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University Assembly Confirms Members Of Univ. Review Board The University Assembly passed two resolutions confirming members of the University Review Board for the 2016-17 academic year on Tuesday.

A second resolution the assembly passed enabled the chair to thank deveryone on the assembly for their work over the past school year, signifying the end of the assembly’s operations for the 2015-16 academic year.

U.A. resolution 10 confirms the members of the University Hearing and Review Board for the 2016-17 academic year, and is sponsored by undergraduate student representative Gabe Kaufman ’18.

The resolution was passed with a vote of 10-0-2 after amendments were made to include current members of the board who are interested in continuing to serve in the coming academic year.

U.A. resolution 11, sponsored by U.A. Chair Matt Battaglia ’17, is a customary action taken by the chair of the U.A. expressing his or her gratitude for the assembly’s members and their cooperation during the academic year.

“This resolution is one that we [make] every single year — the chair sponsors it,” See U.A. page 4

Track and field star Austin Jameson ’17 shows he can do it all for Cornell. | Page 16

Rep.Reed Speaks at C.U.Town Hall Defends education plan, previous call tohalt University funding

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Cornell — your top administrators are quite upset with this proposal.”

Reed explained that when he graduatCongressman Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) dis- ed law school, he was over $100,000 in cussed his plan to lower the cost of high- debt, adding that he now often hears stoer education and defended his call for an ries from people with almost twice that amount of debt.

When Reed asked “As you can imagine [with] your endowment audience members if they office at Cornell— your top administrators felt that their money was are quite upset with this proposal.” being well spent by Cornell, Robbie Dunbar Congressman Tom Reed ’18, Arts and Sciences representative on investigation of Cornell last year when the Student Assembly, said in his challenged by students at a town hall in position he sees University inefRockefeller Tuesday. ficiency “firsthand.”

Reed began by explaining how the “I think that at the REDUCE Act — a bill he is working to same time they’re promote — would help lower the cost of trying to college, saying it would allocate 25 per- i n c r e a s e cent of the returns of university endow- tuition and ments over one billion dollars to finan- i n c r e a s e cial aid for middle and low income stu- fees here dents. and there,” “With this bill, we have opened up a Dunbar said. hornet’s nest,” he said. “As you can imag- “I just don’t ine [with] your endowment office here at think there’s Sun News Editor

adequate use of that money when administrators have a lofty payroll and whatnot and the quality of education really hasn’t changed. In fact in some ways some things have been watered down.”

The newly elected chair of Cornell Republicans, Olivia Corn ’19, agreed, saying that she feels the money allocated to Gannett from her health fee is not being alloSee REED page 4

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Reed-ing the room | Congressman Tom Reed discusses his plan to lower the cost of college education and addresses student challenges at a town hall Tuesday.

Cornell Republicans React to Likely Trump Nomination

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) suspended his campaign after Donald Trump’s Indiana victory Tuesday night, Cornell

Cruzin’ on home | Members of the Cornell Republicans have mixed responses to the likelihood of Trump winning the presidential election, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race last evening.

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Republicans were forced to face the increasingly likely prospect of Trump as the GOP nomination.

Executive Director of Cornell Republicans Jake Zhu ’18 said he believes Trump’s win Tuesday

was predictable, although, “the wins that he has netted throughout the entire campaign [have] been an absolute surprise.”

“Like many have said before, experts from all over the political spectrum expected the

Trump phenomenon to fade away by October at the latest,” he said.

Olivia Corn ’19, Chair of Cornell Republicans, said she believes with Trump’s win in Indiana, it is “blatantly obvious” that he will become the Republican nominee.

“Donald Trump was polling over 30 percentage points ahead of Ted Cruz in California, before Ted Cruz suspended his campaign and will probably win all 172 delegates, putting him within 12 delegates of the nomination,” Corn said. “Therefore, him reaching this 41 percent is almost a guarantee, especially with only Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) left to face him.”

Zhu said that he believes Trump’s appeal stems from his ability to speak candidly.

“Many people I have encountered know honestly that his platform is ludicrous, that his beliefs are ridiculous, and that he won’t get anything done,” Zhu said. “However, these same people showed up to vote for Trump. Why? Because he

doesn’t speak “[Trump’s] through a filspeech is tration system.

His uncensored. speech and And brute his words are uncensored. honesty is And brute what the honesty is American what the A m e r i c a n people want people want to hear.” to hear. That is why Jake Zhu ’18 Trump won tonight. And that is why Trump will capture the nomination come mid-summer.”

According to Corn, Trump’s nomination will split the Republicans into “those who like Trump and those who don’t.”

“Because many disgruntled Ted Cruz fans will either not vote or possibly vote for an independent due to their “Never Trump” mindset, there is a strong possibility Trump will lose in the general election,” See TRUMP page 4

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It Takes a Village to Corral A Loose Llama in Colorado BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — It took a village and two hours to corral an uncooperative llama named Ethel who escaped from her pasture in rural Colorado and wandered near some busy roadways.

The Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office tweeted a wanted poster with a photo of the wayward animal and the hashtag #LlamaOnTheLoose. It’s an amended version of the one made famous by a pair of Ethel’s elusive brethren, whose romp through a Phoenix-area neighborhood stole the national spotlight last year.

Sheriff ’s spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield says Ethel’s owner called Tuesday asking for help to get the llama home after she wandered into another pasture. An animal control officer and a deputy tried to wrangle Ethel, but she proved difficult to capture and more help had to be called in. At one point, passers-by formed a human fence. She was ultimately herded back into her pasture.

Man Charged After Cop Helps Find His Marijuana Lost in Yard ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who got a police officer’s help to find a bit of marijuana lost in his yard has been charged with misdemeanor drug abuse.

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cated man admitting he lost the drug. The Alliance officer says he doesn’t want children to find it and then locates it in the grass.

The man asks if he’d throw it back on the ground.

The officer refuses. Police say the officer had found the man stumbling along the road and tried to get him home safely. Some commenters suggested the man has an alcohol problem and criticized Alliance police for sharing the video on Facebook.

Capt. James Hilles tells the Akron Beacon Journal it’s just a light-hearted example of silly things people say to officers.

West Virginia Rules Voting Booths a No-Selfie Zone CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — If you want to share your voting experience on social media, you’ll have to find some way other than taking a photo in the voting booth.

West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant says it’s forbidden.

Tennant said in a news release Friday that it’s illegal to photograph any part of the voting process, and no electronic devices or cellphones are allowed in the voting booth.

She says signs are posted in every West Virginia precinct, and poll workers have been instructed to tell people not to have devices out while voting.

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University Sutton Road Solar Farm Opens in Geneva Cornell’s Sutton Road Solar Farm in Geneva, New York, became fully operational on April 13, the University announced. Cornell’s second megawatt-scale solar project began construction last spring.

The 17-acre, two-megawatt energy facility plans to offset nearly 40 percent of the annual electricity demand at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

“Our researchers are conducting basic and applied research to improve crops and make them more resilient to disease, drought and the worst effects of an uncertain climate as we chart a more sustainable agricultural future,” said Susan Brown, the Goichman Family Director of NYSAES, in a statement.

Local Dryden Man Charged After Intentionally Crashing Into Vehicle, Fleeing Police According to officials Robert H. Predmore of Dryden intentionally drove a 1998 Jeep Cherokee into another vehicle that had a person inside it. He then fled the scene and was spotted by a Tompkins County Sheriff ’s deputy driving on McClintock Road, The Ithaca Voice reports.

Predmore has been charged with a felony for third-degree criminal mischief, two counts of misdemeanor second-degree reckless endangerment and several traffic violations. Predmore was arraigned in the local court of the Town of Caroline and remanded to the Tompkins County jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 property bond, according to The Voice.

National Fomer Speaker Sheldon Silver Receives 12 Years in Prison Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Tuesday, according to The Ithaca Journal. Silver, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court following his conviction last November for committing millions of dollars worth of fraud. In addition to the twelve year sentence, Silver will pay a $1.75 million fine and forfeit $5.2 million, the amount he profited from the bribery, extortion and money-laundering schemes.

The investigation is seeking to determine whether Percoco deceitfully closed the money received from entities doing business with the state, The Journal reported.

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Aim to monitor, prevent dangerous activity in Six Mile Creek area visit, including the three state parks or Cayuga Lake.

