s t b e c a u s e t h e s t e re o t y p e s a y s yo u ’ re “ s h a l l ow, ” d o e s n ’ t m e a n yo u h a ve t o f i t yo u r s e l f i n t o t h a t i m a g e t o o A n d t o e ve r yo n e i n a s o ro r i t y, t h e re a re t h i

It always baffled me how so many people could collectively commit themselves to a system that faces criticism from left and right. It seemed cultish, and in some ways, oddly mystifying.

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2 Get consent Ever y woman is different, ever y time you have sex is different, and ever y sexual act is different, so make sure you both are comfor table as your adventure progresses A simple and super hot way to do this is to whisper, “ you like that/[inser t act]” next to your par tner ’ s ear

3 Kiss, lick, suck and bite as you descend especially the inner thigh area Once you ’ re here, get comfortable If you ’ re feeling bold, look up yes, eye contact is hot

4 Next, begin licking slowly Like a painter, feel out your canvas, and once you know what you ’ re working with, find the clit, which is a fleshy, bean-looking body par t found in the inner top par t of the vagina Think 12 o ’clock

5 Begin with gentle flicks and light pressure Draw letters/shapes/numbers with your whole tongue and ask your partner if that’s working for her Then, get creative with the pressure, rhythm and sucking mix, but if something specific is working, keep it consistent!

6 Depending on the comfort level of your partner, you may want to incorporate fingering The objective isn’t to shove your fingers up her vagina aimlessly, but rather to stimulate the G-spot To do this successfully, gently insert your index and middle fingers with your palm faced-up, and flex your fingers in a “ come here” motion Adjust tempo to your partner ’ s desire

7 Use your free hand to explore and caress her thighs, breasts, booty, etc , and don’t underestimate the sexiness of simply holding her hand

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Ladies, I hope this is the most influential Sex on Thursdays column your Cornell male partners read, so be lavish with your feedback to them, and I sincerely hope you all receive mind-blowing head this Thursday!

How many points would I b e w o r t h i n t h e Ze t a Beta Tau “Pig Roast?”

How do you assess the worth of someone that you ’ ve slept with?

How do we evaluate the young women on this campus?

Freshman year, I learned that I was worth one full entrance to a party when on my own, and half an entrance when I was accompanied by a man It should be noted

t h a t t h i s c u r re n c y v a l u e w a s entirely dependent on the supposed quality of the party I was tr ying to attend my value declined when I was attempting to gain entrance to the events of those “ top ” fraternities and sports teams Also, whether or not I looked hot (and note that my value has been boosted by the fact that I am white) My hotness has been constantly measured, to my f a c e , t h r o u g h c o m p a r i s o n between myself and my friends; my value is how I look, how much I weigh, and it has been

c o n t i n u o u s l y a s s e s s e d by m e n across this campus throughout my undergraduate career

Over the past week outrage has erupted on our campus over the “pig roast, ” a hazing event at ZBT that instructed new mem-

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bers to sleep with women in order to gain points where ties would be broken based on which individual slept with the women who weighed the most The IFC stated this practice won ’ t be tolerated and wasn ’ t normal

Yet, the commodification of women at Cornell is unceasing

From our first day on campus we teach men that women exist on this campus to help them get into parties, to feel better than their friends and to ser ve as anecdotes for Sunday brunch about how we were “hot but crazy ” Sororities are valued by how attractive their members are and men are praised based on how pretty their dates are for various formal events, whether for sports teams, fraternities or any other organization on this campus My fellow Sun columnist, Willow Hubsher ’18, found out that a member of the lacrosse team was literally fined for not making her cum; a price tag was put on her own bodily functions And yet we somehow think that ZBT is a radical outlier? It is absurd to think that this was just one fraternity, or just fraternities on the whole this is our campus This fucked up shit

is Cornell Cornell obsessively commodifies women based on how they look and who they will fuck Yet we flip around in surprise when it naturally progresses to a ranking system We act as if there’s no world in which a “pig roast ” could be i d h i idi f that 23 p women consensu entering Comm ing porti ence at C sexual vio surround not be o itself to life It m p r o g re s s i societal p al norms It is imp about ho i n h e re n t l from the t i o n o f victims to

sexual objects This campus will not improve until we fundamentally change the cultural norms that per vade our lives It’s time for Cornell to vastly transform If you thought ZBT, was the end you better strap in for a bumpy ride, because this cam’ k i h h you’d give out to a boy who would fuck me! I’m always tr ying to keep my market value accurate and up-to-date

