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Endowment Returns Plummet for F.Y.2015

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By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Ed tor

Cornell announced Thursday that its endowment climbed to a record high of $6 3 billion during the 2015 fiscal year, up from $6 2 billion at the end of the last fiscal year

Despite the record-breaking endowment figure, the University earned a return rate of 3 4 percent on its endowment this fiscal year a sharp decrease of 12 4 percent from fiscal year 2014, when Cornell earned a return of 15 8 percent

Cornell came in with the lowest return rate for the 2015 fiscal year compared to its Ivy League peers,

excluding Columbia University, which has yet to report its returns Peer institutions that hit return rates in the double digits include Princeton University and Yale University, with 12 7 percent and 11 5 percent, respectively Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania trail behind with reported returns of 8 3 percent and 7 4 percent, respectively

The Ivy League institution with the second-lowest return thus far is Brown University, which came in at 5 7 percent Harvard University barely edged out Brown, posting a return rate of 5 8 percent

Hung Jury in Tan ’17 Murder Trial; Case to Be Retried

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Ed tor

After eight days of jury deliberations, Judge James Piampiano declared a mistrial in the murder trial of Charles Tan ’17 Thursday, finding that the deadlocked jury was unlikely to reach consensus

Following Piampiano’s ruling, many jurors expressed discontent, telling reporters they thought they might have been able to arrive at a verdict that afternoon if they had been allowed to continue deliberations “ We were shocked,” juror Jennifer McGoff told The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle “We wanted more time We were working very hard ”

Two Students Report Trespass

Reports from the jury room indicate that the group began deliberations split nine-tothree in favor of conviction, and ended with a vote of eight-to-four for conviction, although some jurors refused to reveal their votes, citing concerns that Tan receives a “fair trial ” Some jurors added that, through deliberations, vote totals fluctuated significantly, with some minds changing “ every day,” according to The Democrat and Chronicle

Tan will remain free on bail until Nov 5, when all parties will return to court for a hearing to determine whether a retrial is necessary The prosecution can now choose whether to have a retrial or drop the charges, though they said earlier in the week that

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By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

t w o f e m a l e v i c t i m s a n d w a i t e d a t t h e b o t t o m o f t h e i r b e d s u n t i l t h e y w o k e u p W h e n o n e o f t h e v i c t i m s s a t u p a n d c o n f ro n t e d t h e t re s p a s s e r, h e s a i d “ s o r r y, ” t h e n f l e d T h e t w o v i c t i m s re p o r t e d t h a t t h e t re sp a s s e r w a s a b o u t 5 f e e t 7 i n c h e s t a l l a n d 1 5 0 p o u n d s , w i t h s h o r t l i g h t c o l o re d h a i r a n d a c l e a n s h a ve n a

they plan to continue vying for a conviction in the event of a hung jury

“If I get a hung jury I will try it again and I will try it better,” said Assistant District Attorney William Gargan Tuesday

Tan was a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences until Feb 9, when his father was found shot dead inside their Pittsford, New York home, likely already dead for days After Tan was charged with second degree murder, allegations that his father had been abusive towards him and his mother came to light

Throughout the trial, Tan’s attorneys insisted that the home environment was unstable and contended that the prosecution had not presented enough evidence to

prove that Tan had even held the murder weapon

After he was indicted, Tan received an outpouring of support from both Cornellians and his local community members Throughout his trial, the courtroom gallery was filled with his supporters

Following the mistrial, defense attorneys admitted that they began preparing for a second trial earlier this week, when the prospect of a hung jury began to seem likely

“Anyone who is satisfied by a hung jury is crazy, ” said defense lawyer Brian DeCarolis “So, we ’ re disappointed ”

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun com

Cinema Fails to Gain Funding Increase

After a heated discussion at the Student Assembly meeting Thursday, Cornell Cinema advocates failed to garner the requisite 14 votes necessary to increase cinema funding next year The S A will address the issue again at next week’s meeting

Earlier this week, the Appropriations Committee voted to recommend that the S A deny Cornell Cinema’s request f o r a $ 1 4 0 p e r s t u d e n t f u n d i n g increase, raising the allocations from the student activity fee from $10 60 to $12 per student

About 40 people from the community came with posters and passionately spoke in support of Cornell Cinema

Supporters called the program a “beacon in the dark” and a unique cultural experience that enriches life at Cornell Cornell Cinema argued that the funding they receive now only covers 30 percent of their operating budget, while most other groups get funding to cover 70 to 100 percent of their budgets

Mary Fessenden, director of Cornell Cinema, said she was frustrated with the S A ’ s refusal to recognize the high operating costs the cinema must shoulder “I felt like I wasn ’ t quite able to get through to them the idea that it simply does cost more for a cinema program, ” she said

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10 a m - 8 p m , Johnson Museum of Art

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice: Is It a New or Old Moral Issue? 11:15 a m - 1:10 p m , 400 Caldwell Hall

Dyson School Seminar: A Theory of Multi-Tier Ecolabels

1 - 2:30 p m , B51 Warren Hall

Connected in Crime: How Co-Offending Networks Shape Neighborhood Violence

3:30 - 5 p m , 302 Uris Hall

Alan Turner: Sanctuary

8 a m - 5 p m , Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall

Colombia Transformed

8 a m - 5 p m , John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome

Gary Braasch Photo Exhibit

9 a m - 5 p m , Gallery, Mann Library

James Siena: Labyrinthian Structures

10 a m - 8 p m , Johnson Museum of Art

Speaking about the lack of

Speaking about repressed media in China

“Indoctrinated to do primarily propaganda work silenced by censorship and threatened by

nalists function in a very difficult place one of the most difficult regimes when it comes to press freedom By

means is this an equal relationship ”

Speaking about the cost of a college education for students

“The father works at a high school the mother works at a bank they live in the middle of the country They re not poor, they live a comfortable life, but college is still a very expensive proposition for them

President Elizabeth Garrett

Explaining one of the reasons for relaunching the first-year spring admissions program

“Students are approaching a college education in a way that is no longer bound by time or place More students desire the opportunity to take time in the transition from high school to work, travel or volunteer ”

Jason Locke, associate vice provost for enrollment

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Girls Who Code Founder Speaks at C.U.

