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C.U. Updates Financial Aid Loan Policy, Seeking Greater Fairness

$120,000 family income bracket to $85,000$135,000 and decrease the maximum annual loan from $7,500 to $5,000 for families with an

Working Group which was previously considering ending need-blind admissions for transfer students and other measures to save financial aid money has decided to alter Cornell’s loan policy in order to more accurately reflect current U S i n c o m

announced Tuesday

The ne w policy, which will affect transfer and freshmen students entering in fall 2018, will increase the family income bracket for reduced l o a n s f r o m $ 6

$85,000 The maximum annual loan amount for those affected by the change students from families earning between $75,000 and $85,000 will decrease from $5,000 to $2,500

In addition, the policy will shift the $75,000-

$135,000

The rest of the financial need will be met with grant aid, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth announced Families with less than $60,000 in annual income will continue to receive financial aid packages with grant aid in lieu of loans, and families with less than $60,000 in annual income and less than $100,000 in assets will continue to have no parent contributions “ T

, because it enables the university to continue enrolling a socio-economically diverse undergraduate population,” Knuth, who chaired the AFAWG, said in the Cornell Chronicle “ The

See FINANCIAL AID page 4

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Federal immigration enforcement agents were not at Cornell on Tuesday despite widespread alarm regarding reported sightings, which spread while the University refused for hours to confirm that rumors shared on social media and by email were false

“Earlier today, an independent contractor for the U S Office of Personnel Management (OPM) arrived on the Ithaca campus to conduct a routine background check related to an individual’s application for a job with the U S Customs and Border Protection,” President

Martha Pollack said in a statement

When the contractor identified himself at a visitor booth, Pollack said, “ a false rumor quickly circulated across campus and on social media that the visitor was an officer of the U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement

“It is understandable, in light of recent, local action by ICE, that this news while inaccurate would be met with great concern, ” Pollack said Em a i l s f ro m d e p a r t m e n t chairs, concerned faculty, campus groups and the Office of the Un

many students’ inboxes Tuesday

By YUICHIRO KAKUTANI Sun Staff

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While Slope Day is traditionally held on the last day of classes, Slope Day will be held tomorrow due to changes to the academic calendar Regardless, The Sun is here to give you all the details you need to know before hitting the Slope tomorrow

Free Breakfast

Breakfast sandwiches and fruit will be served for free at Collegetown in front of Schwartz and at 626 Thurston Wristbands

If you have not already obtained your Slope Day wristband, you must pick one up today with a Cornell or government-issued ID, available at various locations across campus

Music

Brasstracks will open the concert and will be followed by S’natra The headliners will be Big Giantic and MisterWives

Weather

Expect mostly sunny skies throughout the day with temperatures hovering around the low 60s perfect for Slope Day debaucher y

LEPP Theory Seminar: Masha Baryakhtar

2 p m , 401 Physical Science Building

Vishaan Chakrabarti: Architecture and the Public Metropolis

3 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Enterprise Engineering Colloquium: Danny Brundage ’74 4:30 p m , 101 Phillips Hall

Reading and Discussion With Playwright Bashar Murkus

7 p m , Film Forum Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

First Female Sun Sports Editor, Vietnam War Reporter Dies

Covering stories frsthand from war zone, Anne Morrissy Merrick ’55 broke professional barriers

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Ed tor

After a trailblazing 40-year career in journalism, Anne Morrissy Merick ’55 died of complications from dementia in Naples, Fla on May 2, according to her daughter Katherine Anne Engleke

Morrissy Merick, whose career spanned from covering sports to covering the battlefield during the Vietnam War, was an active advocate for women ’ s rights in journalism

As a Cornell undergraduate in 1954, she received national recognition when she became the first female sports editor of The Sun Later that year, she became the first woman credentialed to sit in the press box at the Yale Bowl, Yale’s football stadium

In an alumni blog, William F Waters ’54 said that her position at The Sun was a “gender milestone” greeted with “snarky condescension” by the male dominated profession

For example, New York Herald Tribune columnist Red Smith wrote in 1954 that she was a “slick little chick whose

name probably will be linked in history with those of other crusading cupcakes ”

The Chicago Tribune also wrote the same year that “she can write a fashion review, giving a description of the costuming in Dartmouth green or Harvard Crimson, and what accessories the athletes carried ”

