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After Libe Cafe closes, pastries get thrown out instead of donated.

Not even Bella Hadid could help Polo capitalize at New York Fashion Week.

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Pair of forwards earn ECAC weekly awards after two-win weekend.

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HIGH: 27º LOW: 24º

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Snow, Ice, Sleet Predicted for Ithaca Today

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun City Editor

ALICIA WANG / SUN SKETCH EDITOR

Smallest Tuition Increase in Years Sticker price to increase 3.6 percent for 2019-2020 academic year

By MARYAM ZAFAR and SARAH SKINNER

at its meeting in New York City, which convened at the medical college and which President Martha E. Pollack attended.

Cornell’s 3.6 percent increase in tuition compares to a 5 perRising seniors who receive no financial aid will have had their cent jump for Brown University and a 3.8 percent hike for Yale tuition costs rise 11.5 percent since they committed to Cornell.

University. Cornell's cost of attendance — including housing and Cornell will raise tuition for both endowed and land-grant col- dining — will equal $71,796 for students in endowed colleges and leges by 3.6 percent for the upcom$53,126 for New York residents in a ing academic year, the University land-grant college.

“We’re not socioeconomically announced today, the lowest proThe University practices “needdiverse. We don’t look like portional tuition increase in years. blind” admissions for domestic stuThe rise — $1,966 for endowed dents, Kotlikoff said, but is pouring the rest of the country.” colleges and $1,316 for land-grant roughly $2 million into initiatives to schools — is 6 dollars less than last boost socioeconomic diversity by enProvost Michael Kotlikoff year’s increase. couraging lower-income students to Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in apply. One way to do this is to make an interview Sunday that students receiving University financial it easier for undecided, financially challenged students to choose aid will see “no net increase” in tuition owed next year, even as the Cornell by offering competitive aid packages, he said. sticker price increases.

The Board of Trustees approved the budget bump on Feb. 1 See TUITION page 4 Sun Staff Writer and Sun Assistant News Editor

The National Weather Service on Monday upgraded a winter storm watch to a winter storm warning for Tompkins County, predicting that Ithaca could receive between 6 and 8 inches of snow between early this morning and Wednesday’s sunrise.

It could be hard for many Ithacans and Cornellians to get both to work and back home.

Snow is expected to begin falling on Tuesday morning and get heavier during commuting hours and around lunchtime. Then, in the afternoon, snow will mix with sleet and freezing rain and continue through Wednesday morning. The government weather service’s warning is in effect from 3 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday.

The roads could be “very icy for the afternoon and evening commute,” said Jack Sillin ’22, an assistant forecasting chair for the Cornell chapter of the American Meteorological Society.

Sillin predicted that Cornell’s cam-

“[Cornell just isn’t] in the heaviest snow bands, whereas they might be just 15 miles away.”

Jack Sillin ’22 pus could see about 3 to 5 inches of snow before the precipitation turns into sleet and freezing rain in the early afternoon.

He explained that the City of Ithaca — and to a lesser extent, Cornell — alSee SNOW page 4

Bree Newsome Reflects on King’s Ascent — and a Climb of Her Own

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

Civil rights activist Bree Newsome gave an invigorating lecture Monday in Cornell’s Sage Hall on the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her own motivation for scaling a 30-foot flagpole in front of the South Carolina statehouse in 2015 to remove the Confederate flag that had flown there for decades.

There was no question-and-answer session after the speech and attendees were asked to quickly leave Sage Chapel because of a suitcase reported as suspicious. But Cornell Police said late Monday that the suitcase did not pose a threat and was simply left by a student who was using the bathroom.

“Upon investigation, officers quickly determined that the bag belonged to a student who was located nearby,” Deputy Chief David Honan, who is taking over next month as chief, said shortly before 10 p.m. the same night.

“The student told officers that he needed to use the restroom and left the bag because he didn’t want to create a disturbance. The bag was determined to not pose a threat and Sage Chapel will be reopened shortly.”

Newsome, a Charlotte, N.C., native, told Cornellians and Ithacans that she was inspired to take matters into her own hands in 2015 following the murder of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, See NEWSOME page 5

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Rise | Bree Newsome, who rose to fame after scaling a flag pole to remove a Confederate flag, speaks at Sage Chapel on Monday night.

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All Labor Has Dignity: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Labor Movement 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., 227 Ives Hall

Zumba Fitness 5 - 6 a.m., 5th floor lounge, Willard Straight Hall Drop-in Breakfast at the Engaged Cornell Hub 8:30 - 10 a.m., 3rd floor, Kennedy Hall

Cornell Art Faculty 2019 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Floor 2L, Gold Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art

International Students — How to Get Work Authorization in the U.S. 11 a.m. - noon, 276 Caldwell Hall

Medicare Basics Noon - 1 p.m., East Hill Office Building

Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic Noon - 1 p.m., 423 ILR Conference Center

Plant Metabolic Diversity: Evolution and Applications 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall

Interviewing and Negotiation for Academic Positions Noon - 1:30 p.m., 401 Physical Sciences Building

Judged for More Than Her Crime: Women on Death Row 12:30 - 2:30 p.m., Zhu Faculty Room, Cornell Law School

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Soup Days Noon, 400 Caldwell Hall

Internal Transfer 1:1 Help 3 - 5 p.m., Tatkon Center for First-Year Students

Plant biology seminar | Prof. Gaurav Moghe, School of Integrative Plant Science, will discuss the origins of biological complexity in plants.

Coffee Break with the Profs ft. Ben Ortiz 12:15 p.m. - 1:10 p.m., 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

ORIE Colloquium: An Aggregative Game Framework for the Analysis of Socio-Technical Systems 4:15 p.m., 253 Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall

The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 106G, Olin Library

Wordpress for Websites 3:30 - 5 p.m., 106G Classroom, Olin Library

9th Annual Cornell Student Topical Sermon Contest 4:30 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall

LSC Statistics Tutoring 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., 417 CCC Building (Ag Quad)

Galentine’s Day at mannUfactory 5 - 6:30 p.m., mannUfactory makerspace, Mann Library

Gilets Jaunes in France 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.., Guerlac Room, AD White House

Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival 5 p.m., 115 Rockefeller Hall

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Cornell Cafes Discard Excess Food After Closing Despite campus food insecurity, cafe food tossed, not donated

By GABRIELLE GONZALEZ Sun Contributor

When Libe Cafe closes, employees fill trash bags with sushi, salads and pastries. This food — which had been for sale just hours before — will all be thrown out.

Despite being a major stop on campus for sleep-deprived and hungry students, Cornell cafes and coffee shops do not follow recently-introduced sustainability initiatives that regulate the handling of food waste at most dining halls and lunch spots. Trillium, the Ivy Room, Martha’s Cafe and other lunch eateries on campus have compost bins for patrons to use.

