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A developer has pulled out of his planned redevelopment of The Nines, but the bar may still be closing soon. | Page 3

Jake Jatis ’18, officially a quarterback, serves many other roles on the team’s new offense. | Page 16

The Red utterly dominated Brown in front of a 13,000plus Homecoming crowd en route to its 34-7 win. | Page 16

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Homecoming trouncing

President delivers her first State of the University address

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Cornell routed Brown, 34-7, on Homecoming, making this the first season the Red have downed Harvard and Brown since 1999.

Alumnus Writes, Directs Hulu Documentary

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

If Josh Greenbaum ’01 knew one thing for sure, he knew he liked comedy.

When he was about 17, he sat down to watch the pilot episode of “The Dana Carvey Show,” excited that a comedian he had long looked up to was finally getting his own show.

But when he watched the first episode with his parents, they got up after the first skit and said, “this is garbage.”

While Greenbaum, in an interview on Sunday, said he liked the show and saw it as pushing the boundaries of primetime television, he was disheartened to discover that most people did not agree. Many viewers, like his parents, were not amused by a show in which the first skit featured President Bill Clinton breast feeding kittens and other animals.

The show was canceled after only seven episodes.

Years later, Greenbaum’s love for comedy led him to write and direct the Hulu documentary, Too Funny to Fail: The Life

and Death of The Dana Carvey Show, which premiered on Saturday and looks at why The Dana Carvey Show, with a who’s who of comedy including Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and Dana Carvey, “spectacularly failed.”

This is Greenbaum’s third feature film, following The Short Game (2013) and Becoming Bond (2017).

“I wanted to go find out the story GREENBAUM ’01 behind that show — how did it come about and how did it crash and burn so quickly and so spectacularly?” Greenbaum told The Sun of his newest documentary.

“I just felt that it would be a very funny story told by very funny characters,” he said, adding that he was “excited to jump into that world” of comedy.

See DOCUMENTARY page 4

In her first State of the University address, Martha E. Pollack, Cornell’s 14th president, said on Friday morning that the University is on the “cusp of a new era” in which she wants to prioritize a “culture of educational verve” both at the Ithaca campus and in New York City.

Pollack, who began her term in April, also repeated her commitment to free speech and said the University community needs to be more kind following a series of controversial incidents including an altercation in which a student said he was assaulted because of his race.

Speaking to an audience of hundreds of trustees and University Council members in Statler Hall, See POLLACK page 4 CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

State of the University | Pollack delivers a brief address to trustees and others on Friday at Statler Hall.

Judge to Sentence Ithaca Man Who Had Fake Green Card During ICE Arrest

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The Ithaca man arrested by immigration agents in the spring will be sentenced in federal court on Friday after pleading guilty to possessing a fake green card, as new court documents shed light on the man’s life in Mexico, where he was shot twice, and his “treacherous” journey to the United States more than 11 years ago.

José Guzman-Lopez, the 32-year-old undocumented immigrant whose arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in May sparked outrage from many politicians and residents of Ithaca, which calls itself a sanctuary city, has been in federal custody since May 2.

Guzman-Lopez’s lawyers, arguing that

he should receive no further sentence, said his nearly six months in jail is sufficient punishment for possessing a counterfeit alien registration card, commonly referred

to as a green card.

A judge will sentence Guzman-Lopez in federal court in Binghamton at noon on Friday, following the 32-year-old’s admis-

Iced out | Ithacans protest the arrest of José Guzman-Lopez in May by ICE agents.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

sion that he had the fake document in his pocket when ICE agents arrested him in Ithaca on May 2.

Guzman-Lopez was born in Juxalja, a town in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala, his lawyers said in court. He left his parents, who work as coffee farmers, at 9 years old to flee violence against Mayan ethnic groups in the state, including the Tzeltal people, of which Guzman-Lopez is a member. He began attending a boarding school in Zinacantán, six hours from his home, his lawyers said. His uncle was later killed in the conflict.

Guzman-Lopez was shot twice during “bouts of random street violence” after gradSee JOSE page 4

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Nines Redevelopment on Hold After Developer Backs Off

By JULIETTE OVADIA Sun Staff Writer

The developer behind a proposal that would have turned a beloved bar and restaurant, The Nines, into a six-story apartment building has backed away from the Collegetown project, he told The Sun on Sunday.

The news may keep the historic business’s corn nuggets coming for a bit longer, but the developer, Todd Fox of Visum Development, said The Nines’ owners have another buyer, so the business may still be coming to a close.

Fox’s proposal called for a total demolition and redevelopment of the building at 311 College Ave., and would have constructed a 45-unit, six-story commercial rental property in its place, The Sun previously reported.

Facing public backlash, Cornell’s announcement that it plans to add 2,000 on-campus beds by 2021 and a fear that the cost of the project would begin “spiraling out of control,” Fox ultimately withdrew from the project.

“At the time that we originally made the purchase offer, we felt much more bullish on the student rental market,” he said in an email. “We've personally noticed less demand in the market over the last year and with ture.

While lacking an official landmark designation, The Cornell's latest announcement to add 2000 on campus beds, we know the market will only continue to soften.” Nines building on College Avenue includes both the “We were at a critical juncture in which the risk original No. 9 Ithaca Fire Station, built in 1895, and a 1908 addition at its front. The became too great,” he added.

W.H. Sage Fire Company was Fox said that “roadblocks” during the planning process also “We started to see the potential formed in 1894 to serve the growing population in influenced his decision to withcost of the project spiraling Collegetown. In 1971, Ithaca draw the proposal. Owners of The out of control. sold the building, noting that it Nines could not be reached for no longer served its needs, and comment on Sunday evening.

Todd Fox the current fire station was built “We started to see the potential next door. cost of the project spiraling out of The building is eligible for historic preservation by control,” Fox said. “We were already overpaying for the land and where we think the market is going over the the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the fact that there is not an active application for next 5 years, we had no room for error.”

The reluctance of the City of Ithaca Planning and reviewing the site could lead the commission to take Development Board to sanction the demolition may up the issue.

The project is a microcosm for the larger debate have also played a role in Visum Development’s depar-

Big Red spirit

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Nuggets at Nines | Public backlash and several “roadblocks”, led Visum Development to rescind its proposal for constructing a six-story commercial rental property in place of The Nines.

between those favoring economic development in Collegetown and those putting a greater priority on historic preservation.

Fox said he has “a lot of money invested in this project” and had hoped things could be worked out, but that the sellers had made the project difficult “We needed some relief and cooperation from the sellers in order to continue down the planning process and at the very least be able to determine what the true [cost] would be to develop,” Fox said, adding: “Apparently the sellers have another buyer and they decided not to be amenable to our request.”

No one answered an office number for The Nines’ management and someone who picked up the phone at the restaurant said they were not authorized to speak about the development. That person added that one of the owners, Mark Kielmann, was out of town.

Juliette Ovadia can be reached at jovadia@cornellsun.com.

Freshman’s Video Depicting College Transition Goes Viral

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Editor

MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Big Red Marching Band contributes to the jovial mood at Homecoming this Saturday. Cornell is 2-1 in the Ivy League for the first time since 2001.

Freshmen at colleges across the country are getting used to their new lives away from home, and some have a harder time adjusting than others.

For Emery Bergmann ’21 — the Cornell freshman whose short film on transitioning into college has gone viral — getting acclimated and finding new friends on campus proved more difficult than she had anticipated.

Bergmann spent her first week on campus observing hordes of freshman migrating to Collegetown parties, dining halls or relaxing in the dormitories in large groups. She told The Sun she felt frustrated, lonely and isolated from the large amoebas of students.

“I knew that there were other people in my position,” she said in an interview, “but I just felt like I wasn’t seeing it. There’s no way I’m the only person on this campus that’s not making friends, but from what I saw, it felt like it was only me.”

