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Table of Contents Student Guide

Arts and Entertainment

Sports

A 40-Page Introduction to Cornell

Because Nobody Can Study All the Time

For When Your Brain Needs a Rest

So, you’re a smart kid. Congratulations. But not even you can spend all of your evenings in the library cramming for exams and dreaming of your future Ph.D. From local concerts to groundbreaking interviews with Hollywood icons, Arts and Entertainment is your ticket to college life the way it should be: worry free. The Sun is always front row center with the headliners and coverage of arts exhibitions in Ithaca. This issue brings you some of the best arts stories of the semester, plus a spotlight of notable Cornell alumni writers, musicians and visual artists.

What is the Ivy League? Nothing more than an athletic conference. It’s just a coincidence that it is comprised of eight of the best colleges in the nation. Cornell leads the way in what is widely known as the Ancient Eight, setting the bar for all of those lesser schools — like, um, what’s the name of that school near Boston? Yeah, nobody cares. Read more about all Cornell sports has to offer on the flip side of this issue — the place where you can always find sports in The Sun.

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Your guide to the ins and outs of Cornell

ELCOME TO CORNELL! Congratulations on making it to this beautiful university at the very tip of this steep hill. The following pages present your very own freshman student guide. Note, though, that you’re beginning this school year in a way that no one has ever begun college before. Because of that, you may find your normal first-year jitters — the routine fears of dorm-packing and relocating to this tiny town in upstate New York — amplified by the surreal experience of a global pandemic and racial reckoning. While you may not be able to predict every future adventure yet, know that you are promised a storied Cornell experience. Inside this guide, you’ll find some information on the organizations you can join and the things

you can see in and around the Hill. We’ll give you some tips on the best places to eat, study and hang out. We’re sure you’ll find more. This chapter in your life will pass quickly, and we wish you the fullest possible Cornell experience. Most of us would do anything to get a year or two back. Don’t forget to read The Sun online and download our mobile app to stay abreast of the whirlwind that the upcoming Cornell year will present. There’s no place quite like it. Welcome home, Class of 2024. — The 138th Editorial Board

The Sun’s editors and reporters bring you a guide to life on the Hill. Inside you’ll find information on housing, student activities and orientation. You’ll also find a full-color campus map.

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Managing Editor: Johnathan Stimpson ’21

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Peter Buonanno ’21 Associate Editor

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Anil Oza ’22 and Emma Rosenbaum ’22 Science Editors

Maryam Zafar ’21

Amanda Cronin ’21 Senior Editor Christina Bulkeley ’21 Sports Editor

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Daniel Moran ’21 Arts and Entertainment Editor

Dining:

Benjamin Velani ’22 Dining Editor

Design:

Lei Lei Wu ’21 and Sarah Skinner ’21 Layout Deskers

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Kelly Yang / Sun File Photo; Boris Tsang / Sun Photo Editor John Schroeder ’74

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About the Cover: Bright sunshine gives a yellow-green glow to the foliage visible looking south from McGraw Tower — but C.U mascot Touchdown, normally a statue outside Teagle Hall, is seen prowling around campus in his N95 respirator, a reminder that coronavirus fears and repercussions remain quite real.

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Night at The Sun

By SUN STAFF

Cornell has no journalism major — and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Here at The Sun, we subscribe to the philosophy that one learns best by doing. So it’s no surprise that at the nation’s oldest continuously independent college daily, we think of ourselves as the University’s journalism education. When you arrive on campus about a month from now, The Sun will also serve as your window to the world from our little corner of Ithaca, N.Y. Every day during the academic year, about 15,000 students, parents, alumni, administrators and local residents read the print edition of The Sun; another 15,000 people visit cornellsun.com daily. And in 2015, The Sun was ranked the number one college newspaper in the United States by The Princeton Review. The Sun was founded in 1880. Since then, we’ve built up an impressive record of hard-hitting journalism and community service, and we have given generations of Cornellians something better to pay attention to in their 10:10 a.m. classes. We’ve also delivered the skills it takes to succeed to a lengthy roster of A m e r ica’s top writers and business people, jumpstarting the careers of Sun graduates E.B. White 1921, Kurt Vonnegut ’44, Dick Schaap ’55, Oscar Mayer ’34 and Frank Gannett 1898. More recently, The Sun has been home to Pulitzer Prize winners Eric Lichtblau ’87 of The New York Times and John Hassell ’91 of the Star Ledger of Newark. ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap ’91 was a Sun sports editor and NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91 was editor in chief. Richard Levine ’62 is current president of Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Inc. If you want to become a part of this exciting tradition — and help write the next chapter of The Sun’s history — just show up and we’ll give you the skills you need for a career in news, sports and commentary. Once you get to campus, you’ll see The Sun Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings in dorms, dining halls and countless other locations — and every day online. But few realize what it actually means to “put out the paper.” Cornell’s only daily student-run newspaper is a multi-faceted organization that only works because of its members. Editors spend what some might consider way too much time with

one another. They sacrifice sleep and studying to work on The Sun. But all agree on the irreplaceable role the paper has taken in their lives. The News section — the paper’s largest — tracks and reports all campus life events and local and national issues relevant to you. Every day, the staff is talking to people around campus and conducting interviews in preparation for stories. Where there’s news, The Sun is there covering it. From President Martha Pollack to the mayor of Ithaca to exclusive interviews with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” the News section has full access. The Sports section works hard each day to keep Cornell abreast of the newest developments of the sporting world both inside and outside Big Red nation. With game recaps, athlete profiles and commentary on everything, you will always find action on the back page. And don’t forget to look for the seasonal pullouts for an in-depth look at Cornell’s athletes. The Arts and Entertainment section is The Sun’s c o o l crew. F r o m movie reviews to exhibits at the Johnson Museum to local bands, Arts gives us the backstage pass to all the places to be and be seen. Hidden behind the news you will find The Sun’s Opinion and Editorial section, a center of raucous campus debate where columnists and community members sound off about local and national issues alike. The Science section plays a vital role at Cornell, one of the most profound research institutions in the world. Science reporters stay up to date with cutting-edge findings from Cornell scientists around the world. The Sun’s Dining Guide is staffed by the most opinionated foodies on campus, boldly braving the best and worst of the Ithaca dining scene and critiquing the newest eateries both on campus and off. Look out for the Dining Guide every week in Thursday’s paper. A picture is said to be worth a thousand words, which is why The Sun’s Photo department is so vital to The Sun. Our photographers go to great lengths to ensure that a story is visually represented, even if it means trekking in the rain and snow all over central New York. Creative and always inquisitive,

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Watching the Clock There is no regular day at The Sun, but here is what typically goes into producing a daily paper. Morning: Staffers read The Sun, go to class (maybe), work on that day’s stories. The business office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 6 p.m.: Editors arrive at The Sun’s offices at 139 W. State Street, which is a 20-minute walk down the hill from

our Design department knows style like the back of their hands. When they’re not laying out pages, our designers are helping to create seasonal sports supplements or covers for special issues, like the one you’re reading now. The Sun is much more than a daily printed paper, though. The Sun strives every day to provide our readers with fresh and engaging content on its website. The Multimedia department works with other departments to produce videos that supplement print coverage. The creativity that the

Central Campus or a five-minute drive or bus ride. They begin to lay out and edit the paper that will appear on newsstands the following day. 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.: Editors, designers and photographers meet to discuss articles and placement of stories in the next morning’s paper. Editors read and edit articles and send them to a copy editor. Editors assign future stories; other editors work on editorials and last-minute stories. Photographers

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Stockpiling in March Led To Emptied Store Shelves But owners strove to keep businesses open By CATALINA PEÑÉÑORY and LIAM GALEY

the disease. As a result of the sudden spike in demand, shoppers in New York City have reportedly found bottles of Purell listed for This story was originally published on almost $80 — if they can find them at all. Wegmans Food Market, which operates March 12. one of Ithaca’s largest grocery stores, directed Nationwide, big box and local conve- The Sun to a March 10 statement, where it nience stores alike have seen their shelves acknowledged that customers “are stocking up emptied by shoppers preparing for the pros- on paper products and a variety of food items, particularly those with a longer shelf life.” pect of a prolonged epidemic. In addition to hand sanitizer and wipes, Although Tompkins County has yet to confirm a case of the coronavirus, those trends stores across the country have also reported have been mirrored in Ithaca — where nor- running out of basic household items, like toimally abundant staples like hand sanitizer have let paper and bottled water, as fears of potential lockdowns and protracted crisis swell. become hard-sought commodities. As a result, Wegmans — like a number of For instance, College Avenue’s 7/11, a commonly frequented chain among Cornell other retailers — has begun rationing certain products, limiting purchases of certain items to one to three per cus“We’re going to see how this whole tomer, depending on the item. For instance, Wegmans shoppers will situation goes. We’re going to be open now only be able to purchase only until we are forced to decide otherwise.” one pack of bath tissue per trip. With coronavirus shopping Adwin Carrero trends “mimicking what we see leading up to a weather event,” students, reported running out of disinfec- Wegmans’ statement read, the chain said tant wipes and hand sanitizer, with no clear that it has committed to “increasing orders based on demand to meet the needs of our timetable for their return. According to Adwin Carrero, manager of employees and customers.” Walmart’s Ithaca Supercenter also echoed the Collegetown shop, “I think everyone’s alarmed and buying them out.” While the the experience of Wegmans, writing in a store has placed orders to re-stock, there’s Tuesday statement that paper products, cleanstill uncertainty over “how the product ing supplies and other items have been in high demand. The store encouraged shoppers to orders are set,” he told The Sun. As confirmed cases of COVID-19 grow consider online delivery as a means to limit rapidly nationwide, so too have shortages of contact among large groups of people. But even as events, transportation and products designed to help fight the spread of Sun Assistant News Editor and Sun Staff Writer

MICHAEL SUGUITAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Empty shelves | This empty Wegmans shelving was originally filled with microwavable ramen noodles. However, Ithacans in March began stockpiling food, leading to shortages in local stores.

colleges face cancellations nationwide, Ithaca’s stores remained committed to servicing the area’s community. Since warnings of a potential outbreak had first begun, Carrero and his employees have taken precautions such as swabbing counters and disinfecting areas that were often exposed to customers’ hands, like the store’s trademark slurpee bar and condiments section. Planning to continue these measures indefinitely, Carrero hopes to face future uncertainty with a brave face: “We’re going to see how this whole situation goes,” he told The Sun. “We’re going to be open until we are forced to decide otherwise.” Likewise, Wegmans said that the supermarket is continuing to follow their “strict food safety policies and procedures” by going “above and beyond what is required,” such as adding additional hand sanitizer stations and increasing the frequency of store cleanings.

Walmart also encouraged sick employees to stay home, while also saying that it would revisit the company’s signature 24/7 store hours policy in an effort to accommodate additional, overnight disinfectant efforts. But Universal Deli-Grocery, another Collegetown staple, has seen a different experience. Mian Khalil, owner of the longtime convenience store, claimed that the reality of the virus has been exaggerated. “I think people are overreacting,” he said. “People die every year from the flu, 20,000 this year. People are in Ithaca, it’s very safe.” Still, Khalil said that his store was sold out of the “few bottles” of hand sanitizer it carries, noting that “it’s not just us — everyone is out.” Catalina Peñéñory can be reached at cpenenory@cornellsun.com. Liam Galey can be reached at lgaley@corellsun.com

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CORONAVIRUS TIMELINE JANUARY Students return to campus from winter break as the threat of coronavirus looms abroad — the University maintains that “there is no need to panic.”

This timeline page was originally published on May 5.

By KATHRYN STAMM Sun News Editor

COVID-19 FRONT PAGES

The U.S. reports its first positive case of the coronavirus.

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By JOHNATHAN and Managing MEGHNAEditor MAHARISHI Sun Managing Editor STIMPSON and Sun Assistant Sun Managing Editor and Sun Assistant Managing Editor

Cornell became the latest university to announce that it Cornell became latestbreak, university to announce that it would go digital afterthe spring following a wave of colleges would go digital break, followingclasses a wavedue of colleges nationwide that after havespring canceled in-person to the nationwide that have canceled in-person classes due to the

COVID-19 outbreak. COVID-19 outbreak. The sudden closures represent an unprecedented decision in The sudden representtheanseriousness unprecedented in Cornell’s historyclosures — reflecting of andecision epidemic Cornell’s reflecting seriousness of an epidemic that, in justhistory a week,—spiraled fromthea handful of cases to hundreds that, in just a week, spiraled from a handful of cases to hundreds See ADMINISTRATION page 5 See ADMINISTRATION page 5

Students Students Confused, Confused, Frustrated Frustrated By SARAH SKINNER AND By SARAH SKINNER AND GIRISHA ARORA GIRISHA Sun Senior ARORA Writers Sun Senior Writers

“OMG. I was ready for it, “OMG. I was for it, until I wasn’t readyready for it.” until I wasn’t ready ’20 for it.” Jack Tracey’s initial Jack mirrored Tracey’s that ’20of initial reaction many reaction mirrored of many other students to that the Tuesday other students the Cornell’s Tuesday afternoon newstothat afternoon news that Cornell’s

last five weeks of spring classlast would five weeks of springonline, classes be moved would be moved aes decision in line withonline, other a decision in line the withcountry other institutions across institutions country in response across to thethespreading in response outbreak. to the spreading COVID-19 COVID-19 With the outbreak. University urging With the University students to stay in theirurging “perstudents tohomes stay inafter theirspring “permanent” manent”forhomes break, some after seniorsspring like break, for some seniors like

Tracey, their last day of classes Tracey, theirever lastwill daybe of March classes at Cornell at Cornell ever will be March 27. 27.As students digested the As studentsthey digested the implications, expressed implications, concerns aboutthey the expressed financial concerns about the financial burden and logistics, mixed burden and mixed reactions aboutlogistics, the timing of reactions about the timing of See STUDENTS page 3 See STUDENTS page 3

MARCH 13-17: Just three days later, Pollack sends a second message: Leave, now. Around Ithaca, the community reels from the new normal.

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Moving out | Students are Moving out | Students are expected to leave campus expected to leave campus before the beginning of before the beginning of Cornell’s spring break on Cornell’s spring break on March 27. Classes will March 27. Classes will transition to online formats transition to online formats by the end of the break. by the end of the break.

Student Abroad Contracts COVID-19

By SEAN O’CONNELL

A Cornell student studying abroad A Cornell student studying abroad in Spain tested positive for COVIDin positive for COVID19,Spain and istested currently recuperating in a 19, and hospital. is currently recuperating in a Madrid Madrid hospital.

The student, who preferred to The anonymous student, who preferred to remain for fear he would remain anonymous he would face negative stigma for afterfear returning to faceU.S., negative stigmahisafter returning to the discussed experience with the U.S., discussed his experience with COVID-19 in an email to The Sun. COVID-19 an days emailintothe Thehospital Sun. “The firstinfew “The few days in the the student, hospital were the first toughest,” wrote were the toughest,” wrote the student,

who initially suffered from a high who and initially suffered from a high fever cough. fever andstudent cough.first came down with The The on student first3 came downtowith a fever March and went the a fever onUniversitario March 3 and went to the Hospital Madrid, where Hospital Universitario where he was diagnosed with Madrid, bronchitis and he was diagnosed and sent home. Two with days bronchitis later, he went sent home. Two days later, he went

back for a checkup after his fever — back for a checkup after fever — which at one point hit 104hisdegrees — which onedown. pointDuring hit 104this degrees — did notatgo second did not During second visit, he go wasdown. diagnosed withthis pneumovisit,and he hospitalized. was diagnosed with pneumonia nia and hospitalized.

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Arrests Follow Stabbing Message to Our Readers

By SEAN O’CONNELL Sun News Editor

Three suspects were arrested on Monday in relation to a stabbing on the intersection of West Avenue and South Avenue on Sunday evening, according to the Ithaca Police Department.

Three of the four suspects, Tahajjuddin Abdur-Rashid, Thomas Payton-Harp and an unnamed 16 year old, were charged with attempted robbery in the first degree and gang assault in the second degree. The four suspects approached the student on the

intersection at approximately 7:42 p.m. One of the suspects demanded that the student give up his phone and wallet. The victim fled and was chased by one of the suspects, who then stabbed him in the See STABBING page 3

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, this unfortunately will be our last issue printed of the spring semester. We will resume our regular printing schedule when classes resume in August. In the meantime, readers can continue to stay informed of Ithaca and Cornell news at cornellsun.com, where The Sun will continue its commitment online. We hope all stay well during this difficult time, and encourage readers with questions or concerns to reach out at editor@cornellsun.com.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES

By ALEK MEHTA Sun Staff Writer

HARRY DANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By MADELINE ROSENBERG

and “No Winter Maintenance” signs began to disappear from campus. Monday’s weather brought scenes from an end-of-semester May afternoon, as students emerged from winter hibernation. But Tuesday’s news brought what felt like the semester’s end. President Martha E. Pollack’s Tuesday email sent shock waves into student and faculty inboxes, as Cornell became the latest university to slash in-person classes

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Cornellians lounged from hammocks that swooped between Libe Slope trees on Monday, as they soaked up rare March 60 degree weather. Engineers scribbled out problem sets from beneath Arts Quad tree trunks in the middle of prelim season. Student Assembly candidates squared off in an evening debate. Snow piles that collected on the edges of walkways were thawing,

and urge students to return to their permanent residencies after spring break, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak that had not yet touched Tompkins County. Students screamed and sobbed in shock: They had two months, then two weeks. The novel coronavirus that had already shuttered the University of Washington and Stanford appeared as though it would spare a New York university tucked See SEVEN DAYS page 4

NYS Restaurants Now Limited Students Create To Serving Take-Out Menu Spreadsheet as Local Safety Net

By ARI DUBOW Sun City Editor

The newly named COVID-19 outbreak worsens internationally. The U.S. begins to brace for impact. On campus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tests two students with coronavirus symptoms: They both test negative.

By OLIVIA WEINBERG

Across the state, movie theaters, gyms and casinos are shut down, restaurants and bars are limited to takeout service, and crowds above 50 people are banned. These restrictions — announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) in a morning press conference on March 16 — are the newest measures the state is taking in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Connecticut and New Jersey instated identical restrictions. See RESTAURANTS page 11 CAMERON POLLACK / SUN FILE PHOTO

Moving out | Ithaca’s Restaurant Row near the Ithaca Commons will be heavily affected by New York State’s decision to limit restaurant operations to take-out food. Left: A summer scene on the Commons.

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Amid the tumult resulting from Cornell’s March 13 announcement to suspend classes , students created their own safety net through a spreadsheet that features resources ranging from housing to transportation and even plant sitting. Over 200 students and faculty members have entered their contact information onto the sheet, which was gener-

With the spread of COVID-19 affecting communities across the nation –– and recently even Cornell’s campus itself –– a wide range of academic departments are doing what they can to help during the pandemic. Labs in the College of Veterinary Medicine — run by Profs. Brian VanderVen and David Russell, microbiology and immunology — have donated over 600 respirator

masks to Cayuga Medical Center amid a national shortage of protective medical gear. Va n d e r Ven explained that they had started stockpiling

Rebate Promise On Room, Board Fees Is Unresolved By TAL DOTAN and OLIVIA WEINBERG Sun Staff Writer & Sun Assistant News Editor

With in-person classes canceled, the on-campus student population dwindling and dorm rooms vacated, Cornell families have been left wondering how the administration

us.” The lab is still exploring ways of helping Cayuga Medical beyond its initial donation, according to VanderVen. For instance, longer-term, faculty across Cornell’s immunology department are looking at “new ways to diagnose and treat coronavirus,” he said. Other University labs have been asked to donate supplies in the fight against COVID-19, including one run by Prof. Maureen Hanson, molecular biology, whose lab donated 3,000 pairs of nitrile gloves to be distributed as necessary by the Tompkins County Health Department. After hearing about the nationwide mask shortage, Prof. C.C. Chu, fiber science and apparel design, emailed colleagues with an idea. “I thought, ‘we have a design component to the department, maybe they See DEPARTMENTS page 3

will handle promised rebates on room and board fees. With thousands of on-campus students moving out months earlier than anticipated, Ryan Lombardi,

The Philippines announces the first coronavirus death outside China.

The Trump administration requests $1.25 billion from Congress for a coronavirus response.

The U.S. reports its first coronavirus death.

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You can’t touch this! | The Touchdown statue by Teagle Hall sports an N95 respirator on March 17. A shortage of masks and other supplies to fight the pandemic has spurred Cornell labs to donate to the cause.

See FEES page 3

As COVID-19 has

people retreating indoors and vacating public spaces, political operations have been forced to rethink their blueprints.

The Sun checked in with the two candidates for New York’s 23rd Congressional district — Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Tracy

Mitrano J.D. ’95 — to see how they are continuing their strides both on Capitol Hill and the virtual campaign trail. BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTO EDITOR & CAMERON POLLACK SUN FILE PHOTO

Rematch | Rep. Tom Reed and Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 are conducting a rematch campaign for the 23rd N.Y. House seat.

The Incumbent: Rep. Tom Reed

Amid an international pandemic, the news of two United States House Representatives contracting COVID-19 brought the crisis a little closer to ‘home’ — Capitol Hill — for Reed. Now back in the 23rd district, Reed explained how legislating during the course of the COVID-19

pandemic has struck, in a time otherwise marked by polarization, a radically different tone — a bipartisan one. Reed, a rank-and-file House Republican, is the co-chair of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan working group of around 50 representatives looking for See HOUSE page 3

MARCH 26

New York State reports its first case of COVID-19.

MARCH 1-9: COVID-19 hits New York and the U.S. ramps up its response. Cornell students studying abroad in Italy return home, the first domino indicating that the semester will not continue as normal.

Amid International Coronavirus Outbreak, Even a Cold Can Cause Panic

CAPS’ Study Abroad Cancellation Leads Students to Scramble, Change Study Plans FEB. 11

As Coronavirus Escalates, Widespread Cancellations Hamper Spring Break Plans

MARCH 10-12: The University announces it will close classrooms after spring break. Spring sports are canceled, faculty prepare to move their classes online and students pack and scramble to say goodbyes.

The Sun publishes its final print edition of the semester, moving publication fully online.

MARCH 18-31: Attention shifts from the frantic reaction to longer-term needs, including testing options, economic implications, prioritizing social distancing and a contentious debate on grading.

APRIL Classes resume with Cornellians scattered across the globe. No part of life, on or off campus, is left unchanged. The campus looks forward to an online summer and an unknown fall semester, with no end in sight for the pandemic.

The pandemic has sickened more than 1 million people in 171 countries across six continents.

Classes resume — virtually.

A patient transferred to Cayuga Medical Center from New York City dies, marking the first reported COVID-19 death in Tompkins County.

The University postpones fall 2020 pre-enrollment to June.

Cornell waives SAT/ACT requirements for 2020-2021 applicants — the first in the Ivy League to do so.

Pollack warns that layoffs are likely as the University’s campuses face millions of dollars in losses.

MARCH 9

Cornell to Close Classrooms in Unprecedented Step, Though Questions Remain MARCH 1O

‘Martha Can’t Make Us Leave’: Students React With Confusion, Frustration to Class Closure MARCH 10

In an Unexpected Announcement, President Pollack Suspends All Classes, Effective at 5 p.m. MARCH 13

As Classes Approach, Faculty Senate Rejects Push for Universal S/U APRIL 3

“Do not return after spring break,” the University urges.

NOTABLE HEADLINES

MARCH Nationally and on campus, Cornellians start to feel the effects of COVID-19: Those abroad return to Ithaca, the administration cuts the semester short and students make their ways home.

The United States officially becomes the country hardest hit by the pandemic.

House N.Y.-23 Candidates Adapt to Coronavirus Pandemic By AMANDA H. CRONIN and ALEC GIUFURTA Sun Senior Editors

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masks earlier in the year, fearing that a future supply-chain problem could result in a lack of necessary protection for those in the lab. However, the lab ultimately found alternate ways of protecting themselves and donated the masks to physicians on the front lines. “We certainly could still use them,” VanderVen said. ”But the clinicians are going to need them more than

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FROM VACCINE DEVELOPMENT TO MASK DONATIONS, C.U. DEPARTMENTS HELP WAGE CORONAVIRUS FIGHT

The Trump administration restricts travel from China.

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Tompkins County reports its first case of COVID-19.

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The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency.

President Donald Trump declares a national emergency.

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China reports its first death from an illness caused by the virus.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun Citing Citing Outbreak, Outbreak, Admin Admin Cancels Cancels Classes Classes

“De-densify the campus,” President Martha E. Pollack writes to Cornellians.

Cornell Nets $12.8 Million From Coronavirus Relief Bill As Pollack Warns Of Mounting Deficit, Likely Layoffs APRIL 23

WHAT NOW?: As the semester ends, conditions change rapidly and most questions remain unanswered: When will this end? How will we know when to reopen the country? Will we be on campus in the fall?

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A Look Inside How C.U. Accepts Its Students Admissions — a ‘highly difficult’ process — is a multi-step review that looks at grades, extracurricular engagement

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This story was originally published on Nov. 6, 2018. For four years in a row, Cornell’s undergraduate acceptance rate has sloped downward while the number of applicants annually grows by the thousands. Most tellingly, in 2012, 16.2 percent of applicants were selected for the Class of 2016. This May, for the Class of 2022, that number was 10.3 percent. As students scramble for a spot in the Class of 2023, The Sun sat down with two admissions officers in charge of the process — Jason C. Locke, interim vice provost for enrollment, and Pamela Tan ’97, director of admissions of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — to delve into how Cornell evaluates and selects its students. What Cornell Seeks in a Student

Locke admitted during the interview that admissions is a “highly difficult process and very subjective,” acknowledging that it is a multi-step process where multiple individuals evaluate each applicant. Unlike many other colleges, which review all applications from a central undergraduate admissions office, Cornell has a “somewhat unique system,” according to Locke. Once an application is submitted, it will be given to the one — and only — college or school that the student is applying to, where his or her material will undergo what Locke called a “first review.” About 80 percent, or over 40,000 of the applicants, will be chosen to proceed to the next step. Only after the applicant has successfully passed the academic review, the admissions staff will consider other components of his or her application — such as recommendation letters and extracurricular activities, Tan said. In the first review, the admissions staff of each college acts as gatekeepers by looking at the applicants’ academic performances to determine whether the student will do well at Cornell. This assessment relies on all scores and grades submitted by the students, but will place the heaviest weight on their high school records. Those who make it to the next step are not the ones “that have E’s and F’s on their transcript,” Tan said. “Even if you are an outstanding student who’s a great fit for Cornell and have wonderful extracurricular activities … there’s not much I can say about you.” However, grades are not the only thing that the admissions officers value on transcripts. In addition to the level of performance, Locke said Cornell also looks at how demanding those courses are. In colleges like CALS, where students must pick a major or at least specify a general subject in their applications, admission officers will also take into consideration whether the students have taken and performed well in classes relevant to their intended major. “If you’re applying to biological engineering, then you need to have very robust … coursework in math and science,” Tan said. “Otherwise, you won’t be able to handle the work here.” When evaluating transcripts, Cornell doesn’t compare students from different schools, as high schools across the country differ in the depth and width of course offerings. The selection criteria is based on whether the applicant is taking “the most challenging courses within their school” and their performance compared to other students from the same school, and not on the number of AP courses they have taken. Another important and yet often overlooked factor is the college-specific essay, more commonly known as the “why” essay, which is reviewed in both the first and the subsequent steps of admissions. The essay is the opportunity for students to demonstrate both their writing skills and that they have taken the time to research and learn about Cornell — that the individual “really understands what his or her opportunities are here,” according to Tan. Once a student passes the first review, their material is taken to the next step, in which Cornell’s admissions staff will start looking at whether the student will be a good fit for Cornell and their intended programs — not just whether they are prepared for the rigorous curriculum, but also if they have certain traits and qualities that

will allow them to make the most of Cornell. Five of the seven undergraduate colleges also invite faculty members to be part of the process, who will either work as part of an advisory committee or be the expert voice on evaluating students’ portfolios, which is required for certain majors and schools. CALS, the College of Engineering and the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management — which is under the SC Johnson College of Business — are the schools that do not involve faculty reviews in their admission processes. Locke and Tan said they are looking for students who can make the most out of the “any person … any study” environment, who can learn from and collaborate with students from all kinds of backgrounds and majors. Sometimes, this quality — or the “missing piece” in the students’ and parents’ understanding of admissions — even outweighs academic performances in the evaluation process. “One of the things that drives us crazy is when we hear from students who [have] been admitted to another Ivy say, ‘I just don’t get it, if I’m good enough to go there, why am I not good enough to go to Cornell?” Locke said. “We have so many students from different majors,

directly linked to the ability to meet expenses.” In the three contract colleges at Cornell — CALS, Human Ecology and the ILR School — which are partially funded by New York State, being an in-state resident can give the applicant an extra edge. Tan said that when the contract colleges look at two applicants who are both “great,” the one from New York “might get another look.” Tan also said that coming from a farm is “absolutely” an advantage in CALS admissions. She explained that the number of students that admission officers see coming from production and agriculture backgrounds is “dwindling,” so they will “take a close look” at those applicants. For legacy students — who bear a controversial identity in admissions — the admissions process is the same although they are given “some preference … with all other things equal,” Locke said. Every year, around 2,000 legacy students apply to Cornell, according to Locke. Most of them are rejected, he said, and a large portion of those admitted are selected through Early Decision, which he described as the result of a mutual commitment relationship. “We can’t take most of [the legacy applicants], so what’s been communicated to the legacy students is that, if you really want us to show some commitment to you as a legacy candidate, we want you to show some commitment to Cornell, which means applying Early Decision,” he said. Present, Future of Cornell Admissions

The number of applicants to Cornell has increased by 55.2 percent over the past decade while the acceptance rate dropped by half over the same period of time, with the latest acceptance rate closing in on 10 percent. Even though the acceptance rate has been decreasing annually — with the exception of 2015 — by around one — AMY HUANG / SUN GRAPHICS DESIGNER percent for the past 10 years, Cornell coming together in different classes and learning from has also been expanding its class size through special proeach other,” Locke continued. “As you sit in class- grams like the First-Year Spring Admissions program. rooms, you are probably getting an education that’s The upcoming North Campus expansion, slated to very different [from] a student going to a liberal arts complete by 2022, will allow the University to increase college, because you’re hearing opinions and thinkings undergraduate enrollment by 900 students overall. For four years in a row, Cornell’s undergraduate of students from architecture, from engineering, from acceptance rate has sloped downward while the number the hotel school. And that really is part of the process — would the student really thrive in a place like Cornell?” of applicants annually grows by the thousands. About 60 students accepted to the arts and agriculture Admission officers also look for other qualities that colleges participate in the First-Year Spring Admissions would contribute to the Cornell community, such as perprogram each year since the program’s launch in 2015. sistence and community ties. While Cornell doesn’t expect “a long list of activities,” admissions staff hope to discover Students selected for FYSA will start their freshman year in January instead of in August. these values from the essay and extracurricular activities. If applicants to one of the two participating colleges “It could be ‘you know what, I go to a school where indicate their interest in being considered for the proI have to commute by bus or subway for two hours gram, the admission officers will determine whether everyday,’ or things like overcoming health issues, differthey are “fit” for mid-year enrollment and whether the ent family situation, being in a small community,” Tan curricular design of their intended majors would allow said. Regardless of what the students decide to show the them to begin their study one semester later than most admission officers, she said they are always looking for of their peers. the “shared values” that a student can bring to Cornell. The students admitted for regular fall enrollment, A passion for contributing to and becoming part of spring admissions or put on the waitlist are “all really in the community is also extremely important, according the … same tier,” Tan said. to Locke. Locke said he expects to “see more student interest “Research that’s done nationally shows that students increase in Cornell” in the next five to 10 years but who are engaged outside of the classroom are usually added that there are “a lot of what-if’s” that could students that are more successful,” he said. “We’ve seen reshape the current trend, such as the decreasing number students who think they are just gonna come here and of international students. study, and we don’t know if that’s a good thing.” Although the top tier universities have not yet seen a significant change in this particular student population, Beyond the Application: Who You Are Also Matters Locke said that the overall number of international Cornell has been working to increase the diversity students in the United States is dropping and that the of each class, Locke and Tan said. In May, Cornell University “continues to be concerned” that current announced that the latest Class of 2022 is the “most U.S. immigration policies can “turn [international] studiverse … in university history.” Among the 5,288 dents off” from applying and coming to Cornell. applicants accepted, 33 percent self-identify as underrepInternational students at Cornell hail from 116 counresented minorities; meanwhile, students of color make tries around the world and make up 10.9 percent of the undergraduate student body as of fall 2018. Their up 54 percent of the student body. However, race and gender are not the only identities applications are reviewed in the same manner as domestic that hold special value in the admissions process. Some students, Locke said. However, once international stuidentities, such as being a New York State resident or lega- dents are considered for admission, they will have a higher cy student, might increase a student’s chance in getting in, chance of receiving acceptance letters if they didn’t apply while being an international student means the applicant for financial aid. should really think it through before applying for financial aid, as “the offer of admission for international students is Contact the news department at news-editor@cornellsun.com.