Despite gender criticism from other reporters, Morrissy Merick continued to break down professional barriers, becoming a sports editor of the international edition of The New York Herald Tribune after graduation

“An edict like Westmoreland’s would prohibit women from covering the war ” Anne Morrissy Merick ’55

She became an associate producer at ABC in 1961, where she covered the Civil Rights Movement and the space program, then worked for nine months in Vietnam, AP News said

In 1967, when ABC assigned her to cover the Vietnam War, U S Commander General William Westmoreland ordered that female reporters could not spend the night in the field with the troops This order would make it impossi-

ble for female reporters to go on combat missions, according to the AP She called Westmoreland’s order a “knockout blow” to female repor ters in a book she coauthored in 2002, titled War Tor n: Stories of War From the Women Repor ters Who Covered Vietnam “In Vietnam it was impossible to determine just where the front lines were, ” she wrote “The war was everywhere An edict like Westmoreland’s would prohibit women from covering the war ”

Morrissy Merick and Overseas Weekly editor Ann Bryan Mariano organized female war reporters to challenge Westmoreland’s order, and ultimately overrode his order after appealing to the Defense Department “We had to fight!” she added

Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun

U.K. Astronomer Royal Warns ‘There’s No Planet

By ELIZABETH STELL Sun Staff Writer

If aliens had been watching our planet for the last billions of years, “what might they see if they w a t c h f o r a n o t h e r h u n d re d years?” asked Lord Martin Rees, t h e A s t ro n o m e r Roy a l o f t h e United Kingdom, when he gave the inaugural Carl Sagan Lecture Monday night

L o o k i n g a h e a d t ow a rd t h e potential and probable technological advances expected in this centur y both on Earth and in space, Rees spoke to the benefits and risks they pose as humans push for ward in this defining centur y A board member of the Carl Sagan Institute and Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer Anne Druyan introduced Rees’ presentation by drawing a parallel between Sagan a renowned professor of astronomy at Cornell and Rees as “citizen-scientists ”

“[Sagan] was also a citizen-scientist who was so conscientious

h e m o u n t e d a n i n d e p e n d e n t campaign without any help from anyone to fight for the future of this planet,” Druyan said Rees began his lecture on this point, stressing the lessons he has taken from Sagan and their relevance in today’s world

“ We need [Sagan’s] optimistic vision of life’s destiny in this world and perhaps far beyond this world,” he said “ We need to think globally We need to think rationally We need to think longterm ”

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“ We could universally degrade our biosphere,” Rees said “And advanced technology, if misdirected, could cause a devastating setback to our civilization ”

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o f Google’s DeepMind robot, which recently beat the human world champion at the Chinese strategy game Go, to elaborate on these potential setbacks

“Advances are patchy Robots can do all these things, but they’re still clumsier than a child, moving pieces on a real chessboard,” Rees said “ Will this new machine age be like earlier

“We need [Sagan’s] optimistic vision of life’s destiny in this world. ... We need to think globally ”

Lord Martin Rees

Rees emphasized the importance of human agency in this mission of global thinking Rees said that humans can and should protect the biosphere, reduce the rate of the population increase and responsibly create new technologies

Ne w t e c h n o l o g i e s , t h o u g h they can work to this goal, also can pose threats

create as many j o b s a s i t destroys?”

Re s p o n d i n g to this question, Rees said “ some blue-collar jobs, like plumbing and gardening, will be among the hardest to alter ” “ To preser ve a healthy society will require massive redistribution to ensure that ever yone has at least a living wage, ” he added

However, space offers solutions to some of these challenges, where Rees said “it’s in deep space

formed ”

“I hope people will follow the robots, though it will be as riskseeking adventurers, rather than a

“ These exploits should be promoted as adventures or extreme sports The phrase ‘ space tourism’ should be avoided because that lulls people into unrealistic confidence ”

Though space presents opport

, Re e s reminded the audience that people’s attention should remain on Earth

“Don’t ever expect mass emigration from Earth,” Rees said “No way in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest It’s a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from the Earth’s problems There’s no Planet B ” Without an escape, Rees said that the next 100 years may determine our fate