Shares belief that as tech industry expands, STEM education for women essential

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Contributor

Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code a nonprofit that aims to increase gender parity in t e c h n o l o g y b y p r o m o t i n g c o m p

women shared her stor y and mission at a lecture

Wednesday

Saujani began her talk, titled “ Workforce of the Future,” by highlighting several statistics concerning women in computer science

While there are about 75,000 tech jobs open today, in five years there will be approximately 1 4 million jobs open in computing related fields,

a c c o rd i n g t o Sa u j a n i However, of those 1 4 million jobs, only 29 percent are projected to be filled by U S graduates and only three percent are expected to be filled by women

puting skills to pursue 21st centur y oppor tunities,” according to the organization’s website “ There is no question that technology spurs innovation,” she said “ Women make up half of this university, half of the labor force, half the breadwinners, and if they are being left out of innovation, that is a problem ”

Saujani added, however, that while she does promote a strong feminist viewpoint, she does not care about gender parity simply for the sake of gender parity Rather, she views it as the most important economic issue of our time

If America aims to continue leading globally, she explained, it is imperative that women are educated in STEM fields, especially since companies already have a dif-

“ At a time when we’ve becoming more and more reliant on technology, we’re pushing

women

out ”

“At a time when we ’ ve become more and more reliant on technology, we ’ re pushing women out, ” Saujani said However, Saujani said that recognizing the reality of these figures is necessar y to decreasing pay inequity between men and women Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields are not afflicted by a pay gap and earn over 33 percent more than women in non-STEM jobs, according to Saujani

In 1984, 37 percent of computer science graduates were women as opposed to 18 percent today, she added Looking to combat the gender disparity of the tech world, Saujani founded Girls Who Code in 2012, with a mission to “inspire, educate and equip girls with the com-

engineers to hire

“ Why is it okay that we allow our girls to say that they hate math, when we would never allow them to say that about reading and writing?” Saujani asked “ We have allowed girls to think that it’s okay to not go into the math or sciences even when they are interested or passionate ”

Girls Who Code, which Saujani said she “literally bootstrapped” in the beginning, has grown from teaching 20 girls in 2012 to a projected 10,000 girls by the end of this year, according the organization’s website

In addition to educational programs, the organization also works to expose young girls to real life and pop culture female role models in computer science and pushes for a stronger computer science focus in education policy, Saujani said

Through Girls Who Code, girls are now building algorithms to detect benign versus malignant tumors, teaching

orphans how to code and building SAT tutoring apps to level the playing field for those who cannot afford private tutors, she continued

“ These girls are amazing,” she said “ They want to build something that will make their community just a little bit better ”

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Cornell Library to Expand Research Materials Through Partnership

By JACK WENDLER Sun Staff Writer

In an effort to grow their partnership with ProQuest, Cornell’s library is currently expanding its use of ProQuest’s Online Acquisitions and Selection Information

System, or OASIS, software in order to broaden access to print, electronic and research titles

The online platform for finding and ordering print and electronic titles includes customized selection features based on the research interests of the University, accord-

ing to Jesse Koennecke, director of acquisitions and e-resource licensing services

“This specific partnership between [the library] and ProQuest is to develop and i m p rove

OASIS that facilitate how selectors identify and order the materials that might be of interest to the faculty and students in the departments they serve, ” Koennecke said

He a d d

improved platform will improve the efficiency of the library for both staff and users

“When the selection support features of OASIS are in place, we anticipate that [print and electronic material] selectors will be able to spend less time focusing on the m o re ro u t i n e a s p e c t s o f t h e i r w o rk , ” Koennecke said

The changes will also improve the library’s ability to keep up with the changing needs of a modern, technological campus, according to Koennecke

“ C i rc u l a t i o n o f p h y s i c a l b o o k s h a s dropped over the last five years while use of e-books has risen significantly in that same time,” Koennecke said “Not long ago, our book purchasing decisions were centered

Cornellians Complete Cross-Country Bike Trip

Created affordable housing opportunities through Bike and Build

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

Several Cornellians biked across the countr y this past summer through Bike & Build, a nonprofit that organizes cross-country bicycle trips in which participants raise money and work towards creating affordable housing opportunities nationwide

Among the Cornellian participants of Bike & Build’s numerous trips were Sarah Dellett ’18, Rachel Zhao ’15 and Jayant Mukhopadhaya ’15

Dellet biked from Connecticut to

California for over two months, traversing an average of 70 miles a day for a total of 4,072 miles, according to a Bike & Build press release

Throughout the 75 day trip, Dellett said she participated in projects that included cleaning up neighborhood parks, painting houses and building roofs for homes While 58 days were devoted to biking, Dellett said she spent 15 days of the trip volunteering with organizations like Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together in order to build affordable homes for families

“I’d always wanted to do a long

bike trip,” Dellett said “I was not a big cyclist before this ”

Despite her non-professional cycling experience, she said she found that “the human body is an amazing thing and can do so much ”

“We had three days of orientation to get used to bike safety and to bond with our group before the trip,” Dellett said “Once we got out west it was just phenomenal ride days and everything about it was perfect The people on my route were just so much fun, so caring, energetic and hilarious We are still best friends

”

Dellett emphasized how seeing

around physical copies, with e-books being an exception OASIS will give us a more thorough picture of all of the different formats we could acquire a book and it will provide a streamlined way to order those materials quickly ”

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ProQuest arises because the University's c u r re n t s e l e c t i o n s u p p o r t s e r v i c e , WorldCat Selection, will be discontinued in May 2016, Koennecke said

While Koennecke said that undergraduate students who do not interact directly with the system may not notice an immediate difference, the benefits will be clear for all users of the library

“[The students] might see more appropriate books for their subject areas, [and] have access to some additional ebooks,” Koennecke said

He added that the time saved for librarians at the reference desks, informational consultants providing assistance on papers and research projects and people who teach library research will also benefit students

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part of the world by bike changed her world view, saying it instilled her with “ respect for nature and for civil engineering ” In particular, she said that she was especially

impressed by some of the road structures in mountainous regions “I feel like I can do anything

C.U. Endowment

Return Falls in 2015

Cornell’s largest returns for the 2015 fiscal year come from private equity, real estate, hedge funds, domestic equity and enhanced fixed income, according to a University press release Additionally, gains from investment totaled $192 million and gifts amounted to $188 million