A fine arts major from Montclair, New Jersey, Bergmann made the video for a digital media class that had tasked her and other students with making a movie that depicted a transformation.

Her video was later featured on the parenting section of the TODAY Show website, and she told the show that she focused the video on something she had “strong feelings about” so that she would enjoy the process of producing it.

“You can be surrounded by people, but still feel alone,” Bergmann said in her film, which highlighted her anxiety about being separated from old friends during college, as well as her struggle to find friends at Cornell.

Social media only intensified her loneli-

ness at Cornell by constantly reminding her of her friends and family back home, she said. She saw people she knew having fun with new peers on Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, while she felt lonely. The posts added pressure on her to join the social circles that it appeared her friends had no problem finding.

The way college is often portrayed as the “best four years of your life,” Bergmann said, puts pressure on students to adjust quickly and find friends, a process that is “not something immediate, as I expected it to be.”

Joining student organizations did not help, Bergmann said in the film, since having similar interests as other students does not always translate to forming social bonds.

Several months into her first semester at Cornell, Bergmann’s mother wrote her a letter detailing her own struggle to adjust to college life, which led Bergmann to realize that she should not feel so strongly compelled to immediately make friends.

“After receiving the letter from my mom, I had my mini-epiphany and realized how unfair I was being to myself and others, expecting everything to work out perfectly in the first two months,” Bergmann told TODAY Parents.

Bergmann, in her interview with The Sun, had advice for students who feel disheartened about their first two or three months at school.

“People are afraid to confront the fact that it’s not easy to make friends,” she said.

“It’s not going to come as quickly as everyone thinks it’s going to.”

Her video, on YouTube, has been viewed more than 69,000 times.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com.

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Pollack: Cornell at the ‘Cusp of a New Era’ Alum’s Love for POLLACK

2021 are first-generation college students.

But Pollack also said this diverse community of students must be based on “a lot more kindness” and referred to a series Pollack said she believes Cornell “can be the model of a rele- of incidents perceived as racist, anti-semitic and xenophobic vant, premier university for the 21st century” if it prioritizes that were “anything but compatible” with the University’s three things: conducting research that addresses societal issues, commitment to diversity. providing engaged and evidence-based education, and creat“And, alas, there have been many similar incidents recently ing a community of diverse people who work across differ- on college campuses across the country,” she said. “But ences in perspective.

Cornell must take a strong stance and be a leader in repudiatPollack ticked off a series of projects student and faculty are ing hatred and intolerance.” working on, including a student’s efforts to compile collective Pollack has repeatedly stressed the importance of free bargaining agreements and professor’s work with Cornell speech since arriving at Cornell, and she continued to do so Neurotech, which she said is on Friday, saying that the developing tools to reveal inner University’s mission of housing workings of the brain. These pro- “Cornell must take a strong stance and a “free interchange of ideas” has jects, she said, “are building on the be a leader in repudiating hatred and “a special responsibility to be breadth of expertise that is so funopen to all thought and to guarintolerance.” damental to Cornell” and which is antee freedom of expression.” matched by few other universities.

She noted, though, as she President Martha Pollack Also distinguishing Cornell, has previously, that there are Pollack said, is its having both the some limits to free speech, such Ithaca campus and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt as when speech is part of harassment or serious threats.

Island, which officially opened in September. Cornell, Pollack “Institutions can put in place reasonable, content-neutral limsaid, is “doubling down” on its historic New York City pres- its on the time, place and manner in which protected speech ence — the medical school has been in Manhattan since can occur,” she said.

1898, she noted — and creating pathways for the two locaHarrison, in introducing Pollack, said that upholding the tions to enhance each other. right to free speech is “nowhere more important than on Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bob Harrison ’76, said University campuses.”

Cornell Tech “is precisely what Ezra Cornell would have The hundreds of trustees and council members also honwanted for our next chapter.” ored former chair of the Board of Trustees, Peter Meinig ’61, The most boisterous moment of Pollack’s address came who died in September, with a moment of silence. when she said Cornell is “a private university with a public Pollack said Cornell stands “at the cusp of a new era for the Michigan,” accidentally naming the University where she University, in which we can and will be the model of a releworked for nearly 17 years, most recently as provost and exec- vant, premier university for the 21st century.” utive vice president for academic affairs.

“We do not yet know the full dimensions of what lies Pollack laughed along with trustees at the flub before ahead,” she said, “but I am convinced that we are at a moment shouting out, “Note what color I’m wearing!” referring to her that is transformational for Cornell and for the role we can scarlet dress. play in the world.”

The president also lauded what Harrison said is an “incredibly diverse” student body at Cornell, and she noted Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at that 12.9 percent of students in the undergraduate Class of nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Judge to Sentence Man for Having Fake Green Card JOSE

11 years, his lawyers said. He worked six days each week for 12 hours each day and, for five years, uating from the boarding school lived alone with his cat. and enrolling in high school and “This has been his life for over a college in Mexico City, his federal decade,” Wolfson and Peebles said. public defenders, Martin Wolfson What put Guzman-Lopez on and Lisa A. Peebles, said. Once, a ICE’s radar was a drunken brawl in 2013 in which a man was stabbed with a “Jose has called the United States home kitchen steak knife for over a decade. All of his friends are and was transported to Upstate University in the United States.”

Hospital in Syracuse.

The victim, in a stateMartin Wolfson and Lisa A. Peebles ment to police at the time, said he was bullet grazed his leg while he was fighting with Guzman-Lopez at his walking to school, and, in a separate apartment when he was stabbed, incident, he was at work when a but said he did not know who had bullet grazed his right shoulder. stabbed him and that it was not A desire to escape the violence Guzman-Lopez. and provide for his family led Ithaca Police arrested GuzmanGuzman-Lopez to make a “treacher- Lopez hours after the altercation ous journey” to the United States, and accused him of stabbing the his lawyers said, although they did unnamed victim, but prosecutors not elaborate on how he immigrat- never indicted him because of a lack ed to the U.S. of evidence. On June 30, GuzmanHe first moved to New Jersey Lopez pleaded guilty to a muchand, several months later, moved to reduced charge of disorderly conIthaca, where he has lived for about duct, said Jeffrey Walker, an Ithaca Continued from page 1

lawyer who represented GuzmanLopez in that case..

His federal public defenders said in court that Guzman-Lopez was walking to pay his phone bill when ICE agents, who had been surveilling his house, arrested him on Cascadilla Street and searched him.

When they found the fake green card, Guzman-Lopez admitted it was a fake document, his lawyers said.

“Jose has called the United States home for over a decade,” Wolfson and Peebles, his federal public defenders, told the court. “All of his friends are in the United States. His estranged wife is in the United States. Jose was part of the social fabric of his community.”

Regardless of the sentence issued on Friday, Guzman-Lopez will still be facing deportation and will go through immigration court with a new attorney. He is currently in the custody of U.S. Marshals in the Cayuga County Jail.

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

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Comedy Spurs Idea For Hulu Original DOCUMENTARY Continued from page 1

Though Greenbaum took a few film and film criticism classes at Cornell, he majored in psychology and his interest in film did not fully develop until after leaving the University. He said his time at Cornell helped pair him up with individuals who he worked with throughout his career and encouraged him to explore the question of why certain things happen.

“All of my psychology background, not in a direct way, more in an indirect way, surfaces constantly in my work.”

Josh Greenbaum ’01 “The part that I constantly draw back from my Cornell experience was, given my psychology major, I was really interested in why people do the things they do — what motivates us,” he said, “and that’s something, when you’re writing and directing, you’re constantly asking that question.”

“You really want to get to the human truth of why someone is going to behave a certain way,” he continued. “All of my psychology background, not in a direct way, more in an indirect way, surfaces constantly in my work.”