“ Eve n i n t h e c o n c e r t i n a e d time scale that astronomers have envisioned, extending billions of years into the future, as well as into the past, this centur y may be a defining era, ” he said Rees also said that we can have

hope for the next centur y, keeping Sagan’s mission in mind

“ Though we live under the shadow of these threats, and may be political pessimists, we must remain techo-optimism,” he said “Advances in AI, biotech, nanotech and space could booster the developing, as well as the developed, world If we don’t responsibly progress in these new technologies, we won ’ t achieve the kind of vision that Carl and all the rest of us would like to see ”

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Barbara Knuth

Fear Follows ICE Rumors

Students update campus while C U stays quiet RUMORS

Continued from page 1

morning after students and staff reported the sighting of a U S Customs and Border Protection officer, highlighting the Cornell community’s fear after last week’s arrest of an Ithaca resident by ICE officers

False warnings of ICE and CBP agents proliferated on Facebook, Twitter and local media on Tuesday morning as well, while campus officials declined to speak on the record about the incident as Pollack’s statement was drafted, which was not released until 1:30 p m

“There are so many conflicting sources scaring the shit out of people,” Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez ’18 told The Sun shortly before the University released its statement “I’m shocked [Cornell has] not handled it Everyone is scared ”

Nearly two hours before the University released Pollack’s statement, however, two campus groups, Cornell DREAM Team and La Asociación Latina, posted updates on their Facebook pages alerting students that the initial rumors were false and including screenshots of what appeared to be a text message from Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner debunking the CBP spotting Faculty and students noted privately and publicly that if immigration enforcement agents had been on campus, the University’s response may have not come until after enforcement agents left The social media posts from the DREAM Team and LAL, as well as emails from Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy, these people said, kept students informed while the administration stayed silent

The messages and posts, Prof Ella Maria Diaz, English and Latina/o studies, “really shows that the broader campus community is committed to the safety of their students and each other ”

“The rate at which information was shared, I found it to be deeply satisfying and energizing, to see how many people on this campus care and are actually deeply concerned for each other ” Pollack, in her statement, added that “Cornell representatives,

including Cornell University Police Department, will comply with lawfully issued subpoenas and warrants, ” but that “it is neither the university’s practice nor expectation to function as an agent of the federal government regarding enforcement of federal immigration laws ”

Prof Shannon Gleeson, industrial and labor relations, said today’s rumors were “ a wake-up for all parties involved ”

“The campus climate has tended to be somewhat flippant” on these issues, Gleeson, who is an immigration scholar, told The Sun Tuesdsay’s events “make it clear to folks that this is an issue that has great mental health implications, especially at this time of the semester ”

Zoner said in March that Cornell Police “will not seek immigration status information of any individual in the course of its law enforcement activities, unless necessary to investigate criminal activity by that individual or required by law ”

Zoner also said CUPD would act within the bounds of the sanctuary legislation passed by Ithaca and Tompkins County, which generally prohibit city and county employees from asking about a person ’ s immigration status The city legislation also restricts Ithaca Police from detaining someone for ICE, in most cases, from complying with a civil immigration detainer from ICE or CBP without a judicial warrant

Gleeson said Tuesday was “ a dry run ” for a scenario in which ICE or CBP agents do show up on or near campus, seeking to arrest an undocumented student

“If students feel under threat and they sound an alarm and they send out information they should be commended for that,”

Gleeson said “The upshot of this is that it activated a network of information that is important for us to have ”

“I think it maybe took until today to understand the urgency of having that protocol in place,” she said

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

Tibetan Initiative at Cornell Receives

More Funding, Signs Return to Quad

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“We’ve made the physical posters more durable, with laminated paper and metal stakes instead of wooden ones.”

Tenzin Dechen ’18

“People’s reactions to the display have given us ideas for ways to open dialogue with other groups and individuals ”

Tenzin Dechen ’18

t o c o n v e y t h r o u g h t h e p o s t e r s ” T I C w e r e a b l e t o s e c u r e f u n d i n g f o r t h e i r r e c r e a t e d