Chief Investment Officer A J Edwards said in a press release that despite “challenging market conditions,” cash distributions occurred “ at a strong pace ” and the University continues to make “ new commitments ” across multiple areas

“The continued improvement in our overall financial position should provide an opportunity to manage the risk and liquidity of the portfolio with a focus on long-term investments offering attractive return potential,” Edwards said

C.U. Cinema Fails to Gain

Assembly will vote again next week

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increase in funding to sustain the program, which reaches 10,700 undergraduates and puts out 180 programs per year

Representatives added that they would use the additional funding to help cover film rentals, handling fees and special events, such as having a live orchestra to accompany a silent film

Cornell Cinema is already the fourth largest recipient out of all the groups who receive funding, according to the appropriations committee They suggested that Cornell Cinema look over their budget to cut back on costs

“ They say they’re tr ying to maintain the current funding, but

they don’t understand that by maintaining the current funding they will injure the cinema,” said David Gouldthorpe ’18, secretary of Cornell Cinema Student Advisory Board

Fourteen out of 17 possible votes were needed to grant Cornell Cinema the increase in funding, but the final vote was 11 to 6 “I hope that [the next meeting] is fact and data driven, and I hope the conversation leads the representatives to make informed decisions about how the impacts on the budget will affect Cornell Cinema in a holistic way, ” said Juliana Batista ’16

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Cornellians Bike Cross-Country

Supported affordable housing through Bike and Build program

p a r t i c i p a n t , h a d s o m e p r i o r e x p e r i e n c e w i t h o u t d o o r a d ve n t u re s a n d h o u s i n g s e r v i c e p ro j e c t s , a c c o rd i n g t o h e r b i o gr a p h y o n t h e Bi k e & Bu i l d we b s i t e “A f e w ye a r s a g o , I s p e n t t h e

“I feel like I can do anything now There were some hard days in the beginning, but there were so many things to look forward to.”

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Of cials Respond to Hospital Attack

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)

A day after President Barack Obama apologized for a tragic U S airstrike that killed at least 22 people at a hospital run by Do c t o r s Wi

northern Afghanistan, the medical charity said Thursday it is continuing to press its demand for an independent investigation of the incident

The Oct 3 airstrike took p l a c e

s A f g h a n f o rc e s we re fighting to retake the strategic northern city of Kunduz, which was overrun and briefly held last week by the Taliban The insurgents, who have been massing a ro u n d t h e c i t y f o r m o n t h s , launched a multi-pronged attack that took authorities by surprise Obama on Wednesday apologized to the organization and

said the U S would examine military procedures to look for better ways to prevent such incidents

But scarce details on the erroneous strike have only fueled growing condemnation by MSF, as the charity is known under its French acronym, and other aid groups Along with a dozen hospital staffers, 10 patients were also killed in the strike, which is likely to complicate delicate U S efforts in Afghanistan

Sp e a k i n g t o re p o r t e r s o n Thursday in Kabul, MSF’s general director, Christopher Stokes, reiterated the group ' s demand for the probe, saying it would be important and a precedent for non-government organizations working in conflict zones worldwide

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n i t a r i a n Fa c t - Fi n d i n g Commission which is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia “ to get the facts of what happened, the truth ”

Created after the Gulf War in 1 9 9 1 , t h e I H F F C h a s n e ve r deployed a fact-finding mission

Stokes said MSF a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that provides medical aid in conflict zones is awaiting responses to letters sent Tuesday to 76 countries that signed the a d d i t i o n a l p ro t o c o l t o t h e Geneva Conventions, asking to mobilize the 15-member commission

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Tsipras Says He Can Lead Greece Out Of Crisis

ATHENS, Greece (AP)

Greece’s left-wing prime minister easily won a confidence vote early Thursday, and pledged to usher the bailout-reliant country out of its financial crisis by 2019, mitigating creditor-mandated austerity with support for the poor

Alexis Tsipras’ governing coalition received the backing of all 155 of its lawmakers in the 300seat parliament, with all opposition members voting against Earlier, Tsipras told lawmakers that his newly-elected government expects to be able to tap bond markets in early 2017 a key condition for Greece to make ends meet without further rescue loans from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund

Tsipras’ speech concluded a three-day debate on his policy platform

Tsipras was elected on a fouryear mandate Sept 20, despite ditching the anti-austerity rhetoric that first got him elected in January He has now pledged to implement all tax hikes, income cuts and economic reforms he agreed to in July to secure a third bailout for Greece worth 86 billion euros

“We want this four-year period to go down in history as the time when the crisis ended,” Tsipras said “Our main concern will be to support the weakest ”

The countr y soon faces an inspection of its reform progress by its creditors, and Tsipras said he hopes to have the process completed next month Once the review is out of the way, the government can open crucial talks on reducing Greece’s crippling debt load through easier repayment terms and oversee capital injections of up to 25 billion euros to its battered banks

Tsipras said success in these ventures will help revive the recession-hammered economy, which he expects to start growing again by July 2016

“This will allow us to gradually restore the long-term stability of the Greek economy (regain) investor confidence and, at the beginning of 2017, regain access to international markets,” he said With a brief exception last year, Greece has been unable to borrow from markets since it lost investor confidence in 2010 after underreporting its budget deficit To avoid bankruptcy and a disastrous exit from the eurozone, it has been kept alive for the past five years on bailouts, delivered on condition of tough spending cuts, income reductions and tax hikes

These deepened a recession that wiped out a quarter of the Greek economy and has left 25 percent of the workforce jobless Tsipras was initially elected in January on pledges to drastically curb the resented austerity, but was forced to accept the new bailout on condition of further belt-tightening to keep the country in the eurozone

Video: Calif. Police Ignored Dying Man’s Distress

LOS ANGELES (AP) Police officers in

the California desert city of El Centro repeatedly ignored signs of medical distress in a man they suspected of being a drug dealer, even telling a 911 dispatcher to ignore calls from his family for help, according to a video released Thursday on a judge’s order Hours later, the man was dead from methamphetamine intoxication

The video was taken by cameras worn by El Centro police officers who pulled over 57year-old Charlie Sampson on Dec 3, 2013 It was released Thursday following a judge's Aug 31 ruling that cited public interest in police dealings with minorities and law enforcement’s use of body cameras

“I am still shaking from watching this video I am literally stunned,” said Charis Kubrin, a criminologist at the University of California at Irvine who teaches about police use of force “The whole thing is unbelievable ”

