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Delayed Opening Leaves Students Homeless Over 50 students wait to enter Fontana Apartments,more than a month after scheduled move-in

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By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Staff Writer

The stress of starting a new school year has escalated for residents of Fontana Apartments, with delays causing over 50 students begin the semester without a home.

The apartment building, located at 327 Eddy St., has delayed opening its doors five times and plans to finally open on Sept. 9, according to a resident of the apartment who requested to remain anonymous.

However, the resident expressed doubts about the validity of landlord Steve Fontana’s promised opening date.

“Until I am actually holding the keys and standing in my apartment, I’ll just be unsure of it,” the resident said. “[Fontana has] promised us so many dates and hasn’t delivered on any of them, so I don’t feel like I can trust anything See APARTMENTS page 4

Collegetown conundrum | Over 50 students who signed Fontana Apartments leases starting Aug. 1 say they face anxiety and inconvenience as they await its opening. Inset: A rendering shows an earlier one-story-taller version of the building capped by a prow-like projecting triangular glass prism.

Asian Action Group Supports Affirmative Action Student Indicted for Cocaine

By REBECCA EVEN Sun Staff Writer

The on-campus organization Asian Pacific Americans for Action released a statement on Thursday in support of affirmative action in response to a discrimination complaint lodged against the University by the Asian American Coalition for Education.

“As Asian Americans, we want to voice our strong support for affirmative action,” the statement said. “Affirmative action is necessary in a society that continually expresses racism.”

The complaint by AACE, also filed against Columbia University, accuses both schools of discriminating against Hubert Zhao, son of AACE President YuKong Zhao, who was rejected from both schools last year, according

to AACE’s website.

The coalition, formed in 2014, promotes equal education rights for Asian-American children, and advocates speaking out against Ivy League Schools’ admission processes, according to their website.

Unlike AACE, the Asian Pacific Americans for Action expressed that Asian-American students are among those suffering from discrimination who would benefit from affirmative action.

“Students of color, specifically Black folx, Latin@s, indigenous folx, Pacific Islanders, and Southeast Asians, are more likely to go to under-resourced K-12 schools,” the statement said. “Bias and stereotyping from everyday life only add to educational limits experiSee AFFIRMATIVE ACTION page 5

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Marina Chang ’19, a member of the Telluride House, speaks to visitors at an open house yesterday.

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Possession Accepts Plea

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor

Judge Joseph Cassidy said that upon successful completion of the program, factors such as criminal history and age of the defendant could be reevaluated to reduce the felony charge to a Class A mis-

Lehman Schwab ’18 — who was indicted on multiple drug charges on March 25 for possession of cocaine — accepted a plea deal on Tuesday “I did possess a rock afternoon.

Schwab of cocaine weighing pleaded guilty to one about 19 grams in my count of dorm room.” third-degree criminal posLehman Schwab ’18 session of a controlled substance, according to The demeanor, The Voice reported.

Ithaca Voice. He was originally Police arrested Schwab on charged with two counts of Dec. 4, 2015, after finding third-degree criminal posses- nearly 20 grams of cocaine in sion of a controlled substance. his suite in Hans Bethe House “I did possess a rock of on West campus, The Sun precocaine weighing about 19 viously reported. Officers also grams in my dorm room,” found small ziplock bags and a Schwab said in court, The digital scale that they believe Voice reported. were used in drug sales.

Schwab was released on his The investigation was part own recognizance in April and of a joint drug investigation has since completed long-term between Cornell police, inpatient treatment at a Ithaca police and the Florida treatment center. Tompkins County Sheriff ’s According to the plea deal, Office. It is currently unclear Schwab has been approved for whether Schwab is still a judicial diversion, The Voice Cornell student or permitted said. He will be on probation on campus. for approximately a year and he must complete felony drug Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com. treatment court.

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Prof Says Nomadic Lifestyle Influences Perspective Work

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Neema Kudva, city and regional planning, says perspective has been a reoccurring theme in her identity, research and teaching.

Kudva recalled a formative exercise as a student at the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad, India, where her professor asked the class to reproduce a mural in the building by imagining it in space.

“We had to reproduce it [the mural] at different scales, using different mediums ... and we had to do whatever we wanted to tell the story we wanted to tell,” she said.

Kudva said she was fascinated by the wide range of results her classmates produced.

“When we put up our work for [critiques], you suddenly saw 30 different ways of making space, with 30 different kinds of influences,” she said. “The different ways in which we harnessed what was important to us, the different ways in which we expressed it ... it was a stunning exercise.”

This exercise with perspective resonated with Kudva throughout her personal and professional life.

Born in a small town on the southwestern coast of India, she spent much of her childhood moving to different places throughout the country, and has lived in over 11 cities.

“Every time we moved to these different towns, the state would change, the language would change, the cuisine, the smell, the trees — everything would change,” Kudva said.

“My family came from the south, and the language that we spoke at home was hardly ever spoken by anybody else, so there was always this sort of awareness of being different and somewhat outside,” she said. “My house smelled different, we spoke differently, we ate differently.”

She called it a transformative experience to live abroad in Zurich, Switzerland and Seville, Spain for a year.

“I am an upper caste, upper class, educated woman in India ... and the minute I took that airplane, I became brown, oppressed, downtrodden, poor, someone who became invisible on a railway platform,” she said. “I think that experience in Spain

… and traveling across Europe really brought up questions of construction of identity, and political construction.”

Upon returning from her trip, Kudva decided she wanted to expand her academic knowledge beyond the world of architecture.

After starting an architecture practice with her

cousin in Bangalore — a two-woman practice, which was very unusual at the time — Kudva realized her professional aspirations were changing.

“I had to work in certain ways that I was not always comfortable with, and so I decided to start to study planning, which to me seemed like a field that bridged both what I liked about architecture and all these other interests that had developed while I was working on my thesis,” she said.

At Cornell, Kudva directs the International Studies in Planning program and is a leader for the Nilgiris Field Learning Center — a program that fosters a

partnership with a community in southern India.

“We’re collaborating across disciplines, we’re collaborating across the academy and a world of practice, we’re collaborating across cultures, we’re collaborating across experience, across language,” she said.

Nilgiris allows both Cornell students and indigenous community members to develop research skills by exploring issues of land use, infrastructure, health, and community wellness, according to the University.

“It’s really allowed me to articulate a pedagogical structure, a curriculum that speaks to all these many many concerns ... trying to understand various ways in which organizational practices and constructed difference shapes our participation in public life, and in the making of the place and space,” she said.

Kudva’s research focuses on how organizational practices shape planning, particularly in small cities, and on institutional structures for equitable development at the local level.

“Whether I’m looking at Fremont, California and trying to understand how city government there responded to becoming the first majority-minority city, or I’m looking at small cities in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu where I now work to see how people generate waste and recycle, I’m always looking at how these different communities and people create certain practices in order to do so,” she said.

Kudva explained that she examines the way power and privilege influence planning, and how constructed social context difference plays a role in the way people build communities.

“There are questions of gender, and caste, and ethnicity, and race, and how they then shape these practices which in turn shape the places we live in and make,” she said.

Kudva explained that “all our theorizing is based on large cities — Chicago, Paris, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Calcutta,” she said.

“I’ve lived there, but I’ve also lived in ... all these places that are tiny, tiny, tiny — where the bulk of people actually live. They don’t live in these big places, but our imaginations are captured by big things.”

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

Hotel School Alumna to Receive Outstanding Hospitality Award

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

The School of Hotel Administration named Kelly McGuire MMH ’01 Ph.D. ’07 the recipient of the 2016 Cornell MMH Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award earlier this month.

The Master of Management in Hospitality program dispenses this award based on criteria including academic performance, career success and notable engagement with the school beyond graduation, according to a University release.

Kate Walsh, interim dean and E.M. Statler Professor at SHA said that McGuire “is an exemplary graduate of the MMH program — an alumna who is making an imprint on the industry and passionate about helping our graduates launch their career paths.”

McGuire said that she was surprised, delighted, and honored to receive the award.

“The MMH at the Hotel School was such a meaningful experience for me, personally and professionally, it means a great deal to me to receive this award,”

in some way by an alumni directly, or by something I learned from someone connected with Cornell.”

After the MMH program, McGuire worked in hospitality technology for several years and returned to SHA for a Ph.D. in Revenue Management. Since then, McGuire has worked in business “Be sure to cultivate analytics, revenue management, and relationships, be respectful of price optimization analytics for SAS. everyone you encounter and Most recently, she don’t burn any bridges.” works as the vice president of Kelly McGuire MMH ’01 Ph.D. ’07 advanced Analytics for Wyndham revenue management. She attributes a Destination Network.