e x h i b i t f r o m M i k e B i s h o p , t h e d i r e c t o r o f t h e E n g a g e d L e a d e r s h i p O f f i c e , a f t e r B i s h o p r e a d T h e Su n a r t i c l e i n w h i c h T I C a d m i t t e d t h a t t h e y l a c k e d f u n d i n g t o d o s o “ Te n z i n D e c h e n p a r t i c ip a t e s i n h i s l e a d e r s h i p p r og r a m , ” s a i d Te n z i n Wa n g m o ’ 1 7 , s e c r e t a r y o f T I C “A f t e r [ B i s h o p ] s a w t h e a r t i c l e , h e e m a i l e d [ D e c h e n ] a b o u t t h e g r a n t o p p o r t u n i t y ” T h e S u n a r t i c l e a l s o p r o m p t e d m o r e d i a l o g u e s u rr o u n d i n g t h e Ti b e t a n i s s u e o n - c a m p u s , D e c h e n s a i d “ Pe o p l e ’ s r e a c t i o n s t o t h e d i s p l a y h a v e g i v e n u s i d e a s f o r w a y s t o o p e n d i al o g u e w i t h o t h e r g r o u p s a n d i n d i v i d ua l s , ” D e c h e n s a i d “ We w e r e h e a r t e n e d b y t h e c o m m e n t s o f s u p p o r t a n d e n c o u r a g em e n t A s f o r o n e s t h a t w e r e m o r e c r i t i c a l , o u r c l u b i s r e a ll y h o p i n g t o c o n s i d e r t h o s e a s w e l l a n d m a k e i t i n t o s o m et h i n g c o n s t r u c t i v e a n d p o s i

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun com

DESIGN

DAHLIA WILSON 19

Business Manager

JACOB RUBASHKIN ’19

Associate Editor

ZACH SILVER 19 Sports Editor

JUHWAN PARK ’18 Video Editor

ANNA DELWICHE 19 News Editor

KATIE SIMS ’20

Arts & Entertainment Editor

ARNAV GHOSH 19 Science Editor

JACK KANTOR ’19

Assistant Sports Editor

KARLY KRASNOW 18

Assistant Photography Editor

EMMA NEWBURGER 18

Assistant News Editor

MEGAN ROCHE 19

Assistant Design Editor

KATHLEEN JOO 19

Marketing Manager

PAULINA GLASS ’18

Senior Editor

Amiri Banks 17

Yamini Bhandari 17

Alex Davies 17

Akshay Jain 17

Kevin Kowalewski ’17

Independent Since 1880

BOARD

SOPHIA DENG ’19

Editor in Chief

LYDIA KIM 18

Advertising Manager

LEV AKABAS ’19

Blogs Editor

CAMERON POLLACK 18

Photography Editor

RACHEL WHALEN 19 News Editor

ANDREI KOZYREV 20

Arts & Entertainment Editor

CHARLES COTTON 19

Assistant Sports Editor

JOSHUA ZHU ’20

Assistant Sports Editor

MICHAEL WEYNE LI 20

Assistant Photography Editor

ALISHA GUPTA ’20

Assistant News Editor

EMMA WILLIAMS 19

Assistant Design Editor

DUSTIN LIU ’19

Human Resources Manager

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JACQUELINE GROSKAUFMANIS ’19 Senior Editor

NEWS BOARD

JOSHUA GIRSKY 19 Managing Editor

PRAJJALITA DEY ’19 Web Editor

BRIAN LAPLACA 18 Design Editor

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NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS 19 City Editor

JANNA YU 18 Dining Editor

OLIVIA LUTWAK ’18 Dining Editor

JAMIL RAHMAN 19

Assistant Sports Editor

JOHN YOON ’20

Assistant News Editor

GIRISHA ARORA 20

Assistant News Editor

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Assistant Blogs Editor

PHOEBE KELLER 18 Senior Editor

VAS MATHUR 18 Senior Editor

Letter to the Editor

A call for solidarity

To t he Edi t or :

Tobe Attah ’17

Bobby Marani ’17

Brittany Biggs ’18

Kevin Linsey 18

Sam Hummel 18

OPINION BOARD

Soren Maplass 17 Eric Schulman 17 Hebani Duggal 18 Michael Glanzel 18 Ara Hagopian ’18 Narayan Reddy 18

Groskaufmanis 19 Priya Kankanhalli 19 Gaby Leung ’19

ARTS BOARD

SPORTS BOARD

Shan Dhaliwal ’18

Dylan McDevitt ’19

Karen Papazian ’19 Mary Barger 19 Noah Elden 19

Sarah Peters 19 Smita Nalluri ’19 Troy Bridson ’19 Adam Masters 20 Bennett Gross 20

As we are deeply troubled by the events of the previous week, several members of the senior class would like to issue the following statement of solidarity to the Cornell community While we may be departing soon, we all share a common love for our alma mater and, more importantly, our fellow students As such, we wanted to come together one last time as a group of student leaders from all parts of campus to reaffirm our commitment to the uplift of Cornell all of Cornell