The latest documentary project also had additional help from three Cornell seniors: Andrea Farr, Troy Bridson and Brendan Coyle.

Farr and Bridson interned directly with Greenbaum while Coyle interned at an independent production company for Too Funny to Fail, Delirio Films. All three participated in Cornell in Hollywood, an alumni-run program that pairs students interested in film with alumni.

“They were helping me with a lot of different projects I was working on, this being one of them,” Greenbaum said. “I try to test my films on all sorts of audiences, and all three of them were wonderful and smart having come from Cornell, but they were also young, which was nice, because it was like, ‘How does this play for a 21-year-old who has never heard of Dana Carvey?’”

Coyle told The Sun his work on the documentary — researching and finding original copies of specific Batman and Robin comic books for one of the sketches — was “really satisfying.”

“I was searching through these different forums where people were posting suggestive comic panels of Batman and Robin and I came across this one that they didn’t know about,” he said.

The research “really paid off,” Coyle said, when he watched the documentary and saw the comic panel he had found appear in the film.

Greenbaum said he is optimistic for the success of the documentary, noting that he has received positive feedback from Hulu and subjects of his documentary, including Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey himself.

Too Funny To Fail also currently has a 100 percent rating on movie-rating website, Rotten Tomatoes.

“It’s nice to have your subjects also proud,” Greenbaum said. “They put a lot of trust and faith in you as a filmmaker when they let you tell their story, so that was a nice note to get this morning from both Dana Carvey and Robert Smigel that they both loved the doc.

“These are guys I’ve looked up to for a long time,” he said. “There’s that expression, ‘Never meet your heroes because they’ll only let you down,’ and I’ve had kind of the opposite experience meeting these guys. They were kind, gracious, really giving of their time and really, really funny.”

The documentary is currently streaming exclusively on Hulu.

Anu Subramaniam can be reached at asubramaniam@cornellsun.com.

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To the Trustees

EVERY FALL, MEMBERS OF THE CORNELL BOARD of Trustees and the Cornell University Council arrive in Ithaca for a whirlwind weekend of meetings, presentations, speeches and socializing. While we always appreciate the presence of Cornell’s supreme authority on campus, we hope that the trustees and councilmembers seize this brief opportunity to interact as much with the student body as possible, and we hope that the University administration addresses the need to bring trustees in contact with students in unstructured ways.

Members of the Board of Trustees have the unenviable task of performing two full-time jobs at once. They are CEOs and managing partners, NBA owners and philanthropists, and for much of the year we understand that Cornell may not be their primary focus. But for these four days, they have the ability to reconnect with their alma mater in a substantive way that too often goes underutilized.

Cornell is an institution in motion. It is not the same university it was 20 years ago, or 20 years before that. The pressures on students, both academic and financial, exist in ways that may be unfamiliar to those who experienced Cornell last century. It is imperative that the trustees appraise the university as it really is now, not how it was when they graduated, or how the administration chooses to present it during the highly organized events this weekend. The best way for the trustees to do this is talk to students.

While certain students are afforded the opportunity to interact with Cornell’s governing body, it is unreasonable to think those few instances can expose the trustees to the depth and breadth of the Cornell community. The Board already insists on limiting student representation to one undergraduate trustee (in previous years there have been as many as five undergraduate members), and even when they find themselves physically on campus, the trustees largely interact with students hand-picked by the administration to comment on specific issues. Again, this is no way to fully understand a community.

To the trustees, we implore you to take advantage of your time in Ithaca. There are 361 days of the year for progress reports and fundraisers and chicken dinners.

There are only four days when you can walk up to a group of seniors lounging on the Arts Quad and get a truly unvarnished assessment of life at Cornell. There are only four days when you can chat with a sophomore before their history class about how difficult it really is to find affordable housing in Collegetown. Four days to hear how humanities students and faculty are adjusting to an increasingly STEM-focus academic space, to find out how the campus climate really feels for students of color following last month’s events, to speak to the students who the University wouldn’t think to make available.

Chairman Harrison, Vice Chairmen Winokur and Croll, trustees, councilmembers — there is so much to discuss. Let’s chat.

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ersonally, I plan to save Mt. Olympus and receive the gift of immortality from Zeus himself.

But the rest of you yahoos better start figuring out the meaning of life. You ain’t getting any younger, sweetheart. Luckily I have a story that just might help you out.

I went to a family wedding in San Diego this summer. The bride was a second-cousin of mine; the daughter of my grandfather’s brother. Even though Grandpa passed away ten years ago, my widowed grandmother still came to California with us to attend the nuptials of her favorite niece. The situation sounds rather sad, but she never made it so. At 74 years old, Grandma was still the life of the party. She drank wine, she made wisecracks about all the wine she was drinking, and at one point she

with white hair and white stubble. Pete had Parkinson’s; he shook when he walked, he teetered when he stood still, and his voice was soft and slurred. “I normally can’t talk,” he said, as my family and I strained to hear, “the pills make me feel better, but they stop me from talking. I got to pick.” Plainly he had chosen not to take the pills because of our visit. I told myself that I would not mentally check out of the conversation no matter how boring it was.

I soon found out that my vow would not be difficult to keep. Pete was a reallife version of the most interesting man in the world. Entrepreneurship was his trade; he’d become a millionaire many times over by creating, growing, and selling off companies. He described his most recent venture, isolated cabins in Montana marketed to wealthy people

She lampooned her Armenian in-laws with Armenia jokes too esoteric to recount here, but she made jokes about her own Greek heritage as well. It was almost Godfather-like the way people lined up for a chance to speak to her. remarked that the groom looked virile.

Funniest of all was her irreverent nationality-based humor. She lampooned her Armenian in-laws with Armenia jokes too esoteric to recount here, but she made jokes about her own Greek heritage as well. It was almost Godfather-like the way people lined up for a chance to speak to her.

After the ceremony, my father and I travelled to Los Angeles with my grandma and my aunt. We were going to visit a relation from the seldom-seen Greek side of the family; a cousin of my grandmother’s around the same age that she was. Their neighborhood, a suburb outside of the city, was as high-class as it gets. It was a neighborhood of rich people who imitated poor people because they were so rich that they didn’t have to prove it. The houses were small and made to look like simple pueblos. Or rather, they were made to look like simple pueblos with immaculate gated lawns and in-ground pools. I had a sneaking suspicion that I wouldn’t get another chance to hear Grandma’s favorite ribald Greek joke. (“How do you separate the men from the boys in the Greek navy?”)

We pulled up the long driveway and saw an older woman for us outside the front door. She was the relative we had come to see; I did the math after the fact, and I think we’re third cousins once removed or some such thing. I’d been expecting an old stooped yia-yia, but her form-fitting dress and heavy makeup made her look like an aged beauty queen.

She took us inside and introduced us to her husband Pete, a good-looking man

looking for an escape. I listened raptly to every word.

Before Pete was a businessman, he was a hippie. He travelled the world with his guitar, acquiring food and shelter with friendliness and charisma. In the 60’s, he lived with a farmer in Morocco. Pete helped with the chores and played music in exchange for room and board, and he and the farmer became close friends.

Eventually Pete had to leave. The farmer was very poor, but he wanted to give his friend something to remember him by.

All he had were a few small wooden beads, old and worn. “They’re magic,” he jokingly told Pete, “use them well.”

Years later, Pete and his first wife were down on their luck in Germany. They had no money and no place to sleep. Pete knocked on the door of a hostel and spoke to the proprietor. “I don’t have any money,” he admitted, “but I do have these beads.” He explained that the beads had belonged to his good friend, that they were given as a gift by someone who had nothing else to give, that they were his most prized possession. The woman in charge of the hostel was moved to tears. She took the beads, and she let Pete and his wife stay for as long as they needed to.

I’m pretty sure the meaning of life is in that story somewhere. If I had to put it into words, I’d say that we make our own magic.