ReykjaDick is a student at Cor nell University Whoreoscopes appears biweekly this semester

The College Protest Tradition

In a Postmodernist America

To c a t e r t o t h e m a s s i v e A s i a n -

American population in the Bay Area, my local movie theater occasionally screens blockbusters that are currently popular in East Asia As dutiful Korean immigrants, my family fulfils our patriotic obligation by going ever y time they show a new Korean movie Over the

break, my family went to watch 1987: When the Day Comes, a Korean film about the militar y dictatorship that interrogated and tor tured pro-democracy protesters during the 1980s It showed scenes of college activists of my parents ’ generation being beaten and hauled away by policemen who resembled vigilante gangsters more than federal law enforcement As the final credits rolled, the audience, comprised mostly of stoic, first-generation Korean parents, sat in their seats silently weeping, bound by a collective reminiscence of mutual struggle only their age cohort could fully appreciate Growing up, my family was like those of many Asian-Americans in that we were ver y much apolitical and ambivalent to developments in U S politics Never once were the Iraq War or the Affordable Care Act discussed at the dinner table, and despite their philosophical opposition, my

parents have never been particularly outspoken about the travesties of the Trump administration

However, by the time they were my age, they had both been tear-gassed with

Molotov cocktails shoddily constructed

from soju bottles Pursuit of social justice, which once colored their formative years, has been diminished to a peripheral nuisance and replaced by the daily humdrum of driving to work and raising two sons

We live in a 2018 spearheaded by a president who has turned the United States into a full-fledged postmodernist state We belong to a Tide pod-eating, meme-idolizing generation that lacks the moral optimism and political clarity of past generations Most of us are deep in so many levels of irony that the Earth seems to look just a tiny bit more flat ever y time we look at a map The status quo has shifted to one that shrugs off pussy-grabbing and accepts the fact that our president deliberately and routinely lies to his constituents

Fu n d a m e n t a l l y, t h e re i s n o t h i n g redeeming about our postmodernist irreverence towards institutions and truth At

best, our behavior can best be described as trendy pseudo-nihilism, and at worst, complicit apathy For the large part, our generation has been negligent in our duty to continue a proud tradition of college activism that once stood up to racial discrimination and protested the an unjust war in the 1960s Perhaps it’s a product of cynicism and disenchantment, but there seems to be a collective acceptance of an absurdist and nonsensical society that provide absolutely no utility to affecting the ver y systems that we want to change

At Cornell, we are comfortably situated far above Cayuga’s waters, hundreds of miles away from nationally televised social battlegrounds and removed both physically and, by extension, emotionally from tangible struggle Our Ivy League degree gives us a distorted sense of intellectual superiority that entitles us to analyze and trivialize real world issues from our lofty perch in Goldwin Smith We talk of sweeping, grand narratives in our liberal arts courses, unsuspecting of the fact that we might be a part of one right now Indifference is a shame, because change is a luxur y we currently have time to dream of The vast majority of us have no mortgage or hungr y children to worr y about; therefore, this is one of the few times in our lives we have the ability and awareness to devote our resources and energy to fight for causes bigger than us

Our generation can be a catalyst of profound reinvention for generations to come Just like college students in the ’60s fought for the full citizenship for all Americans, we have the opportunity to participate in movements that will define

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our children’s understanding of racism, sexual assault, homophobia, transphobia, health care and an extensive catalogue of social injustices If you need inspiration, go to the front page of The New York Times’ website, and I assure you will find enough worthy causes to last until 2020

But as a college student, I think the m o s t d i re c

march during these four years is not one based on moral or political persuasion, but one that is far more intrinsic and personal I believe the lingering question of “what if ” is one of the most unfulfilling and frustrating feelings we will ever experience That is why second semester seniors frantically tr y to squeeze every last bit their final months that Cornell has to offer, and it’s also probably the reason why Nick Foles played out of his mind last Sunday in the Super Bowl It might be difficult to grasp the gravity of a situation that seems so distant in our safe haven of Ithaca But we have the chance to participate in something special these next few years a movement that transcends any individual and a movement that will surely be more worthwhile than those hours you spend scrolling through Instagram memes

The examples set by the millions of women and men that protested in the Women’s March and the waves brought forth by the struggle of Black Lives Matter activists are inspiring and will prove to be immortal Where were you when they marched?