The unwelcomed presence of ICE in the greater Ithaca area and their willingness to brazenly invade our community and detain our community members for no other reason than their documentation status is unconscionable and inhumane As we are aware that members of our campus community feel unsafe in the wake of what frankly amounts to an abduction in broad daylight, we would like to say unequivocally that you belong here, you have value and we stand with you

We call upon those who are in positions of safety to sincerely and effectively suppor t those who are vulnerable; we call upon all Cornellians to take care of one another, to live with empathy and love In the fight against injustice, compassion is a form of resistance Undocumented students should feel safe on this campus any person truly should mean any person if you are committed to the founding ideals of our alma mater Be kind to one another instead of perpetuating hate and intolerance If you are unsure of the best ways to help, ask There are various groups on our campus and in the greater Ithaca community who have been and will continue to be on the front lines of this struggle support them as they ask to be supported

Finally, know that regardless of your status or background you are a valued part of this community, and we will continue to support you as alumni as we hope our organizations will continue to support you here on the Hill

J a s o n J e o n g |

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Fr i s b e e a c ro s s f a l l i n g ye l l ow a n d re d f o l i a g e o n t h e A r t s Qu a d , o r t h o s e f re s h m a n n i g h t s s t u m b l i n g b a c k t o No r t h f ro m

C o l l e g e t ow n b e l ow a t a p e s t r y o f s t a r s t h e s e m o m e n t s , s e e mi n g l y i n s i g n i f i c a n t a t t h e t i m e , a re w h a t s h a p e a n d b e c o m e o u r

c o n c e p t i o n o f c o l l e g e A s n o s t a l g i a u s u a l l y w o rk s , t h e h u m d r u m o f C o r n e l l w i l l b r i n g b o t h f o n d n e s s a n d w i s t f u l n e s s o n e d a y i n t h e f u t u re We’l l s c ro l l t h ro u g h o l d In s t a g r a m p i c t u re s a n d f l i p t h ro u g h p h o t o a l b u m s t h a t w i l l i n va r i a b l y b r i n g u p m e m o r i e s o f “ t h a t o n e t i m e i n c o l l e g e ” a n d a l l t h e e m o t i o n s t h a t c a m e w i t h i t By t h e n , we p ro b a b l y w o n ’ t b e a b l e t o s h o t g u n a s m a n y b e e r s o r s

few years removed from college, I can still remember the uncomfortable, awkward and somewhat silencing experience of attending a Cornell Hillel Israeli Independence Day celebration while my fellow classmates stood outside, protesting the event and what it stood for I was told that our Israel Day celebration was “apolitical,” and that celebrating the country ’ s birth was by no means taking a stance on the political situation there Something about this didn’t sit right with me But I did not speak up, because I was not willing to jeopardize my relationships with my friends and community

D e s m o n d Tutu, the South African social activist, once said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor ” As I move through life and continue to reflect back on this experience, I have come to the conclusion that in being neutral in this situation of injustice, I had chosen the side of the oppressor So this past Tuesday, when I opened my Facebook feed to find out that something similar had occurred at this year ’ s Cornell Hillel Israeli Independence Day celebration, I was moved to respond I write this column today as someone who is proud to say they served on their Cornell Hillel Student Executive Board, who developed a deeper spiritual connection to Judaism through Hillel and who made some of their closest friends at Cornell through Hillel I also write this column as someone who is proudly antioccupation and is committed to a

fairer and more just reality for all Israelis and Palestinians

The situation in Israel and Palestine is by no means an easy or simple one At every turn, it appears complicated and nuanced And in my experience, one narrative can oftentimes dominate at the expense of another Learning and engaging with the issues is the only way to face them, and the more I have learned about the situation, the more I am motivated to work for freedom and equality for all Palestinians and Israelis Working on this issue feels vital to my own

the oppressor We as a Jewish community need to be having conversations about what we can do to work for justice in Israel and Palestine, and college campuses seem like a very appropriate place to begin these conversations

Since college, I have had the opportunity to organize with fellow young Jews around Israel and Palestine and work toward a fairer reality for all Israelis and Palestinians I don’t think I realized how much I needed this until I found it, and it has been a life-changing experience to organize with my Jewish peers around this issue

I believe Hillel and its limiting tenets around conversations about Israel do college students a disservice by not creating a diverse Jewish space on campus for students to wrestle with the situation in Israel and Palestine.

