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Local Activists Suggest Solution to Homelessness: Build Homes

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

According to local activists, the solution to homelessness in America may actually be deceptively simple: build houses

Describing the current homelessness situation in Ithaca as “ludicrous” and worse than before, a panel of local activists advocated to find sustainable solutions to the housing crisis on Saturday afternoon

“ The number one cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing,” said panelist Mark Hor vath

Hor vath is the founder of Invisible People, a digital stor ytelling platform that helps homeless people share their experiences He was joined by three other panelists: Mike Foster, the program manager at the Rescue Mission, a

resources for the homeless; Carmen Guidi, the founder of Second Wind Cottages, a non-profit that provides housing and support for the homeless; and Deb Wilke, an active volunteer at Second Wind Cottages who wanted to provide a “female perspective” on the homeless situation

Many in Ithaca’s homeless community currently gather in “ The Jungle,” an encampment in the woods behind Wegmans, The Sun previously described The Jungle is technically owned by the City of Ithaca, so individuals including the homeless could be arrested for trespassing if they go there, even if they go to help people, Foster said

“ We were just shocked at what we saw [at The Jungle], in close proximity to all the big box stores that ever yone visits in the area A short walk back to the woods and there are people living in tents, in huts, no running water, no facilities,” Wilke said, adding that The Jungle is especially scar y for the women who live there

“ Those women need us, ” she said

After describing their encounters and conversations with those living in The Jungle, the panelists discussed the stigma of homelessness and how society tends to blame the individuals for their situation instead of understanding the larger context of the issue

“[ The majority of the general public] say, ‘ you drug addict, you bum, you ’ re lazy, the number one solution is get a job,’” Hor vath said “ Well, there’s more truckers than any other profession in this countr y, and in 5 to 10 years, trucks are going to drive themselves ”

Jungle in campers behind his house, discussed a model called “Housing First” that prioritizes finding permanent housing in order to solve the homeless crisis

“People can’t find housing, and the answer is really simple, you just build housing.”

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“People can ’ t find housing, and the answer is really simple, you just build housing,” he said Guidi argued that, while people might object to this program because they think that the homeless don’t deser ve to just be given a house, such a mindset is “ pure ignorance ” that ignores the fact that the Housing First model has been working in communities around the countr y “ There’s no comparison to how much it costs to temporarily house people when you can put them in permanent housing,” he said “ You would save millions of dollars ”

solving the issue

While not ever yone can or should go down to The Jungle, the panelists emphasized that there was something ever yone could do to help address the problem, from advocating for policy changes, to donating land and money, to giving their time

In the future, Hor vath thinks that the homelessness situation will only get worse, especially since the presidential administration wants to cut roughly $8 billion from the budget that would help affordable housing, and emphasized the important role of faith-based organizations

“ The only way that I see the future is faith-based organizations Muslims, temples, Jewish, Christians, stepping up and working together to end homelessness and to help other crises,” he said

“‘Get a job’ is not really a practical solution,” he continued “ The number one cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing When you add in mental illness, childhood trauma, hurricanes, there’s a lot of causes to homelessness, yet as humans we blame the person, [saying] ‘it’s their fault, I’m not going to help them ’” Guidi, who at one time housed people from The

Foster added that it currently costs about a quarter of a million dollars a month to temporarily house people in Ithaca, and Guidi later said that doing anything other than building housing is just putting a “Band-Aid” on the problem

The world runs on money, Hor vath said, and figuring out a way for developers to make money off of creating affordable housing would have a significant impact in

Moderator Lee Rayburn summarized the key takeaways of the discussion, emphasizing the need for audience members to speak with those who weren ’ t at the panel to help address the stigma of homelessness He added that the other priorities were building homes, organizing as a community, building relationships with the homeless and advocating for policy changes

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun com

Basketball Player and Social Activist Etan Thomas to Speak at Cornell

By RONNI MOK Sun Staff Wr ter

Basketball star and social activist Etan Thomas will present his new book We Matter: Athletes and Activism, a work on social activism among today’s athletes, on Tuesday

His book, which will be released March 6, includes a collection of interviews and testimonies of 50 individuals, with commentary from Thomas, as well as athletes, activists, media personalities, scholars and the families of victims of police brutality

“I am excited about Etan’s new book because it includes a lot of oral histories and other testimonies about people who have worked or are working at the intersection of sports and politics,” said Prof Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evelyn Milman Professor in American Studies

Thomas will also visit Glickman’s class, HIST 1585: Sports and Politics in American History

“My class is addressing a lot of questions of definitions,” Glickman said, including “What is politics?”

