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By JULIANNE MCSHANE Raoul Peck, award-winning

Haitian filmmaker and former minister of culture for the Re-public of Haiti, has been named Tisch School of the Arts’ new scholar-in-residence.

Associate Dean of Tisch Sheril Antonio said NYU and Peck have a longstanding relationship,

“Raoul has been connected to Tisch for quite some time,” Anto-nio said. “He taught in our gradu-ate film program what feels like many years ago now and Dean Campbell and I have kept in touch over the years of his distin-guished career.”

Tisch Dean Mary Campbell said Christine Choy, former graduate film chair and one of Peck’s colleagues, nominated Peck for the position.

“Given his status not [only] as a filmmaker but [also] as a cultural policy maker, we believed that

his presence would enrich the experience of our students and faculty,” Campbell said.

Campbell described her plans to arrange a series of events in conjunction with fellow Tisch administrators to celebrate Peck’s appointment, including an intimate faculty dinner and a public presen-tation in conversation with Antonio. She also hopes to ar-range opportunities for Peck to participate in conversations with students in public policy and documentary classes, as well as with high school stu-dents involved in NYU’s pre-college program this summer.

Tisch freshman Elizabeth Groth said she is looking forward to having the opportunity to learn from Peck and anticipates that he will be a great addition to the Tisch faculty.

By SAM DEL ROWE

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Develop-ment’s Music Business program presented its Visionary Award to Jac Holzman, the founder of Elek-tra Records and Nonesuch Records, on March 12.

Judy Collins, the Doors, the Stoog-es, Love and Queen are among many bands Holzman has managed during his career. In celebration of the award, Holzman sat down with Phil Gladston, faculty songwriter-in-residence and master teacher in songwriting, in front of a group of students and faculty. Gladston’s lecture included discussing the pro-cess of launching Elektra records from his dorm room at St. John’s College and the history of artists he signed. Gladston supplemented the discussion with music clips and vi-suals from Elektra album artwork.

A large part of the discussion fo-cused on how Holzman found and

approached his artists — he men-tioned attending multiple shows by the Doors to assess their talent and predict their potential. He was espe-cially interested in whether groups had the ability to deliver more than one album and how long they could last in the industry.

In founding Elektra, Holzman sought to create a label that would produce the kind of music he wanted to listen to.

“I thought if I did it right, the business would happen,” Holz-man said.

The sentiment sums up his phi-losophy that music comes first. Hol-zman said knowing how to align himself with the interests of the artist was crucial to the success of his label. Artists represented by Ele-ktra would receive personal over-sight from Holzman, who would be involved in the process of produc-ing their records.

By ANN SCHMIDT

Three NYU students were win-ners in the Social Venture Chal-lenge at the Clinton Global Ini-tiative University conference, which took place at Arizona State University from March 21 to March 23. Stern sophomore Samir Goel, Gallatin sophomore Hannah Dehradunwala and CAS sophomore Mansi Prakash repre-sented NYU and were among 15 teams who were named as the newest resolution fellows.

Resolution fellows are a part of the Resolution Project Commu-nity and have access to resources including pro bono legal services and career advice. The Resolu-tion Project Community works closely with major organizations like CGI and Net Impact, which are devoted to creating social im-pact around the world.

Goel and Dehradunwala won $5,500 for their start-up called Transfernation. Goel said the start-up is an online program that works to bring the extra food from corporate events to home-less shelters and soup kitchens.

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THE GAZELLE: VICE CHANCELLOR OF NYUADAL BLOOM TALKS ABOUT LABOR AT NYUAD

“Now that we have the capital, we can start creating real social impact,” Goel said. “Right now we waste 40 percent of the food produced in America and if we could repurpose this we would have more than enough to end hunger in America.”

Prakash won $3,500 for her venture called A Brighter Fu-ture, which focuses on using compact fluorescent light bulbs to alleviate poverty in develop-ing nations, starting with Beh-lana Village, India.

“Over the course of a year, 100 households within this vil-lage will be converted from us-ing incandescent to CFL bulbs,” Prakash said. “These savings will allow low-income house-holds to spend money on other aspects of life such as food, ed-ucation [and] health care, thus improving quality of life and alleviate poverty.”

According to a press release from CGI on March 14, over 1,000 students from over 300 universities and 75 countries attended the conference.

“The CGI U 2014 program

will feature sessions that will examine issues throughout CGI U’s five focus areas: Educa-tion, Environment and Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation and Public Health,” the press release said. “Throughout the meeting, students will engage in various topic- and skill-based sessions, which will empower them to get involved with solving major global challenges while they’re still in school.”