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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OPINION

Ezra’s Oracle

Sesha Kammula ’19 | Guest Room

You Too O

n October 15, Alyssa Milano tweeted a picture reading, “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” The phrase blew up overnight, with people replying to her tweet, tweeting and posting their own statuses, and coming forward to share their own stories. Me too became a simple, powerful way to add a voice to the flood of people demanding change.

Many people also stepped forward as allies, plastering social media with angry messages calling for the need to respect women, believe survivors of assault and shut down the culture of silence that surrounds issues of sexual misconduct.

But the first time I saw the hashtag #metoo, the context wasn’t solidarity with victims of sexual harassment or assault. It wasn’t in a thoughtful piece of writing analyzing the various power differentials that prop up a culture that ignores abuse. Instead, it was in a Facebook post, written by a man, mocking the idea that everyone who has and will post #metoo has been taken advantage of. Even when reading the stories of strangers, someone always finds a way to doubt the validity of their claims. Someone is always willing to play devil’s advocate and say that awareness of sexual assault will only lead to more lies.

This is where the real issue resides.

Me too is a powerful phrase, but even so it is a symptom of rape culture. There’s a reason why it’s “me too” and not “you too.” Every person who comes forward is helping raise awareness, but it is not the responsibility of the individual who was catcalled on the street, or groped on the train, or raped at a frat party to make themselves vulnerable. It is not my responsibility to tell you why I don’t find your joke funny. It is not my responsibility to say “not all men” because a stranger on the internet doesn’t understand that the threat of sexual violence is more important to publicize than the possibility of hurting someone’s feelings.

It is not my responsibility to say “it happened to me” because someone else refuses to say “I did it to you.”

Increased visibility can help solidify our understanding of the shocking frequency of sexual harassment and assault, and everyone who attaches their name to this movement is helping drive home the reality of daily systematic victimization.

However, what is more important is changing the target of conversations surrounding sexual assault from the recipients to the perpetrators. Rather than investigating whether every accusation of sexual misconduct is true or not, the media should focus on those who commit sexual crimes. It shouldn’t matter where they worked or what sport they played, it shouldn’t matter who was drunk or how long they knew each other. It is a matter of taking personal responsibility and changing the way sexual assault is viewed. Furthermore, it is a matter of being critical of the way people are treated in our daily lives, and how that treatment perpetuates an environment where it takes media coverage, a trending hashtag and the relative anonymity of the internet to present ourselves as strong allies.

To every school administrator who tells girls to cover up because they are dressed distractingly, you are part of the problem. You are helping to foster a culture of passive objectification, which excuses active violence in the future.

To every man who says that he cares about sexual assault because he is a father of a daughter, you are part of the problem. By using your child as a springboard to care about social issues you are implying that if it’s not your child, it’s not your problem.

To everyone whose first instinct when scrolling through your newsfeed is to skip past the posts that say #metoo, you are part of the problem. By allowing yourself to become so desensitized to the issue of sexual violence that everything is just one more retweet, one more shared news article, one more rant, you are part of the problem. Don’t just let yourself care about the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.

Don’t just care when it happens to someone you know. Instead, ask yourself if you, too, can do more.

Sesha Kammula ’19 is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Q: What’s the story behind the “Ithaca is Gorges” phrase?

— Ithaca is Cold ’14 A: The ubiquitous “Ithaca is Gorges” slogan was coined by Cornellian Howard Cogan ’50, MPS ’80 in the 1970s, capturing the beauty of Ithaca’s natural areas. Cogan spent his career working in advertising and public relations, later joining the faculty of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. To help promote the Ithaca area and local tourism, Cogan chose not to trademark his famous catchphrase, allowing businesses to use it freely. Decades later, Cogan’s legacy lives on and “Ithaca is Gorges” has established itself as a key part of our local identity.

Narayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

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Why Asian-Americans Should Love Themselves

asked a boy out on a date for the first time. I knew I caught feelings when I wasn’t just jealous.

He’s a vision of my inner self-image, and I guess all this self-love has been working since I just think he's so sunny and dreamy and extra.

I asked him out real timid-like in a text because I got a 40 on the first prelim, but I wouldn't have done it in person even if I was still enrolled.

As soon as I pressed send, I instantly regretted it. He only had an insufferable Cornell Crushes post and a sanitized Facebook profile picture and wall to go off of. He doesn't know the “real” me. The firebrand.

If I had it my way, caked-on mascara and painted-on jeans would sell sex. My columns would sell wokeness. He doesn't know that I have lashes for days or enlightened thoughts. He probably thinks I'm gasping for air. And he'd be right.

My profile picture isn’t just of me. My sister stands to my right.

Despite never usurping my “golden boy” title, she has been my fiercest defender — and makeup artist — since literally day one (a little later for the latter). Having the courage to write and ask him out makes me feel like I’m becoming my best self.

If it weren’t for my family, however, I couldn’t dream of doing either.

Unfortunately, living my truth also makes me feel like I’m becoming the worst brother and son. There was a time when I thought I fell in love, and later realized how disrespectful I was for abusing that word. I can’t be a firebrand because I love my family.

This truth rips me apart. At one extreme, I am tied down by nothing except a burning desire for freedom.

I remain frustrated at oppression as it continues to desecrate lives, and feel unapologetic fierceness is the only means of survival.

At the other extreme, I am awash with guilt. It comes with the humanity that coldness forces me to erase, including that of the people I love. It’s easy to view people as sub-

jects of an oppression built and strengthened over ages and across lands. It’s harder to accept that each individual lives the best that they can during the localized decades of their life, if they’re lucky. I am aware that being “split” is every AsianAmerican identity, but that's not our fault. It would still be suffocating if I kept trying to be as nonstereotypical as possible, making myself into a stereotype in itself and supporting the notion that people of color are not capable of embodying the complexity of the human condition. We don’t have to sacrifice everything we were to become who we are.

multiple dimensions of our identities into a public that has defined us all by one. Consciously engaging with our interconnectedness and intersectionality would strengthen our relationships and inspire new ones as we take up increasingly more space to exist. Existence compels individuals to accept their own humanity and, in turn, define their larger purpose within it. This wouldn’t be defining ourselves by oppression, but in awareness of, in spite of and in resistance against it.

This is the first step towards establishing a real, reclaimed AsianAmerican community held together by love and support for one another and ultimately ourselves. Who am I to think I know her because she told me she’s pre-med? I expect other AsianAmericans to empathize with me in the same way that I’d do for her. They must look further into these seemingly polar narratives and see the similar structures between them and their own.

Two columns ago, I declared my wish to be reincarnated as a rich liberal, gay white man. In my last one, I implied it. By seeing more of the beauty in complexity and struggle, I have since felt more comfortable in my skin. I’m still dark though.

Especially when I write.

If you get the now ironic theme of “Reddy, Set, Go!” then it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he initially said yes — a surprise — then went dark. It didn’t help that the status update breaking my Facebook fast was really out there. Apparently, being a two-faced rakshasa is a dealbreaker. Oh well. It was still a big step for me, and I’m still me.

Anyways, back to the Google Doc.

My greatest fear is being forced to play a supporting character in my own life, an injustice most Asian-Americans have experienced but are not necessarily aware of.

Instead, I choose to confront my splitness. This requires the centering of the people in my life, starting with my loved ones. My greatest fear is being forced to play a supporting character in my own life, an injustice most Asian-Americans have experienced but are not necessarily aware of. I struggle against it by publishing the radical act of reflecting on what it means to be a gay brown boy, brother, son and maybe boyfriend someday; I don’t know.

My mother, father and sister will probably never get to tell their stories in the same way I have perceived and erased theirs to tell mine. In doing so, I have dragged them into my own nightmare. To make matters worse, it’ll never be the one my parents thought would complete theirs. Instead of ignoring or relieving this tension, Asian-Americans should embrace it.