After completing her Ph.D., McGuire great deal of her success to the connections she formed at the University as worked in hospitality technology for several years before returning to SHA to well.

“Importantly, every step of the way in receive her Ph.D. in Revenue my career I have been able to reach out to Management.

In addition, McGuire has written two my growing network of Hotelie alumni who have advised me and advocated for books on hospitality analytics — Hotel me,” she described. “Since Cornell, I Pricing in a Social World and The Analytic can’t think of a single opportunity I’ve Hospitality Executive, which was released had professionally that wasn’t influenced last week. she said. “In fact, there are so many impressive alumni of this program, it’s humbling to be honored.”

McGuire said Cornell’s exposure to new concepts and ideas, the vast network of committed alumni, and learning from classmates helped her find her passion in

McGuire advises current Cornellians to take advantage of the “non-academic” opportunities the University provides that can assist with professional development.

“Attend lectures, meet alumni from your field when they come to campus, get to know your peers and faculty; practice networking,” she said. “Exposure to all kinds of new people and new ideas will ultimately help you to determine what inspires you and what you want to dedicate your career to.”

She encourages students to keep an open mind in meeting new people, particularly in a small industry like hospitality.

“You never know who you will run into in the future — or who is connected to whom,” McGuire said. “Be sure to cultivate relationships, be respectful of everyone you encounter, and don’t burn any bridges.”

McGuire will officially be presented the award on Nov. 13, at the at the 15th annual Cornell MMH Reception in New York City, according to the press release.

Kimberly Lee can be reached at klee@cornellsun.com.

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Fontana Residents Call Compensation Insufficient APARTMENT

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he says.”

Problems during construction began with an elevator subcontractor and Ithaca Fire Department ruling, which caused the first delay, according to emails from Steve Fontana to residents, obtained by The Sun. The situation soon worsened when the City of Ithaca Building Department Director did not give the building a Certificate of Occupancy in late August.

Then there was a water main break and a pipe broke.

Michael Niechwiadowicz ’78, Director of Code Enforcement and the person authorized to give the building a Certificate of Occupancy, said that these sorts of delays are “not that unusual” and was hopeful that the building will open Friday.

“We have staff there every day trying to see if it can open,” he said. “I think [Fontana is] doing everything he can.”

As compensation, Fontana promised students $30 for every day they are unable to move in, or lodging at the Trip Hotel on Sheraton Ave, by Ithaca Mall. A shuttle transports the students to and from the hotel, according to residents.

Yet these accommodations are

less than ideal, according to a second anonymous student whose plans for a family visit were ruined by the living situation.

“The hotel also has horrendous reviews on several online hotel websites, including cases of bed bugs or unlaundered towels,” a student source said.

“We have staff there every day trying to see if [the apartments] can open.”

Michael Niechwiadowicz ’78 “Clearly Steve just found the cheapest place that he could.”

Fontana has told his residents in his emails that the situation has made him “sick,” and that he is “fighting every hour to get [the residents] in as soon as possible.”

However, despite his apologies and monetary compensation, residents argue that his efforts do not sufficiently ease the situations’ inconveniences.

Although the lease was supposed to begin on Aug. 1, Fontana is only compensating residents from Aug. 21 onward, according to the source. The source added that “[Fontana] clearly took advantage of the fact See APARTMENT page 5

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that he was signing with a bunch of young college students in a stressful situation to cover his back.Fontana did not respond to The Sun’s repeated requests for comment.

Denise Thompson, Cornell’s

“I think the students were given the knowledge, and with knowledge there is power.”

Denise Thompson off-campus living manager, hosted a meeting on Tuesday for students who were supposed to be living in the currently unfinished Fontana Apartments. The meeting was also attended by city officials, including Niechwiadowicz, who provided students with updates on the building’s progress.

“I think the students were given knowledge, and with knowledge is power,” Thompson said. “Now they know what to expect. They understand what are the minimum health and safety requirements that the building code has, and being armed with that, they can go back and make certain demands — if they so choose.”

Thompson said the building hopes to open Friday through a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, allowing the residents to live in the building even if it is not complete, although first primary safety concerns

must be assured.

“The health and well-being of our students is my division’s top priority,” she said. “Cornell knows what’s happening and understands how frustrating it is and wants the best for [these students].”

Thompson also added that Cornell has provided students with complimentary 15-ride bus passes and temporary use of Townhouse laundry facilities for their inconvenience.

“I really want to thank Denise Thompson and the Ithaca Building Department,” said a student who attended the meeting who also signed a lease with Fontana last year. “To be honest, [Fontana] really didn’t trick us into anything. He tried his best.”

Many students remain dissatisfied with the uncertainty of the situation, claiming it has affected their emotional and academic well being.

“There is no working fridge in the hotel, so I essentially have to eat out every single meal of every day, which has created an unnecessary financial burden,” said a third anonymous source, who had to drop a class because of the housing inconvenience.

A student added that the landlord’s uncertain updates on the housing situation have been frustrating.

“I’m constantly distracted in classes thinking about this nightmare situation and I lie wide awake at night frantically trying to think of ways to get out of it,” she said. “These false hopes that Fontana has consistently given us have just constantly played with our emotions.”

Rachel Whalen can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun.com.

Asian Activism Group DefendsAffirmative Action AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Continued from page 1

enced by students of color. It’s critical for universities to consider these racial barriers in education during admissions.”

APAA said that affirmative action is only one part of a broader admissions process and stressed that economic status is also considered, contrary to AACE’s argument.

“Affirmative action looks at whether students have faced racial or ethnic adversity — this is one aspect of a holistic admissions process,” the statement said. “Other aspects of holistic admissions processes include looking at whether students are first-generation or have endured poverty.”

In an unequal system, affirmative action is a necessary process by which works to support minorities, according to the APAA.

“We need affirmative action, especially when you consider that these institutions of higher education were never created for people of color,” the statement said. “When ‘advocacy’ groups such [as] AACE file complaints targeting policies

“Affirmative action looks at whether students have faced racial or ethnic adversity.”

APAA Statement such as affirmative action, it’s even more important for members of the Asian Pacific Islander community to speak out.”

The University has declined comment on the complaint.

Rebecca Even can be reached at reven@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Addressing male sexual victimization To the Editor: I was taken aback to read (The Sun, Sept. 2) that Cornell’s mandatory orientation sessions “Tapestry” and “Speak About It” exclude coverage of male sexual victimization from their presentations. Still more extraordinary was the justification offered by a moderator when questioned about the absence: “[sexual violence] predominantly affects females, so we address the female issue.”

Such adherence to a long-discredited “one size fits all” approach, on the part of an individual specifically charged with educating the Cornell student body about the dynamics of sexual assault, is disquieting. Only last semester, in her keynote address for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, author and activist Kate Harding — herself a victim of campus rape — reminded the audience at Flora Rose House of the importance of not overlooking men and boys who have suffered sexual violence. “When you put people into one of these ‘unrapeable’ categories,” she said, “that just creates more barriers to [victims] being able to access resources and find help, let alone find justice.”

This message has clearly been lost on those in charge of Cornell’s first-year orientation, and the consequences are both obvious and alarming. According to the federal government's Bureau of Justice Statistics, 17 percent of campus rapes and sexual assaults nationwide occur to male victims. There is reason to believe that at Cornell, the problem is more serious yet. The 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct found that one in 10 male Cornell seniors — more than a fifth of the total victim population — had been subjected to a non-consensual sexual act during their four years in college. No less significantly, the same survey revealed that fewer than one in five male students considered themselves “very” or “extremely” knowledgeable about how sexual violence or misconduct is defined at the University.

Despite welcome progress in recent years, sexual violence against women and girls remains at pathologically high levels. It is necessary and appropriate that the majority of our efforts be directed toward combatting it. But the notion that sexual violence against men and boys — or against other victim groups like LGB, trans and gender-nonconforming people — may effectively be addressed by ignoring its existence is too obviously unsound to require detailed refutation. That Cornell’s sexual assault educators seemingly believe otherwise ought to be a matter of concern to the University administration, and to the campus community as a whole.

Prof. R.M. Douglas, history, Colgate University

Serendipitous Musings

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ummer has come to an inevitable end, but conversations about what happened during that time never seem to.

Aside from internships and jobs, a widely talked about subject that always seems to remain is travel. When people come back from trips abroad, it’s not uncommon for me to hear them say, “I’ve changed. No one here understands me.” And that’s something I’ve been guilty of numerous times in the past. It makes sense: nobody has gone through exactly what you’ve been through or felt what you’ve uniquely felt. An acquaintance of mine who seems to spend more time on a plane than in school went to social media to describe his numerous travel experiences and how wonderful it was — how blessed he felt — to travel to different countries. He explained how he couldn’t stay in the United States, for he knew there was too much to gain abroad. And time after time, he would repeat that no one seemed to understand him when he returned home.

