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Phi Mu Fraternity Fails to Secure House In Cayuga Heights Neighbors sign petition in opposition

By TALIA JUBAS

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The Cayuga Heights Planning Board unanimously rejected a request from Cornell’s chapter of the Phi Mu fraternity to purchase property to house their local chapter after significant opposition from community members.

Prior to Monday night’s meeting, which was the third in relation to the issue, community members had drafted and circulated a petition to exclude the female fraternal organization from the residential neighborhood, claiming that a chapter house would be “inappropriate usage for the lot and the location” on Wyckoff Road.

While Phi Mu has been “At such close quarters ... in talks with the board since [a Greek house] would be August, community members have only been quite a disturbance.” involved for about a month, according to Ellen Zaslaw, a Ellen Zaslaw neighborhood resident. At the end of September, the board invited homeowners who live within 200 feet of the 520 Wyckoff Rd. property Phi Mu had planned to purchase to offer public comment on the fraternity’s request.

“Every one of the neighbors in that circuit became involved in opposing the Cornell group,” Zaslaw said. Their reasons addressed both proximate concerns, such as noise and traffic disturbances, as well as the potential for more far-reaching consequences.

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revised plan for a proposed Holiday Inn Express hotel on Route 13 at Tuesday’s City of Ithaca Planning Board meeting.

Right: A plan shows the bar area (in pink) proposed for construction within an existing building at 416 E. State St.

Ithaca Planning Board Tables Proposal For New Bar Due to Noise Concerns

By DEVON GILLIAMS Sun Contributor

Longtime Ithaca residents voiced their concerns at a Tuesday City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board meeting over the proposed construction of a new bar and lounge, The Printing Press Lounge, within an existing building on a property just east of the Argos Inn at 416 E. State St. At the meeting, the planning

board decided that the new bar’s project managers would have to return with further research and plans before final approval of the project.

Several neighbors expressed concerns about the potential increased traffic, disruptive late night noise of congregating bar patrons and a lack of parking which could result in non resident cars lining the streets at the meeting.

Catherine Akenbomb, whose

home is adjacent to the Argos Inn and only 11 feet from the building, said that even if the sound in the building was kept at a minimum, she was concerned people spilling out of the building could contribute to noise.

She added that she was also worried about the atmosphere of any future bars that could one day replace The Printing Press.

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Dyson School Will Offer New Business Analytics Minor This Spring

By JONATHAN LEVENFELD Sun Contributor

For the first time since its accreditation in 2002, the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management has added a new concentration to its undergraduate curriculum: business analytics, which will become the school’s 11th concentration starting this spring.

Business analytics, which was approved Oct. 9 at a faculty meeting, will be a 15-credit concentration, featuring courses from the School of Hotel Administration and the computer science department in addition to Dyson courses.

Prof. Donna Haeger, applied economics and

management, said companies are looking for these skills given the rise of big data and analytics, and business analytics is being “leveraged more and more on a

daily basis” in the corporate world.

“I felt it was imperative for undergraduates to have this concentration,” said Haeger, who spearheaded

the campaign to develop the new concentration. “They should be hitting the ground running. They should have these skills rather than having to earn

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Dyson distinction | Business analytics will be the Dyson School’s 11th concentration starting this spring.

an MBA.” Dale Grossman, senior lecturer and Dyson undergraduate advising coordinator, echoed Haeger’s sentiments, acknowledging that business analytics has fast become more relevant in the industry.

“Over the years it’s become increasingly clear that there are issues in oversimplifying the ‘big data’ thing,” she said. “There was a niche we could fill. And that’s what led to the development of this concentration.”

Given that the school’s original concentrations have remained consistent up until this point, Grossman called the business analytics concentration “a radical change” for the school.

Students such as Zech Hintz ’17, who has worked

extensively with Haeger over the last two years, say they welcome this change. Hintz said the industry now “expects” this skillset from its workers, and Dyson students will benefit in the long run from this addition.

“This is the right step for Dyson,” he said. “When students get this information, it’s really going to set them apart from other students across the country.”

As an example of the new concentration’s practicality, Grossman referenced a student who wants to double major in economics and computer science in order to develop computer programs to trade stocks. Previously, the student could not attain this skillset in the Dyson school, but See DYSON page 4

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Panel Examines Freedom of Speech on Campus

By JULIE GENG

As the latter part of a two-part series examining the freedom of speech on campus, nine panelists joined nearly a hundred Cornellians last night in a forum titled “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.” Two solid hours were spent discussing a variety of topics including First Amendment rights, journalistic integrity, censorship and racism.

A significant portion of the discussion was based on the Sept. 2005 article in The Cornell American titled “The Color of Cornell’s Crime.” The American has recently come under fire for the front-page article, and its funds, supplied by the Student Assembly Finance Commission, have been frozen and reduced since the organization’s inception.

The discussion, moderated by Susan H. Murphy ‘73, vice president of academic and student services, began by comparing the First Amendment with Cornell’s Campus Code of Conduct, which emphasizes freedom with responsibility. The first panelist to speak, Prof. Steven Shiffrin, law, pointed out that many forms of

speech exist in what he called a “hierarchy of First Amendment words.”

“Some speech is more valuable and more worthy than other speech. The first Cornell American issue was trash. It was insulting; it was not valuable; it was not worthy public speech,” said Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government, one of the panelists. “Even hurtful speech, even trash, should be protected speech. I don’t think there should be any restrictions on the freedom of speech. I don’t want to give anyone the legal authority to determine what speech is allowed, what is worthy and what is trash.”

Another panelist, Prof. Robert Harris, Africana studies, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, had a slight disagreement.

“I think The Cornell American can print whatever it wants to print, we shouldn’t have to pay for it. I won’t call journalism because The Cornell American is an opinion piece masquerading as a newspaper,” Harris said. “Would I ban them? Would I censor them? No. I think we as a community [should be able] to determine what type of discourse we would like to see in this community.”

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With Gift,Lab of O Establishes Endowed Professorship

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Contributor

With a gift from Larry Fuller ’60 and Nancy Fuller ’62, Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology established an endowed professorship that supports ongoing research in evolutionary biology.

Prof. Irby Lovette, ecology and evolutionary biology, is the first person to hold the title of Fuller Professor of Ornithology. The newly endowed position ensures that there will always be an associated faculty position in this area of inquiry, according to Lovette, who is also the director of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program. This change will allow the University to reallocate resources to other academic programs and initiatives.

The endowment “guarantees extraordinary stability of a major research program” at the lab, said John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Lab of Ornithology. He also said he views the new position as a “guarantee of excel-

lence” that will sustain the lab’s prestige in its field.

The establishment of the professorship will not only support one of the lab’s projects, but also a wide variety of research endeavors for many years to come.

“The Fuller endowments will be sponsoring novel research and helping to train future scholarly leaders long after these particular research projects have ended,” Lovette said.

The endowment is one of many contributions the Fullers have made to Cornell’s scientific community.

The recent donation augments gifts that the Fullers have already made to the lab to endow the Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program and several postdoctoral scholar positions, according to Lovette.

Their continuous support “has been hugely impactful in allowing us to engage in cutting-edge — and sometimes risky — research, while placing a strong emphasis on the engagement and training of students,” Lovette said.

Fitzpatrick praised Lovette for his “outstanding

work” and said the endowment will allow him to do additional work in studying the genomics of speciation.

Lovette said he is particularly invested in “teaching intellectually rigorous field courses that use special biological settings — Kenyan savannas, the Galapagos archipelago, the coast of Patagonia — to help students become better scientists and world citizens.”

He said he also takes great pride in his undergraduate researchers and their accomplishments in publishing scientific papers.

“Birds are very important and very accessible subjects for studying evolution,” Fitzpatrick said, “[which is why] we want to make sure we always have someone doing that kind of work.”

The Lab of Ornithology, Fitzpatrick said, is “extremely grateful” for the Fullers’ generosity and the many opportunities that are possible because of it.

Julia Greenberg can be reached at jpg233@cornell.edu.

Student Organization Promotes Sustainable Food Solutions

By ZACHARY KAPLAN Sun Contributor

This week, student organization Real Food Cornell is hosting the second annual Cornell Food Days in order to promote sustainable and ethical food solutions on campus.

The three-day event kicked off Tuesday with “A Greener Dinner” at Okenshields Dining Hall where students, faculty and other members of the Cornell community sat down to both sample sustainably and ethically produced plant-based foods and learn about a variety of issues related to food production.