During the summer, individuals who visit the Six Mile Creek and are caught Reacting to multiple incidents in will be ticketed by enforcement. recent years along Six Mile Creek, the “If people are found to be swimming City of Ithaca plans to hire patrol officers and/or cliff jumping in the Six Mile to monitor the gorges this summer, Creek area, the fine could be as high as according to City Clerk Julie Conley $250. There are also other fines associatHolcomb. ed with open containers, possession of While City of Ithaca rangers have drugs [and] littering,” Holcomb said. patrolled the Six Mile Creek area “for Aside from swimming, the initiative decades” according to Holcomb, offi“Over the past several years we have has been implemented in an effort to cers will soon be specifically assigned to the notable areas that have seen seen large crowds and more dangerous respond to the heroin crisis infiltrating the City of Ithaca. Numerous tents — increase in dangerous activities around behaviors occuring [in the area].” filled with hypodermic needles — have the gorge in recent years.

Julie Conley Holcomb been found near the dams, according “Over the past several years we have to The Ithacan. seen larger crowds and more dangerous Holcomb called the initiative a joint behaviors occurring at the First and Second Dams such as alcohol and drug from Ithaca and are not familiar with the effort between herself and the use, cliff jumping, swimming, campfires, hidden, underwater dangers of the Department of Public Works, Ithaca Police Department, Ithaca Fire and significant amounts of trash,” gorge.”

Holcomb and her colleagues working Department, and the Tompkins County Holcomb said. “Last year, we experienced a tragic death as a result of cliff jumping.” on his project want people to enjoy the Sheriff 's Office. They also work closely From May to September, four rangers natural beauty that Ithaca has to offer in with Cornell’s Gorge Safety Task Force. will be located near the First, Second and a safe and respectful manner. As a part of Third Dams. Their jobs is not only to education efforts, the program will teach Samantha Acriche can be reached at enforce the law but to also educate people those interested about alternative areas to sacriche@cornellsun.com.

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about the rules of the Six Mile Creek Natural Area, according to Holcomb.

“We are hoping to send a strong message that this is not an unsupervised area that people can do whatever they want to in,” Holcomb said. “The natural area is meant for everyone to enjoy responsibly, and we want people and families to feel safe spending time there. Many people coming to the area to cliff jump are not

Panelists Consider Potential of Nuclear Power as Climate Change Solution Muranen said that ly assist in solving this gives us a livable planet — not just one that has the integration of global issue.

“If nuclear could enough energy sources nuclear power as one of the world’s primary deliver everything that in theory — is what we Prof. Daniel Kammen energy sources could sig- its strongest proponents need to get to,” he said. ’84, energy resources nificantly reduce carbon believe that it can, tech- “When you look at those group, University of together, it e m i s s i o n s nically, economically items California, globally, par- and risk-wise, there is no becomes a much harder Berkeley and “Nuclear power is indeed ticularly con- question that it should story to be as optimistic Lauri Muranen, sidering its be part of that conversa- as I would like to be.”

Executive essential if we want to Kammen emphasized utilization in tion,” he said.

Director of address climate change Unlike Muranen, due the need to be proactive European World Energy to the risks involved in in managing the power countries.

C o u n c i l seriously.” nuclear source. “ A f t e r integrating Finland, dis“So far we have only power, Kammen said he looking at the cussed the Lauri Muranen evidence, it is hesitant to argue that been good at managing potential of has con- nuclear energy is the risks retroactively,” he nuclear power to “I think if you look at vinced me that nuclear solution above other said. “Nuclear is very address global climate change in a discussion the biggest challenges we power is indeed essential energy sources, such as unforgiving if you don’t face today, climate if we want to address cli- geothermal and ocean get it right ahead of Tuesday. time. We could get it While both panelists change absolutely has to mate change seriously,” energy.

“Focusing primarily right but we have seen agreed that nuclear be the top,” he said. he said.

Considering the rela- on nuclear [energy], the how large the risks are.” power could be an “Even if we turned off important energy source all fossil fuels today, we tively small window of risk of the technology, in reducing carbon emis- are already committed to time left to address cli- the cost of the technolosions, their views dif- a certain amount of cli- mate change, Kammen gy, and the degree to Anna Delwiche can be fered in the magnitude mate change to a signifi- agreed that nuclear which it can be integrat- reached at power could dramatical- ed into a system that adelwiche@cornellsun.com. of its risks and how dif- cant degree.” ferent countries could accommodate each energy source.

Heike Michelson, Director of Programming for the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, said that nuclear power is a complex concept and relevant to current events.

“A debate on whether or not nuclear power is an answer to climate change is particularly timely if you think of the recent climate change conference in Paris and the resulting agreement signed by 175 countries, the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disasMICHAELA BREW / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER ter in Ukraine and the fifth anniversary of the Powering through | Panelists discuss the urgency of climate change and debate nuclear energy as a viable solution in Fukushima disaster, Klarman Hall on Tuesday.

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nuclear proliferation and terrorism,” she said.

Kammen stressed the urgency of climate change and the challenges it has created.

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ism,” he said.

However, Harkins pressed Reed further, questioning his gullibility in believing that funds cated to Gannett from her health fee is not being would have been used to support a radical group.

“Did you honestly think that they were going allocated prudently.

“A lot of money goes to health facilities which to start an ISIS club and fund it with Cornell I’m going to be perfectly honest are absolutely money?” he asked the congressman. “You atrocious,” she said. “I fell last semester on a believed that?”

Alexander Andrievsky ’17 chimed in to agree Saturday night and I fractured my hand and Gannett wasn’t open on Sunday. It wasn’t avail- with Harkins, emphasizing his belief that Reed’s able for help. I was basically told I could either go visit to Cornell felt disingenuous.

“The Cornell to Cayuga ISIS club thing Medical Center “I feel suspicious ... that you care about was jingoism at or wait and hope its worst and it got better.” reducing the cost of college for us when a [Reed is] panderMatt Harkins ing to us now year ago you wanted to eliminate ’16 challenged like [he] was Reed a moment subsidies for us.” pandering to later, asking him rural voters a why he had Matt Harkins ’16 year ago,” he said called for an after the event. investigation of Reed was also asked to explain his endorseCornell and threatened to pull government funding to the campus after a “decontextualized ment of Donald Trump for president, with stuvideo” suggested that an “ISIS club” could poten- dents asking for clarification about Trump’s views are on college cost. Reed responded by saying tially form at Cornell.

“I understand the demographics of this dis- that although Trump has been silent on the issue, trict,” Harkins said. “I feel that it’s disingenuous the congressman hopes that the issue will soon in a lot of ways and I feel suspicious of you com- become a priority for Trump.

“This is something he’s been relatively quiet ing here and telling us that you care about reducing the cost of college for us when a year ago you on and so we’re trying to use our endorsement and our position in a positive way to weigh in wanted to eliminate subsidies for us.” with their campaign and say this is something Reed responded by calling his concerns at the time legitimate and stressing that an extreme you should be rolling up our sleeves with and really become a part of,” Reed said. group would have posed a threat to campus.

“Obviously we had a great concern about the potential group that would be coming to campus Josh Girsky can be reached that would espouse that kind of radical extrem- at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

REED

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Cornell Republicans Express Reservations AboutTrump Candidacy Split over businessman’s chances in general election TRUMP

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Corn said.

Austin McLaughlin ’18, Senior Vice Chair of Cornell Republicans, called that Cruz’s campaign suspension a watershed moment.

“While I have been against Ted Cruz for some time, his dropping out marks a turning point,” he said.

“The Indiana primary has shattered any hopes of a GOP nomination that is not Donald Trump and it has made Trump’s nomination a chilling reality.”

Zhu said he finds it “eerie” that Cruz dropped out of the race so abruptly.

“This is a man I have a lot of respect for,” Zhu said.

“Since his high school days, he planned out a journey for himself. A journey that he has followed through with excellence ... until now.

Nowhere else can you see a

State Hillary Clinton’s ascension to the presidency.

“What this unfortunately means is a Hillary Clinton presidency, because a large part of the United States greatly dislikes Hillary, but an even larger number abhors Trump,” Corn said.

Howe ve r, Zhu shared his incredulity about any guarantee of Clin ton’s future success.

“So is Hil lary enough to stop Trump?” he said. “I think we may be in for a surprise come November. Especially if the Bernie voters don’t show up for Hillary.”

“A large part of the U.S. greatly dislikes Hillary, but an even larger number abhors Trump.”

Olivia Corn ’19 young high school student expressing confidence that he will go to Princeton, become a senator of a state and ultimately go on to become President.”