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How Dr. Anthony Fauci M.D. ’66 became America’s most trusted disease expert By EMMA ROSENBAUM Sun Science Editor

This story was originally published on March 23. When Dr. Anthony Fauci did not appear at a White House news conference on March 18, “Where is Dr. Fauci” began trending on Twitter — proving to many that Fauci has become one of the U.S.’s most trusted voices in the fight against the progressing COVID-19 pandemic. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and “the most influential man in American public health” is also a Cornell alumnus. Fauci received his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medicine in 1966, ranking first in his class. Two years after graduation, he began working for the National Institute of Public Health as a clinical associate, and eventually became the director in 1984. In this role, Fauci was at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic that hit the U.S. in the 1980s. While urging the federal government to increase funding for AIDS research and treatment, Fauci spearheaded the development of combination drug treatments — when different types of drugs are prescribed so the virus is less likely to become resistant to all of them simultaneously — that increased the lifespan of HIV-positive individuals. Fauci is currently developing an HIV vaccine to completely eradicate the disease. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Fauci and his team began

isolating the virus and developing a vaccine. The SARS outbreak was successfully contained within four months. He has also led government efforts to prevent the spread of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the Ebola outbreak in 2014. “Fauci once again is playing an absolutely critical role in the face of an epidemic in this country,” said Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineering. Schaffer worked as a science policy advisor for Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and now teaches the class Biomedical Engineering 4440 Science Policy. Since the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, Fauci has served as a national expert on combating the disease. Appearing at press conferences alongside President Donald Trump and other White House officials, Fauci doesn’t sugarcoat the extent of the crisis. “When you’re dealing with an emerging infectious diseases outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are,” Fauci said at a news conference on March 16. Through various media appearances, Fauci’s main role in the outbreak has b e e n educating the pub-

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lic on how the virus spreads and ways to prevent the spread from person to person, as well as being involved in the initial stages of developing a vaccine. “He’s helped us understand that if we feel like we’re overreacting, that probably means we’re still behind the curve... that’s an excellent way of trying to help someone get their head around the idea of exponential growth,” Schaffer said. Fauci and the White House Coronavirus Task Force established a set of guidelines on March 16, outlining how Americans can slow the spread of the virus in their communities. These guidelines encourage those that feel ill or have underlying medical problems to stay home and urge the general public to practice social distancing and good hygiene. Fauci also garnered media attention for the way he publicly contradicts the president at news conferences about the pandemic. “He’s negotiated this fine line between being able to consistently and reliably state what he believes the science is telling us we need to do and what we need to prepare for, while at the same time correcting statements that are made within seconds of [the president’s] statements,” Schaffer said. “He’s done it in such a way that he hasn’t pissed the president off.” The NIAID director has received multiple accolades for his work in public health, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 and the Weill Alumni Award of Distinction in 1992. “He’s fearless, candid, and able to translate what he understands from the science into actions that we should take... he’ll be responsible for saving tens of thousands of lives if not more,” Schaffer said. “I can’t imagine a better person to look to for answers.” Emma Rosenbaum can be reached at erosenbaum@cornellsun.com.

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This article was originally published on April 30. While Dr. Anthony Fauci MD ’66 leads the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, another Cornell alumni, Melissa DeRosa ’04 MPA ’09, is spearheading New York’s response to the outbreak. Throughout the past several weeks, a common sight on the televisions of most New Yorkers has been Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) providing updates on the extent of the statewide outbreak and any policy changes during his daily briefings. Sitting six feet to Cuomo’s left at all of these briefings is DeRosa. Currently, DeRosa serves as the secretary to the governor. However, this role is not merely NATHANIEL BROOKS / THE NEW YORK TIMES

an administrative role. The secretary is a top aide to the governor, and is the most powerful unelected position in state government. At 34 years old, DeRosa is the youngest person to occupy the position in New York, and is the only woman to do so. DeRosa’s involvement in state politics began at an early age, when she helped her father campaign for former Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) in Albany. DeRosa continued to be involved with politics through her father, who worked as a lobbyist in Albany. She eventually found her way to Cornell, where she pursued a degree in public administration in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, according to Cornell Alumni Magazine. During her time as an undergraduate, DeRosa spent a summer in Washington D.C., working in the office of former Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). DeRosa continued her education at Cornell, earning a master’s degree from the Institute for Public Affairs with a focus in government, politics and policy. While in graduate school, DeRosa was a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the global honor society of public affairs and administration. As secretary to the governor, DeRosa is respon-

sible for managing the governor’s responsibilities as well as meeting with local legislators, officials, policy advisers and other experts to brief the governor. During her time in Cuomo’s office, she has been instrumental in pushing forward the $15 minimum wage and paid family leave policies. The tall task of managing the U.S.’s fourth most populous state has grown exponentially in the past weeks as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York State has skyrocketed and the state has become a global epicenter of the outbreak. As of Wednesday night, New York has over 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases. “We’ve dealt with snow storms, flooding, and hurricanes in New York, but those were all static events,” DeRosa said in an interview with ELLE. “This is the first situation the world has had to endure that is as ongoing, and as constant for an indefinite period of time as the coronavirus pandemic is.” Throughout the ever changing circumstances, Cuomo and DeRosa have aimed for maximum transparency, keeping the public updated with their daily television briefings. To keep up with the rapidly evolving situation, DeRosa starts her mornings at 3:45 a.m., deciphering the various reports that detail the latest updates before reporting to Cuomo to work on the talking points for the day’s briefing. DeRosa has specifically managed the state’s dealing with restaurant closures and voting via absentee ballot. The young aide is currently leading the governor’s communication strategy on the

state’s response to the virus. Most recently, DeRosa has led the state’s Maternity Task Force and provided recommendations for serving pregnant women across the state during the pandemic. Cuomo took up the recommendations and issued an executive order on April 29, opening more birthing sites to provide patients more options for delivery locations, prolonging the amount of time a partner can accompany the mother post-delivery and establishing doulas as essential support during labor. Before taking up the role of secretary to the governor, DeRosa worked in several positions in Cuomo’s office. She joined the team in 2013, as the communications director and strategic adviser. She held this position for two years, before she was promoted to chief of staff in 2015 and subsequently, secretary in 2017. The secretary to the governor worked for New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and former President Barack Obama’s political action organization, “Organizing for America” before joining Cuomo’s office. “This crisis is a challenge on a scale unseen before and it tests us on every level: public health, economic stability and our basic human nature,” Cuomo said in an email to ELLE. “I need the best minds to meet the challenge and Melissa is invaluable not just to me — as a counsel, strategist, sounding board, and policy maker — but equally to the State and the entire team she leads.” Anil Oza can be reached at aoza@cornellsun.com.

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DR. DAVID PRICE Dr. David Price was on the front lines of the response to COVID-19 as a pulmonology fellow at Weill Cornell, overseeing patients who needed ventilation in the intensive care unit. Price also held a Zoom call in which he provided practical tips and dispelled rumors surrounding COVID-19, a recording that garnered over 5 million views.

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PROFS KIM WEEDEN & BEN CORNWELL Universities were quickly forced to close campuses and transition to online classes in February, and now are contemplating the best course of action come fall semester. Professors Kim Weeden and Ben Cornwell created a model that could help inform how universities could best reopen in the fall.

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ALLOW ME TO BE the umpteenth person to offer congratulations on your admittance and commitment to Cornell. From the moment that you step on campus — or, I suppose, log onto Cornell’s online courses — you’ll carry the Cornell title for the rest of your life. First, know its privileges: By becoming a Cornell student, you are saying that you are not only academically curious and some version of worldly, but that you also are someone who has decided to value the wealth of knowledge and resources that this institution has to offer. You are a part of the Big Red family, along with everyone from its stellar staff to its alumni to the students who will enter after you graduate. Second, know Cornell’s limitations: This place is only as good as the students that comprise it. By being not just smart — but also kind, generous, thoughtful and confident in knowing what you know and in admitting what you do not know — you can shape Cornell into the kind of institution that you want it to be. You are entering a challenging school at a challenging time. Ask for help, demand support and do everything that you do in Big Red style, with passion and perseverance. By being deprived of some of her most core experiences now, I hope sincerely that you will value Cornell’s quirks when they are safely permitted in the future. Go to homecoming and hockey games, try out for the dance teams, go to the Ithaca Commons frequently, attend a capella concerts and listen to speeches by whatever Supreme Court justice makes time to stop by. From wherever you may attend Cornell this semester, welcome to the school atop the hill, and good luck. Take it from the washed-up, bleary-eyed, self-quarantined senior: Make the most of these four years. Before you know it, you’ll be looking towards the topsy-turvy world of employment, moving away from your best friends and leaving your home here. For now, though, it’s your time to shine. Show Cornell what you’ve got. — M.Z.

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YOU CAN ONLY LIVE CORNELL ONCE, and our time is being cut short. On March 10, Cornell President Martha Pollack told the campus community that — in an effort to “minimize future community spread” of COVID-19 in Tompkins County — the University would move to virtual instruction for the remainder of the semester. Since the emailed announcement, reactions across campus have varied wildly. Some professed relief regarding the extra month and a half of summer vacation, while others sobbed uncontrollably upon receiving the news that they would have to leave their home far above Cayuga’s waters. This is to be expected. The lives that Cornellians lead away from campus are vastly different and students have had limited time to cope with the realization that their Cornell experience is to end, suddenly, two months earlier than expected. Cornell’s shift towards virtual classrooms follows several other major universities — including Harvard, New York University, Princeton and Columbia. Despite the general outcry following President Pollack’s announcement, the reality of the virus is sobering. According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Reports, there have been over 118,000 confirmed cases (of which around 64,000 have recovered) globally. Over 1,000 of these are in the U.S.; 173 of the domestic cases are in New York State. Further, according to the University’s demographics report on the class of 2023, 33.7 percent of freshmen hail from New York. Many of these students will be heading home to communities already affected by COVID-19. The same can be said for the 11 percent of freshmen returning to the West coast or the 11.1 percent who are international (if travel restrictions even allow their safe return). In this time of uncertainty, immense change and fear, it is essential that the Cornell community binds together in support of each other — and this message is echoed in Pollack’s announcement. Moving forward, students, faculty and administrators alike must remember to uphold the innately Cornellian values of empathy and compassion. For students: Understand that your reality is different from the realities of your peers. You may be heading home to a community unaffected by COVID-19, while your suitemate may already be personally affected. You may be heading home to a safe and loving home environment; your friends may not. Indeed, you may be heading home — your friends may not have that luxury. Now more than ever, be neighborly to each other. Help each other get home (if you can) — or help each other find home upon our hill. If you are an underclassman, recognize that your senior friends are losing their final semester, the proud culmination of arguably the most formative four years of their lives. Comfort them, and remind them that they deserve to be celebrated. To the faculty: Students know how hard you are working, and will continue to work, to make sure that we have an adapted curriculum. We understand the importance of your safety as well, and we will certainly be patient during this significant academic change. But it is important for you to be understanding of your students as well: All Cornellians are about to navigate a major life disruption . . .

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During the Pandemic, We Grieve With Distance

Paris Ghazi La Vie en Prose Paris Ghazi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pghazi@cornellsun.com.

This column was originally published on March 26.

never thought that when grief would knock on my door, I wouldn’t welcome any visitors. I never thought that when the day I lost a loved one arrived, I would stand six feet away from my Baba as he announced to me the passing of his own Baba in our hometown in Iran. I never thought that when my Baba needed me most, he would ask me to step away from him because my embrace could sentence him with the same, cruel virus that took his father. The thing about grief in the time of social distancing is that it is felt in distance too. On Tuesday morning, I woke up with a hunger for a lick-your-fingers after a peanut butter jelly sandwich kind of sweetness. In quarantine, I have never felt so crushed by how young I am, so cognizant of a fleeting youth divided into everything that came before coronavirus and everything that will come after. Yet, that morning I yearned so badly to just be a kid again. Wrapped in nostalgia, I paired my craving with my newfound time and took my intention into the kitchen to make my own blackberry jam. I danced, stretched in the sunshine streaming through my kitchen window, stirred the saccharine beauty before me, squeezed fresh lemon juice into its welcoming heat. The acid seared into cracks on my hands from washing them down to dry flesh with each passing day in isolation. But these stings only warmed me up for the stab wound to come when I would leave the kitchen and find Baba curled on the couch, phone clutched to his heart, our door open to the kind of company that is never invited but waiting to intrude — grief. Tuesday was a day in the history of our lives that neither Baba nor I will ever forget. Familial generations shifted, heartache of unearthly proportion pulsed through every person we love, changing each of our lives forever. And we didn’t even leave our living room. Yet, Monday and Sunday and any day that came before in this quarantine and all that have come since looked a lot like Tuesday. The air in our home decays, but we remain caged in these four white walls. The outside world changes, but we remain here. Our tomorrow will probably look like today.

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Sure, this is the first time I’ve sat across from grief. But something about pandemic tells me this conversation I’m having with it isn’t how we were supposed to meet. I don’t know what to make of closure when in my family’s darkest hour, we cannot congregate and lean on each other’s shoulders in a funeral for the living to celebrate the dead. I don’t know what to make of “everything happens for a reason” when the person I owe my opportunities and comforts to was buried in an unmarked plot next to other contagious bodies claimed by the coronavirus as his children watched from their car windows. I don’t know how moving on fits into this kind of grief when the living, mourning our lost loved one, are equally occupied with wondering if their pain is only going to give power to their fever, cough and upheaval that has brought nations to their knees. I’m scared that this grief has many faces, and tomorrow, another may come knocking. But I hold on to the fact that there is still truth to acceptance because when Wednesday arrived, something else did knock on our door. My roommate sent a bouquet of white roses to our home. An unseen face dropped them on our front steps and sauntered off. Baba ordered me to bring them in, leave them by the front door because we didn’t know what lethal hands may have touched them and told me to wash my own. We read the note of condolences and stared at the ornate vase. And six feet apart, we broke. We broke because in a world where flowers could be alien carriers, they were also the only material arrival from the outside world to show us that this heaviness in our hearts isn’t cabin fever induced blues. One minute our grief was remote, the next there were flowers in our living room. Those flowers were sent for a purpose, and that purpose was confirmation that the grief is real and the loss must be too. The roses were beautiful and they were fresh and they were real. And they entered our home. On Wednesday, I took the jam from the fridge and finally made that peanut butter jelly sandwich. It was more tart than dulcet, delighting in it took effort, and it tasted more of a mediocre stab at a New York Times Cooking jam recipe than a flash of pleasant childhood. I followed the recipe to a T, and my dad reports that the jam actually tastes great. I just don’t think being a kid is what I want anymore. What I long for is a different kind of sweetness — a hug, perhaps. Grief barged through our door, but I don’t feel like the story of how it arrived for my family is some immigrant’s tale that can only be understood by an audience well acquainted with the borders that the loss happened in. I am haunted by the reproducibility of our grief in

I never thought that when grief would knock on my door, I wouldn’t welcome any visitors. our neighbor’s home. For the first time, hailing from a different nation than my neighbors may not mean that the language of our tragedies is different. I am haunted by the fear that in these times celebrating a different culture only means that our home could be on an accelerated timeline, dealing with that intruder that may arrive next door soon. I always wondered what it would feel like to share the traditions near to my heart, honor the people now gone who defined it, hear about the heroes of other’s families and melt the borders of culture and country between me and a neighbor. This isn’t the way I wanted to find out. The day will come when we will welcome flowers into our homes, and they will enter for better reasons. On that day, we will smell the roses, feel their petals, adorn our tables and window sills with them. They will not be signifiers of death. They will breathe life into our healthy lungs. The day will come when a walk will be taken for no other reason than to sync our heartbeats to motion outdoors, not because it is the only means of escape. The day will come when blackberry jam will taste sweet again. Maybe it will even taste as sweet as the blackberries from my grandfather’s farm, berries that he would surprise his grandkids with on those days when the reason Baba would yell at me to not touch my face and dust my pants was because I would stain them with the blood of the berries, not because my touch could kill. That day will come. Until then, we will admire the flowers by the door where they were left, take that walk to escape anyway, spread the bland jam on our staling bread and write words even if there is no solace in them. That day will come.

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Dear Grandpa, So it seems I didn’t know you well enough. Adapting to celebrating your life in the same four corners that I learned it ended has meant whirling through a million and one emotions every day before arriving at the same conclusion come sun down: We never got to be the friends we wanted to be. Time, two cultures, an ocean plus a few continents and one pandemic separated you from me. I learn of the neighbor, leader, handyman, brother, photographer, farmer and extraordinary human being that you were to your family and to strangers in bits of conversations I overhear my father have on the phone about you every day. But these are just stories that belong to others that I hold on to — as if I was there when you apparently planted acres upon acres of pistachio trees last year. It takes nearly 10 years for one pistachio tree to reach its optimal production. I am sorry that the nature you revered and the land you celebrated was capable of spreading a virus that ensured you wouldn’t enjoy that fruit in a decade. As I cycle through episodes of your life that I wasn’t present for, I return periodically to bits of words we did exchange. Seeing you always meant summer and family and melting time in the Iranian desert town you called home. After meals as we sunk into our food comas or during afternoon tea and snack breaks you’d show off the little bit of German that you knew to me. I never told you this, but those short moments by the air conditioner as you counted to 20 and said greetings in languages you learned from trading with foreign businesspeople ingrained in me your love for learning languages. I never told you this, but you convinced me to take a semester of German in college. I was pretty terrible at it, but I think between your eins, zwei, drei and my vier, fünf, sechs we would have made one whole beginner learner. These lazy afternoons would end with you telling me about all the places you wanted me to take you to when you visited the U.S. one day, and how we’d tour Europe and go test our German together — one day. Grandpa, in 10 years I will go to our home, and I will visit the pistachio trees when they are in full force. I will devour the pistachios and thank the land and the labor that made them. I will know that such a miracle of a moment and a fruit was your doing. You left a gift that I can look forward to opening in a decade, and something about the vitality you unfurled into your every day tells me there are more gifts like that I don’t know of yet. I hope you know that your way out of the world is the least memorable thing about you. Grandpa, tomorrow I will wake up in the same home that I learned you left this world in, and I will bask in the memories you left me with as I pore over adventure books about places you wanted to see. I will practice more German as I sneak another date fruit from the trees in your backyard that you sent boxes of to the U.S. so that we could always be filled with the sweetness of our family and our home. I will know that such a miracle of a moment and a fruit was your doing. — P.G.

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ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT Artistic Alumni to Know Visual Arts NAME: James De La Vega GRADUATED: B.F.A. 1994 WHAT TO KNOW: This widely-revered, New York-based street artist deals primarily in chalk, creating thought-provoking, aphoristic works that have garnered acclaim not only in the States, but also in Italy and Japan as well. De La Vega has, like any worthy artist, been at the center of controversy. Since, legally, his works qualify as graffiti, he has been taken to court and sentenced on vandalism charges. De La Vega, when not working on his next mural, tours the country as a motivational speaker, talking about freedom of expression, art and working in the face of adversity.

NAME: Robert Trent Jones GRADUATED: 1931 WHAT TO KNOW: While at Cornell, Jones took such disparate courses like landscape architecture, public speaking, agronomy, economics, surveying and hydraulics, to pursue a career as a golf course designer. Jones’ work on over 500 golf courses, including Montauk Downs, Augusta National and Cornell’s own Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, earned him a spot in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Jones’ courses have had an indelible effect on the modern game, encouraging risky play and emphasizing tasteful, original aesthetics.

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NAME: Peter Eisenmann GRADUATED: B.Arch. 1955 WHAT TO KNOW: Incoming architecture students are sure to be aware of Eisenmann’s significant contributions to architecture. As one of the leaders of the deconstructivist movement, Eisenmann incited his fellow architects to liberate the form of their works from external references. His works range from convention centers (The Greater Columbus Convention Center) to memorials (The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) and football stadiums (University of Phoenix Stadium).

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NAME: Kurt Vonnegut GRADUATED: Dropped out in 1943 WHAT TO KNOW: If you attended any conventional American high school, odds are you’ve read one of Vonnegut’s works. The author of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five may have dropped out (to, nobly, join the Armed Forces in the Second World War), but he certainly made his mark as associate editor of The Sun, whose office is adorned with more than one of the late author’s quotes fondly recalling his time at the paper.

NAME: Greg Graffin GRADUATED: Ph.D. 1991 WHAT TO KNOW: Graffin came to musical prominence in the 1980s with hardcore pioneers Bad Religion, a group known for its politically charged, incisive lyrics and its wild live shows. As one of Bad Religion’s chief song-writers, Gaffin exhibited a musical sophistication rarely seen in hardcore punk. Graffin rounds himself out by being not only a rock-and-roll frontman, but also a professor of evolutionary biology and a political lecturer.

NAME: E.B. White GRADUATED: B.A. 1921 WHAT TO KNOW: White was as dynamic a writer as you could get. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker, White was also responsible for two classic children’s books, Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. The former Sun editor in chief co-authored one of the definitive guides to English grammar, syntax and style, The Elements of Style, withWilliam Strunk.

NAME: Steve Reich GRADUATED: B.A. 1957 WHAT TO KNOW: Reich’s work as a composer is highly influential across many genres — artists like Sonic Youth, Brian Eno andSufjan Stevens cite Reich as an influence. Reich’s usage of tape loops, minimalist instrumentation and repetition put him in an elite category of modern composers. Reich was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for his Double Sextet in 2009.

NAME: Toni Morrison GRADUATED: M.A. 1955 WHAT TO KNOW: This American novelist, editor, professor and frequent guest speaker at Cornell is a literary tour de force. Best known for her novels Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved, Morrison has received numerous awards for her literary accomplishments, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved in 1988, a Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

NAME: Huey Lewis GRADUATED: Dropped out in 1969 WHAT TO KNOW: A strong rock vocalis and a talented harmonica player, Huey Lewis, the frontman of Huey Lewis and the News,dominated 1980’s radio with his band’sthird album, Sports. Lewis also made appearances backing up Elvis Costello on My Aim Is True and playing harmonica on the legendary Thin Lizzy live album, Live and Dangerous.

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LAURENS HAMMOND 1916

After receiving his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1916, Hammond would go on to create the electric Hammond organ, which proved to be an important milestone in electronic music’s evolution and influential to the genres of jazz and progressive rock.

Laurents penned and directed a number of seminal Broadway musicals, including West Side Story, Hallelujah, Baby! and La Cage Aux Folles, in addition to writing a number of well-received films.

PEARL S. BUCK ’25 THOMAS PYNCHON ’59

Honing his literary chops under the likes of Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell, Pynchon would go on to define the postmodernist tradition, winning the National Book Award for 1973’s Gravity’s Rainbow.

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Buck used the skills she honed at Cornell to craft some of the 1930s’ best-selling and most acclaimed historical fiction. She would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth in 1932 and a Nobel Prize in 1938.

Years after leaving Ithaca with a degree in English, Seidler took the stage to accept the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The King’s Speech in 2011.

Prior to leaving Cornell to fight in the second World War, Vonnegut pursued a degree in chemistry and served as the associate editor of The Sun. Throughout the 60s and beyond, he established himself as one of counterculture’s most notable novelists with the satirical black humor of books like Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle.

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The acclaimed author has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her prolific, vivid novels, including Beloved.

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DAVID SEIDLER ’59 JANE LYNCH MFA ’84

ROBERT MOOG Ph.D. ’65

If the origins of popular electronic music can be traced to one person, it would be Robert Moog. While at Cornell studying engineering, he grew interested in and began developing electronic instruments. His Moog Synthesizer would go on to be the tool of choice for everyone from Beaver & Krause to Donna Summer.

CHRISTOPHER REEVE ’74

Before the world knew him as Superman and a philanthropist, Reeve starred in numerous Cornell theater productions.

Following a few notable feature-length comedy roles in films such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models, Lynch raked in the awards with her regular role on the hit show Glee.

After revitalizing the Southern California punk scene, the lead singer of Bad Religion turned his focus to doctoral biology work and continues to lecture courses on evolution at Cornell.

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Through the Years: Concerts at Cornell For 150 years, Cornellians have come together for live music. From harps to hip-hop, Barton to Bailey and Spring Day to Slope Day, concerts have been a cornerstone of the student experience. Over the years, our campus has been host to violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, the second-most-downloaded Grateful Dead show, Kanye West in support of The College Dropout and everything in between.