The dinner was followed by a Wednesday event called “Scary Ugly Foods,” which featured demonstrations and sampling of sustainable food production at Dilmun Hill Student Farm. Students could taste a variety of edible applications of foods that tend to be wasted in food manufactur-

ing, which included final products such as juice, cider and smoothies.

Cornell Food Days will conclude Thursday night at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall with a training session where students will share recipes and ideas about sustainable food at home or in the dorm room.

The general goal of Cornell Food Days is to confront key issues within the food industry through its consumers, according to Real Food Cornell co-founder Jessi Silverman ’17.

“People are so removed from where their food comes from that they often don’t think about the impact of their choices on people and the environment,” Silverman said.

By participating in Real Food Days, Cornell joins a national community of several hundred universities, cities and organizations that sponsor food activism events in promotion of more sustainable food diets See FOOD DAYS page 5

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Sustainable and ethical | Students from Real Food Cornell inform Cornellians about a range of issues related to food production.

Arab Student Association at C.U.Hosts Winter Clothing Drive

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Contributor

In the hopes of providing aid to Syrian refugees located across the world, the Arab Student Association is hosting a winter clothing drive.

Leaders of the student organization, which states that its mission is to create a forum for people interested in Arab language, culture and politics, said they hope to raise awareness about the crisis in Syria and to foster Arab solidarity.

“My hope is that this clothing drive will not only provide a direct way to help the refugees, but also to raise awareness about the magnitude of the Syrian crisis,” said Ama Frederickson ’17, secretary of the Arab Student Association.

At the moment, five clothing collection boxes exist across campus in locations including Willard Straight Hall, Hans Bethe House and Anabel Taylor Hall. Plans are underway to expand to North Campus, with donation sites recently setup at Balch Hall and Robert Purcell Community Center.

To ensure the safe arrival of the winter garments, the Arab Student Association is working with two humanitarian non-profit

organizations, Helping Hand USA and Sunrise USA. Donated clothes will first be sent to Helping Hand USA, based in Michigan, and Sunrise USA, based in the United Kingdom, and then distributed.

The organization has been planning the clothing drive for a while, according to philanthropy chair Ahmad Sabbagh ’17, who spearheaded the project.

“As a Syrian, I came into the Arab Student Association wanting to do something big to help the Syrian people, who have been suffering for a long time, and the

clothing drive was just one idea,” Sabbagh said. “However, it wasn’t until I attended a forum on the Syrian refugee crisis hosted by the South Asian Council a few weeks ago and received such a positive response and support from the dozens of attendees that I felt confident the clothing drive would have a great turnout on this campus.”

Additionally, students in the organization are discussing plans to extend the clothing drive and host a monetary fundraiser in the future.

Salma Shitia ’18, co-president

of the group, said she believes the refugee situation is an urgent humanitarian crisis.

“Doesn’t collecting clothes demonstrate the magnitude of this crisis?” Shitia said. “Refugees struggle to find clothes to cover their body, a fear we as Cornellians, I would hope, rarely

experience. If we could just donate one item of clothing that became too small or too big on our bodies, we could benefit another human being’s hope for survival.”

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Residents Voice Concerns Over Proposed Bar at Meeting PLANNING BOARD Continued from page 1

“I think you can call it something like a jazz lounge, and who doesn’t want to go to a jazz lounge ... but look to the future and it can suddenly be a punk rock bar and that can be very troublesome because we don’t know what the plans are,” Akenbomb said.

Additionally, Akenbomb said she believes that the property, which began as one commercial space, may soon evolve into three parts — a hotel with a bar, offices and now a potentially second bar.

Preserving the integrity of the neighborhood should be an impor-

tant consideration, according to Akenbomb.

“An environmental impact is not just saying, ‘What is the building like, are we having more cars?’”

Akenbomb said. “It’s also essential to a neighborhood and preserving a part that is really dear to all of us, the historic district.”

However, those involved in the planning and construction of the project present at the meeting said they are devoted to remedying the potentially problematic aspects of the bar and reassuring the neighborhood.

Scott Whitham of Whitman Planning and Design LLC described how hard the team has

been working to accommodate the concerns and opinions of neighbors.

“We understand quite clearly that there are still concerns, but I think we’re working through those issues, particularly the issue of noise,” Whitham said. “We have brought on a sound engineer, and we have an initial report from the sound engineer. We expect a further conversation and to be back in front of the board probably with that engineer if we could.”

The owner of the building, Ben Rosenblum, addressed residents’ concerns about noise levels by explaining that the bar would maintain a casual atmosphere.

“This is really kind of of a bar and lounge atmosphere where the majority of the time the music will be at a level so that it’s easy for people to talk,” Rosenblum said.

With regards to external noise, Rosenblum said he will most likely implement physical treatments — such as window treatments, landscaping and fencing — to attenuate sound.

Addressing potential parking issues, architect Jason Demarest said the proposed bar and the current Bar Argos would share parking spaces, because the two would not be operating simultaneously. Bar Argos would use the 16 parking spots located on the side of the

building from 1 to 9 p.m., and The Printing Press Lounge would use these same spots from 9 to 1:30 a.m.

Planning board members said they were receptive to the project and appreciative of efforts to address the concerns of the neighbors. The board unanimously decided that the bar would have to return again with updated research into managing the sound of the bar itself, as well as the impact of bar patrons congregating outside the building before they could obtain final approval from the board.

Devon Gilliams can be reached at djg285@cornell.edu.

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with the business analytics concentration, Grossman said, “that may be exactly what he can do.”

In a process that started last December, a small faculty committee led by Haeger engaged in numerous meetings and conversations as well as research to pinpoint what was necessary to make the concentration the best it could be. The committee’s preliminary proposal went through several rounds of voting, including through the Dyson Undergraduate Council and Dyson faculty.

Haeger cited these voting processes as crucial to the concentration’s development, as the committee often received valuable feedback to improve the proposal.

“We never thought [the proposal] wouldn’t go through, but we did end up revisiting it to make sure it that it was exactly right,” Haeger said. “We tried to be

painstakingly accurate.”

While demand from the industry certainly played a role in influencing this campaign, Grossman and Haeger said feedback from students and alumni was crucial as well. Grossman said alumni in the working world have expressed regret over lacking these skills, while Haeger said that her interaction with students influenced her.

“One of the reasons I really championed this was because I am exposed to the freshmen and sophomores every year, and they really wanted this concentration,” Haeger said.

Hintz applauded the school’s receptiveness to student input and the growing importance of business analytics.

“That’s what every business school does,” Hintz said. “They change and transform to what the industry needs and what the students want.”

Jonathan Levenfeld can be reached at jsl345@cornell.edu.

Funeral of Slain New York City Officer Draws Thousands NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of police officers packed rain-swept streets on Wednesday, remembering a slain New York Police Department officer — a “hero” whose commitment to policing the city’s police commissioner says should serve as an example for all New York officers.

As Officer Randolph Holder’s coffin was wheeled inside a Queens church, the hundreds of officers who sat shoulder-toshoulder saluted. Outside, thousands more saluted their fallen comrade, as they lined up 10 and 20 deep.

“All of New York City is in pain at this moment,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in his eulogy. “We know our city lost a remarkable man; a man who made it better by his presence.”

Before de Blasio delivered the eulogy, he paused in front of the coffin in the front of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York. Afterward, he

shook hands with Holder’s parents and kissed the 33-year-old officer’s fiancee.

The mayor spoke of how Holder came to the United States 12 years ago with his lifelong dream of becoming a police officer — like his father and grandfather had in Guyana — and “make the world better.”

Holder “served as a peace officer in the truest sense of the word,” the mayor said. “He loved to be in the community. He loved to connect to the people around him.”

As a mourner sang “Amazing Grace,” Holder’s stepmother, Princess Holder, rocked slowly back and forth in her husband's arms as she wept and sobbed. At one point, she whaled, “Why?” as tears streamed down her face.

Holder, a five-year veteran, was killed Oct. 20 while responding to a report of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood.

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Board Rejects Sorority’s Request to Buy Property PHI MU

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Contrary to what local news has reported, Zaslaw emphasized that this was not a zoning issue, as the governing zoning laws permit sororities and fraternities in the area. In fact, Zaslaw, who has lived in Cornell Heights since 1979, mentioned that her neighbors, the Sigma Chi Fraternity, were there before she moved in.

While she acknowledged that “back in the bad old days,” Sigma Chi had a reputation for raucous disturbances — ”it was kind of a madhouse,” she said — Zaslaw maintained “that was a long time ago” and things seem to have calmed down.