Cornell’s current compost facility, which was constructed in 1992 and is located one mile off campus, turns 4,000 tons BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR of organic waste into compost each year. Cornell Dining Donut dump | Cinnamon rolls, croissants, bagels and pastries with frosting are thrown away after Libe Cafe closes. alone provides 850 tons of this food waste, while the rest said that they had occasionally or often skipped meals in or- Carol’s Cafe in the Tatkon Center, usually takes bagels and comes from animal bedding, manure and plant debris.

Most of Cornell Dining’s compost is generated during der to save money. This is up six percent from just two years other pastries home for her roommates.

“Some days [the amount of food waste] is fine. Like tothe cooking and preparation process, according to Karen prior.

Beyond Cornell, 12.5 percent of residents and 20 percent day, it’s not that much,” Annunziato said, and gestured toBrown, director of Campus Life Marketing and Communications. This includes unusable parts of vegetables, bones of children in Tompkins County and surrounding areas are ward the leftover bakery tray still full with cookies, danishes, cupcakes and other goods. “Other days, it’s a lot more.” from meat products, coffee grounds and paper towels. All food insecure, according to Feeding America.

Several student associations have formed to address this Despite the system’s flaws, Cornell Dining is making an kitchen facilities must partake in this process called “pre-conissue. The Cornell Food Recovery Network sets out to elimi- effort to monitor the amount of food left over through the sumer” composting.

But not included in those 850 tons are the pastries, sushi nate dining hall waste by donating leftover food to local food use of waste logs required in every cafe. Managers read these and expiring grab-and-go items from cafes across campus, pantries. Currently, FRN is partnered with Cook House, reports weekly and adjust their food orders accordingly, Becker House, Okenshields and Brown told The Sun. such as Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe Brown seemed optimistic about the impact of the waste and Carol’s Cafe, according to “We save cookies for the next day, things RPCC dining halls.

However, some students are logs. “We’ve generally been seeing a decline in the numbers Joshua Gathany, a manager for Libe Cafe. Instead of being without frosting. Bagels get thrown away, turning towards more uncon- [of food leftover], with individual units curbing their waste,” ventional means. A GroupMe she said. donated or composted, leftover but that’s a very small amount.” group, in which members upMoreover, grab-and-go items such as salads and sanditems such as salads, sandwichdate each other on free food wiches are consolidated each Friday from the eateries open es, cookies and cupcakes are ofJoshua Gathany events happening on campus or only on weekdays, and transferred to facilities that are open ten thrown away daily. if there is leftover food after club through the weekend.

Libe Cafe attempts to limit According to Gathany, Libe Cafe is efficient at minimizthe amount of food waste they create by saving the baked meetings, has over 3,400 members.

Current group owner Moriah Adeghe ’21 believes it’s an ing their food waste. goods that will stay fresh to the next day.

“We pay attention to our ordering practices, we record “We save cookies for the next day, things without frost- important resource for those who may be food insecure on how much we throw away, we forecast how much to order ing,” Gathany told The Sun. “Bagels get thrown away, but campus.

“I think that the Free Food GroupMe does a lot of good based on sales,” Gathany said. that’s a very small amount. Things with frosting such as cinHowever, Cornell Dining remains open to new policies namon rolls [also get thrown away], but we almost always as far as trying to help people find food when they might be out of meal swipes or low on BRBs,” Adeghe told The Sun or initiatives. sell out of those. Croissants get thrown away.”

“For the future, we’re continuing to work toward a camDue to a lack of space, and the fact that Libe Cafe does in a GroupMe message. “It can’t really be used in place of a not prepare food items on the premises, there is no compost meal plan for sure, but it can definitely help on those nights pus where as much food as possible is eaten, rather than discarded because it can no longer be served,” Brown said. “I’m receptacle, according to Gathany. Libe Cafe also does not where you aren’t sure where, or if you can even buy food.”

Currently, extra food from Cornell cafes are not deliber- sure there will be new programs in the future that we haven’t currently partner with any organizations to donate their leftately marketed to the group chat. even considered yet.” over items.

For those working in the campus cafes, any food that is While this food is thrown out, there are many Cornell students that struggle with food insecurity. According to a set to be thrown out at the end of the night is up for grabs Gabrielle Gonzalez can be reached at Cornell PULSE survey in 2017, 28 percent of respondents by the employees. Samantha Annunziato ’20, who works at gkg24@cornell.edu.

OurBus Now Offers Year-Round Route to Long Island

By HNIN EI WAI LWIN Sun Staff Writer

The trip to Long Island has now become easier for Cornellians. OurBus, a transportation service that operates in the area, has added a year-round route between Ithaca and Long Island, with stops along the North Shore of Long Island.

The route runs on Fridays and Sundays, with extra trips added for school breaks and holidays to accommodate all passengers. The new route starts in Ithaca and makes stops in Binghamton, Paramus, Manhasset, Melville, Islandia and

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Rather than owning or operating buses, OurBus matches popular routes with charter bus companies, in coordination with spikes in demand.

In the past, OurBus only offered trips between Ithaca and Long Island near holidays and school breaks. The weekend route was added because of students’ request for a more regular schedule, Samantha Matuke grad, planning and operations associate for OurBus, told The Sun in an email.

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land have already bought tickets because Station and the LIRR, which costs extra of the convenience of the new route and as well.” the upcoming February break. Jibran When Eli Serrano ’20 took the bus Gilani ’20 was one of home, she would have those students. to take the bus to New “The final stop is “The final stop is City, and then incredibly close to my York incredibly close to my transfer to the Long Ishouse, which makes it house, which makes it a land Rail Road. a lot more convenient “[The transfer] addlot more convenient.” than stopping at Port ed a lot of time to my Authority Bus Termitrip,” Serrano told The Jibran Gilani ’20 nal,” Gilani told The Sun. Sun. “This prevents The University, carrying around luggage from Port Au- which is reevaluating their permitting thority to the subways and then Penn process, has yet to give OurBus permission to pick up students directly from campus, according to Matuke. The service currently collects passengers from the Green Street Pharmacy, which has been Ithaca’s primary regional bus hub since last year’s closure of the Ithaca Bus Depot.

OurBus also offers routes to New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Allentown, Pennsylvania.

In the future, OurBus hopes to provide regular service between Ithaca and Boston as well. OurBus prices from Ithaca to Long Island currently start at $25, according to OurBus’s website.

Hnin Ei Wai Lwin can be reached at hwailwin@cornellsun.com.

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Storm Warning Issued, Tuition to Increase by 3.6 Percent 6 to 8 Inches Expected TUITION

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lack decided to keep the University open in the face of a predicted Continued from page 1 wind chill as low as minus 29 deways receives a lighter snowfall grees. Before that, in March 2018, than surrounding areas in the Cornell declared a snow day amid county because of its relatively low predictions of about half a foot of snow, even though Ithaca ultimateelevation.

