Canceled Classes Cause Celebration for Cornellians Students spend the snow day sledding, drinking hot chocolate and making snow angels

By GABRIEL MUÑOZ Sun Assistant News Editor

After classes were canceled due to a winter storm on Tuesday, students had the day free to relax and unwind. Some students decided to spend the campus closure outdoors, while others enjoyed their day off from the comfort of their home.

The University announced on Monday evening that the Ithaca and AgriTech campuses would be closed from 3 a.m. on Tuesday to 3 a.m. on Wednesday due to an approaching snowstorm that was set to hit the Ithaca region on Tuesday and Wednesday.

While it was predicted that nine to 18 inches of snow would hit Ithaca, the region only saw two to five inches of snowfall. However, that didn’t deter students from participating in snowy activities.

Many students, including Rebekah Goldstein ’25, who hasn’t been sledding since she was six-years-old, decided to go sledding on the slope with friends.

“Our marketing class gave us one [extra] point if we took a photo of us doing something fun outside for the next prelim,” Goldstein said. “I am doing classwork.”

For other students, like Ashley Bao ’24, this was their first time sledding. According to Bao, she found out about a make-your-own sled event that was advertised on Reddit. Students were provided tape and instructions on how to turn signs that read ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ into sleds. Bao explained that she was excited for this opportunity as time constraints had previously prevented her from participating in the tradition of sledding on the slope.

“There were a few other times I could have done it, [but] I want[ed] my friends to come and they’re just too busy,” Bao said. “But today everyone has a day off, so we can finally do it [together].”

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“Eliot was the first qualified lawyer to help out [with the] Cornell Mock Trial and the only coach who loved the team like I did,” Bach said. “I had tried to bring in a lot of coaches who either were unqualified or didn’t respect the team or its students. Eliot, though, was different.”

According to his family — Heidi Schuman, Rachael Schuman ’13 and Paul Schuman ’17 — Schuman cares most about the students and team and only wants to see them succeed. He has devoted much of his time and energy to this team: driving up to Ithaca almost every other weekend from Westchester, New York during mock trial season, traveling with the members to attend every competition with his own money and calling the students everyday. Schuman does this because he wants to.

“I also think it’s hard to overstate how generous it is for someone with a career and a family, who lives [over] four hours away, to give up their weekends and weekdays to come in and spend that time coaching a bunch of kids they don’t even know,” Bach said. “And that’s not even taking into account the phone calls and emails we’d be exchanging over the week in preparation for tournaments or his visits. Just the time he donated to the team is really incredible.”

Schuman’s love for the University goes beyond Mock Trial. According to his family, Schuman is also a Cornell athletics fan — following everything from basketball to football to lacrosse and keeping track of the statistics of the players and teams from front to back.

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By SOFIA PRINCIPE Sun Contributor

As pioneers in their respective industries, the legacies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, Toni Morrison ’53 and Barbara McClintock ’23 M.S. ’25 Ph.D. ’27 have been memorialized on Cornell’s campus through honorific residential hall naming. The naming provides these women recognition year-round, especially during Women’s History Month in March as Cornellians reflect on these alumnae’s influence. Three of the five residence hall buildings constructed as part of the University’s recent North Campus Residential Expansion are named in honor of these women. In deciding how to name the new buildings, the

NCRE Naming Committee considered name suggestions from the Cornell community, focusing on groundbreaking and diverse individuals.