However, after driving around to assess the positioning of other Greek houses, Zaslaw found that most mixed neighborhoods with local residences and fraternity and sorority houses had significantly more distance between Greek houses and family homes than non-mixed neighborhoods.

“This proposed sorority chapter home would lie closer to private residences than any other of the dozens of Greek houses at Cornell,” Ellen Zaslaw and her husband Prof. Neal Zaslaw, musicology, said in an email distributing the petition.

“It’s not that anyone expected Phi Mu women to be unruly or excessively loud,” Zaslaw explained. “It’s that at such close quarters just the sounds of ordinary life, the conversations and comings and goings of up to 16 residents and over 100 potential visitors, would be quite a disturbance in such a quiet area.”

However, Zaslaw said that more than potential noise disturbance, she feared the presence of a sorority house would bring about change in the historic Cornell Heights, one of the oldest districts in the village. Neighbors feared that Phi Mu’s arrival would have triggered “irretrievable disfiguring

of Village historicity and character,” according to the petition.

Aside from the inconvenience of noise, traffic and density issues, residents said they believe that these problems would lessen the desirability of the neighborhood, particularly for family buyers.

The petition also noted that, as families moved out, absentee landlords would buy vacant properties to provide rental options, as has been seen in other Ithaca neighborhoods. This, in turn, would drive up prices and further dampen family homeowner interest.

“This street retains its historic charm and maintains the quality of life for its residents if the homes remain occupied primarily by families that own them,” Zaslaw said.

Throughout the review process required to issue a certificate of occupancy, which would change the property usage from a singlefamily home to a sorority or fraternity, the Planning Board evaluated many different factors.

Although there were many points on which the fraternity posed no problem, the Board ultimately validated the neighbors’ consensus that it posed “serious concerns” on these other matters, such as noise, traffic and the potential change of neighborhood character, according to Zaslaw.

“While we are disappointed at the decision, the Planning Board was great to work with throughout this process. We are now actively pursuing other housing opportunities near campus for the Phi Xi Chapter,” Darlene Reyes, Phi Mu executive director, said in a statement released on Wednesday.

The Phi Xi Chapter, which colonized at Cornell last fall, now has 118 active members, according to their website. Members live both on and off campus while the national fraternity works to find them a house, the statement said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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and policies. These organizations recognize national Food Day on Oct. 24 and endeavor to organize sustainable and ethical food events around this day.

Some of the American food industry issues Real Food Cornell and its counterparts across the nation hope to address include worker justice, accessibility to healthy food and animal cruelty, according to Silverman.

Silverman said she believes Real Food Days has revealed a widespread desire across the Cornell community to address issues with food sustainability and ethics. Real Food Cornell hopes for Real Food Days to further engage this desire on campus as the event becomes larger in future installments and, eventually, for it to lead to cam-

paigns for sustainable campus food reforms and practices like Meatless Mondays.

Real Food Cornell is a young club on campus, having only become an official student organization this semester, according to Silverman. In addition to organizing Cornell Food Days, the organization is looking to act as supplement to the more specified food activism of related campus organizations throughout the academic year. These associated clubs consist of groups like the Vegan Society and Food Recovery Network.

Cornell Dining, Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm, Anabel’s Grocery and the Division of Nutritional Sciences also contributed to the efforts of Cornell Food Days.

Zachary Kaplan can be reached at zmk8@cornell.edu.

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Don’t Fox with me To the Editor: Re: “Cornell Stops Fox News’ Jesse Watters From Interviewing Students About Liberal ‘Indoctrination,’” News, Oct. 28.

This past Friday, I had the misfortune of being interviewed by Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters on faculty donations. You can see me in the now widely viewed Fox segment; I’m the guy in the pink shirt who, the segment implies, is silenced by the administration. Watters gripes that they had my permission, and Cornell is clearly crushing dissent!

Watters’ claim that they had my permission is, however, a rather interesting one — especially interesting considering I did not grant permission to be interviewed. My conversation with Mr. Watters went something like this: Watters: “Do you mind if we interview you?”

Me: “About what?”

Watters: “A recent report in the student newspaper.”

I never said “Yes” or “Okay” in response; instead I brushed it aside, uninterested. We proceeded to have a congenial talk about how we grew up in the same area, and class scheduling at Cornell before he turned the talk to politics. At some point during the preceding conversation the camera had started rolling, and I was being interviewed. By the time I realized this it felt rude to walk away, so I kept talking. Being tricked into an interview aside, what angers me is that Fox News, not the administration, silenced my voice on an important issue.

Early in the conversation Watters asked me if the fact that so many faculty donations went to Democrats bothered me. I answered simply, “No,” elaborating that Cornell is not obligated to teach all opinions; Cornell should only teach opinions grounded in reason.

When I said this, Watters asked if Democrats have a monopoly on facts. He was right to ask; Democrats are not always correct, but on key issues, the Republican Party continues to bury its head in the sand. I brought up climate change, saying that the continued Republican Party belief that climate change isn’t real discourages faculty. Mr. Watters promptly ignored this. Climate change is real — ask 97 percent of scientists.

Climate change isn’t the only issue on which the GOP finds itself factually challenged.

A common Republican claim is that we live in a post racial society in which we need no longer worry about racism. Despite this, studies have found when employers are given identical fake resumes candidates with black-sounding names are 50 percent less likely to get call backs than those with white-sounding names. Another common theme is that the wage gap and workplace sexism are nonexistent, nevertheless another resume study found that potential employers rated fake applicants with female names as less “competent” and less “hirable” than those with male names. The existence of sexism, racism and climate change (to name just a few) are all supported by facts and evidence. The Republican Party simply refuses to come to terms with them.

Even more concerning is the fact that Republican politicians are often not simply ignorant when it comes to these issues; rather, they are actively sexist and racist. It comes as no surprise when Jeb Bush says his favorite superhero is Supergirl because, “She looked pretty hot.” Similarly, though it generated a media circus, Donald Trump’s openly racist comments about Mexican immigrants were not out of character. Racism permeates the Republican Party, and Republican leaders either do nothing to stop this or actively encourage it.

Often, this means that were Cornell’s professors more supportive of Republican politicians they would have to be either misinformed or willing to support a party that accepts racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-science rhetoric. Both would disqualify one from a professorship in my mind. Diverse viewpoints, supported by evidence, are important and, assuredly, healthy at Cornell. Any Cornell student has who has taken intro econ knows we have our fair share of professors whose favorite words seem to be “Milton” and “Friedman.” Conservatism exists on Cornell’s campus and among its faculty, but I think the alarming Republican positions I listed above put off professors.

In short, if Jesse Watters and his friends at Fox News want to see more Cornell professors donate to Republicans I suggest the Republican Party first become less hateful, backward and ignorant.

Tristan Keil ’17

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nce upon a time, I could sit foster dialogue, it insulates from critidown, focus and hammer out an cism and discomfort. Have a stupid assignment in no time. Oh, to belief? Instead of dealing with it and have those days back. Now that I’m here growing as a person, you can pull the at Cornell, doing work feels like pulling wool over your eyes and seek comfort in teeth more often than not. There are just others doing the same.

Social media sites tend to foster this too many distractions; the TV, easy access to food, my housemates constant- behavior. Any website that features some ly walking into my room unannounced form of voting system, be it Facebook’s and generally unwelcome. But above all, Likes, Reddit’s Upvotes or, even more now that I work almost entirely on a broadly, Tumblr’s sharing system, procomputer, the Internet is just a click motes posts that are most likely to garner the most attention (true everywhere, away.

You know, given the amount of time real world included, but especially releI spend per day on the computer, you vant here). Being a successful poster might be surprised to learn how much I means appealing to the site’s user base in hate social media sites. That’s not to say the broadest way possible.

I’ll use Reddit as an example since it’s I don’t still go on them, in fact I’d rather not calculate the actual time per day I the system I’m most familiar with. The spend on these sites — it’d be too site works via users sharing links to difdepressing. They’re just not that inter- ferent sections (known as “subreddits”). esting anymore. The thing is, I still like Every other user can then either them just enough to keep going back, “upvote” or “downvote” the link, which but not enough to actually enjoy my determines where on the website the link appears. On paper, it seems like a time there.

Now, I certainly don’t want to sound completely harmless system, except the like one of those assholes that lectures tally for total upvotes is recorded for on the evils of computers before imme- every link you submit, and if you think diately checking their phones afterWhile social media gives us a chance to be ward.