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Dining Hall Diversity: Being Vegetarian at Cornell By KATIE ZHANG Sun Dining Editor

Considering that Cornell ranks as one of the greenest colleges in the nation, it comes as no surprise that being green here pertains to food and accessibility in plant-based lifestyles as well, especially in combination with our consistently high dining hall rankings. I transferred to Cornell this year from the University of Virginia, a university that’s widely known for its terrible food and limited options — upperclassmen often say that getting food poisoning from one of the dining halls is a rite of passage as a firstyear student — so seeing fresh strawberries and well-cooked rice in the dining halls is still something of a small miracle. But as I navigate my way through West Campus dining halls, Trillium, Terrace and yes, even Okenshields, I realize my appreciation for Cornell’s food extends beyond the meals the University provides and into the accessibility and openness this community has for vegetarians and vegans alike. I decided to become a vegetarian in August at the start of the school year for environmental reasons, but without a lot of proper thought or planning, I didn’t exactly know what I had committed to. Still, I felt that cutting out meat cold turkey in a completely new environment would be easier than trying to do the same at home. It didn’t mean I wouldn’t have any complications at all, though. What about those meat sweats everyone talks about? What if there weren’t enough options in the dining halls, and I’d be stuck eating lettuce for dinner? Would I give in to the craving for chicken wings and char siu pork? Would I even get the proper amount of nutrients every day to survive? All my worries and fears dissipated when the first meal I had here — breakfast at Becker — contained tofu scramble presented in a gleaming silver tray. It wasn’t tasteless; rather, it was perfectly cooked — firm but still easy to chew — with hints of

By MURALI SARAVANAN Sun Staff Writer

According to Forbes magazine, Americans are eating alone more and more often. And from a practical viewpoint, it makes a lot of sense. Eating alone is efficient; you can finish quickly and attend to the next item

cayenne and tomato, so that it tasted less like scrambled eggs and more like a beef chili without the beans. As an introduction to the meatless options at Cornell, the tofu scramble definitely didn’t disappoint. I didn’t want to get my hopes up from just one dish, but after discovering that veggie burgers, meatless chicken, tofu and Seitan options, vegan chili and nutritional yeast can be found in nearly every dining establishment on campus, I have realized how lucky I am to attend a university that actively caters its meals to accommodate people with different diets. This is a stark contrast to the experience my friends have had back at my old university, where being vegetarian is simply not an option. My best friend there was forced to briefly revert to a pescatarian diet due to the limited vegetarian options — besides the salad bar, there was nothing else that consistently provided fresh vegetables for her to eat. Molly Smullen ’21 shared similar experiences from her friends attending other universities, who couldn’t maintain a plantbased diet without compromising their own health. “And ultimately,” Molly noted, as a vegan here at Cornell herself, “It’s all about privilege. We’re really just privileged to be able to walk into any dining hall and enjoy so many options without having to try, and it’s something that I think we don’t recognize enough here.” And lucky we are indeed, as Molly and I chat about veganism and all that stems from it at Ten Forward, an exclusively vegan cafe in the Commons. We share a chocolate chip pumpkin bread scone from their huge selection of homemade baked goods (all of which has been amazing in portion, cost and flavor, and I wouldn’t have guessed it was all vegan) over conversation about how her parents felt about her transition into vegetarianism and, eventually, veganism. “It was pretty easy because I feel like saying, ‘Oh, I’m not going to eat meat,’ is not as difficult, especially if you’re not veg-

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etarian in any aspect, than to just say no to everything, so they were fine with it,” Molly said. “My mom is super supportive, and my little sister went vegetarian after I had been a vegetarian for about a year and a half, so it helped for things like Thanksgiving — we all went out and bought a fake meat roast for the occasion.” Needless to say, I’ve found that the transition to vegetarianism at Cornell is incredibly easy, a realization that comes after much reflection and with immense gratitude. I don’t have to worry about whether or not I’ll go hungry to uphold my personal ideals in environmentalism, a privilege that vegans and vegetarians at other college campuses do not have. The fact that Cornell is so open to plant-based and locally-sourced foods means that there also exists a supportive community of people who are striving for the same goals and opening up the conversation around making a difference individually, and I’ve found the student population to be very respectful overall

of all different kinds of lifestyle choices. Nobody really bats an eye when you tell them you don’t eat meat, and aside from the occasional “what made you vegetarian?” query, I haven’t heard or been the subject of any negativity about my change. More often than not, it leads to rewarding conversations about how culture and background play into one’s lifestyle. Before we go, I asked Molly one final, and arguably the most important, question: what are your favorite foods on campus? “Last year, RPCC did fried cauliflower rice, and I really, really liked that. Appel had vegan cake a couple times too — very good,” she said without hesitation. For me, the fried cauliflower and chia seed pudding in Rose are top notch. Seeing them in the dining hall makes me happy every time and really, isn’t that what good food should be about? Katie Zhang can be reached at kzhang@cornellsun.com.

Dear First-Years, Share a Meal

on your to-do list. You can even catch up on a TV show or watch sports highlights. Or if you’re really desperate, you can catch up on work. I know I have eaten alone and done all of the things I’ve listed. And to be honest, it kind of sucks. Eating alone makes me feel lonely and small.

Every day, I notice plenty of people eating lunch or dinner alone in the dining halls; it’s incredibly common here and at many other college campuses across the nation. Why? Well, let’s face it, eating with others is hard to do in college. With Cornell’s myriad of classes and extracurriculars,

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everyone has a different schedule. Although it can be hard to find the time for it, sharing a meal with others can be one of the best ways to build a deeper relationship with the people around you. So, first-years, I strongly encourage you all to make the time in your schedule to share your meals with others, especially your professors! During the semester, some professors will invite students to get a group meal with them. Not only is it usually casual and less stressful, but you also get to learn about the unique experiences of your professors. I remember I once got dinner with a professor emeritus in the physics department and heard stories about how the department used to be in Newman Hall. The first few weeks of your first year here can be really tough and isolating, so don’t be afraid to ask people you’ve just

met to grab a meal with you. Whether it’s lunch between classes or dinner after a club meeting, sharing a meal is a great way to make new acquaintances and build close friendships. People tend to be more relaxed during meals, which

Sharing food helps you get to know someone better easily since food is a key part of a person’s identity. allows for great conversation to happen naturally. Plus, sharing food helps you get to know someone better easily since food is a key part of a person’s identity. Learning about the food they enjoy eating and making reveals a lot about someone’s back-

ground and upbringing, helping you to form a more meaningful friendship. As the years go on and you move away from dining hall food, keep setting time aside to share food with the people you care about. For example, a few friends and I decided to make time every month to get a meal together this year, regardless of prelims. I don’t see them on a day-to-day basis, so it’s nice to check in with each other. So far, every time we’ve gotten a meal together, our friendship grows stronger. We all have busy schedules, but it’s up to us to set aside time from work to establish and maintain the important bonds that will be remembered years after college. Murali Saravanan can be reached at msaravanan@cornellsun.com.

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Cool Down With Ithacan Ice Cream By SUN STAFF

PURITY ICE CREAM

While we believe that Cornell looks the most beautiful at the start of the fall semester, it is also unfortunately the most unbearably hot during that season. To beat the heat and cool down after a back-breaking, sweat-inducing move-in weekend, we recommend heading out for some ice cream, which is also an opportunity to explore the city of Ithaca. Below are three recommendations (in no particular order) for all you incoming freshmen and your families:

CORNELL DAIRY BAR 411 Tower Rd. (Stocking Hall)

If you want to stay on campus and still get some exceptional ice cream, then stop by Cornell Dairy Bar, which actually made a limited edition flavor of ice cream (“Big Red, White & Biden”) in honor of former Vice President and self-proclaimed ice cream fanatic Joe Biden, who was the Convocation speaker for Class of 2017. For the past 138 years, Cornell Dairy Bar has been creating ice cream from the university’s cows and currently offers 20 different flavors, some which you’ll notice are offered in our dining halls. If you want to have Cornell Dairy’s entire selection in front of you, then I recommend you pay a visit to Stocking Hall, where the Dairy Bar is located. You definitely don’t need to drive a car or take the bus, as it is located on campus and is about a 20-minute walk from North Campus. When you arrive at Stocking Hall, you’ll notice the large, white sculpture of a milk bottle out front. After trying all 20 flavors, some of our favorites are Bavarian raspberry fudge and Kahlua fudge. Bavarian raspberry fudge is “vanilla custard ice cream with old-fashioned fudge pieces and a raspberry swirl,” and reminds us of raspberry cheesecake. It’s smooth, and the little punches of raspberry and fudge complement each other. Kahlua fudge is “Kahlua ice cream with a chocolate fudge swirl.” Ezra’s morning cup, another Cornell Dairy Bar flavor, also has a coffee flavor, but Kahlua fudge is much stronger and thus satisfying. Because the Dairy Bar is located in the lobby of Stocking Hall, there’s plenty of seating around the shop. Moreover, Stocking Hall was renovated a few years ago, so the place has a casual and modern vibe, given its clean lines and all-white interior.

700 Cascadilla St.

Founded in 1936 by Cornell alum Leo Guentert 1920, Purity Ice Cream may be located the farthest from campus of the three establishments in this list, but it has the greatest variety in terms of both flavors and products. Of their 34+ flavors of ice cream (some of which are vegan), some of our favorites are bulldog crunch, green tea and lucky monkey. According to their menu on Ithaca To Go, bulldog crunch is a “praline-flavored ice cream with caramel swirl and chocolate-covered pecan candies.” This may sound strange, but bulldog crunch is absolutely mouth-watering, even though it’s in liquid form. The caramel and praline flavors are very strong, but the pecans and chocolate balance that creaminess and sweetness with their crunchiness and slight bitterness. Green tea is much less sweet and made from “green tea powder blended with vanilla ice cream,” which was slightly disappointing because we were hoping it’d be made with real green tea leaves. However, making green tea ice cream with just leaves is quite difficult and can result in a barely detectable flavor. Purity’s use of powder means you get a more concentrated flavor and sometimes there are bits of powder that bunch up together, which could be likened to a swirl. Finally, lucky monkey is one of their new flavors. It is similar to Ben and Jerry’s Chunky Monkey — both have a banana ice cream base with chocolate bits mixed in — but Purity’s version is less sweet (and probably healthier). Besides ice cream, Purity offers frozen yogurt, pastries (cupcakes, pies, cookies and cakes), espresso and milkshakes. Of our recommendations, Purity is also number one in the seating department. With abundant indoor and outdoor seating, Purity is extremely group-friendly, and its logo-covered decorations and booths give the space a relaxed, almost diner-like ambience. If you can’t find the time to make the drive or take a walk to Purity, no worries — Collegetown Bagels (everyone calls it CTB) usually has six differently flavored tubs of Purity’s ice cream towards the back.

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SWEET MELISSA’S

200 W. Seneca St. 118 W. Green St. (Press Bay Alley) Another dessert staple of Ithaca’s food scene is Sweet Melissa’s (named after one of its founders), so much so that the company has recently opened a second location in Press Bay Alley that exclusively serves hard ice cream. Although Sweet Melissa’s has at least 12 flavors of hard ice cream, it doesn’t offer them all concurrently; they are served on rotation and vary from day to day. We haven’t tried all of them, but we are obsessed with their sweet cream flavor. When we asked an employee just what sweet cream was, he said it had a sort of vanilla flavor and is the base of all their ice cream flavors. While there was a sense of vanilla, sweet cream tastes more like custard, eggnog or perhaps even crème brûlée. It’s very subtle, but in a way that keeps your taste buds on the edge and leaves you wanting more! If you usually prefer hard ice cream with a lot of elements (like bulldog crunch from Purity), the sweet

cream is just so refreshingly crisp that Iyou will wish you had gotten another scoop. Its first and original location is hard to miss; painted in cobalt blue and pastel orange, the kiosk is situated next to Shortstop Deli, which is similarly designed. This Seneca St. location offers both soft serve (of which there are eight flavors) and hard ice cream, as well as flurries, shakes, floats, sundaes and slushies. So far, we’ve only tried their orange/vanilla twist soft serve, which is a combination of their orange sherbet and vanilla flavors. In deciding between just orange sherbet and orange/vanilla twist, the latter was better because even combined with vanilla, the orange sherbet was too saccharine. Nonetheless, it’s a fun goal to try all their other soft serve flavors during the fall semester, especially because The Sun’s office is located so close to both of their venues. Seating at both locations is entirely outdoor. There is just one table with four chairs at the Press Bay Alley branch, but the first location has a few picnic benches with umbrellas, which is ideal for summer outings.

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Kao Smashes Five-Year Pole Women’s Hockey Earns First Vault Record at Penn State No.1 Ranking Since 2010 By ALYSON WONG Sun Sports Writer

This article was originally published on Feb. 12. After hosting back-to-back home meets, Cornell track and field hit the road this past Saturday to compete in the Sykes and Sabock Challenge at Penn State. While no team scores were recorded, the Red put up impressive personal numbers — even breaking a school record in the process. The biggest highlight of the weekend came from senior Claire Kao, who broke the school record in pole vault. At 4.08m, she topped the 4.00m record set in 2015, earning her not only a personal record, but also an ECAC qualification. At the meet, the men’s team featured one event champion, 11 personal records and nine IC4A standards, including five new qualifications. Sophomore Paris Howland finished in first place with a 2.06m high jump and earned his first IC4A qualification. In addition, senior James Enriquez (17.38m) for the weight throw, senior Steve Neumaier (8:24.48) f o r the 3000m and freshman P e r r y Mackinnon (4:14.46) for the mile all qualified for the IC4A championships for the first time this season. BEN PARKER / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTGRAPHY EDITOR

Senior Zach Hawley (16.03m), freshman Smith Charles (6.96), junior Tien Henderson (22.02) and sophomore Johannes Stromhaug (5.01m) all earned another IC4A standard for the shot put, 60m, 200m and pole vault, respectively. The women’s side finished with two event champions, nine personal records and 17 ECAC standards, also garnering five new qualifications. Junior Marguerite Lorenzo (1.71m) for the high jump and the A team (3:48.20) for the 4×400 both finished first in their respective events while earning ECAC qualifications. For the first time this season, senior co-captain Brittany Stenekes (8.68) for the 60m hurdles, sophomore Kayleigh Furth (56.55) for the 400m and junior Kaitlyn Bonnet (4:57.32) for the mile all qualified for the ECAC championships. In addition, senior Victoria Casarrubias (4:54.79) for the mile and freshman Ama Boham (8.81) for the 60m hurdles qualified as well. “The team had an excellent performance this past weekend,” Stenekes said. “We went into Penn State and, being an away meet, tried to dominate against some rivals. [We] had really good competitive energy, and I think for most people it was the best meet of their season so far.” To continue reading this article, please visit cornellsun.com. Alyson Wong can be reached at awong@cornellsun.com.

By JUSTIN SUZZAN

CHRISTINA BULKELEY / SUN SPORTS EDITOR

Sun Sports Writer

This article was originally published on Feb. 11. With two weeks to go in the regular season, women’s hockey has found itself with a No. 1 ranking right after clinching first place in the Ivy League. Through 25 games, the Red has dominated the competition — acquiring a 21-1-3 record. Cornell received a total of 145 points in the polls — and 11 first-place votes — to catapult itself past Wisconsin and Minnesota, who are this week ranked second and fourth, respectively. The Red is now the third team this season to find itself at the top of the rankings, with the Badgers and Gophers previously taking turns in the top spot throughout the 2019-20 campaign. The ranking comes in the midst of a 15-game unbeaten streak for the icers. This strong performance also earned the team the Ivy title over the weekend, when the Red moved to 8-0 in the Ancient Eight. Much of Cornell’s talent this season can be

attributed to its high-flying offense. Ranked fifth in the nation in goals per game, the Red is averaging well over three goals for each contest. Cornell’s efficient offense is backed up by junior goaltender Lindsay Browning, who is having a career year between the pipes. Her nine shutouts for the year put her just three away from breaking the single-season record. It was one thing getting to the top, but now, Cornell is tasked with defending its No. 1 ranking. With only four games

to play in the regular season, the Red will seek victories against Brown, Yale, Rensselaer and Union. The last time Cornell was No. 1 was in 2010, when the Red reached the National Championship game — where it fell in a triple-overtime thriller versus Minnesota-Duluth, 3-2. With momentum on its side, Cornell will hope to charge into the postseason hanging on as the No. 1 team in the country. Justin Suzzan can be reached at jsuzzan@cornellsun.com.

Meet ‘Section O Old Guys’ By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Senior Editor

This article was originally published on Nov. 24. If you come to Ithaca every year, call yourselves the “Old Guys” and engage in enough tomfoolery at Lynah Rink, it turns out you can become local celebrities. Gary Thompson ’81 and his three college pals were in a restaurant on Saturday when an excited fan approached their table. “‘Are you the old guys?!,’” Thompson recalled the stranger saying. “‘We’ve been working up the courage to come say hi.’” The “Section O Old Guys” made their annual trip to Lynah Rink this weekend to watch their beloved Cornell men’s hockey team, support the Big Red Pep Band and reminisce about their days on The Hill. The four pep band alumni and members of the class of 1981 have been coming to Ithaca for a weekend — usually the weekend before Thanksgiving — for 22 years. They’re easily recognizable from their spot in Section O across from the band’s section. And they’ve formed a special camaraderie with the band over the years. The four come prepared with signs giving the band song requests. And Saturday’s game ended with a “thank you Old Guys” chant from the group’s friends across the arena. Thompson is the leader of the group and now helps organize his friends’ annual trip. The team even has customized “Section O Old

Guys” shirts to help them stand out. Thompson, David Dilzell ’81, Mark George ’81 and Dan Metsa ’81 (the conductor of the band back in the day) come from all over the country — two from New Jersey, one from Virginia and one from Chicago — but make sure to come together every year to cheer on the Red. It was a good weekend for the group, which watched the Cornell football team blow out Columbia and saw wins over Quinnipiac and Princeton at Lynah. “We wanted to be able to reconnect [and] enjoy the fun of being on campus and of being at Lynah,” Thompson said. The alumni cause a little bit of trouble, but say they’re mostly well-behaved. They come prepared with signs encouraging Cornell to “Kill, Red, Kill” when down a skater and telling the team to “ram it down their throats.” They were especially proud of their “Quinnipiac suQkes” poster. A lot has changed in the almost four decades since the “Old Guys” graduated — two have had children graduate from Cornell — but the joy of being at Lynah has stayed the same. The group lamented that there were empty seats despite Cornell being the top team in the PairWise Rankings. But the “core traditions” — from the band’s repertoire to throwing newspapers on the ice to verbally harassing opponents and referees — have remained the same. Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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‘We Never Thought It Would Actually Happen’ Ivy League announces cancellation of all spring sports amid growing coronavirus outbreak

By RAPHY GENDLER and LUKE PICHINI Sun Senior Editor and Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This story was originally published on March 11. The Ivy League announced on Wednesday that all spring athletic practices and competitions are canceled through the remainder of the academic year amid further developments in the outbreak of COVID-19. “My initial reaction, the reaction of the whole team, was just — it was just shock,” said Jonathan Zacharias, a sophomore pitcher on the baseball team. Becca Jordan, a junior on the sailing team, expressed her shock at the news. “We knew that it was a possibility and we joked about it for a few days, but we never thought it would actually happen,” Jordan said. “Honestly, at practice, the seniors were like, ‘what if this is our last time ever putting on our pinnies as college athletes?’” After spending her semester abroad in the fall, the announcement was difficult for Jordan, who was excited about the upcoming season. “It was a big decision to go abroad and be away from the team, but I was so excited to get back,” Jordan said. “Getting ready and gearing up for nationals at the end of spring was really exciting … but I know that I am in a way better position than the seniors because I still have another year. It’s not like my entire career is gone.” Both Jordan and Zacharias expressed remorse for the seniors,

who saw their collegiate careers come to an unexpected end. “We had a great group of seniors this year with a ton of leadership,” Zacharias said. “Many of them were working their way back from injuries, so the fact that they put all that time into rehabbing and to [have the season] cut short like this is kind of hard — all of our hearts go out to the seniors.” “Our seniors were up for pretty big awards, and that might fall through,” Jordan said. “We’ve just BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR tried to put our sadness away and be there for them A sudden end | Though it was ultimately bound to happen, the cancellation of all spring sports and do whatever they need. one Wednesday afternoon came as a shock to many — particularly the athletes. We’ve all been hanging out a lot today, and we’re all trying to spend time together.” teams closer together. “If there’s any silver lining, it shows how important we Men’s lacrosse had a 5-0 record and recently ascended to the No. 2 ranking in national polls. The team was are to each other and how much we all care about each scheduled to face No. 6 Yale on Saturday in its first Ivy other,” Jordan said. game. Multiple spokespeople from the team declined to Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com. comment. While the news has been difficult, it has brought the Luke Pichini can be reached at lpichini@cornellsun.com.

NCAA Cancels Hockey A Heartbreaking Reminder Tournaments, Cutting Of Student Athletes’ Strength Teams’ Seasons Short T Editor’s Corner

This column was originally published on March 16.

By CHRISTINA BULKELEY and RAPHY GENDLER Sun Sports Editor and Sun Senior Editor

This story was originally published on March 16. The 2019-20 seasons for Cornell’s hockey teams and their fans were filled with hope that, finally — after 50 years of waiting — this was the year. As the teams ascended to the No. 1 spots in the national rankings, dominated opponents and cruised into the playoffs, the excitement only grew that 2020 might be a year to remember in Ithaca, that the drought might come to an end: Cornell women’s hockey has never won a national championship. The men haven’t done it since 1970. But no postseason trophies will be presented and no national championship banners hung. Instead, both teams will forever wonder what could have been. Cornell’s No. 1 hockey teams’ championship dreams came to an abrupt end on Thursday when the NCAA canceled all its national tournaments. It capped a wild two days of cancelations across the world of sports. In addition to ending the hockey seasons in heartbreaking fashion for Cornell’s skaters and hockey fans — and ending the careers of the team’s seniors — the COVID-19 outbreak led to the cancelation of all spring sports in the Ivy League. The NCAA is expected to grant a fifth year of eligibility for spring athletes. But it remains to be seen how the canceled seasons will impact the Ivy League and Cornell’s teams directly. Shortly after ECAC Hockey and four other conferences canceled the remainder of their men’s conference tournaments, the NCAA followed suit. The NCAA had already announced measures to limit attendance Wednesday in response to concerns over COVID-19. Both the men’s and women’s hockey teams have been atop the national polls for multiple weeks. The women were scheduled to play Mercyhurst in the

NCAA Tournament on Saturday. The men’s team was a near lock for a No. 1 seed in the national tournament. In addition to the end of the hockey season, the eight Cornell wrestlers that had earned bids to the NCAA Tournament will also see their seasons end with no opportunity to secure a national title. Six of them had qualified automatically in the EIWA Championships, while two more had received at-large bids. Thursday’s announcement came as the latest installment in a series of college sports’ reaction to the spread of the novel coronavirus. In canceling all spring sports on Wednesday, the Ivy League left it up to the discretion of individual institutions whether to allow winter sports teams to compete in the postseason. But not long after — after the cancelation of conference tournaments across the country, most notably in men’s and women’s basketball — the NCAA announced that its tournaments wouldn’t take place. The cancellation came amid news that Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League were suspending their seasons after the National Basketball Association did so on Wednesday. The early end to the season marks the end of Cornell hockey careers for the Red’s seniors. On the men’s team, Jeff Malott, Yanni Kaldis and Noah Bauld have played their last games in carnelian and white. For the women, Kristin O’Neill, Amy Curlew, Jaime Bourbonnais, Micah Zandee-Hart, Paige Lewis and Grace Graham have also had their last go-around as members of the Red. With the imminent graduation of captains Kristin O’Neill and Micah ZandeeHart in addition to a top defenseman in Bourbonnais and the rest of that large and integral senior class, this season might have been Cornell women’s hockey’s best opportunity in several years — and maybe program history — to win a national title. Christina Bulkeley can be reached at cbulkeley@cornellsun.com. Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

he sudden shift from pre- March Madness excitement to a sportsless spring — heartbreaking for players and fans around the country — is nobody’s top concern right now. The NCAA and pro sports leagues are 100 percent right to shut down. But here in Ithaca, my heart breaks for the hundreds of Cornell student athletes who will forever be left to wonder what might have come of the spring of 2020, whose collegiate careers were flipped upside down by a crisis that seemed so distant just a few days ago. Ivy League student athletes are smart, driven kids at the near or absolute top of their sports. They give everything to represent Cornell and wear their colors with pride. Their dedication and drive — to make it back from injury, to win a national championship, to be there for their teammates — ending up unable to yield results would’ve been unimaginable a few days ago. The vast majority of Cornell’s student athletes aren’t going to sign million-dollar contracts, play in prime time on national television or sign big shoe contracts. These athletes work tirelessly for the love of the game, for their teammates and for Cornell. It’s a shame that these athletes — especially graduating seniors who may have taken the field, court, diamond and ice for the last time — won’t get a proper send-off. Cornell’s No. 1 ranked hockey teams will get a lot of love. And they deserve all that appreciation, and more, for their tremendous seasons that won’t end in bids for national championships. A lot of hearts will break for Cornell’s No. 2 men’s lacrosse team, which looked poised for another stellar season. Many fans will be thinking of the eight Cornell wrestlers who won’t be able to compete in this year’s national championships. In addition to all these athletes,

we’d all do well to spend a moment appreciating and thanking Cornellians on softball, baseball, sailing, rowing, gymnastics, squash, track and field, tennis and golf teams, who don’t draw thousands of fans and don’t get national media attention, but who pour their everything into their teams. These student athletes represent so much of what it means to be a Cornellian: working for one another, proudly donning the red ‘C’ and wearing the “blue collar Ivy” chip on their shoulders. I don’t claim to really know what it’s like to balance Division I sports with Ivy League academics or how it feels to be in your late teens and early 20s and be at the top of your sport. But I do know that as a sportswriter at The Sun, one of the things I enjoy most is talking to student athletes and seeing firsthand the passion and drive that go into representing our University. Sports aren’t the only thing, and they’re certainly not the most important thing right now. But for these students, some of the hardest-working and most driven at Cornell, their sport is everything. That they won’t be able to work toward a title, finish their senior seasons or spend a spring with their teams is heartbreaking, and a reminder of how central a role sports play in our lives. When we get through this outbreak — and we will — sports will be there for us to escape life for a while and enjoy the heartbreak, triumph, trials and victories that only sports can bring. In the meantime, here’s an idea: If you’re up for it, and want to send Cornell student athletes — especially graduating seniors — your appreciation, send me an email at rgendler@cornellsun.com. Address it to whomever you please and say whatever’s on your mind. I’ll try to get your messages to the athletes, and if I can’t, I’ll put them on social media or in a story at cornellsun.com for fans, athletes and Cornellians to see. Raphy Gendler is a junior in the ILR School. He is a senior editor on the 138th editorial board. He can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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NCAA Cancels All Spring ’20 Postseason Tourneys Seasons of C.U.’s no. 1 ranked men’s and women’s hockey teams come to sudden end By RAPHY GENDLER and CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Senior Editor and Sun Sports Editor

This story was originally published on March 12. The 2019-20 seasons for Cornell’s hockey teams and their fans were filled with hope that, finally — after 50 years of waiting — this was the year. As the teams ascended to the No. 1 spots in the national rankings, dominated opponents and cruised into the playoffs, the excitement only grew that 2020 might be a year to remember in Ithaca, that the drought might come to an end: Cornell women’s hockey has never won a national championship. The men haven’t done it since 1970. But no postseason trophies will be presented and no national championship banners hung. Instead, both teams will forever wonder what could have been. Cornell’s No. 1 hockey teams’ championship dreams came to an abrupt end on Thursday when the NCAA canceled all its national tournaments. Both of It capped a wild two days of cancelations across the world of sports. Cornell’s In addition to ending the hockey hockey seasons in heartbreaking fashion for teams ended Cornell’s skaters and hockey fans — and ending the careers of the team’s the season seniors — the COVID-19 outbreak ranked No. 1 led to the cancelation of all spring sports in the Ivy League. nationally. The NCAA is expected to grant a fifth year of eligibility for spring athletes. But it remains to be seen how the canceled seasons will impact the Ivy League and Cornell’s teams directly. Shortly after ECAC Hockey and four other conferences canceled the remainder of their men’s conference tournaments, the NCAA followed suit. The NCAA had already announced measures to limit attendance Wednesday in response to concerns over COVID-19. Both the men’s and women’s hockey teams have been atop the national polls for multiple weeks. The women were scheduled to play Mercyhurst in the NCAA

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What might have been | Cornell’s No. 1 ranked hockey teams won’t get the chance to win a national championship. Tournament on Saturday. The men’s team was a near lock for a No. 1 seed in the national tournament. In addition to the end of the hockey season, the eight Cornell wrestlers that had earned bids to the NCAA Tournament will also see their seasons end with no opportunity to secure a national title. Six of them had qualified automatically in the EIWA Championships, while two more had received at-large bids. Thursday’s announcement came as the latest installment in a series of college sports’ reaction to the spread of the novel coronavirus. In canceling all spring sports on Wednesday, the Ivy League left it up to the discretion of individual institutions whether to allow winter sports teams to compete in the postseason. But not long after — after the cancelation of conference tournaments across the country, most notably in men’s and women’s basketball — the NCAA announced that its tournaments wouldn’t take place. The cancellation came amid news that Major League

Baseball and the National Hockey League were suspending their seasons after the National Basketball Association did so on Wednesday. The early end to the season marks the end of Cornell hockey careers for the Red’s seniors. On the men’s team, Jeff Malott, Yanni Kaldis and Noah Bauld have played their last games in carnelian and white. For the women, Kristin O’Neill, Amy Curlew, Jaime Bourbonnais, Micah Zandee-Hart, Paige Lewis and Grace Graham have also had their last go-around as members of the Red. With the imminent graduation of captains Kristin O’Neill and Micah Zandee-Hart in addition to a top defenseman in Bourbonnais and the rest of that large and integral senior class, this season might have been Cornell women’s hockey’s best opportunity in several years — and maybe program history — to win a national title. Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com. Christina Bulkeley can be reached at cbulkeley@cornellsun.com.

