Wednesday, November 9, 2016

POST-ELECTIONS ISSUE

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016

PRESIDENT TRUMP see ELECTION, page 2

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WHAT’S INSIDE GARRETT WINS FIFTH DISTRICT PAGE 2

CIVILITY’S FUTURE POST-ELECTION DAY PAGE 3

U.VA. STUDENTS VOTE WITH HELP OF CIOS PAGE 3

LEAD EDITORIAL: WHAT NOW? PAGE 6

FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS PAGES 12-13

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Trump wins presidency Experts debate Virginia’s role in election ANKITA SATPATHY | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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With an as-yet undetermined final electoral college vote count, Donald Trump has won the presidency, according to the Associated Press and other major news organization. The Washington outsider notably won several swing states expected to go to Clinton, which gave him more than the 270 electoral votes required. According to reports from CNN and NBC, Clinton called Trump to concede the election at around 2:40 a.m.

Although Trump won the White House, he did not win the state of Virginia. The final vote in Virginia contrasted with the results of a student poll conducted

by The Cavalier Daily with the help of a faculty advisory board and the Center for Survey Research. Results from the poll showed a strong lead for Clinton on Grounds, although Clinton only won the state by roughly four percentage points at press time.

As expected, Trump did not win the state of Virginia.

The final vote in Virginia contrasted with the results of a student poll conducted by The Cavalier Daily with the help of a faculty advisory board and the Center for Survey Research. Results from the poll showed a strong lead for Clinton on Grounds, although Clinton only won the state by roughly four percentage points at press time.

For student political groups on Grounds, the results mark the end of several months of campaigning, voter registration efforts and the College Republican’s controversial endorsement and retraction of the GOP nominee.

Isabel Kigo, a fourth-year Engineering student who voted for Clinton, said the election’s rhetoric has transferred to the University and the country itself.

“As a person, I think that it has just made me more aware of the

different perspectives that people onomically diverse university than ers and greater ethnic diversity in 1940 — and because his style is have, or how people can just hide when I was an undergraduate,” — particularly Asians and South so provocative, it has overshadthemselves and then show their Antholis said. “This University has Asians in Northern Virginia — owed the most significant historitrue colors, especially with all of the transformed itself really, in terms have made Virginia begin to re- cal ‘first’ — a major party nominee racist incidences at the University,” of the makeup of the student body semble a mid-atlantic state rather who is a woman who is considered Kigo said. both in-state and out-of-state.” than a southern state,” Antholis the favorite to win,” Balogh said in University Democrats President Antholis also said the Univer- said. “I think if Republicans find a an email statement prior to ElecSam Tobin, a fourth-year College sity’s low support of Trump is at- way to recruit a more traditional, tion Night. “I am not aware of any student, said he and the University tributable to the Republican party free-market candidate who favors modern presidential election where Democrats will wait until the elec- moving away from more tradition- a strong military, and possibly a major party nominee has question has a definitive winner before al candidates who might appeal to who favors a more cosmopolitan tioned the fundamental elements of making comments. more millennials. approach to immigration reform, democracy and has refused to say Adam Kimelman, College RePolitics Lecturer James Todd Virginia could still be a swing state.” that he is committed to accepting publicans vice chair for campaigns said Virginia is a contentious state However, before the results were the results of the election in adand a second-year College stu- up and down the ballot. officially called, History Prof. Brian vance.” dent, said all the candidates the “Virginia is trending to the Balogh said Clinton’s expected win Similarly, Todd said Trump is an College Republicans supported in Democrats, but it remains a very marks the state’s transition towards unusual candidate. down-ballot races in Virginia, won divided state with all statewide of- a reliably blue state. Balogh also “Trump's run is unprecedented their elections. fices currently occupied by Demo- commented on the historical firsts and goes against everything politi“I’m very proud of all of our crats and the legislature controlled involved in this election — both cal scientists and campaign stratemembers for supporting true Re- by the Republicans,” Todd said in Trump’s status as an extreme out- gists thought they knew,” Todd said. publican values as much as they an email statement. sider, and Clinton’s status as the first “That someone with no political excan,” Kimelman said. “It looks like Antholis said Virginia’s status as woman nominee for a major party. perience and a relatively small staff, Donald Trump is going to be elect- a swing state could depend on what “Because Trump is such an un- who trades in insults, exaggerations ed president and I think that to the candidates the Republican party usual candidate — I can’t think of and lies, and who refuses to release degree a lot of our members were puts forth in the future. any candidate from a major party in his tax returns or medical records very dedicated to electing him pres“The changing demographics the last 100 years with less experi- could come so close to winning the ident, and I think the fact that we of the state of Virginia to include ence in public service except, per- presidency — or actually winning are where we are today can be cred- more transplanted northeastern- haps, [Republican Wendell] Wilkie it — is astounding.” ited to the dedication and the work they put in.”

First-year College student Col2016 Electoral College Votes in Hanley said his previous studies impacted his vote for Trump.

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Tom Garrett wins fifth Congressional District seat Republican candidate wins with almost 60 percent of vote CAITY SEED | SENIOR WRITER State Sen. Tom Garrett (R-Buckingham) defeated Democratic candidate Jane Dittmar in the race for Virginia’s fifth congressional district seat with about 60 percent of the vote.

Garrett, the current senator for Virginia’s 22nd district, was announced as the winner Tuesday night, and will replace Congressman Robert Hurt, who is retiring.

The win contrasts with University students’ views. In a pre-election survey conducted

by The Cavalier Daily in partnership with a faculty advisory committee and the Center for Survey Research, University students strongly favored Dittmar, with 50 percent supporting her and only 22 percent supporting Garrett.

Dittmar garnered a majority of votes in Charlottesville City, with 78 percent of the vote. Garrett earned 22 percent of Charlottesville’s vote.

At a debate hosted at the Batten School in late September,

Craig Volden, Batten associate dean for academic affairs, said he felt there was comparable support for both candidates among students and community members present.

“The Batten-held debate showed both candidates to be thoughtful on the issues and to seek out common ground where it could be found,” Volden said in an email statement.

The fifth district has historically leaned right, Volden said.

The district includes not only large metropolitan areas like Charlottesville, but also many rural, smaller areas. It is the largest district in the state of Virginia.

“The fifth district has tended to favor Republicans, and likely does this time around also,” Volden said. “But the popularity of Tim Kaine on the ballot and the lack of an incumbent [offered] a greater balance.”

Garrett is an Army veteran and formerly served as a prose-

cutor in Virginia. He also served as the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Louisa County from 20072011, and then was elected to the Virginia Senate, where he served for five years.

In a public statement Tuesday night, Garrett said job creation and economic growth have been the focus of his campaign.

“I look forward to working on rolling back the destructive regulatory burdens on our job creators and pursuing creative solutions to replace Obamacare with a more affordable, market-based system,” Garrett said. “Further our legislators need to focus on pushing resources and decision making away from Washington and back to our localities.”

After the vote was counted, Dittmar addressed voters in Charlottesville and wished Garrett “Godspeed.”

“I urge all those who supported me to join me in not just congratulating Tom, but offering him our good will and support in

the important work ahead,” Dittmar said in her speech. “I promised to him and requested that he promise me in return, that we now abandon partisan feeling

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Albemarle bond referendum passes XARA DAVIES | SENIOR WRITER The first amendment proposed to the Virginia constitution, which would incorporate Virginia’s right to work law into the constitution, did not pass, receiving less than 47 percent of the vote. In addition, almost 80 percent of Virginia residents voted to pass an amendment to the state constitution giving property tax breaks to spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty.

In Albemarle county, a bond referendum also passed with 73 percent of the vote.

The bond referendum will provide $35 million dollars of funding to school development projects through general obligation bonds. It is estimated the referendum will raise the tax rate by 1.3 cent for a medium-priced home in Albemarle County.

The tax would be increased annually by about $37 dollars, Phil Giarmita, strategic communications officer for Albemarle County Public Schools, said.

Giarmita said general obliga-

tion bonds are preferable to other sources of funding.