It’s exposed to new viewpoints, it’s mostly used ironic enough that this colas a way to flock together with other likeumn is pubminded individuals. Of course, this by itself lished online.

But beyond is not necessarily bad. It’s natural to gravithat, I undertate towards people with the same stand there interests and ideas. are many advantages to social media.

For one, it has made it incredibly easy to valueless little points on a social media spread ideas and raise awareness to site are meaningless to the majority of important issues. Without the internet, I the site’s users, think again. Racking up doubt police brutality or environmental as many upvotes as possible is the goal infractions would be as well documented for many redditors.

So, users have an incentive (frankly a as they are now.

Considering social media’s ability to dumb one, but an incentive nonetheless) connect a vast and varied assortment of to submit content that will appeal to the people, you might expect a more toler- most people. So even though the news ant and rational population? Head on article you see appears to be bias free, over to the comments section of any the only reason you see it is because it YouTube video and tell me if that’s the has been voted on as acceptable material by the hive mind. Any sort of differing case. Not too pretty, is it?

While social media gives us a chance opinion is likely to be at best ignored, or to be exposed to new viewpoints, it’s at worst harassed.

Of course, no one online can force mostly used as a way to flock together with other like-minded individuals. Of you to do or think anything, but (at the course, this by itself is not necessarily risk of sounding like a PTA Guidance bad. It’s natural to gravitate towards Counselor) just be mindful of what people with the same interests and ideas, you’re reading. Likely what you are viewbut just like in real life, it can come at ing is the opinion or slant most valued the cost of ignoring others who have by the community. It’s easy to claim opposing — but equally valid — view- media giants like Fox News and points. The difference is, when we dis- MSNBC have agendas (not arguing with agree with someone online, we can just that), but it’s good to keep in mind the ignore them. I suppose you can also do little websites you go to to procrastinate this in real life (as I have done and prob- or even get news also have opinions they ably will continue to on occasion), but will and will not tolerate. Bias isn’t just it’s much less acceptable and tends to in what’s being written, it’s also in what’s look pretty childish.When done on a being shared. large scale, this can have undesirable consequences. Being able to ignore any Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and disagreeable opinion while at the same Sciences.

He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu. time being able to retreat back into the Sorenity Now appears alternate Thursdays this semescomfort of a likeminded group doesn’t ter.

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Dong Burgundy | Afternoon Delight

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A Guide to Road Head

his summer, my girlfriend and I were driving back from a day spent relaxing on the beach when we started talking about the pinnacle of vehicular sex acts — road head. Both she and I had never tried it before, and after several minutes of hesitation, we decided to just go for it. Things started slowly, me trying to keep my focus on the road and her trying to figure out where everything needed to be positioned. After about a minute, my girlfriend was successfully bobbing up and down on my dick, one of my hands in her hair and the other hand gripping the wheel. Yeah, things were going pretty nicely.

It was at that point that I took a quick look to my right, just in time to see a middle-aged man pull up next to our car in a white pickup truck. After a moment he took a look to his left, his elevated position giving him a perfect view of the entire scene. He did a double take, looking away before quickly snapping his head back as he realized what he was seeing. Our eyes connected for two unbearably awkward seconds, me still getting blown while his expressionless face stared directly into my soul. After a few moments, his face burst into a hilariously wide grin as gave me a big thumbs up and drove off down the freeway. To that dude who saw me getting my first B.J. on wheels: Thanks for being a homie.

Okay, so my first experience with road head was not exactly perfect. But I did learn some valuable tips and tricks on how to make your on-the-go-fellatio a success.

1. Pick the right car Specifically, pick a car without a bulky center divider. If that divider is too big, your partner won’t be able to reach their body across to give you the good stuff.

on driving straight without having to focus on turns or stoplights. More specifically, you should get to the far left lane. That way, you’ll only have one adjacent lane to worry about. Which brings me to my next point…

4. Be prepared for someone to see you Unless you’re blowing a secret service

Our eyes connected for two unbearably awkward seconds, me still getting blown while his expressionless face stared directly into my soul ...

To that dude who saw me getting my first B.J. on wheels: Thanks for being a homie.

Small cars usually work well, SUVs not so much.

2. Get your hair under control All the long-haired guys and gals out there will need to invest in at least one hair tie. Your partner is getting his dick sucked, so his attention is already pretty divided. If he has to keep looking down to gather up your hair, you might just end up dying while giving head. Probably not the worst way to go, but play it safe.

3. Location, Location, Location By this, I basically mean stick to the freeway. That way, the driver can just focus

agent or an A-list celebrity, tinted windows aren’t usually an option. While your partner can speed up and slow down so as to not be directly next to another car, chances are someone will see you going all Monica Lewinski on his sex pistol. If it’s a regular person, all you can do is own it. If it’s a cop, you should probably put the dick away and pretend like you were looking for your sunglasses.

5. Foreplay is your friend I can pretty much tell you for a fact that leaning over that center console will not be particularly comfortable for whoever is

giving the B.J. Definitely make sure the guy is warmed up and ready to go before actually going down on him — your neck and ribs will thank me later.

6. Throw some mood music on Let’s be honest, road head (while great) might still be slightly awkward at first.

Setting the mood with some smooth tunes will definitely enhance the experience.

7. When you are about to finish, you should probably just pull over When most guys finish, their legs start to spasm like crazy. It would kind of suck if one of those spasming legs was connected to a gas pedal. If you can, definitely pull over when the guy gets close.

7. Definitely just swallow Yes, I know there are some people who absolutely hate to swallow. Unfortunately, when you’re traveling at 60 miles per hour in a flying hunk of metal, anything else you try will just be a distracting mess. Take one for the team.

8. Watch out for biting!

One bad pothole and you might end up doing some … permanent damage.

9. Don’t get too distracted While road head is inherently distracting, try to keep the driver’s focus on the road. The last thing you want is an accident, which is a huge, awkward pain for everyone involved.

Dong Burgundy is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to dong.burgundy@cornellsun.com.

Afternoon Delight appears periodically this semester.

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Fuck Me Fuzzy, Hold MeWhole

esterday I touched a public door-handle, money, a text intimacy can’t really be understood rationally? need your penis. Please don’t leave though. Please stay. I don’t book, my dirty laundry, a trash can, my coffee maker, And then when sex becomes an in-n-out experience, how want to be alone. To some, this might sound very contradicmy keys, the bus doors, my laptop and your penis. Yes, much is it even about intimacy any more? Or even about any tory, but it’s not so hard to see when you realize how easy it we have indeed been intimate. I’m sure many can relate to kind of connection beyond physical pleasure? If you take a is to feel used. Be it for sex, as an object of adoration, as a this disconnect — these meaningless sexual interactions. But step back, you can actually see that with each level of intima- resource for a good or emotional service. The easiest thing to it seems ironic to me that this emotional distance from my cy, you are less and less likely to be looking at your partner’s do, is remove the possibility of getting hurt by meaningless partner is actually what I want least. Somehow, in the search face or body, less likely to be intimately engaged with them. encounters; putting up walls around your sexuality which for intimacy, I found myself pushing an emotional connec- It’s almost easiest to depersonalize someone as more of a sex- remains a hidden, alluring and forbidden part of yourself that tion further and further away; love and vulnerability with ual provider when their body is pressed against yours and you you control and no one can take from you. All you’re really another individual became the most asking for though is the human being feared reality. I found myself having to part of a man instead of the penis part. accept the power that society has in formAnd a position of safety, after a while, Somehow, in the search for intimacy, I found myself ing the ideal sexual interaction: what its doesn’t really feel empowering at all. Yes, beginning, middle and end ought to look you become more intriguing. Yes, men pushing an emotional connection further and further like. Luckily, the college norm of want to fuck you even more now. detached hookups fit perfectly with my Congratulations, you’ve achieved your away; love and vulnerability with another individual “intimacy” plan. goal. But was that it? Establishing a Society has an almost “rational” more human connection by giving became the most feared reality. understanding of intimacy which begins power to seduction? from the least “intrusive” aspect of conAt the end of the day though, after a nection — kissing — then proceeds to a higher level — oral just feel their dick inside you, or you’re not even turned long exhale and after it all stops spinning, it’s so much simpler sex — and ends in the most intimate of all: vaginal sex (in a towards them when you’re on all fours being fucked doggy to take a step back and not assume what others’ intentions heterosexual encounter). Let’s take a step back though and style. You don’t even have to think of them as a person any are. To not assume all value is placed on sexuality, especially consider what each of these levels of intimacy really mean. more. It’s so easy to see the process of “hooking up” (whatever for men. To not assume that all men want is sexual pleasure.