Schafer ’86: ‘Nothing Has Been More Painful’ in 34 Coaching Years By LUKE PICHINI Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This story was originally published on March 15.

BEN PARKER / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Heartbreak | Mike Schafer ’86 said in a letter published to Twitter that meeting with his team after its postseason was canceled was more painful than anything else in his 34 years of coaching.

Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 has broken his silence following the end of Cornell men’s hockey’s season. In an open letter posted on Twitter on Saturday, Schafer explained how his team, which achieved the No. 1 ranking and appeared poised for a postseason run, reacted to the news of the season’s end due to COVID-19 outbreak. “Yesterday, it was very difficult to speak to our team and watch young men cry as their chance of achieving their dreams had disappeared,” Schafer wrote. “In my 34 years of coaching, nothing has been more painful than yesterday’s meeting.” As the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread across the country, Cornell took the measure of enforcing a no-spectator policy for the ECAC quarterfinal. Soon after, the cancellations and withdrawals snowballed. Harvard withdrew

from the ECAC Tournament, and Yale followed shortly after, sending the Red to the ECAC semifinal and reseeding the tournament. But the trip to Lake Placid never materialized as the ECAC Tournament was canceled, along with other major conference tournaments. From there, the NCAA made

“Working for many years with different teams, you start to get a sense of which teams are destined to accomplish great things. This was one of those teams.” Mike Schafer ’86 the decision to cancel its tournament, ending Cornell’s season before it even saw the ice for the playoffs. “In sports, the season starts with an unknown,” Schafer wrote. “Everyone invests with all their heart and soul, without knowing what the end result will be. That result can hurt, due to the disappointing fact that there are so many uncontrollable factors in every season’s journey.”

With a star goaltender in junior goaltender Matt Galajda as well as four lines which contributed across the board, Cornell fielded one of its best teams in recent memory. “Working for many years with different teams, you start to get a sense of which teams are destined to accomplish great things,” Schafer wrote. “This is one of those teams.” The Red’s season ended with a bevy of accomplishments, including an Ivy League Championship, an ECAC regular-season title and its fourth straight bid to the NCAA Tournament. But with the slew of cancellations, Cornell never had the opportunity to end its Frozen Four drought or Whitelaw Cup drought, which date back to 2003 and 2010, respectively. “Despite not being able to have this opportunity, I am very proud of what our program accomplished this season, and of the season as a whole,” Schafer wrote. Luke Pichini can be reached at lpichini@cornellsun.com.

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‘I Just Try to Be the Best’

Football captain Taylor fights for team, hometown

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By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Senior Editor

This article was originally published on December 5. When he committed to Cornell, most people in Jelani Taylor’s hometown hadn’t heard of the Ivy League university. But when the captain took the field throughout an impressive collegiate career, he was playing for a team of thousands: both his teammates in carnelian and white, and the kids back home in Beecher, Michigan. “Almost everything I try to do here, I try to do for people back home, whether it’s my family or my community, whether it’s Beecher or all of Flint,” Taylor said. “I try to put the city on my back … because they’re the reason I’m here.” Taylor, a finalist for the “academic Heisman” — the Walter V. Campbell Trophy — has sought to be the best at everything he does. Humbly and quietly, Taylor has built up a stellar resume, on the field and in the classroom. He’ll be honored in New York City on Tuesday at the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner, where the award recipient will be announced. “I just try to be the best at whatever I can do, whether it’s school, whether it’s sports, whether it’s being a

brother, whether it’s being a boyfriend,” said Taylor, back originally committed to North Dakota State before who earned first team All-Ivy honors this season. de-committing and meeting Taylor on his official visit to For Taylor (who was named a finalist for the Cornell. FCS’ Scholar-Athlete award on Thursday), After being hosted by Taylor, McClurge knew Cornell’s the magnitude of the Campbell Trophy football team was the place for him. nomination and announcement that he “That’s my brother, man, that’s my brother till the day was a finalist didn’t hit him at first — I die,” McClurge said. “That’s been my brother since I the hotel administration student with got here.” a near-perfect GPA heard he was a “He’s definitely a role model,” McClurge added. “He semifinalist several weeks ago before tells me, ‘you can’t just be a good football player, you he “forgot about it, to be honest.” gotta be a great person, you gotta be a great student.’ I “Now that everybody keeps really look up to him in that aspect, trying to get better in talking about it I’m realizing it’s a every aspect of my life to be a great leader and hopefully a big deal,” Taylor said. great captain like he is.” The road to Cornell wasn’t Cornell’s only other athlete to ever be a Campbell simple for Taylor, but he was a leader Trophy finalist was star quarterback Jeff Mathews ’14, from the moment he stepped on campus. Taylor was a two- who shattered all sorts of program offensive records and -time first-team all-state selection at Beecher High School, was a finalist in head coach David Archer’s ’05 first year where he was captain of his team for four years, starring as at the helm. Archer said Taylor being a finalist for the award — “a a safety, quarterback and wide receiver. He’s been a role model to his football teammates for big time deal” — is a great chance for Cornellians to take four years. And in his senior season, he emerged as one note of the impressive captain. “It’s as big a spotlight as you can of the best defensive players in the Ivy [have] and I hope that at an Ivy League, racking up 76 tackles (second“He’s the first guy in, League school that people take notice -most in the conference) to go along with the last guy out.” of that, because we work really hard three interceptions, two forced fumbles to be student athletes,” Archer said. “I and one fumble recovery for a touchdown. Junior safety Logan Thut hope people notice that ‘wow,’ these It’s clear that Taylor’s humility and guys do it off the field and are proud leadership have endeared him to his teammates. Just ask them what it means for their captain to be part of Cornell.” With or without recognition, Taylor is driven by to get national recognition — Campbell Trophy finalists represent the top 12 student athletes from all divisions of something bigger: He’s pushed to lead, to be the best and college football — and they’re quick to praise their role to compete with pride, on and off the football field. From Beecher High School to Cornell, Taylor hasn’t wavered model and friend. “That’s like my favorite person ever,” said junior safety from his pursuit of being the best. “That’s just always been a part of me. [Whether it’s] Logan Thut. “He’s a true leader, leads by example, he’s verbal, always doing extra. He’s the first guy in, the last Cornell or Beecher High School doesn’t really change guy out [and] he’s a great role model for a younger player that.” like myself.” Sophomore wide receiver Phazione McClurge took a Raphy Gendler can be reached at non-traditional path to Cornell: The converted defensive rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S, WOMEN’S ICERS RANKED NUMBER ONE By LUKE PICHINI Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This story was originally published on March 26. After Cornell men’s and women’s hockey simultaneously achieved the No. 1 ranking on Feb. 24 for the first time in school history, they ended the season with the same distinction. In the final USCHO.com poll, the men and women occupied the top spot in their respective rankings. The polls were released after both of the team’s seasons were cut short in the middle of the postseason in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. For the women, this is the first time in program history they have taken No. 1 in the season-ending poll. While the Red’s final season game ended up being a loss to Princeton in the ECAC Championship, it still accumulated a myriad of accolades. Cornell went undefeated in ECAC play (19-0-3), resulting in an Ivy League title and an ECAC regular-season title. The Red boasted the nation’s best winning percentage (.932) and also earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. As Cornell was gearing up for its first-round matchup against Mercyhurst, the NCAA canceled the tournament, denying the Red a shot at its first national title. * * * * * * * * * Meanwhile, the men achieved similar success. Cornell notched the No. 1 ranking on Jan. 13, but shaky play that culminated in a blowout 5-0 loss to Quinnipiac saw the Red unseeded from the top spot on Jan. 31. The Red responded with a vengeance though, dominating its opponents throughout February to enter the postseason on a nine-game winning streak. After earning both the Ivy League and ECAC regular-season titles, Cornell looked poised to claim its first Whitelaw Cup since 2010, as well as make a run in the NCAA Tournament. Unfortunately, those dreams were dashed as the ECAC Tournament and NCAA Tournament fell into an ever-increasing line of cancellations. Several teams withdrew from the conference tournament, and the ECAC eventually pulled the plug. The NCAA followed suit, and Cornell’s season ended before it even took the ice for the postseason. “One of the things we instill within our program is to not waste time and energy on things you can’t control – and the sudden end to the year is one of those things,” men’s head coach Mike Schafer ’86 told Cornell Athletics. “It’s disappointing to not have a crack at the postseason, but we’re still very thankful for the season that we did have and appreciate being voted No. 1.” TOP: BEN PARKER / SUN ASST. PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR BOTTOM: BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

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Future Looks Bright for Men’s Lacrosse After ‘Might-Have-Been’ Season By MIKE SEITZ Sun Staff Writer

This story was originally published on March 26. After starting the season undefeated through five games, Cornell men’s lacrosse’s impressive run was tragically cut short after the Ivy League

suspended spring sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 5-Game Sweep

Cornell started off 2020 in red-hot fashion with a blowout win against Albany. While the Red showed off how fluid its offense was, the team also let the lacrosse world know that its “Blue Collar Ivy” persona was as alive as ever. Hard body checks, gritty fights for ground balls and good old-fashioned hustle plays by the Red’s midfielders and defensemen set the tone for the season’s start. The momentum continued in the second weekend as the Red’s bouts against Towson and High Point were similarly comfortable, with the latter featuring a goal-barrage in which Cornell netted a season-high 21 goals. The team’s first real challenge came against Ohio State, in

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which the Red confidently held a lead but had to fend off a fierce comeback in the final frame. While the offense had carried the team in the first three contests, defense made all the difference in the one-goal win against the Buckeyes. In what ended up being its season finale, Cornell battled against a powerhouse Penn State program ranked No. 2 at the time. The game was close throughout, but clutch goals with seconds left on the game clock helped the Red edge out and achieve the No. 2 ranking. Rising Stars

One of the rising stars for Cornell was freshman attackman Michael Long. Hailing from New Jersey’s Delbarton School, Long had plenty of hype behind his name due to his high school achievements, which included being named an All-American and N.J. Player of the Year. Long scored 11 goals and notched eight assists during his rookie season, making him one of Cornell’s top-five point leaders. The rest of college lacrosse took notice, as Long was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice. A flexible weapon in attack, the neophyte showed that he could handle, pass and score against some of the country’s best programs. Another freshman proved to be key for the Red, as Angelo Petrakis was a spark plug at faceoff. Petrakis won 46 out of 75 faceoff draws across five games and looked to be the final piece that could take the team to championship-level play. The freshman faceoff specialist also added three goals, the last and most notable of which being the clutch game-winner against Penn State. Offensive Juggernauts

Cornell’s offense was nearly unstoppable this season. Over the course of five games, the Red scored a whopping 92 goals, a scoring rate that was the second-best in the nation. To continue reading this article, please visit cornellsun.com. Mike Seitz can be reached at mseitz@cornellsun.com.

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find your place on theHill Your guide to the ins and outs of Cornell

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The Sun’s Cornell glos•sa•ry

Say what? Studying in the cocktail lounge? Eating at CTB? Learn what’s what: all the terms you need to know.

AAP: College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Found on the north end of the Arts Quad. Appel: Appel Commons, one of North Campus’ dining halls, known as the “crown jewel of Cornell Dining.” Big Red: The nickname for all Cornell athletic teams. Big Red Bear: Cornell mascot. Although the bear is actually brown and not red, Cornellians still look to him for spirit. CALS: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Also called the “Ag School.” Big Red Bucks: Points that can be used in a-la-carte dining facilities, such as Bear Necessities, to buy food. Better known as BRBs. CCC: Cornell Concert Commission, the organization that brings big-name bands to campus. Central: Central Campus, the area between the gorges that includes nearly all of Cornell’s academic buildings. Chalkings: Announcements written in chalk on the campus sidewalks. CIT: Cornell Information Technologies, the provider of computer and network services. Cocktail Lounge: Underground reading room in Uris Library with comfy, sleep-inducing chairs — great for a midday nap! Commons: A stretch of State Street in downtown Ithaca closed to vehicular traffic. Go there to find shops, restaurants and many craft and musical fairs. Cornell Cinema: Sells $4 tickets to more than 300 films a year. CTB: Collegetown Bagels, the reliable spot for any bagel concoction you could possible dream up. CTP: Campustown Pizza, a favorite latenight munchies spot. C-Town: Collegetown, the business district of Ithaca located next to campus. There are apartments, shops, restaurants and bars on this stretch. Dairy Bar: Cornell-operated dairy that serves ice cream, milkshakes and other milk products. Day Hall: Home of financial aid, Title IX and other University resources. D.P. Dough: A place to order calzones to satisfy those late-night cravings. Dragon Day: Tradition started by Willard D. Straight 1901, in which architecture students build a giant dragon and parade it around the campus before spring break. EARS: Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service, a free and confidential peer counseling service. Fishbowl: A glass-enclosed reading room in Uris Library with rows of reading-conducive desks. Perfect for studying. That’s it. Nothing alcohol-related, why do you ask? Freshman 15: Theory that incoming freshmen will gain 15 pounds during their first year in college because of the all-you-care-to-eat dining halls — plus the beer. Freshmen on the Field: A tradition where all freshmen rush onto the field before the first home football game of the season. FWS: 1. First-year writing seminar; you pick five choices, and will be assigned one. 2. Federal Work Study, a financial aid program. Gorges: Ithaca’s claim to fame, leading to the saying, “Ithaca is Gorges.” These rock-lined waterfalls are hard to miss on campus, but swimming in them is dangerous and prohibited in most areas — be careful. Harvest Dinner: One night each fall semester when local foods are served in Cornell’s dining halls. Ho Plaza: The area between the Campus Store and the Straight, which often hosts student rallies. Hotelies: Students in the School of Hotel Administration. I.C.: Ithaca College, the college across town from Cornell. ILR: School of Industrial and Labor Relations, nicknamed “I Love Reading.” J.A.: The Judicial Administrator determines punishments for recalcitrant students, especially those who take more than one piece of fruit out of the dining halls. JAM: Just About Music, a residential program house. The Johnson: Cornell’s Johnson Museum

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Big steps | Waterfalls run through many gorges and provide the area its natural beauty. Some gorges have trails leading down to the falls, but off-trail areas can be dangerous. Above: Cascadilla Gorge at Collegetown. of Art, free and open to the public. Libe Café: Where great minds meet daily over coffee inside Olin Library. Libe Slope: A very steep hill separating West Campus from Central Campus. You’ll want to be there on Slope Day ... but otherwise only take the walk when you’re up for a work-out. Louie’s Lunch: Late-night staple, found on North Campus between Balch and Risley Halls. Louie’s best foods include their near-legendary fries. Loving House: A program house to enhance the living experience of LGBTQ+ students Martha Van / MVR: Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, home of the College of Human Ecology. Morgue: The large study lounge in Donlon Hall, named for its dark, dismal lighting. Nasties: Affectionate nickname for the greasy, a-la-carte dining facility in RPCC. Noyes: The student center on West Campus, home to a state-of-the-art gym to rid yourself of the Freshman 15. Orgo: Organic chemistry. Two words: Fear it. PAM: Policy analysis and management, a popular major in the College of Human Ecology. Prelim: Any full-length exam that is not a final exam. Known as “midterms” at most other colleges. Quad: Quadrangle, a rectangular section of campus that houses one of Cornell’s colleges, such as the Ag Quad, the Arts Quad and the Engineering Quad. R.A.: Resident advisor, the upperclassman in charge of keeping order in your residence hall. Don’t make their life too hard. RHD: Residence hall director, the R.A.’s boss. You want this person to be on your side if you’re in trouble. ROTC: Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, a collegiate-level military organization. RPCC: Robert Purcell Community Center, one of two community centers on North

Campus. It’s home to numerous study lounges, Bear Necessities and a dining hall. Formerly known as RPU. S/U: Pass-or-fail grading that is an option in some courses (satisfactory or unsatisfactory). S.A.: Student Assembly, a student governing body that has jurisdiction over the student activity fee and makes recommendations to the administration. Schwartz Center: Home of Cornell’s theatre, film and dance department, which were the target of controversial budget cuts this past year. Located in Collegetown, it hosts many student performances and visiting shows. Slope Day: An end of the year celebration in the spring when Cornellians gather on Libe Slope, hang out with friends, listen to music and have a few (or more) drinks. The Straight: Willard Straight Hall, Cornell’s student union, which contains three dining facilities, a study lounge, a ceramics studio, a Cornell Cinema movie theater and registered student organization offices. SAFC: Student Assembly Finance Commission, in charge of distributing money to registered student organizations. State Street Diner: A restaurant open 24 hours a day west of the Ithaca Commons. Stop by if you’re looking for greasy, homestyle cooking and waitresses who will call you “honey.” T.A.: Teaching assistants, often graduate students who lead discussion sections for large lectures. TCAT: Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, the bus company that serves the Ithaca area. Townie: A local Ithaca resident. Ujamaa: A residential program house on North Campus focused on African culture. Wegmans: The massive and hyper-popular supermarket downtown. Great place to shop if you cook for yourself a lot. Zeus: Temple of Zeus, or the best soup spot and place to be seen pretending to do work on campus.

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Cornell to See First Virtual Orientation Week By SUN STAFF

In late August, students from around the world will pack up from summer vacation and congregate in Ithaca, N.Y., where the next generation of political leaders, business tycoons and famous activists will be become part of the incoming freshman class at Cornell University. Some, however, will remain in homes and study-away sites around the world, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes the traditional O-week online for the new batch of Cornellians. During the seven-day New Student Orientation, freshmen will be given information and resources galore regarding life on the Hill, as well as attending mandatory

“I think [Orientation Week] is a great opportunity for students to explore the campus before they take that final plunge.” Jeff Stulmaker ’11 virtual community events. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the Orientation Steering Committee will as always run a tight ship of planned activities and events to give students a positive first taste of Cornell life. Despite the current conditions, every incoming Cornellian will still receive an Orientation Leader to help guide them through their introduction to a new home. Orientation Leaders serve as new students’ guides to campus in the first week and often beyond. They can serve as valuable resources to find quiet places to study, hidden gems around campus and advice from an upperclassman who’s seen it all. Rather than one big move-in day, the class of 2024 will move their fans, bulletin boards and throw blankets into their North Campus dorms at staggered times and in phases. Students are encouraged to only bring two suircases and a backpack at first, and can recieve more

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Move-in day | Family members help their new Cornell student carry luggage across North Campus. Within all the dorms, new students will be settling into their homes for the next year. items at a later time. Once on campus, students will also begin participation in the Daily Check program, a check-in about their health and well-being designed to help mitigate the virus. Despite these saftey measures, those moving into the campus dorms will still get their first taste of Cornell life during Orientation Week, and will meet their peers and new roommates amidst a slew of new opportunities.

Cornell has run orientation week programming for decades, and some things never change. Orientation Leader Jeff Stulmaker ’11 said that the week is “a great opportunity for students to explore the campus before they take that final plunge” — and this year’s O-Week will be no different. The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

O-Week Programming Fosters Equity, Belonging By SUN STAFF

In between attending icebreaker activities, information sessions and enjoying the sunset, freshmen at Orientation Week can explore other events to schedule their first week on campus. Past years have been organized via the University’s app Cornell Connects. According to the University’s website, this app allows students to connect with other students and help them make their way around campus. Orientation programming

also includes several diversity options to help students feel more welcome. “We hope this program will create a strong foundation for our students’ commitment to Cornell’s values and community standards related to identity, inclusion and belonging, and provide a starting point for continued engagement with this work across their time with us, and beyond,” said Lindsay Hanson, director for orientation programs, about the diversity programming in 2018. That year, the Identity and Belonging Project replaced the

Tapestry of Possibilities event that had been in place for 11 years. This progam aims to start conversations right off the bat about identity, overcoming difference and treating peers with empathy. Cornell has traditionally held “Speak About It” as well, a program about consent, bystander responsibility and more. The University announced that it would begin mandating “Speak About It” in May 2013, and the event has been praised by students for conveying the importance of consent in rela-

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Barton bash | In one of O-Week’s past nighttime alternatives, freshmen line up in Barton Hall to get free Cornell gear, play games and meet new people.

their transition to Cornell. tionships. “My favorite part of O-Week In addition to Speak About It, the Orientation Steering was getting to meet my Committee traditionally wel- Orientation Leader,” said Alex comes the incoming freshman Rodriguez ’19. “I came into class and transfer students to Cornell with a lot of doubts Cornell with four days of aca- as to whether I belonged there demic and social events. These or not. Being able to meet a events continue through student who had already gone the start of classes into “I came into Cornell with a lot of doubts Welcome as to whether I belonged there or not. Weekend. Though past Being able to meet [my orientation years includleader] was reassuring.” ed picnics, movies and Alex Rodriguez ’19 ClubFest, Cornell had not yet announced plans for through two years was reassurreplacement events in late ing.” July. In addition to orientation Each year’s orientation typi- group activities, both required cally centers on a theme, rang- and non-mandatory events traing from international travel to ditionally have high rates of exploration at home, according attendance throughout the to Sarah Jones, former associate week, Jones said. director for residential and new OSC members also focus student programs. each year on improving the David Rosenwasser ’18 said Orientation Week experience he believes that in his year, for transfer students, according the orientation groups provided to Jones, bringing them togethnew students with an environ- er for fun activities and to conment that encouraged them to nect with other students in the interact with their peers. same boat. As in previous years, “the Saqif Badruddin ’19 said he way the orientation groups were enjoyed meeting so many peoset up with everyone in my ple, in addition to activities group being from my college with his orientation group. was a great opportunity to meet “O-Week is the best time more students in a smaller set- to meet hundreds of people, only three of which you will be ting,” Rosenwasser said. The orientation groups friends with,” Badruddin said. also introduced students to an Orientation Leader, who stu- The Sun’s news department can be dents say were helpful easing reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell History Through the Eyes of The Sun By SUN STAFF

n April 27, 1865, the governor of New York State signed Cornell University’s charter, establishing the university that its founder, Ezra Cornell, would later describe as “an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” While The Sun was not established until 15 years after the University, the publication has continuously followed the University and kept Cornellians informed for over 135 years. On this page, we’ve laid out a few of The Sun’s front pages that showcase what many would call some of the defining moments of the University’s history.

‘Without any apology for our appearance’ | The Sun’s inaugural issue was published on Sept. 16, 1880, 15 years after Cornell’s charter is signed and 18 years after the signing of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, which allowed states to establish a university with the purpose of benefiting the state.

‘Precautions Lacking’ | In April 1967, a fire at the Cornell Heights Residential Club — which is now the Ecology House on North Campus — killed eight Ph.D. students and a professor. The following day, The Sun published a story on its front page [left] about the lack of fire safety precautions in University residences. To this day, the cause of the fire is officially unknown, although following the event, Cornell invested in fire safety measures across campus. “Cornell’s Stand In Face of War to Be Revealed” | The day after the Pearl Harbor attacks on Dec. 7, 1941, the front page of The Sun [above] featured various Associated Press wires regarding World War II and the attacks. Cornell President Edmund Ezra Day issued a statement the following day, telling Cornellians to stay “at their jobs” until more definitive information regarding the country’s role in the war was provided. Throughout the war, Cornell was greatly disrupted — men were called to enlist in 1943, and The Sun became a weekly known as “The Cornell Bulletin.”

Cornell’s capitulation | Fifty years ago, approximately 100 black students took over Willard Straight Hall and ejected Cornell employees and visiting family members from the building. The following day, April 20, 1969, students emerged from the Straight with rifles. Marking the end of a decade full of racial tensions, Cornell was divided. Tensions ultimately culminated with the resignation of its president and the future establishment of shared governance on campus. Right is The Sun’s extra edition announcing the takeover.

Rawlings’ seven-point plan | On Oct. 8, 1997, President Hunter R. Rawlings III announced his plan to move all freshmen housing to North Campus and all upperclassmen housing to West and in Collegetown. The following day, The Sun [above] led with the headline “All Frosh to North.” Rawlings’ plan lead to the construction of Mews and Court-Kay-Bauer Halls, as well as the West Campus housing system.

The land grant university of the future | In December 2011, thenNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell had won the city’s Applied Sciences competition, which granted the University the right to build a new technology campus on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan. Cornell is thought to have won the bid after Stanford University, Cornell’s rival throughout the competition, dropped out and billionaire Chuck Feeney ’56 donated $350 million to the University for the campus. The Sun reported on the announcement during Cornell’s winter break and published the news online, with the print version [right] making its debut at the start of the spring semester. The campus opened on Roosevelt Island in fall 2017 and the full buildout is to be completed by 2037.

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Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple: Cornell’s Future in New York City Cornell Tech Over the next two decades, Cornell will expand its footprint in New York City on Roosevelt Island, the site of the new technology campus, Cornell Tech. While the campus had its official inauguration in 2017, the full buildout will not be complete until 2037. Before demolition began to make way for the University’s new campus, The Sun’s editors had the opportunity to tour the island to see Cornell’s future.

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Big Apple | The east

side of Manhattan — which houses Weill Cornell Medical College (center) — can be seen from Roosevelt Island. 6

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The site today | The first Cornell Tech building was opened on Sept. 13, 2017. The entire campus is expected to fill 12 acres.

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FDR Four Freedoms Park, built in memory of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, opened in 2012.

Welcome to the island | A tram

transporting passengers from Manhattan arrives at Roosevelt Island.

Four freedoms | American artist Jo

Davidson created a bronze sculpture of FDR that stands in the center of the FDR Four Freedoms Park.

Abandoned smallpox hospital | The ruins of a smallpox hospital,

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North Campus Dorms Ready for Class of 2024 Clara Dickson Hall

By SUN STAFF

In 1900, the Cornell student body was housed entirely in fraternities and boarding houses — no real dormitories existed. According to Cornell: Glorious to View, a history of Cornell written by Profs. Carol Kammen and Walter LaFeber, history, Andrew Dickson White, Cornell’s founder and first president, believed students should live on their own. Clearly, times have changed. Now required to live on campus, the Class of 2024 arrives at Cornell with a plethora of housing options, ranging from traditional residence halls — described below — to more specialized program houses. Balch Hall

Balch Hall, an all-women’s residence, was constructed in the 1920s as the second dormitory on North Campus, according to Cornell Then and Now by Prof. Ronald Ostman, communication. Generations of Cornellians and architectural trends later, Balch’s Gothic style and ivy-covered exterior continue to exude a timeless and classically collegiate character. “Balch is one of my favorites. The rooms are uniquely shaped, and the dormer windows are beautiful on the fifth and sixth floors,” said Karen Brown, director of marketing and communications for Campus Life. The rooms in Balch are also the most spacious of all the North Campus dorms. Another big plus: Most rooms have a sink, either in the room itself or connected to an adjacent room.

Named after A.D. White’s mother, Clara Dickson Hall has also held the unusual nickname, “The Big Dick.” The dormitory was originally intended to house only females, but is now co-ed. Almost 500 students can fit in this five-story dormitory making it the largest in the Ivy League. Not quite so conveniently, however, Dickson has only four bathrooms per floor. Dickson is also full of single rooms, a rarity for freshmen at most colleges. Many rooms stand on long hallways with lounges in the middle. Court-Kay-Bauer Hall

Opened in 2001, this residence conveniently features the beloved air conditioning other dormitories lack. While Ithaca does live up to its reputation of frigid winters, cool air is definitely welcome on those first few humid days of school. At its opening, this perk gave the dorm its nickname, “Court Resort.” As one of the most modern dormitories, Court-Kay-Bauer Hall also boasts brightly painted walls and comfortable common areas. But all is fair, or pretty fair, in dormitory life, as the rooms in the Court-KayBauer Community are also known to have walls that are almost paper thin. Mews Hall

Along with Court-Kay-Bauer, Mews Hall represents the latest in dormitories on North Campus. The structure and facilities of the building closely mirror that of Court-Kay-Bauer Hall. Mews also contains 22 lounges, including the spacious, semicircular Lund Lounge that overlooks Rawlings Green.

