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Humanities professors explore the effects of sound studies in interdisciplinary fields of academia. | Page 3

Despite flaws, The People v.

O.J. Simpson is an engrossing retelling of Simpson’s famous trial, Harini Kannan ’18 says. | Page 6

In front of a hometown crowd in Barton, the track and field teams placed second at the Heps. | Page 12

Student Groups Call for Release of Imprisoned Qatari Poet in Letter

By YUN SOO KIM

Freedom Now — a non-profit organization that works to free people imprisoned for their political or reliAmnesty International at gious beliefs — because of Cornell Cornell is joining Cornell Or- administration’s ties to the House of ganization for LaThani, Qatar’s rulbor Action to pen ing family. a letter to acting “We are particPresident Michael ularly concerned Kotlikoff, requestthat Cornell has ing that he presties to a ruling sure the Qatari family that is government to responsible for the release poet Moincarceration of a hammed al-Ajami student dissident AJAMI from prison. who was studying Ajami received a 15-year sen- abroad at the time of his alleged tence in February of 2013 after he crimes,” Hanna said. was tried for unknown charges. He Hanna said he believes pressure had previously been arrested for from Cornell will be able to influwriting poems ence the Qainsulting the govern“Cornell has ties to a ruling tari then-ruling ment’s decifamily that is responsible sion.

Emir of Qatar and support“ T h i s for the incarceration of a ing the Tu[pressure] student dissident.” nisian revolucould come in tion that bethe form a Christopher Hanna ’18 gan the Arab phone call or a Spring, acstatement of cording to the letter. support,” Hanna said. “We think International organizations this is feasible, given Cornell’s deep from Amnesty International to the ties to the Qatari regime. After all, United Nations are also calling for Qatari royal Sheika Moza sits on Ajami’s liberation, the letter said. the Board of Overseers for Cornell’s Christopher Hanna ’18, co-pres- campus in Qatar.” ident of AIC, said the organization was asked to write the letter by See LETTER page 5 Sun Staff Writer

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COURTESY OF GLOBEMED AT CORNELL

Guidance for public health | Dr. Patrick Stover, nutritional sciences, speaks to attendees about global public health in Willard Straight Hall Sunday.

Gala Stresses Global Health Awareness

Speakers urge students to utilize public health resources on campus

By HENRY KANENGISER Sun Contributor

Nearly 100 students attended the second annual Global Health Gala — an event which aims to raise both funds and awareness for international public health issues — on Sunday in Willard Straight Hall Memorial room.

The fundraising event was developed by GlobeMed at

Cornell and Cornell Health International to spread awareness about global health issues and encourage students to get involved in efforts on campus, according to Rie Seu ’17, external co-president of GlobeMed. Gen Meredith — Associate Director for International Programs and Master of Public Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine — spoke

about her experience working to improve the HIV health system in Haiti at the event.

Working with the local government and non-governmental organizations, Meredith said her team turned the HIV treatment infrastructure into a “gold standard model for HIV surveillance systems in developing countries See GALA page 5

Police Discover Package of Meth Materials Near Wal-Mart Ithaca Police identified a package that contained materials used in the production of methamphetamine near Wal-Mart Monday, according to an Ithaca Police press release.

At 11:30 a.m. Monday, officers responded to a report of a suspicious package by Fairgrounds Memorial Parkway, just under a block from WalMart’s store.

After determining that they needed additional resources to analyze the package, Ithaca police officers were joined by a New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team, the Ithaca Fire Department and Bangs Ambulance, the release said.

The teams found ingredients and equipment commonly used to manufacture methamphetamines — enough to substantiate a charge of Unlawful Disposal of Methamphetamine Laboratory Material, which is a class E Felony, according to the release.

Police made no arrests and the investigation is ongoing, the Ithaca Police Department announced.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

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University Cornell to Become CDC Center of Excellence The University will partner with the New York State Department of Health to lead the newest Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence, according to a University press release. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention selected Cornell’s petition from a pool of applicants to found the sixth Center of Excellence in the country, the release said.

The new center will support food safety response for 11 states in the Northeast and train local health officials to implement new technologies such as genome sequencing, release said.

Prof: To Alleviate Inequality, Make Public Services More Accessible to Poor

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Reducing poverty and inequality depends on improving the poor’s access to public services, Prof. David Grusky, sociology, Stanford University argued in a lecture Monday.

Grusky, the director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford, spoke to an audience of nearly 200 spectators about how rising commodification has exacerbated inequality.

“It’s not just that the poor have ... even less money relative to the well off, it’s also that money is increasingly needed to secure good services and opportunities,” Grusky said. “It’s the combination of [the two different factors] that gives rising inequality its teeth.”

The decreased marriage rate and increased incarceration rate of black males have acted to promote inequality, while the commodification of services — like care for children and the elderly — makes people increasingly reliant on the market for these services,

Local Ithaca Organization Remembers Fights To Save Historic Buildings Historic Ithaca — a nonprofit organization that aims to preserve historic city landmarks — has opened an exhibit on its previous preservation efforts, according to The Ithaca Journal.

The group, which was founded 50 years ago, has saved and renovated buildings from the Clinton House to the State Theater.

“The collection of buildings we have in Ithaca really give the town its character,” said John Lewis, the new executive director of Historic Ithaca, in The Journal. “So many parts of this country, you can go into a town and it looks like anywhere else in America. These buildings tell the story of why Ithaca is unique.”

National Court Ruling Denies Government Access To Locked iPhone A New York court ruling Monday denied the U.S. government’s request for Apple to extract data from an iPhone, according to The New York Times.