“Downtown Ithaca will get even ly received less than 4 inches, acless snow than Cornell or places cording to the Northeast Regional like the airport,” he said. “That’s Climate Center.

Sillin said the storms are like because as air moves downhill along Cornell’s campus and down “complex puzzles to solve” and that to the Commons, it dries out, and every storm “provides a unique that will lead to less precipitation challenge” both to Cornell student forecasters and warmer temperatures.”

Today will likely be “windy and to those at the National Wind gusts enough to make the walk Weather Sercould reach up to 35 miles per around outside unpleasant, but vice’s nearest hour, with the not ... cause any damage.” forecast office in Binghamwind chill on ton.

Tuesday expectJack Sillin ’22 “It’s been ed to dip down a tricky series to 13 degrees at some points. Sillin said that Tues- of storms, where we’ve gotten styday will likely be “windy enough to mied here in Ithaca,” Sillin said. make the walk around outside un- “The tiny minutiae of the system pleasant, but not enough to cause just don’t align for us to be in the heaviest snow bands, whereas they any damage.”

New York State Electric and might be just 15 miles away.”

Sillin said the student meteoGas Co., or NYSEG, said in an email to customers that it was rologists would be posting updates monitoring the weather and had on the society’s Twitter account, resources available “to respond to @CornellWeather. The National any reports of downed power lines Weather Service’s warning covers much of Central New York and and outages from storms.”

Cornell administrators were on northeastern Pennsylvania. the receiving end of an unsurprising student backlash last month, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be when President Martha E. Pol- reached at nickbogel@gmail.com.

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“We’re not socioeconomically diverse,” Kotlikoff said of the undergraduate study body, 55 percent of whom do not receive Cornell grant aid. “We don’t look like the rest of the country and that’s why we’re trying to do whatever we can to try and improve that socioeconomic balance.”

A university’s “yield rate” shows what proportion of students who are offered spots choose to attend that school. Cornell has a yield rate that fluctuates between about 55 and 75 percent, Kotlikoff said; that rate is stratified by income quintiles, but the provost did not share those specific yield values stratified by income with The Sun. “Our yields in every socioeconomic status in every socioeconomic class is above 55 percent,” Kotlikoff said. “And it goes up above 75 percent in some. We continue to have very high yields and we’re being very selective; I just want to make the point.”

Other Ivy League universities have higher yield rates than Cornell.

“I think about Cornell as the most democratic Ivy,” Kotlikoff said.

Kotlikoff said students have a voice in the budgetary process, in part because of the two student trustees who sit on the Board and because of presentations that he said he gave to the Student Assembly.

Neither Dustin Liu ’19, the undergraduate trustee, nor Manisha Munasinghe grad, graduate student trustee, sit on the Board of Trustees’ finance committee.

“That’s where they go really, really in-depth over those numbers,” Munasinghe said, noting that while they are allowed to attend finance committee meetings, they had other meetings scheduled at the same time.

Cornell’s tuition has climbed every spring for at least a decade.

Last year, tuition increased by 3.75 percent over the previous $52,612 figure.

The cost of an on-campus double room in a residential hall will increase to $9,152 per year, according to Kotlikoff — the same 3.25 percent increase as dining costs.

Looking forward, the University has big plans for its budget, Kotlikoff said, adding that many costs will continue to increase for Cornell in the coming years. He highlighted mental healthcare spending over the last three years and Title IX litigation as costs that have grown recently.

Cornell’s largest source of revenue is students’ tuition, according to Kotlikoff. The biggest cost will continue to be staff and faculty salaries, wages and benefits, on which the University spent 55.1 percent of its budget last year.

Cornell currently employs 1,679 faculty members and 8,392 staff members. A 2016 survey conducted by Cornell’s Human Resources department found that 46 percent of Cornell employees “did not feel fairly compensated” for the work they perform.

Kotlikoff said the anticipated operating budget for the Ithaca campus for the upcoming fiscal year is about $2.06 billion, small-

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er than Cornell’s operating budget last year, which was projected to be $2.3 billion.

This reflected a net budget surplus that was “about the same,” as this year’s, Kotlikoff said.

Other future expenditures will require the University to take out a loan.

“North Campus will be built on debt that the University is taking to be able to build that housing,” Kotlikoff said, describing North Campus Expansion Plan costs that he projected at around $250 million.

With 2,000 new freshman and sophomore beds, Cornell will grow its undergraduate population by 900 total students, whose tuition payments will help pay off the project’s 30-year loan term, Kotlikoff said.

Cornell has already borrowed some money for the project — less than $50 million — to “get going,” Kotlikoff said, while the University shops around for the best lending strategy.

Kotlikoff also confirmed Sunday night that the same summer earnings expectation — staggered based on class year — will remain in place this upcoming year despite a petition that earned hundreds of signatures from students.

Kotlikoff did acknowledge frustration with steep growth rates seen across higher education.

“I think the rate of growth of costs [in] our Universities — it is a problem.”

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society. When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“This transformation that King describes that we must undergo as society is the process of decolonization,” Newsome said. “He didn’t use that term, that is in more popular usage today, but that is the process that he is effectively describing.”

She said that despite what many people may think, colonialism has not ended in the U.S. because there has not been a reparations process.

“Modern colonialism or neocolonialism, looks like my community in Charlotte, North Carolina, where those who form the labor to make the city operable struggle to survive,” she said.

Newsome encouraged everyone at the lecture to apply their

S.C., church by a white supremacist. At Cornell, she recited the names of all nine who were killed in the Emanuel AME Church during a bible study service.

“They were only doing what Christians are called to do when knocks come to the doors of the church, which is to invite them into fellowship and worship,” she said.

Throughout her speech, Newsome weaved in messages from King, who himself visited campus in 1961. She said peaceful activism does not have to be passive and that non-violence is not the same as being non-disruptive.

“It’s not simply about, as King said, cooperating with the good, it is about actively refusing to participate in and cooperate with oppressive systems,” Newsome said.

Among the catalysts that brought Newsome to ac“Modern colonialism or neocolonialism, tivism were looks like my community in Charlotte, N.C., the election where those who form the labor to make of Barack Obama in the city operable struggle to survive.”

2008, subsequent efBree Newsome forts by states to suppress black and Latino voters and the own talents and abilities to conkilling of Trayvon Martin in tribute to social activism.

2012. At that point, she got in“Social movement looks volved with her local NAACP like thousands of people doing and began organizing, which thousands of things in a thouultimately led to her planning sand different places,” she said. and carrying out the yanking As the crowd clapped at the of the Confederate flag from end of Newsome’s lecture, the its perch.