Jason Jeong is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jjeong@cornellsun com Jeongism appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

New Brown America at Cornell

“ This is new brown America

The dream is for you to take, so take that shit ” Hasan Minhaj

Ip a u s e d H a s a n M i n h a j ’ s

Ho m e c o m i n g K i n g Ne t f l i x special when he said “And so I actually have the audacity of equality ” I stared wonderingly at the screen and replayed the s o u n d b i t e t w o m o r e t i m e s , reading and re-reading the subtitles that confirmed I was not m i s h e a r i n g h i s t e n e t Fo r months, I had felt largely alone in my desperate search for validation in joining the cause for South Asian social action and mobilization

My social activism journey at Cornell has been rapid, and I look back at my freshman year self and wonder how I’ve come to be deeply invested in Desi visibility, embracing and reveling in my brown-skinned, daughterof-Gujarati-immigrants self

At the end of a semester of I n t e r g r o u p D i a l o g u e Pr o j e c t ’ s race section, then being rejected as a peer facilitator, I felt embarrassed, invalidated and devastated, finding my throat burning with unshed tears of fr ustration at my own incompetence I was not sure what I had to offer, but clearly lacked the ability to facili t a t e d i a l o g u e , a n d f o r t w o months carried a deep sense of failure because I was irrevocably c

Cornell through this class It was a semester that had given me

m o re q u e s t i o n s t h a n a n s we r s , but also a semblance of clarity that encouraged me to tr y to find other Desis at Cornell that were asking themselves similar

q u e s t i o n s a n d l o o k i n g f o r f o r u m s f o r d i s c u s s i o n a n d action I found wonderful mentors and organizations associate dean of students Sophie Sidhu, t h e A s i a n a n d t h e A s i a nAmerican Center, former vice president of South Asian Council Samir Dur vasula ’17, the cool kids of Asian Pacific American for Action and more recently my executive board at South Asian

C o u n c i l I j o i n e d c o m m i t t e e s that were meant to address diversity and inclusion though now

I question if these committees ser ve more to tokenize students all the while ser ving to make the Administration appear invested in str uctural and institutional change

Bu t i n t he s o c i a l s p a c e s I found, I often felt the sharp sting of having my person of color-hood questioned, affirmed by people’s entrenched belief in t h e m o d e l m i n o r i t y m y t h I

l e a r n e d q u i c k l y t h a t r a d i c a l spaces are rarely open to criticism and self-reflection on their inherent toxicity What right did I have to question the culture of

those spaces if South Asian people as a whole have been quite d e l i b e r a t e i n a vo i d i n g d i s c u ss i o n s a b o u t r a c i a l a n d s o c i a l inequality?

So I still ponder, how do we r e a l i z e H a s a n ’ s ‘ Ne w B r o w n America?’ In my ‘Ne w Brown America,’ we center the margins of our communities and celebrate our individually nuanced a n d c o n t o u r e d r e l a t i o n s h i p s with our motherlands and heritages We name what divides us i n t e r n a l l y p a r t i t i o n s , r e l igions and the culture of colorism left by our colonizers and their centuries of exploitation

We revel in the contributions of our diaspora here to television, to science, to political and business leadership all the w h i l e n o t i c i n g t h e h u r t t h a t comes from fake accents, racial p r o f i l i n g , a n d s t a l e i d e a l s o f what a successful Desi-American looks like We name the things that affect our community’s safety and success the bamboo c e i l i n g , Is l a m o p h o b i a , I m m i g r a t i o n a n d Cu s t o m s Enforcement, caste and the lived r e a l i t i e s o f o u r c o m m u n i t y members who are working class and are stereotyped to be taxi drivers, Dunkin’ Donuts worke r s o r 7 - E l e v e n o w n e r s We m o u r n S r i n i v a s Ku c h i b h o t l a , Harnish Patel and Deep Rai, a n d t h e h u n d r e d s o f S o u t h Asian folks that have been tar-

geted, assaulted, and killed on American soil because of prejud i c e , r a c i s m a n d h a t e We become allies to all people of color and we strive repay our l a s t i n g d e b t t o b l a c k f o l k s , whose fight for civil rights established a more equitable America for South Asia’s first professional immigrants We delve into the implications of brownness and immigration with Latinx folks and ask indigenous folks how we

can do better by them

Having the audacity of equality means reckoning with the overlapping and coexisting privi l e g e s a n d o p p r e s s i o n o f o u r American diaspora and asking yourself if there’s anything you ’ re willing to do to make it known and felt

Log kya kahenge? What will people say?