The iPhone’s owner was implicated in a drug case and Apple had already agreed to help open it. However, the New York judge ruled that the government’s request had overstepped its authority.

Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has previously stated that the company would strive to deny similar requests from law enforcement, in order to protect consumer privacy, The Times reported.

— Compiled by Samantha Acriche and Stephanie Yan

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Big problems, big solutions | Prof. David Grusky, sociology, Stanford University, discusses ways to eliminate social inequality at a talk Monday in Goldwin Smith Hall.

according to Grusky.

Grusky explained that commodification also applies to less direct purchases of goods and services, such as the high-quality public schooling becomes available in expensive neighborhoods.

Grusky modeled increases in inequality through the processes of exclusion, segmentation and erosion. These processes limit the number and quality of services the public can access when the cost of these services increase.

Exclusion, segmentation and erosion wear away the immunity that family, community and state previously had from the market, Grusky said.

“A neoliberal commitment to monetize everything” is one of the greatest causes of rising commodification, Grusky said.

He explained that our cultural instinct is to monetize objects rather than giving them away. Grusky discussed two potential ways that this unequal system could change in the future.

The first, which he said he believes is unlikely to happen, is a “major redistributive reform,” where money is transferred to the poor so they can afford services that are currently too expensive.

The second is decommodifying services and allowing the poor to access more opportunities, he said.

Grusky said that regardless of the way change occurs, he simply wants to see it happen.

“It’s not like I have some intrinsic preference for two versus one,” he said. “I’m rather indifferent. I care only about getting the job done and figuring out which pathway is likely to garner support.”

Julia Greenberg can be reached at jgreenberg@cornellsun.com.

Profs Explore Role of Sound Studies in Humanities

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

Faculty from various areas of the humanities discussed the interplay of sound with technology, cultural identity and music in a talk on sound studies Monday.

Prof. Trevor Pinch, science and technology studies, who had recently finished editing the Oxford Book of Sound Studies with a colleague, spoke about the technological aspect of sound studies.

“Sound studies can be defined as an emerging interdisciplinary area that studies the material production of music, sound, noise and silence and how these have changed throughout history and within different societies,” Pinch said.

Sound studies is a new field because the ability to record sounds is a relatively new development, according to Pinch.

“In 1877, with Edison’s phonograph, you could copy sound and its material form for the first time,” Pinch said. “Therefore, the language and the technology for understanding sound is still not stabilized.”

In contrast, Prof. Kim Haines-Eitzen, near eastern studies, said her work focuses on understanding the intersection between sounds, places and identities. Additionally, her interdisciplinary interests led her to develop a course called “Sound, Silence and the Sacred,” in which students created a map of sounds on Cornell’s campus.

Haines-Eitzen said she has also been working on a project that integrates sound in the desert with a study of ancient history.

“I am using field recording as an insightful way of understanding the fourth to seventh

century ancient text from the I work with,” Haines-Eitzen said. “Sound is an added layer of complexity to history.”

Prof. Benjamin Piekut, music, discussed how the intersection between music and sound studies has brought new ideas to both departments.

“Sound studies is an interdisciplinary area that has started outside the music department,” Piekut said. “But I would say in the last ten or so years, we have imported a lot of the concerns from sound studies into music studies.”

Using John Cage and David Tudor — composers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company — as examples, Piekut explained

that one of these concerns is the concept of authorship.

“John Cage sought to diminish the compositional roles by letting sounds be themselves,” Piekut said. “However, authorship is an important aspect in the aesthetics of music.

Understanding sound in this way, there’s no authorship.”

The discussion was the second panel in the University’s Big Ideas in the Humanities series, which is part of a celebration commemorating the opening of Klarman Hall.

So Hyung Kim can be reached at sohyungkim@cornellsun.com.

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Sounding off | Prof. Trevor Pinch, science and technology studies, describes how technology has revolutionized sound studies at a panel discussion Monday in Klarman Hall.

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Students Say Qatari Officials Violated Ajami’s Rights Urge Kotlikoff to support poet’s release from prison LETTER

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Ana Jiminez ’18, the president of COLA, said students have a responsibility to encourage the University to call out Qatari officials’ human rights violation.“We, as Cornell students, have a responsibility to urge our University to use its powerful affiliations and regional influence via Weill Medicine in Qatar to uphold the values of egalitarianism and belief in the potential of written and spoken expression,” Jiminez said.

Alfie Rayner ’19, member and organizer of COLA, agreed, adding that the Qatari government needs to assume responsibility for its actions against its civilians.

“From labor abuses in the World Cup

construction, to the unregulated kafala system, to the detention of Mr. al-Ajami, the Qatari government has shown a blatant lack of accountability towards its citizens and migrant workers who provide the nation’s infrastructure,” Rayner said.

Hanna added that although Qatar claims to be progressive, the country has a history of human rights offenses.

“The Qatari regime portrays its country as being one of progress and internationalism, but its stained human rights record suggests otherwise,” Hanna said.

On the right is the complete letter from the two organizations.

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

Profs Push Public Health Initiatives GALA

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around the world.”

Prof. Patrick Stover, nutritional sciences, highlighted the contrast between the ways public health officials and physicians deal with disease.

“The fundamental assumption in any public health intervention is that there are likely to be tradeoffs,” Stover said. “[In clinical medicine], the Hippocratic Oath is ‘do no harm’ and is assumed by some [to mean] ‘take no risk.’”

Stover encouraged students to take advantage of the resources available to those studying global health at Cornell.

“Cornell has such great breadth and reach,” Stover said. “You can study public health in almost any context.”

Meredith agreed, adding that internships helped her develop her interest in health policy as an undergraduate.