Rev. Daniel T. McMullin, di“As I scaled the flagpole, my rector of Cornell United Reclimb would represent the cen- ligious Work, asked people to tury-long struggle to dismantle quickly make their way to the white supremacist systems,” chapel’s two exits because of she said, recalling her planning the unattended suitcase. for the action.

“Friends, for reasons of safeShe said that history will ty, let me invite you to leave the “rightly remember” James Ty- building as quickly and quietly son — a white man who aid- as possible,” he said. “I can’t ed in her effort to remove the say more than that, but there is a situation we need “As I scaled the flagpole, my climb would that to attend to.”

People represent the century-long struggle to calmly made dismantle white supremacist systems.” their away along pews Bree Newsome and out of the building before later Confederate flag — “alongside learning that the suitcase was the many allies who over the never a threat. century have risked their own Delmar Fears ’19 said she safety and in some cases spilled and others saw the suitcase and their own blood in defense of were worried that someone was black lives and in the name of targeting the event because of freedom.” its civil rights message. Many “James’s presence would people were initially shaken afserve as a reminder that the ter leaving the speech. work of dismantling racism “There were some people cannot be the labor of the op- who were really scared,” said pressed alone, but must be ac- Fears, who previously served tively undertaken by those who as a co-chair of Black Students benefit from the perpetuation United. “I have friends who are of racist policies,” she said. at [Collegetown Bagels] right Newsome closed the lec- now eating their feelings and ture by discussing the need to calming down.” “decolonize,” and she detailed ways people can be activists in Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs ’19 their everyday lives. contributed reporting to this arShe quoted King as saying, ticle.

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SCIENCE Service Trips

Cornell Students Assist With Medical Clinics on MEDLIFE Brigade to Lima, Peru From Ithaca to Latin America: Cornell volunteers work to aid global health disparities through community service

By SABRINA XIE Sun Staff Writer

Morgan Hubbard ’20 knows zero Spanish. Yet after hearing about the MEDLIFE program from a physics discussion session, the junior biology major decided to spend part of her winter break in Peru to support local low-income communities. After a 14-hour flight from Chicago via Panama City, Hubbard arrived in the hostel that would act as the MEDLIFE group’s base for the week in Southern Lima.

MEDLIFE, which stands for Medicine, Education, and Development for LowIncome Families Everywhere, is a national non-profit organization that partners with low-income communities across Latin America and Africa to help improve their access to healthcare, education and other basic necessities.

Established in 2005, MEDLIFE has a stated vision of “a world free from the constraints of poverty,” and allows students to attend service learning trips — called “brigades” — to support its mission. Through the organization’s Cornell chapter, students travel to Peru and Ecuador over breaks to provide services to local communities.

According to Hubbard, MEDLIFE’s destination was a part of a Lima metropolitan area that is home to almost one million people who live in extreme poverty. They live in homes built from plywood into rocky hillsides without access to clean water and electricity. Through MEDLIFE, college students get to interact directly with Peruvian patients and medical staff in mobile clinics as they travel among these communities.

“I gave her ibuprofen or something that she needed, nothing big, but she started crying and gave me kisses on the cheek.”

Morgan Hubbard ’20

Each day, students would rotate through different stations: dental care, triage, pharmacy, obstetrician and gyne-

cologist, a toothbrushing workshop and a development project, according to Hubbard.

On the first day of the brigade, Hubbard’s group began working on their development project: a staircase to allow the community to safely travel up and down the treacherous hillside. Precariously steep paths had long made it difficult for pregnant women, children and older members of the villages to get water.

Community members had already laid the groundwork for the staircases by placing wooden blocks along the hillside, Hubbard said, and all

breaking a bottle of champagne on the site while a band played and children danced in traditional clothing.

Throughout the rest of the week, Hubbard shadowed a doctor, a pharmacist, a gynecologist and a dentist.

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working with the MEDLIFE doctors, her most lasting memories came from personal interactions with the patients.

“There was a woman who, when I gave her her medication at the pharmacy station, she started crying,” Hubbard recalled. “I’m not sure what I gave her — I think I gave her ibuprofen or something that she needed, nothing big, but she started crying and gave me kisses on the cheek.”

According to Hubbard, even providing basic hygienic tools like toothbrushes and toothpaste made a big impact.

At the toothbrushing station, Hubbard and other students taught children how to brush their teeth — for the first time.

“They could be up to 12 years old getting their first toothbrush,” Hubbard said. “It

“If I have a cold then I can just go to Cornell Health ... but for them, MEDLIFE will come however often they can. Even then it’s not enough. They deserve more.”

Morgan Hubbard ’20

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Program in Peru | MEDLIFE students travel to Lima and support low-income communities with medical services. that was left to be done by her team was to pour concrete into the wooden molds and paint the staircase.

“In a biased way, I think it was the hardest day. There was concrete at the bottom and we had paint buckets that we were passing, one by one, up the hill...there were some buckets flying,” Hubbard said.

“It’s not an easy thing to do but it’s a small thing that makes a big impact there,” she continued.

When the staircase was completed and painted red, the community celebrated by

and doctors worked in mobile clinics and traveled from village to village across Southern Lima. Students acted as informal medical and dental assistants, working in tents that were set up roadside.

“If you want to even shadow [in the U.S.], you have to go through 800 hoops and sign forms and take classes just to get there. But there, you just jumped in.

You’re really in there with them, it’s a hands-on experience that you can’t get here,” Hubbard said.

While Hubbard learned a lot from

seems like such a small thing until you’re with them like that and they’re so happy and you don’t realize … it really put things in perspective.”

Hubbard said that the experience also opened her eyes to the socioeconomic differences among global communities and how much medical aid could mean.

“If I have a cold then I can just go to Cornell Health, even if it’s not incredible, I can just walk over there. But for them, MEDLIFE will come however often they can. Even then it’s not enough. They deserve more,” Hubbard said.

Now, while back on campus, Hubbard is still providing help to the communities in Peru by contributing to MEDLIFE fundraisers, with a goal of helping to build the third floor of a community center in the Miraflores district.

MEDLIFE is currently accepting applications for their spring break brigade to Lima, Peru.

Sabrina Xie can be reached at sx235@cornell.edu.

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ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT Ralph Lauren Fails to Impress in New York DANIEL MORAN Sun Staff Writer

“It ain’t no Ralph, though. What’s the name of your clothing line? We don’t know.”

Kanye West’s famed emotional interview on Sway’s Universe might have involved him unfairly putting down one of America’s favorite radio hosts, but it brings up a point — when it comes to quality and consistency, no one measures up to Polo Ralph Lauren.

But what does a six-year-old Kanye interview have to do with anything right now?