Log kya kahenge, when other De s i s t u d e n t s f i n d t h i s p i e c e unnecessar y and embarrassing, b e c a u s e o f c o u r s e w i t h h a r d work, a good internship after junior year, a light dusting of d e s p e r a t i o n t o a s s i m i l a t e t o whiteness and anglicizing our names at the office, we can tr uly ov

My immigrant parents have paid their American Dream tax, I won’t be paying it again.

into a nice house in the suburbs and make sure our kids do even better than us (even if they’re teased, mocked and bullied for all the same things we were)

Main kehta hoon, I say, that having the audacity of equality is uncomfor table and messy, but never lonely

My immigrant parents have paid their American Dream tax, I won ’ t be paying it again

Shivani Parikh is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun com Guest Room runs periodically this semester

Last semester, after Samir and I published our guest column, “ To B e B r o w n : S o u t h A s i a n St u d e n t s Ta k e a St a n d , ” w e received comments that called u s S c h l e m i e l a n d S c h l i m a z e l , whiny members of a race that has been widely por trayed as problem-free, comfor table and without cause for complaint in America

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

T h e P h a n t o m o f D a n i e l D a y -

e w i s’ s Ac t i n g C a r e e r

BY BECKY FRANK Sun Staff Writer

I really did not want to see Phantom Thread And honestly, I am not entirely glad I did But I wanted to see every movie nominated for Best Picture, and was intrigued that Daniel Day-Lewis announced directly after production that it was his last movie ever

Phantom Thread is set in 1950s post-war London Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a famous dressmaker of the British elite One had to be worthy, both economically and in terms of character, to wear Woodcock’s dresses Woodcock lives with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville), who understands his every need and work routine On a trip, Woodcock meets Alma (Vicky Krieps), and quickly forms a relationship with her Alma soon becomes another one of Woodcock’s muses, but she is different than the others Alma challenges Woodcock, and the film largely centers on their evolving and complex relationship

There is a lot I admired about the movie It tackles the dilemma of how to love while being yourself The film was very unconventional, in a beautiful and exquisite way It also illustrates how often men or women who are called “geniuses ” in their field believe that they can get away with anything

Woodcock is immensely rude and needy, but everyone puts up with him because of his dressmaking talent Without giving away any spoilers, I urge viewers to pay close attention to the role of food in the film It is woven into the film in an intricate and ominous way, and eventually manifests itself in the climax of the plot

I do wish the film focused more on the dresses My biggest complaint, however, is that none of the characters were likeable I was never cheering for any one The plot develops into a strange ending, and leaves viewers with an odd taste in their mouth Woodcock is arrogant and highmaintenance, and Alma is truly bizarre It’s hard to sympathize with either character

Perhaps this lack of likeability is why the film led to DayLewis’s retirement Day-Lewis famously takes acting, specifically method acting, to his own unique level For his Oscarwinning performance in My Left Foot, Day-Lewis essentially gave himself cerebral palsy to fit the character: he stayed in a wheelchair and was spoon-fed by crew members for months before and throughout all of the production of the film Before his role in Last of the Mohicans, Day-Lewis spent six months in the wild Similarly, before his role in The Boxer, he tattooed his hands and trained for 18 months for his role

Because of his scrupulous preparation, Day-Lewis takes

years off between roles At the end of every movie, DayLewis describes a “terrible sadness on the last day of shooting ” Day-Lewis keeps a bit of each character with him, for example, he still competitively boxes to this day and is obsessed with the TV show Naked and Afraid Dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock must have affected Day-Lewis in a way incomparable to other characters Some believe Day-Lewis merely does not want to experience the emotional toll at the end of a movie again, but I hypothesize that it might have more to do with the Phantom Thread character itself Day-Lewis said that he had no intentions to ever watch the film, a decision cnnected to his choice to stop acting: “But it’s not why the sadness came to stay That happened during the telling of the story, and I don’t really know why ” Becoming Reynolds Woodcock seems to have affected Day-Lewis in ways even he does not understand, and really may have caused him to end his acting career DayLewis laughed at rumors that he would now become a dressmaker, though he did train for months and design his own dresses for the film He plans to box, create shoes and explore a number of other passions in his new life off-screen Day-Lewis has said that ending acting is very liberating, and will change how he sees the world

Considering the Academy Awards are in less than a

month, it is hard not to compare Phantom Thread to everything else nominated For Best Picture, I would be genuinely surprised if it won given the other eight movies nominated For cinematography, it was certainly beautiful and elegant but not quite as magnificent as Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk or The Shape of Water Paul Thomas Anderson has a chance of winning Best Director He is not my top pick, but he certainly did a stellar job with this quirky and thought-provoking film The real chances for Oscar victories, however, lie with Day-Lewis (for Best Actor), Manville (for Best Supporting Actress), and Mark Bridges (for Best Costume Design)