Jewish identity because so much of what happens there is done in the Jewish people’s name

I believe Jewish students on campus who are grappling with the situation in Israel and Palestine deserve a space to do just that It is central to Judaism to struggle with a question, and we are continually encouraged to do so as a Jewish people I believe Hillel and its limiting tenets around conversations about Israel do college students a disservice by not creating a diverse Jewish space on campus for students to wrestle with the situation in Israel and Palestine And in not looking at the issue with a critical eye or elevating under heard narratives, we will have chosen the side of

Having had many similar e x p e r i e n c e s growing up and in college, we are able to create both deep and welcoming dialogue that continues to fosters my views and motivate me towards action

And in doing this work Jewishly, I demonstrate that I am proud of my identity and want to use the power in that identity to work for what is right

I hope that Hillels and college campuses can become a place where Jewish students are welcome to be proudly Jewish while engaging with their varied views on the situation in Israel and Palestine I hope that where I am in my Jewish journey, there would still be a place for me at Hillel, and in the broader Cornell Jewish community, today

Meredith Mitnick ’14 is an alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences, and she currently lives in Washington D C Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

3-D Coming to Cornell Cinema Friday

BY JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Cinema is inaugurating a new 3-D projection system Friday night after a grant and a s u c c e s s f u l c r ow d f u n d i n g c a mpaign

In 2 0 1 6 , C o r n e l l C i n e m a received a capital equipment grant from the New York State Council on the Arts offering the campus theatre half of the installation cost for a 3-D system A crowdfund-

i n g c a m p a i g n l a u n c h e d i n November matched the funds remarkably quickly and this Friday Mad Max: Fur y Road inaugurates the flinch worthy viewing equipment

Fo r m a n y p e o p l e , m y s e l f included, 3-D film still feels new Cornell Cinema hopes to share the medium’s weighted cinematic histor y The first 3-D exhibition dates back to 1915 and, since that t i m e , t h e s t e re o s c o p i c m e t h o d attracts Hollywood, independent, documentar y, foreign and experimental film productions

Cornell Cinema dedicates itself to a holistic view of cinematic entertainment, and its lack of 3-D offerings represented a void in the theater’s mission The upgrade w i l l , a c

Cornell Cinema press release, “close the gap

capabilities and enable them to fully accommodate its mission to offer selections from the full spectrum of

media

With the way

restorations have been moving in the last sev-

was something that we needed to include in our programming

and difficult Cornell Cinema watched and

developmental

Cinema showed most films on

Reel-to-reel, despite its seemingly antique form, allowed for some

ver y limited exploration into the third dimension For the first time in 1998, and a second time in 2004, Cornell Cinema invested in special lenses, rented a silver

screen to put in front of the regular one and bought disposable glasses to offer Cornell students a rare, but viable, 3-D experience Each effort added up to a total of nine sold-out shows 3-D film engages patrons It offers something more real than regular film, yet it provides an escape from an individual reality McLaren contends that “3-D cinema, when well executed, creates an immersive you-are-there experience ” The 3-D technique, more so than any other style, gives viewers the power to forget where they actually are and engage with the “you-are-there ” 3-D cinema encapsulates the tension between the traditionalist’s affection for reel-to-reel film as opposed to new digital technology T h e re e l - t o - re e l f o r m a t r u l e d Hollywood cinema entirely until the early 2000s In 2005, many theatres shut off the lights on 35 mm projectors and bought into drip feed digital formats In 2013, Cornell Cinema, too, added digital projection to its theatre menu Digital film allows for easy screening in the 3-D It makes film feel touchable and so it makes it more real Old time moviemakers and Luddites disagree Steven McQueen, an Academy Award winning director, argues, “ There’s something romantic about [reelto-reel] film some sort of magic it’s almost like it breathes Film feels much more I don’t know Maybe ‘human?’” 3-D film presents a problem for loyalists like McQueen The medium relies upon the digital format for simplicity’s sake to avoid that silver screen and special lenses It offers s o m e t h i n g m o re c o r p o re a l t h r o u g h a n o t a b l y l e s s t a c t i l e p r o c e s s Re e l - t o - re e l f i l m