“General obligation bonds are backed by the full state of credit of the county and only can be authorised in a public vote,” Giarmita said. “Because of those two factors, the interest rates that the borrower can obtain are generally very favourable.”

Tim Shea, legislative and public affairs officer for Albemarle County Public Schools, said if the referendum passed the school system would be able to move forward with their proposed plans.

“If it passes, we will go to market and sell the bonds to investors and then we can move forward with the projects," Shea said.

Shea said the primary benefit of a general obligation bond is the more competitive interest rates gained once the bond has gone to referendum and people have voted on it.

This is the first bond referendum of its kind in over 40 years, Shea said. Both Shea and Gia-

rmita agreed that because the referendum was successful, there could be a higher likelihood of more of its kind appearing in the county in the future.

The proposed right to work amendment would make it harder to change or alter the requirements associated with the right to work, University Law Prof.

George Cohen said.

“If the amendment is not adopted, the Virginia legislature could change or abolish the right-to-work provisions in the current statute,” Cohen said in an email statement.

University Law Prof. J.H. Verkerke said the amendment would simply further enshrine a principle within Virginia’s constitution.

“The Virginia Code already prohibits precisely the conduct targeted by the amendment,” Verkerke said. “Thus, the only purpose of the amendment is to insulate that policy from legislative reconsideration.”

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services providers mean those spouses of first-line 10 responders like firefighters, search and res0 cue and law-enforcement perTomexempt Garrett sonnel could be made from property taxes if their spouse was killed in the line of duty. However, if the spouse were to remarry, the exemption would be nullified.

Cohen said Virginia’s constitution currently prevents the legislature from exempting any

property from taxation unless the state constitution specifically allows for a certain exemption.

0.22% “A number of exemptions alJane Dittmar Write in ready exist, including one for surviving spouses of U.S. military personnel killed in action,” Cohen said. “The amendment would treat surviving spouses of fallen local police and firefighters — and some others — similarly.”

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Albemarle voters approved a referendum to support county school improvements.

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University Democrats, College Republican differ on efforts College Republicans made calls across nation, University Democrats focused on Dittmar CATHERINE WIEDMANN | ASSOCIATE EDITOR The College Republicans chose to spend their time making calls for campaigns across the country, while the University Democrats kept their efforts focused primarily within the Virginia fifth district Adam Kimelman, second-year College student and vice chairman of campaigns for College Republicans, said the College Republicans decided to spend more time campaigning on a national scale because they felt they could be more impactful there.

“I think Garrett's doing a little better here than some of our Republicans somewhere else,” Kimelman said.

Sam Tobin, fourth-year College student and University Democrats president, said the choice to stay mostly local was because they wanted to make sure students — a good number of whom lean left — got to the polls and vote.

“Charlottesville is really liberal, U.Va. is really liberal and Albemarle is even pretty liberal,” Tobin said.

“We knew that in the community we would be successful and impactful, so that’s why we focused on here.”

College Republicans made calls over the past few days for out of state Senate candidates including Marco Rubio in Florida, Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire, Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and Todd Young in Indiana.

“A would-be balance of the Senate is something that would be extremely important considering they'd be confirming Supreme Court nominees for President Clinton or President Trump,” Kimelman said. “That's something we took very seriously, and we think that keeping the Senate red is something that is very important to us. So that's why we're making calls today for our outof-state candidates.”

The College Republicans also spent time working with House of Representative candidates Barbara Comstock (R-Mclean) and Brian Mast (R-Jupiter), after Mast’s campaign reached out to them.

“That region's going to be very close,” Kimelman said. “A lot of people here either vote in Virginia 10 or have worked for Barbara Comstock in the past so we figured we’d try to help there if we can as well.”

Tobin said the University Democrats mainly focused on the Fifth District race.

“We really [wanted] to make sure that Jane Dittmar [was] elected and we did everything we can to ensure that,” Tobin said. “We thought that it was competitive and our resources were best used here.”

Kimelman said he isn’t sure that College Republicans will help outof-state campaigns in the future.

“We have kind of a weird scenario where the elections in Virginia aren’t super close this year, but most definitely still competitive,” Kimelman said. “During this election cycle, we wanted to see what we could do to make the biggest impact and help some people we really believe in, and this is what we came up with.”

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College Republicans and University Democrats spent time campaigning for candidates of their respective parties during this election season.

Connection between election, hate speech plausible Presidential election challenges idea of political civility ALEXIS GRAVELY | ASSOCIATE EDITOR Following an increase of bias-motivated incidents on Grounds this semester, students received emails from University officials and student leaders. Both encouraged students to remain civil during what University President Teresa Sullivan described as a “divisive campaign season.”

Student Council President Emily Lodge, a fourth-year Batten student, encouraged the University community to “come together” and “move forward” after the results of the Nov. 8 presidential election are announced.

“Our community is filled with a spectrum of perspectives, but we are united in our humanity,” Lodge said in an email to the student body. “Making members of our community feel unwelcome or threatened because of their views will not be tolerated.”

While “mud-slinging” and “name-calling” have existed in presidential elections for centuries, Assoc. Politics Prof. Colin Bird said the difference lies in people’s ideas about civility.

“My own anxiety about this election is not so much the actual things that people have said or not said or done and not done have dif-

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Regardless of the election’s outcome, Sullivan reminded the University that a civil society begins with civil individuals.

fered from what people have said and not said in previous elections,” Bird said. “My worry is that people’s understanding of what counts as civil and uncivil has changed in some way this time around.”

During this election cycle, people have been more willing to relax certain norms about civility and accept some of the comments the candidates have made in defense of democratic freedom, Bird said.

People on the Trump side in particular have often defended some of the things he’s said — and

if not actively defended, failed to adequately condemn — some of the things that have been said because they think, ‘Look, if you’re really a Democrat, if you care about what people actually feel, then you ought to welcome the fact that people are actually expressing their true feelings,’” Bird said.

Bird said he believes this election will have a lasting effect on what people view as acceptable and civil in the future, but the extent of those effects will depend on the overall outcome of the election.

“I think the Trump campaign in particular has let some genies out of the bottle that will be hard to put back in,” Bird said. “On the other hand, I also think that if Trump loses, which still looks like the most likely outcome, I suspect that these long-term effects will turn out to be less significant than one might fear.”

University officials have partly attributed the bias-motivated incidents of this semester to the “tone and tenor” of the presidential election, as mentioned in an email sent to students from Marcus Martin, vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, University Dean of Students Allen Groves and Catherine Spear, assistant vice president at the Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights.

Bird said the University’s suggestion of a connection between the campaign and the bias related events on Grounds was reasonable.

“It seems to me that the University is completely correct to see a causal connection between the tenor of the campaign, which is one thing, and the more localized abuse and mistreatment that we’ve seen around Grounds,” Bird said.

The overall reactions on Election Night, Bird said, depend on

not only the outcome, but on how close the race ultimately ends up being.

“If the outcome is a relatively comfortable victory for Clinton, then I think we’ll get a lot of angry frustration for a period but I think it will fairly quickly die down,” Bird said.

However, if Trump wins, Bird expects the reactions may be similar to those of the Brexit campaign, at the end of which the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. In that instance, there was a spike in incivility in which immigrants and minorities were targeted with hate and abuse.

Regardless of the election’s outcome, Sullivan reminded the University that a civil society begins with civil individuals.

“I encourage every member of the U.Va. community to place our common bonds above our political differences in the days ahead,” Sullivan said. “As individuals we will always have our differences, but our capacity to respect and even celebrate those differences is essential to the cohesiveness of our communities and the integrity of our democracy.”

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DOES VIRGINIA DESERVE ITS TOP 10 RANKING?

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hen the AP preseason college basketball rankings came out a week ago, Virginia was ranked eighth. This is a comfortable place for the Cavaliers, as they’ve been ranked in the bottom half of the top-10 during the preseason for three straight years now. You’d have to go back to 2012 to find a year in which Virginia wasn’t ranked to begin the year.

From the rankings alone, it would appear this season is business as usual for the Cavaliers.