The 15-minute video, edited down from hours of footage and released by the Sampson family's attorneys, begins with police pulling Sampson over before putting him in the back of a patrol car without being handcuffed Shortly after, Sampson is shown surreptitiously putting something in his mouth methamphetamine, according to his family's attorney, who added that he might have

taken the pill so police wouldn't find it

At various points over the course of the next two hours as police searched his home and questioned him about where the drugs were, Sampson is shown barely able to stand, speaking unintelligibly, struggling to breathe, moaning and drenched in sweat, though he's outside in December and complaining of the cold

Upon seeing Sampson, his distressed family members ask officers to help him, saying he was clearly sick One of them called 911

Soon after, an officer calls the 911 dispatcher and tells her to ignore any calls from the address

“The guy we ' re out with right now is putting on somewhat of a show,” the officer says “If we need it, we’ll advise ”

Tw o h o u r s l a t e r, Sa m p s o n w a s p ronounced dead at a hospital He was taken there by a police officer who ignored instructions to take Sampson to jail for booking on a charge of violating his probation by possessing a shotgun, according to the Sampson family's attorney, Christopher Morris

The video shows the moment when a doctor tells Sampson’s wife that her husband had died his heart had stopped by the time he arrived

“When he left home it hadn’t,” wails his wife of 40 years, Laverne Sampson “We kept

telling them something was wrong They acted like they didn’t care ”

Attorneys for El Centro and the city's police chief, Eddie Madueno, did not immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday

In court records, the officers deny wrongdoing and argue that Sampson caused his own death They did not elaborate

Laverne Sampson and her children are suing the city, the department and the officers involved, accusing them of wrongful death and negligence It seeks unspecified damages

On Thursday, Laverne Sampson said she wanted the video released because she wants the officers involved held accountable

“He was my husband, he was my kids’ father, and my grandkids’ grandfather He was somebody,” she said “He deserved medical attention and they denied him that ” Mo

Sampson a father of two had a small meth habit but was a good man providing for his family by working on the line at a sugar factory

He said police pulled him over because they were convinced Sampson was a major drug dealer based on a tip from a confidential informant, but added that no drugs were found in his home

Charter School Magnate Opts Against NYC Mayoral Bid

NEW YORK (AP) Eva

Moskowitz, the leader of a major chain of New York City charter schools and an outspoken critic of Mayor Bill de Blasio, ended months of speculation Thursday by declaring she won ' t run for mayor in 2017

Moskowitz, a Democrat and former City Council member, had been touted as a viable challenger to de Blasio, with whom she has frequently clashed over education policy and the future of char ter schools within the nation’s largest public school system But, in a City Hall news conference that at times was on the verge of being drowned out

by the chants of protesters, she opted against a return to campaigning for now

“I am not running because I think what we still can accomplish in education could be gamechanging,” she said, comparing her innovations to those of Apple and Google “We have to fundamentally rethink every aspect of schooling We can ' t be cynical about changing the politics of education ”

Moskowitz said her focus would remain r unning the Success Academy, which operates 34 charter schools and educates 11,000 students, a system praised by some for giving opportunities

to poor students and criticized by others for allegedly neglecting special education students and circumventing unions

A savvy political operative backed by big-money hedge-fund donors, she has positioned herself as the city’s loudest charter school leader and fought with the teachers union and City Hall over teaching techniques and space for her schools

She also has organized massive demonstrations of students, including one Wednesday that was attended by more than 15,000 people and included a performance by singer Jennifer Hudson and a march over the

Brooklyn Bridge before a rally at City Hall

The de Blasio administration, though relatively cool to the charter school movement, has become leery of the optics of minority charter school children protesting City Hall over a lack of equality in schools It has tried to de-escalate the fight with Moskowitz a year after it was blasted by a series of pro-charter attack ads

Moskowitz frequently fueled speculation about a City Hall bid, and continued that on Thursday When asked if she would consider a run in 2021, she answered: “I might I like politics ”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY BRUNO COSTELINI Sun Staff Writer

Austria, whose cinema presence might be summed up as being the setting for The Sound of Music (which, on a side note, will have a sing-a-long screening at the Cornell Cinema later this Fall), happens also to be the source of a few ver y serious and somewhat twisted filmmakers, such as Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger and more recently Michael H

for wicked stories

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Goodnight Mommy

Directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

Starring Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lucas Schwarz

example is Haneke’s celebrated Funny Games, which was remade shot-for-shot in the United States with Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet as two teenagers who invade the home of Naomi Watts and Tim Roth to play a series of violent sadistic games

So you can see where Austrians Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are coming from when they go on to write and direct Goodnight Mommy, one most chilling horror films of this year In it we have a pair of twins, played by Elias and Lukas Schwarz (who both keep their names for t h e i r c h a r a c t e r s ) , c o n f ro n t i n g t h e i r d e f a c e d m o t h e r (Susanne West), who under went facial reconstruction surger y after an accident The nature of such accident and any other details are omitted, except for the fact that it was followed by her divorce from the kids father

Much like in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, the surger y seems to alter not only the mother’s appearance but also her personality and her behavior towards the children, who grow suspicious of her and start to question her identity Some abuse and a lock up follows as the the children get more distrustful and disrespectful of their mother’s orders It’s hard to be sure about the

mother’s motives and her harsh measures makes the viewer side with the kids

An escape attempt fails and that’s when the film quickly shifts gears Back home, the kids remain obsessed about their mother’s identity and so they manage to tie her up to her bed and begin a desperate attempt to extract the truth out of her The differences in character between the brothers, which up to this point had been blurred, start to get more clear as one One clearly dominates the plotting of the cruelty acts that ensue while the other submissively enacts them, to the audience’s shock Horror cinema is filled with these twin figures (and brothers and doubles) who always manage to creep us out with their “fearful symmetr y, ” but it’s only when the camera gets close enough so that we can distinguish them that things get more interesting

The film, however, never goes much deeper into moral issues or consequences of the children’s actions It does offer a bit more in the sense of explanation (though to discuss it would spoil it for those who haven’t seen it yet) but it in no way tries to go beyond the psychological realm where other filmmakers have managed to dig a little deeper Think for instance of another Haneke picture,

The White Ribbon, which chronicled some strange happenings in a small village where the kids start behaving in an evil fashion Though never explicitly the film parallels the beginnings of Nazism out of the repressive society that originated it