Corn said she believes a Trump nomination would lead to Former Secretary of

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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Battaglia said. “It’s a resolution of appreciation to every individual or office that has provid-

ed the assembly with information, attended our meetings, presented to us, as well as recognizing members in their roles on our committees, liaisons and other assem-

bly duties.”

The resolution was unanimously passed with a vote of 12-0-0 by all members present.

Afterwards, Prof. Martin Hatch, musicology, as

vice chair of operations for the assembly proposed that all members present raise their placards in appreciation for Battaglia as chair.

— Compiled by Jeanette Si

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Celebrities Attend Fashion Show in Cuba

HAVANA (AP) — Wealthy fashionistas and celebrities from around the world flocked beneath klieg lights Wednesday night on a grand Havana colonial avenue transformed into a private runway for French fashion house Chanel.

With hundreds of security agents holding ordinary Cubans behind police lines blocks away, actors Tilda Swinton and Vin Diesel, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and Cuban music stars Gente de Zona and Omara Portuondo watched slender models sashay down Prado boulevard in casual summer clothes that seemed inspired by the Art Deco elegance of prerevolutionary Cuba.

With the heart of the Cuban capital effectively privatized by an international corporation under the watchful eye of the Cuban state, the premiere of Chanel 2016-2017 “cruise” line offered a startling sight in a country officially dedicated to social equality and the rejection of material wealth.

The fashion show was the most extreme manifestation to date of the hot new status Cuba has assumed in the international art and cultural scene since the December 2014 declaration of detente with the United States.

President Barack Obama visited in March, the Rolling Stones performed in Havana the same week, the first U.S. cruise in nearly four decades docked Monday and the latest install-

ment of the multibillion-dollar “Fast and Furious” action movie franchise is filming here now.

Many Cubans say they are delighted their country is opening itself to the world, offering ordinary people a firsthand look at celebrities and extravagant productions. But the rampant display of wealth on the streets of Havana is providing fodder for many already disenchanted by Cuba's failure to deliver on promises of socialist equality.

Mabel Fernandez, a radio announcer, arrived four hours before the start of the show eager to give her 14-year-old daughter a taste of a world of international fashion that the girl had only seen on television and in movies.

“We need this type of novel event so people can know more of culture,” she said.

But as police swarmed the area in the hours before the show, virtually all residents of the capital were swept behind yellow barricades and unbroken lines of uniformed and plainclothes police at least a block away.

Reinaldo Fonseca, a local model, stood with a group of friends similarly trying to make their careers in fashion and watched as rich foreigners with invitations arrived at the event in specially rented antique American sedans.

“It’s a shame they don't let us pass,” she said.

President Obama Plans to Designate Stonewall National Movement WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is preparing to designate the Stonewall Inn in New York the first national monument dedicated to gay rights.

That’s according to two individuals familiar with the Obama administration’s plans.

The individuals weren’t authorized to discuss the plans publicly and requested anonymity.

The tavern in Greenwich Village was the site of a 1969 uprising widely viewed as the start

of the gay rights movement.

Proposals being considered would cover a small park on the street where the bar is located and the surrounding area.

The Interior Department says Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and the head of the National Park Service will travel to New York for a public meeting on the proposals Monday.

The Washington Post first reported the meeting.

The White House declined to comment.

Small Plane Breaks Up Midflight, Killing Three SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say three people are dead after a small plane broke up midflight, scattering debris across a residential Long Island neighborhood.

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Robert Gretz says the pilot of the Beech BE-35 aircraft reported an issue with his instrument panel before the plane went down in Syosset Tuesday afternoon.

Gretz says two men and a

woman on board were killed. He says investigators are still collecting pieces of the plane. The debris field stretches about two miles.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane took off from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and was headed to Robertson Field, an airport in Plainville, Connecticut.

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the aircraft to break up.

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Sen.Ted Cruz Suspends Campaign After Indiana Defeat In Republican Primary; Sanders Wins for Democrats INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)abruptly ended his presidential campaign Tuesday night after falling to Donald Trump in Indiana’s primary, a devastating loss that left him with no viable path to the Republican nomination.

Trump, considered a fringe candidate a year ago, now is poised to represent Republicans in the fall presidential campaign.

“I’ve said I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory; tonight I'm sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed,” Cruz told a somber crowd in Indianapolis.

Cruz campaigned aggressively in Indiana, but could not overcome Trump.

The billionaire businessman has stunned the Republican Party with his appeal to voters deeply frustrated with Washington and their own party’s leaders.

Trump still must win about 200 more delegates to clinch the nomination. But his victory in Indiana — where he picked up at least 45 of the state’s 57 delegates — made it all but impossible for Cruz to block him from doing so.

Before Tuesday’s results, Cruz had vowed to stay in the race through the final primaries in June, clinging to the possibility that Trump would fall short of the 1,237 delegates he needs and the race would go to a contested convention.

Trump now faces pressure to

unite a Republican Party that has been roiled by his candidacy. But whether he can accomplish that remains deeply uncertain.

Bernie Sanders won the Indiana Democratic primary by 52.5 to 47.5 percent, and thereby netted about a half-dozen more delegates than Hillary Clinton.

But in terms of the delegate math, his path to the Democratic nomination hasn’t gotten any easier.

Clinton is now 92 percent of the way to clinching the Democratic nomination.

With 83 Indiana delegates at

stake, Sanders will gain at least 43. Clinton picked up at least 37. Three delegates remain to be allocated, pending final vote tallies.

That means based on primaries and caucuses to date, Clinton now has 1,682 and Sanders has 1,361.

Clinton’s lead is bigger when including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate.

She has 2,202, or 181 delegates away from the 2,383 needed to win, keeping her on track to clinch the nomination by early June.

Sanders has 1,400.

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Letter to the Editor

Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan To the Editor: I’m happy to have seen some remembrance of the life of Father Daniel Berrigan in Tuesday’s Sun. I am disappointed, however, that aside from a few references to historical events of public record, The Sun seems not to have researched its own archives for a more substantial account of Dan’s time at Cornell. Writing as someone who was here at the time — and there are many besides me still in Ithaca — I can say that his example as man of conscience, poet and priest had a major influence on my education and life. I can only hope that today’s students encounter such great souls on their own journeys.

Peter Fortunato, Arts and Sciences ’72

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ast Thursday could have been an international holiday. I’d have called it Toronto appreciation day, but that wouldn’t give justice to the man who helped craft a sound that revolutionized hip-hop. All day, millions of listeners eagerly waited for what would surely be an album with no shortage of Canadian influenced summer bangers. Drake had been working on and promoting his fourth studio album Views for years; the public anticipation matched the hype. But when 11 o’clock rolled around and I sat down for my first ever “listening party,” I couldn’t help but feel shorted.

Believe me, I tried to like it; by the time “Hype” rolled around, I thought Aubrey was resuscitating the album, injecting life into the succeeding tracks. There was no success. The songs were soft and introspective. More Take Care than Nothing Was The Same. I went into the night expecting a pregame album but all I got were lazy lullabies for after-hours.

If there’s any silver lining, the album incited a reflection upon the origins of my Drake fanhood.

Much of Drake’s ascendency aligned with my college years. While he was undeniably a known entity as I moved into Donlon and began my Cornell experience, he would rise to superstardom during my years in Ithaca, all the while gracing my classmates and me with a soundtrack to college. It’s crazy how music can be a time machine, transporting you to places long forgotten. Each of his songs jarred my memory, the non-diegetic sound to an internal montage of experiences. Nervously walking to Collegetown during orientation week for the many non-sanctioned parties — “The Motto.” Sauntering past the row of sorority girls on ellipticals at Newman — “Started from the Bottom.” Studying for prelims in the stacks — “0 to 100.” Driving to Chipotle for dinner, but settling for Moe’s — “Back to Back.”

Drake’s bravado matches the intensity of life at Cornell. Things move quickly here. In the blink of an eye, you find yourself a senior, thinking about where the time went. You take stock of what you’ve gained here, and how you’ve matured — hopefully — over the past four years. You know you’re not the same 18 year old that settled into North Campus four years ago. But it’s hard to pinpoint precise transformative moments as being definitively influential. Sure, a decision to join a club or team could have been pivotal, but was that really it?

I tend to think that micromoments, where you are put out of your comfort zone and forced to adapt, change you for the better. Most often, you don’t consciously think about their influence. And they vary

in scale, from preparing to present research in front of an auditorium of listeners, to questioning the choice of someone in a position of authority.

Music has the special capability to rekindle those distinct visceral feelings during past moments, the kinds you can’t quite put into words. It gives a new vantage point as you recall the past in the comfort of the present.