Traditional activities include a male talent show, ice skating, and a trip to the United Nations. Mews residents also enjoy convenient proximity to Appel Commons, one of two community centers on North Campus. Mary Donlon Hall

Some say that Donlon Hall is “thongshaped,” a description somewhat fitting considering its reputation for being a social dormitory. “Donlon is uniquely situated because of the way the rooms go off into wings. Residents all have to go into the middle for social activity,” Brown said. The majority of the rooms are doubles on co-ed corridors. While most bathrooms are single-sex, there is an occasional co-ed one. Socializing may be a constant for life in Donlon, but the dormitory also has a recently-renovated library on the first floor. The library was repainted and recarpeted, according to Brown, and serves as a quiet and convenient retreat for some serious studying. Low Rises 6 and 7

Step inside the Low Rises and you’ll feel like a rat in a maze. Winding corridors and unexpected turns are the norm in these dormitories. But at the time the buildings were constructed, the Low Rises’ small, somewhat isolated suites were a novel proposition. “The emphasis on building small communities was considered to be a wonderful approach in residential living. The Low Rises were planned from the beginning to serve as an asset in our quest to foster diversity and interaction among and

between our students,” Brown said. Constructed at a time of high economic inflation, the Low Rises were built to be long-standing, according to Brown. A typical suite consists of one bathroom, two double rooms and two single rooms. High Rise 5 and Jameson

In the midst of rural Ithaca, High Rise 5 and Jameson do their best to stir up a bit of urban life with their architectural styles intended to resemble city living. Their organization is very similar to that of the Low Rises, also with suites “designed to foster interactions within the community,” according to Brown. The most distinctive feature of the High Rises is arguably their Sky Lounges. Located on the top floor of each building, they provide an unparalleled panoramic view of North Campus. Townhouse Community

Living in the Townhouses is basically like sharing an apartment. Built in 1989, each has two double rooms and a bathroom — but also a sizable dining room and living room, not to mention a kitchen. While most agree the Townhouses are more secluded than the rest of the North Campus dormitories, their location also makes for a quieter, more private environment. Bus stops located right outside the community come in handy for avoiding the long walk to Central Campus. Despite being on the periphery of North Campus, Townhouse residents are still fully able to participate in all that college life entails. “Residents have access to the Townhouse Community Center [and] also have easy access to Robert Purcell Community Center, just across the street,” Brown said.

Archway | Balch Hall, an all-female dormitory, sits at the front of North Campus, welcoming freshmen through its central arch. Balch is one of the many North Campus dorms to house first-year students.

Program Houses Help Students Pursue Their Passions By SUN STAFF

All Cornellians, including freshmen, may apply to live in program houses, the majority of which are located on North Campus. The houses allow students with an interest in a particular theme to live together. Akwe:kon (pronounced “A-gway-go”) is dedicated to Native American heritage. Its 35 residents share an interest in Native American culture, family and community. Many Akwe:kon members take part in an annual smoke dance and pow-wow. Ninety-six students with a passion for the environment can choose to live in the Ecology House. Typical events include environmental discussions, hikes

and kayaking trips. Located adjacent to West Campus, the Equity and Engagement Living-Learning Community opens opportunities for 35 upperlevel and transfer students to focus on successful education, retention and identity development. Some of the programs offered include discussions and training opportunities on social justice, sexual orientation and gender identity. The Holland International Living Center, more commonly known as HILC, is home to foreign students as well as those interested in global, political, economic, social and cultural issues. Some of the center’s programs include international affairs discussion groups, ice-cream hour and talent shows.

Music lovers at Cornell can choose to live in Just About Music, known appropriately as JAM. The 144 residents range from students who enjoy listening to music to students who sing or play musical instruments. Members of JAM can take advantage of the house’s pianos, drum set, CD library, practice rooms, concert stage, recording studio and weekly listening parties. The Loving House is a section in Mews Hall that can accomodate 30 residents. It aims to enhance the intellectual and cultural enviornment of Cornell in regards to LGBTQ+ and allied community experiences. The only program house situated on West Campus is the Language House, located in the Alice Cook House. The Language

House is open to sophomores through seniors hoping to become fluent in Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin or Spanish. Fifty-seven students interested in Latino culture live in the Latino Learning Center, or LLC, located in Anna Comstock Hall. Each week, in an event called “Café Con Leche,” students discuss issues facing Latino people across the world. Students hoping to learn about other cultures may decide to live in the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, known as McLLU and pronounced “McClue.” This program house is located in Clara Dickson Hall, a freshmen dormitory. Members of McLLU celebrate diversity by holding presentations and festivities centering on their assorted backgrounds.

With 190 residents, Risley Residential College for Creative and Performing Arts is one of the largest program houses on campus and has its own dining hall. Risley is also home to recording and video-editing studios. Some of the programs Risleyites host each year include concerts, shows and art exhibits. Ujamaa — pronounced “oo-jama” — is home to 140 students who share an interest in black history and culture. The name Ujamaa comes from a Ki-Swahilian word that roughly translates to “a community that works together as a family.” The house also focuses on advancing the academic and professional goals of its residents. Ujamaa’s members engage in discussion, hold dances and work with many social-action groups.

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Student Clubs Cater to Varied Interests A sampling of C.U.’s wide array of extracurricular activities

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If your schedule has not been sufficiently crammed with lectures, work, parties, meals and sleep, you might want to look into joining a club to fill those few extra minutes each week. Cornell has a niche for virtually every interest, no matter how esoteric. Whether you’re an aspiring guitarist or an expert knitter, it is likely you will be able to find a group of like-minded students with whom to share your passion. Below is a sampling of some of the more prominent clubs on campus. Political and Activist Groups

The Cornell Democrats and the Cornell Republicans represent the two major political parties on campus, each engaging in its own brand of activism and spreading awareness of political issues. A number of other campus groups focus on more specific political issues. Amnesty International’s Cornell chapter promotes awareness of human rights abuses throughout the world through a series of campaigns, each of which publicizes a specific area of injustice. Music and a Capella Groups

Cornell offers dozens of outlets for those looking to express their musical creativity. You won’t be able to turn a corner the first couple weeks of class without seeing a flier for an a capella tryout or a chalking pointing you in the direction of band auditions. The

University chorus, jazz ensembles, symphonic band, marching band, symphony orchestra and glee club are all open to the musically inclined. There are more than a dozen for prospective members to choose from, each with a unique style. Passionate about music but not one for singing? The Cornell Concert Commission organizes most of the major musical events that happen on campus, having brought such big-name acts as Wavves, Modest Mouse, Young Thug and Icona Pop in recent years. Or, check out the Fanclub Collective, which hosts independent and local acts such as Interpol and the Microphones. WVBR is a popular rock radio station that serves the entire Ithaca area and is staffed largely by students. Volunteers receive free training on the station’s equipment and can get on the air as disc jockeys, sportscasters or newscasters. Publications The Cornell Daily Sun is the campus daily newspaper, but there are other publications, too. The Cornell Review offers conservative commentary on local and national issues. Its liberal counterpart is The Cornell Progressive. Had enough political commentary? Lighten up by reading CUNooz, Cornell’s online humor publication. Their website is updated regularly with articles ranging from the satirical to the downright absurd.

Comedy and Drama Groups

For students who want to spend their years at Cornell in the spotlight, the Risley Theatre group gives members the opportunity to participate in all stages of a dramatic production. Whether you’re looking to act, direct, choreograph, construct sets, manage sound or create costumes, it’s likely Risley Theatre can use your skills. The comedy troupe Skits-OPhrenics puts on several sketch comedy shows each year and plans to hold auditions for new members this fall. If you’re in the mood for a more off-the-cuff style of humor, check out the Whistling Shrimp, Cornell’s improv comedy group. Governing Groups

Each year, dozens of budding student politicians vie for seats on Cornell’s student governing body, the Student Assembly. The S.A. meets weekly in Willard Straight Hall to discuss issues and pass resolutions on behalf of the student body, addressing topics that range from Cornell’s public image to Slope Day regulations. For those with political ambitions on a larger scale, the Cornell Model United Nations gives students the opportunity to represent a country at a mock meeting of the U.N., with awards for those who engage in the most persuasive debate. The Panhellenic Association, Multicultural Greek Letter

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Break it down | Members of Bhangra, an Indian-inspired dance group, perform in Barton Hall.

Council and the Interfraternity Council are the main governing bodies of the Greek community, which includes more than 60 chapters and encompasses 30 percent of the student body. The three councils arrange social, educational and recreational programs, as well as establish and enforce guidelines for Cornell Greek chapters. Academic and Miscellaneous Groups

If you found yourself inspired by the Mars rover missions, you can take part in your own cosmic exploration with the Cornell Astronomical Society. Fed up with classes? Take your frustration out in the Cornell Debate Society. Or, for more kinetic ways to de-stress, try your hand at Bhangra, an Indian dance troupe,

or Yamatai, a taiko drumming group. Looking to get your inner nerd on? Head on over to the Chess Club’s meetings to practice checking your mates. The Cornell Baking Club welcomes all of those with a passion for the culinary arts. The baking club holds monthly meetings to discuss recipes and techniques and plans to host guest lecturers and trips to local bakeries during the coming year. There’s also the Baja SAE Racing Team, which designs and races a new decked-out car every year. The team is responsible for all aspects of designing, building, testing and even financing the project. Also be sure to attend Cornell’s Club Fest in September to check out the hundreds of other student groups on campus.

GREEKLife One Third of the Big Red: The Greek System By SUN STAFF

With a third of Cornell students in one of nearly 70 Greek chapters on campus, the Greek system is a major part of Cornell’s social life.

From the very start of their Cornell careers, students encounter members of Cornell’s Greek society who help freshman move into their dorms, volunteering as “movers and shakers.” To protect incoming fresh-

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Helping out | Volunteers involved in Greek life help transplant trees at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.

men from bias, Greeks cannot promote their houses to incoming freshmen. Unofficial rush for males, however, starts immediately as fraternity members, in particular, encourage the new students to come to parties at their Collegetown annexes — houses where many of the brothers of the same fraternity live — in order to recruit new members. Based on Greeks’ participation in Orientation Week, freshmen may perceive them as a group of community volunteers who hold parties with free alcohol. This perception holds some truth — community service is a major aspect of Greek life. Many of Cornell’s Greek chapters participate in Ithaca-based projects, such as the Tompkins County Advocacy Center. Social events are also a large part of the Greek experience, with chapters planning their own parties, formals and football tailgates. Cornell’s Greek system also

allows students to emerge as leaders within their respective chapters. Elected officers must run meetings, organize events and handle finances. Chapter presidents must learn to motivate their members, treasurers must handle complex budgets and recruitment chairs must carry out strategic recruitment campaigns. Despite the leadership skills that the Greek system fosters, some incoming freshmen may worry about how their academic performance will be affected if they decide to join a fraternity or sorority. Many chapters hold study hours and give out awards or scholarships to members for outstanding academic achievement. Each spring, individual chapters are honored for academic excellence by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs. In the past, freshmen traditionally had their first experience with the Greek system through open parties, but rules imple-

mented in 2011 have reduced the ability of freshmen to attend these kinds of events. Freshmen are now banned from open parties, regulated at the door by the use of scanners that read student ID cards. IFC rules prohibit the consumption of hard alcohol during registered events, so all alcohol served at fraternity parties should be in the form of beer or wine. To get a true sense of Greek life, freshmen can choose to take part in Spring Rush 2019. All fraternities and sororities participate in spring recruitment, in which freshmen can talk with members about Greek life in a more relaxed and intimate setting. Rush differs for men and women. Sorority rush follows a strict schedule in which potential new members visit every sorority. For men, rush is more casual, as freshmen can choose the houses they want to visit and interact with members in a much more relaxed setting.

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Glimpses Of Collegetown Just off campus, past the law school and over a stone bridge spanning Cascadilla Creek, lies Collegetown, a lively gathering place for Cornellians. Here students can find cheap food, bars, entertainment and basic necessities. Many upperclassmen choose to live in Collegetown’s houses and high-rise apartment buildings. SIMON TARANTO / SUN FILE PHOTO

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CITY GUIDE From the outside, it’s hard to understand the allure of the city Cornell calls home. Herbert F. But Ithaca, with all its quirks and eccentricities, is full of opportunities for exploring Johnson Museum of and having fun. Art

The heart and soul of downtown Ithaca is called the Commons. Three city blocks in the center of downtown were made into a pedestrian mall in the 1970s, and ever since, the Commons have been a hubbub of shops, cafés and restaurants. After multiple years of renovations, the Commons reopened in August 2015 with new benches and sculptures, as well as more extensive lighting and a more easily accessible central walkway. Retail options range from jewelry stores and bookshops to a branch of the Cornell Store that opened two years ago. If you’re hungry after a long day out and about, the restaurants on the Commons offer everything from Mediterranean to Thai, whatever your taste may be. ANDY JOHNSON / SUN FILE PHOTO

Though there are plenty of great dining options, some restaurants have become Ithaca icons for Cornell students. Moosewood Restaurant, which made its name in the ’60s Commons with its world-famous organic vegetarian cookbook, sits on Seneca Street and still Redesign serves the same perennial cuisine. Glenwood Pines, on Route 89 near Taughannock Falls State Park, serves what it calls the world-famous Pinesburger and offers a beautiful view over Cayuga Lake. Viva Taqueria on the Commons offers dine-in and carry-out options for those in need of a good fix of Mexican cuisine. If you are into museums, more than a few can be found nestled within Ithaca’s tree-lined boundaries. The Sciencenter on Route 13 is geared toward younger kids, but still provides fun exhibits for the college-aged crowd. The Museum of the Earth, located on Trumansburg Road, is part of the Paleontological Research Institution and features a treasure trove of fossils and dinosaur bones. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, just off the Arts Quad on Central Campus, houses works by masters from the ancient world to now, and also features a rotating of temporary exhibitions. Buttermilk For bird lovers and nature enthusiasts in general, Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology pro- Falls vides a fun, educational experience.

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Though most still call it by its old name, the Pyramid Mall, The Shops at Ithaca is the biggest mall in town, and it does its utmost to flatter your inner fashionista’s ego. The Shops also features a newly-renovated movie theater. On the other hand, Destiny USA, also known by its previous name, the Carousel Mall, is the largest mall in New York State. It is touted as the mall everyone goes to when they realize that the Pyramid Mall just cannot fulfill their needs. Skiing probably had nothing to do with your decision to come to Cornell, but Greek Peak, just 30 minutes away in Cortland, is the best ski area in the region. With a special deal, you can get student-priced season passes for less than the regular price. The Ski and Snowboard Club provides weekly shuttles to Greek Peak during Ithaca part of the winter. Farmers’ As far as grocery stores are concerned, there’s always Wegmans, a supermarket that, at the same time, is so much more than a supermarket. Those not from around from New York may be surprised at its size and the amount of ready-cooked available. Even though Wegmans — located on Route 13 — is a 15 minute drive from campus, it’s not unusual to see Cornellians flocking there on evenings and weekends. An altenative is the GreenStar Natural Foods Market, which opened a branch on College Avenue in Collegetown two summers ago.

Market

Several wineries line Seneca and Cayuga lakes, providing fertile ground for wine tours. Of course, you have to be 21 to sample the wines, so it’s more usual for upperclassmen to take excursions into wine country. For those of age, though, the wine region — often compared to Napa Valley in California — is well worth a visit. Apple Right off Route 13 on Steamboat Landing is the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, where local vendors sell delicious food, wine and seasonal produce. Open April through December on Saturdays and Sundays, it is a destination worth checking out, whether you are environmentally conscious or not. Throughout the year, the Commons plays host to a number of different celebrations at which students and residents of Ithaca commingle. In October, Apple Fest brings orchards and entertainers downtown, and participants sample every type of apple concoction you can think of. In February, Chilifest turns the Commons into a bustling fair filled with the aromas from local restaurants as they bring their A-game chili to be taste-tested in public. In the summer, Ithaca Festival celebrates Ithaca itself, with all its quirks included, with a parade and entertainment around town.

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Best Place to Grab a Cup of Coffee: TEMPLE OF ZEUS The Temple of Zeus embodies everything that a college student could want in a coffee joint. The cafe’s prime location on the Arts Quad makes for a convenient coffee break, a great meeting spot to work or wind down with friends and a fabulous study spot after a tiring class. Furthermore, the cafe’s all-white ambiance creates a bright and uplighting study environment. The marble tables and wooden chairs make for an aesthetic that virtually all Cornellians can appreciate. Although Zeus’ tables are usually filled most weekday afternoons, a table CAMERON POLLACK / SUN FILE PHOTO in the Klarman atrium is worth the wait. In regard to the coffee itself, you honestly can’t go wrong. Options range from espresso drinks to kombucha, and if you’re lucky, your drink may be blessed with latte art. And don’t forget to try the food! The cafe’s sandwiches and soups are not only delicious, but fresh. Whether you are a student in Arts & Sciences or not, Zeus has become a favorite for Cornellians of all persuasions and occupations.

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THIS IS CORNELL, and this is Ithaca. We curse it for its multitude of inclines and frequent snowfall. We praise it for its vibrant, quirky locale and natural beauty. Yet we often fall so deeply into the routine of papers, projects and prelims that we tend to forget about our surroundings altogether. The Best of Cornell, a collaboration by the staff of Sunspots (the Blogs department of The Sun), aims to spotlight a few of the noteworthy attractions of Cornell and the city of Ithaca. We present to you the results of a survey within Sunspots’ staff. This list is by no means exhaustive; we hope to stimulate discussion and thought. But most of all, we hope this compilation will inspire a newfound appreciation for all that Cornell and Ithaca have to offer.

Place to Spend Your BRBs: IVY ROOM

— Compiled by Olivia Faulhaber

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Best Grocery Store: WEGMANS

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Sunday afternoon at Wegmans is a veritable social scene: upperclassmen, freshmen straight off the TCAT and Ithacans alike flock to this brick monolith to obtain not only weekly staples, but also the obscure Italian sausage or fancy cheese for a special get-together. The perpetually packed parking lot of the 24-hour national chain says it all: no other grocer in Ithaca has as wide a range of offerings as good ol’ Weggos. Though their organization can be a bit unpredictable (why is one package of noodles available in seven separate aisles?), their selection — ranging from international foodstuffs to 4 for $4 avocados to gourmet chocolate — can’t be beat. Plus, after you’ve collected your week’s worth of cooking ZACH STEELE / SUN FILE PHOTO ingredients, you can avoid actually cooking them by sashaying over to their convenient restaurant (ranked #2 out of 202 in all of Ithaca on TripAdvisor) for a gourmet meal.

We go to an Ivy League university. You’ve probably been telling yourself that since you got accepted, but it does wonders for inflating your ego to remind yourself of that. Why shouldn’t we surround ourselves with ivy? It’s crawling up the walls of the towers and dorms we know and love, so it’s probably a great assurance to know that there’s an Ivy Room, too. There isn’t actually any ivy growing in there, but the name should be enough to encourage you to check it out. The Ivy Room is like the classier, more appetizing half-sibling of Okenshields, and whether you’ve got some time to spare for lunch at midday or want to head down the stairs in Willard Straight in the evening, you won’t go away disappointed. They specialize in all-day omelettes, burgers cooked on the spot, New York style pizza, and Pan-Asian cuisine, whatever strikes your fancy. I can’t think of a place on campus that manages to give you so much bang for your Big Red Buck: the lines aren’t nearly as crazy as elsewhere, the fare is fast but fantastic, and the decor in the seating area is appropriately antique, offering beautiful views facing down the slope and across the breadth of the edge of Central Campus. Give it a try!

— Compiled by Christina Xu

Place to Visit: BOTANIC GARDENS

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— Compiled by Griffin Smith-Nichols

With over 4,000 acres of beautifully dynamic landscape, the Cornell Botanic Gardens is a wonderful place to visit, especially when the much-awaited seasons of spring and fall grace Ithaca. The breathtaking plant biodiversity — the gardens offer a collection of grasses, herbs, flowers, vegetables, rhododendrons and vines, to name a few — will provide intrigue, calm and rejuvenation to any awful day. Starting your visit with the twelve specialty gardens located at the heart of the grounds — which surround the stunning Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center — is highly recommended. In addition to interpretive exhibits, a reception desk and an inclusive array of snacks, the Welcome Center also houses a Garden Gift Shop with fascinating souvenirs, such as a $12.99 “yoga” rabbit figurine eternally frozen in the Downward Dog position (if you’re interested, the figurine is also available online through The Cornell Store!). The Botanic Gardens are open from dawn to dusk, all year, and if you’re up for it, guided tours are also available. So if you would like a breath of fresh air, charming scenery and a better understanding and appreciation of biological diversity, then waste no time and head over to the gardens!

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Choose Your Study-Dungeon An Introduction to Cornell’s Libraries

Uris Library By SUN STAFF

Cornell is home to more than a dozen libraries. With so many to choose from, your choice of library depends as much what you’re looking for as on what kind of person you are: every single one has a personality of its own. Uris

Uris Library has been dubbed “Club Uris” by students who can make light of the fact that, on any given Sunday through Thursday night, the Cocktail Lounge is the place to be (cocktails not included). Uris Library is directly adjacent to McGraw Tower. Along with Olin, it houses thousands of books, and plenty of carrels and quiet places in which to read them. Uris Library is open 24 hours a day, Sunday through Thursday. You read that right: students can make their party rounds and then get right back to Club Uris to burn the midnight oil with some after-hours studying. With 24-hour access, why bother paying rent? Bring a sleeping bag and a toothbrush, and you’re set! Olin and Kroch

For those looking for more of a lounge

than a club, Olin Library may be the place for you. Although in use at all hours of the night like its neighbor Uris, Olin still keeps its doors open up to 2 a.m. Olin has its other charms, too: it is one of Cornell’s primary research libraries, complete with its own periodical room. The Amit Bhatia Libe Café on the main level is home to Iced Skim Sugar-Free Vanilla Latte (or, as Libe employs say it, “The Long Island”) and the best chocolate brownies in the Finger Lakes. The decor in Olin is newer and homier than it is at Uris, but a word to the wise: get there early. On a Saturday morning, you might find a line of eager students waiting to get the best seating spots next to the windows. Attached to Olin is Kroch Library, which houses both the Asia Collections and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Be aware: any noise above a whisper here is verboten. Mann

One of the steady workhorses of Cornell’s libraries is Mann, which serves the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology. Mann sits on the far side of the Ag Quad. Its ends-of-the-earth location, made worse by Ithaca’s cold winter weath-

er, makes studying there a trek too far for some students, but the more determined recommend its spacious halls for this very reason. Maybe it’s worth the trip just to get a tasty drink or treat from Manndible Café in the front lobby. The café, however, does not accept Big Red Bucks, like everywhere else worthwhile in life. Engineering

Carpenter Hall houses a 24/7 study space, and as you would expect, it has an enormous computer lab. Libraries are constantly available for research help via the virtual library. Law

With its beautiful arched ceiling, the Law Library in Myron Taylor Hall has been compared to Hogwarts Castle. But beware: all those serious law students like their peace and quiet. Catherwood

Catherwood Library, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations Library, located in Ives Hall, is a daytime hotspot with new furnishings. Nestlé

The students in the School of Hotel Administration may spend much of their time in “real world” learning situations, but even they need to study, too. The

Nestlé Library in Statler Hall’s Marriott Student Learning Center has assembled the largest collection of hospitality academic resources in the world, and it has a more social atmosphere than the typical study space. Fine Arts

The Fine Arts Library can be found on the third floor of Rand Hall, and it’s open until 11 p.m. five days a week. It offers the greatest concentration of resources on some of Cornell’s more creative fields: the practice and history of art, architecture, and city and regional planning. AAP students can borrow tons of equipment for multimedia production and presentations, like cameras, tripods, light kits, backdrops, digital audio recorders, speakers, microphones and more. Off the Beaten Path

Though some specialized spaces such as the Physical Sciences Library were closed due to budget cuts, remaining facilities include libraries for Africana studies, management and math. In Lincoln Hall’s Music Library, a curious student can peruse resources and listen to recordings of musicians from The Beatles to Tupac Shakur.

Cornell Health Serves Student Body’s Health Needs By SUN STAFF

Oops! Did you just sprain your ankle tripping over all the stuff you’ve crammed into your new dorm room? Trying to even out the rapid muscle growth in your calves from climbing the slope? Is beginning college finally the right time to quit smoking? Do you suspect you might have the flu? Welcome to Cornell. The next four years will, for the most part, be an exciting and rewarding experience, but what you probably want to know right now is where you can get a refill for your allergy medication. Before you start to panic, here’s a quick overview of the health and psychological services available at Cornell. Keep this in mind so you know where to turn

when the midnight pizzas start to take a toll on your body, and so you know that there are many resources to help you when the stress and pressure of being a college student becomes too much to handle. Cornell’s one-stop shop for health problems is Cornell Health, previously known as Gannett Health Services. Located on Ho Plaza, Cornell Health is the primary care provider of medical services for all enrolled students, as well as other members of the Cornell community. Cornell Health provides many services ranging from allergy treatment and immunizations to general medical health care. The health care center can also provide you with information and listings for Ithaca-area

doctors such as dentists and optometrists. Cornell Health can conduct most X-ray examinations as well as most of the laboratory tests that may be prescribed by your doctor during a medical visit. A pharmacy is also located in the building so that you can fill your prescriptions on campus. Through its Sports Medicine program, Cornell Health provides primary care services to all the University’s athletes. It also provides physical therapy services for members of the entire Cornell community. In addition, Cornell Health offers many services to take care of your sexual health needs, programs to help smokers quit and an extensive array of counseling and support services.

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Big Red doctors | The Cornell Health center on Ho Plaza offers medical services and health counseling to the Cornell community.

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Hidden Treasures at Cornell

An insider’s guide to unique opportunities inside and outside of the classroom By SUN STAFF

The following is a guide to intriguing things that you won’t want to miss learning about during your time on the Hill. Relationships 101

Ever wonder what went wrong in that last relationship or worry about how the sex has gone bad after a few months? Or wake up on a Sunday morning and lament, “What was I thinking last night?” Next time you have these questions, turn to Human Development 3620: Human Bonding instead of those relationship crib sheets, Cosmopolitan and Maxim. Students Drink for Credit

Once a week for two hours, around

as part of dress,” said the collection’s curator, Prof. Charlotte Jirousek, textiles and apparel. Inside the Particle Accelerator

Something is buried under Cornell’s playing fields. Fifty feet below the surface of the earth, next to Wilson Lab, there is a ring-shaped tunnel roughly half a mile in circumference. Here, scientists work day and night to unlock the secrets of the universe. Sound like an urban legend or the plot of a science-fiction movie? It’s not. It’s the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics’ particle accelerator. The LEPP, once known as the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, opened soon after World War II. It has gone through several different phases over the years, and the current facility was con-

beating his wife and daughter to death as well as poisoning his sister-in-law and niece. Rulloff’s Restaurant and Bar in Collegetown is named after him. Rare Manuscripts

A journey through time to the year 2000 B.C., is still beyond the scope of modern technology. However, seeing clay tablets from 4,000 years ago only requires a journey to the library. The Rare and Manuscript Collections in Kroch Library is open to everyone and includes tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing as well as handwritten manuscripts from the medieval period, an original copy of the Gettysburg Address and everything in between. According to the Cornell University Library website, the collections consist of “400,000 printed volumes, more than 70 million manuscripts and another million photographs, paintings, prints and other visual media.” The collection is also home to the Cornell University Archives, which documents the history of the University and the Ithaca area. Ancient Artifacts

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Professor Nye | Bill Nye ’77 sits in the office of Prof. Jim Bell. In an interview with The Sun, Nye discussed the Mars Pathfinder and his undergraduate experiences at Cornell. From 2001 to 2006, Nye served as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor at the University. 700 Cornell students will get credit for imbibing alcohol. No, this isn’t a cheap trick by the School of Hotel Administration to increase enrollment. The students are enrolled in the Hotel School’s two-credit Hotel Administration 4430: Introduction to Wines, and they are probably not getting drunk on the six one-ounce wine samples they get in class. Lecture topics include flavor components in wine, how to pair wine and food and wine etiquette. Collection for the Fashion-Conscious

Many college students spend a lot of time thinking about their clothing. But even though they may spend hours searching for the right outfit to wear to a job interview or party, they only see the outfit as part of their wardrobe. In the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, however, clothing has become a part of history. The costume collection currently hosts approximately 9,000 items. There is a significant ethnographic collection featuring traditional dress from many different parts of the world as well as a textile collection featuring quilts, tapestries and wall hangings. However, the majority of the collection is fashion-related. It features clothing dating as far back as the 18th century up to modern times. Basically, it’s “anything from the skin out that you might wear, or carry, or use

structed in 1979. The particle accelerator runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the exception of maintenance and improvement periods. The cost of energy, maintenance, equipment and staff salaries is covered by an annual budget of approximately $20 million. At this point, students who don’t know much about physics are probably asking what the facility actually does. Prof. David G. Cassel, physics, associate director of LEPP, was more than happy to answer that question. “It accelerates particles,” he said with a smile. Your Very Own Brain Collection

The display of human brains, particularly those identified with specific individuals, evokes a variety of reactions: horror, distaste, curiosity and fascination. Experiencing this first-hand only involves a short trip to Uris Hall’s second floor, where a display case features Cornell’s Wilder Brain Collection. The collection, which at one time featured 1,600 animal and human brains, was established in the 1880s by Dr. Burt Green Wilder, Cornell’s first zoologist. The University stopped accepting additional brains in 1940, and at present, only 70 remain. One of the brains on display is that of Edward Rulloff, a man hanged in Ithaca in 1871. Rulloff was convicted of

With air raid curtains from the 1940s hanging in the windows and decorative pillars left over from the museum that once occupied its place, McGraw 150 is itself a part of history. The décor is fitting for a room that currently houses Cornell’s anthropology collection. The collection, which has existed in some form since 1868, contains artifacts from all over the world and spans roughly half a million years of human history. The collection was started by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White and was once housed in a natural history museum at Cornell. According to Prof. David Holmberg, former chair of the anthropology department, when the museum closed some time during World War II, its displays were either moved to other areas or put into storage. What hadn’t been claimed by the Johnson Museum or the geology collection then “came under the responsibility of the Department of Anthropology,” Holmberg said. Science Guy

Although he’s currently quite fond of talking about climate change, Bill Nye ’77 keeps the periodic table close to his heart. Or at least close to his hip, where he always carries a credit card-sized version of it around in his wallet. Although the public knows him best for his television show Bill Nye the Science Guy, Nye served from 2001 to 2006 as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 University Professor. During that time, students could spot Nye cycling around campus — his preferred form of transportation — on a bike borrowed from Prof. Jim Bell, astronomy. After the two met in a chance encounter, Bell invited Nye to become a visiting professor and they have worked together ever since. Nye periodically visits Cornell to guest lecture and

meet with students. Nye still holds high regard for his alma mater. In an interview with The Sun in 2005, he lauded the University’s strengths in a number of areas. He also spoke at Convocation this past May. “Cornell planetary science is as good as anybody — we’re exploring Mars,” he said. “The mathematics department seems as good as anybody’s. And another thing: Ezra Cornell, whoever he was, wanted to have women here from the get-go, and the other institutions that we compete with were not that way at all. And I think that tradition of ‘any person, any study’ is still around.” Magical Mushrooms

Fascinated by fungi? Take one of Cornell’s most popular courses, Plant Pathology 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Taught by Prof. Kathie Hodge, plant pathology, the class, which focuses on how mold and fungi have impacted social and political structure throughout the course of history, has been featured in Rolling Stone. Despite the seemingly esoteric nature of the topic, the course has grown primarily through word of mouth and its accessibility to non-scientists. Secret Garden

Although its peak season runs from May to September, the Cornell botanic gardens remain open from dawn to dusk throughout the year. Visitors can picnic, hike or play in any of the 14 gardens. Some classes even take field trips to examine the beautiful plants. For those who want to know exactly which flowers and trees they are passing, free guided tours take place in the gardens during certain months. For Whom the Bell Tolls

161 steps up McGraw Tower, next to Uris library, is the home of the famous Cornell chimes. Chimesmasters play concerts on the 21 chimes three times a day. During these times, visitors are welcome to walk up and request a song. The afternoon concert typically closes with the Alma Mater, while the nighttime concert ends with Cornell’s Evening Song. At the beginning of each semester, there is a competition in which new chimesmasters are selected. Chimes concerts also take place to mark special occasions, and people can pay for additional concerts, such as during weddings at Cornell’s Sage Chapel. Between concerts, a machine makes the chimes go off to mark time every 15 minutes from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m.