In order to participate at CGI U, students had to create an initiative that works to make a specific change across CGI U’s focus areas. Once a commitment is accepted, the teams, made up of one to three members, go through a semi-final and final round of pitching.

“The competition is for stu-dents around the world who are passionate about creating social impact,” Goel said. “In order to get accepted to CGI U, you have to create a commitment to ac-tion. Ours was Transfernation.”

As part of the resolution fel-lowship, the ventures are put into the process of registering to become nonprofit organizations.

“In the long term, I hope to continue on with the expan-sion of this project with guid-ance from mentors — to con-tinue bringing CFL bulbs to both households in the same village and households in other villages in developing nations to improve quality of life and make a substantial impact,” Prakash said.

Ann Schmidt is anews editor. Email herat aschmidt@nyunews.com.

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By KAVISH HARJAI

Dropbox, a growing cloud-storage company, is in the process of opening an office in New York City. Currently, employees of Dropbox are working out of a temporary office space near NYU.

Stephanie Saffer, director of The Hatch Agency, a company that represents Dropbox, said the move to New York City is to serve the community that uses the company more closely.

“We’re building roots in New York to support the more than 200 million users and 4 million businesses who rely upon Dropbox, and are excited to grow the company to support this,” Saffer said.

By opening an office in New York City, Dropbox will be closer to local clients, such as Macmillan Publishers, the fashion blog Refinery29 and the digital agency HUGE.

Saffer said the new office is hiring to build the engineer-ing and sales team. They will be having a recruiting event on April 2 at 6:30 p.m. at 355 W. 16th St.

Ross Piper, vice president of enterprise strategy at Drop-box, told betabeat.com that Dropbox plans to create a team of 25 people but hopes to grow 100 percent each suc-cessive year, to match Drop-box’s overall growth rate.

Poly professor Justin Cap-pos said Dropbox’s new office will attract NYU students.

“It’s another strong player in the area here and I know that a lot of companies, when they go to do recruit-

ing, they often look to local universities and look at lo-cal students, especially for things like internships,” Cap-pos said. “So it’s a great way for NYU students to get more involved in Dropbox and it’s a great way for Dropbox to be able to get more talent.”

Cappos said computer sci-ence students have a great opportunity with the increase in technology and data com-panies and anyone who wants to study computer science should start now.

“I’ll say that I don’t think there’s been a better time to study computer science or computer engineering than there is now,” Cappos said. “We have companies knock-ing on our doors doing ev-erything they can to try and engage our graduates and frankly we can’t produce them quickly enough.”

CAS junior Tyler Palsulich, who is studying computer science, said he would be ex-cited to work with a company like Dropbox.

“I think it’s great that Drop-box is coming to NYC,” Palsu-lich said. “I’m sure other com-puter science students would want to work there, too. As more big name companies move into the city, there are more job and internship op-portunities available to NYU students. Especially when it’s with a well known company, like Dropbox.”

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By ALISTAIR BLACKLOCK

In an exclusive interview, Vice Chancellor Al Bloom sat down with The Gazelle to talk about labor policies at NYU Abu Dhabi and the develop-ment of these policies. Here’s what he had to say.

The Gazelle: We were reading through the compliance reports, the statement of labor values and some external analyses of the state-ment of labor values. One of the questions that has been raised is, what does the university do to en-sure compliance to the statement of values on a regular basis?

Dr. Al Bloom: To ensure that that statement of values has teeth, we together articulated the set of values and agreed with our government partners to share in enforcing them. En-forcement starts from the insis-tence that any contracts govern-ing workers who work directly for us or in building our campus require adherence to those val-ues. NYUAD hires directly the workers that serve our campus, like those in food services, the bookstore and security. Those who are building the Saadiyat campus are hired under con-tracts governed by our partners. There is a joint agreement and

one that we believe in strongly, that all contracts that govern the rights and conditions of those workers meet the labor values. So the first step was to make sure that our contracts reflect commitment to those values.

The second is to monitor ob-servance of the contracts, to make sure that our workers are accorded the rights and the con-ditions stipulated in them. For the workers that NYUAD hires, we do our own monitoring. We have staff who undertake this responsibility, who in fact in-terview all of our workers once a month to make sure they are treated in line with our expecta-tions, that the workers perceive us living up to those values. And if we find that that is not the case, we respond. The system works consistently and well.