Last week, Ralph Lauren released a statement about the brand’s intention to orient their business more towards a younger demographic. It’s rare to see a brand be this open about their intentions, particularly one that’s so deeply entrenched in a WASP-y, Ivy League aesthetic. Almost unintentionally, Polo has its own roots in street culture, but this is really the first time they’ve ever formally attempted to market themselves specifically to younger audiences. In theory, this should’ve made their New York Fashion Week show the perfect chance to embrace this change; instead, they delivered a half-hearted attempt at appealing to younger audiences without seriously attempting to stray from the given Ralph Lauren formula.

One way to finally bridge the gap from prep to street is to embrace the subcultures that keep you viable with people outside of your target audience. Polo is a part of a myriad of subcultures, among them ’80s British dance, 90’s hip hop and modern day streetwear. Currently, vintage Polo is having a moment, which was first made relevant by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon during their “Can It All Be So Simple” music video and then re-popularized in the 2010s by streetwear icons such as Sean Wotherspoon and the A$AP Mob. It’s prevalence in ’90s hip hop and its resurgence in modern streetwear gives Polo a very solid foothold within youth culture to build on, yet Polo’s attempts to capitalize on this are half-hearted at best.

Ralph Lauren’s womenswear debut at New York Fashion Week felt like a boardroom interpretation of what youth might enjoy. The show took place within its Madison Avenue flagship store, where there is now a coffee shop — as some executive probably read a Facebook post about how millennials love coffee. Bella Hadid was the star of the show, which ordinarily would have been fine . . . too bad she was the face of the Kith x Versace campaign, which was a much better attempt at appealing to younger demographics. The whole event felt stuffy, from its classical music to its marble floors and Upper East Side location. Watching it, I couldn’t help but feel that they had fallen out of touch.

Apart from the coffee shop and Bella Hadid, it’s hard to see what differentiates this Ralph Lauren show from any of its predecessors. All of the clothes were standard Ralph — they were good, just not necessarily appealing to young people. This is a shame; Ralph Lauren is one of the only companies that makes its collections available for purchase immediately after their runway debut rather than waiting the standard six months.

In a social media age dominated by constant, seemingly unlimited content, this could be a very legitimate branding strategy if Polo were willing enough to commit to its youth movement.

There is a very precedented way for Polo to capitalize on its already established reputation within youth culture. Collabs are incredibly straightforward and are a fantastic way to expose your brand to an entirely new audience. Winter 2018 saw Polo’s first collaboration through its collection with Palace Skateboards, the unapologetically British streetwear brand best known for roasting its own fans on Instagram. Ralph Lauren’s recent earnings report indicates that roughly 75 percent of the collection’s customers were first-time buyers of Polo, and on average are 10 years younger than the average Polo costumer. This report shows that even a brand as well established as Polo still has new avenues it can successfully reach.

Polo also can draw inspiration from Gucci and their embracing of 80’s custom-counterfeit legend Dapper Dan who styled everyone from Mike Tyson to Rakim. Embracing a fringe culture is a great way to expand your boundaries and show the world that you aren’t some stuck up country club brand reserved for private school kids. Polo has yet to do this, but something simple like a campaign with the Wu-Tang Clan and a line of reimagined retro wear could make Polo one of the top brands for a new generation.

For better or for worse, Polo finds itself at a crossroads. Their efforts to expand to younger audiences might require them to finally embracing some of the figures that helped keep Ralph Lauren relevant, such as Kanye and his famed pink polos or Sean Wotherspoon and the Polo bear. Either way, Ralph Lauren needs to commit fully to their youth movement.

With a foothold in streetwear and its power as one of the most legendary American fashion brands, Polo Ralph Lauren has the ability to solidify its status for generations. However, sadly, they were unable to do so through their New York Fashion Week show last week.

Daniel Moran is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at dmoran@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell, You May Be a Fan Of Hills, but Where Does This One End? WHAT FOLLOWED THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE THE 2020 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET AND THE CORRESPONDING 3.6 PERCENT TUITION HIKE? An implicit announcement aimed at members of the Class of 2020: their tuition has increased 11.5 percent since they committed to the Red. The University boasted that this tuition rise was the smallest in recent years.

This year’s increase comes in at $6 less than last year’s raise — that’s a single venti coffee with a shot of espresso at Cornell Dining, to put things in perspective.

Maybe Cornellians should consider themselves lucky. It’s an average 3.6 percent rise in tuition, compared to Brown’s 5 percent and Yale’s 3.8 percent. From the University’s perspective, the increase — $1,966 for endowed colleges and $1,316 for land-grant schools — might seem like chump change.

But, we hate to break it to you: Though universities may be need-blind, students are not.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff told The Sun that “Cornell is not socioeconomically diverse.” Maybe that’s because a limited scope of people can handle year-to-year $2,000-increases with a few months notice.

This latest announcement is indicative of a gross trend in the United States — ballooning tuition costs.

Today’s tuition, ringing in at a solid $56,550 for endowed college students and $37,880 for contract college side, does not consider the additional costs students are expected to shoulder. Like the 3.25 percent increase in room and board (which puts the true cost of attendance over $71,000 for endowed colleges). Or textbooks. Or a bus pass. Or travel costs.

A tuition increase itself is not criminal. But Cornell, where does this end?

The tuition in 1968 also rose. It took climbed by $150, to $2,200. So it seems that Cornell raising its tuition is one of the more consistent things over the past 50 years. But Cornell, if you add up our four-year tuition, it is more than the median price for a home in the United States. A house, or a degree?

Should students assume that this increase in tuition is indefinite? Will today’s graduates be able to afford tuition if their children chose to come here? If the current four-year trend continues, tuition will double every 20 years. Just imagine: In a generation, your proud Big Red family could be cutting a check to Cornell for $142,000 … per year.

If Cornell really is the most “democratic” Ivy, and if these changes are for the students, then this needs to stop. If we want to economically diversify our school, we should find more options to make it affordable and not remain on this indefinite incline of tuition increases.

This year’s smaller jump is a start — and we’ll certainly enjoy that “extra” venti coffee with a shot of espresso (we at The Sun certainly need it). Not only does Cornell’s ever-heftier price tag scare people, but the thought of being asked to produce $2,000 more for the next school year to continue one’s education can be downright panic-inducing. And that’s not even considering the long-term implications of this Sisyphean endeavor.

It’s more clear than ever that something needs to change. We were the first IvyLeague to accept women, why not try and be a tuition trailblazer, too?

The Sun Endorses Spring 2019 S.A. Special Election Candidates AFTER LAST YEAR’S MEME-FRACAS, ONE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN FOR WIPING THE STUDENT ASSEMBLY FROM MEMORY, or perhaps just forgetting that positions beyond that of the president exist. But that would be a mistake.

Starting Tuesday at 9 a.m., and continuing until noon Feb. 14, students will have the opportunity to vote four new representatives onto the Student Assembly: one LGBTQ+ liaison, one first-generation student representative and two minority students liaisons.