Pensive | John Cleese — the famed Monty Python actor — often visits Cornell to dole out his sage advice.

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History of Street Food at Cornell: Two Trucks. Two Legacies. By SUN STAFF

With all members of the freshman class living on North Campus, Louie’s Lunch sees many young faces lined up expectantly awaiting a sandwich, milkshake or cup of coffee. Since the upperclass students are often not on North campus, Dos Amigos became their go to stop for good street food. Especially with the recent closing of former legendary street vendor the Hot Truck, Dos Amigos is seeing increased traffic. After some polling, it became clear a few years ago that sophomores and freshmen preferred Louie’s Lunch. Conversely, juniors and seniors were more likely to provide other answers such as Dos Amigos. While Dos Amigos and Louie’s Lunch are dominating the street food scene, students still have other food truck options. Splitting its time between North Campus and Collegetown is the truck That’s How I Roll. This truck specializes in sushi burritos otherwise dubbed

HISTORY: Though many people seem to believe that the Hot Truck is older, Louie’s Lunch has, in fact, been serving the Cornell community since 1918. Of course, at that time the establishment didn’t have anything even remotely close to the menu it has today and was not actually a truck. It wasn’t until the early 1920s that Louie’s moved into a truck. Louie’s still bears the name of its first proprietor, who took a cart around the North Campus area selling sandwiches to hungry members of the Greek community. Since that time, the truck has become a mainstay of the intersection at Thurston Avenue and Wait Avenue. In the past, the truck used to visit various locations, but for the sake of convenience, it has remained in its current position for longer than just about anyone can remember. Indeed, that stretch of curb looks awfully naked during the winter break and over the summer when Louie’s isn’t in service.

“sushi-ritos.” They have classic sushi combinations as well as vegetarian options in addition to customizable poke bowls. If you are able to get off campus and are in the mood for a hearty bowl of pasta, then look no further than Circus Truck. Parked at 720 W. Green Street, this mobile eatery offers a selection of pastas, sauces and specials. If you miss the Hot Truck, which formerly parked on West Campus, venture downtown to Shortstop Deli on W. Seneca Street which serves all of the Hot Truck’s menu items 24-7. Regardless of operation, both Louie’s Lunch and Dos Amigos hold a place in Cornell history. With our bellies full of parmesan cheese and our notebooks filled with items from the menu, we are proud to bring you a rundown of each of these Cornell staples. Please note, Dos Amigos recently opened up a restaurant in Collegetown. This brick and mortar space will undoubtedly be packed every day with taco fans from across campus. #EatLocal

HISTORY: David Farahi ’16 and Jorge Bouras ’17 were the men behind the innovation known now as Dos Amigos. Both west coast natives studying at Cornell, Farahi and Bouras found themselves craving Mexican food. And they became frustrated with the lack of options for them in Collegetown and Ithaca at large. Their desire for high quality tacos became so intense that they decided to take it upon themselves to handle this shortage. On August 23, 2015, they opened the food truck Dos Amigos. Dos Amigos quickly became an Ithaca staple, splitting time between Eddy Gate and Thurston Avenue. They served food at Cornell homecomings and Greek Life formals. The quality of their food is undeniable. Now, Dos Amigos has opened a brick and mortar place in Collegetown. Taco ’bout expansion!

THE EATS: One of the most interesting things about Dos Amigos is the menu. It is also one of the things that makes grubbing at Dos Amigos such an experience. Most of the items on the menu are named after famous hip hop stars. Go order there today and see if you can spot your favorite lyricists on the menu.

THE EATS: Unlike the Hot Truck, Louie’s offers a lot more than subs — complete with milkshakes, coffee, breakfast sandwiches, condoms and cigars, Louie’s business depends on a lot more than its sandwiches. Louie’s also offers a variety of sandwiches, including standard parms, and it can also whip up a grilled cheese and some french fries, if that’s your pleasure.

BEST BETS:

Philly Cheese Steak Chicken Parmesan Cajun Fries Mozzarella Sticks BBQ Beef Chef Salad

Childish Gambeano The Chronic Salsa Guacka Flocka Flame Destiny’s Chicken Pig Boi Notorious P.I.G.

THE SUN’S PICK:

Egg and cheese breakfast sandwich with hash browns

Roastface Killah is The Sun’s go to. It’s a marinated and seared flank steak quesadilla.

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Traditions | Student Guide | Page 15

Enter the Dragon: Architects Unleash a Beast By MOLLY O’TOOLE Former Sun News Editor

It was 1 p.m. the day before Spring Break, and campus seemed as silent as the steadily falling snow subtly frosting the arts quad. The bells of McGraw tower, glowing green the night before, began to peal, breaking the quiet concentration of the Cornell campus. Their song seemed a calling, as winter jacket, hat and scarf began to emerge from every building, path and corner in greater numbers. What brought these people together, to stand so patiently on a deserted day in the spring snow? The answer was not long coming. From between Olin and Uris Libraries a crowd of people spilled out onto the undisturbed snow of the Quad. And they kept coming. And coming. Soon, students, townspeople, faculty and security formed a lively parade marching through campus. Suddenly, a skeletal structure reared its head — here, whether on a clear spring day or in the midst of a winter weather watch — the infamous mascot of Cornell’s annual Dragon Day comes out of its cave in Rand Hall, to wreak havoc every spring for the past hundred years. Dragon Day is a tradition dating back more than 100 years at Cornell. According to the University Archives, though the first date is not exactly known, the Dragon Day tradition was begun by the equally infamous Willard Straight class of 1901, who himself was an architecture student. “From his early [days] as a freshman, he developed a reputation as a prankster, leader and developer of class unity,” states the Archives.

Straight believed there should be a day set aside specifically for the architecture students, a “College of Architecture Day.” A man known for making ideas into reality, Straight chose St. Patrick’s Day. Evidence in a letter to Straight’s widow as early as 1920 shows the struggle between administration and students regarding the festivities. In the past it has forbidden Dragon Day for a variety of reasons, mainly safety-related. The conflict with the administration regarding the tradition, though, is not as prominent today. As the dragon made its way through the quad to a taped-off area in front of Sibley, the parade spread out and gathered around, enveloping the beast. The structure stood impressively — it required over two dozen students, dressed in white jumpsuits, to maneuver its flexible parts by means of a structure of metal rods, which they held onto as they pushed the dragon along the parade route. The dragon itself was created entirely of bamboo and rope, bound together in a simple but impressive design. The length of the dragon’s body, arranged in this way, appeared to be bare bamboo bones, like the skeleton of an ancient Jurassic beast come to life and broken loose from a museum. Architecture students in fine array ran circles around the beast, which lay silent and steadfast, awaiting its fate. Cries of “dragon, dragon!” and “give me a D!” permeated the otherwise quiet atmosphere, with the exception of beating drums that gave the experience a feel of tribal sacrifice. One almost felt sorry for the creature. Representatives of the Cornell Police

and Ithaca Fire Departments could be seen mingled amongst the students, much to the latter’s delight. Authorities were taunted throughout the process, but there was a general air of good humor. Kathy Zoner, chief of Cornell Police, has overseen the festivities for many years. She explained that the process that goes into the event is not the work of one day but many weeks of planning, working closely with the architecture students to ensure overall safety. She described the day as a success, due to a lack of injuries. “If there were any, they were self-inflict-

ed,” she laughed. She emphasized that a safe atmosphere is to the greatest benefit of all. Onlookers began trickling away as firemen put the hose to the blackened remains of the once-great beast. Perhaps they went to warm up and regain feeling in their frozen extremities, or perhaps they went to get started on further beginning-of-springbreak celebrations. Regardless, it was clear as smoke furled into the gray sky that the spirit of the dragon, and of this campus, cannot be quenched, and some traditions, like Dragon Day, never die.

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ROAR! | The Dragon Day festivities that occur every spring are some of the most anticipated events on campus.

The Evolution of the Slope Day Tradition at Cornell By SUN STAFF

For most of the year, the steep hike from West Campus to Central is considered a nuisance on the way to class. Yet at the end of the school year, Libe Slope is transformed into the venue for Slope Day, Cornell’s beloved end of the year celebration. Each year, the Slope Day

Planning Board works hard to select the entertainers, whose identities are kept a closely guarded secret until about a month before the big day. For this reason, trying to guess the performers has become a favorite activity for many Cornellians waiting for classes to end. The tradition traces its roots back to 1901, when it was known

as Spring Day. The celebration morphed to Spring Fest before coming to its current incarnation: Slope Day. Unlike the festivities students have enjoyed in recent years, Spring Day hosted attractions like fire-eaters, snake-charmers, cowboys, Indians and sailors on the Arts Quad. Spring Day was known as one of Cornell’s first

THE NEW YORK TIMES

No longer just a dream | Nelly, the hip-hop artist of many students’ youths, performed as the headliner on Slope Day in May 2011.

excuses to cancel class in the name The next incarnation of of mass debauchery. Slope Day, known as Springfest, The original springtime appeared in the late 1970s. More changes to Slope Day carnival originated because of financial strains to the Uni- occurred in 1985 when the legal drinking age versity Athletic changed from 18 Association. To save the Big Recent Slope Day Performers to 21. Red’s sports After the 2017: S’natra, Brasstracks, Big teams, drama drinking age Gigantic, MisterWives clubs and musichanged, the 2018: Dreezy, Young Bombs, University cal groups organized a benefit stopped serving Galantis concert. The alcohol at the 2019: Cousin Stizz, EZI, event strugevent, though Steve Aoki gled at the box students showoffice, but maned up with their aged to inspire an impromptu own. “In the years that followed ... a parade to draw attention to the number of students were treated concert. The performance was so for alcohol related emergencies,” well-attended that both the con- said Tim Marchell ’82, director cert and the parade were repeated of mental health initiatives at the following year, and the cel- Cornell Health. In response to the emergenebration before the show raised more money than the produc- cies, the University attempted to tion. From then on, Spring Day end Slope Day in the early 1990s. As an alternative, a Universitybecame a campus-wide custom. At the brink of the first World organized event was offered on War, many Cornellians believed North Campus. Since 2003, Slope Day has that they had celebrated their last Spring Day. However, after maintained a new format that World War II, the celebration includes live entertainment. For years, Slope Day was held returned with the moniker on the last day of classes. But “Spring Weekend.” Due to protests and unrest begining in 2014, Slope Day was that plagued the University in the held the day after the last day of early 1960s, the celebration was classes due to changes in the acacanceled in 1963. demic calendar.

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C.U. on the Hill

COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS

By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard the university’s favorite pun: “C.U. on the Hill,” be it from a campus brochure or university email. What you may not know is that there is literally a C.U. on the hill upon which North Campus is built. I haven’t been able to officially verify this information, but I’ve heard that Balch and Dickson (two of the larger freshman dorms) were supposed to be connected to form a mega dorm, which never actually happened. The reason behind this is that from a bird’s eye view, Dickson looks like a “C” and Balch looks like a “U,” and because the two are adjacent to each other, they give an overall effect of a “C.U.” on North Campus. Of course, C.U. stands for Cornell University, and if you want to see this for yourself before arriving in August, then I suggest you consult Google Maps for a view of these interestingly designed freshman dorms.

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Even as a Cornellian entering her senior year, I’m still learning things about our university that surprise me. From the apple vending machine in Mann Library to the names and meeting locations of secret societies, there are so many factoids to be found. For your convenience, I’ve compiled a few of my favorite discoveries! With eight more months of my college education to go, I’m experiencing intense nostalgia, so I hope that as you all begin the first of your four years at Cornell, you take the chance to check out and appreciate the tiny trivia treasures that our campus has to offer. — Jacqueline Quach, Former Sun Senior Writer

Robert Carl Baker, Inventor of the Chicken Nugget

Underground Tunnels While I was surfing Reddit a year ago, I discovered that Cornell has a network of underground tunnels. There’s (a) Ezra’s Tunnel, which runs between Risley and Rand Hall; (b) a tunnel connecting Olin and Uris Libraries; and (c) a tunnel running from the Plant Science Building to Weill Hall, beneath Tower Road. While Ezra’s Tunnel is supposed to be closed, a few of my friends have told me they’ve accidentally wandered into it while hiking around Cornell. Unfortunately, the tunnel between Olin and Uris is only accessible to library staff, or to those who are close to library staff, but the last tunnel is incredibly easy to find and open to anyone. All you need to do is walk into the Plant Sciences building through its main entrance from the Ag Quad. Once you walk in, a door to the left will have a sign that will lead you to other signs that will ultimately bring you to the tunnel. It becomes especially useful in the winter months, if you want to cross the street while avoiding the snow and wind outside.

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Although McDonald’s is now synonymous with the chicken nugget, the fast food corporation did not invent this gustatory gift to mankind. In fact, the true originator of the chicken nugget was a Cornellian by the name of Robert Carl Barker, who graduated from the university in 1943 and taught Food Science at Cornell for his entire 32-year career. During the 1950s, Baker perfected his recipe for the chicken nugget, decades before McDonald’s would even patent and sell their McNuggets. If you’re curious about what young Baker looked like, walk down to Uris Library and crack open the Class of 1943 yearbook. JACQUELINE QUACH / SUN FILE PHOTO

Ghosts and Hauntings

Musical Steps If you’re familiar with The Cornell Daily Sun’s “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do” (which you should be by now), the ninth item on the list is “test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones on them.” Although stone-throwing on the Olin steps is now forbidden due to safety concerns, a cursory Google search will produce online video and audio footage of it that can be found on Vine, Flickr and YouTube, which seem to suggest that the entire terrace above Olin—not just the steps—are sonically calibrated.

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There are so many stories of ghosts and hauntings that surface once you look into paranormal phenomena at Cornell. There have been reports of strange occurrences at the Ecohouse after the 1967 fire that claimed the lives of eight students and a professor, tuxedo-donning ghosts in Willard Straight Hall, sightings of Auntie Pru in Risley Hall, a stalker spirit in Olin Library and encounters with Alice Statler in Statler Hall. According to an article from The Tab, two employees of the Statler Hotel disclosed their experiences with Alice during 2004—one was so disturbed he immediately quit his job! If you’re curious and want to know the details of these accounts, Kitsch magazine has a great piece on these freaky phantoms, as do The Sun and the Cornell SUN FILE PHOTO Chronicle!

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Big Red Ambition:161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do Cornell is a big place. There’s a lot to do. Here’s a list of 161 things that all Cornellians should do during their time on the Hill. It was originally compiled from a 2005 email survey to students, and was edited this summer. Best of luck! o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

1. Make the library into your bedroom and have sex in the stacks 2. Finally meet the dazzling Denice Cassaro 3. Go to the Cornell-Harvard men’s hockey game and throw fish on the ice 4. Sing along to the Alma Mater with the marching band at a hockey game 5. Sled down Libe Slope during a snow storm 6. Take Hotel Administration 4300: Introduction to Wines 7. Streak across the Arts Quad 8. Take Psychology 1101: Intro to Psychology 9. Test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones on them 10. Attempt sake bombing at Plum Tree or Miyake in Collegetown 11. Order ice cream at the Dairy Bar 12. Climb the Lindseth climbing wall in Bartels Hall 13. Listen to a full chimes concert from the clock tower and guess the songs played 14. Order the same thing off the Collegetown Bagels menu all four years 15. Register for classes during Freshman Orientation, then switch out of every single one by the time Add/Drop ends 16. Wear flip-flops to class in January 17. Go to the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus and gaze at meteor showers 18. Have a snowball fight in May 19. Milk a cow 20. Skip class to play frisbee on the Arts Quad 21. Bury a bottle of Bacardi on the Slope. Dig it up on Slope Day. 22. Observe the golden hour from the Newman Overlook in the Botanic Gardens 23. Attend the Apple Festival on the Commons 24. Flirt with your professor 25. Bomb a prelim 26. Ace the next one to save your grade 27. Attend Hotelie prom 28. Meet Happy Dave from Okenshields 29. Turn your face blue from screaming at midnight before the first finals 30. Get heartburn at the Chili Cook-off on the Commons 31. Enjoy Ithaca’s two months of warm weather — spend a summer here! 32. Go to a Shabbat dinner at 104 West 33. Watch the AAP students parade down East Avenue on Dragon Day 34. Order pizza to your dorm after midnight. 35. Build a snow penis or count how many you see around campus 36. Dress up and view The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Risley 37. Take a class you think is impossible just for fun 38. Go on a wine tour 39. Kiss on the suspension bridge at midnight 40. Sleep through your alarm for a 1:25 p.m. class 41. Shop at the Friends of the Library Book Sale 42. Get out of a University parking ticket 43. Buy an Ithaca Is Gorges t-shirt, then get sick of wearing it and buy a variation (Ithaca Is Gangsta, Vaginas Are Gorges, Ithaca Is Long Island...) 44. Learn the “Alma Mater,” “Evening Song” and “Give My Regards to Davy” 45. Attend an opening at the Johnson Museum of Art 46. Smuggle food from the dining hall and run for your life as they try to get back your stolen cookies 47. Do the Walk of Shame 48. Have dinner at a professor’s house 49. Get wasted at a professor’s house 50. Take a #selfie with a Cornell president 51. Play a game of tag in the Kroch Library stacks 52. See a play in the Schwartz Center 53. Rush the field at the last home football game of the season 54. Start your freshman year pre-med. Graduate as a Hotelie. 55. Gamble at Turning Stone (try not to lose money) 56. Watch dancers fly through the air at a Bhangra show 57. Have a midnight picnic in the Botanic Gardens 58. Wait in line for half an hour for a salad at the Terrace 59. Ignore “No Winter Maintenance” signs … slip and fall on the icy stairs 60. Sit in Libe Cafe when you have no work to do and watch the worried studiers down gallons of coffee 61. Write an angry letter to the editor of The Sun 62. Go to Wegmans on a Friday or Saturday night 63. Explore the secret underground tunnel between Uris and Olin libraries 64. See the library’s Rare Book Collection 65. Pretend you are Harry Potter and study in the A.D. White library (looks like Hogwarts) 66. See the brain collection in Uris Hall 67. Eat at Taverna Banfi and charge it to CornellCard 68. Buy beer at Jason’s in Collegetown and charge it to CityBucks 69. Take Plant Pathology 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds 70. Take part in a psychology experiment 71. Take an unplanned nap in a library 72. Take over a building 73. Following the legend, watch a virgin cross the Arts Quad and then witness A.D. White and Ezra Cornell shake hands 74. Live through an Ithaca blizzard and tell your friends how you survived frostbite 75. Throw a flaming pumpkin into the gorge 76. Play co-ed intramural innertube water polo 77. Spend all your lectures figuring out the day’s crossword. While sitting for the final, wish you had taken notes instead. 78. Hook up with your T.A. 79. Order a sushi burrito at the That’s How I Roll food truck

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80. Play trivia at Rulloff’s on Sunday nights 81. Make the trek down the hill: Go to a townie bar 82. Make a fool of yourself at karaoke at Loco on Tuesday 83. Buy a drink at every on-campus establishment that serves alcohol 84. Go bowling at Helen Newman Lanes 85. Hand out quartercards on Ho Plaza 86. Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza 87. Have a friend’s parents take you out to eat at John Thomas Steakhouse or Boatyard Grill 88. Eat a chicken parm sandwich from Louie’s Lunch 89. Order at Wings Over Ithaca at 3:59 a.m. 90. Get thrown out of Balch Hall 91. Hook up with a freshman 92. Go skinny dipping in a gorge 93. Walk to the Commons and back 94. Go to an a cappella concert 95. Go ice skating at Lynah Rink 96. Instagram the cherry blossoms in the spring 97. Sell back your books; use money to buy alcohol 98. Drink bubble tea 99. Eat a Pinesburger 100. Walk to a fraternity party with your entire freshman floor 101. Go to a fraternity party as a senior; convince yourself you were never one of them 102. Get lost in Collegetown during Orientation Week 103. Get negged at a bar because the bouncer is actually friends with the person whose I.D. you are using 104. See a foreign film at Cinemapolis 105. Eat at the Mongolian Grill in RPCC. 106. See a concert at Barton Hall 107. Gain the freshman 15. Pay $159 for a gym membership and don’t go 108. Eat brunch on North Campus 109. Take your First-Year Writing Seminar as a senior 110. Fail your swim test, just for kicks 111. Tailgate for homecoming 112. Model for the Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual fashion show 113. Host a prefrosh 114. Request a song to be played on the clock tower 115. Get guilt-tripped into giving blood 116. Get asked if you are pregnant at Gannett (regardless of your gender) 117. Drink with your R.A. 118. Make a chalking; weep when it rains that night 119. Sing drunk on the drunk bus 120. Meet Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” and give him a hug 121. See how long you can go without doing laundry 122. Go on a road trip to Canada, flirt with the border patrol, smuggle booze back 123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone 124. Go to the sex shop on the Commons 125. Get drunk on Slope Day, run into a vice president 126. Complain about the Slope Day headliners 127. Get tapped for a secret society 128. Go to The Shops at Ithaca Mall, realize it is severely lacking, then drive to Destiny USA in Syracuse 129. Lose a friend over signing a lease in Collegetown 130. Run out of BRBs in March; live off campus events’ free food for the rest of the year 131. Walk holding hands around Beebe Lake 132. Visit the Sciencenter 133. See Yamatai bang it out at Pulse 134. Get J.A.’d for urinating on the Law School 135. Hook up with someone randomly and then see them every day afterward 136. Go to a coffee house in JAM 137. See how many people you can cram into your dorm room 138. Claim a big table near an outlet in Temple of Zeus and occupy it all day 139. Write dirty messages with rocks in the gorge 140. Ride a horse at Oxley Equestrian Center 141. Ring the giant bell in the Botanic Gardens 142. Crash a political rally on Ho Plaza 143. Do the COE ropes course 144. Attend a show at the State Theatre 145. Prank call the CIT HelpDesk 146. Wake up at 7 a.m. for pre-enroll; realize that your choice classes are full anyway 147. Ski at Greek Peak 148. Take a night prelim near the vet school, walk back in the dark 149. Trespass on Alumni Fields 150. Find your way onto the roof of a Cornell building 151. Take the BASICS program 152. Walk to class in the snow, uphill both ways 153. Buy a Cornell-grown apple from a vending machine 154. Furnish an apartment entirely with items from the Dump & Run 155. Eat at each dining hall at least once 156. Ask for an extension on a term paper 157. Take part in Holi and get colorful 158. Pull an all-nighter in the Uris Library Cocktail Lounge 159. Tell a professor what you really think of his/her class 160. Attend a Sun organizational meeting 161. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower

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PHOTOS BY BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Top: A pedestrian walks under a hopeful State Theatre marquee message on March 18. Middle: empty tables in Duffield Hall and the Physical Sciences Building on March 19 and 22; students purchase and carry box cardboard in mid-March; late January protective masks on Ho Plaza. Right: The Touchdown statue by Teagle Hall sports an N95 respirator on March 17. Left: Emmy Chen ’20, Aashka Piprottar ’20, Jack Thompson ’20, Ananya Dua ’20 and Akanksha Jain ’20, from left, pose on March 18 as Akshat Piprottar ’22 takes early graduation photos.

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Your guide to culture around campus — and beyond So. You’re in college. In Ithaca. What to do now? When prelims, lab reports and snow aren’t getting you down (read: seldom), there’s a lively arts scene right outside your doorstep to keep you sane. From barn-burning bashes in Barton to art appreciation in the Johnson, there’s something for every taste. Cornell may be known for its cows and gorges, but it’s no slouch when it comes to music, theater, film and fine art. And don’t forget the turf around The Hill. Ever since it made an appearance in Homer, Ithaca has been an arts-obsessed little town, with a local music scene bursting at the seams and a host of other cultural offerings to keep the hippies, hicks and Hillsters entertained. So make use of your time here, hit the town and remember — grades may last a semester, but art lasts forever. — The Arts Section

Show Promoters Cornell Concert Commission The heavy hitters in the campus concert scene. They’re the ones responsible for the big blowouts at Barton (Wavves, Avicii, etc.) and the early fall show on the Arts Quad. Now you know where your Student Activity Fee goes.

Fanclub Collective The Lennon to CCC’s McCartney and a home to Cornell’s wannabe Brooklyn hipster crowd, Fanclub brings in bands before they’re cool and offers an oasis of originality in the desert of Cornell’s musical conformity. Think Real Estate, HEALTH and Shonen Knife. If you get it, you get it.

Concert Venues The State Theatre

Barton Hall

The State is Ithaca’s very own Fillmore, MSG and Royal Albert Hall, all rolled into one. A cinema following Ithaca’s brief tenure as the Hollywood of the East, its ornate interior has recently played host to the likes of The X Ambassadors, Cat Power and Norah Jones. While Ithaca’s favorite theatre is on a virus-required hiatus for now, mark this spot as a must-visit in the years to come. Be sure to get your tickets early.

There might be track and field equipment on the floor and ROTC classrooms for a backstage, but Barton is a bona fide big star attraction. Ever heard of Carly Rae Jepsen, Young Thug or Trevor Noah? They’ve all stopped by the last few years, and Barton Hall is the undisputed king of campus venues, with a capacity around 5,000 and ... interesting acoustics. One other quirk: most shows are on Sunday nights — the track team gets Barton on Saturdays.

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Central Campus If you want to hear the sweet sounds of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra or the thoughts of Nobel Prize winners such as Elie Wiesel and Toni Morrison, then Bailey’s your best bet. The classroom for some of Cornell’s largest classes doubles as a venue for more subdued performances. BETH SPERGEL / SUN FILE PHOTO

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As with all things arts-related on campus, Risley Hall is right in the thick of the concert scene, hosting smaller acts like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in years past, while welcoming Cornell’s own singers and songwriters to rock their halls. Risley also plays host to student productions, and is home to the annual showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

For a more intimate live music experience, be sure not to miss the thriving bar music scene around town. Ithaca Underground, a nonprofit supporting Ithaca’s local music community, brings over 40 shows to the city every year. The Haunt (702 Willow Ave.) constantly hosts acts small and large, including Raekwon and Rusted Root. Watering holes like Felicia’s Atomic Lounge (508 W. State St.) and the Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar book acts throughout the year.

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The Slope The epicenter of madness and debauchery on campus ... at least for one day a year. The headliner last year was Galantis, joining an already impressive roster that includes Chance the Rapper, Kanye West and Drake. It gives you something to look forward to during the long, cold winter.