I know that construction is close to finishing on Saadiyat, and our campus will soon move out to the new campus. Will this move mean

that the employees hired to work for the university will be hired di-rectly under NYUAD?

Throughout the summer the final touches will be put on the campus. That means there will still be construction workers, but not on the scale we’ve had to date. By August most work-ers on contracts will be those involved in security, facilities maintenance, food services, the bookstore, as opposed to con-struction. Our workers will still be divided between ones that we employ directly and ones who are employed through con-tractual relationships governed by our partners. I know commit-ment to fairness and humanity in labor practices will remain strong on our part and on that of our partners.

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“Considering the caliber of artists instructing us at Tisch, I think Raoul Peck will be a very helpful instructor,” Groth said. “All of the professors at Tisch are very impressive and established in their field and Peck will un-doubtedly fit right in.”

Peck, who hails from Port-au-Prince, was raised in the mod-ern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and was educated in France, the United States and Germany. He studied industrial engineering at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

He was the first Haitian film-maker to have his work released in American theatres with “The Man By the Shore,” which com-peted in the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. His work often focuses on human rights issues, such as the struggle for independence in the Belgian Congo, seen in “Lu-mumba,” and the Rwandan geno-cide, which was depicted in his film, “Sometimes in April.”

He is a recipient of the Irene Diamond Award, presented by

the Human Rights Watch, for his work and has served as chair-man of the board of La Fémis, the French film school, since 2010.

During his stay in New York, Peck plans to conduct research for an upcoming documentary on novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin. Peck will serve as Tisch’s scholar-in-residence until July, but he has offered to remain in New York City for additional discussions and seminars with students and faculty beyond his scheduled end date.

Peck said he is excited about his return to NYU, and has many plans for his six-month residency.

“I am very happy to have ac-cepted the invitation and am re-ally looking forward to see some of my former colleagues and for-mer students who have become, very successful filmmakers,” Peck said. “In addition to several pre-sentations and meetings with stu-dents and faculty, there are several ideas we are working on with Vice Provost Uli Baehr, among others a presentation on James Baldwin’s work in association with the Bill T Jones and New York Live Arts.”

Peck added he is looking for-ward to collaborate with Tisch students in his work.

“We are planning to select and hire NYU students to participate in some of the planned research and other activities related with the documentary on James Bald-win,” Peck said.

Julianne McShane isa contributing writer. Emailher at features@nyunews.com.

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Holzman is personally con-cerned with the interests of the artists and how he could be in-volved with them. When artists were offered contracts by other record companies, Holzman said he would meet with them to convince them of the benefits of staying with Elektra. The kind of personal oversight and interest Holzman offered was essential to Elektra’s success, and it was the key point of his lecture.

Steinhardt junior Nick Kohler, a music business major, said Holz-man displays an important side of the industry.

“It was great to hear from an executive who cared more about the artist and less about the busi-ness,” Kohler said.

Holzman also discussed the im-portance of recommendations by colleagues in finding bands. Holz-man used the Stooges as an exam-ple of a band of which he did not

immediately see the appeal but signed on a recommendation. He said it took years for him to finally appreciate their sound, emphasiz-ing the importance of variety on a label for those interested in work-ing in the music industry.

Holzman was humble in re-ceiving his award, yet the crowd provided multiple standing ova-tions. His work is appreciated by all generations in the music industry. Perhaps his advice on the importance of multiple tastes and personal involvement is even more crucial now, with the innumerable digital chan-nels for new music. Holzman’s discussion was a reminder not to forget the impact made from personalized investment, even in this digital age.

Sam Del Rowe isa staff writer. Email himat features@nyunews.com.

Put your apartment in order for springtime

By ILONA TUOMINEN With the weather warming

up, midterms ending and spring officially beginning, now is the best time for spring cleaning. Follow these simple tips and tricks for a fresh start to the sec-ond half of the semester.

Freshen the air

Does your room or suite have an unnatural smell? It could be because your trash is left open, without any sort of lid, and old garbage has been stinking up your kitchen. In addition to re-membering to regularly take out the trash, invest in a cover for your bin. Drop half a lemon into the kitchen garbage dis-posal to act as a deodorant and make sure to wipe down your trash cans after taking them out to erase any residue.

Clean the microwave

After cooking everything you could indoors so you would not have to brave the cold weather, your microwave has probably had more than its fair share of use. Microwave a half-full glass of water for two minutes — the

steam will loosen and soften any food that remains stuck.