Upon a closer examination, however, this year’s team feels and looks completely different from earlier versions.

In an era where much of the college basketball top-10 is rife with turnover due to early departures to the NBA, Virginia’s teams of late have always featured a battle-tested group of upperclassmen leading the way.

From Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell, to Justin Anderson, Malcolm Brogdon and Anthony Gill, the

faces of the program have always been around for years, instilling confidence and security. While senior point guard London Perrantes has started since he was a freshman, the rest of coach Tony Bennett’s team is almost entirely unproven in a Virginia uniform.

It’s only natural to wonder if Bennett can continue his success with a totally new roster, as he’ll have to replace over 57 percent of the team’s scoring. After all, he hasn’t proven capable of winning without that core of players listed above. It’s possible that Virginia’s top-10 ranking is on name alone, a strange thought for a school rarely thought of as a traditional powerhouse.

The stats don’t bear this argument out, however. KenPom, the foremost advanced analytics site for college basketball, has Virginia ranked seventh in the country, and first in defense.

Although the familiar faces are gone, Virginia may still deserve to be ranked so highly on merit alone.

Part of the reason for this is because the 2016-2017 Cavaliers may be Tony Bennett’s most talented team ever. They add to their returning talent a recruiting class that can compete with

any team in the country.

Virginia’s incoming class was ranked in the top 10 by both 247sports and ESPN. Led by McDonald’s All-American and fivestar freshman guard Kyle Guy, the class is the best the Cavaliers have had in years. Guy is surrounded by numerous other talented freshman too, with skilled power forward Jay Huff, guard Ty Jerome, and forward DeAndre Hunter all ranked as four star players.

This doesn’t even count incoming talent technically not in the incoming recruiting class, which might be even more highly touted. Junior transfer power forward Austin Nichols was a five star recruit in high school, and was first-team All-American conference at Memphis before transferring. Redshirt freshman power forward Mamadi Diakite was ranked as a five star recruit by 247sports due to his athleticism.

In total, Virginia boasts as much incoming talent as any team, Kentucky and Duke included. This is uncharted territory for coach Bennett, as never before has he had a roster this talented. None of the returning players on the roster were

ranked higher than three stars by 247sports coming out of high school. Bennett has said before that part of the reason for his methodical offense is due to a lack of comparative talent and scoring ability. This season, that won’t be an issue.

In light of all that, it’s clear the Cavaliers are talented enough to merit a top-10 preseason ranking. However, Bennett’s task of converting that talent into a final four contender is going to be more difficult than ever.

Perrantes has never been a goto scorer, and while the newcomers are talented, they’ll have to learn Bennett’s pack-line defense before they can contribute. Even then, Bennett will have to figure out how to divide time among so many potential contributors.

Balancing more experienced upperclassmen with more talented younger players is no easy task.

While Bennett has earned fans’ faith, the start to the season has been rocky, even before playing a game. Nichols has been suspended for violating team rules, and Diakite was declared ineligible for the first game by the NCAA. This will certainly hurt Virginia on the court, as the ultra-talented frontcourt duo

will have to wait longer to begin gelling, and Huff may lose his redshirt this season as a consequence.

Off the court, disciplinary and eligibility issues are unnerving coming from Bennett’s notoriously well-run program. Whether or not this team can continue to represent the culture instilled

by Bennett and embodied by players like Gill and Brogdon, remains to be seen.

The Cavaliers are a top-10 ranked team headed into the season. They’re not ranked there by reputation alone; they have the talent to back that ranking up.

However, doing so will be more challenging than in years past, having finally lost that core of proven stars. The pack-line system has always put a premium on transition defense. If the team is to succeed this season, Tony Bennett will have to prove he can transition his team in a broader sense just as well.

JAKE BLANK is a sports writer for the Cavalier Daily.

Kiser continues consistent play Junior linebacker Micah Kiser on pace for another great season RYAN COYNE |STAFF WRITER In what has been a disappointing season, Virginia football has not had many reasons to smile.

Many hoped to see a new wave of confidence and play that has eluded the Cavaliers (2-7, 1-4 ACC) for the past few seasons. And while there have been improvements on both offense and defense this past year, the results have not translated into many wins.

One consistent player who continues to play at a high level is junior inside linebacker Micah Kiser.

Kiser was a 2016 semifinalist for the Butkus award, which is given to the best linebacker in the country.

That speaks to not only Kiser’s ability, but also his leadership. For the second straight year, Micah Kiser has been a staple for the middle of the Cavalier defense. He is all over the field, making tackles on run, pass and trick plays.

He has the speed to rush the passer, as he showed against thenNo. 5 Louisville a couple of weeks ago. He had a career game, with two sacks and a fumble recovery against the Cardinals and Heisman frontrunner Lamar Jackson. In six of the nine games so far this season,

Kiser has exceeded 10 total tackles.

Kiser is also rushing the passer better than almost any Cavalier. His 6.5 sacks represent his ability to get past blocks and chase down faster quarterbacks.

Kiser’s tremendous season has not gone without the notice of coach Bronco Mendenhall. Mendenhall commented on his middle linebacker’s impact along with another defensive leader, junior safety Quin Blanding, in his Monday press conference.

“Micah and Quinn are excellent football players, would be strong contributors and producers on any team that they played for,” Mendenhall said. “They both are consistent.

They both are resilient. They both have very strong leadership, and they’re both very, very good tacklers, and we’re playing them in positions where they’re able to make plays on both sides of the football.

Meaning, the more you are aligned over the ball, the more you can make plays right or left. And we did something similar with [Brian] Urlacher at New Mexico.”

Quite the comparison for Kiser to be compared to a potential future

Hall of Fame linebacker in Urlacher. Mendenhall has clearly benefited from having such dynamic and experienced leaders on his defense to help develop other, younger players in his new system.

Kiser has shown poise and patience in his play throughout the season. It is refreshing to see a talented player perform at his highest level and continue to be successful in a forgettable season.

“They are setting a culture for amazing numbers of youthful players around them, and really showing them not only how to play Division I football, but to play really good Division I football from a defensive perspective,” Mendenhall said.

Mendenhall is also confident Kiser’s influence will be felt after he leaves the University. He compared his linebacker’s impact back to Urlacher’s impact on his New Mexico teams back about 20 years ago.

“He was never a part of a winning team there as a starter,” Mendenhall said. “What was interesting though is when he left all the younger guys that were around him, they’ve then won six, they’ve

won seven and they then won eight.”

Kiser is on pace to exceed 130 total tackles this season, with the final home game of the season approaching this weekend. Kiser’s

impact has been influential in the improvement of the defensive play this year, and hopefully will continue to have an impact long after his years at Virginia are over.

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Kiser is on his way to exceed 130 total tackles this season, with the final home game of the season approaching this weekend.

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COMMENT OF THE DAY “There are plenty of rooms to study in all over Grounds...including the nearby Rotunda! I think that the U-Guides deserve a space to hang out next to their office.”

“Anonymous Wahoo” in response to Naveed Takavol’s Nov. 3 article, “Time for U-Guides to get out of Pavillion VIII”

LEAD EDITORIAL

Where do we go from here?

Let us be the role models we haven’t seen in this election Historically, the University has often mirrored the rest of the nation, through wars and social movements spanning two centuries. Today our little microcosm feels by and large detached from the millions of Americans who came out in droves for Donald Trump in yesterday’s presidential election. In our recent survey of undergraduates, 67 percent of likely voters expressed support for Hillary Clinton, compared to just 9 percent for Trump. And an overwhelming majority of students reported some degree of anxiety over the election.

Many of us are upset today. As we try to pick up the pieces of what this election — and its result — has done to our community, it’s important to remember

that while we cannot control the outcome of this election anymore, we can still control how we as U.Va. students treat each other.

While racism has long existed at our University, Donald Trump has emboldened racists here and elsewhere. In recent weeks, the University has felt the effects of such divisive and uncivil rhetoric from the presidential campaigns.

According to a University report, there has been an increase of bias-motivated incidents throughout Grounds — including anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic and racist vandalism reports. We can only anticipate these acts will, at a minimum, continue.

