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Alumnus Writes, Directs Hulu Documentary

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

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

When he was about 17, he sat down to watch the pilot episode of “The Dana Carvey Show,” excited that a comedian he had long looked up to was finally getting his own show But when he watched the first episode with his parents, they got up after the first skit and said, “this is garbage ”

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

The show was canceled after only seven episodes Years later, Greenbaum’s love for comedy led him to write and direct the Hulu documentary, Too Funny to Fail: The Life

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

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

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

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

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By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Ed tor

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

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

Speaking to an audience of hundreds of trustees and University Council members in Statler Hall,

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

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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

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

Guzman-Lopez’s lawyers, arguing that

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

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

to as a green card

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

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

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

Guzman-Lopez was shot twice during “bouts of random street violence” after grad-

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Monday, October 23, 2017 Mexico and Brazil Compared 12:15 - 1:10 p m , 153 Uris Hall

Department of Physics Colloquium - Kieval Lecture

4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

Let’s Meditate at the BRB

4 - 4:30 p m , Greenhouse, Big Red Barn

Molecular Medicine Seminar

4 - 5 p m , Auditorium, Boyce Thompson Institute

Raymond G Thorpe Lecture: Lisa Skeete Tatum ’89

4 - 5 p m , 155 Olin Hall

Berger Program and Einaudi Center Distinguished Speaker: Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf

4:30 - 6 p m , 184 Myron Taylor Hall

Reading by Steven McCall

4:30 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

So Moved: Ferment, Jelly, Intoxication, Rot 4:30 - 6 p m , 110 A D White House

Leaders in Sustainable Global Enterprise 6 - 7:15 p m , B08 Sage Hall

From the Cuban Missile Crisis to North Korea

7 - 9 p m , 217 Ives Hall

The National Park Rx Initiative 7:30 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium

C.U. Music: Oboe Master Class 8 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

Nostalgia for the Future with Filmmaker 7:15 - 8:10 p m , Willard Straight Theatre To d a y

CFSeminar: Matthew Cleary (University of Sydney) 12 p m , 116 Upson Hall

Korean Studies Workshop: Whither the Sublime? 12:30 - 2 p m , 110 A D White House

Panel Discussion on Public and Private Management of Infrastructure Risk 3 - 4:15 p m , G71 Martha Van Rensselear Hall

How We Got to Open Access: An Activists Tale 4:30 p m , 160 Mann Library

The Odyssey 5 p m , KG70 Klarman Hall

The Blue Room

7 - 8 p m , Conference Room, Willard Straight Hall

Nines Redevelopment on Hold After Developer Backs Off

By JULIETTE OVADIA Sun Staff Writer

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

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

Fox’s

“At the time that we originally made the purchase offer, we felt much more bullish on the student rental market,” he said in an email “ We've personally noticed less demand in the market over the last year and with Cornell's latest announcement to add 2000 on campus beds, we know the market will only continue to soften ”

“ We were at a critical juncture in which the risk became too great, ” he added

Fox said that “roadblocks” duri n g t h e p l a n n i n g p r o

l s o influenced his decision to withdraw the proposal Owners of The Nines could not be reached for comment on Sunday evening

ture

While lacking an official landmark designation, The Nines building on College Avenue includes both the original No 9 Ithaca Fire Station, built in 1895, and a 1908 addition at its front The W H Sage Fire Company was

“We started to see the potential cost of the project spiraling out of control.

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“ We star ted to see the potential cost of the project spiraling out of control,” Fox said “ We were already overpaying for the land and where we think the market is going over the next 5 years, we had no room for error ”

The reluctance of the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board to sanction the demolition may have also played a role in Visum Development’s depar-

sold the building, noting that it no longer ser ved its needs, and the current fire station was built next door

The building is eligible for historic preser vation by the Ithaca Landmarks Preser vation Commission, and the fact that there is not an active application for revie wing the site could lead the commission to take up the issue

The project is a microcosm for the larger debate

Collegetown and those putting a greater priority on historic preser vation

Fox said he has “ a lot of money invested in this project” and had hoped things could be worked out, but that the sellers had made the project difficult

“ We needed some relief and cooperation from the sellers in order to continue down the planning process and at the ver y least be able to determine what the tr ue [

“Apparently the sellers have another buyer and they decided not to be amenable to our request ”

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

Freshman’s Video Depicting College Transition Goes Viral

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social media only intensified her loneli-