Seeing as this is my last column, I feel compelled to ruminate on my past four years here and my experience writing for The Sun. Final columns remind me of one-hundredepisode-specials for sitcoms — a pause of normal programming for a celebration and reflection of the past. I was in a van in Arizona, heading towards an airport for a flight back to New York, when I received an email that I had been selected to write for The Sun. My sample columns were written about my hesitance towards going abroad and a generic tirade against the Greek system (the latter would never be published). As I gazed out towards the desert orange canyons, I thought about potential material. I was relatively apolitical. I wasn’t the guy with an air horn outside Day Hall demanding for divestment. What was I doing with a column?

But I enjoyed writing. And I realized that, just by virtue of being a student here, I had enough to work with.

And so, two years later, I realize how special it’s been. Even if it was only a proud text Wednesday morning from my parents and grandparents, or an occasional email from an entertained reader, it has been worthwhile. I’ll be the first to admit that my stuff was not hard- hitting material. My intentions were to create a lighthearted space — something to scroll through while you’re in the bathroom at Noyes, as a friend recently put it. It was something I was always proud of and could call my own — all those wistful unsolicited pieces of senior advice are true. Getting involved in something on campus is rewarding (even if you don’t know when or how they are helping you grow as a person). You don’t have to be on e-board and you don’t have to change the campus conversation. Engaging outside of the classroom and sharing something with others on campus certainly helps you understand what it means to be in college. A big thankyou to my four editors, Caroline, Sloane, Paulina and David (unofficial) for all your help over the past four semesters, and congratulations to the Class of 2016!

Engaging outside of the classroom and sharing something with others on campus certainly helps you understand what it means to be in college.

Philip Susser is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appeared on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Katy Habr | On the Margin

Studying To Stay A

s the semester nears its end, the inevitable question begins to echo (as if it hasn’t been repeated starting the middle of last semester). “What are you doing this summer?” is more of an evaluation than a question; there’s only really very few right answers.

A source of stress for many, summer internships have become so normalized that they are seen as almost required. Cornell’s competitive environment makes students feel like they need to be interning with a Fortune 500 company in the summer if they hope to amount to anything in life. For international students, the stress is even worse. A search through lists and databases of internship listings shows me hundreds of offers, but when I filter out listings that are for U.S. citizens only, the list suddenly shrinks to a handful of opportunities. Difficulties in finding internships leave international students with less access to relevant experience that could help them to get a job, especially those who come from places where internships are less common.

The difficulty of finding an internship is only one example of a hardship faced by international students. Although we are all incredibly privileged, being an international student at Cornell offers its own complex series of obstacles that being a citizen does not. While we pay the same amount (often more), it is clear that we don’t have the same opportunities as citizens do.

Of the internships available to international students, the amount of paid ones is significantly smaller. This is a problem not just particular to international students, but all students. Unpaid internships act as a filter, only available for richer students who can afford them. These unpaid internships, along with the policy of many universities (now unfortunately including Cornell) to have need-aware admission to international students, greatly restrict the amount (and type) of international students that are able to study here.

These policies together restrict the admission of international students not by merit, but by income. Students are not given an equal or fair chance, but are effectively discriminated against based on their wealth. Need-aware

The implication of this is that only certain types of students are encouraged and able to attend American universities, and potentially qualified future employees are deterred if they are not rich enough or studying the right thing. policies rob students of the opportunity to find independent ways to finance their education, like through outside scholarships, and therefore unfairly prioritize richer students. For students that do make it to the U.S., restrictive visa policies push them into certain career fields just so they can stay in the country.

Students who plan to stay and work in the U.S. after graduation are at even more of a disadvantage, not just in the internship search process but the job search process, too. Students have one year after graduation to work if they are sponsored, and must leave if they do not find work within 3 months of graduation. After finding a job, employees must be sponsored by their employers for an H1-B visa. These visas cost employers about $1,000 and only allow employees to stay in the country to work for an additional three years. To get a job and stay in the U.S., international students have to jump through a series of hoops and obstacles. According to the U.S. department of immigration and citizenships, only 30 percent of H1-B visa applications were granted in 2015. And things do not seem to be getting better: Both Republican presidential candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Donald Trump, advocate for the halting of H1-B visas and increased restriction of immigration and work visas, and the job market remains stagnant.

Some groups of international students have it somewhat better than the rest: STEM students and business students. New policies have recently been implemented in order to help STEM majors extend on the job training for three years as part of a new visa program, and most companies willing to sponsor international students are large corporate ones, often in banking and finance. International students are seen primarily as doctors, businessmen and women and engineers, and are rewarded for being so, but our contribution to the social sciences and humanities remain much less valued.

The implication of this is that only certain types of students are encouraged and able to attend American universities, and potentially qualified future employees are deterred if they are not rich enough or studying the right thing. These policies remove voices and different perspectives from disciplines that could benefit from them, and discount the importance of having foreign voices in humanities, social sciences.

The American higher education and visa system funnels students into STEM and on to Wall Street, not because students are interested in these fields, but because these jobs are often their only opportunity to stay in the U.S. and to make it worth paying the exorbitant costs. It is unfortunate that students have to give up what they love in exchange for a visa, especially at Cornell, whose founding motto is “any person, any study.” For international students, who need to choose a certain major and have a certain amount of income to be able to attend, neither part of this motto rings true.

Katy Habr is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.

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Sarah Zumba | Zumba Works It Out

Writing With Emotion

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ver the course of the ever I’m talking about. The dehumanize and disempower past year, I have phrase “the personal is politi- people. It is so easy to read heard several people cal” often comes to mind and create policies and take say that they thought my because I cannot detach them at face value, without columns were “angry” and myself from political ideas, consideration for those they wondered why I never wrote nor should I really be expect- may affect. Emotions are a strong reminder that we are about anything “happy.” I ed to.

Therefore, I don’t really human and are therefore have never really taken offense despite the fact that downplay how I feel, especial- extremely powerful. The way the comments were meant to ly since these are opinion that people are able to be a critique of my writing pieces. I can list off facts for empathize with one another and the approach I typically my argument, and I do, but and really attempt to undertake. It has taken me years, ultimately I also write how I stand different perspectives is about everything. a powerful tool. It’s what but I have learned not to lis- feel ten to what others want to Emotions are often invalidat- helps make art, like writing, see from me and instead sole- ed because for some reason threatening. ly focus on what I wish to see they aren’t seen as appropriate There is also the idea that from myself. It’s not that I or relevant to the point some- because I vocalize a lot of my don’t take suggestions, it’s one is trying to make. That criticism, my writing is angry just that there are some that I kind of mentality is not only and predatory. I understand don’t find necessary to listen wrong, but stifling. We are how it can be seen that way, to especially when it has to taught that there is a correct but I’d like to imagine that deal with the amount of way to write, often involving everything I write comes “anger” in my pieces.

The reali- I’m not angry just to be angry, I’m angry because ty is that there is a lot there are people who are continuously being in the world hurt by oppression every day. That’s a valid to be angry way to feel and share my opinion. Not about. This isn’t neces- everything is happy and simplistic, as my sarily to say cynicism would agree. that I am always angry, but when I’m provided a plat- the use of facts and arguments from a place of caring. I’m form in which to speak freely, without personal input. Good not angry just to be angry, I am obviously going to voice writing is believed to be some- I’m angry because there are my criticisms in the hopes thing that stimulates us intel- people who are continuously that it can help make someone lectually, but that only being hurt by oppression consider a new perspective. I demonstrates the dichotomy every day. That’s a valid way find it difficult not to be between theory and practice. to feel and share my opinion. angry when people are con- There is no room for the Not everything is happy and stantly facing discrimination input of emotions because simplistic, as my cynicism and oppression, especially as they aren’t really valued. would agree. I often wonder someone with marginalized Theory can go along with if the way I intertwine emoidentities. They shape the way academia and respectability if tions makes people uncomI view the world because they one fails to act on it. Practice fortable or tired, but then I aren’t something I can simply means constantly trying to realize that’s on them and not take off. I use my identities as understand different perspec- me. I will keep being angry a lens because there is no sep- tives and remember that there until, by some miracle, there aration. I process everything are people that these concepts is nothing left to be angry often through my own emo- affect. about.