Many students have led the charge

against racial and personal intimidation. The “Eliminate the Hate” campaign has brought students together in solidarity against such acts. With this type of civil but vigorous action against these occurrences, we can build a community that actively promotes each other’s rights — even in view of a president whose hateful rhetoric will likely continue to invigorate those who try to drive a wedge between us. We can only hope Trump will serve with more dignity than how he ran his campaign. In the meantime, let us set the standard for how to unify divided groups — and be the role models that haven’t appeared for us in this election.

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SOUTH ASIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM IS A MYTH

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n a recent article in The Cavalier Daily entitled “Duterte is just the beginning of an anti-American wave,” my fellow columnist Jesse Berman writes that “it would not be surprising for other U.S. allies to act similarly” to the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, who has, amidst a barrage of insults directed at President Obama, taken steps to move the Philippines away from the United States and toward an alignment with China and Russia. His argument hinges on the idea that Duterte is setting a precedent other American allies might follow, citing Egypt and Pakistan as examples of countries with negative views towards the United States that could translate into deteriorating relationships. A far more likely reality is that Duterte is an idiosyncratic blip in the Asia Pacific region. Duterte’s evolving stance reflects longstanding colonial grievances and anger over America’s objections to the extrajudicial anti-drug murders taking place in the Philippines, and not a wider, much less a global, anti-American trend.

In fact, as Secretary of Defense Ash Carter argues in a recent essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, there are a plethora of signs that America is actually strengthening its network of alliances and partnerships in the Asia Pacific region despite the Philippines’s recent prevar-

There is no coming ‘anti-American wave’

ication. Over the last five years, as part of President Obama’s rebalance to Asia, the United States has taken affirmative steps with a range of countries to assure Asian Pacific security and the success of a rules-based international order, including freedom of the seas.

Such steps comprise, as detailed by Secretary Carter, the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the allocation of 60% of naval and

United States does strike a blow to America’s rebalancing effort, but they belie an otherwise sound strategic picture.

This is because China’s extensive territorial claims in the South China Sea have forced most Asia Pacific countries to view their relationship with the United States in terms of the regional balance of power. Most Asia Pacific nations see China as an aspiring regional

No anti-American wave is set to follow because of the cohesive glue of American leadership and American security guarantees.

overseas air assets to the region, the deployment of THAAD to South Korea, the reinforcement of our military alliance with Japan, the creation of new military ties with Singapore, the designation in June of India as a “major defense partner,” the potential for U.S. military bases off the coast of Vietnam, and yes, the signing of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the United States and the Philippines in 2014. The Philippines and Malaysia’s recent distancing from the

hegemon and the United States as a powerful offshore balancer, and they have opted to strengthen ties with the United States accordingly.

In deference to America’s insistence on abiding by international law, the Philippines sued China in an international tribunal in The Hague and won in July, arguing that China’s claims were in violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which China is a signatory. The convention stipulates that a nation is sovereign over

a 12-nautical-mile zone from its coast, and that artificial islands do not count. The U.S. has conducted multiple freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea specifically within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built

by China to enforce this cornerstone of maritime law. China has said that it will essentially ignore the ruling and continue to act as though it were sovereign over its “nine-dash-line.”

The Philippines seems to be pursuing a strategy more in line with that of small states, playing off rival great powers such as during the Cold War to extract concessions. So far, Duterte has managed to get Filipino fishermen to return to Scarborough Shoal and other disputed waters in the South China Sea and has acquired a $9 billion low-interest loan from China while maintaining an American security guarantee. This is most likely not a conscious strategy.

Duterte’s motivation to distance himself from the U.S. stems from the colonial grievances that Berman mentions which are unique to Filipino history, and American human rights objections to his anti-drug program which have made extrajudicial killings a state policy.

Malaysia, too, is bothered by specific actions that the U.S. Justice Department has taken against Malaysian Prime Minister Najib

Razak this summer, seizing over $1 billion in assets from a development fund he embezzled. Berman mentions that concerns with U.S. imperialism are primarily causing American allies to reassess, but the truth is that the moral underpinnings of American foreign policy – insisting on respect for international law, norms and institutions – is what might be causing this friction, and not the moral bankruptcy implied by the hefty and outdated charge of imperialism.

In making sweeping predictions like Berman’s, it is important to consider national foreign policies within their appropriate context. No anti-American wave is set to follow because of the cohesive glue of American leadership and American security guarantees.

And if a partner nation cannot abide a rules-based international order, then we should not be sorry to see them go. In the immortal words of President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, “in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

OLIVIER WEISS is a Viewpoint writer.

LIGHTS OUT FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME The policy was well intended but needs to go

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s if the incoming cold weather is not disheartening enough, Daylight Savings Time has made our days shorter and increased the amount of time we spend in darkness. On the first Sunday of each November, the United States sets the clocks back one hour starting at 2 a.m. Although sunset in Charlottesville now occurs at a premature 5:07 p.m.., this is helpful in some ways because it gives exhausted college students an extra hour of much needed rest. Yet it is nonetheless arcane and in need of revision.

While there are some compelling arguments for keeping Daylight Savings Time in place, their rationales are not practical in the 21st century world and fail to adequately account for basic human health concerns.

Benjamin Franklin first initiated the idea of Daylight Savings Time as a joke while serving as the Ambassador to France in 1784. He hypothesized that adjusting the time in this way would “economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the

natural morning light instead.”

Although he was pushing his intellectual experimentalism to the limits, his concern about conserving energy remained a cogent reason for Daylight Savings Time even two centuries later. While Congress first implemented Daylight Savings Time during World

Yet in the 21st century, Daylight Savings Time lacks the same viability it once enjoyed. First, our energy sources have clearly adapted since Franklin’s era.

Whereas wax conservation was a concern during his lifetime, no household in America uses candles as their primary energy

Whereas wax conservation was a concern during his lifetime, no household in America uses candles as their primary energy source.

War I, it was expanded in 1974 as a result of the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, which necessitated the conservation of energy on a massive scale. Energy conservation was a high priority during both centuries, and since Daylight Savings Time could reduce the amount of time people spend in the dark, it was seen as a viable policy solution.

source. Although power has obviously been revolutionized by the light bulb, it is still a somewhat finite resource just as candle wax once was. Policymakers are rightfully concerned about this, yet they should not be anxious about the effects of an all-out embargo such as the one that occurred in 1973. CNN Money’s Matt Egan claims that the United States is

“tantalizingly close” to energy independence, which is perhaps best underscored by the fact that oil imports as a percentage of daily demand have decreased from 65 percent to 28 percent over the past decade. Thus, while Daylight Savings Time does preserve energy, such a drastic measure is not nearly as necessary currently as it once used to be and only preserved 1 percent more energy overall.

The benefits of Daylight Savings Day are further delegitimized after taking into account its impact on human health.

Approximately 10-20 percent of Americans suffer at least mild mood changes and depression as a result of the transformation into winter. Physicians call this disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder and agree that its primary trigger is lack of sunlight. This is why it is commonly treated with phototherapy, also known as light therapy, which aims to expose patients to light to compensate for their inability to access sunlight in the winter. While humans obviously cannot control the natu-

ral change of earth’s seasons, they can reduce the “winter blues” by making eradicating a policy that adds an hour of darkness per day, especially since it will cause millions of Americans to endure rush hour in the dark.

While Daylight Savings Time has shown to have potent benefits in the past, it is not a justifiable program in the 21st century. U.S. energy policy has transformed the country into a more independent energy user, while increased usage of solar and wind energy has reduced reliance on a single raw material. Likewise, the program’s health impact is substantial and not worth the insignificant benefits it has. Thus, eliminating Daylight Savings Time would be in the best interest of all Americans, especially those who are most prone to seasonal mood changes.