Goodnight Mommy doesn’t exactly deviate from this motif of repression and complicated Christian morality issues but in its final part it ends up siding with another trend in horror cinema focusing on the psychological implications and pressures of parenting and growing up, just like last year ’ s Australian hit The Babadook It also surrenders to the sadistic fare we see in modern American horror, to the point where the audience may get excited by the awful depictions of cruelty and pain

One can say that the film generally succeeds by occupying a middle ground between arthouse psychological thriller and Halloween-type popcorn horror It certainly offers more food for thought than the average horror you might see on theaters in the next few weeks but it also won ’ t bore you to death or embarrass you if you go see it with a date

Bruno Costelini is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at bcostelini@cornellsun com

Too Brave of a New World?: Heroes Reborn

BY BRYNN RICHTER Sun Contributor

After much anticipation, Heroes Reborn has finally arrived

There was a great deal of hype surrounding the premiere as NBC announced which members of the original cast would return (a slim number, since many of the actors have gone on to bigger projects) and what new actors would be joining the cast Because the first season of Heroes was excellent, I had hopes that whoever decided a Heroes reboot was necessary after the show greatly declined and was ultimately cancelled, would bring that quality Heroes Reborn Heroes Reborn picks up five years after the original series ended, opening on the Odessa Summit, where people with powers, “ evos ” are accepted Minutes later, however, a June 13 terrorist attack on the summit destroys all pro-evo sentiments, leaving evos no choice but to go into hiding A year passes and we are introduced to numerous, seemingly disjointed plots and characters So where do our evo and evo haters stand two weeks in?

Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman), of the original series, is looking for answers to what and who caused the June 13 attack, why he has no memory of the attack and how his daughter Claire (the cheerleader of the original series mantra Save the cheerleader, save the world”) is involved Our old friend, The Haitian (Jimmy Jean-Louis), who has the ability to erase memories, appears and tells Noah that he erased Noah s memory at Noah s own request

Luckily for Noah, a new slightly annoying sidekick Quentin (Henry Zebrowski) approaches him demanding answers to what happened during the attack that also killed his daughter Noah and Quentin embark on a journey to find answers, leading them to a mysterious organization called Renautas

Quentin embodies my biggest gripe with the reboot, and TV in general: The writers underestimate the audience’s intelligence and use characters like Quentin as a method of exposition Noah explains what’s going on to Quentin, and in turn, Quentin makes

observations that viewers are apt to be thinking But the audience is smarter than that and frankly deserves a lot more credit

In the most cliché high school plots, Tommy (Robbie Kay) just wants to be a normal teenager despite his supernatural abilities to teleport things Tommy is bullied by the school jock, only for them to become friends, while Tommy is stealing his too-nice girlfriend As one might expect, Tommy’s status as a cool kid doesn’t last very long Tommy’s mother finds out about a m y s t e r i o u s man who follows and protects Tommy, and insists they move yet again

Meanwhile, Luke (Zachary Levi) and Joanne (Judith Shekoni) are hunting evos to avenge their son ’ s death in the June 13 attack, beginning with a slaughter of evos that Tommy narrowly escapes They can ’ t possibly think that they single-handedly will kill all the evos (they have shady corporations for that), but soon their plan starts to unhinge as Luke begins to realize, and promptly hide, that he’s an evo I was worried about their use of Zachary Levi as Luke after the premiere, because he plays slightly clueless but lovable (a la Chuck) much better than serious and vindictive, but second week’s introduction of his powers puts him in more familiar territory as he learns to cope with his new status

inal series) which can transport her into the video game She embarks on a journey to save her father in both the video game and real life

This was another plot line that seemed absurd at the conclusion of the premiere, but the follow-up episode quickly discloses that her father’s disappearance is tied to none other than Renautas and their big reveal of their revolutionary project, Epic We find out that the Epic program can track and identify any non-registered and potentially threatening evos using none other than Molly Walker (Francesca Eastwood) who has not grown up terribly well since she last appeared as a sweet young girl in the original series

In the most disconnected plotline of the show so far, Carlos, (Ryan Guzman) in the wake of his brother’s death, takes over his brother’s role as evo vigilante El Vengador and vows to protect the Underground Railroad that his brother set up to transport evos safely to Canada

The system is threatened by corrupt cops who are also evos because mystery This plotline is pretty disconnected except for Carlos being Luke and Joanne’s next target, but it has a grittiness and realness, reminiscent of Marvel’s Daredevil, that makes it one of the more interesting storylines

In Japan, a young woman, Miko (Kiki Sukezane) is greeted by a stranger claiming to have unlocked a secret message in a video game that contained her address The stranger reveals that she is the unlockable character in what turns out to be her father’s video game Her father also left her Hiro Nakamura’s sword (of the orig-

All of the evos and non-evos alike have their missions which become more connected as the miniseries progresses The second week definitely gave the storylines purpose and relevance that will hopefully lead to a collection of events as exciting and suspenseful as Heroes’ season one If the writers clean up the somewhat clunky narrative and give viewers the opportunity to be in the dark a bit more, this series truly does have the potential to be fun and intriguing to watch

Br ynn Richter is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences

She can be reached at ber65@cornell edu

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Overthe past few years, it has become accepted wisdom that you cannot write comprehensively about music listening without writing about streaming services According to Digital Media Ramblings’s statistics report from May, more than 350 million people use streaming services, and almost 200 million use the big three Pandora, Spotify and iHeart Radio The numbers do not include multiple service users (myself included, as a patron of Spotify, Pandora and 8tracks), but the point remains people stream music a whole lot

The streaming coin has two faces Artists and cynics allege that, as music becomes hyper-accessible, listeners’ appreciation of the musicians plummets Jared Newman, for example, wrote for Fast Business about treating Phish’s a once-cherished band new album “ as unceremonious[ly] as any other album, soon buried under countless other options” in his Rdio (yet another service) library Yet, Newman justifies his opposition by intensely commodifying music: “It becomes an investment, which in turn demands your attention ” Newman’s account sounds suspiciously like guilt tripping oneself to take music more seriously by forking over cash for it