This may seem counterproductive, but it would actually bring the

Narayan Reddy is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com. Reddy, Set, Go! appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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OPINION

Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

Unfit for Office

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he world’s frustrations with Donald Trump seem to have largely focused on his constant insults and his overt racism and misogyny. These are, of course, perfectly legitimate and accurate criticisms.

However, I am extremely concerned that these criticisms have become so constant and so overwhelming that they have overshadowed an even more pressing and problematic concern: the president’s competency and stability.

But perhaps the most troubling example of Trump’s incompetence is his inability to truly understand his mistakes. The presidency is a job that requires constant adjustment and self-reflection; and this is because there is one ultimate truth about the office: Presidents make mistakes –– they always have, and they always will. Yet Trump seems to believe that he is immune from mistakes –– that he is somehow above the failures that have burdened his predecessors.

His frequent spelling and grammatical errors, rambling statements, and inaccurate claims are enough to make one question the president’s intellectual capacity. But unfortunately for the country, these highly public instances of incompetence are only the tip of a very, very large iceberg.

On their façade, questions of Trump’s intelligence may appear comical. His frequent spelling and grammatical errors, rambling statements, and inaccurate claims are enough to make one question the president’s intellectual capacity. But unfortunately for the country, these highly public instances of incompetence are only the tip of a very, very large iceberg.

First, Trump does not seem to have even the most basic grasp of policy issues. For example, when pressed on the nuclear triad –– a phrase used to describe America’s capacity to launch nuclear weapons via intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines, and bombers –– during the 2016 primary campaign, Trump quite clearly had no idea what the debate moderator was talking about. This lack of understanding is perhaps the result of Trump’s unwillingness to ever pick up a book.

When asked by a reporter in 2016 if he ever read books, Trump replied: “I never have.” Think about that for a moment: a president that does not read.

He has refused to analyze his faults for the failure of the Obamacare repeal, the chaos of Charlottesville and the absurdity of the administration’s ties to Russia.

In addition to the president’s incompetence, there is much to worry about regarding his mental stability.

There have recently been a flurry of reports in which administration officials describe Trump as child who is teetering on the edge of insanity. A recent NBC report that quoted national security officials claims that Trump declared that the nation should increase its nuclear arsenal ten-fold. And Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) stated it best when he tweeted, “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.”

These reports are truly terrifying. The man who holds the power to destroy nations is, mentally, nothing more than an eight-year-old child; and this child wishes to drastically increase America’s nuclear arsenal. For any sane person, that should be cause for extreme concern.

The stresses of the presidency are enough to put great

strain on even the most sane and competent leaders. Yet for a man who has quite clearly shown a lack of both competence and sanity, the president seems all but doomed to collapse under the immense pressure of the office. And with this in mind, I honestly believe that we need to start having a serious conversation about Trump’s fitness for office.

The most basic and important bar that an individual must meet to be considered fit for the office of the presidency is a high degree of rationality. In a world filled with irrational actors –– from the crazed madmen of ISIS to the deranged North Korean government –– it is imperative that our president remain a force of stability.

Rationality, however, seems to be absent from the mind of Donald Trump. A rational person would not defend neo-Nazis, attack his own cabinet members, have personal feuds with nearly a third of senators from his own party, constantly berate women (i.e. Mika Brzezinski, Carly Fiorina, Megyn Kelly, etc.), or casually threaten to blow up the Korean peninsula on Twitter.

Because of this lack of rationality, there are beginning to be rumblings that the cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. This procedure would involve a vote by which a majority of the cabinet declares Trump unfit for office, whereby the Vice President would assume the duties of the presidency. There are also rumblings that Congress should take steps to begin the impeachment process.

I contend that neither of those options would produce desirable results. Trump’s supporters would likely respond in a vicious backlash that could threaten to further divide and polarize the country. Instead of going this route, I argue that we should instead start to have a very open and honest conversation about this man’s fitness for the office. Only by delegitimizing Trump will the entire nation wake up to the reality of President’s inability to fully carry out the duties of his office.

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun.com. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Louis Defelice | IvyWire

Banking for Love C

hase, Citi and American Express, among others, have sponsored my four-year (and counting) long-distance relationship. I am eternally grateful. Let me explain.

I left the country for the first time the summer before 12th grade. Soon after arriving in London I met a Dutch girl and, breaking the first rule of all good spy movies, I fell in love. Gloomily waiting in Heathrow two weeks later for my flight home, I heard a call over the intercom for volunteers, who would get a first-class ticket home, free meals and $900 to spend with American Airlines in the future. All they had to do was take a later flight out of London. I ran to the desk and took the deal. The ensuing trip home was pure luxury — hanging out in an airport lounge, being fed Ben and Jerry’s on board in a lie-flat seat, drinking port and discovering that it’s gross.

Though I was hooked on (luxury) travel and the ease with which I had been offered it, I was soon stuck in Washington, D.C, sharing a one-bedroom apartment with two other boys and living on pasta and oatmeal. During my gap year in Washington, I foresaw the problem I’d have to face while at Yale. My girlfriend and I would be separated by the Atlantic, without a bottomless bank account with which to fund regular visits.

By then, I’d realized how powerful money was. Working jobs as a restaurant dishwasher, cashier at Dunkin’ Donuts, air-conditioner cleaner and sidewalk busker, I was investing as much money as possible for the far-away future, obsessively eager to reap the benefits of com-

pound interest and effectively buy freedom for my future-self.

Saving works best when combined with frugality, and frugality doesn’t mesh well with international travel. But during the spring before freshman year, I found my financial silver bullet. With the right skills, I could regularly travel abroad for pennies on the dollar, often in first class.

I could stay with the person I loved, keep living frugally, and aggressively save.

I had discovered the world of “travel hacking.” And the lynchpin of travel hacking is the credit card industry.

Banks and other financial institutions offer credit cards to just about every consumer they can contact, and most come with sign-up bonuses, often in the form of points or miles. Those currencies are most lucrative when used for international travel.

Stumbling my way through a few failed applications for elite cards, I found I had to start small and build up a modest credit history. I opened a card designed for that very purpose and, after a year, became almost magically eligible for more credit cards. Somewhere during my freshman spring, the game became exponentially more lucrative. In addition to having an earned, positive credit history, I discovered a fantastic loophole: University scholarship money can be included in income on credit card applications. With this counted, I suddenly looked to lenders as if I earned tens of thousands of dollars more than I ever got through actual paychecks (thanks to Yale’s stellar financial aid program).

Finally, as an attractive client for most

of the major financial institutions in America, I’ve successfully applied for 12 credit cards over the course of roughly 18 months. I’ve earned more than 250,000 bonus points and spent about 335,000.

The value of all the free travel alone currently stands just under $7,000. My aver-

a new one, however, dings your credit score temporarily. Opening new cards also shortens your average age of credit, making it look like you’ve not been a trustworthy customer for as long as, say, someone with a 20-year credit history.

But opening new cards decreases your

Stumbling my way through a few failed applications for elite cards, I found I had to start small and build up a modest credit history. I opened a card designed for that very purpose and, after a year, became almost magically eligible for more credit cards. age cost per one-way flight across the Atlantic is $100. And that’s not because I couldn’t get some flights for free, but rather because some flights are cheap enough to justify spending actual money.

My financial philosophy generally involves working within the system, rather than trying to change it. But travel hacking is a wonderful combination of the two. It exploits and profits from a system that is designed to encourage an always-spending, ever-indebted population. And though its downsides may seem numerous and daunting, they are overestimated.

Here are some rules of thumb.

Having many credit cards is not in itself a bad thing. The act of applying for

credit-utilization ratio, which is a positive effect.

You should never open a credit card if you can’t afford to pay it off in full each month. That allows you to pay no interest on your purchases. Credit cards are not for spending money outside of your means.