Certainly my favorite part of Phantom Thread and a true Oscar contender is the original score Jonny Greenwood’s music was playing for 90 of the 130 minutes of the film, making the equally lavish yet eerie music a character of its own

Though Phantom Thread certainly left me feeling “weird,” for lack of a better term, it is worth seeing Day-Lewis is outstanding in his final performance, and the story is both a subtle period-piece and a complex, meticulous drama

Becky Frank is a junior in the college of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at bfrank@cornellsun com

Discussing Death From Beyond the Grave: Denis Johnson’s Final Stories

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

Few authors can place their readers in wildly uncomfortable situations with unreliable characters and still leave them with a sense of poignancy like Denis Johnson In his long-awaited collection of stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Johnson weaves together five fairly disjunctive tales, all of which mimic the style of Jesus’s Son, one of his most accredited works

However, in his most recent book, published posthumously in Januar y 2018, Johnson’s writing is slightly darker than his previous works There’s something more resonant about the lessons these stories teach the reader, considering that they come from the grave Perhaps Johnson describes the experience of reading his work best in the opening of “Strangler Bob” when he says,

“ you hop into a car, race off in no particular direction, and blam, hit a power pole ”

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is in many ways a follow-up to Jesus’s Son in that it shares some of the same characters, but more so in the way it evokes the same sort of humanizing tone to discuss recurring struggles in his stories Jesus’s Son, published in 1992, was noted for its whacky characters that illustrate the tragedies of American life, such as drug addiction, alcoholism, prison and mental illness The Largesse of the Sea Maiden accomplishes a similar goal through the use of colloquial language that is direct and honest, sometimes even brutally so

With characters ranging from rehab patients to writers, Johnson presents a diverse range of protagonists with similar pains The segmented structure reflects the scatterbrained state of the characters, whether it be drug or life-induced Many of them recount failed romantic and familial

relationships, such as Cass in “The Starlight on Idaho,” and just as many are metaphorically or literally stuck, such as the inmates in “Strangler Bob ” Nearly all of them, though, are confronted by pervasive images of death, whether it be their own or that of a friend or family member The salient mortality of his characters painfully reflects Johnson’s own He completed the book while battling liver cancer

Johnson portrays social outcasts calling to be accepted by the book’s readers While nearly all of them have committed various crimes to different degrees, the characters are endlessly endearing Take Mark Cassandra, or Cass, as he asks to be called In “The Starlight on Idaho,” he attempts to earnestly write letters to all the people he knows, beginning with his fifth grade crush, Jennifer Johnston But quickly his confessions to friends and family members devolve to reflect a profound anger and pain in let-

ters that address forces such as God and Satan It is this kind of deep emotion that forces us to empathize with characters similar to Cass who are present throughout the book

Despite the morbidity to the collection, Denis Johnson’s final works hold within them a redemptive sort of transience The characters actively document the truth of their lives throughout various mental states and drug hazes, and in doing so memorialize themselves beyond death This effort is another reason why the characters in this collection are inextricably linked with Johnson himself The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is ultimately a memorialization of Denis Johnson and stands as an impressive monument to his literary career

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at vrh23@cornell edu

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BōL: An Honest Review by a Pho-natic

By SPENCER SIGALOW

Sun Staff Writer

After a semester of traveling through Eu ro p e a n d s t u d y i n g a b ro a d i n London, I refined my palate and honed my foodie skills Among the various places I visited, perhaps my favorite guilty pleasure was London’s Chinatown, filled with an assor tment of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese eateries It was here where I truly came to appreciate the delicacy that is pho Now, I do not want to claim that I am an expert in the realm of Vietnamese cuisine, as that would be an overstatement of my gifts That being said, I genuinely believe that I am now a connoisseur of pho a pho-natic if you will (and frankly, I will)

Naturally, I was ecstatic to learn that Ithaca had gained a new restaurant while I had been gone, BōL, which supposedly specializes in this gourmet treat Upon hearing this news, I gathered three of my c

Commons to see if this new locale would provide a meal that would be one pho the record books

When you first step into BōL, you are required to take a piece of paper and clipboard off the wall to place your order Although I like to think of myself as an intelligent individual, this process was a bit confusing, with several variations of order slips available Once I stumbled across the paper for soup, rather than salad, I was able to choose between pho and ramen Opting for the former choice, which includes rice noodles as opposed to ramen noodles, as well as a different selection of vegetables, I then had to choose

my broth and any protein options, which cost extra I selected the chicken and pork broth and added egg ($1) and beef ($3 50) to complete the soup Additionally, I was convinced by one friend to split an order of steamed pork dumplings on the side