I face the polar opposite problem when using streaming services With so much free, curated music, I can ’ t stop listening I put on headphones to get dressed, I stick earbuds in to walk anywhere, I listen for hours when studying and when I fall asleep With careful planning making my own playlists, forcing myself to listen while doing nothing else I sidestep Newman’s worry and feel that I’m getting maximum bang for my zero bucks Entire sub-genres that I was once

unable to afford “getting into” are now just a click away

Accordingly, streaming ser vices attract potential listeners by helping out on the curating front Most services have a Pandora or 8tracks-like algorithm that creates playlists based off of specific artists or moods Thus, Spotify’s new feature Found Them First garnered surprisingly little attention Users log into the Found Them First microsite, which then tells them “which breakthrough artists you found first ” Sort of

Technically, it tells you for which artists who have “ at least 20 million streams and have experienced growth of at least 2,000 percent from January 2013 to January 2015,” according to Glenn Peoples for Billboard Most tech and music sites gave the service a 200-word or so gloss, many of which merely commented on the software development, and the slightly strange definition of “breakthrough artist ” Yet, there remains so much to talk about regarding Found Them First, so many cultural tropes tapped into, so many implicit statements about how we listen to music

Reflecting on the Found Them First coverage, I’ve noted that the writers invariably comment on Spotify’s apparent choice of a hipster-

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Yet, Spotify is not really selling bragging rights: They’re utilizing a hipster trope to promote their music discover y ser vice As Glenn Peoples writes, “Streaming services routinely boast their discovery credentials and go to great lengths to be their listener’s source for finding new music ” Spotify may promise to

reveal your batting average on past breakthrough artists but, truly, they’re pushing what The Verge’s James Vincent calls the “consolation playlist of the next next big things to help us ‘ get ahead of the pack ’” No column hemming over music discovery services is complete without a story of the good old preinternet music c tion days Coup with trips dow to the city to see g r a n d p a re n t s , my dad and I made the p i l g r i m a g e to the Park Row J&R For context, I grew up (and family home still stands) in a sub-rural patch of forest where t Internet was a just barely in re not even close to “high speed ” Consequently, I might occasionally fumble around the iTunes store trying to access a song, just to commence a full-day affair of actually downloading As such, the basement hall of J&R stretched out before my middle-school eyes like a Scrooge McDuck gold pit J&R’s alphabetical layout eschewed the intense musicological ties that streaming services proffer through their algorithms I never thought of perusing Wikipedia or Pitchfork to find “related artists”; band names and album covers peering through jewel cases alone caught my eyes

income in that era The holy rooms of J&R, Barnes & Noble and the like were a place to bask in the presence of vast music, but never a place to seriously purchase Back in the present, I find myself logging in to Found Them First, to see how many breakthrough artists I’ve “discovered ” A moment of hypern dramatic irony ys out: I’ve never seriusly listened to the two artists that were, and I quote, “hidden gems until you gave them a listen ” The only way I could’ve been in the first five and three percent to stream Rich Homie Quan and New Politics, espectively, is if I ard them on a curatpotify playlist The p kind of playlist that Spotify now thinks I should listen to in order to “ get ahead ” Streaming ser vices and their included curating algorithms are not going to turn anyone into thoughtless, top 40-drones, but nor will they let anyone become a musicalÜbermensch, finding all of the best new artists and perfect songs for every situation Yet, I’m positive that middle school me would be elated if I could go back and tell him that, in just a few years, free (free!) software would let him listen to thousands of songs without budgeting out a few dollars and a few hours on the iTunes store

I can still remember precisely all of the C D s I ever bought, and even which ones I bought from J&R But, unlike some critics, I have no nostalgia for the pre-streaming age It is unsurprising: I never had a disposable

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Trevor White | Barely Legal

A Convention To Police Arti cial Intelligence

From Frankenstein to the Terminator, some of history’s greatest horror stories speak to the fear of engineering something inhuman that evolves beyond our control Fortunately, our society has laws, and robots must abide by them Corporations have free speech, and inanimate objects or property can be named as parties to a lawsuit; by comparison, taking a Google Car to court sounds pretty plausible But modern law is illequipped to address the diversity of technologies dabbling in artificial intelligence (A I) What’s a judge to decide when a robot inflicts injury accidentally or intentionally while doing something its owner didn’t request?

Some experts believe A I will never gain independence, and an operator or manufacturer is always responsible Others believe superintelligent computers, especially “killer robots” that can self-select targets, should be banned before they become uncontrollable However, I believe a compromise is possible: What the law needs is an international treaty to shift liability onto certain machines as they approach autonomy By merging scattered laws, nations can unite over a

I believe a compromise is possible: What the law needs is an international treaty to shift liability onto certain machines as they approach autonomy.

“Convention on A I Liability ”

The first step is establishing a legal definition for “artificial intelligence ” Thinking and intelligence aren ’ t synonymous; many systems you might call “A I , ” like Siri, can recall information or react to stimuli but can ’ t make liberated decisions Drawing on recent scholarship, I suggest a higher threshold for “intelligence:” In order to be considered intelligent, a robot should have complex communication and interaction skills, a sense of self, goals and/or creativity and the ability to coexist “communally” (rationally and reasonably) The Convention could consider a robot with all three traits a “ person, ” and thus individually liable Meanwhile, a robot with one or two traits is like a pet Rottweiler: If it “bites,” the owner ’ s on the hook, but only if he or she should’ve know it was dangerous

For the four most prominent A I -enabled machines, some additional standards are reasonable whether or not they are deemed “people:”

Surg ic a l Robots: An A I must display the same skill a human does to be a certified physician, whether practicing locally or remotely Anything less, and it is an “employee” or tool, immune to malpractice claims

L eth a l Auton om ous We a p ons Sys te ms : Many parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (forbidding excessively injurious artillery, with the United States, China and Israel among 121 signatories) have encouraged an amendment encapsulating LAWS Building upon that, governments could punish errant drones under the Convention like soldiers disobeying rules of engagement If a drone following orders is at issue, a state will be strictly liable for its pilots’ strikes, though it can still invoke sovereign immunity unless plaintiffs allege a tort committed in the court ’ s territory

Com me rc ia l Dron es : Amazon has actually suggested a solid scheme that would layer the altitudes where drones can fly: Slow drones stay low, while faster and smarter ones take one level up, and commercial airspace follows after a hundred-foot buffer The FAA and like agencies could apply additional no-fly zones on a case-by-case basis