“My ideal career path changed about five times as a young person,” Meredith said. “What helped me find my way — and the correct fit for my passion — was investing my time in unpaid internships

to walk in the shoes of the professions I thought I wanted to do before investing in the right educational track.”

Seu added that the clubs plan to continue hosting the gala in following years.

Although increasing on-campus student awareness was the primary goal for this year’s gala, Kara Beckman ’17, internal co-president of GlobeMed, said she hopes to expand next year’s event to include Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College or the greater Ithaca community.

“We can have a better discussion base when we have different types of people,” Beckman said.

GlobeMed at Cornell and Cornell Health International — organizations which partner with international organizations to increase healthcare for disadvantaged populations — co-hosted the gala.

Proceeds from the event went to the organizations GlobeMed and Cornell Health International partners, according to Seu.

Amnesty International at Cornell and Cornell Organization for Labor Action’s Complete Email D EAR A CTING P RESIDENT K OTLIKOFF : We ask for your assistance in securing the release of a prisoner of conscience.

In 2011, poet and third-year student of literature at the University of Cairo Mohammed al-Ajami was arrested by Qatari security forces. Mr. al-Ajami — the father of two daughters and two sons, the youngest of whom was born after his arrest — was eventually charged with “inciting the overthrow of the ruling regime” and “criticizing the Emir” through two poems performed at a private slam poetry event in Cairo, Egypt.

The poems in question did, in fact, express sympathy for the Arab Spring uprisings that famously gripped nations throughout North Africa and the Middle East that year. As an artist and man of conscience, Mr. al-Ajami used the spoken word to envision a more perfect and just future. One of his pieces, dubbed “The Jasmine Poem,” offers stirring support for those who risked death to advance democracy in Tunisia: “So, rebel, tell them, tell them in a shrouded voice, a voice from the grave: tell them that tragedies precede all victories.”

Following a trial and appeals process that were rife with blatant violations of domestic and international law, Mr. al-Ajami was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in Doha Central Prison. Placed in solitary confinement, he now sits in a cell less than ten miles from Cornell’s medical campus. In a poem written behind bars, Mohammed provides us with a call to action: “Tell your children, east and west—and keep telling them, until the birds sing it in the branches—that a people without opinions is nothing but a herd that’s thirsty, yet blind to the nearby oasis.”

The Qatari regime intended to make an example of Mr. al-Ajami, hoping to quell internal dissent and beat back demands for increased freedoms for its citizenry. It appears that it has accomplished the opposite outcome, igniting a flame of international support for both Mr. al-Ajami and the democratic ideals his work embodies.

The campaign to secure his release has gained the support of organizations such as Amnesty International, Freedom Now, PEN International and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, drawing widespread attention to Qatar’s stained human rights record.

As you know, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Education City is the product of a partnership between Cornell University and the Qatar Foundation, the latter being a non-profit founded and managed by Qatar’s ruling House of Thani. The Qatar Foundation is chaired by Qatari royal Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser, who also serves on the Board of Overseers for Cornell’s Qatari campus. Sheika Moza represents the same ruling family that arbitrarily put Mohammed al-Ajami behind bars.

Amnesty International at Cornell University and its allies are certain the al-Thanis’ commitment to philanthropy and medical education does not nullify their obligation to respect fundamental human rights.

We urge you, as the acting leader of an institution of higher education that prides itself on its egalitarian values, to raise the issue of Mr. al-Ajami’s ongoing detention with the Qatari officials with whom our university is so deeply affiliated. His plight — being incarcerated for “crimes” of art committed while he was studying abroad in Egypt — should be of particular concern to the leaders of Cornell, a decidedly international university that boasts a large number of students studying at foreign universities. His immediate and unconditional release is within reach — but only if those who have power choose not to stay silent. We look forward to welcoming you as a partner in the campaign to secure his freedom.

Henry Kanengiser can be reached at hhk33@cornell.edu.

Sincerely, Amnesty International at Cornell University Cornell Organization for Labor Action

Four Injured as Student Opens Fire With Gun in Ohio School Cafeteria

Pavement politics

MEREDITH KOHUT / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Protesters with Bolivian flags block a road, demanding that city officials provide water and gas to their neighborhood in Cobija, Bolivia, last week.

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A 14-year-old boy pulled out a gun in a school cafeteria Monday and opened fire, hitting two students, and then ran from the school, threw the weapon down and was apprehended nearby with the help of a police dog, authorities said.

Two other Madison Local Schools students also were injured, possibly from shrapnel or while running away. None of the injuries appeared to be lifethreatening, said Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones.

Jones said the 14-year-old was a student and there was a motive to the shooting which he did not identify. The boy was charged preliminarily with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, inducing panic and making terrorist threats, Jones said.

Students were eating in the cafeteria when the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m., Jones said. Afterward, classmates described a chaotic scene

where they weren’t sure what was happening at first. Some students fled outside.

One student mistook the first shot for a potato chip bag being popped. Thirteen-yearold Shelby Kinnin said she heard “a couple of bangs” and realized she was near the shooter.

“I didn’t really know it was gunshots until I looked over and a kid was grabbing his leg and falling over,” she said.

Many people ran from the scene, and the shooter went out a door, she said. She recognized him as a boy who was in a class with her last year, though she wasn’t sure of his name. Her stepmother, Stephanie Kinnin, said it was unnerving to see emergency responders swarm the school.

“There is no feeling like that in the world,” she said. “But my eyes found the children walking out looking for parents, and that was heartbreaking. Their eyes just told the story.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Imperfect Crime: The People vs. O. J. Simpson

BY HARINI KANNAN Sun Contributor

There is no doubt that The People vs. O.J. Simpson will gain popular traction just by virtue of the nature of its content. Whether it deserves this traction is a valid question; given the interesting cast (Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, John Travolta) and its place on a cable channel new to making homemade dramas (FX), it seems that The People vs. O.J. Simpson is predestined to be flawed.