On the surface, this chronology seems to be an intimate way that means) as a journey to the prized trophy that is sex. It’s Just because someone is sexual, does not mean that they don’t for partners to slowly foster a connection, building up to the almost as if a single night hookup that didn’t get to the point have the capacity or will for a different type of connection. excitement of sexual intercourse. But how far can sexual inti- of vaginal sex is incomplete/more personal/less about the sex Sure you might be wrong about someone, sure you might get macy really go if it has no emotional component? I’ve defi- than in a single night’s fuck. When you make out with some- hurt, sure you might feel extremely vulnerable. But if you nitely had multiple instances of intellectual sex, if you will. one and then have sex, it’s so easy to just stick the “fuck think about it, how safe and protected do you really feel now?

When a conversation is so stimulating, that it awakens the buddy” or “one-night-stand” label onto it and be done with And if you just let the fear and societal pressure go, maybe, depth of your soul, caressing your neurons as they fire full- the situation. But what if you just never gave yourself to them just maybe, you’ll find, as my friend beautifully put it, a conspeed and explore the beauty of the topic of choice. I’m not fully? nection with someone where you are appreciated for who you sure this is something that can be easily replaced by a good There is an empowering feeling in not giving yourself to are, simply a flawed, sentient human being. dick. Yes, a good dick used resourcefully can stimulate a very someone. You tell yourself things to persuade yourself that significant part of the self, but is this ever enough? Maybe you don’t need a partner — that you can be happy and satisthere’s also a true danger in seeking physical as well as intel- fied alone. I am a strong, confident woman, and I don’t need The Duchess is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associlectual or emotional intimacy from the same person. Then, if your love. I am a strong, confident woman, and I don’t need ate-editor@cornellsun.com. Between The Sheets appears periodically you lose them, you lose all of these connections. So maybe your adoration. I am a strong, confident woman, and I don’t this semester.

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othing says “good morning” like eggs.

The egg has to be the quintessential breakfast dish. Whether you like them sunny side up on their own or scrambled next to some toast, there is always an appropriate place for eggs at the breakfast table. But if you want to eat an egg on campus, you have to either: a) go to a dining hall/café. b) buy a frying pan and make them yourself.

Not anymore: Say hello to the microwave, which can radically change how you think about eggs. Unbeknownst to most people, you can prepare an assortment of egg dishes in the microwave that rival any traditionally made egg. Plus, you skip the hassle of procuring and cleaning cookware.

Scrambled eggs: a breakfast classic. The microwave version of this dish definitely

does traditionally made scrambled eggs justice. All you need is a microwavable vessel (a mug works just fine), some eggs, a couple tablespoons of milk and salt and pepper to taste. Basically, mix the egg with all the ingredients in the mug and pop it in the microwave for a minute or

hard to achieve with a frying pan.

Scrambled eggs not your thing? Are you more of a sunny side up kind of person?

The microwave’s got you covered. This recipe requires a plate and some oil. Simply lube up a plate with some cooking oil, plop an egg on

tion if you’re into that. But at least you can get a decentlooking “fried” egg in virtually no time.

The omelette is definitely my favorite microwaved egg recipe. It would seem that the microwave is perfect for omelettes. You want to delicately cook the egg while per-

Unbeknownst to most people, you can prepare an assortment of egg dishes in the microwave that rival any traditionally made egg. so. Cook as long or as little as you want. Personally, I like my eggs to be creamy and retain their luscious texture, so I tend to slightly undercook my eggs. In some ways, the microwave makes scrambled eggs better than traditional ones. I find my microwaved eggs to be amazingly fluffy, a feat that can be

top and then puncture a small hole in the yolk. The yolk needs to ventilate in order to prevent a messy explosion, but you don’t want they yolk to run all over the plate, either, so perform this step carefully. For me, it took about a minute to fully cook the white in the microwave.

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fectly melting the cheese, something a microwave can surely do. Also, with a microwave, you don’t have to futz around with a spatula when flipping your egg, which can be a risky maneuver.

Similar to the sunny side up recipe, grease a microwavable plate and then pour whisked raw eggs onto it. Microwave it for about 20 to 30 seconds, until the eggs appear halfway cooked. Then pile cheese or

other toppings on one half of the plate. I used some sharp cheddar cheese that I had lying around, but use whatever toppings you have available. Vegetables would definitely work here. Then return the plate to the microwave and cook for about a minute, until the eggs appear fully cooked and the cheese is fully melted. Use a fork or a knife to fold the two halves together, and voilà: an amazinglooking omelette.

Here’s another neat microwave trick. Fill your mug two-thirds of the way with water and crack an egg into it. Microwave for about a minute and you have yourself a poached egg. Like with the sunny side up eggs, the yolk will be fully cooked, but that’s something you can’t really do anything about with microwave cooking.

So there you go: easy microwave eggs. Try them out.

Evan Kravitz is a freshman in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at esk95@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT “All Cool Girls Have Bangs” Waxahatchee at the Haunt

BY JAEL GOLDFINE Arts and Entertainment Editor

stick around cause you paid thirteen dolllarrrrssss!” she IZZY TRUE sang-said before walking off the stage.

The whole time, standing almost in the crowd next to the stage, had been Katie Crutchfield, a.k.a.

Waxahatchee. Explaining right away that she’d be playing without a band because of some voice trouble (due to which she just canceled a string of European tour dates), she took the stage, set for a four-piece, alone. This would be the last stop of her current tour, and it showed; she seemed exhausted, although never resentful or unwilling: just tired. She apologized for this, but I was, perhaps morbidly, thrilled — wearied women singing alone with guitars are among my favorite things in the world.

For me, she rendered Monday night unmissable. I think the expression “tour de force” is overused, and becoming rapidly bereft of gravity, however I’ll invoke it here, just in case it’s not yet kaput.

Her set was a study in confessional rock: tensely, tremblingly quiet, unyieldingly sad, uncensoredly self-conscious — and just little bit furious. There’s a painful, raw edge to her live performance that you won’t find on her recorded material, which is an all-around dreamier, more relaxed affair.

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I walked into the Haunt on a school night stressed, irritated and wishing I’d stayed in instead of spending a good hour securing a ride and a companion to go see, what I was pretty certain, would be a perfectly pleasant and perfectly missable indie rock show: Waxahatchee.

Missable, I mean, in the relative sense, that this is Ithaca, where a line-up as stacked as Monday night’s is not all that remarkable. Ithaca spoils us with such an unrelenting stream of incredible music flooding the bars and basements that my calibration is warped — must-see’s become missable, missables become flimsy “attends” on Facebook, and it ends up being a somewhat monumental feat to get myself out to a group I’ve never heard of before. What I mean to say is, if Waxahatchee is here one month, Angel Olsen or Girlpool or Kurt Vile or Sharon Van Etten will be the next.

The crowd, looking like a Portlandia episode, was predictable; I figured the music would be too. It was a lowenergy pack, (an occupational hazard for a Monday night show), but the quiet clusters of friends shuffling around — engaged, but never rising above murmurs and appreciative whoops — would end up being the ideal gathering.

I was late, catching a song and a half of the formidable folk-punk power troupe Misses Bitches. The Bitches are a piecemeal collection of musicians plucked from peer local acts like We are Whaleshark, The Realbads, Mutsu and The Andersons. Their guitar-heavy rock base, aching with just a hint of the blues, and complemented with playful tambourine and a healthy dose of headbashing, was solid. But their powerful harmonizing, like set of gospel sisters wailing together, or a punk visage of the women who sing O Brother Where Art Thou’s “Down To The River To Pray” — was their real strength.

Next, Ithaca DIY darling, endemic to house show basements and homemade music videos, Izzy True took the stage; baseball capped and bolotied as usual. An apotheosized fixture in the Ithaca scene, you WAXAHATCHEE might recognize her name from every Fanclub and Ithaca Underground show bill ever. She is an utter enigma; just plain weird.

Friendly but unnerving, acutely cool but unpretentious, Izzy True might just be the anti-hipster, come to shame us all.

Awkwardly mumbling into the microphone, she instructed us all to picture a ball of energy in the center of our chests.

“That ball is all the bad feelings you have. And we’re gonna try to get them all out, with rock and roll.”

So she did, playing a couple louder rock pieces, backed up by the talented Jon Samuels on bass and Angela DeVivo on drums; their tight instrumentals occasionally overpowering her peculiar, aerial voice.