“I’m hoping for when he speaks in my class that he will discuss how we conceived politics, maybe how that is changed over time, and what role in particular athletes have to play in our political culture,” he said

After finishing his collegiate career at

Syracuse University as the Big East Defensive Player of the Year, Thomas started his professional career as the first round pick of the Dallas Mavericks During his nineyear career, Thomas went on to play with the Washington Wizards, Oklahoma City Thunder and Atlanta Hawks

While playing professionally, he received multiple honors for his social justice advocacy, including the 2010 National Basketball Players Association Community Contribution Award and the 2009 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Foundation Legacy Award

As a writer, he has published a poetry collection and an autobiography, and his writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN and ESPN

“Etan Thomas has had an impressive career both as a professional basketball player and as a Renaissance man, who has acted written poetry and political commentary, ” Glickman said “I’m hoping a lot of Cornell students will come out to hear him speak about his new book, about his career and about how sports and politics have long been interconnected ”

Thomas’s lecture will take place at 4:30 p m in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, with a book signing afterward

Ronni Mok can be reached at rmok@cornellsun com

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Hnin Ei Wai Lwin can be reached at hwailwin@cornellsun com

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Anderson, sustainable engagement manager and head of this year ’ s RecycleMania Cornell won the GameDay Basketball game challenge in 2016, she added Cornell currently stands in 13th place in total recycling and in 39th place in the category of waste diversion, with a recycling rate of 44 149 percent, trailing Harvard University by less than one percent

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n e w s l e t t e r will include more information on how students can divert waste properly by composting, part of food organics, a category in which Cornell is currently ranked 25th

“All of the coffee cups and hot cups on campus have a wax liner that makes them un-recyclable in Tompkins County ” K i m b e r l y A n d e r s o n

The second goal of RecycleMania waste minimization focuses on systemic change that will reduce waste over time

One of the ongoing campus-wide initiatives the ‘Mug Club’ focuses on decreasing the amount of waste that students produce The effort discounts up to 80 cents per hot drink if customers bring their own mug or reusable to-go cup

According to the RecycleMania weekly newsletter, over one million hot coffee cups end up in the landfill each year from Cornell alone, and tossing those cups into the recycle bin isn’t a solution

“All of the coffee cups and hot cups on campus have a wax liner that make them un-recyclable in Tompkins County,” Anderson said “So if you go into a coffee shop and get one of these cups, [they] are destined for a landfill ” Anderson also emphasized the importance of “ not wasting food in the first

place” in minimizing waste On the individual level, Anderson advocated taking food only with the intention of eating it Anderson attributes recent RecycleMania success to the RecycleMania Steering Committee, which she described as “ a collaborative team of students and staff that create and drive what the tournament looks like on our campus ” Other initiatives supported by the committee include “sustainable sporks” promoting individuals to use their own utensils, a BuzzFeed quiz on waste diversion and an effort to make the University Google Maps include information on w a s t e - r e l a t e d data points, such as recycling centers

The University began composting non-food items in 1992, and incorporated dining-related composting by 1997, according to the Sustainable Campus website In 2001, Cornell Greens, a student group, held a seven-day protest pushing for the University to adopt the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 United Nations initiative that aims to reduce participating nations’ greenhouse gas emissions

In 2007, a vote showed that 75 percent of undergraduates supported a $5 semester fee to promote sustainability projects Ultimately, however, this fee was never implemented by the Student Assembly RecycleMania competition will run until March 31, with final results posted at the conclusion of the competition Sustainability tips for individuals can be found in the RecycleMania weekly newsletter and on the campus sustainability website or Facebook page

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun com

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Gorokh’s Feb 13 column “Putin’s Fears and Grievances ” In it, he asks us to consider Putin not as an evil antagonist ever-bent on chaos, but as more of an antihero a once-keen idealist turned into the callous ruler we know today by circumstance Gorokh is correct insofar as Putin’s early rhetoric was much easier on the international ear It is also true that the villainizations of Putin by Western outlets range from the hypocritical to the absurdly comical All that aside, it is perhaps most useful of all to look at a few actual events early in Putin’s political career to assess where he falls on what is referred to in superhero circles as “the evil villain spectrum ”

Tuesday morning in The Sun Here he portrays Vladimir Putin as a sympathetic actor an idealist turned evil by fear and frustration, “having started with understandable values and noble goals ” For Gorokh, Putin is a tragic figure, a victim of his own good intentions, the classic villain trope we have come to expect, like Va d e r, l i k e Vo l d e m o r t ( Ma g n e t o i s Gorokh’s choice) It’s just like in the movies: they start out alright before falling victim to circumstance and inner demons

While I find Gorokh’s characterization of Putin naive and, well, cartoonish, his column left me conflicted He rightly points out that much of Putin’s political maneuvers make sense in light of things like NATO’s ambitions, resentment and

In 2004, on what would be called backto-school day here in the States, the Beslan School No 1 in North Ossetia was taken hostage by a group of Chechen fighters It was no accident that the hostage operation fell on the exuberant first school day this is why when the dust settled after the tanks had blasted the terrorists out of the building, the collateral damages were discovered, as if awaiting burial, already in their best clothes In all, 334 hostage casualties were reported, 186 of them children Throughout the crisis, the Russian state persistently lied and obstructed the press, and Putin’s aftermath-photo op was not announced until after he’d come and gone

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response was already par for the course for the Putin presidency