The knowledge he gained by his adventures in various countries, conversations with strangers and immersion in new cultures seemed to make him removed from people when he returned back to America.

I know from my travel experiences alone that they can be immensely eye-opening. I believe that traveling truly does help us learn about ourselves, others and the world we live in. But what do we do with these new views, these changed beliefs and attitudes and these refreshingly new world perspectives? What is the point of saying we’ve traveled abroad and “changed” and learned more about ourselves when all we continue to do upon our return is complain that no one else understands us?

Humans have a tendency to care more about their experiences and telling their own stories than listening to others, which makes compassion and understanding difficult to come by. Travel should make us kinder to each other. We gain appreciation for other cultures, opening our eyes to how people live in different ways across the globe yet maintain the same sense of humanity. We interact with others — whether other tourists or locals — and gain knowledge from these relationships. Most of the time, when we come back home, we describe how beautiful another place was, how kind others were, how inspirational a landmark was, how moved we were or how we’ve gained a better understanding of the world.

With these new experiences behind us, we should come back to the United States and spread what we’ve learned. It’s important to appreciate the culture and country we come from, yet identify the differences and similarities between ours and others. See how

they work and how they don’t. Use the kindness and knowledge we’ve gained abroad to affect others. If we are so immensely moved by what we have been through, there is absolutely no benefit in complaining that we are misunderstood. One of the things you realize abroad is that everyone has a story, everyone is a human living their own life and that’s a beautiful and complex thing. Then what makes us think that people at home don’t have as much of an individual life and story? So many of us have traveled and gained something by it. We are not so grossly unique in that. But what differs from one travel to the next is our distinct interactions and experiences; those which can be shared and listened to.

Let us not allow the return from our travels to leave us jaded and bitter, hostile to our country and others who haven’t experienced what we have. We have the ability to spread what we have learned abroad in a positive light and share stories with people who have not had the chance or ability to do so, or those who similarly have. This world is already so divided, we don’t need any more misunderstandings and hostility within our country by those who think they are superior when they return.

I am not writing this as someone who believes they know all and is thus worthy of dictating the actions of those who travel. I have, however, identified the hypocrisies and contradictions within my own travels and realized how worthless it is to believe myself to be so enlightened. Those who travel, whether for leisure or for service, often recognize the feeling of solitude and isolation they find themselves in upon returning home. It’s a feeling that removes us from people who have moved on with their daily lives in what we find a stagnant and unexciting way.

But we do not need more walls — we have built enough of those. Now more than ever, we need bridges, those that can be construed through experiences with others, a broader understanding of compassion and peace and the underlying notion that we are all humans that, while living in different areas of the world with numerous cultures, backgrounds and beliefs, have a common ground in humanity and a hope for a better world for future generations. Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” So let’s begin this journey of spreading the beautiful together.

Gaby Leung is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Kevin Kowalewski | Democratic Dialogue

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ccording to the Federal Election Commission, there are 1,870 registered candidates in this year’s presidential election. Needless to say, it’s a lot to talk about. For that reason, in this article, I’m only going to talk about one.

I want to take a brief movement to talk about Hillary Clinton and why I legitimately believe she is a strong candidate to be our nation’s 45th president. It’s too simple, and too lazy, to merely argue against an alternative. Further, it isn’t enough. If Democrats do not continue to make the positive case for Hillary Clinton, we will likely lose. On the brightside, I think this is an easy argument to make.

How about we begin with a brief recollection of her lifelong history of public service? Early on in her career, Hillary focused her legal career on the defense of children.

As First Lady of Arkansas, she pushed to improve unacceptably poor educational outcomes. And as First Lady of the United States, she took an unusually active role in fighting for health care for all Americans, taking a noticeably progressive stance even when it was unpopular.

Hillary’s qualifications also come from her history of service in the United States Senate, where she repeatedly pushed for the support and protection of the communities that were most affected by the September 11 attacks. In addition, despite the fact that her tenure as Secretary of State tends to be the basis for conspiracies and misleading attacks, her overall record at Foggy Bottom was highly successful.

Secretary Clinton fought for both gender equality and LGBTQ rights around the globe.

Moreover, she departed from the unilateral decision-making of

the Bush administration in favor of an approach that incorporated our closest allies.

This new foreign policy orientation allowed her to navigate treacherous diplomatic waters, leading to achievements such as the Iranian nuclear deal.

Hillary has a long track record. But what, you wonder, does she plan to do in the future? More than any other candidate in recent history, Hillary has gone into substantial detail on her potential policy agenda as president. For many of you that are reading this, I suspect there’s a lot to like.

Let’s start with the big issue. One of the largest problems that we face is the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, an inequality that violates basic ideals of economic fairness. Hillary agrees, and she has a plan.

The essential cornerstone of her platform is a multitude of policies that are designed to close these gaps of income and wealth.

Consider those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Hillary Clinton strongly supports an increase of the federal minimum from a distressingly low $7.25 an hour to $12 an hour nationally, with $15 an hour increases in higher-cost states and cities. She believes that the government should require employers to offer paid family leave, like every other major economy does. Further, in line with her long-term focus on American families, she has put forth an ambitious plan of investment in making childcare affordable.

Education, too, is a key focus, with a plan for a universal Pre-K education. She has also recognized the crisis in higher education costs, and she has put forth the idea that we must reduce student loan burdens and make tuition free for middle-class families. It

should be noted that this latter plan was developed in close consultation with her former primary opponent.

And, of course, this economic vision also includes measures designed to prevent Wall Street from wrecking Main Street. The regulations she has envisioned, including taxes on high frequency trading and oversight of shadowbanking, are quite strict and aim to prevent the riskiest behaviors of the financial industry.

Hillary Clinton has also indicated that she would be forward-thinking. Indeed, she has repeatedly stressed that climate change is a major threat to the United States and the world, and a Clinton presidency would see multi-billion dollar investments in renewable energy. This would not only begin the transition away from fossil fuels, but create countless new jobs.

Yes, it is crucial to create a better, fairer economy for everyone. Still, it is essential to recognize that there are inequities that go beyond economic circumstance. There are many other obstacles to consider, including race. The Clinton campaign has embraced the growing push for racial justice, including the Mothers of the Movement. Hillary herself has discussed “white privilege” and the on-going role of bias in a broken criminal justice system.

On issues of immigration, she has defended President Obama’s executive actions, and embraced undocumented activists. If elected, immigration reform would be a priority of Hillary Clinton’s administration.

With regards to sex and gender, we should not forget the symbolic significance of electing the first woman president. For

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issues of LGBTQ rights, Hillary knows that we need to pass a federal employment nondiscrimination law, and that the government must pay special attention to the rights of the transgender community.

In large part, this article is only possible because Hillary Clinton has one of the most comprehensive platforms of any candidate for president in modern political history.

She has an ambitious view of where America can go, and she has the experience to get it done. In fact, the most prominent limit would be continued Republican majorities in Congress, the same force that has impeded President Obama. It is vital to give President Hillary Clinton a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate.

But even if not, who has dealt with more opposition than Hillary? I would argue that she is uniquely positioned to manage Washington, regardless of whether she is shepherding progressive legislation, or negotiating with a contentious Congress.

To conclude, I am not an unbiased source.

I am a proud supporter of Hillary Clinton, and I will make that clear to anyone who asks. Furthermore, I reject the idea that college students are overwhelmingly hesitant about her candidacy; I am personally involved with an ever-growing movement of students who are passionate about Hillary.

For the Hillary supporters at Cornell and around the country, this is not about the lesser evil. We are excited, organized and ready to go. Why? Because Hillary Clinton will be an excellent president.

Kevin Kowalewski is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at krk78@cornell.edu.

Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

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A New War on Poverty

n 1964, President Lyndon Johnson launched his famed War on Poverty, declaring: “This Administration, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty.” From the time that Johnson made this declaration, the federal government has spent an estimated $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs — and the level of success of these programs is highly debatable.

Certainly, Johnson’s war had a major effect on senior citizens, as the poverty rate for the elderly declined nearly 18 percent between 1964 and 2015. However, total poverty rates declined less than three percent between 1964 and 2015.

Today, 14.5 percent of Americans (nearly 47 million people) live below the poverty line, while the youth poverty rate has reached a stunning 20 percent.

What these numbers do not tell is the story behind America’s poor. Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services published a report that stated that those in impoverished urban areas are more likely to be exposed to and involved with violent crime and drug use. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal reported that impoverished rural areas are currently experiencing a massive spike in the use of heroin and other deadly drugs. But beyond drugs and crime, studies have consistently found that those in poor communities — whether rural or urban — are less likely to go to college, find long-term employment and remain involved stable nuclear family structures.