Slope Day Programming Board They only put on one show a year, but don’t call them lazy: these cats work year-round to throw Cornell the biggest and baddest party around, and the music’s just half of it. Feeling woozy? Thank your lucky, Slope Day Programming Board stars that there’s free water (and port-o-potties) within crawling distance.

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The home of Cornell’s Performing and Media Arts Department hosts Campus-produced plays, musicals, movies and dance performances throughout the fall and spring in addition to can’t-miss annual events such as Festival 24.

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Risley’s drama-oriented denizens give Cornell plenty to laugh, cry and think about, offering everything from nights at the circus to period-faithful reproductions of Don Giovanni.

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Even with all of the campus offerings, there’s a thriving drama scene in the city of Ithaca. The Kitchen Theatre (417 West State St.) offers classical and modern productions year-round and the newly renovated Hangar Theatre (801 Taughannock Blvd.) performs for those lucky enough to stay for an Ithaca summer. Speaking of which, the Ithaca Shakespeare Company puts on Shakespeare in the Botanic Gardens in July.

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Art Galleries Johnson Museum Central Campus

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University’s own fine art museum located conveniently on the Arts Quad, has a prolific collection of contemporary and historic works of art, including many Asian artifacts. The temporary galleries change almost monthly and the Johnson frequently hosts events and lectures related to the works shown. Less known is the fact that the Johnson owns many more works than it can show at any given time: hidden in the archives are more Hokusai prints, original Rembrandt plates and the paintings of abstract expressionists like Michael Goldberg. These works are available for free viewing to students — an awesome privilege — and can be seen by making an appointment with a curator. Also, once a year, the History of Art Majors Society, a student run group, curates a show accompanied by essays and interactive exhibits.

Hartell Gallery, Sibley Hall Central Campus

Architecture students are notoriously mysterious, always locked up in Rand Hall producing God-knows-what. Hartell Gallery is a little known way of sneaking a peek at their curriculum. Nestled under the dome in Sibley Hall, the (spatial) center of the AAP community hosts a range of exhibits throughout the year. During mid-terms and finals, stop by to see the studio works of students pinned up — not just drawings of buildings, but frequently hand-built models and constructed work.

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Central Campus Cornell conceals a small but productive discipline in the fine arts within its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. While you’re in Ithaca missing the big shows at big city museums, the two galleries at Tjaden Hall put on constantly changing exhibits throughout the year — a glimpse into the current discourse on campus. In years past, exhibits have offered everything from huge plaster casts of bulging bodies to delicate paintings of Iraqi aerial landscapes. The Olive Tjaden Gallery and the Experimental Gallery are open during the week; check at the AAP registrar’s office for a schedule of shows.

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Architecture Milstein Hall Central Campus

Nope, that’s not a U.F.O. — Milstein Hall, designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Rem Koolhas and conceived as the home to Cornell’s esteemed architecture program, is a dazzling and starkly modern architectural marvel. The 47,000 square foot building, which officially opened in August 2011, is the first new building to be dedicated to Cornell’s Architecture, Art and Planning program in over 100 years. Architectural highlights of the structure include the glass-encased “upper plate,” which cantilevers almost 50 feet over University Avenue (in laymen’s terms: it looks like it’s floating), and the lower-level dome, which supports both the auditorium’s raked seating and the stairs that lead to the studio above. Even if you’re not an architect, you owe it to yourself to pay a visit to this prestigious structure and sit on one of its colorful globes.

Cube House

Makarainen Road One of the few really beautiful works by a Cornell architecture grad in the Ithaca area, Simon Ungers’ ’80 minimalist cube is located out by Route 79 near Ithaca College. A pristine concrete box surrounded by acres of wilderness included in the property, the house stands as a tribute to the beauty of old school modernism in all its glory — stark, individualist and monumental despite its small scale. S. Ungers was the son of the late O.M. Ungers, who taught at Cornell and whose works abroad have influenced generations of designers. Borrow a friend’s car and drive up to Makarainen Road, near South Hill to creep around.

Johnson Museum Central Campus

Beyond being the home to a prolific art collection, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a complex an interesting space designed by Pei Cobb Freidd Partners — whose most famous architect is I.M. Pei, designer of the Louvre. Situated at the end of the northern row of the Arts Quad, the Johnson Museum functions as a viewing device for the lake and the landscape. The building has distinct and interesting spaces on each floor, starting with café on the bottom level (a picturesque place to grab a tea), moving up through the big courtyard in the middle and the panoramic conference room on the top floor — each of which is highly designed in terms of light and material. A stark contrast to the historic decadence of the other buildings on the Arts Quad, the architecture of Pei’s Johnson Museum deserves its own look.

Carl Sagan’s Study 900 Stewart Ave.

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When crossing the Stewart Avenue bridge from North Campus’ Fall Creek Road towards the West Campus dorms, you will see a two-faced work of architecture that is shrouded in mystery. On the North Campus side, the building displays a modernist façade — a pure white plane with a cut opening. Looking across the gorge from the West Campus side, the building, flanked by Rockledge fraternity, appears to be the gateway into an Egyptian tomb. The late Carl Sagan, legendary Cornell astronomer, renovated the former meeting place of the senior honor society Sphinx Head into his study and part-time home. Designed by the late Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente (a protégé of Le Corbusier and one-time Cornell professor) and his wife Ann Pendleton, Carl Sagan’s cliff-edge study is a structural and formal marvel.

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No joke: C.C. may just be the best college movie theater in the country. Billing itself as a “year-round film festival,” it screens a frightening number of feature films, documentaries and shorts from the megaplex and places you’ve never even heard of, making every one of us a potential cinema expert. Showings are usually in Willard Straight Hall or Uris Hall. Do yourself a favor and make it a regular stop — there are multiple films a day and a constantly changing lineup, and the live talks by directors and music-accompanied silent films are just icing on the cake. Seriously, you’re lucky.

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Cinemapolis

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A gift from silverscreen gods, this Ithaca fixture screens independent, foreign and mainstream films on a daily basis. If you do not make at least a couple trips here come Oscar season, consider yourself behind the curve.

And you thought college meant never going to the mall again. But if you absolutely must see the midnight debut of the next Marvel flick, hoof it over to Regal, home of the Hollywood blockbuster and normal release schedule.

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Pyramid Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd.

Need more arts? Craving extra culture? Read The Cornell Daily Sun Arts Section, printed three days a week and featuring the best of campus music, film, fine arts and all that other good stuff.

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1. Be a farmer for the afternoon at a Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm work party.

An entirely student run, organic farm, Dilmun Hill is located on Route 366 (Dryden Road), just across from Judd Falls Road, near the Cornell Orchards. The farm practices sustainable agriculture and provides produce for places on campus like the Manndible Café. The farm hosts weekly work-parties on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m. and invites everyone to experience the latest in sustainable agricultural practices, support the farm, join their community and go home with fresh produce. If visiting the farm seems like a bit of a journey, visit Dilmun Hill’s on-campus farm stand on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 in front of Mann Library (on the Ag Quad) and inside the library lobby on rainy days. They will also be at the Farmers’ Market at Cornell this fall on Thursdays between 11 and 3. Market Garden Manager Isaac Arginteanu ’12 said, “I started out knowing nothing about agriculture and farming and now I’m a manager. It was my introduction to something I’ve become very passionate about.”

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Helen Newman Hall. The observatory houses several small telescopes, and a larger, 12-inch refractor telescope with a mechanical tracking mechanism that is operated by weights, like a grandfather clock. Though the observatory is no longer used for research purposes, it is used for introductory astronomy classes and is open to the public. The Cornell Astronomical Society runs public viewing nights at the Fuertes Observatory on every clear Friday night during the semester from 8:00 p.m. until midnight, if sky conditions permit.

5. Take a midnight trip to the Lab of Ornithology’s sanctuary.

2. Check out the 200,000 species in the Cornell University Insect Collection. The Cornell University Insect Collection includes more than seven million insect specimens representing about 200,000 species, or roughly 20 percent of the world’s described insect fauna. The collection is housed in approximately 16,500 drawers held within in a climate-controlled facility located on the second floor of Comstock Hall on Cornell’s central campus. Because it is a research facility, visits to the CUIC are limited and need to be planned in advance. Prospective visitors or students interested in conducting research at the facility should contact curator Prof. James Liebherr at jkl5@cornell.edu. The CUIC also participates in the annual Insectapalooza celebration — a one-day insect fair with educational exhibits for all age groups, from children to adults. Insectapalooza typically takes place at the end of October.

Founded in 1915, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation and conservation of birds. The lab is not on campus, but is easily accessible by a shuttle bus that stops at Corson-Mudd Hall (across from Trilium) at 8:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.. The lab is located in Sapsucker Woods, and guided bird walks through Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary are offered for beginners on Saturdays and Sundays from April to September. The Johnson Visitor Center at the lab is home to a large observatory with chairs, telescopes and bird feeders, interactive exhibits, a world-class collection of bird art and sculpture and the Macaulay library — the world’s largest archive of animal sounds and video. Admission is free, and the visitor center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. The sanctuary, however, is open every day from dawn to dusk.

Dear Freshmen: Congratulations on your acceptance to Cornell, one of the nation’s finest research institutions. Science is organized knowledge, and Cornell University offers a diverse set of scientific study. Our advice to you is to make curiosity your key. Question everything, figure out how things work and begin to explore and discover. Cornell has so much to offer to the inquisitive student. These are the same halls where Carl Sagan pondered the cosmos and where Bill Nye began as a budding Science Guy. They were both curious –– and you should be, too. So feed your curiosity by reading the science section every Tuesday and learn about the science happening around you every day.

Sun Staff Writer

1, 2, 3 … Takeoff! Classes Abroad

International Agriculture and Rural Development 6020: International Agriculture in Developing Nations — Travel to India or Burma during the January intercession for an interdisciplinary take on agricultural development. There are also pre-departure and post-departure courses to foster critical reflection and collective leadership skills. Human Ecology 4080: Practicing Medicine Healthcare Culture and Careers — Spend the summer at Cornell’s home away from home Weill Medical College in New York City. This course combines shadowing doctors and allied health staff with readings and reflections for students to dissect what it means to be a health professional in today’s world. Trees, Ice Cream Making, and More CALS Courses

Natural Resources 3250: Forest Management and Maple Syrup Production — From hikes in the forest to tapping trees to make syrup, this class is the ultimate hands-on experience for any one interested. Food Science 1101: Science and Technology of Food — A visit to the Cornell Dairy Bar is often number one on new students’ to-do lists, and number two should be taking this class to have a chance at developing new ice cream flavors to be sold across campus! In fact, students in this course were responsible for the famous Red, White, and Biden ice cream flavor last year in honor of commencement speaker, Former Vice President Joe Biden. Take advantage of one of the most unique classes at Cornell, and your ice cream idea could be the next campus sensation. Horticulture 2010: The Art of Horticulture — Use plants and gardens as art in this experiential class. Turn grapes into a purple masterpiece on paper or layer leaves and branches to depict forests from field-trips with the class. This course really takes agriculture and life sciences to another level!

Bird watching | The Lab of Ornithology, located in Sapsucker Woods, is a world leader in the appreciation and conservation of birds.

Human Development 2600: Introduction to Personality — What makes up personalities and how can those biological, social, or cultural aspects be measured? Dive into these questions and learn about personality psychology while discussing historical debates over personality. Nutritional Science 1150: Nutrition, Health and Society — Worried about the freshman 15? Enroll in this introductory nutrition class and learn to stay healthy in the college world of late munchies and sleepless nights. Iconic Professor Levitsky is sure to keep you entertained with songs about the digestive system and snacks in class.

Maria Minsker can be reached at mminsker@cornellsun.com.

Chenab Khakh can be reached at ckhakh@cornellsun.com.

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3. Check out the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Synchrotron.

Slightly larger than a football field, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) has a 768-meter circumference and the capability to send electrons and positrons flying at 99.9999995 percent of the speed of light. CHESS provides state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology and environmental and materials sciences, and attracts 500-600 scientists, graduate and undergraduate students each year. Researchers at CHESS always welcome student volunteers to participate in research and experiments, and even observe 24-hour CHESS runs. CHESS is located in Wilson laboratory on Route 366 & Pine Tree Road.

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Getting dirty | Becky Hume ’11 plants seedlings at a Dilmun Hill Organic Farm work party, where students gather to do farm chores each week.

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A Brief History of Cornell Scientiﬁc Breakthroughs 1885

Theobald Smith 1881 discovers the first Salmonella bacterium. Hypothesizing it to be the cause of common hog cholera, Smith named the microbe after Daniel Elmer Salmon DVM 1872, who led the research team under the United States Department of Agriculture (Salmon was also the first recipient of a DVM degree in the United States). Though Smith’s theory was later proven incorrect, the Salmonella genus was found to be responsible for several infectious illnesses, such as typhoid fever and food poisoning.

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William J. Wilgus, a correspondence student at Cornell between 1883 and 1885, designs and oversees the construction of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad, Wilgus was responsible for the introduction of electric trains into the terminal as well as the idea for two-level stations below ground.

1953 Prof. Hans Bethe, physics, participates in the preliminary design meetings for the atomic bomb. A major player in the Manhattan Project, Bethe also participated in the development team for the hydrogen bomb, though he hoped to prove the weapon impossible to create and serve as a force for disarmament.

1960

1958

The first successful implantable pacemaker — invented by Wilson Greatbatch BEE ’50 to regulate beating of the heart — enters use after extensive animal testing. Greatbatch’s pacemaker used a mercury battery as an energy source, different from earlier designs.

Henry Heimlich ’41 M.D. ’43 publishes an article promoting an anti-choking technique consisting of repeated abdominal thrusts, now commonly advertised as the “Heimlich maneuver.”

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1942

William F. Friedman 1914 leads the research division of the U.S. Army’s Signals Intelligence Service to break the difficult Japanese PURPLE cipher, providing Japanese diplomatic secrets to the United States government before World War II.

1974

Stephen Moulton Babcock master’s degree 1875 develops the Babcock Test, an inexpensive method of measuring the fat content in milk that allowed farmers to produce milk of consistent quality. From 1907 to 1911, Babcock led a series of single-grain experiments to measure relative nutritional value among grains for cattle, leading to the establishment of nutrition as a science.

1902 Florence Kimball DVM 1910 graduates from Cornell to become the first certified female veterinarian.

Philip Levine M.D. ’23 discovers the Rh factor in blood after observing hemolytic disease in infants. Levine found that a “negative” pregnant mother’s antibodies can destroy the red blood cells of her child if the child’s blood was “positive” (containing the Rh antigen). Today, an infant’s afflicted blood can undergo immediate treatment and prevent major repercussions.

1890

1978

The cyanoacrylate commonly known as Super Glue hits shelves, having been developed as an adhesive called “Eastman 910” by Harry Coover M.S. ’43 Ph.D. ’44. Able to bond solid objects as well as human tissues, the glue is also known for its forensic ability to capture fingerprints.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus ’24 begins testing the combined oral contraceptive pill after studying the ability of progesterone to inhibit fertility. The pills — approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960 — are now used by over 100 million women worldwide as a form of birth control.

1983 Walter McCrone ’38 Ph.D. ’42 performs several days of forensic testing on the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth that appears to bear the image of a bearded man who had undergone crucifixion. McCrone concluded that the Shroud had been painted, due to the presence of red pigment that others had deemed blood.

2001

Barbara McClintock ’23 M.A. ’25 Ph.D. ’27 becomes the first and currently only woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition in corn plants. Transposable elements are DNA sequences that can move throughout the genome, changing how certain traits are turned “on” or “off.”

1992

Jon Rubinstein ’78 M.Eng ’79 leads the eight-month development of the iPod, Apple’s first portable music player. Rubinstein later became senior vice president of Apple’s newly-created iPod division in 2004.

1985 Prof. Mae Jemison M.D. ’81 becomes the first African-American woman to travel into space, serving as the science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor’s second spaceflight. Jemison went on to start The Jemison Group, a company that focuses on integrating technologies into developing countries.

2003

2018

Prof. Steve Squyres ’78 Ph.D. ’81, astronomy, leads the Mars Exploration Rover Mission as principal investigator. The mission, through the rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, returned significant findings about Mars, including evidence that water once flowed on the planet’s surface. THE NEW YORK TIMES

Prof. Kenneth G. Wilson, physics, directs the establishment of the Cornell Theory Center (now the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing in Rhodes Hall), one of five original supercomputer centers created to provide high-speed computing resources within the United States.

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Arthur Ashkin Ph.D. ’52 won the Nobel Prize in physics in October 2018, setting the record for the oldest person to receive the award in Nobel’s 112-year history. He split the award with two of his co-researchers. Together, they researched and invented “optical tweezers,” which allowed Ashkin to pick up living bacteria without damaging them.

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Jeff Teat Is Laxers’ Third All-Time C.U. Point Scorer By MIKE SEITZ Sun Staff Writer

This story was originally published on May 28. Senior attackman and captain Jeff Teat’s skill, drive and unselfishness are three of the qualities that earned the Canadian box lacrosse product a place in Cornell’s record books and the title of The Sun’s Male Senior Athlete of the Year. The hours that Teat spent honing his craft have transformed him into the phenom that he is. At 5-foot-10, 170 lbs, he is not the biggest, nor the fastest, nor the strongest. Rather, he is consistently the smartest player on the field — visualizing plays before they happen and always seeming to pick out the right pass to set up a teammate. Teat’s career accomplishments have been nationally touted. In both 2018 and 2019, he was a nominee for the Tewaaraton Award — colloquially known as the Heisman Trophy of lacrosse. This year, he was named to the award’s watch list, but the award itself was not given due to the season’s cancellation. From the get go, it was apparent that the Brampton, Ontario native was going to be special. In scoring 72 points during his freshman year, Teat broke the freshman scoring record previously held by attackman Rob Pannell ’13. The next season, Teat helped catalyze a struggling team into a 13-5 record and NCAA Tournament appearance. Teat cites the season’s Ivy League Championship victory and win over rival Syracuse in the Carrier Dome as some of his favorite moments in a Cornell uniform. “Our 2018 playoff push was memorable. We weren’t highly rated but came out with some big wins,” he said. Much of the team’s success stemmed from Teat’s unselfishness. Facilitating a whopping 62 assists across 18 games, he led all of Division I at the time in feeds. His 99 total points

stand as the 24th all-time best single season point total in NCAA Division I history. “Teammates are the most important piece of success,” he said. “I always got to play with teammates that made playing easy.” After being named a USILA All-American as a sophomore, it was clear that Teat was the Red’s talisman. Consequently, he earned the honor to wear the team’s symbolic hardhat in honor of the late George Boiardi ’04. The meaningful distinction that separates this tradition from other accolades is the responsibility of the job — coaches select a junior who epitomizes pride, respect and heart. “It means a lot knowing that the players who came before us did so much for this program both on and off the field,” said Teat. In 2019, the team gained national attention and was featured on The Season documentary. Teat channeled all his powers to lead the Red in points (70) and assists (36) on the big stage, but ultimately the team did not earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The end-of-season disappointment fueled Teat’s fire for his senior year. Improvements showed early on in 2020, as he propelled Cornell to an undefeated 5-0 start. In what proved to be the final game of the season, the team’s biggest challenge came from Penn State. In clutch fashion, Teat stepped up when his team needed him the most. Scoring the game-tying goal with seconds left, Teat laid the groundwork for a dramatic win that was secured just moments later. “Every time we get to put on the big red uniform it means a lot,” Teat said. In retrospect, Teat recognizes that much of his growth has actually occurred off the field — affirming that classroom lessons have deeply impacted his mentality for the future. To continue reading this article, please visit cornellsun.com. Mike Seitz can be reached at mseitz@cornellsun.com.

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Smartest player on the field | Senior Jeff Teat was a nominee for the Tewaaraton Award — colloquially known as the Heisman Trophy of lacrosse.

Accolades | O’Neill has played with Team Canada, made the All-ECAC team all four years, and captained Cornell to a Number 1 women’s hockey national ranking.

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Kristin O’Neill Led in Goals Throughout C.U. Career of the season as she competed with Team Canada in the Four Nations Cup — in which she recorded an assist — O’Neill This story was originally published on still notched 38 points with Cornell, good for second-most on the team. May 28. During that NCAA Tournament Forward and captain Kristin O’Neill’s run, O’Neill recorded an assist in the consistently stellar performances over 3-2 overtime win against Northeastern four years on East Hill make her The in the quarterfinal. Cornell would go Sun’s pick for Female Senior Athlete of on to lose 2-0 against Minnesota in the the Year. O’Neill led the Red in goals next tilt. every year of her NCAA career. While the COVID-19 pandemO’Neill’s accolades are numerous, ic might have robbed O’Neill of her with some of the most prominent being: crowning achievement in the form of Her time representing Team Canada in a national title, fans will not soon forthe Four Nations Cup during her junior get this year’s Cornell team, which was year, being named to an All-ECAC team arguably the best in memory. Alongall four years, and earning a nomination side seven other key seniors, O’Neill for the Patty Kazmaier led the Red to a 28Award — NCAA women’s 2-3 record, with the “It makes me super hockey’s premier award — Red’s one loss at home confident just knowing in both her sophomore and coming in the ECAC junior years. And, in her se- that our senior class can title game against nior season, she captained Princeton. Cornell was step up on any given Cornell to a No. 1 national day. It’s a really crucial set to take on Mercyranking. hurst in Lynah Rink part of our team.” The significant contrifor the first round of butions to the Red that the NCAAs before the Kristin O’Neill O’Neill made in her first tournament was canseason earned her the Ivy celed. League Rookie of the Year crown and a The Red’s 2019-20 season saw the spot on the ECAC All-Rookie team. As team earn the nation’s best winning a freshman, she set a program record for percentage and a No. 1 ranking in the short-handed goals with five. USCHO.com polls for the final stretch O’Neill more than avoided a soph- of the season. Even with her four outstanding omore slump, earning even more ECAC honors throughout the season campaigns with Cornell, O’Neill often which culminated in an All-ECAC credited her classmates and the team’s First Team selection. And her signa- chemistry with much of the Red’s overture short-handed goals kept coming, all success. “It makes me super confident just breaking the Cornell career record knowing that our senior class can step just halfway through her second seaup on any given day,” O’Neill said son with the Red. She led Cornell not only in goals but also in points and after sweeping St. Lawrence in the assists in a season where the Red just ECAC Quarterfinals in February. “It’s barely missed an at-large bid to the a really crucial part of our team and it’s brought us a long way. I think the NCAA Tournament. In her junior campaign, Cornell underclassmen really follow our lead would not settle for missing the nation- and that’s really awesome to have on al stage again and made it to the Frozen the team.” Four for the first time since 2012. De- Christina Bulkeley can be reached at spite missing three games in the first part cbulkeley@cornellsun.com. By CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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HOCKEY

Inside the Fish-Throwing Tradition at Lynah Rink

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Fishy fans | Throwing fish is prohibited at Lynah. But some rules were made to be broken. By LUKE PICHINI Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This story was first published on January 26. Whenever Harvard visits Lynah Rink to face Cornell men’s hockey, in a bout of upstate hospitality, fans warmly welcome the Crimson by throwing scores of fish onto the ice. The tradition has been in place since the early 1970’s and has become a staple for fans. Matthew Frucht ’21, Daniel Morton ’21 and Jake Polacek ’21 were among the fans who participated in the age-old tradition on Saturday. This past weekend’s contest was not the first rodeo for the three juniors. Last year, the group waited until the last minute to pick up their fish. After driving

around Ithaca and Lansing, Frucht and Polacek picked up several mackerels at a market and planned an exchange at the rink with Morton, who was busy at the time. “We actually exchanged [the fish] in the bathroom at Lynah,” Polacek said. “As we were walking out, a cop walked in.” The two escaped the sticky situation with their fish undetected. “We were both in the same bathroom stall, so it was a little bit sketchy,” Morton said. This year, the group planned their scheme for several weeks. On Thursday, they picked up 10 fish, including six big ones. Before the game, the three made it through the first round of security and went to their seats in Section B. “Wearing hockey jerseys and a jacket, you can fit a fish in the sleeve of your arm,” Frucht said. “And that’s what I did.”

Even with the University’s rule of a zero-fish policy, the three, like scores of the Lynah faithful, were not deterred from carrying out their plan. “They have all of the rules and sent an email about the zero-fish policy,” Frucht said. “But after freshman year, we realized that there is some leeway if you can sneak it in.” The school mascot was even in on the action last year. “Last year at the game, Touchdown the Bear was in a hockey jersey and was holding this giant plush fish above his head,” Morton said. “They encourage it, even though they technically can’t.” But the plan floundered when Morton’s fish were confiscated in the stands by security. “There was a guy walking around, and I thought he was a student,” Morton said. “I had my jacket cracked open because it was getting hot. I had a bag tucked inside my sleeve and he must have spotted it.” Despite Morton’s best efforts, he had to release his fish. “So then, he was like questioning me,” Morton continued. “I tried to hold him off, but he called his superior, and I had to hand it over.” Armed with plenty of other fish, though, the trio still had the necessary ammunition to carry out the tradition. With the Harvard skaters ready to enter the ice, Polacek made the first move, tossing the first sea creature of the evening. “As soon as the goalie touched his foot

on the ice, it was flying,” Polacek recounted. After the initial wave of fish was thrown out onto the ice, fans continued to heave fish as the Harvard skaters clung to the wall in an effort to avoid any pelting. Although the three were active participants in the tradition, they did note some of the unsavory side effects that come with this tradition. Some fans hurled Swedish fish onto the ice, but the candy wound up staining the ice. “We got to get rid of the Swedish fish,” Polacek remarked. “It ruins the ice.” But frozen fish can stink for its own reasons, too. Because frozen fish thaw out and become wet, fish juice ended up raining down over the rink. “It starts to smell like a fish market five minutes before puck drop,” Polacek said. In regards to the actual game, the three enjoyed the experience as well. While the contest was scoreless for the first 56 minutes, the three noted the energy from the Lynah Faithful. Freshman Jack Drury’s goal for Harvard silenced the crowd, but sophomore forward Michael Regush’s response on the power play revived the fans. “I think that’s the loudest I’ve ever heard it,” Morton said, referring to the noise following the Red’s tying goal. While there may be formal rules that prohibit the fish-throwing tradition, it continues to live on, uniting the Cornell fanbase, just as it did for these three juniors. Luke Pichini can be reached at lpichini@cornellsun.com.

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No. 1 Cornell Hoped to Topple College Hockey Dynasties By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Sports Editor

This article was first published on March 11. Cornell women’s hockey went undefeated at home, didn’t lose a single ECAC regular-season game and ascended to the No. 1 spot in the national rankings during the 2019-2020 season. But it’s three wins away from the ultimate prize, one that only four teams have claimed since the implementation of the women’s NCAA Tournament at the beginning of this century. Since the end of a 2018-2019 campaign that saw Cornell reach its first Frozen Four since 2012 before losing to Minnesota in the national semifinals, the Red had set its sights on a national championship. But overtaking the game’s most dominant programs — one of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Clarkson or Minnesota-Duluth has won each of the 19 titles — is no easy task. Making the Frozen Four was nice, but this year, the team expects to be the last one left. “We went to the Frozen Four, but we didn’t win it all, so we still have a burr in our side to take the next step and take it to the next level,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 in October, before the start of his 15th season behind the bench. “We are always expecting to compete with the best teams in the nation, and this year is no different.” “This year I think it’s ‘what can we do to take it a step far-

ther than we did last year?’ and remembering that feeling and how awesome it was, but wanting it back badly enough that we can take it to the next game and even further,” said junior forward Finley Frechette. In women’s college hockey, the story of the 2000s has been dominant dynasties. And while Cornell has been solidly in Tier 1B — it’s been to the NCAA Tournament in seven of the last 10 seasons and has been to four Frozen Fours, including last year’s — it hasn’t been able to catch up to the sport’s big-time powers: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Clarkson and Minnesota-Duluth. One of those four teams has won all 19 national championship games. A team has repeated as champions seven times. As the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, set to face Mercyhurst on Saturday, Cornell hopes this is the year a new team takes home the hardware. But women’s college hockey is deeper than ever — upsets in conferences across the country point, maybe, to the end of a few teams’ supremacy. “It takes a little bit of everything at this time of year, but I think that all eight teams that are in the NCAA Tournament this year can win it,” Derraugh said. Frechette said she thinks this could be the year a new team wins a national championship. “Yes, I do,” she said. “And with that being said, I really hope it’s Cornell that is able to finally accomplish that feat.”