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

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

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

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

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

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

“People are afraid to confront the fact that it’s not easy to make friends,” she said “It’s not going to come as quickly as ever yone thinks it’s going to ”

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

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com

Pollack: Cornell at the ‘Cusp of a New Era’

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Pollack said she believes Cornell “ can be the model of a relevant, premier university for the 21st century ” if it prioritizes three things: conducting research that addresses societal issues, providing engaged and evidence-based education, and creating a community of diverse people who work across differences in perspective

Pollack ticked off a series of projects student and faculty are working on, including a student’s efforts to compile collective bargaining agreements and professor’s work with Cornell Neurotech, which she said is developing tools to reveal inner workings of the brain These projects, she said, “ are building on the breadth of expertise that is so fundamental to Cornell” and which is matched by few other universities

2021 are first-generation college students

But Pollack also said this diverse community of students must be based on “ a lot more kindness” and referred to a series of incidents perceived as racist, anti-semitic and xenophobic that were “anything but compatible” with the University’s commitment to diversity

“And, alas, there have been many similar incidents recently on college campuses across the country, ” she said “But Cornell must take a strong stance and be a leader in repudiating hatred and intolerance ”

“Cornell must take a strong stance and be a leader in repudiating hatred and intolerance.”

Also distinguishing Cornell, Pollack said, is its having both the Ithaca campus and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, which officially opened in September Cornell, Pollack said, is “doubling down” on its historic New York City presence the medical school has been in Manhattan since 1898, she noted and creating pathways for the two locations to enhance each other

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bob Harrison ’76, said Cornell Tech “is precisely what Ezra Cornell would have wanted for our next chapter ”

The most boisterous moment of Pollack’s address came when she said Cornell is “ a private university with a public Michigan,” accidentally naming the University where she worked for nearly 17 years, most recently as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs

Pollack laughed along with trustees at the flub before shouting out, “Note what color I’m wearing!” referring to her scarlet dress

The president also lauded what Harrison said is an “incredibly diverse” student body at Cornell, and she noted that 12 9 percent of students in the undergraduate Class of

Pollack has repeatedly stressed the importance of free speech since arriving at Cornell, and she continued to do so on Friday, saying that the University’s mission of housing a “free interchange of ideas” has “ a special responsibility to be open to all thought and to guarantee freedom of expression ”

She noted, though, as she has previously, that there are some limits to free speech, such as when speech is part of harassment or serious threats “Institutions can put in place reasonable, content-neutral limits on the time, place and manner in which protected speech can occur, ” she said

Harrison, in introducing Pollack, said that upholding the right to free speech is “nowhere more important than on University campuses ”

The hundreds of trustees and council members also honored former chair of the Board of Trustees, Peter Meinig ’61, who died in September, with a moment of silence

Pollack said Cornell stands “ at the cusp of a new era for the University, in which we can and will be the model of a relevant, premier university for the 21st century ”

“We do not yet know the full dimensions of what lies ahead,” she said, “but I am convinced that we are at a moment that is transformational for Cornell and for the role we can play in the world ”

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

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You Too

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

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

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

This is where the real issue resides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

INarayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

Why Asian-Americans Should Love Themselves

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

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Why the Hate for 3-D Animation?

After I revie wed My Little Pony: The Movie a couple weeks ago, I did two things First of all, I went to see the next available screening of It to set myself at balance Second, I star ted to look around and see what other online critics had to say about the movie, a favorite pastime of mine To my surprise, I found a number of comments saying things like, “Go see the movie! It’s the last chance to tell Hollywood that we want traditional, hand-drawn animation back!” Ignoring the fact that My Little Pony actually featured Flash animation software, it reminded me of a topic I’ve wanted to talk about for some time

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

First, I want to address the arguments that I hear Many animation fans yearn for traditional animation, often saying that it’s more beautiful than 3-D animation To be sure, traditional animation has produced some spectacular films Ar tists have had the time to test it out and work t h e m e d i u m i n m a n y d i f f e re n t w a y s

Right there, though, is one of my first major points: traditional animation has had more time to develop than 3-D animation Snow White and the Seven Dwar fs

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y t h i s D e c e m b e r, while Toy Stor y will only be 22 this fall For comparison, 22 years after Snow