Some claim that the dark picture of American poverty needs to be fixed by more government intervention and spending.

However, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the United States currently spends 29 percent of its GDP (when accounted for taxes) on anti-poverty programs — that’s currently the second largest percentage of any country in the developed world (we are only behind France, which stands at 31 percent). Furthermore, when adjusted for inflation, federal spending per person in poverty increased 600 percent between 1970 and 2014. Yet despite the fact that this country spends more than almost every nation on welfare programs and has drastically increased its anti-poverty expenditures, the United States has achieved only marginal success in combating

national poverty rates.

In fact, it seems as if even Congress has realized its big-government, big-spending approach to fighting poverty hasn’t worked. A recent study by the House Budget Committee stated: “Congress… has expanded programs and created new ones with little regard to how these changes fit into the larger effort.

Rather than provide a roadmap out of poverty, Washington has created a complex web of programs that are often difficult to navigate.”

I firmly believe that if we are to truly tackle poverty, we must wage a new war — a war with radically different tactics and a consciousness of budgetary constraints. For too long we have thought that we can simply spend our way out of poverty — yet the facts tell a drastically different story. I propose that we fight a three front war on poverty: we must reform our broken education system, encourage economic growth and strengthen I firmly believe that if we are to truly tackle poverty, we must wage a new war — a war with radically different tactics and a consciousness of budgetary constraints. For too long we have thought that we can simply spend our way out of poverty — yet the facts tell a drastically different story. family structures.

Personally, I believe that a transformation of our education system is the most important step in combating this issue.

According to a study by the General Accounting Office, inner city schools, when adjusted for factors such as necessary classroom resources, often spend far less per pupil than suburban schools. At the same time, the study also found that “inner city schools generally [have] higher percentages of first-year teachers, higher enrollments, fewer library resources and less inschool parental involvement.”

The issues that inner city schools face show why the war on

poverty isn’t being won –– poor students do not have access to the same resources as their wealthier counterparts. Here is where the Department of Education must make drastic changes. Instead of wasting precious tax dollars on massive bureaucratic projects such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, federal educational agencies should direct funding to low income areas. These funds should be used to build precollege and vocational training initiatives, improve math and reading programs and encourage teacher retention.

Though education is key, economic reforms are also essential. A recent Congressional study discovered that job creation — not increased federal spending — is the most effective tool in combatting poverty. Reforms such as increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit, reducing burdensome economic regulations and simplifying the overly complicated tax code would help to grow small and medium-sized businesses and provide good paying jobs in impoverished areas.

Finally, we as a society must do everything we can to help strengthen families in our poorest communities. In 1965, the Johnson Administration issued a report that stated that a central cause of poverty is the crumbling of family structures. In fact, a 2014 study discovered that families headed by a single female were 21 percent more likely to be below the poverty line than two parent households. Thus, society must do all that it can to encourage the strengthening of families.

Of course, the economic benefits of fighting poverty are innumerable. As our rural areas and inner-cities become stronger, our nation’s economy as a whole will grow stronger as well. However, I firmly believe that there is an inherent moral component to combating poverty. All Americans deserve access to economic opportunity and good education. But let me stress this: we cannot fight poverty with the same wasted effort and energy of the past 50 years. Instead of simply aggrandizing government power and wealth, we must provide the basic opportunity for all Americans to achieve economic mobility.

Michael Glanzel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mg786@cornell.edu. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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OPINION

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ardio. Reps. Pump. Dumbbell. Deadlift. These are all terms physically fit people tend to use a lot. Not because they’re douchebags, it’s just a fit person thing. It’s like an engineer using the word optimize or a doctor using the word acute — it’s normal in the context of their lifestyles. While I can never say I’ve been particularly fit or focused on fitness, it’s senior year, so now or never I guess.

This weekend I had a lot of interesting conversations.

One particularly interesting one was about how we derive our self-esteem. One of my good friends and I were talking about how we’ve never been particularly focused on being in amazing shape while at Cornell, a weird thought considering the emphasis most of us and our classmates placed on fitness in high school. He cited some sociological study that claimed people tend to place more importance on the parts of their lives from which they derive their selfesteem.

In the Cornell ecosystem we all exist in, having a six pack just doesn’t really matter as much as it did in high school. Most people care a lot more about what house you’re in or what investment bank you’re working for next year. While I can’t say I derive self-worth from what house I’m in or what amazing career I have ahead of me, this conversation got me thinking. What did I derive my selfesteem from?

While I’ve never been a particularly in-shape guy, I’ve always thought of myself as relatively average. I could run

While I can’t say I derive self-worth from what house I’m in or what amazing career I have ahead of me, this conversation got me thinking.

What did I derive my self-esteem from? a few miles if you asked me to, but what’s the fun in that?

I like to eat things that taste good, but a salad is fine too.

Overall, I would describe myself as more apathetic than passive, but not totally uninterested in the prospect of being more healthy.

The day after I had this brief self-esteem conversation with my friend, I committed to leading a healthier lifestyle. Most people say the first step to being fit is waking up in the morning and going on runs. That day I woke up at 1p.m., so a morning run was out of the question, but it wasn’t too early for a healthy afternoon smoothie. I went over to my girlfriend’s house to talk shop. Or gym. I’m not sure what the fitness analogy would be.

She agreed a smoothie was the best way to start the day, so we got out her Magic Bullet and got to work. We threw some Greek yogurt, raspberries, gin and mangoes into the blender and let it rip. It only took a few minutes to make the smoothies, but let me tell you, fitness never tasted so good. Just kidding, I put way too much gin in the smoothies and it tasted like battery acid. But I think an interesting metaphor can be drawn here. Being fit is hard and it can taste bitter at times — like gin. But if that’s what you want to do, for sure go for it.

As I sat there drinking fitness, I thought about where I derive my self-worth. I wasn’t totally sure, but I think that’s okay. Maybe I’ll never be fit fam, but that’s life sometimes. Until I figure that out, I guess I’ll just keep drinking my fitness smoothies.

Akshay Jain is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

of the day

“Cornell is progressive and thoughtful. The renaming of Cornell Plantations to Cornell Botanic Gardens captures it’s present meaning and mission it fulfills today. It is not a betrayal of past glory of the works done at the site. Alumni and present students I would think have the emotional intelligence to grow and adjust to remake, reinterpret the idea, making Cornell unique by creating an environment where study can be found at Cornell in any subject.”

D. Ward ’90 ILR Re: “University Proposes Renaming Cornell Plantations the ‘Botanic Gardens’” News September 7, 2016

Paul Russell | Russelling Feathers

Coins for Clinton I

f 2012 was the year of the dragon, 2008 was the year of the coin. The film that won the Oscar for best picture, No Country for Old Men, and the most celebrated film of the year, The Dark Knight, both featured villains who flipped coins to determine the outcomes of matters of life and death. The gestures served different rhetorical purposes in each: Showcasing Harvey Dent’s transition from cleverness to reckless insanity in the latter and exhibiting Chigurh’s obsession with suspense and intolerance for those who won’t play his games in the former.

These coin tosses were pregnant with meaning and symbolism, but other more unsung flips that happened off-screen the same year had even deeper implications.

During the primaries of the 2008 election, a precinct in the Iowa caucuses reached the end of its vote-counting process to find that the group was split: Half Obama, half Clinton. In these caucuses, voters are really picking the county delegates whose votes will be counted to determine the number of state delegates who will pledge their support for a candidate. The problem, however, was that this precinct was supposed to pick an odd number of county delegates. In other words, even though the votes of citizens were split evenly, they couldn’t just award Obama with half the delegates and Clinton with the other half. There would be one left. So how did they decide who to give this final delegate?

They flipped a coin.

Surprisingly, this wouldn’t be the only time caucus results would be partially left up to chance. The same thing happened a handful of times in the 2016 Democratic primaries.

When we hear this, we

cringe at the thought that some aspect of our political system was decided merely by coins and coincidences, but really much, if not most of the process works that way.

As members of a generation awash with support for and dedication to progressivism, it’s easy to assume that we are pieces of a lasting movement; that the general trend towards the political ideals we support is evidence of a never-ending American journey onwards and upwards. The truth, though, is that our political system is more unpredictable than that.

Its strings of coincidences sprinkled with conscious action that cause policy revisions, and the public only retrospectively declares that these changes sprung from hordes of people changing their minds. When affirmative action was upheld by the Supreme Court, for example, it wasn’t because the country believed it was the best decision, but because the right presidents were elected in the right order for them to be able to appoint judges who would make such a decision.