Two years before, Vladimir Putin had taken to the television following a similar incident in Moscow itself to defend the unrestrained response to the takeover of a theatre by Chechen independence fighters In this case, Russian government agents had pumped a highly toxic gas through the theatre’s air conditioning system after a three-day standoff The statesiphoned gas ended up poisoning ever ybody in the building and killing 130 of the hostages According to journalist Oliver Bullough, he had then watched as the government agents entered the front doors, found the Chechen’s among the fallen bodies, and shot them in the head on the spot

It was thanks to this early-Putin lack of inhibition that the former KGB agent won t h e h e a r t s a n d m i n d s o f a t e r r i f i e d Moscow, a city subjected to years of b o m b i n g a t t a c k s f ro m C h e c h e n s e p aratists A decade of violence and tragedy had brought out cruelest aspects of human nature on all sides: the decimation of Chechnya’s capital Grozny by Russian b o m b s , t h e c o n s c r i p t i o n a s s u i c i d ebombers of the most desperate of Chechen women by the terrorists, the endless list of innocent victims, and the debut of Putin, s t r o n g m a n h i m s e l f Re re a d i n g t h e accounts, I still struggle to make sense of it, and then I hear Marlon Brando’s heavy and slow voice somewhere in the background, iterating Conrad’s “ The horror! The horror!”

It was details like these that gave me pause when reading Gorokh’s column this

international humiliations in double dealings with the US, and a reluctance on the part of Russians to feel like they have become patsies of the West

But while Gorokh rightly finds fault w i t h t h e “ s i m p l i s t i c n a r r a t i ve ” o f t h e Russia and Putin we hear about, he likewise falls into his own caricatures, bringing up of the inner lives of political headl i n e r s , c o m p a r i n g Pu t i n a n d Do n a l d Trump Why should we care if President Putin started out with noble intentions? Why are we tr ying to evaluate his tender hopes and gauge the fragility of his feelings? It is not only Putin’s inner life I don’t give a damn about, but also not Trump’s, not Obama’s, not Aung San Suu Kyi’s and n o t D a e n e r y s Ta r g a r y e n , Mo t h e r o f Dragons Why, you ask?

Because politicians should be judged by what they do not whatever they end up saying in front of TV cameras Even if ever y last bit of it isn’t superficial, it might as well be We will only ever be able to judge these show-people by what they end up doing What they say is just part of the calculus that somehow put them where they are A math Ph D might put it this way: the better a politician can approximate the best-of-all-possible-combinationof-words, the better they will maximize their preferred outcomes, whatever those outcomes are

Let us reject, along with Gorokh, the simplistic narratives and press releases but let us also defy the personality narratives that give these politicians much of their dark powers in the first place It’s hardly a stretch to say that both Russians and Americans are prone to delineate their own identities in terms of the personalities of their leaders This is always a mistake Heads of state have more in common with each other than they do with their subjects Remember the last scene in Animal Farm? It is all about who you are sharing the table cloth with! Likewise, peoples have more in common with each other than with their figureheads Let our bread be broken thusly We should identify first as citizens of the world, and leave politicalpuppet pop-psychology and personality analysis to Access Hollywood and TMZ

Ryan Sherman is a masters candidate in international agriculture and rural development Guest Room runs periodically Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Jesse Martens

“You gotta listen to Twin Fantasy!” urged my friend to me at about the same time that Car Seat Headrest’s 2016 Teens of Denial was provoking music critics to reconsider whether rock was actually dead I knew lead singer and songwriter Will Toledo had already released a whopping 12 albums under the Car Seat moniker before signing with Matador Records But after watching Toledo shriek out “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a toy drum set to accompany him in what must be the shrillest Tiny Desk Concert to date, I struggled to believe that his work could get any more lo-fi

When I did finally endeavor into Toledo’s 2011 homemade opus Twin Fantasy, I was torn While I could recognize the gumption of a kid who self recorded 10 minute rock n ’ roll epics about his depression and somehow had the talent to make it convincing, I struggled to plod my way through the blown-out vocals and macgyvered production to find something that resonated with me Eventually, after several more dogged listens, I finally discarded my Frankfurtian second order desires and accepted that I just couldn’t get into Twin Fantasy

When it comes to our DIY deities, few of us are willing to eat dirt and embrace their earlier, less sexy works when their glossier, more professionally recorded albums are so much more accessible And yet, I’ve dismissed plenty of gems simply because they have inferior mixing Whether or not 2011’s Twin Fantasy was marred by its laptop gestation, the recently re-recorded and re-released Twin Fantasy is as good as anything you will hear in 2018

Throughout Car Seat Headrest’s discography, Toledo reminds us that you can be as self-indulgent as you want in your self-hatred and still make good music, so long as you are self-aware enough to realize how comedic the whole situation is Twin Fantasy is no different Lyrics like “last night I dreamed he was trying to kill you, I woke up and I was trying to kill you ” in “Beach Life-in-Death,” are at once devastating, hilarious and a bit strange Toledo’s lyrics are deliberately contradictory because contradiction is inextricable from the human experience, especially in the context of a teenager who is trying to make sense of adulthood, social expectations, sexuality, drug use and mental illness Whether we look to Toledo’s song titles, “Sober to Death” and “High to Death”, or his lyrics, “there’s no devil on one shoulder and angel on the other, they’re just two normal people” in “Bodys,” it is clear that he struggles to make sense of the conflicting influences in his life