Following that, she played some of her quieter, played more characteristic work. Her songs, a bit like the surreal almost her entire set with her eyes closed, or trained on her comics she pens, are trips into her mind; sometimes irrev- Fender. Starting off with “Catfish,” (explaining that it’s erently funny, catchy and bright, often quite sad, always about an actual catfish, not the MTV show), a slow burnhonest and a little bit perturbing. She groans and broods ing piece of lo-fi melancholic pop off her first album, about working in a coffee shop, then whispers about love. American Weekend. This would be indicative of the rest of Between songs, she narrated the crowds feelings about her her set, which disproportionately favored her older materimusic, and called us out for not laughing at her jokes in al, as “Catfish” was followed by “Grass Stain” (the subsesuch a way that it was never quite clear if she was making quent song on the record): bitter and biting. In the absence fun of us poor losers who adore her, or if she is simply a of a band, Crutchfield’s lyrics were nakedly exposed, and comfortable-uncomfortable performer. I think the latter. they’d hang bitterly in the blue light of Haunt; the kind of “Waxahatchee is up next and I know you’re all gonna words and phrases that steal breath and scratch at wounds.

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Not necessarily poetry, just a lot of blunt lines that hit like “I don’t care if I’m too young to be unhappy,” (“Grass Stain”) and “I’ll keep having dreams about loveless marriage and regret” (“Swan Dive”).

She then went into one of her classic covers, Lucinda Williams’ “Greenville.” This is such an appropriate song for her, because she writes and performs with nods to the generations of that came before her: to Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Patty Griffin, Alanis Morissette, The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, as well as the riot grrls, Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill, for whom she’s spoken frequently of her admiration.

Crutchfield continued, introducing “American Weekend” with a casual “this is a song that I haven’t played in a while about doing mushrooms on a school night,” and just when we thought we were going to get a brief respite from her lineup, it turns out to be as burning and spacey as the last few. Then a slight turn upward with a nice bit of breezy whining on “Peace and Quiet,” followed with a time-lapsedly slowed down, calamitously lovely reimagination of her hit “La Loose,” and her quiet, wistful “Summer of Love,” during which she repeats her punch of a line, “the summer of love is a photo of us,” almost too many times.

At this point, Crutchfield paused and without a hint of irony, announced that “now she would play a couple of sad ones,” following with “Be Good,” “I Think I Love You” and “Bathtub;” admittedly, a doozy: “Take my word for it, I’m not worth it … I tell you not to love me / But I still kiss you when I want to.”

If you told me she’d broken up with someone a week ago, and written her set over the last week, I wouldn’t have had to suspend much disbelief.

Although she sang with astonishing vulnerability, do not think that I mean to say that she or her music is fragile. Rather, I think that Crutchfield’s particular brand of confession, to share such emotion, so viscerally, at the expense of oneself, takes superhuman strength. No wonder she seemed so fucking tired. She was exhausted, and she exhausted me with her unrelenting, gorgeous bummer of a show. Although she is writing alongside a talented slew of peer indie and DIY acts — who very well might make an appearance at the Haunt or State one of these semesters, and whom I won’t speak to their missability — Waxahatchee is the unmissable real deal, not to be overlooked or underrated.

Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Just in Time to Explore Film: Justin Lerner

BY DANIEL FAYAD Sun Staff Writer

If you’re a student you’re probably familiar with the notion that there are no dumb questions. While some might disagree with that, the discussion of which questions are, in fact, important is likely to lead to an important debate. Justin Lerner ’02 invites us to question the way we see love and morality in today’s society through controversial themes in his latest film, The Automatic Hate. He’ll be present at the sneak preview this Thursday 7 p.m. at Cornell Cinema. This is his second feature film following Girlfriend (2011) and his award-winning short film The Replacement Child (2007).

We had the opportunity to talk to him earlier this week so he could tell us about his experiences as an independent filmmaker and a Cornell alumnus.

Born in Pennsylvania to psychology professors as parents, he moved a few times before he arrived at Cornell. He grew up facing the American new wave of independent filmmakers of the ’90s. After being inspired by the works of Linklater, Soderbergh and Tarantino, a cinephile high school teacher introduced him to other classic filmmakers and even encouraged him to do an independent study on Kubrick. “After that,” he says, “I saw films backwards and forwards, I kept watching the new stuff that was out, but I kept discovering old stuff based on the directors that the guys like Tarantino and Linklater got inspiration from, like Kubrick, Bergman [and] Fellini, because that’s what they liked.”

At Cornell, his fiery passion for cinema was still lit so he studied theatre and film and began to direct plays. “Film professor Don Fredericksen took me under his wing. He was a mentor figure. He exposed me to some of the best movies today that I still look at and reference,” he remembers.

After graduation, he moved to Spain, claiming, “I was 22, I didn’t know who the hell I was, or what I wanted to do with my life.” Even though he was planning to go to graduate school for film he said, “I needed some time, I didn’t want to go right back to school,

or else I would have made movies in film school about nothing.”

In Spain, he lived in an apartment with people that “didn’t speak a word of English.” He found time to become fluent in Spanish, write, apply to film school and get what he likes to call “the essential experiences for any filmmaker,” which are to fall in love, get your heart broken and get robbed at knifepoint (“in that order,” he stressed). During his process of adapting to the Spanish language, he pointed out that, “Getting to observe a culture without language helps you pick up on visual things so much better,” an observation that has influenced his films.

After that, he went back to the United States, attended UCLA film school and started making short films. His last one, The Replacement Child, which was also his final MFA thesis film, toured the world and won several awards, including two Student Emmys.

On the topic of what he thinks of his old films, he says he wouldn’t change a thing in them because his past films are “representative of all of my flaws and who I was back then.”

He describes his most recent film, The Automatic Hate, as a “Family drama mixed with a Hitchcock mystery.” This mix of genres in his latest film shouldn’t be a surprise, as he says, “I’ve built a whole career [on] taking two genres and mixing them together.” He also points out that this film has a relationship with his last film and his next one, which will add up to three films that he likes to call, among some other ideas, “the taboo-love trilogy.”

When questioned about the uncomfortable themes that he likes to include in his films, he says, “Discomfort is important to me. I’m trying to put things on film that you haven’t seen, or at least have not seen in that way.” Justin here sees film as an opportunity to explore what we can’t in the real world; in a fictitious world, there are no social or political boundaries to explore topics about human nature, and he remarks that he likes put this characteristic of film to use. He wants to make movies that stick with you even after you leave the theatre, movies that make you think. Later, he clarified — almost in a defensive way — that you don’t have to be an awful person to talk

about awful things. In the same way that you don’t have to suffer to show suffering, a film is not necessarily a description of the filmmaker’s lifestyle.

In terms of difficulties that he has faced, Justin emphasizes the financial aspect of being an independent filmmaker. One has to find contacts, meet new people and keep in touch with them because everyone becomes a potential source of funds. Although he stated that finding money for the film is difficult, he remarks that financial uncertainty is not a problem for him, and it is a necessary characteristic that you need to become a filmmaker. “You also have to enjoy the inconsistency of income and [the] uncertainty of future,” he said. Then he added, “You have to enjoy the mundane and the geeky stuff,” as he opened his laptop and showed me a huge PDF file with every sound effect on The Automatic Hate. “It takes me weeks, if not months, to make,” he said with a smile on his face.

As for his recent success, he comments, “To succeed [in the film industry], some say it’s as hard as hitting a 100-mile-per-hour baseball with a bat, but I think it’s more like trying to hit a 100-mile-per-hour baseball with another baseball.” So when he sees people (actors and cinematographers, for example) in his films get accolades for their work, “It shows that the years you’ve spent on the planet add up to something […]

It’s almost like a fight against mortality — long after you’re gone these movies will be here.”

His favorite aspect of being a filmmaker is traveling — “There is nothing that enriches my life more than traveling to other places in the world and experiencing new things and meeting new people [...] It makes the world a smaller and more exciting place.” His favorite American movie is The Graduate and he likes Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers, but hates their imitators. If you want to find out more about his story, question his taste in film or learn what he means by “family drama mixed with a Hitchcock mystery,” join him on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Cornell Cinema.

Daniel Fayad is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at dhf63@cornell.edu.

My Dad, the Antichrist

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ast Tuesday, my father and role model, Harry Bromer, celebrated his 66th birthday. My dad is a wonderful, sweet, kind, gentle man. I can thank him for my taste in music and books, my passion for discomfort-inducing jokes and my MichaelCera-going-through-puberty-esque features (check the columnist photo … and make sure you’re sitting down, ladies). He’s a great dad.