But travel hacking allows you experiences that would likely otherwise be unaffordable. And though those experiences could be purchased, why spend money when you could spend points?

Louis DeFelice is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University. Contact him at louis.defelice@yale.edu .IvyWire appears periodically throughot the semester.

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Why the Hate for 3-D Animation?

fter I reviewed My Little Pony: The Movie a couple weeks ago, I did two things. First of all, I went to see the next available screening of It to set myself at balance. Second, I started to look around and see what other online critics had to say about the movie, a favorite pastime of mine. To my surprise, I found a number of comments saying things like, “Go see the movie! It’s the last chance to tell Hollywood that we want traditional, hand-drawn animation back!”

Ignoring the fact that My Little Pony actually featured Flash animation software, it reminded me of a topic I’ve wanted to talk about for some time.

Thus I present the question: When did 3-D animation become the enemy? Since when does CGI mean that an animated movie cannot be artistic?

First, I want to address the arguments that I hear. Many animation fans yearn for traditional animation, often saying that it’s more beautiful than 3-D animation. To be sure, traditional animation has produced some spectacular films. Artists have had the time to test it out and work the medium in many different ways.

Right there, though, is one of my first major points: traditional animation has had more time to develop than 3-D animation. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will celebrate its 80th birthday this December, while Toy Story will only be 22 this fall. For comparison, 22 years after Snow White we got Sleeping Beauty. Some of the Walt Disney studio’s greatest works, like The Lion King and The Little Mermaid, were years away. Who Framed Roger Rabbit was still three decades out! Don Bluth hadn’t created The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time.

What’s my point with this comparison? It’s to say that we haven’t seen CGI’s Little Mermaid or Lion King. We haven’t

yet seen a Don Bluth come out and challenge the medium to new heights. More powerful software and tools are being created all the time, and artists figure out how to use them with ever increasing skill. As a result, 3-D animation improves with every passing year.

I also want to say that I detest the implied assertion that an animator is somehow less artistic when utilizing computer animation. I’d like to point out that 3-D animation does have its own unique advantages. It’s true that hand-drawn animation lends itself more easily to abstraction and stylization. Characters that look good in 2-D rarely keep that quality when they jump to 3-D. However, 3-D animation can create a much more dynamic movie. For example, it is far easier to fill the screen with living crowds with CGI, rather than by hand. For example, coders assembled a new program for The Lion King to create the infamous wildebeest stampede! 3-D animation also allows for smaller subtleties, like a soft tilt or shake of the head, that are very tricky to get right in hand-drawn animation.

3-D animation also allows animators to move the “camera” around more freely, because the camera is actually a simulated point in space. In traditional animation, the “camera” is only within the mind of

David Gouldthorpe Animation Analysis the artists. This ties into another advantage of 3-D animation: a scene can be filmed from a different angle or otherwise changed much more easily. Computer animators can alter the simulation as needed. Meanwhile, hand-drawn animation must be entirely redone. It’s a much

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more expensive process that doesn’t allow for a lot of flexibility.

Of course, one may argue that studios should simply plan ahead, and only animate scenes when they’re nailed down.

That’s the main role of storyboarding after all: to sketch out what a scene will look like. It's quick and cheap compared to the trouble of actual animation. But with 3-D animation, the story can be altered even after the animation has begun. It allows for higher quality writing, since it has more time to develop and improve.

An excellent case study here is Zootopia. The movie takes place in a thriving metropolis, but the movie originally featured a far darker setting. It was a dystopia, where a full tenth of the population were obligated to wear shock collars.

Yeah… imagine taking a kid to see that. It wouldn’t have been nearly as pleasant. But when they realized they wanted to change the story, they had already started the animation for it! Luckily, thanks to the flexibility of CGI, they could repurpose the models they had and salvage a stellar story. With this behind-the-scenes story

in mind, and considering the urban environment and the brilliant expressiveness displayed in the characters... I’d go so far as to say that Zootopia could not have happened without computer animation.

All this said, I can still sympathize with the vocal proponents of hand-drawn animation. As much as 3-D animation can do, traditional pen-and-ink still creates its own unique feel. CGI has not been able to match it yet. To those who still yearn for traditional animation, I’d point you to the realm of television. There’s a continuing uptick in quality storytelling there, and most cartoon series are in fact done by hand. Hand-drawn animation is still out there, it’s just moved into a different market. Will it come back to the big screen? It’s hard to say, but I’m willing to bet that sometime in the future we’ll see a return. In the meantime, I’m still excited to see where 3-D technology will propel our stories in the future.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu. Animation Analysis will appear alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Preview: A Fantastic Woman

BY NICOLE YAN Sun Contributor

"Saying goodbye to a loved one when he dies is a basic human right, isn't it?"

Directed by Sebastián Lelio, A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) depicts an enigmatic and spirited transgender heroine, Marina, who unexpectedly lost her 20-years-older lover Orlando, and recounts the struggles and the precarious circumstances that she faced after Orlando’s sudden death.

A Fantastic Woman premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February of this year. It quickly gained a lot of international acclaim, as the film was not only nominated to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, but also selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. The Argentinian-born Chilean director, Sebastián Lelio, of the films The Sacred Family (2005), Christmas (2009), The

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Year of the Tiger (2011), Gloria (2013) and Disobedience (2017), plotted the story with Gonzalo Maza this time, and won Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 67th Berlin International Film

old printing press owner Orlando.

However, one night, Orlando falls down the stairs due to his aneurysm and passes away as Marina takes him to the hospital.

After he dies suddenly, Marina’s life

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Festival. A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim and Nicolás Saavedra.

Played by Daniela Vega, the transgender actress, Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer, who is in a love relationship with the 57 year

seems to begin falling apart. Albeit the fact that Marina doesn’t really care about Orlando's demise, the vicious family of Orlando, including his son and ex-wife, as well as the intrusive detective from the Sexual Offenses Investigation Unit, all force Marina not to come to Orlando’s

funeral and show her no respect.

This attention-deserving film centers on transgender storytelling, and is definitely worthwhile to see at a time when the transgender community is facing renewed challenges of oppression and hate in the U.S. and abroad. While the visibility of and understanding toward transgender people is increasing in mainstream culture, the majority of transgender people still experience severe discrimination, stigma and systemic inequality, which include the lack of legal protection, barriers to healthcare and antitransgender violence, according to the Human Rights Campaign. A Fantastic Woman made a good call on revealing the transfer community’s universal struggles through the lens of a complex, yet strong human being, Marina.

Sony Classics has announced the release of A Fantastic Woman in selected U.S. theaters starting November 17.

Nicole Yan is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at xy286@cornell.edu.

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BY VARUN BIDDANDA Sun Staff Writer

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Progress Undone be, establish a visual vocabulary to not only describe the spaces to which they are endemic, but to also introduce to the viewers the idea of a nether space. The latter concept deals intimately with intervals in a geographic continuum, which does not conform easily to conventional

What exactly are the implications of something that is undeniably of fiction, yet that is frighteningly familiar? Is it the fiction that approaches the realiCOURTESY OF ty or perhaps is it a JENNIFER AND KEVIN MCCOY/CORNELL AAP that has truth become divorced from itself?

Inhabiting the World We Made offers a space of navigation for these types of conversations.

Currently located in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have created this exhibition as an intersection of architecture, environment and psychology within the context of technological progress.

Assuming the forms of both film and sculpture, the works tell of a fictional narrative of devel- notions of space in the context of development, beginning in the heartlands of opment.

Culminating the exhibition’s narrative America and radiating outwards as progress — the connotations of this con- is “Broker,” a work that is set in futuristic tentious term itself being a point of artis- visualization of New York City. It centers tic and conceptual subjectivity within the around a real estate agent’s showing of a luxury apartment in Manhattan. The context of the exhibit — globalizes.