Moreover, Toledo’s Sun Kil Moon-reminiscent stream of consciousness storytelling and brutal honesty make his lyrics resonate all the more Parts of Twin Fantasy songs can often feel awkward (“those are you got some nice shoulders, I’d like to put my hands around them” in “Bodys”) or omittable (“the speed limit kept decreasing by ten ” in “Beach Life-in-Death”) Toledo expresses every part of his life the devastatingly sad, the transcendent, the boring and the confusing leaving out nothing As a result, his songs reflect not what he wants his life to be, but rather what his life is, which is why his lyrics typify the human experience, especially the experience of a young

adult, better than most other songwriters

Life is a tragic comedy of sorts, and someone who concedes the ridiculousness in every situation, happy or sad, is able to express himself or herself in a way that feels genuine and fundamentally human Toledo’s duality is no better epitomized than in “Stop Smoking, We Love You,” in which he repeatedly sings the song ’ s title behind an acoustic backing track that’s straight out of an MTV unplugged session It’s difficult for the listener to discern whether Toledo’s making an honest plea to a loved one, humorously regurgitating a request that has become a banality, or both, especially in the context of a later track “High to Death” in which Toledo implores “keep smoking, I love you ” Somehow, all the confusion makes the song that much more convincing

It’s human nature to disregard things that do not meet our immediate criteria for being valuable, especially when we have a long list of things to go through (like Car Seat’s discography), and Matador Records seems to be keenly aware that sometimes you need to repackage the same product to get recognition Maybe 2018’s re-recorded Twin Fantasy is simply the music equivalent of the iPhone 8, but I don’t really care At the end of the day, it’s a lot easier to embrace Toledo’s brilliant lyricism when he’s not singing into a laptop mic and is backed by a real drummer, so on that basis alone, I’m enjoying the hell out of this record

Jesse Martens is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at jtm238@cornell edu

Black Panther: Good King, Maad Nation

BY ZACHARY LEE Sun Staff Writer

“You are a good man with a good heart But it is hard for a good man to be king ”

These are the deceased T ’Chaka’s final words to his son T ’Challa before the latter is crowned king of Wakanda, an African nation that poses as a third world country, when in reality it is one of the most technologically advanced societies in the world, thanks to the natural resource of vibranium Throughout Black Panther, T ’Challa has a hard time accepting the contradiction of this statement: there is a disconnect between the man he is and the king he must be As a whole, the film questions (and answers) its own permutation of T ’Chaka’s proclamation: can a good superhero film have heart and explore themes of race, power and privilege, or will its genre conventions namely CGI spectacle and quippy one-liners reduce it to simply being blockbuster entertainment?

Black Panther shows that the two can be harmonious; Ryan Coogler’s film is at once a celebration of blackness, a sobering analysis of the responsibilities and obligations that people of privilege and power have and a dazzling superhero film in its own right The philosophical struggle manifests itself through the titular T ’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and the villainous Killmonger (Michael B Jordan) T ’Challa views Wakanda as an edenic paradise; a place where black creativity and expression can roam free without the fear of white or western contamination, and one that should

remain isolated Killmonger seeks to turn Wakanda into an empire and supply the nation’s powerful weapons to oppressed black people all around the world so that they may kill their oppressors Both actors play their characters with such conviction, it is hard to determine who is in the right

Yet while Black Panther explores these themes, it is a superhero film after all, and while the action sequences are few and far between (it may be the film’s only foible, which speaks to its excellence), Coogler and cinematographer Rachel Morrison craft some sequences and shots that you’ll long remember after the credits roll In comparison to his past films Fruitvale Station and Creed, Coogler is given a much bigger toolbox when it comes to orchestrating elaborate set pieces He gives the intimate fight scenes, like the one between M’Baku and T ’Challa, a greater sense of scale, while making the film’s grandiose set pieces, like that of the finale, more personal Coogler engages all the senses, incorporating tracks from the film’s official album as a backdrop for the fight sequences In particular, as T ’Challa and Shuri race through the streets of Busan, “Opps” by Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok plays in the background, and the trio’s ferocious verses are interwoven nicely between the car explosions

As dynamic as the action is, the characters are the heart of the film, and black women get to shine brightly in Black Panther It is exciting to see Coogler flip the script on the traditional tropes of gadgeteer, love interest and bodyguard as an extension of that cele-

bration All of Wakanda’s mechanical splendor is due to Letitia Wright’s Shuri, but rather than being stuck behind a desk, she gets in on the action herself, aiding her brother against Ulysses Klaue’s forces Wright brings such an excitement and freshness to her role, and you can tell Coogler’s own elation lives vicariously through her as she dreams up of new technological weapons: what’s better than a bulletproof catsuit? How about one that can emit kinetic energy blasts?