Gen e ra l Cons um er Good s : Ideally, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to prove (1) a manufacturing defect (i e , hacking vulnerabilities) existed that rendered the product unreasonably dangerous, and (2) a reasonable alternative design would’ve prevented it Failing that, “enterprise liability,” a doctrine which holds complex chains of distribution liable as a team, is a reliable alternative A self-driving car, for example, may take a dozen companies to design its software and hardware so any number of them could be implicated in a fatal glitch Alternatively, robots could be sold with a built-in insurance cash pool If a third party ’ s interference or the purchaser’s own warranty breach caused the injury, though, the fault is theirs alone Product liability differs considerably between countries, but NATO, WTO and others would ideally help limit reservations between nations

Granted, this quartet cannot neatly cover all of the questions surrounding robot-related injuries For one, intangible bots and “neural networks” (the latter able to learn like a brain by analyzing Internet data) might randomly buy drugs or tweet a death threat as happened to two unfortunate, unrelated programmers in Europe this last year The above “bite” standard could work for bots, but “ negligent coding” would be a slippery rule And should a “robocalypse” really happen, legal responses grow fuzzier; Convention parties could assign an international court or war crimes tribunal in the aftermath, but assuming deactivation/destruction is the only punishment robots can conceptualize, it’d likely be a waste of resources Besides, one theory posits that a superintelligent A I could always manipulate people out of destroying it Personally, I find the alternative suggestion of transferring a rogue A I to an isolated digital jail more credible, although how to imprison a computer program is beyond this column’s scope

Whatever the real-life outcome, the United States and other countries already have the potential to hold intelligent machines or their owners accountable Like robots themselves, their laws simply need some assembly, rewiring and upgrading Hopefully, the world’s nations will download the “software update” that is this proposed Convention before the machines start making their own laws

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Regarding 007 and Race

The dr y vodka Mar tini, shaken not stirred, the A s t o n M a r t i n , t h e womanizing, the suave secret agent who saves the day these are the things that make B o n d , B o n d W h a t a b o u t being white, is that par t of the 007 persona? Well sure, ever y actor that has played Bond has been white, but is being white

i n t e g r a l t o b e i n g B o n d ?

Depends on who you ask

T h e r e a r e t r a d i t i o n a l i s t s who say Bond is white, end of discussion To those of you reading who fit that description, then nothing in the proceeding text will sway your o p i n i o n L i k e w i s e , t o t h o s e who are already on board with t h e i d e a t h a t a n o n - w h i t e Bond can exist, keep reading at your leisure However for those of you who are on the fence, as I admit I was, consider this: M a n y o f t h e a f o r e m e nt i o n e d

n g e d before For example, while we automatically associate Bond with Aston Mar tins, it is not the only car we see him driving in the books and films At one time or another, throughout the past 23 Bonds, we have also seen 007 behind the wheel of brands such as BMW, Toyota, Lotus and Chevrolet In fact, in Ian Fleming’s first 0 0 7 b o o k , C a s i n o R o y a l e , Bond’s car of choice was a Bentley

Another example is Bond’s signature drink In Fleming’s first novel, Bond drinks the Ve s p e r : G o rd o n ’ s ( g i n ) w i t h v o d k a a n d K i n a L i l l e t I n Sk y f a l l , B o n d t r a d e s i n t h e hard liquor altogether in favor of Heineken, While to be fair, Heineken paid for this right, as it so happens, this has been a common trend throughout the series Smirnoff paid producers back in 1962 to promote their vodka, which is how we got the dr y vodka Mar tini in the first place

Even the womanizing has c h a n g e d B e l i e v e i t o r n o t , James Bond was married, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Ser vice ( 1 9 6 9 ) Gr a n t e d , ( s p o i l e r aler t), his wife was killed within hours However, yet again, here we see James Bond as a

living character with evolving tastes Yes, it’s reasonable to sugg e s t t h a t m e r e l y c h a n g i n g B o n d’s

they be cars, drinks or relationships, is not the same as changing physical characteristics of Bond himself However, this scenario has already played out as well ironically with the current 007 After Die Another Day (2002), Daniel Craig was cast to replace Pierce Brosnan With their choice, producers ditched tall and dark haired for short and light haired What happened? four movies later and counting, Craig has been universally praised for his grittier portrayal of 007, and two

tions have come about with the more recent Bonds (within the past 20 years), you are correct Let us not forget that James Bond has been around f o r o v e r 6 0 y e a r s : T h e s e changes keep Bond culturally relevant

All of this brings us back to the core question: Does the skin color of someone negate their ability to play James Bond?

of his three movies have over 9 2 p e r c e n t o n R o t t e n Tomatoes Adjusted for inflat i o n , Sk y f a l l i s t h e h i g h e s t grossing Bond film in 50 years, since Sean Conner y ’ s portrayal in Thunderball (1965) Ye s , c h a n g i n g h a i r c o l o r and height is not the same as changing skin color, but so what? Many of the characters a r o u n d B o n d h a v e g o n e through changes as well The suppor ting cast in the films aren ’ t always tr ue to the original descriptions they have c h a n g e d s k i n c o l o r, g e n d e r, and even overall persona Take Skyfall for instance, the most r e c e n t B o n d f i l m Mo n e ypenny, previously played by S a m a n t h a B o n d , a w h i t e a c t r e s s , i s c u r r e n t l y b e i n g p l a ye d by Na o m i Ha r r i s , a b l a c k a c t r e s s M , c u r r e n t l y being played by a male, Ralph Fi e n n e s , h a d m o s t r e c e n t l y been played by a female, Judi Dench Even Q, who historically has been played by an older actor, has been replaced by Ben Whishaw, who was 31 at the time of Skyfall’s release If you ’ ve picked up on the fact that many of the aforem e n t i o n e d c h a r a c t e r e v o l u -

And it’s not unprecedented for the Bond movies to adjust to changing times When Sean C o n n e r y d e p a r t e d f ro m t h e role, there was a question of w h o c o u l d p o s s i b l y f i l l h i s shoes Five Bonds later, clearly the feat has not proven imposs i b l e ( S i x B o n d s t o t a l , n o t including David Niven’s spoof role) After the Soviet Union dissolved, there was a question of whether or not James Bond w o u l d s t i

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n e w e d sense of purpose After Austin Powers, there was a question of whether or not James Bond could still be taken seriously Yet James Bond came back rebooted: darker, grittier, more grounded in reality