The story begins in “Discovery of work incorporates the sterile luxury of Freedom.” Set in a desolate South both the apartment and that of the lanDakotan town, this video work interpos- guage used by the broker, yet this is peries fragments of footage of houses onto a odically interrupted with jagged breaks in barren winter landscape. The brusquely the filmography. This utopian continujuxtaposed houses, along with the back- um of a cosmopolitan space is perforated ground, appear to be oscillating as if at by harsh interstices in the work, which the mercy of the chilling winds that run evoke a sort of terror. During these rupthrough the sparsely populated plains. tures, the broker and the viewer enter a Toward the foreground are two animal state of trancelike horror. The causes of corpses, presumably those of livestock. these schisms are ambiguous, but perhaps These juxtapositions, harsh as they may this is by design, alluding to a much larg-

er threat to the façade of glittering cosmopolitanism. The broker’s descent from the immaculate professional is best enshrined by the scene in which she frenetically tears her suit to shreds and claws at her well-kept hairstyle. While she is linked to the apartment and the urban

exterior by virtue of her job, the broker eventually divorces herself from the affiliated social constructs imposed by the surrounding context of globalized and ravenous cosmopolitanism, a resolution

“Beginning and ending in America, the exhibition’s narrative assumes a nature that is cyclical.”

Varun Biddanda ’19 that comes at the expense of her own constitution.

Beginning and ending in America, the

exhibition’s narrative assumes a nature that is cyclical in some ways, but linear in others. The congruence of the beginning and the conclusion (at least with respect to their location within the same nation) appears to evoke an aspect of return. Yet, the trajectory delineates an obvious path from rural to suburban and then to the cosmopolitan megalopolis of New York City. Or, at least it appears to do so.

Could it be that what was originally a radiating linear progression simply happened to loop around its course? Or, if linearity as a construct is to be problematized, perhaps it is that the works seek to represent the progression of history as an intrinsically spatial process, with each work representing various tessellating spaces experiencing divergent and convergent behavioral trends.

Perhaps the most compelling point of ambiguity is the temporal relation each piece has in relation to the rest, if such a relation exists.

While “Discovery of Freedom” is the start of the narrative, one could arguably interpret it as a space that was simply left behind in the hysteria of development.

Going further, the broker’s transformation could alternatively be construed as the beginning of a futuristic civilization being undone, culminating in a now desolate South Dakotan town and, in doing so, bringing into sharp acuity the paradoxes that are all too often the escorts of progress.

Varun Biddanda is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at vdb22@cornell.edu

From Mann Library to Amazon Prime: Anatomy of a Breakup

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

Despite my friends’ urging, I’ve only ever been inside Mann Library a couple of times. Honestly, for me it’s just not worth the walk. Matt Hagerty ‘17 clearly had a different opinion, as he directed and produced a short film in there!

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Anatomy of a Breakup, a fast-paced, quippy comedy released on Amazon Prime, is Hagerty’s first work, and has the potential to be optioned into a TV pilot. Fellow Sun writer Anna Delwiche had the chance to interview the alumnus before his work’s debut, which I’d recommend checking out.

As if writing, directing and producing the short wasn’t enough, Hagerty

also plays the lead role, recently heartbroken college freshman AJ Fitzpatrick.

After getting dumped by his girlfriend, AJ waffles back and forth between contrasting sets of advice from two fraternity buddies. This is the real meat of the film, as fellow leads Seth Russell and Zack Sztanyo offer comically differing paths to the naive youngster. Russell’s “The Drak” suggests a pseudo-scientific,

analytic and seemingly-rational response, while Sztanyo’s “Cam” pushes for a more playboy-style rebound.

Hagerty has good chemistry with his two mates and the trio convey a relatable, if not somewhat exaggerated, tale.

This film’s fast-paced dialogue and snappy transitions are its calling cards, but don’t go into this short expecting to be blown away. You really gotta take this one for what it is, and if you’re capable of not comparing it to whatever movie you saw most recently in theaters, it’ll be a pleasant experience. There’s some stuff that bothered me — some dialogue feels a bit too scripted — but it made me laugh a couple times. I even tapped back a couple times to catch a beat again, and in a 17 minute first-time short film, that’s about all I can ask for.

Anatomy of a Breakup is definitely worth a watch, if only for the novelty of watching a film produced in your own library. As for Matt Hagerty, he’s clearly got a knack for writing dialogue, and I’m excited to see what he does next provided, of course, that my parents keep paying for Amazon Prime.

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nsmith@cornellsun.com.

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

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

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Former Starting QB Finds Versatile Role JATIS

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upset win over Harvard. In that game, Jatis’ number was called seven times, rushing for 24 yards and a pair of two-yard touchdowns, Cornell’s only two of the day. Junior kicker Zach Mays added a fourth-quarter field goal to end the Red’s 12-year drought against the Crimson.

And had it not been for those two key rushes from Jatis into the end zone, Cornell could very well be sitting 1-5 on the season and 1-2 in Ivy play.

So far in 2017, Jatis has totaled 90 yards on the ground and 83 in the air to go along with three touchdowns — the two rushes against Harvard and an air strike to sophomore Davy Lizana in Cornell’s 26-18 loss to Bucknell for the wideout’s first career touchdown and Jatis’ first in the air since his freshman year.

“It’s really anytime I can provide a spark to our team, that’s what I’m really trying to do,” Jatis said. “When they call my number, whatever package I’m in, I’m just really trying to give a spark to our team.”

“Does he want to be the start-

ing quarterback? Absolutely,” Falbo added, “but he accepts his role because he’s such a team player and he wants success for this football team in any which way he can help contribute. … He wants to do whatever it takes to help his team win. He’s a dream to coach.”

Knowing his playing time is just a fraction of what it once was, the 6-foot-4, 224-pound quarter-

“I think the coaching staff is really giving me all the opportunities to succeed.”

Senior Jake Jatis back, who was an all-conference selection as a high school varsity baseball player, is taking his new role in stride.

“Honestly, I love it. I think the coaching staff is really giving me all the opportunities to really succeed,” he said. “I just cherish every single moment I am on for those plays.”

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Hill Scores Game Winning Goal in Double Overtime

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

In front of a home crowd packed with alumni, the Cornell men’s soccer team emerged victorious in double overtime this Saturday, handing Brown a 1-0 loss.

The Bears (6-4-2, 1-2-1 Ivy) got off to an aggressive start, forcing the Red (7-5-2, 2-1-1) to make adjustments to its playing style.

“It took us until about 20 minutes into the game to realize we were going to have to be physical in order to gain the space and time to play to our strengths,” said junior captain and defender Ryan Bayne.

But once the Red made this key adjustment, the game began to open up as it began to control play and create scoring opportunities — taking nine corner kicks to Brown’s one.

“No matter the team, every Ivy game will have an element of ‘ugliness’ or extra physicality,” Bayne said. “If we can match that, then we can have success.”

Maintaining its composure and staying patient, the Red was able to leverage the home crowd and momentum from the sec-

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Adapting to circumstances | Following the first 20 minutes of play, the Red began to utilize physical play to control play and create scoring opportunities.

ond half into overtime to continue its offensive pressure on the Bears.

“We had been controlling the game and

playing well all the second half and into overtime,” Bayne said. “So we were hopeful that a goal would come if we continued to

play how we were doing.”

The goal came only 52 seconds into the second overtime period, when none other than junior midfielder Ryan Hill sent a shot past Brown’s goalie. This is the second time this season that Hill has scored the gamewinning goal in overtime for the Red, with the first coming against No. 11 Syracuse (68-2, 0-6-1 ACC). “[Hill’s] goal was great — he was in the right place at the right time,” Bayne said.

“I’m glad he put it in the back of the net.”