The elections of these presidents were largely determined by chance as well. Sure, 70 percent of the voting population can be predicted to vote as their parents did, but those in the remaining 30 percent pick candidates for a variety of reasons, some of which are entirely coincidental. In 2004, for example, unexpected hurricanes across the U.S. gave President George W. Bush the opportunity to dispense relief money that would improve his reputation amongst citizens in the states affected. Researchers suggest that this helped him win Florida in the election that year, which was a vastly important swing state.

Apart from whatever deter-

mines to whom a person plans give their vote, a number of factors determine whether or not they actually leave the house to do it. Weather, cultural norms and weekly schedules can discourage voters from getting to the polls, and this fact can have far-reaching effects on the election and the political atmosphere of the time. This is why American history is full of upsets and surprises. It operates in a realm beyond prediction and intuition; it’s a chamber of chance — each election a long, suspenseful coin flip.

My aim in this argument, however, isn’t to advocate for political complacency. I actually hope to encourage the opposite. If elections and decisions are mostly left up to chance, we still have a duty to evidently and thoroughly act on behalf of what we support to correct for the coincidences that we know will occur. The sliver of political activity that reflects the general desires of the people rather than a heads-or-tails outcome still exists and must be utilized effectively. If you like the current trend of millennial progressivism, let it be known in the polls and in the public. If you don’t like it, you have a responsibility to do the same.

The fact of the matter is that we don’t really know where the world is headed, and unless we dedicate ourselves to determining its direction on our own, we’ll have to once again leave it to mere chance.

“The coin don’t have no say.

It’s just you.”

— Carla Jean Moss, No Country for Old Men Paul Russell is a sophomore in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at prussell@cornellsun.com.

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DINING GUIDE

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s the Ithaca Hummus launch party kicked off, I strolled down to Lot 10 from Collegetown. It’s normally only a quick 15 minute stroll away, but the late day sun beating down made me question why I thought embarking on this journey by foot was the best choice. But upon arriving, I realized the trek had only fueled my desire to try new hummus flavors. Entering from the back of Lot 10, I immediately spotted the Ithaca Hummus signage and made a beeline for the kitchen.

There was hummus and carrots and beer to be had.

Ithaca Hummus’ flavors, new and old, were sampled with convenient hummus and carrot snack packs on display. I began with the two flavors making their debut at the event: Lemon & Beet and Red Pepper. I briefly considered my aversion to beets before jumping into the Red Pepper hummus. This classic flavor, which dominates the hummus market, was slightly tangy and allowed the roasted red pepper flavor to ring through — more so than other brands in which the red pepper gets lost among other ingredients.

Later, I was introduced to the founder of Ithaca Hummus, Chris Kirby ’15, a graduate of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. He explained that the Red Pepper was a no-brainer to introduce to the product line, as it is most heavily consumed by hummus-lovers. I did not initially peg the other new flavor, Lemon & Beet, to be my favorite, but I was pleasantly surprised by the combination of flavors. Much like the backdrop of the event — the crowd both young and old, the playlist toggling from Gucci Mane to Bondax — the flavor profile of this Lemon & Beet hummus was well contrasted. The lemon flavor stood

out immediately, providing a refreshing segue into the beet flavor. The slightly sweet beet flavor I was initially skeptical about won me over — and my taste buds rarely succumb to anything. Not only can the flavor hold its own, but the aesthetic of the hummus is also eye-popping.

Chris noted that this flavor took the longest to develop, as it was a challenge to make the reddish-purple beet color vibrant.

I then moved on to try the preexisting flavors: Lemon & Dill and Chipotle. A third original flavor – Lemon & Garlic — which was my favorite, before trying Lemon & Beet (I’m officially converted), was unavailable for tasting. The Lemon & Dill offered a cool, summery taste that would pair perfectly with almost any vegetable. Of all the Ithaca Hummus dips, this one in particular highlighted the fresh coldpressed lemon juice used in each of the flavors.

Chipotle, on the other hand, delivered a kick. I love a spicy, flavorful dip, but the Chipotle surprised me by being more smokey than spicy. The smoldering adobo-soaked chipotle peppers offered a lingering smoky-sweet flavor. The hot kick came as a nice aftertaste.

As much as I enjoyed eating half my bodyweight in carrots and hummus, the launch party served another

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important purpose. After my initial introduction to Chris he led me to Ithaca Hummus’ sesame milk. The company’s latest work-in-progress was the ice cold refreshment I craved in the late August heat. With a slight resemblance to almond milk, the sesame milk has a creamy, almost cereal-milk taste and texture, but it was far less sweet. Chris explained the nutritional power of sesame seeds which are also used to make the tahini incorporated in all Ithaca Hummus flavors.

One need not be lactose intolerant to realize the benefits of this delicious dairy alternative. The milk is on course to be perfected within the next eight months.

As the sun shifted in the sky, I made my move to head back up the hill to Collegetown. The back lot was still full and energetic as I left with my stomach full, the intent to stock up my fridge with Ithaca Hummus goods and a newfound appreciation for beets.

Sherry Wu is a junior in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at sw652@cornell.edu.

A Mixed Review

By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

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hen I heard that a new restaurant was opening in Ithaca, I was ecstatic. I get tired of arguing with my friends over where to eat, only to decide on the same restaurant we went to the week before. I love the Ithaca classics, but I was ready for something new.

The website for Mix made it sound promising; it seemed like the kind of restaurant you would find in a big city rather than the typical establishments Ithaca houses. Mix markets itself as “social dining,” with a “multiethnic” menu filled with small plates meant to be shared. I’m a huge fan of small plates. They allow diners to try a variety of options and provide the table with a shared experience. The online menu looked promising.

Many of the dishes contained flavors and ingredients not typically found in other Ithacan restaurants. I was a little wary of the fact that the online menu didn’t list prices — I’m a big believer of the saying “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it” — but I figured a restaurant looking to do business in Ithaca wasn’t going to be outrageously expensive, so I grabbed a few friends and we went to Mix the first Thursday night of the semester.

Mix is located on Elmira

Road — not very easy to get to for students without a car. The outside of the restaurant doesn’t look very inviting; in fact, one of the friends I was with said she had avoided it because she had thought it was a strip club. Mix’s website boasted pictures of an upscale interior featuring chandeliers and modern decor.

Instead, the interior was a conflict between a posh local staple — with a few gold accents on the walls and large images of Cornell and Ithaca — and a sports bar.

There was a television on the wall set to ESPN that proved distracting to our table the entire night. There are times when I want to watch TV while eating, but not when I’m at a location that promises “social dining.”

The menu also resembled that of a sports bar: a large, laminated sheet with dozens of dishes scattered in clusters of raw bar, pizzas, small plates, salads and large plates. My eyes didn’t know where to look, but I did immediately notice the prices. For a place that had ESPN talking behind me and bad Top 40 hits of the past decade playing overhead, the prices were outrageous.

Our waitress had recommended each person get either three or four small plates or a large plate and two small plates. The large plates ranged from nineteen dollars to more than thirty, which is the upper limit of any of Ithaca’s nicest restaurants. The small

plates averaged around ten or eleven dollars, bordering on as much as I would typically expect to pay for a full entree.

Two members of our dining party were vegetarian, while the other two of us ate meat, so we decided to split into partners for sharing plates. Deciding on dishes was difficult. The menu was loosely organized into main categories, but the plates contained flavors from all over the world and were not listed in any logical order. It would be easier for the diner if the plates were categorized by region or flavor to avoid the jumbled mess of “multi-ethnic” dishes on the menu.

My dining partner and I chose four plates to share, featuring Thai, Spanish, Mexican and Italian flavors. The food was brought out as it was prepared, and the restaurant seemed mindful to bring both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food out at the same time so that everyone at the table always had something to eat. The size of the dishes was pretty typical for small plates — that is to say, they were small — but for the price, I was hoping we would get a little more. The first things to come out were the crockpot guajillo short rib tacos.

For around 10 dollars, we got three small tacos with a few pickled vegetables on the side. The presentation was nice, but the flavor was unimpressive. You could pay the same price at Viva

and get a full meal and better tacos.

The flavors of some of the other dishes were better. The potato goat cheese perogies — topped with bacon, red onion marmalade and truffle crème fraîche — were the best things I had all night. The Thai-style purple sticky rice dumplings were unique if not slightly dry, and the Spanish chorizo hot dogs were spicy but fairly boring overall.

Since it was a new restaurant, I expected a few hiccups with the service. We had a couple mix-ups with the servers, but our cucumber dill water was always filled and our food came out at a reasonable pace. However, once we were given our bill, we sat around for 20 minutes waiting for someone to pick up our credit cards. The final service is the last impression you get from a restaurant, and it left me impatient and annoyed.