“breathes” from up inside the proj e c t i o n ro o m , b u t 3 - D d i g i t a l allows viewers to see and, ver y n e a r l y, f e e l b re a t h o n s c re e n Subjectively, 3-D digital creates something more real than reel-toreel The tactility of the process

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screen sense of touch

The 3-D medium intertwines itself in cinematic histor y and, in d o i n g s o , e m b o d i e s C o r n e l l Cinema’s mission Investigations into the third-dimension exaggerate film’s general technological progression 3-D roots itself in t r a d i t i o n a l re e l - t o - re e l a n d expands through digital bits and bytes From paper glasses to the IMAX Ray-Ban style recyclables, 3 - D ’ s d e v e l o p m e n t f o l l ow s a defined trajector y over the course of many years Cornell Cinema dedicates itself to offering a wholesome cinematic education If one form of filmic media engages with the z-axis, so too must the campus theatre The new Dolby technology, installed i n Wi l l a rd St r a i g h t T h e a t re , widens the institute’s scope virtually and historically According to McLaren, “the Dolby 3-D system is a more robust system than what one typically finds at a multiplex Because of its design, the image is brighter and the sight lines are much better You can sit off-center from the image and still get a ver y good 3-D effect, which is not the case for other systems ” May 12 marks a new dimension in Cornell Cinema’s development Mad Max: Fur y Road a post-apocalyptic film chosen by theatre patrons in an online poll inaugurates a 3-D system that will expand its view from the futuristic to the antique Looking for ward, this next Fall will bring a 3-D cinema film series to the theatre featuring rare early 20th centur y shorts, classics from the ’50s, a r t h o u

n d recent Hollywood hits The new Do

by

h e Cornell Cinema’s primar y mission first to educate and second to entertain with an ever-wider range of films and tactility

Julia Curley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jmc628@cornell edu

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Winkler’s Journey From Farm to Ithaca to Olympics

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Few can lay claim to the accomplishments over the last several years that Cornell men ’ s track and field thrower Rudy Winkler can Winkler represented both his school and countr y at the Rio Olympics last summer, and the i ior has set numerous Ivy t records records along way

B o r n i n t h e r u r a l t ow n o f Sa n d L a k e , N Y W i n k l e r g r e w up lending his parents a hand on the family dair y farm He h a d a

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a y e d baseball from a young ge, but turned to track nd field after his parents ecided the extra exercise ould be good for the oung boy

Bigger than the avera g e k i d , W i n k l e r w a s not built like a r unner, nd he took up throwing n his lower school days

“ I w a s p r e t t y ov e rw e i g h t , s o m y p

were tr ying to get me to o stuff to lose weight,” e told The Sun in a ecent profile After tr yng out shotput and diss, Rudy ultimately stuck th hammer throw, and found success almost mediately

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nationals his freshman year of high school, Winkler began to attract the attention of major NCAA Division I programs He ultimately chose Cornell over schools like UCL A and Virginia Tech, given the balance between “good academics, good athletics” and the fact that it was “still pretty close to home ”

Since arriving in Ithaca, Winkler has put together quite the career After overcoming a torn meniscus that kept him out his entire freshman year, he has never looked back Competing in the weight throw inside and the hammer throw outside, Winkler has won the title in ever y Heps tournament he has par ticipated in He has been named a first team All-American multiple times and has set school records in both the weight and the hammer along with several academic awards along the way

“It’s been pretty cool at Cornell I’ve been able to win Heps ever y time I’ve been in both the weight and the hammer,” he said “It’s definitely a nice confidence booster ”

At the end of his junior season, par ticipating in the Rio Olympics became a real possibility for Winkler With the longest throw in the NCAA (75 meters) that

“I’d just be walking around the village and see people like Michael Phelps it’s definitely inspiring.”

Rudy Winkler

season, and a first place finish at the Olympic trials in July with 76 76 meters, Winkler put himself in prime position to earn a spot on the team

“I was on my way to a meet in El Salvador and had just landed in Houston when I got an email from [USA Track and Field],” he said “ They just told me that I made it In addition to winning the trials, that feeling was pretty awesome ”

While Winkler’s first olympics did not go exactly as planned, his experience was nothing shor t of amazing

“It was surreal especially since [competing in Rio] wasn ’ t something I planned for really,” he said “I’d just be walking around the village and see people like Michael Phelps it’s definitely inspiring You’re in this place with all the best athletes in the world, and you realize

“Throughout your time at Cornell ... you struggle trying to think of what is the most important thing ... to leave behind.”