All of this brings us back to the core question: Does the skin color of someone negate t h e i r a b i l i t y t o p l a y Ja

Bond? It’s an awfully narrowminded precedent if it does Fo

Daniel Craig’s last bond film as many have come to believe it’s believed that he’s signed on to do one more But when his time comes to sign off, and the inevitable debate over who s

perhaps we can evaluate candidates for the next 007 simply

smooth and suave secret agent You know, the traits that make Bond, Bond

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n outscored the Red 24-7 in the second half All week, Archer has tried to emphasize the importance of finishing strong and focusing on small details when the pressure goes up “ T h e b i g g e r t h e m o m e n t , that’s when you have to focus on the littlest of details in your exec u t i o n , ” A rc h e r s a i d “ T h i n g s that you can execute in the first and second quarter, as the game

becomes bigger and the moment becomes bigger down the stretch, you can ’ t focus on any of that T h e b i g g e r t h e m o m e n t , t h e smaller the detail you focus on, so that’s just the technique we have to use ”

After three losses that ver y easily could have tilted in the Red’s favor, Somborn said the team is hungr y for a win

“You can ’ t even bottle all the emotions that we ’ ve experienced ov e r t h e p a s t t h re e w e e k s , ” Somborn said “All the emotions no matter mad, sad, any of it has just given us more motivation to get out here and perfect what we ’ re doing, to get better ever y day, keep working, keep growing as a team and just eventually get over that hump and get the win and do what we know we can do to these other teams, and just leave it all on the field ”

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Sepp Blatter is out of a job at FIFA Michel Platini might never even get there

Two of the most powerful men in soccer were h a n d e d 9 0 - d a y s u s p e nsions by the FIFA ethics committee on Thursday, essentially ending Blatter’s 17-year reign as president a n d l i k e l y s t u n t i n g Platini’s chances of replacing him

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n d Platini, former allies who turned into rivals in the buildup to the most recent FIFA presidential election, have become embroiled in a Swiss criminal investigat i o n Bl a t t e r h a s b e e n l a b e l e d a s u s p e c t a n d questioned by authorities, while Platini was said to be somewhere between a witness and a suspect

B o t h m a i n t a i n t h e i r innocence

“ Pre s i d e n t Bl a t t e r l o o k s f o r w a rd t o t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o p re s e n t evidence that will demons t r a t e t h a t h e d i d n o t e n g a g e i n a n y m i s c o nduct, criminal or otherw i s e , ” Bl a t t e r ’ s l a w y e r,

Richard Cullen, said in a statement Platini also pledged to fight the decision, calling t h e a l l e g a t i o n s a g a i n s t him “astonishingly vague ” in a statement sent from U E FA h o u r s a f t e r t h e Frenchman was banned f r o m w o r k i n g a s t h e body’s president “I want ever yone to know my state of mind: m o re t h a n a s e n s e o f injustice or a desire for revenge, I am driven by a p r o f o u n d f e e l i n g o f staunch defiance,” Platini said “I am more determined than ever to defend myself before the relevant judicial bodies ” T h e s t a t e m e n t f r o m UEFA, which stressed “its full confidence” in Platini, h a s e x p o s e d t h e b o d y ’ s o f f i c i a l s t o p o t e n t i a l action under FIFA ethics rules According to UEFA

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h a v e b e e n re p l a c e d b y Angel Maria Villar, the highest-ranking vice president “(Platini) is currently suspended and will therefore not perform his offi-

cial duties for the time being,” UEFA said in a statement, still referring t o Pl a t i n i a s p re s i d e n t “UEFA is fully aware of its responsibilities under the relevant provisions of the statutes ”

U E FA’s 5 4 m e m b e r nations are due to meet in Nyon, Switzerland, next Thursday to discuss the worst crisis in its histor y and the bid by Platini to succeed Blatter

T h e 9 0 - d a y s u s p e ns i o n s f o r Bl a t t e r a n d Platini were imposed after the Swiss authorities starte d i n ve s t i g a t i n g a p a yment from FIFA to the f o r m e r Fr a n c e m i d f i e l d great in 2011 for work carried out at least nine years earlier

A n o t h e r p re s i d e n t i a l h o p e f u l , C h u n g Mo n gjoon, was suspended for six years in a separate case and FIFA secretar y genera l Je r o m e Va l c k e w a s banned for 90 days

T h e s u s p e n s i o n s c a n be extended by up to 45 days

T h e In t e r n a t i o n a l Olympic Committee call-

ed on FIFA to consider a “credible external presidential candidate of high i n t e g r i t y ” a s Bl a t t e r ’ s replacement

“Enough is enough,”

I O C Pre s i d e n t T h o m a s Bach said “ We hope that now, finally, ever yone at FIFA has at last unders t o o d t h a t t h e y c a n n o t continue to remain passive ” Issa Hayatou, the longtime head of the African soccer confederation who was reprimanded in 2011 by the IOC in a FIFA k i c k b a c k s s c a n d a l , t o o k over from Blatter as acting FIFA president

T h e 6 9 - y e a r - o l d Cameroonian, who has a serious kidney illness that re q u i re s re g u l a r d i a l y s i s sessions, is currently in Yaounde, the Cameroon capital, and is expected to travel to Zurich soon

Hayatou said he would not stand for president in t h e Fe b r u a r y e l e c t i o n prompted by Blatter’s earlier decision to resign at the start of his fifth presidential term

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stops a career that began a t F I FA i n 1 9 7 5 a n d includes the last 17 years as president Bl a t t e r h a d s u r v i v e d waves of scandals affecting close allies, but the c o r r u p t i o n s c a n d a l engulfing FIFA severely escalated in May when seven officials were arrested in Zurich as part of an American briber y investigation At the same time, the Swiss authorities revealed their own probe into socc e r c o r r u p t i o n a n d a criminal case was opened a g a i n s t B l a t t e r l a s t month Sw i s s i n v e s t i g a t o r s t u r n e d u p a t Bl a t t e r ’ s office at FIFA headquarters and interrogated him The criminal case centers on Blatter allegedly misu s i n g F I FA m o n e y b y making a $2 million “disloyal payment ” to Platini Blatter was also questioned by Swiss investigat o r s a b o u t b ro a d c a s t i n g contracts sold to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner in 2005 that were supposedly under valued

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