But if you’re expecting a saccharine collection of anecdotes, culminating in a sweet, self-deprecating tribute to him, you might as well stop reading. The stakes are far higher than that.

I might as well cut right to the chase: I believe that my father might be the Antichrist.

Consider the evidence, coming at you thanks to Wikipedia. First, there’s his birthdate. October 27th, 1949 — the 300th day of that year in the Gregorian calendar. How many days there are between his birthday and the new year, you ask? Obviously, 66.

Do you know what else happened on October 27th? In 312 A.D., on the eve of a battle that would determine the fate of the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great received a vision which led to his conversion to Christianity.

Three years later, in 315 A.D., he built an arch to commemorate the event. That is exactly 1700 years before 2015. That’s the year we’re living in RIGHT NOW. Evidence.

And do you know who else experiences strange, hallucinatory visions? Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, in Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, when they encounter a horribly-CGI’d fox that utters the words “chaos reigns.” Yeah. I know. Eerie.

You think that’s it? I’m just getting started.

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October 27th, 1682. William Penn is anchored off the coast of New Castle, Delaware. With the blessing of the King of England, he founds the place we might call America’s Sodom: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Yeah, they might call themselves the “city of brotherly love,” but we all know what Philly is best known for: cheesesteaks — which scientists recently proved are cancer-causing Satan sandwiches — and the smell of urine after a football game. Where did Donald Trump go to college? The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia (after transferring). Where was the playground on which Will Smith’s Fresh Prince spent most of his days? West Philadelphia. What city worships a bell, a central image in pagan imagery?

PHILADELPHIA. To help further prove my point, I consulted 666truth.org, which I heartily recommend as a resource for pursuing any totally not crazy conspiracy theories about the upcoming apocalypse. I took the website’s “Antichrist quiz” — yes, this is a real thing made No Place by an actual, human person — Like Brome which challenges the participant to choose who they believe might be the earthly vessel of Satan from such world leaders as Bill Gates, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev and, of course, President Obama. I wouldn’t want to undermine the compelling research I found here — there are some convincing arguments for each of these world leaders.

For example, Reagan’s first, middle and last names each have six letters.

But don’t let them fool you. All the evidence points to my dad, whose real name, I assume, is Mephistopheles. I have meticulously arranged all the evidence on my bedroom walls, and everything adds up, except one thing: How is he going to deceive

Sam Bromer

humanity, and spread false prophecies of chaos and discord throughout the planet? I recently discovered the answer, and, in hindsight, it’s sickeningly obvious: Spotify.

You see, my dad and I share an account. That fact should be enough to make your blood curdle, or, I don’t know … make the skin of your hands terrifyingly dry. How am I supposed to maintain my status as an arbiter of music taste among my friends, colleagues and admirers when my “Recently Played Artists” section lists Adele, the Bee Gees and Mariah Carey? What is the point of carefully timing my listening of obscure, avant-garde, postmodernist composers at peak people-noticing time when he screws it all up by playing a cover version of “House of the Rising Sun” by some group of bored baby boomers that calls itself The ’60s Hippie Band?

There can be only one explanation. He is using my vast following to subliminally spread a message of terror throughout the globe.

So, there you have it. We’re screwed. The end. You might not believe me — but even if you don’t, please, keep your eyes open this Halloween for strange, numerically-shaped birthmarks and steer clear of open graves. I, on the other hand, will be in an abandoned laboratory, working on ever-more radical ways of convincing my dad to stop using my damn Spotify account at the same time I am.

(Disclaimer: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Any resemblance to real content, serious or satirical, is also purely coincidental. Happy birthday, dad … and happy Halloween, everyone).

Sam Bromer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. No Place Like Brome runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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OnlyYou Can Decide Who Your Role Models Are LEWIS

with the fame of being a professional athlete.” Anybody can be a role model, because a role model is not dependent on the role model themselves, it is dependent on James. I am their Aaron Rodgers and their Mike the people that look up to the role model. Just as my Trout all rolled into one person. They look up to me nephews made a decision to make me their role model, and they would be shocked to people have the ability to find out that I have flaws (of decide whether or not they He’s not getting paid which I have many). I am not a think Kobe Bryant is a role famous athlete, but they wormillions of dollars to be your role model. Kobe didn’t sign some ship the ground I walk on as I contract when he became a promodel, he’s getting paid to be a was one. Even though their fessional athlete that stipulated father tries to get them to watch that he had to set a good exambasketball player. baseball with him, they would ple for kids across America. rather play board games with Kids just made the conscious me. They have made a conscious decision that I am the decision that that’s who they wanted to idolize. And role model in their life. that’s ok. But don’t be surprised when he gets alleged of Being a role model is a not a “side effect that comes misconduct. He’s not getting paid millions of dollars to Continued from page 16

be your role model, he’s getting paid to be a basketball player.

I guess my overall point is that you should choose your role models carefully. I choose not to consider athletes role models, because I solely watch athletes for entertainment purposes. I probably have more role models at Cornell than I do in the professional sports realm. And just like I didn’t choose for my nephews to look up to me, athletes don’t choose for you to look up them either. It’s your decision. They didn’t sign up to be your role model; that was your decision.

Ben, we should definitely blaze up and listen to Swish when it comes out. Until then, my favorite athlete-role model is Matt Bonner.

Shane Lewis is a first year columnist.. He can be contacted at slewis@cornellsun.com. Sportstradamus appears every Thursday this semester.

Jabari Parker Primed for Seniors Look to Finish Fencing Return to Buck’s Lineup Careers Strong,Leave Legacies ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP) — As the Milwaukee Bucks wrapped up their final practice ahead of the season-opener against the New York Knicks, coach Jason Kidd expressed confidence that the team will have last year’s firstround draft pick Jabari Parker back in the lineup by early November.

“He looks great. He’s done everything,” Kidd said following the team’s workout on Tuesday.

“Hopefully, in that first couple of weeks of November, he can come back and start his process, his journey, of playing 10 to 15 minutes a night and hopefully getting his load bigger as the season goes on.”

The Bucks have been taking a cautious approach with Parker, 20, as he continues to recover from surgery in January to repair a torn ACL in his left knee. Parker, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 draft, has been practicing with the team.

Milwaukee also will be without

another of its young stars, forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was suspended for Wednesday night’s opener for decking Mike Dunleavy of the Chicago Bulls during Game 6 of last season’s first-round playoff series.

“We’ve got to make it work,” guard Michael Carter-Williams said of Antetokounmpo’s onegame absence. “We’ll be ready with whoever replaces Giannis, whether it’s (Chris Copeland) or whoever.”

This year’s first-round pick, Rashad Vaughn, returned to practice Tuesday after sitting out Monday’s workout with a sore right shoulder. O.J. Mayo remained sidelined with an injured hamstring.

The Bucks will open at home for the first time since the 198485 season, when the team played at the Milwaukee Arena. The Bucks have played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, now the league’s third-oldest arena, since 1988.

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Championship meet in February. Last season, the Red went 2-4 within the Ancient Eight, and this year when Cornell’s rival schools come to Ithaca to compete, the team wants to make a statement.

“Preseason and our executive plan for the entire season in terms of training, has been affected by the preparation to be the hosts of the Ivy Championships in February 2016,” Dolgikh said. “It is really providing the team an extra vigor to set our minds on the goal to take down some powerhouses within the Ivy League conference, which is the toughest conference to be a part of and it has been such for decades.”

The Ivy League is definitely one of the national powerhouses in fencing, so

the women’s team will need to bring their A-game once the meet comes around this February. Fortunately, the team did not graduate many seniors last spring, and brought in multiple new impressive recruits.

Meanwhile, longtime performers such as Angelica Gangemi, junior Victoria Wines, and senior Ediona Sera will be sure to step up for the Red. Gangemi has been a pivotal fencer for the team since her freshman season, and is now a captain for the team.

“The legacy I want to leave for the team is to simply to be an example of what you can accomplish through hard work, dedication and resilience,” Gangemi said.

“Fencing is such a tough sport mentally, in addition to physically. It's easy to get bogged down in the sport, especially when you add on

academics and other stresses that accompany the life of a Cornell student.”

Gangemi will certainly leave a strong legacy on the program; she and fellow Class of 2016 varsity athlete Luke Hagy were recipients of the prestigious Richie Moran honoring outstanding senior student athletes at Cornell.