Lupita Nyong'o’s Nakia, while T ’Challa’s love interest, is no damsel in distress; she’s fiercely independent and more than able to hold her own in a fight Likewise, Okoye (Danai Gurira), leader of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda’s all-female special forces, is not just a submissive foot soldier but T ’Challa’s rival when it comes to combat, and equal parts witty and deadly She provides some of the film’s standout fight sequences Andy Serkis’s Ulysses Klaue, a black market arms dealer, is delightfully histrionic and his sin-

gle-minded ambitions clash nicely alongside Killmonger’s more personal vendetta

After one of T ’Challa’s first missions, Shuri offers him an updated gadget, and he declines the modifications, stating that the current one works just fine To this, Shuri berates her older brother, stating, “just because something works, does not mean it can ’ t be improved ” How fittingly meta for a film like Black Panther, a superhero movie that improves on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s already winning slate Coogler’s film is art that is not political in its agenda, but honest in its inquisition: it speaks powerfully to human suffering and tackles its heady themes with poise and grace In a time where the rhetoric of wall-breaking is prevalent, Black Panther reminds us to build bridges and to seek unity, not uniformity How’s that for typical superhero fanfare?

Zachar y Lee is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zlee@cornellsun com

Black Panther Roundtable

Jo n v i R o l l i n s: Black Panther taking Killmonger to watch the Wakandan sunset The moment perfectly exemplifies the “good heart” of the title character while farther humanizing his adversar y The paths of the men finally converge as Panther takes steps to understand, through Killmonger, his duty to others outside of his nation

A n dr e a Ya n g : T ’Challa’s second visit to the spirits of the past Black Panthers, in which he speaks to his father again and makes a decision about what kind of king he wants to be It undoubtedly is a turning point in the film and in T ’Challa’s character arc

Noa h Ha r r e l s o n: EVERY MOMENT that was a part of Wakanda's worldbuilding

L e v A k a b a s : A six-way tie between Shuri shouting “ WHAT ARE THOSE!”, the car flip, Michael B Jordan’s “Hey Auntie,” any and all times Forest Whitaker says “the Black Panther,” the upside-down shot of Killmonger entering the throne room and the African chant kicking in after Killmonger finally sees a Wakandan sunset

A s h l e y D a v i l a : The first exchange between T ’Chaka and T ’Challa, particularly the lines about the difficulty of being both a good-hearted person and a fair leader By reflecting on hardships faced by great leaders, the heartbreaking talk between father and son showed Mar vel at its best

D a v i d G o u l d t h o r pe : The tribal nature of the countr y I'm a sucker for worldbuilding, and the political structure we see is easy to access and understand while also introducing conflict into the stor y

Ya n g : The Dora Milaje I love the idea of a team of elite female warriors How I wish Asgard’s Valkyries were still around so the two teams can fight together

H a r r e l s o n: The Dora Milaje Those women were badass

A k a b a s: I was digging the ceremonial battle for throne, if only because the Democrats challenging Trump’s presidency by having Hillar y Clinton shout “is this your king?” as blandly as possible and then throwing him off a waterfall would've been the greatest thing ever

D a v i l a: The different tribes within Wakanda I loved the small glimpses we were given about the Jabari mountain tribe, and the attention to detail (wardrobe/makeup choices, fighting styles and warrior calls) made the tribes distinct

Ni c k Sm i t h: In a word: right I know the movie’s “villain” probably went about acting on his motivations in the wrong way, but Killmonger is one of those rare movie villains who makes the hero seriously question themselves That dynamic by itself makes Black Panther stand head and shoulders above some lesser entries in the MCU I know that I was supposed to root for T ’Challa, but I couldn’t stop asking myself how Killmonger was wrong It’s hard to imagine that I’d act differently i n h i s

R ol l i n s: Not just a villain, but a victim of the intersection between Wakandan leadership's ignorance and the systems of oppression consistently working against African Americans The line “Bur y me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage” demonstrates the character's ambition, righteousness and dedication to justice

Ya n g : A conflicted and complicated villain with a tragic backstor y who deser ves understanding and sympathy

Ha r r e l s o n : The true protagonist of Black Panther

A k a b a s : Compelling as a villain to the point where he actually challenged and ultimately changed the hero's worldview and goals That’s Joker-level stuff

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Ya n g: It completely turns our existing perspectives on the world upside down, and asks the questions we may not dare to or have not thought to ask

H a r r e l s o n: It does for superhero movies what Raisin in the Sun did for American theatrical drama

A ka b a s: It is, amazingly, one of the first movies I've ever seen in which two women of color have a substantive conversation That’s scar y I see a lot of movies

D a v i l a: It finally shows groups of people who have previously been ignored in the superhero genre that their stories are valid and vital As a woman of color in America today, it is easy to be pessimistic about the landscape of our countr y; progressions in representation are inspiring and make me more hopeful for future films

Science Guy Bill Nye Refuses

To Let the Planet Die

By ELEANOR BENT Sun Staff Contributor

Remember those rainy days in elementar y school? Sitting in your assigned desk and staring at the clock, counting d ow n t h e m i n u t e s u n t i l l u n c h Suddenly, the door swings open and an assistant teacher wheels in the TV cart