Disinfect the sink

Your sink can have tons of bac-teria on its surface even if you can not see it. To disinfect, spray some vinegar mist. Let it sit for a min-ute, then wash it off with soap and water. Afterwards, spray some hy-drogen peroxide mist and leave it. Do not mix the two together.

Clean out the refrigerator

It is easy to forget to clean the place food is stored. Throw away all expired items and keep the close-to-expiring products closer to the front so you will not forget to eat them first. To clean out any stains, try using shaving cream. Al-ternatively, you can use a spoonful of baking soda as a mild abrasive to scrub entrenched stains.

Organize your closet

Try to keep only the necessary items. Which clothes do you ac-tually wear, and which items have you not touched the entire season? Utilize the storage under your bed or above your closet, where you can fold away your big winter coat, hats, scarves and ugly Christmas sweaters that you will

not need anymore. You can even make a little extra cash by taking clothes you do not want anymore to stores that will buy your gently used items, like Beacon’s Closet or Buffalo Exchange. Leave the clothes that are appropriate for spring in the hangers to expedite your morning routine.

Unclutter your papers

Reorganize those papers and files lying around your desk and under your bed. Since you are half-way through the semester, do not leave study materials unorganized until the dreaded finals week. Keep track of your papers by cre-ating binders or folders, so you do not lose something you will need in the upcoming weeks.

Change your sheets

Buy fresh, new sheets for your bed, or wash your current ones. They ac-tually get dirty pretty quickly, so it does not hurt to set a reminder ev-ery now and then. While your laun-dry is in the machine, do the rest of your cleaning while you wait so, by the time the laundry is done, you are free to relax.

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SPRING BREAK WRAP-UPMLB begins regular season in Sydney

By CHRIS MARCOTRIGIANO

Major League Baseball opened up regular season play with a two-game series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Sydney, Australia this past weekend. The groundbreak-ing event was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which was outfit-ted to function as a baseball field. The Dodgers took both games by scores of 3-1 and 7-5.

In years past, the MLB has held opening series in Japan in an at-tempt to expand the game’s influ-ence abroad. Such series are usually held a few days before the actual season as to not interrupt the flow of spring training. However, this season, the games were scheduled close to a week before opening day in the United States. Essentially, the Diamondbacks and Dodgers had to uproot their preseason pro-gram in order to act as ambassa-dors for the game.

Whether or not this is a good change or not depends on a couple of factors. First and foremost, has base-ball made a name for itself in the Australian market by playing these games? Early returns would say yes. Each game drew about 40,000 fans. Even foul balls, which are tradition-ally a boring part of the game, were applauded by the local fans, as they

could be kept as keepsakes.The players and coaches who

made the trip also had a great time. “Just getting to leave the country

and see how other people across the world live is pretty cool, and the fact that we get to sightsee and play baseball at the same time, check out some good restaurants, all in all it makes it a great trip,” Diamondbacks third baseman Eric Chavez told MLB.com.

“It’s been worth it,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly told the website. “At the end of the day, it’s something you won’t forget.”

Major League Baseball definitely thinks that this system of global out-reach can work. But at what cost? Regardless of the financial merits of the project, the commissioner’s of-fice has to determine the effects of such a schedule on the players. Now that both teams are returning to the United States in advance of open-ing day, officials have to monitor how both of these teams perform throughout the season.

The point of spring training is to put players in shape so they can avoid injury and perform at a high level from day one. If ei-ther of these teams experiences a rash of injuries, look for the lack of preparation to get a lion-share of the blame. The chance of this was definitely part of the concern for Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke when talking to ESPN Los Angeles in February.

“I would say that there is absolutely zero excitement for it,” he said, re-ferring to the trip. “I can’t think of one reason to be excited for it.”

While Greinke may have been a bit hyperbolic, his point still stands. He’s worried about the big picture, as are many players and coaches.

Although the games in Australia are good for the expansion of the game on a global scale, the safety of the players has to be taken into consideration. After all, this is their livelihood. One misstep and it could all be taken away.

Chris Marcotrigiano isdeputy sports editor. Email himat cmarcotrigiano@nyunews.com.

By FRANCISCO NAVAS

While many NYU students were enjoying their spring recess, NYU athletes were hard at work.

Last night, 10 members of the men’s fencing team competed at the NCAA DIII Tournament at Ohio Uni-versity in Columbus, Ohio to close out their 2013-2014 season. With two fencers ranking in the top 25 over-all, the tournament was a glimmer of light at the end of a dark tunnel.