While regurgitating a beaten crime story — especially considering the emotional distress the Simpson family must continually face — seems questionable, the show demonstrates how the case has obvious parallels to today’s racial tensions. Therefore, The People vs. O.J. Simpson, at best, can be described as being caught at the crossroads of well intentions and poor execution.

The show establishes its multifaceted purpose in the very first scene by setting the sociopolitical backdrop of the crime story, intentionally making connections with the racial climate still persisting in today’s world. Themes such as police brutality and shootings of unarmed black youth both featured in the tense racial divide of 1994 and echo the tragedy of today’s residual inaction. These themes shape an alternative perspective to the trial and provide a voice that historically was muddled by the drama of the trial itself. These parallels are overt; the creators make no pretense of subtly alluding to the racial tensions that fueled much of the controversy in the 1994 trial. The themes themselves are not novel, nor does the show present them as clever and unique. However, these blatant visual thematic constructions allow the viewers to fully immerse themselves in the past and present flaws of law and order in America. It is important to realize that the creators of The People vs. O.J. Simpson are not condoning or supporting O.J. Simpson by portraying additional sociopolitical facets of the trial. On the contrary, one of the show’s more commendable qualities is its attempt to distinguish itself as more impactful than another tiresome drama by using the show as a medium for social commentary.

The People vs. O.J. Simpson also faces the significantly difficult task of historical balance. With a story of this ten-

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sion-fueled magnitude, it is tricky to provide a depiction without being swayed (even intentionally) by bias from one side of the story or another. Factors like increased camera time on certain characters, language and dialogue, delivery or even lighting can change the way the audience perceives the stpry on a cognitive level. However, the show seems to successfully strike a balance between the two sides of the trial (at least given the first few episodes released). The audience receives storylines which are emotionally orthogonal from each other such that we feel the rage and determination the prosecutors feel towards Simpson during their scenes, but still feel sympathy for Simpson and his family during his. Therefore, while the stories of the defense and the prosecution are inseparable from one another, we have a sense of emotional distinction between the two that leads each individual viewer to cultivate his or her own opinions of the trial.

However, The People vs. O.J. Simpson suffers from an inability to deliver the significance carried by the themes of the show. This might seem to contradict what I said earlier, that the show makes both visual and written decisions to strike a balance between the two sides of the crime. However, the directors, writers and creators essentially negate their efforts by including rather jarringly trivial scenes that devalue the overall execution of the production. One of the most insignificant decisions was including scenes (yes, more than one) of the Kardashian children. They’re portrayed as idiotic, selfindulgent children, further establishing their irrelevancy in the show. At most, the inclusion of Kris Kardashian makes some logical sense, but the entire scene seems to be the show’s way of pandering to a general audience for cheap entertainment. Other decisions, while small, can

become distractions to the viewer. The director, Anthony Hemingway, has an affinity for histrionic camera zoomins on characters midway through anti-climactic dialogue.

The viewer can’t help but laugh, which immediately detracts from the actual sociopolitical weight that underlines most of the scenes (of course, except for those featuring the Kardashians). Even makeup decisions hurt the show; John Travolta’s facial travesty, for instance, has the viewer laughing every time he has screentime.

Since this is usually when he’s with O.J., it further devalues the emotional weight of his grief. I would even go so far as to criticize Cuba Gooding Jr.’s portrayal of O.J., making him less like a suave and charming man and more like the ever-distressed sounding Tracy Morgan.

It’s true that if a viewer goes into excruciating detail about all the faults in a show, he or she is bound to feel that the execution is not perfect. But perfect execution is not the problem with The People vs. O.J. Simpson, because the production is rarely even close to perfection. The problem with The People vs. O.J. Simpson is that the show sets an intense COURTESY OF FX thematic bar for itself with the very first scene of the show, suggesting a very distinct path onto which it will take its viewers. However, very soon the viewer enters some sort of cognitive dissonance — we expect a show with some sort of solemn backdrop, but we’re visually assaulted by decisions that make us laugh. The inability to follow through with the thematic contract the show signed in the first scene leaves The People vs. O.J. Simpson close to commendable, but not quite memorable.

Harini Kannan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at hkannan@cornellsun.com.

Citizen Kane, 75 Years Later

The affair between Kane and Susan Alexander is very he year 1941 saw the release of Citizen Kane.

Orson Welles directed, wrote, produced and similar in nature to that of Hearst and Marion Davies. starred in the film, which has been criticized for its Even though Alexander was a flop as an opera star and resemblance to the life of the newspaper tycoon William Davies was actually a very talented actress, the idea of the Randolph Hearst. The storyline is the quintessential figurehead pursuing romance outside of his marriage American Dream, perfectly arching a rise and fall for its with a potential starlet hit close to home for Hearst. tragic hero: Charles Foster Kane. Due to its technological According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, as he wrote in Esquire in advances, its interpretation of the American dream and 1940, “Hearst, with his whim of iron, became obsessed with winning an Oscar for its emphasis on the graMarion Davies — no matter tuitous excess that comes what the cost ... the quest along with power, Kane loomed like a holy grail.” This stands the test of time, is very similar to Kane, as he even 75 years later. builds opera houses and directs The film follows the tours for Susan Alexander, ups and downs of fictiGuest despite her misery throughout tious media mogul Room the process.

Charles Foster Kane Hearst responded to Citizen (Welles) through his rise to power and subsequent loss of everything. The film is Kane by banning every newspaper and radio he had driven by the effort to find out the significance of Kane’s power over from running reviews of the film. last word spoken before he died, “rosebud.” Through a Interestingly enough, he never saw Kane.