Separating ideologies and tions. This affects the way I express criticism. And I systems from people means Zumba is a sophomore in the College choose to vocalize often that the system still wins. The Sarah of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at through my own emotions focus on the conceptual serves sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out along with a critique of what- a method to continuously appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

soft robotics

Cornell Researchers Create New Material Capable of Shifting States Material can change shape and ‘self heal’depending on temperature

By ARNAV GHOSH Sun Contributor

For all the discussion surrounding artificial intelligence and robots recently, the stiff, dull metal exterior of robots has only recently begun to evolve.

While human-like robots, with silicon skin, can simulate emotions but robots with the shape-shifting ability of the Transformers have yet to hit the market. However, Prof. Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering, is developing a material that could soon bring that to reality.

Shepherd and his team at Organic Robotics Lab is working on a metal-rubber composite by harnessing the strength of a metallic alloy and the flexibility of a soft silicone foam. The material can withstanding heavy loads or deform under them upon command. The only requirement for switching between these properties is a change in temperature.

A metal salt and uncured silicone — a rubber like substance with adhesive properties — are used to synthesize the material. The two ingredients are poured into a mold, placed in a water-bath and then a vacuum chamber. The final step ensures that the air in the silicone foam’s two millimetre pores is replaced with the metal, forming the composite.

The team published their findings in the April 13th issue of Advanced Materials.

“We’ve basically made a rubber sponge and infiltrated that sponge with molten metal, which when

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cooled gives you a metal foam intertwined with a rubber foam,” Ilsa van Meerbeek grad said.

Choosing the right material is crucial, Meerbeek explained. Known as Field’s metal, it was chosen specifically for its low melting point, 62°C, and low toxicity, making it more practical for use in human environments.

Below 62°C, the metal is solid, ensuring that the entire composite remains rigid. At higher tempera-

“We’ve basically made a rubber sponge and infiltrated that sponge with molten metal, which when cooled gives you a metal foam intertwined with rubber foam.”

Ilsa van Meerbeek grad tures, the metal is molten and the silicone foam’s properties dominate, allowing it to deform. At these temperatures, the molten metal also “fills” in any cracks that may have formed, such that, the composite “self-heals.”

Meerbeek is optimistic about the material’s future and he did not rule out the possibility of mass-producing such materials in the near future.

“The only limiting factor is how big a mould and vacuum chamber you can make,” Meerbeek said.

Only a handful of other such materials have been developed. “[Similar materials] typically have channels that are filled with the metal, so you get a two dimensional structure and what we have is three dimensional, widening the possible applications,” Meerbeek said.

The cracks that develop in this three dimensional structure does not propagate too far. However, in simple two dimensional structures, an entire channel is compromised by a tiny crack, weakening the overall structure.

“The reason we work on this is that traditional robots tend to be either very complicated in design and have high functionality or very simple and have limited functionality,” Meerbeek said. “We’re trying to bridge that gap by making soft material devices.”

Besides its sheer science fiction like appeal, Meerbeek asserts that the material has multiple applications. The U.S Air Force, which partially funded this project through its Young Investigator Research Program, is interested in the possibility of creating wings that can alter their structure midflight using such materials.

“Morphing the wing would require changing its shape really quickly,” Meerbeek said.

Other devices would use the flexibility that it affords to squeeze through tight spaces and then become rigid as necessary.

“Soft material devices would be able to traverse rubble filled areas, often a result of earthquakes, but then become rigid to perform various tasks, perhaps

Strong or weak? | The material is capable of both withstanding heavy loads or deforming under them as needed.

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Fix itself | The molten metal can fill any cracks that are formed and so can “self heal.”

supporting crumbling structures,” Meerbeek said.

Although the possibilities are enticing, Meerbeek insists that there are still hurdles to overcome.

“It withstands a decent load but the metal part breaks at a relatively low force compared to other metals,” Meerbeek said.

In fact, the team hopes to explore other manufacturing techniques, 3-D printing among them, to strengthen the internal structure of the composite.

“There’s also the issue of how to quickly heat the material while it’s in a device,” Meerbeek said. “But I don’t think these are insurmountable problems.”

Though still in its nascent stages, Meerbeek underlined the importance of integrating the material into existing systems. Indeed, the team aims to continue improving it, hoping that the material “could one day be whatever you wanted it to be.”

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at ag983@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Sweet and Suspenseful Sci-Fi

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Contrary to its title, which sounds like a menu item from a 24-hour restaurant, Midnight Special has to do with aliens, supernatural powers and fatherly love rather than featured desserts or entrées. What should catch your eye about this baby is that it is directed by Jeff Nichols, the Arkansasbased filmmaker who is one of the foremost emerging voices in American independent cinema. In the past few years, he has directed Mud, Take Shelter and Shotgun Stories, quite an impressive roster. Midnight Special is his first studio film, and Nichols avoids the curse of the big budget by keeping his story firmly attuned to character, spending only peanuts where studio money is concerned ($18 million) and relying on his trusty Michael Shannon, a collaborator in all of his previous films. There’s a dramatic tendency for successful independent filmmakers to go SFX crazy when they have bigger tools in their toolbox, but Nichols proves that no matter how many toys he has at his disposal, his understandCOURTESY OF WARNER BROS. ing of the fundamental principles of stor ytelling remains intact.

This is demonstrated when Nichols opens the film in media res, a technique that may have some viewers running to catch up, but one that I greatly appreciate. I’d much rather have to play catchup than be spoon-fed exposition from the start. There’s an immediate lingering aura of suspense as Nichols brings to our attention a Branch

Davidian-like cult led by Sam Shepard, who are seeking out approaches its sentimental climax, meant to elicit the a young child whom they believe to be a messiah. The child Spielbergian wonder of a character on screen gazing deep off in question, eight-year-old Alton (the extraordinary Jaeden into the distance at an awesome sight. Nichols is more apt Lieberher), is the son of Roy (Michael Shannon) and Sarah at handling the nuances of character and pacing his narrative economically.

Tomlin (Kirsten Dunst), two forInstead of piling on mer members of the cult who are Goodnight Mommy the twists and turns fleeing with Alton, aided by Roy’s (although there are old friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton).

Directed by Jeff Nichols a few good jumps Meanwhile, an FBI agent (Adam in your seat Driver) interviews members of Starring Jaeden throughout), he the cult while growing sympathetprefers to explore ic towards Alton and his family.

Lieberher, Michael subtleties in perforWhy do the FBI and the cult Shannon, Kirsten Dunst mance from his have such a vested interest in great cast. Alton is Alton? He’s an otherworldly child kidnapped and capwith supernatural abilities. Once the little boy takes his goggles off and puts his comics down, tured by the FBI, only to be set free again shortly thereafter, he can spout rays of light from his eyes as powerful as those and you might wonder what the point is, but with actors of the sun. He can trigger explosions and meteorite showers this good, it’s difficult to protest. The film strikes its most and is making contact with his alien brethren who are on enjoyable pitch during its first half hour or so, which plays their way to fetch him. He’s also like a tense road trip as two outlaws go on the lam with conpossessed of an uncommon calm traband that happens to be a supernatural child. Any fans of and wisdom that Lieberher articu- Nichols’ Take Shelter will know that the director is talented lates flawlessly, recalling Henry at creating this sort of coiled atmosphere with only the Thomas as Elliott from E.T. While slightest cuts, inserts and suggested ideas.

The emotional core that holds everything together is the we’re on the subject of Spielberg, though the film has many influ- affectionate relationship between Michael Shannon’s devotences — Carpenter and ed father and his unearthly son. Just like how we bought Frankenheimer to name a few — into the relationship between a little boy and a pudgy alien the most easily identifiable is Close who likes Reese’s Pieces, we buy the quasi-outlandish conEncounters. But look closer and cept of a father protecting his boy who has the power to you’ll see traces of the Spielberg- summon interplanetary civilizations into being. “You don’t produced Poltergeist and A.I. have to worry about me,” Alton tells his father, knowing he Artificial Intelligence. Here Nichols has wisdom beyond his years. “I’ll always worry about you, blends his southern comfort-style storytelling with tropes of Alton,” says Roy. “That’s the deal.” Underneath the sci-fi one of the most famous cinematic bards, known for his lies a poignant story about parental responsibility. sense of awe and warm-heartedness. Both are present on screen.

Mark Distefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can There’s a little bit of corniness at the end as the film be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Second Season

BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Contributor

Oh, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I don’t know how to quite put this, so I’m just going to say it: I think we should break up.