W h i t e w e g o t Sl e e p i n g

Beauty Some of the Walt

D i s n e y s t u d i o ’ s g r e a t e s t works, like The Lion King and The Little Mer maid, w e r e y e a r s a w a y W h o

yet seen a Don Bluth come out and challenge the medium to ne w heights More power ful software and tools are being created all the time, and ar tists figure out how to use them with ever increasing skill As a result, 3-D animation improves with ever y passing year

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

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

Fra m e d R o g e r R a b b i t w a s s t i l l t h r e e decades out! Don Bluth hadn’t created The Secret of NIMH or The Land Before Time

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

the ar tists This ties into another advantage of 3-D animation: a scene can be filmed from a different angle or other wise changed much more easily Computer animators can alter the simulation as needed Meanwhile, hand-drawn animation must be entirely redone It’s a much

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

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

That’s the main role of stor yboarding after all: to sketch out what a scene will look like It's quick and cheap compared to the trouble of actual animation But with 3-D animation, the stor y can be a l t e r e d e v e n a f t e r t h e a n

m a t i o n h a s begun It allows for higher quality writing, since it has more time to develop and improve

A n e x c e l l e n t c a s e s t u d y h e r e i s

Zootopia The movie takes place in a thriving metropolis, but the movie originally featured a far darker setting It was a dystopia, where a full tenth of the population were obligated to wear shock collars Yeah imagine taking a kid to see that It wouldn’t have been nearly as pleasant But when they realized they wanted to change the stor y, they had already star ted the animation for it! Luckily, thanks to the flexibility of CGI, they could repurpose the models they had and salvage a stellar stor y With this behind-the-scenes stor y

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

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

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

Preview: A Fantastic Woman

BY NICOLE YAN Sun Contributor

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f u n e r a l a n d s h ow h e r n o re s p e c t T h i s a t t e n t i o n - d e s e r v i n g f i l m c e n t e r s o n t r a n s g e n d e r s t o r y t e l l i n g , a n d i s d e f in i t e l y w o r t h w h i l e t o s e e a t a t i m e w h e n t h e t r a n s g e n d e r c o m m u n i t y i s f a c i n g re n e we d c h a l l e n g e s o f o p p re s s i o n a n d h a t e i n t h e U S a n d a b ro a d W h i l e t h e v i s i b i l i t y o f a n d u n d e r s t a n d i n g t ow a rd t r a n s g e n d e r p e o p

BY VARUN BIDDANDA Sun Staff Writer

What exactly are the implications of something that is undeniably of fiction, yet that is frighteningly familiar? Is it the f i c t i o n t h a t approaches the reality or perhaps is it a

t r u t h t h a t h a s b e c o m e d i v o r c e d from itself?

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Progress Undone

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

COURTESY OF JENN FER AND KEV N MCCOY/CORNELL AAP

er threat to the façade of glittering cosmopolitanism The broker’s descent from t h e i m m a c u l a t e p r o f e s s i o n a l i s b e s t enshrined by the scene in which she frenetically tears her suit to shreds and claws at her well-kept hairstyle While she is linked to the apar tment and the urban

a n d s c u l p t u r e , t h e works tell of a fictional narrative of development, beginning in the hear tlands of

A m e r i c a a n d r a d i a t i n g o u t w a rd s a s progress the connotations of this contentious term itself being a point of ar tistic and conceptual subjectivity within the context of the exhibit globalizes

The stor y begins in “Discover y of Fr e e d o m ” S e t i n a d e s o l a t e S o u t h Dakotan town, this video work interposes fragments of footage of houses onto a barren winter landscape The br usquely juxtaposed houses, along with the background, appear to be oscillating as if at the mercy of the chilling winds that r un through the sparsely populated plains Toward the foreground are two animal corpses, presumably those of livestock These juxtapositions, harsh as they may

notions of space in the context of development

Culminating the exhibition’s narrative is “Broker,” a work that is set in futuristic visualization of New York City It centers around a real estate agent ’ s showing of a luxur y apar tment in Manhattan The work incorporates the sterile luxur y of both the apar tment and that of the language used by the broker, yet this is periodically interr upted with jagged breaks in the filmography This utopian continuum of a cosmopolitan space is per forated by harsh interstices in the work, which evoke a sor t of terror During these r uptures, the broker and the viewer enter a state of trancelike horror The causes of these schisms are ambiguous, but perhaps this is by design, alluding to a much larg-

exterior by vir tue of her job, the broker eventually divorces herself from the affiliated social constr ucts imposed by the surrounding context of globalized and ravenous cosmopolitanism, a resolution