The cinematography of Citizen Kane was revolutionseries of interviews with Kane’s close friends and family and a flashback-and-forth driven plot, audiences learn ary and changed filmmaking. The most groundbreaking technique that came from Welles is the use of deep focus, where he went wrong, and where he went right.

Hearst’s impact on the newspaper business was pro- the visual effect of keeping objects in the foreground just found, and many of his practices still influence the world as clear as they are in the background. Welles also cut of journalism today. But why did Welles choose Hearst holes into the floors of the sets and studios in order to as his inspiration? Perhaps it was his background, as he perfect the high-angle shots we see whenever we look up was born into a family who hit it big in the California at Kane. This technique has been used ever since to Gold Rush, and spent time in boarding schools and trav- emphasize the power of particular characters.

During the film’s production, Welles watched the eling. By choosing Hearst, Welles was taking a big chance in losing an audience; Hearst, through his newspapers, 1939 film Stagecoach a rumoured 40 times. Stagecoach is controlled the opinions of many Americans and would a Western that tells the story of people traveling west indirectly affect how much Kane would make in theaters. together, learning about each other on the way.

There were many parallels between Kane and Hearst. Regarding the film, critic Roger Ebert suggested, Xanadu, Kane’s home, is very similar to Hearst Castle. “[Director John] Ford made certain through casting and Hearst, like Kane, was also sent away to boarding school dialog that the purpose of each scene was made clear, and then he lingered exactly long enough to make the point. to make him a well-rounded and educated man.

Marina Watts

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Nothing feels superfluous.” The same can be said about Citizen Kane; this cinematic obsession with Kane shows the method to his madness.

So, many people may ask, why is Citizen Kane still important? First, the cinematic techniques Welles employed are important. It is an extraordinary film for technological reasons, like the deep focus shots that Welles employed. Everything was also done on such a large scale, that it would be difficult to appreciate otherwise. This excess was perfect from a stylistic standpoint.

However, Citizen Kane was an unusual film for its time, since the film gives a psychological explanation for everything that went on.

The story of William Randolph Hearst’s rise and fall is archetypically American, in his working from nothing into something to become a figure who dominated the first half of the twentieth century. In retrospect, Citizen Kane can be considered an autobiographical film for Welles. He was, after all, only 24 when he worked on the film. People thought he peaked too soon as a cinematic boy genius, but he still kept his feet wet in the ocean that is entertainment. Even though Welles still went on to do great things, he never made anything with such grandeur again.

This film was nominated for nine Academy Awards at the 14th Academy Awards Ceremony, but it only went home with the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Welles’ artistic and visual work was not appreciated until decades later.

You’re most likely to watch Kane in college; it’s regarded highly by many professors across the school and assigned in many courses. Basically, if you play your cards right and take the right classes, you can watch Citizen Kane once a semester while in college. Or if not that, The Lion King. Both are recommended.

Marina Watts is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at mcw236@cornell.edu.

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May. “We are all anxious to get revenge at Outdoor HEPS held at Princeton,” Attah stated.

On the women’s side, The team was able to secure a second place overall team finish. The second place finish was highlighted by stunning performances on the field and on the track.

In the field unit, the Red took second, third and fourth place in the shot put, with sophomore Michaela Smith taking second.

Freshman Leena Morris, who was able to win the Ivy League weight throw title, came in third, followed by Taylor Drayton in fourth.

On the track the the seniors on the team played a major role in Cornell’s success. Udeme Akpaete, Kristen Niedrach and Caroline Kellner were all able to secure second place finishes in the 400, 1000 and 5000, respectively. In show of collective effort, the Red’s 4x400 team also had an impressive showing yesterday with a second place finish.

Sophomore Taysia Radoslav was able to beat the meet record in her second place finish in the 500m.

Bursting through the finish line, the crowd erupted as she was able to finish such a strong race.

“It felt unreal to look up and see my time. It was a huge PR for me and it was definitely a tough race.”

Radoslav said. “I looked over and the first person I saw was my coach and he was so happy for me.”

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KNAVE OF HEARTS Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

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by Travis Dandro SPECIAL MESSAGE TO SUN READERS FROM CARTOONIST TRAVIS DANDRO: I have bad news. I was walking my St. Bernard Monday morning when he pulled me and I fell, breaking my left wrist, which is my drawing hand. They said it takes 4-6 weeks to heal. I’m really upset about the whole thing.

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Cornell’s Architectural Legacy C

ornell University has a proud tradition of bringing in world-renowned architects to design its signature buildings. This is evident in the fact that Cornell’s campus contains noteworthy works from numerous Pritzker Prize winners. The Pritzker Prize, I should note, is an annually-awarded honor that the world architecture community bestows upon an individual who has made an important contribution to the field of architecture. To put it simply, the Pritzker is to architecture what the Nobel is to peace. It’s a big deal.

Of 40 all-time Pritzker laureates, six have buildings on Cornell’s campus, one of the highest proportions of any school in the world. The six buildings are Uris Hall

various building renovations to be reminded of what cheaping out on design can lead to: much of the engineering campus, for instance, was built on the cheap in the 1950s, prizing function over form and leaving Cornell with some of its ugliest, most utilitarian buildings around, including Hollister, Phillips and Upson halls.

Today, just 60 years later, Cornell is already doing a full renovation to Upson, reusing only the skeleton of the building in the new design and scrapping every other bit of it. Hollister and Phillips are next. Gannett, also built in the 1950s, is getting its aforementioned expansion and then it, too, will be blown out for renovations. Let’s learn from the mistakes of the past and put up

No matter how tough times are in the present, remember that the structures Cornell constructs today will stand for decades, maybe even centuries, and that their architectural integrity ought to last just as long.