It’s not you, it’s me. But, like, it’s also totally you. When I binged your first season last year, I fell hopelessly in love. I was in shambles — still recovering from the end of 30 Rock — and you were the chipper, witty piece of comedy that I so deeply longed for, the one that pulled me from rock bottom, the one that made me think that the oxymoron of sardonic authenticity found in the great television age of yore (i.e. like, 2007) wasn’t actually over. You gave me hope, Kimmy Schmidt. After this season, though, I’m not so sure if I can still say the same.

The second season of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt left me in between two worlds: one was a world of delightful witticisms and sharp, brilliant humor. The other was full of complete and utter crudity. Crudity isn’t bad, per se; 30 Rock did it ingeniously by dealing their crudest comedy to their most morally reprehensible characters. When Jenna Maroney and Tracy Jordan wore blackface and whiteface, respectively, it was certainly crude, but not distasteful. The characters were such awful, illogical people that the show’s message was not acceptability of racism, but rather alarm.

What’s puzzling about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, then, is that this same

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brand of humor (coming from the same cocreators, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock) is done so brashly, so thoughtlessly. Last season, the show received criticism for having a white woman (Jane Krakowski) play a Native American who left her family to make it big in New York City, and Fey famously remarked that she would not apologize and that her “new goal is not to explain jokes.” Despite this public attempt to be blasé, an episode in which the flamboyant Titus Andromedon dresses as a Japanese geisha for his one-man play seems to be the writers’ very non-blasé comeback to the aforementioned internet backlash.

The show portrays the understandably upset Asian American characters as irrational victims of the internet’s notorious mob mentality. The writing suggests that they judged the one-man play without seeing it, and therefore their feelings were wrong.

Of course, this is a common narrative in the contemporary debate surrounding political correctness, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a right to feed into that narrative. But even aside from the notion that Kimmy Schmidt’s use of yellowface feeds into a long history of racist and exoticized portrayals of Asian Americans, it’s just not funny. Titus’s belief that he really was a geisha named Murasaki in a past life is done without the zest that Burgess generally brings to his character. Kimmy’s (Ellie Kemper) attempt to fix the situation through her cute naivete is boring and hackneyed. The entire plotline is lazy, vanilla and a total chore to watch.

Lazy comedy is a recurring pattern in the

first half of the season. The season started off with multiple flat and unsavory Kim Kardashian impressions, the joke equivalent of fruit that hangs so low it grows from the ground. The jokes were off-beat and every absurd line was followed by a character reacting to it, reminding the viewer that what they just heard was, indeed, a joke. The beginning of the season was a tiny disaster, a combination of uneasy racism and half-hearted, poorly performed comedy, only barely mitigated by its finely-tuned puns and quick quips that have the viewer in stitches.

But to what extent can intricate wordplay (like a construction worker’s convention called Con-Con) and minute references to pop culture obscurities (“Relationships are hard; I don’t know how Jackie Onassis did it twice.”) entertain an audience? What’s the point of a joke if you have to remind everyone that you made it? Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt tries to replicate the balance that 30 Rock struck between all types of humor, but fails to do so, instead relying heavily on Kemper’s nuanced quasi-optimism and Burgess’s skill as a performer. The season, in terms of its comedy, just misses the mark and leaves something to be desired.

Despite the show’s disappointing come-

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dy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt somehow pulls through in its more dramatic plotlines, tackling Kimmy’s damaging niceness, Jacqueline’s (Jane Krakowski) superficiality, and Titus’s acting dream. The heartfelt moments throughout the season were charming and cute, and did more to entertain the audience than any Kim Kardashian joke ever would have.

But alas, the impending transition into dramedy land just isn’t enough for me. The racist jokes, the awkward timing, the lack of effort — all of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s shortcomings overshadow the show’s occasional laugh-out-loud line or its intriguing plotline. So, all in all, I’ve decided it’s time to break up with you, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It’s been a good run.

Pegah Moradi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pm443@cornell.edu.

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No Home Movie at Cornell Cinema

I fear that the following review may give away too much of Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie; but, I question how much there lies in its plot to spoil. Visually, the film captures a day in the life of your grandmother. It’s nothing you haven’t seen before. The movie, showing at Cornell Cinema this Thursday, begins with five minutes of a tree blowing in the wind. Five minutes for you to believe the film must have broken. Five minutes for you to get up and leave, being reminded of all the finals you could, and maybe should be studying for. Five minutes. Then, the camera switches. It turns to shoot another, even quieter scene — shocking only in its comparative decrease in interest. Who knew a rustling tree could be so captivating?

And, as I look again at the time, I wonder what I’m missing — not just in the sense of what other activities could be filling my time, but within the theme, the plot and the story. I hope that my following review may convince you to endure the first twenty minutes of seemingly directionless observation. No Home Movie is puzzling.

The first fifth of the film is productive in reminding me of my to-do list. While the movie is slowly shifting from one nearly unmoving scene to another, I compound a more cohesive list of obligations than I do in even the sleepless hours of prelim season. The first twenty minutes of No Home Movie are an anxiety attack waiting to happen.

Watching an unnamed woman, strangely reminiscent of my own grandmother, move about her home, I feel remorseful. I’m hit with a pang of guilt for 1). “forgetting” to call my grandmother and 2). loathing her interior decorating because, in comparison to Akerman’s scenery, my “Mom’s mom” home belongs in Vogue. My apologies consume me as the camera turns to another dreadfully disinteresting scene, this one even more unclear as the camera accidentally blurs out of focus. No Home Movie begins all too much like a home movie. And not the cute kind that you watch on Christmas Eve, not the one where you blew out the candles on your fourth birthday and accidentally drooled on the cake — the kind that your grandmother

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takes when she forgets she’s recording.

But, behold, minute 21. The woman, “grandma” for our purposes, Skypes an old friend who asks the one question I’ve been wondering since the film began: “Tell me, why are you filming like that?” Grandma answers, “Because I want to show that there is no distance in the world.” And, finally, the film has a purpose other than to make me miss my grandmother’s wallpapered living room.

I rub the sleep out of my eyes and continue watching. I feel renewed hope in the film and await the conviction that we are near.

Slowly, as is characteristic of the documentary, Chantal, the grandmother I identified earlier, gains a name and her filming gathers meaning. The quiet shifting from scene to scene — from living room to kitchen to lawn chair to bathtub — ironically captures the

passage of time. Despite the seeming constancy of the lawn chair on the grass and the tree blowing in the wind, Chantal and her mother have both grown old. Despite the sameness, time moves forward. The once fashionable tiled walls of Chantal’s home are outdated and the distance between then and now dissolves. The seeming stillness becomes powerfully symbolic of Chantal’s old age and her mother’s slow death. It becomes clear that the friend Chantal Skypes with is her mother, a woman lovingly slipping away from life. I learn through their conversations that the two women are Belgian survivors of the Holocaust. German troops forced Chantal’s mother back to Poland during the war to endure Auschwitz. The

tragedy Chantal’s mother has faced shocks me in relation to the quiet, unmoving, mundane scenery. No Home Movie, causes viewers to see how things can slip away. Just as Chantal and her friend comment on how there’s no mustard left in the fridge, they remember the insidious progress of German troops in Belgium. The calm scenery becomes disquieting. Time slips away from the women, but their memories of World War II remain fixed. The massacre against Belgium Jews suddenly resides in every corner of Chantal’s home. Their memories are felt even in silly conversations about the ugliness of their napkins and the variant sizes of pickles.

Ultimately, No Home Movie interjects powerful comments into a seemingly directionless film of shifting camera angles and Cornell quiet conCinema versations.

Chantal says to her loving mother that she continues filming because she “wants to show how small the world is." She succeeds in every sense of her statement: dissolving time with memories, filming universal scenes of lawn chairs and Cheerios, and reminding me of my own aging grandparents.

Depending on how you choose to perceive it, the film is slow or timeless. Each scene is dull or powerful. Each remark is emotionless or saddening. Despite my initial shock at the prosaic purposelessness of the film, I am left with a feeling of heaviness. The relationship between Chantal and her mother, and Chantal’s characteristic silliness, leave me touched and contemplative. Their simple life, moving ever steadily toward its end, is at once endearing and deeply sorrowful. No Home Movie is a film of impressions. If it keeps you in the theatre long enough to listen, it touches on a compassionate human note. It reminds viewers that life is short. So, if you have two hours to spare looking mostly at the inside of someone’s home (which apparently I did) you will love No Home Movie. If not, then take three minutes and call your grandmother. She misses you.

No Home Movie plays Thursday at Cornell Cinema. tickets are available at the door.

Julia Curley

Julia Curley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

My Inevitable Column: Bobby D and Yeezy his is Jack Jones. He’s one of our Arts writers and he only writes about Bob Dylan and

Kanye.”