Overall, Mix had a lot of potential but fell flat. The actual food didn’t live up to the great menu writing, and the atmosphere didn’t match the prices.

There were a few flavors that stayed in my mind, but the food generally was forgettable — I had to look up the menu again while writing this to remember what I had ordered only a day prior — and unimpressive.

Mix would benefit from choosing a specific direction and

sticking to it, whether that be an upscale restaurant or a casual sports bar. If Mix hopes to attract the majority of Ithaca students and residents, the prices should either be cut in half or the portions should be doubled. Classifying a restaurant as “multi-ethnic” seems like a cop-out for not picking a culinary direction, so if Mix is going to feature dishes from around the world, they have to do so in an organized, purposeful way.

Label each dish with a cuisine and group similar plates together instead of throwing everything on a laminated sheet of paper and deeming it a cohesive menu.

I truly do want to give Mix a second chance because I believe that the theme could fill a niche in Ithaca’s culinary scene, if executed correctly. Unfortunately, I cannot currently recommend it to anyone until they get they get their act together and undergo major restructuring. Mix is launching a brunch menu in September, which looks very promising. But if my dinner experience is any indication of what the brunch might bring, I’m getting my hopes up over a great idea, only to be let down by poor execution.

Olivia Lutwak is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ‘Every Shot Means Something’: A Conversation With Marty Gross

BY NATHAN CHAZAN Sun Staff Writer

Marty Gross is a man of many hats in the film world.

Coming to Japanese cinema in the ’70s after spending years studying pottery, Gross has written and directed documentaries, restored and licensed films and archival footage with his company Marty Gross Film Productions, conducted interviews and served as consulting producer on many projects, including Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film Dreams. All the while, Gross has continued to teach art classes in Toronto, teaching creativity to future generations of students (including myself).

More recently, Gross has worked as a freelance consulting producer with the legendary arthouse distributor Janus Films, the parent company of the Criterion collection. If you pick up a Criterion release of a Japanese film, there’s a good chance you’ll see Gross’ name in the credits. In 2005, Gross’ work for Janus brought him into contact with Seijun Suzuki, one of the most eccentric figures of Japanese film. A pop art filmmaker in the truest sense of the term, Suzuki made visually eclectic and politically subversive films under the pretense of genre entertainment, much to his studio’s chagrin.

With Suzuki’s films Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill screening this week at Cornell Cinema (Thursday and Sunday, respectively — for more info go to cinema.cornell.edu) as part of a Janus Films retrospective, I sat down with Gross to talk about his work and his memories of Seijun Suzuki.

THE SUN: How did you start working with Janus Films?

MARTY GROSS: I knew about Janus for many years — everyone did, anyone who was a filmgoer knew Janus. I’d worked with New Cinema, the Canadian agent for Janus, and through them I met one of the founders, Saul Turrell.

Much later I helped acquire some of their films for Canadian television, and I met them a few times in New York. But it never really crossed my mind that I could do any work for them, until Donald Richie [a very influential writer on Japanese cinema], who had been consulting for Criterion, recommended me. At some point around the last six or eight years of his life, he wrote very kindly to the chief producer at Criterion that I was the only person who could handle the creation of documentation and features for a Kurosawa film they were working on at the time. So we met with Peter Becker, the president of Janus, and we figured out I could do the kind of work they needed, and one thing led to another.

I do not have any formal agreement with Criterion, they just call me when they need me. There are times when they’re releasing more Japanese films, there are times when they’re releasing less, but whenever they’re releasing a Japanese film they always seem to have something for me to do — interviews, documentation, rights.

SUN: Tell me about a typical project for Janus. What kind of work do you find yourself doing?

M.G.: The process starts when one of the Criterion producers contacts me and asks me if I have any documentation related to the film they’re working on. They may ask if I know anybody who could be interviewed, and if I know about that person’s health, their age and if I know about any other documentary materials. For example, I recently worked on [the Criterion edition of] Dreams. I had worked on the film myself in the late 1980s and knew many of the people involved in it. I knew about two documentaries that had been made about Dreams, one by my friend Catherine Cadou in France, and one by the great Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi, so I licensed those films on Criterion’s behalf.

So, I sometimes license films for Criterion, documentaries and features, and I also supply them with information that they may need for their Japanese releases. Right now we’re doing Tampopo, so I went to the museum dedicated to [the director] Juzo Itami, and I spent three days scanning photos, stills, booklets and flyers. So I just help them with things in Japan.

When it’s time for interviews, I start off by contacting people by phone — many of these people are very elderly.

Sometimes I have to call several times, often at all hours given the time difference, other times I might ask for an introduction from somebody. Then we make a plan to interview. The Criterion producers write the questions because they feel (I think quite correctly) that they know best what their audience is interested in knowing about. After that, we translate the questions in my office, and print them out with large spaces in between the questions so the interviewees can write their replies. I transmit these to people by fax [still common

in Japan] or by post. In the case of Seijun Suzuki, I was a much younger wife, a fan of his work, who was able to help already in Japan when we finished the questions, but Suzuki us a great deal with the set-up and arrangements for the lived on the other side of Tokyo. He was very anxious to see interview. the questions, so he asked me to fax them. So I go to the SUN: How did your meeting with Suzuki go? What did office in Tokyo and stand by the fax machine, and the fax doesn’t go through, and doesn’t go through, and so on. It you think of the man? turns out Suzuki didn’t know how to turn on his fax M.G.: Suzuki’s a very pithy man, very direct. He’s not machine. He needed us to wait for his wife to come home and turn on the machine for him! impatient, but he prefers to keep his answers simple. For After setting up the interview, I then have to find a location. example, we asked Suzuki about the color choices in Tokyo The space needs to be quiet — Tokyo has a problem with Drifter, why one scene’s in black and white while the rest of noise, it’s a massive city with a lot of traffic and most Japanese the movie’s in such vivid color, and Suzuki replied “I thought offices and apartments the audiences would like to see only have single pane a movie in color.” For Story of a glass, so if there’s noise, Prostitute, we asked him why he there’s noise. We also need made that film after Gate of a large space — we usualFlesh, and he said simply “That ly can’t film at people’s film was an adaptation, and homes because people’s Nikkatsu gave me the book and homes are always too said ‘This is the next one.’” small. I shoot with a reguCriterion wants filmmakers to lar crew that’s been worktalk about the philosophy ing with me since day one. behind their work, and Suzuki The first interview we ever would always skirt around that did was with Tatsuya in such a way that you can’t ask Nakadai in 1995, and the question again. It’s not that we’ve kept working he’s necessarily modest, I think together ever since. he knows his place in film hisThey’re very loyal and tory. He’s a professional, and they’re very good. We not much willing to talk film started out on Betacam, aesthetics. Akira Kurosawa is then we moved on to HD, very much the same way in his and now we’re delivering interviews. the films on hard drive.

I remember when I was at As I listen during these Suzuki’s apartment I asked him COURTESY OF MARTY GROSS FILM PRODUCTIONS interviews, I always think if I could borrow the original about what material Criterion’s going to need for inserts. If, scripts of the films to scan for source material to include in say, Seijun Suzuki mentions Nikkatsu Studios, I need to the feature. He hands me the scripts without hesitation, and make sure I have a picture of Nikkatsu Studios, if he men- I told him I’d have them sent back in two days by courier. In tions his art director, I need a picture of the art director. I try the end I needed an extra day with the scripts and I forgot to to anticipate what kind of documents we’re going to need, let him know, and later that day I got a phone call from him. and I ask people to bring memorabilia from the productions He announced himself very formally, in his distinctive voice all the time — still photographs, snapshots of themselves — “This is Film Director Suzuki Seijun! I would like my working on the set, annotated scripts. We figure it’s more scripts to be returned” — and I told him I’d have them sent valuable to the viewer to see pictures of, say, actors taking a the next day. The following morning I get another call from cigarette break than excerpts from the movie they’ve just him with the same introduction — “This is Film Director seen. So, when we finish the interview, we film or scan doc- Suzuki Seijun! Have you sent me the scripts?” I said I had, uments that relate to the subject. Not everyone keeps things, and teased him, “You know, you don’t have to tell me you’re but usually they have at least a script with their annotations. a filmmaker every time you call, I’m aware that you make Some directors sketch in their scripts, do storyboards, some movies!” He laughed. don’t, it varies. After that the producer at Criterion takes over SUN: Is there anything in particular our readers should and edits the interview at their office, and a company in California handles the translation. Sometimes they consult look for when they go see Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill? me, but I’m only involved in checking for accuracy at that M.G.: Well, as I said before they’re very energetic films, point, spelling of names and credits, that sort of thing. very lively films, but you should also watch for political subSUN: What was your first encounter with Seijun Suzuki’s text in the films. The 1960s in Japan was still the postwar films? What was your initial impression? period, a time of rebuilding. For the first time there were all these popular influences everywhere — jazz, American M.G.: I’d actually never seen Suzuki’s films before I movies. The use of 16mm projection within the film in worked on the Criterion editions of them, but I had a very Branded to Kill is very inventive — I don’t think I’ve seen strong impression of him even before then — he’s an icono- anything else like that in that period of Japanese film. So clast in filmmaking and a political iconoclast. Watching his Suzuki’s films exemplify the 1960s, the most lively period in films for the first time was a sort of confirmation. Suzuki’s Japanese history, and attitudes that have largely been aged films are very much like the man himself — quick, skillful, out of the culture today. without hesitation. Part of it was the studio system he SUN: To close out this interview, are there any exciting worked under — Nikkatsu liked to churn out movies fast — but he always finds ways to work in individual quirks and projects you’re working on at the moment you’d be able to idiosyncrasies. All of his movies have a tremendous energy, tell us about? and nothing is wasted: Every shot means something, every M.G.: Well, Dreams is done now and I am currently shot is beautifully composed. It’s really classical studio filmmaking but with a personal stamp. working on Janus Films’ theatrical release of Tampopo. Over the summer I interviewed the Japanese swordplay master SUN: For the 2011 Criterion editions of Tokyo Drifter and Yoshimitsu Katsuse for the Lone Wolf and Cub collection.