(1972), the Johnson Museum of Art (1973), the Schwartz Center (1989), Weill Hall (2008), Milstein Hall (2011) and Gates Hall (2013). Whether you like each of those buildings is up to you, but all of them are, at the very least, among the most talked about — and often controversial — structures on Cornell’s campus.

Yet, despite this tradition, today the University is building new structures around campus that are bland. They’re boring. They serve a function and that is all.

I’m referring to Klarman Hall and the Gannett Health Center expansion. The former is a glass box that makes reference only to its neighbor glass box across the street, the Physical Sciences Building. The latter is a wholly unremarkable four-story expansion that maximizes its square footage by occupying every possible inch of its allotted space, curving with the street exactly. It seems to have been designed with the intention of never offending anyone. Come to think of it, “inoffensive” may be the perfect word for these two new buildings. While I like that Cornell selected a local architect for Gannett and a design firm run by Cornell alumni for Klarman, I suspect that the negatives of the finished products — which Cornell students far into the future will have to endure — will heavily outweigh the positives of keeping design contracts local. I’d rather a faceless stranger design an architecturally significant Klarman Hall than have a significant Cornell architecture grad put up a faceless glass box on our beloved campus.

There will be those in the Cornell community, as I’m sure there are on Cornell’s Board of Trustees, who would complain that hiring a world-renowned architect would be too expensive, that in these stillfiscally-conservative times, we ought to cut costs wherever possible. The two buildings in question will, after all, serve the purposes for which they are meant. Before we spend money on high-quality design, we have to be able to explain to Cornell’s donors and students that their money is being spent wisely.

I believe that that argument can be made quite easily: first, no matter how tough times are in the present, remember that the structures Cornell constructs today will stand for decades, maybe even centuries, and that their architectural integrity ought to last just as long. Second, one has only to look around campus at Cornell’s

buildings in the present that won’t need similarly expensive renovations in the near future.

A final argument is that, as I see it, we need not hire out every building contract to a world-renowned, high-priced architect. Cornell also has a proud tradition of using the ingenuity of its students to create great works of art and science. I can think of few greater works of art and science than ice cream. In Food Science 1101, Cornell students have for years invented new ice cream flavors for the Dairy Bar. Why not do the same for architecture? Hold a design competition for new buildings to which student groups could submit project proposals. This would allow a competitive process to take shape, get students involved in forming the new Cornell design language, and save the University money — no more hiring pricey design firms, either local or world-renowned.

One thing I love about the college campus is that, in such a small area of land, one can find such a diverse set of architectural styles. Cornell’s campus has a little of everything: classical and brutalism, empire and modernism. I can experience the history of architecture simply by touring the grounds of my school. At Cornell, it’s easy to see the time period when designing a building meant designing a monument, when it meant making an architectural statement, and when it meant putting function above form. I love that I can walk down Tower Road and look around me and see a representative piece of architecture from every decade from the past 150 years. My worry is that this decade’s architecture, which started off so strong with the gorgeous forms of Gates and Milstein halls, will be diluted by the banality of architectural forms of the likes of Physical Sciences, Gannett and Klarman. Cornell has plenty of construction laid out in its master plan for the coming years: new buildings, new additions, new quads. Who knows, maybe someday it will be Cornell undergrads — architects, engineers, arts majors — who win the Pritzker Prize for their design of some addition to our campus. However Cornell’s design process eventually evolves, one thing is clear: it’s got to change.

Timothy Vhay is a junior in the College of Engineering. He can be reached tmv47@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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OPINION

Yamini Bhandari | Trustee Viewpoint

Lessons From the Ivy Mental Health Conference A

few weeks ago, I along with nine other Cornellians had the opportunity to travel to the University of Pennsylvania for the first annual Unmasking the Ivy League: A Conference on Mental Health. Through the event we had the chance to learn and collaborate with our Ivy peers and see how we can improve the way that we look at mental health on our own campus.

One of the biggest takeaways from the conference for me was understanding the scale of this issue on college campuses. With the success of Mental Health Awareness week last semester and a number of events that groups like Minds Matter host regularly to create a campus dialogue on the issue amongst diverse communities, we are moving towards a healthier campus. That being said, our current system of mental health care is not without its flaws.

An issue that the Cornell delegation brought to the table was the conversation on leaves of absence. Our current leave of absence policy requires that students who, under the advice of a medical professional, feel that they need to take a leave from campus to support their mental health are given the option to take a leave of absence for a year. Students who elect to take the Health Leave of

While this policy has been very successful for a number of students, there have been issues for some students who are required to take a leave of absence, but may find that their home environment is not conducive to their recovery.

Absence are not considered Cornell students while on their leave because they are not enrolled in classes.

Because of this designation, they are required to leave campus and receive care outside and must prove that they are healthy enough to come back.

While this policy has been very successful for a number of students, there have been issues for some students who are required to take a leave of absence, but may find that their home environment is not conducive to their recovery. There are also a number of students that come from other countries from whom a policy like this could create significant complications.

The obvious solution that comes to mind is finding a way for students who are taking a leave of absence to stay in Ithaca, live off campus and get care here. For many students, an option like this is significantly more amenable because it gives them the ability to stay near friends and their campus involvements, while also taking an academic break and receiving care.

Finding a way to make this a policy that can work for all students requires us to consider that students on this policy do not receive financial support from the University because they are no longer considered students. To live off campus and support oneself is a rather lofty financial burden and any kind of aid program would have to have significant capital backing it.