Captain and CAS senior Christian Vastola was NYU’s star. He earned a 22nd place finish overall after winning seven of his foil bouts.

LS sophomore Andrew Kelly, who came into the tournament with a 35-12 record, earned 24th place overall with five total wins, competing exclusively in sabre.

Uptown New York rivals St. John’s University had two of their fencers on top, in foil and sabre.

The men finished the sea-son with a .350 winning per-centage, 7–13 overall, only receiving two team wins consecutively this season in early February.

Men’s wrestling had an ex-cellent showing at the NCAA championship thanks to cap-tain and CAS junior Brandon Jones, who placed third in the 141-pound weight class.

He defeated opponents from Mount St. Joseph, Wis-consin Eau Clair and John-son & Wales before losing to University of Chicago’s Charlie Banaszak, who Jones had defeated a day earlier at the UAA championship.

Jones’ finish puts him in the books with two historic NYU greats, Mat McLenahan

and Stephen Hult. McLena-han and Hult finished third in their NCAA efforts in 1992 and 2008, respectively.

This result also earned Jones his second All-American honor after being awarded UAA Ath-lete of the Week after his per-formance at the tournament on March 17.

Jones had an outstanding season, ranking second in his weight class by the Na-tional Wrestling Coaches As-sociation earlier this month. This award is only one of many honors he has earned this season.

On March 20, NYU Athlet-ics was ranked 25th of 444 DIII schools in the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup winter standings.

Of the Violet’s 220 points in the competition, 42.5 were gained by Jones with his strong showing at the NCAA Championship. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving, as well as women’s basketball, can still earn points for NYU in some up-coming fixtures before April 3, when the final rankings are released.

Williams College, of the NESCAC conference, was ranked first. Of NYU’s UAA ri-vals, only Emory University, University of Chicago and University of Washington, St. Louis are ranked higher: 16, 8 and 6, respectively.

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By CHRISTINA COLEBURN

Two editors at Townhall, a conser-vative news outlet, recently touted a local NBC report that found rare in-stances of voter fraud in Florida. Using the report, its staff made a misguided case against individuals who oppose voter identification laws. In a March 19 article, Senior Political Editor Guy Benson wrote that the left faithfully believes that “voter fraud does not ex-ist beyond the imaginations of racist right-wingers,” and he reduced objec-tions to voter ID laws as “race-baiting nonsense.” Benson then tweeted that opponents of such laws “effectively support voter fraud,” inciting an on-line debate with Michael Czin, na-tional press secretary for the Demo-cratic National Committee. Townhall News Editor Katie Pavlich chronicled the exchange, insinuating that Czin’s “[failure] to condemn non-citizens voting” was somehow related to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s position as a Florida congresswoman. Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter echoed Pavlich’s sentiment, tweet-ing that opposition to voter ID was an election “strategy” for Democrats.

The argument Benson, Pavlich and

Schlichter make is dishonest. While sources indeed demonstrate that voter ID laws disproportionately disadvan-tage groups that are more likely to vote for Democrats — including mi-norities, women and youth — there are many rationales against the ID mandates that are rooted in econom-ics and constitutionality rather than race and political party.

North Carolina officials estimated that between voter education efforts and providing free photos to residents without driver’s licenses, implement-ing a photo ID law would cost the state about $3.6 million. When strik-ing down Pennsylvania’s proposed law in January, a Commonwealth Court judge ruled that voter ID lacked a compelling governmental interest, unreasonably burdened the right to vote and failed to further fair and free elections. Furthermore, Republican representatives have explicitly stated

that the GOP stands to benefit from voter ID implementation, invalidating Benson, Pavlich and Schlichter’s senti-ment that the politics of the laws are exclusive to Democrats.

Without question, any instance of voter fraud is serious, undemocratic and should be punished to the full-est extent of the law. However, occur-rences of the fraud Benson noted are exceedingly rare, and the few existing cases do not warrant a policy that could potentially prevent millions of citizens from voting. According to a George Mason University study, only 58.2 per-cent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2012 election, one of the lowest turnouts among comparator nations. Legislatures should encourage — not deter — citizens to exercise this consti-tutional right, which Americans have valiantly marched, fought and died to protect. Benson, Pavlich and Schlichter should have considered the extensive range of voter ID opposition before they callously reduced resistance to race-baiting and petty politics.

Christina Coleburn is a deputyopinion editor. Christina’s Caseis published every Monday. Emailher at ccoleburn@nyunews.com.