Cornell’s unique system of shared governance and S.A. affinity representation creates seats at the table for communities long marginalized in higher education.

But for such a system to work, undergraduates need to be active participants in the processes that undergird student governance, and that participation begins with elections.

Which is why Cornellians should care about voting in the upcoming S.A. special election. Each of the four open positions is on the S.A. Diversity Committee and in the general voting body of the S.A. Whoever wins will shape S.A. priorities — and thereby University policy — for vulnerable students groups demanding steadfast representation.

We reached out to all 12 S.A. candidates to discuss their platforms. After hearing from nine of them, here’s who The Sun endorses.

First Generation Student Representative At-Large: Grady Owens

Sociologists have long noted that the most prevalent hurdle first-generation students face is a cultural capital deficit. Essential skills that children of the college-educated take for granted — for example, how to navigate complex institutions, how to study, how to ask for help — can prove formidable for first-gens to learn.

Grady Owens ’21, a first-gen student himself, intimately understands these challenges. And he has a plan to help. In an email exchange with The Sun, Owens outlined his plan to foster ties between first-gens and faculty. The existing faculty advisor system, he noted, ought to cater more to the needs of first-gens. Owens would pair first-gens with faculty able to help out with the basics, like graduation requirements, study skills and using the library.

Optional programs teaching basic college skills already exist, of course. But first-gens may struggle knowing how to access such resources. That faculty advisor meetings are mandatory will create a touchpoint to give first-gen students the help they need to succeed.

We enthusiastically endorse Owens and hope his idea will someday soon become reality.

LGBTQ+ Liaison At-Large: Uche Chukwukere

It is easy for us to support Uche Chukwukere ’21. Chukwukere’s constructive proposals would make the University more inclusive, especially at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are coming under assault from Washington, D.C. He would expand gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. He would push to get inclusive pronoun systems into intro language class syllabi. And he would promote Cornell Health’s existing gender services for trans students, such as gender-affirming hormone treatment.

As an unyielding advocate for LGBTQ+ Cornellians, Chukwukere earns our endorsement.

Minority Students Liaison At-Large: Moriah Adeghe

Two Minority Students Liaison positions need filling. And of the five students running, Moriah Adeghe ’21 is the clear front-runner. Her experience on the SADC and the S.A. Appropriations Committee shines through in her ideas, which are thoughtful and pragmatic. In an email to The Sun, Adeghe explained that she would subsidize laptops for low-income students, moving away from Cornell’s current loan-based system. She would also tweak Cornell Dining’s new meal swipes donation program to let students donate Big Red Bucks instead of just guest swipes. We can, without hesitation, recommend Adeghe for Minority Students Liaison.

Yet we cannot recommend any of the other candidates for the Liaison position.

Colin Benedict ’21 has some commendable ideas, such as hoisting the Haudenosaunee flag on Indigenous People’s Day. But many of his other ideas — like abolishing the Student Contribution Fee — are facially unworkable.

Neither Alex Davis ’21 nor Emily Prest ’21 responded to The Sun’s request for comment. Moreover, both candidates’ online statements included little more than platitudes. We do not feel confident endorsing either candidate.

Masa Haddad ’21 comes the closest. Her suggestion of a peer mentoring program for people of color warrants further consideration. But too many of her ideas are airy or moot. In a statement to The Sun, Haddad said she would work to create “a program for minority students to ease their transition to Cornell.” But what exactly does that mean? What form would such program take?

She would also have Cornell become a “sanctuary” campus — i.e., one that shields unauthorized immigrants from federal-level deportation. This mostly symbolic move is blunted by the fact that Ithaca is already a sanctuary city and that CUPD policy is concordant with a sanctuary campus in all but name.

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Dongyeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There and Everywhere

A Non-American’s American Dream P

rior to coming to the United States for university, I regarded the American Dream as a far-fetched ideal that had little to do with my personal life.

Taking part in Ellis Island role-play simulations in middle school and reading about Willy Loman’s despairs in Death of a Salesman made me aware of the disillusionment associated with the so-called land of opportunity.

While I was able to appreciate the sentiments and discussions that revolved around this ideology that has shaped much of the U.S., I saw it as a distant concept as a non-immigrant foreign student expecting to leave the country after my student visa expires.

But over the past two and a half years, I, too, have developed my own American Dream. Lively discussions across campus about social mobility and success have ignited a desire to work hard to improve my circumstances, who I am and who I strive to become.

Open conversations about differing political views have instilled an understanding that there is value in discomfort. I am able to expand horizons in ways I had never expected to do so through my experiences here. And like many others in this country I am also disillusioned by the American Dream.

As I see friends who attend other universities

But over the past two and a half years, I, too, have developed my own American Dream. in Canada or Australia prospering and integrating into their communities through receiving residency, I wonder if I made the wrong decision to come to the U.S. Regardless of citizenship, I had expected to be seen more

for the capabilities and aspirations that I bring rather than for my non-immigrant temporary status. Yet, recent immigration policies and personal encounters have convinced me otherwise.

International students on this campus and beyond are often seen as outsiders.

In a classroom filled with students from Long Island and Westchester, I appear to be the odd one out as we go around the room to introduce ourselves. Whenever peers or professors compliment me on my English, I wonder if they view me as someone different when, after all, I am just like any other individual seeking to expand my academic and cultural knowledge at this institution. I know that such compliments are mostly out of good intention, but each time, I am reminded of my place in this country as a foreigner, as someone that is not expected to belong here.

Discourse that revolves around issues such as race or gender seeks to lessen discriminatory practices and their impact. But those who voice their discontent with racial prejudices are often also the ones that are so quick to judge and characterize international students who come from various backgrounds as alien, rich and different, instead of seeing them for their individual attributes. They continue to be marginalized, as even a Duke University professor so patronizingly condemns and outspokenly discriminates against Chinese students for “being so impolite as to have a conversation that

not everyone on the floor could understand.” And for that matter — she could be characterizing every Asian as Chinese, when they may as well have been Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Thai or from any other Asian country. I have had the privilege of learning English from an early age, but have also seen plenty of international students and recent immigrants brushed aside for their English abilities.

And each time I ask myself — are we not even worthy of being considered a part of this society despite our contributions and the unique backgrounds that we bring?

From employers who distinguish those who “require sponsorship now or in the future” from the rest of the applicants, to interviewers who change their demeanor after realizing that I am not American, so many people and structural circumstances indicate that I have no place here. But I will not give up. Because I believe that I, too, constitute the American Dream. During my time here, I am just as entitled to receiving equal treatment and deserving of the right to “life, liberty and happiness” like everyone else. Whether the Dream is a flawed ideal or not, I am also rightfully a part of its principles and imperfections just like everyone else who immigrated to this country to be a part of the United States of America.