This is how a certain previous Arts editor and close friend generally introduces me to new people. Before I go ahead and give support to this claim, I’d like to point out that I’ve only written one review of each artist’s work: my first piece for The Sun was a review of Bob Dylan’s mediocre album of Sinatra covers Shadows in the Night, and my longest piece ever was a review of Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo. I’ve never used my column to focus on either of these figures, their music or what they mean to me. Doesn’t matter.

I’m still the the Bob Dylan/Kanye guy.

Oh well. Here it is, then.

The most important similarity between Dylan and West is in the relationship between self-expression in their art and self-expression in their public persona. In their music, both artists

often seem undeniably real and authentic; maybe messy and contradictory, but also viscerally convincing. Outside of their music, both are bizarre and frequently incoherent to the point that they often appear to be performing a character rather than honestly presenting themselves. However, both are far too consistently weird and surprising for me to really believe that they are acting out a calculated performance.

Both are committed career artists, shape-shifters that are never content

Jack Jones Despite all the Amputations with mastery. Both create, perfect and quickly discard styles, leaving imitators to mine them for years afterwards. Both are more unpredictable than any other artist in their field. Both can’t sing, at least under conventional definitions of

what makes a good singer. Each nonetheless became one of the most influential and important vocalists of his respective generation. Dylan accomplished this by making his gravelly rasp indispensable to his music’s power; his voice was a stamp of authenticity more convincing than even the most penetrating, revealing lyric. West, on the other hand, took Auto-Tune, a tool that TPain had made famous in cheesy odes to strippers, and used it to distort his voice, creating the unsettling, uncanny cyborg effect that has become one of the most distinctive aspects of his music, an effect that conveys misery and alienation more acutely than anything else I can think of. Both artists are still dismissed by many for their lack of innate vocal ability.

Both artists started out by contributing to the creation of songs that went to other artists: Dylan as a songwriter, West as a producer. Both initially faced resistance to their attempts to become artists in their own right: for Dylan, because record executives thought he couldn’t sing; for West, because they thought he couldn’t rap.

Both artists worked hard enough to con-

vince these executives they could sell.

Then each of them abandoned the style that made them popular. Each of them has a group of fans that still feels they were betrayed when Dylan when electric or when West made 808s & Heartbreak.

Both artists operate on a pendulum that swings between beauty and tenderness on the one side, and ugliness and chaos on the other. The farther they swing towards one end, the farther they swing towards the other in response (see Dylan’s turn to quiet folk/country after Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, or “Only One” and “Ultralight Beam” after Yeezus). Both artists have trafficked in desolate nihilism, and professed profound faith in God’s guidance.

Both are restless. Both are simultaneously uninhibited and impossible to truly know or understand. Both don’t seem to care at all about blatant selfcontradiction. Each is the most important artist of his time. Each is my favorite.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Despite all the Amputations appears alternate Wednesdays this semester. He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com.

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Jamerson Strives to Balance Success In Multiple Events TRACK AND FIELD Continued from page 16

under Taylor’s tutelage.

Those first few months of adjusting to the various events were difficult.

While he had experience with high jump, long jump and 110-meter hurdles, there was definitely a learning curve for some of the other events. Jamerson admits he had “no idea what [he] was doing” when it came to pole vault and the throwing events.

“For vault it was pretty much like ‘here’s the stick, we’ll go over some basics,’ and then the next day, it was ‘OK, run fast and stick it in and see how high you can jump,’ ” Jamerson said.

Through intensive practices his freshman year oftentimes lasting four hours and covering several of the different skill events of the decathlon, Jamerson began to learn the fundamentals of each event.

Before winter break, he competed in his first multi-event since that decathlon way back in high school. With excitement levels at an all-time high, Jamerson posted some of his best numbers, including a long jump personal record that he wouldn’t best until earlier this year.

“It was nice doing all that training and finally having something to come away with,” Jamerson said.

The feeling of hard work paying off would become a familiar one for him. Early in the second semester of Jamerson’s freshman year, he earned his first chance to compete against the best of the Ivy League. Since then, he’s

competed four more times against the conference’s most talented athletes. It is a select group, and Jamerson has built connections with those that he has competed with during his time at Cornell.

“Yes, we’re all competing against each other, but we all know how miserable it is as well,” Jamerson said. “There’s some camaraderie there. We spend the entire day with each other so we talk. It’s almost kind of a group effort to get through the multi.”

While he has made new friendships with multievent athletes at other schools, at Cornell, many of those that trained with Jamerson in his first two years have graduated or transitioned into single events. Jamerson is the lone multi-event athlete on the roster this year.

Day-to-day, he works with head coach Adrian Durant to compile a schedule that allows Jamerson to focus on the areas of his athleticism that require improvement.

Jamerson tries to work on each event at least once over a span of a week and a half. Yet this comes with its own series of challenges.

The nature of a decathlete’s training program is a balancing act: building an advantage in one event results in a disadvantage in another.

“It’s tough because you can never focus all on one thing,” Jamerson said. “I know I could jump better if I just focused on jumping. But if I just focus on jumping then I’ll have no endurance and the 400meter would drop.”

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COURTESY OF WILL OPREA

A close one | Oprea and the Red rejoice moments after crossing the finish line at the 2014 Eastern Springs, defeating the Yale Bulldogs by under a second.

Nothing More Important for Oprea Than Cornell’s Success ROWING

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moment. I had made the dream come true.”

As amazing as that sophomore year was, Oprea went on to do it again, leading his team to another undefeated season and national championship victory the following year.

Yet this year, the team’s performance has fallen off. He recently suffered his first defeats at the Varsity level in backto-back races against Princeton, Yale and Columbia earlier this year. Seeing these as a sort of “wake up calls,” Oprea is determined to, “reinvigorate the same level of focus and attention to detail,” the men had in the previous two seasons.

Following the loss, the Red swept Dartmouth in three races at the Baggaley Bowl. This could, perhaps, be a sign of positive things to come at this year’s EARC Sprint Championships on May 13 through 15.

Sweep Selection Camp, which identified 32 elite oarsmen in the country to compete for a spot on the Junior National Team. They didn’t have a lightweight team, so he found himself competing against 30 or so heavyweight athletes.

“Just monsters,” he said, reflecting on the absurdity of his competition. “These guys would range from 6-foot-3 to 6foot-5, weighing anywhere from 185 to 200 pounds. I was the third smallest guy at the camp, and I was cut.”

Despite his impressive performance freshman year at Cornell —a silver medal finish at the 2013 EARC Sprints which Oprea bitterly recalls as “disappointing” — his itch to compete on the international stage for the U.S. only worsened. Oprea was the youngest of 12 oarsmen selected III to train and compete for a spot on the U.S. lightweight Oprea’s Olympic opportunities going forward are tenumen’s team at the U23 World Rowing Championships.

Only four of these 12 oarsmen would end up with a spot ous at best. In an effort to balance out gender representation on the team. Being one of the youngest and most inexperi- in the 2020 Olympics, the International Olympic enced oarsman at the training sight, Oprea was once again Committee will be cutting certain men’s competitions.

FISA, the governing body of world rowing, made three pronot selected.

Oprea’s Cornell career blossomed during his sophomore posals to the IOC to “make its case” for rowing’s place in the year. As the youngest rower on Cornell’s varsity lightweight Olympics. All three of these proposals cut the lightweight lineup, he helped the team secure an undefeated season and men’s straight four event, “leaving many lightweight rowers a national championship. Following the team’s tight finish wondering ‘why?’” according to Oprea. “If it’s not an with Yale at the 2014 EARC Sprints, the Red was invited to Olympic event, what does this do to elite lightweight rowrow at the 175th Henley Royal Regatta. In terms of colle- ing in our country?”

The IOC will not make any decisions until February of giate rowing, the Henley Royal Regatta is without a doubt 2017. Until then, all proposals the best known regatta in the

by FISA are up for deliberation. world. The Red’s lightweight In addition, applications to train crew was on a tear — the season with the U23 national team are had been a long, hard-fought due May 8. This team would success, and the Royal Regatta ultimately train for the 2016 would have been the perfect rowing championships in way to end the season, to, “ride Will Oprea Rotterdam, Netherlands on it out with the boys.”

August 21 and disband thereThat summer, when Oprea was invited back to compete for a spot on the national after. If Oprea were to continue rowing, he would then team, the ambitious sophomore was presented with a tough move to Oklahoma City and train with the senior national decision. The national team would be a personal, long-term lightweight team. Both of these programs’ futures, however, investment — a chance to develop and expose his career to are highly contingent upon the IOC’s decision come the international arena as an oarsman for the US national February.