JESSE BERMAN is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

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NO MORE SHAME AROUND MENTAL HEALTHCARE Fighting the stigma around therapy would help millions of people

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t’s widely known that mental health is a serious problem on campuses, the scale of which is astounding. This issue also extends beyond colleges, as the American Counseling Association demonstrated when it found that 40 million Americans 18 and above suffer from an anxiety disorder. The prevalence of this issue makes it important we find effective tools to fix it. One approach is to strengthen and publicize resources available for students dealing with mental health problems, but this is just part of the problem. A more difficult problem is how to ensure that people receive treatment.

An intangible yet serious barrier that prevents people from seeking treatment is the perceived stigma facing any individual who chooses to go into counseling. Since so many variables go into one’s determination whether or not to receive treatment, fear of being stigmatized is a more insidious firewall that straddles both the conscious and unconscious decision mak-

ing mechanisms. Because of this stigma and misperceptions around the use of counseling, many who would benefit from counseling do not receive it. In fact, perhaps nearly half of the millions of people in this country who have a severe mental illness go untreated. This issue is just as severe for college students, as the American College Health Association found that

health issues, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Bring Change 2 Mind. This is a great base and shows a growing awareness of the problem.

But it’s also key that we not only address mental illness itself, but also how counseling can be used for other issues that, while related, differ significantly from mental illness.

The stigma against coun-

It’s...key that we not only address mental illness itself, but also how counseling can be used for other that, while related, differ significantly from mental illness.

two-thirds of students struggling with mental health do not seek treatment.

Some projects and organizations aim to increase awareness of the resources available to help those struggling with mental

seling and the misperceptions about it are intimately connected issues, with widespread misperceptions about therapy itself leading to an odium on those who participate in it. For example, associating therapy

completely with mental illness often prevents people from initiating counseling, believing in error that it is only useful for those with a serious mental health problems. In reality, therapy is used for a wide variety of issues that often have nothing to do with mental illness. These can include divorces, serious life changes, sexual assaults, and problems with romantic relationships among others. Perhaps the reason mental health problems are so widespread among college students is the prevalence of risk factors such as sexual assault that students face, and the fact that attending a University is in itself a huge life change that leaves one feeling emotionally vulnerable.

Fortunately, it appears that society is moving away from its stigma on mental illness due to increasing support from public figures like President Obama.

Here on grounds, there are key alterations we can make to the way we address counseling. Organizations like HELPLine as

well as CAPS itself can work to clear misperceptions around the idea of therapy, which would be a huge help to the students at the University, allowing them to utilize the numerous resources around grounds made available for those struggling with mental illness. Just providing information about these resources is only half the battle. The other half is making sure that students can use them free of social stigma, and here we have a lot of progress to make.

ALEX MINK is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

He may be reached at a.mink@ cavalierdaily.com.

ESTABLISH TENURE-TRACK LECTURERS Policies that allegedly put America first primarily hurt American interests

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hese positions would improve the quality of undergraduate education A school as large as the University necessarily has a significant proportion of classes that must reach large quantities of students at a time. For example, fall semester microeconomics and spring semester macroeconomics each easily pull more than 1,000 students every year.

Although large classes are undoubtedly necessary at the University, they are not the best use of tenured research faculty. Faculty lecturers, who do not have the same research responsibilities as tenure-track research faculty, can often focus exclusively on pedagogy and getting introductory content across.

However, job security for lecturers at universities is historically poor and inconsistent, leading to a system where lecturers float from school to school seeking temporary employment. The University can be at the forefront of change in higher education by creating a quasi-tenure track for lecturers focusing exclusively on teaching, thus improving the quality of undergraduate education, as well as granting greater job security.

Many introductory classes do not need to be taught by re-

search professors. Although tenured research faculty at universities are not exclusively focused on their own research, an Inside Higher Ed report found that professors only spent 40 percent of their time in a given week on teaching-related tasks. Lectur-

up 42.5 percent of a school’s ranking score. These metrics take into account the amount of time that students have to interact with faculty, as well as the size of the classes offered by the University. Counterintuitively, by hiring professional lecturers

The University’s reputation for undergraduate teaching could only improve through the hiring of more professional lecturers.

ers, in contrast, do not have the same responsibilities outside of teaching and mandatory departmental meetings. This allows researchers to spend more time devising curriculum, improving presentations and meeting with TAs to lay down a consistent plan for teaching introductory lectures.

The University’s reputation for undergraduate teaching could only improve through the hiring of more professional lecturers. Undergraduate rankings, although not without their flaws, use undergraduate reputation and faculty resources to make

to teach introductory seminars, more spots open for tenured research professors to teach upper-level seminars of their own, thus increasing the degree of specialization once students surpass the introductory level.

A greater degree of job security for lecturers is necessary in order for them to be more than academic mercenaries that float from school to school. Typical lecturer positions are one-semester or one-year contracts, with employment severable by the university after the period of time is up. In contrast, institutions develop departmental

reputations over time for certain types of scholarship: for example, in economics, the saltwater versus freshwater debates over macroeconomic study pitted various East Coast institutions with Midwest universities.

Standard, one-year lecturer positions prevent lecturers from teaching introductory lectures in accordance with the prevailing norms of the department. By offering lecturers some degree of tenure and job security, lecturers could tailor their introductory level classes to the specific institution.

Increasing the amount of lecturers at a given school also increases the amount of advisors that are able to help new students adjust to the University.

Too often, because of the large size of the most popular majors at the University, first- and second-year advisers are unable to provide specialized instruction in which courses to take in order to further explore a field, due to being too busy with their own research and work. In contrast, a full-time lecturer brought onstaff exclusively to teach students the basics of a given field could also take the time to become quasi-advisors to students who are either considering future coursework in a given field,

or pursuing a job in the specific subject area. New students, the ones who are most likely to take large, introductory classes, would appreciate the additional time available in the form of office hours that lecturers would be able to provide, compared to research professors.

Currently, tenure-track positions are only made available based on good scholarship and not necessarily good teaching ability. Universities typically have multiple purposes, and in the case of this University in particular, the research aspect of academia tends to loom the largest in the minds of the administration. However, placing an emphasis on undergraduate education at its most basic level shows the administration truly cares about developing new students and helping them excel in the fields of their choosing.

Hiring tenure-track lecturers is the most cost-efficient, effective and productive way to achieve that goal.

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THREE PRANKS AND YOU’RE OUT The recent acts of vandalism plaguing the University are unacceptable

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hen I was 14 years of age I witnessed the consequences of a prank that I have yet to forget.

I was in high school in Ghana in West Africa. On that fateful day one of our revered Latin teachers came to class to teach Ovid, Sallust and Cicero. The content has faded away, but that sense of horror that showed on his otherwise benign and iconic face when he looked at the board still gazes back at me. Just before the class and while we were at recess, one of my classmates had sketched a swastika on the board. Our Latin teacher was Peter Denton. He was a white South African expatriate teacher and of Jewish origin. Quite provoked, he did not even ask who drew the sign. He did not have to. He made us all stand for the entire 40 minute session while he taught. We got the message: “What you intend is not necessarily how it is received.” He appeared indubitably wounded beyond repair. We felt a sense of compathy with him. Word buzzed around the entire school.

We were all filled with regret.

No one repeated such a prank ever again in the multiple years that I attended.

Peter Denton was no ordinary teacher. His students went on to the Sorbonne to study English, to read theology at Aberdeen or Edinburgh, Scotland, to special-

at the University can and must.

College students must bury such facile notions as “It was just a prank,” or, “We are all racists.”

No, we are not all racists. For we do not all have the power to subordinate or subjugate others.

We do not all have the desire to

What is ‘free’ about inscribing the N-word on the door of a schoolmate?

ize in Civil Law at St. John’s College, Oxford, to become psychoanalysts as I am, among other student achievements. Most importantly, and for a 14-year-old and his peers, he was the cricket coach that took us to successful national championships. Those were our World Series.

Why am I telling our readers all this? A very simple answer!

If a 14-year-old can understand his lesson, young adult students

humiliate, lacerate, psychologically or physically injure our peers, superiors or mentees.

And, please, let us not hide behind “free speech.”