The classroom instantly fills with excited chatter The mood lifts Your teacher, exhausted from hours of tr ying to hold your attention and fill your brain with things you don’t want to learn, sits back in her swivel chair and sips her coffee Cue the upbeat music and chanting It’s a Bill Nye day

If you went to elementar y school in the ’90s or early 2000s, you most likely feel nostalgic right now To our generation, Bill Nye is a hero He taught science in a way that didn’t make you feel like you were being forced to learn information that would never apply to your life His experiments were fun, accessible and easy to understand Although the u n d e r l y i n g s c i e n t i f i c p r i n c i p l e s we re often complex and highly theoretical, he would present them in a way that made sense within the context of ever yday life Whether it was holding a recently used comb near water to see how it would bend away from the negative charge, dropping a watermelon off a parking garage roof to demonstrate gravity or blowing bubbles into a jar of sea water to demonstrate ocean acidification, Bill Nye brought science the subject often feared the most by elementar y school kids into the realm of possibility Fast for ward 20 years, and the same charismatic man whose presence once graced our classrooms is still at it, using his geeky charm and knowledge to infatuate the world with a love for science The problem is, the world is a lot harder to influence than a group of second graders In his new film, Bill Nye: Science Guy, Nye goes head-to-head with climate change deniers, creationists and a whole host of anti-science personalities to tr y and persuade them that the world is in trouble because of humanity’s own doing The rivalr y most central to the film is between Nye and creationist and anti-evolutionist Ken Ham

An Australian Christian fundamentalist and author of several books, Ham is probably most famous or perhaps infamous for being the president of the “Creation Museum,” an interactive museum in Petersburg, Kentucky that teaches the histor y of the world as told in the Bible Some of the museum ’ s prominent features include cavemen in t r o p i c a l d i o r a m a s l i v i n g a l o n g s i d e d i n o s a u r

Australopithecus afarensis pictured as a gorilla, and countless other exhibits that bolster the claim that the earth is only 6,000 years old and that evolution is a myth

The heated rivalr y between Nye and Ham culminated in a famous debate that took place at the Creation Museum on Feb 4, 2014, which went on for approximately two and a half hours

introduction arguing why his belief is a viable explanation for how life originated Back and forth they went, Nye passionately presenting his evidence and Ham calmly countering it with quotes from the Bible When the debate was over, there was no clear winner Both argued fer vently that his own position was the only correct one, and neither would budge As presented in the film, the Twitter storm that followed overwhelmingly supported Nye as the clear winner, but those who said other wise were already in support of the creationist view

So, what did this accomplish? As it turned out, according to the film, the debate functioned as a publicity stunt for the Creation Museum, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in ticket sales in the following months Nye didn’t lose face by engaging in the debate, but he also most likely didn’t “ convert ” anyone who wasn ’ t already in support of him seemingly his motivation for taking part in the debate in the first place Herein lies the question: can someone who so effectively communicated science to kids do the same for adults?

In recent years, when he’s not debating deniers of climate change or evolution, Nye has appeared on numerous news channels, made guest appearances on TV shows and YouTube channels, and even had his own Netflix Original series While he’s become slightly more grave-faced and has a new sense of urgency in his voice, he still uses the same tactics of demonstrating scientific p r i n c i p l e s t h ro u g h f u n e x p e r i m e n t s , guest appearances and a youthful screen presence While to some this may seem like the wrong way to go about instilling

a love of science in adults, Nye’s fanbase has continued to grow over the past few years, and he remains the science celebrity he was several decades ago Prof Norman Porticella, communications, who specializes in teaching science communication courses, says Bill Nye is “ an excellent science communicator who varies his style according to whether he’s tr ying to teach kids or adults and according to the topic he’s addressing I’ve seen him run the spectrum from wacky fun to dead serious and always with relevant accessible language ” There is truly no individual, save p e r h a p s Ne i l D e g r a s s e Ty s o n o r Cornell’s own Carl Sagan, who has risen to such great heights thanks to his or her ability to communicate science

In a way, Bill Nye was one of the earliest pioneers of science communication, a field that today is becoming a popular subject of study among undergraduates a

Porticella is one of several professors who teach courses that aim to instruct students on the proper way to disseminate scientific principles in an accessible w

local community and its many science engagement opportunities

“Many of the world’s most pressing challenges depend on how we think about and use science Teaching the next generation of scientists how to inform the public and how to build interest and trust with a constructive dose of skepticism is critical to supporting an engaged and informed society,” he said “It’s important for scientists to understand who they are communicating with and to be aware of the larger context in which their work will play a role ”

At the end of Bill Nye: Science Guy, after a disheartening segment in which Nye attempts to sway the opinion of meteorologist, bodybuilder and climatechange denier Joe Bastardi to no avail, Nye is shown appearing as a guest-star o

channels Recently, YouTube has become an accredited and widely utilized educational tool home to thousands of chann

instruction on a variety of academic topics Some of the more well-known chan-

AsapScience While these channels utilize more advanced graphics and animations, their style of compact, accessible and fun-filled communication of scientific principles is reminiscent of the early days of Bill Nye's beloved show