Lightweight oarsmen currently do not know what U.S. team. While each year the team’s training culminates in the the U23 World Championship Regatta, the real goal of the Rowing’s plan is for elite lightweight rowing athletes for the program is to foster talent during the quadrennial to pre- next quadrennial if they decide to cut lightweight men’s pare for the Olympic games. On the other hand, racing in rowing from the Olympics as outlined by all three of FISA’s the Henley Royal Regatta was a de facto decision to limit proposals. Put simply, Oprea has no idea where he’ll be rowing, who he will be rowing with or what he will even be his short-term prospects to the collegiate world. rowing for come February. The entire U.S. lightweight II men’s rowing arena could shift dramatically.

The true value in athletic competition is often clouded Despite his doubts, Oprea plans on applying for the by obsession with victory and glory. Kobe Bryant, “the U23 team this summer to compete in the Rotterdam regatBlack Mamba,” with his ruthless, competitive attitude and ta. “The final goal I think of every elite level athlete is to overwhelming drive, is often considered the gold standard. eventually represent the US at the Olympics,” he lamented.

Some might argue, however, that the true value of sports are Logistically, his goals may be a mere pipe dream; however, the communities and cultures we build from them, the after having committed, “an absurd amount of time and institutions we form around them and the legacies we forge passion,” to the sport, Oprea is unwilling to, “let the opporwith them. Value is self-defined; many would have chosen tunity to represent the United States and Cornell at the to take the national team route — the Olympics beckon highest level of [his] sport go wasted.” like nothing else. Even if it’s just a long-shot, how could IV you pass up that opportunity? For Oprea, however, nothing Olympian or not, Oprea’s legacy as a two year first time was more important than the run the Red was on that year.

“I was only concerned with the success of the program,” all Ivy lightweight oarsman at Cornell will remain in the record books for decades to come. While his Olympic Opera recalled.

Oprea and his crew travelled to the Henley Royal potential might have been squandered, Oprea does not look Regatta that summer and lost in the semi-finals to Oxford- back.

“I am so grateful to have had the alumni’s support in Brookes. Rather than spending his summer rowing with the Junior National Team, constantly worrying about his future sending us to the Henley Royal Regatta,” Oprea said. “The and “making the cut,” Oprea finished the storybook season personal satisfaction I may have gotten from making the with his teammates and friends, forging his Cornell legacy National Team was far outweighed by the opportunity to and finding time to appreciate the scenery on the River finish the story with those group of guys after an incredible year.”

Thames.

At the end of the day, Oprea is a die-hard Cornellian. In “I remember finding a nice picture of a crew rowing up the course which showed Henley’s beautiful landscape,” a school that cannot even rally support for its own homeOprea said. “On that final day we raced, we stopped for a coming games, his passion for Cornell certainly is a breath moment because of boat traffic. I turned around in the boat of fresh air. to look up the race course, and I was in the same position as where the crew was in that picture. It was a very surreal Sam Hummel can be reached at shummel@cornellsun.com.

“I was only concerned with the success of the program.”

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ROWING

Will Oprea: Olympian or Not,aTrue Cornellian Highly decorated,sucessful senior lightweight rower is at his core a loyal member of the Red

By SAM HUMMEL Sun Staff Writer

For the first three minutes of the 2014 EARC Sprints, the lightweight men’s Cornell rowing team could spot every boat in their wake but the Yale boat, who was holding a steady lead. Every painstaking second of those minutes was a daunting reminder of the uncertainty of their new standing. Now, toting an undefeated regular season record and a new reputation as “top dog,” the Red was on track to losing out to Yale at the Sprints Championship. All eyes were on the eight rowers and their coxswain. Their reputation was on the line.

After dethroning the Bulldogs on its home course five weeks prior, the Red had recently taken over as number one. It was a rainy day and the water was choppy, but Cornell was able to pull through by a definitive three and half seconds.

Senior Will Oprea remembers those dreadful first three minutes his sophomore year — the particularly helpless feeling of falling behind, the lactic acid building up in his muscles and, perhaps most poignantly, the searing reminder of what was at stake if they couldn’t pull through.

“Over the course of the entire year, we put about three hours of training into each second of that COURTESY OF WILL OPREA

COURTESY OF WILL OPREA

Taking it all in | Oprea and Ray Richard ‘15 share a momenet after winning the 2015 IRA National Championship, and completing the second consecutive undefeated season for the Red.

race,” Oprea said. The gravity of their situation only grew as time crawled by, as the race grew closer and closer to its end. “Every second needed to be perfect,” Oprea said.

In the last three minutes of the race, the crew “locked in.” With roughly 20 seconds left, the Red drew even with Yale, and, with a final burst of strength, squeezed by to win by under a second. It was a huge comeback, and Cornell’s 2014 lightweight rowing team solidified its undefeated record and won the Sprints Championship for the first time

since 2008.

If you want to read a list of Will Oprea’s accolades, prepare to get comfortable. The list goes on and on. And his achievements don’t stop at the collegiate level. Oprea has had multiple opportunities to train with the junior US National Team and currently has Olympic aspirations for the future. Still, Oprea recalls that season and his team’s miraculous comeback at the 2014 EARC Sprints as his proudest achievement in his rowing career. His reason is simple: “I think early on in my Cornell career, I decided that I wanted to represent Cornell over the national team or anything else.”

If you take away the accolades, the success, the national attention and the Olympic aspirations from Oprea, what you’re really left with is a true, die-hard Cornellian, through and through.

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Oprea’s passion for his team didn’t occur immediately — it was forged over four years of dedication and success. In fact, coming into Cornell, Oprea had prospects for his future far beyond the collegiate sphere. He was introduced to the international rowing scene early on, when his crew from Chaminade High School in Mineola, N.Y. earned fourth place out of 76 crews at the 2010 Head of the Charles Regatta, the premiere international regatta for the fall. This performance earned the young five-time letter winner some national attention. Later on in his senior year, Oprea attended the U.S. Rowing Junior National Team

Doubling up | Oprea and the Red winning theSprint Championship in consectuive seasons for the first time since 1964.

TRACK AND FIELD

See ROWING age 15

Jack of All Trades: Junior Austin Jamerson Sets Sights on Ivy League Achievement

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Standing on the edge of the runway, Austin Jamerson stares at the horizontal bar raised up on the other end of the high jump semi-circle. He couldn’t remember the last time he had completed a live high jump, and yet here he was, at the Ivy League’s most important track and field event of the year, competing for the decathlon crown.

“It’s nerve-wracking when you first step up for your first attempt, it’s like ‘I haven’t done this in forever,’ ” Jamerson said, recalling his sophomore year when a lingering knee injury had limited him in practice all year. For the entire season, he had high jumped just twice outside of meets.

“I could do drills, but as far as taking off,

February.

His freshman year, Jamerson placed fifth in the indoor championship, and then fourth in outdoors a couple of months later.

The next year, he took third in indoors and followed that up with the second place fin“It was interesting going into meets: ish in the outdoor champitake some advil, and hope your knees onship, before earning first at Indoor Heps held at Barton hold together.” earlier this semester.

His consistent improvement is Junior Austin Jamerson all the more impressive when you consider his only experience with overall in the decathlon, scoring 7,070 multi-event before Cornell was a lone points in the process, good for third in decathlon the summer before his junior school history. The meet was part of year that he participated in for fun. Always Jamerson’s remarkably consistent stretch of interested in the possibility of competing in improvement at the highest level, culminat- multi-event Jamerson said he “just of kind ing with an individual Ivy title this past of showed up” to that very first decathlon it would just aggravate it too much,” Jamerson said. “It was interesting going into meets: take some advil, and hope your knees hold together.”

Despite his knee injury, he would go on to place first in the high jump and second

JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Trying new things | Jamerson came to the hill in his first year with minimal experience in pole vaulting.

in 2012.

“I spent about a week training,” Jamerson said. “I had never pole vaulted before, never really thrown anything. It was pretty rough.”

Despite the shaky performance on some of the events, Jamerson’s strong performances on events that he usually competed at — jumping and hurdling — were strong enough that he got some attention from various colleges. Eventually, Cornell gave him an offer to be a multi-event athlete for the Red. Then-head coach Nathan Taylor was “the resident expert” on the decathlon so almost all of what Jamerson learned early on came See TRACK AND FIELD page 15