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

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that comes at the expense of her own constitution

Beginning and ending in America, the

exhibition’s narrative assumes a nature that is cyclical in some ways, but linear in others The congr uence of the beginning and the conclusion (at least with respect to their location within the same nation) appears to evoke an aspect of return Yet, the trajector y delineates an obvious path from r ural to suburban and then to the c

lopolis of New York City Or, at least it a p p e

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course? Or, if linearity as

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perhaps it is that the works seek to represent the progression

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trends

Perhaps the most compelling point of ambiguity is the temporal relation each piece has in relation to the rest, if such a relation exists While “Discover y of Freedom” is the star t of the narrative, one could arguably interpret it as a space that was simply left behind in the hysteria of development

Going fur ther, the broker’s transformation could alternatively be constr ued as the beginning of a futuristic civilization being undone, culminating in a now desolate South Dakotan town and, in doing so, bringing into sharp acuity the paradoxes that are all too often the escor ts of progress

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

From Mann Library to Amazon Prime: Anatomy of a Breakup

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

An a t o m y o f a B re a k u p , a f a s t - p a c e d , q u i p p y c o m e d y re l e a s e d o n A m a z o n Pr i m e , i s Ha g e r t y ’ s f i r s t w o rk , a n d h a s t h e p o t e n t i a l t o b e o p t i o n e d i n t o a T V p i l o t Fe l l ow Su n w r i t e r A n n a De l w i c h e h a d t h e c h a n c e t o i n t e r v i e w t h e a l u m n u s b e f o re h i s w o rk’s d e b u t , w h i c h I ’d re c -

o m m e n d c h e c k i n g o u t A s i f w r i t i n g , d i re c t i n g a n d p ro d u ci n g t h e s h o r t w a s n ’ t e n o u g h , Ha g e r t y

a l s o p l a y s t h e l e a d ro l e , re c e n t l y h e a r t -

b ro k e n c o l l e g e f re s h m a n A J Fi t z p a t r i c k

A f t e r g e t t i n g d u m p e d by h i s g i r l f r i e n d ,

A J w a f f l e s b a c k a n d f o r t h b e t we e n c o nt r a s t i n g s e t s o f a d v i c e f ro m t w o f r a t e r n it y b u d d i e s T h i s i s t h e re a l m e a t o f t h e f i l m , a s f e l l ow l e a d s Se t h Ru s s e l l a n d

Za c k S z t a n yo o f f e r c o m i c a l l y d i f f e r i n g p a t h s t o t h e n a i ve yo u n g s t e r Ru s s e l l’s

“ T h e Dr a k” s u g g e s t s a p s e u d o - s c i e n t i f i c , a n a l y t i c a n d s e e m i n g l y - r a t i o n a l re s p o n s e , w h i l e S z t a n yo ’ s “ C a m ” p u s h e s f o r a m o r e p l a y b o y - s t y l e r e b o u n d Ha g e r t y h a s g o o d c h e m i s t r y w i t h h i s t w o m a t e s a n d t h e t r i o c o n ve y a re l a ta b l e , i f n o t s o m e w h a t e x a g g e r a t e d , t a l e T h i s f i l m ’ s f a s t - p a c e d d i a l o g u e a n d s n a p p y t r a n s i t i o n s a re i t s c a l l i n g c a rd s , b u t d o n ’ t g

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Former Starting QB

Finds Versatile Role

JATIS

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

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

So far in 2017, Jatis has totaled 90 yards on the ground and 83 in the air to go along with three touchdowns the two rushes against Harvard and an air strike to sophomore Davy Lizana in Cornell’s 26-18 loss to Bucknell

f o r t h e w i d e o u t ’ s f i r s t c a re e r touchdown and Jatis’ first in the air since his freshman year

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

“Does he want to be the start-

i n g q u a r t e r b a c k ? Ab s o l u t e l y, ” Falbo added, “but he accepts his role because he’s such a team player and he wants success for this football team in any which way he can help contribute He wants to do whatever it takes to help his team win He’s a dream to coach ”

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

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

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

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

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

Hill Scores Game Winning Goal in Double Overtime

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“We had been controlling the game and