After handing the cashier my order slip and paying the relatively expensive price, I awkwardly lingered by the counter for about five minutes, waiting for my meal to be made The ambience of the restaurant was ver y bright, yet mellow with a good collection of music playing There was limited seating downstairs, all of which was occupied, so I balanced my large (and ver y aesthetically pleasing) bowl of pho on the provided metal tray and made the trek upstairs to find more seating, spilling minimal broth in the process

The first item to note is the chicken and pork broth, which I found to be the high point of the meal The temperature, flavor and overall taste were delicious The rice noodles were also tasty and came with a fairly generous por tion However, I was sadly disappointed with the rest of my bowl The beef was too well-done, r e s u l t i n g i n a n a l m o s t b u

y brisket that was not great Fur thermore, my chef was not ver y liberal with the vegetable add-ins, tossing in a couple raw green beans, minimal peppers and almost no bok choy (which happens to be my favorite) To make matters worse, the ser ving size of the bowl was not nearly as large as I had anticipated, leaving me hungr y after I finished

The pork dumplings were only okay We received four dumplings, ser ved over sweet and sour slaw with hoisin sauce The

extremely flavorful, but the accompanied side and sauce certainly helped Although they were not amazing, they were definitely needed to complement the bowl of pho in order to satisfy my hunger

While I wouldn’t say the meal was phonomenal, it was decent Given the fact that BōL is a new restaurant, I would not rule out coming back to give it another chance However, I would likely var y my order, selecting different protein or noodles perhaps, to see if the meal could possibly be improved All in all, it was around a $20 meal that left me fairly satiated, but not completely satisfied I certainly hope that

BōL can improve its ser ving sizes and quality of proteins as well as simplify the ordering process to improve the overall dining experience

Ser ves: pho, ramen, salads, dumplings Vibe: casual, bright, cheer y, mellow Price: $$ Overall:

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s p i c y s e n s a t i o n s ” R i g h t n ow, these products are not available on Cornell’s campus, but Jeca hopes to feature them in oncampus locations by next semester Currently, you can buy Jeca

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a f t e r, ” a c c o rd i n g t o Re e Fo r example, the Tuscany cookie features ingredients that are staples in that area When I asked Ree about where the ingredients are sourced from, she replied that they “ tr y to source locally as much as we can but in some cases, we do need to source glob-

ally For example, we source our M a t c h a d i r e c t l y f r o m Ja p a n because we feel that the quality is s u p e r i o r ” E a c h c o o k i e c o s t s about three bucks

I’ve had some great cookies in m y l i f e Un f o r t u n a

Jeca cookies are not one of them Right away, the packaging for the cookies, although pretty, is impossible to open without a pair of scissors It doesn’t make much sense to me that a product marketed as a to-go snack would not have per forations to make the package easy to open My

roommate commented that the “packaging just sucks ” I don’t know about you guys, but I definitely don’t carr y around a pair of scissors In terms of texture, all the cookies had a ver y similar m

n l y describe as dusty The cookies are incredibly dr y and cr umbly, and they left me parched

The Tijuana Cookie incorporated peanuts, chipotle peppers, chocolate, coffee and lime juice

This was by far my least favorite cookie It was initially slightly sweet and then had a kick of a

spice There are plenty of delicious dishes that combine sweet and savor y flavors But it felt like this cookie wasn ’ t tr ying to combine these flavors in a complementar y way; rather, it felt as t h o u g h t h i s c o o k i e c o u l d n ' t decide whether it wanted to be a savor y cookie or a sweet one It just felt like a fe w muddled flavors were slapped together, combined with a ridiculously dr y texture I tried this cookie with three other friends, and the four of us together could not finish it

The Tuscany Cookie, which contained olives, was also a confusing cookie It was not that much better than the Tijuana one It had an initial mild sweetness with an incredibly bitter after taste, probably due to the olives It did not feel like one specific flavor stood out, and the cookie as a whole just tasted weird The most tolerable cookie w a s t h e To k yo c o o k i e , w h i c h i n c l u d e d i n g r e d i e n t s s u c h a s p e a n u t s , s e a w e e d , s o y s a u c e , mustard seed and matcha It was m u c h s we e t e r t h a n t h e o t h e r cookies but still had a strange bitter after taste that I did not enjoy I keep mentioning the texture, but to reiterate: I hated it All these cookies were ridiculously dr y and cr umbly A l l i n a l l , f l a vo r - w i s