What is “free” about depicting a person of African origin as a monkey wearing braids? What is “free” about inscribing the N-word on the door of a schoolmate? What is “free” about hurling racial epithets at others? Let us not even go there. Just try hu-

man decency, or respect for self if respecting others is too much to ask. Even if free speech is exculpatory in some court of law, let us aim at a higher standard of conduct in our community.

Let us cut to the chase: racism, sexism and other forms of intolerance cannot be normalized at the University, not even in the days of Donald Trump.

In the interactive and global world in which we now live we, all have to be ready to deploy diversity as an academic and social capital. Students have to study abroad and visit mass graves in St. Petersburg Russia, death camps at Salaspils and Kaunas in Latvia and feel the grounds tremble with the crying dead. Students have to travel to slave castles in West Africa and hear from the windowless and deep caverns of slave castles in Cape Coast and Elmina the mournful and sorrowful cries of slaves whose kinsmen and ancestors still feel the residual and transgenerational traumata of the ages. For transgressed people, there is no such thing as post-traumatic stress disorder. It

is a daily and quotidian experience. That is why we do not have the luxury of “racial pranks” in our vocabulary. Let us make use of conversations about difference and identity in our classrooms. Let us look at the ethical dimensions of our creations and their environmental consequences. Most importantly, let us ask questions that can both potentially create a new world and reconfigure how we situate ourselves in it so that we can all prosper. Difficult and painful conversations they may be, but without that kind of meaningful discourse, we cannot expect to see enduring change happen in our lifetime.

In two months we have had three pranks. Let us take time out to establish some sense of order.

MAURICE APPREY is a professor of psychiatry and dean of African-American affairs.

DEMONIZING TRUMP SUPPORTERS IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE In today’s America, hateful and divisive political rhetoriccan easily pass off as bumor Connor McLean’s recent article “We are drunken toddlers” was inexplicably included in the Humor section of this respectable publication. The rationale for this escaped me until I realized the paper has no “Hypocrisy” section. I find it ironic that McLean condemns intolerance by intolerantly labeling a sizeable portion of the population as racist children. Does he honestly believe the majority of Donald Trump supporters support Trump because they are racist and sexist, because they are easily duped? Is there no room to admit that Hillary Clinton is a deeply, and perhaps dangerously, flawed candidate? Has the nature of political discourse in this country been so irrevocably damaged that this sort of hateful, divisive rhetoric passes as funny?

Let me say that I am no Trump supporter, but I am a veteran of the War on Terror, and in that war I worked as an Intelligence Analyst. I am familiar with the storing and passing of classified information, and I know the mistakes that will get people fired or arrested. I know what happens when sensitive information accidentally finds its way into the hands of the bad

guys. People like me, who wear my uniform, often die because of these mistakes, and the people at fault are relieved of command, even if their error was truly unintentional. This is the nature of responsibility. If we hold our soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to these stand-

how bad Trump may be, he is no fascist. My wife’s older family members saw what fascism did, up close and personal. The results were death of loved ones, sexual assault of loved ones, destruction of a lifetime’s worth of property and post-traumatic stress that lasts into the present.

I am a veteran of the War on Terror, and in that war I worked as an Intelligence Analyst. I am familiar with the storing and passing of classified information, and I know the mistakes that will get people fired or arrested. ards, how much more should we apply these very same standards to a presidential candidate? Is it possible people distrust Clinton and support Trump not because they are bigots but because, to quote Mike Pence, “They’re paying attention?” Is it possible her detractors are holding her to high standards and finding her lacking?

As the husband of a legal immigrant from Germany, I also take issue with McLean’s accusations of fascism. No matter

One of my wife’s relatives, a survivor of the Battle of Berlin, still cowers when a plane flies overhead. To compare Trump, or any American politician, to the fascists of Italy and Germany is moral equivalency at its worst.

These comparisons trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust and the extermination camps in a way that is inexcusable. The Nazis were in a league of their own, a level of depravity which bears no comparison to the Trump campaign. To argue otherwise is to

demonstrate the failures of the American education system, as well as the suggestibility of millennials. McLean was right on that point — millennial minds are incredibly malleable.

Another key point is the accusation that Trump is a racist.

McLean’s “humor” went so far as to link the College Republicans with intolerance, writing that, in the event Trump loses the election, “the College Republicans and bigots will still hold these prejudiced and backward beliefs.” He rhetorically links his fellow students to “acts of hatred perpetrated on and around Grounds,” but he offers no proof. McLean’s bias leads him to take this cognitive leap, whereas a more deliberate assessment of the situation might reasonably indicate other perpetrators. After all, who allegedly caused violence at Trump rallies? Was it Trump supporters, or was it protesters funded by the Clinton team? I don’t know, and neither does McLean, and that’s the point.

Ultimately, McLean’s statements reflect a Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert culture of “humor,” a world in which political opponents must be demonized.

The idea of a reasonable politi-

cal disagreement no longer exists. Now the view is such that we must all agree, or we are damaged somehow. If we disagree with an African-American president, we must be racist. If we disagree with a female politician, we must be sexist. To be fair, opponents of military operations are often called unpatriotic — both sides suffer from this hyperbolic language. Might I submit one final consideration: perhaps this style of discourse is counter-productive. Perhaps the intolerant, accusatory nature of American politics helps explain Trump’s appeal. Perhaps when McLean looks for the drunken toddlers who created this monster, he should first look in the mirror.

GRANT PINKSTON is a firstyear in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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My day as a Jeff Soc imposter You have every right to eat the asparagus ALY LEE | LIFE COLUMNIST So far in my college career, my main motivation for doing anything has been food of the non-dining hall assortment.

When my roommate offered a spot to go with her for the Jefferson Society’s Wilson Day Formal, I happily obliged. Good food and a chance to wear that dress I’ve had in my closet for two years? Sign me up!

Little did I know the Jefferson Society is a very prestigious organization. Not just any plebeian U.Va. student can be a member of this well known literary and debating society, of which Edgar Allan Poe and Woodrow Wilson were members — hence the name Wilson Day. When Wilson Day rolled around, my roommate and I giddily got ready for the formal like it was junior prom all over again. I caked on makeup and eyeshadow and spent a good 20 minutes deciding which way to part my hair. We took an Uber to the Lawn — walking in heels was absolutely out of the ques-

tion — and sauntered through the white colonnades, emboldened by our perfectly winged eyeliner.

There were already several groups of impeccably dressed people on the Lawn when we arrived. My roommate easily slid into conversation with some of the upperclassmen members discussing politics and Kurt Vonnegut. I listened quietly, trying to remember what book Vonnegut wrote. Once more members came to the Lawn, they started gathering for pictures.

While each Jefferson Society constituent arranged themselves on the steps of the Rotunda, I stood awkwardly to the side and watched them flash their most convincing smiles. As the steps got more crowded, I stepped back onto the grass and my heels sunk down suddenly. With that jolt, I quickly realized there was a clear division between myself and the rest of the crowd around me. My perfectly parted hair fell out of place. I was an imposter.

The rest of the night, this idea that I was an imposter loomed over me. The beautiful Dome Room of the Rotunda seemed to watch over me saying, “You can’t eat this elegant salad. This is for the Jefferson Society. You are not in the Jefferson Society.

Did you just take the last ball of butter from the table? Who do you think you are?” I nervously chewed at my steamed asparagus and tried to look like I wasn’t just mooching off my roommate’s kind offer.

The evening wore on with pleasant banter and I stayed relatively silent, afraid that any word I said would cue people to my pretense. While passing around the dinner rolls, one young man at our table turned to the girl next to him and asked, “So what does the Jefferson Society do, anyway?” I turned to look at him. Did he just say that? He must be an imposter, too! I expected the girl to gasp in horror and boot him from the Rotunda, aghast at his intrusion. Instead, the girl laughed and explained

the ins and outs of the organization without any derision.

As the main course came out, I gradually began talking more and came to realize I was the only one in the room who thought I was an imposter. Yes, others knew I wasn’t actually in the club, but they didn’t treat me any differently. They engaged in my opinions and shared my same love of well-cooked chicken. By the end of the night I was taking pictures with the rest of them and ate every bite of white chocolate cheesecake, without any guilt.