Those who voice their discontent with racial prejudices are often also the ones that are so quick to judge and characterize international students who come from various backgrounds as alien, rich and different.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com.

Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

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Two College Students Walk Into a Comedy Show

hris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, two of America’s most well-respected veteran comedians, won’t perform on college campuses. Their reasoning centers around the usual complaints about political correctness, assuming that today’s young people don’t appreciate, or maybe can’t even handle, the types of humor they tend to use in their sets.

High-profile examples of clashes between college audiences and comedians are ripe for cherry-picking. Last December Nimesh Patel, a writer for SNL, was pulled off stage in the middle of a set at Columbia University after one of his jokes was deemed too offensive for the event: an example that fits snuggly into the idea that college students can’t take a joke.

But in an op-ed in The New York Times that followed the incident, Patel himself acknowledged a complexity that this stereotype doesn’t completely capture, writing, “I do not think we should let the actions of a small group — actions that get blown out of proportion because they feed a narrative many people want to hear — paint college campuses as bad places to perform and paint this next generation as doomed.”

I talked to students who perform comedy at Cornell, at other universities and in cities across the United States.

Nearly everyone I spoke with said that they haven’t noticed a difference between

their audiences on and off campus, in terms of sensitivity to edgier material.

Their input offered necessary perspective on a debate that tends to revolve around, but rarely consult, people who are central to it: young performers themselves.

“I think there’s a very big difference between someone who is 21 years old doing comedy for other 21-year-olds and someone who’s a lot older and deeper in their comedy career,” said Leo Dominguez, a senior at the University of Virginia who performs on campus and around the D.C. circuit.

“When a joke bombs, a lot of people aren’t ready to be like, ‘Maybe it wasn’t funny,’ so instead they jump to, ‘Oh, these kids are just too uptight to get the joke.’”

This idea led us into a discussion about rising comedians like Cat Cohen and Jaboukie Young-White — just two of many examples of performers who are innovating and adapting to younger audiences, their peers. These comedians aren’t “playing it safe” by any means; they’re still engaging with what other comedians would consider provocative material, tackling issues of race, gender, sexuality, family dynamics and rejection.

But a lot of their material is grounded in their own experience, tapping into commentary and self-deprecation, rather than punching down at the expense of others.

“Individuals can talk about their expe-

These comedians’ material is grounded in their own experience, tapping into commentary and self-deprecation.

riences in different ways, and comedy is a fantastic way for comedians to claim their own voices,” said Vanessa Okoyeh ’19, a senior who performs improv and stand-up on campus, at IC and downtown. “But it’s very different when someone jokes about something they have absolutely no experience with that has traumatized other people. That, I think, is where certain jokes cross the line.”

I’ve been thinking about this a lot since last November, when I went to a “women in comedy” festival at Princeton. I don’t perform, but a friend of mine invited me and I figured it would be an interesting place to go and listen. One thing I was surprised by was the amount of discussion, and the extent of disagreement, among students at the conference regarding the role of offensive material in humor.

I didn’t hear anyone say that comedy should be, or even could be, wholly inoffensive.

Disagreement tended to surround the question of whether the right to make edgy jokes depends on having direct personal experience with whatever one is joking about.

I think the answer to this falls into a very grey area.

In the shows that I’ve been to, I’ve found comedians navigate this question with varying degrees of success. My friends and I spent a lot of time over the summer at a small spot in D.C. that had free stand-up every Thursday. I heard

a handful of male comedians tell jokes about women, week after week, that were kind of lame — angry one-liners about girls who didn’t text them back, tired material that wasn’t so much offensive as it was boring. But I also heard other men joke thoughtfully about gender in some really funny ways, and was ultimately appreciative that they had.

Experience is important, but I also think that if you’re joking about a disadvantage that isn’t your own, the essential thing to consider is context and whether your jokes are punching up or punching down. Ultimately, I think comedy can and should maintain an edge. I just think that edge is a lot funnier when comedians don’t depend entirely on putting others in the crossfire of their punchlines. Julia

I think comedy can and should maintain an edge. I just think that edge is a lot funnier when comedians don’t depend entirely on putting others in the crossfire of their punchlines.

Shebek ’19, another senior who performs stand-up and sketch comedy on campus, put it best when she told me, “If you’re doing [edgy material] in a way where your joke is the stereotype, you’re doing it wrong.”

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent runs every other Monday this semester.

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Unlucky | The Red can’t seem to catch a break this season, with injuries coming in consecutive games this weekend to sophomores Cody Haiskanen and Cam Donaldson.

“The rink guys weren’t doing was malicious in any way, shape the job, so we needed more guys or form. There just should be no out there,” added sophomore contact whatsoever.”

The issue Schafer and many On Friday night, Cornell men’s goaltender Matt Galajda.

After the confusing episode who saw the injury take with the hockey took to the ice not just to incident is with how the play was play but also to clean. Partway had finally settled, reality set in.

Haiskanen’s laceration, which called. Because the referees took through the second period, they cleared the bench, spread out in a Schafer says will keep the defen- so long to make the call, the two line across the rink and scraped at seman out for the surface with their skates until “a while,” only adds to the “Everyone can kind of rally together off it was spotless.

Sophomore defenseman Cody list of injuries of that ... We obviously never want Haiskanen had just skated off in that won’t stop a hurry, clutching his hand. In coming this anything like that to happen on the ice.” his wake was a trail of blood, season. The Jeff Malott starting from behind Cornell’s Red’s defense own goal and extending all the just got healthy with way to the bench. He then made again, his exit in an ambulance down sophomore Alex Green returning players were forced to fight for the Route 34 to a hospital in Sayre, to play last weekend after missing puck until the whistle was blown. three months of game time only In theory, the whistle should have Pennsylvania.

At the 10:45 mark of the for a banged up senior Brendan been blown by the time the puck second period, Haiskanen and Smith to then miss consecutive reached the dots in front of the goal. But because the referees were Clarkson forward Chris Klack games.

Haiskanen’s abrupt exit delayed in making the call, the were racing to the right Cornell hash marks to win an icing call in drew immediate comparisons to skaters had to continue to battle.

“I just saw Cody on the ground their team’s favor. As the whistle Green’s in November. Though was being blown, a skate sliced the injuries themselves are not [and] didn’t think anything hapsimilar — Green suffered a con- pened,” said Galajda, who was part of Haiskanen’s right arm.

Haiskanen underwent surgery cussion — the reaction in Lynah just feet away from the incident in at the hospital in Sayre. At the on Friday felt the same as it did his net. “But when he got up and time of publication, no update three months ago in that Nov. 3 took his glove off, it didn’t look had been given on Haiskanen’s game against Yale, during which too good. It definitely didn’t look condition, though he was spotted Green was stretchered off follow- good when he skated off the ice.”

After Haiskanen went down, ing a collision in front of Yale’s in the arena on Saturday night.