Rudy Winkler

they’re just normal people normal people who work really hard It makes you think that anyone can really do it ”

On the day of his event, Winkler faulted on two of his first three throws and threw 71 89 meters on the other He finished in 18th overall and was unable to advance to the finals

“I didn’t compete that well but I felt really good, and overall I’m really happy with how I did at my first Olympics and my first senior competition,” he said

In his final year at Cornell, Winkler had another dominant season: two more Heps titles, a four th-place finish in NCAAs in the weight and another date at the NCAA outdoor tournament at the end of May

The graduating senior cer tainly looks back fondly on his time at Cornell

Whether that comes in the form of competing in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, coaching kids down the road or putting his information science degree to work, no one should be surprised by Winkler’s future success and determination

By JOSH ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

As Nia Marshall wrapped up her illustrious career with Cornell women ’ s basketball this season, she also cemented herself as the most successful player in program histor y

The for ward finished her career as the Red’s all-time leading scorer with 1,685 points, surpassing the 1,650 point mark previously set by Karen Walker ’91 Marshall also played a major role to the Red’s

state championships, Marshall made an immediate impact on the Red In a breakout rookie campaign, the for ward star ted all but one game, and ranked second for Cornell in scoring with 12 6 points per game

After her stellar first season, Marshall

“The consistency of her ability to lead us in that category says a lot about who she is as an athlete.”

d a y - t o - d a y s u c c e s s b y a v e r a g i n g 15 3 points, 6 9 rebounds and 1 7 steals on the season to lead her team to a 16-11 overall record its highest win total since the 2007-08 season

“We wanted to make the game memorable for Nia for herself, [and] for the whole team ”

Senior Guard Kerri Moran

“ When you break that type of record, you ’ re doing that on a night-in and nightout basis, so the consistency of her ability to lead us i n t h a t c a t e g o r y says a lot about who she is as an a t h l e t e , ” h e a d c o a c h D a y n a

Smith previously said about Marshall’s scoring title

Entering her freshman year in Ithaca having led Hathaway Brown School to three consecutive high school Division II

Head Coach Dayna Smith

took full control of the reins during her sophomore year Marshall led the Red with 16 3 points, 7 3 rebounds and 2 1 steals while shooting 45 percent from the field She also recorded 30 points three times during the season, becoming the first to do so since Do Stevens ’02 in 2001

Marshall continued her dominance in her junior year, as she led the Ivy League in scoring with 16 6 points per game

W i t h a 3 1 - p o i n t g a m e a g a i n s t Binghamton, she beat the mark she set the year prior and became the only player in program histor y to record 30 points four times She also became the second fastest player to reach 1,000 points

And as expected, the for ward once again delivered in her senior year In addition to leading the Red in scoring for a t h i

recorded three double-doubles thi past season, with an additional games where she finished just o r e b o u n d s h y o f a d o u b l e - d o Marshall’s title-securing game c in a win over Princeton, where for ward scored 12 points “ We also kne w w a s a n i m p o r t a n game for Nia, as sh h a d a v e r y h i g h c h a n c e o f b re a k i n the all-time scorin re c o rd i n t h e g

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s a i d s e n i o r K e Moran following the game “ W wanted to make the game mem orable for Nia and wanted her to remember that moment as a win not just for herself, but for th whole team ” M a r s h a l l ’ s d i v e r s i t y i n h e game is clearly shown as sh becomes the first player to recor a t l e a s t 1 , 3 0 0 p o i n t s , 5 0 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 steals a n d 5 0 b l o c k e d s h o t s i n Cornell histor y And to add to her record scoring, the for ward has also finished among the Red’s leaders in several other c a t e g o r i e s : c a r e e r s c o r i n g average (second), field goals

m a d e ( s e c o n d ) , f i e l d g o a l p e r c e n t a g e ( s e v e n t h ) , rebounds (fifth), rebound-

i average (ninth), defene rebounds (third), offenve rebounds (fifth), steals s e c o n d ) , b l o c k e d s h o t s ( f o u r t h )

played (third)

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ayer in program histor y earn Player of the Week onors at least 10 times Needless to say, Marshall s left quite a long-lasting gacy

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