This entire college experience has me feeling like a faker 90 percent of the time. I don’t know how to talk to professors or ask coherent questions in class or sign a lease for an apartment. I can barely decide what to eat for breakfast in the morning, yet I go about my day pretending I have it all together.

However, my night as a Jeff Soc imposter showed me that, most of the time, the only one who thinks you need to pretend

is yourself. I couldn’t enjoy the people, the food or the environment during the whole evening in the Rotunda because I felt like I didn’t deserve any of it.

As an imposter, I didn’t deserve any of it. When I finally realized I didn’t need to feel like an intruder and that people accepted me whether I knew what book Kurt Vonnegut wrote, I felt a freedom to enjoy myself.

Everyone can feel like they’re faking it, and it’s honestly a very insecure place to be. We are constantly checking over our shoulders to see if anyone will find us out and angrily grab the forks out of our hands before we can take the next bite of asparagus.

The truth is though, we don’t have to fake it because we aren’t imposters. Everyone has come to this college because they deserve to be here. Though I was not actually a part of the Jefferson Society, I am a part of U.Va. I am not an imposter here and neither are you. So eat the asparagus and the white chocolate cheesecake, too!

Playing pretend Are we truly being ourselves?

BRIELLE ENTZMINGER | LIFE COLUMNIST Halloween was one of my favorite holidays as a child. I loved going to Party City to pick out a costume and putting up Halloween decorations around my house. I also looked forward to spending Halloween with one of my best friends from elementary school, who trickor-treated with me every year until high school. Perhaps the best part of Halloween for me was the end of the night, when my brother, cousins, friend and I dumped all of our candy out of our buckets and traded amongst each other.

As a college student, I leave most of these Halloween traditions behind.

I do not have the time or money to buy costumes or decorations, and I leave the trick-or-treating to the adorable children who venture to the Lawn. Unfortunately, I do not get to see my best friend of many years anymore, who now goes to college in

Alabama.

However, being in college does not take away the fun of Halloween.

Though students go to parties and other festive events instead of trickor-treating, we still enjoy wearing costumes. While some like to showcase their creativity, like the boy who dressed up as — and looked exactly like — University President Teresa Sullivan, others like to be simple, as seen by the many cats, bunnies and similar overdone costumes. Overall, no matter the amount of effort we put into our costumes, we get to pretend to be someone — or something — else for the night.

But we often do not let the façade end there. Instead, we pretend to be other people throughout our daily lives, hiding our true identities in order to impress others or fit in. It is very easy to do this in college, especially when we are trying to make

new friends, join organizations or simply find our niche at U.Va. This façade can be detrimental to our college experience. College is about exploring our likes and dislikes and helping us realize our dreams and passions. However, we cannot do this if we are always concerned about what others will think. Even though I have put the interests of others above my own many times throughout my life, I now try my best to be myself and have found several ways to do this.

One way we can be ourselves is by refusing to adhere to stereotypes, especially related to taste. As an African-American, people may assume that I only like rap, hip-hop and R&B. While I do like some rap songs, I also listen to pop, alternative, dance and even some electronic music. Though this sometimes makes me feel out of place at black parties, where I may

not know every song that is played, I ultimately enjoy music more by listening to what I like and not what I am “supposed” to listen to.

Another way is by choosing to join clubs and organizations that we are genuinely interested in, not just because they are prestigious or will look good on our resumes. At U.Va. it is very easy to get caught up in the belief that one needs to be in a competitive organization, such as Honor or the University Guide Service, to be a successful student. However, I have found my college experience to be much more fulfilling by participating in activities that reflect my true passions — dance, children and writing.

Lastly, we can be ourselves when deciding how to spend our free time.

When I first entered college, I went along with the widespread belief that partying is the only way to have fun

in college. After going out almost every weekend, I soon realized how tiring and time-consuming parties could be, making my experience not as enjoyable. Partying is not the only way to have fun in college. Though there are people who enjoy going out, there are plenty of others who do not like parties and would rather attend other events or stay in. I realized I prefer a balance between going out and staying in with friends, which helps me better enjoy my time at U.Va. By not going along with the crowd, we refuse to mask our true identities in order to impress others or fit in. Whether it is by listening to non-stereotypical music or choosing to stay in, I am ultimately staying true to myself. Therefore, let us save our costumes for Halloween and do what we love on a daily basis.

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‘The Love Witch’ is cleverly feminist romp Anna Biller’s latest film layers incisive commentary within campy period aesthetics ALINE DOLINH | STAFF WRITER During its Virginia Film Festival screening at the Violet Crown Cinema Friday, “The Love Witch” seemed at first glance like a throwback in all senses of the word. Its sumptuous set design emulates the visuals of 1960s Technicolor flicks, and its occult and erotic subject matter seems to be plucked straight from pulpy paperbacks and exploitation features. Its titular heroine, Elaine Parks (Samantha Robinson), is a young, freshly widowed witch whose apparent sole ambition is to make men to love her.

Much like Elaine, the movie itself is an artful seductress. The film draws on visual and thematic language of traditional erotic horror in order to satirize the genre’s characteristic misogyny. This classic homage has a distinctly feminine twist.

Anna Biller’s visionary design and editing shine throughout the film. The color palette is saturated with lush pastels and sets are constructed with lavish ornamentation, ranging from Elaine’s stately Victorian home to a saccharine tea room painted in various shades of pink.

Each shot feels elaborately constructed, and the cinematography itself has a witty sensibility — a frame of a bloody corpse segues into red sauce oozing from a freshly-cut cake (a shot that reportedly took 12 takes).

One of Elaine’s works in progress, a gruesome painting of a nude woman ripping out a man’s heart, foreshad-

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“The Love Witch” lends beautifully quirky visuals to a complex topic.

ows the finale. Attention to details like these makes the film a work of stunning auteurism.

Fascinatingly, Elaine appears to be a walking anachronism — her matte turquoise eyeshadow, thick false lashes and modish wardrobe all suggest the image of a midcentury femme fatale, yet the film takes place in modern-day California. She is soft-spoken, beguilingly beautiful and pretends to be a damsel in distress despite her mysterious power.

Over the course of the movie, she seduces three different men with an ease that betrays her bright-eyed intelligence — while performing a striptease for her first paramour, a libertine professor named Wayne (Jeffrey Vincent Parise), she purrs, “I’m the Love Witch. I’m your ultimate fantasy!”

Despite happily playing the role of a gothic June Cleaver (at least initially), Elaine’s willingness to cater to men’s desires is based on a shrewdly clinical interpretation of romance.

In a conversation with Trish (Laura Waddell), a naive good-girl housewife who is startled by Elaine’s unapologetic pursuit of male lust, the latter matter-of-factly remarks, “Giving men sex is a way of unlocking their love potential.”

Things go awry when Elaine’s love potions prove a little too potent — Wayne becomes sickly and emotionally needy after sleeping with her, eventually growing so “heartsick”

that he dies the morning after. Her second conquest, Trish’s milquetoast husband Richard (Robert Seeley), eventually slits his wrists after Elaine won’t return his calls. In both cases, longing makes them lapse into infantility and self-centeredness. Elaine is disgusted when she realizes how fragile their masculinity is, bitterly observing, “They teach that a ‘normal’ human being is a hyper-rationalist, stoic male, and that a woman’s intuitions and emotions are illnesses that need to be cured.” The film suggests in reality, the opposite is true.

As the film goes on, Elaine becomes more selfish and arguably sociopathic — her futile quest for romance ultimately culminates in the bloody, visceral murder of her final lover (Gian Keys) when she realizes he’ll never truly reciprocate her affections.

Yet Elaine remains easy to root for throughout, due in part to Robinson’s stylized yet believably tempered performance. Her earnest yearning combined with slick, manipulative capability makes her a fully realized antiheroine. She’s a raven-haired inversion of the icy Hitchcock blonde — a stated influence on Robinson — by way of Medea.