Before looking too far ahead to consider her legacy, however, Gangemi said she is focusing on this upcoming season.

“I am excited to see what the team will accomplish this year,” Gangemi said. “Each year, we get stronger. The upperclassmen and returning fencers are all very talented.

And we have an amazing class of freshman that I think will help the team earn the victory in tough matches.”

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really pursuing it much,” Walters said. “Then [former assistant coach Rod Plummer] talked to me and flew me out there for an official visit and I loved it and I loved the campus. I loved the football part of it, the athletics, so from that point on it was ‘alright, I like Cornell, let’s go.’”

In Ithaca, Walters didn’t make an immediate impact for the Red as a receiver, catching just three passes his freshman year, but he showed just how dangerous he could be returning punts and kicks. He ended his freshman season with a bang, blasting through Penn’s defense on a kickoff return for what would prove to be the game-winning touchdown. Walters calls that moment the best memory of his Cornell career.

After four years of returning kickoffs and punts, Walters graduated from Cornell as the all-time leader in all-purpose yards and ranks No. 1 in punt and kick return yards for his career. He also ranks fourth in receiving yards. As a senior, he was second team All-Ivy as a return specialist and as a receiver.

While playing for Cornell, Walters learned that your role on the team is never safe, and you have to consistently perform at your best to maintain your play time. He was able to carry this over to the NFL. “Everyone is out there trying to earn a spot to play,” Walters said. “Every day you’ve got people busting their butt to try to get on the field. You have to bring your agame every day, you can’t slack off. If your performance starts to slide ... you may seem someone else jump you. It’s the same thing with Cornell, there’s competition.”

Balancing football and Cornell academics is a challenge for anyone, and Walters was no exception. An economics major, Walters said that learning to balance his schoolwork with athletics was a crucial thing to know going into professional football. Between meetings, game walkthroughs, practices and film study, the NFL is more than a full time job.

“Cornell in general prepares you for the NFL,” Walters said. “[Playing in the NFL] is a full time job, which it is at Cornell when you’re balancing academics with it as well. Academics is part of football, and it’s highlighted so much by the coaches. That’s why we’re [at Cornell] in the first place. I just think that all that together prepared me for coming in here and playing football all day long.”

Walters spent two years with San Diego, bouncing between the practice squad and the active roster.

Following a brief stint with the Minnesota Vikings, Walters’ home town Seattle Seahawks came calling in late 2012.

“It was cool,” Walters said. “I was just thankful to have that opportunity there. At the same time it was kind of stressful. You know everyone there and everyone wants tickets. I was worried about getting people to games and that’s not what I should be worried about.”

In Walters’ second year with the team, the Seahawks cruised to a 13-3 record before easily dismantling the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. Walters saids the Super Bowl victory was something he’ll never forget.

The following year, Walters earned a larger role on the team as the Seahawks’ primary punt returner. He saw time in 13 regular season games that season and also played in three playoff games, including Seattle’s loss in the Super

Bowl to the New England Patriots. Following the 2014 season, Walters signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars and has seen his role change from a returner to a receiver.

In his first 6 games this season, Walters has caught 19 balls for 228 yards for the 2-5 Jaguars.

“It’s been great, it really has been,” Walters said. “I’ve been adjusting to it well. It’s a really great locker room and it’s a team on the rise ... I see a lot of good things, and there’s good things to come.”

Even though he’s just 27 years old, Walters is a veteran for the Jaguars. In a league in which the average career lasts a little over three years, Walters is now in his sixth season, and he’s one of the older guys on the team.

“It’s a little weird to be honest with you,” Walters said about being a veteran for the Jaguars. “I find myself walking in here thinking I’m a rookie for some reason. I’m like the old guy walking around, which is weird because I don’t feel old.”

On a team with a young corps of receivers like 22-yearold Allen Robinson and 24-year-old Allen Hurns, Walters has found himself in a position in which he can help out his younger, less experienced teammates.

“I had a lot of guys when I came in really help me and take me under their wing and teach me some stuff,” Walters said. “Guys like Vincent Jackson, Malcom Floyd and Patrick Clayton. It really helps out when you’ve got guys who have been through the fire telling you what to do and encouraging you. I just hope I can have that kind of influence on someone here, too.”

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

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Walters Brings ‘Ivy League’to The Big League

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

When Bryan Walters ’10 was a punt and kick returner and wide receiver at Cornell, the offensive game plan was simple: throw the ball in Walters’ general vicinity and he’ll somehow be able to come down with it and make something special happen. After four years of stat sheet stuffing numbers and highlight reel plays, Walters got a call from the San Diego Chargers that changed his life. “[I saw] some random number on my phone,” Walters says. “I answered it and they said ‘hey, how would you like to be a San Diego Charger?’ That was very cool to me, it made me realize the dream is possible.”

Now a wide receiver on the Jacksonville Jaguars, Walters has played for four NFL teams and has been to two Super Bowls. This year, he’s had more opportunities at receiver than ever before, and he’s accumulated 228 in six games for the Jaguars.

Walters says that making it to the NFL had always been a goal of his. When looking at college programs to continue his football career, Walters knew that, even though

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Making the leap | Walters is one of the few Cornell footbal players to have made the jump to the pros. He has played with the Chargers, Vikings, Seahawks and Jaguars over his career.

Cornell may not be in the national spotlight, he still believed if he was good enough to make it to the pros, then his talent would be seen by scouts.

“Ivy League had always intrigued me, but I was never See WALTERS page 15

Fencers Travel to Philadelphia Athletes Don’t Have

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By JEFF ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

This upcoming Saturday, the Red fencing team won’t be dressing up in spooky costumes or putting on crazy makeup. No, the Red will be making a trip down to Philadelphia where they will compete in the the Temple

Open meet. The Open features many of the top fencerss in the nation, and will be a great test to open the year for Cornell.

The Temple Open meet, hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia, is an individual meet, but Cornell’s team makes the trip every year to compete together against hundreds of col-

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Squaring off | Red fencers will get their first taste of competition this weekend at Temple Unversity.

legiate fencers from across the East coast. Last year at the meet, Cornell had their best showing yet, with three women earning medals at the event.

“The Temple Open is a great tournament because it gives us a chance to showcase how hard we've worked in preseason and the first few weeks of official practices,” said senior captain Angelica Gangemi. “Everyone on the team has been very dedicated to their training, and I'm confident that we will have a successful weekend.”

While the team has certainly been training hard in the offseason and preseason leading up to this weekend, the Temple Open will be their first opportunity to have a good competitive fencing experience in the largest individual collegiate meet in the United States.

“Each year the idea is to come in and face a marathon of fencing to the best of one’s ability,” said head coach Iryna Dolgikh, speaking about the meet’s unique opportunities. “Due to the nature of the sport, at some point, our athletes often end up fencing each other in this open event to get ahead, so there are a variety of challenges one has to overcome and it truly becomes a test of a fencer’s character.”

This season may be a true test of the varsity team’s character, as for the first time in years, Cornell will be hosting a home tournament, and a major one at that: the Ivy League Championship meet in February. Last season the Red See FENCING page 15

To Be Role Models

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recently stumbled upon Ben Denson’s response to my “Role Models” column.

Sorry for barely acknowledging this; I don’t read The Sun as much as I probably should.

Actually, that is a huge understatement, but that’s a column for another day. I just first want to say, Ben, I think that’s fucking awesome. Somebody actual-

others.” In your column, you say that kids at Cornell are not role models. I would argue that kids attending one of the most prestigious universities in the world definitely are role models. I mean I would hope to people back in my hometown–one of the least educated cities in America according to numerous rankings–that the

Shane Lewis Sporstradamus ly reads my columns! This whole time I thought my columns were published only to be never heard from again. Mr. Denson, I am glad you disagree with my column. To quote the infamous words of Will Ferrell, only to be popularized by Jay and Ye, “its provocative-Gets the people going”. And because I love the idea of having some kind of epic columnist war, I have decided to offer my rebuttal. Listen up friends, I’m about to bust out the philosophy / English major in me.

The official definition of a role model given by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by

behavior of a Cornell student is something to be imitated.

You then say that athletes are put “on a pedestal due to their extreme talent and determination to find perfection.” Again, I think this describes Cornell students perfectly. So by your criteria, students at Cornell are in fact role models.

Sure, students like me and you don’t have the massive twitter followings and jersey sales of today’s most popular athletes, but that certainly doesn’t mean that “no one cares”. To my two little nephews Liam and Anthony, I am their LeBron James. I am their Aaron See LEWIS page 15