With either No. 4 seed Minnesota or WCHA champion Ohio State awaiting a national semifinal matchup if the Red beats Mercyhurst, Cornell is likely to have to go through Minnesota and No. 2 seed Wisconsin — the sport’s most dominant programs in recent years — to claim a national championship. “We are the No. 1 seed but at the same time the teams we’re going to be going up against have had more success in NCAA Tournaments throughout history, so it’s an interesting mix,” Frechette said. “But that makes it extremely exciting to know people want to get us; we have the target on our backs.” Up until the midpoint of this season, it was the Wisconsin and Minnesota show atop the national rankings, until finally Cornell — in the midst of a near-perfect regular season, one that saw it lose just one game and go 19-0-3 in conference play — jumped the Gophers and Badgers. Derraugh said he isn’t concerned with whether his team is getting as much attention as squads like Minnesota and Wisconsin. “I really don’t pay a whole lot of attention to social media or the news [so] I don’t really know whether they’ve been getting more attention than we have or we’ve been getting more attention,” Derraugh said. “To be honest, my players would back that up because I’m a little lost when it comes to news and the media.” If this is the year that a new

team topples the Goliaths of the sport that’s still relatively new on the national stage, Cornell is the squad to do it: In addition to a favorable first-round matchup against the CHA champion Lakers, the Red has a star goaltender, dynamic goal-scorers and a deep lineup. Junior goaltender Lindsay Browning set the program’s single-season shutout record with 12 — the most in the country — and her 0.914 goals against average is tops in the nation. Cornell boasts prolific goal-scorers senior Kristin O’Neill (25-15—40) and junior Maddie Mills (20-21—41)

and is anchored on the blueline by senior defenseman Jaime Bourbonnais, who was named the league’s best defenseman and tied for the ECAC lead with 34 assists. Despite being the No. 1 seed, Cornell comes into the tournament without the national attention of the midwestern heavyweights, and with a lot to prove: It can be the team to end two decades of a few teams’ title supremacy and boldly add itself to the shortlist of national powerhouses. Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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Skating to the top | Although their sesason was abruptly interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, women’s hockey clinched the top spot.

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Ivy League Presidents Spark Outrage on ‘Archaic’ Ruling Denying Senior Athletes Added Eligibility

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Eligibility | The Ivy League’s ruling that graduate students would remain ineligible for the spring 2021 season ruined plans for student-athletes such as Alex Carnegie, pictured, who had hoped to use his final season at Cornell to get recruited for graduate play elsewhere. By CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Sports Editor

This story was first published on April 3. In an effort to preserve its time-honored tradition of amateurism, the Ivy League announced to its members Thursday that spring athletes, who were given an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA, would not be permitted to spend that season with the Ancient Eight. It is a longstanding rule that the Ivy League, unlike other conferences, does not permit postgraduate students to participate in varsity athletics. Many had thought, however, that the extenuating circumstances that culminated in the cancellation of all spring sports for 2020 would lead to a break from this rule. The NCAA on Monday officially granted all spring athletes another year

of eligibility due to their loss of the 2020 season, which was canceled amid concerns over COVID-19. But just days later, Ivy League presidents voted against allowing their own spring sport athletes to spend a fourth season with their undergraduate institution. The League’s decision quickly drew criticism for holding steadfast to its eligibility requirements during an unprecedented time — the Ivy League, founded in 1954, has never canceled an entire sports season. Jack and Lynda Carnegie, parents to Cornell baseball senior shortstop Alex Carnegie, penned a letter to all Ivy League presidents, urging them to reconsider the conference’s decision. “The Ivy League’s decision has left these students out in the cold not only with respect to their athletic aspirations

but with respect to their educations and future careers,” the letter read. Alex Carnegie, who earned the spot of starting shortstop after walking on to the team, was hoping to use his senior season to get the attention of coaches at other schools — an injury in his sophomore year meant he had another year of eligibility already lined up. Because he wouldn’t be able to spend that year at Cornell as a graduate under normal circumstances, his senior season was crucial for getting recruited to another institution to use up his final year of eligibility. But his senior season, too, was snatched away. Though he could technically play elsewhere, without another year of stats to prove to a coach at a new school that he deserves a spot on the roster, he is unlikely to get recruited anywhere. “He had the opportunity — by playing through the season — for other coaches to see him and potentially get recruited,” Alex’s father, Jack, told The Sun. “But now with the season being canceled, that opportunity’s been lost.” With the season gone, Alex Carnegie’s future is in limbo. He plans on graduating in May, but beyond that, his plans have been destroyed by the Ivy League’s ruling. “I don’t think that [the Ivy League presidents] realize that this is not just about the opportunity to play a sport,” Jack Carnegie said. “It also affects these kids’ ability to go to advanced degrees, and it’s going to affect their careers down the road.” Parents of other seniors on the team also signed off on the statement, showing their support of the presidents’ reconsidering the rule. Alex Carnegie learned about the League’s decision via a message from head coach Dan Pepicelli on Thursday. “I don’t really know [why the League made its decision], other than to uphold an archaic rule they’ve had forever and may seem to set them apart,” Lynda

Carnegie told The Sun. “I don’t think in this instance that they should do that, because it hurts the students that are involved.” Almost 70 senior Ancient Eight spring sport athletes already entered the transfer portal in an effort to switch institutions for their last year of eligibility as of Thursday evening, an anonymous source told ESPN. These athletes will look to play their final season with institutions that permit graduate students to play varsity athletics. Any athlete in a spring sport this year, so long as they graduate in four years, will only ever play three seasons with Cornell. However, were a senior to fail to graduate on time, he or she could play next year with the added eligibility, given that he or she would technically remain an undergraduate. Another obstacle for graduate transfers to surmount is that, at a new institution, any athletic scholarship they receive will count against the school’s scholarship limit. This limit is waived by the NCAA for schools when the student-athlete stays at his or her undergraduate institution. Of course, the Ivy League does not award athletic scholarships, anyway. But this rule makes graduate transfers look less appealing to the coaches that might recruit them. “The Ivies are in a special situation because [granting another year of eligibility] doesn’t cost them anything, like it may cost other schools, because the Ivies don’t give athletic scholarships,” Jack Carnegie said. “So there’s no financial disincentive.” The Ivy League has exacerbated an already difficult situation for its spring student-athletes, throwing their futures into uncertainty and taking away opportunities both academic and athletic. Katherine Faiola can be reached at kfaiola@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Seven Cornellians Named Men’s Lacrosse All-Americans By MIKE SEITZ Sun Staff Writer

This article was first published on April 5. On Wednesday, the Inside Lacrosse/Maverik Media Men’s D1 Media All-America list was released — recognizing some of the top players in college lacrosse. While no Cornell players were named to the first team, senior attackman Jeff Teat headlined the Second-Team All-American group. Teat led Cornell with 27 points, split across 12 goals and 15 assists. Teat, who was named to the final watchlist for the 2020 Tewaaraton Award — which annually recognizes the top player in college lacrosse — has not yet announced his plans for next spring. The Tewaaraton Foundation will not be granting the award this year, in light of the canceled lacrosse season. Along with Teat, junior midfielder Jonathan Donville was also named to the All-America

Second Team. Donville scored 13 goals and dished out seven assists during his five games, his best performance coming in the season opener against Albany when he scored five goals. Senior midfielder Brandon Salvatore was named to the AllAmerica Third Team. Salvatore continued to demonstrate his prowess on the defensive end, forcing turnovers and organizing the backline. The captain also scored a goal in what proved to be the last game of the season — a dramatic upset win over Penn State. John Piatelli, Connor Fletcher, Sam Duggan, and Gavin Adler were the four players named Honorable Mention All-Americans. Notably, Piatelli led both Cornell and the Ivy League in scoring with 20 goals. A flamethrower on offense, the junior attackman started off so strong that he also joined teammate Jeff Teat on the Tewaaraton Watch List via a player addition process on March 11th.

Fletcher was a dependable option in midfield, with 11 points on the season. The senior midfielder scored a hat trick in a dominant win over Towson to highlight his shortened season. Duggan, a senior midfielder, and Adler, a sophomore defenseman, memorably combined for one of the most gritty defensive highlights of Cornell history. Clutching to a narrow lead against a tough Ohio State side, both heroically blocked dangerous shots from the Buckeye offense to prevent a score. While both are known for their tenacity and work ethic on the less-glamorous side of the ball, Adler in particular impressively handled some bigname matchups throughout the team’s five-game season. Cornell went 5-0 before its season was canceled and finished the year with the No. 2 national ranking. BORIS TSANG / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Mike Seitz can be reached at mseitz@cornellsun.com.

Go big | Senior attackman Jeff Teat, pictured, was named a SecondTeam All-American on Wednesday.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Swimming and Diving Caps Off Ivy League Season

Both the men’s and women’s squads finish spring season with a 3-6 record By AARON SNYDER Sun Staff Writer

This story was first published on March 23, 2020. Both of Cornell’s swimming and diving teams wrapped up their seasons at the Ivy League Championships. The women’s tournament took place Feb. 19 through 22 and was hosted by Brown, while the men’s tournament took place a week later at Harvard. The women’s team (3-6, 1-6 Ivy) placed eighth at the Ivy League Championships, which was hosted by Brown from Feb.19 through Feb 22. But despite its last-place finish, the Red’s 543 points at the event still marked an improvement over last season’s 506. In another silver lining for Cornell, the team broke a number of school records, even while falling to the rest of the Ancient Eight. On day one, the 800-yard freestyle relay team of freshmen Lexie Handlin and Melissa Parker, junior Sophia Cherkez and senior tri-captain Laurel Kiselis finished in 7:20.96 — topping the Red’s previous record by nearly two and a half seconds. On the second day, sophomore Demetra Williams’ 266.50 points in 1-meter diving shattered a 14-year-old school record, while, on day three, Kiselis broke her own record in the 200yard freestyle. On the final day, freshman Elise Jendritz also etched her name in the record books, breaking the school record in 3-meter diving (306.05 points). The men’s team (3-6, 1-6 Ivy) finished sixth at the Ivy League Championships, capping off a

season that saw 43 lifetime-best swims by Cornell swimmers. “The team really came together well this season, and as a result we saw a lot of successful seasons both individually and as a team,” said head coach Wes Newman ’09, praising the team’s improvement from last year. “You can look at your own personal best times and if you improved and got faster…I would describe that as a successful season.” Going forward, the Red will miss the contributions of the team’s seven seniors, especially for its relays which was an area of strength for Cornell. The team broke three of five school relay records over the course of the season, with most of the team’s relay spots held by seniors. “For me, it was a special [senior] class [because] it was the first class that I recruited as a head coach,” Newman said. “They certainly left their mark on the program. They’re going to leave some shoes to fill.” A big part of the Red’s future will be freshman Paige DaCosta, who became the first Cornell swimmer to take home an Ivy League championship in the 100-yard backstroke. The Ivy League Championships marked the end of the season for all but one of Cornell’s swimmers. Junior Brett Hébert was set to become the program’s first athlete to compete at the NCAA Championships since 1987, after qualifying in 3-meter diving at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, but the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.IP4A Championships. Aaron Snyder can be reached at asnyder@cornellsun.com.

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Strong finish | Although the women’s team placed eighth at the Ivy League Championships, many team members shattered school records, including in 800 yard freestyle relay.

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The 2019 Season in Review: An Alternative ‘Success Story’ By KATHERINE FAIOLA Sun Staff Writer

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End-of-Year | With Ivy League play in the rear view, Cornell baseball has a few positive takeaways from a losing season.

With an overall record of 14-23, Cornell baseball’s 2019 season was a statistically unimpressive one — but the game of baseball is more than just numbers, wins and losses. From the start, the Red (8-13 Ivy League) faced unforgiving opponents both in and out of Ivy League play. Despite these challenges, the team fought up until the very last inning of each game — and within conference play, the Red only suffered one series sweep at the hands of Brown. The beginning of the season was marked by inconsistent offense, only to be replaced with a streak of success in the final two conference series of the season. The trend of clutch performances as the game got down to the wire was evident in the two most recent one-run victories for the Red. Recall April 28, when senior catcher Will Simoneit faced a full count with two outs and the tying runs on base in the bottom of the ninth, down by two runs. He clocked a homer over the left field wall for a walkoff, series-clinching victory over Penn on his senior day. Then on May 4 at Dartmouth, junior John Natoli got the call

to pitch to one batter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and the tying run in scoring position. Three strikes later, the Red secured their fifth win in a row and second series victory of the season. The quality of the victories and consistent effort from the entire team served as an important takeaway from the season. “This year will go down for me as just a group that just did not quit,” said Head Coach Dan Pepicelli. The Red’s five-game winning streak from April 27 to May 4 lifted the team’s spirits at the tail end of the season. “Sometimes the big success stories are when you don’t quit and just keep grinding away at the season and get something for yourself at the end,” Pepicelli said. Ultimately, Cornell succeeded this year in finding an offensive lineup with hot bats, steady defensive players and commanding pitchers. In the Dartmouth series, the Red boasted a home run and several multiple-base hits, only one error the entire weekend, and stellar lights-out starts and relief pitching. Seniors Adam Saks, Will Simoneit and Josh Ardnt connected for base hits throughout the series and junior Matt Collins launched a homer in

game one. Pepicelli’s defensive highlight of the weekend is that the team “turned a lot of double plays, when that opportunity was there we really jumped on it.” Both junior RHP Colby Wyatt and freshman RHP Jon Zacharias commanded the mound for at least six dominant innings into their respective starts on Saturday, May 4. With the 2019 Ivy League

“Sometimes the big success stories are when you don’t quit and just keep grinding away...” Dan Pepicelli play wrapped up, and one final away game versus St. Bonaventure University on Tuesday, May 7, Cornell looks towards the offseason to improve both individually and collectively. “What we really need to do is just improve … to take the next step,” Pepicelli said. “And I think it’s just a matter of finding the right fit where we can be more dangerous and more consistent on offense.” Katherine Faiola can be reached at kfaiola@cornellsun.com.

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tried his hand at acting. Milliman: Peter. After the resignation of Matt Kerwick, Milliman stepped in as the interim head coach of the men’s lacrosse team in May 2017. Led his team to an Ivy League championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018. Current head coach of the men’s lacrosse team. Moran: Richie. Hall of Fame lacrosse coach. Took Cornell to the NCAA playoffs countless times, winning three national championships along the way. Was once dubbed by Sport magazine as “The Electric Pear.” Presented with the 2012 Spirit of Tewaaraton Award. Newman Arena: Home of the Red basketball and volleyball teams. Also site of occasional wrestling tournament. Located in Bartels Hall. Newman: Wes ’09. Cornell swim and dive alumnus, now leading the men’s squad. A Canadian, so swimmers have been practicing in maple syrup so the water feels easier at meets. Nieuwendyk: Joe ’88. Once NHL Rookie of the Year for Calgary with 51 goals. Took faceoffs for the Dallas Stars until he was traded to the New Jersey Devils to win a third Stanley Cup in 2003. Cornell MVP in 1987 and a NHL All-Star. He has also won the Conn Smyth and

Olympic gold. No. 25 retired at Lynah Rink on Feb. 26, 2010. Noel: Andy. Current Cornell Athletic Director. Daily Sun favorite. Who doesn’t love Andy? Novakovic: Joanna ’03. Head coach of Equestrian since 2014. Won the Ivy league in 2018, sending riders to nationals is not uncommon. Palmer: David. A two-time world champion, now the head coach of the squash program entering his fourth year. Once awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II of Down Under. Got royalty in his DNA. Penn: Slimy Ivy rival in Philadelphia. It has strong athletic teams and questionable recruiting ethics. Learn to hate them. They’re ruthless, bad sports and play to win at whatever cost — even if it means throwing toast on the football field. And they call themselves Quakers. Pepicelli: Dan. Head coach of the baseball team entering his fifth year. In his first two seasons, Coach Pep brought over his expertise from baseball powerhouse Clemson to revamp Cornell’s baseball program. Future is looking up for the Red on the diamond. Princeton: Yawn. Nickname: Tigers. Location: New Jersey, but shockingly fields top-notch basketball and lax teams anyway. Has won more Ivy League titles than any other school with its

shady recruiting. Redman: Cornell wrestling mascot. Has been known to randomly show up at men’s basketball games. Identity unknown. Sarachan: Dave ’76. Former head coach of the Chicago Fire, an MLS team. Led Red booters to two NCAA bids in his final seasons at the helm. Two-time All-American at Cornell. Schaap: 1. Dick ’55. Highly acclaimed newsman who died in 2001. Veteran sports journalist, author of numerous books, sports correspondent for ABC News and host of ESPN’s Sports Reporters. Oh, and he was also once the editor in chief of The Sun. 2. Jeremy ’91, ESPN. Followed in dad’s footsteps and is currently correspondent for ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Also, former sports editor at The Sun. Came to Ithaca prior to Cornell’s Sweet 16 matchup with Kentucky to report on the men’s basketball team. “In Ithaca, New York, Jeremy Schaap, ESPN.” So legit. Schafer: Mike ’86. Men’s hockey coach who steered his team to ECAC tournament victories in his first two seasons, then to the squad’s first Frozen Four appearance in 23 years in his eighth. In his 10th, 200506, guided the Red to a 22-9-4 record in which the team came a goal away in triple overtime against Minnesota from making the Frozen Four. Fans greet-

ed him then and now with the chant, “Kill, Schafer, Kill.” Entering his 25th season behind the Cornell bench in 2019-20, he has coached the Red to the NCAA tournament 12 times, as recent as 2019. Schoellkopf: Stadium which hosts football and men’s and women’s lacrosse. Nice view of Ithaca and most of Central New York on clear days on the Crescent side. Artificial playing surface has been called “the Cadillac of turf systems” but has seen its last days at Schoellkopf, giving way to the new wave FieldTurf which recently debuted. Schneider: Daria. Entering her forth year as head coach of the women’s fencing team. Schneider’s impressive history of accolades includes five-time US National Team member, twotime world championship medalist and U.S. Fencing national champion. She enters the program as the second youngest coach of an NCAA Division I program. Smith: Dayna. 17-year coach of the women’s basketball team. Like many other Red coaches, made her way over from Penn. The winningest coach in the history of the program. During her time as head coach, Smith’s players have earned 29 All-Ivy honors, including one Ivy League Player of the Year award and one All-America selection. Secondlongest tenured active coach in

the Ivy League. Smith: John. Men’s soccer head coach entering his fourth year. He comes to Ithaca from Palo Alto, where he was the associate head coach for Stanford — a team that won the 2015 NCAA title. Earned a win against nationally-ranked Syracuse in his second season. An England native, he knows a thing or two about soccer, or “football.” Stevens: Mike. Nine years as head coach of the women’s tennis program. Reigning Ivy coach of the year after leading the women to program’s first share of Ivy title. Tanasoiu: Silviu. Romanianborn head coach of the men’s tennis team who has led the Red for the last eight years. Won an Ivy championship and went to second round of NCAAs in 2017. Tatum: Mark ’91. Played baseball at Cornell, named deputy commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA in 2014. This completes the trifecta of Cornellians leading pro sports. Vande Berg: Trudy. Entering fifth year as head coach of the volleyball team. During her second year, led her squad to the program’s most wins since 2006 and highest conference finish since 2008. Yale: Mediocre Ivy misfits. Not really good at any sport, but what else can you expect from a school in New Haven? Also called the Bulldogs and the Elis. By the way, what’s an Eli?

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Archer: David ’05. A student athlete himself back in the day and a man who has bled Red for years now, Archer is entering his seventh year as the head football coach of his alma mater. When Archer was hired in 2013, he became the youngest Division I head coach in the nation. Be on the lookout for that breakthrough season for the Red sometime in the near future. Arena: Bruce ’73. Played lacrosse and soccer for the Red. Current coach of the U.S. men’s soccer team the New England Revolution and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Bartels Hall: The athletic facility formerly known as Alberding and the Field House. Unfortunately, the Alberding family no longer felt the need to fork over the big bucks — enter Mr. Bartels. Barton Hall: The cavernous main gym. Big place where ROTCs hang out, also headquarters for powerhouse indoor track teams and the location of many Cornell final exams. Originally built as an airplane hangar, it is the former home of hoops squads. Baughan: Matt. Golf coach, who has been leading the Red for the past 20 seasons. Also has the honor of being head teaching pro at Cornell’s beautiful Robert Trent Jones golf course. Beckwith: Paul. Entering his 25th year as the head of the gymnastics program after coaching the team to third place in the USAG Collegiate National Meet this past season. Bettman: Gary ’74. First commissioner of the NHL. Known to show up at Lynah Rink to take in a game every now and then. All three of Bettman’s children have attended Cornell. Big Red: 1. A type of chewing gum. 2. The nickname for all Cornell athletic teams. Go Big Red! (Or if you are reading The Sun, just Red). Big Red Bear: Cornell mascot. Although the bear is brown, not red, students still hold it dear and often pass it in the crowd at football games, when people actually show up. Boiardi: George ’04. Men’s lacrosse player who died after being struck by a lacrosse ball in a game against Binghamton in 2002. He was a fouryear starter, captain, set to graduate two months after death. Head coaching position named in his honor. Boothe: Kevin ’06. Anchor of the offensive line during his Cornell career, opening lanes for Red backs. Drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, won a Super Bowl with the Giants in 2008 and 2012. Bowman: Rich. Women’s track and field/cross country entering his 39th year working at Cornell. Was named director of the track and field program in 2016. Has coached over 150 athletes to Ivy League and Hep championships. Living legend. Brown: The color of dirt, but also an Ivy school that doesn’t believe in grades or sports. Officially nicknamed Bears, but the students still call themselves Bruins — their old nickname. Still, as the saying goes, if it’s Brown, flush it down. B.U.: Boston University. Hockey rival that pulled out of the ECAC in the 80s with several other teams to form Hockey East. Inspiration for the all-purpose cheer “Screw B.U., [insert opposing team here] too!” Colangelo: Bryan ’87. Former GM of the Philadelphia 76ers who played guard for the Red while on East Hill. Averaged three minutes a game in 42 contests. Trust the process. Colgate: Relatively substantial rivalry outside the Ivy League. Their fans throw Big Red chewing gum when the men’s hockey team is visiting, Cornell fans throw Colgate toothpaste when Raiders are in town. Columbia: Does not even have men’s lacrosse or hockey teams. In the 1980s, the football team broke the all-time NCAA record for consecutive losses. Although it has improved of late, the school would throw a parade down Broadway if it actually won an Ivy title. Added bonus: Opponents can laugh at the light blue uniforms. Cornell: Glorious Ivy League university — perhaps you’ve heard of it. Nationally notable in rowing, wrestling, men’s and women’s hockey and men’s lacrosse, among others. Crew: Grueling year-round sport. Has perhaps the most underrated athletes at Cornell. Who else could endure severe hand blisters or 5 a.m. runs down to the boathouse for two-hour practices in 30-degree weather? Pain is their life’s blood. That said, rowers are widely-considered to have the best bodies on campus.

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Cullen: Terry and his late father Bob, that is. leled in the stands. People throw fish (and in one Father-son team that coached the Cornell sprint instance, an octopus) at Harvard players. People football team “forever” and guided the Red to used to tie chickens to the net between periods, countless CSFL titles. In 2006, the Red achieved but the ECACHL stepped in recently. People perfection for the first time since Purple Rain was swear a lot. In between all this, the Red and popular, going 6-0 en route to a national champiCrimson play some great hockey. We laughed, we cried. A must see. onship. Terry’s position as head coach is literally Graap: Jenny ’86. 21-year women’s lacrosse named after him. coach who helped the women’s laxers to a turnDartmouth: Small school, but with proper nourishment could become a full-grown universiaround season in 1998. She took the team to the Final Four in 2002, garnering Coach of the Year ty like the rest of its Ivy pals. Nicknamed the Big Green, a name stolen from the children’s movie awards. Led the team to its first ever co-Ivy League title and another NCAA berth in 2006, won Ivy of the same title. title in 2017. Davy: Fight song, played after Cornell scores in any game the Big Red Band bothers to attend, Harvard: Smug Ivy League school loaded with money, squash courts and grade inflation. Topexcept for basketball where it plays it whenever it ranked rowing, swimming and hockey teams. can at its own obnoxious decibel level. George M. Nicknamed Crimson — the bastard child of the Cohan stole the melody from “Give My Regards color red and poop. Also, introduced the world to to Broadway.” the Winklevoss twins. Yuck. Dennison: Liz. Former head coach of the Helen Newman: Original headquarters of women’s rowers and current associate director Cornell women’s athletof rowing. EAWRC Co-Assistant Coach of ics, now North Campus’ the Year in 2011. home to pickup basketDerraugh: Doug ’91. ball games, an indoor Returns for his 15th seaswimming pool and a state-of-the-art fitness son as head coach of the center. Also houses one women’s hockey team. of the premier bowling He guided the Big Red to alleys on campus or in the national title game in Ithaca for that matter. his fifth season and backHornibrook: to-back-to-back NCAA Dwight and Donna. Frozen Four appearances Husband-wife tandem in 2010, 2011 and 2012. leading two of Cornell’s Ivy champs in 2017. squads. Dwight was Durant: Adrian. named head coach of Head coach of men’s women’s soccer in 2017, track and field/cross Donna has been head country. Coach for U.S. coach of field hockey Virgin Islands at the since 2004. Winningest 2016 Rio Olympics, Cornell field hockey sent four past and prescoach ever. ent Cornellians to Rio Hoy: Home of Coras well. More swag than COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS nell baseball. First man you can measure. Dryden: Ken ’69. In a league of his own | In 40-plus years as a to hit one over the forThree-time All-Amer- journalist, Dick Schaap ’55 excelled both in print merly big right field ican, perennial All-Star and broadcast media. fence was Lou Gehrig, and Stanley Cup netaccording to legendary historian and sports writer Kenny “The Haunter” minder for the Montreal Canadiens. Found his Van Sickle. The second — again according to real calling practicing law, however. He was Kenny — was George H.W. Bush, in his Yale named the general manager of the Toronto days, before he moved on to better things. Maple Leafs in 2004 and inducted into the I.C.: Ithaca College, the school on the other College Sports Information Directors of America hill. Division III kingpin in just about every sport. Academic All-America Hall of Fame in May Nicknamed the Bombers, possibly because of an 2005. His No. 1 was retired and lifted into the affinity for cheap Ithaca bars. rafters of Lynah Rink in 2010. Kerber: Chris. Lightweight crew coach since Earl: Brian. Entering his fourth year at the 2008. ECAC Lightweight Coach of the Year helm of men’s basketball. Princeton grad, played thrice. Led squad to national championship in and coached basketball there before shipping to 2017. Dominance. East Hill. Once Ivy League Player of the Year, Kennett: Todd ’91. BMA. Coach who estabperhaps Coach of the Year someday. ECAC: Eastern College Athletic Conference lished lightweight crew dynasty — leading the Hockey League. Large coordinating organization squad to three consecutive national championoverseeing collegiate sports up and down the eastships before becoming the heavyweight crew’s fearless leader in 2008. Enjoys putting his team on ern seaboard. More specifically, the major college the erg machine before sun-up. hockey league that Cornell calls home. Gives Koll: Rob. Long-time, legendary wrestling schools like Union and St. Lawrence an excuse to coach and former All-American, Koll has picked feel smarter. up where previous coach Jack Spates left off. His Eldredge: Dave ’81. Considered one of the team has won the Ivies 20 times, including a best polo coaches in the country. In 2008, the current streak of 17 in a row, and has placed in men’s team overcame its underdog status to reach the NCAA top-10 15 times. Coached national the national finals, where it lost. Grand total of champion Yianni Diakomihalis in 2018. 15 national titles and 37 national championship Lynah: Lynah Rink, cradle of Cornell hockey appearances, last coming in 2016. In a 2018 fanaticism. 4,000-plus person capacity. Hockey article published by The Sun it was reported that analyst Barry Melrose’s favorite college hockey Eldgredge retired after 33 years as the University rink. Where legends are born and opponents’ investigated claims of misconduct. dreams are crushed. Farlow: Julie ’97. Alumna is the head coach of Lynah Faithful: Half-crazed Cornell hockey the softball team. Two-time second-team All-Ivy fanatics who never miss regular or postseason while playing at Cornell, first woman to bat over home games. Climb and bang on Plexiglass and .400, Cornell athletics hall of famer. In a 2019 throw newspapers, garbage and fish at opposing report by The Sun, Farlow was involved in a conplayers. troversy when several of her players came forward, Manfred: Rob ’80. This ILR alumnus is the detailing years of mistreatment. commissioner of Major League Baseball. Often Friedman Center: State-of-the-art wrestling seen fielding grounders at Hoy Field. Invented an facility featuring practice and match space, weight inning clock once. rooms, offices, study rooms and locker rooms. Marinaro: Ed ’72. The best player in Red Benefactor is Stephen Friedman ’59, President football history. Appeared on the cover of Sports Bush’s former chief economic advisor. 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Cornell became the latest university to announce that it would go digital after spring break, following a wave of colleges nationwide that have canceled in-person classes due to the

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Students Confused, Frustrated By SARAH SKINNER AND GIRISHA ARORA Sun Senior Writers

“OMG. I was ready for it, until I wasn’t ready for it.” Jack Tracey’s ’20 initial reaction mirrored that of many other students to the Tuesday afternoon news that Cornell’s

last five weeks of spring classes would be moved online, a decision in line with other institutions across the country in response to the spreading COVID-19 outbreak. With the University urging students to stay in their “permanent” homes after spring break, for some seniors like

Tracey, their last day of classes at Cornell ever will be March 27. As students digested the implications, they expressed concerns about the financial burden and logistics, mixed reactions about the timing of See STUDENTS page 3

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