When this conversation came up during the conference, our Ivy peers seemed to have similar issues with this policy. Some had a little more flexibility with their policies, while others were less developed than ours. There were no obvious solutions to solve the major concerns with the issue, but there is a new momentum amongst all the Ivies after the conference, particularly considering mental health leaves of absence.

Considering the layers of complications with the policy, this is an issue that requires a creative solution from the community, and is something Cornell policy-makers and students should remain cognizant of.

Yamini Bhandari is the undergraduate student-elected trustee.

She can be reached a yb94@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears on alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “Professors aren’t dim enough to give us the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this. Besides, you can survive without your computer, there’s nothing wrong with taking notes on paper.”

Grumpy Human Re: “Cornell Faculty Explain Changes to In-Class Laptop Policies,” News February 29, 2016

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A Political Revolution: No, Not That One

s primary season swings into Super Tuesday, business mogul Donald Trump appears poised to collect a massive delegate haul, while Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) remains a thorn in the side of Hillary Clinton.

Seemingly able to generate headlines at will, the businessman owes his success to the media coverage that has suffocated rivals, leaving a multitude of establishment figures — Governor Scott Walker (ROhio), Governor Chris Christie (RN.J.), Governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), etc. — incapable of gaining traction. Though the “political revolution” Bernie Sanders so fondly mentions seems to have stalled for the moment, the formerly independent Senator from Vermont continues to remain viable and push the Clinton campaign past its comfort zone.

How is it possible that two candidates squarely outside the mainstream of presidential politics have been able to continuously thwart detractors and mount a formidable run at the nomination of either party?

Well, simply put: a political revolution. Unfortunately for Senator Sanders, the revolution is not yet one that transfers political capital from entrenched establishment figures to the American people, but rather one that transfers communication mediums from the traditional media gatekeepers major television networks and well-established news publications – to the American people.

Mobile applications — Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. — not only expand access to the electorate, especially to a younger demographic, but they also enable politicians, or reality television stars — to bypass the conventional media in favor of more-sympathetic partisan news outlets or simply in favor of themselves.

Donald Trump has over six million followers on Twitter and is a prolific tweeter, using the medium not only to retweet like-minded supporters, but also to masterfully spin debate performances and attack rivals. Using Twitter, Trump has been able to frame Bush as “low-energy,” Cruz as a “liar,” and Rubio as a “lightweight.” The busi-

nessman utilizes the tool so frequently that Politico released a column earlier this month with the headline reading, “Trump Breaks 15-hour Twitter Silence.”

While Trump has Twitter, Bernie Sanders has Facebook; a New York Times headline claims, “Seeking the Presidency, Bernie Sanders Becomes Facebook Royalty Through Quirky Sharing.”

Sanders largely avoids attacking fellow contenders via social media, instead opting for a strategy that involves “…posting images that share a quotation, which he has either written himself or dug up from a historical figure and then superimposed onto a photograph.”

To the Democratic elite, a Sanders nomination is a nonoption; among superdelegates — who aren’t bound by state primary/caucus outcomes — Clinton holds a 453-20 advantage.

The Sanders campaign has even ac-

respond, Twitter is there to blast his message in his words to his people.

When people want to see for themselves what this Trump thing is all about, they don’t have to go to ABC or The Washington Post; they go to his Twitter page.

Clearly, Trump still receives an overwhelming amount of coverage from traditional media sources.

However the coverage typically revolves around his own social media posts and/or comments, leaving his message intact and simply amplifying his words to millions more. Perhaps this is why Trump has succeeded where Sanders has failed. Social media gives politicians unprecedented access to young voters, but young people are often fickle and rarely vote. Senator Sanders can attest to that. Trump and Sanders both dominate social media, but Trump is such the enigma that traditional news outlets can’t keep themselves away, thus

Social media gives politicians unprecedented access to young voters, but young people are often fickle and rarely vote. Senator Sanders can attest to that. cused the Democratic National Committee of attempting to sabotage his candidacy. Without social media to galvanize the youth and the far left, it’s likely the Democratic establishment would have succeeded in tabling a Sanders campaign before it got off the ground.

Though social media has existed through previous election cycles, the current campaign represents the first in which an entire generation of voters came of age with the technology. In past elections, establishment politicians and their surrogates could flood traditional news outlets to disparage Trump and his contentious remarks. In a world without social media or other conservative blogs, Trump may have found it difficult, if not altogether impossible, to facilitate his message through unreceptive old-guard media. Now, when Trump wants to

giving Trump reign of both new and old media and access to both young and older voters. In a Trump-less cycle, maybe Sanders would have been that candidate.

By fully grasping the potential of social media to transfer communication power away from party elites and towards candidates themselves, Trump and Sanders have each succeeded in crafting their own narrative and launching plausible outsider campaigns. Both candidates have exposed major rifts on their respective sides with Sanders pulling Clinton and the Democrats to the left and a potential Trump nomination threatening to alter what it means to be a Republican. Can the parties catch up?

Jake Forken is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu. My Forken Opinion appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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TRACK & FIELD

Men,WomenTake Second at Ivy Heptagonals

By CHARLES COTTON & BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Staff Writers

It is not often that you host the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships as the favorites to win over a longtime rival defending its title. Yet, coming into this weekend, this was exactly the case with the Cornell men’s track and field team, competing for a league crown in Barton Hall in Ithaca, looking to knock off a solid Princeton team. But as Sunday began to wind down, it became clear that this storybook ending to the indoor season was not to be.

Instead Cornell finished second in the Ivy League with 142 points, trailing only Princeton and its 165 point first place total. The women’s team also finished second, scoring a point total of 123.50 only bested by Harvard’s 136.50.