Cornell Locks Down Brown

Cornell leading by 13, sophomore wide receiver Owen Peters fumbled the ball away seconds after coming down with a reception The Bears took over with their eyes locked on turning the game into a o n e - p o s s e s s i o n c o n t e s t Bu t t h e Re d’s defense, as it did throughout the game, locked down and forced Brown off the field

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

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

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

Fro m t h e n o n , e a c h t i m e C o r n e l l threatened, it came away with a touchdown Archer credited that to the offensive line “taking over ” the game, giving Banks time to throw in the pocket the junior completed 73 percent of his passes for 228

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

play how we were doing ”

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

“[Hill’s] goal was great he was in the right place at the right time,” Bayne said “I’m glad he put it in the back of the net ” The victory marks the first time Cornell has defeated Brown on home turf since 1992 The Red will look to carr y its momentum as it hits the road to take on Princeton (3-6-4, 0-2-2) on Saturday, Oct 28

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

Jatis Serves as Spark Plug

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

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

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

“I try to be as sharp as I can each play and remember which position I am playing for that down.” S e n i o r J a k e J a t i s

becoming a Swiss Army knife for the Red as a quarterback typically the position on a team most shielded from contact

“He’s a jack of all

trades,” said Banks, Jatis’ partner in crime under center “He does ever ything for us He’s a great athlete, good quarterback, smart with the ball ”

“He’s basically the quarterback on the punt team, ” added special teams coordinator Guido Falbo, who worked with Jatis as an offensive assistant coach Jatis’ freshman and sophomore years “He imposes a threat on every snap No matter what he’s asked to do, he’s up for it ” Archer said part of his reasoning in giving Jatis more snaps is to “take some of the hits off Dalton,” who has played behind an offensive line that has allowed 23 sacks on the year but has recently begun to put the pieces together

“It starts when you just list your personnel, like who do you want in the game, ” Archer said “With injuries, Jatis kept rising towards us It was like, how do we get him in, and it really helped us get the

hits off Dalton’s body to where it’s like now Dalton’s feeling good, now Jake’s playing too Now there’s a multiple dimensional package ” Banks added that the idea with the dual-threat quarterbacks is to try and stay one step ahead of the opposing defenses to create a state of confusion and force them to have to adapt to two different styles of play

“He does everything for us He’s a great athlete, good quarterback, smart with the ball.”

“It really messes with the defenses, they’re second-guessing themselves,” Banks said “That’s what we want to do we want to keep defenses off balance and that’s the plan going forward ” The conception of the Jatis-Banks experiment came in the team ’ s 17-14

Red Dominates in Homecoming Blowout Spor ts

Red’s polished offense, suffocating defense down Brown

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

With a ferocious defense, a commanding offense and a hunger for revenge, Cornell football blasted Brown, 34-7, in front of a 13,000-plus Homecoming crowd to capture its first 2-1 Ivy League start since 2000

for sure, ” Gesualdi said “Last year we knew we had it in us, but we just couldn’t put all the pieces together This year we ’ re starting to put the pieces together ”

Cornell more than doubled the Bears’ time of possession, playing polished, end-to-end football With its victory over Harvard, the team now has wins over Brown and the Crimson in the same season for the first time since 1999

The Red’s defense, which had twice set a record for fewest yards allowed under head coach David Archer ’05 already this season, limited the Bears to just 161 yards of offense for yet another record Cornell’s defense rendered Brown’s offense anemic through the first three quarters, holding the Bears to 59 yards entering the final 15 minutes

“It leaves me speechless,” said senior safety and captain Nick Gesualdi “I’m so happy and so excited for the fact that the whole team could pull together and just put together a win like this Especially being a senior, it hits home a little bit I ld ’ b h i ”

The Red set the tone early, preventing Brown from getting a first down on its first drive of the game, eventually forcing Brown into eight three-andouts on the day, including four straight to start the second half

“They were really able to win the line of scrimmage,” Archer said of the defense “They were winning in man coverage They were confusing the quarterback The way they were playing made you never feel like the game was ever in doubt ”

Toward the beginning of h hi d i h

Editor

en Jake Jatis steps on d, sometimes he needs a second and remind f what position he’s sted as a quarterback, e Cornell football senior’s pure athleticism has extended his contributions far beyond the role of gunslinger Today, you can see Jatis taking snaps for Cornell’s re run-oriented s, blocking for sophoNickolas Null on punts, ng the ball for field goals signaling plays from the

sidelines to contribute when he’s off the field

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

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