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Hoopers Look to Get Back Into Ivy Contention

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

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C.U. Boasts Eight Olympians

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

around the corner, Cornell fans will have plenty to look for ward to as the games begin this Friday

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c k ’ 1 0 , B e n S c r i v e n s ’ 1 0 , Rebecca Johnston ’12, Laura Fortino ’ 1 3 , L a u r i a n e Ro u g e a u ’ 1 3 , Br i a n n e Jenner ’15 and Jillian Saulnier ’15 will all make the trip to Pyeongchang, South Korea

The eight Cornell alumni will compete for two countries over three different sports and will be the most participants the Red has ever fielded at a Winter Olympics The number will also represent the most Red participants in any Olympics since Cornell sent eight representatives to the 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics

Bobsled

Poser and Kirkpatrick will be participating in bobsled for Team USA and Canada, respectively

Poser follows up an Olympic appearance in Sochi in 2014, where she earned a bronze medal in two-woman bobsled Before her career as a bobsledder, Poser boasted four strong years on the Cornell track and field squad where she won f o u r i n d i v i d u a l He p s c h a m p i o n s h i p s and also holds the school record in outdoor heptathlon and indoor pentathlon

Kirkpatrick will make his Olympic debut in the four-man bobsled after a successful tenure on the track and field squad as well The former runner won f i v e i n d i v i d u a l He p s c h a m p i o n s h i p s during his time at Cornell He also rep-

resented Canada in pole vault at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie

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Men’s Hockey

Scrivens will be making his Olympic d e b u

Olympic champion men ’ s hockey team

The former Red goaltender was a key member of the 2009-2010 ECAC championship team, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament, and left East Hill ranked second in career saves

Following his college career, Scrivens had NHL stints in Toronto, Los Angeles, Edmonton and Montreal He currently p

Kontinental Hockey League in Russia

Thursday, Feb 15 against Switzerland

Women’s Hockey Johnston, Fortino, Rougeau, Jenner and Saulnier will be representing Team Canada’s four-time defending gold medal women ’ s hockey team Saulnier will be the sole Cornellian on the roster making her debut the others are all Olympic veterans who will look to defend their medals from previous Games

The five players were teammates on the 2010-2011 Cornell team that finished the season 30-5 and made it to the national semifinals before falling to the eventual champion, Minnesota

Team Canada starts play on Sunday, Feb 11 against Olympic Athletes from Russia

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun com

Injuries Plague Men’s Hockey

Captain Vanderlaan out for rest of regular season

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w e e k e n d , a c c o rd i n g t o Schafer The sophomore for ward has missed four games due to injur y In C o r n e l l’s l a s t matchup with the Saints, a 6-1 victor y inNovember, it was the Red’s opponent

t h a t w a s e x p e r i e n c i n g i n j u r y w o e s a s C o r n e l l enjoyed good health

“ T h e t a b l e s w i l l b e

t u r n e d o n u s , ” S c h a f e r said “ We’ll be going into

t h a t g a m e s h o r t h a n d e d and we’ll need to overc o m e t h e i n j u r i e s w e have ” Smith’s plus-minus of 19 leads the team, and Schafer called him one of the ECAC’s best “shutdown defensemen ” Despite being plagued b y i n j u r i e s , t h e s q u a d , w i t h i t s s i g h t s o n a n ECAC title and NCAA run, has no time to feel sorr y for itself

“If we have 12 healthy for wards, we’ll play with 12,” Schafer said “ We’ve got good depth and those guys will step in, whatever role they are, and they’ll do the job ”

“We have a really deep team, so it’s always that nextguy-up menality.”

“All teams go through this,” Schafer said “Now we have a ton of guys out and we need to play hard and play smart and understand that we ’ re not a full r o s t e r b u t t h a t d o e s n ’ t mean that we won ’ t be ready to compete ” The Red’s depth has been one of its strongest a s s e t s t h u s f a r S c h a f e r said he plans to continue confidently playing four lines

Locke Angello leads the team with 12 goals

“It’s tough to hear that [Vanderlaan is] going to be out for a little while, but that’s not going to change the way I think,” Angello said “ Whoever [my new linemate] may be, I’m going to treat him just like I would Mitch, and I’m going to help him get better, and he’s going to help me get better ” The team has preached the “ process ” all season l o n g , e s p e c i a l l y i n t h e midst of success, including ascendance to No 1 i n t h