“The Love Witch” is a thrilling, fever-dream feast for the senses, but it’s also a wickedly sharp take on the nature of relationships between men and women.

How to ‘Care’ for those who need it most Documentary shows how to age with dignity at Virginia Film Festival MAGGIE SNOW | SENIOR WRITER Who cares for you when you can no longer care for yourself? Deirdre Fishel’s documentary “Care” examines this question through the lens of home health care. The screening was held Saturday at Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Dickinson Center as part of the annual Virginia Film Festival.

“Care” follows the stories of four individuals, who all require home health care, in various stages of age and health. In one of the stories, a home health aide with 30 years of experience cares for an elderly woman in the Bronx, but the aide makes so little that she and her youngest son must live shelter to shelter after their time in a Medicaid-subsidized hotel room runs out. In another case, a man needs care after being diagnosed in his late 60s with an extreme form of Parkinson’s Disease, affecting nearly every aspect of his life, from his speech to his ability to stand.

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“Care” provided a fresh perspective on age at this year’s festival.

The film repeatedly shows bathing scenes, in which home health aides wash their clients. These poignant scenes represent one of the most vulnerable moments in life, when

one must disrobe in front of another person and receive help completing an activity of daily living most healthy individuals take for granted.

People do not typically think about a time when they will be unable to complete these tasks. When this time comes, people often do not have well-thought-out plans, leading to care based on their immediate desire to remain at home at costs that are unsustainable in the long run.

Successful caretakers do not only help their clients complete daily living activities, but they essentially serve as their companions. Yet their median salary is around five dollars an hour. They often lack health insurance, emotional support, equipment or proper training. Many work for agencies which charge around $15 an hour, only a third of which goes to the workers themselves. This benefits no one — aides cannot live off their salaries and families cannot

afford care.

As the wife of the film’s Parkinson’s patient so bluntly stated, all individuals will eventually become ill. Because nearly everyone requires care at some point, the industry’s lack of publicity is astounding.

A panel discussion with Fishel and two local health professionals followed the screening, moderated

by Brian Wheeler, the executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow.

Fishel has directed films for over 25 years. She stated she has always been interested in aging, noting her father died two weeks ago, making the discussion even more emotional.

“This needs to be placed on the public agenda. … There needs to be a reallocation of resources and a redefinition of quality of life,” Fishel said.

Fishel understands the process of change is slow, but hopes her film and other awareness efforts push the issue into the public arena.

“Feeding my dad pudding was really an honor,” Fishel said.

According to Fishel, taking care of those who can no longer care for themselves should be viewed as privilege, rather than a duty. All people, regardless of class or other category, deserve to be fully cared for with dignity and kindness.

“Care” proves it is unacceptable that individuals must consider selling their possessions and taking extreme measures to cover the cost of care.

The realization that a person can no longer care for themselves and that family members are no longer capable of providing it is tragic enough — attaining care after this point should not add stress to the experience. As the movie suggests, tremendous efforts must be made to improve working conditions and wages for home health professionals and, ultimately, to make navigating the field of care easier for families.

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‘Wakefield’ provides another forgettable anti-hero Bryan Cranston shines in uneven film DARBY DELANEY |STAFF WRITER From 1970s classics like “The Godfather” and “Taxi Driver” to modern thrillers like “Nightcrawler,” antiheroes have proven to be subjects for compelling drama. The protagonists of these films are repellent in their actions, yet it is impossible to not become engrossed in their worlds. The same cannot quite be said for Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) in Robin Swicord’s latest project, “Wakefield,” which was shown Saturday during the Virginia Film Festival. Cranston, who stunned audiences in the iconic anti-hero role of Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” gives a riveting performance in a film whose ambition of providing an innovative character study doesn’t come full circle.

After a power outage during his commute to suburban New York, Howard Wakefield, a successful lawyer, retreats to the top floor of his garage for the night.

This begins as a temporary method to avoid confronting his family about his less-thanstellar day but acts as the catalyst for a prolonged withdrawal from his community, job and family. With each passing day, he reverts to primitive instincts

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Bryan Cranston is riveting in “Wakefield.”

and strays further away from the banal, monotonous routine of his daily life.

Wakefield is an arrogant and entitled alpha male who becomes twistedly delighted at the sight of others’ pain. The Hitchcockian voyeurism of “Wakefield” brings out the worst in its protagonist. In contrast to the subdued minor characters, who are often shot from considerable distances with inaudible dialogue, Wakefield’s point of view dominates the film. He gleefully watches his wife (Jennifer Garner) as she concernedly reacts to his disappearance. Though Wakefield’s selfishness reaches sociopathic levels, Cranston’s effortless witticisms and astute observations allow for occasional liveliness in this otherwise contemptible character.

Swicord does not hesitate to denounce Wakefield during the first two acts of the film. Various flashbacks show him at his most manipulative. Later, after concluding suburban life is too detached from Mother Nature, Wakefield gets ambushed by mosquitoes while sleeping outdoors. There is a peculiar delight in watching Wakefield’s suffering as his newfound iso-

lated life proves to be altogether different from what he idealized.

Like countless other character-driven films, “Wakefield” falls apart in its third act. In spite of Wakefield’s self-afflicted predicaments, Swicord attempts to redeem the protagonist with ludicrous subplots and an irrational cop-out of a finale. The final act eliminates the captivating elements of the first two acts — Cranston’s performance and voice over, clever scenes, concise storytelling — and replaces them with abrupt character transformations and abstract lyrical tangents. This jarring tonal shift could have been prevented by illustrating Wakefield’s compassionate side earlier in the film.

Instead, the humanization occurs far too late.

The outlandish and often comical methods Wakefield takes to escape his upper middle class suburban advertises maintains interest, until the introduction of an out of place, overwrought redemptive arc. Despite moments of cinematic greatness and a nuanced performance from Cranston, “Wakefield” remains a lopsided character study with a deplorable anti-hero at its center.

‘The Red Turtle’ tells splendid story of life Animated film presents beautifully simple, yet relatable plot THAQEB CHOWDHURY | STAFF WRITER At Film Festival, If one word could be used to describe Studio Ghibli’s latest animated film, “The Red Turtle,” it would be “flow.” Like the vast ocean encompassing its island setting, every aspect of this film simply flows from one beautifully crafted scene to the next. Present-

ed at the Virginia Film Festival, “The Red Turtle,”

which masterfully weaves relatable themes of human life into its narrative, evokes raw emotion in a way few films can accomplish.

The non-dialogue film, which was shown at the Paramount Theater Sunday, opens on a chaotic scene in which a nameless man finds himself shipwrecked and hopelessly lost at sea. After washing up on a deserted island, the man attempts to escape to no avail, and is forced to live out the rest of his days separated from society.

At its core, “The Red Turtle”

is about the simple journey of life. A story of isolation, love, family, coming of age and much more, the film is enjoyable even in its most mundane moments — thanks to its relatability.

The omission of dialogue — a bold choice — ultimately benefits the film immensely. Actions, in place of speech, define each character, creating an empathetic link to the audience, which the film maintains throughout.

Studio Ghibli’s consistently superb animation style gives “The Red Turtle” a stunning, dream-like quality. Characterized by realistic motions clashing with a vibrant palette of colors, the animation feels tied to reality yet nonetheless distant from it. Complemented perfectly by French composer Laurent Perez Del Mar’s graceful score, the film is visually and auditorily pleasing throughout.

“The Red Turtle” progresses

slowly, requiring some patience from its viewers. The film splic-

es its generally tranquil plot with tense, chaotic sequences,

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“The Red Turtle” shone at the Virginia Film Festival.

transitioning between the two with ample but not heavy-handed foreshadowing. Certain surreal moments border on confusing, but “The Red Turtle” is less about the specifics of events and more about their impact on the characters.

“The Red Turtle” is an outstanding accomplishment in animation and filmmaking in general. Although certain aspects appear confusing at times, they don’t detract from the experience. A magnificent story about the milestones of life, the film has something bound to entertain moviegoers of all ages. “The Red Turtle” is set to release in the United States Jan. 20, 2017.

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