But will they change the world? Will climate change deniers watch an episode of Physics Girl and suddenly change their mind? Likely not What they do accomplish, as Nye says in one of the last scenes of the documentar y, is keep the conversation going Science is always growing and expanding, much like the universe itself, and it is kept alive and relevant by being discussed and debated

What Nye and YouTubers are continuing to do, whether they are successful or not, is keep science in the discussion

Ham will likely never change his opinion no matter how many scientific facts, statistics or figures are thrown at him

What will change, however, is the ability of scientists both professional and amateur to disseminate this information to the public and let the people decide for themselves

Eleanor Bent can be reached at ekb68@cornell edu

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t h e d e f e n s e w o u l d ro l l t h e re w a s a n o p e n l a n e t o t h e n e t , ” Fi e g l s a i d “ I f i g u re d j u s t t h row s o m et h i n g t o t h e n e t , yo u’l l n e ve r k n ow w h a t w i l l h a p p e n It j u s t h a p p e n e d t o g o i n I w a s l u c k y t o h a v e b i g D w y e r Ts c h a n t z a r o u n d t h e r e s c r e e n i n g t h e g o a l i e It’s i m p o s s i b l e t o s e e t h e p u c k a ro u n d t h a t g u y ” Mu l l i n p u t t h e f i n a l t o u c h e s o n h i s c l u t c h p e r f o r m a n c e w h e n h e b u r i e d h i s s e c o n d t a l l y o f t h e n i g h t w i t h j u s t 1 : 4 7 l e f t i n t h e g a m e Fr e s h m a n g o a l t e n d

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

McBride Scores

Career High

Morgan and Gettings with rare off-nights

BASKETBALL

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Morgan added “We all did what we needed to do in terms of recovering and we just didn’t have any of the intensity on defense ” Freshman guard Terrance McBride highlighted the Red offense on a rare night in which both Morgan and Gettings struggled The rookie had a career high of 14 points on a perfect six-for-six from the field and added four assists Junior guard Jack Gordon also had a perfect game with 12 points on five-for-five from the field

“Terrance and Jack hit some big shots and helped us stay in it that first half when me and Matt were struggling,” Gettings said “[All] the guys are getting more

and more confident which is great for us ” Morgan and Gettings finished the game with 12 and 11 points respectively

With the loss, the Red falls back into the middle of a tightlypacked race for a postseason conference tournament bid Cornell is tied with Brown and Columbia for fourth place, and remains one game back of third place Yale and one game ahead of seventh place Princeton

The Red will play its last two regular season home games next weekend when it tips off against Yale on Friday, Feb 23 at 7:00 p m and Brown on Saturday, Feb 24 at 6:00 p m

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun com

the solid efforts from the rest of the team which gave the squad a final push to its thrilling triple overtime win

Hoopers Down Princeton in 3OT

Head coach Brian Earl earns his first win against his alma-mater

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Some late-game heroics and a resilient over time effor t gave the Cornell men ’ s basketball team its largest comeback in over a centur y, and handed head coach Brian Earl his first win against his alma mater in the 107-101

d e c i s i o n a g a i n s t Pr i n c e t o n o n Friday

Down as many as 22 points on the night, the Red (10-12, 45 Ivy) rallied to take the lead

d u r i n g o v e r t i m e a n d d o w n

Princeton (11-13, 3-6) After a back and for th affair in much of the early por tion of the extra time, the Red scored 19 points in the third over time period to notch the win

“ We k n e w h o w m u c h i t would mean [to Earl] to beat his alma mater, ” said junior guard Matt Morgan “I think that’s what drove us the last 11 minutes It gave us that little more motivation to go out there and play that much harder for him ”

D e s p i t e t h e h i g h s c o r i n g game, the Red was able to string together cr ucial defensive stops

i n t h e l a t t e r p o r t i o n s o f t h e game to secure the win Thanks to an aggressive full cour t press, the squad forced 15 turnovers

o n t h e g a m e l e a d i n g t o 2 1 points on the break

“Our press got a little more aggressive and we were able to [force] turnovers a couple of times,” Morgan said “ We put

s t o p s t o g e t h e r a n d o n c e t h e defense got together, it made ever ything easier on offense ”

Once again, a major game changer in the matchup came in

t h e f o r m o f f r e e t h r o w s However, this time, the narrative was switched up for the home squad a welcome sight for a team which has faced its share of str uggles from the line throughout the season Cornell drained 29 of its 32 shots from

t h e c h a r i t y s t r i p e , w h i l e Princeton was only able to conver t on five of its 11 attempts, including a cr ucial missed free throw with 0 4 seconds left in regulation

“ We’ve been working on free throws quite a bit and we were just able to lock in [on Friday],”

s a i d j u n i o r f o r w a r d St o n e

Gettings “It was just one of those nights where you see a fe w go in and then e v e r y o n e w a s making them ” C o r n e l l ’ s p o w e r d u o o f Mo r g a n a n d G e t t i n g s o n c e again paved the way for the win

added 12 points before fouling o u t Fr e s h m a n Te r r a n c e

McBride recorded an impressive a l l - a r o u n d game of nine p o i n t s , s i x r e b o u n d s ,

“It was just a crazy and fun game to be a part of I don’t think I’ll be

forgetting that game.”