Cornell went on to score two The referees seemed to be in a bench.

Saturday night, sophomore more goals and secure the 5-0 rush to get the game going again, so they attempted to start playing forward Cam Donaldson also victory over Clarkson.

“Everyone can kind of rally with the rink still spattered with went down with an injury. His was to the upper body, and will together off of that,” Malott said. blood.

“We obviously never want any“That was crazy, the referees likely keep him out a few weeks.

“Any time you see a guy ... and thing like that to happen on the wanted to start the game,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said after they rush him off the ice, it’s pret- ice.”

And rally the team did. Even his team’s 5-0 win over Clarkson. ty scary,” said junior forward Jeff “There was still blood from inside Malott. “But he’s in good hands with the slew of players scratched from the lineup over the course of the blue line all the way to our [now].”

As for the Haiskanen play itself, the season, the Red has improved bench.”

Schafer said it steadily since its bumpy start and was a culmina- is back in the top 10 in the nation“The whistle should be blown way tion of a faulty al rankings. before that, if it’s either no icing or rule alongside With three weekends left ill-advised ref- before the playoffs commence, icing ... they blew it really late.” ereeing amid Cornell skaters will need to fight Mike Schafer an unfortunate forward without Haiskanen, Donaldson and freshman forward sequence.

“I’ve never Max Andreev, all now out with All at once, every Cornell skat- liked the icing rule — when two long-term injuries.

But, if the team’s quick thinker stood up, got back on the ice guys are racing for the puck, and chipped away at the dirtied there’s supposed to be zero contact ing and ice cleaning provide any parts using the blades on their on both sides,” Schafer said. “To indication, they’re up to the task skates. The cleaning crew came me, the whistle should be blown of moving forward and looking through with a broom and shovel, way before that, if it’s either no out for one another.

“That sums up Cornell hockey: the ice was white again and play icing or icing … they blew it really late — that’s what you get when if there’s a job to do, just do it finally resumed.

“I didn’t understand what they you get those high-speed races for yourself,” Malott said. were doing,” Schafer said. “So I pucks.”

“It’s just unfortunate,” Schafer Christina Bulkeley can be reached was just like, ‘you know what, added. “I don’t think their kid at cbulkeley@cornellsun.com. we’ll scrape it.’”

By CHRISTINA BULKELEY Sun Staff Writer

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

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GYMNASTICS

Gymnastics Senior Day Yields Season-High Score

and had individual top scorers in two of the four events.

“The seniors this year carry the team It was Senior Day, and parents of a lot,” said sophomore Amy Shen. “They graduating Cornell gymnasts had flown, all compete a lot and contribute to the driven and bussed into Ithaca to see their team scores … This current senior class is daughters compete. Families of gymnasts such a powerhouse.”

Senior Malia Mackey had the best from nearby Ithaca College and The College at Brockport also came to cheer individual performance on beam and the on their own teams, adding to the crowd. second-best performance on vault this weekend.

The air felt electric.

“What helps me is I smile and I kind of Whether it was the added energy of Senior Day, the support of so many fans have fun with it,” Mackey said. “Having or the home advantage, the Red scored a fun and really focusing on every skill.”

In addition to the strong performances season-high 194.000 at the Big Red Goes put on by the seniors, another encourPink Invitational.

Brockport followed closely with a tally aging development was sophomore Izzy Herczeg’s of 192.575 and Ithaca College “The seniors this year carry the team a return to the lineup came in third with 189.375. Cornell lot. They all compete a lot ... This current after recovering from only scored above senior class is such a powerhouse.” a hip inju194.000 twice ry that had Amy Shen last year — at kept her the Ivy League out from Championship and at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate the season’s onset.

“Izzy had an injury over the summer ...

National Championships, both of which and she had to make sure her hip would take place later in the season.

The seniors were incredibly successful be okay to handle it,” Shen said.

By ZORA HAHN Sun Staff Writer

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Senior showing | The Cornell seniors put up impressive numbers in their penultimate meet at Teagle Gymnasium.

Herczeg came back strong, scoring a 9.850 on the floor, good for the thirdbest individual performance of the meet.

The season may be less than halfway through, but Senior Day prompted members of the Class of 2019 to reflect on their time on the Cornell squad. The Red will only compete at Teagle Gymnasium once more in the regular season.

“All the seniors are going to miss the sport … we’ll definitely miss the team

aspect and performance aspect,” Mackey said.

On the heels of this victory, the Red will travel to Morgantown, West Virginia next weekend and try to keep its momentum going. Cornell will compete at West Virginia University on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Zora Hahn can be reached at zhahn@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Red Forwards Earn ECAC Accolades Malott and Regush recognized for their showing this weekend

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Senior Editor

A pair of wins has birthed a pair of ECAC weekly award winners for Cornell men’s hockey.

Junior forward Jeff Malott has been named the ECAC Player of the Week and freshman forward Michael Regush has earned ECAC Rookie of the Week honors — both for their respective efforts in Cornell’s weekend sweep over Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

For Regush, the award comes thanks to a goal in each win on the weekend, highlighted by

a SportsCenter Top 10-caliber effort on a tally that made it 4-0 against Clarkson in the second period Friday night.

On the highlight reel effort, Regush danced between two Golden Knights with a toe drag before tucking the puck between the legs of Clarkson netminder Jake Kielly.

When asked how many times he’s watched that goal against Clarkson, Regush laughed.

“If I answer that honestly, it won’t sound good,” he said.

Regush’s second goal on the weekend, a power play effort that opened the scoring against St. Lawrence, was his fourth on

the man-advantage this season, making him the first Cornell rookie to record four or more power play goals in a season since current Columbus Blue Jackets forward Riley Nash ’11.

Malott, who has seen his season riddled by injuries, earned himself the accolade after two goals against Clarkson and a secondary assist on Cornell’s first goal against St. Lawrence.

On his first tally, Malott scored a deft power play tip-in on a man-advantage opportunity that he himself drew. On his second, the power forward made a cut to the net during 4-on-4 play and roofed a shot

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Hug it out | Junior Jeff Malott and freshman Michael Regush huddle following a goal during the Red’s win over ECAC foe Clarkson.

to make it 5-0 against Clarkson.

Following its defeat at the hands of Cornell, Clarkson fell out of the top ten in the national rankings.

“That’s the kind of play we’ve been encouraging of all our guys,” Schafer said Friday of Malott’s second goal.

Now up two spots to its

season-high No. 8 in the country in the latest USCHO.com poll, Cornell takes on Yale and Brown — both teams also receiving votes in the poll — on the road this weekend.

Zachary Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Perfect pair | ECAC Rookie of the Week freshman Michael Regush (left) and ECAC Player of the Week junior Jeff Malott (right) asserted their dominance over the opposition this weekend.