The victory marks the first time Cornell has defeated Brown on home turf since 1992. The Red will look to carry its momentum as it hits the road to take on Princeton (3-6-4, 0-2-2) on Saturday, Oct. 28.

“To win in double overtime with all the alumni and the good crowd we had, it was really exciting — a great atmosphere,” Bayne said. We’re excited to get back to training this week and prepare for Princeton [which will] be another great test for the team.”

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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Suffocating defense | The Red limited Brown to just 161 yards of offense, which set a record for fewest yards allowed under head coach David Archer ’05.

Cornell Locks Down Brown FOOTBALL

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Cornell leading by 13, sophomore wide receiver Owen Peters fumbled the ball away seconds after coming down with a reception. The Bears took over with their eyes locked on turning the game into a one-possession contest. But the Red’s defense, as it did throughout the game, locked down and forced Brown off the field.

“That’s something we always prepare for,” said senior defensive lineman Seth Hope. “We always stress being able to bounce back after things don’t go our way.”

The dominant defense paved the way for opportunities for the offense, although it took some time for the offense to find its groove. At first, as has been the case throughout the season, Cornell’s offense put together long drives but failed repeatedly to reach the end-zone.

That all changed midway through the second quarter. Junior running back Chris Walker caught a short shovel pass from junior quarterback Dalton Banks and weaved through Brown defenders, eventually putting together a 46-yard catch-andrun. A few plays later, sophomore Harold Coles ran around the outside and scored his first of two touchdowns on the game.

From then on, each time Cornell threatened, it came away with a touchdown. Archer credited that to the offensive line “taking over” the game, giving Banks time to throw in the pocket — the junior completed 73 percent of his passes for 228

yards and no interceptions — and helping create rushing holes for the Red’s dynamic rushers — four separate Cornell players had more than 40 yards on the ground and the team had 276 total rushing yards.

“We were able to stay balanced,” Banks said. “We hit them with big runs and completed big passes when we needed them.

We kept them guessing.”

Senior captain and running back Jack Gellatly led the team with 74 rushing yards, including a 60-yard rumble down the field that set up a three-yard touchdown run, his first of the year, that gave Cornell a 34-0 lead with 11 minutes to go in the game.

Gellatly’s touchdown marked the third straight Cornell drive that ended in seven points, part of the Red’s dominant secondhalf stretch in which Cornell outgained Brown on offense 259-9. During that 19minute showing of dominance, the Red turned a 13-0 game into a 34-0 blowout.

With four games left, Cornell remains in the hunt for an Ivy League title in an Ancient Eight that is completely flipped on its head. Saturday could be a glimpse of what’s to come for the rest of the season, Gesualdi said.

“The energy on the team is so high,” he said. “Nobody is down on themselves, everybody is willing to keep getting better because they can see that there’s greatness out there. There are flashes of it. We’re just going to keep doing it.”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

the starting role the ensuing year, slotting Jatis into a backup role again his junior year with the emergence of now-junior Dalton Banks as the starter.

But this year, head coach David Archer ’05 and his coaching staff have found new ways to utilize Jatis’ athleticism.

Along with leading Cornell’s run-oriented offense, Jatis is taking snaps on special teams for the first time in his career,

“I try to be as sharp as I can each play and remember which position I am playing for that down.”

Senior Jake Jatis becoming a Swiss Army knife for the Red as a quarterback — typically the position on a team most shielded from contact.

“He’s a jack of all

trades,” said Banks, Jatis’ hits off Dalton’s body to partner in crime under where it’s like now Dalton’s center. “He does every- feeling good, now Jake’s thing for us. He’s a great playing too. Now there’s a athlete, good quarterback, smart with “He does everything for the ball.” us. He’s a great athlete, “He’s basically the quarterback on good quarterback, smart the punt team,” with the ball.” added special teams coordinator Guido Junior Dalton Banks Falbo, who worked with Jatis as an dimensional offensive assistant coach multiple Jatis’ freshman and sopho- package.”

Banks added that the more years. “He imposes a threat on every snap. … idea with the dual-threat No matter what he’s asked quarterbacks is to try and stay one step ahead of the to do, he’s up for it.”

Archer said part of his opposing defenses to create reasoning in giving Jatis a state of confusion and more snaps is to “take force them to have to some of the hits off adapt to two different Dalton,” who has played styles of play.

“It really messes with behind an offensive line that has allowed 23 sacks the defenses, they’re secon the year but has recent- ond-guessing themselves,” ly begun to put the pieces Banks said. “That’s what we want to do — we want together.

“It starts when you just to keep defenses off ballist your personnel, like ance and that’s the plan who do you want in the going forward.”

The conception of the game,” Archer said. “With injuries, Jatis kept rising Jatis-Banks experiment towards us. It was like, came in the team’s 17-14 how do we get him in, and See JATIS page 14 it really helped us get the

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Historic start | With its Homecoming victory, the Red has now captured its first 2-1 Ivy start since 2000.

Red Dominates in Homecoming Blowout Red’s polished offense,suffocating defense down Brown for sure,” Gesualdi said. “Last year we knew we had it in us, but we just couldn’t put all the pieces together. This year … we’re starting to put the With a ferocious defense, a commanding offense pieces together.”

Cornell more than doubled the Bears’ time of and a hunger for revenge, Cornell football blasted Brown, 34-7, in front of a 13,000-plus possession, playing polished, end-to-end football.

Homecoming crowd to capture its first 2-1 Ivy With its victory over Harvard, the team now has wins over Brown and the Crimson in the same seaLeague start since 2000.

The Red’s defense, which had twice set a record son for the first time since 1999.

The Red set the tone early, for fewest yards allowed under preventing Brown from getting head coach David Archer ’05 BROWN @ CORNELL a first down on its first drive of already this season, limited the the game, eventually forcing Bears to just 161 yards of offense for yet another record. Cornell’s Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL Brown into eight three-andouts on the day, including four defense rendered Brown’s Brown 0 0 0 7 7 straight to start the second half. offense anemic through the first Cornell 3 10 7 14 34 “They were really able to three quarters, holding the Bears win the line of scrimmage,” Archer said of the to 59 yards entering the final 15 minutes.

“It leaves me speechless,” said senior safety and defense. “They were winning in man coverage. captain Nick Gesualdi. “I’m so happy and so excit- They were confusing the quarterback. The way they ed for the fact that the whole team could pull were playing made you never feel like the game was together and just put together a win like this. ever in doubt.”

Toward the beginning of Especially being a senior, it hits home a little bit the third quarter with more. I couldn’t be happier.”

A year after a devastating double-overtime loss See FOOTBALL to Brown, Gesualdi said there was an extra level of page 15 preparation and intensity heading into this week. And it seemed to pay off: the Red scored on its first drive of the game and never looked back.

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Ground game | The Red recorded 276 total rushing yards, and had four players recording over 40.

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Spark plug | Senior Jake Jatis’s athleticism has found new life.

Former starting quarterback finds new success as jack-of-all-trades

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

When Jake Jatis steps on the field, sometimes he needs to take a second and remind himself what position he’s playing.

Listed as a quarterback, the Cornell football senior’s pure athleticism has extended his contributions far beyond the role of gunslinger. Today, you can see Jatis taking snaps for Cornell’s more run-oriented schemes, blocking for sophomore Nickolas Null on punts, holding the ball for field goals and signaling plays from the

sidelines to contribute when he’s off the field.

“I try to be as sharp as I can each play and remember which position I am playing for that down,” Jatis said after the team’s 34-7 Homecoming win over Brown, a game in which he racked up 42 rushing yards on six carries, including a 3rd and 4th-down conversion.

A five-game starter at quarterback as a freshman, Jatis was the second freshman given the keys to the offense in program history, joining the ranks of Cornell legend Jeff Mathews ’13. But after an injury derailed Jatis’ inaugural season, Robert Somborn ’17 earned See JATIS page 15