J u n i o r M a t t M o r g a n

Morgan recorded 31 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, while Gettings registered another 26 p o i n t s , e i g h t r e b o u n d s , f i v e a s s i s t s , t h re e

steals

However, solid effor ts from the rest of squad were what ultimately tipped the scale in the Red’s favor for the six-point win

Junior Steven Julian recorded 13 points, eight rebounds and two blocks, and junior Jack Gordon

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rebounds

“It was just a crazy and fun game to be a par t of,” Morgan s a i d “ W i t h b e a

g [ C o a c h Earl’s] alma mater and ever ything, I don’t think I’ll be forgetting that game ”

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun com

Second Half Sinks Red Against Top Seeded Penn

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell men ’ s basketball team stuck around for a half, but then Penn flexed its muscles and showed why the Quakers are the top-seeded team in the Ivy League

After heading into halftime with the game tied at 31, Penn (19-7, 9-1 Ivy) quickly took control in the second period with multiple three-pointers and never looked back The Red (1013, 4-6) cut the lead to five points thrice throughout the half, but the Quakers responded each time to hold onto for the 79-71 win

“In the second half we just couldn’t put together enough stops to cut into the lead [especially] once [Penn] saw a couple shots go in,” said junior guard Matt Morgan

Following a back and forth affair in the first half, Penn was lights out in the second half, shooting 54 percent from the field and 58 percent from threepoint land In contrast, the Red fell off from a solid first half

shooting performance with 48 percent from the field and 27 percent from downtown

“They hit some tough shots [and] in that second half, they were just a little fresher than us, ” said junior for ward Stone Gettings “They hit those 50-50 balls, they got some offensive rebounds and they were just tough to match because they were stringing together consecutive stops ”

While fatigue could be expected from the Red after coming off its thrilling tripleovertime victor y against Princeton the previous night, the squad did not attribute its performance to tired legs

“You can blame it on whatever you want, but in the end we were just outplayed,” said junior for ward Stone Gettings “It’s tough in the Ivy League and everyone ’ s legs were tired, but Penn also had a long bus ride and we were just outplayed unfortunately ”

“I don’t think [the previous game] was that much of a factor

it wasn’t enough to defeat the conference leaders.

Spor ts

Icers Clinch First Undefeated Ivy Season Since ’96

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

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Grapplers Down North Carolina in Landslide

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

De s p i t e t h e w i n , h e a d c o a c h Mi k e S c h a f e r ’ 8 6 w a s u n h a p p y w i t h h i s t e a m ’ s p e r f o r m a n c e “ L a c k a d a i s i c a l e f f o r t , n o t ve r y h a p p y w i t h o u r g u y s , ” h e s a i d “ I t h o u g h t i t w a s o n e o f t h e w o r s t g a m e s we ’ ve h a d t h i s ye a r a s f a r a s e f f o r t i s c o nc e r n e d , a t t e n t i o n t o d e t a i l [ a n d t h e ] l i t t l e b i t o f s e l f i s h n e s s t h a t c re p t i n t o o u r h o c k e y t e a m t o d

“I thought it was one of the worst games we’ve had this year as far as effort is concerned.”

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On the heels of its 16thstraight Ivy League Title, No 11 Cornell wrestling closed out its regular season with yet another resounding victory, topping outof-conference opponent No 24 North Carolina, 32-6

The Red has not lost a match since December good for a nine-match winning streak The team finished the season with 13 dual meet victories and two losses

Starting off the night with a win by forfeit at 125, followed by

a pair of major decisions, Cornell jumped out to an early 12-0 lead When all was said and done, the Red walked away victorious in 8 of 10 weight classes, including three bonus-point wins on the back end of the meet Freshmen No 4 Yianni Diakomihalis (141), No 11 Max Dean and No 3 Ben Darmstadt continued their rookie-year dominance by defeating their ranked opponents Notably, Darmstadt completed his 16th fall of the season against No 15 Danny Chaid and Chavez won by major decision

Diakomihalis and Darmstadt both finished the regular season with near-perfect resumes of 27-1 and 26-1, respectively, and more than 20 bonus point wins apiece

Dean also has had an impressive freshman campaign thus far, sporting a record of 25-2 with 13 bonus point victories But the work is far from over for these young highly ranked wrestlers, who will likely make some noise in the postseason

The win comes against Head Coach Rob Koll’s alma mater As a Tar Heel, Koll was a NCAA Champion and a four-time AllAmerican wrestler at 158 pounds Since becoming head coach of the Red in 1993, Koll has posted a record of 293-91-5

Up next for Cornell is the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championship on March 3 and 4 The Red is searching for its 12th-straight EIWA title, as it looks to fend off No 9 Lehigh

The Red defeated the Mountain Hawks last month, 2314