Branded to Kill, you interviewed Suzuki, one of the last inter- That was an interesting project because he’s not involved in views he has done to date. How did that come about? filmmaking himself, but the art he practices is very unique and he brought a different understanding of Japanese M.G.: In 2005, I had interviewed Suzuki in a producer’s swordsmanship as displayed in the films. Aside from all this, office for Story of a Prostitute and Gate of Flesh. In the inter- I’m producing my own work, The Film Compendium on the im I had spoken to him after he had been awarded the Japanese Folk Craft (Mingei) Movement right now, and I’ve Kawakita prize, and he was very friendly. So Suzuki remem- been travelling to all sorts of different places to gather inforbered me, which made the later interview easier to set up. For mation and materials for it. I’ll be working on another proTokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill we interviewed Suzuki in ject with Criterion for later this year as well, but I can’t talk his apartment with the assistance of Masami Kuzuu, the art about it yet because they haven’t officially announced it. I director of Branded to Kill. We also interviewed Kuzuu and have a great deal of respect for Criterion and the work that Jo Shishido, the star of Branded to Kill. We had some diffi- they do, and I’m proud to be a contributor. culties — Suzuki’s a very old man, he was hooked up to an oxygen tank, and we were supposed to interview him on a Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. muggy summer day in a tiny room. Fortunately, Suzuki has He can be reacehd at ndc39@cornell.edu.

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Dragonbored: The Saga of a Skyrim Addiction I bought Skyrim for P.C. in the summer of 2013. The first thing I remember doing in the game, after the opening-scene dragon attack, is trying to kill a blacksmith who was hosting me in his home, and then frantically running away from the town, across a huge plain and into snowy mountains as the sun set.

Many fans of “open-world” games probably have similar experiences the first time they play. Open-world games purport to give the player total freedom; the premise is that any decision that the player makes can be supported by the game, and make sense within its world. You can play as a hero, an antihero, a villain or simply commit random acts of violence and kindness as you see fit, and in a perfectly-executed game any of these decisions would have ramifications on the progress of the narrative. Because of this, it’s incredibly tempting at the beginning to test the boundaries of your freedom.

I did this by, about 10 minutes into the game, choosing to murder a character who had generously offered my character a place to sleep and food (not as big a deal as it sounds — your character doesn’t have to eat to survive in Skyrim, mirroring how, when playing the game, you’ll forget that you need to eat to survive too). I have my victim’s character sheet open at the moment on elderscrolls.wikia.com, which is actually one of several different wiki pages devoted entirely to the world of Skyrim.

His name is Alvor, and he works as a blacksmith in Riverwood. He has a wife, Sigrid, a daughter, Dorthe. He and his wife probably love their daughter very much; at least, “If Dorthe is attacked, both parents become hostile to defend her.” Just like real life!

Of course, none of this factored into my decision to kill Alvor; I just wanted to see what would happen afterwards. I wanted to see how much of a real world Skyrim was. Unfortunately, it turned out Alvor is one of the characters marked “essential” by the game, which basically means you can’t kill him. Instead, after I had hacked at him, he took a knee on the floor with his hand clutching his side, crawled around for half a minute, and then stood back up and said something completely illogical like, “Ain’t every day we get visitors in Riverwood.”

That was how I learned that the game didn’t offer total player freedom; it was more complicated than that. I could see there were basically two strategies of playing. I could play the “free” way (like a maniac), attacking people at random and ignoring the storyline, but this would make the game reveal the boundaries of the freedom it offered, and would ironically make the experience more about constraints than about freedom. Or I could try to understand how the game worked, and then try to align my character’s choices and actions

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with the logic of the game. This way, whether a hero or a villain, my character would at least make sense in the game’s universe.

This led to a style of playing that was, in retrospect, exceedingly bizarre and almost fun-defeating in its absolute pursuit of in-universe logic. As I played off and on (more on than off; unfortunately Steam, the P.C. program through which I played Skyrim, logs and displays your hours, which means that right now I can check how many hours I have and… yes, it is a mindbogglingly, regret-and-shame-inducingly high sum) over the next few years, I would constantly restart the game with a new character. The reason I did this was simply that I was actually more interested in what wasn’t in the game than what was there. I liked to construct a unique backstory and sense of identity for each new character, which would become increasingly compromised as the game progressed and I began completing the same quests and doing the same things I had done many times before in previous, past lives.

Also, as my character grew absurdly powerful, it was hard to retain the sense of adventure, exploration and danger that had first drawn me to the game.

One fix for this is “mods,” which are unofficial fixes and additions that can be found online and downloaded.

Many of these purposefully make the game harder, or simply make it less play and more work. For instance, one of the most popular mods, Frostfall, allows you to freeze to death in the

snowy northern parts of the country or in frigid water. While in the original game you can gallop across the tundra willy-nilly or even fast-travel on the

Jack Jones Despite all the Amputations map, with Frostfall installed you ride everywhere on a horse that slows down when it gets too cold, and you are forced when travelling in the cold to stop at intervals, build a fire and take a

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few minutes sitting by it to warm up before continuing on. The fact that this mind-and-character-numbing addition

which is a huge step down from providing a world of characters that actually interact with and react to each other.

This may make you feel like a god, but after you’ve become the Dragonborn and the leader of the Thieves Guild and the head mage of the College of Winterhold and the leader of the Companions and the head assassin of the Dark Brotherhood, it’s hard not to feel that it’s all a bit hollow and contrived.

This is the kind of realization that caused a friend of mine to resort to in-game book collecting as the way to pass his Skyrim hours, before he decided that if he was going to spend his time reading, he might as well read real books rather than the possibly infinite fiveto-ten-page novels, COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES plays, and histories to the game actually excited me because that are scattered across the game’s of the increased “immersion” it offered landscape. says something about how deep down Like Ulysses or The Wire, Skyrim is in the rabbit hole I was. a work of art that attempts to create As you continue to play an open- and contain an entire world. Works like world game, the things that are at first these can only ever fail in the attempt, exciting because of their seeming ran- and then be measured by the degree of domness — in Skyrim, for instance, their failure; for how could any artist or assassins can be sent after you, high- even team of artists ever create a comwaymen will try to rob you and drag- bination of story and setting as comons will come flying out of nowhere, plex, unpredictable, inspiring and horscreeching — reveal themselves to be rifying as the story of humans on simply part of the game’s enormous Earth? Regardless, I had to stop playing algorithms. All of these events may finally. I had too many real things to remain unpredictable, but they stop do. being surprising after you’ve seen them enough times. Basically, the initial Jack Jones is a junior in the College of Arts and attraction of a full world of characters Sciences. Despite all the Amputations appears alterand creatures reveals itself to be only nate Thursdays this semester. He can be reached at focussed on serving you, the player, jjones@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Olympian Injured in Car Crash C.U.Set for Slate of

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Fresh off an impressive showing in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Spanish sprinter Bruno Hortelano-Roig ’14 has been hospitalized after he was in an alcohol-related car crash just outside of Madrid early Monday morning, suffering a “catastrophic hand injury” to his right hand.