Men’s head coach Adrian Durant said he felt his team could have done more.

“The general feeling is disappointment,” Durant said.

“We were the favorites going in and had been doing very well all year, but when it came time to step up to the plate, Princeton just did a better job of showing up.”

Junior sprinter Tobe Attah had similar praise for Princeton.

“Their team was ready to perform and attacked in all areas, slowly but surely outscoring us in a number of events,” Attah, a Sun staff writer. “I have to commend them on showing up when they absolutely needed to.”

The Red won five events during the two-day meet and had noteworthy performances from several key athletes.

On Saturday, junior Rudy Winkler was the top weight thrower in the league for the second straight year. His throw was good for fourth best in Ivy League history.

Senior Ben Rainero took home first in the 3K with a time of 8:08.32. With four events in the books, including two victories, Cornell led the field going into Sunday’s action and would need to keep it up to close out the win.

Sunday’s results, however, were not quite what the Red needed. Though they did win three more events, it was not nearly enough. Princeton would take over the lead relatively early on in the day and never looked back.

“We were good on Sunday but they were perfect,” Durant said. “They had a perfect meet, and you have to respect them for that.”

There were a litany of strong performances from the Red. Senior Max Hairston won the 60 meter hurdles in 7.86 seconds. Austin Jamerson dominated in the Heptathlon, taking first with 5,396 combined points, and the 4x400 relay team finished in first place to close out the

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Home turf | In front of a rabid home crowd, the men couldn’t keep up with Princeton’s near-perfect Sunday. meet, behind the especially strong performance of Attah, the team’s anchor. Princeton had already clinched the championship at that point, but Attah kept running hard.

“For me personally, it was a combination of having the right training to perform that day and the drive to fight for my team until the very end,” Attah said. “I knew at the time, regardless of the performance, Princeton would win the meet. I just did not see that as a reason to not go out with a bang for the team I love.”

But when disappointing results in the shot put, the 60meter dash, the 800 and the 1K, to name just a few, let the lead slip away, the spirited home fans who packed Barton did not have as much to cheer about as they would have liked.

“Having the HEPS atmosphere here at home was unforgettable,” Attah said. “The amount of support from friends and past teammates coming all the way to Barton to cheer us on made this meet memorable … It was heartbreaking though to see Princeton suffocate us in a wide array of events.”

The Tigers won seven events on Sunday including three 1-2 finishes to claim its 19th Indoor Ivy League title. Since 1997, Cornell or Princeton has won Indoor HEPS each year, and the rivalry remains strong.

“We are all disappointed to lose to Princeton at home,” Attah said. “We can all be proud of the great performances today, but there has always been a Cornell/Princeton rivalry, and they came out on the winning end.”

Durant still wants to remain positive going forward, and he knows he has an equally strong outdoor squad.

“A loss like that is tough to take, and we have to figure out what we can do to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Durant said. “But this is an amazing group of guys — one of the most talented we’ve ever had here — and I think that when they do step up to the plate, it’s going to be a very special thing.”

Cornell will look forward to the outdoor season starting up soon, with some unfinished business to take care of in See TRACK & FIELD page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

Red Picks Up First Season Victory

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

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Sunshine victory | Using a strong defensive effort, Cornell beat Hobart, 10-8.

The Cornell men’s lacrosse team travelled down to West Palm Beach, Fla. this past weekend to play its annual match against Hobart. The Red came away with 10-8 victory in front of 2,000 fans to extend its winning streak against the Statesmen to 12 straight games.

Freshman attack Colton Rupp had two of the Red’s 10 goals in the match.

“Since we’re a very young team, it was great getting the win,” Rupp said. “It was a great confidence booster for us definitely to get the first win.”

Seventeen of the team’s 45 members are freshmen. With such a young team, it is essential that the team’s upperclassmen be active in helping these freshmen transition to college lacrosse.

Rupp views senior midfielder John Edmonds as one of these mentors.

“It’s nice playing with senior John Edmonds,” he said. “He’s really shown us the way, and all the seniors have shown us what college lacrosse is like and how hard we work here, and it’s just been a great opportunity and really exciting so far.”

Edmonds, who had two goals and two assists in the game, emphasized the great progress the freshmen — most notably Rupp and freshman attack Ryan Bray — have already had this season.

“I think they’ve really done a great job adapting to the change of college lacrosse,” he said. “They’ve picked it up extremely quick, and they continue every day to get better and better, which is extremely impressive.”

Edmonds also mentioned that the team’s greatest strength

in the game was defense.

“I think what went well against Hobart was our defense,” he said. “I thought [senior goalie] Brennan Donville played an outstanding game.”

Donville collected eight saves in the win, his second straight game notching at least that many.

The match marked the first time Hobart and Cornell had played each other in Florida in the 137-year history of the rivalry, which is the oldest rivalry in collegiate lacrosse.

“It was a good bonding experience for the team, playing together and hanging out in the hotel,” Rupp said. “We ended up getting the win which made the trip that much better.”

Edmonds agreed, speaking highly of the opportunity to get to play in the Sunshine State.

“There is a growing fan base of lacrosse, and I think the environment … was really cool,” he said. “I think we were all definitely excited to play there and really satisfied with the turnout and fans and the play of both teams.”

The Red (1-1) now focuses its attention on No. 16 Albany — who the Red play this Saturday in Albany, N.Y. When asked about the team’s season goals at this point, Rupp emphasized that the team does not like to look at the season as a whole.

“Our team goals are obviously to win every game, so I think we’re just going to take it game by game and try to win every game, week by week and keep working our hardest at practice,” he said. “I think good things will come.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.