By HARRY BROWN

In an office building adjacent to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, newspapers from March 11, 2011 are stacked high, with the front page headline of the day reading “Magnitude 8.8, largest in country.” Since the day of printing, the papers have remained untouched, eerily documenting the beginning of the Fu-kushima nuclear crisis that unfolded soon after the earthquake.

Over three years have passed since that headline was first printed. The Fukushima crisis wreaked unprec-edented levels of damage politically and socially on the Japanese popula-tion and ecologically on the surround-ing marine environment. Last week, evidence surfaced that the extent of the harm caused by relentless leak-ages had been suppressed by gov-ernment officials and Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the plant, in the weeks after the crisis be-gan. This malfeasant attempt to con-ceal the magnitude of the devastation may have caused irrevocable damage by not providing the relevant authori-ties accurate information to contain the leakages.

Fukushima leaks 400 tons of what TEPCO deems “light water,” water laced with radioactive particles, ev-ery day. The ecological catastrophe from this water is on a scale unprec-edented since the Chernobyl disas-ter of 1986. Marine biologists have already noticed unusually high lev-els of radiation in orcas and other marine wildlife, affecting migration and feeding patterns. Of even more concern are the 100 tons of highly radioactive water that leaked from storage tanks last month. Com-pared to the light water, the recent leak is far more dangerous. Step-ping in a puddle of radioactive wa-ter can have life-threatening con-sequences. Each liter of the water contains 115 million particles of Strontium-90, which, if absorbed by the human body, can cause bone

cancer and leukemia. The Japanese government and

TEPCO have flagrantly overesti-mated their own capabilities at managing the containment oper-ation by downplaying the severity of the leakage in a wave of hubris. TEPCO has left the cleanup opera-tion to a woefully-inexperienced and poorly-equipped group of la-borers. Yukiteru Naka, founder of Tohoku Enterprise and a contrac-tor and former plant engineer at General Electric, told The New York Times, “We are forced to do more with less, like firemen be-ing told to use less water even though the fire’s still burning.”

National pride should not come at the expense of endangering lives. It is long overdue for the Japanese authorities to request in-ternational assistance to address the unceasing leakages. Without an honest reassessment of the containment operation, the leg-acy of Fukushima will be one of tragedy and mismanagement.

Harry Brown is a staff columnist. Harry’s Take is published every Monday. Email him at opinion@nyunews.com.

On the B15 bus near Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyves-ant, Kathon Anderson — a 14-year-old boy — allegedly shot and killed an innocent bystander in what is thought to be gang-related violence. The victim’s name was Angel Rojas, a 39-year-old father from East Flatbush. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office charged the teen with second-degree mur-der and ordered that he stand trial as an adult. An adult court is an inappropriate venue for Anderson’s trial, and it will fail to provide him with the safeguards and care to which he is entitled under international law. If found guilty, he will also be commingled with adult offenders in a high security prison where little to no attention will be put on rehabilitation. No child should be the subject of adult criminal proceedings, no matter the crime.

This opinion is not to be delivered lightly, as an innocent man’s death stands at the center of this crime. Rojas was taken from his wife and children far too young. The 14-year-old al-legedly made tremendously poor choices, which Rojas — by virtue of happenstance on the B15 bus — was unjustly forced to pay for with his life. Anderson should undoubtedly stand trial for the charges of second-degree murder, criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of a weapon, and he deserves to be punished for these crimes. If he is indeed guilty, the grav-ity of Anderson’s transgressions are unmistakable, and Rojas and his family deserve justice for this senseless violence.

Despite these reservations, research and statistics dem-onstrate that Anderson should be given a juvenile trial. Ju-venile detention centers were first introduced to the U.S. criminal justice system in the early 19th century and gained widespread use following research showing the benefits of focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment for young convicted criminals. Studies continue to show that juvenile offenders who are tried as adults and subsequently sentenced to time in adult prisons are exposed to significantly more violence. One report revealed that the percentage of attacks with a weapon against juveniles in prison increased by 8.4 percent and another established that sexual assault was five times more common in adult prisons.

The consequences of a judicial system based on punishment rather than rehabilitation are tangible. Minors transferred to adult prisons are 32 percent more likely to commit felonies af-ter release than those who remained in juvenile detention fa-cilities. Anderson should stand trial for his alleged actions, but the resources of our criminal justice system would be more ef-fective if they focused on reforming juveniles in specialized fa-cilities rather than subjecting them to an environment which would likely cause them to reoffend.

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