Hortelano-Roig was travelling with his cousin who driving under the influence — at more than twice the legal alcohol limit at the time of the crash. According to AS English, his cousin had an alcohol level of 0.53 milligrams per liter; the legal limit is 0.25.

Hortelano-Roig was a passenger when the car flipped over onto its top. He suffered a serious injury

to his right hand, according to his agent Alberto Armas. He was then admitted to the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid where he has been treated for hand and head injuries.

“The hand was the most affected area and it has been reconstructed,” Armas told reporters. “The little finger is the only one that hasn’t been fully reconstructed. It’s too early to make a full evaluation but he is in good spirits. The important thing now is that his hand does not get infected.”

Although it was also reported that there were “catastrophic hand injuries with a risk of amputation,” at this moment, Hortelano-Roig is reportedly in “good spirits” and doing well after reconstructive surgery.

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“I expect a good start because the start to our training has been terrific,” Smith said. “But it is important to remember that all the races are important and we measure our success in each race (first or last) based on the effort we put out.”

Smith concluded, “If our group goes out and competes to the best of their ability right now we’ll have a successful weekend and will be setting the stage for exciting things in our meets to come… We couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to get started than with the meet this weekend.”

Action gets underway at 10 a.m.

Saturday.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

Achindra Krishna can be reached at akrishna@cornellsun.com.

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

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whom, “have demonstrated a great deal of composure and consistency so far this season in their training,” he said.

“There are always jitters and nerves when anyone does anything for the first time… but if they approach the race the way they’ve handled the first few weeks of practice I don’t anticipate anything that will get in their way,” Smith said.

While they hope for — and expect — a positive performance, the team is also ready for some soft spots to show up when all is said and done. According to the coach, this is an integral part of early season meets and the team’s subse-

quent development.

“I hope that we will discover things we’ll need to work on after we look back on this weekend’s race,” Smith stated. “At the same time, finding good achievements to celebrate will be fun, but we also look forward to finding the things to work on.”

That said, rigorous offseason training and strong individual results in last year’s track season point to a successful start to the 2016 campaign.

Smith would not go into specifics regarding results for the meet, but it appears his expectations are high. However, he did continue to stress the multitude of meets this season so as to not get overly caught up with each week’s results.

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“I look forward to seeing us each improve individually and as a team and then coming home with three more wins,” said junior Kit McCarty.

The Red has a 1-0 all-time record against UMKC while this is the squad’s first meeting with Bradley and NebraskaOmaha. Because of the team’s unfamiliarity with the opponents, Cornell is going into this weekend prepared for anything.

“We need to serve a bit more aggressively but other than that, just keep learning, working hard and getting better every day,” Vande Berg said.

The women find strength in the camaraderie that they have developed over the years to give them the extra edge they need.

“We are all very competitive athletes, so I know the desire to win is always present,” Sganderlla said. “No matter if we do win or if we lose, there is a camaraderie like no other team I have been a part of between us.”

McCarty agreed that the bonds between women on the team are incredibly important.

“My favorite part of being on Big Red Volleyball is getting to compete alongside my best friends, my teammates,” McCarty said.

This weekend will prove to be a weekend in which the women can establish their footing and propel forward.

“I think we are just getting used to playing with each other and we will only get better and better each game,” McCarty said. The junior was named to the Cornell Invitational AllTournament Team last weekend along with junior Emily Wemhoff.

“I'm really looking forward to getting back out on the court and having a successful weekend with my teammates,” Sganderlla said. “I know that we all enjoy playing in competitive matches with teams that will challenge us.”

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Red Travels to Midwest for Two-Day Tournament

Following second place finish last weekend, Cornell heads to Missouri for Kangaroo Klassic

By BRITTANY BIGGS and ACHINDRA KRISHNA Sun Staff Writers

Almost 1,000 miles from Ithaca, Cornell’s volleyball team will compete in the Midwest this weekend to take part in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Kangaroo Klassic. The Red will take on the host school, as well as Bradley and Nebraska at Omaha over a two-day event. The Red, currently sitting at 2-1, is looking to make a statement at the tournament.

“I’m really looking forward to getting to play teams from another region so far away,” said senior blocker Macey Wilson. “Getting to play those teams will challenge our team in a whole new way.”

Head coach Trudy Vande Berg similarly said she was looking forward to the opportunity to go against a different group of colleges than the schools the team usually

plays.

“It is exciting to see what we can do against teams from a different part of the country,” Vande Berg said. “I’m also very excited to get a few of our players closer to home so they can play in front of family and friends.”

Tournaments give the team a wide array of different opponents and can help get the Red on track for the upcoming season, according to sophomore Carla Sganderlla.

“Playing in tournaments with various teams always ends up being exciting and competitive,” Sganderlla said.

“Tournaments give us the opportunity to find our rhythm as a team which is important when we have six new players this year.”

On the road trip, the team will be facing a competitive group, but are confident in their prospects, much like last weekend when the team was able to secure a second place

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On the rise | Following a second place finish in last weekend’s Cornell Invitational, junior Emily Wenhoff and the Red will travel almost 1,000 miles to play in another tournament.

finish in the 2016 Cornell Invitational.

The weekend began with a 3-1 win over Colgate, followed by a tough 0-3 loss to James Madison. The women then went on to beat Marist in a solid victory to cap off the weekend.

The season opener proved to be a thriller, with the first set itself going to 27-25. Set scores were 27-25, 18-25, 2518, 25-21. According to Vande Berg, it is always important to start off on the right foot, and it was no different here.

“It was huge,” Vande Berg said. “We had trouble closing last season so our ability to fight for the win against Colgate in that first set shows how far we have come.”

The Red went on to drop the next set before coming back strong and winning two back-to-back. Cornell as a whole outperformed Colgate in nearly all statistical metrics, but there was one player who stood out: freshman Jenna Phelps. “[Jenna] had an incredible debut against Colgate and for the entire weekend,” Vande Berg said “Having a middle that can score efficiently opens things up for our pin hitters.”

Phelps had a perfect game with zero errors and tacked on nine kills.

The next day started off on a lower note, as the girls fell to James Madison, 0-3 in the morning. Set scores were 1725, 16-25 and 18-25. Cornell struggled with its offense, only connecting on around 17 percent of the hits.

Later that evening, the women avenged their loss with a triumphant win over Marist. Following a closely contested first set, the tone was set for a tight competition.

Cornell edged out a 2-0 set advantage before giving up the third set. Marist was able to keep the momentum going taking a commanding 18-9 lead in the fourth set, before Cornell came back and sealed the victory in a win-by-two situation.

Vande Berg cited this as another example of the team’s improved ability to close out tight games this season.

Despite the loss, she said she saw positives in the defeat “No real lows [against James Madison],” she said. “We did a great job of fighting and adjusting throughout each of the matches. James Madison is a very good team and I think we played well against them, even in the loss.”

The Red hopes to continue the strong play at this weekend’s tournament.

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WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Cornell Opens Season With Penn State Invitational

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

For more than a decade, the cross country season began with a dual meet against the military academy at West Point — an opportunity for Cornell to knock the rust off from the offseason before some of the more competitive meets.

But this year is different. In just a few days, the majority of Cornell’s 47-member women’s cross country team will head down to State College, P.A. for an ultra-competitive invite hosted by Penn State.

The Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational will feature seven Division I schools — four of which are ranked in the top 25 nationally — and will provide an early test for the Red, unlike first contests in previous years.

Still, the team is not shying away from the opportunity and is looking forward to the test.

“Our team is very excited

about this,” said head coach Artie Smith. “The meet this weekend at Penn State will be an excellent opportunity to get our feet wet right away by competing against a good sized field of roughly seven Division I schools that includes several nationally ranked women’s teams.”

Cornell will compete against No. 15 Syracuse, No. 19 Georgetown, No. 38 West Virginia, No. 23 Princeton, St. Joseph’s and host Penn State, ranked 13th.

As the team prepares for Saturday, each member must be ready to compete both physically and mentally, and the mindset for real competition is markedly different from that of practice runs.

“One of the hard things at this time of year is transitioning from a training mentality to a racing mentality … [competing] does take a different type of mindset,” Smith said. “Callousing oneself to the grind of racing and getting used to the decisions and effort

that go into competing are skills that need honing.”

Oftentimes a team’s first meet means added pressure on the athletes to perform at their highest levels, but Smith does not seem worried by this. Instead, he views

it like any other week.

“I would hope there is not added pressure,” Smith said. “All I ask is that each woman on the team gives their very best effort.

Whether that is the first meet of the season or the NCAA

Championships, that best effort is all we expect and all they can expect of themselves.”

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Born to run | The Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational features seven Division I schools, including four teams currently ranked in the top 25.