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Student Assembly Vote Thursday Could Decide Cornell Cinema’s Fate
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S.A. will decide how much to allocate to Cornell Cinema after the Provost said C.U. would provide $36,000 to $40,000 to the Cinema in the next byline cycle.
Arts & Culture
Funding Art is Important: A Defense of Cornell Cinema
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Cornell is not a university specifically reserved for the STEM disciplines. We were founded under a proud cosmopolitan banner of “Any Person, Any Study,” and we differ from MIT or CalTech in that we claim to offer the highest possible level of instruction in any field a person might choose. As a former PMA/English major I can say I was never belittled on campus, but I noticed an unquestionable lack of interest in funding arts departments and activities, compared to the hard sciences. This comes with the territory — the arts students tend to be far fewer in number than the STEM ones — but there is a very real danger that eventually, History, Philosophy, Comp Lit and Comm majors will have a far less rigorous education than the name of Cornell promises. The Schwartz Center has seen this with its extensive budget cuts passed seven years ago, and with its folding of three majors into one.
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Pledging to Negotiate With Cornell, Student Assembly Apologizes for Contentious Cinema Battle
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Student Assembly tabled the resolution that would have eliminated more than $150,000 from Cornell Cinema’s budget.
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University, S.A. Members to Work Together With Stakeholders on Funding Cornell Cinema
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The collaboration, which would take place after the S.A. tables the vote scheduled for Thursday, would result in a long-term funding model for the Cinema.
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Kotlikoff: University ‘Quite Unlikely’ to Pay Cornell Cinema for Potential $150k Deficit in 2018
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The Provost has indicated it’s unlikely that Cornell can cover the deficit the Cinema would incur if S.A. votes to divest from the Cinema in 2018.
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GPSA Votes to Recommend Funding Cornell Cinema
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The S.A. is expected to vote on its appropriations committee’s recommendation at this Thursday’s meeting. Fessenden noted that the the Cinema is still processing what S.A. defunding would mean.
Arts & Culture
In This Corner of the World is a Simple, Perfect Exhibit of Life
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On my five-hour bus ride home, I watched Sunao Katabuchi’s latest animated film, In This Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni), which had been recommended by my Japanese language professor. Captivated by the candor of Katabuchi’s resonant storytelling, everything around me melted away, and the world was reduced to my phone’s six-by-three-inch screen. The wistful soundtrack and clean animation throughout instantly swept me away to simpler times. Set during World War II, this award-winning film is an expressive story about Suzu, a woman who leaves her family in Hiroshima to join her husband in Kure, a naval port city. A daydreamer and storyteller, Suzu has a bashful disposition and inclination to capture the changing world through illustration.
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Students Protest at S.A. After Committee Votes to Defund Cornell Cinema
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Gabriel Kaufman ’18, appropriations committee chair, said the Cinema was an “insolvent, high-cost, labor intensive enterprise,” that failed to comply with the S.A.’s request to improve efficiency. The University, not the students, should be subsidizing costs of the Cinema, he said in the meeting.
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Guest Room | Defending Our Cinema
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A few semesters ago, when I was a more active staff writer in this section, I reviewed the 1971 film Walkabout before it screened at the Cornell Cinema. When the opportunity arose to review one of the greatest Australian films ever made, I obviously seized it without hesitation, thankful there exists an institution right here at Cornell that is devoted to showcasing profound examples of world cinema, like Ran and Koyaanisqatsi, alongside more contemporary works like Moonlight and Baby Driver. I didn’t expect much to come of that review — after all, who actually reads this section, if not this paper, right? — but at the bottom of the online article, I found a comment by an alumnus named David Moriah ’72, whose response is tangible evidence of the enduring relevance of institutions like the Cornell Cinema. It has been nearly half a century since David graduated, yet he has “returned to [Walkabout] several times over the years and continue[s] to drink in the deep well of its wisdom and beauty.”
Recently, we were all rudely awakened to discover the Cornell Cinema has been threatened by not just a reduction to existing funding, but a complete withdrawal of financial support.
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S.A. Appropriations Committee Votes to Defund Cornell Cinema
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The Student Assembly Appropriations Committee voted on Monday to allocate $0 to Cornell Cinema in 2018-20 in advance of the S.A. meeting on Thursday, when members of the Assembly will debate whether or not to approve the Committee’s recommendations.