“ I t h i n k t h o s e g u y s know they’re expected to step up and we ’ re obviously going to hold them to a super high standard like we do for ever y player,” a d d e d j u n i o r f o r w a rd A n t h o n y A n g e l l o “ We have a really deep team, so it’s always that next-guyup mentality ” Angello has been perhaps the primar y beneficiar y of Vanderlaan’s passing and playmaking ability, playing on a line with the now-injured captain a n d f re s h m a n Bre n d e n

c o u n t r y T h e process will be on full display as the Red responds to injur y “It’s out of our control,” said senior for ward a

Jared Fiegl “ We’re going to just focus on what we can control ” T h e i n j u

St Lawrence Saturday, with a chance to clinch a bye in the ECAC playoffs

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

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After Upset Loss, Icers Prep for Conference Foes

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

Just days after one of the worst teams in the ECAC toppled No 3/4 Cornell men ’ s hockey at home, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 decided to give his team the day off

The shocking loss a 2-1 defeat that knocked the Red (19-3-1, 13-2-1 ECAC) from its perch atop the national rankings caused a wide range of e

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And so, to help the team reset and return to its winning ways, Schafer did not schedule practice on Monday to allow his team to ready itself for a pair of away games this weekend After some days of reflection, the players have been critical of their own performance yet are confident the defeat will be a learning moment

“We didn’t come ready to work We got outcompeted,” said junior forward Anthony Angello of Saturday’s loss “We absolutely wanted to win but we weren ’ t willing to do the little things to help us win ”

Now, with a chance to avenge one of its three losses this season, the Red travels north to battle No 7 Clarkson (19-6-3, 11-3-2) and St Lawrence (620-2, 2-13-1) to try to secure a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs

“Obviously, the loss is disappointing but our mentality going into this week is that it’s not going See M HOCKEY page 17

Old foes | Plagued by injuries and coming off an upset loss to RPI, the Red will take on North Country foes Clarkson and St Lawrence this weekend, hoping to lock up a bye in the ECAC playoffs

Red Downs Syracuse, Readies for Ivy Matchups

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

A s i t l o o k s a h e a d t o t w o Iv y League matchups and Senior Day this weekend, No 6 Cornell women ’ s hockey had no problem taking care of business in a midweek contest

Cornell (15-7-3, 11-5-2 ECAC) coasted to a 5-0 shutout of Central Ne w York rival Syracuse (9-17-2, 85-1 CHA) on Tuesday, led by sophomore for ward Kristin O’Neill’s first collegiate hat trick

Ju n i o r g o a l t e n d e r M a r l e n e Boissonnault stopped 24 shots in her four th shutout of the season

The Red got off to a quick star t, with O’Neill registering the game ’ s first tally less than five minutes into t

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junior for ward Diana Buckley had netted a power-play goal, propelling Cornell to a commanding 3-0 lead at the first intermission

“I thought from our end tonight, pretty solid effor t across the board,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91

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shutout led the Red to a 5-0 win Tuesday, as the team prepares to take on Yale and Brown

defeated the Orange on the road, 6-3, back in early Januar y In that contest, the Red jumped out to an even earlier lead, but seemed unable to keep its opponent at bay, having not established a commanding lead until the game ’ s closing minutes

This time, however, Cornell had n o t r o u b l e i m p o s i n g i t s w i l l o n Syracuse

Tuesday night games can be a little bit wonky so we ' re pretty happy with the effor t overall tonight from our team ” Tuesday’s game was the second time this season that Cornell had p

“ We had a good star t against them at Syracuse,” Derraugh said “But the second period was not ver y strong for our par t, so I think [the players] reco g n i ze d t h a t a n d d i d n ’ t w a n t t h e same thing to happen again tonight ” Freshman for ward Maddie Mills had the primar y assist on O’Neill’s first two goals and the secondar y assist on her linemate’s third, which came with about five minutes to play in the second period

“I definitely thought we as a line h a d a l o t o f e n e r g y c o m i n g i n t o tonight’s game, ” O’Neill said “ We didn’t really change anything but we were just feeling good ” The victor y marked Cornell’s 10th straight win against the Orange

Now, the Red turns its focus to the upcoming weekend, which will feat u r e t w o Iv y L e a g u e a n d E C A C matchups against Yale and Brown Cornell clings to the ECAC’s four th spot, two points ahead of fifth-place Quinnipiac and one point behind third-place St Lawrence

Vanderlaan Out at Least Three Weeks

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